If you’ve ever been fired or laid off or let go from your job for any reason, it’s dreadful to explain when interviewing for a new job.
Don’t fret.
Your career happiness expert is here today with answers.
Oh, I have more than just answers!
I have techniques for any time you’re in “explanation mode” in an interview.
I call it “defense mode” because you’re trying to clarify something you don’t want to be clarifying.
What’s worse, you’re not on offense—as in selling yourself!
When you’re in defense mode, the best you can hope for is to not lose interviewing “points.”
That means, you need to get this over with as quickly as possible so you can start scoring points.
Join me for the best way to explain your layoff in a job interview to learn these masterful techniques!
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--Andy
I’m an open-minded person.
BUT, if you want to convince me there is any faster route to getting a job interview, and ultimately an offer, other than boss hunting, you better come armed.
It makes no difference whether you’re a recent college graduate like Venkata (the hero in today’s lesson) or a seasoned pro.
Top to bottom and every which way in between, targeting bosses is your best route to surfacing interviews.
If you’re wondering why, just think about it.
Who is more in pain that you’re not on their team?
The recruiter? I think not.
The Applicant Trashing System? I’ll wait for the deafening silence. Oh. There it is.
Bosses are ALWAYS looking for great talent, whether they have budgeted openings or whether they’d trade out someone on their team for you.
Today, I’m covering my favorite job searching approach equipped with templates and real-life samples from successful job seekers.
Listen to Get Your New Job Fast by Boss Hunting (Plus Recent College Graduate Examples) so you start surfacing those interviews!
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--Andy
Do you realize whenever you’re interviewing with a company, you’ll have FAR BETTER results when you treat every interaction as if you’re already a team?
What do teams do?
They work together to achieve a common goal.
From the first screening interview all the way to your salary counteroffer, you’ll be amazed at what manifests when you approach it this way.
Now, sometimes, you’re interviewing and you’re not quite clear what the goal is. They might not be clear either.
But, you know you like each other enough to start dancing even though you don’t know all the steps.
Maybe, they say, “Hey, we like your background. Don’t have an open role. But, let’s get together and see where it goes.”
Perhaps, they say, “Come on down and interview for this role. We don’t have a description, but it’s general engineer-y stuff.”
It could even be, “We’re thinking about hiring someone to build out this area. We don’t have a job description yet because it’s a new position. Wanna talk?”
Whatever the scenario, I have the formula for exactly what you can do to win the day.
My formula has a bunch of stuff I want you to do and at least three things I do not want you to do…
DO NOT tell them what you’ve done.
DO NOT tell them what you can do.
And for the love of all that is holy, DO NOT tell them what you want.
There is a better way to get what YOU want and help the company get max value from you.
Give today’s podcast a try…
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Ever have trouble remembering your job interview answers?
Actually, my real question to you is, “Why are you trying to remember your job interview answers?”
My mind is like a steel trap and I’d never consider trying to remember all the words it takes to give you a (live-show) lesson.
That’s just too much stuff.
Not to mention, if I memorized it, I’d sound robotic instead of my cheery self!
There is a better way to answer questions in an interview.
It doesn’t require much other than remembering a few points.
Give today’s podcast a try…
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Today, sweet podcast on THE job interview tactic that gets you hired. It’s the tactic that cuts right to the employer’s needs.
Their needs + your solutions = job offer.
That’s 9 semesters of higher math talkin’ right there and I have the Bachelor’s degree in EE to prove it.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
I once had a client who would say to me, “But, Andy, I’m really bad at predicting the future.”
She was referring to her ability to hire the right engineers for her company.
She’d say they sounded great in the interviews.
Then, she’d notice, after they were hired, they didn’t really have the traits she thought they did.
This works both ways.
Job candidates don’t often know what questions to ask potential employers to determine whether they company is a great fit for them.
I guess, technically speaking, asking the questions is the easy part. After all, you can just ask the ones I give you.
The challenge lies in your ability to dissect the employers’ responses.
That’s why, in today’s lesson, I’m going to give the ultimate question to ask an employer to know (yes, know) whether it’s a great fit for you.
Here’s the question…
“What do you love about working here?”
That’s the easy part and you don’t even need to listen to the podcast to know what it is.
The gold isn’t in asking the question.
It’s in knowing what their responses mean—to YOU…
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Are job interviews falling out of your pockets?
As in, you’re walking down the street and one falls out of your pocket and you don’t even bother to bend over to pick it up?
If so, have a nice Tuesday and I’ll see you next week!
If not, let’s check a few things.
Consistency?
Elbow grease?
Right targets?
Right people?
Shoving resume into Applicant Trashing System to deafening silence to thinking you stink at life? (This last part is so not true BTW.)
Right roles?
So on and so forth and let’s get you to refocus.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Need some interrogation methods on evaluating your potential boss?
Like, trying to figure out whether you'll be dealing with a micro-manager?
Or, if they're interested in turning you into a work-aholic?
Maybe, gasp, they're a yes-man or yes-woman to their boss, which translates into a nightmare for you.
So on. So forth. Etc. Etc.
I’ve got an Andy-dandy for you today.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Coming at you today with a more-powerful-than-usual talk about success.
Hard work might get you there. Might.
But, after working with and observing about a bajillion people, I’ve learned why some just seem to have it all and others live in a state of wonderment.
Perspective.
That one thing actually changes the way you approach, well, everything.
Perspective when it comes to gratitude has a way of providing you an overarching head start on life.
There are perspectives, however, that go along with different aspects of your career and life that can trip you up.
Hence, why I needed to cover 7 of them in today’s lesson.
By simply changing your perspective in the way you look at something you can ignite a fire in yourself that wasn’t there a minute ago.
Inside today’s podcast, I hit reasons why you don’t start new challenges or improve your skills.
I covered resources you should never forget whenever you make any decision and just how dang close you are to a person that’ll change your life (even when you think you have no network).
I didn’t stop there!
I went through time wasters that drag you down (they’re not social media) and safety nets and more.
I hope you enjoy it. It’s a doozy!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Are you getting job interviews? Any?
Let me give you a hand.
In today's podcast, I teach the concepts and tactics that get recruiters and hiring officials and whomever else is reviewing your resume to WANT to speak with you.
It’s not just a do-this and do-that lesson.
I go into, as I usually do, the WHYS and WHEREFORES and other important factors that most people don’t think about.
Writing your resume requires sales skills, marketing skills, an advanced understanding of human psychology, and a basic understanding of biochemistry.
Okay. I might have gotten carried away there on the biochemistry thing.
But, you get the idea.
These sales and marketing skills are ones you likely don’t earn a salary for, but make or break you when you’re trying to get a new job and salary!
A little catch-22-ish, eh?
That’s alright because you have me.
And this podcast.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
This week’s podcast is a blitz of tough job interview questions and answers.
There are a lot, so here’s a breakdown if you need to skip around or comeback to some to prepare for that big interview!
00:00 Welcome
00:22 If you could change anything about the job description what would it be?
02:28 What are you most proud of in your non-work life
05:44 Tell me about a time when you were criticized for poor job performance.
07:45 What did you dislike most about your most recent boss?
09:01 What does leadership mean to you? How do I answer that in a way that shows my leadership style as well as the impact
12:48 Tell me about a time why you disliked your job?
14:37 Why do want this job?
15:43 How to deal with an interviewer who insists on going through the CV chronologically and keeps asking about things less relevant to the role? (ie why did you do Y after X?
17:57 How do you motivate your team?
21:26 What changes do you think you will need to make? What will you miss? (re: moving from a leadership role to an independent contributor role)
23:50 How many people have you managed ??? Interviewer looking for 100+ direct reports
26:55 Tell us of a time you were asked to do something unethical.
28:55 Briefly describe your educational & professional experience? Should I follow same format as "Tell me about yourself" .This is the first opening question for a school district management position.
33:18 Have you ever been terminated from a position?
34:53 Have you been given a choice of termination or voluntarily quit? Why?
35:57 How would you deal with criticism/ negative feedback? (NEGATIVE)
37:33 Planning to move closer to home in another state at the end of the year. How do I answer questions about wanting to have a longer transition than two weeks?
39:06 What brands do you think are succeeding in the industry and why? (Question from interviewer. I’ve gotten this question twice and it seems like people want to know competitor knowledge OR my thinking on the brands that I think are making an impact). How do you best prepare for these types of questions that would help me stand out.
41:56 I was asked the number of copiers in the US if a new product. Actual numbers, and he kept interrupting me while trying to answer. Pretty sure he was stress testing me. Any advice on those situations?
43:27 How to answer a technical question during the interview if you don’t know the answer
45:11 I just had someone on a phone interview tell me why other applicants haven't been interested in the position!
45:42 On that work life balance point: can you tell them that in an interview as answer to why us? heard work life balance?
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
We’re not in a recession at the moment, but I don’t like to be late to the party.
Even if we enter a recession, I don’t want you to panic for a few reasons.
First, panic doesn’t do anyone any good.
Second, you have me.
Third, there are always opportunities for you regardless of whether your world is zigging or zagging.
You just need the right perspective.
How you look at something has almost everything to do with what you see.
For example, here’s how I process the world…
When the market goes up, people need my job searching services to max out their job opps and crank up their pay.
When the market goes down, people need my job searching services to overcome the more difficult challenges in getting hired.
When some industries zig, others zag. At any moment, some people need my “crank up your pay” services and others need my “overcome challenges” services.
I’m ALWAYS needed.
Think I’m unique? Think again.
Same goes for you.
It’s all in how you choose to look at it.
Recently, Rachel, one of my beloved #BOOTCAMPERS, asked me, “Which industries do you predict are most likely to grow during this economic downturn?”
First, I clarified for her, we are not in an economic downturn.
Sure, the news people might be doing their level best to scare you. That’s the thing about “the news.” They only talk about the tiniest of extremes. If it bleeds, it leads. They’re in business (yes, business) to make money, not be a public service that actually delivers “the news.”
They package up the most sensationalized extremes to get your eyes, ears, clicks, etc. You think what you’re seeing is pervasive and normal. Then you become frightened. Then you call your children and tell them to stay in the house.
Andy Sunshine is here to tell, that while you’re allowed to have rough stretches, all is generally wonderful and he wants to make YOUR world a better place.
So, after I clarified that bit of economic reality for Rachel, I gave her the goods on HOW to think through which markets will thrive and HOW to think through your job search should your particular industry take a turn for the worse.
Take in this week’s podcast on How to Job Search During a Recession and learn exactly how to maneuver through any employment environment.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
If you’re struggling to reach the heights you know you can, there are some mindset and tactical approaches you can take to make a huge difference. Dialing in the right drivers helps too.
Today’s podcast is about how who you want to be and why you want to be can shape the way you use your talents and skills to become all you can be.
You’ll also get the inside talk on what makes me me and how you can become the best you you can be.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
There’s Mount Olympus Mons. The tallest mountain in the solar system. True.
Or, if you haven’t been to Mars to climb that doozie, perhaps you wanna hike up Mount Everest here on Earth. I hear Asia is lovely this time of year.
Honestly, though, I just care about climbing Mount Andy.
Maybe you want to focus on climbing Mount Whatever-Your-Name-Is.
That’s what life is all about. Climbing your personal mountain.
(Wouldn’t it be totally cool if you actually had a mountain named after you?)
Anyhow, since you’re readying my newsletter and I talk about careers, let’s make this message about being the best version of you you can be.
To cap off my solar system metaphor, today’s podcast is about motivating you to reach for the stars.
Let’s get rolling with The Step You Must Take to Maximize Your Career Success!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
“Show me the money,” said every job candidate ever!
More is always better. We don’t need to be greedy and money isn’t everything, but it’s something.
All I care about is you get paid what you deserve or at least what makes you happy.
Today, I’ve got two wonderful Jedi-mind tricks where the employers won’t know what else to do but give you more money.
Please enjoy the 2-tip medley and think of me with every automatic deposit.
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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--Andy
Can you just tell me what you want so I can eliminate you from this wonderful position because I can’t satisfy your needs?
Good. Grief.
Why do employer’s ask stupid questions.
Maybe, if I was going easy on them, I’d ask, “Why do employers not ask questions the right way?”
I mean, the way that’d yield the actual info they need to make a good decision about hiring you.
Have you ever been asked in an interview, “What are you looking for in your next role?”
Did that question make you sweat and break out in the heebie-jeebies?
It should have. Because it’s a Yes/No question the employer is answering for themselves based on the several words that are about to come out of your mouth.
The interviewer just wants some assurance you’re interested in the role.
No good can come of you answering this question in any detail or with any specifics.
At best, you’re letting the interviewer know you are essentially interested in the job you’re interviewing for.
At worst, you’re saying something that eliminates you because it doesn’t fit.
Wondering what to do? Say? As in exactly say?
Let’s get to it!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
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--Andy
Ever want to dig into how a company actually operates?
As in, how they truly behave?
That’d be a good thing to do if you’re job interviewing, I’d think.
You don’t want to be joining a company you won’t like!
First question: Do you even know what kind of culture works for you?
Let’s say you do.
Can you get over your freshly-inflicted bruises that tend to shine overly-bright lights on recent issues at the expense of investigating all the other cultural traits you want?
You know what I mean…
I want to make sure they don’t work me too hard. My last company did that.
You become myopic on this issue to find that, yes, in fact, this new employer of yours doesn’t require you to work too hard.
Except, after you start working there, you discover they are very political, confused, generally don’t have a good strategy, or high employee satisfaction.
Second and third questions conflated: Do you know WHAT questions to ask and HOW to ask them so you are actually getting evidence of their behavior?
Fourth question: And how to do this without incriminating yourself?
As in, if I ask about work like balance, they’ll think I don’t work hard. Etc. Etc. and Ha and ha.
Okay. I can practically hear you wiping the sweat off your eye brows.
Let’s get to it and get you some questions and answers…
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
Job searching stinks. There’s just no two ways about it. It makes no difference how awesome you are at your job. Job searching is rough. It’s unnatural.
Today’s podcast is on some job search tips and also the Andy-formula for everyday stress-self-management!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
Evaluating potential employees has confused companies for all time. Most of this confusion stems from looking at the wrong things and in the wrong order. Take a listen to this week’s podcast to get the data-backed view of how to hire right!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
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2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
Got asked a great question a few weeks back at Live Office Hours.
The person asked if he should stay at his company or transition every 3-4 years.
He has aspirations of being a CEO at some point in the future and was wondering whether the variety or longevity would better position him.
Have you ever wondered this?
You might be thinking, well, Andy, I just need a job. This is moot at the moment.
Or, hey, Andy, you’re a mind-reader!
Well, what do I often say?
“Your trajectory matters much more than where you are at any moment in time […] any moment in time is just that. It’s over in an instant.”
You will eventually be faced with a scenario like this.
And, even if it’s just a matter of changing jobs, you’ll benefit from the philosophy, whys, wherefores, whats, and how-to-thinks in today’s video clip.
Take in at your leisure so you can stay on that not-so-leisurely, skyrocket-like trajectory!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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--Andy
When interviewing with a senior executive, you need to be ready for different types of encounters.
Whether the interviewer asks you, “What questions do you have for me?” or “Why should be hire you?” or “How will you make us a better company?” or “Tell me how you did that project?” the good ol’ storytelling tactics you typically use to explain your projects, what you do, and how you do it won’t be enough.
You need to take a different approach, which, good news, I’m serving up today…
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
4. Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook.
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--Andy
What’s up with “TESTS” in job interviews? As if job interviews aren’t rough enough, why, for the love of all that is holy, would employers push us job seekers over the edge with tests?
These “tests” come in all shapes and sizes.
Most of them are ridiculous, but, since I don’t universally run hiring for the world, we’ll need to deal with them.
(Feel free to start a petition if you want to see if you and I can completely reform hiring for all mankind.)
I know you want to know what you should do before you take one of these little buggers.
Spoiler alert: Nothing.
Don’t do anything.
As in anything.
As in no thinking. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Zero brain power dedicated to this.
That’s if the employer wants you to take a personality or aptitude or “fit” test or something of that nature.
If it’s a case study, by all means, knock your socks off.
That’s because those are cool and good predictors for future success.
I pulled today’s clip from one of the 1,478 times I was asked about “tests” during various Live Office Hours sessions.
You get my cheery thoughts on them and a little story about one of my recruitment clients who used them and the expensive dinner she bought me after she lost our bet…
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--Andy
Skills. You have ‘em. I know you do.
Can you demonstrate them? Do you know which ones to shine the light on?
It’s important. Always. Just more important now.
Inflation is hovering around 6%.
Unemployment is roughly 3.6%.
Our US Fed is trying to manage inflation by raising interest rates.
We’re trying the disinflation thing which means a slowdown in the rate of inflation even though inflation is still positive.
The last 10 times this happened, for every 2% reduction in inflation, unemployment went up 3.6%. (That’s historical fact.)
It’s linear-ish, so each 2% drop in inflation means 3.6% increase in unemployment.
So, let’s carry a few numbers.
That means if we want to get back down to ~ 2% inflation, we might be adding 7.2% to the unemployment rate = 10.8%.
Ouch.
I bet when you opened this email you didn’t think you’d be getting an econ lesson!
Don’t worry.
You have me. You read my messages. You prolly watch my videos and join my live shows.
You’re covered.
I’ll continue to keep you updated on the skills, tips, tricks, and techniques to keep you razor sharp, employed, and getting paid well!
Check out this week’s all-out lesson on which skills employers love and why…
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
4. Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook.
5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!
--Andy
Does your resume say, “Hi, my name’s [whatever your name is]. I’m a [whatever you are]?”
Or, does your resume say, “Hi Ms. Recruiter. This is how your company is about to change—for the better? You’ve been waiting for me. I’m here now.”
You might be wondering, Coach, how am I supposed to say the latter if I don’t know what the company wants?
To which I’d say, “You do know. You’re just prolly not spending any time thinking about it. And, likely not spending any time writing that in your resume.”
It’s easy breezy when you know what to think, how to think, what to ask yourself, and where the answers to the questions you just asked yourself go on the resume.
You guessed it because I’m a pleaser not a teaser.
It's all in today's podcast on how to add more power to your resume!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
4. Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook.
5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!
--Andy
I’m not sure when it happened, but somewhere between the time I was born and today the world started operating at Mach speed.
On the one hand, I’m not quite sure how I survived as a child without a cell phone, walked to the park, played with my friends, and managed to make it home alive all by myself.
Now, it’s hard to be alone anywhere, without accessibility, with hundreds of thoughts racing through your head of all the things you need to do for all the people for whom you need to do them.
Oh, I haven’t even gotten to the work stuff yet. Oy!
I don’t think I need to keep going for you to get my drift.
Are you feeling as overwhelmed as I do? Amiright?
We have entirely too many demands on our lives.
What’s worse, is most of them—at least the corporate-related ones—are ineffective if not flat out unimportant and unnecessary.
How can we manage it all? Focus on getting the right things done quicky? And, work toward the goals that really matter to us?
Well, I got a little somethin’ to help you with that!
If you'd like to build a great career and lead a rewarding life, check out some of these other places where I share my teachings:
1. Check out the milewalk Academy, my coaching and training site, for freemiums and premiums.
2. I have hundreds of educational and inspirational videos on my YouTube Channel.
3. Grab any of my three books related to interviewing, hiring, and goal setting. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
4. Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook.
5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!
--Andy