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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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What's the most important thing to look for when applying for a new job? Entrepreneur Marion Campan advocates for a focus on company culture above all else. She offers practical strategies for evaluating companies before accepting a new position — including how to ask the right questions about values, feedback and expectations — to help job seekers find positions where they can thrive. After the talk, Modupe models some questions to ask that help reveal what it’s like to work at an organization — before saying yes to a new job.
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. And there was a lot I loved about that job, but there's also something that I don't miss. |
0:17.0 | All the recruiting events. |
0:19.0 | It was our job to recruit the next cohort of consultants from colleges and business schools. |
0:24.8 | And at these events, so many of the students would ask us again and again. |
0:30.2 | Questions like, what kind of projects are you working on? |
0:33.0 | What kind of client issues are you dealing with? |
0:34.9 | And let me tell you, after a long day at the office, |
0:38.1 | those questions weren't interesting to me. |
0:40.6 | They didn't really stand out. |
0:42.1 | But mostly, the answers didn't capture what it was actually |
0:45.9 | like to work there. They weren't helpful. So what are the right questions to ask? The questions |
0:52.0 | that unlock a wealth of knowledge about a workplace. |
0:55.0 | I'm a du-back Enola. This is Ted Business from the Ted Audio Collective. |
1:02.8 | Our speaker today, entrepreneur Marion Compon, |
1:06.3 | is here to show us a better way to gauge an ideal workplace. |
1:10.0 | And for her, it really comes down to assessing workplace culture. |
1:14.4 | Then after the talk, I'll model some questions I love to ask. |
1:18.4 | But first, a quick break. |
1:29.0 | We all have bad days and sometimes bad weeks, and maybe even bad years. But the good news is we don't have to figure out life all alone. I'm comedian Chris Duffy |
1:34.1 | host of Ted's How to be a Better Human Podcast. And our show is about the little ways that you |
1:38.7 | can improve your life, actual practical tips that you can put into place that will make your day-to-day better. |
1:44.0 | Whether it is setting boundaries at work or rethinking how you clean your house, |
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