How I Got My Job

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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In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 33:52, 31.0 MB), Amybeth Hale shares how she got a job as a Talent Attraction Manager.  Her story is an excellent example of how building and maintaining the right kind of connections before you need them can help you in your job search.  As someone in the HR industry, she also had some great advice for job-seekers who feel overwhelmed by the deluge of job-seeking advice. Also good to note are her opinions on how to answer the tough interview questions.

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About Amybeth Hale

Amybeth began her career in research in the summer of 2002 as the sole researcher for an award-winning MRI-affiliated executive search firm in Ohio.  She then served as Manager of Internet Research for a recruiting franchisor in Ohio where she provided research support to franchise offices and implemented, customized, and conducted training classes for contact management databases, passive researching techniques and personal online branding.  Most recently she was a Sourcing Strategist a global public relations agency headquartered in Seattle, WA,  where she helped increase the digital footprint of the agency’s staffing efforts.  Currently she works as a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T.

Amybeth also maintains an internet research and social media blog, www.researchgoddess.com where she is affectionately known as the “Research Goddess”.  She is a proponent of responsible professional networking and believes that there is something to be learned from every person you encounter in life.

Please check out www.att.jobs if you are interested in a new career – AT&T is currently hiring, and then you can share your story of how you joined AT&T with Daniel Johnson Jr. too!

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