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

The Hidden Job Market in Action, with Doug Wells

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

You’ve heard it again and again: it’s all about who you know. Especially in a job search, experts encourage everyone to reach out to their friends and professional connections to find work opportunities through word of mouth. That’s the Hidden Job Market. But what does it look like in action? Doug Wells (https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-wells-ba51696/) lays it out for us. On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job; Doug explains how he reached out to his network with curiosity and openness to find new opportunities, including the job he landed, and loves, as a Director of Organizational Development for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (www.bgca.org/). Doug says it’s important to be patient, and discusses the pros and cons of being interested in everything. Listen to find out how he gained focus without losing variety in his career.   Read more about Doug’s job search in a post he wrote for the Mac’s List Success Stories series: https://www.macslist.org/success-stories/patient-relentless-doug-wells-job-search-success-story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:04.7

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

1:20.5

and make a difference in life. I'm Mac Pritchard, founder and publisher of Max List.

1:25.6

To get your dream job, you need clear goals, great skills, and a good network.

1:31.1

You also have to know how to look for work.

1:34.3

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

1:39.5

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

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