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Former Googler Sarah Cooper describes her journey as she moved from Tech to Comedy. Today, Sarah is a successful writer and comedian, with a popular blog https://thecooperreview.com/ that gets >100,000 readers per month. She regularly performs as a standup comic, and has authored multiple books inlcuding "100 Tricks To Appear Smart In Meetings" - https://www.amazon.com/100-Tricks-Appear-Smart-Meetings/dp/1449476058 Some of the areas that Sarah touches upon in this episode include: 1. How Sarah kept working on her writing and her comedy, while she was doing her day job 2. What convinced Sarah to leave her job at Googler 3. The challenges she faced after quitting her job 4. Some things that Sarah thinks helped her get through this transition phase 5. Sarah's advice for anyone contemplating a similar career change Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Like us on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/learneducatediscover/ Email us at hello@learneducated

Mariyam Zhumadil, Associate Investment Officer at International Finance Corporation or the IFC, describes in detail what it is like to work in the field of Development Finance. Mariyam has a Masters in Accounting from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Some of the areas that Mariyam touches upon in this episode include: 1. What is Development Finance 2. Difference between Impact Investing and Development Finance 3. Example of projects that you might work on in Development Finance 4. Sample backgrounds for candidates who end up in this space 5. Interesting and Challenging aspects of the job 6. Recruiting tips Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Like us on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/learneducatediscover/ Email us at hello@learneducatediscover. We will reply!! Subscribe to the show on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/learn…ver/id1049159321

Dushka Zapata, VP Comms @Zendesk and Top Writer on Quora (>100M views on her Quora answers), shares more detail on one of her recent answers to the question "What are things you wish someone had told you when you were in your twenties?" We delve into further discussion on the following points from Dushka's answer: 1. "Networking events = waste of time. No, I will not “work a room”. " 2. "Things will bounce back at you so fast you’ll get whiplash. Your intern will be your boss soon. So soon. Act accordingly." 3. "Travel. Read. Develop a point of view. Curiosity is where it’s at." 4. "Don’t regard peers as competitors; don’t concoct rivalries. We are in this together." 5. "It’s possible to make all the right decisions and end up with an undesired outcome. Ergo, the outcome cannot possibly be the measure of your decisions." 6. "Examine the reason — the real reason — behind the decisions you make. Your ego will get you every. Single. Time." Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Webs

Uzo Osikhena, former Senior Program Manager with Clinton Health Access Initiative and currently with Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health), describes what working in the field of International Development (Global Health is like). Uzo has an MBA from The Wharton School, with a focus on Finance and Management. Some of the things that Uzo touches upon in this episode include: 1. How Uzo's work in the international development practice at Accenture exposed her to the field and ultimately convinced her to work in Global Health full time 2. How there are several disciplines within International Development - Global Health, Finance, Agriculture, Public Policy & Governance, Environment, etc. 3. Examples of the kind of projects that someone would work in International Development 4. How to think about the kind of roles you can pursue in International Development 5. Uzo describes a project she worked on as part of the Clinton Health Access Initiative - Increasing access to family planning for women i

Jad Finck, VP of Innovation and Sustainability at Silicon Valley based eco-friendly woolen shoes company, Allbirds, shares his thoughts on what working in Sustainability is like. Jad has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and MBA in Finance and Strategy, from University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business. Jad will soon be hiring for his team, keep a lookout for openings on the Allbirds careers page here: https://www.allbirds.com/pages/careers If you're interested in applying, drop us an email with your resume at hello@learneducatediscover.com, so that we can share your resume with Jad. Some of the areas that Jad touches upon in this episode include: 1. What is Sustainable Innovation 2. Examples of projects - Scouting for new materials, Lifecycle Assessment, etc. 3. Types of activities a Sustainability expert might be work on during a project 4. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job 5. How to be effective at your job - Sustainability needs to be backed by l

Jeremy Schifeling, Founder of BreakInto.Tech, a startup that helps people with non-technical backgrounds land jobs in Tech, shares numerous tips on how candidates can structure their job search and improve chances of success. BreakInto.Tech has helped candidates land jobs at well known Tech companies such as Amazon, LinkedIn, Microsoft, etc. Jeremy has a BA in Political Science & Education from Swarthmore College and MBA from Ross School of Business, Michigan University. Some of the areas that Jeremy touches upon in this episode include: 1. Why Jeremy started Break into Tech 2. How Jeremy realized that a technical background is not needed to work in Tech 3. Jeremy's recommendation for how to structure your job search process - Identify what role, position yourself, systematic approach to your applications, and interview prep 4. Examples of roles that are open to non-technical profiles 5. How non-technical roles tend to lie on a spectrum of super analytical (Eg: Business Analyst), to super relationships or

Travis Moore, Founder of TechCongress (non-profit startup), describes how he and his team are creating a way for those interested to apply their tech skills to government. TechCongress is a year long fellowship, where fellows get the chance to work with members of Congress and leverage their technical skills to influence policy and legislation. Some of the areas that Travis touches upon in this episode include: 1. What is TechCongress 2. Examples of projects TechCongress fellows work on 3. Why Travis started TechCongress 4. What a typical day looks like - from drafting statements in response to events (such as the Equifax breach), to working on longer term policy changes 5. How this program is great for those looking to understand how govt and policy making works 6. Future paths that Fellows end up taking 7. Other programs like this - Presidential Innovation Fellows, but there are very few that exist 8. Skills you pick up during the program - How Congress works, nuances of how coalitions form, negotiations,

Jiayi Liang, joined Amazon as a Product Manager in their Amazon Web Services business. After a few years, she joined their Entrepreneur in Residence program. In this episode, she shares her experience as an EIR (including what it was like to present to Jeff Bezos), and how she made the move from Product Manager to EIR. Jiayi has a Bachelors in Economics from Beijing Foreign Studies University and MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Some of the areas that Jiayi touches upon in this episode include: 1. How she got into Product Management with zero technical background 2. How Jiayi focused on earning her team's trust from the get-go 3. How Jiayi developed proposals for ideas she had and circulated them within the company for two years, which helped her get in front of the right people 4. How Jiayi got into the Entrepreneur in Residence program at Amazon 5. Jiayi's meeting with Jeff Bezos to get seed funding for her idea 6. What happens in the Entrepreneur in Residence program 7. 3 qualitie

Ian Murdock, Senor Manager of Marketing Analytics at cloud communications platform company, Twilio, describes in detail what a Marketing Analyst in Tech does. Good listen for anyone interested in Data and Tech. Ian has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Houston, and MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. Some of the areas that Ian touches upon include: 1. Why Ian got interested in Analytics 2. What is Marketing Analytics 3. Examples of projects someone in this function might work on 4. Stages in a typical project 5. How analytics should drive decision making 6. Typical day in the life 7. How is success measured - timeliness, quality of analysis and ability to communicate 8. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job 9. Examples of tools he uses - R, SQL, Python, Visualization tools 10. Not so interesting aspects of this job - how if your insights are unexpected, there can be a lot of resistance, and you really need to figure out how to persuade people 11. Difference between Analy

Taylor Pearson, Author of The End of Jobs, shares his thoughts on future of work, and his own journey as he transitioned from a full time job to writing a book and running a small business. Taylor's work has been covered in numerous publications including Business Insider, Huffington Post, etc. His book has also been recommended by James Altucher and Derek Sivers. Taylor asserts that wealth is created at the "limit" or "bottleneck", that knowledge work is no longer the highest order of jobs given how we have access to amazing talent globally, and how entrepreneurial skills and being an entrepreneur is the new "limit".​ Some of the areas that Taylor touches upon include: 1. Taylor answers the now famous Peter Thiel question - "What's one thing you believe in that no one agrees with you on" - Taylor thinks the skills of the future is going to be Marketing and the ability to distribute 2. Concept of limits - wealth is created at the bottlenecks, and how entrepreneurial skill is the new "limit" in careers 3. Ta

Simon Kirk, Co-Founder @RaisedBy.Us and Director of Business Development @InVisionApp, draws on his experience of organizing events over the last 10 years, and talks about how organizing events is a great way to build your own network. ​ As co-founder of RaisedBy.Us, Simon has closed relationships with some of the leading startups of New York including Foursquare, Blue Apron, Birchbox, Squarespace, and many others. Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include: 1. What kind of event to organize depending on the situation - Breakfast, Cocktail Hour/Happy Hour, Dinner 2. Whom to invite 3. How to get people to come when you're still new to the scene and don't know many people 4. How to "socially engineer" an event to make sure people have a good time 5. How a host's priority should be that attendees extract a lot of value from the event 6. Lots of resources and other tips for organizing events Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Lik

Alex Bentley, Product Management Leader and Coach at IBM, describes the role of an Offering Manager at IBM (IBM has renamed Product Management to Offering Management). Alex has over 10 years of experience working as a Product Manager. He also leads the Associate Offering Manager program at IBM. You can check out IBM's Associate Offering Manager program here: http://ibm.biz/aomprogram Some of the areas that Alex talks about in this episode include: 1. How Offering Management is very similar to Product Management 2. Why IBM renamed Product Management to Offering Management - To emphasize the focus on building a business, as opposed to a product only 3. Difference between Offering Management at IBM and Product Management in some companies and Project Management 4. Examples of projects an Offering Manager might work on 5. How an Offering Manager/Product Manager needs to think like the CEO of the business 6. Examples of metrics that a Product/Offering Manager is evaluated on and how they vary with where the pr

Helen Chou, came to the US for her MBA at The Wharton School. Before that, she was working with Asus in Taiwan. In this episode, Helen shares a candid account of the challenges she faced as she went through recruiting, how networking was a scary experience in the beginning, and how she learnt to do it. Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Like us on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/learneducatediscover/ Email us at hello@learneducatediscover. We will reply!! Subscribe to the show on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/learn…ver/id1049159321

Atif Nayeem, former Account Manager at Amazon, recently completed his MBA at Kellogg School of Management and recently received an offer as a Product Manager at Series B funded E-Commerce startup, Narvar. In this episode, Atif shares how he went about startup recruiting. Some of things he touches upon include: 1. Why he decided to recruit for startups 2. How it's hard to change location, industry and function at the same time, and so he looked at e-commerce startups only 3. His startup selection criteria - how series B startups can be a good fit for MBAs 4. His application strategy - Applying online + sending a direct message to the recruiter or hiring manager on LinkedIn 5. What he wrote in these initial messages - his projects and skills that could be relevant to the role he was applying for 6. How going a step beyond to really show how interested you are in the startup is really helpful 7. His interview process and some interesting questions he was asked 8. How he evaluated his offer and negotiated it 9.

Helen graduated from Wharton in 2014. After business school, she joined IBM’s leadership development rotational program and has been with IBM for three years now. She is currently a Product Manager on the IBM Watson Internet of Things platform. Prior to her MBA, Helen was a Business Development Manager at ASUS in Southeast Asia, traveling across Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. This episode covers some of the salient points outlined by Helen in this post - http://www.learneducatediscover.com/leadership-development-program Helen touches upon: 1. What is the General Management Leadership Development Program at IBM 2. Pros and cons of doing a rotation program vs a regular job 3. How to decide whether such a program could be beneficial for you 4. Qualities needed to make the best use of such a program 5. Helpful resources Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Like us on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/learneducatediscover/ Email us at hello@lea

Jim McCarthy works with executives to build happy, high-performance teams. He is an internationally acclaimed leadership consultant and motivational speaker. Jim’s workshops often include scientific research, anecdotes, writing exercises, group discussion, action items, and daily practices. Jim has more than 19 years of executive and board level experience at Silicon Valley startups. He became employee # 258 at Yahoo in 1997, and later worked at NexTag, BlueLithium, and Drawbridge. Earlier in his career, Jim was an English teacher in Frankfurt, a business journalist in Madrid, and a McKinsey consultant in Munich. Audiences deeply appreciate Jim’s unique perspective — as a Stanford MBA, Internet pioneer, world traveler, father, and person living with a cancer diagnosis. In this episode, Jim shares what he learnt when he was diagnosed with cancer, and his message for others as they go through their own lives and careers. Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learnedu

Malcolm Phelan, ex-consultant and techie, having worked at BCG, Dropbox and Webflow, and now twice Campaign Manager (currently managing the campaign for Miller for Georgia), talks about what it is like to work as a Political Campaign Manager. Some of the things that Malcolm touches upon in this episode include: 1. What is campaign management 2. Elements of a political campaign 3. Skills you develop when working as a campaign manager 4. Resources for those who are interested in trying this out 5. How running a campaign is similar to managing a startup or a business 6. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job 7. How to apply Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Like us on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/learneducatediscover/ Email us at hello@learneducatediscover. We will reply!! Subscribe to the show on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/learn…ver/id1049159321

Jordan Kong, Director of Business Operations and Board Observer at FoodTech startup Ando, talks about what working in Business Operations is like. Some of the areas that Jordan touches upon in this episode include: 1. What's a venture studio (eg: Expa) and how it's great for people who want to work at a startup but dont have an idea 2. What does someone in Biz Ops do 3. Examples of projects someone in Biz Ops may work on 4. How this can be a highly cross-functional role and requires working with teams across the organization 5. How this is a data heavy role 6. How this role can take on either a strategic finance bent or an operations bent 7. How Biz Ops can be similar to an internal consulting role at times 8. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job 9. How this is a relatively new function and so the career path is not very clear 10. How to assess the importance of the function on the outside/while recruiting 11. Qualities in someone who would enjoy this job 12. How to stand out in a cold mail 13. Re

Akash Mayur, Manager at Management Consulting firm A.T. Kearney, Inc., shares some of the things that he does to excel in his role as a Management Consultant. Some of the areas that we touch upon in this episode include: 1. The role of a Management Consultant 2. The 3 layers to a great Management Consultant - Analytics/Problem Solving, Communication skills, and Emotional Quotient 3. Examples in each of the three layers to illustrate how this can make a difference 4. Akash's tips on how to excel in each of these areas 5. Other best practices for current and aspiring consultants Thank you for listening!! Follow the show on Twitter @LED_Curator Website www.learneducatediscover.com/ Like us on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/learneducatediscover/ Email us at hello@learneducatediscover. We will reply!! Subscribe to the show on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/learn…ver/id1049159321

George Zeng, Product Marketing Manager at Facebook, describes what is involved in working as a Product Marketing Manager and what you can do to excel in this role. With an undergrad from Princeton, and grad from UPenn, and a highly diverse work experience ranging from Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, to running Sales for Groupon for Souther China, to starting and selling his healthcare startup, George shares a number of clear, actionable advice not just for people interested in this role but advice for anyone looking for simple tips that could help you excel in your career. Some of the things we touch upon in this episode include: 1. What is Product Marketing Management 2. Two broad components of this role 3. Typical and atypical ways of doing this job - and how the atypical ways can help you achieve exceptional results 4. Type of projects someone would work on in this role 5. How the PMM role at Facebook might differ from other companies 6. Interesting and challenging aspects of this job 7. Common mis