The brianmcivor's Podcast

Career Detection Digest - Audio Digest

An Audio Digest of my book Career Detection. 
This 45 minutes podcast is an outline of the basic elements of Career Detection.
Defining Success
Career and Life Balance
Finding your Transferable Skills Set
Inventorying your Expertise
Identifying Roles and Fields based on your data
Your Drivers - what motivates you. 

Three little words..BE DO HAVE that will give you the right career direction

Welcome to The Career Zone at www.brianmcivor.com
Follow the HAVE DO BE route for a career that follows the money, follows the mob and puts you well into the rat race. 
Is there a better way? Yes,  there is,  follow the meaning. 
Learn from Bono , Mick Jagger and Beethoven. 
This 7 minutes podcast shows how to strike the balance between blue sky thinking and reality. 
 

The Spanish Inquisition at Competency-Based Interviews

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition - our weapons are fear and surprise" .... maybe your favourite Monty Python Sketch? 
Nowadays job applicants await their competency-based interviews with a similar level of anxiety to that of your typical Mediaeval Heretic. Today's heresies at job interviews are about the unrealistic beliefs we have about the process and about ourselves. This is an entertaining podcast which suggests a more pleasant result.......

Filling out a Competency Interview Form

An introduction to laying out a Competency-based application form - using a STAR Format. 
Based on an actual case study of a junior manager setting up remote working during COVID. The same  example can be used under two different competencies - but the story has to be told in a different way in each case to illustrate the required behaviours. The devil is in the detail!
With Brian McIvor. 

Land your next job interview with Venn Diagrams? Are you crazy? Find out here.

What you learned at school about Venn Diagrams could land you your next interviews. 
Venn Diagrams are about things that overlap. Your skills and achievement must match the role you are going for - but there is such a thing as transferable skills. Bletchley Park didn't put an ad in the Times looking for code breakers - instead they recruited people who could solve cryptic crosswords. ]
What's in your skills sets that will transfer into your dream job? 

Mindfulness and Mozart - at your next job interview

If you lose your place at an interview you lose the job - right? 
In the real world that is not necessarily so. Our fear at interviews is that we will lose our place. If you are well prepared that becomes far less of a risk because you are simply on top of your brief. 
 
Perfection lies with Mozart in Heaven - or wherever he is. Managing imperfection is your job in the interview, in your dream job thereafter. 

Make an impact at your next job interviews - use Plain English

Interviewers are constantly under a barrage of superlatives and clichés; most CVs and resumés sprout such cut and paste classics as "Excellent Communication Skills" and "Enjoys working in teams"This podcast will given you some practical steers on being yourself at the interview and standing out as being a unique human being. Welcome to Plain English - one of Western Civilisation's strongest brands. 

Things Interviewers Hate: How to get Interviewers on your side.

 What are the things that drive interviewers crazy? 
Phony answers, lying, waffle and a lot more.
Help the interviewer help you. It's not a gabfest - the interview is the first meeting with your new boss. If you blow it you'll pay for it. 
Be good to interviewers - they're people too. 
Get on their wavelength and they will get on to you. 
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