Who Ya Know Show

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/

In this episode, we invite Dr. Ro Schmidt. She is an author, management consultant, international speaker, and podcast host. She is dubbed a “humble servant leader” while using versatility to empower her clients. Dr. Ro spent 20+ years as the CEO of a tax accounting firm before transitioning into academia for 12 years as a business professor. She pivots this gamut of skills to her current role as CEO of Truth with Grace Consulting specializing in management consulting for corporations, academic and religious institutions, individuals, and non-profit organizations.

What you will learn:

- The superhuman: Dr. Ro Schmidt

- Dr. Ro’s background and life journey

- How Dr. Ro discovered her purpose in life

- Dr. Ro’s event for organ donation

- How Clubhouse changed Dr. Ro’s life

- Dr. Ro’s next big event to reach millions of people

- What people look for when hiring leaders

- Power of asking and seeking help

- Dr. Ro’s work as an author

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Dr. Ro at (02:20) - In life, what you learn is when you lose something. We always allow moments to pass us by and we don’t stop to just breathe sometimes whether we are working, whether it’s personal or things in work. So pausing is very essential as well. So my answer honestly would be both.

🎤Dr. Ro at (05:00) - Giovanni lives on through organ donation. He has saved and helped 73 lives and one of those lives that I know personally is my attorney.

🎤Dr. Ro at (07:34) - I have been put on this earth as a calling to be a person that speaks for those who can’t speak for themselves.

🎤Dr. Ro at (11:52) - Yes, 11 other people signed up and the first person that did sign up has been vetted and will be giving their kidney to her.

🎤Dr. Ro at (14:55) - Just ask and let God do the rest.

🎤Dr. Ro at (19:28) - It’s like God is giving me a gift to connect is what it is.

🎤Dr. Ro at (23:08) - Someone that’s listening can come right to them and say you know I may not be able to do this today but can you help me find a job. And they’re gonna do their best or connect you with somebody that does.

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Get in touch with Dr. Ro:

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

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 Tony Washington A.K.A "Tony with the Keys." He just celebrated 5 years as a sales and marketing consultant in the car business. Tony loves music and good vibrations. He creates anthems and fight songs for businesses that align with his mission to produce inspiration that inspires production. He is the creator of the WYK anthem "Go to work" & "#Rise&Grind"

What you will learn:

- Doing what you love

- Tony’s childhood and growing up

- The impact of people around you

- The story behind ‘Tony with the Keys’

- Not letting the enemy stop you

- The WYK anthem ‘Go to work’ by Tony

- The lyrics and meaning of the WYK anthem

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Tony at (05:24) - You will become the sum of those that you’re around, the same, total of the people around you.

🎤Trevor at (07:35) - Well we are excited you’re back!

🎤Tony at (08:50) - I say Jesus is the master key. He unlocked me to unlock some spiritual prisons, some mental blocks.

🎤Trevor at (13:32) - Like LinkedIn, I’m locked in, get the job done, when I clock in.

🎤Foster at (16:02) - Every stone that hurts me builds the road in front of me.

🎤Trevor at (21:49) - You know what the enemy wasn’t able to interview with this interview. So, I’m glad. Tony, we got you back that internet, it held nothing to you man.

If you enjoyed today's episode, don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a ⭐5 STAR REVIEW!! It only takes a few minutes and let me tell you... those reviews really help people find the show!

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 Craig Brown. Craig is a public speaker & author, as well as the Recovery Pastor and Director at Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg, MD, since 1999. In his 20+ years as a Recovery Pastor, he has helped thousands of people, including business owners & professional leaders, to find the healing and freedom from shame in Christ that delivers us from pain, guilt, & shame.

What you will learn:

- Craig’s message for people in isolation

- Finding your true identity

- Having faith in the heavenly father

- The power of ‘who you know'

- How does self-awareness impact you

- Warning signs that we need to identify in people

- Craig’s book: Stop Hiding Start Healing

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Craig at (02:22) - Give up social media!

🎤Craig at (03:54) - Everything that we have ever wanted is on the other side of the fear.

🎤Craig at (04:12) - We will never change until the pain is greater than our fear.

🎤Craig at (04:30) - We will never change unless we use that pain as a catalyst in a healthy way.

🎤Craig at (05:28) - God is far more interested in the process that he is in the final goal.

🎤Craig at (06:38) - There is only one who could take and remove all those and that is the lord.

🎤Craig at (07:08) - Our struggle becomes our comfort zone. I mean that is our identity and it becomes our comfort zone. You know why? Because we are afraid of what is on the other side.

🎤Trevor at (09:28) - Your father is gonna feed the birds. He is gonna feed you too.

🎤Craig at (09:45) - It’s about who you know.

🎤Craig at (09:52) - You gotta pick up your mat and start walking.

🎤Craig at (12:45) - We are so concerned and consumed with social media. And we are so consumed about other things. Consume yourself, and it will eat you.

🎤Trevor at (22:58) - Put your rocks down and put your mics down.

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Get in touch with guest:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigbrown33/

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 Jared Springer. Jared is an Entrepreneur, Father & Businessman. He set out to bring himself from Broke, Crippled, & Bankrupt to creating multi-million dollar businesses. After years of conditioning happiness, he finally figured out a formula to living happily NOW!

What you will learn:

- Jared’s journey from zero to a million-dollar business

- The fastest way to learn something

- Jared’s life story and his medical condition

- What help Jared get through the hard times

- How Jared’s life changed after the success of his business

- Finding your true identity

- Jared’s book: I'll Be Happy When

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Jared at (05:18) - The fundamentals stay very similar but there’s different way to do it actually faster.

🎤Jared at (05:35) - If you want to do something, the fastest way is to just learn from somebody who’s already done it.

🎤Jared at (08:37) - Once I did that, then I had the system. And I still was doing that so I could make enough money to make my first company, which was started with a thousand bucks basically and then turned that into a million dollar business in a year.

🎤Jared at (11:08) - I literally unfriended every person I knew.

🎤Jared at (15:10) - What actually made me happy was doing stuff like this and helping out other people.

🎤Foster at (19:52) - You know what, they’re looking at mom and dad, and they’re learning, how do I handle this same adversity as I get a little bit older? Well, dad went through that, and mom went through that. But that’s what they did, and they made it through it.

If you enjoyed today's episode, don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a ⭐5 STAR REVIEW!! It only takes a few minutes and let me tell you... those reviews really help people find the show!

Get in touch with Jared Springer:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-springer-683558165/

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/