BONUS: How To Deal with a Bad Reference (Vicki Lind)

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

Mac Prichard

Careers, Business

4.8 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In all likelihood you've had at least one negative experience with a past employer or supervisor. Many of us have. Whatever the cause, these experiences can have a lasting impact on your career in the form of a bad professional reference.

Any prospective employer will want to talk to your past supervisors. So how do you overcome a potentially negative reference when you're on a job hunt?

On this 6-minute bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Vicki Lind, career coach and principal of Vicki Lind and Associates, shares a comprehensive strategy for how to minimize the impact of negative feedback from a past employer. She reads "How to Deal With A Bad Reference", her contribution to our book, Land Your Dream Job in Portland (and Beyond).

Do you need more practical and proven job search tips to find a job you love? Check out Land Your Dream Job in Portland (and Beyond). The updated Mac's List guide teaches you everything you need to get where you want to be in your career.

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1:06.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:19.1	I'm Mac Pritchard, your host, and publisher of Max List. On today's bonus episode, we're sharing
1:23.6	exclusive content from our new book, Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond.
1:28.2	Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond compiles all of our best job search tips and career
1:32.3	management tools into one simple, easy-to-read. It's the definitive toolkit for anyone
1:37.2	looking for meaningful work. The book also includes special contributions from an array of job
1:42.2	search experts, and today you'll hear from one of them.
1:44.8	Here's Vicki Lynn, principal of Vicki Lynn and associates, reading her contribution,
1:49.4	how to deal with a bad reference.
1:51.7	Marty was losing sleep.
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