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Season 3, Ep 4 - The Well-Rounded Trap: Why a Brilliant Career Can Read Like a Boring CV
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A friend asked me to review his CV. Twenty-five years in banking, senior roles, a career people point at. I read it from top to bottom and could not remember a single thing about him.
He had not written a bad CV. He had written a well-rounded one. In this episode, Jordan and I take apart the well-rounded trap: why smoothing out every gap makes very good people forgettable, what a hiring panel actually remembers after the interviews (including the candidate who hunted for treasure in shipwrecks), and why the trap costs more if your brain is spiky. Jordan pushes back on real…
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