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

The Importance of Networking, with Jackie Starr

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 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve moved to a new city, you might expect it to take a while to find a job that you love. But on this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Jackie Starr (http://linkedin.com/in/jackiestarr) shares how she found her dream job in a new city in just two months. Jackie was looking for work in the nonprofit field, and she wanted a position that had a positive impact on her community. Working with a career coach helped Jackie to narrow down her options, and telling others she was job hunting directly led her to the position she has today as the executive director at the Friends of the Multnomah County Library. Learn more about Jackie’s career history below in this installment of our Success Stories (https://www.macslist.org/articles/success-stories) series.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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.

1:19.5

I'm your host, Mack 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.

1:27.9

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

1:32.9

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

1:38.1

Our guest today is Jackie Starr.

1:40.7

She's the executive director at the Friends of the Multnomah County Library.

1:45.8

Jackie Starr had just moved to Portland, Oregon, and because she was a newcomer in town,

1:50.2

she thought it would be hard to find an interesting position.

1:53.7

But in a story you can find on the MaxList website, Jackie credits networking and a compelling resume

1:59.1

with helping her find her dream job in just two months.

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