Chan With A Plan The Podcast is a Podcast providing career advice in easy actionable steps, for frustrated professionals, helping you overcome career challenges so you can stop feeling confused and defeated and start feeling focused and confident in order to excel in your career.
How to negotiate your salary like a pro to get maximum compensation
In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Mark discusses the importance of always negotiating your job offer, as well as tips and strategies to negotiate for maximum compensation.
How to land a job at Amazon and the complete walkthrough of their interview process
In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with GG (Gayle Gallagher), former Senior Marketing Manager at Amazon, now Founder of the Amaz0n Interview Whizz Academy, an E-Learning Amazon interviewing training platform to help you prepare for the Amazon interview process. GG discusses the complete Amazon application process from beginning to end and provides great tips along the way.
ATS / Applicant Tracking System explained and what you need to know about it to land your next job
In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Jon Heise, President of Covert Recruiting. From popular assumptions to key features, they go in depth about the applicant tracking system (ATS) and how significant of a role it plays in the job application process and how it affects job seekers when applying online.
College degrees and how to maximize them to land your dream job
In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Chris Cornthwaite, who’s the founder of Roostervane to help students build amazing careers with whatever degree they’ve got. Chris talks about discussing assumptions made about how hard it is to land corporate jobs with liberal arts degrees and how to navigate this, the importance of soft skills in the workforce and how networking is the key strategy to even the playing field when it comes to job hunting with any degree.
Job search strategies for recent college graduates to help you land your next job
In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Casey Welch, Co-founder and CEO of Tallo and provides job search and career tips catered to Generation Z that have recently graduated from university/college in one of the worst economic climates in recent memory. He discusses building a robust online professional presence, how starting at the bottom of a Fortune 500 company can give you immense opportunity to move up quickly and what to look for in your next job to ensure you are stepping through the right door to achieve career fulfillment.
Breaking into tech: How to apply to big tech companies to land your 1st job in the industry
In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with A.J. Mizes, founder and CEO of The Human Reach. A.J. previously worked as a Senior HR Leader for Facebook and has over a decade of experience in career coaching and human resources. He shares what employers look for in applicants and tips that can help job seekers stick out for top tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook.