If you’re a smart person, work hard, have the right attitude, great!

You get a pat on the back.

All that goodness will only take you so far if you don’t have a few key guardrails set up to ensure you crush your career.

These are like the common-sense, must-dos of developing yourself and your people.

You know what they say about common sense.

Right.

Common sense in not always common practice.

Lucky for you, that’s what I’m covering in today’s lesson.

These are 10 major steps, broken into 5 pre-requisites and 5 absolutely most-dos for you to catapult your career.

I know you want that hypergrowth, so let’s do this!

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. All can be found on my Amazon Author Page.

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--Andy

I’m not gonna sugarcoat it.

Job search is rough. It’s lonely. It’s confusing.

It’s like the trifecta of pain. 

I feel for you.

I truly do.

But, since I use a lot of “empathic concern,” I’m not just going to feel for you. I’m going to act by sharing 10 secrets to stay positive in your job search on your way to better results.

(If you’re just dying to know what empathic concern is, check out page 118.)

They’re secrets because, well, I don’t see a lot of job seekers implementing these techniques.

You need them at your disposal when you get fatigued, but they are truly best practices from the start.

Whether this is the first day of your search or you’ve been at this a while, this lesson is for you. 

Let’s get you charged and on your way to getting hired!

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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

My entire life, I just needed to know.

I’d never let myself wonder.

How great could I be?

The not knowing would just kill me.

A regret I’d never let myself live with.

Ever feel this way?

Ever wonder how good you could be at something if you let yourself be?

If you—literally—gave it your all?

After going through my entire career (eh, life) all-out with no brakes (yes, I meant brakes not breaks), I’ve learned a thing or two about being a maestro.

I’ve interviewed, met with, helped, taught, recruited, and coached tens of thousands of people.

I can distill down, in a few seconds, what makes the best the best.

This approach is bulletproof if you want to be the best you you can be.

It’ll also help tremendously if you’re job searching.

I know it’s Thanksgiving week for many in my community and you might be scurrying around town doing last minute turkey shopping.

That’s why I kept this powerful message to a short 3:39.

Squeeze it in somewhere when you have a few minutes.

The lesson is simple to understand.

Difficult to do.

Fully rewarding.

And life altering.

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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

I realize it’s mid-November and the Christmas décor has already draped many stores for an entire month, but your career doesn’t take a holiday (nor do I).

Today, I’m serving up a major lesson on why now is literally THE BEST time to job search.

You’re at the start line of a 3-month hiring frenzy.

It doesn’t matter whether the year is 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 or 2024 or any other years I omitted.

It doesn’t matter what you do. Who you are. Who you were. Or, who you want to be.

It's the SAME every single year.

As an executive recruiter, I could have rolled out of bed on Halloween.

Worked until the end of January.

And taken the rest of the year off.

Every year.

Employers start hiring like crazy NOW.

You might consider me nutso for thinking this.

After all, it’s contrary to what most think.

But just because many think it doesn’t make it so.

I’ll debunk the myth for you.

What’s more, I’ll teach you how to swap out couch duty for my Job Search Challenge®.

That way you’ll know exactly how to approach this target-rich, job-searching time.

There’s no time to waste.

Just like I said right there on page 313 of The Zebra Code in Chapter 21 My Gift to Find Your Gift (which, by the by, is my all-time favorite chapter and prose I’ve ever written)…

“Have faith that true champions are made in the darkness. They’re the ones that practice before the sun rises. The treasure that time and know their effort is what will help them make a better life for themselves and others.”  

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:

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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

In my lifetime, I’ve prepared, oh, conservatively, about a bajillion job candidates for their interviews.

Most are so worried about the wrong stuff.

Most prepare backwards.

They think What questions will I be asked? I need to come up with a good answer for [insert the dumb ones here about disagreements and conflicts and weaknesses, etc.].

Uh, no. As is, heck to the no!

It’s not about what the interviewer asks.

It’s about what the interviewer needs to know—so they hire YOU!

Today, you’re in luck because you opened this newsletter which leads to a video on my YouTube Channel that teaches THE VERY BEST way to prepare for ANY job interview.

After you watch this, you’ll wonder why you ever prepared differently.

You’ll also start seeing magical results…

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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

Who doesn’t want to sound more accomplished?

Amiright?!?!

More accomplished = more attractive to potential employers.

I’m not talkin’ “accomplished “in the “overqualified” sorta way.

I wouldn’t run that risk.

I’m talkin’ “accomplished” in the I’m-smarter, more-knowledgeable, performed-more-repetitions, solved-more-problems, achieved-more-goals sorta way!

If you sound more accomplished, you have a better chance of getting more too. True story.

But, what if you’re, well, junior?

Or, what if you’ve been doing the same job for a long time?

Or, don’t have a “big” title?

Or, interviewing for a job that manages lots of people? And you haven’t, like, ever?

For the bajillionith time, “Don’t worry!”

Your Houdini of a career coach has you covered.

Join me today for 10 nifty ways to punch up your resume and job interview stories to sound more accomplished, senior, and all-around desirable!

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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 I see people make a mistake.

It practically kills me when I see them repeating—on purpose—the same mistake.

I’ve made lots of mistakes, so please don’t think I think I’m a know-it-all.

I don’t judge anyone because they made different mistakes than I did.

We’re all different and have walked different paths, experienced different things, and built different perspectives.

I like to think, however, that age and experience have helped me test different theories and note the results.

Today, I’m sharing 9 unconventional pieces of wisdom, tactics, and habits I’ve learned through my testing of life.

It’s a gamut from building skills to solving problems to dealing with people I’ve learned from running all those tests and making those aforementioned mistakes.

A real rainbow of goodness.

I hope you enjoy 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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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 is tricky these days.

It’s always confusing for some, but nowadays it seems like it’s unknown for all.

Good news.

Your favorite career coach has yet another timeless lesson on steps you should ALWAYS be taking to protect yourself, your career, your family, friends, neighbors, and everything else connected to you!

Yes, there’s A LOT riding on this.

Which is why I like the always-kinda-stuff.

The stuff that makes you bulletproof or, at least, gives you an ability to get up quickly after you’ve been knocked down.

Just think for a millisecond about what happens if you lose your job.

You become unhappy.

Then you’re sitting around the house all day annoying everyone.

Ha ha. You get the picture.

Maybe not that bad, but can we at least agree you in a great career and fully employed making lots of dough is better than you not employed making no money?

K? K.

That’s why today you’re getting 4 steps, questions and answers if you will, on how to determine your job security and the tactics to stand out from the crowd and stay ahead of the pack.

Let’s make sure you have job security…

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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

If you’re struggling in your job search, you’re in luck today!

I’ve got 10 big tips to help you ignite your results.

They’re not your run-of-the-mill-tips and you can’t get them anywhere else.

I know this to be true because I’m the only person on the planet who wrote The Zebra Code: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Career Skills That Make You a Standout Professional.

And that’s where these tips came from.

You might think based on the title of my recent book it’s all about career development.

It IS about career development and getting what you want out of life!

But it’s about skillsets that are not a luxury, but an all-out requirement for success, in your job search or any endeavor.

Would it help if you could focus to stay locked in?

Were self-aware to know what to look for, how to evaluate whether it fits, and make great career decisions?

Good habits?

Effectively plan and run your (job-search) day?

Have more confidence?

Become more empathetic and use it to your advantage in interviews?

Uh, network more effectively? HELLO!

Communicate better?

Be more persuasive, well, in everything from cover letters to interview answers?

Improve your personal storytelling?

How ‘bout using a creative formula to generate more job-search and employer possibilities?

Yeah! No fib. I covered a lot.

It’s all in today’s lesson on 10 Ways to Improve Your Job Search Results | Tips from The Zebra Code!

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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 have a new podcast this morning titled How to Tell a Story That Wows the Interviewer | A Job Seeker Case Study because, well, it wows the interviewer and it’s a real-life example from someone I coached (hence the case study part).

It’ll be the best 11 minutes and 13 seconds you spend all week if you’re in job-search mode next to the few hours you can spend with me live this Thursday at 11 AM CDT when I offer up my NEW, FREE Job Interview Playbook Webinar.

Join me this week to crush your job interviews!

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 four books related to interviewing, hiring, goal setting, and career development. 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