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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

273: Taking Control of your Career with Korn Ferry’s Gary Burnison

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Korn Ferry’s CEO Gary Burnison talks about the importance of learning agility and areas to consider when evaluating a potential job offer.   You'll Learn: Which skills predict success--and which are 200X harder to develop than others New rules of thumb on timelines that suggest “job hopping” vs “getting stale” Why happiness is central to your career strategy   About Gary: Gary D. Burnison is the Chief Executive Officer of Korn Ferry, the preeminent global people, and organizational advisory firm. Korn Ferry helps leaders, organizations, and societies succeed by releasing the full power and potential of people. Its nearly 7,000 colleagues deliver services through Korn Ferry and its Hay Group and Futurestep divisions. Mr. Burnison is also a member of the Firm’s Board of Directors.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep273   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 273 with

0:25.0

corn fairies CEO Gary Bernison. If you're not so familiar with

0:29.2

corn fairy, well I recommend getting familiar because they have so much good stuff and this is

0:35.2

personally meaningful for me because really corn fairies work planted some seeds that

0:40.6

grew into the fullness of this podcast.

0:44.0

Intriguing, well, we talk about it in the episode,

0:46.2

so I won't repeat myself, but you'll learn the following one.

0:50.0

Which skills predict success and which are 200 times harder than others to develop.

0:56.0

Two, new rules of thumb on timelines that can suggest job hopping versus getting stale.

1:02.4

And three, why happiness is central to your career strategy.

1:06.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference

1:10.6

here it's over at awesome at your job dot com slash

1:13.2

up to seven three now here's Gary story Gary D burnison is the chief

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executive officer of cornferry the preeminent global people and organizational

1:22.3

advisory firm.

1:23.8

Corn Ferry helps leaders, organizations, and societies succeed by releasing the full power

1:28.6

and potential of people.

1:30.6

It's nearly 7,000 colleagues deliver services through Corn Ferry and its Hay Group and Future Step divisions.

1:36.0

Mr. Bertison is also a member of the firm's Board of Directors.

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