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

Unconventional Job Search Hacks That Work, with Nissar Ahamed

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Most job seekers use the same traditional approaches. To stand out from a crowd of applicants, you need to get creative! On this episode, we share experiences and ideas for unconventional job search hacks to differentiate yourself from the competition. And guest Nissar Ahamed offers unique tips to garner attention from employers when you’re looking for a new job. About Our Guest: Nissar Ahamed Nissar Ahamed publishes Career Metis, an award winning online community for job seekers. His site includes a blog, podcast, and other resources that help people get their dream job faster. Resources in this Episode: How to Make Yourself Stand Out From All the Other Perfect Resumes Will your career survive automation? Find out: Willrobotstakemyjob.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Plaud, the AI wearable gadget that takes notes of meetings and calls.

0:07.2

Plaud is your AI-powered secret weapon, at work or in the classroom.

0:12.6

It creates perfect transcripts, summarizes key points, and generates mind maps to visualize everything.

0:20.7

And Plaud doesn't just take notes.

0:23.2

It understands them.

0:25.4

Ask it anything about what you recorded and get instant answers.

0:29.9

It's like using chat GPT, but specialized for your conversations.

0:35.0

I use Plot myself here at Find Your Dream Job. Before every episode, I meet with

0:40.2

each guest to choose a topic and review key points. Plot gives me detailed notes I can use

0:46.2

in our interviews to make sure we cover what manners most to the guest. Ready to work smarter,

0:52.3

type PLA-U-D into Google and get a discount with my code dream job.

0:58.9

That's PLAUD.

1:03.1

How many times a day do you get a spammy text?

1:06.7

You know what I'm talking about.

1:09.2

The congratulations on winning the lottery. a message about your IRS refund, or the job offer

1:16.0

that's too good to be true.

1:18.6

How do these spammers get your phone number?

1:21.7

Data brokers across the world scour the web and public records for names, addresses, and

1:27.1

other personal information, and sell

1:29.3

it for a profit. Bann actors who buy this data want to use it to trick you into sharing personal

1:35.7

information or making financial transactions, and this can lead to identity theft and empty

1:42.0

bank accounts. You can ask data brokers to delete your records, but doing this yourself would take

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