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Send us Fan Mail There are so many LinkedIn trainers and coaches out there, a basic search generates over 1 million results. Very few of these trainers are actually good. And in that tiny pool of good trainers, you have excellence. And then, you have Richard.  What makes Richard different is that he has been a professional LinkedIn trainer since 2009 and has worked with 750 companies worldwide. Ri...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is the very fearless Simran Kaur. Simran has had a fabulous career building and leading product development in Health tech and across corporates and startups in Germany, Singapore and the UAE and taught as guest faculty at prestigious universities. In this revealing episode, Simran shares how an ambitious girl from India went to Germany to pursue engineering, got hi...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Madeline Mann.  When I think of Madeline, I think: rapid fire job search tips and entertainment. In fact, Madeline is probably the only career coach who is killing it on Youtube, TikTok and LinkedIn all at the same time. Today we will speak with Madeline about her own career journey in senior HR roles in startups in the gaming, tech and energy space and what made...

Send us Fan Mail “I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade. I was a total failure at school. Subsequently, I joined the army and stayed there for 7 years. Then, I transitioned to becoming a journalist and was all over the place during my journalism career, and ended up at the Sydney Morning Herald. Great job, terrible hours. Then somehow, I got a chance to go to University in my 30's. T...

Send us Fan Mail What is that one standout defining moment that supercharged your career and helped you to move towards your current success? In this episode I compile the responses of 7 guests from the podcast, from back in 2020. I hope this episode helps you to think about that moment in your own career. Whether it was reaching out to a mentor, getting laid off or just getting tired of your curr...

Send us Fan Mail “It was 2013 and I was exiting a large and well-known organization and just the previous year, I'd graduated with a mid-career MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business. Armed with new found knowledge and skills, I felt I could change the world or at least, the corporate world. So I made some good moves, including taking up high profile corporate roles that had their rewards....

Send us Fan Mail How did I get hired for a plum consulting role in Chile and all the HR roles here in Europe? In this podcast episode, I reveal it all. I don't know anyone who isn't insecure and suffering from low self-confidence at one point or another.  I've had more than my share. I talk a lot about how COMPETENCE builds CONFIDENCE. Put the reps in, repeat. It will get better. An...

Send us Fan Mail He is the Editor in Chief at LinkedIn News, based out of LinkedIn’s NYC offices in the Empire State Building. He has previously worked as writer and editor at Fortune, Wired, Forbes and Conde Nast (home of publications like Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair).  So, how did Daniel Roth go from growing up in Kentucky to living and working in the Big Apple and traveling the world...

Send us Fan Mail “It was May 2019. I made the biggest decision of my life. I left my super comfortable job at Reebok, packed my life in 4 suitcases and moved across the globe to study more.  But NOTHING went as planned.  Little did I know that I'll be graduating in the middle of a pandemic.  Little did I know that it would be the worst moment to be out in the job market again.  And little did...

Send us Fan Mail One set of professionals who are bashed up regularly on LinkedIn are career coaches, for giving bad advice to job seekers. I'll be the first to say, what's good or bad lies in the eyes of the beholder, right? Having said that, I don't want to pass judgment because I'm acutely aware that like a few other coaches, I help job seekers around the world, and what&apo...

Send us Fan Mail If you are not following Alex Sheridan on LinkedIn, you are seriously missing out. Like seriously. We’ve all heard the term edutainment: combining education and entertainment, but Alex takes it to a whole new level, with a hard-hitting message you don’t want to hear, but need to hear, all the while laughing out loud amidst some stomach cramps…because Alex is funny. And very intell...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine joining a company and within days, you are flung into an unexpected crisis situation.   Our guest Richard Robinson definitely knows a thing or two about this. As a new employee at McDonalds he was part of a team that faced down one of the largest reputation crises that business had ever faced.   With over 28 years of Sales and Marketing Experience in companies like Coca-Co...

Send us Fan Mail Samantha McKenna is an award-winning sales leader and highly sought-after speaker. In 2020 alone, Sam was hired to speak at 100+ events by the likes of Google, LinkedIn, CrunchBase, TransUnion and many more. For me: S is for Samantha,  S is for Sales and  S is for ‘Show me You know Me’…a tenet and principle that I’ve been advising jobseekers to apply in their outreach for nearly t...

Send us Fan Mail Parul Somani has all the right names on her resume: A Bachelors in Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A successful career working at Bain, leading teams and advising Fortune 500 companies and PE firms, and serving in leadership positions at Silicon Valley start-ups. Yet, there’s more to Parul. Much more. “My world was turned upside down when I was diagno...

Send us Fan Mail Can you learn about business, career and life in a theater group?  My next guest grew up as an only child of a single mom, and in theater, he found his family of choice.   One of the reasons I loved this chat with Allen Brooks is how he opens up our mind to new ways of learning about traditional subjects like business.  In this fascinating conversation, Allen shares the following:...

Send us Fan Mail And just like that, it's been one year! Exactly 52 Mondays ago, I released the first episode of the How I Got Hired Podcast. A BIG, heartfelt thank you for being a part of the journey, I appreciate you so much! Thanks to your support, the podcast was featured in the Top 50 career podcast charts in 22 countries worldwide! We have subscribers in 108 countries, including a huge...

Send us Fan Mail Debra Feldman helps the world’s top executives in making fantastic career moves. Interestingly, she started her own career as a Nurse!  Just as healthcare practitioners diagnose the cause of symptoms, Debra says she identifies the source of clients’ inability to attract the attention of hiring decision makers.  So how did Debra Feldman, a petite but dynamite woman go from nursing...

Send us Fan Mail “On the day I retired from the Marine Corps I had spent exactly half of my life in it. And while I loved it and gave corporate life a shot afterwards, I realized that I had too much to say, too much to share, and many ways to serve.”  So, how did my guest today: Rich Cardona, go from the US Marine Corps to working at Amazon to starting his own media agency and having his own top r...

Send us Fan Mail “Being an artist is not a real job. You’ve got to make a living and put food on the table. Pursuing your passion is a nice to have, but not many get to do that.”  I’m sure you heard something similar from your own parents, while growing up. This is what David was told by his immigrant father when he expressed his love for drawing as a career option.  There were several unforgettab...

Send us Fan Mail This 50th episode of How I Got Hired is a very special one.   Have you ever felt that you have faced too much adversity? Here’s a story that will open your mind.   On March 25th 2002, Sana Khurshid was travelling with her sister on a highway in Islamabad, when they suddenly met with a deadly road accident. Her sister died on the spot while Sana's body was 95% paralysed. In th...

Send us Fan Mail  When I watched ‘The Girl with the Broken Neck’ talk on Youtube, I knew I had to have the Speaker on this podcast. Was it because of the fact that she was born a little different from everyone else and has seen success beyond most people’s imaginations, in spite of, or rather, because of how unique she is?  Or was it that she got accepted into Wharton and graduated with the highes...

Send us Fan Mail Since you are listening to this podcast, you are obviously interested in sound career advice. When it comes to jobs and careers perhaps no other platform dominates the topic as much as LinkedIn. Over 210 million jobs applications are made here monthly and 4 people get hired every minute, through contact made via LinkedIn. Given that 87% of all recruiters use this platform, it has...

Send us Fan Mail Q ui n'avance pas, recule. – (S)He who doesn’t advance, goes backwards - French Proverb  Incidentally, my guest today is also based in France. Nida Januskis is the Associate Dean of Advancement at INSEAD, the world’s #1 business school as per the Financial Times 2021 MBA ratings. What about Harvard Business School? Well. Nida has worked there as well!   Starting her career as...

Send us Fan Mail How did someone who studied Shakespeare Romance and Tragedy get hired at Barclays Bank and Adobe?!   In 2021, Barclays was rated by a Linkedin Study as the #1 best employer in the UK and Adobe has consistently figured in the Fortune magazine list of best workplaces. My guest today, Dan Reed, has worked in both these sought-after companies. So I know advice will be useful to many o...

Send us Fan Mail My very first guest on this podcast shared how he changed his name (as an experiment) in order to get better responses to his CV. Sounds extreme, but bias is something many jobseekers say they are concerned about, whether it is ageism, sexism, classism or racism.   So how do you deal with biases and discrimination in the recruitment process?  I had a conversation on exactly this t...