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

Staying Open and Curious: Bridget Bimrose’s Job Search Success Story

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

Mac Prichard

Business, Careers

4.8630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Why should you pay attention to the job market if you aren’t looking for a new job? On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Bridget Bimrose (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridget-bimrose/) shares why she continued to network and look at job boards while happy in her career. Bridget says she wasn’t expecting her dream job to pop up on one of those job boards. But when it did, she was ready to apply. Bridget also explains how she determined her non-negotiables and campaigned for them. Learn more about Bridget’s career history below in this installment of our Success Stories (https://www.macslist.org/articles/success-stories) series. 

 

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0:00.0

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0:35.0

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each guest to choose a topic and review key points. Plot gives me detailed notes I can use

0:46.2

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0:58.9

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1:06.5

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

1:19.7

I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board of the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.

1:29.2

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

1:34.7

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

1:40.8

Our guest today is Bridget Bimrose.

1:43.8

She's the Associate Dean of Admission Communications and Special Projects at Reed College,

1:49.9

its private liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon.

1:54.0

Bridget Bimrose believes in the power of paying attention to the job market.

1:58.8

She wasn't thinking of leaving her small business when Reed College

2:02.2

advertised it was hiring an associate dean. But in a story you can find on the MaxList website,

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