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Ryan Conceicao: The One Skill AI Can't Replace | Business & Career | EP. 162
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AI can write your resume, optimize your LinkedIn profile, and draft your outreach messages, but it can't teach you how to walk into a room and be someone people actually want to work with. Ryan Conceicao is back to break down why soft skills have quietly become the most valuable, and most neglected, skill in the job market right now.
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Timestamps
00:00 Recap: how AI is squeezing entry-level jobs
01:23 Be a genuinely good human
02:06 AI resumes are garbage in, garbage out
03:36 The real first test in any interview
06:42 Why generic AI LinkedIn messages get ignored
11:06 Do your recon before you reach out
11:23 The 80/20 rule of conversation
14:40 The scorecard: how first impressions cost you points
16:13 Advice to his younger self
24:47 Go back and listen to EP152 for the LinkedIn strategy
26:22 Subject yourself to failure
37:53 Measuring success by the decade, not the week
39:18 Ten years to build the skillset, then a student lands $163K in two months
40:25 Ryan's own story: $53K to $185K
45:48 Why stacking real skills beats faking it with AI
47:28 The one tactical thing before you reach out
54:15 Don't be the NPC, be the value add
54:53 Sales is human psychology
56:08 Where to find the course and free training
58:24 Sign off
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