Find the Best Job You’ll Love: Career Building Tips from Alexandra Cavoulacos
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all faced a huge Going Scared moment: job searching. Résumés, cover letters, interviews, networking—it’s draining at best, and gut-wrenching at worst. There are dozens of nuances to navigate in our ever-changing job market, and it’s hard to know how to prioritize our tasks. That why we’re thrilled to have career-building expert Alexandra Cavoulacos on today’s episode.
Alex is the co-founder and president of The Muse, a platform used by over 50 million people a year to find a job, learn professional skills, or advance their careers. She is the co-author of The Wall Street Journal bestselling book The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career.
Today’s conversation with Alex is chockfull of job search tips, like how to determine your career values, deciphering if a company is right for you, the best way to get your name in front of the right people, and why you should always have questions for your interviewer.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jessica Honegger, founder of the socially conscious fashion brand Noonday |
| 0:07.1 | collection. Welcome to The Going Scared Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the going scared podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | I hope that you are having a great summer. |
| 0:18.0 | People have been telling me how they have been listening to going scared on their road trips, |
| 0:22.0 | on their beach, out times and still |
| 0:26.8 | while they're watching the kids because there's a lot of kid watching going on |
| 0:30.9 | right now I know that Thank you so much for |
| 0:33.3 | tuning in. I wanted to share a review from Megan Donovan. Megan Donovan said |
| 0:39.2 | this podcast is amazing with honesty, humor, and depth |
| 0:42.7 | Jessica delves into tons of topics |
| 0:44.8 | with wonderful and relatable guests. |
| 0:46.9 | I love the mix of business and life |
| 0:49.1 | and the theme of going scared |
| 0:50.6 | could not be more perfect |
| 0:51.8 | to describe the courage of taking a leap into the unknown. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you so much, Megan. Thanks for all of you who have left reviews. |
| 1:00.0 | Why do I ask for reviews? Because then iTunes gives me some love, gives the |
| 1:06.7 | podcast some love, and our podcast is bringing courage to so many people. So thank you |
| 1:12.2 | so much for spreading the word of going scared and |
| 1:15.9 | popping on over to iTunes to leave of review. All right today's guests, super |
| 1:20.9 | excited about it. How many of us have been through the job search |
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