Ep. 042: How to Be Productive in Your Job Search, with Mike Vardy

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

Mac Prichard

Careers, Business

4.8 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Job hunting take a lot of time, energy, and attention to detail. It’s a job in-and-of-itself! You might start your day reading several job boards. Then you complete and send a job application. Next you email requests for informational meetings. And that’s followed by writing thank you notes. After all that? Perhaps you have a job interview. But your day isn’t over. Your evening may include a networking event, too.

How do you juggle all this activity while keeping your energy and enthusiasm high? Above all, are you using your time as best you can?This week we’re talking with Mike Vardy, a productivity expert. He’ll share his best tips for how you can use your time to get the results you want.

In this 32-minute episode you will learn:

Why batching your time to specific tasks is key to productivity
Why “To Do” Lists might not be the best way to accomplish daily tasks
How to use a calendar effectively
How a Daily M.A.P. (Mode - Action - Project) can help you plan out your day
How digital trackers and analog journals can help you manage your daily plan.
Why reflective journaling is a key to increasing your daily productivity
Tips on how to avoid burnout through time management

This week’s guest:

Mike Vardy (Twitter | LinkedIn)Owner, Productivityist

Victoria, BC, Canada

Mike Vardy is an author, speaker, and productivity and time management strategist (or 'productivityist') based out of Victoria, BC, Canada. His company is Productivityist, and the company's mission is to help people stop 'doing' productive and start 'being' productive through a variety of online and offline resources that he facilitates.

Listener question of the week:

I have some great experience in my industry, but I’m a graduating senior. How do I convince an employer that I’m worth a job and not an internship at their company? Should I apply to both positions (intern and a job position) or just the job position? - Hannah Alkad

Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on a future episode? Please send your questions to Jenna Forstrom, Mac’s List Community Manager at jenna@macslist.org.

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

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1:01.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:20.3	I'm Mac Pritchard, your host, and publisher of Max List. I'm joined by my co-hosts, Ben Forrestag, managing director of Max List, and Jenna Forrestrom, our community manager.
1:31.0	This week, we're talking about how to save time and energy by maximizing the productivity of your job search.
1:38.7	Looking for work is hard, and it makes you vulnerable, too.
1:43.2	Scammers take advantage of this vulnerability by posting
1:46.3	as recruiters to extract money or sensitive personal information. How do these bad actors find you? Data brokers
1:54.1	across the world scour the web and public records for names and addresses and sell it for a profit.
2:01.3	Scammers can use this data to send you fake job offers and other messages that play on your
2:06.7	vulnerability as a job seeker. This can lead to identity theft and empty bank accounts.
2:13.4	You can ask data brokers to delete your records, but doing this yourself would take hundreds of hours.
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