Synopsis
Jennifer Hill will interview guests weekly who are considered experts in the field of job hunting and interviewing. She will discuss real life issues that people have faced when navigating the path to finding their dream jobs. Jennifer will offer a variety of resources to job seekers during each show and will provide live coaching during the show to job seekers who call in. Listen live Mondays, 4:00PM (PST), on LA Talk Radio (latalkradio.com)
Episodes
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Ladan Davia
07/08/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks with Ladan Davia, CEO of new job hunting site Beeya, about the job site’s platform. Ladan explains the algorithm that matches employers with employees by new screening questions and going a step beyond keyword matching. beeya.com Ladan Davia is a the CEO and Founder of Beeya. Beeya is a meta-search engine and employee matching platform that has partnerships with companies including Zip Recruiter, Indeed, and Nexxt. Her unique algorithm will match candidates with open job positions, filter to make sure all the jobs are new and relevant while also suggesting jobs to users. Prior to founding Beeya, she worked at Entertainment Tonight where she was pursuing her career as an on camera host. She was also the Founder and President of Excelerate Test Prep, a business she started in college aimed at helping students improve their scores on the SAT and ACT. Davia earned dual degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from Chapman University.
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Rhonda Vetere
31/07/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks with the President of nThrive, Rhonda Vetere, about what it took for her to get to the C-Suite and to create sustainable success. Rhonda discusses the attributes that leaders have, and the importance of taking care of yourself first before you can effectively lead a team. rhondavetere.com Rhonda has worked across industries as a global executive and change agent at nThrive / Pamplona Capital Management, Este´e Lauder Companies, AIG, HP Enterprise Services, Barclays / Lehman, Bank One / JPMorgan Chase, CompuServe, UUNET, MCI, and Worldcom. She has lived and worked internationally – in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Mumbai, and across India – and has managed teams of up to 20,000 people. Vetere is also the co-author of an HP special edition book, “Enterprise Service Management for Dummies”. With an ability to support mergers, create synergies across lines of business, and leverage her onshore/offshore experience, Rhonda is a results-oriented, client-focused executive and de
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Dr. Anthony Paustian
24/07/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks to Dr. Anthony Paustian about his new book "A Quarter Million Steps." Dr. Paustian shares what he learned from his experience in the Air Force and being friends with several of the astronauts from the Apollo mission. He offers insights about creativity and the importance of creativity in leadership. Dr. Paustian also provides tools for increasing creativity and leadership in your life. QuarterMillionSteps.com From his Air Force days on fighter aircraft to building national brands for companies like Rockwell Avionics and Miller Brewing, Dr. Anthony Paustian has decades of experience in strategic leadership. After developing a technology-focused college campus that was named one of the nation’s most innovative organizations, Dr. Paustian created the college’s annual Celebrate! Innovation Week (ciWeek), the largest speaker-focused, free event in the Midwest. ciWeek’s sole purpose is to inspire. Dr. Paustian is the multi-award-winning author of A Quarter Million Steps and a podcast host of
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Robert (Bob-san) and Yumi Peterson
17/07/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill talks to husband and wife entrepreneurs, Robert Peterson (Bob-san) and his wife Yumi, about how they launched another chapter in their lives after 60 with Yumi’s beauty business idea. Yumi and Bob-san share how they created a successful product and success brought it to market. toutenuit.com Ms. Mimiko (MM) is a Japanese professional make-up artist and skin care specialist from Tokyo, Japan. She created Toute Nuit facial wrinkle flattening patches. Mimiko is a Japanese word that means beautiful person as represented by the kanji characters ???. An inspiration to women everywhere! How many women in their 60’s wake up one morning and decide to return to their professional life after a 30 year hiatus by starting a new company, developing and launching a new brand based on a product idea that she has been thinking about for over 30 years? MM did this at age 63 and is an inspiration to women everywhere. MM designed and developed Toute Nuit in Japan. MM’s purpose in bringing Toute Nuit to market i
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Amy Leinbach
10/07/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks with inventor, voice over actor and entrepreneur, Amy Leinbach, about how she was able to successfully bring two products to market on Amazon. Amy gives a step-by-step process to bring an invention to market and talks about some of the challenges she faced along the way. bigbeelittlebee.com Amy Leinbach is the founder and owner of Big Bee, Little Bee—a manufacturer and retailer of innovative juvenile products. Through her brand, she has created two award-winning products for the family-friendly consumer products industry: the Snow Angel Cushioned Baby Bath Towel and the ScrubBEE Body Brush. In addition to running her business, Amy is a mom and a voice actor. She began her professional career in the field of education, first as a Special Educator and later as the Director of Product Management for Kaplan Virtual Education. She graduated from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor’s in Communication and a Master’s in Educational Administration. She lives in Huntington Beach, California w
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Pamela Samuels Young
03/07/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks to author, speaker and attorney, Pamela Samuels Young, about how she followed her dream after age 40 and became a top fiction writer. Pamela shares her story of some of the obstacles she faced in following her passion and provides insights on what allowed her to achieve sustainable success. pamelasamuelsyoung.com Attorney and award-winning author Pamela Samuels Young writes mysteries that matter. Her fast-paced legal thrillers tackle social issues such as sex trafficking, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment. Her most recent courtroom drama, Abuse of Discretion, examines a shocking teen sexting case. Anybody’s Daughter, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction, provides an eye-opening look into the world of child sex trafficking. Pamela also writes erotic romance under the pen name, Sassy Sinclair. A former journalist, she received a bachelor’s degree from USC and also earned graduate degrees from Northwestern University and UC Berkeley School of Law. The Compton
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Dr. Mark Goulston
26/06/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill talks to best-selling author & speaker, Dr. Mark Goulston, about his book “Just Listen.” Dr. Goulston offers tools for better listening and tips on being effective at interviewing. He also discusses how to live a life with no regrets and to help people feel “felt.” markgoulston.com Dr. Mark Goulston is a Board Certified Psychiatrist, consultant, coach, speaker, mentor and crisis interventionist. He is regarded as a thought leader in the area of communication, cooperation, collaboration and empathy with his book, "Just Listen" Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, becoming the top book on listening in the world and a topic he speaks on globally. That included a six hour, one day, sole presenter training to managers of the Russian Federation in Moscow last October and he is going back this October to do more. Past or present companies or institutions, he has worked with or spoken to include: Harvard Business School, IBM, Mattel, Coca Cola, Toyota, Hyatt, Acce
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Sally Helgesen
19/06/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks with author and speaker, Sally Helgesen, about her new book, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith: “HOW WOMEN RISE: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job.” Sally discusses three of the habits that can hold women back from being successful in business including: Overvaluing Expertise, The Disease to Please and Expecting Others to Spontaneously Notice and Reward Your Hard Work. sallyhelgesen.com Sally Helgesen's work is widely regarded as the gold standard when it comes to women's leadership. Since the publication of The Female Advantage in 1990 (still in print), she has written five more books in the field and speaks to audiences all around the world about these issues. Clients have included Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Prudential Financial, Pfizer, Textron, Hewlett Packard, The World Bank, and dozens more. She has led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College, and her work has been featured in Fortune, The Ne
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Lea Berman, Jeremy Bernard
12/06/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill speaks with past White House Social Secretaries, Lea Berman & Jeremy Bernard, about their new book: “Treating People Well.” Lea and Jeremy share the tips that had them be successful at the White House and beyond. They offer advice for landing an internship at the White House and the reasons why some people were not hired at the White House. treatingpeoplewellbook.com/about-1/ Lea Berman served as White House Social Secretary from 2004-2007, was Chief of Staff to Second Lady Lynne Cheney from 2002-2003 and previously, Social Secretary to the Vice President. She has worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and ran her own fundraising and event planning business. She is the creator of the blog America's Table, and lives in Washington, DC. Jeremy Bernard was the first male and first gay White House Social Secretary. He has been the senior advisor to the US Ambassador in France and also the White
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Charlotte Blank
05/06/2018 Duration: 55minJennifer Hill interviews Chief Behavioral Officer, Charlotte Blank, and speaks with her about tips to tackle work place biases. Charlotte discusses the science behind understanding our biases and offers procedures and systems so that employers can create a more diverse and unbiased workplace. peoplescience.maritz.com Charlotte Blank leads Maritz’s practice of behavioral science and innovation. She forges the connection between academic theory and applied business practice, by elevating the use of field research to better make sense of human behavior in the evolving marketplace. Charlotte has led programs in consumer psychology and global branding during her ten years in the media and automotive industries, including various marketing roles for General Motors. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Charlotte is obsessed with experiments, ever-curious about what “makes