Work From The Inside Out 36: Get Really Good at Telling Your Story with Merryn Roberts-Huntley
Merryn Roberts-Huntley started Made To Hire in 2017. With 17 years of business experience and 10 years of career coaching, she knows how to help you land your dream career. When Roberts-Huntley isn’t running Made To Hire, she’s doing marketing strategy or business development consulting through her firm, FIXX Consulting. FIXX works with sports-focused companies to better connect them with their target consumer. She teaches marketing at the graduate level at the University of Oregon. She has a BA in sociology from McGill University and an MBA from the University of Oregon.
Merryn started her career in the sports marketing industry. She tells her story of how she cold-called her way into the field after getting a degree in sociology. Today, she runs the career coaching firm Made To Hire. She says the average American spends $80,000 on their education yet receives little or no real-world training on how to maximize that investment to land a job in their field. Made To Hire has a book and an online course to help you get noticed, get hired, make more money, and reach your career goals faster.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Merryn got started in the Sports marketing arena.
- Her decision to leave her role at Adidas to earn her MBA in Sports Business with a specific objective to work at Nike, known for being the top company in the market at the time.
- Merryn’s grad school experience, applying for an internship at Nike, initially getting rejected, and ultimately making the decision to keep going.
- How Merryn learned that a Nike executive would be at her school for a women’s advocacy forum and then offered to ‘host’ the executive for the day, giving her the opportunity to connect.
- The amazing benefit she received for hosting, earning her an internship, and then being hired at Nike full-time after she graduated.
- How Merryn used her experiences to write her book and how she connects with others through relationship-building.
- Her specific advice on how to get a job you really want.
Links:
- Merryn Roberts-Huntley on LinkedIn and Twitter
- www.madetohire.com
Books mentioned in this episode:
- “Made to Hire: How to Get the Job You Really Want” by Merryn Roberts-Huntley
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