Networking: It is still the number one way to land your dream job?

Jennifer and Brandon went back to their origins from their first-ever collaboration to talk about a topic that never gets old and only grows in importance, networking. This is perhaps even more important today as the world has gone more virtual than ever before. They provide clear tips, stories, and insights on how you can expand your network, where you can network, and how best to network in order to achieve a successful result. Networking should be mutually beneficial for both parties and in this episode the hosts talk about ways to make that possible.

The exercise the hosts want you to take is:

Write down the problem that you solve, and the group of people you solve it for and the time frame you solve that problem in.

Then reach out to 5 of your closest connections and ask who they know in their network that you should be talking to.

"Ask Questions and Build Connections"

Jennifer Hill and Brandon Maslan were joined by Chris Schembra the bestselling author of "Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection" and the Founder + Chief Question Asker of 7:47, an advisory firm that helps companies give the GIFT of community and belonging. His passion for connection and gratitude was truly transparent in the show.

We ask our audience to do three exercises following this show:

1. Reach out to at least one person you haven't spoken to in over three years that you would like to reconnect with.

2. Share your "why" and purpose of the work you are doing now or the work you want to do in the future.

3. ASK THE QUESTION: "If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life that you don't give enough credit or thanks to who would that be?"

Learn more about Chris here and be sure to express your gratitude while fostering connection: 747club.org

Positive Mindset = Greater Success in 2021

Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill start off 2021 by exploring how we need to mentally prepare to look for a new job and to interview. They discuss the pitfalls that people can find themselves in when beginning a job search. Additionally, they provide tips and tools to prevent those setbacks.

In every episode of this special 3-month series, they will end with an exercise that can be immediately applied to allow someone to land the job they desire. In this episode, they share the "Power of 3" exercise:

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Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill speak with the co-founder of The Transcendence Theater Company, Amy Miller. They discuss how to manifest the 2021 of your dreams using practical tools. Amy offers the three following take-aways to step into 2021 ready to embrace receiving everything you want personally and professionally:

1. Take 4 deep breaths to be more present

2. Go on your "magic walk" and feel what it feels like if everything you want in 2021 has come through. Feel how you want to be (dream/have gratitude!).

3. Get out your journal, and write down what is important in your life, what connections and people are most important to you.

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Why overcome fear when you can use it?

Jennifer K. Hill and Brandon Maslan are joined by Guryan Tighe the founder of Fourage. She shares her insights on overcoming fear and using it forge new and deeper connections. They suggest diving into your fears and dancing with them.

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A few of her insights include:

-Your values are your purpose and action

-Fear can drive deeper1 connection

-Our “Why” is bigger than “I”

-Authenticity should be part of every job description

-Connect to gratitude to move through fears

Compassion Is Vital In Work and Life

This week Jennifer and Brandon were joined by Dr. Nate Regier, a compassion expert and author of two transformative books on the subject, "Seeing People Through" and "Conflict Without Casualties."

He shared some key takeaways on how we can approach compassion to others and ourselves in our lives as well as our careers:

Join others and allow if not encourage them to suffer.

Yet give that suffering purpose by asking where are you going together so they can heal?

Compassion without accountability = Nowhere.

Accountability without compassion = Alienation.

You can choose the emotion not the situation.

Compassionate accountability partners matter.

The Year of the PIVOT

Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill discuss how 2020 was the year of the PIVOT for organizations and job seekers alike.

Hill suggests to PIVOT toward the positive in 2021 using:

Passion

Innovation

Valor

Openness

Tenacity

They emphasize the importance of having an “accountability buddy” to help you achieve this pivot. Hill and Maslan also offer a tool to help you design your pivot in 2021.

The Importance of Impact vs Intent

Catrice Monson joined Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill to talk about the importance of being authentic, accountable, and uniquely yourself, and how that is vital to increasing diversity and inclusion. Catrice has devoted the last two decades to the entertainment industry and helping them be better to their employees, as well as being a more diverse and inclusive landscape.

Here are our takeaways:

You need people in your life to hold you accountable

Do the thing that is most challenging

Make sustainable long-term goals for more diversity and inclusion in your organization

Be a mentor

The power of one is strong

Be aware of your impact more than your intent

Say sorry when possible and it is always possible

Make space at your the table for other diverse voices

The health of an organization is based on how safe people feel sharing ideas, which leads to innovation

Be quirky

Your Difference Is Your Value

Jennifer K Hill and Brandon Maslan were joined by Mandy Bynum McLaughlin to discuss why people should bring forth their unique value always, and how organizations should value those differences. A company's leadership that values diversity, inclusion and belonging is a successful company.

Our takeaways were:

-Be a part of a group of movement within your organization to meet more people and discover new opportunities.

-Inclusion comes from the top.

-Ask yourself a time you felt like the “other” ?

-Doing things differently equals success.

-If you are in the room, bring it.

-In interviews, bring your full self as early as you can.

-Your diversity is your value.

Millenials are Amazing and Your Company Can Be Too

Dr. Julia Ivy of Northeastern University joins Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill for a “Get Yourself the Job” show focused on inter generational workplaces.

The takeaways:

Bring your whole self and companies need to hire the whole self.

Find synchronicity with one another

Share your passion

Be proactive in your outreach

Listen with empathy and share what you have learned about an organization

Develop trust

Make an impact and go somewhere you can thrive in the community

Build your employees a bigger sandbox and give them ownership

Rock your individuality as that is what helps collective win