The Career Builder's Podcast

Ask Us Anything II

Episode Summary

You asked: we answered! Topics ranged from leaving a comfortable job to take a more meaningful one, organizing your efforts while job searching, negotiating internal raises without market data, and more!

Episode Notes

Topics Covered

• Ask Us Anything!
• How to work through hesitation to leave a comfortable job
• What are you optimizing for in your career?
• Pain vs gain in your career
• Advice to those looking for work right out of college
• Managing expectations
• Consider growing industries
• Systematic networking strategies and tools to track activities
• Who to talk to
• The frequency of follow up
• Tracking tools
• Mike's tools:
  • Mike's Networking CRM
  • Mike's Application Tracker
• Other Apps
  • Trello
  • Asana
• If you're at a fork in the road in your career, should you get a job to pay the bills or take the time to find the right job?
• How your personal scenario impacts the answer to this question
• How to negotiate salary internally when you don't have any comparative data
• Considering how to quantify your internal value
• Looking for data internally