Larry Olson’s Working Radio

Amos Yang is the Assistant Principle Cellist for the San Francisco Symphony. If you are scoring at home - he gets paid to play music for a living. We ask Amos about performing around the world….. his education at Juilliard and you won’t want to miss the “perfect pitch” test I spring on him.

 

Some people collect key chains….others collect baseball cards, maybe you collect Mexican coke bottles - as for me I collect: tricky questions. That’s right - tricky questions employers ask at interviews. I will share from my collection and a couple of tips on how to answer the question, “Tell me about yourself”!

 

Employment Lawyer Dennis Strazulo brings a friend to work. William Grayson is the president of Falcon Point Capital LLC. Find out how he went from charging 500 dollars an hour as a lawyer to collecting 5 million an hour as a Hedge Fund Manager.

 

You can swallow the blue bill and the story ends  or you can take the red pill and see how far the rabbit hole goes. Our future is being made right now - Author of the book The Three Laws Of Performance Steve Zaffron discusses how right now affects how you will lead in the future (thank you Neo)!

We are going to start this weeks show off with a bad idea. In fact, we are going to spin the Wheel Of Bad Ideas and see what we come up with. The bad ideas are some of the segments we have decided not to do over the last two years, because they’re BAD IDEAS. Possibilities include spending the day with a snake charmer, getting arrested by a secret service agent and calling a bounty hunter.

If you haven’t put your resume together, whether you have a job or not - shame on you! We’ll make it easy and give a couple of resume do’s and don’ts.

Employment lawyer Dennis Strazulo presents his world famous list of top small business mistakes. The key is to remember you are the boss and not your employees buddy (doesn’t mean you can’t have a beer with an employee - you just can’t count the beer you buy as their paycheck)!

It’s a crying shame we haven’t hung out at a barber shop in our two years of JOB existence. That gets rectified this week when we chill at the local “shop”.