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Send us Fan Mail Do you really need an MBA? It's a ticket to a 7-figure salary and corporate leadership, or it's a waste of $200,000 and two years of your life. This is a discussion of Top Schools MBA Programs Pros and Cons for Tech Professionals, followed by an MBA Decision Matrix to help you decide whether or not to attend. #CareerZCast #Career #CareerAdvice #BusinessSchool #MBA #Whart...

Send us Fan Mail CareerZ Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46RAPMFvtniNeUcXJ69ADw Everyone tells you the secret to stop working is achieving a passive income target or some other life milestone. That is a lie. It is only half the story. Avoid the retirement traps: (1) Financial Independence, Retire Early (F.I.R.E), (2) Following an Unrealistic Passion, (3) Golden Handcuffs. #career #CareerZC...

Send us Fan Mail The most significant impact of AI and Large Language Models will be felt in jobs and careers in Tech Product Development. The reason is that disruptive technology is applied first by the people closest to it, not necessarily where it makes the most logical sense. In this episode, I first provide an overview of the main roles in a tech product development team (Engineering, Product...

Send us Fan Mail It won't happen overnight (like Big Tech CEOs promise), but AI will transform the world of work in the next decade. The decade has already started and we are standing at the AI Pivot Point. You have to adjust your learning, adapt your skills, and start building your path to the future market right now. This isn't just about jobs; it's the difference between particip...

Send us Fan Mail (This is originally recorded as a video and contains a tour of the Career Dreamer Tool that is best experience in video) Link to Google Career Dreamer: https://grow.google/career-dreamer/home/ Are you looking at your current job and thinking, "Okay, what's next? What other jobs am I even qualified for?" That feeling of not being happy but not knowing what is the nex...

Send us Fan Mail CareerZ Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46RAPMFvtniNeUcXJ69ADw About a year ago, I did something most people in Tech would call crazy. I walked away from a senior leadership role at Google. So it begs the question: Why would anyone leave a dream job like that? The truth is, Big Tech jobs still pay a lot, give you a great brand for your resume, and are a good place to work...

Send us Fan Mail The GenZ Strategic Rebel: https://youtu.be/KagWaEkEWrw Will AI Replace Your Manager? It's the question everyone's asking. What if the real question is: How does the adoption of AI change what is required from you as future manager?  In this video, we explore that question and I encourage you to be a Strategic Rebel, the hero who becomes the master of the system to change...

Send us Fan Mail Useful Links: Finding Ikigai: https://youtu.be/mAZQN724q_U When to Proactively Change Jobs: https://youtu.be/GkxrevoKXRs The dance: Preparation and Opportunity: https://youtu.be/giNmBsrVr3g Power of Mentorship: https://youtu.be/VH1klsp9IXw You’ve been told to 'follow your passion.' To 'work hard.' To just 'climb the ladder” and success will follow. But the...

Send us Fan Mail Applications for Google SWE Applications Summer 2026 (posted Aug 2025): https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/75808725415142086-software-engineering-intern-bs-summer-2026 The start of a successful career in Big Tech Software Engineering is a summer Internship before graduation. A Google SWE in California starts with a pay of about $250k, which is more than...

Send us Fan Mail  The Gen-Z "anti-work" vibe is a dead end. True power isn't in quiet quitting; it's in outsmarting the system. This video is for the "Strategic Rebel"— You belong to and are aligned with Gen-Z values. You want the world of work to change. But you also feel anxious and insecure with disengagement and its negative consequences to your financial and prof...

Send us Fan Mail With the easy availability of programming copilots, there was an urgent need for changes on how Big Tech conduct their coding interviews. In the past couple of weeks (Aug/25), some of the changes in interviews by Meta and Google (two of the largest employers of SWEs) became public. The two companies are taking very different approaches, with Meta embracing vibe coding and Google c...

Send us Fan Mail Free College Finance Calculator:  https://243278033.hs-sites-na2.com/ Other useful videos: CareerZ Cast for Students Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCR0CrwtLDSDRKTfsA5JBCRds8-KtkHL- Navigating College in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: https://youtu.be/al_TMpZiyw0 College Grads: First job out of college in the era of AI: https://youtu.be/q4iLujNM4C8 Stop Lear...

Send us Fan Mail The Power of Mentorship: https://youtu.be/VH1klsp9IXw Find Purpose through work with Ikigai: https://youtu.be/mAZQN724q_U One of the challenges of mentorship and career advice is that the world is changing. Demographics. Technology. What works for one generation doesn't necessarily do for the next. The successful people of the past cannot see that their ways are obsolete. Ear...

Send us Fan Mail This was originally recorded as a video, so there are references to a table displayed on screen. For the video version, click here: https://www.youtube.com/@CareerZCast/videos The original paper by Microsoft Research can be found here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935 We have all seen people share their guesses about the effects of Artificial Intelligence adoption in the job marke...

Send us Fan Mail Quick question: Have you ever  found yourself staring at a spreadsheet you're not actually doing anything with? Maybe you're just... pretending to be busy? Don't worry, you're not alone. Most of us do it. We're all stars in that theater – the act of looking busy, even when we're not. It's weird but it's a real thing. In this video, we'r...

Send us Fan Mail The Amazing Job Interview Success Guide: https://youtu.be/cMxOT4a4lD0 AI and Entry Level Jobs: https://youtu.be/q4iLujNM4C8 It is 2025, and it is a difficult job market out there. Getting your foot in the door feels harder than ever, even if you have the right qualifications and experience. I have been talking to a lot of people who are feeling frustrated, burnt out, or just plain...

Send us Fan Mail Working for Google is a dream for many in the Tech industry. Having the the right skills and experience for the role is table stakes, you need to be prepared and qualify for the job. But what makes the difference and get you the job is being able to effectively demonstrate the cultural attributes compatible with the company culture. That is the "secret" code to get a job...

Send us Fan Mail Humans compare themselves with others all the time. When it comes to Career Development, that is not a good way to operate, particularly early in your careers. We carve our own professional path and comparing with others who are in a different trajectory at anytime will lead to bad decisions. If you are stuck, take the initiative to move forward, learn and grow. #CareerZCast #care...

Send us Fan Mail When I talk to early career professionals struggling with career direction, one of the most common things I hear is "I feel I am not good at anything." In this episode, we discuss the reasons we feel that way and provide a few recommendations on how to move forward, find how to exercise your strengths with motivation in a supportive environment. Navigating early career d...

Send us Fan Mail In this video, I share the answer I gave in a recent media interview to the question "How is AI going to affect the job market in the long term?" The adoption of Artificial Intelligence promises to automate most  of the knowledge work, eliminating many and creating a new generation of occupations for human workers. The same way previous generations had to change their no...

Send us Fan Mail Stop Balancing: Google's secret to manage complexity. Polarity Management allows avoiding the common act of finding a middle ground compromise between two useful approaches. Should we favor process or creativity? When brainstorming the solution to a tough problem we need to be creative. When we decide to implement a solution we can be process-oriented for efficiency. Polarity...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of CareerZ Cast shares a model and techniques for the setting and management of a personal brand. It includes four pillars: Who you are, Who you want to be, How people perceive you, What people say about you when you are not present. The main argument is that you brand is most powerful when those four components are aligned. We also tell you how to propagate your bran...

Send us Fan Mail Job Interviews are an imperfect test of the match between candidate and job role. Questions are formulaic and predictable. Hiring Managers need to use their intuition. If people interviewed more often, they would know how to handle the questions. This is why this is the "Amazing Interview Success Guide", it gives you all you need to prepare for the job interview that cou...

Send us Fan Mail It is a tough job market for the 2025 Class of College Graduates. With macro-economic uncertainty and the adoption of AI technology, predictions are that the number of entry-level jobs in all areas normally taken by college grads will decrease. But it is not all bad news. In this episode, we debunk some some the predictions by people who are hyping up AI and provide clarity and ac...

Send us Fan Mail Japanese culture values discipline, respect and the collective. Because of that, several Japanese concepts are used today in the West for inspiration in business and life. Ikigai (purpose in life) is the search for the sweet spot where we do what we love and do well, is useful to the world and provides a living. Kaizen (continuous improvement) expresses the power of small consiste...