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Speaker 1: This week we're gonna do a career question chiw So, Mandy,
Speaker 1: you know you ready?
Speaker 2: Mandra, the seat is hot and I am in it.
Speaker 2: Let's go. What do we got?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it. Let's fee. Okay, this is from TJ.
Speaker 1: They didn't say we can't use her name, So hey,
Speaker 1: Mandy and Tiffany. I recently built up the courage to
Speaker 1: ask a pretty big marketing exec for a coffee chat.
Speaker 1: To my delight, she agreed. I was planning on using
Speaker 1: the time to pick her brain plus talk about myself
Speaker 1: in hopes that she'll remember me should any opportunities open up.
Speaker 1: One of my colleagues just let me know that set
Speaker 1: exec is actually looking to hire someone on her team
Speaker 1: right now. Wow, we love that serendipity. Now I'm racking
Speaker 1: my brain for ways to try to figure out if
Speaker 1: I should be direct and say I would love to
Speaker 1: throw my hat in the ring, or if I should
Speaker 1: be more subtle and just hope that she leaves the
Speaker 1: conversation wanted to hire me. Please Hell thanks ladies, and
Speaker 1: keep killing it on the show warmly. Tj oh, TJ
Speaker 1: that's mynayj oh, tj. That's money. J that's like a song. Anyway,
Speaker 1: go ahead, babies.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm here for it. Tj oh. This is well.
Speaker 2: First of all, I love that you went for it
Speaker 2: and asked them out for a coffee chat. And that
Speaker 2: is where opportunity. That's sort of like making your own luck.
Speaker 2: It's like we're opportunity and luck meet. You didn't know
Speaker 2: that she was hiring. That's not what motivated you to
Speaker 2: reach out, but the fact that you know, like a
Speaker 2: bit of information, I would just be even more excited
Speaker 2: to go on the coffee chat. I think that you're
Speaker 2: concerned about seeing I think this is like one of
Speaker 2: those examples, like we talked about before, Tiffany, of like
Speaker 2: being opportunistic and having that feel like a negative thing,
Speaker 2: like is it two. She uses the word subtle here,
Speaker 2: but I get what she's saying. She's like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to seem like I'm only chatting with her because
Speaker 2: I want to work on her team. I think that
Speaker 2: you would be I think if this were a friend
Speaker 2: of yours, you would tell them to go for it.
Speaker 2: But because it's you, you're like being a bit more
Speaker 2: self conscious about it. So that's cool, Like that's our
Speaker 2: job is to be your bestie and tell you when
Speaker 2: you should get over yourself. And I think TJ is
Speaker 2: time to get over y'all now now, Like Tiff, I mean,
Speaker 2: in my perspective, from my perspective, what I would say is,
Speaker 2: don't show up and say, oh my god, so and
Speaker 2: so just told me you're looking to hire, Like I'm perfect.
Speaker 2: I think you can you open the conversation just completely
Speaker 2: naturally as you would, you know, talking about what you do,
Speaker 2: talk asking what she does. At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I think it will naturally come up in the conversation
Speaker 2: and you could say, oh, well, I mean, I know,
Speaker 2: I didn't plan to make this like an conversation about
Speaker 2: this open opportunity, but now that you mentioned it, like,
Speaker 2: I would love if you could consider me and you
Speaker 2: think I could be a good fit because I feel like,
Speaker 2: based on what you've said, I bring XYZ to the table.
Speaker 2: The other thing that could happen is like what if
Speaker 2: you're sitting there for half an hour and she doesn't
Speaker 2: bring it up, you know, so then it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: should I say something? Should I say something? And the
Speaker 2: way that I would the way that I would approach
Speaker 2: that is if you're like three quarters of the way
Speaker 2: through this meeting and it hasn't come up, I would say, hey,
Speaker 2: can I can I run something by you? Like so
Speaker 2: and so just mentioned in passing that maybe you're looking
Speaker 2: for this position. I don't know if that's true or not,
Speaker 2: but I just wanted to see if you have any
Speaker 2: plans to expand your team because I, based on this conversation.
Speaker 2: I feel like it would be great to work together.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'd love if you could tell me
Speaker 2: more and then give them a chance to tell you
Speaker 2: about it. That to me is like a good mix
Speaker 2: of confidence and being casual. You know, like you don't
Speaker 2: want to seem too thirsty. You want to make it
Speaker 2: seem casual, and then you're also showing your confidence by
Speaker 2: keeping it cool and just sort of bringing it up
Speaker 2: like sort of casually like hey, so, so and so
Speaker 2: said this is that true girl.
Speaker 1: And I said this. I love that fact that Mandy
Speaker 1: that you said like three quarters of the way in
Speaker 1: because you don't want to come in like, hey girl,
Speaker 1: how did you just hiring a key shirt? Anyway? So
Speaker 1: hire me. I'm a fit because the thing is you
Speaker 1: wanting that you illustrate your Oprah ahead of time, remember
Speaker 1: we talking about that, like, which is like everybody would
Speaker 1: you know if Oprah said I'm gonna open up my rolodex,
Speaker 1: you know, if you come up with fifty dollars and
Speaker 1: twenty four hours and I will share you with all
Speaker 1: of my contacts, we would find the money because we
Speaker 1: know that there's intrinsic value in her and having access
Speaker 1: to who she has access to. So one, you want
Speaker 1: to use the first part of your conversation to illustrate
Speaker 1: your oprah. So one, obviously you want to ask questions
Speaker 1: about them. Then you want to share about yourself, but
Speaker 1: sharing about yourself in a way that shows your value,
Speaker 1: your intrinsic value. You know, Yeah, I worked on this
Speaker 1: and I did that, and you know, I was really
Speaker 1: excited about this and that was challenging, but I figured
Speaker 1: it out, you know. And then to Mandy's point, if
Speaker 1: they don't bring up the position, you can bring it up.
Speaker 1: Because for me, if someone people ask me for coffee
Speaker 1: dates and lunch dates and walk dates and blah blah
Speaker 1: bah all the time, and you know, if I'm available,
Speaker 1: Like one of my mentors just asked me, I say yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I like that she asked me questions about
Speaker 1: what I have going on. I love hearing what they
Speaker 1: have going on. And sometimes there is a connection. This
Speaker 1: just happened where someone reached out to me. My sister
Speaker 1: Lisa was working with this young woman and she knew
Speaker 1: I was looking for a new EA and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I told her to reach out to you. And in
Speaker 1: the last component of it, I met her, she would
Speaker 1: seemed really nice. The last component she shares that one
Speaker 1: of her additional skills is she's really good at editing
Speaker 1: video and stuff. And I was like, I don't think
Speaker 1: she'd be good for EE because she's really young. She
Speaker 1: had not really done it, but I was a girl,
Speaker 1: send me some clips and some videos you've done, and
Speaker 1: so now I think I might hire her. But do
Speaker 1: you see what I mean? Like to Mandy's point that
Speaker 1: little slip in, I'm like, maybe not that. Yeah, girl,
Speaker 1: this over here, and she sent me her clips. They
Speaker 1: look great, And honestly, I think we might hire her
Speaker 1: to do some videos for us. And that wouldn't have
Speaker 1: happened if she didn't give us additional information and background
Speaker 1: on what she's capable of doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I mean it's also good to
Speaker 2: go into an interview or like not an interview, but
Speaker 2: a casual conversation, just open minded, Like even if she's
Speaker 2: talking about this role and you realize as she's speaking
Speaker 2: about it that you're not the exact right fit, you
Speaker 2: could then be generous and say, man, that's really interesting.
Speaker 2: I know so and so, and I feel like they
Speaker 2: have that skill set they could be really good and
Speaker 2: don't look at it as like talking yourself out of
Speaker 2: a position, because okay, what's for you can't miss you, right,
Speaker 2: And if you're going to put yourself out there for
Speaker 2: a job, you want it to be one that you'd
Speaker 2: actually excel in, not just be taken whatever comes across
Speaker 2: your desk. Right. So yeah, if you can even just
Speaker 2: like think of a way to help them or like
Speaker 2: have an idea that you can share with whatever challenges
Speaker 2: she's facing or whatever, you know, whatever projects are going on, right,
Speaker 2: then anything that you can bring a value is going
Speaker 2: to stick in her mind. And even if you leave
Speaker 2: the conversation without like a full on hey you should
Speaker 2: apply for this role, you can just you know, the
Speaker 2: goal for you, I think would be to have her
Speaker 2: walk away having a positive experience with you, remembering that
Speaker 2: you are someone who wants to contribute and has ideas.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that she will soon forget that.
Speaker 2: So if it's not that opportunity that opens up, another
Speaker 2: one could be opening up down the line that she
Speaker 2: could come back to you for.
Speaker 1: Girl said, we wish you, we wish you, we love
Speaker 1: that you are, like, we wish you well. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: I wish you. No, it said, I wish you look,
Speaker 1: I wish you what's that Dead Jackson song? I wish
Speaker 1: you love? Oh uh, I miss you not not our
Speaker 1: producer have to come in and gather me together. Anyway,
Speaker 1: We don't miss you because we don't know you. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna change it too. We wish you well. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: we wish you. I love the fact that you are
Speaker 1: go get her. Yeah you were like, yo, I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask for this lunch. That to me, that's indicative.
Speaker 1: I would be really impressed because a lot of people
Speaker 1: just don't even do that. That's indicative like of like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is so one who even if this is not
Speaker 1: a fit, I want to work with somebody who has
Speaker 1: that kind of like I'm going to go for a
Speaker 1: thing that I'm wanting. So you know, TJ. That's my DJ.
Speaker 1: We love that for you and continue to do that
Speaker 1: because relationship building is a number one tool that you
Speaker 1: need to learn how to develop if you are going to,
Speaker 1: at least in the workforce, like reach any level of success.
Speaker 1: Like I think about it all the time whenever I'm
Speaker 1: needing a thing, even in business. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many times I have to make a phone call
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my, oh my gosh, that's my
Speaker 1: friend Sandy, but I met her ten years ago, or
Speaker 1: that's Mandy. I know Mandy for the last you know,
Speaker 1: ten years. That's and so building those relationships oftentimes it's
Speaker 1: years in the making and then there's some sort of
Speaker 1: synergy and then you're not reaching out in a way
Speaker 1: that feels predatory, because it's like, no, I've been building
Speaker 1: this relationship for years. We genuinely, you know, like like
Speaker 1: and care about each other, and now there's some synergy
Speaker 1: here where I can help them or they can help me,
Speaker 1: and so people love that. So continue to act. We
Speaker 1: build relationships with the knowledge that it might take years
Speaker 1: to mature before there's any sort of professional synergy, if
Speaker 1: any at all. Just building for building's sake is always
Speaker 1: really good. I love it.
Speaker 2: Thank you TJ for your question, ba Fam. If you
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Speaker 2: Yes, do you do it like this, Tiffany? Or do
Speaker 2: you do the news millennial?
Speaker 1: I don't do it. I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't even do this heart.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do a heart.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would be more likely to do this,
Speaker 1: I guess or this maybe.
Speaker 2: Well, now you're just supposed to do half the heart,
Speaker 2: and then can we do it here?
Speaker 1: Try to match my way on the side half? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yea yeah, wait here we go, come over here.
Speaker 1: My heart doesn't look what does.
Speaker 2: Your hand look like that for?
Speaker 1: Maybe that can do that? My hands, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to do it. No one taught me. I'm not
Speaker 1: as learning. That's gonna be the clip.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm sorry to your hand. It's just your sorry
Speaker 2: to that hand.
Speaker 1: I don't know that hand.
Speaker 2: I don't know that hand.
Speaker 1: Anyway. We're going to see you on Monday for our
Speaker 1: throwback and yeah, we just wish you well.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,