464: Ramit Sethi | I Will Teach You to Find Your Dream Job
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ramit Sethi (@ramit) is the bestselling author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works, and now he's applied the same no-nonsense approach to his latest program, Find Your Dream Job.
What We Discuss with Ramit Sethi:- Many people are underpaid, often by $10,000 per year. How can you make sure you're not one of them?
- What hiring managers are really looking for in job candidates, and how to refrain from disqualifying yourself before you've even applied simply because you lack a prerequisite mentioned in the listing.
- Throwing your resume on a stack with the rest of the candidates and hoping for the best is probably a wasted effort -- because most of the best jobs are filled through backdoor introductions, often before they're ever made public.
- By the time you've been granted an interview, the hiring manager doesn't want a generic rehash of your credentials -- they're more interested in knowing how well you'll fit in with the team and if you can be counted on under pressure.
- The three parts of the negotiation power dynamics framework that will help you maximize the outcome of your negotiations by understanding your leverage.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:02.6 | When you speak up, does the rest of the meeting stop talking and turn and listen to you? |
| 0:08.6 | Or are you talked over? |
| 0:10.6 | I find that this is one of the most poignant, pointed moments for people, |
| 0:15.8 | because it very clearly tells you if you are respected at work. |
| 0:20.5 | There's things like your paycheck, but actually that is less relevant on a day-to-day basis |
| 0:26.9 | than do I have a friend at work who I can go to lunch with or that I enjoy talking to. |
| 0:33.0 | And finally, in the last four weeks, have you learned something new? |
| 0:37.5 | That tells you if you are at a job that is challenging, that is compensating, that's respecting |
| 0:43.3 | you. |
| 0:44.3 | If those are great, perfect. |
| 0:47.1 | Not everyone has to switch jobs tomorrow, but if not, it can really start to incur an |
| 0:51.2 | invisible cost over days and weeks and months and even years. |
| 0:56.0 | That can be incalculable. |
| 0:58.8 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbanger. |
| 1:03.7 | On the Jordan Harbanger Show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 1:07.3 | most fascinating people. |
| 1:08.8 | We have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. |
| 1:12.2 | Astronauts, entrepreneurs, spies, psychologists, even the occasional four-star general Russian |
| 1:17.5 | spy or arms dealer, each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice that you |
| 1:22.4 | can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works and become a better critical |
| 1:27.0 | thinker. |
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