When candidates prepare for their interviews, most make the mistake of solely focusing on rehearsing answers to common questions.

Uh, no good.

I’ve got a much more effective way to truly elevate your performance and get better results.

Remember, as I’ve reminded you, oh, I dunno, about a bajillion times, the most qualified candidate often doesn't get the job.

So, there are other aspect of your interview interaction you need to nail!

There’s the storytelling part.

I’ve gone to great lengths to teach you my CAAR technique and how to prepare and package your “power stories.”

Those lessons are fantastic and you can find them on my YouTube channel. They will teach you tactically how to identify the right stories and deliver them.

That is, how to write the lyrics to the song.

Today, however, I have a next-level lesson on ways to improve your “performance.”

I’m talking not about the song itself, but the singing, dancing, and energetic part of the delivery that is overlooked by job seekers but mostly what the interviewer notices!

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 (X), TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!

--Andy

The job market sky isn't falling.

The data says what we're experiencing right now is as average as it gets.

Don't believe me?

If you've got ~ 13 minutes or so, give this a listen.

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 (X), TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!

--Andy

Education does NOT get you paid.

Knowledge is NOT power.

The only thing that matters in life (as it relates to your career success) is the value of the assets you produce.

Some might call this the application of your knowledge.

Right now, how do you feel about your renumeration in relation to your hard work?

That’s another little bugger.

Hard work does NOT equal pay just like knowledge itself is not value.

And don’t even get me started about that variable called “time” and the inertia it produces when it comes to capping your value and earning power for that matter.

If you’re trading your muscles for money, your capacity to increase your income is limited.

Even I trade my brain for money when I coach individuals, which caps my earning capacity because I can only coach one person during that one hour.

If you’re managing lots of people or I perform a group coaching session, our income capacity will still be handicapped in some way or another.

How ‘bout, today, I help you understand the limiters and accelerators when it comes to earning power?

We’ll tie together the relationship between your skills and money too.

Cool?

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 (X), TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!

--Andy

Bad assumptions.

Change that.

Assumptions of any kind.

They simply ruin your negotiation process.

Any time you speak first, you’re making an assumption.

Anytime you’re thinking, you’re making an assumption.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but unless you actually have a job offer in hand, you don’t know what the employer is thinking.

This is public enemy #1—assumptions—when it comes to negotiating an offer.

Public enemy #2 is not knowing what success looks like and how to argue your value in relation to it.

Let’s have a chat on that today.

Enjoy Negotiating Salary | The Information You Need Before You Counteroffer and please think of me with every automatic deposit of your paycheck!

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 (X), TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!

--Andy

“It hurts me […] when you’re so awesome, but you just can’t convey your awesomeness in a bite-sized package that sells you best […] because you want to add all these albatrosses around your neck with dead-weight words that don’t do anything or paint a colorful picture.”

That’s verbatim from today’s lesson on Why You Fail Job Interviews and the Best Way to Fix it (CAAR).

I know it’s verbatim because I kept stopping the video every few seconds so I could type the words just like I said them.

We’re diving into perspective, new ways to look at how you convey yourself, and the exact formula to use.

You know me. I’m all about the formulas.

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 (X), TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

5. Stay in touch with me in your email inbox by joining my newsletter here!

--Andy