255: Expert Interview: How Your Students Can Prepare to be Competitive in the Global Workplace, with Ben Green

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben Green, author of The Global Superstar, advises, “Square one is to just understand there are great threats and great opportunities posed by global competition. The threat: competing against seven billion people. Boil it down: for good-paying jobs, you're competing against three billion people. You have to be very competitive to get the pick of the litter for job opportunities, especially since the recession of 2008. It’s important to have a clear end in mind, and work backwards to get the education you’ll need.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 255. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.5	Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered
0:21.6	his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:27.4	Once a week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development
0:32.2	who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.
0:37.1	Today, I'm delighted to
0:38.1	bring you our featured expert, Mr. Ben Green. Welcome, Ben. Thanks, Dan. How are you doing? I am doing
0:44.7	great. Thanks for having me on it. This is exciting. Well, thank you. It's our pleasure. You are
0:49.1	talking about a very fascinating topic. Just a few words about Ben Greene. He's the author of Global Superstar,
0:55.9	who was born in Columbia, South Carolina, has spoken to thousands of people about how to seek
1:00.4	job opportunities, both at home and abroad. He speaks from experience, having worked more than 20
1:06.2	jobs, traveled to 24 countries, and done business with people from 30 countries.
1:14.0	He's worked for 10 years in Japan, Spain, and Brazil.
1:21.9	Ben currently serves as COO of DPP, an IT staffing firm that puts talented people to work.
1:28.4	So Ben, today's topic is how your students can prepare to be competitive in a global workplace.
1:31.2	So you certainly have the credentials for that.
1:36.1	Lay the table or set the table for our listeners about why this is such a vital issue today.
1:43.1	Don, it's such a vital issue because the best social program anyone can have is a good paying, rewarding career and job.
1:46.8	And there are about 3 billion people on the planet that are eligible to be able to work full-time and they want full-time jobs that pay well.
1:56.2	There are about 1.2 billion jobs on the planet that pay well and are full-time.
2:02.0	So there's a potential shortage, quite frankly, of about 1.8 billion jobs on the planet that pay well in our full time. So there's a potential shortage,
2:07.1	quite frankly, of about 1.8 billion jobs worldwide. And so... Now, I've never heard those statistics. Repeat those, if you would, please. Three billion people
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