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

Networking Opens New Opportunities: Melissa Erickson’s Job Search Success Story

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The majority of open positions are never posted on job boards, but rather, are filled in-house or through networking. Having a well-developed network opens up jobs for you, but it also provides you with an instant connection to companies you are interested in. Your network can also provide references for you if you’ve worked together in any way.  On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Melissa Erickson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-erickson-86438937/) and I discuss how she overcame her shyness to become a skilled networker. Melissa also shares how she practiced for interviews. Learn more about Melissa’s career history below in this installment of our Success Stories series. (https://www.macslist.org/articles/success-stories) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Plaud, the AI wearable gadget that takes notes of meetings and calls.

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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

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0:58.9

That's PLAUD.

1:06.5

This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want,

1:17.8

and make a difference in life.

1:19.7

I'm your host, Mack Pritchard.

1:21.5

I'm also the founder of Max List.

1:23.8

It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.

1:28.8

One of the best ways to get good at job hunting is to talk to people who do it well.

1:34.1

That's why once a month, I interview a Max List reader who found a job they love.

1:39.8

Our guest today is Melissa Erickson. She's the director of development at the Saturday Academy.

1:45.8

It's an educational nonprofit that engages young people in hands-on, in-depth STEM learning

1:51.5

by connecting them to community experts as educators and mentors. Melissa Erickson believes in the power

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