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Kathryn Minshew

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  1. “And path, but they're looking for these things within their employer, and companies are starting to have to focus on their talent brand, recruitment, marketing, and other elements of really showcasing themselves and competing for talent in the open market. And I think that's opening a really interesting set of opportunities for the businesses that are doing it well.”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I think the date is when a company can expect to just stick an advertisement for a job on the internet and that the best and brightest talent in the world are going to walk right up and compete for that job, those days are over. And what I'm seeing in the market, and I think one of the principles that the Muse was built on is that the balance of power between candidates and companies is changing. Companies, and the Muse works with around 700 of many of the best, most recognizable brands in the world, they're competing for great talent. And they're not just competing with their traditional competitors, you know, a major technology company might be competing with a large global financial institution who might be competing with a CPG or consumer, you know, consumer goods company. And I think especially when you look at talent like engineers, top salespeople, many of them want to join a business where they feel like the values of the organization align with their own. They're looking for growth opportunities. We call it the three Ps, people purpose.”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Just a mouthful. It's the sort of health wing of the international nonprofit that does vaccine introduction, HIV-AIDS work, et cetera. So that was my day job, and the other women were all at McKinsey, including my co-founder of the Muse Alex. And we just started building this small community. And what was so interesting to me is”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “You know, call me crazy, but I have always been willing to take a jump if it was something that I was, you know, significantly passionate about. And for the idea behind the muse, it actually started smaller at first. So in fall of 2010, I started a, I guess you could call it an online blog, a community that was aimed at sort of, you know, driven ambitious women in their 20s and 30s. And I started it with a couple other women. And it was a side project for all of us. We had other roles. I actually left McKinsey in, goodness, June of 2010 and moved to Kigali, Rwanda to work with the Clinton Health Access Initiative on vaccine introduction, which is a whole other story. But I had come back from Rwanda, was still working for Chai, and all four of us started this project essentially on...”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Career satisfaction is feeling like you are in the place that you're meant to be or that you can wake up on most days, not every day, but most days on the balance you wake up and you're fairly excited to go into work. You know, I mean, I'm a realist. No job is going to be perfect. We're not talking about sort of this, you know, follow your bliss kind of pie in the sky thing, but at the same time, I think all of us see in our relationships and our friends and our family the difference between when someone is at some measure satisfied or content in their role at their company and their career and when someone is deeply dissatisfied. And I believe that the benefits both to the individual but also frankly at a macro level to the economy, to companies when you have people in the right spots are massive. And I think we're at a point where we can and should expect more from our careers and that sort of career satisfaction is.”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “So I thought, well, what would it look like to create a better one? And my co-founder and I, we had a whiteboard, a living room in Brooklyn. It was very, very stereotypical. But we started to imagine this much more visual, personalized, immersive career site that really took people by the hand and helped them navigate their careers. And for companies, helped them tell a story about what it was like to work there. Why would somebody want to come join their organization? And what sort of person would be most successful or most happy there? And that's really where the idea for the muse came from.”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Of the same. And I kept thinking, you know, when I look at other people in my peer set, people that are getting started in their career, people that in their early 30s changing jobs, many of them are making decisions about where they want to work based on things like the growth opportunities involved in the role, the culture and values of the organization. And none of that was evident on most of the job search sites that I was seeing and using.”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “So the very short version is I wanted it and it didn't exist. The slightly longer version is, so in 2008, 2009, I was living here in New York City working at McKinsey and Company as a consultant, and I knew that I didn't want to be a career consultant, but I wasn't sure what it was I did want to do. So, you know, like many people my age, I'm sort of on the older end of the millennial demographic, I went online and I looked at all the big job boards, the major sites that everyone here is familiar with, and I just kept thinking there is something really broken about this experience to give you an example on one of the biggest job aggregators I was typing in business strategy director, and it was showing me assistant store manager 7-11 Sea Caucus, New Jersey. And I remember thinking like, this can't be the best there is. And even, you know, I'm a big fan of LinkedIn, it was just showing me more consulting jobs. The same thing I'd been doing, but more.”

    2018-02-15 · Masters in Business · Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source