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Technology, jobs and the limits of professional identity with Jared Chung
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Jared Chung is a name you should know. Jared is the Founder of CareerVillage.org a technology nonprofit that crowdsources career advice for youth at a massive scale. They engage an online volunteer corps of tens of thousands of working professionals in building a huge online repository of answers to every career question you can imagine. Like Donors Choose, and Khan Academy, Career Village is an impressive non-profit that serves a need by leveraging technology and unique insights into what it takes to engage and animate users on both sides of the conversation. Amazingly, Career Village has a 99% answer rate and serves over 5 million users. Jared is smart, genuine and generous at a time when those qualities couldn’t be more needed.
In our conversation, we covered lots of ground, but what struck me most was his take on how we invest too much value in the identity created by our jobs. Ponder that for a minute. This is a person who has devoted his life to helping others build their careers, yet he hopes we place less importance on the identities we gain from our careers. I love it when the podcast opens up conversation that is amazingly important, open and honest, and this was a perfect example of that.
A must-listen! And if you like what you hear, please give the show a 5-star rating.
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