How I Got Hired
Hey there! Welcome to ‘How I Got Hired’: a show about ordinary people like you and me, and how they created extraordinary success in their career. We uncover how they got hired in those career defining roles, whether it's by companies, whether it's by their very first paid clients and we are all about fully practical strategies and tactics; who’s got time for fluff? Not us! So if that is what you are about, you are in the right place. My name is Sonal Bahl, International Career Strategist and Founder of SuperCharge and here I am, every single week to help you to supercharge your believability, networkability, marketability and hireability, so you have a career and life that you are proud of. Now go in and listen with an open heart and an open mind and believe really believe if they could do it, you can do it too. Now let’s get you supercharged! Reach out to us: www.SuperChargeYourself.com. (Podcast music credit: Teamwork by Scott Holmes, under Creative Commons license.)
How I Got Hired
94. Chris Anderson: An Unedited Career
My guest today has worked with CNN, Huff Post, Business Insider, HSBC, LinkedIn, and even at a top gaming company in Hong Kong. Chris Anderson recently moved back to his native California after some very adventurous years in South East Asia. There are 3 reasons I wanted to bring Chris on the show:
a) Chris not only talks about career pivots, one of my favourite topics, but has also lived it
b) The one theme in most of Chris’ career is related to content: managing it, mastering it, learning what works and what doesn’t
c) Chris spearheaded the ‘Top Startups’ while at LinkedIn News and I want to talk about start ups: the good, the bad and the ugly.
In this episode, Chris and I cover a lot of topics, including:
- How he got hired at LinkedIn and how life changed within a couple of months when Covid hit SE Asia.
- Applying to listed jobs vs the hidden job market
- How everyone is a content creator to some degree, and how we can up our game
We really enjoyed this conversation, I hope you do too!
Follow Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris77/
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