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

Reaching New Heights by Challenging Yourself, with Heather Back

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

If your job search has been going on for longer than you expected, you might find yourself discouraged. It can be demoralizing to go to interview after interview and never be offered the job. On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Heather Back (https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherback/) and I talk about her two-year-long job search and how she finally landed a job. Heather shares the changes she made in her job search strategy, which included finding new networking opportunities after moving to a new city and narrowing down the exact type of position she wanted. Learn more about Heather’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.

0:07.6

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0:10.5

Or do you zone out in meetings and forget key takeaways?

0:14.6

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0:17.3

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0:20.7

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0:24.6

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0:31.6

With the Plawed, you can stay focused and not worry that you might miss an important idea or next step.

0:38.4

You can also contribute more to the conversation and stand out in your next meeting

0:42.9

because you're not concentrating on note-taking.

0:46.2

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0:47.2

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0:50.3

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0:52.7

Ready to work smarter?

0:54.4

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1:01.1

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1:04.7

Music This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

1:21.8

I'm your host, Mac 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.

1:30.6

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

1:35.6

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

1:40.8

Our guest today is Heather Back.

1:42.6

She's a communications and policy manager at Metro.

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