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Career advice with a little Southern sass and zero corporate fluff. The Career Bloom Podcast is where twelve years in HR meets real talk and a strong cup of coffee. Host Lauren Deats has sat on both sides of the hiring table, and she's here to tell you what actually happens after you hit submit. The good, the cringe, and the stuff nobody says out loud. Every week she's breaking down the job search, the interview room, the offer, and the messy middle of building a career you don't dread. One week it's how to quit tanking your own interviews. The next it's what hiring managers really think when they read your résumé. Whether you're job hunting, pivoting, climbing, or running the team that's doing the hiring, pull up a chair. There's something here for you. You'll get a Horror Story of the Week you'll feel in your bones, a Listener Mailbag where your questions get answered straight, and a Tip of the Week you can actually use before the weekend.</
Unknown Host hosts The Career Bloom Podcast, a business show with 27 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Every dollar you have ever earned was a number somebody else picked. Your starting offer came out of a range you never saw, and every raise since has been a percentage of it. This week Lauren gets into w
Send us Fan Mail Season 8 starts today, and I want to start it with a confession. I have spent almost twelve years deciding whether other people's resumes were worth ten more seconds. And there was a stretch of my own ca
Send us Fan Mail "Lauren. Is it going to get better?" I have dodged that question for about a year. I've given the diplomatic answer, I've given the data answer, and both of those were a coward's way out. So here is the
Send us Fan Mail Wage growth just slid to 3.5% over the past year, down from the 3.7% to 4.0% range it held from mid-2025 through February. Translation: the automatic raise you used to get just for switching jobs is gone
Send us Fan Mail Every interview question has a subtitle, the thing they actually want to know. This week, Lauren teaches the Read the Subtitles framework, decodes the seven questions you will hear in almost every interv
Send us Fan Mail A job description is not a description. It is a code. In the season opener of The Job Market, Decoded, Lauren pulls back the curtain on job postings and hands you the dictionary. You will learn a simple
Send us Fan Mail You survived the interview. You think the hard part is over. Bless your heart. The last stretch is where the careful people get sloppy. They list a reference they never warned. They forget their whole li
Send us Fan Mail You aced the interview. You walked to your car feeling good about yourself. And then the receipts came due. The reference who remembered you a little differently. The background check that read every lin
Send us Fan Mail You didn't lose the offer because you weren't qualified. You lost it the second "so, why are you leaving?" turned into a ten-minute therapy session about your old boss. This month, Lauren's teaching you
Send us Fan Mail You didn't lose the offer in the interview. You lost it at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday, when you fired the same tired résumé at your fortieth job posting and called it "applying." This month, Lauren's teaching y
Send us Fan Mail Mama said print it on the good cardstock. Walk it in. Look them in the eye. Sweetie. The hiring manager is not in the office. She is on a Zoom call in Phoenix and she has not touched a piece of paper in
Send us Fan Mail The 1960s are over, sweetie. The job market mama described retired before most of you were born. Welcome to Season 5 of The Career Bloom Podcast, where Lauren is dismantling every piece of career advice
Send us Fan Mail Six rounds of interviews for a $75K role? A take-home assignment that's suspiciously identical to their actual Q3 project? A "culture fit coffee" that somehow turns into round seven? If your job search h
Send us Fan Mail You are not stuck because you don't know what to do. You are stuck because you've been getting ready to get ready for about three months too long. Break Through Week is here, and this episode is your per
Send us Fan Mail Full Bloom Season continues with Episode 2: Break Through. We are done planning. We are done auditing. This is the episode where we actually do the thing. Lauren breaks down the online application proces
Send us Fan Mail Season 4 is here and we are not easing into it. Welcome to Full Bloom Season. Four episodes. Four themes. One goal: getting your career or your business to a place where you actually feel good about it.
Send us Fan Mail Your first 90 days at a new job is a performance, not a rehearsal. In this episode, Lauren breaks down exactly how to survive (and thrive in) your first three months on the job with a phase-by-phase game
Send us Fan Mail Tired of walking into interviews with nothing but good vibes and a prayer? Yeah, that's not a strategy. In this episode, Lauren breaks down exactly how to answer the dreaded "Tell me about yourself" ques
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the office, buttercups. Today, we’re closing the daycare and opening the boardroom. If you think "Entry-Level" means a four-year paid internship where we teach you how to use a calendar,
Send us Fan Mail Episode Description Honey, the "Participation Trophy" era is officially over. Welcome to the real world, where your 4.0 GPA doesn't mean a thing if your resume looks like a 1998 Word template and your In
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