322: Mislead an Employer for a Foot in the Door? | Feedback Friday

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

You finally landed an interview with a high-end Italian furniture company for a position that falls in line with your career aspirations. You're super qualified except for one thing: the job posting listed "fluent in Italian" as a requirement, and you're definitely not. Should you be up front with them and let them know immediately that you don't speak Italian but say you're willing to learn it, or should you accept the interview and tell them you're not fluent when you meet with them in person? We'll try to find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!

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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

Is it ever worth it to mislead a potential employer to get a foot in the door with the intention of making things right later?
Your parents had an acrimonious divorce and your mother holds it against you that you still talk to your father. How do you draw the line in communicating with your mom?
When it comes to taking classes online, you've become an expert at gaming the system in ways that might be considered cheating. But isn't this just being resourceful?
You've disappointed a mentor by taking time out from your studies for self-care. How can you salvage the professional relationship while not putting your mental health at risk?
What's it like to bust counterfeiters for fun and profit? Here's a perspective you might enjoy if you dug the recent episode with Kris Buckner.
Life Pro Tip: Forget to take your vitamins every day? Put a small Post-it style calendar next to them, which will give you an at-a-glance reminder.
Recommendation of the Week: Narcos Mexico Season 2
A quick shout out to Tomas Conefrey!
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0:00.0	Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer
0:07.5	Jason DeFilippo. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills
0:12.0	of the world's most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical
0:16.0	advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. If you're new to
0:20.2	the show, on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer listener questions. The rest
0:23.9	of the week, we have long-form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing
0:27.6	folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors to thinkers and performers. This week, we had
0:32.8	Dennis Carole. Dennis was the USAID US Agency for International Development's Pandemic Influenza
0:39.1	and Emerging Threats Unit Head. So he really knows this stuff when it comes to the flu
0:43.2	and we discussed how the flu influenza for sure, almost for sure, will be the next global
0:48.6	pandemic. This isn't fear-mongering. It's actually quite science-based. There's a lot
0:52.5	we can do about that. We also have a deep dive into how to ask for advice and do it the
0:58.4	right way. Frankly, a lot of people ask me for advice in the wrong way. A lot of you
1:02.0	do it right. Most of you do it right. I appreciate that. Obviously, you listen to the show. I wrote
1:06.4	a whole article about this, but I know some of you don't get a chance to read that stuff
1:10.4	and many of you want to hear more in-depth discussion on the subject. We did a deep dive
1:14.8	on how to ask for advice and how to implement it, how to do it in the right way so that the
1:19.2	people you ask, well, they don't present you for doing it, which happens all the time.
1:23.0	We're going to field one of those questions here this week on Feedback Friday as well.
1:27.4	Of course, our primary mission here on the Jordan Harbinger Show is to pass along our guests
1:31.3	and our own insights and experience to you. So we want to have conversations directly
1:35.5	with you. That's what we're going to do today and every Friday here on Feedback Friday.
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