Ep. 099: How to Tell Your Life Story in a Job Interview, with Rob Biesenbach

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Studies confirm that storytelling is the most powerful form of communication there is. By transforming your career history from a chronological list into a story with personality, you’ll leave a strong impression on the interviewer. Rob shared tips to tell your career story with a strong narrative arc in 5 steps: The Thread: Connect the dots of your history, and boil it down to one common theme. Disruption: Tell a story that impacted your career trajectory. Turning point: How did you decide to turn a corner. Conflict: Summarize a couple of impactful challenges. Resolution: Explain how you resolved the challenge and what brought you here. Our Guest for This Episode: Rob Biesenbach Rob Biesenbach helps organizations and individuals capitalize on the power of storytelling. He’s an award-winning consultant to Fortune 500 companies, an engaging and informative keynote speaker, and a Second City-trained actor. Rob is also the author of two fun, practical books that use principles from the world of performance to help people communicate more successfully. And he’s now at work on a third book on storytelling. Ben’s Job Search Resource: LinkedIn Profile Mistakes Recruiters shared the LinkedIn mistakes they see people make all the time. Whether your profile is outdated, you have a lame headline, or you’re not telling a coherent story about your background, this resource shares common mistakes job seekers should avoid on their LinkedIn pages. Read Recruiters Explain What the Worst LinkedIn Profiles have in Common on Fast Company. Find Your Dream Job Listener Question: New Professional Potential This week’s listener question comes via email from Heather Rockwell in Newberg, Oregon: “I'm young, passionate, fresh out of college, energetic, and ambitious - how do I get employers to take me seriously? I've had several interviews since graduation, and all of them left me feeling like I was too young, too optimistic, and too inexperienced for them. How can I show my potential as a young, early-career professional? I know I have what it takes to perform the jobs I'm applying to, but I need them to see it.” These segments are sponsored by Mac’s new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere. The book offers practical, actionable, and proven tools to help you get clear about your career goals, find hidden jobs, and ace your next interview. Get the first chapter of this useful resource free. Be a part of the Find Your Dream Job podcast! Join in: Ask your job-related question! Email it to [email protected], or leave us a message at 716-JOB-TALK. If we use your question on the air, you will receive either a copy of our new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere. Share your best job resource with our listeners! Send your resource to [email protected], and tell him how it has helped you find your dream job. What do you think of our show? Rate and review our podcast on iTunes. We appreciate your support! Opening and closing music for Find Your Dream Job provided by Freddy Trujillo, www.freddytrujillo.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Plaud, the AI wearable gadget that takes notes of meetings and calls.
0:07.2	Plaud is your AI-powered secret weapon, at work or in the classroom.
0:12.6	It creates perfect transcripts, summarizes key points, and generates mind maps to visualize everything.
0:20.7	And Plaud doesn't just take notes.
0:23.2	It understands them.
0:25.4	Ask it anything about what you recorded and get instant answers.
0:29.9	It's like using chat GPT, but specialized for your conversations.
0:35.0	I use Plot myself here at Find Your Dream Job. Before every episode, I meet with
0:40.2	each guest to choose a topic and review key points. Plot gives me detailed notes I can use
0:46.2	in our interviews to make sure we cover what manners most to the guest. Ready to work smarter,
0:52.3	type PLA-U-D into Google and get a discount with my code dream job.
0:58.9	That's P-L-A-U-D.
1:02.7	Hi, this is Mac from Max List.
1:05.6	Before we start the show, I want to let you know about my new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere.
1:11.7	I've been helping job seekers find meaningful, well-paying work since 2001, and now I put all my best advice into one easy-to-use guide.
1:21.3	My book shows you how to make your resume stand out in a stack of applications, where you can find the hidden jobs that never get posted
1:28.4	and what you need to do to ace your next job interview.
1:32.9	Get the first chapter now for free.
1:34.8	Visit maxlist.org slash anywhere. This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:55.5	I'm Mac Pritchard, your host, and publisher of Max List.
1:58.7	I'm joined by my co-host, Ben Forrestag,
2:01.5	Becky Thomas, and Jessica Black from the Max List team.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mac's List, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mac's List and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.