Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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If you send in the same generic resume to every position you apply for, you’re likely to be passed over more often than not. What can you do to make your resume unforgettable? Find Your Dream Job guest Derek Murphy-Johnson has several suggestions, beginning with using the keywords and specific language of the job description. Derek also explains how to match your experience with the job you want, the best tricks to avoid typos, and why keeping your resume simple is the best way to stand out from the crowd. 

About our Guest:

Derek Murphy-Johnson is a Director-level Talent Acquisition leader with 20+ years of experience building and transforming global hiring, employer brand, and strategic sourcing functions across North America and across the world.

Resources in This Episode:

• Connect with Derek on LinkedIn for more information on the work he does.

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You don't have to stay stuck in one job or one industry forever. This week, career development specialist Amelia Badua, founder of AB Careers, joins Mac to explain how you can move into a new role, whether that means a different industry, a fresh title, or a well-earned promotion. Amelia helps women turn their existing skills into raises, higher-paying jobs, and side income, and she shares why so many job seekers hesitate to make the leap.

Amelia walks through her step-by-step approach: get clear on what you want, take inventory of your skills, narrow your target roles, and build application materials that speak directly to employers' needs. She also shares two AI prompts to help you uncover your transferable skills and build a resume tailored to each role you pursue.

About Our Guest:

• Amelia Badua is a career development specialist and the founder of AB Careers. 

Resources in This Episode:

• Connect with Amelia on LinkedIn.

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On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Mac joins Jamila Brown on the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast to share the three questions every job seeker needs to answer: What do you want? Where do you want to go? What do you offer? Mac talks about why job searching is a skill you build through study and practice, and why doing your homework through networking and informational interviews before you apply gives you an edge over the competition.

He and Jamila also dig into how to turn your objections into questions for people who've done what you want to do, and why saying your goal out loud, specifically and often, makes it so much easier for people to help you. Listen in for Mac's closing advice: don't wait to be picked.

About the Host:

• Jamila Brown is the host of the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast and a career coach who helps individuals with career strategy.

Resources in This Episode:

• Connect with Jamila on LinkedIn.

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Do you pay close attention to the actual words you use in an interview? We all say, “um” sometimes, but does it really matter? If you feel nervous when meeting with a hiring manager, you might use fillers, disclaimers, or hedge words. According to Find Your Dream Job guest Tracy Hooper, those extra words are making you appear less than confident. If you’re ready to lose the words that sabotage your confidence, Tracy suggests recording yourself, working on losing one hedge word per month, and practicing using positive language. 

About Our Guest:

Tracy Hooper is a former TV news anchor, a professional speaker, and the founder of  The Confidence Project. 

Resources in This Episode:

• If you want to learn the skills necessary to be successful in today’s job economy, get Tracy’s new book, “The New Hello: What to Say What to Do in the New World of Work.” 

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How Executive Dysfunction Affects Your Job Search (And What to Do About It), with Ben Tobin

You know you need to apply. You've blocked out the afternoon. And somehow the garage gets cleaned instead. That may be executive dysfunction, a disruption in your brain's ability to plan, organize, and follow through. In a job search, it looks like collecting postings you never apply to, over-preparing, or spending months getting ready to start.

This week, ICF-certified career coach Ben Tobin joins Mac with three ways forward. Lower the stakes: make your first goal to bomb an interview, not land one. Sit with the discomfort: that pit-of-your-stomach dread runs its course if you let yourself feel it. And build structure: schedule time, name your very first step, and write a fresh to-do list each day. As Ben says, the meta work is work — give it a place on your calendar.

About Our Guest:

• Ben Tobin is an ICF-certified career coach who works with tech professionals and adults with ADHD. 

Resources in This Episode:

• Connect with Ben on LinkedIn.

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