In this episode, we invite Michael Mehterian. Michael is a 15-year Award winning IT Operations leader who has been on the journey for the next opportunity since 3/1/2019.

What you will learn:

- Challenges that Michael is facing

- Michael’s featuring on the national news

- Being an expert on yourself

- Opportunities that Micheal is looking for

- The power of networking and relationships

- Mark’s ‘paying it forward’ and helping other jobseekers

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Michael at (02:08) - Here I am!

🎤Michael at (07:20) - You’re not necessarily in competition with everybody else but you’re in competition with yourself.

🎤Michael at (09:57) - I achieved one of my goals that I set for myself which was to be sitting in this chair to have a live conversation with you.

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👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemehterian/

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👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

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👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Mark Savant. Mark is a digital media expert and social media agency owner. He helps people create better content in less time. Mark focuses on the power of video collaborations to help clients create a constant social media presence in less than 1 hour a week. His YouTube channel has over 600,000 views. His podcast, the After Hours Entrepreneur features top digital marketing and media experts. If you’re looking to build your brand and reach people online, Mark Savant can help.

What you will learn:

- How was growing up for Mark

- Mark’s thoughts on social media

- How Mark helps people overcome the impacts of social media

- Mark’s perspective on using different social media platforms

- Repurposing and reusing your content

- Mark’s strategy as a jobseeker

- How to make your social media profile stand out

- Pursuing your passion

- Mark’s activities on Clubhouse

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (05:05) - The problem right Trevor, is that social media is this giant monster that is insatiable. It eats and it eats and it eats. How can we satiate it so we can at least buy some time, and that’s really what I focus on.

🎤Mark at (06:40) - Helping you create great content in less time so you can focus on what you love. I didn’t use the word “I” or “me.”

🎤Mark at (09:18) - We record it and then we produce it, chop it up, for memes, outlines, sliders, just a lot of pieces of content you can reproduce off of one 30-minute show.

🎤Michael at (10:50) - The real success comes when you step out of it and then you think of it as you’re the product.

🎤Michael at (20:13) - There is more to life than keeping the creditors happy.

🎤Mark at (24:12) - People hire you based on whether they like you or not. And if they like you, you can chat with them, and if they feel you’re trustworthy, much better shot of getting a shot.

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Get in touch with Mark Savant:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-savant-ba777145/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Mark MK McLaughin. Singer-Songwriter Mark MK is an advocate for Music Therapy. He's placed music in films like Bring It On by Universal Pictures and created the theme for Colon Cancer Foundation, The Encourage kids Foundation, and TARGET to name a few.

What you will learn:

- Inspiration behind Mark's song: Don’t feel lost

- The response that Mark’s song got

- How did the virtual experience affect Mark's life

- Amplifying and elevating your capacities

- The importance of presentation

- Mark’s on Donna Drake Show on CBS's WLNY

- Clubhouse for singers and performers

- Mark’s country soul project

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (04:00) - I didn't realize that you don’t have to be in church to preach.

🎤Mark at (06:41) - The virtual experience changed my life in a way. I was never doing it to my capacity.

🎤Mark at (08:20) - Own your position and amplify it.

🎤Trevor at (19:04) - We are in Texas buddy. I’m just saying.

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👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Mark MK McLaughin. Singer-Songwriter Mark MK is an advocate for Music Therapy. He's placed music in films like Bring It On by Universal Pictures and created the theme for Colon Cancer Foundation, The Encourage kids Foundation, and TARGET to name a few.

What you will learn:

- Mark’s childhood and growing up

- How did Mark realize his gifts

- Obstacles in Mark’s journey to the music industry

- Mark’s sources of inspiration

- His definition of Music Therapy

- Letting your emotions out

- Mark’s song: Why not us

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (03:38) - I had a birthday party and I invited all the staff to the birthday party and finally sang and it was Off To The Races.

🎤Mark at (04:14) - I’m that kind of guy that you give an inch, I’m taking two miles from it.

🎤Mark at (04:42) - I was handling the station’s money.

🎤Mark at (07:24) - Prayer, and like your show says, who you know.

🎤Mark at (10:14) - Me not listening to him, I proved to myself that hey, I could write a country song and it can get licensed by Target.

🎤Mark at (12:46) - Some people hold things in and those tears need to be brought out sometimes. You need to release sometimes.

🎤Mark at (15:54) - Fear is afraid of you too.

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Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Celinda Farias Appleby, aka Celly. She is the Director of Global Talent Attraction at Visa and is passionate about employer branding. Diversity and inclusivity are major principles that guide her work in designing human-centered, talent attraction strategies.

What you will learn:

- Celinda’s work and the job at Visa

- How Visa makes their candidate’s experience better

- Visa’s 3-day SLA: Service Level Agreement

- How long has Visa been service-oriented

- Perks of working at Visa

- Challenges in the process of hiring people

- Celinda’s work as a career coach

- Her clubhouse rooms that help job seekers

- Her tips for job seekers to differentiate themselves

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Celinda at (05:24) - It’s a candidate promise that we will contact you within 3 days, whether it’s a yes or no.

🎤Celinda at (08:59) - During COVID we didn’t lay anyone off. Everybody’s job was protected and safe.

🎤Celinda at (09:52) - Recently added fertility and adoption credits.

🎤Celinda at (14:36) - When I help people in their career journey or mapping, I like to introduce them to my network if at all possible.

🎤Celinda at (22:05) - I think humans right now are struggling with decision-making.

🎤Celinda at (24:22) - When you start looking at it as an interview for them, you’re picking out if they are the right fit, whatever that may look for you, I think you will make better decisions.

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Get in touch with Celinda:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/celindafariasappleby/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Samuel Assael. Samuel is the Head of Consumer Markets for the Home Loans Division for Union Bank. Sam oversees all fee income loan origination initiatives, drives financial literacy in underserved communities, manages product growth, monitors profitability, and is constantly hiring new talent to the staff (in both Sales and Operations).

What you will learn:

- How did Samuel get into the mortgage industry

- How saying a simple ‘hello’ can make a difference

- What sets Union Bank apart as a workplace

- How Samuel’s institution pivoted during COVID

- Samuel’s financial leadership program

- Union Bank’s talent development program

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Samuel at (05:42) - It’s a matter of who you know. You don’t know them if you don’t say ‘hi’ to them.

🎤Samuel at (09:35) - Just send an email to me and I’ll guide you for the appropriate person that you can go ahead with and I’ll make an introduction.

🎤Samuel at (12:38) - We also serviced billions of dollars of credit card debt and we did the same thing in helping consumers get through those times as well.

🎤Mark at (14:10) - Come on down man!

🎤Samuel at (18:12) - I’m not guaranteeing the hire but I’m not guaranteeing you that you will have someone that will talk to you about the opportunity. You can count on that.

🎤Samuel at (22:30) - There are 1080 total ranks open at Union Bank MUFG.

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Get in touch with Samuel Assael:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdsam/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Kyle Elliott. He is the founder and career coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. An expert in Silicon Valley and high tech, Kyle has helped senior managers and executives land jobs at Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and nearly every other Fortune 100/500 company you can think of.

What you will learn:

- How Kyle got into career coaching

- Kyle’s observations on jobseekers

- Being relevant and specific in your job search

- Kyle’s advice to senior executives who are losing their confidence

- His observations about the mistakes that people make

- His thoughts on remote working opportunities

- Kyle’s advice to people going through a career shift

- Tips for people who are starting side-hustles

- Taking risks in job search

- How to lift yourself after job-loss

- How to network with people you don’t know

- Success stories of Kyle’s clients

- How does Kyle coach his clients through rejection

- The best way to get connected with Kyle

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Kyle at (05:58) - Three of the most traumatic events in our life are death, divorce, and job loss.

🎤Kyle at (09:58) - People hire people they know. So it’s not, like this show, what you know, but it’s who you know.

🎤Kyle at (21:53) - I love the phrase ‘sharing best practices.’ So, I can reach out and say, ‘Hey Fanny, you and I are both in the career professional development space. Do you have 20 minutes to share the best practices?’

🎤Kyle at (22:25) - I literally can’t count the number of times I have reached out to strangers at top companies, and not talked to companies but especially strangers and executives at top companies and they have been willing to help.

🎤Kyle at (26:28) - It’s gonna be even more about relationships. It’s so much more about who you know.

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Get in touch with Kyle Elliot:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylecromerelliott/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Fanny Dunagan. She is our official sub-host of the Who Ya Know - Job Networking Show. Fanny is also a talent acquisition/employer brand strategist for Delaware North America & the CEO of PathLynks, LLC.

What you will learn:

- Transitioning to hybrid work after the pandemic

- Fanny's tip of the day for all job seekers

- The importance of sending a thank-you note

- Job landings of the week

- Moving back to normal after the pandemic

- The energy of in-person networking and meeting people

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Get in touch with Fanny Dunagan:

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/fannydunagan/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Matthew Warzel, CPRW. He is a certified resume writing expert with over 15 years in Human Resources and career advancement techniques. He manages MJW Careers and assists companies in the transition from downsizes to buyouts as well as individual job seekers needing to advance their careers. Matt has a long history of working in Human Resources and on recruitment/staffing teams across a variety of industries. He fashions a resume that allows employers to review the applicant's assets while highlighting his or her accomplishments, showcasing impacts on the employer's bottom lines using quantitative verbiage, and maintaining brevity.

What you will learn:

- Matthew’s job hunting kit

- Burnout and decreasing motivation in jobseekers

- Layoff and unemployment during the pandemic

- How to differentiate your resume and yourself in a job search

- What comes first for a jobseeker: Resume or LinkedIn

- Making your LinkedIn profile stand out and get attention

- The importance of personal branding in today’s world

- Matthew’s observations of some major mistakes by jobseekers

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Matthew at (10:56) - I’m a big believer of the summary sets the tone. I take pride in my summaries to really communicate what your unique selling proposition is.

🎤Matthew at (15:18) - It’s everything. It’s your brand especially nowadays with the Tok-Toks and the Instas and all the stuff, everyone’s a brand.

🎤Matthew at (16:15) - You can use your LinkedIn and you can even snowball it over to like youtube and other platforms to start building a little bit of a mini audience. I mean this stuff is at our fingertips.

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Get in touch with Matthew:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjwcareers/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Matthew Warzel, CPRW. He is a certified resume writing expert with over 15 years in Human Resources and career advancement techniques. He manages MJW Careers and assists companies in the transition from downsizes to buyouts as well as individual job seekers needing to advance their careers. Matt has a long history of working in Human Resources and on recruitment/staffing teams across a variety of industries. He fashions a resume that allows employers to review the applicant's assets while highlighting his or her accomplishments, showcasing impacts on the employer's bottom lines using quantitative verbiage, and maintaining brevity.

What you will learn:

- How did Matthew start his career coaching firm

- What is essential for a jobseeker to do

- Matthew’s opinion on the use of ATS in hiring

- How to track your interviews and follow up as a jobseeker

- How to find opportunities in a new industry

- Gaining experience through working for free

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Matthew at (04:50) - I felt like the world was just on me at that time and it was so dark and then now it’s like I would never want to go back to being you know for anybody who’s there 8 to 5, that’s fine but for me, I like being a small business owner.

🎤Matthew at (10:40) - Just start getting on their radar. I mean that’s the best way to go about it.

🎤Matthew at (12:00) - The hardest part is getting people to actually do it.

🎤Matthew at (15:24) - Start really jotting down things that are tagine towards that new role. And figure out how you’re going to acquire the knowledge and then maybe even try to get some experiential learning on the fly where you might go and offer yourself as a free worker for a month at a company.

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Get in touch with Matthew:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjwcareers/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the WYK Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your situation and guide you through this transition. For more info, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/