John Marty

In this video, I’ll share my perspective as an Amazon employee on how I answer the question “Tell me about yourself.” My approach is non-traditional, but can be very effective at kickstarting a quality 2-way dialog. Often times the job description is written by the recruiter and not the person that will become your boss. This creates a disconnect between what your eventual boss is looking for and what you actually applied for.

In this video I’ll share 8 things I noticed and then changed during a real life resume writing exercise. These tips can be used by anyone looking to stand out. The inspiration from this video came from a quora post I did that received 45,000 views. In my post, I shared my opinion that resumes should always be one page.

There’s a lot of chatter about building a personal brand, but most people are thinking about it the wrong way. In this video, I’ll break down how to think about personal branding the right way in 2018.

Starting your day grounded in a sense of gratitude has been proven to lower stress, increase healthy eating, and even reduce the effects of aging to the brain. Gratitude gives you a sense that what you have and who you are is enough. Gratitude is a force that acts against our constant drive for more in our personal lives, it acts against anxiety about the future, and depression.

In this video, I’ll provide 3 tips you can use to be more confident in your next interview. Interviews can be nerve wracking, but being prepared and having the right mindset go a long way to increasing your confidence. Calm your nerves with a couple practical tips and don’t forget to smile! Wishing you the best of luck!

In this video, I’ll provide 3 tips you can use to be more confident in your next interview. Interviews can be nerve wracking, but being prepared and having the right mindset go a long way to increasing your confidence. Calm your nerves with a couple practical tips and don’t forget to smile. Wishing you the best of luck!

In this video, I’ll illustrate that believing is seeing; that what we believe and what we value creates a highly subjective visual fabrication of our reality. You have the power to shape your reality.believing is seeing

I’ll use a simple example of my recent car buying process to highlight two main points around the concept of “believing is seeing”

The first is that our brains create stereotypes for everything around us based on our beliefs, our values, and our pre-wired survival mechanisms. These stereotypes have enormous power over our lives and they can be largely subconscious.

The second is that as soon as we associate a value to something it we tend to see it everywhere, but before we associate a value to something it’s almost impossible to see.

Lastly, I’ll present an experiment to illustrate that our eyes have an enormous blind spot, but we don’t notice it because our brains fill in the missing information with your surroundings.

I hope that after watching this video you’ll understand that you have the power to shape your reality – “Believing is seeing”

what reality are you creating for yourself?

seeing is not believing…..BELIEVING IS SEEING.

Books/Article references and recommendations

We’re told all the time to follow our passion, but should we really? Mike Rowe from the hit TV show Dirty Jobs says that following your passion is a bad idea. In this video I’ll reveal research from Harvard that back’s up Mike Rowe’s claims, and I’ll discuss the two origins of passion as well as provide a slightly different way of looking at following passion.

I was recently hired by Amazon as a Sr. Product Manager, but that likely wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t have College under my belt. I’d like to share my perspective on going to college and why, for me, I think it’s still worth it in 2017 to go to College, despite the cost and investment in time.

I was able to leverage my business school degree after a failed entrepreneurial venture and land a six figure job, that I used to pivot into an amazing role at Amazon. Ultimately, I like to view College as an insurance policy that you can pull from your back pocket in the event you need to course correct your life.

In other news –

For those of you who are subscribers, It’s been a while since my last post due to my recent move to Amazon in Seattle. As you can see, I’ve taken a different direction with the style of my videos, and I plan to post more regularly, now that things have settled down.

Don’t let your career stagnate. In this video I’ll share some tips on when to start making a move, and what to do if you are getting passed up for promotion.

We always have the best intentions to workout consistently and reach our fitness goals, but after a while we sabotage ourselves and give up. Why do we give up when we know that reaching our fitness goals is so important?

In this video I’d like to take you on a journey to understand what willpower is, how to get more of it by understanding how Starbucks trains their employees to increase their willpower, and I’ll close with 5 tips on how to motivate yourself to go to the gym consistently and reach your fitness goals.

In this video I’ll provide you 6 tips to make an unforgettable first impression that can be used for any encounter from a job interview to a date to a meeting with a potential client. All of which are backed by research. At the end of the video I’ll also reveal one thing you should never do when trying to make a great first impression.

According to a Princeton University study in 2006 it only takes 1/10th of a second to make a snap judgement of someone’s trustworthiness and attractiveness based on facial appearance alone. It’s crazy to think how quickly people make first impressions of us!

What I found most fascinating about doing research on the topic of making a great first impression was that it’s actually hard for people to make snap judgements on Competence. Humans only tend to care about trustworthiness at first to quickly determine friend or foe. This is likely a built in survival mechanism.

I think one of the key takeaways of this video if your trying to make a first impression for a job interview is to not worry so much about showing off your skills. What really matters is creating an emotional connection thought small talk where both parties have common ground.

Interestingly, when I went to software development school our teachers kept telling us that the people who got great jobs weren’t the ones that had the most skill….they were the ones that you could envision sharing a beer with. Looks like the research confirms this! Skills can be taught, but the emotional connection is the primary concern.