1122: How to Find the Work You’re Wired to Do with William Vanderbloemen

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

William Vanderbloemen discusses how professionals can find both success and satisfaction in their careers.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The one habit that puts you ahead of 90% of people

2) How to learn what you don’t know about yourself

3) The one skill to work on—regardless of your job

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— ABOUT WILLIAM —

William Vanderbloemen has been leading the Vanderbloemen Search Group for 15 years, where they are regularly retained to identify the best talent for teams, manage succession planning, and consult on all issues regarding teams. This year, Vanderbloemen will complete their 3,000th executive search.

Prior to founding Vanderbloemen Search Group, William studied executive search under a mentor with 25+ years of executive search at the highest level. His learning taught him the very best corporate practices, including the search strategies used by the internationally known firm Russell Reynolds. Prior to that, William served as a Senior Pastor at one of the largest Presbyterian Churches in the United States.

• Book: Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest

• Book: Work How You Are Wired: 12 Data-Driven Steps to Finding a Job You Love

• Website: Vanderbloemen.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: reMarkable

• Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Past episode: 971: Mastering The Three Keys to Getting Noticed with Jay Baer

• Past episode: 1066: How to Thrive When Your Resilience Runs Out with Dr. Tasha Eurich

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0:00.0	I think most uber successful people will tell you, the more successful you get in life,
0:16.2	the fewer people there are that will tell you the truth.
0:19.4	Establish those friendships now before you hit the top of whatever ladder you're
0:24.7	climbing because once you get to the top, it'll be very hard to find friends that'll be
0:28.5	honest with you.
0:36.0	That's William Vanderblamen.
0:55.4	He's the founder of the Vanderblaman Search Group group where he helps organizations identify the best talent for teams. He's also the author of two books, Be the Unicorn, and Work How You're Wired, where he discusses the research at his team conducted around the habits that help professionals excel at and enjoy their work. So you'll learn one, the one habit that puts you ahead of 90% of people. Two, how to learn what you don't know about yourself. And three, the one
1:01.7	skill to work on regardless of your job. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable
1:06.0	takeaways that William shared, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter,
1:09.8	which you can find at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now,
1:16.0	here's William. William, welcome. Thanks so much, Pete. Appreciate you having me here.
1:25.1	Oh, I'm excited to talk about some of your wisdom.
1:33.8	Your book, Work How You Are Wired, Great Title, Great Messages. I want to kick it off right at the beginning. I'm intrigued. We've got right off the bat, Chapter 1 titled, Almost Everyone Hates
1:40.5	Their Job. What a bummer. Can you tell us what's the underlying research data for this
1:45.8	assertion? If you do a pretty thorough search, and we did, of reputable surveys, of really
1:53.5	honest looks at happiness and engagement in the workplace, the resounding conclusion is most
1:59.7	Americans hate their job. And it's probably also true globally
2:03.5	but most Americans hate their job not we're mildly dissatisfied or we're a little bit unengaged
2:09.5	or when it's hump day or that sort of thing they really don't like their jobs and life is just
2:15.6	too short to spend the majority of your waking hours doing something you
2:19.2	hate. And to add on to that, most Americans hate their job. Most managers say their team is just
2:26.1	okay. Now that's a really messed up world where you've got people that hate doing what they do
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