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

Crafting a Unique Resume, with Alex Konopka

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When you’re looking for your next job, patience is often in short supply. You may be tempted to send out as many resumes as possible. But going for quantity over quality won’t serve you well in your job search. On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Alex Konopka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-konopka-1859225b/) and I talk about how crafting a unique resume allowed him to focus on his skills and abilities, even for jobs he wasn’t 100 percent qualified for. Alex also shares why preparation before your interview is key to getting a callback or job offer.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Plaud, the AI wearable gadget that takes notes of meetings and calls.

0:07.6

Are you tired of writing everything down?

0:10.5

Or do you zone out in meetings and forget key takeaways?

0:14.6

Let AI do it for you.

0:17.3

Meet Plod, your AI-powered meeting sidekick.

0:20.7

This tiny AI gadget is the perfect accessory to your phone.

0:24.6

It creates notes, generates transcripts, and summarizes critical points and action items.

0:31.6

With the Plawed, you can stay focused and not worry that you might miss an important idea or next step.

0:38.4

You can also contribute more to the conversation and stand out in your next meeting

0:42.9

because you're not concentrating on note-taking.

0:46.2

It's simple.

0:47.2

You talk and plot handles the rest.

0:50.3

Find peace of mind at work today.

0:52.7

Ready to work smarter?

0:54.4

Type PLA-U-D into Google and get a discount with my code dream job.

1:01.1

That's PLA-U-D.

1:04.7

Music This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

1:22.5

I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps professionals find fulfilling careers.

1:32.0

One of the best ways to get good at job hunting is to talk to people who do it well.

1:37.0

That's why, once a month, I interview a Max List reader who found a job they love.

1:42.5

Our guest today is Alex Knobka.

1:45.1

He's the manager of vegetation management at Portland General Electric.

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