This Professional Life

Have you ever been at a business networking event and everyone around you are throwing idioms and phrases around like it was proper English? In this episode, Nina and Chris talk about some of the popular idioms in the English language that you may want to know to make your next networking event less awkward. They also cover some of the new Zoom idioms that have taken hold during the global pandemic.

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried recently wrote a blog post outlining new company policies that appear to ban employees from holding “societal and political discussions" using their main internal Basecamp software. Jason Fried made it clear that he was not banning the discussions altogether, just not on the main communication platform that the company uses to manage their software development and other initiatives.  Was he wrong?

The Global Pandemic has wreaked havoc on not only life in general, but the job market as well. With employment just starting to rebound in some regions, what options are available for college graduates finishing school in 2021? In this podcast episode we talk about steps that new grads can take to increase their chances of finding employment after graduation.

March 8, 2021 was International Women's Day and in celebration of this, Burger King decided to tweet out "women below in the kitchen". This of course was part of a marketing strategy to get everyone's attention about the lack of professional female chef's in the restaurant industry. Was this a fail or was a it a success? Could Burger King taken a different tactic but get the same message across? 

Since the onset of the global pandemic, anti-Asian racism and hate crimes against Asians has increased dramatically in many cities across the Western world.  While the pandemic has been tough for everyone around the world, whether it be economically or mentally, Asians have been front and center of blatant physical attacks as some individuals are looking to point the blame somewhere. 

Welcome to the first This Professional Life podcast episode. To kick off the new podcast and the new year, we wanted to talk about goal setting and how we can better prepare ourselves to hit our goals for the year. Except, we have a bit of a twist on this that we think you will find interesting and perhaps more effective than the traditional way of goal setting.