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Zak Slayback is a career expert who works to help individuals and corporations get ahead at work. He was originally on the podcast back in episode #18 speaking about the value of substance over status. He is the author of the forthcoming How to Get Ahead (McGraw-Hill, 2019) and the owner and president of Ahead Labs, a boutique consulting firm h corporate clients become business development powerhouses.
He’s also the marketing & portfolio support partner at the San Francisco-based venture capital firm, 1517 Fund. Zak focuses on supporting portfolio companies with talent, hiring, marketing & PR.
He was one of LinkedIn’s most influential voices on education in 2015 and has been published in Newsweek, the New York Examiner, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Christian Science Monitor, the Foundation for Economic Education, among others, and has also appeared on The Glenn Beck Program, HuffPost Live, Michelle Malkin Investigates, and Stossel.
Zak’s books:
- How To Get Ahead: A 6-Step System to Unleash Your Personal Brand and Build a World-Class Network So Opportunities Come To You
- The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom
Resources and Places to Connect with Zak
Website: www.zakslayback.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zslayback
Twitter – @zslayback
Join Zak’s Email list for pre-order information on his upcoming book.
Top Takeaways
- Everyone needs a personal brand. Your online profile is your resume and as a necessary part of growing in your career, you need to give it some consideration.
- Build your email list. Relying on social media platforms is a dangerous one due to the instability and constant changes in the algorithms of those platforms. You own your email list and no algorithm change can affect it.
- Zak’s cabinet of models – mentors, teachers, and You work professionally with your mentors and you want to find people you would like to emulate in your unique space. Teachers or coaches or consultants transfer knowledge to you. You learn from them. They don’t just tell you what to do but they help you get to the place where you learn how to figure that out on your own. Advisors are people who give you advice based on their own personal experience. We all need these three types of people in our lives.
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