How I Got My Job

In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 25:28, 23.4 MB), Steve Weisgerber shares how he got a job as a Unix Administrator.  A great resume and interview were keys to his getting the job, even after he’d thought the opportunity was no longer his to have.

Websites mentioned:

• Unix Special Interest Groups
• The Circuit

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About Steve

Steve Weisgerber is a Senior Programmer, with experience in Unix and Linux environments. His strengths include the automation of daily procedures to make them more efficient. As a senior programmer, he has succeeded by mentoring, teaching follow employees and customers, and by being a team player who works well with cross-functional teams. His experience has been diverse, ranging in the medical field, oil refinery field and manufacturing fields.

He currently works in Unix Administration and Websphere Administration, responsible for maintaining security certificates, installing websphere on servers, adding and deleting of applications in Websphere.

He also enjoys scuba diving and underwater photography.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 24:32, 22.9 MB), Tony Cipollone shares how he got a job as a Senior Organizational Development Consultant at InterPro Teambuilding Systems. He cites his existing relationships, a helpful attitude, and being receptive to different job possibilities as keys to his getting this job. In addition he found LinkedIn to be a valuable online tool and networking with other people in local job search groups like the Job Search Focus Group in Hyde Park to be helpful.

Website mentioned: Society for Human Resource Management

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About Tony

Tony Cipollone, PhD, SPHR – Senior Consultant, InterPro Teambuilding Systems, is an experienced business consultant and training professional focused on removing obstacles to peak performance in organizations. His collaborative approach and creative energy helps others find connections that lead to sustainable solutions to problems. His work with InterPro includes process improvement, training design & development, employee engagement, and organizational teambuilding.

Tony has held human resource and training management positions with several international companies, including Siemens Energy & Automation and Kendle International.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 30:37, 28.5 MB), Kevin Kimball shares how he got a job as Senior Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications. He shared how he valued the transparency of those whom he had interviewed with and also shared some perspectives of moving from large companies to a smaller company.

Links mentioned:

• SimplyHired.com
• Indeed.com
• GlassDoor.com

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About Kevin

Kevin Kimball is a communications executive who promotes and protects the reputations of companies by developing integrated, cost-effective communications programs.

He is currently senior director, corporate marketing and communications at Force10 Networks in San Jose, CA. There, he is responsible for all worldwide external and internal communications. He’s held similar corporate marketing and communications leadership positions in Hitachi, Cadence Design Systems, Philips Semiconductors, Siemens and GE.

Currently based in Los Altos, CA, he’s originally from Upstate New York and has worked in Boston, New York City, New Jersey and Munich, Germany. He’s also gained considerable on-the-ground experience in various parts of Asia Pacific.

In his spare time, he enjoys his family, playing and observing sports (Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants), reading fiction and non-fiction, movies, traveling and collecting contemporary art.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 37:28, 34.4 MB), Jim Dailakis shares how he’s found work as a Comedian, Actor, and Writer. Sometimes you create your own opportunities.

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About Jim

Actor/writer/comedian and voiceover artist, Jim Dailakis, based in New York City, has been touring the USA for the last twelve years headlining in the major comedy clubs. He has worked with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Larry the Cable Guy, Kevin Nealon, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin and Weird Al Yankovic. Jim’s been featured on CMT, VH1, MTV, XM Satellite Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio where he’s a regular guest.

A New York trained actor, he recently played a vagrant in a movie called, THE A AND D PROJECT, the award-winning film, MONA, and a comical character suffering from ADD in a TV pilot called, WORST FIRST DATE. He’s portraying a witty, sarcastic British doorman in a movie called, MELVIN’S APARTMENT. He’s currently working on several feature films he’s written as vehicles for himself. A couple of them have some funding and a sales agent already in place. NOT UNTIL SHE SINGS and ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GETTING MARRIED.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 23:45, 21.8 MB), Sonia Pressman Fuentes shares how she got a job as a Labor Law Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board over 50 years ago.

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About Sonia

Sonia Pressman Fuentes is a feminist activist, author, public speaker, and retired attorney. She has been involved in women’s rights since 1965, when she joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as the first woman attorney in its Office of the General Counsel. Ms. Fuentes served as an attorney with the Federal government (Department of Justice, National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development) for over 20 years and was an attorney and executive with multinational corporations (GTE and TRW) for over 10 years. She was the highest-paid woman at the headquarters of each of these corporations.

Ms. Fuentes is a founder of the second wave of the women’s movement. She has lectured extensively in this country and abroad on women’s rights and has written numerous articles on that subject in law reviews and other publications both in the U.S. and abroad. Her memoir, Eat First–You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You – The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter (affiliate link), has been required reading at Cornell University and American University. Ms. Fuentes resides in Sarasota, FL.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 38:53, 35.8 MB), Elliot Campbell shares how he got a job as a Communications Specialist. He cited many examples of networking and being prepared for interviews as keys to his getting this job.

Links mentioned:

• Hoover’s database
• Job Search Focus Group of Hyde Park in Cincinnati (JSFG)

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About Elliot

Elliot Campbell is a customer-centric communications and public relations professional, currently working in corporate communications. He also writes a blog, Successful Marketing Communications: A Conversation with Customers. He is originally from Toronto.

Elliot graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Simon Fraser University, outside of Vancouver, BC and earned a Master of Science in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University. While earning these degrees, he worked as an intern and on several client projects for organizations such as Genetech, Coca-Cola, Advertising Age Group and several departments of the Canadian Government.

Prior to landing, Elliot did freelance work for organizations such as the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati and Job Search Focus Group. Previously, he lived in New Jersey, working as a public relations specialist for a PR consultancy working exclusively for life-sciences clients.

You can connect with Elliot on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 30:35, 28.1 MB), Nathan Penny shares how he got a job as a Multimedia Developer. He considers his story more of a connection success story.

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About Nathan

Never satisfied with the status quo, Nathan Penny strives to surround himself with quality people. A self-perscribed perfectionist and free-thinker, he has an expansive technical background that encompasses many areas of the I.T. and audio/video production fields. He starting building pc’s when he was 12, and nurtured his love for film and music by creating videos and playing bass for church and local events. Nathan also focused heavily on the audio and visual aspects of multimedia presentations. Today, Nathan uses his 12 years experience in Adobe Creative Suite at a local multimedia company to produce promotional materials and video-for-web training modules. He has extensive experience in presentation software such as MediaShout and ProPresenter, and the hardware involved in a small to large scale live event. Nathan is actively pursuing his Adobe certification.

As a hobby, Nathan is an obsessive audiophile and music enthusiast. He has custom built and restored speakers, and has practiced power supply design. He and his wife Anna also pride themselves as Cincinnati foodies, and love to meet up with friends to discover and share new places.

If you’d like to connect with Nathan and share your feedback, or talk theology, or secretly rant about politics, you can follow him on Twitter or you can view his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/npenny

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 35:11, 32.2 MB), Matt Lewis shares how he got a job as an Experience Planner through a series of connections made from work during college.

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About Matt

Matt Lewis is a graduate of University of Cincinnati‘s DAAP program with a degree in Digital Design. He has a couple of years experience under his belt in web design and development thanks to the coops he completed while working for this degree. Matt works for Bridge Worldwide currently as an Experience Planner and does additional freelance work for web design. Follow Matt through his work blog at http://Experience-Planner.com, his personal blog at http://mattlewisdesign.posterous.com/, and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MattLewisDesign.

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 40:48, 37.3 MB), Ben Moore shares how he got a job as a Network Admin. Never burn bridges when you leave previous employers. Your contacts there might lead to your next job.

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About Ben

Ben Moore has 12 years of computer and network technology under his belt. A “school of hard knocks” graduate, Ben started from the bottom as a bench tech working on laptops and laser printers. Sometimes by choice, and sometimes due to the economy, Ben worked his way up through multiple jobs. Always willing to learn, he absorbed many different technologies and learned how to be the “all things to all people” that small to medium sized business needs out of IT. He has had the opportunity to work with a full spectrum of tech that includes OS Networking, Hardware Networking, PBX & VOIP support, Application Management (VMWare & Citrix), sound systems, and DVR security solutions. Currently, he is the Microsoft guy at a media company, tackling the worlds of Windows 7, SCCM, Exchange, OCS, & Server 2008.

Ben spends his personal time with his wife and three kids. He is active in his church, and enjoys singing, playing the sax, & learning stringed instruments. A wannabe sportsman, he enjoys hunting and fishing when he can get away. He is the storyteller of the family and maintains the histories and genealogies of his family and the farmland they have been on for 200 years. Ben rambles his thoughts on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/kyjeeper).

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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 29:01, 27.7 MB), Scott Seybold shares how he got a job as a Manufacturing Engineer. I appreciated the discussion about how he was able to face unexpected interviewing situations.

In addition to the traditional websites like Monster and CareerBuilder, Scott said he used americanjobs.com

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About Scott

Scott Seybold is a degreed mechanical engineer with 10 years of experience as a manufacturing engineer in such varied industries as cold rolled stainless steel production to injection molded acrylic lenses for projection televisions. In addition to the BSME, he has extensive training in Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Statistics and Injection Molding.

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