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

Your Self-Worth Is Not Your Net Worth, with Lauren McGoodwin

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

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8624 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Connecting salary and success can be a losing game. Don’t equate the amount of money you make with how happy you are in life. Instead, know that your self-worth is more than your paycheck. And when you do negotiate for salary, focus on understanding the market value of your skills and ask for the pay that compensates the type of work you do. About Our Guest: Lauren McGoodwin Lauren McGoodwin is the founder and CEO of Career Contessa (http://www.careercontessa.com/), a career site for women. Previously, Lauren was a tech recruiter at Hulu and wrote her masters thesis on millennial women and career resources. Career Contessa launched in 2013 and now helps more than one million people with career development each year. Resources in this Episode: New Tool: How do Applicant Tracking Systems work? This article from Jobscan outlines four features of the most common ATS software. Read Taleo: 4 Ways the Most Popular ATS Ranks Your Job Application. (https://www.jobscan.co/blog/taleo-popular-ats-ranks-job-applications/) Listener Question: Doug Boxford of Anaheim, Calif. asked for tips about controlling his nerves during a job interview. More from Lauren McGoodwin: Check out the new Productivity Powerhouse (https://careercontessa.lpages.co/productivity-powerhouse-waitlist/) course from Career Contessa. Get Lauren’s script for asking for a raise. (http://www.careercontessa.com/advice/gimme-raise-mini-resource/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:50.3

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1:08.9

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1:14.2

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1:21.3

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1:27.4

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1:32.3

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