How to Get a New Job in 2021, With Ramit Sethi
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we're learning how to land a new job in a challenging economy, with personal finance expert (and friend of The Upgrade) Ramit Sethi. Listen to hear Ramit's tips on writing a great resume and cover letter, how to get clear on what your dream job actually is, and how to negotiate even when you don't think you have leverage. Ramit is the author of the New York Times bestseller, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, and his website, www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com is now offering a new Dream Job course.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team of LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. |
| 0:22.1 | And I'm Jordan Calhoun, LifeHackers Deputy Editor. |
| 0:24.9 | And today we're tackling the tricky issue of navigating your finances and your career in 2021. |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah, and for many of us, our career goals were thrown off course during the pandemic that started in 2020. |
| 0:36.6 | But fortunately, here to help us with that as personal finance expert and friend of the upgrade, |
| 0:41.7 | Ramit Satie. |
| 0:42.7 | The challenge I would give to people is to execute the 10-second resume test. |
| 0:47.8 | Close your eyes, look at your resume for 10 seconds, and then put it away, and answer this question, who is this person? |
| 0:56.1 | So if your resume doesn't say exactly who you are and what you've accomplished, that's an opportunity for you. |
| 1:00.1 | Rameet is the New York Times bestselling author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich. We had him on the |
| 1:04.6 | upgrade back in 2019 for an episode called How to Get Rich, as well as in May of 2020 for an |
| 1:10.3 | episode on how to protect your money. |
| 1:13.2 | Bermit's been writing about personal finance for over 17 years now, and his company, I Will Teach You to Be Rich.com, |
| 1:19.0 | educates more than one million users every month. So, Jordan, are you a person who's comfortable |
| 1:24.0 | with money, money topics? I am extremely comfortable with money topics. |
| 1:30.6 | Actually, one of my, one of the things that sort of frustrates me about our culture surrounding |
| 1:36.8 | money is just how non-transparent it is and how in the U.S., like, it's taboo to talk about your finances and how much money you make and anything |
| 1:48.0 | sort of related to how you receive and spend money. And what happens as a result is just a lot of |
| 1:53.8 | people, I feel, suffer in silence. One of the things that I find most interesting, I think a lot of |
| 1:59.3 | readers find most interesting if ever you're reading like sort of these voyeuristic pieces on how people spend their money |
| 2:05.1 | is just like, ooh, I finally get some insight into a real person. And you find out that like other people |
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