{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Route to Success","title":"S02E04 How to Job Search When Your Title Doesn’t Match Your Skills| Scott Toren","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/74ff103c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2453,"description":"Summary\nScott Torrin, an operational excellence and continuous improvement professional, joins Route to Success to talk openly about the pain of feeling stuck between his current job title and the career he knows he's capable of. He and the host dig into how mismatched job titles create real barriers in the job search, how AI-driven hiring has flooded the process with applicants, and how family, faith in \"the one right match,\" and taking things one bridge at a time keep him moving forward.\n\nShow Notes\n00:00 - Intro: the show explores feeling stuck between what you've done and what you're capable of\n00:18 - Meet guest Scott Torrin and the problem of career growth tied to job titles, not skills\n00:58 - Scott thanks the host for the opportunity to have a difficult, vulnerable conversation\n01:11 - How the host and Scott met through an OU advisory board\n01:30 - Scott's career path across retail, pharma, and engineering/construction industries\n02:19 - The realization: identifying which workdays didn't feel like work\n02:24 - Example: chasing down a documentation issue outside his job scope\n03:39 - Host digs into how Scott arrived at the \"what days made me happiest\" question\n04:08 - Mundane work as the contrast that revealed his real passion for problem-solving\n05:43 - Host on the value of brutally honest self-reflection\n06:10 - How mismatched job titles have hurt Scott's confidence and job search\n07:11 - Why \"operational excellence\" means wildly different things across companies\n08:07 - Second-guessing years of experience when titles don't match job postings\n09:37 - Host shares her own hiring philosophy on degrees vs. real-world experience\n10:52 - Companies claiming to hire for skills but actually hiring for title-matched experience\n11:16 - The AI arms race in job applications and resumes\n11:50 - Job postings getting 300 to 12,000 applicants\n12:16 - ATS and AI screening tools replacing human resume review\n12:48 - Using ChatGPT carefully to refine his resume while...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/S-5Z5ofhheVkxgFI1OjKUs4327xfRBjTfDKHtXDGFv4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84YWUx/MDhkOWYyYWI0ZjM5/ZjUyYzY0MTUwZjM1/ZjhjNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}