3 interviews: Excellent Career Advice edition
Hi guys! For the rest of the week, I’m going to run back a few of our favorite Q&As from the past. Enjoy!
For today: three Q&As that include some extremely helpful advice…
1. Newsy’s Christian Bryant, on how to look your best on camera:
Check yourself (teeth, mouth, collar, hair, etc.). The fucked up part about TV news is that if you look a little off, nobody is gonna care about what you're saying. Added incentive: you'll wanna keep record of this appearance, right?
Be in the moment. Try your best not to think about the lights or the cameras or the people or the excessive makeup. Focus on what you're doing so it's a conversation and not an interview.Don't curse! Lord, have mercy. Don't curse.
2. Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos, on how to achieve your dreams / become a staff writer for Rolling Stone, duh
Spend time really understanding what you love to write about. You should know why you’re drawn to the subjects you want to cover. The unifying aspect of the Rolling Stone staff is that everyone is incredibly nerdy about a very specific slate of cultural interests, and that makes working with my editors and reading pieces by my colleagues extremely fun.
3. The L.A. Times’ Matt Pearce on taking the first step to organize your workplace:
Just go to a bar or get in a room with some of your coworkers and talk about how things are going at work. When's the last time you got a raise? Do you feel like you're being asked to do more with less? Are there workers in your office who are just struggling to get by?
I think a lot of people think that unions form when organizers suddenly show up at and office and decide to unionize it. But the really crazy stuff actually happens when you just talk to your coworkers about what's going on with your lives.
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