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Ashwinder Ahluwalia, Former Head of Product Management at Google: The Ins-and-Outs of Working in Product at a Big Tech Company May 16, 2023

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Ashwinder Ahluwalia, Former Head of Product Management at Google

Ash spent more than 10 years leading product management at Google Ads and Google Cloud before becoming the head of product management and acting general manager of an internal stealth artificial intelligence startup within Alphabet. We get the inside scoop into how Google approaches product management and how to tell the difference between a good product manager and an excellent, impactful product owner. Most importantly, he explains why the product function exists at a Big Tech company and how Google trains its product managers to have business sense.

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Rod Adams, U.S. and Mexico Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Leader at PwC: How to Find a Mentor May 10, 2023

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Rod Adams, U.S. and Mexico Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Leader at PwC

Rod is a bit of a unicorn. He's been at the international "Big Four" firm PwC for nearly 30 years and has grown his career from an associate to a principal with global impact. We explore the secret to his career arc, including the importance of having a mentor and the pathways for career development available at PwC. He also shares how professionals can stand out in a competitive job market and how mega assurance, advisory and tax service firms don't necessarily look only for people with type "A" personalities.

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Matt Fitzgerald, Chief Marketing Officer at Tend: What Makes for Good Marketing at a Startup or Challenger Brand? May 03, 2023

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Matt Fitzgerald, Chief Marketing Officer at Tend

Matt has dedicated his marketing career to focusing on the fundamentals—listening and solving real problems for real people. We explore his storied track record of creating and marketing challenger brands into recognizable household names from scratch. He explains why it's still an excellent time to get into marketing and why companies might be foolish if they cut their marketing team and budgets too quickly or too much. Finally, Matt shares how to have a stand-out professional brand.

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Christine Deputy, Chief People Officer at Pinterest: How to Think About Promotions and Your Total Compensation Apr 26, 2023

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Christine Deputy, Chief People Officer at Pinterest

Christine reveals how employers and company executives think about employee retention and turnover. We look into how executives and managers are evaluated at some of the top companies and how to think about promotions. Finally, we dig deep into the weeds to learn what professionals should know about their total compensation and how pay connects to career development.

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Shanee Ben-Zur, Chief Growth Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Crunchbase: How to Market Yourself in an Economic Downturn Apr 19, 2023

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Shanee Ben-Zur, Chief Growth Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Crunchbase

Shanee shares how everyone can use marketing best practices to land their next job, even if they're not a marketer. We dive into the weeds to learn how to stand out in a tough job market and in your current role. Finally, we explore why it doesn't make sense that some of the largest tech companies have decided to cut their marketing budgets and teams in a potential economic downturn.

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Garima Sahai, Former Director, Engineering, Google Local at Google: What Google Was Like in the Early Days Apr 12, 2023

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Garima Sahai, Former Director, Engineering, Google Local and Google Map Ads at Google

Garima was one of the earliest employees at Google. She reflects on how the company has changed from its startup days nearly 20 years ago to becoming the internet giant it is today. We tackle everything from being one of the first female engineers in Silicon Valley, how Google co-founder Larry Page approached problems, and what it was like to build from zero to 1 billion and beyond.

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Mark Sherman and Saad Siddiqui, Partners at Telstra Ventures: How International Venture Capital is Plotting the Future of Work Apr 05, 2023

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Mark Sherman, Managing Partner at Telstra Ventures

Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures

Mark and Saad take us through how venture capitalists decide what to invest in and how they find startup founders, including an inside look into some of the data science and models they use to predict success. (Hint: We all could use the advice, even if we aren't startup executives looking for an investment!)

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Andrew Seaman, Managing Editor at LinkedIn: Breaking Down What's Really Happening with the Job Market and Economy Mar 29, 2023

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Andrew Seaman, Managing Editor for Jobs and Career Development at LinkedIn

Andrew leads job search and career development content for LinkedIn News and is one of our go-to experts on the job market. We break down the latest trends as we see them, from the incredible competition for remote jobs, the return-to-office movement of many companies, and the decreasing pay and total compensation in some industries to the mass layoffs that are becoming more common. Andrew, Jack and Rick fact-check some of the news headlines and commonly cited statistics and explore what professionals can do now to future-proof their careers and advance in a tough economy.

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Dan Schiappa, Chief Product Officer at Arctic Wolf: A Tried-and-true Blueprint for Mastery and Earning Leadership Roles Mar 22, 2023

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Dan Schiappa, Chief Product Officer at Arctic Wolf

Dan shares his tried-and-true framework for pivoting your career, recalling his successful shifts that resulted in leadership roles in everything from engineering, CEO, business development, finance, and, most recently, product. We explore what being a category-creator in business and your professional life is like, including how he became a principal developer in only two years at Oracle and Bill Gates' technical assistant at Microsoft. Dan also explains how he built the technology for what could have been YouTube before that video startup became popular.

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Cosmin Nicolaescu, Chief Technology Officer at Brex: How to Become a CTO of a Multibillion-dollar Startup in Only 10 Years Mar 15, 2023

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Cosmin Nicolaescu, Chief Technology Officer at Brex

Cosmin has enjoyed a meteoric rise as a software engineer. In less than 10 years, he's led global engineering teams at two multibillion-dollar startups. We explore his career trajectory and how a Microsoft software engineer intern becomes the CTO of a more than $12-billion valuation financial-technology juggernaut. Finally, in an exclusive for the Blind community, Cosmin shares how someone can impress him in a job interview at Brex.

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