Have you ever been in a position where you were asked to sketch out your dream role?

Perhaps during an interview, or maybe in a casual informational chat, where it seemed like the company was just intrigued by your background and potential?

Imagine this: You walk into an interview, or maybe even a discussion with your boss, and instead of being handed a job description or assignment, you're asked, "What can you create for us?"

Then, you whip out a crystal ball that not only predicts but also molds your future at the company.

Nice, eh?

Or, scary because you’re not sure what to do?

Either way, I have you covered today on exactly how to create your own role.

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

Are you exhausted from trying to figure out the best way to say what you want to say in a job interview?

As in, which method do I use?

Why do I have to speak interview-speak instead of normal, human-speak?

Why is the company telling me I have to use the STAR technique?

What the hey is the STAR technique?

Wait, now that I think of it, Coach Andy tells me that approach isn’t as good as his CAAR method.

Exhausting, I know.

You know who isn’t exhausted?

Me.

I never tire of thinking up creative ways to help you better understand storytelling concepts and unlock your potential—especially when it comes to selling yourself.

Speaking of never tiring, here you go…

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

Do you wish your LinkedIn inbox was flooded with messages from recruiters fawning all over you?

Would you settle for a few each week?

Seeing nothing?

Well, you need to know what drives them to you.

I might not know how to get the YouTube algorithm to send people my way, but I do know how recruiters filter their LinkedIn searches.

I know that because we had corporate and executive recruiters show us their dashboards and walk us through their processes as we built our latest rendition of the milewalk Academy® LinkedIn Workshop.

I also know what job seekers can do to get those filters to choose them and that’s what I’m sharing 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 (X), TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

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

--Andy

Feel like your resume is vanishing into a black hole when you apply for jobs?

You're not alone.

Most job seekers experience the deafening silence of applicant trashing systems that seem to swallow resumes whole.

But what if I told you there's a better way?

It’s not just another job search strategy.

It’s a revolution in how you connect with potential employers.

Let’s get you in control of this process.

Let’s get you to bypass the frustrating barriers of ATS’s, AI’s, and so on.

Let’s make real, human connections that get your resume noticed—and responded to.

After all, as the Andyism goes, companies don’t hire people. People hire people.

Let’s get you to say goodbye to the silence and hello to responses—from actual people!

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

Today, you get a podcast on The Job Interview Formula Guaranteed to Get You Hired (CAAR).

It’s titled that because, well, it’s an actual formula, which, if you use it, I pinky swear, you’ll get hired.

It literally, IMHO, is one of, if not, THE, very best podcasts I’ve created on how to answer questions—like ANY question—in a job interview.

I cover the emotional and feelings aspect of it.

I cover the step-by-step tactics.

And encore with a very-detailed example to drive it home so it registers with zero distortion!

Where might I learn something like this?

Well, I coach, individually, approximately 500 people each year. Every year. Most of whom need interview coaching from me.

To boot, I’ve been studying interviewing since 2004 as an executive recruiter.

That’s excluding the week-long behavioral interview coaching and roleplaying I endured way back in 1990. (1-9-9-0 just so you know that what’s a typo.)

You’ll also need to disregard all the hiring I did up until 2004.

Even so, I’m confident that leaves me with enough experience based on whatever’s left over.

Did I mention I wrote a book on this?

Can we agree I’ve had lots of practice?

Good!

Now, enjoy…

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

Is it détente or mutual destruction?

I’m not sure, but AI will change the game for employers and employees, especially in the hiring process.

Someone asked me a few weeks ago about my thoughts on the recent Wall Street Journal article titled You’re Fighting AI with AI: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process.

Here’s what I had to say.

I hope, as always, it positions YOU best to succeed!

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

Here’s a line straight out of The Zebra Code…

“Always remember, your success, in anything, will have more to do with where you place your attention than your ability.”

There are no truer words when it comes to your job search.

Most people think their history matters. (Not really.)

Others think their skills matter. (Not if you keep talking about them.)

Others, the even sillier ones, think keywords matter. (Dear Lordy.)

Let’s talk philosophy today.

Some tactics too.

Let’s toss in a dash of focus. Energy.

With a splash of metaphysics.

Dang.

How ‘bout I just whip you up a three-courser of a job search, interview, and salary negotiation.

Your table is ready…

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

Are you getting paid what you’re worth?

That was actually a trick question because there’s absolutely no way for you to know exactly what you’re worth.

You’re worth is dependent on what someone else is willing to pay for you at this exact moment in time.

You are like a stock, a house, or anything else whose value is determined by someone else’s desires, needs, challenges, and other factors which you know very little about.

Even though your daily worth is a mystery, there are ways to determine what a potential employer feels you are worth—today.

Wouldn’t you know it? I have a video to help you better understand how to discover this.

Inside, you’ll hear me say funny stuff like, “Salary negotiation is not a transactional event. You do not win a salary negotiation. What you do… is from the time you send a cover letter and a resume or apply online or boss hunt […] from that moment with everything you do and everything you say and everything you don’t do and everything you don’t say until the time you counter their job offer […] that’s the negotiation.”

Gimme 17 minutes and 43 seconds of your life. It’ll be worth it. Pun totally intended.

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