217: An Effective (but Rare) Strategy to Snag Your Dream Job with Kristen Berndt
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 15 October 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Kristen Berndt acquired the job she’s wanted for a decade–United Airline’s Manager of Baggage Planning–and shares her unorthodox approach to getting it.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to let the world know what you want…and keep in touch with the critical contacts
2) A mindset that will give you back a third of your day
3) How to nail interviews with the classic STAR framework
About Kristen
Kristen Berndt is the Manager of Baggage Planning at United Airlines. When Kristen was 19 years old, she determined that she wanted to work in operations for United Airlines, and made it her life goal. She believes that confidence and persistence are the keys to achieving one’s dreams. She encourages others to network and build connections in order to be successful. Kristen lives and works in Chicago.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: TextExpander, the productivity multiplier
- Kristen on Twitter and LinkedIn
- Book: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- Previous episode: Episode 167: Nick Campbell
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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 McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 217 with Kristen Burnt. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a really fun conversation because this is someone I've known for a while and we |
| 0:32.0 | discovered previously on an episode with Nick Campbell that Kristen |
| 0:36.8 | in fact achieved her dream job from many years ago and so we now get to follow up and hear the |
| 0:42.0 | tale the completion of it and there's some real |
| 0:44.3 | brilliance to be extracted from Kristen's story. So you're a learn one how to let the |
| 0:48.8 | world know what you want and keep in touch with the critical contacts who can make it happen. |
| 0:53.8 | Two, a mindset to give you back a third of your day. |
| 0:57.1 | And three, how to nail interviews using the classic star framework. |
| 1:01.9 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items referenced, |
| 1:06.0 | you can find that on over at awesome at your job.com slash f217. |
| 1:11.6 | And while you're at awesome at your job, I encourage you to check out some of our great resources. |
| 1:15.1 | One all point two here is the gold nugget email list. |
| 1:18.4 | We have recently featured in Pure Wow, which is really cool. |
| 1:21.2 | I would have meant to not have you been there before but pure wow.com said if you're too busy |
| 1:25.6 | Killing it at your job to listen to the podcast you could just listen to the summarized or read rather the summarized gold nugget email list. |
| 1:33.7 | So I think that's true. |
| 1:35.1 | That's what we do, is we synthesize |
| 1:37.2 | some of the most actual takeaways |
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