Ep. 031: Sell Your Ideas, Not Your Skills (Larry Smith)

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

Mac Prichard

Careers, Business

4.8 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

To have a great career, you need passion. But you also need a solid plan. Specifically, you need to know how your passions and ideas will be marketable in an ever-evolving job market.

This week on “Find Your Dream Job” we’re talking about career management and how to build a plan for a remarkable long-term career. Mac interviews professor and author Larry Smith, whose provocative TED talk, “Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career,” has attracted more than six million views. Larry urges his students to explore their passions--but also to think about their ongoing relevance in the job market.

In this 35-minute episode you will learn:

Why passion is a prerequisite to a great career--but not enough in-and-of-itself.
How to market yourself and your ideas
How to discipline your passion as part of your overall career management plan
Why everyone needs a 50 years career management plan
Why even non-creative professionals need to be creative when managing their career

This week’s guest:

Larry SmithAdjunct Associate Professor, University of WaterlooAuthor, No Fears, No Excuses: What You Need to Do to Have a Great CareerWaterloo, ON, Canada

Listener question of the week:

Everyone tells me to “do what I love” for a job. But how am I supposed to know if I like something before I do it? There are so many different jobs out there. I feel like I will be limiting myself if I pick a direction too early in life!

If you have a question you’d like us to answer on a future episode, please contact Jenna Forstrom, Mac’s List Community Manager at jenna@macslist.org.

Resources from this week’s show:

If you have a job-hunting or career development resource you’d like to share, please contact Ben Forstag, Mac’s List Managing Director at ben@macslist.org.

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1:18.3	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. I'm Mac Pritchard, your host, and publisher of Mac's List. This
1:23.8	week on Find Your Dream Job, we're talking about how to sell your ideas, not your skills.
1:28.9	What does it take to have a great career?
1:30.9	Experts say there is no one answer.
1:33.7	Yes, passion matters, but it's not enough.
1:36.2	You need to do a number of things and you need to do them right.
1:39.1	Above all, you must have a plan.
1:40.9	This week, we're talking about careers and what you need to do to have a remarkable one.
1:45.5	Ben has found a podcast you'll want to check out that can help you discover your passion,
1:49.4	and Jenna has a question from a listener who wonders,
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