How I Got My Job

In this interview on How I Got My Job (mp3, 27:26, 25.8 MB), Selena Rezvani shares how she got her dream job as a Writer, Speaker, and Consultant. Find people online who have your dream career. Use LinkedIn more than just an electronic Rolodex. Take responsibility for your own career. Tell people what your goal is and let them help you; being an island is not going to help you.

Items mentioned:

• Marci Alboher‘s One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success (affiliate link)
• Niche Ning social networks around your subjects of interest
• Selena’s book, “The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School” (affiliate link)

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About Selena

Selena Rezvani is an author, speaker and consultant specializing in women and the workplace. Her goal is to propel more women into the top echelons of businesses, an objective she achieves through her writing, consulting, and speaking engagements.  Through her firm, NETGENWOMEN, LLC, she coaches women 1-on-1 and helps organizations retain and engage their female workforce.  Her debut book, “The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School,” (affiliate link) is the guidebook she wishes she’d had when in business school. Selena also contributes a leadership column to TheExaminer.com.

Selena’s professional speaking includes speeches and workshops at universities, conferences and corporations around the country. Audiences include Harvard, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, Comcast, Apple, and many others.

Selena holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and an MSW from New York University.  Currently based in Philadelphia, PA, Selena enjoys all things food-related: cooking, hosting friends, and trying Philadelphia’s many “foodie” hot spots.

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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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