Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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If you feel bored or discontent at work, maybe it’s time to seek a new position- in your current company. Find Your Dream Job guest Tristan Layfield says internal job-seeking can be a great way to get that promotion or gain the skills you need to further your career. Tristan suggests you begin with setting goals for performance and tracking your success, then sharing those successes with your managers during performance reviews. It’s also crucial to build relationships with others in your company that you can learn from and who will support you.

About Our Guest:

Tristan Layfield is a career coach and resume writer. His articles have appeared in Business Insider, Black Enterprise, and The Muse.

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There's a particular kind of tired that comes from applying and hearing nothing back. You've put in the years and built the experience, but so have most of the people whose applications landed next to yours. Laura Sorg joins Mac to talk about what can help set you apart: the difference you made at work. Maybe you streamlined a process, saved the company money, or retained customers who might have taken their business elsewhere. 

Laura offers some questions to help you determine your greatest accomplishments. What are you most proud of? What was the hardest thing you worked through? For each role, pick the two or three answers that stand out and turn them into bullet points a recruiter can skim in a few seconds. Mention the people who helped you get there to illustrate how you work on a team.

About Our Guest:

• FYDJ Bio: Laura Sorg is the founder of CWIK Talent Services. Her company builds high-performing teams, optimizes processes, and aligns hiring strategies with business goals.

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• Connect with Laura on LinkedIn.

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If you send in the same generic resume to every position you apply for, you’re likely to be passed over more often than not. What can you do to make your resume unforgettable? Find Your Dream Job guest Derek Murphy-Johnson has several suggestions, beginning with using the keywords and specific language of the job description. Derek also explains how to match your experience with the job you want, the best tricks to avoid typos, and why keeping your resume simple is the best way to stand out from the crowd. 

About our Guest:

Derek Murphy-Johnson is a Director-level Talent Acquisition leader with 20+ years of experience building and transforming global hiring, employer brand, and strategic sourcing functions across North America and across the world.

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• Connect with Derek on LinkedIn for more information on the work he does.

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You don't have to stay stuck in one job or one industry forever. This week, career development specialist Amelia Badua, founder of AB Careers, joins Mac to explain how you can move into a new role, whether that means a different industry, a fresh title, or a well-earned promotion. Amelia helps women turn their existing skills into raises, higher-paying jobs, and side income, and she shares why so many job seekers hesitate to make the leap.

Amelia walks through her step-by-step approach: get clear on what you want, take inventory of your skills, narrow your target roles, and build application materials that speak directly to employers' needs. She also shares two AI prompts to help you uncover your transferable skills and build a resume tailored to each role you pursue.

About Our Guest:

• Amelia Badua is a career development specialist and the founder of AB Careers. 

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• Connect with Amelia on LinkedIn.

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On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Mac joins Jamila Brown on the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast to share the three questions every job seeker needs to answer: What do you want? Where do you want to go? What do you offer? Mac talks about why job searching is a skill you build through study and practice, and why doing your homework through networking and informational interviews before you apply gives you an edge over the competition.

He and Jamila also dig into how to turn your objections into questions for people who've done what you want to do, and why saying your goal out loud, specifically and often, makes it so much easier for people to help you. Listen in for Mac's closing advice: don't wait to be picked.

About the Host:

• Jamila Brown is the host of the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast and a career coach who helps individuals with career strategy.

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• Connect with Jamila on LinkedIn.

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Do you pay close attention to the actual words you use in an interview? We all say, “um” sometimes, but does it really matter? If you feel nervous when meeting with a hiring manager, you might use fillers, disclaimers, or hedge words. According to Find Your Dream Job guest Tracy Hooper, those extra words are making you appear less than confident. If you’re ready to lose the words that sabotage your confidence, Tracy suggests recording yourself, working on losing one hedge word per month, and practicing using positive language. 

About Our Guest:

Tracy Hooper is a former TV news anchor, a professional speaker, and the founder of  The Confidence Project. 

Resources in This Episode:

• If you want to learn the skills necessary to be successful in today’s job economy, get Tracy’s new book, “The New Hello: What to Say What to Do in the New World of Work.” 

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How Executive Dysfunction Affects Your Job Search (And What to Do About It), with Ben Tobin

You know you need to apply. You've blocked out the afternoon. And somehow the garage gets cleaned instead. That may be executive dysfunction, a disruption in your brain's ability to plan, organize, and follow through. In a job search, it looks like collecting postings you never apply to, over-preparing, or spending months getting ready to start.

This week, ICF-certified career coach Ben Tobin joins Mac with three ways forward. Lower the stakes: make your first goal to bomb an interview, not land one. Sit with the discomfort: that pit-of-your-stomach dread runs its course if you let yourself feel it. And build structure: schedule time, name your very first step, and write a fresh to-do list each day. As Ben says, the meta work is work — give it a place on your calendar.

About Our Guest:

• Ben Tobin is an ICF-certified career coach who works with tech professionals and adults with ADHD. 

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• Connect with Ben on LinkedIn.

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Are you considering going back to school before pursuing your dream job? What if you could get that position without paying thousands of dollars for more education? Find Your Dream Job guest Ken Coleman says it’s entirely possible, and he offers two questions to ask yourself before signing up for student loans. Ken also shares networking tips, how to pursue alternative education, and the importance of following your gut. 

About Our Guest:

Ken Coleman is the nationally syndicated radio host of The Ken Coleman Show and the author of The Proximity Principle.

Resources in This Episode:

• If you need help figuring out the next step in your career or job search, visit Ken’s website at kencoleman.com. 
• Check out Ken's book From Paycheck to Purpose: The Clear Path to Doing Work You Love

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Networking evolves with the marketplace, technology, and your own career stage, and habits that once worked can now make you look out of touch to the people you most want to impress. Find Your Dream Job guest Wendy Dukes says the fix starts with directness. Rather than spend ten minutes of a coffee meeting building up to your ask, state what you need from the start, then share the details that support your request. 

Offer something in return, too, so the connection benefits you both. Wendy also urges job seekers to retire two old standbys, the business card and the printed resume, in favor of a strong, current LinkedIn presence. And remember: networking isn't limited to professional events. Your next great connection might happen in a grocery store line, at a tailgate, or even on a cruise ship.

About Our Guest:

• Wendy Dukes is the director of the early careers program at the Forté Foundation. 

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• Connect with Wendy on LinkedIn.

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If the statistics are true, recruiters and hiring managers spend less than 5 minutes looking at each resume they receive; even less if it doesn’t grab their attention immediately. In order to get past the first round of screening, Find Your Dream Job guest Agnes Zach says you need to use the language of the job description in your cover letter and resume. In addition, she suggests preparing specific, 3-5 minute answers to the most commonly asked interview questions. Agnes also shares the most common reasons you aren’t making it to the final round of interviews.

About Our Guest:

Agnes Zach is the CEO at Nonprofit Professionals Now and A to Z Staffing. Her organizations offer executive search, temporary staffing, and talent evaluation services.

Resources in This Episode:

• If you're a professional or job seeker in the nonprofit sector, Agnes offers services to help you. Find out more on her websites, Nonprofit Professionals Now (NPN) and A to Z Staffing, Inc.
• Connect with Agnes on LinkedIn

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