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Rejected Or Selected

Simon Carabetta
Culture Fit
AI Layoff Boomerang
Recruitment
Cyber Security
Recruitment Marketing
Pay Rise Negotiation
Australia
ADHD
Disability
Cybersecurity
Sales
Salary Data
Performance Reviews
Hiring Process
Values Alignment
Shil Shanghavi
Oracle
Clickup
Baker-Mackenzie
AI Adoption

A podcast all about job search woes, hiring horror stories, and all things fair and unfair in and around our work lives.

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Amy Chokchai is a Cyber Security lecturer at South Metropolitan TAFE in Western Australia. She is also a published author and is currently undertaking her doctoral candidacy into the study of AI's impact on human behaviour at an organisational level.... more

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It is July 2026, and the tech sector has officially reached peak panic. Over 200,000 workers have been laid off this year as Big Tech pivots entirely to AI. But here is the hilariously toxic twist: companies are realizing their new AI agents are hall... more

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Welcome to After Dark. The late-night, alcoholic version of Rejected or Selected. An honest conversation about the absurdity of modern work life.

In our first ever live episode, Simon and Deany cover the emotional gut-punch of losing your work besti... more

Branding and strategy nerds come forth, because we have a special treat for you in our 10th episode for 2026. Recruitment Marketing and Communications Business Partner, Mark Pearce from MPI, joins us to talk about his own career journey and why he in... more

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Recent Guests

Amy Chokchai
Cybersecurity lecturer and doctoral candidate researching AI and human behavior
South Metropolitan TAFE, Western Australia; PhD candidate at Murdoch University
Episode: How To Hold Your Knife: AI and Human Behaviour
Mark Pearce
Recruitment marketing expert, MPI
MPI (Marketing & People Insights)
Episode: How Do You Eat An Elephant? The Dire State of Recruitment Advertising
Daisy Wong
Security Awareness Champion, Australian Women in Security Award winner, Security Culture and Awareness Professional
Medibank (Head of Security Awareness) and AWSN judge
Episode: Rare Exotic Animal
Shil Shanghavi
TEDx speaker, public speaker
Episode: Fear, Failure, and Fraud
Natalie Ludwig
Sales Executive at Plant With Willow (ex-recruiter)
Plant With Willow
Episode: Episode 5

Hosts

Deany Jagdorff
Co-host with focus on salary guides, market realities, and recruitment ethics; frequent collaborator across episodes.
Simon Carabetta
Co-host and analyst of salary data, recruitment practices, and workplace culture topics; participates in data-driven discussions.

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#160
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Apple Podcasts
#203
India/Business/Careers

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How To Hold Your Knife: AI and Human Behaviour
Q: What is your main focus for your doctorate?
Amy explains her focus on how people use AI and how to protect individuals and organizations from AI-related risks, aiming to develop a framework that balances usability with security.
Rare Exotic Animal
Q: What practical advice does she offer to someone with a disability seeking their first cyber/tech role?
Be upfront about disability and needs, ask for accommodations, build a personal brand that reflects your strengths, and remember that many roles value communication and business risk understanding as much as technical skills.
Rare Exotic Animal
Q: How has the experience of redundancies shaped her view on rejection and persistence in the tech industry?
She shares how two redundancies before age 30 affected her confidence, but mentors helped reframing redundancies as opportunities and taught her to advocate for herself and pursue roles that fit her strengths beyond traditional technical paths.
Rare Exotic Animal
Q: What was Daisy's early path into cybersecurity and how did she land her first role despite not studying IT initially?
Daisy describes how she started in project coordination and scheduling, eventually moving into a role in the penetration testing team after applying for a 'project scheduler' position, which opened the door to cybersecurity even though she didn't initially know what a penetration test was.
How Do You Eat An Elephant? The Dire State of Recruitment Advertising
Q: What is the current state of recruitment marketing in Australia, and where do you see room for improvement?
Across the industry, there's a broad underinvestment in strategic marketing for recruitment. A minority of practitioners really understand and apply audience-driven content and multi-channel tactics, while the majority still relies on one-off job ads or salary pitches. Improvement comes from treating recruitment as branding and product marketing, and from training recruiters to think strategically about audience, messaging, and channels.

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This show centers on real-world work life, hiring chaos, and the economics of talent acquisition, with a strong emphasis on recruitment marketing, culture, and the broader realities of job searching in Australia and beyond. Across episodes, listeners hear practical, often candid discussions about building authentic employer brands, aligning culture with strategy, negotiating pay and career moves, and navigating bias, accessibility, and inclusion in hiring. The tone blends personal storytelling with concrete tactics—ranging from long-term brand-building and data-informed salary conversations to addressing ghosting, bias, and the ethics of recruitment advertising—alongside humorous, relatable anecdotes about everyday work life. A standout thr... more

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