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It can be really daunting knowing how to approach your career, so in this video I go through 7 career tips I got from when I spoke to Professor Grace Lordan on my podcast Deep Dive. Enjoy x
🔗 LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO
- Grace Lordan's book Think Big: https://geni.us/thinkbig
- Link to the full episode with Grace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvZf0IjaiQ
ME+ Questions:
1. The overall big-thinking goal for ME+ is...
2. ME+'s job title will be...
3. ME+ will be working in the ... industry
4. The company ME+ will be working for is...
5. ME+ will be running/working in a company that has the following characteristics...
6. Answer either i) ME+ will be in a similar role, but my responsibilities will have expanded to include... OR ii) ME+ will be in an entirely new career, and ME+'s responsibilities will include...
⌚️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:40 Tip 1
2:19 Tip 2
4:12 Tip 3
5:24 Tip 4
7:03 Tip 5
8:03 Tip 6
10:19 Tip 7
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This job market is totally cooked right now and manually customizing resumes was exhausting. honestly thought jobbyo was too good to be true when someone mentioned it, but the auto apply saved my sanity. finally gives you time to actually prep for interview screens instead of scrolling boards.
bro I’m in nursing school cuz I have no idea..im regretting it
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Don't watch this video. Because watching this means you're not living it but being taught. If you're on here this is it
As a 17 year old,I have to apply for college soon..finding THE thing that I want to do is really hard when I'm someone who is interested in probably EVERYTHING..It's a great pressure. my brain is going to burst😞..
Working with people who want to be there >
Very interesting. Some useful ideas. However at 11:12 you show a 2 x 2 grid with axis and arrows .. but you don't label the axis and the items you put into the quadrants are not opposites.. so it's not helpful. Sure - have the four options .. but don't put them on a 2x2 grid.
sure....
Great tips from Jobbyo! These insights can really help people build new skills, explore career opportunities, and make a confident career change
I’ve been using Jobbyo for my job search, and I actually got an interview within two weeks! The auto-apply feature is super helpful and saves me so much time. It’s nice not having to apply for every job manually and still finding some great opportunities. Definitely makes job hunting a lot easier!
I am 34 I studied Naval Engineering. Worked on the field for 3 years. Then changed and became a chef on 2020 and now I m going to change again. Most probably going back to the Engineering field. And I still believe I dont know what I really want to do.
Nice video 😊
While this is a really useful video with good practical tips, I feel somehow in this economy there is lesser and lesser privilege to choose. With geopolitical situations, High AI productivity related expectations etc. Maybe until 5 years back, it was jobseekers market but not it’s an employer’s market
I stressed about schooling fees as a teenager and decided to go the work my way up the ladder route and ended up in a management position making $25/hr with way too much overtime. I burned out and tried to transition into higher education and flopped immediately, landed back at my mom's and here I am still unsure where I'd like to be in a realistic sense.
Currently trying to build back up the confidence and resources to where I can resume the pursuit of happiness.
Arrested development
Im struggling because i know what i want to do - i figured it out over the years but i love to improve things, systems, spaces, people's lives.
It comes from living with negative news cycles and defeatist people and struggling to make it on my own = i developed a task solving and optimizing real tangible issues, and empathize with any people or situations facing hardship.
But i have no idea what jobs would let me do that!! 😂😂😂
"POV: you clicked at 2am and now it's 4am."
IN MY COUNTRY THERES VERY COMPETITIVE EXAM FOR EVERY FEILD
IF I WANNA ENTER MBBS I HAVE TO APPEAR FOR IT , SAME FOR VETENERY N TEACHING N OTHERS
GOD THE EXAM ENVIRONMENT IS SO DAMN TOXIC , US ADHDIER WILL LOOSE INTREST JUST BECAUSE OF IT NOT THE FEILDS ITSELF
N FOR PEOPLE NOT BELONGIN FROM RICH BAGROUND LIFE HERE AS A STDUENT IS HELL
I AM STUCK THIS YEAR WONDERING ABOUT MY LIFE N CAREER
Before social media, cell phones and internet, who else went to offices with their CV and talked with the manager. In 1975 I walked the streets of Aberdeen carrying my CV. I was lucky to be hired in the first office I went in. Two days later I was on a rig in the North Sea starting my 40-year career. Follow my story in my new memoir 'Dad, I Survived' by Mike Black.
I have adhd and come from multi-multi-divorce homes. I never, ever knew what I wanted to be or do except have an intact family. I have a family and I’m so happy about that! But vocation-wise/career-wise I’ve never had a clear picture. I’ve had so many jobs and I unfortunately wasted my college and grad school years on degrees that no one cares about and only get you anywhere if you earn a PhD and even then there’s no job guarantee. “Do what you love” is garbage because it probably doesn’t pay or you’ll end up hating it. There’s nothing I want to do every day, especially not only and all day. I’m almost 45, and I’ve been trying to figure this out my whole life. Therapy, counseling, videos, webinars, certifications. I’ve changed my mind tons of times; learned (and forgotten) all sorts of things. Still have no clue. Anyone else figure this out?
After job shadowing i don’t want to do anything 😅
This is so true, when he talked about the tip 1, I seriously realized that I had already done this technique....In my case, when I think of being a software engineer, I think of how my work would look like in a technical team and I couldn't quite make myself to like any of those tasks that I'll be doing, but instead when I think of being any designer or a creative person working on set, moving dynamically in my career, being with different people who could inspire me...it just lights me up even knowing what kind of work I'll be doing there !!! so defintely just thinking of the glorious job of software engineer is just another static corporate desk job I don't want !!!!
what a load of rubbish. Get a proper job and stop uploading those silly videos.
I’m in medical school (I’ve finished 3rd year, and more 3 years ahead of me) and I’m already burned out and don’t really like it… Im trying to find my plan B but it’s so hard, I feel like I’m not good at the things I enjoy, and don’t see a future in doing them… being a doctor gives me a sense of stability but nothing more… not to mention I’m not the best at medicine I’m having a hard time studying and understanding many things :p
It is almost impossible to find a career you actually love! False economy
It really help me ,thanks brother
I feel like the whole point of this video is to sell the book. This video is not useful for me.
Im so useless, man. Every single shows me how little I know.
Glad to find this, currently stuck, without a job, not knowing what my next step should be. Overwhelmed with not knowing and with the variety of "Titles" out there when I look into Linkedin.
Maaslim
Work is not everything. Career is there for money for financial safety. Family and health, life enjoyments , dreams are important
Very helpful career advice. Thank you for sharing!
This is the most privileged video I could have stumbled across. Make one for the AVERAGE person, uneducated, no qualifications, no money, no family money, no options. Make THAT video. 70% of the population aren’t debating between doctor and trader for Christ’s sake.
kinda panicking rn, I have about 4-7 months before I graduate. I have no idea what I want to do with my life, I’m almost 18, have no job, no drivers license (yet), no friends, you name it I don’t have it. I had 2 things in mind of doing career wise but both are in the medical field & I don’t wanna go into medical. Soo I don’t know. I feel stuck. Idk if I wanna do college either.
Tip 1 is so important because it says about coming down to earth. Many people dreamed about being artists or stars but few made it. The difference is not the talent but whether dreamers understand what they are truly after.
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The thing is not about careers it is about me it just feels like I don't wanna be a teacher but i love learning russian and English I don't wanna be an evonomist because i don't even know what are they even doing and i am just so confused 😢.And i currently i am learning maths and they seem cool but not like russian i am just super confused 😢
very beautiful video