Per My Last Email

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by Rebecca Hinds, PhD, author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done. Rebecca breaks down the science behind why meetings so often fail—and shares research-backed tactics to decide which meetings are actually worth having, and how to design them for better outcomes.

00:00 Intro

02:36 Why do meetings suck?

03:47 Meeting Doomsday 

05:40 Determining which meetings are actually useful

08:03 Considering remote employees

10:11 Making better meeting agendas

13:53 How to stop attendance inflation

16:13 How to manage the dominant speaker in a meeting

19:48 The “meeting-free day” debate

23:30 The value of a pre-read

25:55 Game: So Crazy It Just Might Work

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In this episode, Kaila and Kyle discuss the politics of displaying wealth at work, and how the perception of it depends on what stage you are at in your career. When does it go from being gauche to cool to flaunt your wealth at the office? And is it ever strategic to appear more or less wealthy than you actually are?

00:00 Intro

01:40 Why we’re discussing wealth at work

04:43 Kaila’s and Kyle’s experiences with the perception of wealth early in their careers

10:45 What the research says about how flaunting wealth impacts perception

14:11 How presenting wealth becomes a strategy mid-career

22:37 Displays of wealth later in your career

29:02 Per My Last Policy

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In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by LinkedIn Chief Economic Opportunity Officer (and former speech writer for President Obama) Aneesh Raman to talk about why we can be optimistic about AI. Aneesh’s new book, Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI, challenges the notion that AI is the death of entry-level work and instead argues that the technology is simply changing work as we know it in exciting and innovative ways.

00:00 Intro

02:30 How does AI unleash human potential?

06:25 Will AI weaken our ability to think?

11:48 Will AI increase the potential for cognitive debt?

14:35 How will AI change the workplace?

19:16 How should recent college grads be thinking about this moment?

27:11 What is the most important skill to have right now in your career?

31:51 Advice for getting started with AI if you come from a more rigid, less creative role

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While there is a lot of advice out there about what to do if you’ve been laid off, there isn’t a lot of information for how to manage if you’re one of the lucky (or not so lucky) survivors of a layoff. From being more vulnerable to burnout to taking on more responsibilities, Kaila and Kyle discuss how to handle surviving a layoff both emotionally and professionally, as well as discuss how they navigated their own layoff survival stories. 

00:00 Intro

03:06 Kaila and Kyle’s layoff survival story

07:35 What NOT to do if you’ve survived a layoff

12:27 How your work changes post-layoff

16:48 Another important thing to get clear on post-layoff

18:54 How Kaila and Kyle handled getting assigned entirely new roles post-layoff

24:23 How your working identity can shift post-layoff

29:18 How to talk about your layoff survival story

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In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by author, speaker, and ZipRecruiter career expert Sam DeMase (@apowermood) to share the best tips for landing a job in the age of AI. From understanding how recruiters think and operate, to structuring your resume for maximum impact, to mastering the “upper third,” this is one episode you don’t want to miss.

00:00 Intro

01:10 What is the life of a recruiter like?

06:28 How people are finding new jobs is changing

09:28 How to make yourself more appealing to recruiters on LinkedIn

12:59 Shifting from a experience-based resume to a skills-based resume

16:57 Is there still value in cold-applying to jobs?

20:15 How AI plays into the hiring process 

26:14 What Sam has learned about motivation from working as a recruiter

29:14 Game: Hiring Faux Pas, or Nah?

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