111: Finding and Understanding Your Core Talents with Marc Miller
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Veteran career coach Marc Miller gives pro-tips to understanding your core talents to find more fulfillment at work.
You’ll Learn:
- How to find career fulfillment by discovering your core talents
- Big open-ended questions to ask at your next job interview
- Generational echoes and how to better understand each other
About Marc
Marc Miller’s career journey included 22 years at IBM, several thriving tech startups, a painful stint as a high school teacher, a gig raising funds for the Jewish Community Association of Austin and a near fatal bicycle accident that changed his perspective forever.
An active member of the Launch Pad Job Club, Marc found himself counseling friends and associates on their career journeys and finally realized he’d found his vocation. He would use his extensive training experience to help others—especially Baby Boomers—find careers that they could grow into for the decades that lie ahead.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: https://careerpivot.com
- Book: Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the Second Half of Life (preview) by Marc Miller
- Book: Start with No by Jim Camp
- Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Book: Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine
- Book: Quiet by Susan Cain
- Tool: Birkman Assessment
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 111 with Mark Miller. |
| 0:26.4 | Mark dropped some career knowledge such as one how to find a career fulfillment |
| 0:31.5 | by discovering your core talents, |
| 0:33.2 | two big open-ended questions to ask at your next job interview, |
| 0:37.8 | and three, generational echoes |
| 0:40.0 | and how we might better understand one another across generations. |
| 0:44.4 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to items mentioned, |
| 0:48.6 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash Epp 111. And while you're at awesome at your job. job |
| 0:55.0 | at your job.com, I recommend you take a look at some of the other handy resources |
| 0:58.0 | from the 10 days of winning at work free email course |
| 1:01.0 | to the gold nugget email summaries with the wisdom of each guest and other |
| 1:05.4 | goodies. So come on down, awesome at a job.com. |
| 1:08.9 | Here's a quick bit about Mark Miller's career journey included 22 years at IBM, several thriving tech startups, |
| 1:16.0 | a painful stint as a high school teacher, a gig raising funds for the Jewish Community Association |
| 1:20.7 | of Austin, and a near fatal bicycle accident that changed his |
| 1:24.1 | perspective forever. An active member of the launch pad job club Mark found himself |
| 1:28.9 | counseling friends and associates on their career journeys and finally realized he'd found his vocation. |
| 1:34.4 | He would use his extensive training experience to help others find careers that they could grow into |
| 1:39.5 | for the decades that lie ahead. Here's Mark. |
| 1:42.1 | Mark, thanks so much for joining us here on the House. that lie ahead. Here's Mark. |
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