SIWIKE “Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier”: the podcast

Let's take a step back to understand why stress and anxiety is important to have in the first place. With more knowledge, we can often learn to deal with and mitigate future stress and anxiety. Learn some tips and tricks in terms of choice, stimulus and the thoughts you have around them, to help you better manage stress and anxiety. Understanding the importance of perspectives and overwhelm. Liste...

Should a resume be 1 page or 2 or more? Should it have a summary at the top or not? How about objectives? Education or experience first? How about including a "skills" section which lists all of your skills? How about using those "power bars" to indicate your skill level? Should I have a 1 column format or a 2 columns? We take a first principles approach to most of the common resume debates. All a...

Promotions can be highly sought after. And while promotion processes might be a little unique to each company, there are common steps needed to advance in your job. Understand the administrative requirements Gain experience in "higher level work": Be more efficient with your time or stay later Build meaningful connections with your boss, your skip-level (your boss' boss) and your boss' peers (your...

Starting a new job can be nerve wracking especially for youth that may have never previously worked in a corporate environment before. You'll want to make sure you fit in, understand expectations as well as reflect and learn. You can fit in but understanding office norms. When people get in, lunch time, break times, and any other conventions for the office. You can understand expectations by havin...

When submitting resumes online, it can be a big black hole with not feedback. An alternative approach would be to network with folks and get to know them. Spend some time to build rapport and understand their current challenges and opportunities. Then create a little project that showcases some of your skills and experience to solve those problems. Show it to them. Maybe get some feedback from you...

In our LinkedIn engagement and connections episode we go through some best practices and bad practices to avoid. Just like in networking, the answer to any "how to network" question on LinkedIn is to "care". You just have to adapt "care" for your particular circumstances. If you compare your current interactions on LinkedIn to a comparable situation in "dating" then you can gauge how effective you...

I like to refer to LinkedIn as a "networking event that's happening 24/7/365 with several hundreds of millions of participants". Many use the platform for job searching, and it has potential to add so much more value to your career. Learn profile basics like what to do with your picture. Updating your tagline and summary. Putting experience so that you can be searchable. And others. If you're not...

Wouldn't it be great if they taught you the basics of how to behave in a workplace. Your work is not school, and is not your home. There are different expectations and behaviours that are appropriate. Learn about understanding and setting expectations. How to communicate and ask questions. Making sure you manage your commitments and meet (if not exceed) them. Consider taking initiative to set your...

Doing a network audit starts by taking a look at who you spend the most time with. If you are indeed the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with, do those 5 people have the same values, goals, and ambitions? Most importantly, do they exhibit the behaviours and habits that you need to get to those goals? Look to spend more time with the folks that are aligned with your future goals, an...

As a follow-on to the "What do you want question", https://siwike.fireside.fm/002 listen to the episode for us to For job seekers: get specific as a starting point. Instead of just wanting a job, or a job in the industry, look to get specific enough where you have identified a company. A role. If you're unsure, look at alumni. Those with the same or similar degrees might give you an idea of what r...

It's not what you know, it's who you know. A common piece of wisdom when speaking about success in the world. I further the quote by saying "it's not who you know, but who knows you" that can be all of the difference. How many connections do you have on LinkedIn? Now how many connections, that if you messaged them, might actually respond and help with your request. That's the difference when peopl...

If you prepared your resume the way we suggested in the previous episode https://siwike.fireside.fm/009 then you've already started preparing for your interview. Now you need to focus on delivery and coming up with responses on the spot. What questions should you prepare for? What should you be looking for when reviewing your responses? Learn the SHARE model to answer behavioural questions. Take a...

Resume guidance from reverse engineering the job posting and it's importance. Why format can be so crucial and what formatting elements are important. What about dates and months? what should you use? do they need to be aligned on the page in a certain way What about fonts, do they matter? Then you can start upgrading your resume by elevating activities to achievements. And more on resumes! Take a...

What do you want? In the FOCUS inspired approach https://siwike.fireside.fm/002 that's the first question you need to answer. It seems like an obvious question and often folks don't take the time to ask themselves the question. I've also found that age is having less to do with it as there are fewer people late in their careers that ask themselves this question, and more younger people asking them...

Learn the basics of the job hunt. Fundamentals about: Resumes: the most important considerations when creating your resume. Interviews: what to focus on when preparing and practicing for interviews. Networking: focusing on building meaningful connection. Take a listen and then tune-in for the deep-dive episodes. Special thanks to https://www.instagram.com/lincolnalexanderthe2nd/ for the theme musi...

Learning to learn in a meta-skill that I am still learning more about. After I recorded this episode, I found more resources and figured I'd do a part 2 vs re-recording this one. If you're not doing so well in school, or if you think you have a bad memory, or if you have bad study habits or just want to get better at learning, then this episode is for you. We introduce memory techniques like the m...

Take care of your health and you can go far. Ignore it and you might find (potentially unnecessary) challenges later. Suppose you were to take a cross country road trip. Only for them to tell you that they've given you a 20 year old car. Now you can take a look at some classic automobiles that could be decades old and still "purr like a kitten" as they say. Others you can see their wear and tear a...

"Tell me what you value and I might believe you, but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I’ll show you what you really value" -Peter Drucker Non-negotiable time is the time you allocate in your week, day to invest in yourself to do the things that are important but not urgent. You know, that laundry list of things that you wanted to do like read that book, take that course, research...

"He who thinks he can, and he who things he can't, is probably right" -Confucius Often times your choice and perspective on life can be a game changer. Simply making a choice and perhaps choosing a different perspective, can turn limitations into opportunities. Having the right mindset can be important to allow you to take action. Taking action is what leads you to your goals and to whatever succe...

To get you started on your journey to discover the SIWIKE "Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier", we start with the FI-A FOCUS inspired approach. A simple 3 step career coaching framework to unlock your career potential. FI-A starts with WHAT (do you want) then goes to WHY (do you want it), then finally to HOW (do you get it). While each step has a lot more layers, even starting the process can have profou...

SIWIKE "Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier" the podcast. The podcast that shares what you didn't know you needed to know about jobs, careers, and life. Hosted by Luki Danukarjanto: a computer scientist turned management consultant turned entrepreneur/educator. He walks you through his journey so you can understand where the SIWIKE comes from so all of his insights come from his experience. former campus...