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Job search woes, hiring horrors, and everything fair and unfair in and around our worklifes.

Rejected Or Selected

Job search woes, hiring horrors, and everything fair and unfair in and around our worklifes.

Job SearchCareer AdviceHiring Stories
You speak to job seekers, hiring managers, and career switchers hungry for real talk
You plug into candid conversations on job search, hiring stories, and culture fit
You get thoughtful, story-first editing that makes your experience sound sharp and human
You book quickly with a simple, streamlined process built for busy professionals
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Job search woes, hiring horrors, and everything fair and unfair in and around our worklifes.

A podcast all about job search woes, hiring horrors, and all things fair and unfair in and around our work lives.

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Job Search & Hiring Audience Fit

You reach listeners obsessed with Job Search, Career Advice, and Hiring Stories who are primed to care about your perspective.

Story-Driven Worklife Interviews

You join narrative-style conversations shaped around episodes like "You're Not A Culture Fit" and "Fear, Failure, and Fraud" to spotlight your most vivid experiences.

Thoughtful Handling Of Sensitive Stories

You can safely explore layoffs, missing equity, and recruitment advertising without sensationalism, with space to explain context and nuance.

Cross-Episode Discoverability

You're positioned alongside themed episodes like "After Dark" and "Unplugged" so listeners can easily binge more of your ideas.

Episode Angles & Guest Pitches

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You're Not A Culture Fit: What Really Happened

You unpack the moment you were labeled a "bad fit" and reveal the hidden dynamics job seekers rarely see.

You set the scene: role, company, and expectations going in You walk through the exact "culture fit" feedback you received or delivered You decode the subtext: bias, risk-aversion, or misaligned values You share what you'd advise a listener facing the same line today
Hiring Horrors & The Shortlist

You reveal what it's like to be on-or off-the shortlist, and the messy decisions behind it.

You share a specific "shortlist" moment that still sticks with you You explain how candidates really get prioritized or dropped You highlight one unfair practice you've seen up close You offer one concrete way listeners can tilt odds in their favor
AI Layoff Boomerang & Modern Risk

You connect your own career twists to trends like AI-driven layoffs and boomerang moves.

You describe a layoff, near-miss, or sudden role change you experienced You relate it to themes in "The AI Layoff Boomerang and Big Carrot Energy" You explore how incentives and "big carrots" shaped decisions You give listeners a playbook for staying employable through volatility
Mind The Gap: Explaining Your Nonlinear Path

You turn your own employment gaps, pivots, or "phoenix rising" moments into scripts listeners can borrow.

You share a gap, pivot, or "starting over" story from your career You discuss the stories employers told themselves about that gap You model how you now explain it in interviews or networking You leave listeners with phrases they can adapt for their own narrative
How You'd Contribute to the Show
Audience Takeaways

Your episode helps listeners name what's broken in their work lives and walk away with clearer options, scripts, and mindsets for their next move.

Hot Topics
• You break down one defining hiring story and what it taught you about power, bias, or fairness.
• You translate your behind-the-scenes hiring experience into practical guidance for job seekers.
• You reframe a career setback-layoff, gap, or failed role-as a turning point others can learn from.
Why Trust Me
You're featured within a catalog of 19+ episodes focused on real-world work experiences.
You appear in a show that consistently tackles uncomfortable topics like AI layoffs and missing equity.
You're framed as a practitioner with lived experience, not just abstract theory.
The Ideal Guest

You're ideal if you've sat on either side of the hiring table-candidate, recruiter, manager, founder-and you're willing to share specific, unvarnished stories about work, fairness, and career turning points.

Recent Episodes

Too Big To Behave: Big 4 Consulting and AI Hallucinations

Rejected Or Selected • Aug 13, 2026

How To Hold Your Knife: AI and Human Behaviour

Rejected Or Selected • Jul 30, 2026

The AI Layoff Boomerang and Big Carrot Energy

Rejected Or Selected • Jul 16, 2026

After Dark Ep. 1: Work Besties, Missing Equity and a Live Show That Almost Didn't Happen

Rejected Or Selected • Jul 2, 2026

How Do You Eat An Elephant? The Dire State of Recruitment Advertising

Rejected Or Selected • Jun 18, 2026

All Show, No Strategy

Rejected Or Selected • Jun 4, 2026

Unplugged 2

Rejected Or Selected • May 21, 2026

Rare Exotic Animal

Rejected Or Selected • May 7, 2026

Fear, Failure, and Fraud

Rejected Or Selected • Apr 28, 2026

Unplugged

Rejected Or Selected • Apr 9, 2026

You're Not A Culture Fit

Rejected Or Selected • Mar 26, 2026

Mind The Gap

Rejected Or Selected • Mar 12, 2026

Please, May I Have Some More?

Rejected Or Selected • Feb 26, 2026

Just When I Thought I Was Out...

Rejected Or Selected • Feb 12, 2026

Like a Phoenix Rising

Rejected Or Selected • Sep 15, 2025

Episode 5

Rejected Or Selected • Jul 21, 2025

The Shortlist: Cherie Burgett

Rejected Or Selected • Jun 20, 2025

Episode 4

Rejected Or Selected • Jun 10, 2025

Episode 3

Rejected Or Selected • May 2, 2025

Episode 2

Rejected Or Selected • Apr 9, 2025

Episode 1

Rejected Or Selected • Mar 12, 2025

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