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

Tailor Your Resume for a New Industry, with Ashlan Glazier-Anderson

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

One of the toughest parts of switching from a for-profit position to the nonprofit world is communicating that you have the skills necessary for the job. Nonprofit jobs can be very specific in the skills they require. On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Ashlan Glazier-Anderson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashlan-glazier-anderson/) shares how she matched her transferable skills to the job descriptions of the positions she was interested in. Ashlan also invested time into personalizing her resume for each job she applied to. Learn more about Ashlan’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.

0:07.2

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0:29.9

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

type PLA-U-D into Google and get a discount with my code dream job.

0:58.9

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1:10.8

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

1:19.6

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

1:28.6

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

1:33.4

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

1:39.1

Our guest today is Ashland Glazier Anderson.

1:42.3

She's the manager of marketing and online fundraising at Friends of the

1:45.7

Children. It's a national organization that breaks the cycle of generational poverty.

1:51.4

Ashland and Glazier Anderson knows how to make the leap from the private sector to the nonprofit

1:55.9

world. In a story you can find at the Max List website, Ashland says she studied non-profit job postings to understand the transferable skills that mattered most to hiring managers.

2:07.3

Ashland credits this approach, along with networking and volunteering with her success in switching careers.

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