#8 Let the Games Begin

Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

Megan Tan

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Job interviews are stressful, especially when it’s for the position of your dreams and you’re competing against nine other people. But is it worth it to become something you’re not and to play the game so someone will hire you?

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0:00.0	Hi, I got to your message just this morning.
0:09.0	I'm on the phone with Stacy, the Director of Content administration at National Public Radio.
0:15.0	That's right.
0:16.6	NPR, one of the biggest radio news organizations in the United States.
0:21.8	It's kind of like the Jay-Z and Beyonce Empire of radio.
0:25.0	I applied to the Crock Fellowship a while ago, and for the past three and a half months I hadn't heard anything.
0:31.0	Until Stacy called.
0:33.6	Side note.
0:34.6	You're only going to hear my voice in this conversation
0:36.6	because I was too nervous to record hers.
0:39.2	But I really had nothing to be nervous about.
0:41.4	She was delivering good news. Really? Oh wow, that's so exciting. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm glad to hear from you too. All right, you too.
0:57.0	Take care. Bye.
1:05.0	Did you hear me? I'm a finalist.
1:07.0	Yeah, I'm going to Washington, D.C.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	Yeah. going to DC. Yeah, yeah I know you should give me a hug. Yeah, isn't that exciting? Oh, you're listening to millennial. You're listening to millennial, a podcast series about what no one really teaches you,
1:27.5	how to maneuver your 20s captured in real time. After months of applying to radio internships, fellowships, and jobs, I finally get my break.
1:39.0	I am going to be going to National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. and competing against nine other people
1:44.8	for three fellowship spots.
1:47.4	The competition is going to be fierce, the stakes are going to be high, and I'm going to do
1:52.2	everything I possibly can to present myself as the best
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