The Inforium

How to Get Hired: A Look Inside the Decision Maker's Head (Ep. 185)


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We've talked a lot about the job-seeking process, but this time we get to examine things from a different perspective: the company.
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Things mentioned in this episode:
CIG is Looking for an Awesome Writer!
The application form's questions #1
The application form's questions #2
How to Crush Job Interviews (Ep. 183)
Swim University
Swim University YouTube channel
Roasty Coffee
Roasty Coffee YouTube channel
Listen Money Matters
How to Finish Homework FAST
How to Stop Falling Behind on Your Homework
Defy Gravity (Roxine's website)
Tom's Impossible List
Kurt Gödel
Uncertainty principle
Medium
Typepad
Pastebin
James Joyce
HackCollege
How to Go from Merely Good to Truly Great (Ep. 178)
Good to Great, by James Collins
James Collins
Charisma on Command YouTube channel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Beardbrand
Beardbrand YouTube channel
Presentation by Eric Bandholz from Beardbrand
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Timestamps:
0:00:57 - How some members of the team were hired
0:04:07 - Reasons for hiring a new writer
0:06:36 - The questions and the form used in the hiring process
0:13:15 - Seemingly irrelevant questions and "weeding out" people
0:20:49 - Can we be great at something without having a knack for it?
0:24:56 - Don't "shotgun" your resume to a lot of companies
0:27:25 - Ways to show showcase your experience in writing
0:34:50 - The initial "weed out" bullet points
0:38:20 - Handling rejection from a job opportunity
0:40:56 - The next steps of figuring out who to hire
0:47:04 - Ghostwriting and assigning the right tasks to employees
0:53:56 - Reasons for why would-be-employers might not respond to you
0:57:30 - Conclusion
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