The secret to finding your ideal workplace | Marion Campan
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to TED Talks daily, |
| 0:11.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | I think I can safely say that most of us don't want to work in places with poor company cultures. |
| 0:23.0 | But how do we know what a workplace culture is going to be |
| 0:26.0 | without experiencing it first? |
| 0:28.0 | In her talk, entrepreneur Marion Campan |
| 0:31.0 | offers a few tools to figure out whether a company is going to be the right fit before taking a job or not after the break. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Rob Armstrong on our show Unhedged my co-host Katie Martin and I talk about the big questions and finance like interest rates and AI and investment legends. |
| 0:53.0 | Rob, how you going? |
| 0:54.0 | It's too bad we don't do video on this show because then |
| 0:57.0 | viewers could see my tattoo of Warren Buffett, |
| 1:00.0 | which is on my bulging bicep. |
| 1:03.6 | Thanks Rob for that horrifying mental image. |
| 1:07.6 | Let's crack on. |
| 1:09.6 | Unhedged is available wherever. And now our TED Talk of the day. |
| 1:17.0 | Imagine this. You've been applying to a ton of jobs for month. And now finally you're getting not just one but two job offers. |
| 1:29.4 | Congratulations. It's time to celebrate. It's great news, right? |
| 1:34.0 | But after the celebration comes the time where you can ask yourself, |
| 1:39.0 | how is it that you're going to choose between those two job offers? Some people are going to tell you |
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