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.

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--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.

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--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

Does it feel like you’re working hard at your job search but not getting results?

Could it be you’re working hard at all the wrong things?

Well, I’m about setting a direction, working the best steps, capturing data, making adjustments, and finding success fast!

I know job searching stinks.

I know you don’t do this very often.

I feel for you.

I truly do, which is why I created today’s video for you.

It’s about how to view your job search correctly.

Chart your path.

Capture the right data.

With a 9-step formula I know works.

Let’s get after 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:

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

Value is difficult to gauge.

It’s unique to everyone.

You might join one of my programs and pay the enrollment price.

Price = easy to see.

Everyone who joins my programs pays the same price.

Cost is equal.

Return is NOT.

Someone might get a nice $5,000 pay increase thanks to the application of my lessons.

Someone else might get a $300,000 pay increase.

No matter which end of the spectrum you fall on, you’ll never know how valuable something is—in tangible or intangible terms—until you look back.

How much effort, diligence, and consistency you put into your investments, also has a way of yielding higher value.

I’ve discovered these correlations don’t register easily for many people I’ve encountered.

Another concept that’s truly elusive is trying not to equate effort with results.

As much as I’d love to hire the person who works really hard, I’d love even more to hire the person who works half the time and yields twice the output.

The trick, for you, is to convince the employer in advance, you’re a twice-the-output kinda person.

Before you can do this, there are a few things you need to understand about value.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

I’m covering résumé writing today.

More specifically, I’m covering the ins and outs and twists and turns of the professional experience section.

I’m literally blown away at the number of ways job seekers royally screw up this section of their marketing document.

It genuinely hurts me when anyone makes mistakes I’m so desperately trying to help them avoid.

That’s why I went into great detail in today’s podcast on how to get this right and powerfully sell yourself.

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

Ever have a tough time you thought would never go away?

Maybe you were at mile 20 of the marathon.

Maybe you were in the middle of a one-year-long job search.

Maybe that stinker-of-a boss has been dangling that carrot-of-a promotion forever.

No matter the issue, we need something to pull us through.

This being Valentine’s Week (let’s celebrate all week, shall we?), I want to talk about the most important relationship you’ll ever have—the one you have with yourself.

More specifically, I want you to know yourself so well that you’ll be SURE you can get through anything.

That’s why I’ve created this heart-to-heart I’d like to have with you.

It’s not long.

In fact, it’s about coming up with something short…and powerful.

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

Money. Actually, more like money you’ll get in the future.

Money is funny that way, especially when the money we’re talking about is your salary.

We negotiate like heck for what we’ll be paid in the future.

So, why is it that so many employees try to argue for a new salary based on what they did in the past?

Isn’t that so yesteryear?

Wasn’t that so your last job?

Past performance is not an indicator of future performance when I change the variables.

Here’s a funny.

I earned a nice living as an executive recruiter.

Then, I became a career coach.

And, well, as smart as that rich executive recruiter guy was, that new career coach didn’t know diddly about email marketing, YouTube-ing, podcasting, and TikTok-ing (still don’t).

I could have argued with myself and said, “Self. You’ve been awesome at recruitment, sales, serving your clients, and everything else that goes with it. I’m sure you know your stuff and can explain it to all those people who live in Germany, Canada, and California. Here’s a big fat raise.”

Then, I would have fired myself in the first year. Splat.

Career coach guy didn’t only not earn more money.

He didn’t even earn less money. He actually lost money. Ouch! (I’ll stop the 3rd-person thing now.)

You might be thinking, well, you were making a career change, so that makes sense.

Okay, but why do you think you should get a new payday because you’re doing the SAME job as last year?

Or, the same job at a new employer?

Why should your current employer give you more money for doing the same thing? Inflation? Don’t think so.

Oh, you got a fat promotion? Or more responsibilities? Ah.

Heck to the YEAH!

So, that means you’re in a new position?

How can I, your boss, know for certain you’ll do well? (Remember, past performance is a funny thing and we have some new variables here.)

I think you get the gist by now.

Good news is I won’t be the one you’ll need to negotiate your raise with.

Better news is I’m giving you the what-to-do to earn more money—in the future.

Think of me with every paycheck that is auto-deposited into your bank account.

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