Tinder for Careers: how Swivel matches students & start-ups using values

A Job Interview and Careers Q&A from Reddit Questions

This episode is just Marco scrolling through Reddit answering questions about the job search and careers.

How Danielle Oakes changed career paths to Customer Success during COVID

I sit down with Danielle to chat about her job search during COVID-19 and making transitions in her career. 

🙃 Reframing Experiences

One of the best tips Danielle shared is taking existing skills or experiences and reframing them slightly to make them more relevant to the hiring manager.  

📚 Learning

Danielle shares what her approach was to try and learn as much as possible when you're making a career pivot into an industry or profession that you're unfamiliar with. 

❤️ It's a Human Approach 

As a job seeker, Danielle talks about what were the most challenging parts of the job search and what companies did to make the hiring process as approachable as possible. She shares a ton of personal examples of the emotional roller coaster she was taken on. 

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Guests: Danielle Oakes
Host: Marco Yim
Company: Extempra
Music by Wataboi
Artwork: Ravenfrostt

Tinder for Careers: how Swivel matches students & start-ups using values

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Emily Johnstone on LinkedIn 

Alex Bradley on LinkedIn 

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💡 Swivel's Mission

Swivel is focusing on levelling the playing field for students and companies. They also wanted to create a platform that doesn't simply focus on skills, but on values as well. 

📚 A Student's Challenges 

We talk about the overarching challenges that students face on the job search recently graduating. Emily and Alex offer some insights into how we can better support students and share some things they've learned along the way as recent grads. 

💻 The Start-up Dilemma 

We talk about one of the biggest pain points for start-ups and how they are now addressing this through their platform. 
 

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Guests: Alex Bradley, Emily Johnstone
Host: Marco Yim
Company: Extempra
Music by Wataboi
Artwork: Ravenfrostt

Structure vs serendipity on the job hunt as a legal professional with Sam Santos

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💪 Taking chances

Being a student with internship requirements sometimes forces you out of your comfort zone. Sam talks about how she took chances, applying for a computer science job and ended up getting it as a law student. This experience is something that still impacts her life today. Hiring managers - take some chances on the right people! 

💻The complementary parts of tech & law 

On the outside, it may seem that technology companies and law firms have little in common. As someone who works in both, what is Sam's perspective? 

🧑‍⚖️ The journey of a law student 

We dive into what law students go through and what Sam recommends. (There are a ton of tips that work for people in all industries): 

• How diversity in your experiences is a real benefit to having a fruitful law career 
• How law school has added new ways to analyzing personal problems  
• What OCIs are and her experience going through it 
• How OCIs can be beneficial or detrimental to people on the job search 

🔧 Job Search Tools 

Sam shares a ton of fun stories that relate back to everyday job search tools: 

• Why research is important on the job search 
• Why you never know if an interview actually went well 
   

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Guest: Samantha Santos
Host: Marco Yim
Company: Extempra
Music by Wataboi
Artwork: Ravenfrostt

Navigating career transitions with Kathryn Vandenberg

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✅ Career Audit & Themes 

Throughout the episode, this idea of audits came through. What questions do you need to ask yourself when thinking about change or where you want to go next? This is something that guided Kathryn time and time again in her career transitions. 

🚗 Transitions into the Unknown 

Kathryn talks about major changes to life, how she assessed risk, and what they meant for her personally:

• Staring in operations to telecommunications
• Moving from telecommunications starting her own  tech company
• Making  the decision to leave her own company and how she felt

🔧 Broken Hiring System 

Kathryn shares, from personal experience, how she experienced some of the blind spots of our hiring system and what she tries to do differently as a hiring manager. 

⛑ Safety

Another theme that came up a lot was the idea of safety: moving in/out of your comfort zone, the feelings of being unsafe as a founder, and creating emotional safety for the team you lead. 

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Guest: Kathryn Vandenberg
Host: Marco Yim
Company: Extempra
Music by Wataboi
Artwork: Ravenfrostt