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

Why Your Career Story Matters Most in a Job Interview, with Melissa Magaña

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We all dread the question, tell me about a time you made a mistake in your job. But if we can address our mistakes as simply a piece of our entire career story, we can change the feeling of shame and uncertainty we may feel. Find Your Dream Job guest Melissa Magaña says our stories make us seem more personable and attractive to hiring managers. Melissa shares how to create a narrative arc of your career history that allows you to share specific stories- stories of successes and challenges.  About Our Guest: Melissa Magaña (http://linkedin.com/in/melissalmagana) is the HR generalist at Habitat for Humanity Portland Region (https://habitatportlandregion.org/).  Resources in This Episode: Connect with Melissa on LinkedIn by visiting Melissa Magaña (http://linkedin.com/in/melissalmagana). From our Sponsor: Find Your Dream Job is brought to you by TopResume.(http://macslist.org/topresume) Top Resume has helped more than 400,000 professionals land more interviews and get hired faster. Get a free review of your resume today from one of Top Resume’s expert writers. (http://macslist.org/topresume) 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

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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 P-L-A-U-D.

1:17.4

This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want,

1:22.9

and make a difference in life. I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List.

1:27.6

It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.

1:32.7

Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want.

1:38.0

Looking for work is hard, and it makes you vulnerable too.

1:45.9

Scammers take advantage of this vulnerability by posing as recruiters to extract money or sensitive personal information.

1:53.0

How do these bad actors find you? Data brokers across the world scour the web and public records for names and addresses and sell it for a profit. Scammers can use this data to send you

1:59.3

fake job offers and other messages that play on your

2:02.4

vulnerability as a job seeker. This can lead to identity theft and empty bank accounts.

2:09.2

You can ask data brokers to delete your records, but doing this yourself would take hundreds of

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