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Career Control with Virta Health CPO Dr. Lucia Guillory

2d ago 37:29

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Show Notes

Lucia shares her unconventional career philosophy: choose companies over jobs. With experience at Yahoo, Patreon, and six years at Virta, she argues that job titles, managers, and compensation frequently change, but company mission remains stable. The conversation explores Virta's unique hiring challenge of needing 20-50 healthcare coaches and providers within weeks due to unpredictable patient enrollment. Their solution: a 4,500-person talent community (4x their workforce) maintained through regular communication, cohort-based hiring, and radical transparency to enable rapid deployment when demand spikes.

Key Takeaways

• Choose company over job details: Focus on company mission and ethos rather than specific titles, managers, or compensation—these change frequently while mission stays stable.

• You are the asset: View your skills as portable value that can be applied anywhere, not tied to a specific role or company.

• Mission alignment prevents burnout: Working for organizations whose purpose resonates with you provides emotional fuel during difficult periods.

• Build talent communities at scale: Virta maintains 4,500 people (4x workforce) with regular communication, enabling rapid hiring for unpredictable demand.

• Use cohort hiring for transparency: Set hiring dates reduce uncertainty and improve candidate communication about timing and expectations.

• Simplify your tech stack: Consolidating tools reduces complexity and costs while improving focus on relationships.

• Prioritize authentic recruiting: Transparent, anti-sales communication builds better candidate relationships than traditional "selling" approaches.

• Consider fractional work: Consulting and fractional roles offer flexibility to wait for aligned opportunities while maintaining income.

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Career Control with Virta Health CPO Dr. Lucia Guillory

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