Tech After Five

The world keep moving and that means there are a lot of people we know who now are interviewing for their job and being hired with all of their contact via video conference. Since we frequently hear from people about getting the first step accomplished, they get the interview, but don’t make it beyond that, we thought we’d offer some help. We brought in Carol Hamilton, an interview coach to talk about how we can be better at our interviews.

We cover lots of video interview specific advice in this episode, but being great at a regular interview is useful, too. Here are some of the things we talk about in this session.

1. Do your research.

2. Know the whole company.

3. Think one step ahead.

4. Practice your answers

5. simplify

6. Know your strengths.

7. Know your limitations.

8. Beware of the “I’s”

9. Focus on the future

Super Bonus: We end this episode with the best last interview question ever.  Too many times we leave an interview and don’t know how we did/. If you learn how to ask this question and respond, you’ll never again leave an interview in the fog of war. You’ll know if you’re on the right path or not, guaranteed.

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Tell us how you're doing in two words. We find out why it's important to check in on our friends and colleagues.

Then, we talk about what we are learning and what is working for us in the middle of the response to the pandemic.

What is Essential in your life? Has the coronavirus epidemic caused you to redetermine what's essential for you? We reference some of our learnings from Greg McKeown's book book Essentialism.

Scott reminds us of our battery exercise. What can we automate, delegate, or eliminate from our daily routines?

Let’s figure that out together.

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Small businesses are facing an unprecedented economic disruption due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The CARES Act, which contains $376 billion in relief for American workers and small businesses is a program with money to help during the disruption. How does the program work? How do we apply? What do we need to be careful about? We have questions, so we went to an expert for answers. 

In this helpful episode of the podcast we talk to Earl Gregorich, Upstate Area Manager of the South Carolina SBDC (Small Business Development Center) to get our answers about the PPP (Payroll Protection Act) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Advance) programs as well as others you may not be aware of.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

South Carolina SBDC - https://www.scsbdc.com/

America’s SBDC - https://americassbdc.org/

SBA Coronavirus response resources - https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options

Our Guest: Earl Gregorich - Area Manager and Business Consultant at Greenville Area Small Business Development Center

https://www.linkedin.com/in/earlgregorich/

Your hosts:

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

This week we got an email with three good questions in it. We decided to answer them and ask them of you as well. We share our answers and see how you are doing.

Check-in Questions:

1. Are you and your family safe and healthy?

2. What is one thing you’ve learned this week?

3. What is one thing you are doing differently as a result of your altered work schedule or working environment?

See the email here.

Five strategies for calming a worried mind:

1. Be the Observer

2. Cognitive Distancing

3. Take Action

4. Delay Worrying

5. Hic et Nunc

Then we ask you for a one week challenge…

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

We're answering your questions.  In just a few weeks, Zoom has seen its user numbers expand rapidly as hospitals, schools and even governments use their online video conferencing service. Some schools have rolled it out to their entire student populations. As this software has approached near ubiquity, quite a number of security concerns have surfaced. Our group tries to make sense of these reports and incidents while offering some ideas about how to configure their software to minimize interruptions. 

We talk about Zoom, being safe online, it's alternatives, and the good we've done this week.

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

If you're feeling lonely, well... you aren't the only one. It turns out a lot of people were feeling lonely even they could be side by side with their coworkers.  How we find meaning matters and the ways many of us approach it don't actually work. Getting past social media and developing meaningful connections takes some effort in the right places. We talk about that in this episode. Listen with us and give us some feedback on what's working for you!

NB: By the way, we did something incredible today and you'll be the first to know about it when you listen to this podcast.  More news in the coming days, but be sure to check out this episode to see what we're up to next!

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Last week we asked how you were doing and you told us. Our Friday roundup team covers what we've learned in the past week from our friends and clients. We talk about what we've learned as we navigate the world of video conferencing from home. We talk about what's on your mind as you navigate this new space as well. We're all adapting the best we can and learning from each other. Join us as we talk it out.

You can also watch us: https://youtu.be/OoGraOYAnNE

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

It’s been a week. We thought we’d get the gang together to talk about it and how we are coping with the changes in schedule. We’ve also got a challenge for you. Let’s keep the arrow of intention aimed at something bigger than ourselves. What’s a goal you can set for yourself for the next 30 days. It starts now. Share that with us.

Are you on the mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

The world has changed. It's probably changed for you. For many people, working from home is a new experience. How do you make that work? Even if you've been working remotely for awhile, you may be facing new conditions. You may have people or pets wandering in and out of your workspace when that's not happened before. How do you make working away from others work for you? We've got some help for you, today.

We've got Carol Hamilton, a global communications expert to share with us some of her thoughts as she has worked with people and teams from around the world. How do you get your head right? How do you get your space right? How do you stay focused? How do you come to agreement with those around you on how you will create boundaries and work and life?

We've got some answers in this episode of the Tech After Five podcast. 

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

In this episode we are talking about the upcoming Next Venture Pitch event on April 7, 2020 in Greenville, SC.

Now in its fifth year, the event draws top principal VCs, angel investors, and community leaders to hear pitches from entrepreneurs and innovators. The focus this year is presenting CEOs who have scaled their businesses as they offer a path forward in fireside chats, CEO workshops, keynote speakers, and more.

The event regularly sells out, and we think that after you listen to this episode you will want tickets of your own.

Our Guest for this episode is C. Alex Estevez

C. Alex Estevez is a Venture Partner with Accel Partners, a global leader in venture capital with past investments in top companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Facebook, Jet.com, Lynda.com, Qualtrics, Slack, Squarespace and Spotify. As Venture Partner, Mr. Estevez helps existing portfolio companies based outside of Silicon Valley with their growth opportunities and scale challenges. Mr. Estevez is also a personal investor in leading U.S. software companies based outside of Silicon Valley, including BetterCloud, FullStory, Pindrop and UIPath. He is a former CFO of Atlassian, former CFO at BigFix, and former CFO & President of Datastream.

Links we talk about in the episode:

Your hosts for this episode:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.