{"podcast":{"title":"Tech World Human Skills","slug":"tech-world-human-skills-6393428","podcast_index_feed_id":6393428,"rss_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147510605/feed","website_url":"https://www.elevatedyou.live/podcasts/tech-world-human-skills","image_url":"https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/site/2147620019/podcasts/2fe3c57-f57-73ec-14c-fc6fad4dea_Podcast_Thunbnail_3000_x_3000_px_.png","author":"Ben Pearce","episode_count":82,"summary":"Ben Pearce interviews thought leaders in the tech world to learn from their success. In each episode we focus on a topic our guest has learnt about, failed at, course corrected and ultimately succeeded with. We can stand on the shoulders of giants and benefit from their insight. The Tech World Human Skills podcast is a masterclass on building the leadership, professional and human skills that are essential to thrive in the tech world. If you're in Pre-Sales, Consulting, Engineering, Customer Success, Architecture, Tech Leadership or any other tech discipline come and join the party. New episodes every 2 weeks. Listen to The Tech World Humans Skills podcast wherever you listen to your podcast or watch on YouTube. Check out www.techworldhumanskills.com for more details.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T14:17:41.549232+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-world-human-skills-6393428"},"episode":{"title":"How To Earn More And Move Up In Technology | Jeremy Burns","slug":"how-to-earn-more-and-move-up-in-technology-jeremy-burns","published_at":"2026-05-27T04:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-world-human-skills-6393428/how-to-earn-more-and-move-up-in-technology-jeremy-burns","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-world-human-skills-6393428","url":"https://www.elevatedyou.live/podcasts/tech-world-human-skills/episodes/2149207556","audio_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/medias/2149207556.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at why career growth in technology rarely happens by accident, and what people working in tech can actually do to take control of their own progression.   Ben sits down with Jeremy Burns, VP of Platform Engineering at Hawke and author of Earn More Move Up, to dig into the mechanics that decide who gets promoted, who gets paid more, and who quietly stalls. The conversation centres on a simple hierarchy that Jeremy uses for almost every career decision: customer, company, team, self. Reverse that order and your career suffers. Get it the right way round and the rewards follow naturally because you are creating real value for the business.   They also unpack the unwritten contract every employment relationship lives inside, the difference between endorsing and adjusting feedback, and why pay rises and promotions are a lagging indicator of work you did six to nine months ago. Jeremy explains why walking into a performance review with a beautiful self-pitch document is almost always too late, and what to do instead. Ben adds the leadership view from his time managing budgets at Microsoft, including the moment a manager sits down with their final pot of cash and realises someone has been quietly invisible all year.   The final section is about knowing when to leave. Jeremy uses the boat metaphor to talk about staying, accepting your boat, or moving on. Ben shares the eighteen months of planning that sat behind his decision to leave Microsoft and start Elevated You. The throughline is the same idea Jeremy returns to throughout: be first to your own rescue.   About the guest: Jeremy Burns is VP of Platform Engineering at Hawke, host of the Build Your Edge podcast, and author of Earn More Move Up. He started in marketing, taught himself to…","meta_description":"This episode looks at why career growth in technology rarely happens by accident, and what people working in tech can actually do to take control of their…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2569,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tech-world-human-skills-6393428/episodes/how-to-earn-more-and-move-up-in-technology-jeremy-burns/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-world-human-skills-6393428/how-to-earn-more-and-move-up-in-technology-jeremy-burns.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}