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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Sometimes the best career advice isn’t the polished stuff you find in books, but the off-the-radar tips you’d swap with a friend on a coffee break. Jay Schwedelson and Daniel Murray are back with another “Bathroom Break” to spill the unconventional moves that can get you a better job, a promotion, or just out of a toxic workplace faster. From stealth edits to your resume to the surprisingly simple way to jump the hiring line, this one’s full of the kind of practical, slightly rebellious strategies you’ll actually use.
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Best Moments:
(02:00) Why removing your graduation year from LinkedIn can sidestep age bias
(03:01) The surprising advantage of applying for jobs while you still have one
(04:00) Why you should never turn down an interview, even if you’re not looking
(04:45) How tailoring your resume to the job description gets you past the first screen
(06:00) The DM trick that gets your application noticed by the hiring manager
(07:15) Using LinkedIn connections to get insider info before applying
(07:30) Building a personal brand as your long-term career cheat code
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a new special series called The Bathroom Brink. |
0:05.0 | That extra 10 minutes, you either have to listen to marketing tips or use the bathroom or both. |
0:10.0 | But I don't recommend both, but that's your choice. |
0:13.0 | This collab is going to be super fun. |
0:14.0 | We have Daniel Murray from the Marketing Millennials and me, Jay Schwettleson, from the Do This Not That podcast and Subjectline.com. Each episode in the series, we are going to go over quick tips about different marketing topics. And if you want to be in the bathroom, fine. Just don't tell us about it. Thanks for checking it out. We are back for the bathroom break. This Jay Schwettleson from Do This Not That. And I am honored to be here with the Marky Millennial, Daniel. And today we're actually going to be talking about how to move up in your career, maybe get that new job, maybe get that promotion, little tips and tricks that maybe are off the radar. But I have a question for you before we get into that, Daniel what was like your first job i don't mean like |
0:54.7 | real job i'm talking about like when you're a kid and well you grew up in south africa was your |
0:58.6 | first job like cleaning the dung of a giraffe or something oh my goodness um my first job ever |
1:07.0 | i was like 12 and i was i ref i was a ref for like four or five year old kids. It was like the first like, wait, were you babysitted them? No, like you were the ref. Oh, you were the ref. Oh, you were the ref. Like the soccer rep. Yeah. So that was like my first like where I got like an actual like paycheck and I was like oh this is kind of cool like you go |
1:29.2 | this like three day program to like learn it but it was cool that's cool yeah I was my first job |
1:35.0 | I was like 14 I don't know why they gave me a job I was a security I ran the security desk at a YMCA |
1:40.2 | which is really weird because I was 14 and I was like what am I going to do something bad happens |
1:46.8 | here but no today now we're going to crush it in terms of a little tips about upleveling your |
1:52.9 | career getting that job what you should do what you shouldn't do so Daniel want you rattle off |
1:57.2 | your first quick tip I think perception is a big thing in career. So the one tip I have |
2:04.1 | is that remove the years you graduated off your resume and off your LinkedIn. Like you want to |
2:11.8 | seem like you don't want your age to be a bias. People say there's no bias, but you don't want your |
2:17.4 | age to be a bias and you're not getting a job so remove that off your resume remove it off your |
2:22.3 | LinkedIn you got a degree cool not many people's going to ask you for your degree just remove that |
2:28.8 | off your LinkedIn because it could stunt you from getting a pay raise, a salary bomb, or like, |
2:36.1 | it can also hinder you for getting a bigger job. |
2:39.5 | I agree totally. |
2:40.6 | And I'll give you the social proof on my tip. |
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