Ep. 110 - Adam Gets Interviewed at NCSU: All About Origins, Career Advice and Credibility

This is a special interview where I get on skype and talk to not only Dr. Harris, but his whole class! In terms of content, this is a standard information about me, how my food job rocks, the life of a food scientist in my eyes, and what I’ve learned podcasting.

If you’ve been a long time listener of the show, you’ll realize that I say the same things in previous episodes, or articles but unless you’re super obsessed with me, you’ll learn some things about me that is a great summary of the content I’ve produced in the past 110 episodes. You can even say I’ve updated my philosophy quite a bit.

So key takeaways in this episode is that I distill the tactics for getting say, a job. Or switching jobs. Not only that, but the power of asking questions and the power of building your credibility.

You’ll hear no laugh track on this one. Its either because I’m not funny or I couldn’t hear the crowd.

I’ll be doing double episodes in the next 3 weeks and this is a special segment. I had the opportunity to help Darin Detwiler with his class, Global Economics and he allowed me to interview 6 of his amazing guest lecturers and use it as supplemental information.

These types of technologies include Geospatial Technology, Food Fraud, and Analytics. All super interesting technology. Some of the lecturers are not focused on food actually, but they’re good none-the-less. So yea, expect 2 episodes a week, Monday and Wednesday.

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I’ve updated why My Food Job Rocks: to overall, I have the ability to impact millions of people with food. Foodgrads.com Gabriel Harris' My Food Job Rocks: I get to work with cool students about the food scientist How did you find out about Food Science?: Serendipitously googled it How do you process Granola Bars?: A lot of stuff is mixed together in large machines. The big focus on how manufacturing helps with product development Manufacturing job: Bootcamp for Food Scientists How did you change from Granola Bar to Isagenix?: Networking and job hopping You can interview for another job. A lot of people actually don’t know this. Companies will encourage you to leave, and get experience somewhere else and come back. Your network is your net worth. You also need to have strong and weak relationships What is the day in the life of a food scientist?: It’s based on projects rather than the daily life. You have to work with a lot of people to get this done. Episode 80 Adam gets interviewed for the Phoenix New Times How did you start a podcast Why I built a website: A website is 100% mine I interviewed my friends first: Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4 Paul Shapiro – Clean Meat There will always be problems in the world. You should be the one who solve them What have you learned from 100 podcasts: How to ask better questions and when to ask better questions Student Questions How do ideas come up when you make new products? Sometimes through market research, sometimes through top leadership. It really depends on the company. However, you DO have the ability to give input if you gain enough credibility in the company. Is your podcast on Spotify?: Yes! Click Here 

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