The Allan McKay Podcast
054 - Working Visa Advice Pt. 2

This episode is an unofficial sequel to Ep 52 on US work visas, but this is more tailored to worldwide rather than just in the US. As well as giving a hands on insight as well as Allan's experiences with the visa process and what to expect.

Check out the show notes at http://www.allanmckay.com/54/

To listen to Episode 52 with Amanda Gillespie talking about US work visas go to http://www.allanmckay.com/52/

For Dan Roarty's episode go to http://www.allanmckay.com/30/

For the episode on 'How to start your own country' check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syujTp5m5Vk

Please leave comments or ask questions for upcoming episode visit the show notes.

Otherwise email Allan at amckay@allanmckay.com 

 

Direct download: ep54_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 4:52pm EDT

053 - Actionable Goals

This episode is a big one on goal setting we cover a lot of great subjects and topics situated around goal setting but more importantly actionable steps to building better habits rather than it just being simple mindsets that aren't going to do us any good.
Two key things I reference is the

Dickens Process
S.M.A.R.T. goals

(I decided not to link to anything as I'd rather you find the links that best resonate with you on this subject!)


I would love to get your feedback, so please leave a comment in the show notes http://www.allanmckay.com/53/ any questions you have - or questions about visas, or other discoveries I'd love to hear about them and I plan to answer a lot of them in next episodes podcast!

 

Direct download: ep53_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 2:02pm EDT

052 - USA Work Visas Explained

Amanda Gillespie is Manager of Extraordinary Ability Cases for Samuel Christensen Law Firm PLLC in New York. Amanda works daily with many of the artists and creatives alike migrating to the United States each year, helping build their cases and assisting them in the process of obtaining visas, greencards and work permits to work in the U.S.

This subject, especially for a lot of visual effects artists, game designers, directors, musicians, and other creatives in our industry is quite a ellusive subject, as many of us aspire to at some point in our career work in the UK, EU, AU, CAN, USA and other countries and typically it's not so straight forward in terms of obtaining exactly 'how' to go about this.

Whether you have always wanted to work in the U.S. or you simply might want to take some of the insights here to apply to your plans to work in other countries - this episode is a goldmine of information straight from one of the top authorities on this subject.

One that I personally have worked with personally throughout the process of most of my visas while living in the United States, Amanda is able to share such a great wealth of knowledge on the subject, as well as answer a lot of listeners questions that were submitted about where to start and what to expect during the process.

I can already tell this will be a favorite among many of us!

 

Direct download: ep52_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 5:00am EDT

051 - Programming for creatives

This episode is about how learning a little code, can go a long way for artists and creatives. Most of us are intimidated by programming and think it's only for math guys and people wired a certain way, where it's really about learning just how to approach it a different way - you don't need to know math to code, you don't need to be 'super smart' to code. You just need to know how to apply it to what you're doing and approach it a little differently to the norm.

This is all about learning to automate your tasks and work more efficiently, and in this episode we dive right into this! Check out this free video below on how to get up to speed fast with a little bit of scripting!

Show notes @ http://www.allanmckay.com/51/
Video tutorial intro to scripting @ http://www.allanmckay.com/51download/

Direct download: EP51_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 4:57pm EDT

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