#313: How To Throw Something Together Just To Get The Job Done

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What about my sweat equity?

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What about my sweat equity?

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Bob's your uncle.

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Your uncle. All right, well, we're going out. We're recording. Yeah. Well, we've got some tech issues. With the one we're recording today. We are the number one comedy business podcast in the world. We're really raw dog most days. We're really raw dog in the intro today, we figured we got time constraint, we got tech problems. Let's at least get a mini episode in because if anybody listens to the show religiously, I don't like it when I go Okay, this podcast is going to be here on this time. Cuz you get like an OCD fandom. About podcasts. You miss it, they obviously quit it never coming back again it erase it from your phone. What is like, hey, maybe, maybe this show for some people is like, a lot of podcasts and listened to when I was super bummed out. And then you're like, Oh, these are so sweet. These counters, friends. conversation, your friends. Yeah, we're your friends. Don't do that. We're in your ear holes. You know. Don't do what you're thinking about doing. Yeah. Don't you have friends? Right? Yeah, yeah. And look, listen to us while you're jogging. While you're folding laundry, doing all the mundane stuff. Don't let your brain think of other things. You should be listening to us. Yeah, we got like 300 episodes start going backwards. Go back. If anybody listens and goes back and wants to clown us for how bad we were? Sure. I'd like that. That'd be great.

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I know not to how good we are now. Because now. Things are different. Wow. You are you are on a a? What would I call it? Watch it? lubelski streak now? Not?

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streak. Well, anything on your mind going on?

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I we've got a bunch. We haven't done a solo one. With just us two and a while. Yeah. How about that app that you posted in our Slack channel about the blind people? Yeah, I'm about the blind people but help blind people. Yeah, that's that's a good call. Yeah, no, not just out of it. So no, so I saw this post a follow everyday heroes on LinkedIn. The guy posts like a little too much for my liking. But it on like every other day heroes? Yeah. About You know, once a week or

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a week heroes, kind of like tank Sinatra. The Meme Meme. God has tanks. Good news on Instagram. Okay, so this was like, my LinkedIn version of it. Follow this guy. He posted this thing.

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I guess a tweet from someone that saying, download this app called be my eyes while ago. You get FaceTime calls from blind people all over the world, and help them with whatever task they help with. I just got my first call and help this lady pick out on the note. something so small made her day. And then High Five yourself or prayer emoji. Okay, cool. So I think that's cool. You're trying to download right now. I have it downloaded already. Are you in it? Oh, let's just try to turn it on. Let's see what happens. Man. I hope. I hope this goes horrible. For the sake of the show, walk right out of the traffic. Good. Good. Yeah, I'm fine. Can you help me put my makeup on? I'm fine. That's fine.

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While you're doing that, volunteering.

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A lot of times there's a thing called psychological egoism.

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In volunteering? Yeah, yeah, I just pulled out interesting. Okay, so when I sign into the app, it shows.

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It shows how many blind people there are and how many volunteers there are. Let's have a guess.

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On how many blind people there are compared to volunteers as users on the app? Yes. Oh, boy. This could be wild. Yep.

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Let's say 10,000 blind people.

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20,000 volunteers. All right. There are on this app. 313,868 blind people. What? volunteers 4,834,601 Wow, on that one baby now is that our goal is that

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active users. I have no doubtful very doubtful.

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Yeah, I was

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going into the camera camera, visual show to me the worst show of all time.

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Well, that's interesting. I, you know, it's it's like slacktivism volunteering. Right? We're like, I'm doing it. Yeah. You know, the slack device. And I'm volunteering by putting my phone down. Right, everybody thinks because they put a opinion, a political opinion on social media, it's activism, but it's really slacktivism because they're not moving their feet. And we get it. You want slacktivism to be a thing? It's I didn't, I didn't create it. I wish I did.

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But the the the psychological egoism part?

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Why volunteering is important in some respect, like you should never not do something. Right. Right. You've already you've already do it on your own. Just because you have a heart of gold.

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But admit, mine is to make up for all the terrible things I say and do, right? No, me to even the ledger out me to in my head is get ahead of it.

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And so like this, the psychological egoism thing is you volunteer, but it's really a volunteer for you to get something out of it. Sure. But that's all volunteering.

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I don't think people are realized that when they're doing it, I think they really think a lot of people think they're doing something altruistic. And that that is a residual effect. And I think everybody goes into it, because it will make themselves feel good. Nobody volunteers so that they can be, you know, shitty at the end of the day. See, I, before I heard that term, I used to go into it a lot. I thought I was going into a lot. Because we go yeah, I want to help this, this cause out this charity out whatever. Oh, but once I heard that, I was like, oh, subconsciously, this is really what I get out of it. Right. Right. Except that fact. Yeah. And that's fine. Because at the end of the day, the results are the same. Right? Exactly. Everybody benefits, win, win, win. Right and not doing it. Then note win, lose, lose.

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The rare Michael Scott lose, lose it. So yes. Do you? Are you going to try to link up with someone on there? I'm an active right now it's ready to receive calls of a blind person wants to call me they can. And I don't think you can call me specifically I think around right now. There's just like a queue like a deli counter. Given the ratio of volunteers that are blind. I think I'm going to be okay for a few minutes. Okay. I didn't know if there's like, hey, help someone right now kind of thing? No, I feel like it's got if it's an all been milk example. That's why my head goes to like, this could be very small stuff where, yeah, there should be a bigger audience of people who just chillin, you know, waiting to help out, right? Maybe we should sign up as a blind person. Test it out. Well, a couple more truly is and who knows? All right. No, I'm saying, Yeah, this is a comedy show. It's a it's a comedy show. You know, we make jokes. We make jokes.

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I've got the other thing I've got, because we're going to do this as a mini app is short for episode.

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And for those of you any short for miniature, yes. Do you know that but do you know that? This is infotainment guys.

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That the 10 things. Basically the most fucked out phrases you don't want to include on your resume. Okay. You want to throw some out there? I don't know if you've read this when I put it in the chat. I did not read it.

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committed to memory. Excuse me. I'm good at committing things to memory. All right. What do you think? What do you think the most like? I mean, you've interviewed people, you've been on both sides, right? So it's like, what do you think when you hear what's like the most generic phrase you think I'm willing to go the extra mile. I'm a hard worker.

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I go above and beyond something like that. When numbers. Number one, I know how to work hard. Okay.

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Number two, let's see you don't have to go in order. You can Family Feud? Yes. No. I mean, for me, it'll be number two. It'll be the first thing that pops in my mind after number one. That being said, I got nothing. All right.

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I work well under pressure. Okay. Don't say that on a resume. Everything all 10 of these. When I read them, I go these are like

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projections, basically of what you're not or what you have to really work on for time, right? Otherwise, it would be on your resume, like an example. Right? You won't have to say it. pointedly you'd have it would be obvious that you work hard and one small dumb thing that I

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I did when I was like, early 20s, I had like one of those career placement people, I was a grunt, you know, looking for whatever. One piece of advice I got out of one of those hacked like,

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you know, job placement things was like, if you do your resume, you need to have it tell the story of how you, you overcame a problem. And what you're, it's a delicate dance to do that throughout your resume. And not sound like it's all you.

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But you had some impact to change something. Yeah, so show some adversity, some grit, that kind of thing without overdoing it. You know, you know, what, I'm looking at resumes. I'm not looking for a story. No, no, in the interview, I'm saying, Oh, right. So you take whatever you wrote in the in the resume I worked here. You know, the little, little one two sentence about what you did that. And then you you extrapolate that into a story about a little bit more about that. And that's hacker That's good. That's that's the good tip. The hack stuff is the phrases, we're going to go, oh, okay, I work well under pressure. Which means to me that you don't plan, right, maybe I'm an asshole when I look at this. And I know how to work hard means, you know, it's the Seinfeld, you know how to take a reservation, his don't know how to hold a reservation. That's, it could do better. That's pretty good.

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I'm an impressionist. All right. Sorry. I work independently. I'd say that's pretty odd. I have no friends. Yeah, that means work.

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That means I'm tough. Tough to work with.

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I'm an if I am effective at solving problems. Right. I will try and clean up my messes that I caused previously. Right? Right. I created a lot of problems. And then I said, I'm really good at solving my own problems. All right, was kind of there when they happen. And I know the right way to fix it. I know how to work in a team. I know how to work in a team. That is a crazy statement. I don't know how to keep working. I know. But I know how. Right? It doesn't say I work well. by choice. I'm working. Yeah. I am proactive. That one. I'm surprised is on here. Honestly.

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Don't think that's something a lot of people would say, you know,

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I have a throwaway thing to me. I saw that on a resume.

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Of course. Yeah. Although writing it down does prove itself. I'm proactive. Yeah, proactive that.

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It's a good trait for sure. But saying it? I don't know. It doesn't. It can have a negative connotation. I'm proactive at finding a new job. I'm proactive at creating problems. Right. Exactly. Number four, right.

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Number seven, I am a good communicator.

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Communicate real good. If you have to say that.

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Probably not. Yeah, right. If it's not clear, right, that last sentence, if it's not clear, I am a good communicator. I'm good at listening. Yeah, I'm good at listening. Number eight.

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Okay. Again, these are all showing your hand of what you're not good at to me. Maybe? I don't know.

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A lot of people could write that down because they heard their aunt tell them you're such a good listener. No, it's a good skill. There is like, look, I think the best. The best salespeople are surprisingly, the best listeners. But they're usually terrible at listening outside of anything. Not sales related. Yeah. So like, the shame of your mom dying those guys out there in the zone. And they'll listen, and they'll flip it back to close the deal. But outside of that, typically the worst people to talk to just talk to you. Yeah.

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My writing skills are excellent. Again, weird way to put it if that's verbatim the phrase in there. Yeah, that's kind of a weighted. One on that. And lastly, I'm enthusiastic.

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How many exclamation points? There's five emojis and a couple of interrobang zero exclamation point on that article. Yeah, there should be nice. Now you say? So.

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It says as you can see, cliches are major deterrent, during the hiring process. Although more than 59% of recruiters say that they hate coming across grammatical and typographical errors, no matter how small. Well, yeah, that is something that is like, you know, it's kind of 101 words like that. I don't even what you're saying isn't as important as the attention to detail to make sure it's correctly written. What's the first it's sometimes the first

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First thing people see of you. So it's like, all right, this guy, I thought it'd be like, I have attention to detail. I remember the all the old hack ones like,

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just that I can't remember anymore now, right? Well, I mean, there's a lot of little things, even as, you know, like you and I, we're not all busters, we're not crazy with, you know, like, discipline in terms of a lot of things just business related, where it's like, Alright, if I'm sending you a zoom interview request, and I'm also sending you a request for you to take a personality or a assessment of some kind. How long does it take you to turn around do that? Like, yeah, you know, if I'm able to see when you're opening these emails up, and I see that you wait two days before you even address it. Right, like, you know, it? Yeah, well, not necessarily fair. No, we can't just forget it. Yeah, you're actively in the process. Yeah. Cuz you can be busy. And that sometimes we want you more right other side, right? It's that whole velvet rope or like, Oh, we got to get this guy. Yeah, you know, or gal, it could mean that we're trans, whatever.

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But that study was 2000. recruiters and job seekers threw that in there. I just thought I think those are interesting. That's a ladders.com.

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Email, whatever marketing thing I got, I just found it interesting. They do good content.

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It's true. That shit is simply easy. And those things, and I don't know this offhand. But when you are submitting resumes, make sure you got to double check which ones better PDF or docx file because most are sent through some kind of software that, like a Scantron. And one is inverted with one is way worse than the other. I think word is way worse. I want to say I was gonna say the opposite. pragmatic business advice. I don't know.

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We'll leave that as a tease for the audience to figure out but we will forget about it. 30 sec. I don't know offhand, but I just know I just found it crazy that you would take both files. As someone who who does, you know, recruiting or hiring or whatever. Knowing that one of those two files sucks. I honestly thought I remembered it. The Microsoft Word document being preferred. And I'm driving myself crazy. trying to think of the reason why but I'm not gonna lie. People are still

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suck at it.

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They fucking trashed all that folded laundry like God dammit. Right. Well call in, hit us out or let us know. Hit us up on all socials. Or, yeah, or website. sweat equity. pod.com that's this is a mini raw daddy. Yeah, we're back.