The Career Bloom Podcast

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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. New episodes every Thursday. Ready to stop guessing and get a real plan? Book a free thirty-minute consult at careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations. Résumés, career, or interviews. You bring the mess, we'll sort it out together. Bless your heart, you're going to be just fine.

  1. Aug 13

    How To Know What You Should Be Paid (The Number You Have Never Said Out Loud)

    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 why your first offer is still setting your pay five years later, the three numbers you need written down before anybody asks you anything, and where to find real salary data for free using pay transparency states. Plus the two words that cost one candidate twelve thousand dollars. Support the show @lonestarflower

    How To Know What You Should Be Paid (The Number You Have Never Said Out Loud)

  2. Aug 6

    You Cannot Write a Resume About a Stranger

    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 career where, if you had asked me what I actually did all day, I would have read you my job description. Out loud. Like that was an answer. It was not an answer. It was a costume. This season is about the stuff nobody covers, because everybody is busy teaching execution. How to format. How to answer. How to negotiate. All of that is fine. All of that assumes you already know your own facts. You do not. Almost nobody does. That is not an insult, it is a hiring manager telling you what she sees. Episode one is the pre-work before the resume. In this episode: - The reason a resume rewrite does not fix a resume problem - THE INTAKE: the four things you gather before you open the document, and why writing without them is why it took you nine drafts - THE DUTY / DEED SPLIT: how to tell what you were assigned from what you actually did, and which one gets you hired - The candidate with a fifteen year career whose resume was a job posting I wrote in 2021 - Whether eleven years at one company really means you "have nothing to put on there" (it does not, and I will prove it) - The Receipts Doc, and the twenty minutes a month that make every future job search shorter The whole month in one sentence: you cannot write a resume about a stranger, and right now, you are the stranger. Free consult, no pitch, no pressure: https://www.careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations Monthly coaching plans: https://www.careerbloomsolutions.com/monthlyplan Come hang out: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lonestarflower Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lonestarflower_careerbestie/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lonestarflower/reels Your business, your career, in full bloom. Support the show @lonestarflower

    You Cannot Write a Resume About a Stranger

  3. Jul 23

    The Job Market, Decoded. Part 4: Come Here, Sit Down

    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 honest one. No, I don't think "better" is coming, not the way you're picturing it. And no, I don't think you need it to. This one is less of a lesson and more of a conversation. I'm not teaching anything for the first ten minutes. I'm just going to talk to you, and some of it you are not going to like. What we get into: The 410 applicants nobody could hire, and the sentence from that hiring manager I still cannot shake Why almost every piece of job search advice you have been given assumes the exact opposite of what is actually happening The thing some of you are doing that you're calling persistence, and what it actually is Why unemployment went DOWN this year and why that is not good news Whether five months of no is evidence that it's you (it is not, and I explain exactly why) The single move that removes the most reasons to say no, and it costs you one sentence Everything from four episodes comes down to one idea: They are not looking for a reason to say yes. They are drowning, and they are looking for a reason to say no. Take away their reasons. That is the whole season. FREE: The Offer Closer Kit. All of Season 7 in one place, plus the closing sequence for the last mile nobody writes for you. 14 pages, fillable. https://linktr.ee/LoneStarFlower AND: the new site goes live August 1. New everything, including a quiz that routes you where you need to go instead of making you guess, and Bloom VIP at $5.99 a month. See you next week for a bonus episode... see you then!  Work with me: https://www.careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations Come hang out: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lonestarflower Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lonestarflower_careerbestie/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lonestarflower/reels Your business, your career, in full bloom. Support the show @lonestarflower

    The Job Market, Decoded. Part 4: Come Here, Sit Down

  4. Jul 16

    The Job Market Decoded Part 3: The Number Is Not The Offer

    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. You have to ask for it now. On purpose. Out loud. So today we're decoding the offer stage. I spent nearly twelve years on the hiring side before I ever coached anybody, and I'm telling you what I know from that chair: the first number is not their best offer. It's a question. And the question is "how much do you know?" In this episode: - Why one client lost $12,000 to four seconds of silence, and why the guy who started the same Monday got it instead - THE FULL BOUQUET: the five stems of every offer (Cash, Calendar, Ceiling, Coverage, Culture) and why staring at the salary means you're negotiating the one lever that's hardest to move - THE GRATEFUL PAUSE: the four beats to run in the thirty seconds after they say the number (Gratitude, Silence, Paper, Time) -  How to fix it if you already lowballed yourself in the phone screen - Whether it's worth negotiating "only" a few thousand dollars (spoiler: that few thousand is a car) - The word-for-word counter script, and what to say when the answer is no Plus: the thing nobody tells you, which is that in twelve years on the hiring side I have never once seen an offer rescinded because somebody politely asked for more money.  Not once. That fear is not real. It's just loud.  FREE DOWNLOAD: Salary Scripts. Every one of these conversations written out word for word, including what to say when they ask your expectations first and what to say when they say no.  https://www.careerbloomsolutions.com  Next week: the Season 7 finale. We put the whole system together and I tell you the truth about what this market is doing for the rest of the year.  Work with me: https://www.careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations  Come hang out:  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lonestarflower  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lonestarflower_careerbestie/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lonestarflower/reels  Your business, your career, in full bloom. Support the show @lonestarflower

    The Job Market Decoded Part 3: The Number Is Not The Offer

  5. Jul 9

    The Job Market, Decoded. Part 2: The Interview.

    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 interview, and flips the table so you can read the interviewer right back. Plus a Horror Story of the Week for the ages, and a mailbag answer for anyone whose brain goes blank in the room. Start with a free consult: careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations (Career · Interview Skills · Resume) Send your horror stories and mailbag questions through the website. Free download: The Interview Translation Guide, all seven questions plus a printable prep checklist, at careerbloomsolutions.com. Next week, Part 3: The Offer. Support the show @lonestarflower

    The Job Market, Decoded. Part 2: The Interview.

  6. Jul 2

    Decoded, Part 1: The Job Description (What "Wears Many Hats" Really Means)

    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 three-move framework called Read the Room on Paper, hear what phrases like "wears many hats," "self-starter," and "competitive salary" are usually hiding, and find out why what a posting leaves out tells you as much as what it says. Plus a Horror Story of the Week you have to hear to believe, a Listener Mailbag on "entry level" jobs that ask for five years of experience, and a Tip of the Week that turns any posting into your own interview prep. Grab this week's free download, The JD Decoder, a translation guide and worksheet for reading any posting before you apply. Free consults and downloads at careerbloomsolutions.com. Support the show @lonestarflower

    Decoded, Part 1: The Job Description (What "Wears Many Hats" Really Means)

  7. Jun 25

    10 Ways to Lose a Job Offer, Part 4 (The Close)

    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 life is one Google search away. They go quiet to look cool and accidentally look gone. And the offer that had their name on it goes to someone who simply stayed warm and stayed visible. This week Lauren closes out the series with Ways Eight, Nine, and Ten, the offer-killers that get you in the final stretch, after the room, right when you think you are safe. Listen, then go do the exact opposite. New here? This is the last Thursday of a four-part June series on how to lose a job offer in ten ways, taught by someone who spent twelve years on the hiring side watching people do all ten. Grab this week's free download, the Offer Closer Kit, and book your free thirty-minute consult at careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations. Support the show @lonestarflower

    10 Ways to Lose a Job Offer, Part 4 (The Close)

  8. Jun 18

    10 Ways to Lose a Job Offer, Part 3 (The Receipts Come Due)

    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 line. The salary conversation you fumbled in eleven seconds flat. This is the part of the hiring process nobody warns you about, the stretch after you think the hard part is over, when everything you said quietly gets checked against everything that's true. This week Lauren covers Ways Five, Six, and Seven, the offer-killers that catch up with you after the interview is done. Listen, then go do the exact opposite. New here?  This is a four-part June series on how to lose a job offer in ten ways, taught by someone who spent twelve years on the hiring side watching people do all ten. Grab this week's free download, the Salary Scripts, and book your free thirty-minute consult at careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations. Support the show @lonestarflower

    10 Ways to Lose a Job Offer, Part 3 (The Receipts Come Due)
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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. New episodes every Thursday. Ready to stop guessing and get a real plan? Book a free thirty-minute consult at careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations. Résumés, career, or interviews. You bring the mess, we'll sort it out together. Bless your heart, you're going to be just fine.

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  • Creator
    Career Bloom Solutions LLC.
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Career Bloom Podcast
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