Last year, a well-known radio station in my
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:27 am
Last year, a well-known radio station in my country called me to give my opinion on hashtag day.
It's something that usually happens to me, fortunately.
What doesn't usually happen is that a couple of days later they called again to tell me that they were looking for a digital leader for the station, and to ask me if I would be interested in the position.
I had to manage a team of about 15 people and reorganize their processes. They were not going through a good time.
The truth is, I found it an interesting challenge, I like the station.
I thought about it for a few days and, although I wasn't looking for a job, I accepted. Not the job, but rather to participate in the selection process. As it should be.
To cut a long story short, after a few months they wrote to me again asking for some proposals. I presented what they asked me for and went to the face-to-face interview with my future boss and some coworkers.
It's been a long time since I went to one of these interviews, I haven't looked for a job in a long time.
And that's why I was carefree, unlike what usually happens when you go to interviews.
Normally, you go in nervously, thinking about saying the right things, saying what you think they expect to hear. “Yeah, sure, in 5 years I see myself here, collaborating on the project and taking the company to new levels.” Even if it’s a lie and they know it.
But since I neither needed the job nor was I looking for it, I went along with it.
In the taxi ride there I decided that I wouldn't treat them as my future vietnam email address bosses, but as my clients, and that changed everything.
For example, I did not present them with a strategy, as they asked me to, but with a work plan from day 1.
When I was told the salary I was being asked if I would be willing to work for that amount. My literal answer was, “Look, if you were to hire me full-time, I would charge you more than double what you are offering. But the truth is that I really like the station, I think the project is very nice, and the challenge is very interesting. Plus, it is a service contract, and I think I can achieve the results they need, directing the team remotely, without being here all the time.”
I won't deny it, when I finished saying it I thought "Shit, I screwed up. I must have looked like the most conceited guy on the planet. They'll never hire me." And I left feeling like when I left ICFES, where you think you did well, but you also think you did badly, and you just have to wait.
After a while they called me and said, “You did great! You came in first and they are going to write to you with the documents needed for your admission.”
Spoiler Alert: I ended up not working with them, due to internal problems and disorders within the company. But since I didn't need the job, I didn't care much. Except for the lost time, which is worth more to me than the money.
The moral of this fable is that when you work on your Personal Brand, work will find you, even if you don't need it.
I haven't been looking for work for more than 10 years. When I have found a job, it has been because I have been offered the positions and not because I have been looking for them. I have also received projects, invitations to become partners in start-ups, and I have even been offered to invest in my companies and projects.
But those are stories for another Marmogram.
What I want to tell you is that working on my Personal Brand has been one of the best decisions of my life. And it can be yours too.
What you do today for your Personal Brand will continue to serve you in 5 years. I can attest to that.
Nowadays, there are people who recognize me for something I could have done years ago, things that I myself don't even remember. I won't tell you everything that has happened to me thanks to my Personal Brand, first because we didn't finish, second because it's not about me, but about you.
But my story includes travel, jobs, conferences inside and outside my country, working doing things that I never dreamed of when I was an engineer.
I'm not telling you to try to repeat my story, but to write your own. Fulfill the dreams you have. And you will end up fulfilling even those you cannot even imagine right now.
And I hope you start soon.
You start by filling out a three-minute form and end up receiving mountains of job offers.
It's something that usually happens to me, fortunately.
What doesn't usually happen is that a couple of days later they called again to tell me that they were looking for a digital leader for the station, and to ask me if I would be interested in the position.
I had to manage a team of about 15 people and reorganize their processes. They were not going through a good time.
The truth is, I found it an interesting challenge, I like the station.
I thought about it for a few days and, although I wasn't looking for a job, I accepted. Not the job, but rather to participate in the selection process. As it should be.
To cut a long story short, after a few months they wrote to me again asking for some proposals. I presented what they asked me for and went to the face-to-face interview with my future boss and some coworkers.
It's been a long time since I went to one of these interviews, I haven't looked for a job in a long time.
And that's why I was carefree, unlike what usually happens when you go to interviews.
Normally, you go in nervously, thinking about saying the right things, saying what you think they expect to hear. “Yeah, sure, in 5 years I see myself here, collaborating on the project and taking the company to new levels.” Even if it’s a lie and they know it.
But since I neither needed the job nor was I looking for it, I went along with it.
In the taxi ride there I decided that I wouldn't treat them as my future vietnam email address bosses, but as my clients, and that changed everything.
For example, I did not present them with a strategy, as they asked me to, but with a work plan from day 1.
When I was told the salary I was being asked if I would be willing to work for that amount. My literal answer was, “Look, if you were to hire me full-time, I would charge you more than double what you are offering. But the truth is that I really like the station, I think the project is very nice, and the challenge is very interesting. Plus, it is a service contract, and I think I can achieve the results they need, directing the team remotely, without being here all the time.”
I won't deny it, when I finished saying it I thought "Shit, I screwed up. I must have looked like the most conceited guy on the planet. They'll never hire me." And I left feeling like when I left ICFES, where you think you did well, but you also think you did badly, and you just have to wait.
After a while they called me and said, “You did great! You came in first and they are going to write to you with the documents needed for your admission.”
Spoiler Alert: I ended up not working with them, due to internal problems and disorders within the company. But since I didn't need the job, I didn't care much. Except for the lost time, which is worth more to me than the money.
The moral of this fable is that when you work on your Personal Brand, work will find you, even if you don't need it.
I haven't been looking for work for more than 10 years. When I have found a job, it has been because I have been offered the positions and not because I have been looking for them. I have also received projects, invitations to become partners in start-ups, and I have even been offered to invest in my companies and projects.
But those are stories for another Marmogram.
What I want to tell you is that working on my Personal Brand has been one of the best decisions of my life. And it can be yours too.
What you do today for your Personal Brand will continue to serve you in 5 years. I can attest to that.
Nowadays, there are people who recognize me for something I could have done years ago, things that I myself don't even remember. I won't tell you everything that has happened to me thanks to my Personal Brand, first because we didn't finish, second because it's not about me, but about you.
But my story includes travel, jobs, conferences inside and outside my country, working doing things that I never dreamed of when I was an engineer.
I'm not telling you to try to repeat my story, but to write your own. Fulfill the dreams you have. And you will end up fulfilling even those you cannot even imagine right now.
And I hope you start soon.
You start by filling out a three-minute form and end up receiving mountains of job offers.