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 your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board in the

Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career. Every Wednesday, I talk to a different

expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. Sometimes you have to take a paycheck

job in order to pay your bills, but you also likely want to do work

that has meaning. Melanie Dam is here to talk about how to find a job that matters to you.

She's a recruitment consultant at the equitable hiring group. Her firm helps non-profits and

impact-driven companies hire. Melanie joins us from Portland, Oregon.

Well, Melanie, here's where I want to start.

Why is it important to understand what kind of job matters most to you?

I think it's important to, you know, find a job that matters to you personally so that you can be fulfilled, so that you can have a job that gives you a lot of energy and

makes you happy at the end of the day or end of the week. And the first part of this is identifying

your values and what you personally value or what you value in others. Think of a company that

you're going to work for as almost another person and think about

do you value flexibility, loyalty, transparency, honesty, all of those things. But also it can be,

you know, do you value organizations that are doing good things for the environment or education

or health.

There's a lot to think about.

Well, I want to dig into that and especially talk about the importance of identifying values.

Before we get there, Melanie, you talked about the value of finding a job and the satisfaction of doing work that matters to you.

What difference can finding a job that matters to you

make in your career over the long term?

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