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Aug 2024
1h 27m

Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering...

JONATHAN CUTRELL
About this episode
I'm joined today by Brian Pulliam. I've personally engaged Brian as a career coach. In this discussion we'll talk a bit about coaching, and about how you can set yourself up to become a much better candidate in your job search as an engineering leader. 
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