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
48. Andrew Seaman: How to #GetHired and #GetAhead
Since you are listening to this podcast, you are obviously interested in sound career advice. When it comes to jobs and careers perhaps no other platform dominates the topic as much as LinkedIn. Over 210 million jobs applications are made here monthly and 4 people get hired every minute, through contact made via LinkedIn. Given that 87% of all recruiters use this platform, it has become the go-to place for all things careers.
Our guest today is at the heart of this operation. Andrew Seaman is Senior Editor at LinkedIn News, for job search and careers. Andrew writes detailed articles with actionable advice on his newsletters #GetHired and #GetAhead and interviews industry experts LIVE. In fact, in May 2021, I was fortunate enough to be on his show. Today is all about Andrew Seaman the professional and going deeper behind his journalism career at USA Today, Thompson Reuters and of course, LinkedIn.
In this episode, we chat about the following:
- What made him choose journalism and one precious lesson hidden in his message for today’s children
- The detailed strategies that Andrew took to secure nine, yes nine Internships and how they helped his early career
- What it was actually like being a White House correspondent – a job that any journalist would give an arm and leg for
- Picking his field in journalism, and the detailed story behind why and how Andrew switched from political journalism to medical journalism
- Applying to LinkedIn for the News Editor position, and the detailed steps Andrew took to stand out
- And ensure you listen till the end, for his best piece of career advice, which might appear counter-intuituve
Follow Andrew Seaman on Social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmseaman/ ; https://twitter.com/andrewmseaman ; https://www.instagram.com/andrewmseaman/
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