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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Can Being ‘Delulu’ Win You the Job?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

People online are faking it till they make it when it comes to their applying for a job or asking for a raise. It’s called being “delulu” and it’s the latest career trend to take off. WSJ reporter Ann-Marie Alcántara joins host Ariana Aspuru to explore what it means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your money briefing for Friday, December 15th. I'm Ariana Spuru for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for J.R. Wayland.

0:40.0

Getting your dream job or L it. Okay so this is why you need to be delusional like you have to be delusional if you want to achieve your goals.

0:57.0

More people online are saying you've got to be a little delusional or the Lulu when you make a big career move.

1:04.7

Maybe you want that raise and you're going to just talk to your boss about it without any

1:10.9

fear that they might say no or whatever it might be.

1:15.0

But does it actually work?

1:17.0

Our personal technology reporter Anne Marie Alkantera

1:19.6

joins me to talk about it, after the break.

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Add a card to Google Wallet. You've heard of creating your own luck and faking it till you make it. But those old career tactics are resurfacing online

1:56.3

under a new name, Delulu. So what does it actually mean? And does it work? Here to talk about it is W.S.J. Personal tech reporter Anne Marie

2:06.2

Al-Kantera. So Anne-Marie, for people out there who might not know, what does the word

2:11.4

D'Lulu mean?

2:12.4

D'Lulu is short for delusion and it's exactly what you imagine in the word

2:17.4

delusion to be defined as risky, crazy, just something you probably shouldn't do or be thinking.

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