A Commitment to Equity and Community: Tracey Lam’s Job Search Story
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
Mac Prichard
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Do you see your career as a journey or a destination? On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Tracey Lam shares why she expects speed bumps and detours as part of her career journey. Tracey has a long and varied work history, and she was not afraid to switch fields and sectors to find her dream job. Tracey also talks about why she narrowed her network to a small group of people when she began the job search process. Learn more about Tracey’s career history below in this installment of our Success Stories series.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Find Your Dream Job. |
| 0:13.9 | The podcast helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm also the founder of Max List. |
| 0:22.9 | It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest |
| 0:25.0 | that helps you find a fulfilling career. |
| 0:28.2 | One of the best ways to get good at job hunting |
| 0:30.4 | is to talk to people who do it well. |
| 0:33.6 | That's why, once a month, |
| 0:35.3 | I interview a Max List reader |
| 0:36.6 | who found a job they love. |
| 0:39.5 | Our guest today is Tracy Lamb. |
| 0:42.1 | She's the Equity Program Manager at Metro. |
| 0:45.2 | It's the regional government for the metropolitan area in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:50.5 | Tracy Lamb believes that a career is a journey, complete with speed bumps and detours. |
| 0:56.3 | In a story you can find on the Maxlist website, Tracy says that each twist and turn in her career has taught her new lessons, both personally and professionally. |
| 1:06.9 | Why do you love your job, Tracy? |
| 1:09.6 | There are many things that I really enjoy about my job. |
| 1:13.6 | At the risk of sounding a little cliche, I really enjoy the people. |
| 1:19.0 | I've had a lot of conversations with folks throughout Metro as I was getting on board, |
| 1:24.9 | and I learned that they chose to work for a government agency |
| 1:29.2 | because they really want to serve the public. And I really appreciated that. And they, most of the |
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