Fired Before Christmas

著者: Eric Ryan Jones
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  • Fired Before Christmas is a podcast focused on job seekers, namely the unemployed. We do weekly interviews with people looking for work or people who can help those currently seeking employment. Each interview is an opportunity for our guests to share their stories with our audience, provide insights, and encourage others as they go through their own journey. Each interview is an opportunity for our listeners to discover new talent, or learn about new ideas or tricks that people are utilizing in their job search efforts. Our goal is to humanize the hiring experience by bringing a voice to those looking for work!
    Joshua Tree Living LLC
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Fired Before Christmas is a podcast focused on job seekers, namely the unemployed. We do weekly interviews with people looking for work or people who can help those currently seeking employment. Each interview is an opportunity for our guests to share their stories with our audience, provide insights, and encourage others as they go through their own journey. Each interview is an opportunity for our listeners to discover new talent, or learn about new ideas or tricks that people are utilizing in their job search efforts. Our goal is to humanize the hiring experience by bringing a voice to those looking for work!
Joshua Tree Living LLC
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  • Angie Taylor - Physical Therapist to Self Employed and she's hiring!
    2020/07/27

    0:00 Intro
    0:24 Welcome
    0:39 Angela Introduces herself
    1:24 Angela talks about how her Insurance License went from side hustle to a full-time focus
    1:56 What led you to this line of work?
    2:12 Angela talks about what her company offers
    2:38 Angela talks about how she got into the insurance and financial preparedness business
    3:28 Angela talks about how she started to focus on this side hustle and turn it into something more long-lasting
    3:55 What happens when someone comes to you, but you cannot provide them that service directly?
    4:33 I offer them options
    5:30 After giving them options, I connect them with our financial team to do a no-cost evaluation.
    6:04 How does someone take this path? And what type of person is built for this kind of work?
    7:13 Angela talks about the temperament of a person who would be successful with this role
    7:43 How do you go about finding clients today?
    7:52 Starting with the people closest to me and vie social media
    8:11 Social Media is my primary channel for education
    8:53 This makes it sound very low pressure
    8:56 It's more organic. I had more trouble getting an 85-year-old woman to do knee bends
    9:30 An example of how she helped a family do more with their money
    10:05 People don't really know what they have in their benefits.
    10:53 What do you find is missing the most out of people's benefits?
    11:27 People have insurance, but do you have income protection for your loved ones?
    11:56 You want to have enough
    12:30 Let's make sure you have something you own
    12:49 Expand on the idea of "something you own."
    13:00 Angela explains group policies and how it's different from what she offers
    13:59 I talk about my experience a bit
    14:30 You don't have to stop with what your company gives you
    14:45 Talk about what that means for people
    14:56 Find out what the recommended insurance policy is based on your salary
    16:05 Yea, but what should I expect to pay for this?
    16:55 It's not just the cost, but it's also about your budget
    18:44 We start to talk about investing
    19:20 What are some investment ideas that you think are important?
    20:53 What about people who are longer in their career and now having to make these kinds of choices?
    22:44 What's next for Angela, What's your roadmap?
    23:05 I want to grow and train others to do this
    24:08 Is Angela hiring???
    24:15 We ARE!!
    25:14 So what does someone need to get started?
    25:27 The financial impact to get launched….
    25:55 Time investment is …..
    26:13 You're talking to people while training and can even earn bonuses!
    26:56 What does Angela do when she's not saving families from a financial crisis?
    27:54 What's the last thing Angela bought on Amazon.com?
    28:20 How do people find Angela?
    28:44 Get ahold of Angela, Give her a CALL!!!
    29:04 Closing

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    30 分
  • Cooper Kearns - From Fired to Hired and Life as a Recruiter!
    2020/07/14

    0:00 Intro
    0:23 Welcome, Cooper Kearns!
    0:48 Cooper Kearns introduces herself
    1:38 You got Rehired!
    2:19 How did you cope with the layoff when it initially happened?
    4:07 What were some strategies you employed or planned to use during your layoff?
    6:35 Value of Posting that your open to new opportunities
    7:00 What does the company you work for do? Who do they staff?
    7:42 How is the marketing / creative industry surviving during this covid job crunch?
    8:15 Digital Marketing and Digital Advertising have seen steady opportunities!
    8:55 What are some things you look for in people trying to get a job in the digital marketing and digital advertising world?
    9:12 Certifications are beneficial for the digital space
    9:58 What's the hot certification right now?
    10:47 Is there a cost associated with those certifications you mention?
    11:20 Anyone can pass a test, what can people do beyond getting a certification to help drive their marketability and show proficiency?
    12:37 Showing metrics is a good driver and shows comprehension
    13:08 Portfolios are key but make it clean, up-to-date, and match your resume.
    13:55 Any cool tools that people are using to showcase their work?
    14:50 What's something you would like them to stop doing?
    16:27 Are you direct placement or contract to hire?
    16:45 Contract to hire route can be a faster path to a job.
    17:20 Contract to hire is a little scary to some people
    17:39 I flipped a job from Contract to hire to full time during the interview process
    19:00 I've seen similar situations where people converted a contract to hire offer to a full-time offer.
    19:18 Do adding all the statistics in my resume have value? Should I be including them?
    21:37 Frustration with companies passing because resumes are missing data
    22:07 What is the right size for a resume nowadays?
    24:48 How important are those items at the bottom of your resume, the clubs, references, extra activities, etc.
    28:35 Is there a format for your resume which can make it pop? 
    29:31 What is the most important part of someone's resume?
    29:55 Experience and consistent professional format, of course!
    30:40 Attention to detail goes a long way.
    32:21 What are some pointers you can provide to people for those first-round interviews?
    34:19 Come prepared with questions at the end!
    35:35 What question do you wish candidates would ask more?
    36:12 What's a question you wish they would stop asking?
    37:06 what was the last thing Cooper bought off Amazon
    38:01 How does someone get a hold of Cooper Kearns?

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    40 分
  • Brent Baldwin - Brand Marketing, Emotional Marketing, Ford vs Zappos
    2020/07/01

    Resources:

    SimpliSafe 

    I Said This You Heard This 


    Brent Baldwin Show Notes

    0:00 Welcome & Introduction

    0:50 Brent Baldwin Introduces himself

    1:00 Brent explains what a brand marketer is

    1:40 Focus group moderator?!

    2:09 Talks about transitioning from a focus group moderator to Brand Marketer.

    2:35 Kids fitness trackers and targeting with gamification

    3:00 Joined Cartoon Network

    3:50 What happened after CartoonNetwork

    4:00 Brent talks about working with Anna, Elsa, Mickey & Donald

    4:23 The Fab 5 and Frozen cause disruption

    4:50 Disney on Ice with Frozen & being a 5 star Dad

    5:30 Reflects on How Cartoon network would compete with Netflix, Hulu, etc.

    6:30 Why do we cut the ends off the ham?

    7:11 What was the biggest challenge of transforming the Fab 5 into Frozen on Ice?

    7:55 Kids singing Frozen songs inspire the click

    8:33 Disney Brand standards cause them to rethink things

    9:40 Interviewing Anna, "How heavy is your cape?"

    10:33 We love the bubble wands

    10:40 How do you justify $40 for a giant flashlight

    11:08 Your career grows up. Brent talks about the Harlem Globetrotters

    11:40 Short pit stop working for a toy company

    12:10 Having experience in the kid and toy space really benefitted the Globetrotters.

    12:45 Globetrotters pivot towards family

    14:15 Repositioning the brand and putting a family image and spin on it.

    15:00 Reminiscing on seeing the globe trotters with his dad at the old Omni in Atlanta

    15:50 The recurring theme of heart/emotion of things

    16:15 Brent talks about an anti-bullying campaign that solidified his focus

    16:50 Getting 1 million people to speak up against bullying

    17:12 Chasing the metrics

    17:38 The letter that changed everything

    18:57 Emotion is what sets us apart

    19:30 Emotional Capital and the startup world

    20:00 Building a community first

    20:27 What are some predictions you have about moving toward emotional marketing

    21:08 Not selling on blue, red, green

    21:45 SimpliSafe gets it

    22:45 Organizations are going to really go this route

    23:11 "We want brands who stand for something."

    23:34 Subaru stand for giving back, they get it

    24:00 Others don't get it, and they fall flat

    24:36 Smaller companies making more effort than Nike

    25:39 Brands are going to invest in emotional marketing I hope they do it with purpose

    25:47 I don't even know what Ford's purpose is, but I know Zappos's purpose!

    26:30 Resumes speckled with achievements but no heart.

    27:15 How can we take emotional brand marketing and parlay that into our job searches?

    27:34 Be vulnerable, transparent and honest

    27:46 Resumes based in truth

    28:16 Being Values-Based and talking about myself in a different way

    29:06 Talking about the EQ I get from projects

    31:11 Burger king is not the right fit for me.

    31:32 I created a persona to go with my resume

    31:40 Winning the pinewood derby

    32:00 Interviewing people at 7-11 at 4 am

    32:15 What I eat, what tv I watch, what I shop

    33:25 I geek out on personality tests

    34:00 I follow a company of people on LinkedIn who are in an industry I have no need for

    34:56 Brent tosses me a lead to Mary Kay

    35:12 Brent geeks our on personality tests and temperaments

    36:00 I'm a green married to a yellow with red and yellow daughters

    36:24 Brent drops a plug to I Said this, You heard that

    36:45 I talk about a goal for the podcast

    37:11 What's next? Furloughed to unemployed.

    37:26 Owning that this sucks

    38:06 Brent gives us a scoop on his new company Nyoo (pronounced like New)

    38:56 Flipping the agency model on its head and focusing on startups.

    39:30 It's a model where you pay for only what you need.

    39:42 Freelancers listen up!

    43:30 Struggles of starting something new!

    43:43 Take that CNBC!

    43:50 If I break two dollars in referral fee's I'll buy brent coffee!

    44:33 What was the last thing Brent bought on Amazon?

    45:36 Brent talk about burning his house down

    45:57 We talk about my closet

    46:08 Closing

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    47 分

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