1090: How to Get Recruiters to Compete for You with Madeline Mann
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Madeline Mann shares insider tips and strategies for landing exciting new career opportunities.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The resume mistake high achievers make
2) The simple tweak that dramatically nets you more inbound opportunities
3) The interview hack that makes you sound like an expert
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— ABOUT MADELINE —
Madeline Mann is an HR & Recruiting leader who spun her insider knowledge of the hiring process into an award-winning career coaching empire, called Self Made Millennial. Mann is now known for turning job seekers into Job Shoppers, to enable any professional to land high-paying job offers for seemingly unattainable roles. Her clients have landed at companies such as Netflix, Google, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, NBC Universal, Amazon, and more. She lives in Los Angeles.
• Book: Reverse the Search: How to Turn Job Seeking into Job Shopping
• LinkedIn: Madeline Mann
• Website: MadelineMann.com
• YouTube: Self-Made Millennial
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
• Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
• Book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
• Past episode: 217: An Effective (but Rare) Strategy to Snag Your Dream Job with Kristen Berndt
• Past episode: 664: Dr. Robert Cialdini on How to Persuade with the 7 Universal Principles of Influence
• Past episode: 719: Liz Wiseman Reveals the Five Practices of Indispensable, High-Impact Players
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| 0:00.0 | The people who are getting all of these interviews, they're not necessarily more talented than you. |
| 0:16.5 | They're just more easily found. |
| 0:19.0 | She was showing that she has a growth mindset and a lot of people |
| 0:24.5 | don't realize that is the biggest currency of this current job market. It's not years of experience. |
| 0:29.6 | It's not wisdom. It's not tenure. It's ability to evolve and constantly learn because 25 years |
| 0:36.8 | of marketing experience doesn't actually mean anything |
| 0:40.0 | if you've lived the same year of your career 25 times. |
| 0:56.5 | That's Madeline Mann. |
| 1:02.5 | He's a career coach who uses her experience in HR and recruiting to help professionals land seemingly unattainable roles. |
| 1:11.6 | She's also the founder of Self-Made Millennial, a fabulous YouTube channel, and author of the new book, Reverse the Search, how to turn job searching in a job shopping. |
| 1:12.6 | So you'll learn one, |
| 1:13.8 | the resume and mistake high achievers make. |
| 1:15.1 | Two, the simple tweak |
| 1:16.5 | that dramatically nets you |
| 1:17.9 | more inbound opportunities. |
| 1:19.9 | And three, |
| 1:20.8 | the interview hack |
| 1:21.8 | that makes you sound like an expert. |
| 1:24.0 | And if you want a quick summary write-up |
| 1:25.4 | of these actionable takeaways, |
| 1:26.6 | I recommend you sign up |
| 1:27.3 | for the free gold nugget email newsletter, which you can find at awesome at your job.com. |
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