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CareerZ Cast
Welcome to the CareerZ Cast, your go-to podcast for navigating the world of work. Whether you're just starting your career journey or looking to make a significant change, we've got you covered. Our podcast features stories, insight, interviews, conversations hosted by Marcio Saito, a educator/coach focusing on Leadership and early career choices. We'll explore the latest trends in education and employment, discuss the importance of soft skills and networking, and offer tips on how to stand out in today's competitive job market. So tune in and get ready to level up your career game with Careerz Cast!
Episodes
97 episodes
Radical Ownership: Build Your Career With Trusted Relationships and Trust
What actually builds trust at work? It’s not perfection, flawless execution, or polished corporate presentations. In this episode of CareerZCast, I share the true story of how a mistake brought down CNN’s website and synthesize my learnings in ...
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The $10B Machine Behind Every AI Prompt (Former Google Director)
Every time you ask an AI chatbot to rephrase an email or draft a line of code, you trigger a massive physical chain reaction.Tokens, Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), Large Language Models (LLMs), Data Centers in Space, Electrical Power...
AI Pivot: Engineering to Product Leader
Traditionally, engineers had three distinct trajectories to build a high-value, high-income career. But right now, two of those doors are closing fast, while the third—historically the most lucrative—is expanding into the single biggest care...
S1E5 Voices - Zhendi Su - STEM goes to Wall St.
In this episode, Zhendi Su, a Quant Portfolio Manager at Cubist discusses topics like parents influence on career choices, Liberal Arts and STEM, Transitioning to careers in the financial industry, Impact of AI in data science, Career Pivots.
S1E4: CareerZCast Voices - Steve Cummins - Follow Your Passion?
S1E4: CareerZ Cast Voices - Steve Cummins - Follow your Passion?In this episode, Steve Cummins and Marcio Saito discuss several career-related topics including: Interviewing, Mentorship, Range, Career Pivots. We also take the time to se...
S1E3 Voices - Kate Crane - Direction over Perfection
In this episode, Kate Crane, a former Operations Executive and currently a career coach, discusses topics like discovery of career paths, the value of a degree, skills vs. domain expertise, management consulting, job interview preparation...
2026 Job Hunt Playbook - Get The Interview And Get Hired
The 2026 job market is officially broken. You're submitting dozens of applications, spending hours on 'perfect' resumes, and getting nothing but automated rejections. 99.9% of those AI-optimized resumes and application...
S1E2 Voices - Thomas Chi - Developing a Career in Big Tech
S1E2 Voices - Thomas Chi - AI, Big Tech and Data ScienceIn this episode, Tomas Chi, a seasoned Data Scientist who worked for 20 years at Google, now a VC investor, discusses bui...
S1E1 Voices - David Kenneth - Developing a Career in Enterprise Sales
S1E1 Voices - David Kenneth - Developing a Career in Enterprise SalesIn this episode, David Kennet, a seasoned Sales executive with 25 years of experience in Enterprise Sales discusses topics like: Attributes of the modern ...
S1E0 - CareeZ Cast Voices - Voices that Matter in your Career
The career ladder is evolving—are you?In this special Pilot episode, host Steve Cummins and Marcio Saito pull back the curtain on our new series: CareerZ Cast Voices. We aren't just talking about jobs; we’re deconstructing the pla...
Chess Insights into an AI Future
This episode explores how AI transformed chess—and what that reveals about our relationship with the 'general' AI tools entering our workplace today.CareerZ Cast is one of the fastest growing Career Advice Channels on YouTube.The ...
S1E8 AI Skill Pivot - Future-Proofing Your Career Beyond Tools
In the AI Skill Pivot series, we build the concept of the “Strategic Rebel", a courageous, optimistic, collaborative, and productive mindset to be adopted by early career professionals compared to the alternative of disengagement...
AI Skill Pivot S1E7 - Nothing Left in the Office - Be the Strategic Rebel (Working Remote)
The "Great Return to Office" is more than a commute—it’s a clash of generations. On one side, Gen X CEOs are demanding "hardcore" work cultures and physical presence. On the other, a Gen Z workforce that realizes the "office" is a 20th-century ...
S1E6 AI Skill Pivot - Rebel vs Silicon Valley, Be the Solopreneur
In the startup model created in Silicon Valley, building a tech company requires a revolutionary idea, millions in venture capital and a robust team. But that is changing. AI is turning the "Solo Entrepreneur" into a "Solo-Conglomerate." In thi...
S1E5 - Call To Work Rebellion - Be a Strategic Rebel, not a Quiet Quitter
This video is for the "Strategic Rebel"— You feel strongly about your values. You want the world of work to change. But you also feel anxious and insecure with disengagement and its negative consequences to your financial and professional futur...
S1E4 - AI Skill Pivot - End of Corporate-Speak
In this series, we are preparing you to thrive in the era shaped by the adoption of AI in the workplace, by discussing core concepts and providing concrete, actionable advice. In this episode we discuss the “End of Corporate Speak”, the importa...
S1E3 - AI Skill Pivot - The Inspiration Economy
As AI takes over the "heavy lifting" of data and logic, the bottleneck of business has shifted. It’s no longer about who has the most information, but who has the best judgment. In this episode, we explore the rise of the Inspiration Economy an...
S1E2: AI Skill Pivot - Pave the Cow Path
In this video, we explore the "Pave the Cow Path" story to understand the value of both top-down and bottom-up thinking and how AI will make us better and more productive. The impact will require everyone to pivot, but the paths are different f...
S1E0-AI Skill Pivot- Promo
AI Skill Pivot, a bi-weekly CareerZ Cast Series will discuss how to embrace and rise with technology rather than being replaced by it. We will enable you to become a more valuable and productive professional.Series Episodes:- S1E0: ...
S1E1: AI Skill Pivot - Climb the Value Stack
The adoption of Technology does not steal jobs, it moves the value stack. In this video, we look at history and assess what are the skill pivots we need to execute to rise, not fall, with the adoption of AI LLMs. #career #care...
Become an Impactful Technology/Product Thought Leader
Being an exceptional product developer means more than just managing features and requirements; it means influencing direction and driving industry change. This video provides a three-part framework—The Technical Thesis, The Translation Layer, ...
Hype Cycle: Timing Defines Startup and Product Success
Technology adoption is never gradual, quick, or linear. It usually follows a hype cycle pattern which generates unrealistic expectations and misallocation of resources. This episode discusses the causes and how entrepreneurs and product manager...
3 Italian Secrets for Work-Life Balance: Presence, Quality, Effortlessness
Finding professional success and genuine happiness requires not just hard work, but the ability to focus intensely, maintain a high standard of quality, and build powerful, effortless relationships. In this video, we use three Italian concepts ...
3 Japanese Secrets to find Purpose: Direction, Growth, Identity
Finding purpose and achieving success and happiness involves developing an internal compass to guide our decisions, learning how to develop ourselves in the direction we want to go, and embracing the uniqueness of our path. In this video, we us...
Building Successful Products: Vision Jobs, Iteration like Zuckerberg.
Entrepreneurship requires the creation of innovative products and success is rare because building products people want to use and buy demands both top-down vision and bottom-up rigor.#CareerZCast #ProductManagement #Product #Innovation ...