MOC - Show Your Work for Job Excellence

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The lessons we’re seeing are patterns based on interviewing people who have been willing to be interviewed on a podcast. In almost all cases, we’re going to have become aware of them by reading their blog posts, watching their presentations, watching their videos, or some other “in public” activity. We just want to acknowledge that. Show Your Work

• Episode 1 Both hosts pointed to their community participation and blogging as proof of work and career accelerators.
• Episode 8 Raising your Impact Radius by investing in participation, blogging, and conference or community meetup speaking
• Episode 13 Tom Delicati’s sniper approach to job applications builds on proof of expertise via user community involvement - target companies you know use the product you’re an expert in.
• Episode 38 Jon Hildebrand mentioning how his manager saw his blogging as evidence of the potential to work on a bigger stage doing great things (our words, not his).
• Episode 119 David Klee discussed how his blogging and community involvement helped build a reputation
• Episode 131 Jonathan Frappier used blogging as a way to store knowledge and experience, then found that it brought some recognition and helped him make moves to bigger organizations.

• Episode 5 First mention of “You’ll be bad at first.”
• Episode 10 John’s Journeyman Mindset, “If I’m an expert at anything, it’s that I’m now comfortable not being an expert at a new thing.”
• Episode 18a Episode 18b Joseph Griffiths Discomfort is natural when engaging in professional development.
• Episode 80 Side mention of “Smart Kid Syndrome.” If you’ve been praised an have ego invested in appearing smart/good, you’ll avoid new things. Because you’ll probably be bad at first.
• Episode 106 Steven Murawski and the Beginner Mindset. Willingness to be a beginner and asking dumb questions as a career enabler. Beginner doesn’t mean inexperienced. Bringing the depth of your experience and related experiences. Episode 107 is all about Steven’s application of that mindset to major job transitions.
• Episode 117 Kate Emshoff mentiontions that the discomfort with not fitting in at an organization has a flip side: Standing out.
• Episode 136 Blake Johnson If I stayed comfortable, I would be who I was ten years ago.  And that's not acceptable.
• Episode 153 Scott Lowe discusses the balance between discomfort while you’re learning a new skill and the danger of waiting too long, when it’s become passe and not a differentiator in the marketplace.
• Episode 177 Stephanie Wong refers to the first pancake principle. It’s always ugly, but you have to do it to get better.
• Episode 182 Blake Johnson mentions that taking chances and discomfort is the way to get out of a rut (being in a place where you’re so comfortable that you’re bored).
• Episode 73 Episode 74 Al Rasheed’s fist-hand story of getting to come to VMworld 2017 for the first time via community interaction and his spreadsheet of people to meet. How VMUG involvement has led to multiple community advocacy program memberships. Leading to conference presentations. The opportunities to give and receive mentorship.
• Episode 80 Episode 81 Manny Sidhu mentioned how keeping involved in communities helps him find the right technology waves to invest in.
• Episode 86 Cody de Arkland mentions the parallel between projects at work and in the community as a portfolio of your work.
• Episode 88 Episode 89 Yadin Porter de Leon starts with the benefit of professional networking then discusses how blogging, podcasting, and other community involvement act as a scaled-up version of networking. Networking that can act passively while you sleep.

• Bonus Episode 5 Al Rasheed’s first VMworld came from community involvement.
• Bonus Episode 6 Observation that the people in the vCommunity and vBrownBag area were placing a much higher priority on professional networking, which is a career accelerator.
• Episode 32 Episode 33 Tony Reeves discussed community participation and conference attendance as a job accelerator. Getting picked for an Advocacy program helped especially.
• Episode 34 Episode 35 Jimmy Tassin’s involvement in the Minecraft community as a resume builder.
• Episode 39 Paul Woodward Jr. of the ExploreVM Podcast saw online community participation as a way to see more types of problems than the ones at your workplace.
• Episode 41 Presentations We discussed the career benefits in our episode on doing presentations.
• Episode 43 Ethan Banks discussed blogging as an accountability mechanism for his CCIE Certification Study. That led to podcasting, which led to a business.
• Episode 45 Side projects can help build skills for your career.
• Episode 46Keiran Shelden’s blogging got him invited to Tech Field Day and Storage Field day. It’s a way of positioning yourself as a thought leader. That’s a phrase that people equate with expert, but maybe we should take it literally, someone who shows leadership in their thinking, not expertise.
• Episode 60 Episode 61 Amy Hervey’s discussion about Personal Brand and self-marketing. Showing your work is part of marketing yourself and your brand.
• Episode 106 Episode 107 Steven Murawski discussed how his advancement was intertwined with his involvement in tech communities.
• Episode 123 Episode 124 Josh Duffney talked about Community being the incubator for his career. to writing courses at pluralsight. eventually Microsoft.
• Episode 138 Don Jones talks about his method of helping people succeed is building a community.