The Power of Storytelling in Job Interviews (Ep. 80)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Humans intrinsically love stories, and you can use that to your advantage to stand out in job interviews (and on your resume). Here's how. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Take Your Success - Brian's blog The Golden Resume - Brian's book Drinking 1400 oz. of water in a week How much water should you drink? How I automated 8 hours of work and watched Netflix all day How to build a personal website My personal website (the version I used in college) Should you always send a cover letter? My interview with Brad Karsh Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody,
0:39.0	welcome to the College Info Geek Podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you
0:44.1	become more effective as a student in college high school or as a student of life I
0:48.6	suppose and on today's episode we're going to be talking about how to utilize the power of storytelling in both interviewing and in crafting your resume.
0:58.0	My guest today on the show is Brian Robin. He is a guy who runs a blog called Take Your Success, and it's actually pretty similar to my blog.
1:05.2	He writes about topics that are relevant to students, like networking and building relationships
1:09.6	with professors and all sorts of other cool things, so check it out and he also wrote a book
1:14.2	called the golden resume which talks all about how to craft a great resume and
1:18.1	get a great job and it seems to be getting pretty great reviews on Amazon so all those
1:22.4	things will be in the show notes which you can find over
1:25.1	at CIG Podcast.com over at the episode 80 link.
1:29.2	Man, wow, we are getting right up there with episodes. We're getting pretty close to a hundred. I guess if you
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