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Ep. 76 All-Weather Vehicle: Recession Proofing Your Career (Special Guest Jeremy Schifeling)

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In this fantastic episode Brad and Cassie invite Jeremy Schifeling, Head of Consumer Marketing at Khan Academy onto the podcast to break down how young people can protect themselves when the inevitable next recession does hit. Highlights from this episode include: 

  • Many students, new grads and Gen Z have had older siblings or parents who lived and worked through recessions but have not gone through it themselves. Jeremy breaks down things that he’d want them to know about the next recession
  • In his opinion what are the most essential critical skills that young people need to have to ensure they’re not expendable
  • What are the technical skills that he sees as being important and could be transferable to many different industries that can help people recession-proof
  • For those who have “versatile” Liberal Arts degrees, what can they do to gain more stability and protection from being unemployable
  • What potential career pathways does he see as being able to whether the storm of the next recession from the vulnerability of layoffs
  • Not all industries are impacted in the same way during a recession. He discusses some of the industries that have historically remained stable during times of instability
  • There is SO much information available and talk about recessions it can be hard to know where to go for information, what information is accurate, etc. He breaks down how to work through the information overload. 
  • He discusses how can young people utilize LinkedIn the right way to recession-proof themselves
  • Jeremy covers the best piece of career advice that he could pass along to this next generation

    • Guest Info: 

    Jeremy Schifeling

    Jeremy Schifeling has devoted his career to helping others succeed in theirs. From teaching kindergarten in Brooklyn to recruiting top students at Teach For America to leading education marketing at LinkedIn, he’s touched the lives of millions of people at every stage of their journeys. Along the way, he’s published the best-selling LinkedIn book on Amazon, served as a career coach for military veterans and MBA students at the University of Michigan, and produced the most-viewed video in LinkedIn’s history. He currently leads consumer marketing at Khan Academy and shares his thoughts on Break into Tech, a site for anyone who wants to launch a tech career: www.breakinto.tech

    Website: www.breakinto.tech

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schifeling/ 

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