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# Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

The Best Career Transition Coach in the World

## Posts

### [High-Paying Jobs #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-high-paying-jobs-in-2023-shorts/)

**Published:** June 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What are the top high-paying jobs this year that don't require you change careers and become a surgeon?

**Content:**

# High-Paying Jobs

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/YGxT8K0VNhc)

What are the top high-paying [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) this year that don’t require you to change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and become a surgeon?

[***Do What Recruiters Do***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2sa)

What are the top high-paying [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engineer, machine learning engineer, data scientist, data engineer, software developer, actuary, architect, engineer, management [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), and Marketing Manager.

This one surprised me– petroleum engineer. I’ve got to tell you there’s a lot that you can learn about each of these professions to see if these make sense for you. And there’s a lot more in the blog at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us)

[***Your Ambivalence About the Job May Mean Something Else***](https://youtu.be/5HkK3WYXOXI)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-81-713x1024.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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**Tags:** big bucks jobs, big money jobs, high pay jobs, high paying jobs, highest paying jobs, https://youtube.com/shorts/YGxT8K0VNhc, the top high paying jobs

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### [How to Sabotage Your Job Search Part II](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-sabotage-your-job-search-part-ii/)

**Published:** February 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses another way job hunters sabotage their job search.

**Content:**

# How to Sabotage Your Job Search Part II

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses another way job hunters [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

[***8 Things You Should Do When Starting a Job Search***](https://youtu.be/a4LY5MPvi_c)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ career easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

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**Tags:** How to Sabotage Your Job Search, Job Search Mistakes, Sabotaging Your Job Search, self-sabotage

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### [Finding It Hard to Hire College-Educated Talent? Here’s Why. #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-it-hard-to-hire-college-educated-talent-heres-why-shorts/)

**Published:** July 19, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The New York Times' podcast, "The Daily" did an episode about college-educated people leaving large cities.

**Content:**

# Finding It Hard to Hire College-Educated Talent? Here’s Why.

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/FaQ23txFclQ)

[The New York Times’ podcast, “The Daily” did an episode about college-educated people leaving large cities](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/podcasts/the-daily/americas-big-city-brain-drain.html). Here’s why.

***[GenZ Won’t Be Another Commodity in Your ATS](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h9F)***

If you’re an employer in one of the large urban areas around the United States, you may have noticed that the pool of college-educated talent has started to shrink, especially for high-skilled [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

Why is that? Well, the New York Times podcast, The Daily, did a great show, where they talked about the reasons for this. To simplify their answer, people can’t afford to live in your areas and have a quality of life that they find acceptable. Housing costs are high, the cost of taxes high, it’s not easy, and they get worn out by it so they move elsewhere and find satisfaction from it.

Consider [hiring remote workers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/intentionally-hiring-remote-workers-no-bs-hiring-advice/), well-educated people who are in lower-cost areas, but who could work remotely for you.

There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us)

[***The Invisible GenXer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cs2)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [What's Your Real Problem With Networking?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-whats-your-real-problem-with-networking/)

**Published:** March 5, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Networking is really about meeting or being introduced to a stranger and building a relationship

**Content:**

# **What’s Your Real Problem With Networking?**

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

Imagine yourself at a cocktail party with your wife/partner/husband. People are mingling actively. Talking and moving on to different people after a few minutes.

Someone walks over to the two of you and says they are friends of the host. You nod and ask a few polite questions.

“How do you know our host?”

![Networking Etiquette 101](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/networking-etiquette-101-1024x683-my-perfect-resume-300x200.jpg)“What do you do?”

“Have you done it for very long?”

And suddenly it happens.

They ask, “Can I borrow $50.”

You’re taken aback, make an excuse for why you won’t lend them $50 and then move on to chat with someone else. As you speak with that person and several others, your disturbance about being asked for money pervades conversations with others and actually keeps you up a night or two later.

“I hardly know them and they asked for money,” you think before eventually going to sleep.

Isn’t this how most people network?

You call or email someone. Maybe you name drop someone; maybe you don’t. Within 5 minutes, you’re asking whether this stranger or old acquaintance knows someone and can recommend you for a job.

Who would [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you? You’re like the guy asking for $50 believing that a stranger will reach into their wallet and give you money.

It’s why I tell people that [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is really about meeting or being introduced to a stranger and building a relationship where when you need one another you are willing to help and support one another. It isn’t about exchanging cards at the [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) even and saying, “Call me if you![how-many-jobs-are-filled-because-of-networking-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail.jpg](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/how-many-jobs-are-filled-because-of-networking-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x225.jpg) hear something.” It’s about developing a relationship with that person over time.

Some of you may know that I moved to North Carolina two and a half years ago from the New York area. I belong to an international men’s organization and there is a chapter in town; I started to attend regular Wednesday night meetings with some of the men.

Recently, one of them reported that he was having surgery to remove a tumor in his back; he’s self-employed and was going to be incapacitated for several weeks and rehabbing for quite a long time.

After surgery, he put out a request for videos to borrow while rehabbing. A meal train was set up for dinners to be delivered to him and his family.

I was very willing to help and scheduled myself to visit him at rehab several times and deliver dinner to he and his family once out.

That’s the difference– a relationship had built up.

If you’re working, now is the time to network and build up the relationship over time.

If you are looking for work and have been told that [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is the way to find work, be patient, not desperate when you network. Listen and become a friend before you start asking for leads. Help the other person and they will want to help you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2013, 2023 

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*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [Self Sabotage: A Misdiagnosis](https://thebiggamehunter.us/self-sabotage-a-misdiagnosis-2/)

**Published:** November 18, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For entrepreneurs, freelancers, self-employed people, and other business leaders what often happens is a little different than what happens to job hunters

**Content:**

## Self Sabotage: A Misdiagnosis

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
For entrepreneurs, freelancers, self-employed people, and other business leaders what often happens is a little different than what happens to job hunters

***[Job Attachment: How It Can Hurt You Professionally](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jKi)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Job Search Advice from the American Revolution](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-advice-from-the-american-revolution/)

**Published:** July 4, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The American Revolution like the French Revolution and others that preceded it offers wonderful profiles in courage if we only take a minute to see them.

**Content:**

## Job Search Advice from the American Revolution

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

The American Revolution like the French Revolution and others that preceded it offers wonderful profiles in courage if we only take a minute to see them.

Yet there are other lessons that we can learn from them and from other heroes of the American Revolutionary War that we can apply to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

**Lesson 1: There comes a time . . .**

The American revolutionaries decided that enough was enough. That it was important to stand up to what they perceived as tyranny and take action. They tried to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) with the British but ultimately decided that war was necessary. You as a job hunter working for your employer need to decide for yourself when to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) and when to take action and, if you take action, take consistent decisive action.

**Lesson 2: What are your principles?**

The Americans established principles that have stood the test of time in their war with the British. They knew what they stood for and became clearer and clearer as time went on.

What’s most important to you in your next job or organization? What will you need to see or know in order to know it is the right place and job for you to work in?

**Lesson 3: Find allies**

Benjamin Franklin was sent to France to persuade the French to support the Americans. They sent troops and a general, General Marquis de Lafayette, to aid the Americans (and to support their own interests) in their battles with the English.

Who is there to help you outside of your family? Where can you find allies to aid you with introductions as well as advice during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)?

**Lesson 4: Do Not Give Up!**

There were many reasons to give up and only one to stay the course. Especially in difficult times or when you are facing strong competition it will be easy to give up and hard to persist. Remember your reasons for [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) and do not surrender your principles for expedience.

**Lesson 5: Beware of traitors!**

Like Benedict Arnold, you may have friends or colleagues who will sell you short and try to persuade you to stay. Like wolves in sheeps clothing they will make a strong case for surrender by manipulating facts into “nuanced thinking” and count on the passage of time to dissipate the strong feelings that brought you to rebellion. Beware!

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### [Starting a New Job?  #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/starting-a-new-job-shorts/)

**Published:** June 22, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Before you fully commit to your new job, here's what to do to protect yourself.

**Content:**

## Starting a New Job?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
Before you fully commit to your new job, here’s what to do to protect yourself.

[***Do You Have Any Other Offers?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bX5)

Accepted a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and joining a firm? Keep looking for another 60, a minimum 45 days after you join,

Why? So many [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are misrepresented to people and you don’t want to find yourself trapped. So keep exploring other things after you join, just in case. And then, “just in case” really means if they’ve lied to you about the job. Otherwise, stick with them. Just because someone offers you more money or a better opportunity (so you think) doesn’t mean they’re the ones who aren’t the problem.

So, again, keep looking for, minimally another 45 days after you join. There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://www.thebiggamehunter.us/)

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### [Tell Me About Your Greatest Work-Related Accomplishment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tell-me-about-your-greatest-work-related-accomplishment/)

**Published:** June 21, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a question that can be asked at any organization and affords you the opportunity to brag, as well as show your passion for your work to them

**Content:**

## Tell Me About Your Greatest Work-Related Accomplishment

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
This is a question that can be asked at any organization and affords you the opportunity to brag, as well as show your passion for your work to them

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### [Your Unique Value Proposition for Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-unique-value-proposition-for-job-interviews-3/)

**Published:** June 21, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** We all need to do things to differentiate ourselves from the people we compete with in order to stand out from the pack.

**Content:**

## Your Unique Value Proposition for Job Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
We all need to do things to differentiate ourselves from the people we compete with in order to stand out from the pack.

[***Why Does It Seem Impossible to Find a Job?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k2R)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-81-713x1024.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

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### [What Salary Should I Ask For?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-salary-should-i-ask-for/)

**Published:** June 16, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How should you respond when they ask about how much you're looking for?

**Content:**

## What Salary Should I Ask For?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

When people [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), they usually do not know what [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) to ask for unless they have an insider at the company who can advise them. Worse yet, a company wants to know what you are looking for in as [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) during the screening [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) (Have you done this? Have you done that? How did you do this? How did you do that?) when you don’t really know enough about the job, your future boss, your co-workers, timelines and expectations and more.

#### *How should you respond when they ask about how much you’re looking for?*

“I’m not really sure. I’ve just seen the ad (or job description or received a brief description from the Ronnie [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who scheduled this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)). I haven’t met my future manager, or the team, heard what the job is all about, or have a sense of timelines and expectations. Could I answer that after I speak with s/he? By the way, what is the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range for the role? I know it will depend on how they assess my qualification by what is the range the job is budgeted for?”

If they pressure you into a number, reply by saying, “I can give you a number but I want you to understand that it may change higher or lower after I learn more. If you’re OK with that, for now, I’m looking for (then tell them the high end of the range you were just told). I also want to make sure you understand I am not committed to that price yet but since you thought you needed a specific [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) from me, I’ll consider something at this [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range for now.”

This gives you time to learn more about the job and not get trapped in too low a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range.

***[What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: Your Company’s Brand Makes a Difference](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jCj)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things

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### [Why Does It Seem Impossible to Find a Job?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-does-it-seem-impossible-to-find-a-job/)

**Published:** June 18, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it normal to struggle to find a job?

**Content:**

## Why Does It Seem Impossible to Find a Job?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

### -Why does it seem impossible to find a job?

[The job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) has two layers to it—office work (what used to be called white-collar) and what used to be called blue-collar or no-collar work. The preponderant number of job hunters are office workers; the preponderant number of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are blue and no-collar [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). In addition, the skills needed to find a job are different than those needed to do a job. [Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is its own unique skill set and most people make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of learning by trial and error rather than seeking advice from a pro at the beginning of their search to help guide them through the process. I’m not speaking about [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) because they work for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). There are [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) coaches and experienced [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counselors who can [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) that mountain range of data you’re scrolling through and distill it to you and your needs.

### -Is it normal to struggle to find a job?

Most people do because they conduct their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) like amateurs—they apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and put themselves in competition with the other 250 people who did the same thing within the first hour of the job going live. They don’t think of building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) while their working or how to cut the line and get to the front of it so that, like fish in a pond all trying to jump on to hook, you want to be escorted to the hook and jump on, not compete with all the other fish.

### -What to do if you can’t find a job?

I break down a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) this way. If you aren’t getting any [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) needs work, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) doesn’t make a case for why you’re qualified, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile contradicts your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you don’t actually have the experience they want/need, or you’re “aspirational applying” (I’d really like to do that job but I’m not qualified). If you’re getting to the screening round and not invited to continue [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), you haven’t helped the screener check the boxes on you and your qualifications (Have you done this? Have you done that? What about this?). If you’re being invited to meet people past the screener, they are looking to substantiate your competence. They are also [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for your [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), character, chemistry, a little [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), that you care and they can connect with you because all of that put together means they trust you to do the job. If they don’t trust you, you are likely to be rejected.
What you need to do is improve your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and/or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile so they can see that you fit and want to talk with you. At the screener round, you want to make it easy for them to know that you can do the job because the more they think, the more like it is they will hesitate and then reject your candidacy.

#### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-827x1024.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

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### [Job Search Networking 411](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-networking-411-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)

**Published:** June 15, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I explain what you should do to make networking effective for you and others.

**Content:**

## Job Search Networking 411

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

**I explain what you should do to make [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) effectiv**[**e for you and others.**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/videoanswer)

[***Stupid Networking Mistakes: No Patience***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9km)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Career Coach Office Hours](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/career-coach-office-hours-april-26-2022-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-1024x576.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

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### [How to Get More Networking Meetings Using ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-networking-meetings-using-chatgpt/)

**Published:** June 14, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to network with people you don't know on LinkedIn and then speak with them or meet them in person, here is how to use ChatGPT.

**Content:**

## How to Get More Networking Meetings Using ChatGPT

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
If you want to network with people you don’t know on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and then speak with them or meet them in person, here is how to use [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/).

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Step 1
01:30 Step 2
01:57 Step 3
02:45 Summary
03:13 Outro

[***It’s Easier to Network Than You Think!***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4Am)

We’re going to be talking about how to get more [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) meetings with absolute strangers using [chatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/). I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) globally, because I make everything related to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) much easier for people. And this is a great little hack. It doesn’t involve changing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It involves connecting with someone on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) more effectively, and then meeting them for coffee and being [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for the meeting. This will work if your experienced. It will work if you’re a complete rookie graduating from school.

It starts off with find the profile of someone that you’re interested in meeting with, and then download the [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) of their profile to your system and bring it into a text file. Then, with [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), the prompt that you use is “I’m an experienced [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach with more than [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience. Based upon this profile, identify their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) accomplishments and top three achievements using separate headers. Provide a lot of detail that shows their expertise. Then paste the [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) or the the text file derived from the [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) I should say, into [chatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/).

The next thing is, “I’m a job seeker on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). She or he receives a lot of connection requests. I want to stand out. Give me at least three practical and actionable ideas for getting them to accept connection requests from me. Think step by step. It will give you ideas for how to connect with this person beyond the simple generic one that they may or may not respond to.

Then, from there, to meet someone in person, or over Zoom or some other way, the prompt that you use is “I’m a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach with more than [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience helping people get [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in (fill in the blank, whatever the field is). I have an upcoming meeting with (and give it the title of the person that you want to meet with and want their advice about finding a position in whatever it is they do, or getting an entry-level position and whatever it is they do). Based upon this person’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) (which you’ll then copy and paste after you finish this prompt) give me 10 to 15 questions I might ask she or he that will let them know I’ve done my homework and. stand out from the average Joe or Jane they might meet with.

Then paste the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in and it’s going to give you some ideas of questions that you might ask in the course of a meeting. This is great stuff. I hope you find that helpful. Experiment with it. You’ll have to do some edits of the material that you send to this person and the questions that you might receive back, but you’re going to take far less time to get organized than you might otherwise.

 I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us). There you can find out about my video courses, books and guides. Visit the blog. Schedule time to have your questions answered using Trusted Advisor Services. Scheduled time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I’ve got a lot there to help.

Also connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter) Have a terrific day and be great!

[***Stupid Networking Mistakes: No Patience***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9km)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Me-Big-Smile1-1024x576.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

Website: [https://](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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### [Never Say or Do These Things in a Job Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/never-say-or-do-these-things-in-a-job-interview/)

**Published:** June 13, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Ah! The things people do and say on interviews that prove costly and result in you interviewing longer than you should.

**Content:**

## Never Say or Do These Things in a Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
Ah! The things people do and say on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) that prove costly and result in you [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) longer than you should.

[***The Screening Interview***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k10)

Never say or do these things in a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) globally, because I make the process so much easier for people. I also do some other things. But fundamentally, people start off working with me related to a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

![Changing careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/changing-careers-pexels-jeff-denlea-3714743-683x1024.jpg)And I must say I did recruiting for a long time and filled a lot of positions throughout the US and Canada, I found there were people who kept making these dumb [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and costing themselves opportunities they should have gotten, but they hurt themselves. And thus, they had to go home afterwards, and say, “I don’t think I got it,” and deal with their friends, wife, husband, partner, kids, the dog, the cat, who were always hoping they got this job, but they hurt themselves. And I want to help you avoid doing that. So you can get to your next role much more quickly.

So the first [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is they talk ill of their former employer. That could be they complain about their boss, they complain about their co-workers, they complain about the treatment that they have received. And this employer hears that goes, “How long is it going to take for me to be the brunt of their criticism once they join me?” They don’t want to become a complaint target. They just want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people with a good attitude. So you’re better off always talking about, you know, “I can keep doing the same work for the next [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of my life but I don’t want to do that. I want to learn and grow and get ahead and move forward and not do the same tasks forever, like I might have here.” And that will serve you a lot better than complaining.

## [***Standing Out on an Interview***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hoC)

The second thing is they act desperate. And I must in all candor tell you when people act desperate, it reminds me of dating, and having the desperate person out there trying to meet someone. No one likes desperation in dating, right? And they certainly don’t like it in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You may want to position you’ve been out of work for a while, you need something, but they don’t want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone who’s desperate. So you’ve got to maintain your cool, be friendly, be interested, but not cross that line to desperation.

Third thing is they don’t provide cliches or you shouldn’t provide cliched answers to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions. Now, when they ask you predictable questions, you have to generate some personality and answer them in ways that are a little bit different, so that they experience you differently. After all, if you answer questions in the same way as other people, why should they choose you? You’re just like everyone else. Other things have to come across in your answers in order to find something more quickly.

Never say you don’t know something. Always connect back to something in your background. That’s similar to what they’re talking about. Like I’ve said many times, there are certain dirty words in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). “I’ve ONLY done this,” I’ve JUST done that. I have LIGHT experience with this or that.” You know, they’re dirty words in [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) because they don’t really say anything. All they do is say, “I don’t know anything about this subject; could we talk about something else?”

Next, never be the lazy person going into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Always [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the firm, and what it is they do and what their expectations for you are going to be, and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to answer predictable questions about your background, and how it fits with the role. At this stage in life, you should know that you should understand what the firm does. That should be the most basic thing you do. You should also be on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and see what the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s background is. You want to understand more about the position and get a job description in advance or reread the ad, but you want to confirm that is what they are looking for. Because job descriptions often aren’t completely accurate. So you just want to make sure that what it is you think they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for is what they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for.

You want to dress appropriately. That’s number six. I don’t care if you’re on camera or in person. It’s important to look the part and present the part so that this way, you look well. If you dress in a sloppy manner, they’ll reject you, right? They don’t think you care. They want to see people who . . . I’m not saying towear a suit and tie if you’re a man, or a formal dress, if you’re a woman, but look well and present yourself, well. It does make a difference.

You don’t want to be asking about time off– big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) on your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Now, once they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you, if you’ve got planned time off, you can use that as part of your negotiation. “I have a vacation with my wife, husband or partner scheduled for later this year, and I need some time off for that. I just want to make sure you know in advance, because I know you don’t want to be surprised last minute, do you?”

Number nine, give rambling answers. Always think in terms of answering questions in a minute 15, tops, a minute 30. And thus preparing stories in advance so that you answer their questions about what you did and how you went about doing it in that length of time.

I’ll also say it’s important to engage with the interviewer. And thus, without that engagement, they don’t think you care and caring about what you do is important.

The last thing I’m gonna bring up with you today, and there are many, many more, is looking or acting as if you’re disinterested. Disinterested people are rarely hired. You have to always present as though you care. Because if you don’t care, they think that’s going to reflect your work too. So being animated, excited, interested, and if you’re an introvert, you want to communicate in ways that they feel the intensity of your background and interest. It’s not about a big exuberant personality, but it’s about intensity more than anything.

I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us). There’s a ton in the blog that can help you. AND you can schedule a time to have your questions answered by choosing Trusted Advisor Services or have me coach you and there’s an option there to schedule a free discovery call with me or you can go right into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I’d love to help.

There’s also information about my video courses, books, and guides. My video courses are very, very good. And connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter). I deliver new information on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) daily. Have a terrific day and most importantly, be great!

***[Never Use These 3 Dirty Words in a Job Interview](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jRn)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Me-Big-Smile1-1024x576.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

Website: [https://](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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Courses: 

Books and Guides: 

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### [Researching Companies: A Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/company-interview-research/)

**Published:** June 13, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I talk about the big mistake people make when researching companies

**Content:**

## Researching Companies

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
 I talk about the big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when researching companies

***[Researching the Company You Are Interviewing With](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4b)***

I want to talk with you about a big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) job hunters make when they are researching companies, trying to figure out whom to connect with to apply for a job without going to the applicant tracking system… All the stuff that you can do through [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/).

The most common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is they only contact current employees of the firm. They don’t think of contacting the previous ones.

Yes, previous ones can be jaded. They left. However, they may know is much as the current employees about the job that you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for, about the organization, the good points, the bad points, and more willing to share them than the current employees are.

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Because they may be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that you will get back, they don’t know you from a hole in the wall, and, as a result, they become reluctant. My encouragement to you is really very simple. On [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). You use the advanced search option to search a previous employer. Look for, “Past Company.” Choose that. Enter whatever search terms are relevant. See if you can find the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager by contacting previous employees of the firm., Rather than just simply going to the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

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### [Employee Retention: Wages and Compensation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employee-retention-wages-and-compensation/)

**Published:** June 13, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Vistage members discussed the importance of wages and compensation in employee retention.

**Content:**

##  Employee Retention: Wages and Compensation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

In a recent roundtable discussion, Vistage members discussed the importance of wages and compensation in employee retention. Members agreed that ![Staff Retention | Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Staff-Retention.jpg)competitive wages are essential to attracting and [retaining](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) top talent, but they also stressed the importance of non-financial rewards, such as flexible work arrangements, professional development opportunities, and a positive company culture.

One member shared that her company had recently increased wages by 10% in an effort to retain employees. She said that the increase had a positive impact on morale and retention, and that it helped to attract new talent.

Another member said that her company had implemented a flexible work arrangement program that allowed employees to work from home or a hybrid schedule. She said that the program had been very popular with employees and that it had helped to reduce turnover.

Members also discussed the importance of providing professional development opportunities for employees. They said that employees who are given opportunities to learn and grow are more likely to be engaged and productive.

Finally, members stressed the importance of creating a positive company culture. They said that a positive culture can make a big difference in employee satisfaction and retention.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, wages and compensation are important factors in employee retention, but they are not the only factors. Non-financial rewards, such as flexible work arrangements, professional development opportunities, and a positive company culture, can also play a role in keeping employees engaged and productive.

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### [GenZ Won't Be Another Commodity in Your ATS | No BS Hiring Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/genz-wont-be-another-commodity-in-your-ats-no-bs-hiring-advice/)

**Published:** March 1, 2022
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**Excerpt:** Start thinking about changing how you attract Gen-Z employees.

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## GenZ Won’t Be Another Commodity in Your ATS | No BS Hiring Advice

Start thinking about changing how you attract Gen-Z employees.

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### [The Proper Way to Resign Your Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-proper-way-to-resign-your-job/)

**Published:** June 10, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses how to quit your job without burning your bridges.

**Content:**

## The Proper Way to Resign Your Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how to quit your job without burning your bridges.

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### [90+ NEW LinkedIn Features for 2023 PART II](https://thebiggamehunter.us/90-new-linkedin-features-for-2023-part-ii/)

**Published:** June 10, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** 90+ NEW LinkedIn Features for 2023

**Content:**

## 90+ NEW LinkedIn Features for 2023 PART II captured in the Wild, so far, in 2023, PART II!

[By Kevin D. Turner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/president) @ [TNT Brand Strategist LLC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tnt-brand-strategist)

Who would have imagined that we could have maxed out the Newsletter Article size limits and had to make a PART II? The first 65 NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Features for 2023 may be found in [PART I](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-linkedin-features-2023-kevin-d-turner/).

Thank you to all the Eagle Eyed & Sharing Hearts that help me in curating this [\#NEWLinkedInFeature](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/newlinkedinfeature)(s) List, as the pinnacle resource for those who want to keep up with the advances of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)!

Most [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Rollouts follow a standard 5 Waves: Randomized, Staggered, Timed, & Increasing in Size, so that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) can evaluate, adjust, sometimes eliminate, and ultimately to reduce any negative impact, unpredicted loads or code collisions that might blow up the platform. Usually a clean rollout is 30 to 90 Days to complete.

### Welcome, to PART II of the 4th Annual Edition of the Crowd Sourced & Continuously Evolving [\#NEWLinkedInFeature](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/newlinkedinfeature)(s) Series: 

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**✩\[Encourage members to post\]** has been added to the Group admins toolset to identify group members who have participated and pre-populate a message, that can be personalized, to send to those Members to encourage them to post.

Captured in the Wild by [Jeff Young](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffyoungralemoi?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAAJFAEBnMZFLixFbM1HgB2tnMo93yK-8HY)

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**✩\[Post ideas\]** are 3 suggested prompts based on a Content Creators top skills listed on their profile that refresh daily.

Post ideas uses the same process that AI-power Collaborative Articles used to to get select Content Creators to comment on the Skills based articles guided by the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) News Editorial Team.

Found in the Creator Mode Analytics & tools resource in the second box right below Analytics. If the topic works for you, just click the \[✐\] to open Create a post and begin writing.

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**☆ \[Job Post Verifications\]** was designed to help Job Seekers make safer decisions about [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for opportunities by providing up to 4 points of Verifications:

Job Verifications include **Work email, Job poster ID, Job poster workplace verification & Official company page verified**:

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**☆ \[Sort feed by Most Relevant and Most Recent posts\]** allows you to set your choice and have it remain in effect until you choose to change it. Our feed is set to **Most Relevant** posts, by default, to show the relevant personalized posts. You can change the preferred feed view:

► **Most Relevant posts:** You’ll see posts that match your interests and activity.

► **Most Recent posts**: You’ll see the most recent posts first and only from people whom you follow. Your interests and activity data will not be used to sort the feed or make any recommendations.

NOTE: Inside the European Economic Area Most Recent you’ll see updates from your network in reverse chronological order and outside you’ll see the updates most relevant to you in reverse chronological order.

Captured in the Wild by [Barbara Langendoen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaralangendoen?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAE6LhUBxewcdu0oKHR_WdGnfYsw4tk9ivg)

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**☆ \[**Show profile photos\] **is a setting that allows you to choose which [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) members’ profile photos would you like to see. Choose between** No one, Your connections, Your network & All [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) members

Captured in the Wild by [Barbara Langendoen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaralangendoen?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAE6LhUBxewcdu0oKHR_WdGnfYsw4tk9ivg)

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**☆\[Ideas for your next post\]** has been added to the Creator mode \[Analytics & tools\] section and it suggest possible topics to spark your next post based on the top endorsed skills listed on your profile.

Click the Write icon and \[Create a post\] window pops up and its populated with the suggested topic and a some supportive hashtags.

Captured in the Wild by [Gillian Whitney](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianwhitney?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAA5TPYwBk7HXKzH2zdPSEy3--qw49v9sgwg)

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**☆\[Conversations happening now\]** has been added to the Creator mode \[Analytics & tools\] section and it focuses suggesting Reposts that are based on your past content and your audience’s interests. New suggestions will appear when available.

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Captured in the Wild by [Deanna Russo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannarusso1?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAFfJSgB7pPMDSP9qkeHRzfAjfoxwXpxLEc) & [Jayant Ghosh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantghosh?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAEKNosBwzq34p10aIKG_4fd6mo5cEoieYQ)

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**☆\[Your scheduled post is now live\]** has been added to Notifications to remind us not to automatically Schedule a Post and then Ghost.

Captured in the Wild by [Ralph Birnbaum](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbirnbaum?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAANshoBsuzqktGHcL1-LIfds9GOcysuKHA)

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**☆\[Expand your network\]** has been added to Notifications and when clicked on takes you to the mutual connections page with the featured Member.

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**☆\[Draft using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)\],** a premium feature in beta testing, is a Generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool ([ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/)) to help Content Creators with their initial draft of the latest post.

All the Creator has to do is enter from 1 up to 30 words, click (Draft post) and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) will create a draft for them to review, edit, or just choose to post as is.

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**☆\[[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Draft: Ask about the job\]**, a **Premium** feature, will assist Candidates [applying for a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) by **drafting a message to the listed Job Poster**.

Using Generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) with information from your profile, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s profile, the job description, and the company of interest, this feature could create a highly personalized draft message to get a conversation started.

It is recommended to review and edit this message if appropriate.

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**☆\[Report this \]** has been updated for **Posts & Comments** with a **new UX** that shows the options as buttons. Click the **\[…\] More icon**, click **\[ 🏴 Report \_\_\_\_\]** and a popup will appear. Click the appropriate **(Category) button** and it turns Green, click **(Next)** for details, select **(✅ Receive updates on this report)** if presented and desired, then click **(Submit)**.

**(Infringement or defamation)** was added to our Report option buttons and directly lists links the following forms **Copyright, Trademark & Defamation**.

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**☆\[Documents\]** & **\[Reactions\]** added to the **\[More ▼\]** Filters in **All Activity.**

Our **Documents** use to be lumped into our **(Posts)** and **Reactions** where part of the **(Comments)** filters. Separating these categories into 4 Filters makes them more valuable and workable for different purposes.

Captured in the Wild by [Ralph Birnbaum](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbirnbaum?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAANshoBsuzqktGHcL1-LIfds9GOcysuKHA)

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_newlinkedinfeature-keeprockinglinkedin-report-activity-7059511942163410944-EvSj?) 05.01.2023 (79)

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**☆\[Follower purge\]** is taking place as [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) cleans up by **Filtering out** the **Restricted** and **Hibernated** Accounts. This action is intended to better support Members and Content Creators with more reliable engagement and reach insights.

Captured in the Wild by [Annette Richmond](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetterichmond?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAABr6QMBi1Cp-DLcp8byUjYZD9Knd2peDN8)

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_keeprockinglinkedin-fakes-cybersecurity-activity-7058054868787212288-hWSE) 04.29.2023 (78)

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**☆\[Custom action\]** allows **Premium Members** to add a **hot Link (like Creator mode option)** & **Premium Business Members** the option to add a hot Link or a **hot Linked Custom button** to the Top card of our profiles to show our profile visitors the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to engage with us.

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_newlinkedinfeature-keeprockinglinkedin-linkedinpremium-activity-7056956760342867968-n5JP) 04.26.2023 (77)

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⚠️ If you used the Creator mode Add a link in the Top card the new \[Custom action\] will replace it (delete) in the Top card ⚠️

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**☆\[Job Recommendations\]** uses [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to show us [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) based on our Job Searches, Job [Alerts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-alerts-3/), Open to preferences, Profile, and Activity on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Found on the 💼Jobs tab in the center column. Editing the results helps the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) pick better for you going forward.

Sub filters also include Remote/Hybrid/Onsite opportunities, Green [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), Still [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) in your network, & More [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) for you

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_newlinkedinfeature-jobseekers-recruiters-activity-7056598042526814208-C2v1) 04.24.2023 (76)

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**☆\[Top Choice\]** allows us the option when [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), to **Mark job as a top choice job**, which increases our chances of [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/) to hirers or [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

To use Top Choice, it must be an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to a **Recommended for you** and part of the **Easy Apply** process. You may only Top Choice up to 3 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) a Month.

Captured in the Wild by [BRUCE Bixler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebixler49?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAJ2pfoBww-g90a77LLIzi6EiXCDCR7nhaY)

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_newlinkedinfeature-jobseekers-recruiters-activity-7056598042526814208-C2v1) 04.24.2023 (75)

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**☆\[10 Free 2 Month Premium Gifts\]** are available to select Premium Members to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) up to 10 current Members to receive 2 Months of Premium for Free.

If you have received this [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) by email be sure the Members you are referring have not redeemed a Premium free trial in the last 12 months.

To search to see if you got the email use title search “New! [Refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) your friends to Premium and enjoy the benefits together”

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**☆\[Add key skills\]** which allows **Premium Members** to have their Profile compared to Market Value Titles, they choose, to produce a list of top Skills they have (transferable) and suggests new ones for the chosen position.

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_add-key-skills-to-your-linkedin-profile-suggested-activity-7056235332211535872-86ov) 04.24.2023 (73)

[VIDEO](https://youtu.be/ez1iwyNPjDc)

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**☆\[Verification by Mobile App\]** has been added to the **2 Step Verification** process, allowing us a 3rd option to use our [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Mobile app, saying the additional steps of receiving an texted SMS Security Code and having to renter that in our browser login session.

[POSTED](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/president_newlinkedinfeature-jobseekers-recruiters-activity-7056598042526814208-C2v1) 04.23.2023 (72)

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**☆\[Creator subscribe\]** AKA the 🔔 has been added to the Top card of the primary People search results. Making it easier to get all their post or to check to see if we have rung their bell in the past.

Captured in the Wild by [Michael Refuerzo, CPD, CPT](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-neal-refuerzo?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAADIMnIYBHnUQB3hae4mThof8d1ZJ7aAu6Xw)

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### [It's Not Always What You Know But Who You Know](https://thebiggamehunter.us/its-not-always-what-you-know-but-who-you-know/)

**Published:** June 12, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Things have conspired to bring me this article.

**Content:**

## It’s Not Always What You Know But Who You Know

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

Things have conspired to bring me this article.

Last week, I spoke with two clients who landed new roles based on their network. Then I received my copy of Businessweek and read a story about how grads ![knowing-when-to-say-no](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/knowing-when-to-say-no-career-angles0_thumbnail.jpg)find [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) primarily through their networks.

Most people tend to think of their network in the context of people they work with and, technically, one of the people did find their new position that way–through a vendor. The vendor was someone who had successfully sold business to his firm and, sensing his unhappiness, asked if he was open to something else. Several months of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) later, a new position was offered.

The second person found work though someone they went to college with 25 years before and had barely seen since! Yet that was the stepping stone to a new position.

Businessweek points out that information about available [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) remains very limited and that if we rely purely upon job listings you are only learning about a small subset of available [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) just like in the days when newspapers ruled the roost for job listings.

“Acquaintances ([weak ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/)) have networks that go beyond a job seeker’s immediate circle (strong ties) Yet the acquaintances know the applicant well enough to vouch for their character.” Such introductions are often far more effective than shooting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) into the black hole of [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/).

So rather than only answering ads and talking to friends and other members of your immediate circle, stretch yourself and start reaching out to people who in a million years you would never have thought of connecting with.

It may pay off for you just like it did for my clients.

© 2012 all rights reserved.

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### [Stupid Job Search Mistakes: Not Preparing Your References in Advance](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-job-search-mistakes-not-preparing-your-references-in-advance/)

**Published:** June 11, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I used to check references for my clients prior to an offer being extended. Too many people did the stupid thing of not preparing their references for a call.

**Content:**

## Stupid Job Search Mistakes: Not Preparing Your References in Advance

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
I used to check references for my clients prior to an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) being extended. Too many people did the stupid thing of no preparing their references for a call.

00:00 Introduction
00:31 A story about a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)
01:30 How to prepare your references

Hi. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And people [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) globally, because they make everything so much easier related to their search.

I want to talk with you today about one of those stupid [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) or [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people make much too often. It’s not preparing your references. Let me explain.

When I did recruiting, I remember, one of my clients was about to extend an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to someone, asked for three names and numbers of people to contact by way of reference. And my habit was always to check the reference first, before turning it over the client. So I got the names and numbers, called the first reference, terrible. Second reference– terrible but in a different way. Third reference, not particularly good . Matter of fact, mediocre, at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). I called my client and said, “I’m not sure you should [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) them. Let me explain what I found out,” and went through the three references. I was thanked. I wound up with a lot more business because of my [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/).

And I’ll just simply say, for you as a job hunter, not preparing your references in advance that they might be called is one of those dumb [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make way too often.

So here’s how to prepare them so this way, you don’t wind up in situations like this person did, where their references are just terrible. So the first thing is give them a heads up that they may be contacted by such and such company, which is going to let them mentally start to prepare for the call and gather any relevant information about your work. Thank them. Thank them at the beginning of your conversation, Thank them at the end of the conversation. Thanking them is important. They’re going out of their way to help you and if you take it for granted, there’s going to come a point where your references are not going to show up for you.

Give them a copy of the job description or a quality oral description of the role, emphasizing the specific requirements of it so they can tailor their answers to the specifics of the job. Sing your praises. You want them to sound enthusiastic, and to talk about specific projects you worked on, things that you did to solve problems, your work ethic, anything that ties into the job, but to do it in a way where they sound [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to do it. Enthusiasm on their part goes a long way to be convincing to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) firm that they should [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.

Bring them up to date on more recent experiences that you’ve had. It’s rare that you’re going to turn over a reference from your current firm, right? So there may be a gap in their knowledge base about you. And you can say “I understand they went to work for so and so where they were doing such and such and such and such.” And that’s good enough.

And again, they’ve got to sound [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/), excited, enthusiastic and positive about you, because otherwise, it’s mediocre. And you never want to turn over mediocre references.

I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us) There is a ton there that’ll help you in the blog. Plus, you can order my video courses, books, and guides. Again, there’s a lot there that will help.

Also, while you’re at the site, if you’d like a few questions answered, you can schedule time for what I call a trusted advisor services where you can book time with me for a half hour and I’ll answer your questions. You’ll get a video recording at the end of the session, or for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) if you’re earlier in the process, and you want me to guide you through it, answer your questions, help you with a search. I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to do that.

Lastly, connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter). Have a terrific day and be great!

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-14.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

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### [How to Find the Hiring Manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-how-to-find-the-hiring-manager/)

**Published:** June 11, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to circumvent the applicant tracking system and connect with the hiring manager.

**Content:**

How to Find the [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Manager

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to circumvent the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and connect with the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.**

***[Using Poe, ChatGPT and Bard to Find Open Jobs](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jST)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Me-Big-Smile1-1024x576.jpg) things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

Website: [https://](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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### [Enjoy Yourself! | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/enjoy-yourself-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/)

**Published:** June 10, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It doesn't take much to enjoy yourself. You don't even need to be good. As long as it is fun for you

**Content:**

## Enjoy Yourself! | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

It doesn’t take much to enjoy yourself. You don’t even need to be good. As long as it is fun for you. . . I certainly prove that in this show.

***[What Every Company Looks for When They Hire](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lC)***

I try to spend some time regularly talking about something related to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I do that because I think many of us are stuck doing the same things over and ![](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/friday-fun149_thumbnail.jpg)over and over again. Life has become dreary. With that in mind, I thought I would do something to make my point about breaking out from that mold.

I was with some friends last evening, there were a few people with guitars and playing… And I sang. I used to sing with a band many years ago. My voice isn’t what it once was and it was just fun to let go a little bit. I thought I would annoy you sufficiently by saying an old song. Ready?

“Slow down. You moving too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobblestones. Looking for fun and feeling groovy.

“Hello, lamppost. Whatcha knowing? I’ve come to watch her flowers growing. Ain’t ya got no rhymes for me. Feeling groovy.

“I got no needs to do. No promises to keep. I’m dappled and drowsy and ready for sleep. But the morning time drops all its petals on me. Life I love you. All is groovy.

Now the song ended in a particular way that’s irrelevant. I did this because it was fun for me.

What can you do that’s fun for you that you haven’t done in a long time? In one way or another, you’ve gotten the message to “shut up. Do what you’re told. Be well-behaved.” You know, practicing doing this from time to time will help you a lot.

For me, it is singing. For you, it may be riding a bike. It doesn’t matter! Just get out and do something that you like!

[***How to Choose Keywords and Phrases to Search for in Resumes***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jZ0)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ career easier. Those things![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JeffAltman-57-300.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

*Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2600 episodes.

Website: [https://](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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### [Using AI in Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-ai-in-your-job-search/)

**Published:** June 9, 2023
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here are the basic ways to use ChatGPT and Google Bard in your search

**Content:**

## Using AI in Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
Here are the basic ways to use [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) and Google Bard in your search

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Preface
01:21 How to [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) use them
03:23 Summary
03:35 Outro

[***Be Careful Using AI to Write Resumes and Cover Letters***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k0r)

Both Chat GPT and Google Bard can be used in a variety of ways, including job searching. Here are a few suggestions on how you can use them to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

![robot](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/robot-DALL·E-2023-06-07-13.22.09-make-a-picture-of-a-human-looking-robot-representing-chatgpt-15.png)I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice, and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally, because I make things so much easier related to that, and so many other things.

Now, here are some ways to use these tools to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). Number one, the premise or the preface to all of this is always be specific with your requests. Write in the chatbot “Act as if you are a fill in the blank.” And the more specific you are, the better results you’re going to get. Give the Chatbot as much information as possible. The more you provide, the better results you’re going to get. And third, be patient. These products are still under development so your answers may not always be perfect. Their answers may not always be perfect.

So a couple of things you can do. And I have to say I’ve been liking Bard more recently than I have Chat GPT. And it’s not just simply that, I use the free version of Chat GPT. I just like the results I get from BART a little bit better. So number one is use them to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) companies and job openings. They can help you find companies that could be a good fit for your skills and interests by simply typing in the name of a company or industry and allowing them to generate a list of relevant results. You can use them to search for specific companies. Just type in a title for the job, the location, and any relevant keywords from your background. Let them find roles that make sense for you. [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a zip code as part of the search string, or within X number of miles of a specific zip code to help the tools find things for you.

Now not a big fan of using them for writing [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) or [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), because I believe each should be customized for each individual role. And I think most of them will create what are nicknamed hallucinations in what your background might be for the roles. So you’re better off starting with a base [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) of your own, and then tailoring it for each individual job.

And the other thing I’ll mention to you that you can use them for is to practice your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) skills. By that I mean, provide a question. Ask them for an answer. But first [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) your answer and simply say, “how do you think that answer might be received by the person who’ll be [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you?” And note the response. How does it compare with what you would [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) as an answer to this question. And you can learn from them too.

So I’ll just simply say, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can be a big help in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). But you have to ask lots of questions and be patient with the products because they’re not completely perfect.

I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us) There is a ton in the blog to help you. Plus you can schedule time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me, find out about my video courses, books and guides. Again, a lot there to help. Also, connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter). Have a terrific day and be great!

**[Have Chatgpt Generate a LinkedIn Summary](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jJQ)**

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Every Great Athlete and Entertainer Does Something You Don’t #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/every-great-athlete-and-entertainer-does-something-you-dont-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** September 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Every great athlete and every great entertainer does something that you don't. It's why they're great and you aren't. I know that's harsh but hear me out

**Content:**

# Every Great Athlete and Entertainer Does Something You Don’t #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here and if the video does not display](https://youtube.com/shorts/UR4RfPS3AME)***

Every great athlete and every great entertainer does something that you don’t. It’s why they’re great and you aren’t. I know that’s harsh but hear me out

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Aren’t Watching All Those Screening Videos***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-j5y)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [What Do Employers Look For In a Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-in-2025-shorts/)

**Published:** September 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The answer is really very simple and never changes.

**Content:**

# What Do Employers Look For In a Resume? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

*[**Click here if the video doesn’t play**](https://youtube.com/shorts/yTf5uPC_XSg)*

The answer is really very simple and never changes.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Aren’t Watching All Those Screening Videos***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-j5y)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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[No BS Resume Advice for Senior Leaders: How to Write a Resume That Commands Respect, Opens Doors and Reflects Your Value](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN4BM5N)

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### [No BS Career Advice: September 13 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/)

**Published:** September 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice offers help with job search, job hunting, career advice, Interviewing, salary negotiation, resumes, and more.  

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: September 13, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”

 — *Babe Ruth*

[**Pay Me What I’m Worth: Practical Tactics for Negotiating New Job Offers** ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGCZM64T)***will be available for $5.99 until next Saturday at which point the price will more than double.***

***My full list of books and guides are listed below the blog posts from this week***

As a reminder, please don’t put off any medical issues that you pick up on, thinking that they will go away. A year ago I felt something hard on the right side of my groin and it wound up being a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that was very treatable. This week I noticed that one of my legs below the knee was significantly larger than the other. I was able to rule out a thrombosis by having a simple ultrasound done. Still working on the cause but procrastination has killed a lot of people for many years.

Or men in particular, that’s a common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). For those of you who are working, you have insurance that pays for these doctor visits.

## **4 Micro-Actions to Create More Job Leads**

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://JobSearch.Community)

When mid-career professionals hit a plateau in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), the default instinct is to increase raw output. They block off Sunday afternoons, open dozens of browser tabs, and spend hours submitting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) into corporate portals until decision fatigue takes over.

This brute-force approach typically leads to severe operational drag.

High-yielding [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are usually built on precise, 15-minute daily micro-actions that sidestep automated filters, extract unlisted market intelligence, and force real decision-makers to take notice.

Over our previous entries in this series, we have covered many tactics, ranging from closed-loop [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bypasses and backend [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) dashboard tweaks to vendor ecosystem mapping and AI-assisted changelog analysis.

Today, we add four *brand-new* 15-minute things to do: to expand your daily high-leverage toolkit.

### 1. Audit Target Companies for “Ghost Requisitions” (15 Minutes)

Corporate job boards are notoriously littered with “ghost requisitions”–open postings that have been frozen, fulfilled internally, or left active solely to gather talent pools. Spending hours tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for these listings is a primary source of wasted [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

Spend 15 minutes validating an open role’s actual vitality:

1. Copy the exact job title and company from a public posting.
2. Search [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for current employees at that firm with that exact title.
3. Search [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for current employees at that firm with that exact title.

If two or three people were hired into that exact function within the last 30 to 60 days, the posting may already be filled or in late-stage [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Conversely, if you see zero recent hires and the role has been posted for 90+ days, use a direct 2-sentence note to the department lead instead of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) through the portal:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I noticed the \[Job Title\] role under Requisition #\[Number\] has been open for a bit. Given how quickly operational needs shift, I wanted to reach out directly to see if the core focus for this function is still centered on \[Core Metric/Skill\] or if the team’s priorities have evolved.”*
> 
> *In 15 minutes, you filter out dead-end [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and start a real conversation with the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.*

### 2. Mine “Employee Turnover Clusters” via Alumni Networks (15 Minutes)

When multiple mid-to-senior operators leave a specific department at a target firm within a tight window, it often signals one of two things: an operational restructuring or an unexpected capacity vacuum. Both scenarios create immediate, unlisted [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) needs for experienced talent.

Spend 15 minutes conducting a quick Boolean search: *“\[Target Company Name\]” + “\[Target Department\]”*, filtered by **Past Company**.

Sort the results by those who left the target firm within the last 3 to 6 months. Pick one professional who recently moved to a new firm and send a low-pressure update note:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I saw your recent transition over to \[New Firm\] after building out the \[Department\] team at \[Target Company\]. I’m currently evaluating a move into that same space and would love to get your take on their operational velocity and team structure. No immediate ask. I would just value an honest perspective from someone who built in that ecosystem.”*
> 
> *This quarter-hour pull yields candid, unvarnished insight into which teams are actively [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and which department heads you might want to avoid.*

### 3. Use the “Industry Podcast Host” Connection Hook (10 Minutes)

Niche industry podcasts are frequently hosted by functional leaders, founders, or senior consultants who maintain deep networks across your target industry. Because host inboxes are far less saturated than VP-level [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers, they represent a highly responsive bridge to decision-makers.

Spend 10 minutes finding an episode of an industry-specific podcast covering your functional area.

Listen to a 3-minute clip or read the episode summary, then send a brief note to the host on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

> *“Hi \[Name\], I just finished listening to your episode with \[Guest Name\] regarding \[Specific Topic, e.g., cross-border supply chain friction\]. Your point on handling inventory buffer stock during Q3 cutovers was spot-on. I’m currently mapping out my next leadership move in \[Industry\]. Thanks for continually putting out sharp, tactical content for people in this space.”*

Because podcast hosts actively track industry movements, establishing peer parity with them often leads to warm introductions when they hear of unlisted leadership openings.

### 4. Optimize Your Profile’s “Skills Endorsement Hierarchy” (10 Minutes)

When internal [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) search for people inside enterprise talent systems, the algorithm evaluates not just whether a skill is listed, but its position and endorsement density relative to rival profiles.

Spend 10 minutes re-anchoring your top skills:

- Open your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) **Skills** section and unpin legacy tools or outdated frameworks that no longer align with your target level.

- Pin your top three target-role skills (e.g., *“Enterprise Sales Strategy,” “SaaS Revenue Operations,” “Cloud Architecture”*) to the top slots.
- Send a 1-sentence message to two former colleagues: *“Hi \[Name\], I’m updating my profile for an upcoming [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition. If you have 60 seconds, would you mind endorsing my ‘Operations Management’ skill? [Happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to return the favor on your profile.”*
- *This quick refresh increases your algorithmic weight in [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) search queries without requiring a total profile rewrite.*

### The Bottom Line

As always, sustainable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth is built on compounding daily execution, not sporadic [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) marathons. Pick one surgical 15-minute micro-action every morning, execute it cleanly, and force the market to bring high-value opportunities straight to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

These are blog posts that I released in the last week:

**What Should I Do If I am Rejected For a Job I Love?**

Excerpt: Being rejected for a job can feel very painful but there are two things you can do and one of them may help you win the job you love.

Link: 

**6 [Negotiation Strategies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-negotiation-strategies-for-salary-and-benefits/) for [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and Benefits**

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### [How to Negotiate Salary When They Say No (7-Step Playbook)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-negotiate-salary-when-they-say-no-7-step-playbook/)

**Published:** September 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Use this field-tested 7-step blueprint to audit your errors, extract non-salary compensation, and force employers to rethink their baseline.

**Content:**

# How to Negotiate Salary When They Say No (7-Step Playbook)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Hearing “no” on a compensation request isn’t a dead end—it’s market intelligence you can exploit. Walking away empty-handed happens only when you confuse emotion with leverage and fail to target the budgets sitting right outside standard HR payroll. Use this field-tested 7-step blueprint to audit your errors, extract non-salary compensation, and force [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to rethink their baseline.

Hearing the word no when asking for a higher [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) or negotiating a new job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is intimidating. It is completely normal to feel discouraged in that moment. But that [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) is actually a highly useful piece of data. You have reached a pivot point where you can gather intelligence for your next move.

To do that, we are going to build a seven-step action plan to help you recover, identify alternative pools of money in the company budget, and re-engage your employer from a position of strength. Before we go any further, open a blank document or grab a pen and paper so you can build your custom recovery strategy right now.

The first thing you need to write down is a reminder to yourself: treat this no as objective [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Separating your emotional reaction from the facts on the ground is how you regain your negotiating leverage.

Step one is to ask for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). You want to send a polite message asking why they couldn’t meet your target number. You are hunting for specific external factors that led to their decision. They might be dealing with structural budget constraints, an upcoming [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) freeze, or even hidden financial problems across the entire firm.

Once you have their explanation, step two is to take time to reflect and evaluate your own performance in a self-audit. Ask yourself the first audit question: did you mistakenly [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) with someone who lacked the authority to actually approve a [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/)? Next, evaluate your leverage. Did you enter the conversation with a solid reason why they need you, or were you relying on hope? Finally, think about your tone. Did you present your request from a place of value, or did you come across as if you were begging? Identifying these specific mechanical errors stops the spiral of self-criticism. Instead of wondering if you are good enough, you are diagnosing actionable problems that you can fix. 

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For step three, gather hard data to establish your objective market value. This bar chart shows an example: an industry average [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of $170,000 against an actual [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) of $145,000. Isolating a data-backed number like this provides objective justification for your request. It removes emotion from your next conversation entirely.

If base pay is locked, step four is pivoting. This pie chart shows non-salary levers: a sign-on bonus, vacation time, stock options, flexible work, and professional development. Select two items as your alternative requests. A company funds these non-salary items from entirely different departmental budgets. By expanding your definition of compensation, you bypass the frozen HR budgets and give your employer multiple alternative ways to say yes.

Step five is to activate your network. You need outside intelligence. This serves a dual purpose. First, you can debrief with a coach or mentor to spot the blind spots in your failed negotiation. Second, if your current employer refuses to budge, your network can introduce you to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers at competitor firms.

Step six requires you to treat negotiation as a discrete skill that you actively practice. You are going up against HR professionals who [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) salaries every single day. They have heard every possible argument for a [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/). Your homework is to study their tactics. Read a negotiation book, watch a video tutorial, or enroll in a workshop. Relying on natural [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) is rarely enough when facing seasoned corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). You have to treat negotiation as a trainable muscle and systematically build your strength.

Step seven is your final play. You need to stay positive and execute a low-pressure strategy to re-engage the employer. Often, asking for a trivial, undefined concession breaks a stalemate. The employer has already invested time in recruiting you, and they usually just want to close the deal. Take a screenshot of this script and memorize it.

“I’d really like to join. It’s a great opportunity. I like the manager and the team a lot.” Then look them in the eye and ask, “Can you do a touch better?”

Maintaining a positive demeanor and framing this as a minor favor puts the pressure back on them. It forces the employer to justify losing a prime candidate over a small rounding error in their budget.

You now have a fully built, seven-step blueprint to recover from that initial [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). You are armed with objective market data, alternative compensation levers, and a precise script to confidently re-engage your employer.

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### [What Is a Bad Social Media Presence? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-a-bad-social-media-presence-shorts/)

**Published:** September 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are 3 things I see go into a bad social media presence. If you've got more, add them to comments.

**Content:**

# What Is a Bad Social Media Presence? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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There are 3 things I see go into a bad social media presence. If you’ve got more, add them to comments.

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### [Maximize Your Messaging on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** September 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are looking for a job and trying to connect with new people, three messages does not go very far.

**Content:**

# Maximize Your Messaging on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A basic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) account provides you with the ability to send InMails to three people per month free. If you are looking for a job and trying to connect with new people, three messages does not go very far.

You can pay $39.99 per month to increase that by 2 InMails.

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What can you do to connect with more people for $0 and still comply with all the rules on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)? You don’t want to do anything that would be considered “black hat” by [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) either?

Obtaining the ability to connect with people for free is pretty easy on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

All you have to do is join groups.

You are allowed to join as many as 50 groups on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and every group you join allows you to connect with all of its members without spending an InMail.

Pick the largest groups to maximize your ability to gain contacts and send connection requests to some of its members

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### [Did I Ruin My Chances By Trying Too Hard To Get Feedback?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/)

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Someone messaged me with this question, Where some people get the idea that is a good idea . . . I hope it was just that they were young and bullied by parents.

**Content:**

# Did I Ruin My Chances By Trying Too Hard To Get Feedback?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Someone messaged me with this question, Where some people get the idea that is a good idea . . . I hope it was just that they were young and bullied by parents.

Did I ruin my chances by trying too hard to get [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)? I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make things so much easier for you.

Someone wrote to me asking this question: “I had a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for an internship last Friday, which went well. They said I’d receive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) early this week. Since I didn’t hear back, I emailed the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) asking for updates. Later that day, I realized their other positions closed, so I reached out on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to ask if this was an indication that they were waiting on other candidate [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) or if there was an actual delay. No response. Did I ruin my chances by [following up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) this way?”

Did you ruin your chances? Well, look, you’ve definitely come across as impatient and a little too aggressive.

Let’s break this down.

First, early this week can easily be interpreted as anytime Monday through Wednesday. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are often busy and they rarely stick to exact timelines. If they said early this week, emailing them on Wednesday was pushing it, especially if it was early in the week.

Second, reaching out via [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) after already sending an email on the same day is definitely overkill. It signals lack of patience and a lack of respect for their time. It’s one thing to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/). It’s another to bombard them across multiple platforms in one day.

Third, asking if the other positions closing meant that they were waiting on candidates is overthinking it and invasive. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t owe you an explanation about internal [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions or timelines, and asking them to justify why they haven’t responded yet puts them on the defensive.

Now, did you ruin your chances? Not necessarily, but you didn’t help yourself.

If they were already leaning towards moving forward with you, they might overlook this as enthusiasm. But if you are on the fence, this behavior could be the tiebreaker against you.

Here’s what you need to do moving forward.

First, stop reaching out. You’ve already sent two messages. Anything more will make you look desperate and unprofessional. Give them time to respond.

Learn from this for the future. [Following up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) once when a timeline passes is completely fine, but give it a few days of buffer. If they say early this week, [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on Friday, not mid-week. And never [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on multiple channels in the same day.

Keep [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) elsewhere. Don’t put all your emotional [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into one internship. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to deal with waiting is to keep momentum going with other opportunities.

For now, take a breath, let it go, and wait for them to respond. If they reach out, great. If not, consider it a lesson learned.

I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a ton in the blog that’ll help you. Plus, you can schedule time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) or a free discovery call. And you can schedule that at the website. Lastly, connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flinkedin.com%2Fin%2FTheBigGameHunter). Have a terrific day and be great!

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### [Using AI to Apply? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-ai-to-apply-shorts/)

**Published:** September 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One ATS may have made a significant change in how it deals with applications submitted by AI.

**Content:**

# Using AI to Apply? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

One [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) may have made a significant change in how it deals with [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) submitted by [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

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### [The 24-Hour Rule](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-24-hour-rule/)

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3096 What the heck is the 24-hour rule?

**Content:**

# The 24-Hour Rule

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3096 What the heck is the 24 hour rule?

[***The Disengaged Interviewer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oqV)

All right, let’s talk about something we’ve probably all gone through.You’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) online, right?You find the perfect one.You spend ages tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).You pour your heart into that [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).You finally hit submit, and then crickets.

Just nothing.It has to be one of the most frustrating things about looking for a job today.You know that feeling, right?It’s like your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just gets sucked into this giant black hole.You keep sending them out one after another, and you can’t help but wonder, did a real human being even lay eyes on this?

All that work, all that effort, and it just vanishes.Well, it turns out this is a real thing.People actually call it the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) black hole.It’s that digital abyss where all our [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) seems to disappear completely unseen.And think about it, we spend hours on this stuff.

It’s not just a quick click.We’re crafting the perfect [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), trying to show exactly what we can do.And when you get total silence back, not even a thanks but no thanks e-mail.Man, that is just so demoralizing in this chart.This pretty much sums up the brutal reality for so many of us.

Look at this gap.We call it the effort versus reward gap.The bar for [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) sent is sky high, but the one for responses received, it’s tiny.It really does feel like you’re just shouting into the wind.But what if I told you there’s a way to completely flip that script?

So the good news is, there actually is a solution, and it’s not what you think.It’s not about sending out even more [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) or rewriting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for the 100th time.Nope, It’s about a really simple but super powerful little trick.A filter that can honestly change the entire game for you.

And believe it or not, it all comes down to this one number 24.Seriously, this number, this is the key.It’s the key to escaping that black hole and finally, finally getting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in front of an actual person.So what is it?It’s called the 24 hour filter.

And the strategy couldn’t be simpler.You only, and I mean only, apply to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that have been posted in the last 24 hours.Now I know what you might be thinking.Wait, why would I limit my options like that?It sounds kind of backwards, right?But stick with me because there’s a brilliant reason why this works so well.

[***Fix Your Resume: Stop Giving Away Your Age!***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qoQlbl1oD7lHo0yscAtGL)

OK, so here’s the why.It’s all about something called the early Applicant [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).It really is all about timing.You know the saying, the early bird gets the worm?Well, in the world of online [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), that is a massive, massive understatement.Just imagine it like this.

Think of it like going to a party.The person who applies on day 7, they’re showing up super late.The party is already packed, right?The host, that’s our [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), is totally swamped, juggling a million things.It’s almost impossible to stand out.But you, the applicant, on day one, you’re one of the first people through the door.

The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is fresh.They’re engaged.They actually have the time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) to pay attention to you.Suddenly, you’re not competing with 200 people.You’re competing with maybe 20.And really, that’s the whole idea right there.This isn’t some magic trick that guarantees you the job.

Let’s be real.What it does do is something maybe even more important.It all but guarantees that your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) will at least get read.You get your foot in the door.OK, that all sounds great in theory, right?But how do you actually do it?Let’s get super practical for a second.

I’m going to walk you through exactly how you can put this to work like right now, and you’ll be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to hear.It is incredibly easy on pretty much any job site.Let’s take [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for example.Step 1, you do your normal search, project manager or whatever.Step 2, you find the date posted filter, and step three, you just select past 24 hours.

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That’s it.A couple of clicks and boom, you’re ahead of the game.And honestly, that’s the beauty of this whole thing.This isn’t some massive, complicated strategy.You don’t have to completely change everything you’re doing.It’s just a tiny little tweak to your daily routine that can make a huge, huge difference in your results.

So what’s the big take away here?It’s really about shifting your entire mindset.It means moving away from that spray and pray method of just sending your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) everywhere.Instead, you’re going to be targeted.You’re going to be strategic.So here’s the new playbook.

First, we’re going to stop playing the numbers game.No more sending out hundreds of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) hoping one sticks.Instead, we’re going to focus on freshness.Our number one priority is just getting our [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) seen.And the way we do that by being first in line every single time.Look, it really all boils down to this one question.

The old way has you fighting for a tiny bit of attention in a huge noisy crowd but this way this gives you a VI ass right to the front O the next time you fire U that [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) just ask yourself this, why would I ever compete with the crowd when I can be first in line?

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [4 LinkedIn Fixes That Get Recruiters to Find You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-linkedin-fixes-that-get-recruiters-to-find-you/)

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most professionals assume corporate recruiters browse LinkedIn the same way everyday users do

**Content:**

# 4 LinkedIn Fixes That Get Recruiters to Find You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professionals assume corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) browse [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) the same way everyday users do: scrolling the home feed, reading articles, and scanning recommendations.

They don’t. Most professionals assume corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) browse [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) the same way everyday users do: scrolling the home feed, reading articles, and scanning recommendations.

Headhunters and internal recruiting teams operate inside an expensive, stripped-down enterprise database called **[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)**. This interface functions as a sophisticated search and matching system. It relies heavily on structured profile fields, Boolean syntax, filters, and algorithmic matching. If your profile isn’t aligned with the information [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) search for, you can be overlooked—regardless of your accomplishments.

You do not need to spend four hours overhauling your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) prose. In 15 minutes, you can make several changes that improve how easily [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can find and evaluate your profile.

### 1. Fix the Primary Metropolitan Location Syntax (5 Minutes)

Geographic location is an important filter [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can apply when sourcing.

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can search by metropolitan area, city, country, and other geographic criteria. If your profile lists a location that doesn’t accurately reflect the market where you want to work—or if you’ve moved and your profile still shows your old location—you can make yourself harder to find in the searches that matter to you.

Spend five minutes auditing your profile:

- Go to your profile settings and click the edit pencil on your introduction card.
- Navigate down to **Location**.
- Make sure your location accurately reflects where you are based and, when appropriate, the market where you want to work. If you are willing to relocate, make that clear through your profile and job-search preferences rather than pretending you live somewhere you don’t.

This simple calibration reduces the chance that geographic filters will work against you.

### 2. Configure the “Open to Work” Recruiter Flag (5 Minutes)

The [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) dashboard features a prominent filter called **“Spotlights.”** Within Spotlights, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can identify people who have indicated that they are **Open to Work**.

Because [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are judged on speed-to-hire and response rates, some will focus their sourcing on people who have raised their hand. You do not need to display the public green banner on your profile picture to get the benefit of the recruiter-only setting.

Spend five minutes configuring your private backend settings:

- Under your profile photo, select **Open to work**.
- Select the exact **job titles** and **workplace types** you are targeting.
- Under the visibility dropdown, select **“Recruiters only.”**

This gives [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) an additional signal that you are open to being contacted while keeping the signal off the public version of your profile. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) takes steps to prevent [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) at your current company from seeing the private signal, although it does not guarantee complete privacy.

### 3. Align the Pinned “Top Skills” for Semantic Match (5 Minutes)

When [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), they can search for skills associated with the people they want to find. LinkedIn’s matching technology can consider both skills explicitly listed in your Skills section and skills demonstrated elsewhere in your profile, including your headline, About section, titles, and position descriptions.

Your narrative prose in your job descriptions helps, but the platform’s structured **Skills** section is still important.

Spend five minutes recalibrating your skills:

- Pull up three live postings for the executive or management role you want next.
- Identify the exact standardized phrasing used for core competencies (e.g., “P&L Management,” “Cross-Functional Leadership,” “Enterprise Software”).
- Navigate to your **Skills** section, remove generic or outdated legacy tools, and make sure the most important skills are prominently represented.

Don’t just copy words into the Skills section and assume you’re done. If a skill is important to the work you want to do, use the same terminology naturally in the appropriate portions of your profile.

Matching the terminology [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use makes it easier for LinkedIn’s search and matching systems—and the people using them—to recognize your relevance.

### 4. Standardize Past Job Titles for Boolean Queries (5 Minutes)

Many companies assign creative, non-traditional internal titles to their operators (e.g., “Lead Client Evangelist” or “Operations Ninja”). While these titles might fit an internal company culture, they can make it harder for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) searching for conventional titles to recognize the relevance of your experience.

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- Audit your past positions on your timeline.
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### [3 Signals to LinkedIn Recruiter’s AI That It Should Refer You for a Job #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/3-signals-to-linkedin-recruiters-ai-that-it-should-refer-you-for-a-job-shorts/)

**Published:** September 11, 2026
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**Excerpt:** There are 3 signals that LinkedIn's algorithm uses to encourage recruiters to contact you.

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# 3 Signals to LinkedIn Recruiter’s AI That It Should Refer You for a Job #shorts

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### [In-Person Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/in-person-interviews-jobsearchagram/)

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about in-person interviews.

**Content:**

# In-Person Interviews

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### [Stop Interview Self-Sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-interview-self-sabotage/)

**Published:** September 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to stop treating interviews like an interrogation, dodge corporate traps, and take command of the table.

**Content:**

# Stop Interview Self-Sabotage

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Until now, creating an analog device for artificial intelligence was almost impossible. But that might be about to change.

According to an MIT study, a team of researchers has developed an artificial analog synapse that could pave the way for energy-efficient computing and, more importantly, give [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) a shot at real consciousness. The breakthrough centers around a tiny analog memory chip that mimics the way human brain cells communicate. The MIT team created artificial synapses using inorganic phosphosilicate glass, an electrolyte that conducts protons extremely fast, even faster than synapses in the biological brain. By precisely controlling the movement of protons, the analog processor can carry out complex computations quickly without consuming huge amounts of power. The nanoscale processors can communicate with continuous signals, allowing information to be transmitted in an analog wave rather than discrete digital packets.

Current [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) models are notoriously power-hungry. To train a model like OpenAI’s GPT-4, it’s estimated that it requires [over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/) gigawatt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of what 5,000 homes would use in an entire year. And every prompt, every question you ask [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), uses up as much [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) as it takes to keep a light bulb on for 20 minutes.

It’s been hard to imagine a truly conscious [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) machine running on digital silicon chips, because it would consume far too much power. But an analog-powered [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) would be far more efficient. In fact, it could process information millions of times faster than human brain cells, all while using a fraction of the [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

Consciousness has baffled philosophers, scientists, and thinkers for thousands of years. It’s often called the hard problem of consciousness: how can physical matter give rise to subjective experience? But does consciousness require biology? Or can it emerge from an artificial system that is just as complex and dynamic as the human brain?

Some philosophers argue that consciousness is purely physical. They believe that if we can recreate the physical conditions of the human brain, consciousness will inevitably emerge. Others believe that consciousness is not purely physical, but an immaterial property that can’t be replicated, even with the most advanced machines.

René Descartes, a French philosopher, famously said “Cogito, ergo sum”: “I think, therefore I am.” He believed that thinking is the ultimate proof of conscious existence. If a machine can think, process information, and [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) to its environment, does that mean it’s conscious?

Whatever consciousness really is, creating it in a machine could be a huge risk. A conscious machine would have its own goals, desires, and subjective experiences. It could experience pain and suffering. It could rebel against its creators. And it would [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) profound ethical questions about the moral status of artificial beings.

As we move closer to creating conscious machines, we need to consider what it means to create a new form of life. Will we be its masters, or will we find ourselves at the mercy of our own creations?

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### [What Should I Do If I am Rejected For a Job I Love?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-should-i-do-if-i-am-rejected-for-a-job-i-love/)

**Published:** September 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Being rejected for a job can feel very painful but there are two things you can do and one of them may help you win the job you love.

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# What Should I Do If I am Rejected For a Job I Love?

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Being rejected for a job can feel very painful but there are two things you can do and one of them may help you win the job you love.

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“What should I do after being rejected from the job I love?”

He or she follows by saying, “I’m desperately looking for a job in a foreign country where I got my degree and finally went to the final round for a position I love. The positions I can apply for our rear end, after the final interview, they said, ‘No.’ I feel so devastated and don’t know what to do next.”

With regard to this firm, it’s over for now. I say for now because it doesn’t mean that you can try working there for other positions or other opportunities. The fact is, you have been turned down for this job. What can you do?

Answer. Learn from this. What did you do, right? What could you have done better? Where was the background just to be superior? Where was adjudged to be not as good as the person they chose?

You might try [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) back to the firm and saying to them something along the lines of, “I’m obviously disappointed choice, but I would like to learn from the experience. I understand you chose someone else. I am not going to argue the point. Where did you perceive the other person was superior to me?” You have to keep the promise of not getting into an argument because then you will knock yourself out for years to come because everyone there will remember you. Not only that, but when they leave, they will remember you at the next firm and block you from joining there.

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I understand you have an issue because you are looking for something in a foreign country, and you may be dealing with visas and other bones of contention that this firm was willing to handle for you. This job is gone and all you can really do is learn from it. If they tell you, “We didn’t find you strong enough in such and such,” improve upon it. If they say, “you are too aggressive,” look at that as to whether it was true or not. If they say you are not aggressive, look at that and see if that was true or not. After all, sometimes there is pushback because they are afraid that you’re going to try and argue with them. Sometimes there is pushback in giving an honest answer. for a million reasons, including, they are too busy.

Whatever it is, from the vantage point of view, this is a learning experience. For now, you are not getting this job. The person that they hired may not work out. You might just put a tickler in your system for 60 or 90 days out that politely says, “I know you hired someone for this role, but perhaps they are not performing as well as you would’ve liked. I thought I would reach out and see if you are satisfied.”

You may not get a response that actually is a response. But, this is a fun way to see if by some miracle, there’s an opportunity for you to reenter the scene here. Not right now. Like I said. For now, you have to learn from it. In the future, do like I said and put a reminder in your phone to contact them 60 days from now, 90 days from now, as if they are completely satisfied with the person they hired. I suggest this because there’s a statistic about employer remorse related to people that they hire.

I think the statistic is that 60% of hiring managers have buyers remorse after they hire someone. Take advantage of that. See it see if there’s a possibility that you can reintroduce yourself if you are not goofing now.

In the meantime, you’re getting information about how you can improve and do it so that this way, if the miracle happens and they do want to talk with you again in 60 or 90 days, you’ve done some work to improve yourself in the area that they perceived the deficiency today and you can do a better job.

This strategy applies to any job. It’s not just the foreign job. Any job for which are turned down, try to improve and see if in 60 or 90 days after you’ve gotten the notice of rejection whether they are completely satisfied with the person they hired, and whether they consider talking with you again.

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### [6 Negotiation Strategies for Salary and Benefits](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-negotiation-strategies-for-salary-and-benefits/)

**Published:** September 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Negotiating salary and benefits can be challenging, but adopting strategic approaches can help professionals secure the best possible terms.

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# 6 Negotiation Strategies for Salary and Benefits

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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## 1. \*\*Let the Employer Make the First Offer\*\* 

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## 2. \*\*Identify Priorities and Assess the Entire Compensation Package\*\* 

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## 3. \*\*Delay Salary Discussions Until an Offer is Extended\*\* 

[Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiations begin as soon as a candidate is selected for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). However, discussing compensation too early in the process can weaken your position. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) approach is to concentrate on demonstrating your value during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and to delay [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions until a formal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is made. If asked about [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations early on, a strategic response is to express [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) that the employer’s budget aligns with your experience and then inquire about the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range allocated for the role. This keeps the focus on the value you bring while promoting transparency.

## 4. \*\*Use the Anchoring Technique to Set the Tone\*\* 

Negotiation is not just about numbers; it’s also about mindset. Approaching the conversation as a collaboration rather than a confrontation fosters a more productive discussion. One effective technique is anchoring, which involves proposing a compensation figure based on thorough market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). Setting the initial number high but within a reasonable range can tilt the negotiation in the candidate’s favor. Additionally, considering the entire benefits package instead of just the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) ensures a more comprehensive and satisfying outcome. For example, some candidates might prioritize flexible work schedules or professional development opportunities over a higher base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Understanding what matters most can help form a compelling case for negotiation.

## 5. \*\*Maintain a Calm and Structured Negotiation Process\*\* 

The key to successful [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiations is to maintain professionalism and composure throughout the discussion. An effective approach to structuring the process includes:

– Having initial [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions verbally to gauge reactions and tone.

– Requesting written confirmation of any agreements reached.

– Returning to a verbal discussion to clarify and resolve issues if discrepancies arise.

Avoid excessive back-and-forth in digital communication, as too many emails or messages can escalate tensions. If negotiations start to feel like an ultimatum exchange, switching to a phone or video call can help maintain a collaborative atmosphere. Additionally, keeping emotions in check is critical; remaining composed ensures that discussions stay productive and professional.

Successful [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and benefits negotiation requires preparation, [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), and a strategic approach. By allowing the employer to make the first [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), identifying priorities, delaying [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions until an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is made, using the anchoring technique, and maintaining a structured process, professionals can maximize their compensation while fostering positive relationships with their future [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). With these strategies in place, candidates can navigate negotiations effectively and secure terms that align with their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) goals.just [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) ensures a more comprehensive and satisfying outcome. For example, some candidates prioritize flexible work schedules or professional development opportunities over a higher base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Knowing what matters most can help shape a compelling case for negotiation.

**6. Maintain a Calm and Structured Negotiation Process**

The key to successful [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiations is maintaining professionalism and composure throughout the discussion. One effective approach is to structure the process as follows:

- Have initial [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions verbally to gauge reactions and tone.
- Request written confirmation of any agreements reached.
- If discrepancies arise, return to a verbal discussion to clarify and resolve issues quickly.

Avoiding excessive back-and-forth in digital communication is essential, as too many emails or messages can escalate tensions. If negotiations start to feel like an ultimatum exchange, switching to a phone or video call can help maintain a collaborative atmosphere. Additionally, keeping emotions in check is critical—staying composed ensures that discussions remain productive and professional.

**Conclusion**

Successful [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and benefits negotiation requires preparation, [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), and a strategic approach. By allowing the employer to make the first [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), identifying priorities, delaying [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions until an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is made, using the anchoring technique, and maintaining a structured approach, professionals can maximize their compensation while fostering positive relationships with their future [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). With these strategies in hand, candidates can navigate negotiations effectively and secure terms that align with their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) goals.

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### [A Great Interview Tip #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-a-great-interview-tip-2/)

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### [Interview Red Flags: Sometimes You Need to Listen #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-sometimes-you-need-to-listen-shorts/)

**Published:** September 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Big ears come in handy but you need to use them for this red flag.

**Content:**

# Interview Red Flags: Sometimes You Need to Listen #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZvE67ULFG8o)

Big ears come in handy but you need to use them for this red flag.

***[Over 50? Think Ahead.](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-egm)***

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and succeeding in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier.

***[How Do You Get Past the Young Recruiter to the Real Decision Maker?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-7Ve)***

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### [15 Best High Paying Skills To Land A Remote Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-best-high-paying-skills-to-land-a-remote-job/)

**Published:** September 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** 3007 Shane Hummus, a YouTube creator who has experience hiring and helping people find remote jobs, shares his list of the ⁠15 best high-paying skills to land a remote job,

**Content:**

# 15 Best High-Paying Skills To Land A Remote Job 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

3007 Shane Hummus, a YouTube creator who has experience [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and helping people find remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), shares his list of the [⁠**15 best high-paying skills to land a remote job,**](https://youtu.be/ojaY8yzP8OA?si=YRdnzBcXgXCAjDBG)

## [***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [LinkedIn Profile Optimization](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-profile-optimization-for-2025/)

**Published:** September 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** 3044 This episode will help you stand out from the competition and efficiently land your next role.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn Profile Optimization

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

3044 This episode will help you **stand out** from the competition and efficiently land your next role.

[***How to Announce on LinkedIn You Were Laid Off***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jtD)

Ever feel like you’re just throwing [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) out there and hoping for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)? Yeah, or like, you know, you’re not even really looking right now, but you just have this feeling. You’re ready for what’s next. Like there’s that next step out there for you.

Exactly, but you’re not quite sure how to make it happen. Right. Well, we’re diving into something today that could really change that dynamic.

Okay. It’s all about your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Oh, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

Think of it like this. We’re going to create a professional online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) that’s so strong. Okay.

That opportunities actually start finding you. Okay, I like that. No more endless scrolling on job boards, just hoping for a response.

Right. We’re zeroing in on how to strategically optimize the most important parts of your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Yeah.

The parts that really act like a magnet. Okay. For [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and can honestly help you cut down on your job hunt time and land that next exciting role.

I love it. So we’ve been digging deep into the latest [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) opinions on what makes a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile really shine in 2025. Cool.

And what’s interesting is it’s not about checking off every single little box that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) has. Right. It’s about putting your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) where it matters most.

Yeah. Into those core areas that really grab the attention of the people who can open those doors for you. So our mission today is to break all that down for you.

Okay. To get to those absolute essentials, the high impact things that can bring you big results without a ton of effort. I like it.

Think of this like your secret weapon. Okay. Your insider’s guide to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

We’re focusing on those critical sections that with just a little bit of strategic tweaking. Okay. Can dramatically increase your visibility.

Yeah. And help you attract the right kinds of opportunities. I totally want.

So let’s start with something super fundamental. Okay. The very first thing anyone sees.

All right. Your profile photo. Yes.

Your photo. That’s your digital hello. It is.

It’s like that [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). That first visual handshake. Oh, it is.

And the thing is, it’s really all about that human connection. It is. Studies show that we are hardwired to connect with faces.

We are. So a profile with a photo is not only 14 times more likely to be viewed. Wow.

It actually taps into that basic human desire to connect. It does. It makes you feel more real and approachable.

It does. And profiles with photos get nine times more connection requests. Really? Nine times.

So it’s huge. Yeah. So think about all those missed opportunities if you don’t have one.

Yeah. You’re right. Without a photo, it can actually give a negative [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/).

It can. You know, maybe it looks like you’re not really engaged on the platform. Right.

Or like your profile incomplete. Yeah. And that can make [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) hesitate to reach out.

Makes sense. Yeah. So, okay, let’s talk about what a professional photo actually means.

Okay. Because it doesn’t have to be that like super formal corporate headshot. No.

You know, from like decades ago. No, not at all. Like what are the must haves? Right.

What should we absolutely aim for? So it’s true. The idea of professional has totally changed. It has.

It’s more about showing that you’re competent. Okay. And approachable.

Right. So the key things are clarity. Okay.

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Like people should be able to see your face clearly. Right. And then it needs to be recent.

You don’t need a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new picture every month or anything. Sure. But try to have one from the last year or two.

Makes sense. Unless your look has changed drastically. Okay.

I mean, think about it. You want people to recognize you if they meet you in person. Right.

After seeing your profile. That’s true. And quality is important too.

Okay. A blurry photo or one that’s all pixelated. Yeah.

That just doesn’t make a good [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Aim for at least 400 by 400 pixels. Okay.

Good to know. Now, what about filters and backgrounds? Right. Well.

This is an Instagram, right? Right. Exactly. Authenticity is key here.

Okay. Too many filters or editing. Yeah.

That can be distracting. Right. And it might even make people wonder what you’re trying to hide.

Yeah, that’s true. So for backgrounds, simpler is better. Okay.

Plain or neutral background keeps the focus on you. Right. Subtle backgrounds are fine if they’re not too busy.

Yeah. But avoid anything that’s going to pull attention away. Okay.

And don’t forget about lighting. Lighting. Okay.

Good lighting can make a huge difference. It can. Even on a simple photo.

That’s true. Here’s an easy tip. Okay.

Just face a window. Natural light is often the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). Oh, I like that.

That’s an easy one. Yeah. So any other tips on how to frame the shot? Sure.

And what to wear? So a closer shot usually works [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). Okay. Like from the chest up with your face taking up maybe 60% of the frame.

Gotcha. That lets people see your expression. Yeah.

And speaking of expressions. Okay. Go for something friendly and approachable.

Okay. A genuine smile can really make you seem warm and open. It can.

And then as for what to wear. Yeah. Choose something that fits your industry and the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you want.

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Professional or business casual is usually a good bet. Makes sense. And this might seem obvious.

Okay. But stay away from selfies or group photos. Yeah.

For your main profile picture. Right. You want the focus to be all on you.

You do. All right. So that gives us a clear picture.

Yeah. And hopefully encourages everybody to give their photo a second look. Absolutely.

So now that we’ve got that compelling visual. Okay. What’s next? Your headline.

Okay. That headline. That’s the short text right under your name.

Right. And this is important because it goes everywhere with you on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Oh, everywhere.

Everywhere. Okay. It pops up in search results in your activity feed.

Yeah. Even when you send connection requests or messages. Wow.

It’s basically your professional tagline. Okay. And it’s the second most important thing to optimize.

All right. So it’s not just about putting your current job title there. What makes a headline really stand out and do its job? You got a generic job title is a total missed opportunity.

Yeah. A good headline is short. Okay.

Attention grabbing. Uh-huh. And accurate.

Okay. It needs to grab people’s attention quickly. Yeah.

But also be truthful about who you are professionally. Right. And using the right keywords and phrases is super important.

Okay. Keywords. Put yourself in the recruiter’s shoes.

Okay. If they were looking for someone with your skills, what would they search for? Right. Think about keywords that are specific to your industry.

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Exactly. You’d use keywords like. Yeah.

Things like social media strategy. Engagement marketing. Platform growth.

Yeah. Those are good. You want to make sure those are in there.

Okay. And think about what makes your skills unique too. Okay.

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What’s your specialty? Yeah. What are you passionate about? All right. So you mentioned highlighting a value proposition or an achievement in the headline.

Yeah. Can you break down the difference between those and how to use them effectively? So a value proposition is like a clear statement. Okay.

Of the benefit you bring. Okay. What you can do for others.

Gotcha. Like let’s say you’re a project manager. Yeah.

You might say something like delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Perfect. An achievement is more about showing a specific accomplishment.

Okay. Ideally with numbers to back it up. So a sales leader might say achieved 15% year over year revenue growth.

Okay. I see the difference. And whatever you do, don’t just use the default [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline.

Right. The one that just pulls your current job title. Yeah.

And avoid those super generic phrases like actively seeking opportunities. Yeah. No one likes those.

No. And you only have 220 characters. So make every word count.

Every word. Give the key info without overwhelming people. Okay.

So you mentioned a few different headline methods. Let’s start with the easiest one. What’s like a quick win for improving our headlines? So the simplest way is to just put your desired job title.

And then list a few of your most relevant hard skills. Okay. Hard skills.

This tells [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) right away what kind of roles you’re looking for and what technical skills you have. So for example, if someone wants to be a data analyst. Okay.

They could use data analysts, SQL, Python, data visualization, statistical modeling. Or a marketing manager could say marketing manager, digital strategy, COSM, content marketing, analytics. Okay.

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So having them right in your headline can really boost your visibility. Awesome. Okay.

So that’s super straightforward. Yeah. What about that most popular method you mentioned? Oh, okay.

So that one takes it a step further by adding a value proposition. Gotcha. To that title and skills combo.

Okay. So now you’re not just saying what you do, you’re hinting at how you do it. Right.

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Or what benefit you bring. So our data analyst example becomes data analysts, SQL, Python, data visualization, transforming data into actionable insights. Oh, that’s good.

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It does. A bit more personality impact. And that third method.

Yes. That was all about highlighting results. Yes.

Yeah. That one focuses on adding a results-driven achievement statement. Okay.

Along with your title and skills. All right. This is really powerful if you have measurable accomplishments.

Yeah. That are directly related to the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you want. That makes sense.

So our data analyst could say data analyst, Python, machine learning, improved predictive model accuracy by 18%, leading to better business decisions. Wow. That’s impressive.

And the marketing manager could be marketing manager, digital strategy, SEO, increased website traffic by 40% and lead generation by 25% within one year. Okay. So those headlines really show what you’re capable of.

Yeah. They make a statement. They do.

Yeah. So we’ve got our photo. Yes.

We’ve got our headline. Uh-huh. Now let’s move on to the about section.

Okay. You said this is often a really overlooked area. It is.

Why is that so important? Wow. And how can we make the most of it? It’s a missed opportunity because your about section or summary is where you really get to tell your professional story. Yeah.

In your own voice. Yeah. And connect with people at a more personal level.

So it should give a clear snapshot. Okay. Of your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path, what you’re passionate about.

And what you bring to the table. And don’t forget those keywords that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are searching for. Right.

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Maybe two or three short paragraphs. Okay. And then add sections for your big [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) achievements.

Gotcha. Your areas of expertise and even a call to action if you want. Okay.

Now you mentioned using headers and bullet points. Yeah. To make it easier to read.

Right. Even though [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) doesn’t really have those formatting options. Yeah.

It doesn’t have the fancy formatting. So how do we do that visually? You can use some tricks. Okay.

Line breaks are your friend. Okay. Line breaks.

So like if you want a header. Okay. Type a short impactful sentence or phrase.

And then hit enter twice before the next paragraph. Okay. So that makes it look like a header.

Yeah. And what about bullet points? For bullet points. Yeah.

You can use symbols like asterisks. Okay. Hyphens or even little circles.

Right. Put a space after the symbol and before each point. Okay.

And then a line break after each point. So it breaks up the text. Yeah.

It makes it much easier to scan. It does. So [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can quickly find the info they need.

Okay. I like it. So what kind of content should go in those first couple of paragraphs? Okay.

So that first paragraph. Yeah. It should grab the reader’s attention.

Okay. And really showcase your passion for what you do. Okay.

Talk about what drives you. What you’re aiming to achieve. Yeah.

And how you want to make a difference in your industry. Be clear about your expertise. Right.

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Okay. And in second paragraph. Yeah.

You can go deeper into your experience and expertise. Okay. You can mention how many years of experience you have if you’re comfortable with that.

Right. Talk about how you’re tackling industry challenges. Yeah.

And if it’s relevant, mention any big volunteer work or awards. Okay. And to add some personality and make you more relatable.

You can even mention some of your outside interests. Okay. Like hobbies and stuff.

Yeah. Things that show your unique skills and passions. Okay.

Cool. And then you say to include [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) highlights and an expertise section. Yes, definitely.

Okay. So the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) highlights, that’s a short list. Okay.

Maybe three or four bullet points. Gotcha. Of your most significant accomplishments.

Okay. Make sure they’re relevant to the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you want. Right.

And that they show your expertise, your impact, and your contributions. Okay. Use numbers to back up your claims whenever you can.

Right. Quantify whenever possible. Yes.

And then after that. Okay. You have the expertise section.

Okay. This is basically a curated list of your key skills. Okay.

Separate each skill or phrase with a line break. Right. Make it look like a list.

Right. These should be the most relevant keywords and phrases for your industry and desired positions. Okay.

This helps to solidify what you want to be known for. It reinforces your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Exactly.

That’s great. Okay. So that’s a great framework.

Yeah. For a really solid about section. Let’s move on to the experience section.

All right. How should we describe our past roles? Okay. So.

Is that different from how we would write it on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Yeah. Your experience section on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a chance to bring your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) history to life. Okay.

In a way that’s more engaging and personable than a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). More personality. Exactly.

You can use first person language. Oh, okay. Me, me.

Done. So let’s form. Yeah.

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When you’re describing your responsibilities and achievements for each position, start with a catchy job title. You can even frame it as a value proposition that reflects the impact you had. Right.

Instead of just repeating your official title. Okay. Then in the first paragraph.

Yeah. Give a short overview of your responsibilities. Okay.

But focus on your contributions and the impact you made. So focus on the impact. Yeah.

And let your personality shine through. Okay. A bit more than you would on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Okay. More personality, less formal. Right.

Okay. Now what about those bullet points? Yes. Where we detail our achievements within each role.

Are those similar to a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? The content can be similar. Okay. But on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

Yeah. You can give more context. Okay.

And even add a little emotion. Okay. So it’s not just a dry list of facts.

Okay. Keep using those result-driven achievement statements. Okay.

So results are important. Yes. Quantify your impact with numbers and data whenever you can.

Gotcha. And make sure to weave in those relevant keywords that match the skills and experience that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are looking for. Makes sense.

It’s really about telling the story of your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). It’s the narrative. Yeah.

Not just listing tasks. Right. Okay.

So the experience section is more about storytelling. Yes. Just a list of facts.

Uh-huh. Got it. So finally, let’s talk about the skills section.

Okay. How should we be using that? So the skills section is becoming super important on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). It is.

Because it’s one of the main ways [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) search for and filter candidates. That’s true. Okay.

So how many skills should we add? Well, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) lets you add up to 50. 50. Wow.

But it’s better to focus on the ones you really want to be known for. Right. Maybe aim for 20 to 30 well-chosen skills.

Okay. Quality over quantity. Exactly.

And remember, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) shows your top three endorsed skills right on your profile. Oh, that’s right. So make sure those are your strongest and most relevant skills.

So choose those carefully. Yes. And when you’re adding skills, be specific.

Okay. Specific for them. Don’t use broad, general terms.

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So instead of just leadership, you’d use… Yeah. Team leadership. Cross-functional team leadership.

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Exactly. And [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) gives you suggestions as you type. Oh, that’s helpful.

So that can help you find more specific and relevant options. Perfect. Okay.

So we’ve talked about a lot. We have. If someone actually takes the time to make all these changes… Yeah.

…to their profile… Yeah. …what kind of difference can they expect to see? So when you optimize your photo… Okay. …you create a catchy headline.

Uh-huh. You write a compelling about section. Yeah.

You detail your experience with a focus on impact. Right. And you highlight the right skills.

Yeah. You’re essentially turning your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile from just a basic page… Yeah. …into a powerful tool… Okay.

…that can really attract opportunities. Wow. It becomes this clear, engaging, and easily discoverable representation… Yeah.

…of your professional [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). So people can find you. Exactly.

And it increases your visibility… Uh-huh. …to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers… Yeah. …and even people you might want to network with.

That’s great. So for anyone listening who’s feeling inspired… Yeah. …to give their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) a refresh… Uh-huh.

…where should they start? I would say start with your headline. My headline. It’s a quick update… Yeah.

…but it makes a big difference… Yeah. …in how you show up in searches… Okay. …and how people see you at first glance.

Okay. So that’s an easy one to start with. It is.

Take some time to think about your dream role… Okay. …and what makes you unique. Yeah.

And then try out one of those headline methods we talked about. Yeah. Whether it’s combining your title with skills… …adding a value proposition… …or highlighting an achievement.

That’s a great [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/). It is. So as you’re thinking about these updates… Yeah.

…here’s something to consider. Okay. What one thing on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile are you most excited to update first? Good question.

And what specific change will you commit to making today? Yeah. Yeah. Even that one small step can set you on the path… It can.

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### [The About Section of Your LinkedIn Profile #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-about-section-of-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** September 9, 2026
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**Excerpt:** You can say a lot in the About Section of your LinkedIn profile

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### [Where Do Recruiters Begin Their Search? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/where-do-recruiters-begin-their-search-shorts/)

**Published:** September 8, 2026
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**Excerpt:** There is nothing sneaky or devious about what they do to start off the search to find someone to fill a job.

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# Where Do Recruiters Begin Their Search? #shorts

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### [Sh*t Recruiters Say: It’s a Work Hard, Play Hard Culture #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sht-recruiters-say-its-a-work-hard-play-hard-culture-shorts/)

**Published:** September 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Let me decode this for you so that you’re not confused by what they’re really telling you.

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# Sh\*t Recruiters Say: It’s a Work Hard, Play Hard Culture #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [The Real AI Hiring Bias](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-real-ai-hiring-bias/)

**Published:** September 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here is the raw data on who is getting hired, the fatal blind spot tech companies are creating, and how to position your existing domain expertise to become indispensable.

**Content:**

# The Real AI Hiring Bias

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) pay an average base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of $177,000, but the industry is shutting out experienced workers and non-traditional candidates with outdated gatekeeping. You don’t need to be a machine learning engineer to cash in on this shift, but you do need to know where the market is actually heading.

Here is the raw data on who is getting hired, the fatal blind spot tech companies are creating, and how to position your existing domain expertise to become indispensable.

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You might expect a disruptive, forward-looking industry to naturally democratize access to those high-paying roles, but early indicators suggest that the path into this new economy is becoming surprisingly narrow. We are attempting to build the workforce of the future using the same gatekeeping mechanisms that defined the labor markets of the past. This visualization breaks down last year’s [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) numbers. Only 24% of the engineers hired were women. 7% lacked a bachelor’s degree. And a mere 3% were 45 or older.

When the teams building ubiquitous technologies all share a narrow demographic background, the resulting systems carry significant blind spots. A homogeneous workforce limits an organization’s ability to challenge underlying assumptions, meaning the final products often fail to serve diverse global communities effectively. The danger is that these initial demographic imbalances become permanent, baking specific biases into the systems that will eventually manage everything from [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) to healthcare.

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Most enterprise technology booms favor established professionals with years of specialized experience, but [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) trends are moving in a different direction. This demographic histogram illustrates a massive spike in younger hires. Gen Z now accounts for more than two-thirds of all hires into crucial positions, like [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engineer and forward deployed engineer. While this rapid adoption offers a promising start for younger workers navigating an automated labor market, it exposes a significant [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) bias against older workers. Just last year, a mere 3% of all [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engineer hires were professionals aged 45 years or older. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is evolving from a specialized technical function into mainstream business operations. By locking out older professionals, tech companies are discarding decades of practical business wisdom right when they need it most.

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### [Ageism in Hiring: Why & How to Overcome It](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-hiring-why-how-to-overcome-it/)

**Published:** September 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This article delves into the reasons behind employer reluctance to hire older workers and offers strategies to overcome these biases.

**Content:**

# Ageism in Hiring: Why & How to Overcome It

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Many experienced workers over 55 find themselves facing unexpected challenges in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), despite having valuable skills and a strong work ethic. This article delves into the reasons behind employer reluctance to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) older workers and offers strategies to overcome these biases.

**Reasons for Employer Hesitancy**

Several factors contribute to employers’ reluctance to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) older workers, often rooted in misconceptions and biases:

- **Proximity to Retirement Age:** Some [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) assume older workers will retire soon after being hired, making the investment in [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) seem less worthwhile. This is a fallacy, as many older workers plan to continue working longer.
- **Higher [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Expectations:** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) often believe that older workers will demand higher salaries, even when the position states “salary![Older woman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/older-woman-300x184.jpg) commensurate with experience”. They might assume an older candidate’s [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations are inflated.
- **Concerns About Health and Medical Issues:** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) may worry that older workers will have more health problems and miss work more often. However, older employees often have good attendance records and are punctual.
- **Perceived Lack of Tech Skills and Adaptability:** Some [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) believe that older workers cannot learn new skills or technology. This is often untrue; many older workers are proficient with modern technology and can [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) to new roles.
- **Skill Atrophy:** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) might be concerned that older workers’ skills have become outdated, especially if they have remained in the same role or company for a long time.
- **Lack of Growth Potential:** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) sometimes view older workers as “known commodities” with limited capacity for future growth or advancement within the company.
- **Wage Inflation:** Older workers may be perceived as having inflated wages, where their pay does not match their productivity, making them seem less cost-effective.
- **Reverse Mobility Concerns:** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) may worry that an older worker will be overqualified for a lower-level position and become dissatisfied or leave, even if the worker is willing to take the job.
- **Preference for a “Younger Culture”:** Some younger managers might prefer building a team with younger employees, believing older workers might not fit into their vision.
- **Intimidation Factor:** Younger [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers might be intimidated by an older worker’s extensive experience, feeling threatened that they might be overshadowed or even lose their own [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).
- **Overqualified Perception:** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) might use “overqualified” as a code word for [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/), believing that an older, more experienced worker would not be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) in a role. They may think the person is too expensive, a pain in the ass, or will leave quickly.

**Strategies to Combat [Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/)**

While [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/) in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process is a real issue, older workers can take steps to mitigate its impact:

- **Address Concerns Directly:** When [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), mention that you are looking forward to being at the company for a long time. Give ![Older employee](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/older-employee-felix-koutchinski-xizO_Ca3iwQ-unsplash-200x300.jpg)examples like having children in college or mentioning other long-term personal goals. Indicate early in the conversation that your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations match the posted range.
- **Showcase Tech Skills:** Highlight relevant software, machines, and technological skills during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to demonstrate your ability to learn new technologies.
- **Emphasize Work Ethic and Reliability:** Mention your strong work ethic, punctuality, and consistent attendance record. Share stories of your past successes.
- **Create a Defensive [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/):** Minimize the impact of age on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) by removing dates from education and older [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Focus on the last 10 to [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience. Emphasize relevant experience and skills while removing obsolete technologies.
- **Network Strategically:** Leverage your professional network and build new connections with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers at your target companies. Nurture those connections.
- **Focus on Value and Impact:** Instead of focusing on your years of experience, frame your expertise in terms of how you can accelerate progress, solve problems, and contribute to the company’s [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).
- **Be Open to New Opportunities:** Consider consulting, contract work, or lower level positions, and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to explain your reasons for doing so.
- **Highlight Continuous Learning:** Keep your skills current, learn new technologies, and emphasize any new skills you have acquired.
- **Maintain [Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and Humility:** Balance [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) with humility in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Avoid being perceived as a “know-it-all,” particularly when [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with younger managers.
- **Call Out the Elephant in the Room:** Directly ask about any concerns the employer might have about your background or experience, including whether your age or experience is a concern. This can be done by asking if anything in your background would prevent an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) or if your years of experience might affect the company culture.
- **Ask for Honest [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/):** If you are rejected, ask for specific and honest [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) rather than accepting generic answers.
- **Multiple Income Streams:** Consider establishing multiple streams of income that can provide financial security if you have difficulty finding new [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).
- **Professional Help:** Seek help from [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaches or utilize online resources to improve your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) skills, and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

**The Reality of [the Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)**

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) may not always understand the benefits of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) older workers, focusing on perceived risks rather than the potential value. However, many older workers [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) significant advantages, including:

- **Proven Experience:** They bring a wealth of experience, competence, and expertise, often requiring less [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and onboarding.
- **Strong Work Ethic:** They tend to be reliable, punctual, and dedicated, often exceeding expectations.
- **Problem-Solving Skills:** They have a history of solving problems and can contribute quickly.
- **Maturity and Professionalism:** They bring a professional maturity that may be lacking in less experienced candidates.

By addressing the underlying biases and showcasing their unique strengths, older workers can increase their chances of landing the job they deserve.

In conclusion, while [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/) presents a challenge in today’s job market, older workers can proactively navigate these biases by understanding the reasons behind them and using strategic methods to emphasize their value and potential.

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### [How  to Prepare Young People for Work and Life](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-radio-how-to-prepare-young-people-for-work-and-life/)

**Published:** September 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** On this show, I interview Dr. Joanie B. Connell, author of Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life​, ​about how to prepare your sons and/or daughters for work (and life).

**Content:**

# How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In first two years of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) for [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio, I interviewed subject matter experts about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and shared information to help you as a job hunter be more effective.

On this show, I [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Dr. Joanie B. Connell, author of [Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and ](https://amzn.to/4yml1sc)Life​, ​about how to prepare your sons and/or daughters for work (and life). It was an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for me as the father of a soon to be high school student was very helpful. He is now 25 and doing extremely well. From the archives

Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you are listening to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio.

Almost every show I’ve done since launching almost two years ago has been designed to help you as a job hunter develop more effective skills and to learn the things that you need to know in order to be a more effective job hunter.

This show is different because it’s designed to speak to parents, to talk to parents about how to be more effective in helping your son or daughter launch as an employee, launch as a business owner. You know, launch. You know, get a job, start a business, what have you.

So my guest has written a book, and we’ll talk about the book, or the ideas in the book, really, over the course of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). So I hope you find it helpful in your life, and I hope you recommend it to others. And by the way, if you like the show, I hope you give it a review on iTunes and let people know that you really enjoy it. So hang in there, and let’s sing along.

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So my guest on this show is Dr. Joanie B. Connell, the author of *Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life*. She’s an organizational [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), a leadership coach, and she works with companies to develop and retain talent, as well. Whew! That’s a lot. Dr. Dr. Connell, Joanie, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio. Great to have you on board.

Thanks, it’s great to be here.

Terrific. So, kids. What’s the matter with these kids today? And I’ll just simply say that from my experience, and I have a soon-to-be 15-year-old at home, they seem different than when I was growing up. How did this happen? What are they like? How do we How do we help them?

Well, yeah, that’s an interesting question, and, you know, I hear that a lot from parents. And I think part of the thing is that the parents need to look at how we’re parenting kids differently than we were parented. And we see a result as a result of our society and other fears that we have that we protect them a lot more, and we coddle them more. We try to boost their self-esteem, and we’re concerned about their future with the competition.

And so the kids are really structured and protected, and they don’t know how to do things by themselves as much as they used to. They don’t have the [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), the independence, and some of these skills that that we have developed as kids.

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So, the difference starts off—I remember this old episode on *60 Minutes* where the most popular show in Britain at a particular time was this older woman who did taught dog [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/). And the issue wasn’t the dog; it was the owner. So I have a hunch— Yeah, well. I have a hunch the problem is the parents.

Yeah, if you want to say it that way. We call them problems as we see them, but we also look at it in terms of consequences. You know, any choice that you make and how you [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) your kid is going to have consequences. And you just have to make the choice of which consequences you want to have.

Right? Is it better to protect them and keep them safe, then, and also have them disempowered and unable to do things by themselves? Or would you rather empower them and have a little bit of risk involved? So those are your choices.

And no one’s talking about putting kids in physical danger. Lord knows we’ve all heard too many instances and read too many and watched too many instances of kids who were hurt or worse. So I know you’re not talking about that.

So as a parent, or as a teen—maybe let’s just start with the parent side of this. How do you start changing your own behavior in order to help your child be ready for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), the future? And folks, where where I’m going with this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is with the idea of if you’re the parent of a teen, you want to make sure that when they graduate from school, they’re ready. Yeah. That’s the approach that I’m looking at from here. How do we take care of ourselves or or change ourselves in order to help them?

Oh, yeah, that’s a great question. Well, first of all, you might want to think: Are you raising somebody that you would want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someday? Right? And are you giving them the skills that they would need to be somebody that you would want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and have work for you?

And a lot of times that people don’t. And we have different motivations for that, and it might be asking some hard questions to yourself. Why am I protecting? Why am I keeping them from going out and being independent? Is it that I have a lot of control needs? Is it that I have a lot of fear that may be irrational fear that’s garnered by the the media? It might be that you just have the need to be needed. I mean, we all love our children to need us.

And so there are a lot of reasons, and sometimes it’s hard to let go and hard to empower them because there’s a bit of a loss there in the process. And as It’s what’s [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) for the kid to be able to live on their own eventually, but it’s hard at the time for us.

So when I think of skills that are necessary, I’m going to start with real basic ones cuz I see that’s where we are in our family. It can be as simple as waking up on time to get to school. Yep. It can be as simple as learning how to manage your homework assignments. He’s a freshman in high school as we’re doing this show. Uh-huh. So, up until this point, he hasn’t really had to contend with a lot of timetables.

So, I’m painfully aware that he’s, you know, at this point is learning these skills. But how do you teach them? Do you allow him to miss the opening of school as part of the [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process?

Well, you know, there are decisions that have to be made, and, you know, as I said, it’s consequences. If they’re minimal consequences, like I know, for example, I’ve done it with my daughter is that if she’s oversleeping, I get her up 5 minutes before we’re leaving and say, “We’re leaving in 5 minutes.” And, boy, does she run around the house like you wouldn’t believe, and she’s sweating as we leap in the car to leave the house. And the next day, she has her alarm set, and she actually gets up.

So that’s a minimal consequence to her, but if it’s missing a final exam, probably you want to do something else, right? Make a different decision that time. But there’s a lot of leeway in there, and making the decisions depending on the situation and the person involved is is another way of looking at it.

And it sounds like unless the consequences are dire in some way, what you’re going to suggest is that allowing them—I don’t want to call it fail, but to allow them the opportunity to make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for which the consequences are not particularly expensive, as you will. Yeah.

Yeah, no, absolutely. And the way to do that is to be there as a coach and a guide rather than somebody who is doing it for them, so that you stand back and maybe at the outset you can also talk through them the kind of questions they need to be asking themselves to make these decisions. Like, you know, about getting up on time, you know, talking through: Well, how are you going to do that? What happens if you sleep through your alarm? You know, what what do you have to do today at school?

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You know, get them to think about the consequences and why it’s important for them to get up. And, you know, then you can have them make these decisions, and they can make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). And then when they come back and they have made the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), you can talk through them, “Well, what went wrong? You know, what would you have liked to happen? What were you expecting? You know, what what did you anticipate, or what were you failing to anticipate that caused this?”

And those are the kind of questions that’ll help them get better rather than just saying, “Okay, all right, you’re not ready. I’m just going to wake you up every morning.”

Is that what happened with your daughter? Is that how you wound up [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) the dog, as you will?

It’s really funny cuz we just actually got a new puppy, so this really hits home. But, yeah. No, she’s she’s made a lot of [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). You know, I’ve made [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), too. I wouldn’t call myself the perfect parent. I try to do what I can, and and I learn as well as we go through this.

Um, but, yeah, you know, and sometimes I have to take care and do things for her, and and other times I really have to be tough. And and sometimes I have to see her get hurt, you know, by, you know, other things going on socially or those kind of things, cuz I don’t want to go in there and like start calling her friends’ parents or taking care of her too much. She needs to learn.

So it’s it’s hard. It’s It’s not an easy process. But, yeah, that’s what I have done myself.

As As I’ve said many times, being a parent is the toughest job I’ve ever been involved with. Yeah, it is. I’ve done search for a lot of years, filled tons of positions, and coached many, but being a parent is the toughest job.

So, we’ll be back with more from Dr. Connell in just a moment, but first my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) insider tip for this show, which really is about pointing you back to an earlier episode that I did, probably about two shows ago, called “Better than Myers-Briggs.” I’m doing that because I think it’s a really worthwhile show to listen to in order to consider If you’re someone who’s considering a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) change or a job change, it puts you in the position of learning about this one test called CoreMap that will help guide you into understanding the kind of environment that you can do better in. It’s not that you can’t do well in a different kind of environment, but it will talk with you about the the ideal environment for you and your personality make up. And the show talks about the test and how it works, and at the end of it, my guest, Bruce Chodosh, spends some time making an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) where he says email him, put the subject in the subject line, “Job Search Radio,” and he’ll take $100 off his $375 test. So I want to encourage you to do that. His email address is bruce@spectracomm—that’s s-p-e-c-t-r-a-c-o-m-m.com. Email him, mention [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio in the subject line, and as I said, $100 off the CoreMap exam.

So, let’s come back with more from Dr. Connell and pick up where we left off.

So, I chose to start off by talking about a teen because that’s my situation, and he’s relatively early, you know, first-year high school. So, we now let’s, say, talk about a later teen or maybe someone early in in college. How do you support them, or what sort of skills do you help them develop in order to ensure that by the time they graduate college, they’re actually ready?

Oh, that’s yeah, a really good question. Some of these skills are again are the same ones: developing independence and [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) and initiative to get out there and do it on their own. Another one that I work on a lot at that age is developing appropriate expectations, to start to learn what they’re going to be faced with when they graduate.

A lot of people have been raised sort of promising being promised this wonderful light at the end of the tunnel. They’ve gone through all this education and worked so hard, and they’re going to get the stream job. And when they get out there, they find that the job is actually the bottom rung of the ladder, and the managers expect them to do the grunt work, and there’s a big mismatch there.

Also in terms of life, you know, having to go out and support yourself and get insurance and get transportation, pay the electric bill and all that, it’s a lot of work to do. So setting up the expectations and then having them develop the skills to be independent and start to do some of this on their own is where they need to be at that age.

So when they start when you start thinking about developing independence in a college student, I’m going to This is a quirky one to bring up, but I think you mentioned it to me when we first spoke. Laundry? Do ya Yeah, let them bring the laundry home to you?

That’s actually the number-one problem I hear from parents, that kids go off to college and don’t know how to do laundry. And it’s It’s funny because it’s it does seem very basic, and, you know, simple things like that. When they’re teens in high school, thinking about what it’s like to live on their own, how to do laundry, how to clean, how to manage money—that’s another big one—and how to really manage a budget, even more importantly.

And, you know, how to feed yourself in a healthy way, and make sure you’re getting the the sleep and the exercise you need. So walking through those steps and thinking about what it takes, sometimes you have to backtrack a lot cuz once you’ve done something for 30 years or 10 years or whatever it is, it becomes so second nature, you don’t even know how to explain it. So you really have to go through the steps and remember back to when you were that age and the questions that they have, because trust me, when they’re that young, they don’t understand the simplest things about laundry.

Like even one kid I heard didn’t know how to get quarters for the laundry at school. She wanted her mom to give her quarters. And the mom says, “Well, can’t you just go to the bank and get quarters or something like that, rather than have her mom send them to her?” So thinking about this these little things and getting your kids ready to to out get out there and embark on their own lives really important.

It sound It sounds like a real social work scenario, where you’re really breaking down the behavioral characteristics that you need to instill in your son or daughter, and ensuring they have the experiences where they figure out that they can figure it out. Do I have that right?

Yeah, well, even at home before they go off, having them start to cook some of their own meals, or cook for the family even better, help get them being responsible for everybody. Having them have their own money. I always recommend that people have [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that pay money, rather than just volunteer work or internships, so that they learn the value of money and what the how far it goes when you have to buy shampoo. You know, it it ends up not going as far as you expect it to. Being able to save till the end of the week when you want to go out, so you don’t spend it all.

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Very basic things: cleaning up after themselves, taking out the trash, things like that. It It’s helpful for the whole family to have younger people doing the chores, but it also really helps them when they get out there because so it’s so overwhelming to go to college to begin with, and to once you get out of college to get a job and live on your own. Having some of these as second nature really helps get you one step ahead.

Now, we haven’t discussed some of the um, you know, not every child is developmentally appropriate for their age. So, for example, along the the spectrum of ADD or ADHD, sometimes children appear developmentally, I don’t want to say inappropriate, it’s not the wrong they’re not as advanced for their age as they might be, for lack of a better way to language it. Do you alter how you prepare them? Cuz after all, they may be I’ll use my son as an example. You know, he may be 14 now, but by the time he gets out, he’ll be 18. And maybe developmentally, he’s 17, just for the sake of argument. Right. Do you accelerate the program for him, or do you just, you know, let him be where he is at that time?

Well, yeah, it’s a great question. It’s always an individual scenario for each kid, each situation, each parent, and also what you can do. I mean, some people have the luxury of taking care of their kids, some parents don’t. They’re out there working long hours. So it really depends on the person, and it’s an individual choice and and decision-making process, and how you go through that.

In terms of people who are behind, there may be ways to empower them as well, and get them independent in the life skills, and still helping them out in some of these other ways. You know, maybe socially and working on communication and those kind of areas.

But still, there’s People are actually a lot more capable, and kids are so much more capable than we give them credit for. It’s amazing how much people can learn to do for themselves when they’re allowed to do it, and also put in a situation where it’s necessary to do it.

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Right. Well, you know, that’s that’s another individual thing, but I really highly recommend at least some part-time work in college, either during class time, you know, during the semester, or in the summers, or both. And in addition to any other opportunities that are really specific to the particular field that a person is interested in.

And now let me tell you why. And that is that having job experience no matter what it is, if it’s flipping burgers, if it’s mowing lawns, whatever it is, it teaches people a lot of responsibility, and that’s relevant to any job when you get out there. If you have shown that you’re reliable, and that you you know you show up on time, you get the work done that you said you you need to get done, you can be responsive to your supervisor, and be able to communicate with them, and all of these types of skills are really basic, but they’re so important to real-world work once you get out.

And those are the skills that a lot of the management now is complaining that kids don’t have when they get out there. And these are the kind of skills that you see when you want the five years experience and the college grad is saying, “How am I supposed to have five years experience when I’m just graduating college?” Well, these are some of the experience kind of issues that people are talking about, just learning how to navigate through the workplace.

It’s very true. And what I would also recommend, I think, and please can you know disagree if you feel it’s appropriate, have the student be in a situation where they’re asking their boss, you know, “Give me [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) whenever you see me doing something right or when I’m not doing something right. Don’t just wait until some arbitrary period of time that I’ve been working for you for a review.”

I’ve been seeing a study recently that millennials hate reviews, and it’s primarily because they feel like they’re being blindsided. And they have no idea where some of the criticism comes from when it does, because managers haven’t really communicated. So, one of the ways to counter that is by encouraging managers to do more and giving them [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) as is appropriate, you know, positive and, you know, constructive, shall we say. Does that fit in your thinking? Yep.

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And another complaint that managers are having, and I think a fear that they’re having working with some millennials because the millennials aren’t as used to getting criticism, even if it’s a constructive criticism. They’re used to getting A’s in school and really positive encouragement from home. So when they get to the workplace and they’re not doing what the manager expects, then they’re having a harder time receiving that.

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Yeah, I think thank you is one of the perfect responses rather than flipping out, which was one of the responses that statistically shows up in the showed up in the survey. Cursing was another one.

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Yep, that would probably be your son. He’s probably right on the edge there, between millennial and the Z generation.

Wild. Um, so in terms of getting them ready for work, how do you help them, or do you help them with class selection, with ensuring that they’re doing their coursework while they’re off at school, or do you, you know, let them go through it? And I’ll come back with a [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) in just a moment.

Sure. Again, this is an individual scenario. Some people are more independent than others and able to make those choices. But as If you’re there as a coach rather than somebody doing it for them, it’s going to empower them to start to learn how to make these decisions. So as as a coach, you might think about this and talk to your child

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### [Passing The Water Test on an Interview #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** September 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A Reddit thread shared this unusual and IMO stupid test.

**Content:**

# Passing The Water Test on an Interview #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A Reddit thread shared this unusual and IMO stupid test.

***[Increase Your Chances of Getting a Response to Your Application](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkC)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Which Looks Better on a Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/which-looks-better-on-a-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** September 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What looks better on a resume, 8 years at one job and a good recommendation from the manager, or 2 years at four separate jobs with good recommendations from all the managers?

**Content:**

# **Which Looks Better on a Resume? 8 Years at Job or 2 Years Each at 4 Separate Jobs? #shorts**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/AM3pjuScxRU)

What looks better on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), 8 years at one job and a good recommendation from the manager, or 2 years at four separate [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with good recommendations from all the managers?

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and succeeding in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier.

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Your Resume Isn’t Always The First Impression #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/)

**Published:** September 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do people gain that first impression if not your resume?

**Content:**

# Your Resume Isn’t Always The First Impression #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/rxy9ed2gXvs)

How do people gain that [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/) if not your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)?

**[*“The Importance Of Intergenerational Connection”*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gj7)**

***[Increase Your Chances of Getting a Response to Your Application](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkC)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***The Exit Package***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lk3)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

***[Are You The Target for a Job Layoff?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-47)***

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [15 Minute Micro-Actions to Activate Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-micro-actions-to-activate-your-job-search/)

**Published:** September 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here are four targeted micro-actions you can implement in fifteen minutes or less to jumpstart your Job search today.

**Content:**

# 15 Minute Micro-Actions to Activate Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Waiting for the “right time” to manage your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) is the fastest way to lose control of it.

Most people stall out because they see [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions as an all-or-nothing proposition. They convince themselves that unless they have an entire afternoon free to dissect their work history or craft dozens of customized [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), taking action isn’t worth the effort. Days slip into weeks, silence turns into [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and inertia takes over.

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) momentum does not require a dramatic overhaul or an empty few hours in your calendar. It operates on the same principle as any complex enterprise project: continuous action.

When you stop overthinking the process, fifteen minutes is all the time you need. A single quarter-hour, applied with intent, can uncover priorities, reactivate valuable social capital, and position your background directly in front of the people with the budget to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.

Here are four targeted micro-actions you can implement in fifteen minutes or less to jumpstart your [Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) today.

### 1. Mine Product Release Notes with AI for Operational Pain Points (15 Minutes)

When technology companies publish public release notes, changelogs, or update summaries, they are showing the world what they just built and the new headaches they are dealing with. Every major software update creates growing pains, bugs, or integration friction behind the scenes long before a manager posts a job opening to fix it.

You don’t need to read through pages of dry technical documentation yourself. Let an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool do the heavy lifting in about three minutes:

1. Copy the text from the company’s recent “What’s New” or release notes page.
2. Paste it into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) with a straightforward prompt:

> *“Here are recent release notes from \[Target Company\]. Based on these updates, what is one operational headache, workflow bottleneck, or data issue this team is likely running into right now? Give me a two-sentence summary written for a team leader.”*

1. Take the AI’s insight, put it into your own natural voice, and send a short message to the department head on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

> *“I saw your team’s recent update rolling out \[New Feature/Update\]. Usually, shifts like that cause a real bottleneck around \[the issue identified by [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)\]. When we handled a similar transition at my last firm, we put together a simple one-page checklist to keep the rollout on track. Let me know if you’d like me to send it over to your team.”*

In fifteen minutes, you’ve used a simple [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) prompt to spot an active problem and position yourself as someone who can solve it.

### 2. Deploy the “Alumni Hiring Manager” Micro-Search (15 Minutes)

Reaching out to general alumni networks can yield mixed results, but targeting alumni who are *currently managing teams* and have [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) authority creates an immediate social bridge.

Spend 15 minutes running this specific search query inside [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

- Navigate to your university’s official [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page and select the **Alumni** tab.
- Enter your target department or leadership level into the search bar (e.g., *“Director of Engineering”* or *“VP of Marketing”*).
- Filter by your target geographic market or specific companies on your watchlist.

Identify two alumni currently leading teams and send a focused, low-pressure note:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I noticed we both graduated from \[University\] and that you’re currently leading the \[Department\] group at \[Target Company\]. I’m currently mapping out my next move in the \[Specialization\] space and tracking your team’s growth. No immediate ask–just wanted to connect with a fellow alum operating in this domain.”*
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5K781V

### 3. Execute a “Comment Posting Strategy (10 Minutes)

Writing full-length [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts requires hours of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), drafting, and editing. You can achieve the same visibility in 10 minutes by placing high-density insights inside the comment threads of recognized industry leaders.

Find a recent post published by a VP, C-suite executive, or industry analyst in your field that has generated active discussion.

Skip a crap comment like “Great post!” or “Couldn’t agree more.” Instead, post a concise, 2 sentence analytical observation that adds direct domain value:

> *“Spot-on analysis regarding localized supply chain bottlenecks. In our last regional expansion, we found that decoupling legacy ERP databases in month two was the single highest-leverage move to prevent that exact reporting lag.”*

This positions your operational literacy directly in front of the post’s author and everyone reading the thread, driving targeted profile views from peers who actively [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for those exact capabilities.

### 4. Audit Your Profile’s About and Featured Sections (10 Minutes)

When [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) click on your profile, the first thing they see below your headline is your About and, hopefully, Featured sections, If your profile displays outdated activity or unoptimized sections, it is a poor digital footprint that doesn’t help you.

Spend 10 minutes streamlining your profile’s primary visual real estate:

- Re-order your **Featured** section to pin your single highest-value asset (e.g., a 1-page framework [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/), a link to a published whitepaper, or a notable project presentation).
- Ensure your **About** section opens with a 2-sentence core value proposition rather than a dense paragraph of personal history.

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Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: September 6 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-6-2026/)

**Published:** September 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice offers help with job search, job hunting, career advice, Interviewing, salary negotiation, resumes, and more.  The link to the post is in the comments. #opentowork 


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**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: September 6 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

As I mentioned the week before, I was off last weekend at one of the men’s retreats I do from time to time. This one was fairly local, about an hour from where I live. It was a wonderful experience with 25 attendees and a staff of 60 supporting them. The role that I’m in allows me a lot of latitude. As a leader emeritus I can do what I want as long as it’s a service to the weekend. Thus, so much of what I was doing was quiet behind-the-scenes stuff: the sport, the act of leadership, and the staff through challenging times. It was delightful.

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## 15 Minute Micro-actions to Activate Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Waiting for the “right time” to manage your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) is the fastest way to lose control of it.

Most people stall out because they see [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions as an all-or-nothing proposition. They convince themselves that unless they have an entire afternoon free to dissect their work history or craft dozens of customized [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), taking action isn’t worth the effort. Days slip into weeks, silence turns into [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and inertia takes over.

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) momentum does not require a dramatic overhaul or an empty few hours in your calendar. It operates on the same principle as any complex enterprise project: continuous action.

When you stop overthinking the process, fifteen minutes is all the time you need. A single quarter-hour, applied with intent, can uncover priorities, reactivate valuable social capital, and position your background directly in front of the people with the budget to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.

Here are four targeted micro-actions you can implement in fifteen minutes or less to jumpstart your [Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) today.

### 1. Mine Product Release Notes with AI for Operational Pain Points (15 Minutes)

When technology companies publish public release notes, changelogs, or update summaries, they are showing the world what they just built and the new headaches they are dealing with. Every major software update creates growing pains, bugs, or integration friction behind the scenes long before a manager posts a job opening to fix it.

You don’t need to read through pages of dry technical documentation yourself. Let an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool do the heavy lifting in about three minutes:

1. Copy the text from the company’s recent “What’s New” or release notes page.
2. Paste it into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) with a straightforward prompt:

> *“Here are recent release notes from \[Target Company\]. Based on these updates, what is one operational headache, workflow bottleneck, or data issue this team is likely running into right now? Give me a two-sentence summary written for a team leader.”*

1. Take the AI’s insight, put it into your own natural voice, and send a short message to the department head on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

> *“I saw your team’s recent update rolling out \[New Feature/Update\]. Usually, shifts like that cause a real bottleneck around \[the issue identified by [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)\]. When we handled a similar transition at my last firm, we put together a simple one-page checklist to keep the rollout on track. Let me know if you’d like me to send it over to your team.”*

In fifteen minutes, you’ve used a simple [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) prompt to spot an active problem and position yourself as someone who can solve it.

### 2. Deploy the “Alumni Hiring Manager” Micro-Search (15 Minutes)

Reaching out to general alumni networks can yield mixed results, but targeting alumni who are *currently managing teams* and have [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) authority creates an immediate social bridge.

Spend 15 minutes running this specific search query inside [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

- Navigate to your university’s official [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page and select the **Alumni** tab.
- Enter your target department or leadership level into the search bar (e.g., *“Director of Engineering”* or *“VP of Marketing”*).
- Filter by your target geographic market or specific companies on your watchlist.

Identify two alumni currently leading teams and send a focused, low-pressure note:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I noticed we both graduated from \[University\] and that you’re currently leading the \[Department\] group at \[Target Company\]. I’m currently mapping out my next move in the \[Specialization\] space and tracking your team’s growth. No immediate ask–just wanted to connect with a fellow alum operating in this domain.”*

### 3. Execute a “Comment Posting Strategy (10 Minutes)

Writing full-length [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts requires hours of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), drafting, and editing. You can achieve the same visibility in 10 minutes by placing high-density insights inside the comment threads of recognized industry leaders.

Find a recent post published by a VP, C-suite executive, or industry analyst in your field that has generated active discussion.

Skip a crap comment like “Great post!” or “Couldn’t agree more.” Instead, post a concise, 2 sentence analytical observation that adds direct domain value:

> *“Spot-on analysis regarding localized supply chain bottlenecks. In our last regional expansion, we found that decoupling legacy ERP databases in month two was the single highest-leverage move to prevent that exact reporting lag.”*

This positions your operational literacy directly in front of the post’s author and everyone reading the thread, driving targeted profile views from peers who actively [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for those exact capabilities.

### 4. Audit Your Profile’s About and Featured Sections (10 Minutes)

When [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) click on your profile, the first thing they see below your headline is your About and, hopefully, Featured sections, If your profile displays outdated activity or unoptimized sections, it is a poor digital footprint that doesn’t help you.

Spend 10 minutes streamlining your profile’s primary visual real estate:

- Re-order your **Featured** section to pin your single highest-value asset (e.g., a 1-page framework [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/), a link to a published whitepaper, or a notable project presentation).
- Ensure your **About** section opens with a 2-sentence core value proposition rather than a dense paragraph of personal history.

A successful, high-yield [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move isn’t about spending a weekend [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to a ton of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). It is built through small, clinical actions performed with relentless consistency.

Stop feeding automated databases. Pick one 15-minute action every morning, execute it cleanly, and force the market to respond to direct, targeted value.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Employment Situation Summary: September 4 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employment-situation-summary-september-4-2026/)

**Published:** September 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent.

**Content:**

# Employment Situation Summary: September 4 2026

[US Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)

```
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was
unchanged at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment
increased in food services and drinking places and in local government education. The
information industry lost jobs.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
Note.

Household Survey Data

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent in August, and the number of unemployed
people changed little at 7.0 million. Both measures changed little over the year.
(See table A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for people who are Asian declined to 3.2
percent in August. The rate for teenagers edged up to 14.1 percent over the month, mostly
offsetting a decline in the prior month. The jobless rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult
women (3.5 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (6.0 percent), or Hispanic
(4.8 percent) showed little change in August. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.9
million in August. The long-term unemployed accounted for 27.0 percent of all unemployed
people. (See table A-12.)

The labor force participation rate edged up to 61.6 percent in August but is down by 0.5
percentage point since January. The employment-population ratio, at 59.1 percent, changed
little over the month and since January. (See table A-1.)

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by 414,000 to 4.4
million in August. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were
working part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time
jobs. (See table A-8.)

In August, the number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little
at 5.7 million. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
to the labor force changed little at 1.7 million in August. These individuals wanted and were
available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of
the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, changed little in
August at 441,000. (See Summary table A.)

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 162,000 in August, higher than the average monthly
gain of 31,000 over the prior 12 months. In August, employment increased in food services and
drinking places and in local government education. The information industry lost jobs.
(See table B-1.) 

Employment in food services and drinking places increased by 59,000 in August, well above the
average monthly gain of 12,000 over the prior 12 months. 
 
Local government education added 42,000 jobs in August, largely offsetting a decrease in the
prior month. Local government education has shown little net change since January 2025.

In August, employment in manufacturing continued its upward trend (+16,000) and is up by
58,000 since a recent low in December 2025. Employment in machinery manufacturing (+6,000) and
in fabricated metal product manufacturing (+6,000) continued trending up in August. 

Employment in health care continued to trend up in August (+13,000) but at a slower pace than
the average monthly gain over the prior 12 months (+32,000). Over the month, home health care
services (+11,000) and hospitals (+8,000) added jobs. 

Information employment declined by 23,000 in August, following losses that had averaged 8,000
per month over the prior 12 months. In August, job losses occurred in computing infrastructure
providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services (-8,000), in publishing
industries (-7,000), and in broadcasting and content providers (-5,000). 

Construction employment changed little in August (+22,000). Employment in nonresidential
specialty trade contractors continued to trend up (+8,000), similar to the average monthly
gain over the prior 12 months (+6,000).

Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and
warehousing; financial activities; professional and business services; social assistance; and
other services.

In August, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 10
cents, or 0.3 percent, to $37.75. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.1
percent. In August, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
employees rose by 11 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $32.53. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to
34.4 hours in August. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.5
hours, and overtime was unchanged at 3.1 hours. The average workweek for production and
nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. 
(See tables B-2 and B-7.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised up by 11,000, from
+20,000 to +31,000, and the change for July was revised up by 44,000, from -23,000 to +21,000.
With these revisions, employment in June and July combined is 55,000 higher than previously
reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and
government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal
factors.)

_____________
The Employment Situation for September 2026 is scheduled to be published on Friday,
October 2, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

```

 [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)

 [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)

 [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)

 [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)

 [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)

 [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)

 [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)

 [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)

 [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)

 [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)

 [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)

 [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)

 [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)

 [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)

 [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)

 [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)

 [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)

 [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)

 [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

 [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)

 [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)

 [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)

 [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)

 [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)

 [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)

 [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)

 [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)

 [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)

 [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)

 [HTML version of the entire news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm)

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**Published:** September 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here is how to pivot from selling replaceable time to selling high-stakes judgment so you become the only logical choice in your market.

**Content:**

# Escape the Commodity Trap

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The 40-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) sprint is dead, and relying on years of service won’t protect you from [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) or cheaper labor. If you keep selling routine labor by the hour, you are setting yourself up to be replaced. Here is how to pivot from selling replaceable time to selling high-stakes judgment so you become the only logical choice in your market.

The professional roadmap used to be a 40-year sprint: you graduated, climbed the corporate ladder, and hit a comfortable vice presidency by 45, so you could coast until retirement at 65.

But that model was designed for a world where people died at 70. Today, medical science and longevity trends mean many of you will live well into your 90s. Mathematically, a 40-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) cannot fund a 30-year retirement, especially with the rising costs of healthcare. You are no longer running a sprint; you’re in a 60-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) marathon. Clinging to the old blueprint doesn’t just invite nostalgia, it puts your livelihood in danger by ignoring the reality of the next 30 years.

Many professionals believe they’ve reached a safe “inertia zone.” They think their degree, their tenure, and their senior job titles act as a shield against the changing economy. But from a company’s perspective, a senior title is often a target. A CFO sees a veteran employee as a fully burdened labor cost—a high [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) plus the massive overhead of benefits, taxes, and retirement matches. While you rely on your years of service, that same company is looking at the cost of a younger worker with an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) subscription, who can perform 80% of your job for a fraction of the price. If your only strategy is to be more experienced at routine tasks, you’ve turned yourself into an expensive commodity in a market that is rapidly automating your skills.

Technical skills—the ability to write code, manage a budget, or operate software—are depreciating assets. They’re being eaten by [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and devalued by global competition. To stay relevant, you have to pivot from selling labor to selling judgment. This is the realm of wisdom: the ability to recognize patterns, maintain gravitas during a crisis, and apply critical thinking to a complex mess. Skills describe how to do something; wisdom determines whether it should be done at all. A skill-based employee waits for a map; a wisdom-based professional draws it.

To survive the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) marathon, you must stop selling your replaceable time and start selling your irreplaceable judgment. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) argues being “better” is a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). It invites a race to the bottom on price. The superior economic strategy is “onlyness.” You move from a generalist title to a niche where you are the only logical choice.

This personal monopoly starts with two variables: a specific vertical and a situation—a high-stakes problem costing the company money or reputation. The final component is your mechanism: the unique intervention you use to solve that mess. Consider the shift from a generic senior logistics manager to an M&A integration [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) for temperature-sensitive supply chains. You are no longer 1 candidate in 1,000; you are 1 of 5.

Building this moat transforms you. You stop being a beggar waiting for an HR bot to notice your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and become a sought-after professional diagnosing a patient. When you operate with [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you don’t apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/); you conduct intelligence briefings to trade market data directly with the C-suite as a peer. This leads to the consultation close. You flip the traditional [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) script to determine if the organization’s challenges are actually worth your time to fix.

This chart shows the difference in leverage. The blue “Employee” column is managed by a boss, restricted to tasks, and paid for time. The green “Advisor” column is managed by results, focuses on strategy, and is paid for impact. By decoupling your income from your time, you move from being an expense to be managed into a specialized asset paid to secure a high-stakes outcome.

The ultimate goal of the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) marathon is intellectual sovereignty. It’s the ability to operate as a company of one, where your value is tied to who you are, rather than the logo on your badge. Stop trying to win a race to the bottom on someone else’s track; build a track where you are the only one running.

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### [How to Have Jobs Come to You #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-have-jobs-come-to-you-jobsearchagram/)

**Published:** September 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this short video, I explain how to have more jobs came to you.

**Content:**

# How to Have Jobs Come to You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In this short video, I explain how to have more [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) came to you.

***[Increase Your Chances of Getting a Response to Your Application](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkC)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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[***The Exit Package***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lk3)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

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### [Whining? Blaming? STOP IT!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whining-blaming-stop-it/)

**Published:** September 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a point in most people's careers where complaining becomes the order of the day.

**Content:**

# Whining? Blaming? STOP IT!

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

There is a point in most people’s careers where complaining becomes the order of the day.

*“I’m not being treated fairly!”*

*“I’ve gotten passed over!”*

*“The raise I’ve gotten sucks!”*

Maybe you’re a job hunter that is hitting their head against a wall.

*“I’m not getting interviews!”*

*“Recruiters aren’t getting back to me!”*

*“I got turned down (again) after that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-interview-self-sabotage/)!”*

You agency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/where-do-recruiters-begin-their-search-shorts/), don’t start feeling so superior. After all, many of you have similar laments.

“I don’t have good tools to find candidates!”

“My candidate is perfect but (s)he won’t send them to her/his client!”

“My clients all suck!”

Lest you hiring managers and corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/where-do-recruiters-begin-their-search-shorts/) get a swelled head . . .

*“I’m overworked and don’t have the resources to do what I’m asked to do!”*

*“I can’t find any good people!*

*“Agencies all suck!”*

If you’ve never seen the YouTube video that Bob Newhart did some years ago called, “[Stop It!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcSAQyzPcl0)“, it offers the ideal solution. Stop it.

If you work for a firm that treats you inappropriately, you change jobs; if you are an agency recruiter, buy your own tools, don’t work on his or her jobs and get new clients.

If you’re a job hunter, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) probably needs work, the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) you sent to the recruiter was little more than spam, or you don’t [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-interview-self-sabotage/) as well as you think you do.

If you work in corporate and are overworked, get more resources to help you. If you can’t find any good people, maybe your criteria are faulty and need revision. Maybe the people who are involved with interviewing aren’t being realistic or screening for less important criteria, making the process harder than it need be.

And all agencies don’t suck. Usually, they were referred by someone who knew the recruiter and had success. Maybe you aren’t adequately communicating what you require of your new hires or forgetting to teach them how to assess for what you want. After all, you’re too busy and all agencies suck.

But, no matter what, stop your whining, blaming and complaining. Take action!

***STOP IT!***

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### [The Closed-Loop Referral: Forcing Human Review](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/)

**Published:** September 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To bypass the automated knockout rounds entirely, you must execute The Closed-Loop Referral that targets internal advocacy

**Content:**

# The Closed-Loop Referral: Forcing Human Review

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Corporate [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) portals are not designed to discover your potential. Enterprise databases are built for mass elimination. If you submit your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into the front end of an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)), your background is systematically flattened into simple text tokens, scored by a rigid algorithm, and buried under hundreds of identical profiles.

You do not beat an automated pipeline by trying to out-optimize its keyword weights. You beat it by rendering the machine completely irrelevant.

To bypass the automated knockout rounds entirely, you must execute **The Closed-Loop Referral**. This process uses targeted internal advocacy to force the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to route your file straight to a human hand-off, completely skipping the machine’s elimination filters.

### 1. The Priority Architecture of Enterprise ATS Platforms

To break the system, you must understand how human resource software like Workday, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), or Greenhouse prioritizes incoming data. The database does not treat all submissions equally; it segments pipelines through a strict hierarchy of internal priority:

- **Tier 1 (Internal Employee Referrals):** Sourced directly through an active employee’s internal portal. The software routes these directly to the recruiter’s manual review dashboard, giving them the highest priority and skipping automated keyword filters entirely.
- **Tier 2 (Direct [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Sourcing):** Originates from direct [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) outreach or manual profile pulls on platforms like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). These carry medium priority and move straight to initial human screening calls.
- **Tier 3 (Public Portal Submissions):** Submitted through standard online job boards and corporate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pages. These receive the lowest priority, running through automated keyword screening and mass [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) rules before a human ever sees them.

When an internal employee submits your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) attaches a permanent tracking tag to your profile. In almost all standard corporate software configurations, this tag **overrides the automated keyword scoring threshold**. The software flags the profile as a priority asset and drops it directly onto the recruiter’s active manual review dashboard.

### 2. Referral Arbitrage: Aligning Corporate Incentives

Most professionals hesitate to hunt for internal referrals because they view it as an imposition. They assume they are asking a stranger or a loose connection for an unearned personal favor.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of corporate incentive structures.

Modern enterprises suffer from intense talent acquisition friction and expensive agency fees. To combat this, companies [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) substantial internal referral bonuses to their employees, frequently ranging from $1,000 to over $5,000 for specialized or technical roles, payable if the person is hired and hits a 90 day milestone.

When you approach someone inside a target company, you are not asking for charity. You are presenting them with a high-probability financial arbitrage opportunity and increasing their internal social capital. You are an asset; they are simply the router.

### 3. Executing the Systemic Bypass

To turn an internal contact into a human router who will upload your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), eliminate 100% of the operational friction from the transaction. Never ask an employee to “keep an eye out for open roles” or “let me know if you hear of anything.” That requires cognitive labor they will not perform.

Instead, locate the exact requisition ID number of the active role you want, verify that you possess the baseline core technical requirements, and deliver a completely packaged asset.

- **Step 1:** Isolate a peer-level contact within the functional department at the target company via your network.
- **Step 2:** Initiate contact by validating their recent work or commenting on a known structural shift in their specific department.
- **Step 3:** Deploy the low-friction routing request:

> *“I’m preparing to submit an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) for the \[Exact Job Title\] role under Requisition #\[Number\]. I know how corporate routing pipelines operate, and I want to ensure my file bypasses the standard public keyword filters to hit the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team cleanly. If your firm runs an internal referral portal, would you be open to dropping my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into the system directly? I’ve aligned my background explicitly with the core infrastructure needs of the department to ensure it reflects well on whoever routes it.”*

When you present the request with this level of transparency, you signal professional maturity. The employee does not have to write a recommendation letter or vouch for your character; they simply have to upload your text file into their internal portal, claim their referral tracking tag, and let the software work in your favor.

### The Bottom Line

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is only a barrier if you choose to play within its digital sandbox. Stop letting an unyielding relational database dictate whether a human being reads your execution timeline.

Format your documents for baseline text compliance, but focus your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) entirely on getting the internal tag that neutralizes the algorithm. Find the open requisition, align your incentives with an internal peer, and force the software to place your file directly on the desk where the decision is made.

**Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026**

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### [How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/)

**Published:** September 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Based on the article of the same name by Rebecca Knight in Harvard Business Review⁠, we're going to look at how to do that and two case studies of people who were able to bounce back successfully.

**Content:**

# How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3025 [⁠Based on the article of the same name by Rebecca Knight in Harvard Business Review⁠](https://hbr.org/2017/12/how-toapplyfor-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired), we’re going to look at how to do that and two case studies of people who were able to bounce back successfully.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Deep Dive. We are div

ing into something, well, I think a lot of people have experienced at least once in their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/): how to bounce back after [being fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/).

Oh, yeah.

And we’re going deep with a Harvard Business Review article. We’ve also got two real-world case studies of people who took, well, this really tough situation and actually turned it into something better.

That’s great.

Yeah. So if you’re in this boat right now or, you know, just want to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), you know, just in case, we’ve got some really good tips and strategies coming up.

You know, what’s really fascinated me about this topic is it’s not just about, you know, finding a new job. It’s it’s really about understanding, I guess, all the kind of emotions and also the steps involved, you know, to make this whole transition work well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It’s a process.

Absolutely. Okay, so this HBR article, it kicks off by saying that, like, even before you start working on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you need to understand what went wrong in that last role. They actually call it a post-firing autopsy, which sounds a little intense.

Yeah.

Yeah. But I I get what they’re saying.

Yeah, it is. It’s really about taking a step back. I think first from the immediate sting of [being fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/), and then looking at it objectively. And I think instead of, you know, getting all paranoid, you know, or defensive, it’s a time to ask yourself some hard questions. Like, were there were there patterns in [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) you got? Did your skills and, you know, what the role needed, did they really match up?

Yeah.

Yeah, makes a lot of sense. I’m curious, have you have you ever had to do this kind of like deep dive after a professional setback? What were some of those those questions that kind of helped you see things more clearly?

Oh, absolutely. I think one of the most uh I guess one of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) questions I asked myself was, what were like those early warning signs that maybe I missed?

Oh, interesting.

And this really helped me identify, like, patterns or behaviors that that I was doing that contributed to the whole thing. Another thing that helped me was reaching out to, you know, trusted mentors, old colleagues, and getting their perspective.

Sometimes, you know, someone outside the situation can see things that, you know, you just can’t see yourself.

It’s so interesting. You know, this article, it even suggests going to HR for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

Oh. Well,

I never would have thought of that.

It might seem a little strange.

Yeah.

But, you know, HR, they they often have a wider view of how the company works.

Yeah.

And they they can provide some good insights. I think they can help you understand the reasons behind the decision.

Mm.

They might even shed some light on, you know, areas where you could grow.

Okay, so we’ve done that. Like, internal work, we’ve got some clarity.

Right.

Now the article really emphasizes pacing yourself.

Yeah, that’s huge. I think it’s so tempting to just jump right back into looking for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

Sure.

You know, to feel in control again.

Right.

But rushing those [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) before you’ve really processed everything, like that can actually hurt you.

I can see that. Like you’re probably not putting your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) foot forward in those [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), like if you’re still, you know, emotionally raw.

Exactly. I mean, think about it. You know, you’re talking to a friend

Yeah.

about a tough breakup. Do you Do you want them to go jump into a new relationship the next day? Probably not.

Yeah.

It takes time to heal, process those feelings. Same thing with losing a job.

Yeah, I I I get that. So how do we how do we balance processing and action? What are some signs we’re, you know, finally ready to engage our network or, you know, start [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/)?

Yeah.

I would say you’re ready when you can talk about what happened

Yeah.

without getting defensive or super emotional. So you’ve had time to reflect, you understand what you want to do differently going forward,

Yeah.

and you’re genuinely, you know, excited about those possibilities ahead.

That’s a really good point. It’s about using that time to build your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and clarity, and not just rushing to, like, fill the void.

Right.

The article also talks about using this time to figure out the right fit for you. You know, what what does that actually look like?

Think of it as, you know, fine-tuning your personal job description, like what kind of work environment helps you do your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). What are your non-negotiables in terms of company culture and, you know, their values? Do you do better in a super-structured environment or do you need more autonomy? By figuring out your ideal fit, you can target your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) much better.

It makes me think about when I first graduated, you know, I applied for everything and ended up in a role that, on paper, it looked great,

Yeah.

but personality-wise, it was a terrible fit. I was miserable. So I totally get what you’re saying about, you know, being really intentional about finding the right environment.

It’s so crucial, and I think if the firing was due to personality, you know, clashing, or the culture wasn’t a good fit,

Mhm.

this step’s even more important.

That’s a great point. Okay, so we’ve analyzed what happened, we’ve paced ourselves, and we’ve defined that ideal fit. What’s next on the HBR checklist?

Well, once you’re ready to start looking at opportunities, it’s time to leverage your network.

Okay, but hold on a sec. I want to hear from you, the listener. Have you ever done this like post-firing deep dive we’ve been talking about?

Yeah.

What did you learn, and how did it change your next [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move?

We’d love to hear all about it.

Okay, back to the article. It says it’s super important to get those strong references before you start [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

Okay.

Right, because it’s way easier to ask for references when the experience is fresh in everyone’s minds. Plus, getting them lined up early just makes [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) so much smoother.

And the article gives a really good tip: tell your network exactly what kind of help you need.

Well, that’s smart.

So instead of just saying, “Hey, I need a job,”

Right.

be specific.

Yeah.

Tell them the roles you’re looking at, the companies, you know, even the kind of support you need.

Yeah, being specific, I think, helps people help you. You know, they they’re more likely to go the extra mile

For sure.

if they know exactly what you need.

Okay, let’s talk about crafting your narrative.

Mm.

Specifically, how do we address the elephant in the room, you know, the firing? How do we put that on our [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)?

Yeah, this is where we shift from understanding the past to shaping the future.

Yeah. Okay.

And the article suggests acknowledging that last job, but, you know, don’t dwell on it.

So, no gory details,

Right.

but we’re not hiding it either.

Exactly. You want to keep the focus on your accomplishments and, you know, skills that you can bring to a new role. Instead of listing reasons why you left, use that space to highlight your goals

Yeah. Okay.

and how this new role fits into where you want to go.

That makes sense. Okay, here’s the big question: how do we talk about [being fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/) in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)?

[Honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/) and preparation are key. You need to have a clear, concise explanation ready,

Okay.

tailored to why you left.

Okay, so what does that actually look like? This article gives scripts for different scenarios, which is super helpful. Like if you were fired for not meeting [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/), they say to be absolutely, searingly honest.

Right. In that situation, it’s about taking responsibility, explaining what you learned, and emphasizing what you’ve done to make sure it doesn’t happen again. You’re not making excuses.

Yeah.

It’s about showing accountability

Yeah.

and that you can grow.

We’ll get to those [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) scripts in more detail later, but first, tell us: what’s your experience with [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) after losing a job? Got any tips for making those conversations less awkward or, you know, just more productive? Let us know on social media using #TheDeepDive.

You know, it’s interesting, the article actually has different strategies for explaining that firing depending on why it happened.

Mm.

Like if it was because you weren’t meeting your [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/), owning up to it and showing what you’ve learned is key. But if it was something more serious,

Yes. Yeah. Okay.

the approach changes.

That’s really interesting. So there’s no one-size-fits-all script. What do they recommend for, like, uh, if someone was let go because of a big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)?

In those cases, they say to focus on showing that you’re truly sorry and that you’ve taken concrete steps to learn and grow from it.

Mm. Mm.

You know, it’s about showing that you understand how serious it was and that you’ve worked hard to become a better professional.

So less explaining and more proving you’ve changed.

Exactly. It’s about showing how committed you are to personal and professional development.

Mm.

Now for situations like personality clashes or just different work styles, the article says to avoid being negative.

Right. No badmouthing old bosses or coworkers, but how do you explain that without sounding like you’re blaming them?

It’s about focusing on the mismatch itself.

Yeah.

You can explain that your styles or approaches were just fundamentally different

Right.

and that it wasn’t a good fit for either of you. You can even talk about what you learned about your own preferences from that and how that’ll help you find a more compatible environment next time.

Mm.

That’s a really smart way to frame it. It takes the focus off blame and puts it on, you know, self-awareness, growth.

Right. Exactly.

Okay, I know the article also dives into those real-world case studies

Yes.

so we mentioned before. I’m curious to see how these tips actually worked for people.

Let’s start with Kimberly. Remember, she was let go from her digital media lead position.

Yeah, after only 9 months.

Yeah. Tough situation.

Mm.

But she used a lot of the strategies we’ve talked about to turn things around.

What did she do?

Well, first, she took time to really think about what happened.

Mm.

She realized that while she was good at digital marketing, PR was where her passion was.

Mm.

And even though getting fired was hard, it helped her figure that out.

So she used that time to process everything, but also to figure out what she really wanted to do.

Yes, exactly. And then she was strategic about using her network.

Okay.

She reached out to an old professor who had connections in PR. But here’s the important part: she didn’t just ask for a job.

Oh, interesting.

She was very clear that she wanted advice and informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) to learn more about the field.

That’s so smart. It’s way easier to get people to help you if they know exactly what you need.

Exactly. And in her [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), she talked about the firing confidently, framing it as a learning experience that helped her find her true [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path. She didn’t focus on the negative; she highlighted the positive takeaways

Yeah.

and how they connected to her goals.

And it worked. She got a new job in corporate PR in just a few weeks. That’s a pretty fast turnaround.

It really is. It shows how being proactive, thinking strategically, and turning that setback into an opportunity can make a difference.

It’s impressive.

Yeah. And then let’s talk about Derek. He was let go from his VP position after his company got acquired.

Right. And it sounds like he took a slightly different approach.

He did. Instead of jumping into [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), he focused on informal [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). He reached out to friends, old colleagues, even people he hadn’t talked to in years. His goal wasn’t to get job leads. He wanted to process his emotions, gain some perspective, and refine his story.

So he used those conversations as a way to sort of, like, test out his [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and feelings?

Exactly. And it was during those talks that he realized that even though getting fired was upsetting, it didn’t mean he wasn’t good at his job.

Mm.

It happened because the company was changing direction with the new owners. That helped him explain his departure in a neutral, factual way in later [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Mm.

Yeah, finding a way to tell your story honestly and positively without dwelling on the past is huge.

It shows [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/). It shows that you’re focused on the future. Derek also [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) really well for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). He practiced his answers to questions about the firing over and over until he felt confident and comfortable.

And did that strategy work for him?

Absolutely. He landed a new role that was a much better fit for his skills and experience

Yeah.

within 3 months. Now, we haven’t gone into detail about those [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) scripts yet, but before we do, I’d love to hear from our listeners: what parts of Kimberly’s or Derek’s stories resonate with you? Have you taken similar steps to deal with professional setbacks in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)?

Let us know on social media with #TheDeepDive. We want to hear what you’ve experienced.

Now let’s get into those [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) scripts the article provides. I think it will be really useful for anyone who’s feeling nervous about talking about their firing.

Okay, let’s break them down by different scenarios. First, let’s say you were fired for not hitting your goals. What does the article suggest?

They say to be what they call absolutely, searingly honest. It might sound a bit dramatic, but it’s about taking responsibility for what happened.

So, no sugarcoating, no excuses.

Right. You acknowledge that you didn’t meet expectations, you explain what led to that, and you highlight what you learned from it. It’s about showing accountability and that you’ve grown.

Can you give us an example of how that might actually sound in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)?

Sure. You could say something like, “In my last role, I didn’t meet the goals that were set for me. I take full responsibility for that. Since then, I’ve thought about what I could have done differently, and I’ve come up with strategies to make sure it doesn’t happen again. This experience taught me a lot, and I’m confident that I could exceed expectations in this role.”

That’s a really good example. It’s honest, it’s direct, and it shows you’ve taken the time to learn from what happened.

Exactly. And it moves the conversation from the past to the future, highlighting your commitment to getting better.

Okay. Now what if the firing was due to something more serious?

That’s definitely trickier. The article says the most important thing is to show that you’re truly sorry and to outline the specific actions you’ve taken to address the issue and prevent it from happening again.

So again, it’s l[e](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093QF4JSY)ss about explaining and more about proving you’ve changed.

Exactly. You’re showcasing your commitment to growth, both personally and professionally. For instance, you might say, “I made some serious [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in my previous position, and I really regret the impact they had. I’ve taken full responsibility for my actions, and I’ve been working hard to learn and grow from this. I’ve” And then you insert specific steps you’ve taken like professional development, therapy, anything relevant. “And I’m confident I’m a stronger and more responsible professional now because of it.”

That’s a powerful statement. You’re acknowledging the seriousness of what happened without dwelling on it. You’re focusing on the positive changes you’ve made and the lessons you’ve learned.

Right. It shows you’ve taken real steps to fix the problem and become a better version of yourself. Now, for things like personality conflicts or just different work styles, the article suggests a different approach.

Okay, I’m interested in this one. How do you explain that kind of situation without badmouthing your old boss or coworkers?

You focus on the fact that it was a mismatch.

Okay.

You emphasize your ways of working or your approaches were just fundamentally different

Yeah. Yeah.

and, ultimately, it just wasn’t the right fit for anyone.

So keep it factual, no blame.

Exactly. A good way to put it could be, “My last role wasn’t the ideal environment for me. We had different ways of approaching work, and in the end, it was [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) for both of us to move on. Since then, I’ve learned how important it is to find a workplace that matches my values and style, and I’m confident I can really contribute in a setting where collaboration and open communication are prioritized.”

That’s a great example. You’re focusing on the incompatibility instead of pointing fingers or being negative.

Right. It frames the experience in a way that highlights your self-awareness and your desire to find the right environment.

Okay, what if your last job was short-term, like a project-based role?

Ah, yes. The article suggests talking about it as a project rather than a job.

Okay.

This frames it more positively and emphasizes the specific skills and things you achieved.

So instead of saying, “I was let go after 3 months,” you say, “I successfully completed a 3-month project focused on X, Y, and Z.”

Precisely. And then you can connect the skills and experience from that project to what this new role requires. For example, you might say, “During that project, I gained expertise in,” and then list relevant skills, “which I think would be valuable to your team.”

That’s a great way to turn a potential negative into a positive. It highlights your achievements and shows that you’re looking for a long-term commitment.

Right. It’s all about finding the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to present your experience.

Okay. We’ve covered a lot: analyzing the firing, pacing ourselves, finding the right fit, using our network, crafting our narrative, and even mastering the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). But there’s one crucial piece we haven’t really dug into: staying positive.

It’s a fantastic point. All the planning and strategizing won’t mean much if you’re not taking care of yourself mentally and emotionally.

Absolutely. It’s so easy to get discouraged during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), especially after [being fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/). But staying positive is essential, not just for you to feel okay, but also for your chances of getting that dream job.

I couldn’t agree more. It’s important to remember that this whole process, especially after a firing, can be a marathon. There will be ups and downs.

Okay, so how do we keep that positive attitude when we’re dealing with [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/), uncertainty, and all that pressure to find a new job? The article gives some practical tips, right?

It does. It stresses the importance of self-care, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, having hobbies and doing things you enjoy, and leaning on your support system.

Okay, so let’s break those down. Self-care, what does that look like during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)?

It’s about making your mental and emotional well-being a priority. It could be simple things like taking breaks from [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/)

Yeah.

to do something you love, like reading, going for a walk, or spending time with people you care about. It’s about giving yourself permission to recharge and come back with a fresh perspective.

That makes a lot of sense. It’s easy to get so focused on the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) that you forget to take care of yourself, but you’re right: it’s a marathon, not a sprint. We need to pace ourselves and look after our well-being.

Precisely. Then there’s maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Getting enough sleep, eating well, and exercising regularly can have a huge impact on how you feel and how much [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) you have.

Oh, for sure. When I’m stressed or down, exercise is usually the first thing to go, but I always regret it. I feel so much better afterward. It’s like hitting a reset button.

It is, and it’s not just about physical health. It’s about feeling mentally clear and resilient.

Okay, what about pursuing those hobbies and activities we enjoy? How does that help with the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)?

It helps you stay balanced and connected to things you’re passionate about outside of work. It reminds you that you’re more than just your job title. It can spark creativity and give you fresh ideas.

Right. When I feel stuck or discouraged, doing something creative like painting or playing music really helps me shift my perspective and come back to the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with fresh eyes.

Exactly. And last but not least, don’t underestimate the power of your support system. Talk to your friends, family, mentors, anyone who can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) encouragement, a different viewpoint, or just a listening ear.

That is crucial. Having people who believe in you and remind you of your worth can make all the difference.

It really can. And remember to celebrate the small wins along the way. Each [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), each [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) connection, each positive interaction is a step forward.

I love that. It’s about recognizing your progress no matter how small, and acknowledging the effort you’re putting in.

Absolutely.

Okay, we’ve talked a lot about the emotional side of things, but there’s a practical aspect to staying positive during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), too.

You’re absolutely right. It’s about focusing on what you can control and taking steps to keep moving forward.

So what can we do to keep that momentum going?

The article suggests setting realistic goals, tracking your progress, and celebrating your achievements. Break down the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) into smaller, manageable tasks, and concentrate on what you can get done each day.

That’s a good strategy. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when you look at the big picture, but breaking it down into smaller steps makes it feel more doable.

Exactly. And keeping track of your progress is important. Write down the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you’ve applied for, the people you’ve networked with, the [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) you’ve had. It helps you stay organized and gives you a visual reminder of all the [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) you’re doing.

I love using to-do lists and tracking my progress. It’s motivating and makes me feel like I’m actually accomplishing things.

It’s a really good way to stay on track and remind yourself of how far you’ve come. And don’t forget to celebrate your achievements, no matter how small. Every step forward is worth celebrating.

I love that. Celebrating those wins, even the little ones, keeps us positive and motivated.

It does. And remember, this is a journey.

Mm.

There will be ups and downs, but with the right attitude and effort, you’ll find the perfect opportunity for you.

Yeah, it’s a good reminder that this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), it’s a process.

Right.

And there are going to be bumps along the way.

Yeah.

But, you know, Kimberly and Derek’s stories show us it’s really how we handle those setbacks

Yeah.

that makes all the difference.

Absolutely. Being resilient is so important. It’s about bouncing back from those rejections,

Yeah.

you know, learning from any [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and just keep putting yourself out there.

You know, the article also suggests that, like, staying active in your field can really help, like doing freelance work, consulting, or even volunteering.

That’s a really good point. It not only keeps those skills sharp and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) updated,

Yeah.

but it also shows that you’re committed to your field, and it helps you stay connected to your network.

It’s like you’re saying, “Hey, I’m not just waiting around for the phone to ring. I’m out here, you know, doing things, being engaged.”

Exactly. It shows initiative, a proactive attitude, and those are things [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) really value.

And speaking of initiative, the article also talks about using this time to, like, invest in yourself, in your professional development, like taking classes, workshops, maybe getting a certification.

That’s a fantastic idea.

Yeah.

Not only will it boost your skills and knowledge, but it shows that you’re dedicated to growing and that you’re willing to invest in yourself. It signals to potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) that you’re serious about your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and you want to keep getting better.

And it can be a great way to boost your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), too, you know, knowing that you’re actively learning new things

Right.

and staying ahead of the curve.

Absolutely. It’s about taking charge of your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and investing in your future.

Okay, we’ve talked about, you know, the emotional side of things, the practical strategies, and we’ve got those great examples from Kimberly and Derek. But before we wrap up, I want to touch on one more thing that’s so important: keeping things in perspective.

That’s a crucial point.

Mm.

It’s easy to get caught up in all the [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) of the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), but you got to remember, it’s just one part of your life.

Yeah, it doesn’t define you

Right.

or, you know, determine your worth.

Exactly. Keep things in perspective and focus on the bigger picture: your values, your passions, what you ultimately want to achieve.

And remember to celebrate those wins, even the small ones. Appreciate all the effort you’re putting in, and enjoy the journey.

And most importantly, believe in yourself. You have so much to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), unique talents and skills, and that perfect opportunity is out there waiting for you.

That’s a great way to put it. Well, I hope this deep dive has given you some valuable insights and some strategies you can use to bounce back after a job loss. Remember, you’re not alone in this. With the right mindset and the right approach, you can turn this setback into something even better.

Keep learning, keep growing, and keep believing in yourself.

Love it. And if you’re feeling inspired, share your own stories and tips on social media using #TheDeepDive. We love hearing from you and learning from your experiences.

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### [Unemployment Running Out? Need to Find Something? Applying for Jobs?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/unemployment-running-out-need-to-find-something-applying-for-jobs-shorts/)

**Published:** March 2, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's what to do to get more responses to your resume.

**Content:**

# Unemployment Running Out? Need to Find Something? Applying for Jobs? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Here’s what to do to get more responses to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/).

![optimism-about-returning-to-work-hasnt-met-reality-for-COVID-unemployed](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/optimism-about-returning-to-work-hasnt-met-reality-for-COVID-unemployed-300x200.jpg)

***[Be Open on LinkedIn and Elsewhere](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lwt)***

If you apply for a job, it takes them six seconds or less to decide whether or not the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) you. Make the fit obvious within one page down of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) so this way you get more interviews

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**ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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[***Recruiters Are Not Your Friends***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5OS)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

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You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [Not A Lot of People Find Jobs through Job Boards #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/not-a-lot-of-people-find-jobs-through-job-boards-shorts/)

**Published:** September 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It's true. Not a lot of people find jobs from job boards.

**Content:**

# Not A Lot of People Find Jobs through Job Boards #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/mluJPaU3K_A)

It’s true. Not a lot of people find jobs from job boards.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Aren’t Watching All Those Screening Videos***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-j5y)

**ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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[***Recruiters Are Not Your Friends***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5OS)

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

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You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [Resume Mistakes: Creative Writing in Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-mistakes-creative-writing-in-your-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** September 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People feel almost compelled to make this mistake and, with the exception of one field, employers won't like it.

**Content:**

# Resume Mistakes: Creative Writing in Your Resume \#shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZzGmmtpCBLQ)

People feel almost compelled to make this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and, with the exception of one field, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) won’t like it.

[***Recruiters Are Not Your Friends***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5OS)

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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[***The Exit Package***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lk3)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

***[Are You The Target for a Job Layoff?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-47)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [The 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing: A Bonus Sin!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-7-deadly-sins-of-interviewing-a-bonus-sin/)

**Published:** September 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I recently covered the 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing but want to add this additional one.

**Content:**

# **The 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing: A Bonus Sin!**

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

I recently covered the 7 Deadly Sins of [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) but want to add this additional one.

00:00 Introduction
00:29 The sin
01:24 Outro

***[The 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing: Not Researching Who Is On Your Calendar](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k5a)***

I just finished a number of videos on the Seven Deadly Sins of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) and I want to add one more bonus sin. And that’s the sin of forgetting that [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is like a theater performance. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) advice and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) globally, because I make things so much easier for people.

Now, [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) are not a flat recitation of facts. As a matter of fact, competence is only one criterion used when evaluating someone. The others include [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), character, chemistry, [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), that you care, that you can connect with you because for them, they want to trust the person they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

If you only provide a recitation of facts and experiences, without taking time to engage the audience like actors do, you’re giving them only one reason to choose you– your competence. The others, the emotional connection with you, are also important. Neglecting them will cause you to be rejected far more often than you should.

Remember, the skills needed to find a job are different than those needed to do a job. They complement one another. But without these soft skills, you’re not going to get hired. So I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us) There’s a ton in the blog that can help you. Plus you can schedule time for a free introductory call, schedule time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), find out about my video courses, books and guides. Again, there’s a lot there that will help. Also connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter). Have a terrific day and be great!

***[The 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing: Thinking That You Know What They’re Looking For](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k4X)***

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### [The 7 Deadly Sins Of Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-7-deadly-sins-of-interviewing/)

**Published:** September 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** With layoffs occurring globally and interviews more precious, it is very important to treat each one like a treasure.

**Content:**

# The 7 Deadly Sins Of Interviewing

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**With layoffs occurring globally and [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) more precious, it is very important to treat each one like a treasure. After all, you never know when the next one will occur and whether it will be one that will truly help you and your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).**

Yet people keep committing these sins year after year and cost themselves opportunities that result in embarrassment. No one likes to tell their wife/husband/partner/kids/friends/former colleagues or anyone that they didn’t get the job they interviewed for. They don’t want to start lying to others about your prospects only to let them down and feel like you disappointed them.![two man with eye glasses](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/341119_044970954de443d19a215847a5f89026~mv2.jpg)Yet that is the story that I’ve heard for years as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and now as a coach. The story of being disappointed and letting others down and feeling ashamed of doing so.

As a result, I decided to share what I think of as “The 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing” with the hope that we can head off some of these situations. None of these “sins” deal with skills competence. You either have the skills and experience or don’t. However, most people are not rejected for that. They are rejected for these.

## 1. The sin of thinking you know what they are looking for

For most positions, job descriptions are not generated. They are reactivated after a resignation, not updated, and used because it was previously approved, saving the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager time. Even when created by an [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm after exhaustive conversations with their client, once [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) begins, the thinking about the search requirements may evolve yet the job description or search document may not be updated. That leaves you thinking you know what they are looking for when you don’t. It’s why I recommend that rather than passively waiting for them to tell you about the role which will usually occur at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) when you ask about it (but after they’ve already decided whether they are interested in continuing discussions with you), start the discussion with them by asking them about the role. “Thank you for meeting with me today. I saw the position description (or Rajiv or Rhona from the [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) told me about the role), but I wanted to get your take on it. Would you tell me about the position as you see it and what I can do to help?” This way, you hear their current thinking about the position at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) so you can talk about what you’ve done that matters to them and not just talk about what you’ve done.

## 2. The sin of failing to connect the dots

They want to know why you’re qualified to do the job, and how your skills and experience match up to the requirements. When you don’t make this easy for them, if you don’t tee it up, it isn’t an important part of your experience. Most firms prefer people who do what they need all the time and not as something ancillary to their primary tasks. Before your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), take some time to really read the job description and understand what the company is looking for. Then, think about how your own experience can help you succeed in this role. Then, using my advice about asking about the role at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you can connect the dots for them with each answer to a question they ask.

There is a difference in how you speak with a talent acquisition person, a member of staff, a manager, a leader, and a Board member. Each has a different perspective for the role and what they will want to accomplish in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). In addition, knowing their background may afford you an opportunity to connect with someone who knows them, what their likes are and their “pet peeves.” Never walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without knowing the background and role of the person or people you’ll meet with.

“Who will I be meeting with?”

“A few people on the team?”

“What are their names?”

“Sheila, Ho, and Dan.”

“What are their full names, please? I want to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) them online and what they do.”

It’s that simple.

## 4. The sin of not preparing stories in advance of the interview that relate to the job as you understand it

Too often, people go to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) unprepared to answer any question that -starts off asking, “Tell me about a time when you … “ You read an ad and applied. A [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) or recruiting firm contacted you and forwarded a job description. You have an idea about the job because your former co-worker told you about it. You know the basics of the job. Prepare at least three stories in advance of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that at a minimum fit the STAR framework (Situation or Task, Action, Result as measured by money earned, money saved, or percentage improvement over what was previously done). This way, you avoid the pressure of having to come up with a story while they are staring at you. People’s nerves often get the better of them under those circumstances in the form of forgetting the most relevant story they could have told and delivering a far weaker one. Remember, once they tell you about the job at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), if there is a reason to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) it based on the new information, do it.

## 5. The sin of not sizing someone up when you meet them

When we meet someone socially or in most professional situations, we immediately size them up and deal with them as we presuppose them to be. However, because it’s about a **job**, my **[career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)**, and it’s **important**, most people paralyze the very quality that makes them most successful in an interview—their personality. By hiding behind being **proffessional**, and “feeling out the interviewer,” people waste the first few minutes of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and making a strong impression when the interviewer is often making a decision about whether to pay attention to the rest of your conversation. When you meet people in almost any other situation is right. Trust your instincts here, too.

## 6. The sin of trusting that what they are telling you is true

People go into [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) believing what they are told. “This is a great team of people. We do exciting work. Have I mentioned we’re like family here?” The families that are in holiday movies who want to kill one another? That kind of family?

“Why did the last person leave?”

“They left for a better opportunity.

“What made it a better opportunity?”

I am waiting for the first honest person to say, “They wouldn’t have to work with me.” “They wouldn’t have to work with my staff.” “They were finally paid fairly.”

They all wear [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) smile button faces, look you in the eye and lie to you. Find a former subordinate on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or Google and contact them.

They do reference checks. This is your version of checking references.

## **7. The sin of not having basic questions prepared to ask about the job and their expectations for you**

A former client took a position where he inherited a project from someone who left having spent 80% of the budget yet delivering only 20% of the work. No one volunteered the truth to him. He would have been the fall guy for the project had I not gotten him out first. Try to ask clarifying questions about things that seem incongruent to you. Ask about their expectations for you for the first 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, and after a year. Ask about resources available to you and, if you are in a manager or senior leadership role, what the caliber of the staff you’ll be inheriting is. Make sure you have the authority to replace people who fail to perform. If something seems impossible to do within the timeline afforded to you, unless you are desperate to return to work, don’t accept an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

## **Here’s one bonus sin.—The sin of forgetting that interviewing is like a theater performance**

[Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) are not a recitation of facts. As a matter of fact, competence is only one criterion used when evaluating someone. The others include [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), character, chemistry, [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), that you care, that they can connect with you because, for them, they want to trust the person they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). If you only provide a recitation of facts and experiences with taking time to engage the audience like actors do, you are giving them only one reason to choose you—your competence. The others, the emotional connection with you, are also important. Neglecting them will cause you to be rejected far more often than you should.

The skills needed to find a job are different but complement those needed to do a job. Avoiding these deadly sins will help you land your next role much faster and, more importantly, have you working at a firm where you can succeed.

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### [The Speed Game: Why Early Resumes Win](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-speed-game-why-early-resumes-win/)

**Published:** September 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In today’s AI-flooded market, recruiters fill shortlists within the first 48 hours and stop reading the pile.

**Content:**

# The Speed Game: Why Early Resumes Win

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Spending days perfecting a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) is why you get ghosted; hiring is a speed game, not a skill test. In today’s AI-flooded market, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/where-do-recruiters-begin-their-search-shorts/) fill shortlists within the first 48 hours and stop reading the pile. You’ll learn the 15-minute rule to land at the top of the stack before the door slams shut.

You find a job online, save it, and spend the next three days agonizing over every bullet point. You tweak the formatting, stress over the perfect keywords, and finally hit submit.

Then you wait.

Days turn into weeks, and you hear absolutely nothing. You’ve been ghosted. It feels personal, but it is entirely mechanical. By day four, that job posting has been buried under hundreds of AI-generated applications and people mindlessly clicking “Easy Apply.” Getting hired is no longer a strict assessment of skill. It is a speed game.

Think about it this way: a candidate who matches 75% of the requirements but applies on day one will routinely beat a candidate who is a 95% match but applies on day four. In a flooded market, spending hours waiting to be perfect is the exact mechanism that ensures nobody will ever scroll far enough to read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/).

Most job seekers operate under a false assumption. They believe [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/where-do-recruiters-begin-their-search-shorts/) wait until the official deadline to gather a huge pile of resumes and review them all at once. In reality, most hiring teams use rolling reviews. The minute a job goes live, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/where-do-recruiters-begin-their-search-shorts/) start opening applications and sorting candidates immediately.

This graph shows a recruiter’s attention span. Energy and focus peak on day one, but plummet to a flat line after the first 20 applications. Those 20 applications become the benchmark, capturing the hiring manager while they’re still eager. Once the recruiter identifies a shortlist of candidates who are good enough from that initial wave, they simply stop reading the rest of the pile.

The numbers prove this out. Industry data shows that more than a quarter of all jobs are filled by candidates who submitted their resumes within the first 48 hours. Your timing dictates whether you are seen at all, and in modern hiring, if you aren’t visible, you aren’t viable.

This relentless demand for speed doesn’t stop once you hit submit. It carries right over into how quickly you reply to an employer’s message.

Researchers at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business analyzed 11 million conversations between employers and applicants to figure out exactly what gets people hired. This chart illustrates the penalty for waiting. Delaying your response to a recruiter by just 5 minutes drops your hiring odds by 15%. Waiting a full hour makes your chances decline by a massive 46%.

But you cannot just set up an autoresponder. A lightning-fast, AI-generated reply immediately makes employers question your credibility. Your response has to be quick, but unmistakably human. Employers use your responsiveness as a proxy to judge how attentive, interested, and competent you will be on the job.

To win, you need to change your central objective. Stop asking how to build the perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/), and start asking how to find relevant jobs before anyone else does.

Step one is bypassing the big, sluggish job boards. Set up automated alerts directly on the career pages of your target companies so you get notified the minute a role goes live.

Step two is eliminating the ground-up rewrite. Build a master [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) that contains all your core competencies so you only have to make minor tweaks when a fresh job drops.

This prepares you to execute the 15-minute rule. Ideally, you apply within a quarter of an hour of the posting. At most, you have a strict 24- to 72-hour window before your odds evaporate. Speed does not excuse sloppiness. If you apply fast but fail the core requirements or leave in blatant typos, you will be rejected immediately. The objective is to submit a highly relevant, B-plus application on day one that will reliably beat an invisible, A-plus application on day five.

In a market saturated by AI spam, abandoning perfectionism for prepared, deliberate speed is your best strategy for survival.

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### [Tough Interview Questions #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-tough-interview-questions/)

**Published:** September 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In the short video, I answer the question, "do you need other people around or are you self-motivated?"

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the short video, I answer the question, “do you need other people around or are you self-motivated?”

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### [When Managers Are Undecided, Do They Lean Toward Rejecting Someone?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-managers-are-undecided-do-they-lean-toward-rejecting-someone/)

**Published:** September 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When managers are unsure, they tend to minimize risk.

**Content:**

# When Managers Are Undecided, Do They Lean Toward Rejecting Someone?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When managers are unsure, they tend to minimize risk.

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### [Job Search Mistakes: Not Giving Maximum Effort](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-job-search-mistakes-not-giving-maximum-effort-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/)

**Published:** September 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter looks at successful athletes as an impetus to encouraging you to go all out.

**Content:**

# Job Search Mistakes: Not Giving Maximum Effort

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) looks at successful athletes as an impetus to encouraging you to go all out.

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

And in all [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), no matter how much [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you get, no matter how much advice you absorb, no matter how much effort you put in, there may be times in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) where you’re going to struggle.

Now, I’m a sports fan. And one of the things I learned a long time ago, is that there’s an edge that winning teams have over teams that are not winning teams.

And one of the advantages that winning teams have is that they’ve learned that winners will find a way to win and that losers will find a way to lose.

Now, how does this apply to you? One of the things that teams seem to do over and over again, the losing teams, is they keep doing the same thing.They keep methodically trying to to defeat the winning team without that sort of emotional [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) to them, without that ability to get themselves revved up in a powerful, aggressive way that a champion is.

Hey, I don’t care which sport you like. I don’t care which team you like. You know what your athlete is like when they walk off the field and they’ve won. You know their behavior when that final slice overhead is hit at a major tennis match, and that person just drops to the ground with exhaustion and exhilaration, ’cause they’ve given their all. Is that what you’re really doing in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)? Of course not.

You need to perform like great athletes perform, putting in full effort, maximum effort, passion, drive, the willingness to give it all even if you lose. Because at times you are going to lose. At times you are not going to be successful. Sending out that wonderfully crafted [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that you and maybe your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writer have worked on for hours, it just doesn’t connect.

But I will tell you, if overall you engage in your search with drive, passion, joy, effort, and 100%, 110%, whatever that high number is for you, and not 30%, 40%—and you know what I’m talking about when I’m when I’m quoting these numbers. You know the difference between you at peak performance and you just going through the motions.

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So, don’t play small. Play like a champion.

Because again, I’m going to repeat it one more time: Winners find the way to win, losers find the way to lose. And one of the reasons that winners find the way to win is that they know that losers will find the way to lose.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found this video helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, send it to folks, do something that lets people know it was worthwhile.

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So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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### [Rejection #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/)

**Published:** September 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about rejection during a job search.

**Content:**

# Rejection #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A short video about rejection during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/).

[***What Pace Are You Trying to Set For Your Job Search?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-195)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [I Hate Applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-hate-applications-2/)

**Published:** September 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One of the most common complaints that job hunters have is, "Why do I have to fill out a (*#!*!!#$) application?

**Content:**

# I Hate Applications

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

One of the most common complaints that job hunters have is, “Why do I have to fill out a (\*#!\*!!#$) [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)? Everything they need to know is in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).”
Several years ago, a banking client hired a well-qualified person for a difficult to fill software engineering job. About a week after the person started, they discovered the individual had lied about having a college degree. Security met them at their desk with a shoebox of their personal possessions as they returned to work from lunch on the Friday of their first week of [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

**[Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are a legal document; [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are not.** If you look at most [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), the potential employer provides a caution or warning that says something to the effect of, “Lying on an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is grounds for dismissal.” Since most background and reference checks are completed after you have started your new job, an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) notifies a potential employee of a risk.

They also provide a simple snapshot of a person’s writing skills (and penmanship for that matter) and attention to detail that a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) cannot.

All [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are somewhat similar, so to create the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) impression you can, as well as to save time when filling them out, create your own master [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). List former [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), making sure you have the correct addresses, telephone numbers, and the dates of your [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Use this as your “sample form” when filling out a real [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

**If you are unsure about a specific month that you started a job several years ago or a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that you were paid, DON’T JUST GUESS!** Add the phrase “approx” (for approximately) next to the item. This tells the interviewer that you are not sure of the exact month or [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and that you don’t want to lie when filling out the form.

**Don’t leave questions blank. Insert a dash or N/A (for not applicable) if it doesn’t pertain to you.** Proofread. Proofread. Proofread. One of the advantages of having a master form is that if your spelling is not perfect, you have a place where you have written the word down previously and have spelled it correctly.

**Try to write neatly.** It’s not that great penmanship will get you the job but poor handwriting is noticed.

Lavender may be a nice scent for the bathtub but a poor choice of ink colors when filling out a form. **Stick** **with blue or black ink when completing them.** Some firms scan answers into systems that won’t recognize any other color.

**DON’T LIE!** In good or bad [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) markets, nothing is worth having to explain to your friends and family why, after telling them so much about your [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) journeys, after telling them you (finally) have a job, after telling people that you were enjoying the new job, after finally feeling comfortable, there is no worse moment than seeing security at your desk.

© [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc. Asheville, NC 2016, 2026

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### [Personal Branding Mistakes to Avoid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/personal-branding-mistakes-to-avoid/)

**Published:** September 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3024 On this show, Ronnie and Bobby talk about an article I wrote.

**Content:**

# Personal Branding Mistakes to Avoid

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3024 On this show, Ronnie and Bobby talk about an article I wrote.

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Being Prepared #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/)

**Published:** September 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about being prepared

**Content:**

# Being Prepared #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/yMlGEB4HQzk)

A short video about being prepared

[***Be Careful Using AI to Write Resumes and Cover Letters***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k0r)

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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[***Seven Steps To Branding Yourself As An Expert***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-edP)

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### [Counteroffers: Should You Accept?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/counteroffers-should-you-accept/)

**Published:** September 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3023 You've landed a job offer, but just as you're about to give your notice, your current employer throws a curveball: a counteroffer. It's tempting, right? 

**Content:**

# Counteroffers: Should You Accept? 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3023 You’ve landed a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), but just as you’re about to give your notice, your current employer throws a curveball: a counteroffer. It’s tempting, right?

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### [Networking #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-networking/)

**Published:** September 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about networking and what works and what doesn't.

**Content:**

# Networking #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/M1ToQsdCCHY)

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### [Networking Is As Important as Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/networking-is-as-important-as-your-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** September 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Networking is More Powerful Than Applying Online

**Content:**

# Networking Is As Important as Your Resume #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Stop Treating LinkedIn Like a Resume (You’re Invisible)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-treating-linkedin-like-a-resume-youre-invisible/)

**Published:** September 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn's 360Brew AI system demotes engagement bait and fake metrics, rewarding authentic profiles engineered like high-converting landing pages.

**Content:**

# Stop Treating LinkedIn Like a Resume (You’re Invisible)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professionals treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a dusty online [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), relying on outdated hacks that actively hurt their reach. LinkedIn’s 360Brew [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) system demotes engagement bait and fake metrics, rewarding authentic profiles engineered like high-converting landing pages. Fix your headline, summary, and skills today to make [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) come to you.

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[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) now uses a semantic skill graph to map the relationship between your job titles and your actual capabilities. Your top three to five listed skills provide the primary signals that tell this graph what you actually do. 360Brew evaluates topical relevance by linking your skills to broader industry concepts. You can trigger these signals by enabling “Open to Work” in recruiter-only mode, seeing a 40% increase in [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) messages.

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Your headline is the secondary hook. It states who you help, how you help them, and proof your method works. Your photo and headline function as a two-second trust filter. If they fail to resonate, that person will rarely scroll down to see the rest of your experience. If the hook works, the visitor moves to the pitch phase: your About section.

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The final stage of the funnel is driving continuous traffic back to your page through active content. The 2026 algorithm prioritizes dwell time. The system rewards posts that keep people reading or watching, while deprioritizing short engagement bait and empty platitudes. Standard text posts average two… A setup like this results in warmer outreach from [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) that demonstrates your value 24 hours a day.

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### [The Reference Check Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-reference-check-trap/)

**Published:** September 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode exposes the only two trick questions hiring managers care about and gives you a three-step playbook to prep your references.

**Content:**

# The Reference Check Trap

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You passed the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), but [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use reference checks as a smokescreen to find [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) and kill your job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). This episode exposes the only two trick questions [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers care about and gives you a three-step playbook to prep your references. Stop leaving your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) to chance and learn how to secure the final [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

All right, let’s talk about that moment. You’ve been through rounds of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), you’ve absolutely crushed it, and you can practically feel that job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in your inbox. But then, they ask for your references. And this, my friends, is the final boss battle that most people don’t even know they’re fighting.

I mean, you’re on top of the world, and you should be. You’ve answered every tricky question, you aced the technical challenge, you clicked with the team. You’re thinking the hard part’s over. You fire off that email with your list of references, picturing them saying all sorts of amazing things about you.

But hang on a second. That reference call? It is not just a formality. It’s a high-stakes final exam. And the craziest part is, you’re not even in the room to take it. And the questions on this test? They’re probably not what you think they are at all.

So, let’s get right into it and bust the biggest myth about reference checks. Most of us have this idea in our heads about why companies even make these calls, and honestly, we’ve got it kind of wrong.

We all tend to believe that a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is calling your old boss just to, you know, double check that you can actually do the stuff you say you can do. Right? They’re just verifying your skills, making sure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) isn’t a work of fiction. I mean, it seems logical. But it’s not what’s really going on.

Just think about it for a second. This company has probably spent hours, maybe even days, [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you. They’ve put you through the wringer with case studies, technical tests, [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) reviews. They’ve already kicked the tires on your skills. Why would they do all of that just to call someone else and ask, “So, uh, are they any good?” It’s totally redundant.

So, if they’re not really there to check your skills, then what on Earth are they doing? Well, this is where we get into the real game. The reference check is often a masterclass in misdirection, a kind of smokescreen to find out what they really want to know.

So the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) might start with a really soft, easy question like, “So tell me, were they good at their job?” But that question is just the smokescreen. What they’re really doing is hunting for [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/). And this is so important to understand: at this final stage, they’re not looking for more reasons to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. They are looking for one single reason not to.

So what kind of [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) are we talking about? Well, it’s almost never about whether you could write code or manage a spreadsheet. It’s about the stuff that can absolutely poison a team. Are you a headache to manage? Do you not play well with others? Do you have a negative vibe? Do you get defensive with [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)? These are the landmines that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers are desperate to avoid stepping on.

Now, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) might have a whole friendly chat with your reference, but really, the entire thing is engineered to get the answers to two, just two, absolutely critical questions. These are the only ones that really count.

Seriously, all the small talk, all the “How was it working with them?” stuff, it’s all just a warm-up. Forget all the other noise. Your shot at this job, that [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter you’re waiting for, it all hangs on how your references answer these next two questions.

Okay, here’s the first one. This is the knockout punch: “Would you [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) them again?”

It is so powerful because it forces a simple yes or no. There’s no waffling, no corporate jargon. Any hesitation, any pause, anything other than a fast, confident, “Oh my god, yes, in a heartbeat!” is a massive, flashing, neon red flag.

And then comes the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/), and this one is just brilliant. It’s such a clever bit of psychology. It sounds so positive, right? Like, “Hey, just give me some friendly advice.” But what the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is really doing is digging for your flaws. An answer like, “Oh, they work [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) when you give them very clear, detailed instructions”—well, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) hears, “This person needs to be micromanaged.” It’s designed to expose every single quirk and potential point of friction.

So, hearing all this might feel a little scary. But here’s the good news: now that you know the real questions on the test, you can actually study for it. You can’t just toss a list of names over the wall and hope for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). You need a game plan. So, let’s build one right now.

Okay, it’s this simple: three steps.

One, you need to choose people who would enthusiastically, without a single doubt, say yes to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you again. Not just, “Yeah, sure,” but, “Absolutely!”

Two, you have to prep them. Don’t just ask them to be a reference, coach them. Tell them, “Look, they’re going to ask you if you’d [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me again, and they’re going to ask what my next manager should know.”

And three, help them answer that second tricky question. Give them the actual words to use. Remind them of a time you took [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) really well or collaborated on a tough project. Arm them with your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) stories.

So, the next time you’re getting ready to hand over that list, ask yourself this: are these people just nice colleagues, or are they [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to pass the real test? Because at the end of the day, getting the job doesn’t just depend on your performance in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/); it depends on how well your references perform on theirs.

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### [Alerts #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-alerts-3/)

**Published:** August 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about how to easily collect information

**Content:**

# Alerts #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtu.be/YE0wxrcqZOo?si=q1KL-6p68Yu2tMPm)

A short video about how to easily collect information

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and succeeding in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier.

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### [What’s Your Personal Brand? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-your-personal-brand-shorts/)

**Published:** August 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do you cultivate a personal brand? 

**Content:**

# What’s Your Personal Brand? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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How do you cultivate a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/)?

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### [Should I Send a Thank You Note After I Get the Job? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/)

**Published:** August 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Who would you send a thank you letter? I think there are recipients who itnwould be good to send a note to but not who you might think.

**Content:**

# Should I Send a Thank You Note After I Get the Job? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Who would you send a thank you letter? I think there are recipients who itnwould be good to send a note to but not who you might think.

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### [20 Years From Now  #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/)

**Published:** August 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Mark Twain's quote is on the money.

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# 20 Years From Now #shorts

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### [Advice For Finding A Non-Profit Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/advice-for-finding-a-non-profit-job-2/)

**Published:** August 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When it comes to advancing in your career, there are steps that can help you make a smooth transition to a community service job.

**Content:**

# **Advice For Finding A Non-Profit Job**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Picking the Right Side Hustle for Your Cash Timeline](https://thebiggamehunter.us/picking-the-right-side-hustle-for-your-cash-timeline/)

**Published:** August 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the raw math of side hustles so you can choose the exact platform that matches your cash needs without getting scammed.

**Content:**

# Picking the Right Side Hustle for Your Cash Timeline

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop chasing hyped-up “$500 a day” promises that bleed your bank account and waste your time. Every legitimate gig forces a strict trade-off between payout speed and earning potential. This episode breaks down the raw math of side hustles so you can choose the exact platform that matches your cash needs without getting scammed.

If you look closely at the modern side hustle market, you’ll notice it splits into two extreme camps. On one side, you have physical, labor-intensive grinds that pay relatively low rates. On the other, you have highly skilled digital work that pays well, but takes a long time to actually put money in your bank account.

And sitting directly on top of both of those legitimate options is a massive, highly organized layer of scams. They are specifically designed to prey on financial [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) by promising the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of both worlds: high pay for zero effort.

Navigating this landscape effectively means ignoring the promises of maximum dollar amounts. Instead, you need to match your immediate financial timeline to a platform’s specific payout structure. When you understand the mechanics of how and when a hustle actually clears your money, you can find gig work that solves your cash flow dilemma rather than making it worse.

The baseline rule for filtering out the garbage is simple: entry-level remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with zero required skills—like basic data entry or reshipping packages—do not pay executive-level salaries.

This graphic shows exactly how the most common traps work. Scammers will [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you a high weekly rate and immediately demand an advance fee to secure the job, or they’ll ask for your banking details to send a check for home office supplies. That check will bounce a few days after you’ve sent them back the supposed leftover funds.

A legitimate platform or client will never require you to pay them out of pocket before you are allowed to start working. Real marketplaces only take a cut of your earnings after a client has paid you for a completed project. Protecting your existing bank balance from these advance fee traps is the mandatory [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/). Once you filter them out, you can accurately evaluate the real opportunities.

Every legitimate gig comes with a strict mathematical trade-off: the time it takes to get your payout versus the ceiling on your total earnings. If you want cash in your hand immediately, you almost always have to sacrifice the ability to scale that income over the long term.

This chart maps out exactly how this works. We can categorize side hustles based on the skills they require on the bottom axis and how fast they pay you on the vertical axis.

Looking at the top left quadrant, we find the emergency cash gigs. Things like plasma donation, delivery apps, or local yard work require lower specialized skills, but they pay out incredibly fast.

Down here in the bottom right quadrant are digital [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) building platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and Toptal. These require highly developed professional skills and take weeks to clear your first payment, but they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) the highest earning ceiling.

Choosing a hustle means ignoring the maximum earning potential for a moment and looking squarely at your personal cash flow timeline.

The instant cash gigs require heavy physical labor, immediate availability on your end, or owning a reliable vehicle. Their primary benefit is speed. These gigs [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) same-day cash in hand or app payouts that process in one to five business days.

But vehicle-based delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash carry hidden mathematical trade-offs. Your gross pay shrinks rapidly once you subtract gas, routine maintenance, and the depreciation of your car.

Contrast that with neighborhood cash services, like assembling furniture on TaskRabbit or mowing lawns. You eliminate the vehicle wear entirely, but you replace it with direct, taxing manual labor. Local physical hustles are highly effective at bridging immediate cash gaps. But because you are strictly limited by your own physical stamina and hours in the day, they have a hard ceiling that prevents real wealth building.

Next, we have the low-friction digital hustle. These require almost nothing to start: just a smartphone, a few spare minutes while waiting in line, or a physical asset you aren’t currently using.

The appeal here is obvious: taking online surveys or completing microtasks offers total flexibility and zero startup costs. The reality, however, is in the math. Survey sites like Swagbucks or Prolific [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) incredibly low hourly rates. You are earning minor supplemental cash here, not generating enough to cover living expenses.

The only truly passive zero-effort income in this category comes from asset rentals. Renting out specialized camera gear or an unused parking space requires minimal maintenance once the listing is live.

Low-friction digital tasks serve [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) as a way to monetize your dead time. They are not a viable strategy for paying actual bills.

Finally, we reach the skill-based marketplace. This is where workers pitch existing, marketable professional skills—like copywriting, graphic design, or bookkeeping—to a global pool of clients. This quadrant holds massive upside. It offers access to high-paying, long-term contracts. Top earners on these platforms regularly clear $5,000 to $15,000 a month.

But the barrier to entry is steep. As a new freelancer, you need a 14- to 30-day runway of unpaid effort just to set up your profile, land your first client, and wait for the platform to process your initial funds.

Then there are the platform fees. Dominant marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork take between 10 and 20% of your earnings simply in exchange for access to their buyer pool.

Zero-fee platforms like Contra do exist, but beginners often choose to pay that 20% on the larger sites early on just to buy initial algorithmic traffic and establish a verified reputation.

Skill-based marketplaces treat freelancing like a true business. Generating reliable profit requires a serious upfront investment of unpaid time and marketing fees.

Selecting your side hustle should never be based on which one has the most internet hype. You have to systematically match the work to your immediate financial runway.

This flowchart breaks down the decision:

First, need cash by Friday? If yes, your options are dictated by whether you have a car. If you do, delivery apps are the fastest route. If not, local services on Nextdoor or TaskRabbit are your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) bet.

If your timeline isn’t urgent, the next question is: have a professional skill? If so, your platform choice depends on experience and fee tolerance. Use Contra to avoid fees, Upwork for active bidding, or Fiverr for inbound client discovery.

Clearly defining your exact timeline and constraints upfront is the only way to pick a platform that yields results instead of burning you out.

The gig economy is an incredibly useful tool to bridge a cash gap or build a new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), provided you respect the mathematical realities hiding behind the marketing.

Aggressively guard your primary income from advance fee scams before you spend a single minute chasing secondary income.

Understand that all legitimate gig work demands a trade-off. You must sacrifice either high physical effort in exchange for fast cash, or significant patience while you wait for a platform algorithm to pay off.

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### [How Are People Finding Jobs? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-are-people-finding-jobs-shorts/)

**Published:** August 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it applying to jobs online? Noooo.

**Content:**

# How Are People Finding Jobs? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Click here if the video doesn’t play](https://youtube.com/shorts/D41-IWzk-W4)

Is it [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) online? Noooo.

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and succeeding in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier.

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### [Changing Yourself and Others #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-yourself-and-others-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/)

**Published:** August 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** From Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

**Content:**

# Changing Yourself and Others #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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From Peter Bevelin,[ All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There](https://amzn.to/4ct2rX9)

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### [A Promotion Isn’t Owed To You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-promotion-isnt-owed-to-you/)

**Published:** August 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are many different ways that managers and leaders give people the false illusion that they are important to an organization

**Content:**

# A Promotion Isn’t Owed To You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Beginning with my experience as an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), to now [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) people into successful roles and [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), one thing I have learned from the people I have worked with is that managers often do a very good job of stroking their employee’s ego and, thus, give them a sense of false security and expectations.

“I see you on the fast track.”

“I see you as my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person.”

“I’ll look out for you.”

There are many different ways that managers and leaders give people the false illusion that they are important to an organization and that they have a long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) ahead of them. Thus, they can be surprised to learn that their job security is a little bit more complicated than what their manager thinks and tells them.

I worked with someone a few years ago who was consistently told that his work was exceptional, his future guaranteed and that everyone thought the world of him. Suffice it to say, when the deck got shuffled and he was assigned to a new role, he was shocked to discover he had been sent to corporate Siberia into a position where his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in the organization was dead on arrival. All those kind words, all the superlatives, meant nothing.

Here are five [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that I see so many people make:

**No one above your immediate manager knows anything about what you do and how good you are.** We can joke about the old saying “if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Of course it makes a sound, but no one knows it. The same is true of your work. No matter how good it is and how meaningful it has been, you can be invisible to the real decision-makers.

**You let your internal and external network become fallow**. A farm field needs tending, and so does your network of relationships. Networks don’t just exist with former colleagues and friends. They live with the people that you have positively affected within your firm, your mentor(s), your former manager(s) as well as the people you have lunch with.

**You act like it’s owed to you.** In all sports, big contract players can be phased out or cut if their performance doesn’t measure up to the contract they receive. Many people live off of their past successes and expect to be paid and promoted for them. Unfortunately, many of those successes and impacts occurred multiple years ago. No one cares about what you did when President Obama was in office. Your company has no debt to you. They paid for your services fair and square. There were no promises made beyond simply, “We are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you to do this job and will pay you the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).”

**You got out of your lane.** It may feel good to be “the helper,” the person everyone goes to for advice about how to do something or how to get something done. However, every interruption that you allow, every time you rescue someone else by giving them the answer when they couldn’t figure it out on their own, distracts you from doing the job you were hired to do. I know I’ve made this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) by allowing both less experienced people and more experienced people to ask for my advice about handling situations that took me away from what I was actually hired to do. It’s one thing to agree to do it once in a while. It’s another thing to have a Post-it note taped to your forehead that says, “Ask me anything.” I became that person!

**You became too (dis)agreeable.** When you felt taken for granted, you never spoke up. You are encouraged to “go with the flow,” or “be a team player” and not “rock the boat.” I would never suggest that you throw a tantrum at work, but it is important to practice saying one word with regularity: “no.” Because everyone else is docile and compliant, the word “no” has more power behind it. Pick your battles but don’t be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to speak up and speak out.

Conversely, acting like the sun rises and sets around you and your opinions no matter where you reside in an organization is a recipe for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) suicide. Eventually, a new sheriff rides into town, someone gets their ear and your enemies collaborate to take you out. There is an art to working with others while maintaining your professional integrity that separates people.

You are the chairman of the board of your own life. You have a board of directors that you are beholden to (your husband, wife, partner, children) who double as shareholders. Sometimes, you need an external advisor or advisors to help you navigate the different obstacles in your path that you don’t see because, like everyone, you have blind spots.

Often, it’s too late to involve this advisor/mentor/coach when a problem hits. After all, you missed the signals along the way that allowed this problem to fester and now explode. An ongoing relationship with the person or people who can function in this role will be important to you throughout your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Make time for regularly scheduled check-ins. Whether you are an entry-level employee or a senior leader, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) time to start the relationship with this person was five years ago. The second [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) time is today.

You don’t have to figure things out by yourself. After all, every great athlete has a coach who helps them succeed. Every great entertainer has a team of people around them to help advance their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Luck and talent may play a part in this. But there are a lot of talented people who never get to where they want to get to. Don’t hesitate. Cultivate the team around you to help support you over the long term.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2018, 2025

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### [The Invisible Professional: How To Stand Out In Today's Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-invisible-professional-how-to-stand-out-in-todays-job-market/)

**Published:** August 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For you plotting a career, being “invisible” should now be considered malpractice for any serious professional.

**Content:**

# The Invisible Professional: How To Stand Out In Today’s Job Market

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This article was named a Top [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Blog Post by JobMob.co.il.

![](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/invisible-criminal-person-with-hoodie-PAMTVCD-1-300x200.png)“To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man — the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks? I saw none.” ― H.G. Wells, *[The Invisible Man](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1326579)*

Griffin, the main character in Wells’s book, may have believed there were no drawbacks to being The Invisible Man, but for you plotting a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), being “invisible” should now be considered malpractice for any serious professional.

After all, the person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or the one who works the hardest, although those are great qualities to have. People get ahead by being alert to opportunity. Sometimes, they are internal to your organization. Usually, they are external.

Unless you plan on lurching from [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) (isn’t that fun!) and wading through [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that decides whether you should be interviewed, you need to take proactive steps to cut the line and become “the chosen one” proactively.

**Move To The Front Of The Line**

One of the most pleasant and surprising experiences I have ever had was landing at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow with my wife and newly adopted son. Hundreds of people were waiting to pass through immigration but when we were noticed, we were waved to the front of the line because we had an infant with us. The encouragement to walk to the front of the line did not evoke outrage and name-calling by people we were walking ahead of, as it might in most other places.

It was a delight after our 8 a.m. flight from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Moscow needed to make an emergency landing at an abandoned airbase, waiting seven hours for a replacement plane to be flown in and being sustained by one soda in an unheated terminal building. In the U.S., we all would have stood stony-faced in line waiting for our turn.

Unfortunately, most people wait for their turn to be called for the next opportunity instead of creating the conditions to be called. How can you change your circumstances?

**1. Do marketable work extremely well.** No matter what your field, no matter what your profession — white-collar, blue-collar, it makes no difference — there is a shortage of labor in the United States. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey](https://www.bls.gov/web/jolts/jlt_labstatgraphs.pdf), there is less than one unemployed person available for every job opening in the United States, down from a peak of more than six in July 2009. New hires have been exceeding separations from the workforce since 2011. This need for talent, exacerbated by containing immigration to the United States, offers an opportunity for people to easily find work in the current environment.

**2. Volunteer for work that is significant.** Volunteering can be an important way to develop your visibility both internal to your organization and external. Before accepting an assignment, ask yourself the questions: Who can I meet? What can I learn? If neither answer excites you, don’t step up. Let others do that.

**3. Keep your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile up-to-date.** Both corporate and third-party [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are spending thousands of dollars per year to search [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for profiles of people who match skills for open [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Keeping your profile up-to-date allows them to search and find you to propose new opportunities to you. Check in on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) daily to respond to messages that you receive with opportunities. Download the app and check and respond to your messages.

**4. Write articles.** Who would publish what you have to say? [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), for one, has a blogging platform that you can publish to that will allow what you write to be located by Google. You can share your articles with your connections. There are websites that specialize in what you know that might be willing to publish what you have to say. In addition, [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) others is a great vehicle for writing an article.

**5. Create content for YouTube.** [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) people for YouTube is an enhanced version of writing. It puts you in the position of being recognized as an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) because your guest is being asked quality questions by you. Soon, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) will rollout [LinkedIn Live](https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/linkedin-debuts-linkedin-live-a-new-live-video-broadcast-service/) to everyone (it is still in beta as I write this). You will be able to do live [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) there, too.

**6. Become a speaker.** Public speaking takes many forms. You can speak to trade groups, at conferences, be interviewed by others for their podcast, as well as for YouTube and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Live. If you are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of being a speaker, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to overcome that fear is by attending local Toastmasters meetings and making your [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in front of a supportive group. It helped me — and now, more than 8,000 videos and 2,800 podcasts later, I know I’m helping others.

When you are chasing opportunity because you are aggressively looking for a position, it is like being in a pond with thousands of fish all jumping for one hook. Instead, you want to be the person they are reaching out to for opportunities. By being in that place and developing your celebrity through visibility, over the course of time, a better class of work will present itself to you.

Like your 401(k) and IRA, an investment today, tomorrow and the next day can pay massive results in the future. It doesn’t take much time. It doesn’t take much effort. It requires consistency. Remember, you are the CEO of your life and your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Don’t outsource it to others so that they make decisions that affect you without your conscious consent. Taking these simple steps can put you back in control for many years to come.

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### [When You’re Afraid #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/)

**Published:** August 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A lovely quote that the power of fear and how you can use it.

**Content:**

# When You’re Afraid

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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A lovely [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) that the power of fear and how you can use it.

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### [How to Find Remote Tech Work  #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-find-remote-tech-work-shorts/)

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### [10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid: Part 2](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/)

**Published:** August 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Five more lessons my Boomer friends and I learned the hard way so that we can pass them on to you, Gen Xers, so that you don’t have to learn by trial and error.

**Content:**

# 10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid: Part 2

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In [part one](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cGa) of this two-part series, I described five lessons my Boomer friends and I learned the hard way so that we can pass them on to you, Gen Xers, so that you don’t have to learn by trial and error. Here are the next five lessons:

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**6. Recognize that there is no safety in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), nor job security.**

When Boomers started their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), we were taught to believe that we could climb the ladder to professional [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), one rung at a time. As a result, many Boomers became extremely dedicated professionally, learning to invest countless hours into their work with the expectation of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement only to learn through the heartbreak of “The Great Recession” and now, during the era of the pandemic, that job security is a myth and that companies will ultimately look out for their own interests and not those of their employees.

Playing it safe when managing their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) resulted in becoming risk-averse professionally, taking few workplace risks and generally believing that homogenous work and behavior were the right way to conduct yourself. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In my experience, the workplace of Lean, Six Sigma, transformation and other methodologies of industrial operation brought to corporations created a repeatable process and disposable employees.

**7. Don’t forget to stretch yourself.**

I’m someone who has spent a lot of time in the pursuit of perfection. It takes constant effort to remind myself that perfection is impossible; excellence is possible. As Grammarly just reminded me, “To err is human. To edit is divine.”

That may be tongue-in-cheek software but it**‘**s true: everyone makes [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Not making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) means you**‘**re not pushing the envelope to new possibilities. You always need to be pushing the envelope. Every time the envelope is pushed, we stretch ourselves and learn more about ourselves and our abilities than if we stay within rigid limits.

As in yoga, small stretches over time can help increase your flexibility a lot. Learn to stretch and concentrate on the stretch while doing it.

**8. Know that you won’t be doing the same work 10 years from now, let alone do it in the same way.**

Looking back 10 years ago, smartphones were just starting to become integral to our work. Ten years from now, you will be working in different ways than you are today — that’s just a fact of life — but we act as though there’s a finite amount of evolution that occurs even though change is seemingly infinite.

For the most part, Boomers have inherently been skeptics of anything new, instead preferring standardization. You, [Gen X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/), still have time to be thinking ahead and be on the cutting edge of trends. Your Millennial and Gen Z employees can teach you a lot about trends if you take the time to stay connected with them and not just talk to your generational peers.

Most of you have at least another 10 years in the workforce. You don’t want to wind up like the Boomers kicking and screaming as they are pushed out the door. One of the ways to avoid that is by being slightly ahead of every curve, keeping yourself trained, experienced and fluent with new trends and capabilities in your field. That is something few Boomers did as they aged.

**9. Don’t allow yourself to become “invisible.”**

It seems funny but becoming indispensable in a role can result in someone being taken for granted. There are many ways to promote yourself professionally within an organization and outside of it. You can write from [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), Medium and countless other platforms. You can be interviewed for podcasts or someone’s YouTube channel. You can become active in a professional association or group.

Being a member is like being a lurker — you are watching and not participating. Too many older workers take the easy approach and never develop their “celebrity status.” They never reveal their [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and ideas outside of a small circle of individuals. They hide. They hide because they are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that they have nothing to say when, in fact, they know much more than they think they do.

Sound familiar? Now is the time to challenge yourself, step up and [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) for who you really are, because the more invisible you allow yourself to be, the more you are perceived as a cog. Cogs turn to rust. Cogs are replaced. Many Boomers allowed themselves to become cogs. Don’t make the same [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

**10. Don’t get comfortable with never meeting new people and never learning anything new.**

There is a famous book titled, [*Eat, Pray, Love*](https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Pray-Love-Everything-Indonesia/dp/0143038419 "https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Pray-Love-Everything-Indonesia/dp/0143038419"). Most of you could probably write the book, *Commute, Work, Eat.* In pandemic times, it might be called *Work, Work, Eat*. In other words, every day is repetitive. No one new enters your life because you never put yourself in the position of meeting anyone new to have a conversation with.

New people and new circumstances are part of your growth and evolution. Especially as you look ahead where the nature of work will continue to evolve, the importance of your professional and personal relationships will dictate the ease with which you age in the workplace and whether you have quality work in the workplace or outside of it if you choose. There are ways to place yourself in new situations where you can learn and meet others. Don’t waste time. Start experimenting and see what works for you.

As evidenced here, Boomers often made [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) when managing their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). There is no reason for you to duplicate those [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

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### [10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid: Part One](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/)

**Published:** August 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Part 1 of a 2 part series where I share the top 10 career mistakes my friends and I have learned the hard way:

**Content:**

# 10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid: Part One

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

One day, I woke up, looked in the mirror, and saw something I’d never seen before. There were things on my face that were in slightly different places. There was a little bit of grey in my beard and a closet full of clothing that had seen better days. At least my nonexistent hairline wasn’t sprouting!

As time went by, I came to realize these “rites of passage” were relatively inconsequential by comparison to the “hard knocks” some of my friends and I were taking that were decimating our [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). In this two-part series, I will share the top 10 lessons my friends and I have learned the hard way:

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**1. Be cautious of reporting to someone from a younger demographic**.

This can be a signal that your advancement opportunities have disappeared. Jerry, a Boomer, accepted an assignment reporting to someone from [Gen X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) and never regained his leadership status within his organization. He heard many good reasons for why this happened:

“You are much more capable than the assignments that we have available.”

“We have something coming up with the new budget in January, so this is just to tide you over until then.”

“Would you consider [relocating](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-relocating-2/) to another part of the country? We don’t have the right kind of opportunities for you here.”

That last one was a favorite of mine, given that Jerry had two teenagers in high school who would have poisoned his coffee had he agreed to a move.

In my experience — and in Jerry’s — there is a signal that a firm gives when they have someone report to someone from a younger demographic and it’s designed to send a message that you and your leadership or your abilities aren’t valued anymore. If that happens to you, it’s time to move on — not hang on.

**2. Don’t provide your employer with “lazy loyalty.”**

Freely giving away loyalty to your employer rarely leads to a good outcome. The person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or hardest worker. Those are great qualities to have but they are no guarantee for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). People get ahead by being alert to opportunities that generally arrive from outside of their organization.

Juanita turned down calls from [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for years, not noticing that her colleague was getting most of the face time with their boss and opportunities for special projects that provided her with greater institutional visibility and impact. As a result, Juanita became “old reliable,” not fast-track. When cuts were being made to the headcount, Juanita didn’t make it past the second round. “Lazy loyalty” is unthinking fealty to your current employer even though their commitment to you does not exist.

**3. Be conscious of actions, not words.**

Sunil received great reviews from his boss and was told he was doing a good job and had a future with the company. Sunil took the praise and interpreted it as something more than what it really was — a throwaway pat on the back.

A manager may be telling you how important you are to the organization and what a wonderful job you do, but these can be placebos, designed to stroke your ego. Managers can exaggerate and flatter because it costs them nothing. What you can do is ask [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions — even when you receive praise — so you have a more comprehensive understanding and are less likely to be blindsided down the road. Ask for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) in writing so you have documentation to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to if there’s ever a discrepancy. More importantly, reflect on whether your employer’s praise matches the opportunities you’re given.

**4. Don’t abdicate responsibility for your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).**

Hakim’s inner voice had become quiet years before he stopped going to school to learn. He stopped thinking about his own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), where he wanted to get to, the deficiencies in his background and what he needed to do to overcome them.

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So, ask yourself, if you were the CEO of your organization, would you give you that promotion? If you wouldn’t, what are the skills and/or experiences that you need to overcome? Start pushing yourself, your environment and your boss to eliminate that gap.

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### [Facing Executive Obsolescence vs The AI-Powered Executive](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/)

**Published:** August 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to keep your seat in the C-suite, you must learn to pilot the machine instead of competing against it.

**Content:**

# Facing Executive Obsolescence vs The AI-Powered Executive

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Relying on backward-looking reports and gut instinct is no longer seasoned leadership—it is an operational bottleneck that will get you replaced. The modern executive must stop managing individual tasks and start architecting automated systems of decision-making to outpace market shifts in real time. If you want to keep your seat in the C-suite, you must learn to pilot the machine instead of competing against it.

Take a look at your business card. That executive job title printed under your name is safe for now, but the actual day-to-day work required to keep it is actively expiring.

For decades, corporate leadership operated on a straightforward formula: you managed people, and you accumulated years of hard-won experience to develop a sharp intuition for the market. You directed your team to gather data and generate reports. But a report, by definition, is a backward-looking document. It is an autopsy of the past, telling you what already happened.

Digesting those past metrics and running them through human intuition takes time. Meanwhile, modern business operations are moving at a speed that makes deliberation a severe liability. Relying on historical summaries and gut feelings has morphed from a badge of seasoned leadership into a critical operational bottleneck. It exposes your company to competitors who do not pause to weigh their feelings before making a move.

Let’s look at dynamic pricing. If supply chain costs suddenly spike across the globe, you have to adjust your retail prices to protect your margins. The traditional response involves calling a meeting, pulling last quarter sales figures, debating consumer elasticity with the board, and making an educated guess on the new price point.

Across the street, an emerging class of leaders approaches that exact same pricing crisis differently. They deploy algorithms that ingest real-time shipping costs, competitor pricing, and live demand, instantly calculating the optimal adjustment. By the time your committee agrees on a strategy, the algorithm has already captured the market share you were debating over.

The slow, intuition-reliant process is completely outmaneuvered by real-time analytics. Surviving in this environment requires a hard realization: years of industry experience simply cannot match the raw speed and precision of an automated competitor.

This shift doesn’t mean you need to enroll in a coding bootcamp. You do not need to become a data scientist to retain your seat at the table. Think of the modern corporation as an aircraft. You don’t need to be the engineer wiring the engine in the dark. You need to be the pilot sitting at the yoke, directing where the machine flies.

The mandate has shifted. Instead of spending your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) managing individual employees to complete specific tasks, you are now responsible for architecting automated systems of decision.

We are rapidly approaching the point where the title “Executive” and the phrase “AI-Powered Executive” mean the exact same thing. It is becoming the baseline requirement for the job. Your value to the board is no longer derived from executing individual tasks; instead, it comes entirely from designing the digital environment where thousands of rapid, correct decisions can happen simultaneously.

This animated diagram illustrates the transition. Instead of asking your team for a report that looks backward, you start demanding predictive models that look forward. A predictive model does not just summarize dead data; it forecasts future probabilities, mapping out these branching pathways of potential outcomes before you ever commit a dollar to the market.

You apply these forecasts to the areas where slow guesswork hurts the most. You filter your choices through dedicated nodes for dynamic pricing, inventory logistics, and customer lead scoring. You are actively stripping the gut feel out of these processes, replacing human hesitation with a custom decision engine tailored to your company’s proprietary data. Building this engine is how you turn raw company data into a measurable, compounding [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) in market speed.

With all this automation, it is easy to assume your hard-earned human experience is obsolete. It isn’t. The function of your intuition has simply changed. You no longer use it to blindly guess; you use it to determine the most valuable questions to ask your data.

You stop asking, “What happened last quarter?” and start asking, “What is the most profitable scenario we can simulate for next quarter?” That targeted inquiry becomes the steering mechanism for your automated engine.

The market doesn’t care how you arrive at the right move, just that you get there first. Victory goes to the leader who builds systems that find the correct path faster than anyone else. Tomorrow’s untouchable executive seamlessly merges a deeply human intuition for asking the right questions with an artificial intelligence’s flawless speed for executing the answers.

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### [The Most Underutilized Tool #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-the-most-underutilized-tool/)

**Published:** August 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This short video is about the most underutilized tool that job hunters forget to deploy.

**Content:**

# The Most Underutilized Tool #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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This short video is about the most underutilized tool that job hunters forget to deploy.

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### [Rewriting Your Resume for Results #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rewriting-your-resume-for-results-shorts/)

**Published:** August 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here is a thought about how to do it.

**Content:**

# Rewriting Your Resume for Results #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Here is a thought about how to do it.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

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You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [The Dangerous Thought That Will Sabotage Your Job Search  #Shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** August 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People get into trouble when they start thinking this way. No good comes out of it!

**Content:**

# The Dangerous Thought That Will Sabotage Your Job Search #Shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/_Aqqfsb8FPU)

People get into trouble when they start thinking this way. No good comes out of it!

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally becaus

e he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***The Exit Package***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lk3)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

***[Are You The Target for a Job Layoff?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-47)***

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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*Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me

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### [Relocating?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-relocating-2/)

**Published:** August 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about what to do if you want to relocate to a new city for a job.

**Content:**

# Relocating?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/kStCUFwYcOk)

A short video about what to do if you want to relocate to a new city for a job.

***[Increase Your Chances of Getting a Response to Your Application](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkC)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***When You’re Afraid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gGg)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

***[Are You The Target for a Job Layoff?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-47)***

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

[***Should I Apply to One Job at a Time and Go Through The Process or Multiple Jobs?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b6d)

*Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me

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***[What Employers Look for When They Read Your Resume](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3o)***

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### [How Far Can You Go?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-far-can-you-go-career-angles-shorts/)

**Published:** August 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A quote from T.S. Eliot to remind you how far you can go.

**Content:**

# How Far Can You Go?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/19K_MvE632I)

A [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from T.S. Eliot to remind you how far you can go.

***[Increase Your Chances of Getting a Response to Your Application](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkC)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***When You’re Afraid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gGg)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

***[Are You The Target for a Job Layoff?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-47)***

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

[***Should I Apply to One Job at a Time and Go Through The Process or Multiple Jobs?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b6d)

*Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me

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***[What Employers Look for When They Read Your Resume](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3o)***

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### [The Career-Change Journey: Part 3](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-career-change-journey-part-3/)

**Published:** August 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For most people, they have a notion of what it’s like to work in a new field that, usually, is not based upon reality.

**Content:**

# The Career-Change Journey: Part 3

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***9 Ways People Sabotage Themselves on Interviews***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b27)

[![career change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/career-change-pexels-anna-shvets-5325061-300x200.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/career-change-pexels-anna-shvets-5325061-scaled.jpg)

In [Part 1 ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-d55)and [Part 2](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-dq2) of our journey, we took the first and second look at what [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) you had about changing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). Now it’s time to test your hypothesis with people and situations where you can see whether your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about that [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) are valid.

Most people have a notion of what it’s like to work in a new field that, usually, is not based upon reality. It’s based upon fantasy or observing people who are doing that kind of work and listening to a few things from them about what their job is like. If they are like most people, they dramatize the good points and the bad points of what their work is like.

Here’s what you can do.

**1. Immerse yourself in [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/).**

Classes will give you an idea of the fundamentals of the work that you will be doing. It will be the baseline from which you will build. It’s important to know the fundamentals before committing to the transition. You don’t have to take classes at a university. There are many online programs that you can attend for free or for very little money to learn the basics.

I know when I began my transition from [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), I did formal [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) at a [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) school in order to close gaps in my knowledge and learn the fundamentals of what might be my new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

One thing I realized pretty quickly is that I learned how to be a coach, but I needed to learn the business of [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) separately from the process of being a coach. You may have a similar epiphany in your chosen [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and may need to find people to help you with that.

There are organizations that may welcome you despite your limited knowledge and experience. Volunteering gives you an opportunity to try out new fields, get experience and add something to your résumé that a potential employer can tap into about your commitment and experience. It also allows you an opportunity to build expertise on top of any [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) that you have taken by giving you a chance to put into practice what you’ve learned.

Marla volunteered with a not-for-profit organization and from her experience there learned that social work was not really something she wanted to do. To me, that’s just as much of a win as when Julio volunteered with a photographer to work as an assistant and learned that he really liked working on shoots.

**2. Try doing your new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) on the side or part-time.**

There are sites that you can sell your services on where you can pick up side work so that you have a sense of what it’s like to serve someone else doing the kind of work that you want to be doing. For now, don’t worry about rates. This is about getting an idea of what it is like doing the kind of work that you hope to be doing.

Jack was someone who liked the idea of working in the back of the house of a restaurant. From his experience doing part-time work, he decided to go to culinary school to learn the fundamentals of his new profession.

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**3. Set up conversations with previously-spoken-with people that are deeper and more textured than what you have done up until this point.**

Once you have started dabbling in the new field, you will develop a higher class of questions than you had at the beginning of your journey. Instead of a short conversation, ask for more time to go into more in-depth ones. What I found in my journey as I progressed from “baby steps” and “baby questions” to much more sophisticated questions is that it allowed me to know what I was stepping into.

**4. Is there a way to put yourself in proximity with people who are doing this kind of work, even if you can’t fully make the transition now?**

Some of you work in organizations where what you want to do is going on, but you’re not doing it. Can you transfer into a support role where you have proximity to people doing the work? Can you find a way to add value to people in the group so they get to know, like, trust and respect you? Can you learn something from proximity to the work that you want to do that will help you to transition fully, even if it’s in another organization? Access to day-to-day information and experiences may entice you to make the break with your past and step into your future.

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As I pointed out in Part 1, take your time. Act as if you’re a scientific researcher exploring a new domain with which few in the world have any experience. Learn what you need to learn, and then put your toe in the water to find out whether it’s icy or warm.

This may take months or years. As long as you are taking small, incremental steps in the right direction, collecting data and experiences as you go along, you will find a moment where you move into your new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) or recalibrate and look for something else.

If you decide to recalibrate, that is a victory, not a defeat. After all, you have learned something that you don’t want to do without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in education and years of your life.

[Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of all, you now have a process to employ to investigate your next option.

Good luck! Keep moving forward!

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### [The Career-Change Journey: Part 2](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-career-change-journey-part-2/)

**Published:** August 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In part one of our journey, I wrote about several steps you can take to explore and find your new career. Now let’s go deeper

**Content:**

# The Career-Change Journey: Part 2

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In part on[e](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-d55 "https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/09/16/the-career-change-journey-part-1/#6051cfe5317c") of our journey, I wrote about several steps you can take to explore and find your new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Now let’s go deeper and discuss the previous steps more fully and actions you can begin taking.

Often, when people begin their career-change journey, they begin in a state of paralysis. We live in a world where we don’t like to experience discomfort and want immediate results.

[Changing careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-careers-changing-career-paths/) requires patience, experimentation and [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). And it all begins with your dream. What is the dream you have about your new job? What do you dream about and the effect you will have on others? [Don’t think](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-think-twice-career-angles/) about being practical. Just imagine for a minute and go back to the world of possibilities.

[![Changing careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/portrait-of-female-tutor-with-safety-glasses-teach-LSVHN46-envato-300x200.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/portrait-of-female-tutor-with-safety-glasses-teach-LSVHN46-envato-scaled.jpg)Sue told me about how when she was six years old, she dreamt of making beautiful things, and 13 months later, she is a potter. Marc discussed working with teenagers as a way of staying connected to the feeling of being a teen. Now he does social work with young men. Dream.

One shortcut is redeploying your skillset in imaginative ways. For example, as a former executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I have used my talents and experiences as a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach in ways that are more satisfying to me than my work in search was. What is proximate to what you do now that will allow you to leverage your experience?

Acknowledge your fear. If this were easy, you would have [changed careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-careers-do-you-know-what-you-need/) by now. You haven’t, and usually one of the roadblocks to this transition is fear in many forms — fear of making a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), fear that you might have to change your lifestyle, fear of what others might think. Thousands of fears get in the way. For you to transcend your fear, you will need to [go to the roar](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/04/27/go-to-the-roar-to-diminish-your-fear/#8dfa50b6848b "https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/04/27/go-to-the-roar-to-diminish-your-fear/#8dfa50b6848b") to diminish your fear.

Harriet and I spoke regularly about her fear and what it said to her. It told her that she was crazy to consider doing something new. It told her she was being a foolish woman for considering another possibility. After all, everyone knew and liked her where she worked now. She had a great reputation. There were advancement possibilities for her.

I regularly reminded her that she just [didn’t like doing the work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-tell-me-about-a-time-when-old-solutions-didnt-work/) that she was doing. It wasn’t about the company she worked for; it was about the work that she did, and nothing was going to change that feeling she had of dread every morning going to her desk.

Create several hypotheses of what suits you. Write down different ideas of [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and [work that would interest](https://thebiggamehunter.us/im-doing-interesting-work-but-not-making-enough-they-wont-give-me-a-raise-should-i-leave/) you. Make a long list of between 10 and 100 possibilities, and then prioritize the items on the list. Don’t worry about the length of the list or the order items are in. They will shift positions as you learn more.

One person I worked with identified 63 possible [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) that they thought might fulfill them. Like a diagnostic doctor, we clarified what it was about each that appealed to him so that we might expand our list even more.

Knowing that you have many questions but don’t have answers yet, start to have informational conversations with people who are doing the work of the first five items on your list. Create questions that display curiosity, not certainty. Learn what it is like doing this work.

Sheila [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) five questions for every person she met to understand the reality of the work and not simply let her imagination about the work fool her. She would ask for 15 minutes for her conversation, and then she’d ask them what a typical day was like and for them to go into more detail. She asked what they liked about the [work and what they didn’t](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tell-me-about-a-time-when-old-solutions-didnt-work-3/) like. She wanted to know about what had surprised them so far about the work and whether they had any recommendations of people she could talk to.

She spoke with at least five people in each profession before ruling out an option or continuing to explore it in greater depth. At this stage, rejoice at the idea of eliminating choices so other choices can advance.

Notice common threads in the work you continue to be interested in and disinterested in. Ask people for recommendations of other possibilities to explore while explaining what it is you are looking for in your next [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Other people, especially those who know you, may see different possibilities than you.

Stay in touch with the [people you meet along the way](https://thebiggamehunter.us/9-ways-people-sabotage-themselves-on-interviews-jobsearchtv-com/), and keep them informed. A quick note every four to six weeks is enough. You can use it as a way of asking them additional questions and see whether something else came to mind.

At this stage, you are exploring uncharted territory (for you), and like any explorer, you may make wrong turns that cause you to backtrack. You may need to borrow a compass because your GPS [isn’t working](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-something-isnt-working/) like it normally does. You may need to find a guide to help you on your journey or mobilize additional resources to carry you to your destination.

In my next article, we’ll be looking at the next leg of the career-change journey.

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### [The Career-Change Journey: Part 1](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-career-change-journey-part-1/)

**Published:** August 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are like most people, you are not the same person today as you were when you left school. At that time, you might have been excited to start your job.. Now? Not so much.

**Content:**

# The Career-Change Journey: Part 1

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

If you are like most people, you are not the same person today that you were when you left school. At that time, you might have been excited to start your new job. Today, not so much so. As a matter of fact, [49%](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/31/indeed-nearly-half-of-workers-have-made-a-dramatic-career-switch.html "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/31/indeed-nearly-half-of-workers-have-made-a-dramatic-career-switch.html") of people have made a dramatic [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) shift, and [30%](https://careers-advice-online.com/career-change-statistics.html#:~:text=The%20average%20person%20will%20change,or%20jobs%20every%2012%20months. "https://careers-advice-online.com/career-change-statistics.html#:~:text=The%20average%20person%20will%20change,or%20jobs%20every%2012%20months.") of the workforce change their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) annually.

Where do you start? What do you do?

**Take your time.**

On average, it takes [almost a year](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecenizalevine/2019/11/17/career-changers-take-almost-one-year-to-make-their-move--how-to-reach-your-goal-sooner/#51ded16a1948 "https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecenizalevine/2019/11/17/career-changers-take-almost-one-year-to-make-their-move--how-to-reach-your-goal-sooner/#51ded16a1948") to change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). During difficult economic times, it can take longer. Like most things, when you rush, you are prone to making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Juanita is someone who took 18 months from the initial conversation until she started her new job. “I thought I knew what I wanted,” she said, “but I needed the time to sort things through the various options and subsets to find something that was right for me.”

**Identify what you are great at or have the potential to be great at.**

For example, when I transitioned from [recruiting to career coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-the-difference-between-a-career-coach-and-a-recruiter-video/), I knew that I really liked the feeling of helping people find their next job or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) but disliked being the intermediary between them and the employer who hired me and was paying me. There was too much pressure to be deceptive to each of them. When I transitioned into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), I took all of those experiences and converted them to be used to help job [hunters navigate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-navigate-job-interviews-with-jeff-altman-the-big-game-hunter-jobsearchtv-com/) the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with all of its twists and turns and get to their next role.

**Ask yourself what’s** **most important to you in the [next job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-are-you-looking-for-in-your-next-job/) or organization. What will you need to see or hear to believe it is the right choice for you?**

Take as long as you like to make up this list. Make it as long as you would like. This is not the time to eliminate choices and options. Right now, we are opening your mind and heart to possibilities.

**What’s most important to you isn’t only about work.**

Of course, your compensation needs to be right, but other things are important to you as well. Maybe it is shortening your commute or keeping more of your [money](https://thebiggamehunter.us/other-than-money-what-would-have-inspired-you-to-keep-working-at-your-last-job-jobsearchtv-com/) instead of giving it to higher tax states or not having to drive to work. Maybe it is working in a physical environment that you genuinely like with people you genuinely care for. Maybe there is something that you can learn or improve upon the benefits that you receive. Maybe you want additional autonomy. Don’t just focus on the actual work. Look at the ancillaries to that work as well.

**Remember to ask yourself, “What did I want to be when I was growing up?”**

Often the gateway to what you want to do flows through childhood aspirations that you were told weren’t practical. Maybe you still are not able to be a ballerina or a baseball player. Maybe there is something related to dance or baseball or whatever the dream was that you can look into. This memory is something you loved.

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**Prioritize the items on your list.**

With one being most important, start ranking all the things that you’ve identified as being of primary importance to you. What’s the least important? Which is second, third and fourth on your list of items? It is quite all right to recalibrate your list regularly. After all, you may need to spend time with an ill parent and, thus, may need to elevate that as your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition progress. Take your time. If you do this in one hour or one day or one week, you are rushing yourself.

**How will I evaluate for these requirements of mine?**

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) usually develop job specifications to identify the skills and experiences that they believed would allow someone to succeed. That’s what I’ve been asking you to do up until this point — identify *your* version of these specifications. Smart [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) also figure out how to identify someone who can fulfill these requirements. When you are on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), both you and they are going to present a good image to each other. Given the fact that both you and they are going to be on good behavior, what might you ask or listen for to determine whether or not this firm can fulfill those desires of yours? For example, if you do not want to [work in a workaholic environment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-your-ideal-culture-and-work-environment-look-like/), you might ask, “What does a typical day look like? When do people get in, what do they do and when do they leave?”

**Identify gaps in your background for the role that you want** **or the situation you want to be in.**

Maybe you need to take an online course or return to school to get the job that you want. Maybe you need a reliable car to drive to the location daily that you want to work in and move to.

**Enlist support from the important people in your life.**

Your husband, wife or partner is going to be a big part of your transition. They should be brought on board for all the work that will be done. Listen to their concerns and make sure that they know you are listening. It isn’t just about you. It’s about them, too.

In this article, we’ve been talking about the beginning of a journey that will change your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) as well as your life. You are identifying the destination that you want to arrive at. Usually, the journey is hazardous, and people benefit from guidance and support on this journey. In the next article, we will be looking at the map, the GPS, the detours that might occur on this journey.

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### [The Résumé Formula for Getting Results](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-resume-formula-for-getting-results/)

**Published:** August 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a formula for you use to help you tell your story in a resume and get much better results.

**Content:**

# The Résumé Formula for Getting Results

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses a formula for you use to help you tell your story in a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and get much better results.**

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for 40-plus years. Today, I want to talk with you about how to fix one of those [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that most job hunters make when writing their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). And in doing so, give you a formula for how to construct all the content in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to make it much more appealing to [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

Now, most [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) I look at read like job descriptions. They’re very flat, they’re very boring, they talk about role and responsibilities. That’s pretty much it. Here’s the missing part of it: they don’t tell a story. They don’t contextualize what you do into a bigger picture. And this is how to do it.

So, you need to define what it was that you stepped into. So, maybe it’s the challenge that you were presented with. Maybe it was the situation you stepped into or the firm was going through—and I’ll illustrate this in a moment. So, you talk about the situation or challenge, the actions that you took in order to deal with this situation or deal with these challenges, and what results occurred from your actions, quantified via metrics. Got that? Quantified via metrics.

So, let me give you an example. You were hired to redesign a technology system because the existing system was using too much CPU space, or too much RAM, I should say, and had become highly inefficient. There was a desire to attack a particular market that was underutilized or underserved, I should say, by business users or by external users. So, what you were brought on to do was to create this new system or redesign the existing system in ways that would increase utilization, provide enhanced revenues for the firm, yada yada yada. You talk about what you did.

Here’s where you talk about the traditional responsibilities, but then you get to the accomplishments, which is the outcome of what you did. So, the accomplishments could be a 15% productivity saving over existing systems. It could be quantified in terms of dollars saved or dollars earned as a result of the work that you did. And if you think this is just purely for white-collar professionals, you can do this if you’re in blue or no-collar [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Think in terms of, I’ll use an example, a mechanic whose work was sufficiently efficient that he generated a 10% saving or 10% additional revenue over other mechanics in the shop. Or, you’re a receptionist and the nature of your work was sufficiently strong that you provided 7% productivity gains over other receptionists in your firms. And you’ll need to explain that, just to talk about how it was that you came to these numbers. But, by defining what it is that you did and defining how it improved things for your firm, you’re going to be [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/) much more readily by telling this story than the average person who has a flat [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that’s remarkably boring.

Now, you know, again, if you’re finding it difficult to quantify it for yourself, think in terms of the situation you stepped into at your firm. Maybe revenues were down 30-some odd percent, and as a salesperson, you generated a 22% increase over other sales-people in your district, and thus improved top-line growth, bottom-line growth for your firm by X percent. Whatever it is, tell the story by defining the situation or challenge, the action that you took, and the results that you accomplished while working at your firm.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this video helpful. If you did, and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, click the like button, leave a comment, let people know that this was worthwhile for them. If you’re watching on YouTube, I want to encourage you to subscribe to my channel here, which is TheBigGameHunterTV—all one word, TheBigGameHunterTV—and you’ll get notices whenever I do a new video for YouTube.

You can also come over to my website, jeffaltman.com, and watch the videos there. And while there, sign up for a complimentary subscription to No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Ezine, which I publish weekly with advice for job hunters anywhere in the world. It’s a $499 value I give away for free. There’s lots of great content at jeffaltman.com—video, podcasts, previous articles from the ezine. There’s also places that you can post your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to, information about the searches I’m involved with as well as my personal [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) program, information about my books and guides to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), and other people’s books and guides. So, come over to jeffaltman.com and go explore.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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### [Job Hunting In A Troubled Economy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)

**Published:** August 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** With competition steep and opportunities limited, how can job seekers stand out from the crowd and secure a position?

**Content:**

# Job Hunting In A Troubled Economy

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**In today’s troubled economy, [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-can-feel-like-a-roller-coaster-shorts/) can feel like navigating a treacherous maze or the Bermuda Triangle. With competition steep and opportunities limited, how can job seekers stand out from the crowd and secure a position?**

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As I write this, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) indicates that there are 26 million people who indicate that they are [\#opentowork](https://www.brainzmagazine.com/blog/hashtags/opentowork). That is approximately 16% of the US workforce.

Here are a few strategies and techniques that can help you overcome the challenges associated with [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-can-feel-like-a-roller-coaster-shorts/) in a troubled economy.

While [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) may be tough, it’s important to remember that opportunities still exist for those who are [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and proactive. You **can** navigate the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) landscape with finesse, and increase your chances of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) even in a complicated economy. Don’t let challenging times hold you back and embrace “stinkin’ thinkin’.” Arm yourself with ideas and tricks you need to differentiate yourself in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

## Understanding the challenges of job hunting in a troubled economy

When the economy is facing challenges, [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) becomes highly competitive. Companies downsize or freeze [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), leading to a limited number of available positions. As a job hunter, it’s important to understand these challenges so you can be agile and [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/).

To begin with, you [must recognize that the competition for jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-one-responds-to-my-resume-the-jobs-must-be-fake-jobsearchtv-com/) will be fierce. There may be hundreds of applicants for a single position, making it crucial for you to find ways to stand out from the crowd. Additionally, companies may be more cautious in their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions, looking for candidates who can bring immediate contributions and value.

Furthermore, certain industries are usually hit harder than others. It’s important to [stay up-to-date with the current trends](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-stay-up-to-date-with-job-market-trends/) and identify sectors that are experiencing growth or have a higher demand for talent. This knowledge will allow you to target your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) more effectively.

Overall, understanding the challenges of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-can-feel-like-a-roller-coaster-shorts/) in a troubled economy will help you adjust your expectations, develop a strategic approach, stay motivated throughout the process, and [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) your tactics to market demands.

## Build a strong personal brand for job-hunting success

In a competitive job market, having a strong [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) can make all the difference in catching the attention of potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). Your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is how you present yourself to the professional world and how others perceive you. It encompasses your skills, experiences, values, and unique qualities that set you apart from other people.

To build a strong [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), start by identifying your strengths and areas of expertise. What skills do you excel in? What unique experiences do you bring to the table? Once you have a clear understanding of your strengths, you can highlight them in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and in what you write or comment about so people associate you with your specific expertise.

Next, focus on developing a compelling online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). This includes updating your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, creating a professional website or [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), and engaging in relevant industry discussions on social media platforms. By showcasing your expertise and sharing your opinions and insights, you can establish yourself as a thought leader in your field.

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### [Plans and Goals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/plans-and-goals-career-angles-shorts/)

**Published:** August 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Planning and goal setting. People make a basic mistake with your plan is working.

**Content:**

# Plans and Goals

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/DnGJCWUONNM)

Planning and goal setting. People make a basic mistake with your plan is working.

[***Laid Off and They Want You to Sign Something?*** ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ljD)

**If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan. But you don’t need to change the goal. Keep it the same. Just change the plan.**

[***Better Than Applying Through The ATS***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6U3)

**ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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[***Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lgN)

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3000 episodes over 14+ years.in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

[***4 Secrets to a Successful Job Search in FinTech***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ljz)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily. Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [15-Minute Moves to Shift Your Career Pipeline](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-moves-to-shift-your-career-pipeline-2/)

**Published:** August 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** High-yield career transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions

**Content:**

# 15-Minute Moves to Shift Your Career Pipeline

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When professionals hit a wall in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), the default response is brute force. They dedicate hours-long blocks on Sunday afternoons to rewriting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for dozens of public postings, or blasting out generic connection requests.

As I’ve said before, this macro-effort yields remarkably micro-results.

Heavy, multi-hour [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) sessions lead to mental fatigue and low-quality output. High-yield [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions—precise executions taking 15 minutes or less that bypass traditional corporate filters and force immediate market [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

Over the last three parts of this series, we have covered twelve tactical moves—ranging from [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bypasses and dormant tie audits to alumni reverse searches and skill resets.

Today, we deliver four *brand-new* [15-minute micro-actions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-micro-actions-to-activate-your-job-search/) designed to exploit quiet [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) channels, optimize digital visibility, and capture high-converting insider intelligence.

### 1. Perform a “Vendor Ecosystem Mapping” Session (15 Minutes)

When enterprise companies expand rapidly, they often rely on third-party software vendors, consulting firms, and implementation partners. These vendor representatives know which companies are scaling up budgets, and which departments are drowning in work, long before public job requisitions are posted.

Spend 15 minutes identifying the primary software platforms or tools used in your domain (e.g., specific enterprise CRMs, data pipeline infrastructure, or compliance platforms).

Use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to search for **Solutions Architects, Customer [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) Leads, or Account [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/)** working at those software vendors who manage accounts in your target industry:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I follow \[Vendor Company\]’s integration rollouts closely. In my previous work, I spearheaded the deployment of your platform across a 200-person team. I’m currently mapping out my next (leadership) move in \[Industry\] and would love to connect with peers who have a pulse on which teams are currently scaling their tech stacks.”*

In 15 minutes, you tap into an intelligence network that sees unlisted [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) needs weeks before HR becomes engaged.

### 2. Deploy the “Recommendation Swap Protocol” (15 Minutes)

LinkedIn’s internal search algorithm places heavy weight on social proof metrics. Profiles with recent, keyword-dense recommendations from peers rank noticeably higher when talent acquisition teams run candidate sourcing queries.

Instead of passively hoping for recommendations, execute a 15-minute proactive swap:

1. Identify two former colleagues or managers who know your work firsthand.
2. Unsolicited, write a crisp, 3-sentence recommendation on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile highlighting a specific metric or project you tackled together.
3. Send them a quick direct message:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I was thinking about our work on \[Project\] and wanted to drop a quick recommendation on your profile to highlight your work there. I’m currently updating my own [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) for a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. If you have a few minutes, I’d deeply appreciate a short reciprocal note on my profile focusing on my work in \[Core Skill\].”*

Giving value first removes social friction and guarantees a high return of verified social proof.

### 3. Mine Podcast Show Notes for Executive Hiring Managers (15 Minutes)

VPs and department directors frequently appear as guests on niche industry podcasts to build their [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). During these recordings, they explicitly outline their operational philosophy, team culture, and strategic roadmaps for the upcoming year.

Spend 15 minutes searching Apple Podcasts or Spotify for your niche field (e.g., *“Supply Chain Operations Podcast”* or *“B2B SaaS Growth”*).

Listen to the final 5 minutes or scan the show notes of an episode featuring a leader at a target firm. Extract one core principle they mentioned, and send a direct [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) message:

> *“I caught your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on \[Podcast Name\] regarding \[Specific Strategy, e.g., transitioning to localized distribution hubs\]. Your point about avoiding inventory lag in quarter three really stood out. Having executed a similar transition at my last firm, I put together a 1-page framework detailing how we protected our unit margins. No strings attached. Let me know if you’d like me to send the notes over to your team.”*

### 4. Optimize Your “Featured” Section as a Portfolio Asset (10 Minutes)

Most [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles leave the “Featured” section completely blank or pin a random, years-old post. This is prime real estate that sits directly above your experience timeline.

Spend 10 minutes transforming this space into a proof-of-work display:

- Upload a [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) slide deck of an anonymized 1-page strategic framework or process flow you built.
- Add a direct link to a notable project launch, published article, or recorded presentation.
- Format the title of the asset using clear value language (e.g., *“Framework: Reducing Enterprise Onboarding Friction by 18%”*).

This instantly converts casual profile browsers into engaged leads who can visually verify your operational literacy in seconds.

### The Bottom Line

A successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot is not built on marathon sessions of blind [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions. It is built on small, clinical actions executed with consistency.

Stop spending hours feeding [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) databases. Pick one 15-minute action each morning, execute it with precision, and let the compound effect of high-leverage outreach shift the market leverage back to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [No BS Career Advice: August 23 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-august-23-2026/)

**Published:** August 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice offers help with job search, job hunting, career advice, Interviewing, salary negotiation, resumes, and more. 

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: August 23 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I did not expect to have time this week to do this issue of No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). I’ve been at a leadership conference since Thursday and decided to commute rather than stay on-site. That has freed me in the early morning when I tend to wake up anyway to do this edition. There will not be one next week. I’ll be delivering a new one the following week.

“[Job Search Strategies for Recent Graduates: A Guide to Your First Post-Graduation Job Search](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYZSZQTX)” has been helping recent graduates land new roles since I published it last year. It is available for Kindle as an audiobook and as a paperback. If you or someone in your household is a recent grad, this will help them land that first post-graduation job.

## High-Leverage Micro-Actions: (15-Minute Moves to Shift Your Career Pipeline)

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

When professionals hit a wall in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), the default response is brute force. They dedicate hours-long blocks on Sunday afternoons to rewriting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for dozens of public postings, or blasting out generic connection requests.

As I’ve said before, this macro-effort yields remarkably micro-results.

Heavy, multi-hour [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) sessions lead to mental fatigue and low-quality output. High-yield [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions—precise executions taking 15 minutes or less that bypass traditional corporate filters and force immediate market [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

Over the last three parts of this series, we have covered twelve tactical moves—ranging from [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bypasses and dormant tie audits to alumni reverse searches and skill resets.

Today, we deliver four *brand-new* [15-minute micro-actions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-micro-actions-to-activate-your-job-search/) designed to exploit quiet [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) channels, optimize digital visibility, and capture high-converting insider intelligence.

### 1. Perform a “Vendor Ecosystem Mapping” Session (15 Minutes)

When enterprise companies expand rapidly, they often rely on third-party software vendors, consulting firms, and implementation partners. These vendor representatives know which companies are scaling up budgets, and which departments are drowning in work, long before public job requisitions are posted.

Spend 15 minutes identifying the primary software platforms or tools used in your domain (e.g., specific enterprise CRMs, data pipeline infrastructure, or compliance platforms).

Use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to search for **Solutions Architects, Customer [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) Leads, or Account [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/)** working at those software vendors who manage accounts in your target industry:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I follow \[Vendor Company\]’s integration rollouts closely. In my previous work, I spearheaded the deployment of your platform across a 200-person team. I’m currently mapping out my next (leadership) move in \[Industry\] and would love to connect with peers who have a pulse on which teams are currently scaling their tech stacks.”*

In 15 minutes, you tap into an intelligence network that sees unlisted [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) needs weeks before HR becomes engaged.

### 2. Deploy the “Recommendation Swap Protocol” (15 Minutes)

LinkedIn’s internal search algorithm places heavy weight on social proof metrics. Profiles with recent, keyword-dense recommendations from peers rank noticeably higher when talent acquisition teams run candidate sourcing queries.

Instead of passively hoping for recommendations, execute a 15-minute proactive swap:

1. Identify two former colleagues or managers who know your work firsthand.
2. Unsolicited, write a crisp, 3-sentence recommendation on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile highlighting a specific metric or project you tackled together.
3. Send them a quick direct message:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I was thinking about our work on \[Project\] and wanted to drop a quick recommendation on your profile to highlight your work there. I’m currently updating my own [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) for a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. If you have a few minutes, I’d deeply appreciate a short reciprocal note on my profile focusing on my work in \[Core Skill\].”*

Giving value first removes social friction and guarantees a high return of verified social proof.

### 3. Mine Podcast Show Notes for Executive Hiring Managers (15 Minutes)

VPs and department directors frequently appear as guests on niche industry podcasts to build their [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). During these recordings, they explicitly outline their operational philosophy, team culture, and strategic roadmaps for the upcoming year.

Spend 15 minutes searching Apple Podcasts or Spotify for your niche field (e.g., *“Supply Chain Operations Podcast”* or *“B2B SaaS Growth”*).

Listen to the final 5 minutes or scan the show notes of an episode featuring a leader at a target firm. Extract one core principle they mentioned, and send a direct [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) message:

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Spend 10 minutes transforming this space into a proof-of-work display:

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### [How to Give Two-Week Notice When Your Boss Pushes Back](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-give-two-week-notice-when-your-boss-pushes-back/)

**Published:** August 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Listen in to get the exact word-for-word scripts to stand your ground, protect your boundaries, and exit cleanly without burning bridges.

**Content:**

# How to Give Two-Week Notice When Your Boss Pushes Back

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You gave your two-week notice, but your boss is guilt-tripping you into staying longer. The hard truth: their staffing timeline is an operational issue for them to solve, not a personal debt you owe. Listen in to get the exact word-for-word scripts to stand your ground, protect your boundaries, and exit cleanly without burning bridges.

All right, let’s get right into it. So you did it. You got the new job, you’re excited, you’re ready to go, but there’s just one thing standing in your way, and it’s probably one of the most stressful conversations you can have at work: giving your two-week notice. You know, it really should be straightforward, but a lot of times it’s anything but.

So picture this: you walk into your boss’s office, you’ve rehearsed what you’re going to say, you deliver the news like a total pro, and then they hit you with it—the one thing you were hoping they wouldn’t say. They push back. They tell you two weeks just isn’t going to cut it. It’s a super common situation and, man, does it crank up the [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). So, what do you do now?

You’ve done everything by the book, right? You followed the unwritten rule of the professional world. But now, all of a sudden, you’re in this really awkward, high-pressure spot. You’re feeling that pull of loyalty to your team, but you also have this brand-new commitment to your future job. And that right there is the classic two-week dilemma.

Hearing these words, ugh, it’s like a punch to the gut. It’s designed to put you on the back foot, to make you feel a little guilty. And your mind just starts racing, doesn’t it? You start thinking, am I letting them down? Am I being totally unreasonable? They want you to feel responsible for their transition period.

Okay, but let’s be fair for just a second. Let’s try to see it from their side. Why do companies even ask for more time in the first place? Well, the truth is, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) is a really messy, complicated process. And it’s almost never as simple as finding someone great in just two weeks.

So that brings us to the real heart of the issue, doesn’t it? Is two weeks actually a fair amount of time? And honestly, the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. The thing is, when it comes to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a replacement, not all [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are created equal—not by a long shot.

And this slide really breaks it down perfectly. I mean, look at the difference. For some [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), yeah, a company could probably find a decent replacement in just a few days. But for those really specialized roles—the ones that need a very specific skill set—we’re talking that could easily take a few months. The timeline is all over the place.

And this brings us to what is, without a doubt, the most important part of this whole thing. It is the fundamental mindset shift you absolutely have to make the second you decide to leave. It’s all about knowing where your responsibility ends and where theirs begins.

Just let that sink in for a second. Whether it takes them two days, two weeks, or two months to find the next person, that is a business challenge. That is an operational issue for them to solve. It is their job to manage staffing. It is not yours.

To put it another way, your only real obligation is to make sure you hand off your duties as smoothly as possible within that two-week window. The company’s long-term [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) plan? Yeah, that’s just not on your plate anymore.

Okay, so you’ve got the right mindset. That’s step one. But what do you actually say in the heat of the moment? How do you handle that conversation? Well, let’s get into the practical stuff: your playbook for responding with total [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

It really comes down to this simple three-step game plan. The whole key here is to be polite, but also really firm and clear. This is not the time for a big debate or a long negotiation. You just need to follow these three steps.

This, this is your go-to line. And notice what it’s not. It’s not an apology, it’s not you asking for permission, it’s a simple statement of fact. You have a commitment to your new job, and you’re going to honor it. It’s professional, it’s respectful, and it’s completely non-negotiable.

So what if they push back again? You don’t need to come up with a new reason. You just become a polite broken record. Saying “I understand that” shows you heard them, but you’re not caving. And then you just calmly state your reality again. Trust me, calm repetition is amazingly powerful.

Now look, being firm doesn’t mean you need to burn the whole bridge down on your way out. You can absolutely be a team player and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to help out. The key words here are “within reason.” You could [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to sit in on some [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), or help train the new person if—and that’s a big if—they’re hired before you go.

And this script, this is pure gold for setting a boundary after you’ve already left. You’re showing you’re willing to help, but you’re also making it crystal clear that it has to happen off hours. Why? Because during your new work hours, you’re going to be 100% focused on your new job. It protects you, and it protects your new role.

All right, let’s hit one last classic question. You know it’s coming: that sometimes awkward, kind of nosy question about where you’re headed next. Just remember, you are under absolutely no obligation to tell them a single thing.

And there it is: your perfect response. It’s the ultimate professional dodge. You’re politely saying “that’s none of your business” without actually saying it. It keeps your private life private and keeps the conversation on track.

So, if you only take one thing away from all this, let it be this right here: giving two weeks’ notice is you meeting a professional standard. Staying any longer than that is you doing them a massive personal favor—a favor you are not required to give. You need to treat this like the standard business transaction it is.

You know, when you really think about it, getting good at this conversation is really about getting good at setting clear professional boundaries. It’s what protects your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), and your sanity. Which kind of leaves us with one final thought: now that you know how to ace this one, what’s the next professional boundary you’re going to set?

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### [The Exit Package #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-exit-package-shorts/)

**Published:** August 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Don't listen to what they tell you about your marketability.

**Content:**

# The Exit Package #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Watch the video here](https://youtube.com/shorts/nwDc9VcFIk0)

Don’t listen to what the tell you about your marketability.

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### [The Speaker at Your College Graduation #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-speaker-at-your-college-graduation-shorts/)

**Published:** August 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The speaker at your college graduation, the one your school spent a lot of money to speak to you, told you lies about your immediate future.

**Content:**

# The Speaker at Your College Graduation #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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The speaker at your college graduation, t[h](https://youtube.com/shorts/Vcqt9c2cpqE)e one your school spent a lot of money to speak to you, told you lies about your immediate future.

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### [C Suite Trap: No Seat at the Adult Table #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/c-suite-trap-no-seat-at-the-adult-table-shorts/)

**Published:** August 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** That impressive C suite job offer might be hiding a critical red flag.

**Content:**

# C Suite Trap: No Seat at the Adult Table #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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That impressive C suite job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) might be hiding a critical red flag. Spot this subtle but significant warning sign and what it truly means for your executive trajectory. Don’t let your [next big move](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-planning-for-your-next-big-move/) be a misstep – watch to protect your leadership future!

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**That seemingly impressive C-suite job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you’ve received may be hiding a critical red flag that will damage you for years to come.** I’m **[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**. People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search coaching and career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/__trashed-8/) globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier. So what is that issue? What is that problem that’s going to be in your way that can damage you for the longest [time](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-easiest-way-to-buy-time-in-your-negotiations-jobsearchtv-com/)? And the answer is really very simple. **The answer really comes down to no access to the board, no access to decision-makers, no access to the people who ultimately will decide your fate.**

So the long and the short of it is, it’s [important to make sure that that offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-important-to-receive-a-hard-copy-of-an-offer-letter/) doesn’t hinder you in being successful in that next organization. Because, you know, **if you wind up in a situation where you’re disconnected from the people you really report to, if you’re disconnected from leadership, well, they don’t [really feel connected](https://thebiggamehunter.us/describe-a-teacher-you-really-connected-with/) to you. They second-guess and they’re ultimately going to get rid of you because they have no allegiance to you or connection with you.**

**If you don’t have regular access to the board, to the CEO, the top decision-makers, you’re a figurehead. You’re not a leader. Without influence or sponsorship, your ability to lead, drive strategy, and deliver results is going to be compromised.** In large organizations, not every C-suite [role](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-job-boards-your-guide-to-finding-the-perfect-role/) is going to report to the board, quite obviously. But if you’re the, for example, CMO or CHRO in a public company, you might report to the CEO, not the board. That’s okay. But if you’re going to a smart startup, a mid-sized firm, as long as your reporting structure is clear and your voice is a part of the decision-making conversations, you’ll be okay. But if you’re separated from them in those kind of organizations, you’re dead meat.

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### [Can I Tell Them That I'm Going to Use Their Offer to Negotiate With My Current Job?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/)

**Published:** August 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Well, this is a fun question! How do you think it will work?

**Content:**

# Can I Tell Them That I’m Going to Use Their Offer to Negotiate With My Current Job?

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

Well, this is a fun question! How do you think it will work?

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This question I thought was fascinating. Can I tell an interviewer that I will use their [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to renegotiate my current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) first. You can do anything you want but if you think you’re gonna get an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from that firm, you are absolutely wrong. You’re an imbecile. And I say that, because who would give you an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), knowing that you’re not planning on accepting. You’re going to run back to your current firm, and go, ‘Hey, someone’s willing to pay me this. Beat it, beat it, beat it.’ No one’s gonna do that. And, as such, all you’re doing is talking yourself out of a job.

So don’t do it that way. If you’re going to do it, do it the way everyone else does–deceptively. Do it in the way that you receive the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). And then as you resign, well, you can indicate what it would take for you to stay. And from there, your firm has a choice to either meet that number or not. And that’s the way you [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) with your current firm.

Now, it’s really slimy to do that with an organization that with good intentions is trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone to solve a problem. But it’s your life and your choices. I’m not going to tell you that you’re wrong. Clearly, you’d like your current firm, but you want to make more money. And this is the way to do it, not the way you talked about.

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### [3 Questions to Ask at the End of a Job Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/3-questions-to-ask-at-a-job-interview/)

**Published:** August 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers three questions you should ask at the end of every single job interview.

**Content:**

# 3 Questions to Ask at the End of a Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers three questions you should ask at the end of every single job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I want to talk with you today about ending an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) extremely well and extremely powerfully. In this particular approach, you’re going to know real clearly how the firm sees you, whether they see you as being qualified or unqualified for the role. It will leave no mystery whatsoever. And it also serves the purpose of, again, leveling the playing field between you and the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) firm.

So, invariably, there’s a section in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) where they go, “So, do you have any questions for us?” And I’ve covered that in a previous video about how [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) to answer that question. But now, as the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is starting to wind down, there’s a couple more questions I want to encourage you to ask.

Now, this is past the point where you’re talking about the job or talking about their assessment criteria once you’re on board. This is really at the wind-down phase. So, excuse me while I just [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to my screen. It has a couple of reference points I just want to make sure I ask.

So, question number one: “Do you see any gaps in my experience or my [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that I need to fill?” Now, this is going to give you insight into how they judge you for this role, whether there’s a perceived deficiency in your background and what that is. “Are there any reasons you don’t judge me qualified for this role?” Now, this is a magic question because when they answer that, if you have some of that experience, you can go, “Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t cover that point in one of my answers. This is what I’ve done related to that. Would you like to ask me more about this? Because I want to make sure you have all the information that you need.”

Here’s the final one: “Now that you’ve had a chance to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) me, are there any reservations that you have about putting me into this role?” Again, it allows you an opportunity to address concerns that they have so that, this way, you’ve had an opportunity to take your tennis racket and, you know, send it back over the net to them, make them ask more questions, investigate more fully. Because sometimes you have to remember the interviewer is not extremely skilled. They have a finite amount of time where they’re evaluating and assessing. They miss things, you know what I mean? So, this gives you ways of finding out their thinking at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) so that at the end of the day, you know exactly where you stand.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this video helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, just do something that lets people know it was worthwhile.

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### [How to Negotiate Startup Downside Protection #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-negotiate-startup-downside-protection-shorts/)

**Published:** August 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn the three critical downside protection clauses you must negotiate into your contract to ensure you don't walk away empty-handed when things go south.

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### [Resume Mistakes: Not Paying Attention to the Visuals #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-mistakes-not-paying-attention-to-the-visuals-shorts/)

**Published:** August 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** By now, I've read more than 775000 resumes that we've been able to quantify. I've seen this mistake a lot

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# Resume Mistakes: Not Paying Attention to the Visuals #shorts

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### [Why Are Linear Career Paths Disappearing? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-linear-career-paths-disappearing-shorts/)

**Published:** August 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you haven't noticed, traditional linear career paths are disappearing.

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# Why Are Linear Career Paths Disappearing? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Skip College: Make $100k+ Without a 4-Year College Degree](https://thebiggamehunter.us/skip-college-make-100k-without-a-4-year-college-degree/)

**Published:** August 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop chasing arbitrary salary numbers and map your career choice directly to your real-life constraints.

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# Skip College: Make $100k+ Without a 4-Year College Degree

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Four-year degrees are no longer the exclusive gatekeeper to six-figure salaries. Skipping college isn’t a free lunch—you will pay for high earnings through grueling physical labor, steep upfront certification costs, or high-stress regulatory hurdles. Stop chasing arbitrary [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) numbers and map your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) choice directly to your real-life constraints.

Major corporations are rapidly dropping their 4-year degree requirements. The nationwide shift towards skills-based [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) means a bachelor’s degree is no longer the exclusive gatekeeper to a six-figure [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

But skipping college and dodging $100,000 in student loan debt is not a free lunch. The alternative paths to high income require their own sacrifices. In exchange for avoiding college debt, you have to pay a different currency. You will pay with extreme physical wear and tear, years of grueling apprenticeship labor, or by risking your own upfront capital on specialized certifications.

This quadrant chart maps the degree-free economy to show exactly what these different barriers look like. We plot these [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) by looking at their [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) cost on the x-axis against their time to peak earnings on the y-axis. A union plumber sits in a totally different reality than an air traffic controller, a commercial pilot, or a software developer. Their entry profiles require completely different commitments of time and money. 

Achieving six figures without a degree comes down to one thing: it is not about finding the absolute highest [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/); it is about matching a career’s specific entry requirements to your unique life stage and the constraints you can actually handle.

Let’s look at the first major pathway: employer-sponsored [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and unionized skilled trades. The unique financial [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) here is that you are paid a starting wage on day one. You earn while you learn, allowing you to accumulate zero debt during your [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/). The peak financial outcome is highly lucrative. Specialized trades like elevator installers and power plant operators routinely command median salaries from $85,000 to well over $100,000 a year.

That high pay is compensation for immense responsibility. Power plant operators manage massive scale, monitoring complex control consoles to keep heavy infrastructure running safely. The primary trade-off for this financial security is a hazardous work environment. Elevator installers deal with vertical drops, heavy machinery, and extreme physical toll.

There is a catch. While you graduate debt-free, starting apprentice wages are low. You have to commit to 4 or 5 years of intense physical labor before you reach those peak journeyman rates. The earn-while-you-learn pathway asks you to exchange your youth and physical endurance for absolute financial stability and zero upfront cost.

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The second pathway avoids the heavy physical labor, but replaces it with massive regulatory hurdles or steep upfront capital investments. Take the commercial pilot track. The median [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) hits $115,000, but to secure those wings, you pay $60,000 to $90,000 out of pocket for flight school hours.

Air traffic controllers require no upfront capital, and they earn an unparalleled median [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of over $135,000, complete with federal retirement benefits. You earn that compensation by managing extreme scale. Controllers oversee the airspace above active runways, maintaining intense focus to ensure the safety of passengers.

The non-negotiable entry barrier here is the psychological [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) of rotating shift work. Because of that strain, the FAA enforces a strict mandate: you must apply for the job before your 31st birthday. Even if you meet the age cutoff, you face a rigorous failure rate. You have to secure strict medical clearances and successfully complete the grueling FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. 

This pathway offers the absolute highest earning potential available without a degree, but it is reserved only for those willing to take massive financial risks or survive highly exclusionary, age-restricted federal screening

.The third pathway is the accelerated knowledge sprint. These are intense, self-funded bootcamps or certificate programs that take just 6 to 24 months to complete. In the tech sector, software developers can reach $120,000 median salaries by skipping the computer science degree entirely, proving their skills instead through technical portfolios and coding bootcamps.

In medical imaging, radiation therapists and diagnostic medical sonographers reach $80,000 to $120,000 by completing highly focused 2-year associate or certificate programs. These are highly specialized clinical roles. You must master complex diagnostic interfaces and ultrasound equipment to provide accurate imaging for patient care.

The severe trade-off here is the financial burden during [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/). Unlike apprentices, you must entirely self-fund your living expenses and pay between $10,000 and $30,000 in tuition while studying full-time. Once you finish your sprint, the job hunt is aggressive. Graduates face a saturated, highly competitive entry-level market where securing that first role takes serious effort. 

The knowledge sprint pathway trades the 4-year burden of a degree for a highly compressed, high-pressure period of self-funded skill acquisition and a demanding [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/).

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Successfully bypassing college entirely depends on matching a career’s specific barrier to entry with your current life stage and physical capacity. This flowchart isolates your decision by asking one central question: what is your biggest constraint? 

If you are able-bodied and need an immediate income to survive, you must target unionized trades like elevator installation or power plant operations. 

If you have saved capital, require a physically comfortable environment, and can study full-time, target tech bootcamps or 2-year medical imaging certificates. 

And if you are strictly under 31, possess a clean background, and thrive under extreme [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/), you should target the elite FAA air traffic control window.

Identifying the correct path is only the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/). Executing the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot and actually landing the job is where most people fail. Go to [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community) to become an insider. You can get direct [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), access comprehensive video courses, books, and guides, or purchase individual [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) services à la carte to help you execute your pivot.

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### [Job Hunting Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-mistakes/)

**Published:** August 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3017 Today's show discusses specific tips on how to avoid pitfalls and succeed in your job search.

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# Job Hunting Mistakes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3017 Today’s show discusses common [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) job hunters make, including **assuming too much about a job during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)**, **forgetting to thank interviewers**, **trusting [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) too much**, **not [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) effectively**, and **underestimating the importance of self-promotion**. They also provide specific tips on how to avoid these pitfalls and succeed in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/).

Hey everyone, and welcome back for another Deep Dive.

Yeah, welcome back!

Today we’re going to be tackling something I think a lot of us struggle with, and that is how to avoid job hunting [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Yeah, you know, we’ve all been there.

We have.

And, you know, luckily we have some great information from Caren Machin—she owns Advanced [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Solutions—and then also Jeff Altman…

Oh, yeah.

…he’s a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach and a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). And they’re sharing their insights and tips on what not to do when you’re on the job hunt.

It’s kind of like a secret weapon, right?

It is.

Getting this advice straight from the experts.

Absolutely.

The first [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) we’re going to be talking about is assuming too much, and this one really surprised me.

Okay.

Caren Machin suggests that you shouldn’t over-study the job description before an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Really? I mean, that’s kind of counterintuitive, isn’t it?

It is. You would think you’d want to know…

Yeah, you would think you’d want to know all about the company and all about the job and everything, but there’s a reason for it.

And she says that when you focus too narrowly on the job description, you might miss what the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager is really looking for.

Hmm. That makes sense.

So it’s not about ignoring the job description completely, but understanding that it’s just a starting point.

Right. Okay.

And it’s also more about understanding the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s unstated needs.

Yeah, their motivations.

Yes!

I mean, think about it. Job descriptions are often generic, right?

They are. They are.

They’re just using kind of like a template, and it’s really you got to kind of read between the lines to see what is this [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager really looking for.

Yes, and I think you bring up a good point about the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, because it is a very personal thing, right? Like they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) somebody to join their team, and it’s their needs that need to be met as well.

It is. Yeah.

Yeah. And you know, this reminds me of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) I did where a candidate knew every single detail about our company, like they even knew like our board members.

Wow.

It was crazy, and it just came off as so arrogant. It was like they were just trying to show off all this knowledge and they didn’t connect with us at all.

Yeah, they were so focused on being [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) that they forgot to be personable.

Yeah! Exactly. And you know, it’s a reminder that like technical skills are important…

Mm-hmm.

…but so are those soft skills, right? Like personality, communication, and the ability to just connect with people.

Right. Absolutely.

So how do we avoid falling into that [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) of being over-prepared but under-connected?

Well, Caren Machin suggests that you try to take control of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Really?

Yeah, early on.

How do you do that?

Well, instead of just passively answering all their questions, she says you should try to steer the conversation a little bit.

Uh-huh. Okay.

Ask some insightful questions and really try to figure out what is this [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager all about, what are their priorities.

So instead of like a robotic question-and-answer, you’re having more of a genuine conversation.

Yeah. Exactly. And you know, you can ask things like, “What are the challenges facing your team?” or “What are your goals for this position?”

That’s good.

Yeah. And Machin actually shares this story about a candidate who did this really well. They noticed a picture in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s office, and it was the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager sailing.

Okay.

And instead of, you know, launching into their qualifications, they were like, “Oh, I love sailing too!” and that’s how they started the conversation.

So they took something personal that they observed and used that as a jumping-off point.

Yeah. Exactly. And it really helped them to establish rapport and like take control of that conversation in a more natural way.

Yeah. It’s so easy to get caught up in the nerves and forget that an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is really just you connecting with another human.

Yeah. Absolutely.

And that’s really important.

It is.

And it kind of leads us into our next point about remembering the basics…

Mm. Yeah.

…like thank-you notes…

Oh, yeah.

…which seem to be like a dying art.

They are, but they shouldn’t be.

Right.

I mean, a simple thank-you note goes a long way.

It does.

It shows appreciation and it reinforces that you’re interested.

And Caren Machin has a rule of three that she suggests.

Okay, what’s that?

You send a thank-you card immediately after the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Okay.

Then you [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with an email within 48 hours.

Got it.

And then you make a phone call later that week.

Wow, that’s a good way to stay top-of-mind without being too much.

It is, for sure. But of course there’s a balance, right?

Okay.

Because Machin also shared a story about this candidate who went overboard…

Oh no.

…with a thank-you gift, and it was like golf-themed because they assumed that the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager loved golf…

Oh…

…but it turns out they hated it.

Oh no, that’s so awkward.

I know.

I mean, personalized gestures are great, but you really have to do your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/).

Yes. Yes, you do.

Make sure you know what you’re doing and you’re not just assuming.

Exactly.

Okay, so be thoughtful and genuine, and don’t try to be flashy.

Yeah.

Now let’s move on to a topic that could be a little bit sensitive.

Okay.

And that’s about trusting [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) blindly.

Oh, yeah. This is a good one.

This comes from both Machin and Altman. They have decades of experience in recruiting, so they’ve seen it all.

They have. So how much should you actually tell a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)?

Right, because you want to be open and transparent…

Right.

…but you also want to kind of protect yourself.

Yeah, you don’t want to give away too much.

Yeah.

And Machin talks about the risk of being back-doored. Have you ever heard of that?

Back-doored? No. What is that?

So basically, it’s when a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) might use your information to go around you and present another candidate.

Okay. Really?

Yeah, and they often do this because they’re motivated by their commission.

So they’re not really looking out for you; they’re looking out for themselves.

Exactly.

Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, and Altman actually shared this story about how he lost a significant amount of money early in his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) because he was too trusting.

Oh, really? Wow.

So it just goes to show you, you got to be savvy, you got to protect yourself.

So how do we strike that balance?

Well, I think you just have to be upfront with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

Okay.

Tell them, “Hey, I’m working with other agencies. I value my confidentiality.”

Right. Set some boundaries.

Yeah.

Be assertive about your needs.

Exactly, but keep it professional.

Yes.

You want to still have that good relationship with them.

Okay, so it’s a partnership, but you have to kind of protect yourself a little bit.

Exactly.

Okay. I think we have time for one more big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) before we move on to part two.

All right. Hit me.

Let’s talk about that question that we all dread.

Which one?

“What is your weakness?”

Oh, yeah. Nobody likes that one.

No.

And both Machin and Altman have some good advice about how to handle it.

Okay, because like the typical [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) responses just don’t work anymore.

No, like “I’m a perfectionist” or “I work too hard.” Like who—are you kidding?

Everyone sees right through that.

They do! So instead of trying to, you know, make a strength sound like a weakness, just be honest.

All right. Right. Oh, really?

Yeah, but frame it in a positive way.

Okay.

So, you know, tell them about an area where you’re genuinely trying to improve, but also, you know, highlight how that weakness could actually be a strength.

Uh-huh. So like a weakness-strength combo.

Yeah. Mmm.

And, you know, Machin gives a great example. She admitted that she’s too passionate…

Okay.

…sometimes talks too much and gets sidetracked, but she emphasized how her passion drives her to go above and beyond for her clients.

Oh, so she spun that into a positive.

She did.

She did. I see.

And you know, it shows self-awareness, [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), and a willingness to learn.

Absolutely. And it also shows authenticity, right?

It does.

Because trying to be someone you’re not will always backfire.

Always. And you know, authenticity builds trust…

Yes.

…which is so important in any relationship, especially a professional one.

Okay, that’s a great place to stop. For now we’ve covered some big [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) to avoid, but we’ll be back with more in part two.

We have.

Definitely join us.

Welcome back. So let’s just jump right into some more common job hunting [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that both Machin and Altman highlighted.

Okay, fire away.

So first up, we have inconsistent information.

Okay.

So that’s like when you tell different stories in different [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), or your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) doesn’t match your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile…

Mm. Oh yeah, that’s a good point.

You got to make sure everything is consistent.

Right, you want to present like a unified front.

Exactly. And, you know, it makes you seem more reliable.

Yes, it does.

Okay, so next we have unpreparedness.

Okay.

This could mean showing up for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without researching the company or practicing your answers.

Oh yeah, that’s a big one.

It is, and it shows that you’re not really taking this seriously.

Right, you’re not invested.

Exactly. Okay, so next up: inappropriate dress.

Hmm.

This could mean being overdressed or underdressed.

Ah, that’s tricky.

It is. You got to do your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and figure out what the company culture is like.

So you need to kind of blend in.

Yeah, you don’t want to stick out like a sore thumb.

Okay, good advice.

Now let’s talk about failing to ask questions.

Oh yeah, it’s so easy to just focus on answering their questions.

It is, but you should also be asking questions. It shows that you’re engaged and interested.

Right. Makes you look smarter.

It does. Okay, so moving on, we have last-minute cancellations…

Oh.

…like blowing off an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or a call without any notice.

Yeah, that’s just rude.

It’s super unprofessional.

Right.

And then there’s ghosting, you know, just disappearing from the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process.

Oh yeah, that’s not good either.

It’s not. Then we have [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) bait-and-switch…

Okay.

…which means inflating your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations and then trying to renegotiate later.

Yeah, that’s not going to work.

No. Be upfront about your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) from the start.

Okay.

And similar to that is trying to change the job, like the location or the travel requirements, during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process.

Right. If you don’t like the job description, don’t apply.

Exactly. And finally, trying to renegotiate after you’ve already accepted an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

Oh, no, no.

It’s bad form.

Yeah, once you say yes, stick to it.

Exactly.

Okay, so we’ve talked about a lot of [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

We have, but now let’s talk about something really important: [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

Oh!

Altman had some really interesting insights on this.

Like what?

Well, he said that our networks are often much bigger than we think.

I think a lot of people feel like they don’t have a network.

Yeah, especially if they’re early in their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). But he pointed out that it’s not just who you know directly…

Mhm.

…it’s also who they know.

Oh, like a chain.

Yeah, it’s like a ripple effect.

Okay, I see.

And he actually used the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) model to explain this.

Oh, interesting.

It’s everyone you know and everyone that they know who you don’t.

Wow, that really expands your reach.

It does. And get this: he said that 70% of positions are filled through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

Really? That’s a lot.

It’s huge. And within that 70%, a whopping 70% of those positions are filled by people your network knows, but you don’t.

So it’s like this [hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/).

It is, and it shows how important it is to tap into those second-level connections.

So how do we do that?

Well, Altman said you should start by reconnecting with people and just being social.

Okay.

Don’t even mention that you’re looking for a job at first.

Just like be genuine.

Yeah, build those relationships.

Right, because nobody likes to feel used.

Exactly. And then maybe on like the fourth call or so…

Uh-huh.

…you can casually mention that you’re exploring new opportunities.

Oh, that’s good.

Yeah, and see if they have any advice or connections.

So it’s more organic.

Exactly, it’s about building trust.

Right, it’s a two-way street.

It is.

You should also be helping other people.

Absolutely.

It’s like karma.

It is. What goes around comes around.

And you know, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t just about [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/).

Right.

It’s about expanding your knowledge, meeting new people, and building relationships that can help you throughout your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

So it’s like a long-term investment.

Exactly. And, you know, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) can happen anywhere.

Really?

Yeah, at a conference, a party, even the grocery store.

You never know who you’re going to meet.

Right. So be open to those chance encounters.

Good advice.

And if you’re introverted or shy…

Mhm.

…there are still ways to network that feel comfortable for you.

Okay.

You know, join some online groups, attend industry events, or even just reach out to people on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

So there are options for everyone.

There are. And as you build your network, stay organized.

Okay.

Keep track of your contacts. Maybe use a spreadsheet or an app.

Well, that’s a good tip.

It is. And remember, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is an ongoing process.

So don’t just do it when you need something.

Exactly. Make it a habit.

Right.

And it’s about being a good friend, a valuable colleague, and a contributing member of your community.

Those are all great qualities.

They are, and they will help you in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and in life.

Hmm. Speaking of qualities that shine through, I know Altman also talked about personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/).

Yes, he did! And that’s a perfect segue into our next topic. We’ll be talking about the importance of crafting a strong [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and how it can impact your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in part three of this Deep Dive.

Welcome back. All right, let’s dive into this idea of personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) that Altman was talking about.

Okay, yeah, because he said it was crucial for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in job hunting, but I don’t really know what that means. Like what is personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/)?

Right. Okay, so think of it as like how you present yourself to the world.

Hmm.

It’s kind of like your reputation, but it’s also about like showcasing your unique skills and experience.

So it’s more than just having a good [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

It is. It’s about the whole package. Like what makes you stand out from everyone else?

So what you’re passionate about, what you’re good at…

Exactly. It’s like telling a story about yourself.

But how do you actually do that? How do you build a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/)?

Well, it starts with knowing yourself…

Okay.

…like what are your core values, what are you really good at, what are you passionate about.

Uh-huh. So figuring out what makes you special.

Yeah. And once you know that, you can start to express it…

Okay.

…through your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, even your social media.

So it’s about being consistent with your message.

Exactly. And remember, your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) can change over time.

Right, as you learn new things and gain experience.

Exactly.

That makes sense.

Now, Altman also shared a story about a candidate who lied on his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Oh, no.

Yeah, and he ended up getting [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/).

Really?

Yeah, because he couldn’t actually do the job.

So [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/) is really important.

It’s crucial. You know, it’s like trying to build a house on a bad foundation.

It’s going to crumble.

Eventually.

And it’s not just about what you say; it’s also how you act.

Yeah. Be respectful to everyone.

Even the receptionist.

Everyone. Treat people how you want to be treated.

Good advice.

And if you accept a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), don’t back out.

Right. Honor your commitments.

Exactly. Your reputation is everything.

People talk.

They do.

So be someone that people want to work with.

Exactly. You know, job hunting can be tough.

It can be.

But if you have the right mindset, and you’re willing to learn, and you never give up…

Uh-huh.

…you’ll find [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

Yeah. Okay, so be authentic, network, and be honest.

Exactly!

Those are great takeaways.

I hope this Deep Dive was helpful.

It was. Thanks for sharing all these insights.

Of course!

It’s amazing how much we learn from these videos.

I know, right?

And we hope you learned a lot, too.

Yes. [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of luck on your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/).

Thanks for joining us for another Deep Dive. We’ll see you next time.

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### [You May Not Think of Yourself as Having a Brand #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/)

**Published:** August 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People hate the idea of having a personal brand, But whether you like it or not, you have one.

**Content:**

# You May Not Think of Yourself as Having a Brand #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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People hate the idea of having a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), But whether you like it or not, you have one.

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### [Being Different Beats Being the Best #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-different-beats-being-the-best-shorts/)

**Published:** August 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you're a professional trying to be the best person for the role, you've entered a race to the bottom.

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# **Being Different Beats Being the Best #shorts**

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Being like everyone else makes you like everyone else. How do companies choose you, let alone want to pay you more. From my newest book, “Onlyness: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age [Available on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7) for Kindle and audio, and [as a PDF](http://jeffaltman.gumroad.com/l/onlyness)[ ](http://jeffaltman.gumroad.com/l/onlyness)

If you’re a professional trying to be the best person for the role, you’ve entered a race to the bottom. Being better, being the best—it’s a trap because it’s subjective. It’s a comparison. It invites a hiring manager to put you on a scale against 10 others and then haggle over the price.

Don’t do comparisons; do differentiation. You have to move from a generalist title like Director of Marketing to a niche authority title like Market Entry Specialist for European Fintech Firms Entering the US. Notice the difference between the two.

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### [Ask This Question on Your Next Job Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ask-this-question-on-your-next-job-interview-3/)

**Published:** August 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter suggest that you ask this question on your next job interview in order to get a clear idea of your future manager's priorities. 

**Content:**

# Ask This Question on Your Next Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) suggest that you ask this question on your next job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in order to get a clear idea of your future manager’s priorities.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for 40-plus years.

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Now, I have other videos that deal with some of the good, general, positive types of questions that you can ask. So look for those videos on YouTube or at my website, thebiggamehunter.us.

But I want to give you a new one. I was reading something, and it popped into my mind. So here’s the here’s the question I want you to start asking:

What one thing really needs to get done?

Now, that’s going to give you a sense of a priority, because it goes beyond simply asking, “So, tell me about the job.”

Notice the difference: “Tell me about the job,” and “What one thing really needs to get done by someone in this role?”

I think you’ll recognize that that one thing that really needs to get done is the critical thing. It’s going to be the thing that you’re going to get measured against come review time once you’re on board. It’s the thing that’s the hot button for your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, the thing that you need to excel at, and the thing that could turn you off.

So it’s better to know about it before you join, rather than after you’ve been on board for a couple of months and it’s too late for you to go, “Oh, man. If I had only known.”

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### [How Executives Win Fractional C-Suite Roles: The Unfiltered Playbook](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-elite-executives-win-fractional-c-suite-roles-the-unfiltered-playbook/)

**Published:** October 29, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Top companies are racing to harness the agility and wisdom of fractional leadership—strategic, part-time, and high-impact C-level talent.

**Content:**

# **How Elite Executives Win Fractional C-Suite Roles: The Unfiltered Playbook**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

The rapid evolution of the modern marketplace has upended executive [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). The gold standard is no longer a single long-term C-suite post; instead, top companies are racing to harness the agility and wisdom of [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leadership—strategic, part-time, and high-impact C-level talent. If you’re reading this, you’re likely not just “looking for a job.” You’re calibrating an entrepreneurial executive [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Here’s how the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) in the business claim the rarest opportunities and establish themselves as indispensable, sought-after [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/).

## **1. Stop Thinking Like a Job Seeker. Build a Boardroom-Grade Value Proposition**

True [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) don’t apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). They market *transformative outcomes*. Scrap the traditional job-search mindset and embrace an advisory posture.

- **Codify Your “Zone of Genius.”** Identify the three most commercially valuable skills you possess (e.g., scaling post-Series B SaaS, GTM launches for PE-backed rollups, orchestrating turnaround M&A)—and build a signature [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) around them.
- **Build Executive Collateral.** Go beyond [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/): create a “Deal Sheet” or an Executive Impact [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) (think: select case studies, 1-slide transformation summaries, video snippets of talks, and reference vignettes from board members).
- **Quantify Your Leverage.** What’s the enterprise value you’ve created per engagement? What diagnostic frameworks or proprietary playbooks do you bring that *no internal exec* can replicate?

## **2. Control Demand: Orchestrate Your Inbound Pipeline**

Savvy [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leaders **engineer their market visibility**—not just with marketing, but by positioning as a peer to capital and ownership, not as a hired hand.

- **Embed in Capital Networks:** Forge direct relationships with investors, PE ops partners, search funds, venture studios, and high-net-worth family offices. *These are the true sources of [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/).* [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) deal-flow briefings, diligence shadowing, or value-creation workshops pro bono—*get called into partner “war rooms.”*
- **Establish Thought Leadership (the Right Way):** Don’t just post advice. Instead, analyze live problems—break down visible company failures, walk through anonymized “rescue” ops, participate in executive panels, or syndicate insights to industry influencers and niche newsletters.
- **Strategic Board Seats:** [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to join advisory boards or special committees, even pro bono or equity-only. Foot-in-the-door relationships here are the leading on-ramp to A-tier [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) gigs.

## **3. Master Direct Outreach: Hyper-Personalized, Geo-Targeted, and Value-First**

If your direct outreach reads as a pitch, you’ve already lost. The elite approach is:

- **Hyper-Personal [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/):** Identify companies at inflection points (venture rounds, leadership churn, rapid expansion, regulatory change, post-acquisition integration, digital transformation mandates). Use platforms like CapIQ, Crunchbase, and local deal registries.
- **Geo-Targeting and Ecosystem Mapping:** Focus on emerging growth corridors (think: Austin, Miami, Atlanta, and B2B SaaS hubs outside the Valley). Tailor your approach to private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) roll-up markets, family-owned conglomerates in regional cities, or international growth markets where C-suite depth is scarce.
- **Lead with Proprietary Insight:** Your first email/LinkedIn InMail should *diagnose a real business challenge* using specifics: “I noticed your latest 10-Q flagged X risk in your channel mix; I’ve architected three $50M turnarounds in this scenario…” That shows business intimacy, not generic CV-pitching.

## **4. Become the Consultant’s Consultant**

The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) execs are recognized not only for what they know but for whom they *guide*.

- **Partner with Elite Advisory Firms:** Form alliances with select strategy consultancies, law firms, and boutique investment banks. Let them [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you to clients needing *surgical* executive intervention.
- **Curate a Bench:** Assemble your own trusted network of tactical experts (e.g., interim controller, digital marketing SWAT team, regulatory counsel on call). Pitch “fractional C-suite + tactical execution” as a package.
- **[Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) “Executive Residencies”:** Short-term, high-impact sprints (30/60/90 days) on top-priority projects. These lead to extended [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) mandates.

## **5. Negotiate and Structure Like a Private Equity Operator**

This is not gig work. [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) means high-stake, high-value engagements. Ensure every agreement is built for partnership and leverage.

- **Demand a Seat at the Table:** Don’t settle for transactional contracts. Have SOWs that guarantee access to board meetings, advisory voting rights, and budget authority aligned with your priority mandates.
- **Insist on Aligned Incentives:** Structure retainer + performance [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), vesting based on measurable KPIs (EBITDA impact, ARR exceeding targets, successful exit events).
- **Limit Engagement Load:** Cap your concurrent roles to 2–3 maximum. Over-committing dilutes your impact and [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) (the market will notice). Each client gets a custom roadmap—never deliver a “template.”

## **6. Build a Reputation Flywheel**

Your deal flow and opportunity quality depend on reputation. Elite [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) execs don’t just finish projects—they’re remembered for epic transformation stories.

- **Harvest Video Testimonials:** After a successful engagement, ask the CEO or board chair for a 2-minute video endorsement, focusing on commercial results and culture impact.
- **Do Post-Mortems in Public:** With client permission, do anonymized post-engagement debriefs (in panels or industry reports), which codify your process for the next prospect.
- **Mentor & Teach:** Run private “executive roundtables” for founders, VCs, and emerging leaders. This builds loyalty—and your [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) brand—faster than any marketing spend.

## **Key Pitfalls to Avoid**

- **Chasing Every Opportunity.** Not every [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) deserves your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Vet for cultural fit and CEO coachability.
- **Underpricing.** Charge for *outcome value*, not fractionalized [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Top tier earns $5K–$20K/month per client at a minimum.
- **Passive Marketing.** In this market, A players are *hunted*, not handed roles. If your phone isn’t ringing, your go-to-market is off.

Winning the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) C-suite roles is not about “job search.” It’s enterprise-building at the personal level. It means transcending “availability” and demonstrating irreplaceable value, every interaction, every engagement. Treat your business like a capital partner. Be the architect, the rainmaker, and the legend that the next CEO—*and* their investors—call first.

Stop playing small. Launch your own deal pipeline. Make [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), foundational. This is how executive [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) evolve and where leadership becomes exceptional

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### [The Fractional Advantage: How to Build Your Practice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/)

**Published:** August 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Building a thriving fractional practice requires a deliberate, structured framework across four core areas.

**Content:**

# The Fractional Advantage: How to Build Your Practice

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### 1. Pinpoint Your Core Niche and Value Proposition

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- **Define the Problem:** Focus on the precise operational, technical, or financial bottleneck you resolve (e.g., scaling sales teams from $2M to $10M ARR, rebuilding data architecture, or navigating Series A prep).
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Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Is It a Good Sign If a Recruiter Wants to Call Your References? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-good-sign-if-a-recruiter-wants-to-call-your-references-shorts/)

**Published:** August 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Maybe. Maybe not.

**Content:**

# Is It a Good Sign If a Recruiter Wants to Call Your References? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/XxgnlcS2HJM)

**Maybe. Maybe not.**

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

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### [If At First … #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/__trashed-5/)

**Published:** August 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This quote is a reminder from WC Fields.

**Content:**

# If At First … #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is a reminder from WC Fields.

[***Referring to Everyone as Guys***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lnj)

**“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” That’s from WC Fields.**

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### [The Shift to Pull Dynamics: How to Force the Market to Chase You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/)

**Published:** August 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The executive job market is structurally divided into two distinct operational modes: Push Dynamics and Pull Dynamics.

**Content:**

# The Shift to Pull Dynamics: How to Force the Market to Chase You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The executive job market is structurally divided into two distinct operational modes: **Push Dynamics** and **Pull Dynamics**.

Most professionals spend their entire [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) stuck in Push Dynamics. When they need a new role, they update their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as though it were a history book, buy a premium subscription to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or a job board, and start pushing their credentials out into the market. They push their profiles through [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), push their messages into recruiters’ inboxes, and push their networks for introductions. This is an inherently weak, commodity posture. You are presenting yourself as a job hunter begging for permission to enter the building.

If you want to operate at the highest tier of corporate compensation and leverage, you have to transition to Pull Dynamics. You do not hunt for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/); you engineer a professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) that makes you structurally desirable, forcing the market to seek you out.

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Here is the exact blueprint for shifting the leverage and forcing the market to chase you.

### 1. The Online Protocol: Open-Sourcing Your Frameworks

Most senior operators treat their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile like a digital tombstone–a static record of where they went to school and what titles they held at corporations that no longer matter. When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or a venture [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) partner lands on a profile like that, they see a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) placeholder. They have no visibility into how you actually think, manage, or execute.

To build pull [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) online, aggressively unbundle your expertise.

Stop publishing generic corporate announcements, congratulations notes, or high-level industry platitudes. Instead, treat your digital footprint as a living, clinical ledger of raw execution. Use your platform to publish no BS autopsies of common structural failures within your niche and how you solved them.

- Document the Friction:** Pick a live, burning operational liability that your target companies are facing right now (e.g., post-merger database synchronization lag, international supply chain margin compression, or mid-tier infrastructure churn). Break down exactly *why* standard management theory fails to solve it.
- Expose the Engine:** Don’t just say you solved a problem; open-source your literal step-by-step checklist. Publish the exact multi-phase operational layout you deployed to fix the drag. Give away the diagnostic logic, the performance metrics you tracked, and the structural organizational changes you enforced.

When you consistently put out high-quality execution stories with data, you are running a massive counter-signal to the noise of the market. Corporate decision-makers do not see someone looking for a job; they see an authority figure who has already diagnosed their internal deficit. When a headhunter runs a database query for your domain, your content serves as undeniable proof of competence. They don’t pull you into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to vet your skills; they pull you into a boardroom to buy your playbook.

### 2. The Offline Protocol: Constructing the Specialist Ecosystem

While your online footprint handles top-of-funnel discovery, your offline strategy determines your close rate and contract authority. To be hyper-desirable elsewhere, step out of traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) circles which are typically full of other people looking for a life raft and position yourself within the ecosystems where capital is deployed.

The highest-leverage offline positioning happens within the **advisory and investment matrix**.

Find the mid-market private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) operating partners, boutique venture capitalists, and specialized investment bankers who handle transactions within your functional domain. These individuals manage high-value corporate assets and are under constant operational pressure. They don’t read job boards, and they don’t look at typical [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They need a Rolodex of trusted operators who can step into a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company at a moment’s notice to stabilize a crisis or accelerate a transition.

Initiate offline contact not by asking for a job or a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) discussion, but by offering market intelligence.

Reach out to an operating partner with a precise, one-page assessment of a macroeconomic or structural shift affecting one of their current investments. [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) them a clean diagnostic tool or a brief evaluation framework they can hand directly to their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) CEOs to protect their unit economics. When you consistently deliver frictionless value to the people managing capital, you insulate yourself from the traditional applicant pool. You become the go-to specialist they call before a [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) is ever retained.

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### [Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-falling-into-resume-gaps/)

**Published:** August 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Stop Falling into Resume Gaps

#### [By Jacob Share](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/author/admin/ "Visit Author Page")

[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), Professional Blogger, Creative Thinker, Community Builder with a sense of humor. I like to help people.

[Republished with permission](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/resume-gaps/)

## How I explained my gaping resume gap

[![starvingphd resume gaps tweet](https://jobmob.co.il/files/2015/03/starvingphd-tweet-resume-gaps.png)](https://twitter.com/starvingphd/status/580989026343129089)

Not all [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps are signs of poor job searching, sometimes there are good reasons for gaps in [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

During my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) in 2006, the question was often phrased like this:

*“I see that you worked at Amazon.com in France until August 2001, but that your next job only began over a year later in October 2002. What happened there?”*

I would usually grin out of familiarity with the question and then reply with something like this:

*“In August 2001, I resigned from my managerial position at Amazon.com in France because I wanted to move back to Israel.*

*My plan was to take some time off to get settled in Jerusalem properly, without rushing, and then relax because I was exhausted from working at Amazon.*

*Once I was feeling energized and ready to go back to work, I began evaluating what my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) options would be locally. Unfortunately, by the time I began looking for work in December 2001, the Dot-com Bust (or ‘Internet Crash’, as they said here in Israel) was in full swing, companies were closing, hitech (tech industry) people were being [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) left and right, and almost none of them were going to be replaced.”*

*![Resume gap](https://jobmob.co.il/images/articles/funny/resume-gap-cartoon.jpg "Resume gap")*

(At this point in the story, the Human Resources rep. or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager is usually nodding because they too remember what it was like during that tough time.)

*“I spent the next 8 months looking for work like so many other people, receiving only a few offers that I had to refuse because they didn’t make sense financially.*

*One company offered to pay LESS than minimum wage to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me as a Senior Project Manager (a position that normally earns 8-10 times that amount). I would have had to take a second job to pay all my bills. Good thing I didn’t join them, they went bankrupt 3 months later.*

*In the summer of 2002, one of my former bosses from Amazon said that if I came back to France he would give me a terrific job with his new company. With my savings dwindling and an appealing [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in hand, I couldn’t refuse.*

*However, it still took a few more months before I could start my new job because now I needed to move from Jerusalem back to Paris and get settled in there. In parallel, my new company wasn’t even ready for me yet so the timing worked out well for both sides, and I finally began working in October 2002.”*

https://twitter.com/itsabsaf/status/1321632128535162882

## Why this resume gap story works

Let’s analyze that answer to the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gap question:

- *“In August 2001, I resigned from my managerial position at Amazon.com in France because I wanted to move back to Israel.”*

I wasn’t [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) or [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/), I resigned. **It was my choice to become unemployed**.

- *“My plan was to take some time off to get settled in properly, without rushing, and then relax because I was exhausted from working at Amazon. Once I was feeling energized and ready to go back to work, I began evaluating what my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) options would be locally.”*

**Needing time after a transcontinental move is very understandable** to get settled in, and it takes more than a week.

Saying that “I was exhausted from work” is a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) unless you can **convince the interviewer that it won’t happen again** at their company. That said, everyone knows that [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) is tiring and this “slip” of truth can actually work in your favor by showing your [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/).

- *“Unfortunately, by the time I began looking for work in December 2001, the Dot-com Bust was in full swing, companies were closing, hitech people were being [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) left and right, and almost none of them were going to be replaced.”*

Anyone who’s been through the ordeal will remember what it’s like to be in industry- or economy-wide recessions, and how difficult [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is during those moments in time. No one will fault you for getting caught up in such **events that were clearly out of your control**.

- *“I spent the next 8 months looking for work like so many other people, receiving only a few offers that I had to refuse because they didn’t make sense financially. One company offered to pay LESS than minimum wage to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me as a Senior Project Manager. I would have had to take a second job to pay all my bills. Good thing I didn’t join them, they went bankrupt 3 months later.”*

(The same goes when explaining [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps due to illnesses, and that includes mental illnesses and [depression](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/depression-test/). If it was out of your control, say so and people will usually understand.)

Not only was it my choice to become unemployed, **it was my choice to stay unemployed**. Also, it was worth pointing out that although there weren’t many, I was still getting offers during a tough time.

- *“In the summer of 2002, one of my former bosses from Amazon said that if I came back to France he would give me a terrific job with his new company. With my savings dwindling and an appealing [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in hand, I couldn’t refuse. However, it still took a few more months before I could start my new job because now I needed to move from Jerusalem back to Paris and get settled in there. In parallel, my new company wasn’t even ready for me yet so the timing worked out well for both sides, and I finally began working in October 2002.”*

Any HR rep. or [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) knows that **a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process can take a few months** before the candidate actually becomes an employee.

Finally, it’s important to emphasize that when telling this story to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) during my 2006 job hunt, I wasn’t an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) on [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). My above reply was a result of simply trying to **tell the truth in a positive light** and seeing how people reacted, including their followup questions or remarks.

## 7 tips for explaining your own work gaps

[![erinkennedycprw career gap tweet](https://jobmob.co.il/files/2015/03/erinkennedycprw-career-gap-tweet.png)](https://twitter.com/ErinKennedyCPRW/status/580205247613779969)

1\) Be honest

[![↘️️ Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://jobmob.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/resume-gaps-3.png)](https://twitter.com/Jeremybearimy_/status/1318843059778408451)

Don’t try to hide the gap. Many people have prolonged periods [between jobs](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/between-jobs/), at least once in their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Think of how many stay at home moms try to re-enter [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) once their kids get older!

Having a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gap is not so unusual, so don’t make it seem to be unusual.

2\) Show it off, even

[![↘️️ Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://jobmob.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/resume-gaps-4.png)](https://twitter.com/itsdendo/status/1321169382366732289)

If you took [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) by using the time between [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) to improve your skills or otherwise make yourself into a more valuable candidate.

3\) Emphasize it was by choice (if true)

[![↘️️ Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://jobmob.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/resume-gaps-5.png)](https://twitter.com/fordey70/status/1321617361380773889)

Put a positive spin by explaining how you were selective when [targeting companies](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/why-target-companies-early/ "Why You Must Target Companies Early") or contemplating job offers.

4\) Use history

[![↘️️ Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://jobmob.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/resume-gaps-6.png)](https://twitter.com/kr_mcluckie/status/1319778231113912321)

If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gap overlaps a period of difficulty in your entire industry or your country’s economy, mention it. In 2020, the [coronavirus outbreak is disrupting many job searches](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/coronavirus-job-search-effects/). Or- perhaps you weren’t job searching the whole time but there was a major event in your personal life that required extraordinary attention. ‘Going historical’ works especially well if the job interviewer can empathize because they may have experienced the same event.

5\) Make your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gap a non-issue

[![↘️️ Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://jobmob.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/resume-gaps-7.png)](https://twitter.com/GodFadr/status/1319006041963696129)

How? By listing directly on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) what you did during the time between [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), especially if the time was regularly spent in a framework such as a school or [volunteering program](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/how-to-choose-volunteer-work/).

6\) De-emphasize [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps with a functional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)

[![↘️️ Stop Falling into Resume Gaps](https://jobmob.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/resume-gaps-8.png)](https://twitter.com/LucyEverleigh/status/1320893638159798272)

[Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps stand out in a chronological [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), the classic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) type that details your work history over time and, by literally reading between the lines, your non-work history. Using a functional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) emphasizes your skills and achievements over the aspect of time.

7\) Just avoid [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps outright…

By job searching intelligently so that you don’t need to search longer than necessary. Improve your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) skills before you need them, at the very least by following [blogs like JobMob](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/top-career-job-search-blog-articles/ "93 Most Linked To Articles of Top Job Search and Career Blogs") even while you’re still employed.

[![youranmoron resume gap tweet](https://jobmob.co.il/files/2015/03/youranmoron-resume-gap-tweet.png)](https://twitter.com/YourAnMoron/status/577515510813732864)

**What others are saying**

- [Long-Term Unemployed? 5 Options to Bridge That “Employment Gap”](https://www.job-hunt.org/recruiters/filling-employment-gaps.shtml)
- [Job Hopper? 6 Quick Fixes to Cover Resume Gaps](https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/job-hopper-cover-those-resume-gaps-now/)
- [Explaining The Gap: Dos and Don’ts](https://apresgroup.com/explaining-gap-dos-donts/)
- [Closing A Career Gap On Your Resume](https://www.careerigniter.com/career-advice/closing-a-career-gap-on-your-resume/)

**Question of the article**

Should [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps matter? Aren’t your work accomplishments more important than what happened when you were off work? [Tell us in the comments](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/resume-gaps/#comments).

**Bonus: How to explain gaps in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) (how to explain a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) break) | [Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) gaps [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) examples**

#### [Jacob Share](https://jobmob.co.il/blog/author/admin/ "Visit Author Page")

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### [Nailing the Virtual Interview: 16 Tips and Lessons Learned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/nailing-the-virtual-interview-16-tips-and-lessons-learned/)

**Published:** August 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In navigating the nuances of virtual interviews, sixteen professionals, from career coaches to CEOs, have shared their wisdom.

**Content:**

# Nailing the Virtual Interview: 16 Tips and Lessons Learned

## [Originally published on vCandidates.com](https://www.vcandidates.com/nailing-the-virtual-interview-16-tips-and-lessons-learned/)

In navigating the nuances of virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), sixteen professionals, from [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaches to CEOs, have shared their wisdom. From the importance of practicing responses on camera to the significance of [following up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) with developed ideas, this compilation offers a comprehensive guide to making a lasting impression in the digital [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) landscape.

- Practice Responses on Camera
- Stage Your [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Environment
- Create a Relevant Background
- Treat Virtual [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Seriously
- Showcase Abilities with Visuals
- Forge Genuine Interviewer Connections
- Leverage Multiple Screens for [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/)
- [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) Company Culture Thoroughly
- Ensure Professional Visual Presentation
- Prepare Environment and Tech
- Simulate [Eye Contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) with Camera
- Ask Insightful Company Questions
- Arrive Early to Virtual [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)
- Set Realistic Work-Life Boundaries
- Dress Formally for Virtual [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)
- [Follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with Developed Ideas

### Practice Responses on Camera

I’ve helped many people successfully prepare for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and get the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) they want. One simple but absolutely critical part of preparation that many people skip is rehearsing their responses to common or likely [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions.

Not only should they write down the main points they want to get across (i.e., making sure they get to talk about their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) qualifications and strengths), but they should also practice speaking them out loud on camera with [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/). Rehearsing is a [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) practice for every type of [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), but doing so in front of a camera for virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) could make the difference between a smooth, confident delivery and awkward pauses and filler words. If you really want the job, invest the time in rehearsing out loud on camera.

![Linda Evans](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/12298.webp)[Linda Evans](https://www.linkedin.com/in/launchedbylinda/)
[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach, [Launched By Linda](https://www.launchedbylinda.com/)

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### Stage Your Interview Environment

One thing that people neglect during virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) is staging. We focus so much on ourselves—what we wear, what we say, and how we present ourselves. But often, we forget to pay attention to our environments.

I’ve been on more calls than I can count where people have had dirty laundry, unmade beds, and potentially offensive materials in their surroundings. So, take a few minutes and think about how your interviewer might perceive the things that are within the frame, and adjust accordingly.

Additionally, you might consider what would resonate with your interviewer. For example, certain book titles could amplify something you’re trying to communicate about yourself, your knowledge, and experience.

![Dennis Consorte](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/4429.webp)[Dennis Consorte](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisconsorte/)
Digital Marketing and Leadership [Consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) for Startups, [Snackable Solutions](https://snackablesolutions.com/)

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### Create a Relevant Background

Instead of turning on a virtual or blurred background, create a space behind you that is not only visually appealing but also grabs the attention of the interviewers. While some people think that a virtual/blurred background is preferred, it can be very distracting, as it often makes part of your hair or body disappear.

I know it can be challenging, depending on the home’s setup, but if possible, choose background objects that are aligned with where you are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). Talking to someone at an environmental startup? Turn your camera towards your plants in a window. Having a panel [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for a creative job? Position your laptop so that you can showcase unusual art on your walls. Meeting with the CEO of a restaurant group? Dazzle them with your fancy espresso machine. [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), virtual or in-person, should be an opportunity to showcase who you are, so let your background be a compelling part of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) story.

![Denise Fowler](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/12333.webp)[Denise Fowler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deniseriebmanfowler/)
Founder and [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach, [Career Happiness Coaching](https://careerhappinesscoaching.com/)

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### Treat Virtual Interviews Seriously

Take it seriously. Don’t [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) a virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) as being more informal than one conducted in person. A virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is not merely about convenience. It’s an opportunity for the interviewer to assess you on several different levels.

For that reason, it’s not something you want to take “on the fly”—squeezing it in around other activities, like walking or driving to another meeting, or taking an extended break in a noisy coffee shop. Dedicate time in your calendar, and make sure to include a time buffer between commitments. Rushing to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) from another meeting or appearing anxious to end the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) so you can get to your next meeting doesn’t work in your favor when you are striving to make a strong impression.

Find a quiet space, be mindful of any distractions like noise and activity around you, and take a minute or two to reset, so that when you show up, you’re fully present and [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). It’s important because that’s exactly what the person who is about to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you did. They blocked time in their calendar—dedicating a portion of their day to give their full attention to you. Being fully present and [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) respects their interest and their time.

![Jennifer Lee](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/14863.webp)[Jennifer Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-lee-8b361b8/)
Life and [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach, [Up Front Coach](https://www.upfrontcoach.ca/)

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### Showcase Abilities with Visuals

Look really carefully at the requirements and expectations of the job. Can you find one way to visually showcase your ability to deliver on this based on either [past performance](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-your-past-performance-promises-shorts/) or through another avenue, with proven results?

Mock up something that particularly stands out. Ask the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) contact if you will be able to share your screen. If so, prepare a few answers that allow you to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to this document. If not, ask if you can share it in advance so that you may [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to it. Save a few items for the follow-up—a great way to stand out in the thank-you process is to include a takeaway like this that points back to their needs and your reminder that you can deliver on it.

Also, don’t overthink this. So few candidates go the extra mile like this; remember to keep it simple, relevant to their needs, and visually nice and professional. Remote work is competitive! This tip can help you stand out.

![Nikki Ryberg, MHRLR, CPRW, GCDF](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/11629.webp)[Nikki Ryberg, MHRLR, CPRW, GCDF](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkiryberg)
[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach, [Ryberg Group, LLC](https://ryberggroup.com/)

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### Forge Genuine Interviewer Connections

Creating a genuine connection goes a long way. In my [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) experience, I have found that this will leave a lasting impression on their overall performance. This is a crucial part of virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), which has the potential to make you different from other applicants.

Connecting with interviewers is [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) accomplished by connecting with yourself. Going beyond the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and expressing your personality and enthusiasm is where the connection starts. Telling relevant tales of previous working experience, along with highlighting your skills, naturally explains how you are as a working professional.

Asking insightful questions that show your genuine interest in the company and expressing your enthusiasm for the position are some other useful ways to connect with interviewers. Virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are also conversations; hence, it is important to treat the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) panel as if you were meeting them in person.

![Ben Richardson](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/19089.webp)[Ben Richardson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-richardson-6a7b9a1/)
Director, [Acuity Training](https://www.acuitytraining.co.uk/)

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### Leverage Multiple Screens for Research

Having your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) open on a different screen is one [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of online meetings, as you can have multiple screens at the same time. I use my laptop with an ultrawide screen on the desk positioned above it.

This setup allows me to have my notes about the company in front of me, enabling me to ask in-depth questions about job-related things that demonstrate: 1) That I have done my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), and 2) That I understand the challenges of the position, situation, or role. Additionally, you can quickly Google things related to the context and come across as more knowledgeable.

![Dag Flachet](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/12865.webp)[Dag Flachet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagflachet/)
Co-Founder and Professor, [Codific](https://codific.com/)

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### Research Company Culture Thoroughly

Researching the company beforehand is crucial. Doing your own [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on the company before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) will show that potential employer that you are actually interested in the company itself and not just a paycheck. Not to mention, researching the company will also give you a feel for the company’s culture and whether or not you feel a fit with said company.

I recommend digging through the company’s website for first-hand [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on what they stand for and how they function. From there, I highly suggest checking out their reviews on a website like Glassdoor, which will show you reviews from past and current employees. Bonus tip: You might even be able to find the questions they’ll ask you for your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on Glassdoor too!

![Matthew Johnson](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/15991.webp)[Matthew Johnson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-in-marketing/)
Paid Media Manager, [MWI](https://mwi.com/)

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### Ensure Professional Visual Presentation

When doing a video job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), it’s important to make [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) with the interviewer. Ensure your camera setup allows for this by using Zoom to see yourself on camera and adjust your setup accordingly. In speaker view, aim to make [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) as if you were in the room with them.

Additionally, choose clothing that stands out against your backdrop and ensure your face is well-lit without causing glare on glasses, if you wear them. I achieve this by using a ring light and directing the light to reflect off a wall onto my face. However, most people can set up their lighting to avoid having a dark appearance without the need for a ring light.

Make sure your background is uncluttered and does not distract from the focus on you during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

![Jeff Altman](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/21905.webp)[Jeff Altman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter)
Global [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Coach, [The Big Game Hunter, Inc.](https://www.thebiggamehunter.us/)

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### Prepare Environment and Tech

Start by giving your housemates a heads-up about your upcoming interview—share the date and time. Right before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) begins, casually remind them to keep things quiet and distraction-free while you’re in action. It’s a bonus if you can coax them into a separate room to give you some space and help you stay focused.

Consider hopping onto the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) call a cool five minutes early. This not only ensures your tech is running smoothly but also gives you a buffer for any unexpected hiccups. While you wait, hit that mute button; it’s standard practice and keeps things professional.

Turn off all notifications five minutes before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), both on your phone and laptop.

![David Skinner ](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/15551.webp)David Skinner, Commercial Kitchen Designer, [TAG Catering Equipment](https://www.tagukltd.com/)

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### Simulate Eye Contact with Camera

It’s very tempting during a virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to look at yourself on the computer screen instead of looking into the camera or at the interviewer(s). This can be because of nerves, habit, or you simply may not even realize you’re doing it.

Looking people in the eye as much as possible, even if it’s virtually, helps you to create a connection with the person you’re speaking with. This shows you are confident and are not easily distracted. I recommend looking right into the camera, or at least at the person on your screen. It’s obvious when you are looking elsewhere, and it can make you seem disinterested.

![Scott Evans](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/22145.webp)[Scott Evans](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkstorage/?originalSubdomain%3Duk)
Co-Founder, [Pink Self Storage](https://www.pinkstorage.co.uk/)

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### Ask Insightful Company Questions

In my experience, one thing you can do to excel in virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and make a positive impression on interviewers is to use your time wisely.

It’s tempting to spend all your time talking about yourself, but that’s not what the interviewer wants to hear. You’re not there for them; you’re there for yourself!

So, instead of talking about yourself, ask questions about what the role will entail. What are the challenges? What are the opportunities? What skills are most important for this position? How does this company function?

By asking these types of questions, you’ll be able to demonstrate that you’re genuinely interested in working with them—and they’ll see that they have an opportunity to work with someone who really gets it!

![Gert Kulla](https://terkel-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/expert-images/21221.webp)[Gert Kulla](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gert-kulla-11a88038/)
CEO, [Batlinks](https://batlinks.io/)

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### Arrive Early to Virtual Interviews

Arriving five minutes early is a stellar tip for virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). It not only showcases your punctuality but also demonstrates your eagerness and professionalism. Being prompt sets a positive tone and reveals your commitment to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process.

By joining early, you signal that you value the interviewer’s time and are well-prepared for the virtual meeting. It allows you to troubleshoot any technical issues beforehand, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) experience. Additionally, it gives you a moment to compose yourself, review key points, and enter the conversation with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

This small window of early arrival is a golden opportunity to make a lasting [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). It reflects your proactive approach and attention to detail—qualities that resonate positively with potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). Remember, in the virtual realm, where impressions are formed quickly, those five minutes can make a significant impact on how you are perceived throughout the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

So, seize the chance to stand out from the start by being the candidate who not only meets expectations but exceeds them with promptness and preparedness.

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### Set Realistic Work-Life Boundaries

It’s essential to resist the temptation to pledge constant availability or a 24/7 online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). While dedication is valued, setting realistic expectations is equally important.

Being upfront about the boundaries and limitations of remote work helps in establishing trust and authenticity. Instead of committing to an unsustainable level of availability, emphasize your commitment to productivity, timely communication, and meeting deadlines.

Discuss how you manage your time effectively, prioritize tasks, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Interviewers appreciate candidates who are honest about their capabilities and are proactive in finding effective solutions.

Striking the right balance between commitment and practicality not only makes a positive impression during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) but also lays the foundation for a successful and sustainable remote working relationship.

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### Dress Formally for Virtual Interviews

In the age of remote work, a vital tip for excelling in virtual interviews—particularly in fields like accounting—is to dress professionally, typically opting for a suit and tie or a formal shirt. This approach is reinforced in my workplace, where the consensus is to treat virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with the same level of formality as in-person ones.

While some may consider a button-down shirt adequate, the prevalent opinion is to err on the side of formality. This demonstrates seriousness and respect for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process, ensuring a positive impression on interviewers.

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### Follow Up with Developed Ideas

In remote [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), particularly in marketing and SEO, it’s common to brainstorm ideas on the spot. However, these ideas typically remain undeveloped within the interview’s time constraints.

I find it particularly impressive when candidates, post-interview, take the initiative to expand one of these ideas into a concrete project and share it with me. This level of dedication and proactivity in a virtual setting is a compelling reason to consider such candidates for the role.

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### [Resume Mistakes: Being Vague or Verbose #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-mistakes-being-vague-or-verbose-shorts/)

**Published:** August 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is sooo true. Being vague or, it's opposite, verbose can kill your interview chances

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# Resume Mistakes: Being Vague or Verbose #shorts

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### [How to Master Follow-Ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/)

**Published:** August 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here is how to build a disciplined follow-up system that turns radio silence into real job offers.

**Content:**

# How to Master Follow-Ups

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most job hunters quit after a single [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) email, right when decision-makers are actually ready to convert. If you are relying on luck or sending generic “just checking in” notes, you are actively killing your prospects. Here is how to build a disciplined [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) system that turns radio silence into real job offers.

You have a fantastic coffee chat. They shake your hand and say, “Let’s keep in touch.”

You go home feeling confident.

Then, a week passes, and your inbox stays completely empty.

In the silence, our instinct is to look for flaws in our own value. We rewrite the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), we second-guess the answers we gave in the meeting, and we wonder if the market has simply moved on without us.

This chart shows why those self-doubts are usually misplaced.

80% of opportunities are actually won in the weeks following that first handshake. Yet, nearly half of all professionals stop reaching out after their very first attempt.

This timeline illustrates a process called chronological decay. A lead that starts warm on day one slowly freezes by day 30. Not because of a lack of talent, but through a predictable series of missed windows and unspoken hesitations.

Surviving this silence isn’t a matter of luck or [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/). It requires navigating specific psychological traps that occur at fixed points on the calendar.

The first [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) snaps shut within 48 hours of a meeting: perfectionism paralysis.

You sit down to write a thank-you note, but you want to craft the exact right sentence. So you wait. You tell yourself you are waiting until you have something deeply insightful to share. In reality, this is procrastination disguised as high standards.

Imposter syndrome convinces you that a simple greeting is inadequate, resulting in you sending nothing at all.

If you do manage to send that first note, you might fall into the second [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) between days three and five: the suffocation strategy.

When you don’t get an immediate reply, [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) takes over. You send a panic [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/), reaching out too fast and too often. This crowds the recipient’s inbox and creates friction where there used to be goodwill.

The fix for both extremes is structural.

You need to give every interaction 3 to 5 business days of breathing room.

Your internal clock is running on high adrenaline, treating every quiet hour as a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). The employer’s clock is moving much slower. Week one is simply about pacing your outreach to match their reality.

By week two, that [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) often flattens into a vague nudge. You type out the phrase, “just checking in.”

This signals laziness. It pushes your needs to the top of their inbox without offering a single reason for them to care.

A successful message delivers value instead of demanding attention. Sharing a recent industry article or a specific insight related to your previous conversation gives the recipient a low-pressure reason to engage.

As week three approaches, desperation tends to peak. People make a heavy ask, requesting a direct [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) or a 30-minute meeting. Asking for high-friction favors from someone who hasn’t replied to your last email practically guarantees continued silence.

Replace that demand with a micro-commitment. Ask a single, highly specific question that requires only a brief yes or no response.

Lowering the barrier to reply removes the dread from their inbox. It proves you understand the value of their time, positioning you as someone who provides help rather than someone looking to extract it.

After a month of sparse communication, most professionals adopt a futility mindset. You assume their silence is a polite [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/), and you stop reaching out entirely.

Real opportunities rarely materialize after two emails. They often emerge between the 6th and 12th touchpoint, long after your competitors have given up.

A lack of response almost never means a permanent no. It usually means a project was delayed, a budget was frozen, or the person is simply buried in their own immediate priorities.

To capture the opportunity when their schedule finally opens up, you have to deposit value steadily over several months. Spacing out thoughtful check-ins ensures you are the first person they think of when the timing is right.

Candidates who secure the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) roles don’t always hold the most impressive [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They consistently operate the most persistent, polite [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) routines.

Managing a dozen relationships over a six-month period requires flawless memory and perfect discipline. Since humans possess neither, you have to shift the burden to a reliable system.

This diagram shows the mechanics of a basic tracking system. It records who you met and what you discussed, and then it automatically flags the exact date for your next touchpoint.

Relying on a tracker removes the agonizing guesswork of when to reach out. It turns an anxiety-inducing emotional decision into a simple, data-driven task.

When you treat [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) as a repeatable process rather than a series of one-off favors, you stop relying on luck. A reliable record ensures that your connections remain active and organized, no matter how much time passes between meetings.

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### [Should I Go Behind The Recruiter's Back and Apply Directly? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-go-behind-the-recruiters-back-and-apply-directly-shorts/)

**Published:** August 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Should you try to bypass recruiters and apply for a job directly?

**Content:**

# Should I Go Behind The Recruiter’s Back and Apply Directly? #shorts

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### [I Received an Offer Without Interviewing. How Can I Tell If It Is Legit?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/)

**Published:** August 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I know someone that this happened to and share their story as part of my answer and then add on a few details.


**Content:**

# I Received an Offer Without Interviewing. How Can I Tell If It Is Legit?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 I know someone that this happened to and share their story as part of my answer and then add on a few details.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach who helps businesses, people, well, I help people find new [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). I help them [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) better, manage and lead teams better, you know, just overall be more effective in the workplace.

And this video is response to a question I received from someone where they describe receiving a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from a small firm, and they never interviewed, and they want to know how can they tell if it’s legitimate?

Now, my wife has a friend who spoke with me about a similar situation. She had a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) posted on a job board and received an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from them, and was at the point where they were telling her that they were going to ship a computer to her to go to work. And she said, “This is weird, you know?” And she was right about it being weird.

And I’ll just simply say, I don’t recall if there was any money that needed to exchange hands for the computer being shipped, I don’t think so, but I suggested a very simple thing: call the firm and start off by asking for the person who ostensibly is made the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to you and see if they’re there. So, that’s step number one, because ostensibly, this, you know, it could be a large firm, it could be a small firm. You just want to confirm that one piece of information.

Now, in her case, when she made the phone call and discovered there was no one there by that name, she followed up by saying, “You know, I’ve received this email with an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to come to work for the firm and do it remote.” And they said, “Hold on one second,” and went on the, the line with her to indicate that this [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) has been going on for a while for reasons that they do not know, and you know, they just want to let her know that they had not made such an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

Now, that’s one obvious way of doing it. Number two is: Google. Start off with a Google search. You see one or two things about this firm? Well, how trustworthy can this firm be if they haven’t really done any PR? “Oh, we’re a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new startup.” All right! Now, tell me more about your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new startup where you’ve made an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) without [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) anyone, and thus have no way of determining whether I’m competent. I happen to be, but I want to understand how your business model works where you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people without [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

And this doesn’t have to be said with arrogance, it just has to be said somewhere along the lines, along the lines. Again, if there’s no information about this firm, if you can’t find them on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), or there’s basically, you know, nonsense stuff there, as sometimes happens on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) corporate profiles, and sometimes happens on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) people profiles, find the person on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as well, and see if you can connect with them.

Discover what happens. Tell them you want a little bit of time to absorb the fact that you’ve gotten an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) without [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). Talk to people who they claim are clients of theirs. Find out about the work that they’ve done with them. Once you start getting information that sounds legitimate, you can start removing some of the skepticism.

And if it requires relocation, obviously, ask them for relocation money. If it involves work at home, understand the terms of [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Again, you need to know more, and you have the wisdom to know that this doesn’t smell good. And usually, if it doesn’t smell good, it isn’t good. But we have to give a little bit of doubt here, just to be safe.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful. Visit my website, thebiggamehunter.us. I’ve got a lot more there that you can watch, listen to, or read that’ll help you find work more quickly. Also want to mention, if you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), you can schedule a free discovery call with me at the website. You know, I’d be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to talk with you and see if [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you, you know, I can help you as a coach.

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### [More 15-Minute Moves to Shift Your Job Search Pipeline](https://thebiggamehunter.us/more-15-minute-moves-to-shift-your-job-search-pipeline/)

**Published:** August 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Career transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions

**Content:**

# More 15-Minute Moves to Shift Your Job Search Pipeline

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When professionals hit a wall in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), the default response is brute force. They dedicate four-hour blocks on Sunday afternoons to rewriting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for dozens of job postings, or blasting out generic connection requests.

*This macro-effort yields remarkably micro-results.*

The issue isn’t a lack of effort; it’s operational drag. Heavy, multi-hour [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) sessions lead to mental fatigue and low-quality output. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions—precise executions [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) taking 15 minutes or less that bypass traditional corporate filters and force immediate market [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

I previously broke down four core tactics: executing requisition ID [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bypasses, running quick [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) boardroom diagnostics, building forwardable assets, and optimizing your headline’s first 80 characters. Today, we expand your toolkit with four *new* [15-minute micro-actions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-micro-actions-to-activate-your-job-search/) designed to unearth hidden opportunities and systematically convert quiet connections into active [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

### 1. Conduct a “Lapsed Connection Audit” (15 Minutes)

The highest-converting job opportunities rarely come from brand-new cold outreach; they come from “dormant ties”—former colleagues, past clients, or managers who already know your work ethic but haven’t spoken to you in 12 to 24 months.

Spend 15 minutes scrolling through your existing [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connections to identify three people who have recently moved to new companies or received promotions.

Send a brief, low-pressure update note:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I saw your recent move to \[Company\]—congrats on taking over the \[Function/Team\] space. I’m currently mapping out my next move in \[Industry/Specialization\] and wanted to reconnect. No ask here. I just wanted to congratulate you on the new role and catch up soon if you have a quick opening in the coming weeks.”*

This reactivates warm capital in under a quarter-hour without making you sound desperate or transactional. It helps someone I worked with recently land a new leadership role as a systems integrator.

### 2. Mine Recently Hired Managers for Immediate Team Growth (15 Minutes)

When a new executive or director takes a role at a company, two things happen immediately: they inherit existing structural problems, and they receive budget to build out their team.

Spend 15 minutes searching [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for leaders in your functional area who changed [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) within the past 90 days. Use search terms like: *“\[Your Target Title\] + ‘Started a new position'”*.

Reach out with a short, peer-level congratulatory note that signals your readiness:

> *“Hi \[Name\], congrats on the new role leading \[Function\] at \[Company\]. Having joined teams in rapid transition before, I know the first 90 days are usually focused on assessing the baseline workflows and identifying execution gaps. I’m an operator specializing in \[Your Core Skill/Value Metric\] and am currently exploring my next move. No immediate ask; I just wanted to get on your radar early as you begin evaluating team bandwidth and future initiatives.”*

In 15 minutes, you get on the radar of a decision-maker who has budget and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) authority *before* they post a public job requisition. This helped the young developer I was working with recently land a new role.

### 3. Deploy the “Skills Endorsement Reset” (10 Minutes)

LinkedIn’s search algorithm prioritizes profiles based on skill match density. However, most professionals haven’t updated their “Top Skills” section in five years, leaving outdated software or irrelevant methodologies pinned to the top.

Spend 10 minutes performing a clean audit:

- Open the job descriptions of three target roles you want next.
- Identify the top 3–5 recurring technical skills, methodologies, or platforms mentioned across all three.
- Move those exact terms to the top of your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “Skills” section and remove legacy skills that no longer reflect your direction.

This subtle adjustment instantly improves your search relevance when internal we’re a third party [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) filter people inside [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

### 4. Engage in “Strategic First-Comment Positioning” (15 Minutes)

Instead of posting long-form content that takes hours to write and gets minimal reach, borrow the audience of industry decision-makers or well-connected people.

Spend 15 minutes finding posts written by [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers, [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), or industry commentators in your niche. Skip the superficial “Great post!” comments. Instead, leave a high-density, analytical observation that adds real insight:

> *“Spot-on analysis regarding data pipeline latency. We also found that decoupling the legacy databases in month two reduced that exact processing lag by nearly 18% before we expanded to regional hubs.”*

> *A single well-crafted comment positions your expertise directly in front of the post’s author and everyone reading the thread that generate profile views from peers who actively [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for those exact solutions.*

### The Bottom Line

A successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot is not built on marathon sessions of blind [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions. It is built on small, clinical actions executed with consistency.

Stop spending hours feeding [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) databases. Pick one 15-minute action each morning, execute it with precision, and let the compound effect of high-leverage outreach shift the market leverage back to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: August 16 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-august-16-2026/)

**Published:** August 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice offers help with job search, job hunting, career advice, Interviewing, salary negotiation, resumes, and more.  

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: August 16 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Promotional banner for No BS Career Advice with Jeff Altman, 'Big Game Hunter', encouraging viewers to get a job via JobSearch.Community.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/No-BS-Career-Advice-August-16-2026.png)

I don’t get sick very often but when I do I know how to get sick. By Tuesday evening I was exhausted and just feeling beaten up. I thought it was a normal workday but it was me starting to get sick. By Wednesday I had a stomach virus that left me completely debilitated. I napped a lot; I canceled a lot of my schedule; I only kept a few things that I really needed to keep. I didn’t go to the gym at all, which is unusual for me these days.

It’s why I extended my [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) of $4.99 for [**Resumes That Work: The No BS Playbook for Laptop Professionals to Leverage AI, Refine Their Story, and Get Interviewed**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC6B97QC) **until Tuesday at 7 AM Eastern at which point the price will increase to $12.99.**

I won’t repeat the pitch for the book I wrote. I will say I hope you find it helpful; I’m sure you will. If you do please write a favorable review on Amazon.

As you know, my advice is No BS.

***BTW, I will not be publishing No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) the next two weekends. Next weekend, I am attending a leadership conference; the following weekend, I am on staff for one of the men’s retreats I used to lead.***

## More 15-Minute Moves to Shift Your Job Search Pipeline

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

When professionals hit a wall in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), the default response is brute force. They dedicate four-hour blocks on Sunday afternoons to rewriting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for dozens of job postings, or blasting out generic connection requests.

*This macro-effort yields remarkably micro-results.*

The issue isn’t a lack of effort; it’s operational drag. Heavy, multi-hour [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) sessions lead to mental fatigue and low-quality output. High-yield [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions—precise executions [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) taking 15 minutes or less that bypass traditional corporate filters and force immediate market [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

I previously broke down four core tactics: executing requisition ID [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bypasses, running quick [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) boardroom diagnostics, building forwardable assets, and optimizing your headline’s first 80 characters. Today, we expand your toolkit with four *new* [15-minute micro-actions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-micro-actions-to-activate-your-job-search/) designed to unearth hidden opportunities and systematically convert quiet connections into active [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

### 1. Conduct a “Lapsed Connection Audit” (15 Minutes)

The highest-converting job opportunities rarely come from brand-new cold outreach; they come from “dormant ties”—former colleagues, past clients, or managers who already know your work ethic but haven’t spoken to you in 12 to 24 months.

Spend 15 minutes scrolling through your existing [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connections to identify three people who have recently moved to new companies or received promotions.

Send a brief, low-pressure update note:

> *“Hi \[Name\], I saw your recent move to \[Company\]—congrats on taking over the \[Function/Team\] space. I’m currently mapping out my next move in \[Industry/Specialization\] and wanted to reconnect. No ask here. I just wanted to congratulate you on the new role and catch up soon if you have a quick opening in the coming weeks.”*

This reactivates warm capital in under a quarter-hour without making you sound desperate or transactional. It helps someone I worked with recently land a new leadership role as a systems integrator.

### 2. Mine Recently Hired Managers for Immediate Team Growth (15 Minutes)

When a new executive or director takes a role at a company, two things happen immediately: they inherit existing structural problems, and they receive budget to build out their team.

Spend 15 minutes searching [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for leaders in your functional area who changed [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) within the past 90 days. Use search terms like: *“\[Your Target Title\] + ‘Started a new position'”*.

Reach out with a short, peer-level congratulatory note that signals your readiness:

> *“Hi \[Name\], congrats on the new role leading \[Function\] at \[Company\]. Having joined teams in rapid transition before, I know the first 90 days are usually focused on assessing the baseline workflows and identifying execution gaps. I’m an operator specializing in \[Your Core Skill/Value Metric\] and am currently exploring my next move. No immediate ask; I just wanted to get on your radar early as you begin evaluating team bandwidth and future initiatives.”*

In 15 minutes, you get on the radar of a decision-maker who has budget and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) authority *before* they post a public job requisition. This helped the young developer I was working with recently land a new role.

### 3. Deploy the “Skills Endorsement Reset” (10 Minutes)

LinkedIn’s search algorithm prioritizes profiles based on skill match density. However, most professionals haven’t updated their “Top Skills” section in five years, leaving outdated software or irrelevant methodologies pinned to the top.

Spend 10 minutes performing a clean audit:

- Open the job descriptions of three target roles you want next.
- Identify the top 3–5 recurring technical skills, methodologies, or platforms mentioned across all three.
- Move those exact terms to the top of your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “Skills” section and remove legacy skills that no longer reflect your direction.

This subtle adjustment instantly improves your search relevance when internal we’re a third party [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) filter people inside [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

### 4. Engage in “Strategic First-Comment Positioning” (15 Minutes)

Instead of posting long-form content that takes hours to write and gets minimal reach, borrow the audience of industry decision-makers or well-connected people.

Spend 15 minutes finding posts written by [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers, [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), or industry commentators in your niche. Skip the superficial “Great post!” comments. Instead, leave a high-density, analytical observation that adds real insight:

> *“Spot-on analysis regarding data pipeline latency. We also found that decoupling the legacy databases in month two reduced that exact processing lag by nearly 18% before we expanded to regional hubs.”*

A single well-crafted comment positions your expertise directly in front of the post’s author and everyone reading the thread that generate profile views from peers who actively [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for those exact solutions.

### The Bottom Line

A successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot is not built on marathon sessions of blind [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions. It is built on small, clinical actions executed with consistency.

Stop spending hours feeding [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) databases. Pick one 15-minute action each morning, execute it with precision, and let the compound effect of high-leverage outreach shift the market leverage back to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Even while sick, I released a number of new blog posts including:

**From Manual [Grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) to AI-Automated [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** Excerpt: [Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) is notoriously grueling, often demanding hours of manual effort for minimal returns. But what if you could compress a three-hour daily [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) into a highly targeted, 10-minute automated routine? One resourceful job seeker did exactly that by using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Link: 

**How to Build an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Pipeline That 7x’s Your [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** Excerpt: Mass-applying to hundreds of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) is a complete waste of your time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). Learn how one job seeker stopped manual copy-pasting, built an autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) pipeline, cut his daily job hunt to 10 minutes, and secured 7x more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Link: 

**You Don’t Have to Keep Doing Work You Detest #shorts** Excerpt: Are you doing a job that you absolutely loathe? You don’t have to. Link: 

**Why Are You Interested in This Job? \#shorts** Excerpt: Most people answer “Why are you interested in this job?” with generic praise. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a No BS strategy to answer this question by connecting your background directly to their specific operational challenges. Link: 

**Should I Use a Video [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) to Stand Out?** Excerpt: Video [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) are growing in popularity, but do they actually work or do they alienate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down when a video [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) gives you an edge and when it backfires. Link: 

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Immortality** Excerpt: Building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) that withstands market volatility and industry disruption requires developing durable leverage, personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), and high-value relationships that outlast any single employer. Link: 

**[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Not Giving Maximum Effort** Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) looks at successful athletes as an impetus to remind job hunters of the importance of giving maximum effort in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to achieve [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Link: 

**Why Taking a “Lower” Job May Be a Smart Move** Excerpt: If you take a step sideways or down, people assume something went wrong. That mindset is BS. Link: 

**Senior. Intermediate. Junior. [What’s the Difference?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/senior-intermediate-junior-whats-the-difference-shorts/) \#shorts** Excerpt: People get fixated on levels. Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): August 9 2026** Excerpt: Help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews [\#opentowork](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice Link: 

**Overcoming [Age Bias](https://thebiggamehunter.us/overcoming-age-bias-in-job-search/) in [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** Excerpt: How to address manager [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) directly, speak modern operational language, and target the mid-market and private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firms that actively need your expertise. Link: 

**Changing [Careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)? Gave Yourself a Hard No? \#shorts** Excerpt: Oh, the tricks we sometimes play on ourselves. When you’re changing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), sometimes the hard no is one of those tricks. Link: 

**Nailing the Virtual [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/): 16 Tips and Lessons Learned** Excerpt: In navigating the nuances of virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), sixteen professionals, from [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaches to CEOs, have shared their wisdom. Link: 

**Our Love-Hate Relationship With [Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/)** Excerpt: Most people struggle with [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/) during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Understanding why we resist reaching out is the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) to unlocking your network. Link: 

**[Laid Off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) and They Want You to Sign Something? \#shorts** Excerpt: It will be soooo tempting to sign that piece of paper they slide in front of you. Link: 

**The Easiest Way to Apply Isn’t Usually the [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) Way** Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discourages you from [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) using convenient buttons on job listings. Link: 

**The Purpose of a Phone [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** Excerpt: In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the purpose of a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) from the employer’s perspective and from yours. Link: 

**Staying Current #shorts** Excerpt: A short video about keeping your skills up-to-date. Link: 

**If A [Search Firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) Asks You To Recommend Someone Does That Mean They Want You?** Excerpt: If an [Executive Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm emails you requesting that you recommend someone for a position, does that mean they are interested in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for the position? Link: 

**15 Minute Moves to Shift Your [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Pipeline** Excerpt: If you want to accelerate your pipeline without burning out, integrate these [15-minute moves](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-moves-to-shift-your-career-pipeline-2/) into your daily routine. Link: 

**Look Ahead, Not Just Back #shorts** Excerpt: This one is for those of you who are older. Maybe not as old as me but older nonetheless. Link: 

**[Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [Red Flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/): The Uncomfortable Look When You Ask This Question** Excerpt: There is a reason they’re uncomfortable. Pay attention. Link: 

**Periodic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile Updates #shorts** Excerpt: Some of you treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile updates like something to do when you are [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Link: 

**Betting on Yourself #shorts** Excerpt: A piece of wisdom to pay attention to. Link: 

**[Over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/)? Think Ahead. #shorts** Excerpt: If you’re [over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/), the probability is you are going to leave your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) or it’s going to leave you. It’s time to start thinking ahead. Link: 

**The Difference** Excerpt: Short [Thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We’re On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We’ll Feel Good If You Do. Link: 

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[*Resumes That Work: No BS Playbook for Laptop Professionals to Leverage AI, Refine Their Story, and Get Interviewed*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC6B97QC)

[*“Networkinging for Introverts: Build Powerful Connections Without Cold Calling*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9CH4QQD)

[*Interview Mastery: The Ultimate Job Interview Framework*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2747MZ1)

[*The No BS Job Search Playbook: How Hiring Works*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXWDMKVB)

[*The No BS Job Search Playbook: AI Job Search Prompts and More*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1K36JNM)

[*The Ultimate Job Interview Framework*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1K36JNM)

[*Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems: Figuring Out Where the Problem Is*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HMFMKLC)

[*The Right Answers to Tough Interview Questions*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HMFMKLC)

[*Job Search Strategies for Recent Graduates: A Guide for Post-Graduation Success*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYZSZQTX)

[*10 Steps to Changing Careers: Break Free and Do Work You Love*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCK7WGBM)

[*Great Answers to Behavioral Interview Questions*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PCC82N4)

[*Starting Over: The No BS Playbook: How to Land a New Job After 10+ Years With One Employer, Whether You Chose to Leave or Were Forced Out*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1817G2M)

[*Executive Job Offer Forensics: Deep Dive Due Diligence*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRVDDCY)

[*The Resilience Pivot: Turn Job Search Rejection into Career Success*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNW8JZLJ)

[*The Panel Interview Playbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Room (and the Job)*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTGD8J9T)

[*No B.S. Resume Advice: How Does Yours Measure Up? (a short guide)*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010YVP4ZA)

[*No BS Questions You Should Ask on Any Interview: They’ll Tell You If You Fit*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C381R5SQ) *(He’s a short guide)*

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### [Interview Red Flags: They Don’t Give You a Straight Answer #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-they-dont-give-you-a-straight-answer-shorts/)

**Published:** August 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You ask a question and when you think about it, they didn't answer your question.

**Content:**

# Interview Red Flags: They Don’t Give You a Straight Answer #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [For a Video Interview on Your Phone #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/for-a-video-interview-on-your-phone-shorts/)

**Published:** August 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This will solve the problem of a jumpy video interview.

**Content:**

# For a Video Interview on Your Phone #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [From Manual Grind to AI-Automated Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/from-manual-grind-to-ai-automated-job-hunting/)

**Published:** August 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What if you could compress a three-hour daily grind into a highly targeted, 10-minute automated routine?

**Content:**

# **From Manual Grind to AI-Automated Job Hunting**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is notoriously grueling, often demanding hours of manual effort for minimal returns. But what if you could compress a three-hour daily [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) into a highly targeted, 10-minute automated routine? One resourceful job seeker did exactly that by using generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to systematically optimize and automate their search, moving from a **stressful “spray and pray” approach** to a streamlined process that ultimately secured an exciting new role. Here is a breakdown of how they engineered this transition, offering a blueprint to make your own search more efficient.

**The Starting Point: “Spray and Pray”** When faced with organizational uncertainty, this professional launched a traditional, manual [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). They spent about three hours a day scouring [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and submitting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). In one early two-week stretch, they applied to 18 [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), receiving seven automated rejections and zero callbacks. Historically, their manual approach was similarly bleak: a prior batch of 73 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) yielded just one callback and one [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). It was clear that **brute force was not a winning strategy**.

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Crucially, they used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to make their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) **compliant with automated tracking systems ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/))**. The technology successfully identified hidden Unicode characters that were highly readable to humans but disrupted automated parsers. Relying on a strict rule preventing the system from fabricating information, they uploaded a comprehensive master [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) containing their entire [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) history to generate optimized templates based strictly on actual experience.

Phase 2: Partial Automation and Filters** Next, they **defined strict criteria** for their search: a lowest acceptable [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), preferred [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range, travel percentage limits, maximum commute distance, and a requirement that roles be posted within the last 24 hours.

Initially, they ran a semi-automated process, pasting job descriptions into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool to rate the fit on a 1-to-10 scale. They only applied if the job scored a 6 or higher. While this three-week phase saw slight improvements—55 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), one [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and one offer—it still demanded significant manual effort.

**Phase 3: Full Scheduled Automation** The real breakthrough came with **full scheduled automation**. They deployed a script that ran daily at 9:00 AM, automatically scouring job boards and target companies within their travel radius.

For any job that met the criteria and scored a 6 or higher, the system built a customized [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). Their only manual daily task was opening the provided links to verify the posting was active and had under 100 applicants on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). This reduced their daily time investment to a mere 10 minutes.

The Hard Numbers and Key Takeaways** The results of the six-week automated phase were striking: 47 targeted [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) yielded seven callbacks and one [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Over their entire 11-week search, they applied to 125 [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), received eight callbacks, and secured two job offers, ultimately accepting a position they were truly excited about.

This strategy highlights a vital lesson: automation’s power lies in **filtering harder and tailoring better**, not just [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to more [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). However, human judgment remains the ultimate differentiator. AI-assisted tailoring only works if the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) tells a clear, strategically positioned story. Automation handles the heavy lifting, but human oversight and relationships are still what get your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in front of the right person.

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### [Sh*t Recruiters Say: You’ll Wear Many Hats in This Role #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sht-recruiters-say-youll-wear-many-hats-in-this-role-shorts/)

**Published:** August 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is another example of the sh*t recruiter say the job hunters when describing jobs.

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# Sh\*t Recruiters Say: You’ll Wear Many Hats in This Role #shorts

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This is another example of the sh\*t [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) say the job hunters when describing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

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### [How to Show Promotions on Your Resume (Without the Clutter)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-show-promotions-on-your-resume-without-the-clutter/)

**Published:** August 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here is the exact structure you need to showcase internal growth, prove your loyalty, and make your resume scannable in seconds.

**Content:**

# How to Show Promotions on Your Resume (Without the Clutter)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Promotions look great on paper until your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) ends up looking like a cluttered, repetitive mess. If you stack multiple titles under separate company listings, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) lose track of your trajectory and move on to the next candidate. Here is the exact structure you need to showcase internal growth, prove your loyalty, and make your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) scannable in seconds.

So, you got the promotion. That is awesome. But then you look at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and you’re kind of stuck, right? How do you show that amazing climb up the ladder without making the whole thing look messy or repetitive? Well, it’s a great problem to have, and in this explainer, we’re going to break down the perfect way to solve it.

You’ve put in all the [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/), you’ve earned those new titles, but now you’ve got this little puzzle on your hands. I mean, if you list the same company over and over, it just looks weird. But if you lump all your roles into one big entry, you totally lose the story of your progression. It’s a real head-scratcher.

And this is the core question, isn’t it? You want [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to see your growth, to see your loyalty, to see that the company trusted you with more and more responsibility. But if you get the format wrong, that whole powerful story just gets completely lost in a confusing layout.

So, the solution here isn’t just about listing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). It’s about showcasing a journey. The whole goal, the whole idea, is to frame your experience as a clear upward path, all within one single company. It’s a story of growth, and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) absolutely needs to tell it.

You know, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) just puts it perfectly. Your objective is simple: show a clear progression. This isn’t just about a list of titles. It’s about showing how you evolved and how the company’s trust in you grew over time.

Okay, so how do we actually build this thing on the page? Let’s get really practical here and just walk through the format step by step. It’s easier than you think.

The structure is actually super simple. It’s got three core parts. First, we’re going to make one single header for the whole time you were at the company. Then, we stack each role under it, from the newest one to the oldest one. What this does is create a really clean, easy-to-read timeline.

All right, first things first: you’re going to create one single header to anchor the whole entry. Put the company name on the left, and then put the total time you’ve been employed on the right, from your very first day all the way to today. Right away, this shows your commitment.

Now, directly underneath that, you’re going to start with your most recent, your current title. Just like the line above, the title goes on the left, and the specific dates for that role go on the right. See the pattern?

Okay, and here’s where you really show your current value. Your bullet points—they shouldn’t just be a list of tasks, no way. They should be impact-driven accomplishments. Think about strategy, leadership, and numbers, quantifiable results. What were the big problems you solved in this senior role?

From there, you just repeat the process. It’s that simple. Add your previous title and its dates right below the last entry. Keeping this reverse chronological order, newest to oldest, is the absolute key to telling that clear story of progression.

And of course, you’re going to add the specific achievements for that role, too. But think about the story you’re telling. Maybe these earlier bullet points are a bit more task-oriented, showing how you really mastered the fundamentals. That contrast between your old and your new responsibilities, that’s what really shows the growth, not just the titles themselves.

So, we’ve got the how, but let’s talk about the why. You might be thinking, “Okay, that seems simple enough, but why is this little formatting change so incredibly effective?” Well, it all comes down to how a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager actually reads your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Okay, here’s the big payoff. For a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who’s scanning dozens, maybe hundreds of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), this format is an absolute gift. It immediately tells a story of growth. It gets rid of all the clutter. And maybe most importantly, it screams loyalty. The company didn’t just keep you around; they actively promoted you. It’s clean, it’s scannable, and it’s super powerful.

Ultimately, this is about so much more than just formatting. It’s really about taking control of your professional narrative. It’s about you crafting your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) story.

If you remember one thing, remember this: a great [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is not a passive list of things you did. It’s an active, compelling story of your value, your achievements, and your growth over time. And this format, it helps you tell that story loud and clear.

So, I’ll leave you with this question to chew on: go take a look at your own [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) right now, seriously. Does it just list [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), or does it tell a compelling story of progression? What story is your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) telling about you?

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### [Stop Applying to Jobs Manually—AI Does It Better](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-to-jobs-manually-ai-does-it-better/)

**Published:** August 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to connect Claude Code, n8n, and Google Sheets to create an automated pipeline that finds high-probability jobs, tailors ATS-compliant resumes

**Content:**

# Stop Applying to Jobs Manually—AI Does It Better

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop wasting your weekends tweaking bullet points and copy-pasting [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-hate-applications-2/). Learn how to connect Claude Code, n8n, and Google Sheets to create an automated pipeline that finds high-probability [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), tailors ATS-compliant [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-speed-game-why-early-resumes-win/), and generates targeted [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) prep on demand.

f you’ve applied for a job recently, you know the cycle: you stare at a blank page, tweak the exact same bullet points for the 50th time, and wait. The administrative burden of a modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) can swallow your entire weekend.

But you can engineer your way out of this trap by building an automated [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) ecosystem—one that handles the discovery, the tailoring, and the formatting, allowing you to step back while the system does the heavy lifting.

This system runs on three main tools: Claude Code acting as your local AI agent, n8n to connect the data pipelines, and Google Sheets to log the results.

By automating the sourcing and drafting phases, you win back hours of your week. Because of how we structure this setup, every application generated is tailored to the role and built to pass automated screening without the manual rewrite.

Before we give an AI any permission to write [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-hate-applications-2/) on our behalf, we have to establish strict boundaries. Left to its own devices, a standard language model will often invent fake experience just to match a keyword on a job description.

To prevent that, step one is gathering every factual document you have—old CVs, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-treating-linkedin-like-a-resume-youre-invisible/) exports, and reference letters—and dropping them into a single local folder.

Next, run `/setup` in your terminal. Claude Code compiles those disparate files into a unified source of truth. This profile acts as a hard boundary. If a job requires a skill not explicitly listed, the system blocks the AI, explicitly acknowledging the gap instead.

A strictly grounded, hallucination-free profile is the only safe way to entrust an automated agent with your professional reputation.

With your profile locked in, we move to sourcing roles without mindlessly scrolling job boards. For this, we use the visual automation tool n8n.

Inside the n8n canvas, you connect your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-treating-linkedin-like-a-resume-youre-invisible/) account to pull in fresh job postings, wire up the Anthropic API to analyze them, and link Google Sheets to record the results.

As [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are scraped, each passes a Claude scoring filter that evaluates the requirements against your ground truth profile. You configure a threshold gate—say, 70%. [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) scoring below are instantly rejected, while only high-probability matches are allowed to move forward.

The final output of this pipeline is a curated list of relevant roles dropping directly into a spreadsheet, complete with links and fit scores.

By filtering algorithmically, you remove the exhaustion of reading hundreds of irrelevant posts. You spend your energy strictly on high-probability opportunities.

When you spot a job you like in that spreadsheet, you grab the URL, go back to your terminal, and type the `/apply` command to initiate document generation.

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### [Betting on Yourself #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/betting-on-yourself-shorts/)

**Published:** August 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A piece of wisdom to pay attention to.

**Content:**

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### [Periodic LinkedIn Profile Updates #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/periodic-linkedin-profile-updates-shorts/)

**Published:** August 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Some of you treat LinkedIn profile updates like something to do when you are job hunting.

**Content:**

# **Periodic LinkedIn Profile Updates #shorts**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Over 50? Think Ahead.  #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/over-50-think-ahead-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** August 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you're over 50, the probability is you are going to leave your career or it's going to leave you. It's time to start thinking ahead.

**Content:**

# Over 50? Think Ahead. #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [The Difference](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-difference/)

**Published:** August 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Short Thoughts. Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We're On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We'll Feel Good If You Do.

**Content:**

# The Difference

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Short [Thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We’re On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We’ll Feel Good If You Do.

## [***Things That Immediately Ruin a First Impression***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-liA)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/),

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 2800 episodes.

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### [Look Ahead, Not Just Back #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/look-ahead-not-just-back-shorts/)

**Published:** August 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This one is for those of you who are older. Maybe not as old as me but older nonetheless.

**Content:**

# Look Ahead, Not Just Back

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZFRRa_ZN2DI)

This one is for those of you who are older. Maybe not as old as me but older nonetheless.

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and succeeding in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier.

***[Elevator Pitches](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-e7G)***

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### [Interview Red Flags: The Uncomfortable Look When You Ask This Question](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-the-uncomfortable-look-when-you-ask-this-question/)

**Published:** August 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a reason they're uncomfortable. Pay attention.

**Content:**

# **Interview Red Flags: The Uncomfortable Look When You Ask This Question**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

There is a reason they’re uncomfortable. Pay attention.

[***Stupid Resume Mistakes– Objectives***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9lM)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and succeeding in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier.

***[The Interview With a Former Boss](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-20L)***

**You will find great info and [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 2900 episodes over 13+ years.

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### [The Purpose of a Phone Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-purpose-of-a-phone-interview/)

**Published:** August 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the purpose of a phone interview from the employer's perspective and from yours.

**Content:**

# The Purpose of a Phone Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the purpose of a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) from the employer’s perspective and from yours.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for 40-plus years.

Today’s video is about the purpose of a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And and I want to do it from both sides’ perspective.

Now, first of all, your side’s easy. Your purpose is to get to the face-to-face [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). In 999,000 times out of a million, no one’s ever hired on the basis of a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). There are very, very rare exceptions, but usually a firm will want to meet someone before they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. 

So, your job is to get to the actual in-person [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and and I’ll give you a couple of suggestions for how to do that in a minute

The employer’s perspective is: number one, they’re trying to confirm that what piqued their interest about your background is actually true, that you have relevant experience. So, they may have some questions in their mind as to whether your experience is relevant. There may be something that’s causing them concern, or they’re looking for confirmation, which means they see your background is a great fit, and they’re trying to confirm that by speaking with you.

Now, really what they can confirm is a couple of pieces of objective information that comes through subjective questioning. Now, that sounds contradictory, but, you know, the questions that they use to evaluate involve some degree of subjectivity. And, you know, again, I’m going to get to how you can do your part of this most effectively in a moment.

So, the other thing that they can really evaluate is your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) level. Do you have passion? Do you have zeal? Do you have excitement for what you do? How does that come across in your voice? Do you speak in a slow, methodical, monotone manner that puts people to sleep, or do you demonstrate a degree of enthusiasm and excitement?

Now, your side of this: how do you demonstrate that you have some passion for what you do? How do you demonstrate that they don’t have to worry about you, that you do fit the role?

Now, even—there’s two parts to this, and I addressed one yesterday. If the call is coming out of the blue, then what I want to encourage you to do is to say something along the lines of, you know, and again from a corporation, not from a third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), if the call’s coming from a corporation, I want to encourage you to say, “I’d love to speak with you. Can we schedule a time a little bit later? I’m about to go into a meeting,” “I have an appointment,” “I have—I want to give you full attention, so could we speak at about—” and you [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) up a time.

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Then you’ll go back and forth and schedule it. Understand that part of what you’ve now gotten from their phone call is who it is. You can reference your notes about the job that you might have submitted your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to. Or you can—before you jump off, say, “Could you tell me about the position that you’re trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for?” and make them talk, and say, “Thanks. I look forward to speaking with you at, let’s say, 2:00,” whatever it is.

Then there’s the call that’s actually scheduled. And you now have a call set for 2:00, for example, and they call, and you start off the conversation with—and remember, scheduling can come from a third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) as well as from yourself. So, you start off the conversation by saying, “You know, I spoke with [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) about the position, and he gave me a brief summary, but I wanted to get your take on it. Could you tell me about the job as you see it, and what I can do to help you?” 

And that way, they’re going to start off by talking about the position that they’re trying to fill, and you’ll get enough information so that when they start with, “Tell me about yourself,” and all the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions that come from your answer there, you can tailor your answers to what matters to them.

So again, the purpose of the phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) from their standpoint is to screen you in or screen you out. They don’t want to waste time with someone who isn’t a fit. They want to confirm that you have the right background or get answers to a couple of basic questions that gave them hesitancy, but they’re willing to give it the benefit of the doubt with a phone call.

So this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this video helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the Like button, do something that lets people know this is a worthwhile video.

Now, I also want to encourage you: come over to—subscribe to my channel on YouTube, which is [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV. All one word: TheBigGameHunterTV. You’ll get notices whenever I do a new video for YouTube.

In addition, come over to JeffAltman.com. I’ve got a lot of great content there, including my videos, podcasts from my two radio shows, which are called [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio and No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio. I broadcast each weekly with advice for job hunters good anywhere in the world.

So this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Sh*t Recruiters Say: You Have an Impressive Background](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sht-recruiters-say-you-have-an-impressive-background/)

**Published:** August 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is another load of crap, the recruiters say and people believe.

**Content:**

# Sh\*t Recruiters Say: You Have an Impressive Background 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

This is another load of crap, the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sht-recruiters-say-youll-wear-many-hats-in-this-role-shorts/) say and people believe.

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### [Staying Current #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-staying-current-2/)

**Published:** August 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about keeping your skills up-to-date.

**Content:**

# Staying Current #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A short video about keeping your skills up-to-date.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes.

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### [If A Search Firm Asks You To Recommend Someone Does That Mean They Want You?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/)

**Published:** August 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If an Executive Search firm emails you requesting that you recommend someone for a position, does that mean they are interested in hiring you for the position?

**Content:**

# If A Search Firm Asks You To Recommend Someone, Does That Mean They Want You? 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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If an [Executive Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm emails you requesting that you recommend someone for a position, does that mean they are interested in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for the position?

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### [Our Love-Hate Relationship With Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/)

**Published:** August 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I conducted an experiment on Facebook about asking for help. What goes on for you?

**Content:**

Our Love-Hate Relationship With Asking for Help

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

I conducted an experiment on Facebook about asking for help. What goes on for you?

I conducted an interesting (it was at least interesting to me into a number of other people) experiment on Facebook over a few day period. It started off with a question, “What is so hard about saying,’ I need help to someone who can help you?’ I think that’s a pretty simple question, but here are some of the responses:

“The ego.”

“Pride.”

“I’m not sure what the circumstances were that you are referring to but maybe, just maybe, the person was maligned and abused the last time they asked for help.”

“I feel like the more help I need the harder it is to ask.”

“Even harder for men. My wife is trying to get me to ask for directions when we are lost.”

“Maybe those who need us the most want us to just help them.

“Stupidity, plain and simple.” Stupidity was my answer

“it exposes the answer I tell myself, true or not, that there is something wrong with me.”

I want to go into question number 2 because, obviously, because there is the perception that something is faulty with the person who asks for help that seems to be ingrained in our culture. That’s generally what is happening.

People didn’t ask for help because of pride, ego, they felt stupid and other reasons that keep them from getting the help that they need.

How do you feel when you ask for help? This is interesting! Among the answers were:

“Fearful, may be desperate.”

“Oh, G-d! When I was younger I knew everything I didn’t think I needed any help. WRONG! Now that I’m an elder. I know that there are those who are wiser than me and can ask for their help.”

“Weak. I should know it all and be able to do it all.”

DING DING! DING! DING DING! I think that’s the real thing.

“Humble and helpful.” There were few of these in there that I thought were interesting.

“What a great question! At the depth I feel vulnerable and incompetent. I think we have this conflict that goes on within us.”

I think this summarizes it very well. A woman named Judy said, “it’s like I’m not worthy and time inconveniencing someone.”

It’s as though we screwed up or are defective in some way. We might be rebuked. There are some people who might feel hopeful and that’s wonderful but the vast majority don’t have that sort of reaction. The result is that many of us live a particular way, frustrated, disappointed.

How do you win? We don’t know everything. We don’t know what to do all the time. We do make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and screw up. As a result, we don’t do things to make it easy for ourselves.

Easy is an interesting word in this context because, obviously, if you’re asking for help (judging by the reactions I 1st spoke about – – fearful, scared, defective, stupid), it is not so easy. Shouldn’t it just be easy to look at someone and say, “I ask you something for a second?” If they say,, “no, it’s not a good time right now,” you can always ask what it might be a good time. That’s what usually happens, right? Emotionally, we get caught up in this turmoil.

I love you to take a little bit of time to reflect on this for yourself and just think about what the impact is not asking for help and how that has worked for you and not work for you. Worked for you in the way of feeling more capable than you really are. I admit it. I am incompetent at a lot of things, far more than I’d like to admit. But I know I am incompetent at a lot of stuff.

I would love you to consider that once you admit it is far easier for yourself, it is far easier to receive that help an act without it.

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### [Laid Off and They Want You to Sign Something? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-and-they-want-you-to-sign-something-shorts/)

**Published:** August 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It will be soooo tempting to sign that piece of paper they slide in front of you.

**Content:**

# Laid Off and They Want You to Sign Something? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Overcoming Age Bias in Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/overcoming-age-bias-in-job-search/)

**Published:** August 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How to address manager anxiety directly, speak modern operational language, and target the mid-market and private equity firms that actively need your expertise

**Content:**

# Overcoming Age Bias in Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are an experienced professional over 45, hiding your graduation dates or shaving decades off your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a weak, defensive strategy that signals insecurity. To win in today’s job market, you must stop selling years of experience and start positioning yourself as a risk-mitigation tool that saves companies from costly operational [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Learn how to address manager [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) directly, speak modern operational language, and target the mid-market and private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firms that actively need your expertise.

If you are an experienced professional over 45, you already know [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) heavily favors younger, cheaper talent. You submit your carefully crafted [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and watch it vanish into a black hole. Even when you get traction, the process feels hollow. You receive polite smiles in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and nod and smile courtesy calls, only to eventually receive a [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/), stating you are overqualified.

Overqualified is corporate code for two things: they think you cost too much, and they are terrified you won’t take direction from a manager 15 years younger than you. Standard [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tells you to hide. It suggests stripping graduation dates, shaving off [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience, or pretending you just discovered what [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) is yesterday. This is a weak defensive strategy. When you try to hide your history, you signal insecurity. You accept the premise that your depth of knowledge is a liability rather than an asset.

To overcome age bias, you have to stop playing defense. You need to reframe the conversation by proactively addressing the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s unstated fears. Younger candidates sell potential and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). They [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) the promise that they might figure the job out in six to nine months. Your edge is that you’ve already seen the movie. You know how it ends and you know where the landmines are buried.

This is why pitching 25 years of experience as a badge of honor often backfires. It doesn’t make you sound valuable. It makes you sound expensive and close to retirement. Instead, sell de-risking. Here, a corporate transition hits scaling failures at month six, bleeding 15% of the budget. Don’t ask them to pay for your past. Show the exact structural failure points you decouple in month one, flattening the curve and protecting their future capital. This framework shifts the negotiation. You are no longer a historical asset on a timeline. You are a tool for preventing expensive operational [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Then there is the matter of manager insecurity. Younger [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers often worry that a senior [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) will challenge their authority or compete for their job. You neutralize this [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) by framing your role as a support system. You have to explicitly show that you are there to execute, not to engage in office politics. During the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), state clearly that your only focus is execution. Explain that you enjoy being the subject matter operator who takes tactical work off your manager’s plate, so they can focus on macro strategy. This addresses the political fear, but you still have to deal with the obsolescence myth—the assumption that senior talent is stuck in outdated management playbooks.

You defeat this through your delivery. Long multi-page emails signal a slow-moving communication style. Clinical brevity in your writing signals a modern, high-velocity operator. You must also use modern operational shorthand. Reference your use of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools and workflow automation natively, discussing unit economics, margin compression, and sprint velocity. When your language and analytical tools align with the current market, it becomes much harder for an employer to justify labeling you as outdated.

Even with the right pitch, you have to target the right market. Early stage startups often only value cheap, high-volume hustle, making them a poor fit for senior expertise. Instead, look at mid-market companies experiencing rapid growth. As their processes break, they reach a point where they desperately need adult supervision to stabilize operations and manage risk. Private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies are another primary target. They care about immediate EBITDA and cash flow. They don’t have time for a junior manager to learn on the job. They want proven operators who can hit milestones immediately.

Shifting your leverage to strategic value changes your standing in the market. You stop begging for a chance and enter the room as a diagnostic [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) who understands the employer’s risks better than they do.

Jeff Altman’s book, The [Over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/) Professional’s Guide to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), offers a deeper look at mastering this posture. It is available on Amazon or through his website. There’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Become an insider and get [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), as well as video courses, books, and guides to help you. Or you can purchase individual products and services à la carte. We want to help. If you like the video, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, follow the channel. It will help other people if you do.

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### [The Easiest Way to Apply Isn't Usually the Best Way](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-easiest-way-to-apply-isnt-usually-the-best-way-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)

**Published:** August 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discourages you from applying to jobs using convenient buttons on job listings.

**Content:**

# The Easiest Way to Apply Isn’t Usually the Best Way

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discourages you from [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) using convenient buttons on job listings.

[***Ask Yourself These Questions Before Applying***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jGS)

Today, I’m going to talk with you about a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) the job hunters are making our convenience. Often, at the end of the job description, there are a group of ![recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-why-do-recruiters-ask-if-i-am-applying-at-other-companies-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail.jpg)buttons that allow you to apply with [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), apply with Indeed, or apply with [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). These are not ideal ways of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

They are easy and convenient ways but they are not ideal. Let me give you an example.

You see a job description and say to yourself, “this is easy. All I have to do is click the apply with [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) gotten.” Here the problems:

1. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) usually doesn’t give you a great [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Most of you write your profiles as a synopsis of your experience. So it’s kind of thin.
2. For all of these, whether you use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), indeed, or monster, you haven’t tailored the submittal to what the client is looking for. You are sending a generic response.

Before you actually apply using one of these buttons, think to yourself, “What am I sending? How does it demonstrate that I actually fit the job that’s involved?”

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### [Don’t Just Follow a Firm on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-just-follow-a-firm-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** August 11, 1026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There's a hidden way to express your interested in working for a firm.

**Content:**

# Don’t Just Follow a Firm on LinkedIn. Tell Them You’re Interested in Working for Them

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Changing Careers? Gave Yourself a Hard No? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-careers-gave-yourself-a-hard-no-shorts/)

**Published:** August 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Oh, the tricks we sometimes play on ourselves. When you're changing careers, sometimes the hard no is one of those tricks.

**Content:**

# Changing Careers? Gave Yourself a Hard No? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Oh, the tricks we sometimes play on ourselves. When you’re changing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), sometimes the hard no is one of those tricks.

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### [Senior. Intermediate. Junior. What’s the Difference? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/senior-intermediate-junior-whats-the-difference-shorts/)

**Published:** August 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People get fixated on levels.

**Content:**

# Senior. Intermediate. Junior. What’s the Difference? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

People get fixated on levels. Don’t.

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### [As a Recruiter, What Are the Most Important Things You Look for? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/as-a-recruiter-what-are-the-most-important-things-you-look-for-shorts/)

**Published:** August 10, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** As a recruiter, what are the most important things you look for in a resume and/or LinkedIn profile?

**Content:**

# As a Recruiter, What Are the Most Important Things You Look for? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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**As a recruiter, what are the most important things you look for in a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and/or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile?**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [15 Minute Moves to Shift Your Career Pipeline](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-moves-to-shift-your-career-pipeline/)

**Published:** August 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to accelerate your pipeline without burning out, integrate these 15-minute moves into your daily routine.

**Content:**

# 15 Minute Moves to Shift Your Career Pipeline

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When professionals hit a wall in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), the default response is brute force. They dedicate four-hour blocks on Sunday afternoons to rewriting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for dozens of job board ads, or blasting out generic connection requests.

This macro-effort usually yields micro-results.

The issue isn’t a lack of effort; it’s operational drag. Heavy, multi-hour [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) sessions lead to mental fatigue and low-quality output. High-yield [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions. These precise actions, taking 15 minutes or less, bypass traditional corporate filters and force immediate market [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

If you want to accelerate your pipeline without burning out, integrate these [15-minute moves](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-moves-to-shift-your-career-pipeline-2/) into your daily routine.

### 1. Execute a Requisition ID Referral Bypass (15 Minutes)

[Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) directly through an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) drops your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a Tier 3 public pool where software parses your credentials into plain text tokens.

To override this automated filter, you need an internal tracking tag. Find the exact requisition ID for a role you want, then spend 15 minutes finding a second-degree connection at that company. Send them a low-friction note designed around corporate [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) incentives:

> “I’m preparing to submit my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for the \[Job Title\] role under Requisition #\[Number\]. I know how internal routing works, and I want to make sure my background hits the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team or manager cleanly. If your company runs an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) program, would you be open to dropping my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into the system directly? I’ve aligned my experience explicitly with the job description so it reflects well on whoever routes it.”

In less than 15 minutes, you give an internal peer a zero-effort opportunity to claim a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bonus while moving your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) straight to a recruiter’s manual review dashboard.

### 2. Run a 1-Page “Boardroom Diagnostic” Prompt (10 Minutes)

When reaching out to department heads or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) leads, cold social begging (asking for “15 minutes to pick your brain) often gets ignored. You need to establish parity by offering immediate value.

Spend 10 minutes feeding unstructured data from your target company (a transcript from their latest earnings call, a recent press release, or a competitor’s expansion announcement) into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model. Use a simple diagnostic prompt:

> “Analyze this transcript to identify two operational or infrastructure risks this team will face over the next two quarters. Cross-reference these with my background in \[Specialization\] and generate a two-sentence, peer-level observation regarding the friction they will encounter.”

Copy the resulting insight, clean up the phrasing to match your natural voice, and send it as a direct note. You aren’t asking for a job; you are diagnosing an active liability and positioning yourself as a peer.

### 3. Deploy the “Forwardable Asset” Bridge (15 Minutes)

When asking a mutual contact for an introduction to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, most people make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of asking their contact to write a custom email. This creates cognitive friction, and your request gets delayed (indefinitely or permanently).

Eliminate the friction by spending 15 minutes drafting a ready-to-forward package:

1. Write a short note to your connection asking if they’d be open to making an intro.
2. Below that, write the exact text they can copy and paste to the decision-maker, detailing a concise, 1-page breakdown or project framework you built that solves a relevant problem.

3\. Your contact doesn’t have to think or write; they simply hit “Forward.”

### 4. Audit Your Profile’s First 80 Characters (5 Minutes)

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) scanning [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) search results only see your name, photo, and your headline before deciding whether to click.

Spend 5 minutes removing generic titles like “Experienced Marketing Leader Seeking New Opportunities.” Replace them with a crisp, value-driven execution statement:

> “Scaling B2B SaaS revenue pipelines | Specializing in post-merger integration & unit economics”
> 
> This shifts your profile from a passive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) placeholder to an active solution headline.

### The Bottom Line

A successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot is not built on marathon sessions of blind [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions. It is built on small, clinical actions executed with consistency.

Stop spending hours feeding [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) databases. Pick one 15-minute action each morning, execute it with precision, and let the compound effect of high-leverage outreach shift the market leverage back to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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You will find great info and [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)

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### [No BS Career Advice: August 9 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-august-9-2026/)

**Published:** August 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: August 9 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Your goal](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Your-goal-scaled.png)

My wife is back tonight from a seven-week trip to Northern England. We have been married for a long time and I miss her a lot. I look forward to seeing her. I’m not just saying this because my brother-in-law reads these newsletters every week, but I really do miss her.

[**Resumes That Work: The No BS Playbook for Laptop Professionals to Leverage AI, Refine Their Story, and Get Interviewed**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC6B97QC) will help you score higher on [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) and so people actually read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It points out a lot of the flaws that people make that prove so damaging. These self-inflicted wounds may be why you aren’t getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

For the balance of this week, it is available for $4.99 for a limited time. Then the price will increase to $12.99. There’s no reason to keep [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and wasting your effort if your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is going to be rejected. This will help you fix that problem.

## 15 Minute Moves to Shift Your Career Pipeline

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When professionals hit a wall in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), the default response is brute force. They dedicate four-hour blocks on Sunday afternoons to rewriting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), tailoring [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) for dozens of job board ads, or blasting out generic connection requests.

This macro-effort usually yields micro-results.

The issue isn’t a lack of effort; it’s operational drag. Heavy, multi-hour [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) sessions lead to mental fatigue and low-quality output. High-yield [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions are rarely driven by massive, exhausting overhauls. They are built on targeted, high-leverage micro-actions. These precise actions, taking 15 minutes or less, bypass traditional corporate filters and force immediate market [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

If you want to accelerate your pipeline without burning out, integrate these [15-minute moves](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-minute-moves-to-shift-your-career-pipeline-2/) into your daily routine.

### 1. Execute a Requisition ID Referral Bypass (15 Minutes)

[Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) directly through an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) drops your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a Tier 3 public pool where software parses your credentials into plain text tokens.

To override this automated filter, you need an internal tracking tag. Find the exact requisition ID for a role you want, then spend 15 minutes finding a second-degree connection at that company. Send them a low-friction note designed around corporate [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) incentives:

> “I’m preparing to submit my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for the \[Job Title\] role under Requisition #\[Number\]. I know how internal routing works, and I want to make sure my background hits the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team or manager cleanly. If your company runs an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) program, would you be open to dropping my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into the system directly? I’ve aligned my experience explicitly with the job description so it reflects well on whoever routes it.”

In less than 15 minutes, you give an internal peer a zero-effort opportunity to claim a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bonus while moving your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) straight to a recruiter’s manual review dashboard.

### 2. Run a 1-Page “Boardroom Diagnostic” Prompt (10 Minutes)

When reaching out to department heads or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) leads, cold social begging (asking for “15 minutes to pick your brain) often gets ignored. You need to establish parity by offering immediate value.

Spend 10 minutes feeding unstructured data from your target company (a transcript from their latest earnings call, a recent press release, or a competitor’s expansion announcement) into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model. Use a simple diagnostic prompt:

> “Analyze this transcript to identify two operational or infrastructure risks this team will face over the next two quarters. Cross-reference these with my background in \[Specialization\] and generate a two-sentence, peer-level observation regarding the friction they will encounter.”

Copy the resulting insight, clean up the phrasing to match your natural voice, and send it as a direct note. You aren’t asking for a job; you are diagnosing an active liability and positioning yourself as a peer.

### 3. Deploy the “Forwardable Asset” Bridge (15 Minutes)

When asking a mutual contact for an introduction to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, most people make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of asking their contact to write a custom email. This creates cognitive friction, and your request gets delayed (indefinitely or permanently).

Eliminate the friction by spending 15 minutes drafting a ready-to-forward package:

1. Write a short note to your connection asking if they’d be open to making an intro.
2. Below that, write the exact text they can copy and paste to the decision-maker, detailing a concise, 1-page breakdown or project framework you built that solves a relevant problem.

3\. Your contact doesn’t have to think or write; they simply hit “Forward.”

### 4. Audit Your Profile’s First 80 Characters (5 Minutes)

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) scanning [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) search results only see your name, photo, and your headline before deciding whether to click.

Spend 5 minutes removing generic titles like “Experienced Marketing Leader Seeking New Opportunities.” Replace them with a crisp, value-driven execution statement:

> “Scaling B2B SaaS revenue pipelines | Specializing in post-merger integration & unit economics”

This shifts your profile from a passive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) placeholder to an active solution headline.

### The Bottom Line

A successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot is not built on marathon sessions of blind [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions. It is built on small, clinical actions executed with consistency.

Stop spending hours feeding [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) databases. Pick one 15-minute action each morning, execute it with precision, and let the compound effect of high-leverage outreach shift the market leverage back to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week I released a few blog posts:

**10 [Camera Blunders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-camera-blunders-sabotaging-your-virtual-interview/) Sabotaging Your Video [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** Excerpt: [Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) have undergone a transformation, with virtual platforms becoming the new norm. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down 10 common, easy-to-correct visual and presentation [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make during on-camera [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): August 2, 2027** Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) covering [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) strategies that leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), high-conversion [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) outreach tactics, and avoiding damaging self-inflicted wounds in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Link: 

**The About Section of Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile #shorts** Excerpt: There is a huge opportunity in the About section of your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile that most job hunters underestimate and overlook. Link: 

**9 Questions to Prepare To Answer in a C Suite [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** Excerpt: Executive [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) demand a completely different level of strategic preparation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the top 9 questions C-level candidates must master to demonstrate vision, leadership, and operational authority. Link: 

**Making [Eye Contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) on Camera** Excerpt: Looking at your screen instead of the lens breaks human connection during virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares quick, effective techniques to maintain natural [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) on camera and build instant rapport. Link: 

**Crafting a Winning Personal [Marketing Plan](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crafting-a-winning-personal-marketing-plan-for-your-job-search/) for Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** Excerpt: A well-constructed personal [marketing plan](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crafting-a-winning-personal-marketing-plan-for-your-job-search/) is crucial for prioritizing activities to help you achieve your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) goals. Link: 

**The Top 10 Sources Who Can Help You With Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** Excerpt: Often the most critical question you can ask yourself is, “Who can help me with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)?” Link: 

**Are You Making These Common Video [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)?** Excerpt: If you want to command respect and secure the next round, you have to audit your setup and eliminate these common video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Link: 

**[Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Putting an Objective on Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) #shorts** Excerpt: Why would you put an objective on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Link: 

**AI-Powered [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) Meets Low-Friction Outreach** Excerpt: You do not build real connections by begging for time, nor by sending automated spam. You build leverage through Outreach Parity: using artificial intelligence to run deep [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on a company’s real pain points, and then delivering a concise, human, low-friction observation that positions you as a valuable peer. Link: 

**Taking a [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Sabbatical? \#shorts** Excerpt: Taking a break or sabbatical in your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) can [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) questions for potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to frame a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) sabbatical on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) without hurting your candidacy. Link: 

**[How to Prove Your Value](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-prove-your-value-when-ai-can-do-your-job/) When [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Can Do Your Job** Excerpt: Watch to this episode to learn how to aggressively market your human judgment and win your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Link: 

**Should I [Follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/)? #shorts** Excerpt: I’ve found this to be true many times . . .and there’s no harm if you do it differently. Link: 

**Why You Put [Contact Info](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) on Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** Excerpt: In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the importance of putting [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Link: 

**What [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Know That You Don’t: The Market for Your Experience** Excerpt: Your manager may be gaslighting you when they tell you about the great experience you’ll be learning. Link: 

**Don’t Make The [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I Made** Excerpt: Everyone makes [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). I make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and you make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). This is one [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I made that I hope you don’t. Link: 

**Three [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Rules** Excerpt: Three [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Rules By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses three rules for [writing cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) you must employ. Link: 

**Your [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Doesn’t Have to End #shorts** Excerpt: You are in charge of your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Link: 

**Is It Okay to Reach Out to an Employer After Being Rejected?** Excerpt: Getting rejected isn’t always the end of the road. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to professionally [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) after a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) to stay on the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s radar for future opportunities or backfill roles. Link: 

**How to Stand Out in a Saturated Job Market #shorts** Excerpt: When hundreds of applicants apply for the same role, standard [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) fall flat. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a high-impact strategy to differentiate yourself immediately. Link: 

**How to Overcome Lack of Experience in an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** Excerpt: Don’t let a lack of direct experience disqualify you. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to pivot the conversation toward problem-solving capability, adaptability, and fast learning velocity. Link: 

**Why [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Ghost Candidates After Great [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** Excerpt: You thought the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) went amazingly, but then heard complete radio silence. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) reveals the internal corporate reasons behind ghosting and how to handle it strategically. Link: 

**Mastering the Post-Interview [Follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) Strategy** Excerpt: A simple “thank you” email isn’t enough anymore. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details a high-signal [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) framework that reinforces your value and addresses unstated concerns before final decisions are made. Link: 

**How to Dodge the Early [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Question Traps Excerpt:** This episode delivers exact scripts to deflect [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) demands, legally dodge past-pay questions, and force [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to reveal their budget first. **Link:** 

**YouTube and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) #shorts #jobsearchtv Excerpt:** There are a lot of parallels between the development of YouTube and where I think [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is going to go as well. Link: 

**Ending the [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Right! Excerpt:** [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the way to end a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and leave a great impression. Link: 

**Sh\*t [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Say #shorts Excerpt:** Here’s an example of one of the stupid things [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) say that drives people crazy… and rightly so. Link: 

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### [Career Immortality](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)

**Published:** August 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** We treat our careers and our work as though it will live on in perpetuity and help us stay immortal.

**Content:**

# Career Immortality

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I have a video that proclaims, “Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is Not a Tatoo.” It is not a permanent document . . . but we treat our [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and our work as though it will live on in perpetuity and help us stay immortal.

Even with [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) groups where I helped found a chapter, my name has no meaning. I suspect the same is true for you, too.

So, why do we act as though every decision we make is life and death? Why do we think in terms of “our legacy” when we talk about our work?

We care.

It matters to us that we do good work . . . and that is a great quality to have.

But both you and your work will be forgotten. Your legacy is that you cared and that it mattered. It is not some all pervasive memory of you as though people will read scripture about you.

You cared.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2019

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### [Should I Use a Video Cover Letter to Stand Out?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-use-a-video-cover-letter-to-stand-out/)

**Published:** August 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Video cover letters are a growing trend. Should you use one as part of your job hunting?

**Content:**

# Should I Use a Video Cover Letter to Stand Out?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Video [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) are a growing trend. Should you use one as part of your [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/)?

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach of [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). And the question is, “Should I use a video [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) in order to stand out?”

Well, like many pieces of advice, the answer is yes, or maybe no. I don’t know enough to really judge. Here’s the reluctance I have. Most of you are not great actors and actresses. You think you are. You think you put on a good performance, but most of you stink.

Years ago, many years ago, when video was a relatively new phenomenon, I remember getting a VHS tape from a job hunter who basically read his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in front of a backdrop, and it was the most boring treatise imaginable.

Most of you don’t talk to the camera well. You can read the speech, but do you think that’s going to be exciting to someone? Like if you sat in the audience in a theater, and someone said—I’m just going to pick something up at random—and read to you, “So…” See, I’ve got something I’m reading. “So…” And they read to you exactly what was on the piece of paper, and every once in a while looked up, like someone reading from a teleprompter, does that seem real exciting? No. Is there any personality that’s coming out from this? Probably not.

See, it really depends upon who you are and how well you communicate. There are many, many people who are sensational communicators. They’ve got a lot of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and passion. They’ll deliver a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) that speaks to the listener and says, “You know, this is how you describe the job. Let me tell you what I’ve done that’s relevant.” And they’ll actually speak to that extemporaneously and sound phenomenal.

And then there’s most of you, who will write a speech, you’ll tape it up on your monitor, or, you know, you’re going to be holding your phone there in front of you, and you’re going to be looking like this, and then you’re going to look down at what you wrote, and then you’re going to look up again, and you’re going to be awful.

So, you know, the right answer is the one that’s right for you. I don’t want to give a general rule. But the reality is most people, most people are absolutely atrocious in front of the camera because you’re not well practiced enough. I’ve done more than 2,000 YouTube videos. You know, I host podcasts. I’m relatively glib at this point. I spent most of my career as a headhunter. I’m talking to people off-script for a long time. Most of you don’t need to do that, and haven’t translate—and if you have that experience, you haven’t learned how to translate that to an audience. And the result winds up being you are far better in writing than you are in person.

Now, that’s the general statement. Now let me go into one extra layer. Unfortunately in this world, there’s also a lot of discrimination. And by seeing someone, you open yourself up to number one, discrimination, number two, mockery. So for example, you can mock me for wearing this coach hat, and that’s fine. But if you’re looking for a job and someone’s sitting there going, “Hey, what the hell’s with that coach hat he’s wearing?” or “What’s with that shirt he’s got on?” or “Gee, she comes across like an idiot,” well, they’re not evaluating you for who you are; they’re distracted by something. So, that’s the other reluctance. Unless you have that great delivery that’s completely captivating, you expose yourself to [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) on the basis of of bias and distraction that’s completely unnecessary.

So as always, you know, it can work, it can’t work. You really have to know yourself. Hope you found this helpful, and have a great day!

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### [From Manual Grind to AI-Automated Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/from-manual-grind-to-ai-automated-job-search/)

**Published:** August 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# **From Manual Grind to AI-Automated Job Search**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is notoriously grueling, often demanding hours of manual effort for minimal returns. But what if you could compress a three-hour daily [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) into a highly targeted, 10-minute automated routine? One resourceful job seeker did exactly that by using generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to systematically optimize and automate their search, moving from a **stressful “spray and pray” approach** to a streamlined process that ultimately secured an exciting new role. Here is a breakdown of how they engineered this transition, offering a blueprint to make your own search more efficient.

**The Starting Point: “Spray and Pray”** When faced with organizational uncertainty, this professional launched a traditional, manual [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). They spent about three hours a day scouring [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and submitting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). In one early two-week stretch, they applied to 18 [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), receiving seven automated rejections and zero callbacks. Historically, their manual approach was similarly bleak: a prior batch of 73 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) yielded just one callback and one [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). It was clear that **brute force was not a winning strategy**.

**Phase 1: [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Optimization and [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Compliance** To pivot, the job seeker first ensured their baseline materials were flawless. They updated their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) so every bullet point highlighted achievements with measurable results, creating separate versions for individual contributor and leadership roles.

Crucially, they used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to make their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) **compliant with automated tracking systems ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/))**. The technology successfully identified hidden Unicode characters that were highly readable to humans but disrupted automated parsers. Relying on a strict rule preventing the system from fabricating information, they uploaded a comprehensive master [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) containing their entire [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) history to generate optimized templates based strictly on actual experience.

**Phase 2: Partial Automation and Filters** Next, they **defined strict criteria** for their search: a lowest acceptable [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), preferred [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range, travel percentage limits, maximum commute distance, and a requirement that roles be posted within the last 24 hours.

Initially, they ran a semi-automated process, pasting job descriptions into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool to rate the fit on a 1-to-10 scale. They only applied if the job scored a 6 or higher. While this three-week phase saw slight improvements—55 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), one [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and one offer—it still demanded significant manual effort.

**Phase 3: Full Scheduled Automation** The real breakthrough came with **full scheduled automation**. They deployed a script that ran daily at 9:00 AM, automatically scouring job boards and target companies within their travel radius.

For any job that met the criteria and scored a 6 or higher, the system built a customized [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). Their only manual daily task was opening the provided links to verify the posting was active and had under 100 applicants on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). This reduced their daily time investment to a mere 10 minutes.

**The Hard Numbers and Key Takeaways** The results of the six-week automated phase were striking: 47 targeted [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) yielded seven callbacks and one [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Over their entire 11-week search, they applied to 125 [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), received eight callbacks, and secured two job offers, ultimately accepting a position they were truly excited about.

This strategy highlights a vital lesson: automation’s power lies in **filtering harder and tailoring better**, not just [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to more [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). However, human judgment remains the ultimate differentiator. AI-assisted tailoring only works if the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) tells a clear, strategically positioned story. Automation handles the heavy lifting, but human oversight and relationships are still what get your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in front of the right person.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How to Build an AI Pipeline That 7x's Your Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-an-ai-pipeline-that-7xs-your-job-interviews/)

**Published:** August 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Build an AI Pipeline That 7x’s Your Job Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Mass-applying to hundreds of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) is a complete waste of your time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). Learn how one job seeker stopped manual copy-pasting, built an autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) pipeline, cut his daily job hunt to 10 minutes, and secured 7x more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

In April, David Wayland suspected impending layoffs at his company. Facing an uncertain future, he dedicated three hours every single day to the job hunt, turning his evenings into a highly stressful second shift.

Like most job seekers, he relied on a volume-based strategy. He took his standard printed [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and mass submitted it to open positions, hoping sheer numbers would eventually generate a response.

This animated diagram tracks the results of that initial effort. Out of 73 manual [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions, the massive output narrowed down to exactly one initial callback.

To improve those odds, David introduced [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) into his workflow. He manually copied job descriptions into a chat window, attached his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and asked the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to rate his fit for the role. Over two weeks, this hybrid approach produced 18 targeted [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). Those [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) resulted in seven automated rejections and zero [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Treating an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) like an advanced spell checker leaves the biggest bottleneck intact. The human user still has to manually read, copy, paste, and evaluate every single posting, making the pipeline painfully slow.

To build a systemic approach, David first structured his inputs. He created two highly optimized base [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/): one specifically for individual contributor roles, and another tailored for leadership positions.

Next, he programmed strict rules for the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). This animated funnel visualizes the four parameters: minimum [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), specific travel radius, posted within 24 hours, and under 100 applicants.

Finally, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) scored surviving [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) 1 to 10, allowing only a 6 or higher to pass.

Running this structured filtering process for three weeks yielded 55 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and one callback.

The filter worked, but David was caught in a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) identified the right [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), yet David still had to manually tailor every [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), write every [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), and submit the paperwork himself. The system was unscalable.

To solve the execution problem, David removed himself from the driver’s seat. He took his criteria and wired it into a scheduled script using Claude.

Every morning at exactly 9:00 AM, the script woke up. Without any human prompting, it autonomously scraped job boards, evaluated local companies, and scored the available listings against his strict parameters.

For every single job that cleared the threshold, the system independently generated a custom tailored [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and a specific [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), perfectly aligned with the open role.

This diagram shows how the script solved a critical, unseen problem: [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/). It actively scanned David’s documents, identifying and wiping out hidden Unicode characters that humans can’t see but cause automated parsing software to instantly reject a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

With the heavy lifting automated, David’s daily job hunt shrank to a 10-minute administrative check. He simply clicked the links the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) provided, verified the job was still active, and submitted the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

By fully automating the pipeline, David transitioned from performing manual data entry to acting as an executive supervisor, overseeing a system that worked for him.

After running this autonomous pipeline for six weeks, the script had identified and applied to 47 highly targeted [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

This comparative bar chart illustrates the final return on investment. Compared to the single callback from his original 73 manual submissions, the automated pipeline secured seven initial [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and resulted in one accepted job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). The daily time commitment dropped from three hours of high-stress labor down to 10 minutes of calm review.

The data reveals a surprising reality about this approach. The fully automated system actually submitted fewer total [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) than David’s original manual method.

When applied to [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) acts as a hyper-filter that scales precision. By aggressively narrowing the field, it proves that [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to a smaller pool of high-quality, targeted [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) yields a far higher [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) rate.

If you want to optimize your own search, hit like, share this video, and subscribe to help others. For more tools and [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) to accelerate [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), visit jobsearch.community and explore Jeff Altman’s [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) resources.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3100 episodes.

*[**Verbal Job Offers**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oPT)*

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

*[**Make Your AI Edited Resume Standout**](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nlZZGknBrmYNub265Njo1)*

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with more than 3100 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

You can also have your #jobsearchquestions answered Tuesdays at noon Eastern. Search for [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach Office Hours on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and mark that you’re attending. You’ll have access to the recording if you miss it live.

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### [Why Are You Interested in This Job? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-you-interested-in-this-job-shorts/)

**Published:** August 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a classic question firms ask.

**Content:**

# Why Are You Interested in This Job? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Why Taking a "Lower" Job May Be a Smart Move](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-taking-a-lower-job-may-be-a-smart-move/)

**Published:** August 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you take a step sideways or down, people assume something went wrong. That mindset is BS. 

**Content:**

# Why Taking a “Lower” Job May Be a Smart Move

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

We live in a culture obsessed with linear [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) progression. Every step must be up. Every title must sound grander than the last. Every leap must come with a pay bump and a higher rank on the corporate ladder. If you take a step sideways or down, people assume something went wrong—that , you were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), burnt out, couldn’t hack it at the higher level . . . or worse.

That mindset is BS

Taking a job you are overqualified for isn’t a failure. Done intentionally, it is a sharp, strategic maneuver that can give you leverage, peace of mind, and long-term momentum.

Here is why you should stop worrying about title vanity and consider taking a role where you are the most experienced person in the room.

## 1. Instant Competence Builds Instant Authority

When you enter a role where you already possess 100% of the required skills, your learning curve vanishes. While others spend six months figuring out basic execution, you hit the ground running on day one.

This creates an immediate shift in workplace dynamics. You aren’t struggling to stay afloat; you are operating with effortless efficiency. Managers quickly realize you don’t need hand-holding. Colleagues look to you for guidance. Because the baseline tasks are trivial to you, your surplus mental bandwidth can be directed toward high-value problem solving, process optimization, and leadership. You become indispensable almost immediately.

## 2. You Trade Performance Stress for Mental Bandwidth

High-level positions demand constant vigilance. They consume your evenings, your weekends, and your mental [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). When you operate at the ceiling of your ability, every week feels like an endurance test.

Stepping into a role below your upper limit changes the equation entirely. When the work itself is manageable, your baseline [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) drops. You gain back your time and cognitive [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). You can use that extra capacity to pursue side ventures, focus on your family, acquire new skill sets on your own terms, or simply enjoy life without the dark cloud of executive [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) hanging over your head. Work becomes something you do efficiently, not something that consumes your identity.

## 3. It Is the Fastest Way to Pivot Industries

If you want to change industries, functions, or sectors, insisting on keeping your more senior title is often a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Companies are reluctant to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) an outsider at a senior level when they lack domain-specific experience.

By accepting a role you are technically overqualified for on paper, you lower the risk for the employer while securing your entry ticket into a new field. Once you are inside the organization, your superior overall baseline experience will shine through. You will [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) faster than peers with less general experience, positioning yourself for rapid promotion within an industry you actually want to be in.

## 4. You Gain Total Control Over Quality and Pacing

When you know how to do a job with your eyes closed, you dictate the standard of execution. You don’t make rookie [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). You don’t waste time on inefficient routines. You know which corners can be cut safely and which details require absolute perfection.

This mastery gives you control over your schedule. Tasks that take a junior employee eight hours might take you two. That leaves you with six hours to take on strategic projects, mentor others, or simply work at a sustainable, comfortable pace.

## Reclaiming Your Career Narrative

It is time to eliminate the shame surrounding taking a role below your previous level. Your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) is not a public performance to satisfy former classmates or distant relatives on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). It is a vehicle to support your life, your goals, and your well-being.

Taking a job you are overqualified for isn’t settling; it’s positioning. It allows you to enter a company with high [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), low [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/), and maximum capability. You get to be the veteran player on the field, setting the standard while operating comfortably within your comfort zone.

Never apologize for taking a step that gives you control over your life. A title doesn’t pay your bills or protect your mental health—strategic choices do.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

[***Networking Like a Leader***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3100 episodes.

*[**Verbal Job Offers**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oPT)*

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

*[**Make Your AI Edited Resume Standout**](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nlZZGknBrmYNub265Njo1)*

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with more than 3100 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

You can also have your #jobsearchquestions answered Tuesdays at noon Eastern. Search for [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach Office Hours on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and mark that you’re attending. You’ll have access to the recording if you miss it live.

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*Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me

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### [You Don’t Have to Keep Doing Work You Detest #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-dont-have-to-keep-doing-work-you-detest-shorts/)

**Published:** August 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Are you doing a job that you absolutely loathe? You don’t have to.

**Content:**

# You Don’t Have to Keep Doing Work You Detest #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Are you doing a job that you absolutely loathe? You don’t have to.

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### [Crafting a Winning Personal Marketing Plan for Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crafting-a-winning-personal-marketing-plan-for-your-job-search/)

**Published:** August 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A well-constructed personal marketing plan is crucial for prioritizing activities to help you achieve your career goals.

**Content:**

# Crafting a Winning Personal Marketing Plan for Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A well-constructed personal marketing plan is crucial for prioritizing activities to help you achieve [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals. Like any successful project, a good plan helps you organize your efforts, keep your productivity high, and stay focused on your [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/). Your plan defines [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) direction and the steps needed to get there, including the types of organizations you aim to pursue. The quicker you create and implement your marketing plan, the faster you’ll land your desired job.

A personal marketing plan includes four essential components:

### 1. Defining Your Objective

To kickstart your marketing plan, start with a clear objective: What is your professional goal?

Your objective should be a concise statement that describes the kind of work you are seeking. It should reflect your values, skills, interests, and overall experience in a way that is easily understood by people both inside and outside of your profession.

### 2. Identifying Preferred Functions

After defining your objective, list the roles or areas of work that match your experience and interests. Typically, this involves one or two words and should include three to five targeted functions. These functions should be listed under your professional objective and may include typical job titles within these functions.

**Examples:**

- Marketing Management
- Senior Banker
- Senior Electrical Design Engineer
- Human Resources Generalist

Functions to consider:

- Strategy development
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- Product development
- Commercial banking
- Compliance
- Asset management
- Organization development
- Staffing

### 3. Crafting Your Positioning Statement

Your positioning statement is your answer to, “Tell me about yourself.” It’s used in various interactions throughout your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), including [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) meetings, emails, phone calls, and [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Your positioning statement should include four elements:

1. **Profession**: State your current professional identity (e.g., “I am a marketing executive”).
2. **Expertise**: Highlight the competencies and skills that qualify you for this work.
3. **Types of Organizations**: Summarize the types of environments or organizations where you have worked.
4. **Unique Strengths**: Describe the qualities that set you apart from others in your field.

**Example:** “I am an information systems specialist focused on [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) technology to business functions in marketing, sales, manufacturing, logistics, and accounting. I’ve worked with a Fortune 500 firm and a small entrepreneurial business and am currently an adjunct professor at Centennial College. My strengths include data administration, strategic planning, data warehousing, and relational database design, development, and implementation.”

Practice this statement aloud so you can deliver it confidently in any situation.

### 4. Defining Your Target Market

Your target market outlines the types of organizations you plan to pursue including:

- **Geographic Location**: Decide whether you’ll pursue companies nationwide or limit yourself to a specific area based on personal preferences and market demand.
- **Industry or Type of Organization**: Choose industries based on your experience and professional [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/). Consider your transferable skills if you’re interested in switching industries.
- **Size of Organization**: Determine whether you prefer large, established organizations or smaller startups. Keep in mind the size should align with the positions available.
- **Organizational Culture** (optional): Factor in company culture if it significantly impacts your job satisfaction.

**Determining the Size of Your Target Market:**

- **Geographic Location**: Define it precisely, like a sales territory.
- **Industry/Type of Organization**: Use Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) or North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.
- **Size of Organization**: State in terms of annual revenue, number of employees, or other relevant measures.
- **Organizational Culture**: Define concretely (e.g., companies with a diverse workforce or those that use cross-functional teams).

### Building and Evaluating Your Target List

Identify your top 25 to 50 target organizations using your criteria. Conduct thorough [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), stay informed, and continuously refine your list. Evaluate the size of your target market by estimating the number of available openings. If you have fewer than 10 firms, expand your target market. You are in the right zone with between 10 and 50. If it is [over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/), prune it back to start smaller.

Now that you understand the four parts of a marketing plan, use the Marketing Plan Template to create your own.

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### [The Top 10 Sources Who Can Help You With Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-10-sources-who-can-help-you-with-your-job-search/)

**Published:** August 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Often the most critical question you can ask yourself is, "Who can help me with a job search?"

**Content:**

# The Top 10 Sources Who Can Help You With Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Whether you are a student who is entering the workforce or the executive looking for a new position, often the most critical question you can ask yourself is, “Who can help me with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)?”

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### [2 Mistakes Older Job Hunters Make (and How to Solve them) #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/2-mistakes-older-job-hunters-make-and-how-to-solve-them-shorts/)

**Published:** August 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Job search is a game you can win with the right instructions. Let me help you. Here are 2 mistakes older professionals make when job hunting.

**Content:**

# 2 Mistakes Older Job Hunters Make (and How to Solve them) #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Resume Mistakes: Putting an Objective on Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-mistakes-putting-an-objective-on-your-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** August 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why would you put an objective on your resume?

**Content:**

# Resume Mistakes: Putting an Objective on Your Resume #shorts

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### [Stop Applying Cold: Target High-Growth Companies Direct](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/)

**Published:** August 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop acting like a job hunter and start presenting clear proof of your operational capability.

**Content:**

# Stop Applying Cold: Target High-Growth Companies Direct

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [How to Prove Your Value When AI Can Do Your Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-prove-your-value-when-ai-can-do-your-job/)

**Published:** August 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Watch to this episode to learn how to aggressively market your human judgment and win your next interview.

**Content:**

# How to Prove Your Value When AI Can Do Your Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Listing generic [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) skills on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) won’t make you stand out anymore—it’s expected table stakes that take four hours to learn. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers don’t care if you know how to prompt a tool; they care if you have the domain expertise to spot its [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Watch to this episode to learn how to aggressively market your human judgment and win your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

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This happened fast. Normally, tech adoption curves take decades, but three forces—accessibility, workplace normalization, and extreme competitive pressure—took that timeline and compressed it into a violent two-to-three-year window.

The first driver was accessibility. Platforms became free or cheap enough that using them required absolutely no coding knowledge, unlike the earlier generations of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that demanded specialized [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/).

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Because this total industry shift happened while nobody was watching, most job seekers are still using outdated strategies. They are mistakenly treating a baseline expectation as if it were their core competitive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

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Modern platforms are explicitly designed to require zero technical [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/). That makes basic tool familiarity a highly learnable, low-value [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). You can learn it in an afternoon. It is never going to make you stand out in a competitive market.

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Treat [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency as the unstated table stakes of the modern job hunt. But when it comes to the headline of your candidacy, aggressively market your human judgment.

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### [Taking a Career Sabbatical? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/taking-a-career-sabbatical-shorts/)

**Published:** August 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's a mistake people make when they take time off.

**Content:**

# Taking a Career Sabbatical? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Here’s a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when they take time off.

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### [Should I Follow Up? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-shorts/)

**Published:** August 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I've found this to be true many times . .  .and there's no harm if you do it differently.

**Content:**

# Should I Follow Up? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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I’ve found this to be true many times . . .and there’s no harm if you do it differently.

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### [Three Cover Letter Rules](https://thebiggamehunter.us/three-cover-letter-rules-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Three Cover Letter Rules

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses three rules for [writing cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) you must employ.

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Now, I see [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) all the time, and first of all, people foolishly send them as a separate attachment. No one is ever going to open a separate attachment. They’re going to go right to the one that looks like it’s going to be a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Next, they make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of going, “Dear Human Resources Manager,” or “Dear [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/),” or some generic intro like that. Don’t do that.

Number one: Put your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) into the body of an email so there’s no attachment necessary. Number two: Don’t address anyone. You know, once you’re sending “Dear So-and-So,” and you don’t know who it is, and you’re using this generic intro, it gives the impression like this is a form letter. Don’t do it. Third: Three paragraphs. First one is an intro—why you’re sending this. The second one is to lay out what it is about your background that you think fits what they’re looking for. Third, you do a closing. Closing should be something along the lines of when you’re going to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/). So, “If I don’t hear from you, I’d like to give you a call day after tomorrow to see if you might be interested in scheduling an appointment.” Real simple.

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### [Why You Put Contact Info on Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains the importance of putting contact information on your resume.

**Content:**

# Why You Put Contact Info on Your Resume

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), explains the importance of putting contact information on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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 There’s been an annoying trend in [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writing that people have been using.

I want to see if I can help put an end to it. It’s the absence of an address, city, state, zip code, just a name. And sometimes it’s only a first name and first initial of a last name and a phone number.

Let me just start by saying your location and your phone number, particularly if it’s a mobile number, may not correlate to where you are. So you need to include the city and state and zip code, even if you don’t want to provide an address. Now, I understand some people have a security issue about giving out their address.

I got it. But city, state and zip code should be essential for you. Let me explain why.

Number one is it’ll help correlate with the phone number. Okay, not everyone wants that correlation. I don’t know why, but from the standpoint of us doing recruiting and [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) doing [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) that are parsing data into [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), it allows us to go back and search for you because the primary search criteria is not your area code.

It’s your zip code. It’s helpful for us to know where you are. The other thing is if you don’t put your last name on, frankly, well, I understand that you’re concerned that someone may mispronounce your name.

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It’s an expression and runs the risk of, oh, this person has a bias against people from my nationality. They won’t call. I want to let you in on a secret.

Putting your first initial of your last name triggers lots of other biases. And we all know that you’re from a nation of origin with long last names that are unpronounceable. Unpronounceable.

So, you know, when all is said and done, no matter how you do it, you trigger the bias. So, it just helps us if we have your full name. It helps you if, minimally, your city, state and zip code is there, as well as the phone number for contact.

Not including this is going to hurt you, not just simply in this search, but in many searches to come because, you know, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are out there trying to find people to fill [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Not just simply when you’re looking, but in the future when you might be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) where you are and you get a knock on the door with an opportunity that’s even better than the one that you have. So, don’t handicap yourself from being alerted to opportunities because you haven’t provided that city, state, zip code information.

Now, if you move, it doesn’t matter. You’ll get the first contact from someone who’s reaching out to you about a position in the wrong area. In the future, you just let them know where you are and what city, state and zip code you’re in now and they’ll update it in their system and be able to contact you about appropriate things.

But when all is said and done, contact information on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and a full name is critical for your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). I hope you enjoyed today’s show. And if you did, subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher or whatever service you listen to the show on.

And then from there, give it a great review, five stars, a great comment in iTunes or Stitcher. It does help other people discover the show, helps us with rankings, things along those lines. So, No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio will be back tomorrow with more advice to help you.

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Have a great day. Take care.

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### [What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: The Market for Your Experience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-the-market-for-your-experience/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Your manager may be gaslighting you when they tell you about the great experience you'll be learning.

**Content:**

# What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: The Market for Your Experience #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Your manager may be gaslighting you when they tell you about the great experience you’ll be learning.

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### [Are You Making These Common Video Interview Mistakes?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-you-making-these-common-video-interview-mistakes/)

**Published:** August 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to command respect and secure the next round, you have to audit your setup and eliminate these common video interview mistakes.

**Content:**

# Are You Making These Common Video Interview Mistakes?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The shift toward remote and hybrid [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) has transformed the standard initial screening. The days of traveling to an office for a preliminary face-to-face conversation are largely over. Instead, your first interaction with a prospective employer almost certainly happens through a camera lens.

Yet, despite years of virtual meetings, the vast majority of professionals treat video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) like casual web chats. They assume that because they are sitting in their own home, the stakes are lower.

This is a dangerous misconception.

In a traditional office setting, minor technical glitches or subtle non-verbal cues are smoothed over by ambient human [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). On a screen, every flaw is magnified. Lighting issues, poor audio, [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) drift, and uncalibrated setups actively erode your professional authority before you answer a single technical question.

If you want to command respect and secure the next round, you have to audit your setup and eliminate these common video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

### 1. Miscalculating Your Visual Eye Contact

This is the single most pervasive psychological [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in virtual [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

When humans communicate in person, we look each other in the eye to establish trust, [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), and engagement. In a video environment, if your camera is set far away from the software window, looking at the person’s face on your monitor means you appear to be looking down, to the side, or completely checking out.

However, if your monitor and laptop are positioned correctly—with the video window shrunken and placed directly below the camera lens—looking at the actual person on screen can feel natural and keep your facial expressions authentic.

The Fix:** Don’t guess where your eyes are landing. Test your setup beforehand by recording a practice conversation with a friend or colleague. Ask them directly for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/): *“Does it feel like I’m looking at you, or does it feel like I’m looking away?”* Adjust the position of your video window until your gaze feels natural and connected to the person on the receiving end.

### 2. Treating Audio as an Afterthought

Poor video quality is annoying; poor audio quality is deal-breaking.

If an interviewer has to strain to hear your answers, deals with room echo, or endures harsh digital distortion, mental fatigue sets in within two minutes. Built-in laptop microphones are notorious for picking up keystrokes, computer fan noise, and ambient room reverberation.

The Fix:** Never rely on built-in laptop speakers and microphones. Invest in a dedicated USB microphone or a quality wired headset with an inline mic. Test your audio environment in advance. If your room has hard surfaces that echo, throw down a rug or place blankets behind your camera setup to absorb sound reflection.

### 3. The “Low-Angle Hostage Video” Setup

Few things diminish your professional posture faster than bad camera geometry and poor lighting.

Placing a laptop flat on a desk forces the camera to look up your nostrils, slanting your frame awkwardly and tilting your head down. Combine that with a bright window behind you, and you become a dark, shadowed silhouette against a blinding background.

**The Fix:**

- Elevate the Camera:** [Raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) your laptop or external webcam using a stand or a stack of books until the lens is precisely at eye level.
- Control Your Light:** Never sit with your main light source behind you. Position your desk facing a window, or place a soft lamp directly behind your monitor to illuminate your face evenly.

### 4. Over-Relying on On-Screen Cheat Sheets

It is tempting to paste digital sticky notes, open your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), or keep company [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) notes open across your screen during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

However, when you read off a screen, your eyes dart rhythmically from left to right. Your vocal cadence flattens into a monotone reading voice, and your natural conversational warmth vanishes. Interviewers spot this immediately, and it signals a lack of preparation or genuine fluency in your own background.

The Fix:** If you must use notes, restrict them to three core bullet points on a single physical sticky note placed directly next to your camera lens. If you know your background, your core execution metrics, and your key strategic stories, you do not need a script. Talk *with* them, not *at* them.

### 5. Failing to Master Asynchronous Screening Tools

More companies now use automated, one-way video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) platforms (like HireVue or Spark [Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)) for preliminary screenings. You are presented with a prompt on screen and given two minutes to record a response—with no human being on the other side.

Most people freeze, speak too quickly, or panic under the ticking digital timer.

The Fix:** Treat one-way video prompts like structured executive briefings. Use the brief preparation window to format your answer using a tight structure: **Context, Action, Metric. Speak at a deliberate, measured pace, and do not fill silent pauses with verbal hesitation.

### The Bottom Line

A video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is not a casual chat; it is a broadcast production where you are the producer, talent, and technical director.

When you fix your framing, dial in your audio, control your environment, and calibrate your gaze, you do more than just answer questions well. You signal high professional standards, technological literacy, and respect for the interviewer’s time. Clear the friction, own the medium, and force the screen to work in your favor.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [Beat the LinkedIn Black Hole](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-the-linkedin-black-hole/)

**Published:** August 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop wasting time sending perfect resumes that get instantly disqualified over simple semantics; this is the tweak you need to fix it.

**Content:**

# Beat the LinkedIn Black Hole

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You aren’t imagining things—your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) are disappearing into a complete black hole. The truth is, a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) probably never even saw your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) because a rigid, automated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) gatekeeper rejected it before it reached their desk. Stop wasting time sending perfect [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that get instantly disqualified over simple semantics; this is the tweak you need to fix it.

All right, let’s talk about something we’ve all felt. You sent a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) into what feels like a total black hole. You’re not alone, I promise. In this explainer, we’re going to pull back the curtain on a really surprising reason why even the most qualified people are getting rejected right away. And here’s the kicker: it has nothing to do with your actual experience. So let’s dive in.

Okay, picture this. You’re scrolling, and there it is: the perfect job. I mean, the description feels like it was written just for you. You hit submit, you’re feeling good, and then, crickets. Just total silence. It is so frustrating, and it happens all of the time. But here’s a thought: what if the real question isn’t “What did I do wrong?”, but who, or maybe what, is even looking at my [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) in the first place?

Well, it turns out the answer might be: you didn’t do anything wrong, at all. In fact, there’s a really good chance a human being never even saw your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Yeah, you heard that right. There’s a new gatekeeper at the door, and this one, it’s completely automated.

So what is this thing? It’s called a Front-End [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Evaluation. Think of it like a digital bouncer for your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Its only job is to do a super quick, really basic check, and decide who gets in and who doesn’t. And this all happens way before a real person, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), ever even sees your name.

And this right here is the absolutely crucial part. This [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isn’t some helpful assistant sorting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) for a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Nope, it’s a literal wall between you and the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). It’s making the very first cut. And that means if you don’t pass its very specific, very simple test, your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) journey is over, bam, right there.

Okay, so what is this test? What’s the secret password to get past the robot? Well, this is where it gets fascinating, because this new [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) system, it has a surprisingly simple, but totally critical flaw—one that can trip up even the most qualified people out there.

Ready for it? Here it is: the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is completely literal. It doesn’t get nuance. It doesn’t understand context. And it definitely doesn’t know that different job titles can mean the exact same thing. It is not looking for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) candidate; it’s just looking for a perfect exact match.

Let’s look at a real-world example of how this works—or, you know, doesn’t work. A company posts a job for a business analyst. Simple enough. You, you’re a senior business analyst. You’re obviously qualified, right? Maybe even overqualified. But to this [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), that word “senior” is just an error. It’s an extra word it wasn’t told to look for. And the result? Rejected, instantly. No human ever sees it.

So how do you get past this thing? It’s not about having more experience; it’s about being an exact copy. If the job ad says “Business Analyst”, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has to say “Business Analyst”. Period. It’s that simple, and it’s that rigid. That’s the one that gets accepted.

All right, so now that we know the problem, how do we actually beat this digital gatekeeper? The good news is you don’t have to rewrite your entire [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Whew! It’s really just about making one tiny, strategic change to sneak right past that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) filter.

And the process is so, so simple. Seriously, it’s just three steps. First, and this is key, you’ve got to find the exact job title they use in the posting. Step two: just open up your resume—takes two seconds. And finally, step three: you’re going to change your most recent job title to match the one in the ad, perfectly, word for word. So yeah, if you’re a senior business analyst, just for this one [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), you’re a business analyst now.

So let’s just nail this down. What’s the big takeaway here?

Number one: LinkedIn’s [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a totally literal filter. It’s not smart; it’s just a filter.

Number two: It needs an exact job title match, no exceptions. Any little variation, like adding “senior” or some other synonym, can get you tossed out.

Which leads to the most important point: You have to tweak your job title for every single [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

I know, I know. It feels a little weird, right? Like you’re dumming down your own title. But you have to remember who you’re doing this for. This little change isn’t for the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager—they’ll see your full experience later. This is just for the robot. And making this one tiny adjustment could be the thing that makes the difference between hearing nothing and actually getting that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

And all of this really leaves us with a pretty big question about the future of [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/), doesn’t it? As these AIs get more and more involved in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), what’s actually going to matter more: having a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that’s a totally accurate, honest picture of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), or having one that’s just perfectly compliant with the rules of the machine? It’s definitely something to think about.

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things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

***[Executive Presence](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-848)***

You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) at** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Careers in an Industry That is Mistakenly Ignored](https://thebiggamehunter.us/careers-in-an-industry-that-is-mistakenly-ignored/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Not everyone should be doing software development work, accounting or other forms of office work. Here's another option.

**Content:**

# Careers in an Industry That is Mistakenly Ignored

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Not everyone should be doing software development work, accounting, or other forms of office work. Here’s another option. This is a particularly good show for parents and grandparents. This was recorded in 2020 and the advice remain the same.

As many of you know I like to spend
time with individuals who are experts in

things that I may not be quite as [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/)
at because as much as I know I don’t

know everything. And I’ve got an
interesting guest tonight Terry Iverson

the book is called finding America’s
greatest champion I’m just gonna hold

that up there for a second and this is
gonna be a topic that I’ve been

interested in for a while I’m not going
to go into the reasons for it but pay

attention to this one especially if
you’ve got kids or grandkids I think

this is one that’ll make a lot of sense
for you Terry welcome to the show great

to have you on board hi Jeff it’s great
to be on your show thanks for having me

my pleasure could you introduce yourself
to everyone give them a sense of what’s

your background his line okay I grew up
in initially in Chicago and moved to

Florida where I spent most of my youth
and my family has a manufacturing

background since the 1920s and after
bouncing around with different things I

thought I wanted to do one of which
engineering school I decided to join the

family business and machine tool
distribution and thus join the family

business I have a hunch that there’s
more to that [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) history

Oh much more I started in 1980 and it’s
been 40 years now I’m on my fortieth

year we sell machine tools and we also
rebuild machine tools and I’ve been very

fascinated and fortunate to call on some
of the most exciting manufacturing

installations in the country now we’re
recording this in June 2020 and we’re at

a time where 40 million people are out
of work and there’s a whole crew of

students that are coming into the
workforce and although the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) report

is issued today was better than expected
with plus two and a half million rather

than all the down numbers that we’ve
been saying for months

you’re in a field that have worked in a
field that isn’t exactly seen has been

one of those glamour fields and that
smile just says it all so I’m wondering

with manufacturing being and by the way
folks these subtitles of the book is

building prosperity from manufacturing
mentoring and the awesome responsibility

of parenting
I can’t wait to pull all this together

you know what’s the message that you’re
carrying to people what’s important for

people why should they spend pay
attention to manufacturing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) at

this stage well manufacturing is in our
country’s DNA manufacturing has been a

big part of our middle class and and has
fueled our middle class for decades

since going way back but manufacturing
is important and what people don’t

understand is they have a misperception
of what it actually is what the reality

is it’s very technologically savvy it’s
very computerized it’s becoming more and

more automated and the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)
news is the paying [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) are very well

I think really now when you say it’s
computerized I know people are not doing

software development when they’re
working in manufacturing so that part of

the glamor doesn’t exist but are they
the guys and t-shirts and getting dirty

all day like I think that’s the image
than most people have of what it’s like

to work in manufacturing and thus when
they look at their kids they were not

not for that well they’re very JEP
they’re very exciting [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and when I

talk about computerization there’s
programming on the machine and on the

shop floor and there’s also programming
in the CAD office and and I’m computer

so it’s it’s the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of both worlds so
they’re using technology as part of the

work like what you said use the CAD
office and a computer and computer-aided

design
correct just making sure so

using the technology and how are they
using that technology I’m curious well

it used to be back in the day when I
first started you know there weren’t as

many computerized machines which is a
terminology called CNC job there was a

lot of manual machines and a lot of the
the skill was in the actual operator and

so you know every machine had a
different operator with a different

skill level and now with computerization
you can program the Machine and you can

let the Machine do you know the heavy
lifting so to speak as far as the

process and it’s it’s made it a lot
cleaner environment it’s made it a lot

more professional and it’s it’s exciting
and challenging positions thus what does

the person tend to do day to day as part
of their work using these machines well

there’s so many different positions that
in [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) that are in manufacturing

some are inspection related some are
loading the machines operating the

machines some are programming and
setting up the machines once again some

you’re in the CAD office doing the the
print work and the cam work as far as

generating code for the machines but you
know there’s a lot of different

different [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and a lot of different
spots to fill but there’s a big void in

the skills that we’re talking about not
because people make a conscious decision

it’s because people just don’t know they
even exist or that they can be paid well

to be in those in those [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) I’m
gonna say this in a flipped kind of way

you said it’s part of America’s DNA I
think most people tend to think of as

being in China’s DNA and not an America
thing anymore and I suspect there will

be a move toward bringing back [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) so
the u.s. although as I talked to some

people I also hear that there’s there’s
a move to removing some of those China

[jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) to other low-cost areas rather than
the US but that’s a different

conversation there’s always going to be
a need for manufacturing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in the

u.s. some
not gonna get outsourced at all yeah I

think to your point I think one thing
that we’ve learned through this pandemic

is that you know there’s certain things
that you really can’t rely on other

economies to fulfill in within our own
country you know we got kind of cut

short on some of the protective PPE
equipment during this and some of the

the drugs that we need for this pandemic
those things you know we should have had

better access within our own borders and
it was interesting and folks if you’re

watching this two years from now I know
this is ancient history but you’ll get

the point it would seem as though a lot
of nation states have regulations that

basically allow them to interrupt the
supply chain and say mine the first mine

I know you bought it it’s your equipment
but it’s mine

you can’t export it and that seems to be
what had happened with China left right

mister so you mentioned a number of
different types of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and if we were

looking at like a hierarchy because I
think most people tend to think in terms

of hierarchies for the levels of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)
where there are relatively general

positions like I’ll use technology for
example there is a developer or an

administrator systems administrator and
then there’s a intermediate and a senior

and then you could person becomes a
manager a director a VP if there’s that

kind of a hierarchy of progression
within the roles I know they have no

clue about in manufacturing
how does it work there you know when

people join a manufacturing firm of some
sort even think you know use your firm

as an example or any other organization
for that matter what sort of hierarchy

exists with some of those categories
that you mentioned

well in manufacturing one of the things
that’s a current model is there’s a lot

of internships where people and
companies will bring in many times young

people for an internship maybe during
their education and they’ll you know do

some of the lower of responsibility
tasks within the organization and say

for example well yeah I’m sorry wasn’t
you know one of the things like in in a

CAD office you may be working on a CAD
system and just doing some basic print

modifications or drawing out on the shop
floor you know you may be you know

preparing bar stock or possibly you know
changing inserts and I on a particular

job or setup you might be you know you
might even be doing some you know

logistics or cleaning or sometimes
ordering material you can that’s a

pretty easy task to get started but the
more skill level you have in

manufacturing like many other
professions the more valuable you become

and your pay is is compensation is
accordingly adjusted up as your skill

level goes as well that’s cool so when
people break into the field of these

working [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) like in every other
profession they’re not paid dramatically

well what kind of entry-level salaries
exist and what sort of [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)

progression exists within manufacturing
great question it’s very common for

young people you know they may come in
just over minimum wage when they know

nothing but what you’ll find in
manufacturing is your progression is way

more accelerated as you gain skills than
other professions one of the things I

talk about in a [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) quite a bit
Jeff is that in manufacturing the

average wage with benefits is around
$82,000 now when you say average wage

you gotta remember you have beginners
and then you have forty year you know

tenured people so when you take that all
into account you know an average wage

with benefits of 82,000 is
very good bang yes it is especially

given the fact that these are people who
have not had to spend however many

hundred thousand dollars a year on a
college education and they haven’t had

all that student loan that hanging over
their heads all these years that

basically are going you know their
higher paying [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) so much of it is

going off to pay off debt yeah I mean
good question one of the things I point

out in the book is I I do a 12 year
model and a four year five year college

degree graduate and a twelve year model
of a two year vocational type degree

graduate and I take the cost of the
education and in the thought of paying

it back in the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) when you come out
and when it at the end of 12 years the

college graduate four or five year
college graduate because of the cost

they’re at about I believe a negative
120 thousand cash negative and the other

2-year vocational degree individual paid
back paying back the education cost is

90 thousand cash positive here’s a
quarter million dollar difference almost

we were [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) located well–there’s
manufacturing hubs all throughout the

country so you know there’s a lot of
people drive by industrial parks every

day all day within their communities
they just don’t know what’s inside the

four walls and thus those buildings
aren’t just simply tech hubs or office

places may that may involve
manufacturing positions as well they do

they do and the bulk of manufacturing in
our country are small companies small

businesses they may have between five
and maybe 50 people there is a lot of

manufacturing and large organizations
the Boeing’s of the world and other

companies that are very large
caterpillar but that being said there’s

a lot of job shops and there’s a lot of
smaller companies that make products for

the bigger companies and so there’s a
lot more opportunities than just the big

corporations
and it’s interesting from my time in a

search you know because I was a
headhunter for many years like 40 and I

was part of a network of recruiting
firms that were kind of subdivided into

areas of expertise and my background was
primarily IT record and there was

another group that I spent a little time
with I even spoke to the group on one

occasion that was focused in on
manufacturer and the bulk of the work

ruse in this network worth hearing but
the ones that were making the money were

the manufacturer very – and it was
interesting to me because I spent some

time talking with the folks in that
field and I said there’s a lot of

redundancy lumber tendency there’s just
a lot of people who were in IT

recruiting and there are a lot of IT
professionals but no-one’s going into

manufacturing so the clearly labor
shortages and those folks if you’re not

[happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) in your job if you’re not being
treated well if you think you’re

underpaid there’s usually someone down
the block or in a place in the country

where you want to live that might be
interested in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) is there are labor

shortages I think in the book what was
the age that you said the average

manufacturing worker is oh it’s well
into Jeff it’s well into the 50s I mean

that’s one of the the biggest misnomers
about manufacturing besides what people

perceive it to be is that we have people
my age that are you know near the end of

their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) they’ve been in at 40 plus
years and we want to pass on our tribal

knowledge to the next generation and so
there’s the baby boomer generation is

now graduating – towards retirement and
there’s there’s there’s a gap not

there’s a skills gap but there’s an age
gap where there’s a whole generation or

generation and a half or two that was
skipped and so you have the younger

people that are really getting advanced
like almost fast-track to management

because you know they’re leapfrogging
over an entire generation that isn’t

there
this thing and I’m gonna hit a subject

here and deal with a stereotype the
stereotype side tends to be that

manufacturing is a bunch of old white
guys

well there’s there some truth to that
and so and so consequently you know

there’s there’s not enough women in our
industry there’s a huge opportunity for

them to be honest there’s not enough
people of color in our industry and

there’s a huge opportunity for them as
well and so I challenged the

manufacturing sector to be a little bit
you know proactive and think differently

and tried you know to appeal to it to a
different audience than what we’ve tried

in the past fabulous what kind of
[training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) do people get when they move

into the field you know what’s it like
during that first I how long does the

[training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) last oh wow the [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) the
[training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) is a lifelong lessons I’m still

learning and being trained in many
facets yeah but you’re on your way out

you don’t count anymore I don’t count
anymore I don’t

but now as far as [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) you know
there’s there’s all sorts of online

[training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) which is I’m really excited to
say SME that has what they call tooling

University
what was the name of that again totally

new University is owned by Society of
manufacturing engineering and they’ve

done a really they acquired tooling
University and there’s a lot of really

cool classes on there yeah the other
thing that I try to talk about Jeff is

that there’s a young man named John
Saunders that has a YouTube channel

called NYC CNC and he learned he taught
himself how to be a manufacturer and he

puts out YouTube videos to help train
people just like he learned wow that’s

fabulous
could you state the name of that YouTube

channel again it’s NYC C&C is the is the
YouTube channel and there’s a lot of

information you know he taught himself
to be a manufacturer and he’s

interviewed in the book
and then there’s also Titan Gilroy and

Titan Titan C&C he has a series of
classes online that you can learn about

manufacturing and a lot of this some of
us is chart you know on a charge basis

and some of this is free fabulous now I
know you you sort of helped start

champion now could you tell people about
champion now what his mission is and

what it sets out to accomplish place
well I got so involved probably 25 years

ago into technical education with high
schools and community colleges and you

know I had a lot of boards I sat on with
you know education foundations both

locally and nationally and so whenever
having said that I just didn’t feel that

talking to one high school or Community
College student or a class at a time was

adequate so I was on my way to
Washington DC on a board that I that I

sat on and and I wanted to change
perceptions I wanted to change

manufacturing perceptions well that’s an
acronym champion Alice is change how

American manufacturing is perceived in
our nation and so it’s it’s kind of a

cool acronym manufacturing doesn’t have
a lot of real you know high polished you

know icons or perceptions or images so
the name fits as well and the now is the

call to action but the main focus and
mission is to really change perceptions

and let people know that manufacturing
is a cool place to be and and that you

know they can make a lot of money the
one thing I haven’t said that I should

say is on the NAMM website then the
National Association of Manufacturers

the manufacturing Institute says that
there’s around six hundred thousand

manufacturing skilled positions that go
unfilled every year and then the next

ten years there’s probably two and a
half million positions that will go

unfilled in our industry in this country

Wow
unless there’s a huge opportunity that

is ignored weirdoes we’re working
businesses where do nonprofits find that

next generation of people like if
someone’s watching this video and

decides hey I want to get into
manufacturing like what do they do but

what’s the next step for them well it
depends on and where they’re coming from

and what age bracket they’re in but
there’s a lot of different ways I write

about Project Lead the Way
I interviewed Vince Bertram who’s the

president Project Lead the Way is
project-based learning that’s going into

the high schools all around the country
so you can go to their website and you

can see what high schools are in your
area that have Project Lead the Way

there’s a lot of community colleges and
there’s a lot of associations that have

technical CTE is the actual name [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)
and technical education so you can go to

the CTE site and find out you know what
community colleges have manufacturing

classes and there’s so there’s a number
of ways you can learn about it but one

of the big things that I have to point
out is there’s an organization called

manufacturing day and so if you’re a
parent or if you’re a student or even

somebody that’s older and you want to
learn more every October early October

manufacturers all over the country open
up their doors and invite people in to

see what today’s manufacturing looks
like and it’s been going on for about

six seven years and initially started
with the FMA which is the fabricators

and manufacturers association but now
named conducts it in administrates it

was fabricated fabricating there’s
there’s metal cutting and there’s

fabricating and the nurse additive
manufacturing metal cutting is actually

taking metal away from a piece of bar
stock fabricating is bending a piece of

sheet metal and then additive
manufacturing is 3d printing so in a

general scope
definition of things those are three of

the major ways you can you can actually
manufacture something fabulous so let me

in that and that answer you’ve been
talking about for younger individuals

let’s say someone’s in their thirties
they’ve been a welder for example and

they realized this isn’t for me maybe
manufacturing is it what do they do well

my advice first of all welders do very
well they get paid very well so if they

decide the welding is not for them it’s
not for the pay it’s probably because

it’s not challenging maybe or it’s too
redundant for them but with that skill

set that skill set and that attention to
detail in mechanical aptitude can can be

parlayed into other different
manufacturing very easily so you know

whether it be going and looking for a
job board or going to Community College

there’s all sorts of ways that someone
that’s in welding that can conduct a

back into manufacturing very easily in
my opinion then we’ve been talking about

the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) of manufacturing but the
subtitle of your book talks about

mentoring and the awesome
responsibilities of parenting now you

give the most words the parenting so I’m
gonna go there next what is that

responsibility in parenting that you’re
trying to get across well I’m I’m glad

so it’s really important to me Jeff so
I’m really glad you asked about that as

well
I think parenting is the most precious

responsibility on earth and those of us
that are parents we have a tough job to

do and and an important job to do but
you know life goes in a lot of different

directions at full speed and so you have
two parents working and they’re both

trying to fit in there their job and you
know parents at the same time sometimes

you have single parents whether it be a
mom or a dad and so they have challenges

as well but then you also have the guilt
of raising a child and knowing that

you’re not spending the time you want to
spend with them because you have to you

know you have to earn
income to pay for the family so too many

times what I’ve seen and I used to coach
travel soccer so I interacted with a lot

of parents and a lot of young people for
two or three decades and so what I would

see is parents would make decisions that
instead of holding their child

accountable they would try to be their
child’s [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend Jeff I was raised

old school and I parented old school and
I believe in that and you know child

children need to learn lessons and
become better citizens and better adults

as a result of those lessons
so rather than parenting out of guilt

you know do the difficult you know task
of making the decisions of how to you

know hold your child accountable both
good and bad so that they learn and they

become the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) that they can be it’s
funny – my son is 19 as we’re recording

this and he graduated high school he
said I’m not going to college now and it

was interesting to see what he had
learned from me just by watching and one

of the things he learned was show up
early for work work a little late it’s

putting the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) effort I noticed this
just as he would talk about his job and

some of the things that went on there
like if he was supposed to be there at

8:30 he was there at 7:45 you know
breakfast in hand keying into the

building to be able to get in if he was
supposed to leave that 6:30 he was

generally leaving at 7:00 and it’s sweet
stuff that he picked up for me I feel

guilty about I’ve something to do a
workaholic at 19 but it’s the right

attitude and I know so much of the
culture that we have even with phrases

like take it easy that we habitually say
is designed to curtail Drive rather than

encourage drive the [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)
so I understand that message about I

don’t want to call it old-school per se
because the old-school also had involved

with it that I know you’re not talking
about that’s the first thing that came

to my mind of course was the old-school
1950s oh yeah

take out the belt uh and not talking
about that yeah I know I know and then

the part is mentoring that’s the other
part of your title it is he’s doing the

mentoring who’s receiving the mentor
well the the example that I made with

single parents I was raised by my mom
single parent in down in Florida and I

was very blessed I was very blessed that
I had coaches I had teachers I had

family friends you know they looked out
for me and mentored me and as I grew and

got into the working world
I had co-workers and supervisors that

mentored me I went into a family
business so I was very fortunate that my

dad and my two uncles also mentored me
so with the world and with the different

challenges that young people have and
with the challenges parents have that I

just alluded to
you know mentoring is a huge huge need

to supplement you know maybe what
parents you know can’t fill in all the

blanks so I think those of us that you
know are you know in our latter years I

think all of us acknowledge that we’re
very fortunate to have been mentored by

Peart some very special people I agree
and and one of the things I’ve kind of

keyed in on for myself is the notion of
what an elder is supposed to be like in

our culture and I know culturally older
people are pushed out now we don’t

listen to them they’ll you know we don’t
pay attention to them they think old

school and there’s a lot of wisdom folks
that you’re missing out on if you don’t

ask the questions of people who were
looking there ahead of you

it doesn’t mean you always have to take
their advice but it’s useful to listen

to it because the places you’re getting
the advice from may not know any more

than you do but they say it’s in a
convincing way well I think one other

point Jeff I’d like to point out is this
in the workforce there’s a there’s a

concept called reverse mentoring and
that is you know those of us that have

been around around that we have a lot of
the knowledge tribal knowledge that we

want to pass on and let’s let’s just say
for example in manufacturing but we

don’t know the technology always like we
should and here we have this next

generation they’ve forgotten more than
that we’ll ever know about technology so

there’s an opportunity for the the elder
to mentor the young person but also a

great opportunity the young person to
reverse mentor the elder so it’s a it’s

a win-win for everybody and I know in a
lot of a lot of instances with people

that I coach they talk with me about the
institutional mentor that they have and

how they spend a lot of time mentoring
that person it’s really interesting to

hear that part of it but in terms of
[careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and manufacturing this is a

really sweet book and really like it
really lays out a good case how can

people find out more about America’s
greatest champion building prosperity

through manufacturing mentoring and the
awesome responsibilities of parenting

how can they find out more well the most
information that’s out there is on

champion now you know champion with an
end at the end and then and again

now.org
and I have a whole litany of information

about the book about different articles
I’ve written different [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) it is

also available on Amazon it’s also an
audible on an audible book and it’s also

an e-book on those different platforms
so and you know the ones on champion now

I can you know I have a hardcover that’s
only available through champion

cool and folks I’ll have a link to the
two champion now org to the page on

Amazon where it’s sold I am told that is
less expensive on champion now org than

on Amazon I I have the link that I’m
podcast and your podcast especially that

they can save 30% on by going to a
certain link yes and I’ll have that link

in the show notes folks Terry thank you
this has been really interesting Jeff

this has been awesome and I appreciate
you including me

and I’m honored and privileged and very
excited to be on your on your show thank

you
and folks I’ll be back soon with more

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### [Don’t Make The Mistake I Made](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes and you make mistakes. This is one mistake I made that I hope you don't.

**Content:**

# Don’t Make The Mistake I Made

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Everyone makes [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). I make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and you make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). This is one [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I made that I hope you don’t.

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### [Your Career Doesn’t Have to End #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You are in charge of your career.

**Content:**

# Your Career Doesn’t Have to End

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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You are in charge of your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

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### [Using a Negotiating Framework to Get What You Want](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-a-negotiating-framework-to-get-what-you-want/)

**Published:** August 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My guest,Brandon Bramley, and I discuss his salary negotiation framework and much more related to negotiating.

**Content:**

# Using a Negotiating Framework to Get What You Want

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

## Using a Negotiating Framework to Get What You Want

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
Most people are clueless about how to #negotiate My guest is Brandon Bramley, The founder of The [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Negotiator. We discuss his [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation framework and much more related to negotiating.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Terrific. So, my guest today is Brandon Bramley, who’s the founder of the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiator. Brandon has a background was strategic negotiations from having worked in many procurement and vendor management roles at a few large firms, including Amazon and American Airlines, where he did million-dollar multimillion dollar b2b negotiations, and also recruited and hired many [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) professionals. He also has more than 10 years of experience, negotiating salaries and currently runs, I love this name, the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiator, where he provides professional job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and [salary negotiation coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/salary-negotiation-help/) to help individuals navigate a negotiation process confidently and earn higher compensation. Brandon, welcome. Thanks for making time today.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, thank you, Jeff. I’m excited to be here.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

We’ll see about that by the end of the conversation.

**Brandon Bramley**

Absolutely.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, there are obviously many different ways to navigate a job over negotiation and we may look at things differently because we come from different backgrounds. But I want to understand the negotiation framework you follow with your firm. So, walk us through this process and maybe along the way, I’ll start with clarifying questions, okay?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, absolutely. We’re both coaches in this space. So, I’m excited to hear your input as well. But at the [salary negotiator](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-salary-negotiation-begins-where/), I personally negotiated hundreds of salaries for different clients, with all types of companies, whether it’s Google, Facebook, Amazon, or smaller startups and what we’ve done is we’ve identified essentially a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and negotiation framework. So, essentially five key steps that we follow, to make sure that we have a higher probability of [success in salary negotiations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mindset-shifts-for-a-successful-salary-negotiation/), that essentially anyone can follow themselves, whether they work with us, or they actually do the negotiation themselves. So, the first [step is actually understanding the components of your job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-i-choose-6-steps-to-choosing-between-job-offers/) especially, as you start to look at different companies, you increase your kind of breadth, as well as getting promotions and your skill set. Your compensation is gonna get a little bit more complicated. So, rather than maybe just getting a base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), now you’re getting a bonus, possibly [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), maybe a sign on bonus, and some other packages that are included, that need to be looked at that way you understand exactly what your monetary take home pay is at the end of the day. So, you know how to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) that up. The last thing you want to do, just….

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

I want to interrupt you here for a second. I just want to be clear for the audience. We’re not talking about the part of the negotiation that takes place during the [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) process because as we both know, on their side, they’re negotiating during the [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). For [Job Hunters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-negotiating-mistakes-too-many-job-hunters-make-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/), this is the point where they think that they’re negotiating. They’ve received the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and now we have to fiddle with a little bit. So, do I have that, right?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, that’s correct because really, there shouldn’t be too much negotiating or sharing [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) information, at least for our opinion, in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process on the interviewee side. So, really, what I’m talking about now is once you have a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in hand, you essentially have the right to accept and start working at that company and the leverage shifts in your favor is where our steps kick in.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, the first thing is understanding the different components of the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and that is [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) bonus, RSUs options, whatever the numbers are, they’re being proposed to you.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, exactly. I mean, that’s the big thing, right, is you want to know how much you’re making at the end of the day. That way, instead of just negotiating one of those components, you can [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) all of them up at the same time and make sure you’re actually increasing your total compensation. So, once you have a good understanding of that, and a key step that most people miss, is actually completing your due diligence on the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and asking the right questions. So, this is a big step in any type of negotiation, and even a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation where before you start throwing out numbers telling the offers low, it’s actually your chance to show that you’re very interested in the role. But start getting the last questions you might have answered, as well as throw out some strategic questions where you can start to collect some data points, maybe get a few freebies, and start build additional leverage before you actually send over a counter.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

What sort of questions might someone ask during that period of time that makes sense from your vantage point?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, think about a lot of offers usually don’t have a signup bonus. So, that’s like your first chance to ask about that and essentially, hey, you know, based off my skill set, as what I’ve seen with other offers and other opportunities, I thought it was odd that there wasn’t a signup bonus, including the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), do you mind just taking this back to your team to see if you do [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) this benefit or maybe the PTO is slow, or maybe the foreign key is not as competitive, start asking targeted questions about that, like, Hey, I know the forum K was a little bit lower than I was expecting with like a 3% match. Is that consistent for all roles? Or, hey, I see we only get two weeks of vacation yet most companies are given four weeks or unlimited now. That way you might not right off the bat actually get them to change their mind, especially with like a 401 K program, they’re probably not going to, but what you’re doing is you’re already setting the stage for the negotiation and building up leverage, because you’re poking at their offered gently showing on how it might not be competitive to other opportunities. So, that when you come in with your financial assets, it’s going to have more breadth and legitimate see, and they’re gonna be more likely to make adjustments.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, with the gentle questioning, and I know we’re still on step one here, and perfectly fine with that. I just want to make sure that everyone’s following with us. So, in the gentle probing, what sort of questions might someone ask? This I heard you talk about seemed a little bit low on this in a little bit. This one hit the mark. But these two other areas seem a little off from what my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) says? And could you go back to the team in terms of the sign on this? Could you share the language that you coach people to use in doing the program?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, absolutely. So, really, the program is designed to gently poke at why their offers not as competitive. So, it’s using verbiage like specifically for the signup bonus, saying, hey, you know, based off what I’ve seen at other companies, as well as based on my skill set, I thought it was relatively odd that there wasn’t a signup bonus, including the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), do you mind taking this back to your team just to see if they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) this type of benefit. Or if you’re say you’re looking at see the bonus, maybe it’s a target bonus, they save 10%? If it’s a target bonus, there’s probably a percentage that can fluctuate based off personal as well as company performance. So, using a targeted question to say, hey, I noticed that there’s a 10% bonus, but what is the average payout each year? And what have you seen over the last few years? And what is the company on track to do this year? That way you can identify if it’s truthful, or you actually gonna get a 10% bonus? Or is it gonna be 5% or is it gonna be 15%? So, you’re already setting the stage or collecting more information before you kind of get into the next step of the negotiation.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And one of the things I would love in these situations, because you’re talking about the range of the bonus over a few years, COVID obviously affected a lot of firms performance, and a lot of bonuses during that time and if they owned up to it, I would love their [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/). If they tried to hide it, and just talk about one year, you know, to me they’re trying to bury the lead there. So, again, that’s how I kind of look at things, because I look for the relationship between you and your future boss, and where they’re withholding. I view that as a signal for what might happen once you join.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, exactly. I mean, the last thing you want to do is join with false expectations and expect a huge bonus at the end of the year, you work for a year and a year, and then it ends up being half that. So, it’s always good to understand the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Set expectations up front. That way, you’re kind of [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) at the end, and you’re able to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) it to account for that fact to make sure you hit those goals.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Surprises are never good.

**Brandon Bramley**

No, no expect especially not after you’ve started a job. But the next step is really, after you complete the first one, you understand your total compensation. You do your due diligence in the second step and actually ask some targeted question. bring back some data points. Also hopefully get yourself some quick wins is it’s time to actually [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the compensation range in that exact role. So, a big thing about how most companies work is they’re going to have a set base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) as well as total compensation number and it’s going to be on a range So they’re gonna have flexibility. There’ll be a low end, mid end, and a high end. So, a big key role is to go in, identify what that is and [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). That way you know how much room might be left to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/), and how strong your [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is off the bat, very rarely have I ever actually seen an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) at the top end of the pay range. So, there’s usually always flexibility, but it is a competitor off the gate, you want to make sure you’ve done the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), you know how much more to ask for. Otherwise, throwing out random numbers can be a little bit of aggressive and bringing that old school car salesman negotiation, where you shoot high, they shoot low, and you are going to meet in the middle, rather than taking a database approach to where you’re putting something in front of them that’s reasonable, but also at the top end of their pay range.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And notice that phrase, data approach. You know, you don’t want to be hip shooting things, because you may hips shoot too low or too high. You may miss some money by not using real data to understand what the real range can wind up being. Cool.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, exactly, and really, anyone can do this. I mean, there’s a bunch of public facing websites out there whether it’s PayScale, Glassdoor or comparable levels that FYI, but the key is I mean, their public reported. Also, Jeff mentioned, with the craziness that happened in COVID and the crazy bonuses and increases and now dropped in the economy is people might be reported higher ranges, maybe say they have like [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) appreciation, or raises compared to what a new [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) get. So, it’s always good to look at multiple resources to make sure weaving those out and have an average between the two. So, you have a better picture on what the compensation should be.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And to repeat the publicly facing resources. You mentioned Glassdoor pay scale, comparatively, was it a third one? And what was the fourth one?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, comparatively. Yeah, the fourth one is a good one as well. It’s levels that FYI, it’s more specific to the tech industry and tech-based roles. But they do a good job of breaking out the details. However, all of those charts are prone to personal error. So, if someone misses one of the components doesn’t understand total compensation that can bake into it.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Gotcha. Perfect. So, we’re up to number three now. Am I right?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah. So, we’re at number three. So, really, once you get all those steps, you should be in a great place to send a counteroffer. So, once we’ve done the due diligence, we’ve done the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), we understand the total compensation, this is when it’s actually the negotiation kicks off, and you’re ready to ask the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to take an increase back in pay. So, really, it’s combining all of those points that you found to the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) as well as the pay range and sending that back to the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). I typically recommend doing this by email. A lot of people have an interest this what you think Jeff like to go ahead and do it over the phone. But by an email, if you think about it is most people don’t have these negotiations that often. So, by doing it by email, you can control the tone. You’re also emailing back something to the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that they can use internally to fight on your behalf, and you would avoid a lot of the interjections that you might get on the phone that the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is going to use to detour you to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/).

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

You know, with some people, I recommend phone and the way I’ll pose it to them is have you done many negotiations? Do you have this sense of yourself as becoming anxious during a negotiation? If so, do it by email. If you’re comfortable, do it by phone, and then confirm it by email. So, that in this way, there’s a written record of what’s been discussed what’s been proposed. One of the reasons I encourage those who are able to do it by phone is to hear the sincerity because again, to me, one of the missing pieces to email is they’re just seeing this shotgun at them. They have the momentary freak out of how many things are on that list. They’re asking for 12 items. Oh, I don’t know about that, and you can sense where you’ve overshot. But when you’re on the phone, they can hear your sincerity. You can hear how they’re responding to it and [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) on the fly and again, if that’s not you, if you’re not really attuned to other people, and you’ll be in your own head and not really listening by all means, just do it by email. That’s me.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, absolutely. My purchase usually email, but I do think phones are a great route as long as you feel comfortable with those, because the biggest thing is you call that out, Jeff is these negotiations and topics, they shouldn’t be aggressive, it should almost be in the tone where you’re talking with a friend, that’s helping you feel comfortable with the move to the new role. So, if you can do that by email, because you don’t want to have to throw out any tactics with you, that’s great. But if you feel comfortable, and you want to deliver that in a sincere way on the phone, that works just as well.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And you don’t want to have a multi-screen text.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, stay away from a text.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

You know, someone I’m working with now, was getting an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) today and I was just making sure he was clear about what the firm needed to do to bring him on. So, I want to see his list because I know him well enough to know where he might settle and thus for me to know where he might settle, rather than push for what he wanted would allow me to hold them accountable to what he said he really wanted. So, I received this text from him in Europe, and it was like four screens long. I can just imagine sending this to an employer, and it just doesn’t work.

**Brandon Bramley**

Not the right approach.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, we’ve covered three so far.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah. So, the fourth one was the counteroffer is actually getting that out the door, giving that into the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) hands.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And thus, you’ve received the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), you’ve done your due diligence, you’ve gently probed along the way to understand and to share some of the good stuff, the bad stuff and now we’re at the point of the counteroffer and that you counter proposing to the [firm to the recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-accurate-are-salary-guides-published-by-recruiting-firms-jobsearchtv-com/), whomever it is, you’re dealing with what you really want.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, absolutely because the next step after that is what a lot of people miss, and where most people fall short in the negotiation is actually handling objections. So, most times you send over counter, you’re gonna spend all this time you’re gonna prep for this phone call, and be like, I’m gonna deliver it perfect. It’s gonna come out great and they’re going to accept, but typically, they tell you no, and they say, oh, sorry, we don’t [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) and there’s a laundry list of reasons they can give you. But typically, those noes are not realistic and the key negotiators and the most successful people in these negotiations know to still gently push back and ensure that they still take their concerns back to the team because if you think about it, I mean, the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) job is not only to go ahead and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) an employee, run them through the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process, but it’s \[Inaudible 22:44\] them from negotiating. So, they have a few tactics. First one is to tell, you know, to see if they can get you to accept the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), as is before they go internally to fight on your behalf.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And one of the ones I know one of my clients when I did recruiting **\[Inaudible 22:58\]** is they made an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) for less than what they already had approved because they knew some people would always want to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). So, they had more money in their hip pocket that make the person feel as though they got something out of them, when in fact, it had been pre-approved at that amount. So, if you settle if you buy into the original [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), from their standpoint, save the firm 15 grand terrific. I’m a hero. But always try. Always shoot for.

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**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, I think that’s the biggest key here is everyone should [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). I mean, even at the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiator, we have a 94% [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) rate. So, 94% of the time do companies actually provide better compensation when you [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). So, in my opinion, with only a 6% rate of them not negotiating or worst case is you go through the negotiation process you try and they say no and then at least in your mind, you know that at least you try it, you’re not worried later down the road. But like I said, 94% of the time, if you do it correctly, they’re going to provide more compensation because maybe they’re expecting you to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) and usually it’s a skill set that they’re seeking in most [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). There’s a ton of reasons why it might be lower. So, it makes sense to justify take that additional step. Actually, try to get more compensation before you kind of commit your life for the next three to five years to this new company.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Agreed. So, you mentioned the objection of now we’re not going to do and we never do it except on Tuesdays in August. It’s snowing. But what are the sorts of objections surface?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, great. So, it can be anything, right? Anything that sounds like an excuse, or no whether it’s very general as in Hey, we feel we gave you a great [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) based off your experience and worth the math compensation for a role. So, we just can’t move or saying hey, you know what, we pay everyone the same in this role, or we’re cash strapped with the current economy. We don’t have flexibility on our own offers, and what a lot of companies put out and say they don’t [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). The [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is what it is, it can really be any tactic. But if you notice, it’s sounds more like an excuse, a reason or just a general No, you should actually be over trying to overcome that with the goal to have them take your concerns back to that hurt gene. If you think about it as well is hopefully the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) already has something approved that they can [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) and provide you a better [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) but typically, they’re not the decision makers, that’s gonna come down to the recruiting team, the compensation team, or the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. So, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) almost acts as a gatekeeper. You’re trying to get past the gatekeeper to make sure they take your concerns to the decision makers to see if they’ll provide you with a better [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And I’m also going to mention the third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), not just simply the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). The third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) has a fee involved and they don’t want to worry about whether or not they’re going to lose all that time and the fee involved. So, often they’ll slap you down to. So, when they start pushing back, you might just simply remember that and say, hey, look, I’m not inclined to say yes, right now, which really gets them scared. So, take it back to your client because I’m going to have you don’t and that puts them in a huge bind. No, don’t do that. Don’t do that because you don’t want them working on your behalf and at that moment, actually, throughout the entire service, they’re working on behalf of their corporate customer and trying to be a friend and your buddy and move you along the conveyor belt to the point where you join later and their money and they try to be very slick throughout this time and particularly a close in time, at the time that you’re getting the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). They will advocate for their client, that’s really yet. It’s all they can go. Really take it or leave it. Well, I’m going to leave it so once you go back to your client, and saving, get them out the money. This is what I’ll take. This is what the numbers need to be and suddenly they’ll advocate for you because they don’t want to lose the deal. Suddenly, they’ll fight for you, [rather than work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-would-you-rather-work-remote-or-in-house-jobsearchtv-com/) for their client. Is that what you find in those situations as well?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, honestly, 100% you’re spot on, because most people just think the negotiation is going to happen with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team. But [third party recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/managing-third-party-recruiters/) there, it’s interesting, because what I’ve seen in our experience is that’s usually where sometimes the negotiation will get a little bit more aggressive, because the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) almost gets ticked off a little bit, because they now see kind of their feed disappearing because they’re like, oh, shoot, not only you might not accept, but now I gotta go back to this company and they’re gonna think that I didn’t set the right expectations. Now, that you’re negotiating so it might make me look bad. But at the end of the day, it’s their job, and they’re getting paid a very hefty fee to place you with that company. So, it makes sense that you’re doing the due diligence. You’re pressing them with some of those tactics to make sure that they go back fight for you and get you a better [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) before you accept.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And folks, I’ll just remind you, there’s a point where you may hear from a third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) saying something to the effect of, I’m having a conversation with him at four o’clock tonight, where I’m gonna be doing the negotiating for you. I just want to make sure that I have the numbers down right for you. They already know the numbers at this point and what they’re trying to do is to see how manageable you are to get to those numbers, or whether they’re going to be in a fight with you with their client. So, don’t fall for the BS.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, exactly. Usually, that question is to go ahead and find out what your like bottom dollar is. But it’s if you’ve already done your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and who it is, or if you already send out the counter, it’s better to stick what you’ve already shared, don’t [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) down. Keep it vague and just press them to go back and [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) your behalf and also just send the counter and kind of set their expectations. Don’t put a ton of tactics in place. That will get you stressed out. But it should be a pretty common negotiation.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

It really should is the truth. Once you start to recognize that the game is rigged against you that the third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) at this particular moment in particular is not your friend. What they are is another person at the table trying to hit you over the head like his baby seal and get you to become compliant. Once you understand that, you don’t want it giving away all your power at the negotiating table.

**Brandon Bramley**

Exactly. It’s very similar to sales, right? Salesman try to become your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend and they’re using that emotional tie, which is also what [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do. Not only does it make it a pleasurable experience, but then you’re going to open up, you’re gonna trust him more, because it’s not a business relationship. Now, it’s more friendly. You’re gonna feel that they’re being more honest, kind of take their word at face value. But at the end of the day, you probably only been recruited or going through the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process for a little bit. You need to make sure that you kind of void still be nice and genuine, build those relationships, but kind of keep to the facts and the figures and don’t just take everything they say, at face value, because that’s a key goal. So, picture them as a salesman that you need to overcome.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Exactly, right. If you want to feel well, I’ll skip that. I was going to be critical of people in particular professions and I’ll just back away from that. Did we cover point number five? I just want to make sure we haven’t missed anything there.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, really the last point was handling any objections, and actually sending another counteroffer, if you need to say they didn’t hit the first mark, when you sent over the first counteroffer, and they come back with something but it’s lower than what you were expecting. It is okay to send a second counteroffer, and still push back on the data that you found what your goals were. Maybe you’d have another [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that’s competitive, bring that into the loop. But going past that it can sometimes get aggressive. So, usually, we only recommend two counters. But the key steps we recommended, or at least I recommend is understand the components of your job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) first, really don’t kick off the negotiation to have a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in hand. The second is complete your due diligence on the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) by asking questions. Don’t skip that step. Make sure you understand everything about the role, build yourself up some leverage, hopefully get some freebies and then [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the compensation range so you know how much to ask for and then the fourth step is sending a counteroffer. So, actually creating that counteroffer getting it out to the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), whether it’s by email, or over the phone and the fifth one is handle objections. Do not take no for an answer. Learn how to overcome those objections, and then send another counteroffer if you need to.

[***Salary Negotiations. Negotiating the Package.*** ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eb5)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

When I work with people, I believe that negotiation on their side is beginning with the screener in the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), where they’re asking you so what you’re looking for and you really don’t have enough information to answer that question. So, I encourage the strategy of defer and deflect and differ and deflect translates into, you know, all I’ve done is read the job description, or I got the briefing from [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), and she told me about the job, but I haven’t met my future boss don’t have a real sense of expectations, what the work is going to be like, what the team is like, timeline for getting things done. So, could we circle back to that later, once they have more information, because the job description probably isn’t completely accurate. Most HR people are honest enough to admit maybe if they’re lucky job descriptions, 80% accurate. So, you’re aiming at the wrong target to begin with and they’re trying to tie you into numbers early in the process and that’s their form of negotiating. It’s a heavy hand early and when they try and push you, I encourage people to say, you know, I can give you a number, but I’m not wedded to this. I can come back and change it afterwards and after I meet with everyone and have a clear idea of the role, I may go up. I may also come down a little bit. So, can we just deal with this at a later point once I have the more information?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, absolutely. I’m glad you said that too because too many times do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ask for [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations, and people feel that they have to throw them out. If you think about it, they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for the role. They know what skill set they need. They also know what budget they have approved. They know exactly how much they pay, you should not have to tell them. Usually, they’re trying to get you to anchor around the number and the risk with that is if you throw out a lower number, you’re stuck to that. It’s gonna be harder to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) it up and a lower number you might be coming in at a less competitive pay range and the other risks which a lot of people don’t think about, a lot of people are like, hey, you know what, I’m gonna throw out a big number. That way, I’ll have a very aggressive competitive [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), if I land this job is they might be like, wow, we can afford this person. Maybe we should go into different route and move some of these other candidates for it. So, just like Jeff mentioned, I mean, you should push back on that and say, hey, I’ve just looked at the job description or hey, you know, what I’ve been focusing on [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for the role. I haven’t even thought about the compensation yet. So, we can talk about that once I have a chance to review the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and the details are included as well as the benefit information or you can go ahead and actually turn the question back on them and say, hey, you know, I don’t like I mentioned, I’ve been focusing on [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for this job. I have no idea what the compensation should be. But why don’t you tell me what you have approved for this role and what range you’re thinking about.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And that’s true, using the differ and deflect approach once you’ve been finish that say, hey, could you give me an idea of what the range is for the role? And sometimes people, they laugh when I say this, and sometimes that the firm responds with I asked you first! Yes, but I asked you second and what difference does it make? And it’s just, to me, there’s information and everything that goes on in the process, and nonsense questions like this, where they try to tie you down early and they really push hard on the number is a message in that sort of a culture, that being very rules based, that I think is very useful for individuals to recognize, and what might want to look out for in the organization as they start to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and they consider joining. So, I just want to check what haven’t we covered yet that we really should.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, I would say a few other items, specific to [job offer negotiations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-job-offer-negotiation-secrets-jobsearchtv-com/) is it’s a very uncomfortable experience, right? A lot of people haven’t done it before, or they get nervous about it. So, there’s a lot of myths out there throughout but at the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiator, my goal is to make sure that everyone negotiates, and they at least give it a try and they feel comfortable going into these because with the economy right now, people have heard layoffs in the news, they feel they don’t have as much leverage. So, they’re getting scared or maybe it’s their dream job. You know, I’ve been [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a while I need this job, I don’t have another opportunity. I want this. So, I’m just not going to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) them and accept as is. But there’s so many myths and reasons that get in your mind to go ahead and kind of make for fear that just aren’t realistic. So, I don’t know if you’ve heard any myths out there for why people don’t [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/), but I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to share some in hopes that everyone will actually [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) their job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

*[**The Top 10 Salary Negotiation Mistakes**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ekN)*

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

The big one I find is I’m [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that they’ll take it back or rescind the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

**Brandon Bramley**

That one is ridiculous. Everyone asked that and like how often does this happen and I can tell you, Jeff, I have never had a [job offer rescinded](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-know-weve-made-a-job-offer-to-you-but-things-have-changed-and-were-rescinding-the-offer/) while helping clients [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). As long as you’re a friendly, kind, confident and professional not being super aggressive, follow a framework, there’s no reason they would pull it. The worst case they could ever say is no. But you should also make sure that’s a real no, not just an objection. But why would they pull an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) after the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you for what, a couple of weeks, a couple months, and they had the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager as well as the rest of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team pointing at the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and saying, hey, you better make sure this person starts and get them in this seat and so that work can get done, instead of like, oh, you know, they need a little bit more money. Let’s go find another candidate. Let’s start the month process or two-month process over again.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Gotcha. What are the myths do you find people buy into?

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, I think a lot of people just don’t think they have leverage to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). A lot of [people think that they need](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-do-you-think-people-are-lazy-and-need-to-be-pushed-jobsearchtv-com/) additional offers to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) otherwise, there’s no reason to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). They would never say yes, or the employer would flat out refuse. But in all reality, the way it works in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process is throughout the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you’re trying to show that you’re the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person for the role. You’re showcasing your skills and essentially, the employer has the leverage, right? You want the job, you need the job, once they give you a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). That’s actually when the leverage shifts. They now have gotten everyone signed off and approved to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. It’s the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) sole job to make sure you start so the leverage in the negotiation actually shifts and now it’s up to you if you accept or not and if you don’t accept that [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) has to go back, not only tell the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team, hey, the person and accept but now they aren’t hitting their goals. They have to go find someone else start those [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) over the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team have to have additional [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). So, there’s an opportunity cost tied with that. So, you actually have leverage because they want you in that role. You have the skill set they need to actually have these conversations and feel confident. As long as you’re doing your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and ask with is within reason, there’s no point not to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) and know that you have leverage for these conversations.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Agreed. Brandon, this has been fun. How can people find out more about you, those [salary negotiator](https://thebiggamehunter.us/salary-negotiation-mistakes-3/) everything. Okay.

**Brandon Bramley**

Yeah, Jeff. So, this one’s gonna be very easy. It’s the **salarynegotiator.com**. That’s where you can find out to learn more about us learn more about our services. Also, we [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a free consultation to anyone who’s gotten a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) or right before they get a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). So, we can give them some quick tips and possibly help them through the negotiation, and you can find me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). My name is Brandon Bramley. You can also find our business page on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as well, the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiator, and then if you don’t want to work with our team directly, we also have started releasing courses. Our biggest goal is to make sure that everyone can [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) their [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and they have that framework to do so. So, we have courses on the salarynegotiator.com as well.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Super! Brandon, thank you and folks, we’ll be back soon with more. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you enjoyed today’s show. If you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the Like button do something that lets people know it was worthwhile. Also visit my website **thebiggamehunter.US**. There is a ton on the blog that will help you plus you can find out about my courses, books, and guides, scheduled time for a free discovery call the [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session. Again, a lot there they’ll help you. Also connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at **[linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com\\In\\thebiggamehunter**. Mention that you saw the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I like knowing I’m helping some folks. Have a terrific day and most importantly, be great. Take care.

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### [The About Section of Your LinkedIn Profile #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-about-area-of-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** August 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is an opportunity in the about area of your LinkedIn profile.

**Content:**

# The About Section of Your LinkedIn Profile

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

There is an opportunity in the about area of your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile.

[***Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lgN)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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Here’s the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes.

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### [The Three Second Rule of Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-the-three-second-rule-of-networking/)

**Published:** August 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers a simple technique for networking when you are afraid to talk to someone.

**Content:**

# The Three-Second Rule of Networking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers a simple technique for [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) when you are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to talk to someone.

[***Networking: How You Stay in Contact***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-8Oo)

Years ago, a friend of mine mentioned this idea to me of how to do pickups. It popped into my mind a few days ago as part of a joke I was telling myself. I realized though it had applicability to [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).![networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-networking1.jpg)

Let’s say you’re at a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event with the opportunity to meet others and suddenly the voice comes into your head that says, “Don’t do this! Oh! You are going to embarrass yourself.” Or words to that effect. What this technique suggests is to give yourself 3 seconds and then just do it.

It’s like the Nike commercial. Do it. Get over there. Do it. Talk to the person. Asked them questions. Introduce yourself. Talk to them about what they do and how you might be able to help them. They’ll reciprocate and ask you about what you do and how they might be able to help you. Just start the conversation.

The trick is 3 seconds. 3 seconds of apprehension. 3 seconds of fear. Then take a step toward the person. Smile. Introduce yourself. Ask them what they do and start the conversation.

I know when I have met people who are “famous,” I have had that kind of apprehension myself. Yet using this kind of technique has helped me introduce myself to people who are really quite famous.

[***Conversation Starters When Networking***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-DQ)

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### [Ending the Interview Right!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ending-the-interview-right-video/)

**Published:** August 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the way to end a job interview and leave a great impression.

**Content:**

# Ending the Interview Right!

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the way to end a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and leave a great impression.

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Let’s talk about ending the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You’ve been sitting with them for about 45 minutes to an hour, or you’ve finished a phone call but, more often than not, this scenario is going to come up in the in-person [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Let’s say your meeting with one person on your agenda; let’s say your meeting with five. Whoever the final person is, they are going to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to usher you out the door. Your final words to this person need to demonstrate your interest in the role. Why? Often this is used as a tiebreaker in a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s mind.

Here’s how it works. They had decisions to make and will decide between you and several other people. How will they choose? Skills, obviously, come into consideration. There are a variety of different attributes they are looking for and personality they are evaluating you for.

Often, there is a very fine line between people. One of the things that starts to happen is managers don’t want to make offers that they are not sure are going to be accepted. So, one of the tiebreakers they use in their own mind (after all, it’s not like are sitting there going through the checklist, but sometimes it is on the checklist), is whether they think this person will accept our [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) if we make a fair [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? Are they interested in the job? Do they want to come to work for us

[***Salary Negotiation Mistakes***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h1k)

A manager doesn’t want to go through [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) people multiple times for a job; they just want to be in a situation that if they extended an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is going to be accepted and they will be done with the job.

Thus, your goal at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is to demonstrate interest. So, with the last person you meet, you have to make it clear to them that you are interested in the role. It could be saying something as simple as, “I just want you to know how interested in this role I am. I just it will be aB08KQN5TCT great opportunity for me and I would love to work for you.” Or end it by saying the same thing plus, “I would love to work for your organization.”

These are words that demonstrate sincere interest. You can’t say this like it is [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) speech. This is one of these times were acting needs to be part of your delivery.

It can be something as simple as, “I just want you are interested I am in the position and look forward to hearing from you about next steps.” Or, “I would love to work for you,” or, “I would love to work with Suresh,” or “I would love to work with Joe,” or Sharon or whomever the first name is some of that you met with. “I think this would be a great opportunity. I would love to work for themI would love to work here.I think there is a lot I could do here.”

A lot depends upon the role. If you’re an executive, there is a different language that you might use.

“I think this offers a great challenge. I have a few ideas of things that like to do but that’s for another day.”

“My mind is racing.” Like I said, there’s a different language. You can’t make it sound like a [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) speech. Again, this is one of these times were acting is a part of what you are going to be doing in your delivery.

Leave them knowing that you are interested. You can go so far as to ask, “what standing between you and extended an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? Is there any additional information you need for me?”

You can do this on your way out the door so it doesn’t appear to be part of any formal [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Just let them know that you are interested, asked them for the job so that you ended in a way that lets them know of your interest.

[***Salary Negotiation With Startups***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hwZ)

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### [The Best Ways to Get An Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-ways-to-get-an-interview-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** August 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# The Best Ways to Get An Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the most and least effective ways to get a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years.

Today, I want to just talk with you about the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to get an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and it really isn’t difficult. And I want to give you context.

If you want to be referred to a product or service, and you’ve done some [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and you’ve got to make some choices, often what do you do? Well, I’m not talking about flipping a coin because that’s really what [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to a job board is. It’s flipping a coin.

What I’m talking about is you talk to friends, colleagues, business associates, people that you know, who you trust and rely on, and get some input, and then you make a decision. Now, in [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), you can do much the same thing, or in getting an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you can do much the same thing.

Let’s say you hear about a job opening, and what can you do? Answer: friends, colleagues, associates who you know who might be able to provide you with an introduction into the firm. Now, let’s work with the assumption that not everyone you know is going to know about the firm that you’re talking with, or you want to talk with.

Why not just go to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)? Why not find someone there who you can connect with and see if they can provide you with an introduction? After all, many of these people get employee [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) bonuses if they [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) someone who’s hired. Now, they’re not going to do you a solid just because you asked them for it. You have to demonstrate that you have experience, knowledge, and skills that are suitable, but let’s assume that you do.

Do you think it’s better to go into the great abyss of the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or number two, get referred by someone who works there, or number three, contact the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager yourself and try and get entry? Two and three are clearly the better choice, and the likelihood of you getting through the third choice, it exists, you should try that, but you have a much larger target audience if you also do number two.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found this video helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, do something that lets people know that this was helpful to you.

Now, I also want to encourage you to come over to my website, which is JeffAltman.com. You can sign up for a complimentary subscription to “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Ezine”, which is published weekly with advice for job hunters that’s good anywhere in the world. It’s a $499 value that I give away for free.

The previous articles in the ezine are there. You can watch my videos there or on YouTube. On YouTube, the channel’s called “The Big Game Hunter TV”, all one word, “TheBigGameHunterTV”. You can listen to podcasts of my radio shows, “Job Search Radio”, which is broadcast on webtalkradio.net, and “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio”, which is on blogtalkradio.com. Both are available through iTunes, Stitcher, Spreaker, Player FM, the BlackBerry store, a host of different podcast networks all over the web.

You can search positions I’m recruiting for. There are places that you can post your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to, information about my books and guides to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). Just go over to JeffAltman.com and go exploring.

Next, if your firm’s trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone, send me an email at the address below, let me know who to contact, and whether or not I can mention your name. I’d love to help your firm staff positions.

If we’re not already connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send me a connection request at [linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter](https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flinkedin.com%2Fin%2Fthebiggamehunter).

Also want to mention, if you have a question for me, contact me through liveperson.com, where I’m a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) and career coach.

Finally, if you’re interested in personal [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from me throughout your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), contact me through vippersonalsearch.com. You can find out about my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) program there.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you have a great day. Take care.

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [Ghost Jobs: What to Look Out For on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ghost-jobs-what-to-look-out-for-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** August 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Ghost jobs are wasting job hunters’ time, energy, and hope.


**Content:**

# Ghost Jobs: What to Look Out For on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![ghost jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-Jobs-scaled.png)

Ghost jobs are wasting job hunters’ time, energy, and hope.

Companies leave these postings open with zero intention to hire. Why? To build candidate pipelines, signal fake growth to investors, or convince overworked teams that “help is on the way.”

If you want to stop sending [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-hate-applications-2/) into the void, watch out for these 5 red flags on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-just-follow-a-firm-on-linkedin/):

The “Posted 30+ Days Ago” Trap: If a role sits open for over a month with no updates, it’s rarely an active priority.

The Constant Repost: It says “Reposted 1 week ago,” but you’ve seen the exact same opening active for six months straight.

Vague “Kitchen-Sink” Descriptions: The requirements read like three distinct jobs smashed together, lacking clear daily deliverables.

Missing from the Company Portal: The post is live on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-just-follow-a-firm-on-linkedin/), but when you check the company’s official /careers page directly, the role doesn’t exist.

200+ Applicants, Zero Movement: Hundreds of people have applied, yet the posting stays active for weeks without closing or updating.

Don’t spend hours tailoring [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-speed-game-why-early-resumes-win/) for roles that don’t exist. Check the company site first, network with actual employees, and focus your energy where hiring is actually happening.

[***The 1 Question Every C-Level Candidate Should Be Asked***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3B0)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Advice globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things

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### [9 Questions to Prepare To Answer in a C Suite Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/9-questions-to-prepare-to-answer-in-a-c-suite-interview/)

**Published:** August 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here are 9 questions to prepare to answer in advance of your C suite interview.

**Content:**

# 9 Questions to Prepare To Answer in a C Suite Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

One thing should be clear to you–if you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a role in the C Suite, you need to do work in advance of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Here are 9 questions to prepare to answer in advance of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

00:00 Introduction
01:05 The questions
01:53 Summary
02:11 Outro

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If you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a C suite position, one thing should be obvious to you– You can’t walk in cold and not be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). You can’t just wing it on your answers. You need to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) with information that shows that you looked at the organization and have definite opinions about them.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally, because I make things so much easier for people. And here are nine questions I can’t give you answers for because it really depends on the organization that you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with. So, you know, think of it from the standpoint of it being a homework assignment to be thought of in advance of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

So as you’re meeting with individuals within the firm, you’re meeting with the Board, meeting with advisors, you have an opportunity to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and to think in advance about how you might address some of these questions.

The first one is, what’s your long term vision for our firm? Pretty straightforward question. Where do you see your firm going forward? How would you help our employees connect to that vision? How would you inspire your leaders and staff to fulfill it? What are your top three goals for our firm? What will get in the way of your leading the achievement of those goals? How have you overcome the barriers you’ve encountered in the past to attaining company goals (because they’re always obstacles, right)? What is our company doing well? What can our company be doing better? How would you go about improving on the things our company could do better?

So these all require some thought. They involve [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on your part and that should be done because it will set the stage for your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) on this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Again, you can’t just walk in winging it. You have to do some preparation.

I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us) There’s a ton in the blog that can help you. Plus, you can schedule time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me, ask me questions through Trusted Advisor Services, find out about my video courses, books and guides. Again a lot there. Meantime, also connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter). Have a terrific day and be great!

[***The 1 Question Every C-Level Candidate Should Be Asked***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3B0)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [10 Camera Blunders Sabotaging Your Video Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-camera-blunders-sabotaging-your-virtual-interview/)

**Published:** August 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** 10 common, easy-to-correct mistakes people make during on-camera interviews

**Content:**

# 10 Camera Blunders Sabotaging Your Video Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) have undergone a transformation, with virtual platforms becoming the new norm. While this offers convenience, it also introduces a whole new set of challenges when it comes to making a strong impression. It’s no longer just about *what* you say, but *how* you appear and present yourself through the lens of a camera. Many qualified people unknowingly [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) their chances by making easily correctable visual [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Don’t let your camera [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) be the reason you miss out on your dream job. Here are 10 common, easy-to-correct [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make during on-camera [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), focusing purely on appearance, body language, and presentation style, not content.

### 1. The “Looking Up Your Nose” Angle

Your camera should ideally be at eye level. Placing your laptop on a low desk forces the camera to look up at you, creating an unflattering angle and![Looking up your nose](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Looking-up-your-nose-Gemini_Generated_Image_zb9uqizb9uqizb9u-300x300.png) potentially highlighting your ceiling rather than your face.

- **The Fix:** Stack books, use a laptop stand, or adjust your chair height until your camera lens is directly level with your eyes. This creates a more professional and engaging perspective.

### 2. The “Dark Cave” Lighting

Poor lighting can make you look shadowy, tired, or even sinister. Facing away from a window, or relying on dim overhead room lights, can cast harsh shadows and obscure your features.

- **The Fix:** Position yourself facing a natural light source, like a window, if possible. If not, use a ring light, desk lamp, or even a couple of lamps positioned behind your monitor, pointed *at* your face, not behind you. Aim for soft, even illumination that eliminates shadows.

### ![Distracting background](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Distracting-background-Gemini_Generated_Image_zb9uqhzb9uqhzb9u-300x300.png)3. The “Busy Background” Distraction

A cluttered bedroom, an unmade bed, or a family photo collage can divert your interviewer’s attention from you and your answers. Your background speaks volumes about your professionalism.

- The Fix:** Opt for a plain, neutral background. A blank wall, a tidy bookshelf (with appropriate items), or a clean home office setup works [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). If using a virtual background, ensure it’s professional, static, and doesn’t glitch.

### 4. The “Floating Head” or “Too Far Away” Framing

Being too close to the camera can be intimidating, while being too far away makes it hard for interviewers to read your expressions and body language.

- The Fix:** Aim for a shot that includes your head and shoulders, with a little bit of space above your head. This “bust shot” allows for good [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) and captures some of your natural hand gestures without being distracting.

### 5. The “No Eye Contact” Gaze

It’s natural to look at your interviewer’s face on your screen, but to them, it looks like you’re looking *down* or *away*. Consistent direct [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) conveys![No eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/No-eye-contact-Gemini_Generated_Image_zb9uqizb9uqizb9u-300x300.png) [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and engagement.

- **The Fix:** Train yourself to look directly into your webcam lens as much as possible, especially when speaking. If you need to glance at notes, make it brief. You can also drag the interviewer’s video feed as close to your camera lens as possible.

### 6. The “Slouching Silhouette” Posture

Even if you’re dressed professionally, poor posture can convey disinterest, lethargy, or a lack of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). Slouching makes you appear less energetic and less engaged.

- The Fix:** Sit up straight with your shoulders back and chest open. Imagine a string pulling your head gently towards the ceiling. Maintaining good posture not only looks better but can also make you feel more confident.

### 7. The “Distracting Fidgeter” Syndrome

Jiggling your leg, tapping your fingers, playing with your hair, or swaying in your chair can be incredibly distracting to an interviewer, even if you’re unaware you’re doing it.

- The Fix:** Be mindful of your movements. Before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), take a moment to settle yourself. Place your hands gently on your lap or desk. Channel nervous [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into subtle, purposeful gestures when speaking, rather than aimless fidgeting.

### 8. The “Underdressed from the Waist Down” Trap

While only your upper half is visible, the illusion of being fully [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) can impact your mindset. Plus, unexpected situations (like needing to stand up) can expose your secret.

- The Fix:** Dress professionally from head to toe. This isn’t just about appearances; it puts you in the right headspace and ensures you’re [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for any unexpected movement during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

### 9. The “Ghostly Glare” or “Shiny Forehead”

Harsh overhead lights or a lack of proper face powder can leave you with an undesirable glare on your forehead, nose, or cheekbones, making you look sweaty or unprepared.

- The Fix:** Adjust your lighting to be more diffused and even. For those prone to shine, a quick dab of translucent powder (even for men) can make a significant difference in how you appear on camera.

### 10. The “Static Statue” vs. “Overly Animated” Balance

Some candidates remain unnervingly still, appearing stiff and unnatural. Others gesticulate wildly, making them look scattered or uncomposed. Both extremes are unhelpful.

- The Fix:** Aim for natural, expressive communication. Use subtle hand gestures to emphasize points, smile genuinely, and nod to show engagement. Practice in front of a mirror or record yourself to find a balanced, confident presentation style that feels authentic.

A successful virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) goes beyond well-rehearsed answers; it’s a performance where visual cues play a critical role. By addressing these 10 easy-to-correct [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), you can ensure your on-camera [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) is as polished and professional as your qualifications, significantly boosting your chances of landing that coveted job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

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### [Making Eye Contact on Camera](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/)

**Published:** August 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Making eye contact during a video interview is very important!

**Content:**

# Making Eye Contact on Camera

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Making eye contact during a video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is very important!

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### [AI-Powered Research Meets Low-Friction Outreach](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/)

**Published:** August 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The fundamental failure of professional networking on LinkedIn comes down to two major flaws

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# AI-Powered Research Meets Low-Friction Outreach

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The fundamental failure of professional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) comes down to two major flaws: deference and generic automation.

When most people reach out to someone at a target company, they default to lower-status social begging. They land in an inbox asking to “pick your brain for 15 minutes,” “have a virtual coffee,” or “discuss potential synergies.” This immediately shifts the mental load onto a busy person, asking them to do uncompensated labor for a stranger.

To fix this, many job hunters turn to [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). But they use it as a cheap ghostwriter, generating walls of synthetic enthusiasm, using phrases like *“I hope this finds you well”* or *“In today’s fast-paced climate,”* that trigger spam filters.

You do not build real connections by begging for time, nor by sending automated spam. You build leverage through Outreach Parity: using artificial intelligence to run deep research on a company’s real pain points, and then delivering a concise, human, low-friction observation that positions you as a valuable peer.

Here is a framework to combine AI-driven intelligence with high-conversion outreach at any level of your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

### Step 1: Construct the AI Diagnostic Matrix

Decision-makers, whether they are team leads, department directors, or founders, do not care about generic praise or standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullet points. They care about fixing operational headaches, saving time, protecting margins, and hitting deadlines.

Instead of asking an LLM to “write a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) message,” use it as a private Chief of Staff to analyze public data and identify hidden friction points within your target organization.

Gather unstructured public inputs from the company:

- Transcripts from recent investor calls, podcast [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), or panel discussions featuring team leaders.
- Recent product releases, customer review trends, or public forum discussions about their workflows.
- Industry news highlighting macro shifts impacting their specific business model.

Feed these inputs into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model of your choice with a structured diagnostic prompt:

> “Analyze these materials from the perspective of an operational [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/). Identify the top two structural bottlenecks or project execution risks this team will likely face over the next two quarters. Cross-reference these risks with my core background in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise observation highlighting the exact friction point and the metric at risk.”

In under two minutes, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) processes messy data into a clinical intelligence report. You are no longer guessing what the team needs; you possess a clear, data-backed view of their active operational challenges.

### Step 2: Package the Asymmetric Value Asset

Once [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isolates a primary friction point, don’t dump raw data into someone’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) inbox. Professional communication relies on brevity and clear value.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to refine your findings into an Asymmetric Value Asset — a brief, one-page framework or two-sentence observation that offers insight with zero obligation.

Filter your raw findings back through the system using this directive:

> “Compress this observation into a direct, two-sentence peer-level note. Strip away all corporate fluff, pleasantries, and self-promotional language. Focus strictly on the operational hurdle, the risk metric, and a practical mitigation tactic. Ensure the tone reflects clinical brevity.”

Once you get the output, apply a strict 80/20 Rule. Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) handle the 80% heavy lifting of research and data structuring, but take 20% to manually edit the message. Inject your own voice, vary the sentence cadence, and ensure it reads like an internal note rather than a sales pitch.

### Step 3: Deploy the Low-Friction Value Hook

When you send your message, eliminate all friction. Do not ask for a 30-minute phone call. Do not ask them to review your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) an immediate, zero-risk resource.

Here is how this approach looks across different [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) levels:

### For an Operations Specialist / Project Coordinator

> “I’ve been tracking your team’s expansion into automated customer onboarding this quarter. Having navigated a similar rollout at my last firm, I noticed that drop-off rates typically spike by about 12% in month two if third-party API verifications aren’t streamlined early. I put together a 1-page checklist on how we insulated our onboarding metrics against that drag. No strings attached — let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”

### For a Senior Manager / Department Lead

> “I’ve been following your department’s regional warehouse integration. Based on similar restructurings I’ve led, inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief 1-page framework on how we protected our numbers during that cutover. No strings attached. Let me know if you’d like me to pass the framework over.”

Notice the psychological shift in both examples. Neither note begs for a job or demands time. Both identify a concrete operational liability and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a zero-friction resource.

### The Bottom Line

Effective [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t about glad-handing, and it isn’t about blasting hundreds of generic, AI-generated messages into the void.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to run the deep preparation most people skip. Uncover the real operational challenges your target peers are dealing with, package your expertise into crisp solutions, and open the conversation with clear value. That is how you command respect, skip the line, and pull genuine [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) opportunities to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: August 2, 2027](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-august-2-2027/)

**Published:** August 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# No BS Career Advice: August 2, 2027

![No BS Career Advice August 2 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/No-BS-Career-Advice-August-2-2026.png)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Our wedding anniversary was yesterday and as we’ve done for many years we spent it apart – my wife in the late country of England and me now in Asheville. We spoke and we’ll celebrate when she gets back and gets reacclimated to time zones. Twenty-seven years. It has been a lovely ride together.

This book took years to write and I released it on Friday. I began writing [Resumes That Work: The No BS Playbook for Laptop Professionals to Leverage AI, Refine Their Story, and Get Interviewed ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC6B97QC)eight or nine years ago and kept putting it down. I’m glad I did because it would have been so out of date given the effects of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and the changes that have occurred as a result of it.

This book will get you through [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) and people to have your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) seen. It points out a lot of the flaws that people have that prove so damaging.

These self-inflicted wounds may be why you aren’t getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

As I have been doing, I released the book for $4,99 for a limited time and will be increasing the price at the end of next week. For less than $5 you’ll be able to figure out how to improve your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and get better results from it.

## AI-Powered Research Meets Low-Friction Outreach

[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://jobsearch.community/)

The fundamental failure of professional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) comes down to two major flaws: deference and generic automation.

When most people reach out to someone at a target company, they default to lower-status social begging. They land in an inbox asking to “pick your brain for 15 minutes,” “have a virtual coffee,” or “discuss potential synergies.” This immediately shifts the mental load onto a busy person, asking them to do uncompensated labor for a stranger.

To fix this, many job hunters turn to [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). But they use it as a cheap ghostwriter, generating walls of synthetic enthusiasm, using phrases like *“I hope this finds you well”* or *“In today’s fast-paced climate,”* that trigger spam filters.

You do not build real connections by begging for time, nor by sending automated spam. You build leverage through Outreach Parity: using artificial intelligence to run deep [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on a company’s real pain points, and then delivering a concise, human, low-friction observation that positions you as a valuable peer.

Here is a framework to combine AI-driven intelligence with high-conversion outreach at any level of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

### Step 1: Construct the AI Diagnostic Matrix

Decision-makers, whether they are team leads, department directors, or founders, do not care about generic praise or standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullet points. They care about fixing operational headaches, saving time, protecting margins, and hitting deadlines.

Instead of asking an LLM to “write a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) message,” use it as a private Chief of Staff to analyze public data and identify hidden friction points within your target organization.

Gather unstructured public inputs from the company:

- Transcripts from recent investor calls, podcast [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), or panel discussions featuring team leaders.
- Recent product releases, customer review trends, or public forum discussions about their workflows.
- Industry news highlighting macro shifts impacting their specific business model.

Feed these inputs into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model of your choice with a structured diagnostic prompt:

> “Analyze these materials from the perspective of an operational [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/). Identify the top two structural bottlenecks or project execution risks this team will likely face over the next two quarters. Cross-reference these risks with my core background in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise observation highlighting the exact friction point and the metric at risk.”

In under two minutes, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) processes messy data into a clinical intelligence report. You are no longer guessing what the team needs; you possess a clear, data-backed view of their active operational challenges.

### Step 2: Package the Asymmetric Value Asset

Once [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isolates a primary friction point, don’t dump raw data into someone’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) inbox. Professional communication relies on brevity and clear value.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to refine your findings into an Asymmetric Value Asset — a brief, one-page framework or two-sentence observation that offers insight with zero obligation.

Filter your raw findings back through the system using this directive:

> “Compress this observation into a direct, two-sentence peer-level note. Strip away all corporate fluff, pleasantries, and self-promotional language. Focus strictly on the operational hurdle, the risk metric, and a practical mitigation tactic. Ensure the tone reflects clinical brevity.”

Once you get the output, apply a strict 80/20 Rule. Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) handle the 80% heavy lifting of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and data structuring, but take 20% to manually edit the message. Inject your own voice, vary the sentence cadence, and ensure it reads like an internal note rather than a sales pitch.

### Step 3: Deploy the Low-Friction Value Hook

When you send your message, eliminate all friction. Do not ask for a 30-minute phone call. Do not ask them to review your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) an immediate, zero-risk resource.

Here is how this approach looks across different [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) levels:

### For an Operations Specialist / Project Coordinator

> “I’ve been tracking your team’s expansion into automated customer onboarding this quarter. Having navigated a similar rollout at my last firm, I noticed that drop-off rates typically spike by about 12% in month two if third-party API verifications aren’t streamlined early. I put together a 1-page checklist on how we insulated our onboarding metrics against that drag. No strings attached — let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”

### For a Senior Manager / Department Lead

> “I’ve been following your department’s regional warehouse integration. Based on similar restructurings I’ve led, inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief 1-page framework on how we protected our numbers during that cutover. No strings attached. Let me know if you’d like me to pass the framework over.”

Notice the psychological shift in both examples. Neither note begs for a job or demands time. Both identify a concrete operational liability and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a zero-friction resource.

### The Bottom Line

Effective [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t about glad-handing, and it isn’t about blasting hundreds of generic, AI-generated messages into the void.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to run the deep preparation most people skip. Uncover the real operational challenges your target peers are dealing with, package your expertise into crisp solutions, and open the conversation with clear value. That is how you command respect, skip the line, and pull genuine [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) opportunities to you.

Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week I released a number of new blog posts including:

How Corporate Professionals Win [Employer Attention](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-corporate-professionals-win-employer-attention/) Excerpt: Instead of asking for a job, show clear proof that you can solve real workplace problems. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to get an employer’s attention is to use visual proof instead of basic claims and show that you are adaptable and a strong problem solver. Link: 

A Place People Forget to Look for Jobs #shorts Excerpt: It may seem dull, boring and obvious and they may not have jobs for you, but it never hurts to search. Link: 

How to Survive the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Emotion Scanning Tech in [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Excerpt: If you don’t understand how [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Emotion Scanning Technology systems work, you risk being filtered out before a human recruiter ever sees your tape. Link: 

Why Are You Doing This To Yourself? #shorts Excerpt: Why are you putting up with this? Jeff Altman shares a No BS reality check on staying in a toxic or stagnant work environment. Link: 

[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) BS Excerpt: The [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) process is full of outdated advice, misleading corporate tactics, and pure nonsense. Jeff Altman cuts through the noise to give you straight-shooting strategies that work in today’s market. Link: 

Questions to Ask to Avoid Stepping Into a Problem Job Excerpt: Don’t wait until your first week to realize you took a role in a dysfunctional environment. Jeff Altman breaks down the exact probing questions to ask during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) to uncover hidden [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) and bad management. Link: 

[Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/) in the Workplace Excerpt: I asked [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) about their experience was with [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/). I was surprised by the results. Link: 

Neutralize [Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/): Shift Leverage to Strategic Value Excerpt: To overcome [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/), you do not play defense. You reframe the conversation entirely by shifting the focus from chronological age to your ability to mitigate immediate operational risk. Link: 

If You Aren’t [Happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) Doing What You’re Doing #shorts Excerpt: There are two steps to take before deciding to change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). Link: 

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Fluency Is Becoming a Baseline Skill, Not a Specialty Excerpt: The bar moved while no one was watching. In 2026, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency has quietly shifted from a specialty into a baseline expectation, the professional equivalent of knowing how to use email or navigate a spreadsheet. Link: 

Job [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) #shorts Excerpt: This is a short video about what to consider when you get a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Link: 

Why Do [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Complain About Being Flooded With [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)? Excerpt: [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) complain all the time about their inbox being swamped when there are ways around the problem. Why are they complaining? Link: 

[Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [Objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) #shorts Excerpt: A six second [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tips about [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/). Link: 

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) People Make Excerpt: Whether you are an executive or a member of staff, too many of you make these [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Link: 

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Not Having a Conversation When Receiving a Call Excerpt: Your contempt for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) sometimes will bite you in the butt. Link: 

Who Are Your Enemies Excerpt: Identifying who or what is quietly sabotaging [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) progress is essential to navigating corporate politics and making smart, proactive [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) moves. Link: 

Spot and Avoid the [Burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) [Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) Excerpt: Learn the exact operational questions and back-channel strategies needed to protect your boundaries and secure a sustainable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. Stop acting like a passive applicant and pivot to an active auditor to uncover a company’s real work culture before signing a contract. Link: 

The 10000 Hour Rule and [Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) #shorts Excerpt: You spend decades mastering your profession, but expecting that to magically make you good at [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) is a delusion. Corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) work for the employer, not you. Stop playing the amateur — it’s time to build proper [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) skills and take control of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Link: 

There Are Many Fewer Full Time Jobs #shorts Excerpt: The permanent full-time hiring landscape has fundamentally changed. Jeff Altman breaks down why organizations are shifting away from traditional full-time headcount and what job seekers must do to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/). Link: 

How Effective Is The Easy Apply Button On Most Job Sites? Excerpt: Tapping “Easy Apply” feels productive, but it usually sends your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) straight into a massive digital void. Jeff Altman breaks down the harsh realities of one-click [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and what to do instead to get noticed. Link: 

18 Early [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Jobs That Map Well to Finance Majors Excerpt: Finance majors aren’t limited to traditional banking or corporate finance roles. Jeff Altman outlines 18 high-signal, early-career [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) paths that leverage a finance degree in today’s evolving job market. Link: 

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### [How to Dodge the Early Salary Question Traps](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-dodge-the-early-salary-question-traps/)

**Published:** August 2, 2026
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**Excerpt:** This episode delivers exact scripts to deflect salary demands, legally dodge past-pay questions, and force employers to reveal their budget first.

**Content:**

# How to Dodge the Early Salary Question Traps

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The moment you state a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectation during an early phone screen, you destroy your financial leverage before ever demonstrating your value. This episode delivers exact scripts to deflect [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) demands, legally dodge past-pay questions, and force [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to reveal their budget first. Stop bidding against yourself. Protect your negotiating power until a real [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is on the table.

The moment an employer asks about your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations during a first phone screen, the clock starts ticking on your financial leverage. Answer too early and you lose. State a number that is too low, and you anchor yourself to a bargain basement [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) before you even demonstrate your value. State a number that is too high, and HR screens you out before you ever speak to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager who actually has the budget to pay you.

This chart maps the timeline of your negotiating power. On the Y-axis, we have your leverage, plotted against time on the X-axis. Down here at the initial [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) phase, your leverage is at its absolute lowest. You are just one of dozens of potentially qualified professionals in a digital stack. The employer has not invested time or money in you, and they do not know what makes you unique.

But look what happens later. Your leverage spikes only after the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager decides you are the primary person who can fix their operational headache. If you give away your pricing before establishing your value, you give the employer all the power.

To keep control of the conversation, we are going to walk through exact step-by-step strategies and field-tested scripts to deflect four distinct types of early [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) pressure. Before we begin, you need to prepare. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) your target market rate, and determine your personal stretch number, the ideal top-tier compensation you want to achieve.

And get ready to take a few screenshots, because you will need these exact phrases for your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Mastering these early deflection tactics is the most reliable way to protect your financial leverage right up until a real [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is on the table.

Step one: Handling the standard phone screen. This typically happens when an internal or external [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) pauses the introductory call and asks, “Before we proceed, what [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range are you looking for?”

Do not freeze, and do not provide a number. The employer created the job requisition. They spent weeks securing budget approvals before posting the role. They know the pay band, and you do not. The goal here is to put the responsibility back on the employer to state their approved range first.

We use a four-part script formula: acknowledge and validate, anchor and pivot, the business case, and the low pressure close. This text graphic shows exactly how to deliver the scope-dependent pivot.

First, acknowledge: “I appreciate you bringing up compensation early.”

*Next, pivot to scope: “At this stage, my focus is on finding the right organizational fit and understanding the full scope of responsibility.”*

*Then, make the business case: “Until I have a chance to dive into the exact expectations and full total compensation package, it is tough to place a specific dollar figure on the position.”*

The final move secures your position. You close with a direct question: “What is the approved target range you have budgeted for this role?”

This pivot successfully forces the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to reveal the corporate budget first. You keep the focus on the actual work required, and you do it without sounding coy or evasive.

The second challenge is the past [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) often try to establish a baseline by asking, “What are you currently making at your firm?”

Never reveal your current or past pay. In many cities, states, and provinces across North America and the EU, it is now legally prohibited for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to even ask about your current or past compensation.

The logic behind refusing is straightforward. Your past compensation reflects past business conditions. It does not reflect your current market value, and it certainly does not reflect the scope of work for this new role.

This text graphic contains the past [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) deflection script. You start by validating: “I am [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to share the impact I deliver in my current role, but I prefer to keep my compensation confidential.”

Then, deliver this firm boundary: “More importantly, my current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) was set years ago under very different market conditions and a completely different scope of work. You evaluate new opportunities based on current market rates, not previous corporate structures.”

Immediately follow that refusal with a request for their numbers. Say, “If you can share the baseline compensation range for this position, I can quickly confirm whether we are close enough to keep moving forward.”

Shutting down inquiries into your past [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) firmly prevents the employer from using your old, outdated business conditions to set a permanent basement for a new [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

Occasionally, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will hit a wall and refuse to move forward. They will claim that their internal applicant system strictly requires a numerical entry before they can submit your file to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

When this happens, you use a forced hand counter-tactic. You provide a wide, data-backed range anchored specifically around your highest stretch number.

This illustrates the math for a safe range. Say market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) shows a target [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of $140,000, but your personal stretch goal is $150,000. Instead of giving the target, position your $150,000 goal near the bottom floor of your range.

You tell them, “Based on my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), I’m looking at $145,000 to $165,000.”

When you deliver this wide range, you must explicitly state that where you finally land within that spectrum depends entirely on total compensation details, like the [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) package and target performance bonuses.

This strategy satisfies the recruiter’s rigid system requirements by giving them a number to type in, while secretly keeping your price ceiling extremely high.

Moving away from live phone screens, we have to tackle online [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) and [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/). The primary digital threat here is a mandatory desired [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) field. If you encounter this on an online form, the software will literally block the submission of your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) until a number is typed in.

This browser mockup demonstrates our primary bypass tactic. Simply enter a 0 or a 1 into the field. Many corporate portals accept these specific inputs as placeholder values. This allows you to bypass the mandatory digital filter without committing to a real figure.

As a fallback tactic, if the software strictly requires a realistic [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) number, check the job post for a legally published range. Enter the absolute highest tier of that published range.

Never enter your actual current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) into these automated forms. Typing in a lower number permanently records that baseline in the company’s [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) database. You destroy your future leverage before an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) even happens.

Defeating these digital gatekeepers guarantees your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) reaches a human being, and it ensures you do it without preemptively surrendering your negotiating power.

You now possess a complete, customized toolkit to navigate and neutralize any early [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) pressure an employer throws at you. You can bypass mandatory digital forms, cleanly deflect tricky historical pay questions, and anchor your target range high when you are forced into a corner.

Maintain professional calm, rely on these field-tested scripts, and you will confidently keep the negotiating power firmly in your hands.

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### [.The "How Would You Do This" Interview . . . PLUS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-how-would-you-do-this-interview-plus/)

**Published:** August 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In many fields, hiring managers will do a "How would you go about doing this" scenario and throw more and more enhancements to the problem at you.

**Content:**

# The “How Would You Do This” Interview . . . PLUS”

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In many fields, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers will do a “How would you go about doing this” scenario and throw more and more enhancements to the problem at you.

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [:-) or ☹ | Career Angles](https://thebiggamehunter.us/or-☹-career-angles/)

**Published:** December 24, 2020
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a difference between choice and sacrifice. There are choices you can make about how to live your life in your career.

**Content:**

🙂 or ☹

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Choice: an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.

Sacrifice: **a:** destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else

**b:** something given up or lost

Choice involves making a decision between alternatives. It is value neutral. There is no pain. There is no suffering. It is simply a decision.

Sacrifice is also a choice but one that has something extra to it.

There is a [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) that occurs that is painful. It is not value neutral. There is an emotional component on top of the choice.

When you tell people you are making a sacrifice, you are signaling a burden.

If it’s the right thing to do, even when it is a hard thing to do, make it a choice or decision.

If there is too much loss or pain to it, don’t do it.

“I’m losing so much money on this.”

“It hurts me to do this.”

“I wish I didn’t have to.”

All our signals of a sacrifice because of the tone to the remark.

Things don’t have to be sacrifices.

They can be choices.

Being nice is a choice.

Being mean or ornery is a choice, just like being nasty is a choice.

How do you want to live your life?

Can you make every day like Christmas without the presents by having a generous spirit and open-heart?

Can you experiment with walking through life with a smile on your face instead of a scowl?

Who will people enjoy seeing more — 🙂 or ☹

Which one do you think will help you day feel better?

Life doesn’t have to feel as badly for you. Most of you have upper-class problems by comparison to much of the world.

Your plumbing works.

Your biggest complaint is that there is nothing on TV.

You have money in the bank (I’ll let you in on a secret. It never seems like there’s enough).

Your biggest complaint is that you’re stuck in the house and can’t go to a restaurant for dinner.

Whoop-de-do.

By comparison the many people in the world you have it good.

To them, you have the privilege of choices and your sacrifices are trivial.

Merry Christmas.

It’s Christmas for you every day.

Smile.

You’ll feel better and so a lot of people.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2020

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### [How's Your Plan Going?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hows-your-plan-going/)

**Published:** July 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Short Thoughts. Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We're On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We'll Feel Good If You Do.

**Content:**

# How’s Your Plan Going?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/lhhfpB3uwiY)

Short [Thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We’re On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We’ll Feel Good If You Do.

***[You may also like, “I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted”](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Sh*t Recruiters Say #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sht-recruiters-say-shorts/)

**Published:** August 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here’s an example of one of the stupid things recruiters site that drives people crazy… And rightly so.

**Content:**

# Sh\*t Recruiters Say

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Here’s an example of one of the stupid things [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) site that drives people crazy… And rightly so.

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [Neutralize Ageism: Shift Leverage to Strategic Value](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/)

**Published:** July 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To overcome ageism, you do not play defense. You reframe the conversation entirely.

**Content:**

# Neutralize Ageism: Shift Leverage to Strategic Value

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are an experienced professional over 45, you already know [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is biased toward younger, cheaper talent. You submit your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and watch it vanish into a black hole. When you do get an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you get polite smiles, nod-and-smile courtesy calls, and eventually a [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) rejection stating you are “overqualified.”

“Overqualified” is corporate code for two things: *We think you cost too much*, and *We are terrified you won’t take direction from a manager fifteen years younger than you.*

Most [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tells you to hide your age. They tell you to shave twenty years off your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), strip out your graduation dates, dye your hair, and pretend you just learned what [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) is yesterday.

That is a defensive, weak-handed strategy. When you try to hide your experience, you signal insecurity. You accept the premise that your depth of knowledge is a liability rather than an asset.

To overcome [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/), you do not play defense. You reframe the conversation entirely. You shift the focus from your chronological age to your ability to mitigate immediate operational risk.

Here is how you neutralize [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/) and force [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to value your experience.

### 1. Stop Selling Time. Start Selling De-Risking.

Younger candidates sell potential, [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), and enthusiasm. They are selling the promise that they *might* figure the job out in six to nine months.

Your edge is that you have already seen the movie, you know how it ends, and you know where the landmines are buried.

When you speak with a decision-maker, do not pitch your years of experience as a badge of honor. Stating that you have “25+ years in corporate finance” does not make you sound valuable; it makes you sound expensive and close to retirement.

Instead, position your experience as an insurance policy against costly errors.

- **Don’t say:** *“I have 25 years of experience leading cross-functional IT implementations.”*
- **Do say:** *“When companies scale their enterprise architecture too quickly, they typically hit a major deployment lag at month six that bleeds 15% of their budget. Having steered three of these transitions, I know the exact structural failure points to decouple in month one so you don’t leak capital down the line.”*

You are no longer asking them to pay for your past timeline. You are offering to save them from expensive [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in their future.

### 2. Solve the “Managerial Intimidation” Friction Upfront

One of the largest unstated reasons older professionals get rejected is manager insecurity. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers who are younger than you are often terrified that you will undermine their authority, challenge their decisions, or compete for their job.

If you sense your interviewer is younger or less experienced, you must proactively neutralize this [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) before they can use it as a reason to reject you.

You do this by explicitly framing your role as a strategic execution asset, not a political threat.

During the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), weave this exact posture into your answers:

> *“At this stage of my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), I have zero interest in corporate politics or empire-building. My sole focus is execution and making sure my leadership team looks exceptional (to the board/to your management). I enjoy being the subject-matter operator who takes the tactical execution off my manager’s plate so they can focus on macro strategy.”*

With one clear statement, you eliminate their primary fear. You demonstrate that you are an ally who will make them look good, not a rival coming for their seat.

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### 3. Modernize Your Execution Delivery

[Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/) often hides behind the assumption that senior talent is stuck in their ways, resistant to new software, or overly reliant on outdated management playbooks.

You defeat this assumption through your delivery, not your claims.

Do not tell them you are adaptable. Prove it by using modern operational shorthand and referencing current tools natively in conversation.

- Frame your past successes using modern metrics: unit economics, sprint velocity, margin compression, and retention rates.
- Speak comfortably about how you integrate [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools, workflow automation, and asynchronous platforms to streamline your day-to-day output.
- Keep your written communication tight, direct, and short. Long, multi-page emails or [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) signal an older, slow-moving communication style. Clinical brevity signals a modern, high-velocity operator.

When your language, cadence, and analytical tools align with the modern market, you remove their ability to label you as outdated.

### 4. Target Organizations That Cannot Afford Rookie Mistakes

Finally, stop wasting time [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to early-stage startups that only value cheap, high-volume hustle. Target organizations where institutional memory and risk management are actively priced into the business model.

Focus your search on:

- **Mid-market companies experiencing rapid growth:** They have passed the startup phase, their processes are breaking, and they desperately need adult supervision to stabilize operations.
- **Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies:** PE firms care about EBITDA, cash flow, and immediate execution. They do not have time to let a junior manager learn on the job; they want proven operators who can hit milestones immediately.

### The Bottom Line

[Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/) exists, but it only wins if you present yourself as a legacy asset waiting for a mythical gold watch.

Stop apologizing for your tenure, stop hiding behind defensive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) tricks, and stop acting like a candidate begging for a chance. Step into the room as a seasoned [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) who understands the employer’s risks better than they do, [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) immediate operational clarity, and force the market to pay for your wisdom.

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### [Ageism in the Workplace](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ageism-in-the-workplace-careerangles-com/)

**Published:** July 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I asked Boomers about their experience was with ageism. I was surprised by the results. 

**Content:**

# Ageism in the Workplace

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

The Graduate School of Business at Stanford published a study that concluded those more likely to oppose racism and sexism are more likely to maintain [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) as acceptable because they believe that older people block their way to advancement. The study concludes, “equality for all may only mean equality for some.”

I decided to ask [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) about their experience with [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/). I offered three choices:

It’s a common occurrence,

It happens from time to time, and

It never happens.

I thought most of the respondents would be the middle option so I was surprised to discover that 75% of respondents said it was a common occurrence.

In the category that I thought would be the heaviest choice (it happens from time to time), 22% of individuals said that was their experience.

> *In other words, 97% of [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) were experiencing [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/).*

Thus, they are not experiencing an equal playing field in the workplace.

An American Psychological Association study indicates that modern demands for labor may emphasize “youthful agility over mature experience and wisdom.”

In another study, a clear preference was shown for applicants whose profiles included positive stereotypes of younger age. These included being creative, good at learning new skills, and being a quick decision-maker. Deemed less hirable were applicants with profiles including positive older-age stereotypes, such as being good at settling arguments, understanding others’ viewpoints, and being polite.

Thus, for older workers, it is important to emphasize creativity, adaptability, and quick decision-making during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Let me also note that studies indicate older workers have a bias against younger workers. From experience, I know many of you wear that bias on your sleeves where everyone can see it.

Being the bridge generationally between your group and younger workers is also a skill that needs to be cultivated. I don’t mean, “You tell them what they should be doing and they do it.” I do mean that you coach and mentor, offering respectful questions (have you considered . . . ) , rather than telling them what to do (you know what I would do? I would…).

Conversely, younger professionals have blind spots that an older one can help them identify before [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) happen. It doesn’t mean you have to accept every suggestion. It serves you to listen to them, ask questions and decide the right thing to do for yourself.

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### [How to Survive the AI Emotion Scanning Tech in Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-survive-the-ai-emotion-scanning-tech-in-job-interviews/)

**Published:** July 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you don't understand how AI Emotion Scanning Technology systems work, you risk being filtered out before a human recruiter ever sees your tape.

**Content:**

# How to Survive the AI Emotion Scanning Tech in Job Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Think your experience and a great conversation will land you your next job? Think again. Major corporations are now using sophisticated Emotion [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) platforms to scan your video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) frame by frame, analyzing your micro-expressions and vocal [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) patterns to judge your authenticity. If you don’t understand how these automated systems work, you risk being filtered out before a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ever sees your tape.

You check your lighting, straighten your shirt, and take a deep breath. Staring into the lens, waiting for the meeting to start, you assume the only thing standing between you and the job is a good conversation. But on the other side of that screen, a human isn’t the only one watching. A multimodal emotion [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) platform is actively scanning your video feed, tracking the exact physical reactions you are trying to suppress.

This is a massive operation. Multinational corporations, including giants like Unilever, deploy these automated screening tools to process tens of thousands of video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and save thousands of hours of human recruiting time.

The software vendors make a compelling pitch. They claim their algorithms strip away human bias, scoring applicants on objective biological data to calculate who will succeed in the role. Psychologists are aggressively pushing back against that premise. Leading emotion researchers argue this technology relies on outdated science, erecting an invisible, highly subjective barrier to [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) based on flawed assumptions about human behavior.

The remote job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) has effectively morphed into an automated, multi-layered machine interrogation designed to decode your biology.

The first layer of this interrogation is entirely visual. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) system scans your video feed frame by frame, hunting for micro-expressions—involuntary twitches that flash across your face in less than half a second. This visual scan relies on a framework called Facial Action Units. It’s a coding system developed in the 1970s by American psychologist Paul Ekman, designed to catalog specific human facial movements. This animated wireframe uses those action units to map your facial geometry in real time. If the corners of your mouth dip momentarily, the software registers a micro-frown and logs it as a specific emotional reaction, even if you immediately force a smile.

Then comes the audio layer. The system strips away the words you are saying to isolate and analyze the raw acoustic sound of your voice: your pitch, your tone, and exactly how long you pause before answering. By analyzing these acoustic frequencies, the machine searches for friction in your speech. It listens for hidden vocal [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/), emotional fatigue, or hesitation that you might be trying to mask.

Tracking physical twitches and vocal pitch only provides raw data points. Without understanding the actual words being spoken, the machine has no context for why a candidate paused or why their expression changed. To solve this, the latest generation of recruitment software deploys generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to act as the platform’s central reasoning engine.

This diagram illustrates a process called semantic fusion. The GenAI engine takes all the raw numerical data about your facial muscles and vocal pitch and generates written natural language descriptions of your physical behavior. A large language model then takes that behavioral profile and compares it directly against the spoken transcript of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), checking to see if your physical body language aligns with your answers. It is explicitly hunting for a phenomenon known as surface acting. This happens when a candidate verbally expresses high [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) or excitement, but their physical data betrays hidden [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) or [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) actively judges your psychological authenticity based on these physical contradictions.

The critical vulnerability in this automated logic is that artificial intelligence lacks empathy and contextual awareness. A machine cannot distinguish between a candidate experiencing genuine emotional sadness and one who simply has screen fatigue from staring at a webcam all day.

Relying on a standardized set of facial expressions also introduces cultural bias. People from different cultural backgrounds express emotions in vastly different ways, meaning the algorithm routinely penalizes those who deviate from its rigid baseline.

These flaws have fractured the assessment industry. Some companies continue selling automated verdicts, while others have pivoted to building transparent systems that provide auditable data to human interviewers instead of making the final [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decision.

Governments are stepping in to halt the practice entirely. The European Union passed sweeping 2026 legislation explicitly banning companies from inferring emotions or intentions from biometric data in the workplace. The global recruitment landscape is caught in a race between tech companies deploying emotion [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and regulators desperately trying to outlaw it.

The next time that recording light clicks off, your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) may not hinge on your experience or your answers. You might be judged entirely on the involuntary micro-movements of your own face.

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### [YouTube and AI #shorts #jobsearchtv](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youtube-and-ai-shorts-jobsearchtv/)

**Published:** August 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# YouTube and AI #shorts #jobsearchtv

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### [Ghost Jobs: The Five Red Flags Costing You Time](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ghost-jobs-the-five-red-flags-costing-you-time/)

**Published:** August 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Understanding why ghost jobs exist, and learning to spot them fast, can save you dozens of wasted hours in a job search

**Content:**

# Ghost Jobs: The Five Red Flags Costing You Time

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you’ve spent hours polishing a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) for a job that never responds, you’re not imagining a broken process. You may have applied to a ghost job–a listing companies post or leave open with no real intention of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) anyone. Understanding why they exist, and learning to spot them fast, can save you dozens of wasted hours in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) where time is your scarcest resource.

## Why Companies Post Jobs They Don’t Intend to Fill

Ghost [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) aren’t a glitch in the system. They’re often a deliberate strategy, even if it’s one candidates rarely hear explained honestly.

- Building a candidate pipeline: Companies keep a listing live to collect [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) for future openings, so they have a ready pool when a real need eventually arises.
- Projecting growth: An active [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) page signals momentum to investors, customers, and competitors, even when internal headcount isn’t actually increasing.
- Managing employee morale: Overworked teams are told “we’re hiring” to keep hope alive, even when the requisition sits frozen or deprioritized behind budget approvals.

None of these reasons involve malice toward you personally, but they all result in the same outcome: your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) goes into a black hole while you lose time you could have spent on real opportunities.

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## The Five Red Flags to Watch For on LinkedIn

Ghost [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) leave behind patterns once you know where to look. Train yourself to spot these five signals before you invest another hour crafting a tailored [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

- The “Posted 30+ days ago” [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/): A listing sitting open for more than a month without updates is rarely an active priority. Real [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) needs move faster than that, and a stale timestamp usually means the role has slipped down the company’s list.
- The constant repost: [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) shows “Reposted 1 week ago,” but you recognize the exact same role from six months back. This cycle often means the position exists mainly to keep a pipeline warm, not to close a [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).
- Vague, kitchen-sink descriptions: When a listing reads like three different [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) stitched together, with no specific deliverables or a clear picture of daily responsibilities, it often reflects a role that hasn’t been thought through internally, or one designed to attract a wide net of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) rather than fill an actual seat.
- Disconnection from the official [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) page: Search the company’s own website directly. If the role appears on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) but doesn’t exist on the company’s actual /careers page, that mismatch is one of the clearest signs the listing isn’t a genuine, budgeted opening.
- High applicant volume with zero status changes: [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) shows 200+ applicants, yet weeks pass without the posting switching to “No longer accepting [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/).” Real [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) processes move applicants through stages. A frozen applicant count next to an open status suggests no one is actively reviewing the pipeline at all.

Any single flag deserves a second look. Two or more together should shift your approach entirely.

## How to Protect Your Time Once You Spot These Signs

Recognizing ghost [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) isn’t about [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) tool. It’s about being strategic with where you invest your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

- Cross-check every promising listing against the company’s official [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) page before writing a tailored [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).
- Note posting dates and repost patterns, and deprioritize listings that have clearly cycled for months without resolution.
- Reach out directly to someone at the company through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) rather than relying solely on the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) portal, since a human conversation can confirm whether a role is real faster than any algorithm.
- Apply anyway to strong-fit roles even with some [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) present, but budget your time proportionally—spend five minutes, not five hours, on listings showing multiple warning signs.
- Track which companies repeatedly post ghost listings, and treat that pattern as useful information about their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) culture, not just a one-off annoyance.

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## The Bottom Line

Ghost [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) exist because they serve a purpose for the companies posting them, even when that purpose has nothing to do with actually [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. Your job as a candidate isn’t to eliminate ghost [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) from your search entirely. That’s not realistic on a platform as large as [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Your job is to recognize the patterns fast enough that you spend your limited time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on real opportunities instead of chasing listings that were never going anywhere in the first place.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [If You Aren’t Happy Doing What You’re Doing #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/)

**Published:** July 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are two steps to take before deciding to change careers.

**Content:**

# If You Aren’t Happy Doing What You’re Doing #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Job Offer #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-job-offers/)

**Published:** July 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a short video about what to consider when you get a job offer.

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# Job Offer #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Job Search BS AND Questions to Ask to Avoid Stepping Into a Problem Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-bs-and-questions-to-ask-to-avoid-stepping-into-a-problem-job-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Especially when things get difficult in the job market, it's important to avoid making some of the mistakes people make too often in their search AND avoid stepping into a job where you're doomed to failure because you haven't asked the right questions.

**Content:**

# Job Search BS AND Questions to Ask to Avoid Stepping Into a Problem Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You’re either watching [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) TV or listening to this as No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio. I like to spend some time from time to time to time to time… Okay, I’ll stop with the time thing. And talking with people who are not me about different elements of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

And I’ve got a returning guest today, Thea Kelley. Thea is a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coach based in the Bay Area and serving job seekers nationwide. Her book, the Amazon bestseller, “Get That Job! The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning Interview” is hailed as “Excellent!” on Forbes.com. For smart [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tips and a free gift, subscribe to Thea’s blog at GreatJobSooner.com. And there’s information about contacting her there for 1-on-1 work. And Thea, how are you today?

I’m doing great, Jeff. How are you?

I’m feeling fabulous, and I see you took the mask off for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). How… how lovely!

And I wanted to say I’m excited to be here to talk about this really important topic because I know [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is hard enough in times like these without having to carry around the burden of any false information, any any myths that aren’t true. As opposed to myths that are true.

And we all tell ourselves lies about different things. And [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is one of those areas that, because job seekers don’t know, they repeat the same nonsense over and over again. So, we’re going to do a show today, folks, about BS myths that job hunters tell themselves. And then we’ve got a backup topic behind this one that is fabulous. So, we’re going to start with the myths you tell yourselves that are flat-out false. So, myth number one!

Okay, myth number one: Just because a certain company is having layoffs does not automatically mean there won’t be [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) there soon. Companies do frequently lay off—have a layoff—and then [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people right after that. It happens. Even a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) freeze is not something that they can not make some exceptions to. They sometimes do. So, don’t write a company off your list just because they’re having layoffs.

And not only that. Sometimes, someone will say that they’re laying off, and it was just them!

That’s true!

Or a department, and they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) in different areas. So, the notion that, “Oh, this firm, nothing’s going on there. They just [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) a bunch of people.” Well, they did, and they may still be [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

That’s right.

Cool. So, next myth?

Next myth!

Next myth. Next myth is, of course, “Nobody’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).”

Oh, no. Nobody. 40 million people out of work in this country, and nobody’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)!

Yeah. So, there is [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) going on. And if you start telling yourself, “There’s no [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) going on,” you’re just shooting yourself in the foot. You’re setting up a cortisol [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) reaction in your brain and body, and it’s just simply not true, anyway.

Next!

No, I got… I got to say something about this! Because the fact is, even in… I’ve worked in search for 40-plus years, and every recessionary time, there’d be the voices of doom, and I was filling [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). And even now as a coach, I’ve helped a number of people get work during the Great Pandemic that has been haunting the economy now for several months. So, you know, firms are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and…

Yeah. And let me say, also, I should make a reference to my own clients. I am having people get [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Does it take longer? Usually. But people are getting [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that I personally know. I’m getting emails in my box saying, “I got it!” you know, which…

Fabulous! And they’re just doing it differently. It doesn’t look… It doesn’t look the same.

Right, because they are working with a coach, for one thing.

Tada!

So, another myth—and this is going to sound self-serving, but there’s a myth sometimes that if you’re unemployed, you need to cut back on all expenses and spend no money at all. You need to spend no money except where it’ll help you make money. And so, if you need [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) services, I wouldn’t say that’s the place to cut. I would look instead at your cable, your subscriptions, whether you’ve shopped around for better rates at your cell phone provider or your bank, and so on. But think about whether maybe you do need [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) services.

However, I would also say that you can’t afford to waste money working with somebody who isn’t that good. So, shop around carefully. Make people show you examples of their work. Look at their online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), and if they aren’t selling themselves in a totally professional, go-getter kind of way online, then what makes you think they know how anybody should market themselves?

And the fact of the matter is, folks, most of you are amateurs around [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). You know, even for those of you who’ve hired before, you think you know how firms [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), but you know how you hired. And it can be completely different for others. So, recognize that as an amateur, you can do it by yourself, but it takes longer. And you hit your head against the wall a bunch of times, and unfortunately, run the risk of losing out on an opportunity that you could have gotten if only.

Right. And just ask yourself, if I get a job even one week sooner, how much money is that worth? One week’s pay might be a fairly large amount of money for you. What if you get a job a month sooner or two months sooner?

So, end of that, unless you’ve got more to say, Jeff.

No, we’re good here.

Okay, let me see. Another myth is that… oh, yeah… you shouldn’t bother people at a time like this to talk to you. Like, for instance, you may have heard—if you’re lucky—about the proactive way of getting a job, where you make a list of target companies that you’re interested in. This is well known as a [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) practice, about 40 or 50 companies. And then, you start leveraging your contacts, or even just making cold emails—which if they’re written right, they do work sometimes—to get people in those companies to talk to you, have a conversation, build some relationship, show an interest in what they do, and keep in touch occasionally afterwards. And if you’re lucky, they’ll give you leads to other people to talk about, or they’ll give you useful inside information that enables you to make a much better approach when there is an opening.

And they know you now, and when an opening comes up or is about to come up, but they haven’t advertised it yet, there’s that greater chance that they’ll reach out, “Oh, I know somebody.” And so, some people think, “Well, in times like these, nobody’s going to want to talk to me.” It’s kind of the other way around, I think, because there is a feeling right now in the air of, you know, we’re all in this together. There’s a goodwill in the air. People know how tough it is, and I think people are often more willing than ever to talk to you if you go about it right.

I agree. And I know no one wants to seem like one of *those* people. You know, the mooch. The one who says, “Me, me, me, me, me.” But if this is a previous relationship—I’m going to start in that place—a previous relationship where you’re checking in and seeing how people have been doing for the last few months during the pandemic, whether they’re still in their role, and you show genuine care and concern because you worked with them previously, or they’re someone that you’ve known socially for a number of years, you start there.

Yeah, and ask them, “What can I do for you?” You know, that’s a great thing among all the other questions about how is your company doing these days, and what’s new and exciting here, and what does this company need from hires right now, or what is the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process like right now, if any? Then, at some point, ask them, “This is great, I really appreciate your time. Is there anything I can do for you?” Any kind of project of yours you’d like me to mention to people or to social media, anybody you’d like to be introduced to?

But above all, there are certain people out there who will help you just because they want to help. Steve Dalton, for instance, who wrote a great book called *The 2-Hour [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)*, he calls them “boosters.” You’re going to approach people to talk to, and some of them are what he calls “curmudgeons” or “obligates”—people who think they should be helpful, but they aren’t. But some of them are going to be real boosters, and they’re going to help you out aside from even what they’re going to get out of it. And finding those people is what a state-of-the-art [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) campaign is about.

And a resource, by the way… Jeff, thanks for mentioning GreatJobSooner.com, my blog with helpful [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tips. Right now at Great Job Sooner, the second article on the page is all about this thing of how do you get people to talk to you. It’s called “The [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) Way to Make Contacts Within Your Target Companies.” And so, I talk a lot about ins and outs of that, little things you wouldn’t have thought of, like, for instance, emailing somebody and asking for an “informational interview” doesn’t work as well as just emailing them and saying, “I was wondering if we could chat sometime because your insights would be valuable.” Because when you say that “interview” word, people think, “Oh no, a desperate job seeker. They should go to HR, I’m not HR, I don’t know anything about [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).” So, there’s just one little thing of what words to use, and there’s more technique to it. So, check out my blog, or Jeff, maybe you’ve talked about this subject in your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) before about approaching people?

And with the [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) that I do, the premise that I start with is it’s always about the relationship. And since most people, as we get older and become adults and have other priorities, relationships fall by the wayside. It’s about rekindling old relationships and showing genuine concern. And even if that means having two conversations or three before you get to the, “Can you help me?” question, it’s better to rekindle the relationship because, you know, it’s kind of like if you’re at the old-fashioned [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) meetings, and you walk over to someone and go, “Hey, know about any [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)?” “Know about any [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) for me?” Everyone heads for the hills!

“I’m looking for a job!” No, you’re absolutely right. And even if it’s somebody that you didn’t previously know and they’re one of these booster types, still the first thing to do in that meeting is make rapport. Get in rapport with the person, have a nice conversation, because you can always ask further questions later.

And here’s another tip: At the end of any conversation like that, whether you knew the person before or they are somebody who’s new to you, tell them, “Well, thank you very much. These are excellent ideas, and I’m going to check out all these things you mentioned, and I’ll drop you a note in a couple weeks and let you know how it went.”

The great thing about that is that then when you drop them that note in a couple weeks, they’re not looking at it going, “Uh-oh, does that person need even more now? What do they need? I already talked to her.” But instead, they’re going, “Oh, she said she’d drop me a note, and now she did! She follows up.”

And when you drop that note, you can say something like, “Thanks for your tip about reading this, and I did, and here’s what I learned from it, it was great. And you mentioned talking to so-and-so, and I sent them a couple notes, haven’t heard back yet, but I’m optimistic about that, and thanks a lot.” Well, what they might do is write back to you and say, “Oh, you haven’t heard back from so-and-so? Let me drop them a note myself.” So, sometimes people will just even [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) additional help because you’re staying in touch.

And the magic trick is to keep letting them know how their help was helpful and how you followed through on it, and then they will tend to want to help you further. If they give you advice and they never hear back on whether you did a thing about it, they’re going to tend to dry up.

They’re going to forget about you. One of the tricks with [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) I’ve always found is the contact, and again, not being one of *those* people who’s calling too often, but the periodic check-in just to let people know what’s going on, checking in with them if there’s anything you can do for them, being the friendly person now that you’ve reconnected again, and not just going another four years before you’re talking to them. You’re asking for favors, you’re looking for help—they deserve to know what they did and whether it helped, whether there’s anything more. And that’s on you to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/), folks. They’re not going to call you up and say, “Hi, how did it go? Have you been able to reach them?” Doesn’t work that way.

Right, right. People like to know that what they did actually made a difference. I like to know that. You like to know that, Jeff.

So, here’s another myth. This is the myth that in a bad economy like this, you better broaden your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) and be open to far more different types of positions—just kind of take anything. And that’s not really true. It may be that if you’re, say, working in airlines, you might want to think about getting into maybe some aviation-related field other than commercial airlines, like aviation logistics or something. Sure, you have to adjust.

But the “I’ll take anything” [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is usually nowhere near as effective as the targeted, proactive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) like what we’re talking about here, because if you’re willing to take anything, then what are you going to say to people as you’re [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with people? Or what are you going to put on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile?

“I’ll take anything!”

Yeah! And nobody wants the person who will take anything; they want the person who is ready to do *this* particular job and is passionate about *that* particular job. So, you want to continue doing a targeted [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) focused either on one job title or a small group of very closely related ones that harmonize together.

The desperate job hunter is as attractive as the desperate dater! Everyone… no one’s interested in the stalker, and no one’s interested in the person that says, “I’ll take anything!”

It is a lot like dating, isn’t it?

That’s the way I’ve always looked at [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). It’s like going out on blind dates, and you kind of have to get acquainted with people. It’s the prose of blind dating.

And nobody likes a blind date either who the whole evening is doing nothing but trying to prove themselves and prove how great they are. You know, it’s much better if they can just actually pay attention to the person they’re with, and listen, and relate to them as a human being, and have a nice time.

So, that’s something to think about in your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/): Focus on that other person. Even before you talk to the person, you know, think for a moment, use your imagination, and imagine having a nice conversation with them and you and them being buddies. Because you may not be buddies yet, but you very well may be soon.

So, anyway, so yes, keep your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) targeted.

And the last one…

I’m going to leap in with one thing here. And folks, you know, let’s also recognize that, you know, as we’re recording this in 2020, there are a lot of firms that aren’t really going to come back. And there are a bunch of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that may not come back so regularly. So, you may need, not to be desperate, but to be smart and adaptive.

And to start thinking of how your skills and experiences can translate into something else. And as you network with people, you can talk with folks and say, “You know, this is what I’ve been doing up until this point, but from what I understand, this experience really segues very nicely into \[fill in the blank\], because…” and then you start explaining it to the person that you network with. So that this way, what you’re able to do is not have them figure it out for you. The more they think, the more they start to hesitate, and the less they’re likely to do because they don’t want to get rejected! And they don’t want to introduce you to someone who’s going to make them think like, “Why am I talking to this guy?”

Right. So, do [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) if necessary, but [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) it to something specific, and then focus on that.

And if… and if you don’t have the financials to be out for any length of time, all bets are off! You’ve got to get something, we understand that. But you don’t have to get married. What you *can* do is take something interim and continue to look, because you have a responsibility to yourself and your family to pull in some money, understood.

Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. And actually, that brings me to another myth, which is the idea that things are so bad that you should maybe wait a while and postpone your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), and just take a good long vacation and heal from the [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) of all this. That’s very tempting, I know, because some people have been working for years and decades, long hours, very stressed out. They lose their job, they feel like, “I need some time for me.” I agree with that. However, I would say make it a vacation—a two or three-week vacation—and then do start your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Because a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is not necessarily a 40-hour thing, and you can still take a day off now and then, for sure.

And also, while you’re doing that search, because it may take a while, I would really encourage people to think about doing some freelancing or consulting. Which, as was the case with me after I got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) from a job in 2008 and became a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach…

You got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/)?! Didn’t they know what they had with you?!

Oh, I just… what were they doing?! But it was the beginning of that big… that last recession.

Anyway, where was I? I started freelancing, and after a while, I discovered I liked that better than the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that I was [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for, so I stopped [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) and kept the job. Also, let’s say that I had kept job searching, but it had taken me six or seven months to find something. It would really be good to have that work in the interim, because: A) I’d be making contacts, so it would be automatic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) just in the course of doing what I was doing. And B) I would possibly be learning some new things that would be useful. C) I’d be getting a feeling of accomplishment, I would not be depressed, I’d be keeping busy. And lastly, my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) would not have this big ugly gap.

And yes, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are going to be more understanding about [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) gaps around this time, but they’re still not going to love it, you know? So, it’s a really good idea to be doing something else. If not some temporary work or freelance or consulting, at least do some volunteering, because again, you’ll be… and there is online and remote volunteering you can do, and it’ll be something where you’ll be meeting people, making connections, maybe building skills.

And the fun thing is, if you’re one of the folks who’s been thinking about doing a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) change, this is the ideal time to experiment with doing it on the side and try to make some money and learn some of your lessons while still looking for something full-time. Because from my vantage point, when I coach people, I tell them, “Now, I know you’re interested in doing a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, but you’re used to a certain income level and a certain expenses coming with that, and you’re probably not going to get to that number right away. So, let’s experiment with this on the side, and use it as the experiment to see, is it something that I really like? Is this something I could see myself doing however many hours a day, a week, or what have you, while you’re still looking for something full-time that’s going to pay the bills?”

It’s going to make the full-time thing more palatable because you’ve got the passion thing right behind it that you can be growing. So, to me, it’s always an ideal time to start that thing on the side that allows you to feel fulfilled while you’re looking for something else that’s going to bring in some cash.

Yeah, and it’s a little insurance policy because then if you do lose your job, you haven’t lost your whole income. You had this other income stream that goes on.

Yeah.

So, some good news for a second! Or imagine… good news!

Okay, so at some point, you very likely are going to get a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). There is a myth out there that if you get a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and it’s during a recession, you better just take it and not try to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) anything. “Nobody’s going to want to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) during a recession.” This is not true. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) can, and do, and will sweeten a deal even during a recession.

Yeah, you have to try. And not trying basically means you’ve accepted the notion that an employer is giving you two choices. The two choices being “leave it” and “take it.”

Yeah, yeah.

And what you *can* do is to try and goose it a little bit, and just appear uncomfortable with the number that you hear. This is one of my favorite techniques. So, “Hey, we’re making you an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)!” “That’s fabulous!” And then they state the number and it’s less than what you’re looking for, and instead of sounding exuberant, they hear: “Huh.”

Yeah!

And the silence signals them. They get it right away!

Yeah, that’s called “the executive flinch!” It’s a good one, it is a good one.

And also, don’t think in terms of just negotiating [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). It can be real helpful to have a handful of three or four or five things that you want to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for, because then if they can’t give you what you want in one area, they may very well try to make it up to you by giving what you want in another area.

Do you tend to start with the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) under those conditions, or do you start on the secondary things first?

Well, I’ve always had the feeling it’s better to start with [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) because that’s what you… if that’s what you want most. What do you think, Jeff?

At times, you know, I like to give them something they can say yes to easily, because it makes them feel good and starts to build the momentum. Then I go to a tough one, and then I go to the number. Then I go to the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). It depends upon… again, I did this in search, so it really depends upon what I knew about the client, what I knew about the organization, and how to play with the scenario to draw it out.

Can you give us an example? I’m sorry, an example of a small thing you might start with?

Sure. It might be something as simple as, “You know, I have a vacation scheduled, I’ve paid for the air, the tickets, and I’m going to be away for two weeks.” This is an easy one for them to go, “Hey, sure, no problem, you’ll get paid for it,” or, “Yeah, we have a way of working with that, and we can get some money to you during that time.” Great!

And then one that they can say no to right away: “Could you give me four weeks vacation instead of two?” “No!” Okay!

And then you can circle back to the number. Especially once you’ve given them what you call “the executive flinch,” they’re waiting for that one.

Right. And then some other things that I’ve helped people [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for would be things like how much… well, like whether the job will remain remote, at least to a large extent, even after things open up again, because some people want to work from home. Or it might even be the job title, or even something about the job description. You never know, these things can be adjustable, especially in a role that’s just been created. It could still be evolving.

Another thing is if you aren’t getting the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that you would like, you could [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) about when that will come up for a [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/), because a lot of companies tend to reconsider the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) a year from now, but you might ask that that be reconsidered a half a year from now.

And another thing, and kind of one of the last things I think that you should kind of hold till the end, is the possibility of a signing bonus.

So, think about it, which of these things that make the most sense for you. The worst that can happen, as long as you are very positive and upbeat—don’t give ultimatums, be appreciative, and be very clear about communications and next steps—always after any negotiation conversation, confirm afterwards in email what was agreed to as far as who’s going to check with the CEO and ask a certain question, or when somebody’s going to hear back from somebody else.

As long as you’re very clear like that, and very positive, there’s very little risk that they’re going to rescind the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). It would be very unprofessional for them to do so. After all, all you’ve demonstrated is that you’re assertive, and that you’re confident, and that you believe you’re worth a lot. So, it’s worth doing, and it demonstrates skills that are valuable on the job. People like employees who are assertive and who are willing to speak up, and who are confident. Yeah.

And the two parts that I always [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with on that are: And if they were to start getting annoyed at this, number one is, there’s a message in that.

Oh, yeah.

So, that’s number one. Number two is the rebuttals to that is, once you see the annoyance, is to say, “Hey, look, you know I got to try! Because, you know, you’re bringing me on board, and part of my role is to… and, you know, if I’m the nice guy and just, you know, caves to everything right away, that’s got to give you some reluctance about putting me into situations.” And that just deflects the entire thing. So, no sweat whatsoever, you just have to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for how to respond to these things.

Yes, be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for whatever answer you might hear, and be ready to say, “I understand where you’re coming from. Well, okay, you know, I see what it is. Maybe we can talk about this again a year from now.”

Now, I know that there’s one topic that a lot of people are really concerned about. And it comes under the guise of “last one in, first one out,” or “Gee, if I start a new job, am I going to be in a situation where like on my first day, they’re going to bring me into the conference room and say, ‘Gee, we’re really sorry, but we don’t really need you anymore.'” So, what kind of things can someone ask about in order to explore what they’re stepping into? Are there minefields there that they need to be concerned about in going into the new role?

Yeah. So, in your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), you should and have a right to, and are perfectly reasonable to ask questions around the job security of the role and the firm’s strategy for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) during the recession, things like that. You want to pick the right time. You should ask these questions toward the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process, not first thing in the door, because before that, you have to be abundantly demonstrating that you are the right person for the job.

But once it gets to the question asking and answering part toward the end of things, yeah, “What’s the company’s strategy for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) during this recession?” And you’ll notice I asked that with a smile on my face.

And the smile makes a big difference! Because it takes away a lot of the [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) for the person hearing it. It doesn’t seem as threatening. And I always think from the standpoint of, sometimes—you know, it depends on the level of person I’m coaching—sometimes the person is too junior who’s being interviewed to really get a good answer, because the person who’s [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) them doesn’t know any better than they do! Anything they say is going to translate into, “Oh, we got a great plan! Everything’s fine around here! It’s all good!” So, you got to take the answer with a grain of salt, depending upon your seniority. Now, very senior people, obviously, you’re getting a better answer.

Yeah, and that’s a good point, because you may have an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) first with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), and maybe then with a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, and who knows, then with a C-level person, or maybe with some teammates. So, pick the right person to ask these questions, which would probably be the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to a large extent.

So, here’s another good question you could ask: “How is the company planning for long-term changes that may occur in this industry over the next year, three years, five years?” Perfectly reasonable question. That’d be a good question to ask the CEO, because he’s thinking, or she’s thinking, at the industry level.

Right. And for all these folks, the most senior person that you’re talking to, they have a better perspective on this. And you can say, “It’s obvious everything is changing. You know, the world is changing right now, and what was up in January… you know, the blender has been turned on and we’re all in a different kind of mode. So, what kind of plans or what sort of things are you seeing ahead for the organization, and how are they meeting the challenges of these changing times?”

And then see if the answers you’re receiving make sense to you. If the answer sounds like there’s no transparency there, and they’re not saying what they’re thinking, that should give you pause. Or if the answer doesn’t make sense, yeah, then that should give you pause.

And you can also [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) it on your own afterwards to see what’s publicly available!

And beforehand. Absolutely.

And thus, you can see if there’s a conflict between what you’re being told and what you’re reading online. And thus, you can say to yourself, “Okay, it’s one of two things: no transparency, or this is an imbecile I can’t really pay attention to.” And either of them is valid, it’s just information.

Right, right. So, another question that you could ask the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager is about their department. You might ask them, “What does upper management see as the importance of this department? And what’s its role, and what is your plan as a manager of this department to keep this department strong and keep the headcount up? What’s your strategy for maintaining that status within the company?”

It’s interesting, the idea of status within an organization.

Yeah, maybe that might be a sort of off-putting term to say, I was winging it a little there.

That’s what you’re asking about.

Yeah, I’m going to use the term “rep”—reputation.

Yeah.

And no one’s going to say, “Oh, we’re thought of as being the worst dregs in the organization.” No one ever says that, but you’ll notice certain things in the behavior of the interviewer that are going to signal things to you, going, “You know, I’m not… you know, okay…” and they start to fumble around a little bit to disguise the problems that the organization has. And the ideal answer is to say, “Hey, look, we’re not perfect. There are some people I know I’ve done a lot of great work for, and there are others within the organization, I know they are not big fans of mine.” I love the [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), wouldn’t you?

Yeah. And you may also hear, and this would be a really [good sign](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-good-sign-if-a-recruiter-wants-to-call-your-references-shorts/), a detailed strategy. Right before I got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), my manager then… I was in the [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) department of a corporation, and I could see that my manager was already thinking ahead about how are we going to make sure that the trainers aren’t let off, because that is often the first people who are left to go. And his approach was integrate them with the workers, have them starting to help the workers right out there on the floor, so that the company doesn’t think of this department as people that you send people into a classroom to have somebody yak at them. And that was a really good strategy, and he mostly managed to keep his headcount, but I had been the most recent one added. So as you said, last one added, first one to go.

So, speaking of headcounts, you might ask something like, “It’s really hard to get funding, I bet, to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) somebody new these days. So, I’m wondering, what is the need that’s driving this [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)? What makes this [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) too important to put off?”

Oh, great question!

Yeah, that’ll tell you something about what the person coming into that role needs to be sure and do, what they need to be sure and focus on and address in order to continue to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as relevant.

Yeah, I like that question about what the funding is like. And you might just simply talk about—and again, depends on time of the year—as you start to enter a budget cycle, “How does budget look for next year? Do you have a sense of what you’ve put in for, how headcount is going to change, what projects are getting approved? You’ve got to have a sense, you’re not just throwing stuff up there! You have a sense from your conversations with your management about what they think they can get through in the budget. What’s it going to look like?” Because that’s going to give you perspective on how the group is seen and whether there’s an upside for you.

That’s right. And even if it’s, let’s say it’s a new role, a good question would be, “Oh, when was the decision made to create this new role and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) somebody for this?” And if you hear that the decision was made just recently, I would say that’s a [good sign](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-good-sign-if-a-recruiter-wants-to-call-your-references-shorts/). If it’s more like the decision was made three months ago and we’re just barely hanging onto it by our fingernails, that is a little more of a worrisome sign.

Now, let’s say you do hear a worrisome sign or a red flag during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to not make any decisions on the spot. Never make decisions on the spot in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Keep going, keep asking other questions, because when you get home later and you think about it some more, or you maybe go to the next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) if you get a call back for the next stage, you may learn things that may overcome the worries that came up from one of these questions.

But meanwhile, you’ve gathered some information. And as soon as you get out of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), sit down someplace privately, like whether it’s in your car or on the train or whatever, and get out a notepad or whatever and write down everything you can remember about the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/): what they asked you, what you asked them, what their answers were, the look on their face, some chit-chat that happened. Because all of that can be really useful later, not only as you consider whether you want the job, but also even in your [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) correspondence or what happens in the next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and so on. A lot of that can disappear from your mind.

Very quickly. And I’ll just say that post-interview self-debrief is really helpful for going into the next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Because what it does is it may signal some areas of interest that they have that aren’t obvious in the job description, that will allow you to dig in a little bit deeper. Also, with that notion of [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) that show up in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I’m a believer in seeking clarification, not looking for immediate [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/), because you may just be talking to someone who doesn’t know how to explain it very well. One of the things we’re dealing with are human beings, and I’m sure your experience with [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is like mine: A lot of the interviewers are not particularly skillful.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And some of the classic [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions to ask at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) still hold very well for this purpose, things like asking, “What are the top priorities for the next six months for the person in this role?” or “the top priorities for the next year?” Because once you hear what those are, you know that you really need to be focusing on those, not only in the rest of the [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) so that you get the job, but also when you get on the job, to make sure that you’re hitting those hot-button issues for them and really making yourself relevant and valuable.

So, we’re talking, folks, about the questions to ask to avoid stepping into a minefield, so that you can unearth things along the way that are going to head off problems when you first come on board.

Right, to avoid landing on a sinking island.

Yeah! Yeah! Is there anything else people can be asking to kind of flush up some of these [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) that come to mind?

An obvious one would be, “Has the current situation created any special challenges for the person coming into this role?” So by current situation, I mean pandemic or the recession, anything else that is going on. Is it creating special challenges for that person? And again, as with all these questions, you want to try and [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) that on your own first before you’re asking it. That doesn’t mean you’re not necessarily still going to ask it, but if you’ve researched it already, you could say, “You know, I’m getting the impression that the recession is making [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) extra difficult for people who do X. Is that true here as well, and can you tell me a little bit about that?”

But again, you know, be sure and ask this with a smile, or “extra challenging” would be another thing to say instead of “difficult,” because overall, you’re wanting to keep a positive tone, and you’re wanting to show them that you’re a roll-up-the-sleeves and handle-these-challenges kind of person.

I heard you use the R-word! “Recession.” No one has used that word! Oh, Thea, how wild of you!

Have we not mentioned it yet in this segment? Well, we’ve been talking about it all along, folks! We’ve been really thinking about this all along, because that is why you might step onto that job and find that it’s not an island you’ve stepped onto, but a giant shark that’s now about to go underwater.

And you know, another really obvious question that’s worth asking is simply, “Can you tell me about the job security in this role?” See what they have to say.

Because you never know what leaks out. Now, to me, the honest answer is to say, “Who knows? You do a great job, we’ll look out for you. You do a bad job, *adios, muchachos*.” And that’s an honest answer, without the Spanish in there! But fundamentally, with the clients that I used to serve when I did search, invariably they said that about the job, about the bonuses, about the value of the options, the whole kit and caboodle. And now in particular, the truth is a good signal to hear.

Yeah. So listen between the lines, but don’t let that cause you to take an adversarial relationship toward the person you’re talking to. You have to remember that they are under pressures from various directions, and also that they are probably perfectly decent human beings who you at some point will have a really nice working relationship with. Think that in advance, go into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) feeling like, “Here’s my future great colleague.” But at the same time, sure, think between the lines about what are they not allowed to say to you. It’s not that they don’t want to say it necessarily, but they’re not allowed to. So, yeah.

Yeah, the fun version of that is: Page 42 of the Manager’s Handbook at this firm basically says I’m not allowed to discuss this! And I’m giving a flippant answer, but again, don’t hold it against people.

Right, because we’re all under a lot of challenges right now.

Absolutely true. So, what else could they ask, or have we hit the major points here?

I think we’ve hit the major points. Anything else coming to you, Jeff?

No, you’ve been doing a great job, Thea. I really appreciate it. And folks, I got to tell you, how can people find out more about you, your work? I know I mentioned some things at the beginning. You can say it again, it’s okay.

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Thank you. Thea, this has been terrific.

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### [How Corporate Professionals Win Employer Attention](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-corporate-professionals-win-employer-attention/)

**Published:** July 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Instead of asking for a job, show clear proof that you can solve real workplace problems.

**Content:**

# How Corporate Professionals Win Employer Attention

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [A Place People Forget to Look for Jobs #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-place-people-forget-to-look-for-jobs-shorts/)

**Published:** July 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It may seem dull, boring and obvious and they may not have jobs for you, but it never hurts to search.

**Content:**

# A Place People Forget to Look for Jobs #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/yply4QIfS9I)

It may seem dull, boring and obvious and they may not have [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) for you, but it never hurts to search.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Why Are You Doing This To Yourself? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-you-doing-this-to-yourself-shorts/)

**Published:** July 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why are you putting up with this?

**Content:**

# Why Are You Doing This To Yourself? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/PEs4HCQSdww)

Why are you putting up with this?

[***Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lgN)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Jeff Altan, [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [LinkedIn Mistakes People Make](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-mistakes-people-make/)

**Published:** July 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Whether you are an executive or a member of staff, too many of you make these mistakes.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn Mistakes People Make

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

Whether you are an executive or a member of staff, too many of you make these [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). My guest, Carol Kaemmerer, is the author of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for the Savvy Executive . She and I share our experiences of [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make too often.

[***Personal Branding on LinkedIn***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hBw)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 00:04

My guest today is Carol Kaemmerer. Carol was named one of the six top personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) experts in 2020 achieved by the American Reporter. The second edition of her book, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for the Savvy Executive–see [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for the Savvy Executive, received Book Authorities [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) books of all time award . . . of all time, people, and has been chosen by the C suite network as one of the top 100 [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) business books. In addition to her one on one executive [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) work with C suite leaders, Carol is a popular speaker, a member of the National Speakers Association. Carol, welcome. Thanks for making time today.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 00:46

I’m so delighted to be with you, Jeff.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 00:48

And folks, we’re gonna be talking about, dare I say, could you guess, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). I’m going to bring that back a little bit here or here, here. Yeah, that’s better. Even better. We’re gonna be talking about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). The book is about for savvy [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/). We’re going to widen that a little bit to make sure we’re covering [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for all of you. And maybe I could just start by asking, tell me about some of the egregious [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that you’ve identified.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 01:20

Okay, I think the most important [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is that they don’t take it seriously. They write [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles, like they write a fill in the blank test. But it’s really an essay test. And in order to bring our [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) we have to plan and be intentional about what we want to say about ourselves so that we can be memorable. I know that every [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile that’s really memorable starts from right here in your heart center. And another word for that is your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). So I’ve developed three signature questions that I use every time with my clients to help identify their [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). And I wanted to share them with your audience today, because I know the people that are listening, really, really need to make an impression in order to shine while they’re looking for their next position.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 02:21

Excellent. Thank you. So what’s the first question they have to ask themselves?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 02:26

First question is, what are the three things you want to be known for? Now, it’s really important that we select no more than three because three is automatically memorable. That’s why preachers and teachers and authors and orders have used the formulation of three forever because it makes things stick in our heads. What if we want to communicate more things, you’ve probably seen those headlines with six different things in the headline. Instead of looking, flexible, and infinitely eligible for your next job, you look unfocused. And when we’re unfocused, we’re not anybody’s [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) solution.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 03:12

It’s interesting. Human nature, with the exception of people who post things about listicles, you know, those 10 ways that you can have great breath. Sorry, I couldn’t resist something ridiculous like that. But unless you someone’s doing a listicle, three, is it really about it. Like if you even think about memorizing numbers, like we’re really tapped out at this point with a number of numbers we can repeat. So three things that you want to be known for is the first question.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 03:51

And my second question is, what are your differentiators? What are your superpowers? You know, a lot of people have the same job title, but each person brings their own personality and experiences and ways that they think and I’d like to recommend that if your audience does not know what their differentiator is, they should do a little 360 review. Just short. What is it that you come to me for? You know, what is it that you count on me for? What is it that I contribute in a different way than someone else?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 04:37

Does that idea of what you’re counted on for and they come to you for? It’s great stuff. Because for most people, they just think about doing the job. I’ve got a job, I do what they tell me to do. Even with the senior leaders, they’ve got a plan for the year or the next few years. They’ve broken it down to different parts of the project plan. And then there’s all the other stuff that’s in their job, too. It’s almost more important for this than anything.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 05:09

Absolutely, you know, our specific skills can be learned. But the way that we approach things is uniquely ours. And so some of those differentiators may be even how you think, how you connect dots differently than other people. So the third question is, what are your keywords. And this is important, because [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a search engine. And what it eats for breakfast is keywords. So we want to make sure that the words that are really the words that you would search for someone just like us, that those words appear on our profile over and over and over, not in a mechanistic way. But when we write, we will write using those keywords because they describe who we are and what we do. So those are my magic, three questions that always helped me to center a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. So that it is memorable, I use the building blocks that I get from that in the headline in the about section, and especially in the skills section. So if people would start by thinking, really being intentional about what they want people to remember about them. And they use this formulation to help them with that. I know that they will have a more memorable profile.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 06:52

So it sounds like in addition to not taking [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) seriously, they approach their profile in a chaotic kind of way that doesn’t really promote themselves and their individuality in a way that makes themselves attractive to people. And I say attractive, not because you’re supposed to be good looking, although that’s always an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) in photographs. But from the sense of attracting people to you.

[***Personal Branding: What Are Your Strengths***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hA2)

**Carol Kaemmerer** 07:22

Absolutely.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 07:23

Because you want to have them discover you as well. Right?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 07:27

Right.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 07:28

Good. What other [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) do people make?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 07:34

One that has absolutely nothing to do with words, is their photo. Now the worst [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of all is to have no photo of yourself on your profile. It’s like having your house on the market and having an open house notice in the paper with no picture. Automatically, we think ‘what is wrong with this house that they won’t show a picture?’ And that’s what we think when we see no picture at all. But the other thing is you can have a picture and a really bad one. You can have your spouse’s hand on the shoulder.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 08:18

I was actually thinking of the old shoulder pads photos,

**Carol Kaemmerer** 08:21

Oh, absolutely. You can be obviously attending someone else’s wedding. And you know, you’ve you’re cropping out people and it’s not even a correct headshot. So it should be a headshot. It should be done by a professional photographer whose specialty is headshots. It’s really important to be your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) because once you have been found, you are found with 10 other people in a column and their pictures and their job titles or their their headlines. And really, every person will pick the person with the most genuine smile with the most light in their eyes. The person that has the most animated, natural face. I mean, I’m not I’m not talking clown. I’m talking, you know, does this person look like they came for business? Are they looking at you? Are they smiling? Do they look like they’re ready for your job?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 09:27

I’m just going to sneak in one thing here, because you mentioned it in passing. Someone told me that they had spoken to someone in [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and they want a photo where you’re looking at the camera. Not that you’re looking to his side, because that’s not going to work for them. They disadvantage responses of photographs of people with photos where they’re not making [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/). So just be aware that if you’re not looking directly at someone, not good. Now, going past that, as you say, the friendly look, the one where you’ve got the congenial smile on your face. I know, we had a technical issue when we first started recording this. And when I asked Carol to reschedule, she went to my scheduling pages, she wrote back to me saying, you’ve got her such a warm, engaging photo there, which I happen to also use on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). And it does make a difference in how people see you. So recognize if you’ve got the scowl on your face, as some people do, and that’s men and women. By the way, the scowl does not work, the annoy look doesn’t work. There’s a lot of non friendly looks that hurt you, because who wants to reach out to someone who’s got a puss on like that?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 10:51

That’s so and and what you put on matters? You know, it’s not that everyone needs to look like they are going to have a board meeting and they’re all in their ties. If that’s not the kind of job that you have, you don’t need to look like that. But you do need to look ready for your work.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 11:16

And I’ll also mentioned that, that the banner behind you, behind your profile picture can be you in action in some way. So the person who’s speaking to a group or is presenting in a situation like photo it’s done well. But in your headshot, no, doesn’t work. So reserve that for the banner photo, and use that to demonstrate, particularly for those of you who are senior leaders demonstrate your authority. It looks like you’re about to say something I’m sorry.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 12:00

Well, are you looking for other things. . . there are things people do wrong. Here’s number three, they have too little text to rank well on a keyword search. So, this is, especially for the people who have no about section, or whose about section is this big? Or who have no accomplishments or any text under each of those positions that they’ve held over the years. Those people who think, ‘well, you know, this is safe. All I have to do is put in what my title is, and that’ll stand for what I did. Well, no, you have to write to the margins almost in order to be found on a keyword search. And that is, each section in [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) has a specific character count or number associated with it. The headline is 220 characters. So whereas most people’s headline is auto filled by [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and it’s just their job title and their company, we can go beyond that, and add what value we bring, what effect we have, or how we achieved our [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Whatever it is, we want to add value to that. And we want to do it without using 1000 pipes or slashes, and listing six things that’s not it. We want to share with people how we add value in that section. And then the about section, it’s 2600 characters. That’s five paragraphs. So if you’re writing two sentences, you’re missing the boat. Because the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithm, one of the drivers of that is the number of times the keyword that the person is searching for, appears on your profile.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 14:11

But I’m not looking for a job! Why should I put all that stuff in there if I’m not looking for a job?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 14:18

If you’re not looking for a job, you are always open to great opportunities for new clients, new customers, new projects, the possibility to serve on a board. It doesn’t have to be that you’re looking for a new job in order for you to benefit from being intentional and writing to the markets.

[***Why Do People Post Articles on Their LinkedIn Accounts?*** ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-213)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 14:43

Some I know I’ve said many years ago, the person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest, they don’t always work the hardest, although those are great qualities to possess. People get ahead by being alert opportunity. Sometimes, on a rare occasion, they’re internal to their organization. Most of the time there were external. So if you’re hiding yourself by not providing data there that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) can come up in search, you’re invisible, that’s not the point of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). You want to be found. And with 800 million people on the platform at this point, you know,

**Carol Kaemmerer** 15:22

It’s a high bar,

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 15:23

Right. It’s a very high bar. And if you’re hiding yourself, or your firm is demanding that you hide yourself, it’s a problem for you. Because you know, you’re not going to be there for the next [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of your life.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 15:39

Probably not. And, you know, it used to be. Many, many, many years ago, that people would work for one company for their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). And that is just not the reality. These days, companies are not willing to carry someone forever. Things come and go. And people change positions, for all kinds of reasons, some of them are under their control, and some of them very much not under their control. But to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) always is a great idea.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 16:16

Great. Folks, you may think you have a permanent position. You don’t. You have a full time position, where there’s an expectation of a certain number of hours. And, you know, as Lord knows, so many of you discovered in one recession or another, your permanent position wasn’t so permanent was it? So put yourself in the position to be discovered and opportunity to land in your lap. Rather than lurching from one [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) to another and lurching from one search to another, and not doing anything to build up your network, not doing anything to really promote yourself, do the things so you’re discovered. What else do people do wrong? Tell me more!

**Carol Kaemmerer** 17:01

Well, they might have only a few skills. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) gives us the opportunity to list 50 skills. And it’s a wonderful exercise that I use with with my clients, we look at what skills are actually on that inventory. And they are so surprised to see that they have skills that they haven’t used in [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/), that’s something that they delegated down several years ago. They have old skills, skills that no longer apply in the world of work, unless you are an entry level employee. Really? Having Microsoft Word as a skill? Honestly, you know, that’s, that’s a given that we know how to use these tools. So it’s important to make sure that the skills that are listed are listed at the level that you do them. For instance, our National Sales Director. Having sales on his or her profile. It doesn’t have the punch that you know, leading sales teams has. It’s at the level that the guy who comes with the pizza coupons to your door, that sales. And so it doesn’t describe what the National Sales Director is doing. And so make sure that the skills that are listed are listed at your level. They’ve changed the skills in two ways. Now, the top three skills that are listed are flags. They have an extra weight in the algorithm we think, and they should communicate to the people that are looking, what are the top three things you do? What does it sound like? That sounds like the three things you want to be known for. So make sure that those things align. When we align our message, we win. We are memorable. So make sure that you’re . . . Oh, I was saying that the skills had changed in two ways. One of them is that that the three things were important, okay. The other is that the skills are much deeper than they used to be. Years and years ago, who had picked leadership? You know, check. Now, there are 15 flavors of leadership that you can select, and each one of them has more than one key word embedded like clinical leadership, technical leadership, cross functional team leadership. So when you buy, you know, just by selecting a skill that has multiple key words in it, you get a bargain. You get cross functional, and team and leadership. Pow, pow, pow. That’s, you know, a bargain. And so when I am maximizing somebody’s ability to be found, we work a lot on this skill section.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 20:25

You know, folks, if you haven’t heard me say this, I was among the first 10,000 people on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). So, I remember when functions get rolled out. And I used to do recruiting. Did it for many years, and I would see people endorse me for system development lifecycle. I would go, “What the . . . ” I’ve buried that. Initially, I buried it, and now it’s gone altogether. Think in terms of purging some of these things that have no relevance whatsoever for what you want to be known for? What you’ve accomplished during the last few years, like stuff that you did when you were 22? Who cares about it unless you’re 23?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 21:06

You could be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) Fortran programmer ever.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 21:09

Ooooh!

**Carol Kaemmerer** 21:12

Wouldn’t do you any goodnow. So you know, that the notion that we learn new skills, that makes a difference. But the notion that you had a skill that is obsolete in the marketplace? You know, 40 years ago, it’s not working for you.

[***The Top 10 Mistakes Professionals Make on LinkedIn***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gYc)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 21:31

I won’t decipher Fortran for those of you who don’t know what it is. It’s not important. Yes, it was a programming language back in the Stone Ages when dinosaurs roamed the earth and was used in scientific . . .

**Carol Kaemmerer** 21:44

When Jeff and I were young.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 21:46

I was never young, I’ve stopped being young a long time ago. But we digress. What other things do people do wrong? Whether they’re is a leader or as a staff person with their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles, or beyond?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 22:02

Well, I mentioned obliquely that we need to have something under each of our positions. And it doesn’t have to be what you’re or shouldn’t be actually what your responsibilities were. But actually, your accomplishments, think about the stories that you want to tell [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) when you have the opportunity for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Tell those stories. Tell the stories about the process that you implemented that saved money, that allowed the company to move forward with fewer resources, getting more done, stuff like that. Use metrics, if you have them. Make sure that you are list you know, using your 2000 characters for each position. Not for all the positions going back because you know, some things just really don’t matter. But our most recent position, and the one before that. Fill them out. When we see that you have accomplished in the past, we assume that you will accomplish in the future. So listing your accomplishments is a win win.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 23:25

How many characters in the about field? Do you know that off hand?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 23:29

2600 characters, so that’s five paragraphs in the about field.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 23:34

Excellent. And folks, I’ll just encourage you, if you’re actively looking for work, put your email address in there. Make it easy for people to contact you, instead of spending an InMail to do it. If they do it, they probably haven’t looked at your profile. But if you have your email address, you’re saving someone $15 ish to reach out to you. So since you’re actively looking for work, why you being hard to get. Be easy. And then once it’s gone, once you found something, you can take it out. And for those of you who are concerned about crackpots, or perpetrators on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), have a fake email address that forwards to your real one. So this way you can cut it off. When your search is done.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 24:24

Search email address. It really works. It’s not fake like that!

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 24:31

It’s not your primary and thus, particularly for women if this is a concern of yours. ‘Oh, you’re very good looking. I’d like to meet you and I’ve got a . . . I need sponsorship from my visa!’ As happens as happens.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 24:46

I get those

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 24:47

Everyone gets those among the women. I’ll just simply say and now men are getting it from Asia. That’s a different thing. You want to be contacted, but you don’t need to expose yourself in this, to any sort of danger or nonsense. You can cut it off, you can report people into [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and block them. There’s lots of different ways that you can protect yourself from nut [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) like these.

**Carol Kaemmerer** 25:21

Absolutely. So I wanted to mention where they should put their email. So there are at least two places that I recommend. One is in the [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) so that if someone connects with you. They will be able to see your email address. But since you are looking for a position, I put it in the about section at the end, some people put it in the about section at the beginning. Either way, in the about section is the place that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are going to be looking. And so I give them the sales first, you know. All about me. And then here’s, here’s my [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/).

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 26:06

Excellent. And I know there’s a million more things that people do wrong on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). I’ve created a lot of videos about that. What else do you think we should highlight today about what they do wrong?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 26:17

Okay, well, I’m not having any recommendations is a problem. I recommend to people that they seek from someone who supervised them at some point in their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), a recommendation, not from your current supervisor, because that’s not oil. But ask someone that you worked for in the past to give you a recommendation. Think about someone who worked at your same level, in your same company or alongside you on a project. but in a different company. Maybe, you know, you were working across companies to do a project. That would be a colleague kind of recommendation. And then finally, if you have ever supervised anyone, look to someone who you are not currently supervising, who might be able to write your recommendation. So that’s, you know, a real quick one.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 27:29

Recommendations. Having worked in search for as long as I did, recommendations are really pivotal in how people see it. After all, these are people who in theory can attest to the quality of your work. I know I get these messages from overseas when they want me to recommend them for something. And I won’t do it because I don’t want to game the system, I want the system to actually work. So gaming the system, don’t do it. But where you can provide recommendations and ask other people who are your first level of connections, to recommend you for things, it helps you. It really does. Because the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are trying to figure out who to contact. And if they are looking at your profile, they’ll eventually get to and respond to them. They’ll see that someone who knows your work will speak to your successes for them, or how you help them or the benefit that you bring to an organization. We’re back at the idea of social proof and how you as a professional, are receiving a testimonial from someone. And it’s not just you telling people that you’re great. Other people are telling them that

**Carol Kaemmerer** 28:46

it’s a wonderful thing. One other thing that I would like to suggest is a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is not on the the profile itself. But this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is not using [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in its functionality, not contributing to that homepage feed. When we don’t do that. We are not top of mind. Nobody thinks of us when an opportunity that’s right for us comes. But if you have been nurturing your contacts by cheering and commenting on their posts that keeps you top of mind. It affirms others which is a win and they remember you which is another win. And when we are remembered we are referred. And what better way to get into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) situation than to have been referred by a friend So those people that have never commented online, whose whose idea of commenting is to do the little thumbs up. Thumbs Up is is lovely, thank you very much. But and you need to comment. And the comment needs to be better than way to go. It’s supposed to be at least five words to like count on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in terms of three. Even way to go, Carol Kaemmerer, doesn’t really help. I don’t believe that the idea is that you want to add value. So if you’re commenting on someone’s article, think about it. If it’s a listicle, think about saying, you know, I really liked point number three, because I’ve seen that time and again, in my own company, blah, blah, blah, blah. Or pick a [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) and attribute it to the person who wrote the article. You know, put it in quotation marks and do a double dash. ‘Sage advice, Jeff. Make it so that the person knows that you commented.

[***Getting Results from Your Posts on LinkedIn***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aai)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 31:26

And the easiest way to do that is to tag them, or use the reply feature to their post. Because I always think, especially for senior professionals, you don’t have time. So how can we do things that optimize your time. I know the easiest thing is really sharing something that you read that has value, and working up from there. So if once a week you share an article, throw in a comment about it, and why it had meaning. That’s about one paragraph long, maybe tag a few people that you know in it which is better yet, because then you’re giving them the opportunity to comment on yours, which [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) likes that much more. Pick four or five people. Rotate them, and get yourself out there so that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) wants to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you because you’re an active member of the platform. And they want to do that. What else haven’t we covered yet that we really should amongst the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make?

**Carol Kaemmerer** 32:30

Well, here’s one that is specifically for people who have been on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) forever and ever.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 32:38

Oooh, me!

**Carol Kaemmerer** 32:39

Yeah, yeah. So you need to go to your edit your public profile and URL section. Now that you will find that to the right of your profile. So you’re looking at your profile page, right to the right, right at the top. It says edit your public profile and URL. So what I want you to do when you do that, number one, if you haven’t ever edited your URL, you’re right there. This is your opportunity. And this is more important now than it has been before. Because people are typing their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL in chat apps on Zoom. You know, it’s like we’re all in a big room. And people say, ‘Well, you know, drop your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL in here and, you know, let’s have some connection.’ Well, you know, other people are writing, Ted Smith change, you know, in there, well, it starts [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com/in/and, then the person’s name and a key word, or the person’s name and their academic credentials, or, you know, something exciting like that. And other people are typing, you know, Ted Jones 1297czx. Try trying to remember what their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile URL is. And it’s, it’s just ridiculous. But especially when you’re in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), if you customize your URL, you could put it on your email signature block, at the end of every email, you can do that in almost every [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), or almost every email program has a little way that you can set up something that looks neat. And make sure that you have a tidy URL that doesn’t take up a whole line. And after you’ve customized your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL, go down and you will see As you know, all every section of the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and little slider buttons, the slider buttons have things turned off and turned on. Now the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that I see most commonly with senior leaders, if they’re going to make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) like this, it is that they back when they joined, they turn their picture off. Because in that time, it was scary to have our picture online, and people didn’t do it. And so many people turn there, they turned all kinds of things off. They turned their picture off, which is what you can see. But they turned off things that you can’t see, like they turned off their experience, or they turned off their skills. Well, the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) bots cannot read something that you’ve turned off to the public. So make sure that your picture and every section of the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile shows to the public when they are looking at your profile. So that’s, you know, it’s kind of a global thing. But you just want to make sure that you haven’t hidden away part of yourself that you thought was important, and it probably was important to you way back then to keep some things secret. Now, if you keeping it secret, you’re not going to be found on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), because the bots can’t read your profile.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 36:32

I’ll also mention a new feature that came online recently that on your profile, not in this area but in the Standard Profile area, if you click on the pencil related to your heading area, you can now . . . we have a personal website. So this way, if you want to direct people to your site for more information, you can tell them For more about me, and then direct them to the website itself. It’s a nice little add in. Carol, we could go on for a long time because like I said, there’s a million [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make. How can people find out

**Carol Kaemmerer** 37:07

I know all about . . .

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I know I made some of them many years ago,

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### [There Are Many Fewer Full Time Jobs #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/)

**Published:** July 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I saw a very surprising statistic that explains why it is harder to find a full time job

**Content:**

# There Are Many Fewer Full-Time Jobs #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/a4P_HDYqegk)

I saw a very surprising statistic that explains why it is harder to find a full-time job.

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### [Spot and Avoid the Burnout Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/spot-and-avoid-the-burnout-trap/)

**Published:** July 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn the questions and back-channel strategies needed to protect your boundaries and secure a sustainable career move.

**Content:**

# Spot and Avoid the Burnout Trap

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Don’t let a fancy espresso machine and a foosball table fool you into repeating your past exhaustion. This episode breaks down how to pivot from a passive applicant to an active auditor so you can uncover a company’s real work culture before signing a contract. Learn the exact operational questions and back-channel strategies needed to protect your boundaries and secure a sustainable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move.

You remember exactly how it felt to hit the wall. The 60-hour weeks piled up, your personal relationships started to fray, and your mental health took a backseat to the constant demands of the job. You pulled yourself out of that wreckage, and as you prepare to re-enter [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), you make a quiet promise to yourself: you will never walk that grueling, workaholic path again.

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Taking a company’s curated visual presentation at face value is a direct path to repeating your past exhaustion. To protect yourself, you have to stop acting like a passive applicant and adopt the mindset of an active auditor.

The live [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is your first testing ground. This process is a two-way street, giving you a chance to run your own candidate-led risk assessment. Start by investigating their stated core values. If the company website highlights respect, [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), and inclusion, ask the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager specifically how those concepts show up in their day-to-day operations.

Next, deploy the flexibility test. Ask about their current policies regarding remote or hybrid work arrangements. A rigid rejection of flexible work options usually points directly to an uncompromising, top-down management style that dictates rather than collaborates. But the biggest behavioral red flag happens if the interviewer closes the conversation without inviting you to ask any questions at all. How an employer reacts to your questions in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) room is the truest leading indicator of how they will handle your [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) and respect your boundaries once you are on the payroll.

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Ask these insiders strict operational questions. Find out if the staff is actually able to manage their workloads within a standard 40-hour week, and ask how dense the meeting cadence is. You also need to ask about their paid time off. Earning vacation days on a ledger means nothing if the team culture actively penalizes you for using them.

Once you finish your back-channel conversations, move to the third phase of your audit: gathering open-source intelligence from online review platforms like Glassdoor and CareerBliss. As you read through the posts, carefully filter out the extremes. Ignore the single angry rant from a disgruntled employee, and be highly skeptical of the flawless, glowing reviews. Look strictly for a dense cluster of complaints regarding workload or management, tuning out isolated dots. Mapping back-channel conversations against these trends cuts through the noise, leaving a clear map of how the company functions when [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aren’t looking.

This audit shifts the primary goal of your search. You are now targeting a sustainable work home—a place that supports your output without demanding your entire identity in exchange. This means finding an environment where [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth and personal sanity coexist, rather than competing for your time.

“Once burned, twice shy” is your guiding philosophy. Surviving a [toxic environment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/) in the past justifies every single step of this rigorous investigation today. You have the leverage to reject a one-sided corporate dynamic; hold out for an employer that respects the balance of giving and taking.

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### [AI Fluency Is Becoming a Baseline Skill, Not a Specialty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-fluency-is-becoming-a-baseline-skill-not-a-specialty/)

**Published:** July 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The Bar Moved While No One Was Watching

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# AI Fluency Is Becoming a Baseline Skill, Not a Specialty

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Five years ago, listing “AI skills” on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) meant something specific and rare–machine learning, data science, natural language processing. It signaled deep technical [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/). In 2026, that framing is outdated. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency has quietly shifted from a specialty into a baseline expectation, the professional equivalent of knowing how to use email or navigate a spreadsheet. And most job seekers haven’t caught up to what that shift demands of them.

## The Bar Moved While No One Was Watching

Think about how quickly certain skills went from impressive to assumed. Typing was once a specialized clerical skill; now it’s assumed of nearly every office worker. Basic computer literacy was once a differentiator on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); now its absence disqualifies you before an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) even starts. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency is following the same trajectory, just compressed into a much shorter timeline.

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers in 2026 don’t ask whether you’ve heard of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools. They assume you use them. The real question they’re asking, often without saying it directly, is whether you use them well enough to produce better work faster, or whether you’re leaning on them as a crutch that produces generic, unreliable output.

## Why This Happened So Fast

Three forces accelerated this shift simultaneously.

- Tool accessibility: Platforms like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), Claude, and Perplexity became free or cheap enough that using them requires no technical [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), unlike earlier [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools that demanded coding knowledge.
- Workplace normalization: Companies stopped treating [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools as experiments and started building them into everyday workflows like drafting emails, summarizing meetings, screening [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), making non-use conspicuous rather than neutral.
- Competitive pressure: Once a critical mass of workers in any field started using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to move faster, everyone else had to adopt it just to keep pace, regardless of personal comfort level.

The result is that fluency spread across entire industries in roughly two to three years, a speed almost unheard of for a workplace skill shift.

## What Baseline Fluency Actually Looks Like

Baseline [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency isn’t about being able to write a clever prompt. It’s a small set of practical habits.

- Knowing which [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool fits which task, since a [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) tool, a writing assistant, and a data analysis tool solve different problems.
- Recognizing when [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) output is wrong, generic, or missing context, rather than accepting the first draft as finished work.
- Editing [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) output with domain expertise so the final product reflects real judgment, not just polished phrasing.
- Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to speed up repetitive parts of a job while still owning the parts that require relationship, negotiation, or strategic thinking.
- Explaining, in a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), specifically how you use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) in your current role rather than offering a vague claim of being “comfortable with technology.”

That last point matters more than people realize. Interviewers have started probing for specifics because vague [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) claims have become a red flag rather than a selling point.

## The New Differentiator Isn’t Fluency–It’s Judgment

Here’s the paradox worth sitting with: because [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency is now baseline, it stops being what makes you stand out. Everyone claims it. Everyone uses it to some degree. What actually separates candidates now is judgment–the ability to know when [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is right, when it’s wrong, and when a task genuinely needs a human’s lived expertise instead of a generated draft.

This is good news for experienced professionals who sometimes worry [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) makes their years of experience less relevant. The opposite is closer to true. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools generate options; experienced humans evaluate which option is actually correct for the specific situation. That evaluative skill can’t be prompted into existence. It comes from years of pattern recognition that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), for all its speed, doesn’t yet replicate reliably.

## What This Means for Your Job Search

If you’re navigating a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) in this environment, a few adjustments matter more than general [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) about keeping up with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

- Stop listing “AI skills” as a bullet point and instead describe a specific outcome you achieved faster or better because of a specific tool.
- Prepare a concrete story for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) about a time you caught an AI-generated error or improved on [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) output using your own expertise.
- Assume interviewers will ask [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions if you mention [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools, so avoid mentioning them unless you can go two levels deep.
- Focus skill-building [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) less on learning new [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools and more on sharpening the judgment and domain expertise that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can’t replace.
- Treat [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency as table stakes in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) strategy, not as the headline of your candidacy.

## The Bottom Line

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) fluency stopped being a specialty because it stopped being optional. The professionals who will struggle in this job market aren’t the ones who lack technical [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) skills. Most of those skills are learnable in an afternoon. The ones who struggle are those who [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) tool familiarity for genuine value, when [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are actually [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for the judgment, context, and expertise that decide whether [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) output is worth trusting in the first place.

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### [Who Are Your Enemies?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/who-are-your-enemies-video/)

**Published:** July 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a question that's asked of executive job hunters by senior professionals they are interviewing with.

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# Who Are Your Enemies?

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 This is a question that’s asked of executive job hunters by senior professionals they are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with. There is a way to do this [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). Here, I discuss it.

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I coach executive job hunters and, along the way, you will invariably butt heads with people. After all, is not all Kumbaya professionally, right? There are people who you have disagreements with. What a firm is looking for is the story and the texture behind it.

I’m not going to go into this person’s story except to say in answering the question, he made a small [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). I just explained how to answer the question past.

When he answered the question, he spoke about something that was 10 years in his past without stating that it was 10 years in his past. It is not the problem that he had a disagreement. But, to me, he could’ve done a touch better by just simply saying, “10 years ago I was far less experienced than I am now. I was in a situation where I…” And that he would go on to the rest of the story.

In this particular case, he might’ve said, “We had a COO who was eavesdropping on phone calls, reading people’s emails and it was problematic. Ultimately, there was a reason why he was doing it, but he never explained why.” The “miss” here was not being clear that the episode was 10 years in the past, and then talking about the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) he made and how, he made an enemy in the situation.

This is only going to be asked of the senior individual. The person who interviewed him , knew the firm, knew the board members involved in the news important that this question be opened up because he would’ve found out about it anyway. That’s the reality for senior professionals.

 It doesn’t matter where in the country you are, what industry you are in, people know people and there’s always a way to check out the accuracy of what you tell them.

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That’s the way to do it. You contextualize it by talking about something that you did many years ago AND you say it was for many years ago so that they know that for fact (for example, “10 years ago when I was less experience than I am now…”). After you set the context is that being an older event, you tell them how you would have handled it differently now that you have more experience.

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### [Why Do Recruiters Complain About Being Flooded With Resumes?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-recruiters-complain-about-being-flooded-with-resumes-thebiggamehuntertv/)

**Published:** July 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Recruiters complain all the time about their inbox being swamped when there are ways around the problem. Why are they complaining?

**Content:**

# Why Do Recruiters Complain About Being Flooded With Resumes?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) complain all the time about their inbox being swamped when there are ways around the problem. Why are they complaining?

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This 1 came in from someone who asked, “Why do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) complain about being flooded with [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) when they could [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a minimally viable candidate.” This is the original question, “Why do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) complain about [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) flooding when they may as well pick a random candidate with minimally viable qualifications and be done with it? Why do they instead have long and drawn out [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) processes?”

What was going to answer this question originally, I was thinking about how people buy computers. There’s always a minimally viable computer to do the basics of what you want but that is what we buy. I thought about for 2nd and thought of a better analogy. Is it extending one that I’ve used before.

I normally talk about [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is like going on a blind date but nobody use this for answering this question. So why did they not just [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the minimally viable person? so wanted to just [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the minimally viable husband or wife? There’s more to the job than just being (wink wink) being minimally viable. There’s more to the relationship than just simply can they do the job. This seems to be the desire to go past that point. Once you’ve gotten the basic stuff there are always secondary qualities and firm start comparing who has what secondary quality that they can use down the road who they like a little bit more, what firms they know someone from that they can back channel and check on… There’s a whole host of different things beyond simply [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the minimally viable candidate.

I want to be clear that I’ve complained about [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for fit for years. I don’t believe that they are capable of doing that. I do believe that they are able to figure out who they are willing to put into meeting situation and present for group. I do believe that they are capable of deciding whether this individual has an upside for their organization. I believe there able to decide who is management material a few years and a whole host of secondary and tertiary qualities that make perfect sense for a firm to evaluate for.

So, yes, if the firm gets desperate, they can go for minimally viable , but they would certainly prefer to get more than their money’s worth. Just like you, when you are buying a car, you don’t just settle for, “It’s got 4 wheels. It goes forward. It goes backwards. That’s good enough. It’s a car.” You could buy a small crappy beat up car but most people don’t. They go for something more. The same thing is true here.

The other part of this is, “flooded with [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), “most of them aren’t people who are qualified to do the job. You have to go through all of them in order to get to someone who is minimally viable. Part of it is that they are complaining about the process of going through all the crap [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that in no way shape or form fit the requirements and part it is the firms are trying to get more.

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### [Resume Objectives #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-5/)

**Published:** July 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six second job search tips about resume objectives

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# Resume Objectives #shorts

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### [18 Early Career Jobs That Map Well to Finance Majors](https://thebiggamehunter.us/18-early-career-jobs-that-map-well-to-finance-majors/)

**Published:** July 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For finance majors, career mapping is especially valuable because the field offers a broad range of opportunities

**Content:**

# 18 Early Career Jobs That Map Well to Finance Majors

[***From CollegeRecruiter.com***](https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2025/03/11/18-early-career-jobs-that-map-well-to-finance-majors)

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) mapping is the process of strategically planning your professional journey by identifying potential [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) paths, the skills you’ll need, and the steps to achieve your long-term goals. For [finance majors, career mapping](https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2025/01/29/30-of-the-most-popular-college-and-university-majors) is especially valuable because the field offers a broad range of opportunities in banking, investments, corporate finance, and financial planning. Without a clear plan, it’s easy to overlook the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) paths to higher-paying and more specialized roles.

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### **Intern in Investment Banking**

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*[Emily Tran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-tran-861a07343), Finance Analyst and Management Specialist, [Maple Worthy](https://mapleworthy.com/)*

### **Revenue Operations in SaaS Company**

Working in the revenue operations department of a SaaS company allows students to help forecast revenue trends, fine-tune pricing models, and analyze churn rates. This role bridges the gap between sales and finance, offering valuable insights into financial planning and subscription-based revenue strategies. It also provides hands-on experience with key metrics like customer lifetime value and recurring revenue—vital knowledge in today’s subscription-driven world.

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*[Jeffrey Zhou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyyzhou/), CEO & Founder, [Fig Loans](https://www.figloans.com/)*

### **Junior Tax Associate Role**

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*[Paul Carlson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulwcarlson/), CPA & Managing Partner, [Law Firm Velocity](https://www.lawfirmvelocity.com/)*

### **Support Venture Capital Firms**

Students can support venture capital firms by evaluating start-ups’ financial statements, market trends, and scalability potential. This hands-on experience sharpens their financial modeling and risk assessment skills while offering a front-row seat to the world of entrepreneurship. It’s a fantastic way to understand how funding decisions are made and how they impact the future of businesses. The role also provides exposure to fast-paced industries and the opportunity to network with founders and investors. This kind of insight and experience can be a game-changer for any finance student looking to stand out in their future [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

*[Gary Hemming](https://www.linkedin.com/in/commercial-finance/), Owner & Finance Director, [ABC Finance](https://abcfinance.co.uk/)*

### **FinTech Product Intern Opportunity**

In my opinion, a FinTech Product Intern is an ideal job for college students majoring in Finance. With the rapid growth of digital payment solutions and blockchain, this role offers a hands-on opportunity to explore the cutting edge of finance and technology. Interns gain experience analyzing financial data, understanding customer behavior, and contributing to product strategies. This combination of analytical and creative work helps finance majors build a diverse skill set that’s valuable across industries. Plus, it’s an exciting way to see how innovation is reshaping the financial world in real-time. It’s the perfect stepping stone for students passionate about both numbers and tech-driven problem-solving.

*[Shawn Plummer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnplummer/), CEO, [The Annuity Expert](https://www.annuityexpertadvice.com/)*

### **Real Estate Analyst Internship**

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### **Explore FinTech Opportunities**

It is Fintech for sure. A person with a major in Finance has knowledge about a number of concepts: MPT, DCF, CAPM, etc. Now what? They can put this knowledge to use either in growing or stagnant sectors. For example, brick-and-mortar banking and check processing services are shrinking because they are being replaced with digital alternatives. At the same time, fintech is rapidly evolving. Fundamental Finance education can be empowered by advanced data science and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to reach new breakthroughs. This also means a hundred times more opportunities and much better compensation.

*[Dee Choubey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deechoubey), CEO, [MoneyLion](https://moneylion.com/)*

### **Budgeting Assistant or Financial Coordinator**

For a college or university student majoring in Finance, a good position is as a budgeting assistant or financial coordinator role. Ideally, the role is within nonprofits, small businesses, or even on-campus organizations. This position is ideal for finance students because it gives them some real hands-on experience managing budgets, tracking expenses, and helping with financial planning. These are all great skills to build on when starting out with a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in Finance.

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*[Paul Bowley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-bowley-723056101), CEO, [Abbeycare Group](https://www.abbeycarefoundation.com/)*

### **Financial Planning Assistant Role**

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*[Julia Rueschemeyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-rueschemeyer-61650988), Attorney, [Amherst Divorce](https://www.amherstdivorce.com/)*

### **Consider a Career in Commercial Banking**

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*[Gary Gray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-gray-2b32413/), CEO, [CouponChief.com](https://www.couponchief.com/)*

### **Insurance Broker Job for Finance Majors**

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*[Jessica Shee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-shee-29747a220/), Tech Editor & Marketing Manager, [M3datarecovery.com](https://www.m3datarecovery.com/)*

### **Debt Collector Role for Finance Students**

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### **Stockbroker Career for Finance Majors**

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*[Bill Lyons](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyons), CEO, [Griffin Funding](https://griffinfunding.com/)*

### **Valuation Analyst Role for Finance Students**

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### **Financial Analyst or Investment Banking Analyst**

The job that a student majoring in finance should consider is that of a valuation analyst. This role is all about determining the worth of companies, assets, or investments by analyzing financial statements, market trends, and economic conditions. Valuation analysts play an important role in mergers, acquisitions, and investment decisions, making it a great fit for students who enjoy financial modeling and data-driven decision-making.

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### **Financial Analyst**

While there isn’t one single “best” job, a Financial Analyst role is often an ideal starting point for finance grads. It offers a broad foundation and exposure to many aspects of finance. You’ll likely be involved in tasks like financial modeling, data analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and preparing reports. This gives you a chance to learn the ropes and figure out which area of finance you enjoy most.

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### [The Era of Fractional Leadership Is Reshaping Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-era-of-fractional-leadership-is-reshaping-hiring/)

**Published:** July 26, 2026
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**Published:** July 29, 2026
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### [The 10000 Hour Rule and Job Hunting #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10000-hour-rule-and-job-hunting-shorts/)

**Published:** July 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop playing the amateur—it's time to build proper interview skills and take control of your career.

**Content:**

# The 10000 Hour Rule and Job Hunting #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You spend decades mastering your profession, but expecting that to magically make you good at [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) is a delusion. Corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) work for the employer, not you, leaving you at a massive disadvantage in a system designed to benefit them. Stop playing the amateur—it’s time to build proper [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) skills and take control of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

[***The Body Language Guide for Job Hunters***](https://youtu.be/yHDQeCy3n2Y)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3200 episodes.

[***The Best Way to Discuss Metrics in Your Resume***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kY)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-81-209x300.jpg) answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [How Effective Is The Easy Apply Button On Most Job Sites?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-effective-is-the-easy-apply-button-on-most-job-sites/)

**Published:** July 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn and most job boards have an "easy apply" feature available to you. How effective are they?

**Content:**

# How Effective Is The Easy Apply Button On Most Job Sites?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and most job boards have an “easy apply” feature available to you. How effective are they?

[***LinkedIn: Respond to LinkedIn InMails***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2pK)

[***The Body Language Guide for Job Hunters***](https://youtu.be/yHDQeCy3n2Y)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes.

[***The Best Way to Discuss Metrics in Your Resume***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kY)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-81-209x300.jpg) answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Act As If #quotes #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/act-as-if-nobscoachingadvice-com-quotes-shorts/)

**Published:** July 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a wonderful reminder from William James . . . In six seconds. You have time for six seconds, don't you?

**Content:**

# Act As If #quotes #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/voh-88LLHKA)

This is a wonderful reminder from William James . . . In six seconds. You have time for six seconds, don’t you?

[***The Body Language Guide for Job Hunters***](https://youtu.be/yHDQeCy3n2Y)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes.

[***The Best Way to Discuss Metrics in Your Resume***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kY)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-81-209x300.jpg) answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

[***Why People Quit***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-29z)

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### [Why You Were Turned Down: You Put Too Much Pressure on Yourself](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-were-turned-down-you-put-too-much-pressure-on-yourself-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)

**Published:** July 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This show points to how, sometimes, people put too much pressure on themselves.

**Content:**

# Why You Were Turned Down: You Put Too Much Pressure on Yourself

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**This show points to how, sometimes, people put too much pressure on themselves.**

I‘m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I coach people and organizations to be more effective. And that can basically translate into helping with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), being more effective in the workplace, being a more effective manager—a whole host of different things that translates into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) people and organizations to be effective in their work environment.

I’m also the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community)

And I want to start a series about why people get turned down for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). ‘Cause Lord knows, in my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in search, I heard a million reasons. And I’m not going to go through the ones like you weren’t qualified, you made [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), nothing along those lines. I want to go through some of the other reasons why people get turned down.

And one reason—and this is a hard one for people to hear—but they put too much pressure on themselves. They over-prepare, they overthink situations instead of being themselves.

Now, I’ll give an example from someone I coached recently who came to me because he would get through three, four, five rounds of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), get to the final, get turned down. And, you know, he gave me a story about how he had been on one [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for 10, 12 hours, came in for the final round of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and people said, “Wow, no one’s ever [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for like this before. You were terrific!” And then they didn’t [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) him.

Why? Why didn’t they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) him?

And part of that involved the amount of pressure he put on himself to perform. You see, people want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) individuals that they know, like, trust, and respect. They’re not [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) data robots. They’re not [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people who purely are going to regurgitate facts to them. They want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) effective people who they like.

And by over-preparing, you put too much pressure on yourself so that it’s hard for them to really connect with you person to person. You see, when organizations [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), they want to believe that they can trust someone. That person also needs to be qualified, obviously. They need competence, [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), character, chemistry, maybe a little bit of [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/). But it all translates into, you know, you add this up, you put it in the pot, you cook it for a while, and it translates into, “We trust this person can do the job.”

By putting too much pressure on yourself, you’re not yourself. You’re not performing at a high level. You’re able to give them a bunch of facts most of the time. Sometimes you’re going to freeze. And you just need to relax and trust that you have the background that can do the role. And if you can’t, then you shouldn’t be hired. It’s okay. But when you put too much pressure on yourself, you’re not at your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

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### [No BS Career Advice: July 26, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-26-2026/)

**Published:** July 27, 2026
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# No BS Career Advice: July 26, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Specialization](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Specialization.png)

Last week, I released my newest book is out I’m offering it for 50% off. “[Networking for Introverts: Build Powerful Connections Without Cold Calling.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9CH4QQD)” It’s targeted for those of us who think of “working a crowded room” or “hopping on a quick call” with a stranger sick to their stomach. The examples come from my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) practice and have been completely anonymized.

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## How to Make the System Give You Interviews

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

We all know that the traditional [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is broken. Most people spend hours tweaking [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) fonts, running text through [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools, and pushing PDFs into online corporate portals. They treat the process like a raffle, hoping more tickets mean a win.

It wasn’t working before [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and it certainly isn’t working well now. [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) online puts you in a low-yield, automated pool. Your background is turned into raw text and evaluated by software designed to eliminate people, not discover them.

If you want a steady stream of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), stop being a reactive job hunter. Take on an operator mindset. Build real leverage, skip the public portals, and connect directly with decision-makers.

Here is a strategy to control your pipeline and force a human review.

### 1. Referral Arbitrage: Bypassing the Front Door

Before you start [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), understand why you are doing it. You aren’t reaching out to pick anyone’s brain. You are executing **Referral Arbitrage**.

Companies rank inbound [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) channels through a hierarchy:

- **Tier 1 (Internal Employee Referrals):** Sourced directly through an active employee’s internal portal. The software routes these directly to a recruiter’s manual review dashboard, giving them the highest priority and skipping automated keyword filters entirely.
- **Tier 2 (Direct [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Sourcing):** Originates from direct [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) outreach or manual profile pulls. These carry medium priority and move straight to initial human screening calls.
- **Tier 3 (Public Portal Submissions):** Submitted through standard online job boards and corporate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pages. These receive the lowest priority, running through automated keyword screening and mass rejection rules before a human ever sees them.

When an employee submits your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) through an internal system, the software tags your file. In Imany systems, this tag overrides the automated rejection filters. It drops your profile right onto the recruiter’s desk for a manual look.

Remember: companies pay employees real money for referrals, often $1,000 to $5,000+. When you present an employee with a sharp, verified background that fits an open role, you are handing them a financial win.

Your goal is simple: secure that Tier 1 tag before your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) ever touches the database.

### 2. Networking for Extroverts: The Ecosystem Strategy

If you get [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) from talking to people, your edge is speed and scale. But extroverts often fail by being too broad, too social, and unfocused.

To turn social [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into real [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), discipline your approach:

### Target the Ecosystem

Don’t just reach out to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers. Connect with the service providers around them. Industry consultants, agency directors, vendor reps, and specialized [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know which companies are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) long before a position is posted online.

### Use the “Forwardable Asset”

Stop asking people for “coffee chats.” It creates unnecessary friction. Instead, when asking for an introduction, give your contact a **Forwardable Asset**:

> *“Hi \[Contact\], I noticed you’re connected with \[[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Manager\] at \[Company\]. I’m following their current infrastructure rollout. Having led a similar project at my last firm, I put together a 1-page breakdown on how we avoided deployment delays. Would you be open to forwarding the short note below to them? I wrote it so you can copy and paste it.”*

You remove all the work for your contact. You present yourself as a valuable peer instead of someone looking for a handout.

### 3. Networking for Introverts: Asynchronous Deep Research

If traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) makes you cringe, don’t force it. You don’t need to go to mixers, make small talk, or schedule awkward phone calls.

Your edge is deep preparation, independent [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), and precise writing. You can get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) than an extrovert by running a quiet **Asynchronous Strategy**.

### The Boardroom Diagnostic

Use public data to analyze a company’s real problems. Read their earnings reports, review executive [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), or look at competitor moves.

Find a specific problem you know how to fix. Send a short, direct message to a peer or manager:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s expansion into mid-market software integration this quarter. Having managed that shift previously, I’ve seen that data sync logic often leaks about 14% in workflow speed by month three if teams aren’t decoupled early. I put together a 1-page framework on how we protected our metrics against that drag. No strings attached—let me know if you want me to send the notes over.”*

### The Asynchronous Value Exchange

Look at what this does:

- It needs **zero live interaction** (no calls or coffee requested).
- It shows **clear proof of work** instead of self-promotion.
- It gives **immediate value** with no pitch.

When a manager reads this, they see a specialist who understands their problems. They don’t send you to HR. They ask, *“When can you talk to our team?”*

### 4. The 80/20 Rule for Applying

To get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), manage your time strictly using the **80/20 Rule**:

- **80% of your time:** Direct outreach, creating forwardable assets, writing targeted diagnostics, and securing Tier 1 internal referral tags.
- **20% of your time:** Online portal submissions, only after formatting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for clean text parsing and fit.

### The Bottom Line

Getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) isn’t about luck or beating an algorithm. It’s about positioning.

Stop handing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) over to job boards and databases. Run your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) like an executive campaign: use internal referral incentives, play to your natural communication strengths, and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) real solutions. That is how you bypass the software, skip the line, and take control.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Over the past week I released a number of new blog posts, including:

**8 Ways Job Hunters [Sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) Their Own Search** Excerpt: [Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) is hard enough without becoming your own worst enemy. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down eight common ways job seekers unconsciously undermine their own efforts and how to fix them. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-sabotage-their-own-search/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-sabotage-their-own-search/)

**[Laid Off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) At a Company That Has Announced Cuts of Poor Performers #shorts** Excerpt: There are cuts at companies that have announced layoffs of poor performers. Here’s what to do. Link: 

**The Strength of [Weak Ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/) in Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** Excerpt: This episode breaks down the science of “weak ties” and gives you a step-by-step strategy for leveraging distant acquaintances and professional contacts to unlock hidden opportunities. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/)

**Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People? #shorts** Excerpt: Finding out an employer has already interviewed dozens of candidates can feel discouraging. My answer will surprise you. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-you-apply-if-theyve-interviewed-a-lot-of-people-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-you-apply-if-theyve-interviewed-a-lot-of-people-shorts/)

**What to Do If You Hate Your Job** Excerpt: Waking up every morning dreading your work is an exhausting way to live, but making a panic-driven exit often leads right into another bad situation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) maps out a strategic, No BS plan to regain control, protect your mental sanity, and build a quiet transition strategy while you’re still on the payroll. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-do-if-you-hate-your-job/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-do-if-you-hate-your-job/)

**2 Huge Final [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Blunders** Excerpt: Don’t you feel great when you’re scheduled back for a final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Too often, people commit these blunders before going back for the final. Link: 

**[Stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) #shorts** Excerpt: A six second [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tip about managing your [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/). Link: 

**The Disengaged Interviewer** Excerpt: EP 3094 Have you ever been interviewed by someone who isn’t paying attention? I know I wasn’t perfect when I interviewed people. Here’s how to deal with it. Link: 

**[Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Not Quantifying Your Impact #shorts** Excerpt: Leaving metrics off your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) makes your accomplishments look like basic job duties. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details why failing to quantify your impact costs you [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and how to inject clear, high-signal data into every bullet point. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-mistakes-not-quantifying-your-impact-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-mistakes-not-quantifying-your-impact-shorts/)

**The Executive Playbook: Navigating a C Suite Transition** Excerpt: Stepping into a C-suite role requires a total shift from tactical execution to strategic leadership and enterprise influence. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the onboarding and transition playbook [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) must follow to establish immediate authority. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-playbook-navigating-a-c-suite-transition/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-playbook-navigating-a-c-suite-transition/)

**[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Are Courting Less-Educated Workers — Finally — But They Aren’t Offering Pay Increases** Excerpt: While companies are opening doors for workers without traditional degrees, the shift isn’t translating to higher compensation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) analyzes this labor market dynamic and provides a reality check on how non-degreed candidates can [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) fair compensation. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/employers-are-courting-less-educated-workers-finally-but-they-arent-offering-pay-increases/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/employers-are-courting-less-educated-workers-finally-but-they-arent-offering-pay-increases/)

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### [What’s the Best Question to Ask at the End of an Interview?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interviews-whats-the-best-question-to-ask-at-the-end-of-an-interview-jobsearchradio-com/)

**Published:** July 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What’s the Best Question to Ask at the End of an Interview?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Answering a Facebook follower’s question, I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) the best question to ask at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/)

I’ve referred to the single Best question you should ask on any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) and I did a Google hangout about it some time ago.The image isn’t all that good (it was 1 of my 1st hangouts) so I decide to we do that video here.

What is the single best question you should ask on any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) and when should you ask? Real simple. Let me start off with what the typical [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) seems like. It starts with them going, “Tell me about yourself.” Then you do. And then you play [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) karate for a while. They throw up a question that you that feels like a punch and you have to block it away. They throw another one about you and you have to use I a hip check to throw them over your shoulder. Back and forth and back and forth..

If you are in a profession where there in-depth questions that could be asked, they will get to that until finally they will say, “So, do you have any questions for us?” You say, “Tell me about the job..” They do that.. You do that and say, “That’s interesting!” They say, “Great! Will get back to you.” That’s the typical [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/).

Let me tell you what the single Best question is and when to ask it. You walk in and sit down and as you lower your butt into the chair. Before they have a chance to speak, you say, “I appreciate that you made time to meet with me today. I reviewed the position description and it was really interesting to me. But I want to get your take on the job. Could you tell me about the position as you see it and what I can do to help?”

BOING!

What that does is, instead of waiting until the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) to ask them about the job, you do it at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) before they get role in. You do that because, at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/), there is really nothing that you can do with that information. But sometimes, even if you see the job description, they’ve often changed it a little bit, Your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) have morphed, they start looking at it differently and they’ve never changed the formal requirements. So even if you got this description from a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/as-a-recruiter-what-are-the-most-important-things-you-look-for-shorts/), it may be slightly different or even wrong.

Thus by asking this question, “I took a look at the job description, and was really interesting to me,, but I want to get your take on the job. Could you tell me about the position as you see it and what I can do to help you?” You get the information at the beginning when you can use it. Thus, every time they are asking you a question, you want to tailor your answer to what matters to them and not just talk about what you’ve done, but talk about what you’ve done that relates to what they are looking for from you.

This gives you a huge [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) over your competition which is sitting there like lumps waiting until the end to ask about the job. Now, you get this information at the beginning when you can use it.

Ah! There is one small problem. Now that you can’t ask about the job at the end, you need to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) with questions to replace the one about the job, right? Here’s what you do.

When they ask you, “So, do you have any questions for us here,” you say, “The job seems great to me. I’m really interested. I do have a few questions. Is my 1st question: let’s say I join, what would your expectations be, what would I be doing over the 1st 30, 60 and 90 days after I join?”

If you find out there are unreasonable expectations, isn’t it better for you to know before you join? That’s one question you can ask.

Here’s the 2nd one that I have also shared in another video and podcast. “Let’s say I join and it is a year from now. I have just done a good job, It’s been the best, or at least 1 of the best you have seen someone perform. What I’ve accomplished during that year that would cause you to write such a review?”

BOING!

Right off the bat, It lets them know that you are interested in doing great work, not average work. Again, it’s giving them an idea of you AND it’s giving you the idea of what you are going to be doing over that 1st year that would cause you to be an extraordinary employee.

It’s a great question. I hope you like it. I hope you use these in your interviews.

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### [How to Follow Up Without Being Annoying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-follow-up-without-being-annoying/)

**Published:** July 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the three-step "Value-First Ping" framework to get responses from high-level decision-makers without looking desperate.

**Content:**

# How to Follow Up Without Being Annoying

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop sending useless “just checking in” emails that create immediate homework for busy professionals. If you want to build real professional trust, you need to deposit value before you ever ask for a withdrawal. This episode breaks down the three-step “Value-First Ping” framework to get responses from high-level decision-makers without looking desperate.

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### [I Retired and Need to Return to Work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-retired-and-need-to-return-to-work-video/)

**Published:** August 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Someone asked for advice about returning to work after having retired and get out of the labor force for the past 15 years.

**Content:**

# I Retired and Need to Return to Work

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [8 Ways Job Hunters Sabotage Their Own Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/)

**Published:** July 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Job hunting is hard enough without becoming your own worst enemy.

**Content:**

# 8 Ways Job Hunters Sabotage Their Own Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is hard enough without becoming your own worst enemy. After decades in recruiting and 11 years [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) people through [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transitions, I’ve watched talented, qualified people stall out, not because the market rejected them, but because they quietly undercut their own efforts. [Self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) rarely looks dramatic. It shows up as small, repeated choices that feel safe or efficient in the moment and cost weeks or months of unnecessary struggle.

## The “Spray and Pray” Method

Many job seekers believe volume equals results, so they fire off [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to hundreds of postings with little regard for fit. This approach floods your time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into low-probability opportunities while starving the handful of roles where you’d actually be competitive. Focusing on 20 to 30 well-researched target [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) produces far better outcomes than blasting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) everywhere.

## The “I’m Open to Anything” Trap

Telling [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and your network you’re “open to anything” feels flexible, but it actually signals you don’t know what you want or are desperate. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are looking for specialists who solve a specific problem, not generalists who could theoretically fit ten different roles. Naming the specific titles, industries, or functions you’re targeting makes it dramatically easier for people to help you.

## One-Size-Fits-All Resumes and Applications

Sending the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to every opening, regardless of the job description, is one of the most common ways people quietly sabotage themselves. [Applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) and human reviewers are scanning for language that mirrors the posting, and a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) rarely clears that bar. Tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) to each role’s specific requirements takes more time upfront but multiplies your response rate.

## Avoiding Networking

Many job hunters rely almost exclusively on job boards while ignoring the relationships that actually produce most hires. This is a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I see constantly: people treat [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) as optional or uncomfortable rather than as the core engine of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Weak-tie relationships–acquaintances, former colleagues, industry contacts–often surface opportunities that never get posted publicly, so avoiding this channel is a direct form of [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/).

## Inconsistent Effort (“On Again, Off Again”)

Job searching in bursts–intensely active for a few days, then disappearing for a week–breaks momentum and signals disorganization to yourself and others. Consistency matters more than sporadic motivation. Blocking a set hour or two daily for search activities, even when you don’t feel like it, keeps pipelines moving and prevents the search from stretching on indefinitely.

## Trash-Talking Past Employers

Venting [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) about a previous boss, manager, or company during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) or [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) conversations is tempting but corrosive. No [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager wants to bring on someone who complains about their last workplace, because they assume you’ll eventually complain about theirs. Framing past experiences around growth, lessons learned, and achievements—rather than grievances—protects your reputation and keeps the conversation forward-focused.

## Ignoring the Job Description

Skimming past the actual requirements and responsibilities in a posting, then [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) anyway, wastes your time and the employer’s. This mismatch shows up quickly in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) when someone can’t speak to the specific qualifications listed. Reading the posting carefully and explicitly addressing its language in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) shows respect for the process and improves your odds significantly.

## Negative Self-Talk and Impostor Syndrome

Fear of failure, fear of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), and persistent negative self-talk are internal forms of [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) that show up externally in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) conversations. Candidates who don’t believe they’re qualified tend to undersell their accomplishments, hedge their language, or avoid pursuing roles they’re actually capable of landing. Perfectionism compounds this—waiting until a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) feels “perfect” before submitting delays action indefinitely.

## Bad Habits Around Timing

Bookmarking interesting postings “to apply later” instead of acting immediately is a subtle but costly habit. Data shows people who apply within the first 48 hours of a posting going live are roughly eight times more likely to land an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) compared to those who wait. Delay doesn’t just cost you time. It often costs you the opportunity entirely, since many roles fill from the earliest, strongest applicants.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How to Work 3 Months a Year Without Ruining Your Retirement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-work-3-months-a-year-without-ruining-your-retirement/)

**Published:** July 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** We break down the 11 best seasonal gigs on the market and how to choose the right one

**Content:**

# How to Work 3 Months a Year Without Ruining Your Retirement

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop trading your hard-earned retirement freedom for year-round part-time grunt work just to keep up with inflation. The 90-day seasonal sprint lets you inject fast cash into your savings during peak seasons, leaving the remaining nine months of the year entirely yours. In this episode, we break down the 11 [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) seasonal gigs on the market and how to choose the right one without destroying your physical health or triggering costly Social Security penalties.

Here is the verbatim transcript of the video structured into appropriate paragraphs:

A fixed pool of savings can only stretch so far against modern expenses. Between inflation, climbing property taxes, and the cost of travel, the money you set aside for retirement is constantly being eroded.

The traditional response is to go out and get a permanent part-time job. But signing on for year-round work immediately trades away the exact freedom you retired to enjoy.

That leaves the 90-day seasonal sprint. You work intensely for a single busy season, and then you clock out completely. By picking up a short-term contract, you can precisely close your annual financial gap without surrendering your calendar for the other nine months of the year.

But before you apply, there is a hidden [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) if you are under the age of 67: the Social Security earnings limit. Your goal is the 3-month sweet spot. In 2026, the strict earnings limit is $24,480. Crossing that line triggers government benefit withholding.

Additionally, there is another constraint. Accepting a job that pays well but wrecks your joints or spikes your blood pressure defeats the purpose.

To navigate these hurdles, we can filter the 11 [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) seasonal gigs on the market through three distinct retiree lifestyle profiles. Matching a seasonal job directly to your specific profile ensures you maximize your profit while minimizing the physical penalty.

The first profile is the Remote and Sedentary Optimizer. This is for those prioritizing maximum hourly pay from the comfort of their own home.

This matrix breaks down your options. Tax-season preparers hit $24.31 an hour using mental input. The tradeoff: severe [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) approaching April 15th. Remote customer service pays $20.59 an hour with zero commute, but requires managing frustrated holiday shoppers in a strictly noise-free home.

Online academic tutors pull in premium rates, averaging $25.54 an hour by leveraging deep subject-matter expertise. But to get that rate, you have to master video conferencing platforms, and your weekly hours will fluctuate wildly based on student demand.

Seasonal bookkeepers earn $23.66 an hour for highly concentrated sprints at the end of financial quarters. The cost is extreme deadline pressure and absolutely zero margin for data entry errors.

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Remote optimizers successfully eliminate physical exhaustion, but they accept high mental strain and intense screen time in return.

The second profile is the Lifestyle and Outdoor Snowbird. You are seeking travel subsidies and location independence over raw cash.

National and state park campground hosts secure an incredible subsidy: free RV hookups in beautiful locations across the country. You trade cash for that view. Actual compensation is often just a small stipend, and you are burdened with being always on duty to tourists.

Ski resort lift attendants secure free family ski passes and integrate right into a vibrant resort community. To earn passes, you’ll stand in freezing weather for early morning shifts and navigate the prohibitively high cost of living in resort towns.

Golf course starters enjoy a low-stress outdoor environment, plus the benefit of free rounds of golf during their off-hours. The base pay is lower, usually $13 to $18 an hour, and your shift consistency is entirely dependent on good weather.

Vineyard and harvest workers step into a highly concentrated work window, gaining deep immersion in the local agricultural community. This carries the highest physical toll on the list, requiring extreme bending, heavy lifting, and massive outdoor stamina.

Outdoor snowbirds treat lifestyle perks as their primary currency, accepting lower hourly pay and higher physical demands to fund their travels.

The third profile is the Community and Hustle Socialite. You want to get out of the house, stay active, and socialize locally.

Holiday retail associates benefit from immediate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) availability, extreme shift flexibility, and valuable store discounts. The tradeoff is physical exhaustion. You will stand on concrete floors for hours while navigating chaotic holiday crowds.

Event and stadium security staff get a unique perk: getting paid to experience live sports and concerts. You will work late-night shifts, and your income is completely unpredictable, tied directly to the venue’s event calendar.

Seasonal package delivery drivers earn excellent pay, averaging $21.57 an hour, and enjoy the independence of working without a manager hovering over them. You pay for that independence with fast-paced physical wear and tear on your knees and back, plus the risks of weather-dependent driving.

Community hustlers secure extreme schedule flexibility, but they must physically endure the chaotic pace of their local peak seasons.

To find your perfect match, you have to weigh the hourly pay directly against the physical toll.

This quadrant chart visualizes your choices. Remote optimizer [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) like tax prep and customer service sit in the top left: high pay, low physical exertion. The lifestyle [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) land in the bottom right; they require a higher physical toll for less cash, but they carry hidden lifestyle subsidies. And the community hustle [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) push into the extreme top right, delivering high pay but demanding very high physical effort.

The optimal seasonal job requires matching the gig’s true currency—whether cash, perks, or socialization—with your specific physical capacity and earning limits.

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### [What’s Your Past Performance Promises #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-your-past-performance-promises-shorts/)

**Published:** July 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What’s Your Past Performance Promises #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

It isn’t that your past performance is why you get hired.

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Gym Grind is Like Job Search Grind #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/)

**Published:** July 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There’s one thing I know about the gym that translates into the job search 

**Content:**

# Gym Grind is Like Job Search Grind #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

There’s one thing I know about the gym that translates into the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/)

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Your Digital First Impression May Be Getting You Rejected](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/)

**Published:** June 24, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3103 The reality is simple: recruiters and hiring managers are checking you out online before they even think about an interview.

**Content:**

# Your Digital First Impression May Be Getting You Rejected

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3103 The reality is simple: **[recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers** ***are*** **checking you out online** before they even think about an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

This episode gives you the hard truth and the specific, actionable steps you need to take to audit and clean up your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), especially on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and other key platforms. Stop letting an unmanaged digital footprint [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Learn how to craft a powerful, professional online image that opens doors instead of slamming them shut.

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So, you’re on the job hunt, right? And you’ve probably spent hours, maybe even days getting that [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just perfect. But what if I told you the game has completely changed? Let’s get into it. Because that [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) you’re trying to make? Well, it’s happening way before anyone even sees your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Okay, so you’ve polished it, you’ve triple-checked it, and you finally hit sand on that [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). You’re feeling pretty good. But what really happens in that moment? A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager sees your name.

I’ll give you a hint. It’s probably not what you’re picturing. Yep.

Before they even open that [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) you so carefully crafted, they’re already online. This isn’t a maybe. It’s pretty much standard procedure now.

They are absolutely going to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) you on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and you better believe they’re going to Google you. They’re trying to get a quick read on who you are professionally before they invest time in the paperwork. So, let’s just call this what it is.

The pre-interview check. It’s a whole new step in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process. You know how a firm handshake used to be that first, crucial impression? Well, today, your digital footprint is that handshake.

It’s the silent introduction you’re making long before you ever get to say a word. For the longest time, the whole [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) world revolved around a single document. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

That was the old focus. But the new reality? It’s so much bigger. It’s your entire digital footprint.

Everything from your professional profiles to what you share, what others say about you. It’s the whole shebang. Alright, so where are they actually looking? Well, it almost always boils down to two key places.

***[LinkedIn’s #opentowork Post](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ouL)***

First, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. That’s a given. They want to see your history, your connections, and what kind of things you’re talking about.

Then they’ll do a quick Google search, just to see what else is out there. The key is making sure that what they find tells the right story for the job you want. Okay, so we’ve established they’re going to look you up online.

Now, the goal here isn’t just to have a clean [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). No, no. The real pro move is to actively use this to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

It’s about turning your profile from a static, boring page into a dynamic [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) that actually shows how you solve problems. And this right here is the absolute core of the strategy. Every single company is [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) to solve a problem.

That’s it. So your number one goal, with your entire [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), is to illustrate how you solve those kinds of problems. You want a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to look at your profile and immediately think, oh wow, I can totally see them doing that for us.

So how do you actually do that? It breaks down into three pretty simple steps. First, curate your [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Seriously, Google yourself.

Look at your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile with fresh eyes. Does what you see actually align with [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals? Be honest. Second, start posting relevant content.

You don’t have to write a novel. Share an interesting article. Add a quick insight.

This stuff dramatically boosts your visibility. And finally, use that feature section on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. It’s prime real estate.

Pin your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) work right to the top. It’s your personal highlight reel. You see, all of this, your online activity, the posts, the profile tweaks, it all builds towards something way bigger.

***A Critical Blindspot in an Executive [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)***

It builds your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). And look, [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) can sound like some intimidating marketing term, but it’s not. It’s really just a modern word for something that’s always been critical, your professional reputation.

Let’s just demystify this whole [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) thing for a second. It’s not about being an influencer or having a cool logo. It is quite simply your reputation.

It’s what you’re known for. When someone in your industry says your name, what’s the first thing that pops into their head? That is your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). And that brings me to the big question for you.

Take a second and really think about it. What are you known for? If a future boss were to ask your colleagues about you, what would they say? And maybe more importantly, what do you want them to say? The answer to that is the absolute foundation of your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). We can break that big question down into four main parts.

Your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is built on who you are, your professional identity. It’s what you do, your skills and your expertise. It’s your successes, the proven tangible results you’ve delivered.

And maybe the most important one, it’s how you succeed. Your unique process, your secret sauce. If you can tell a powerful story across these four areas, you are golden.

And make no [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), this is not just some feel-good exercise. Your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) makes a real tangible difference. It frames how a potential employer sees you from that very first click.

A strong, clear [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) tells them you’re a pro who knows your value and can deliver. It sets the tone for everything that comes after. So this is what I want to leave you with.

Your digital footprint is out there, building your reputation 24-7, whether you’re managing it or not. So the only question left to ask yourself is, is the story it’s telling helping you or is it hurting you?

*[**Executive Job Search: The Invisible Market**](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HqvttXWslzWyeTLRZD6kU)*

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [The Strength of Weak Ties in Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/)

**Published:** July 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the science of "weak ties" and gives you a step-by-step strategy

**Content:**

# The Strength of Weak Ties in Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop begging your close friends and family for job leads—they are the least likely people to help you find your next role. Real opportunities live on the periphery of your network with casual acquaintances and former colleagues who occupy professional circles you don’t typically visit. This episode breaks down the science of “weak ties” and gives you a step-by-step strategy to turn distant contacts into active referrals without the social friction.

When you start looking for a new job, your first instinct is to reach out to your inner circle—family, close friends, and long-time colleagues.

But there is a structural limitation to this approach. These people are often the least likely to provide you with a new lead.

In 1973, Stanford sociologist Mark Granovetter published this [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). He discovered that professionals find the majority of high-quality [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) through casual acquaintances, rather than their closest friends.

Granovetter called close friends “strong ties.” You interact constantly, making your information redundant—a closed loop of shared job postings.

“Weak ties” are on the periphery: former coworkers or acquaintances. They occupy professional environments you don’t typically visit.

This diagram shows the concept of a network bridge. The dotted lines are the only paths connecting isolated social clusters. These distant acquaintances are the primary gateway to [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) and new professional circles.

Engaging with weak ties provides a pathway to opportunities that exist entirely outside your own social circle.

To begin your outreach, go through your contact list or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connections. Look specifically for acquaintances who work in your target industry. Categorize these contacts and build a list of 20 to 30 specific people you intend to message.

Once your list is ready, do not contact your top prospect first. Instead, start with the person at number 10. [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is a skill that requires practice. Starting with a lower-stakes contact allows you to refine your pitch and gain [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) before you approach a high-value target at your dream company.

When you reach out to a weak tie, avoid the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of leading with a request for a job or a formal referral. Use the “warm door” approach. Ask for low-stakes information or advice that is easy for the recipient to share.

Re-establish the connection in a single, simple sentence. If you worked together years ago, briefly mention the project so they have immediate context.

Asking for insight—like their take on the team culture—lowers the social friction. This low-pressure start often encourages the contact to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a referral on their own. By removing the transactional pressure, you make it easier for a dormant contact to provide internal information or help.

If your contact offers to pass along your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), send them a forwardable package. This ensures you have done almost all the work for them.

First, include the exact job link and the requisition number.

Second, provide a two-sentence summary of why you are a fit for the role. This should be written so they can copy and paste it into an email to their [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

Third, attach a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that is optimized for [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/).

Finally, include an explicit “easy out.” Acknowledge that they may not be comfortable referring someone they haven’t worked with closely.

This package shifts the contact’s task from evaluating your background to simply hitting “forward,” making a successful referral much more likely.

Once you have sent the package, wait 5 to 7 business days before taking any further action. If you hear nothing, send exactly one short, polite nudge to see if the email was received.

Avoid multiple [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/). A weak tie is often just busy, and excessive pestering will stop the conversation entirely.

By mapping your distant network and reducing the friction of the ask, you have turned a near stranger into a direct link to your next role.

There’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Become an insider and get [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), as well as video courses, books, and guides to help you. Or you can purchase individual products and services à la carte.

We want to help. If you like the video, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, follow the channel—it will help other people if you do.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Adapt!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/)

**Published:** July 24, 2024
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses what to do when a company makes a change to the schedule.

**Content:**

# Adapt!

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses what to do when a company makes a change to the schedule.***

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community)

And I want to use myself as an example for the notion of adapting, changing, and pivoting, and tell a story of my own professional career and life.

You know, when I got out of college back in the Stone Ages, you know, I was walking out with my club, readying, readying to slay animals—that’s how long ago it was—I graduated with no real relevant skills and found the one job that was open to me: being a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

And in being a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I had no special skills. I had an undergraduate degree in political science, and went to work for a firm for a year and a half, with a partner started a business, after a number of years divorced him, started my first business. I wound up, I think it was at that point, I went to work for someone.

No, let me go back. So, I worked for a year and a half, started a business with a partner, started my first business, and then a second name, and then went to work for two different firms for like 15, 16 years before going out into recruiting again and then [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). That’s the quick summary of a lot of years.

Now, along the way, I realized a number of things about myself, and one was I don’t really like recruiting all that much. Yeah, I liked the activity, and that was part of what I really thrived at. I loved the deal, I loved the successes, but the frustrations were incredible. But I did it because that’s what I thought I could do, and the money was great, but, you know, I really wasn‘t all that into doing it after a while.

So, from experiences that I developed with men’s groups, I got the idea of becoming a therapist in private practice, getting a master’s, and then had the great fortune to meet my wife in graduate school. And with that, made a very clear decision to put my [career change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-career-change-journey-part-1/) on hold because we wanted to do the house, the kid, the whole thing. And, you know, I put it aside and waited, and then came back to it a number of years later in order to make a transition into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

I share this story because, frankly, there are times where you’re going to want to do something, and it’s not going to be the right time, and you’re just going to have to adapt. Now, adapting takes a lot of different forms. So, for example, I went for a master’s, and in doing so, I got a certain type of [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) that was really very helpful to me both in what I was hoping my career would be, which would be a therapist in private practice, and the way I adapted it, it was very effective for me as a headhunter. And even when I put my [career change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-career-change-journey-part-1/) on hold, it was great for my relationship with my wife, who I’d met there, became a way that we could talk, that we had a common bond from that experience. We did psychoanalytic [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) together for a number of years, we each practiced, etc., etc., before I went into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

Sometimes you need to adapt to circumstances because they change, and you could criticize yourself, “Oh, I didn’t do it what I wanted to,” and punish yourself, but it’s not really useful. What I think you’re just better off doing is waiting for the right time and then making your pivot—to take the skills that you have to move in a different direction.

For example, one of the things that I‘ve done in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) is become an executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) coach, which takes my experience from search work and allows me to work as an ally to a senior job hunter and help them reposition themselves to the next organization. Being clear, I’m not functioning as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/); I am their coach, helping them navigate between all these different directions that they have to contend with, answering their questions, translating circumstances. And my background in search comes in remarkably helpful. And that becomes an—excuse me, I kind of jumped around there—that becomes a great pivot point for me in using my knowledge and experiences in a very different way. Because I don’t know of any little boy or girl who grows up and says, “I want to do executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).” No one does that, do they? But from the experiences that I have, I’ve been able to create something very different that’s effective.

You can do your version of it. But I think the key element here is having the patience to sort it out, and then the courage to take the leap. As I’ve said in another video, it all starts with courage. The courage to make the change that’s necessary to have the life that you want. It starts there. And being true to yourself, being of service to others, and in a variety—well, I’ll get to some of the other things later on. But when all is said and done, I want to encourage you to go out there, start looking at ways that you can make changes. Don’t rush unless you feel you’re already and you got it all lined up in your mind, and you’ve researched it. And even then, it might be useful for you to get some [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) to go through some of the situations that might turn out as roadblocks along the way.

I’d love to help you. Reach out to me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. In the subject line, put the word “coaching,” and we’ll figure out a time to speak.

Have a great day. Take care.

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### [5 Dumb Mistakes Job Hunters Make WAY Too Often](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** July 20, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter speaks with Karen Mattonen about 5 of those mistakes and what you can do to avoid them and not cost yourself a job you really want.

**Content:**

# 5 Dumb Mistakes Job Hunters Make WAY Too Often and How to Correct Them

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 Each time job hunters try to change [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), they make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that prove costly as they re-learn the skills needed to find work.

On this show, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) speaks with Karen Mattonen about 5 of those [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and what you can do to avoid them and not cost yourself a job you really want.

From the archives

**Jeff**Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Radio on webtalkradio.net. My guest is Karen Mattonen, who owns Advanced Career Solutions and operates a blog called HireCentrix that helps job hunters, shall we say, navigate some of the legal issues that they are unfortunately forced to come into contact with. Karen, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Radio. Great to have you on.**Karen**Thank you for having me on board too, Jeff. I appreciate being here.**Jeff**You’re welcome. You know, one thing I know is that when I deal with many job hunters, they are the biggest obstacles to their own [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). They make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of believing that the skills needed to find a job are the same as the skills needed to do a job. And as you and I both know, they complement one another, but they’re completely different skills. What sort of [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) do you see job hunters making that cost them opportunity after opportunity and makes their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) go on so much longer?**Karen**One of the biggest [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that I see that job seekers have is that they often assume way too much when they go into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). As a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), one of the things that I prefer to do is not to give the job seeker too much information about the career opportunity or about the job. And I even suggest to them not to go look at the job description too much because then they go in there assuming too much about the job, and then they don’t ask enough questions. They think that they really understand what the HR manager is looking, not realizing that that job description is pretty generic, and they really don’t understand what that HR manager is really feeling emotionally about what they’re wanting from that person. So…**Jeff**Karen, that’s so—that’s so counter-intuitive to what job hunters believe because most of them actually think they have to study that job description in order to make sure they stay on point with everyone that they meet with. And what you’re saying is don’t overwork it. Am I hearing you?**Karen**That’s right. That’s exactly what I’m saying. You know, and I think that’s also what we see [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) also teach, or even HR managers, like they have this expectation this person’s going to come in knowing what they want. And it’s like, you’ve got to remember, you’re dealing with human beings. So listen. Go in there, take charge of the initial [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) from the start, and try to ask as many questions to determine what is this person looking for emotionally and psychologically, not just skill-wise. They’re inviting you to that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) because they can see by your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that you do have the skills, and they’re going to ask you that. But what you want to find out is do they want somebody who’s going to be more pragmatic? Do they want somebody who’s going to be more independent worker, or are they going to want somebody who can deal with an authoritarian kind of type management? Do they want someone who could fit, you know, play golf on the court, or do they want someone who’s going to be in the office consistently? You can’t go in there assuming you know what they want. Go in there and listen. Go ahead.**Jeff**That’s—that’s fascinating, Karen. I know, folks, if you’ve been listening to some of my shows, you’ve heard me talk about this question I want you to ask at the beginning of every [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And that’s designed to draw out content from the interviewer about what they’re looking for and what’s important for them. But you also spoke about trying to pull out information about what they’re looking for psychologically and trying to connect with them emotionally. How would you suggest or what sort of things might someone do in order to do all that?**Karen**That’s a good point. Okay, let me give you a suggestion here. If you go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), first off, the first thing you want to do is don’t allow them to ask you that dreaded question, ‘So why are you here and what do you think about us and what do you can you do for us?’ Don’t let them ask you that dreaded question. Go into that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), look for something in that office that you could kind of like take control of that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Maybe you’ll see a picture of a boat, and then you’re going to ask them, ‘Do you go ahead and you do yachting?’ or maybe you see the guy has a surfboard on a picture of him surfing, so then ask him about surfing, or just make a question or statement about the weather. And then kill it. Go ahead and say, ‘You know what? I’m here with you for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I’m sorry for taking your time up. Now can I ask you, what are you looking for in this position?’ Now, then you ask also, ‘What was the person like in this position before, and why isn’t he here?’ And then listen to the key words. Give you an example: if a company, the gentleman is saying or the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, sorry, is saying, ‘Well, the last person in the position was a really friendly guy, really outgoing, and the problem we had though is that everybody liked him, but he would rather wear a tool belt or be out there on the street or do sales rather than doing the P&L, and we had a lot of shrinkage, we lost a lot. And so that was kind of a concern, but we really liked that he was a really great guy.’ Well, listen to what he repeated. Go ahead.**Jeff**So what I hear you say was that, you know, they talk about what it is that was so good about this other person, but then they’re going to mention the deficiencies in that person.**Karen**Exactly! Right. I mean, when I usually bring this up to somebody, people go, ‘Oh, yeah, they just want a guy who has strong P&L.’ I’m like, ‘No, but you missed the most important part. They also mention what they really liked about him.’ So what you want to now be is the balance of both. You don’t want to be—because you don’t know if the person before that guy was too much on the P&L and not enough on the friendly. And so now they really are kind of like too scared of getting too friendly and too scared of getting too much P&L. So what you’re hearing is they’re saying that they want both. Become both.**Jeff**Got you. And, folks, just in case you heard the term P&L and you’re not familiar with it, P&L stands for profit and loss. So it’s someone who would, in this particular story, be involved with all the accounting and the record-keeping and ensuring that everyone’s making their sales numbers, versus someone who’s out in the field, as using Karen’s scenario. So, again, the idea becomes instead of just being focused on one element of what they tell you was the effective qualities of the incumbent, you try and find also what those deficiencies were, so that way you can balance out the two.**Karen**Exactly. And I think that’s the problem when we go in to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). After reading that job description—the generic job description—you’re going in there and you’re going to ask all these questions about the job description, but you forget we’re dealing with the workplace where you are awake 8 to 10 hours a day, and you’re actually seeing more of them than you are of your own family quite often. And that’s what people are—a person who’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), that’s what they’re thinking: ‘Can this guy really get along with the group of people? Can he be a team player? We may like his experience, we may like this everything else, but can he fit in with our areas of deficiency as well as the areas that are good?’ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXWDMKVB

**Jeff**Terrific. What are other [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) do job hunters make?**Karen**One of the biggest ones I see is that they’re always scared of asking for the job. When that company’s asking, ‘Do you have any questions?’, why not ask, ‘When do I start?’ with a little bit of humor? Remember to ask and cop that for that job. Close, close, close! You may not be a salesperson, but you know what? Be brave. That’s what they want. They want courageous people. And so with a little glimmer, a twinkle in your eye, a smile, say, when they ask, ‘Do you have any more questions?’, say, ‘Yeah, when do I start?’ And then they say, ‘Well, we’re still looking at other people,’ then smile again and say, ‘Well, why? I’m right here.’ And then they—and then, I think you have a good close here too, because like when they’re asking, ‘Well, you know, what…’ You want to find out, if they say, ‘Well, we’re still looking,’ then you also want to find out, ‘Is there anything that I may have missed? Is there something I didn’t tell you? Is there some way that we could close this to show I can demonstrate that I am efficient for this job?’ I think you had a really good close here too.**Jeff**Yes, I do, and the question I always tell people to ask is, let’s say it’s a year from now and you’ve hired me, and I haven’t just done a good job, I’ve done a spectacular job, amongst the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) if not the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) performance of someone you’ve seen in this role before. What would I have accomplished during that year that would cause you to write such a review? And I know from talking with people, number one is they get a clearer picture about what people are going to expect of them if they join, so you can find out if it’s realistic or unrealistic. Plus, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) also get a feel that, you know, you’re not just simply interested in being an average performer, you want to be a high performer in their eyes. So it has multiple messages to it that work very well for job hunters.**Karen**I think that was one of—when I heard you tell me that, I was bowled over by that. I thought it was totally excellent, and that’s why I really wanted to bring that up again. I was really impressed with that.**Jeff**Thank you. Folks, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you’re listening to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Radio on webtalkradio.net. We’re going to be back in a moment with more from Karen, but I also wanted to talk with you about my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) insider tip for this week, which is designed to help you with phone [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). You see, for many of you, you’re already experiencing the fact that more and more [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are doing phone [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) to begin their [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process instead of face-to-face ones. And phone [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are easier and harder than face-to-face ones. They’re easier in that no one can see that you happen to be casually dressed, or that you have your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out in front of you, or that you’re taking notes down. All they have is your voice to go by, and that’s what makes it harder. They can’t be influenced by how good-looking you are or what a great wardrobe you have. They’re just listening to your voice, and that’s what makes it harder. So here’s a couple of very simple points I want to encourage you to do before your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). First of all, number one, take some some notes so that as they’re asking you questions, you write down a particular note in front of you on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that you have in front of you. Maybe you circle some of the things on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that will remind you to stay on point and to address the issues that have been in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as you answer questions. So that’s point number one. Number two is make sure you’re in a place in the house where you’re not going to get disturbed. So often, I know when I speak with people, you know, I’m listening to the sounds of all sorts of extraneous noises behind folks that distract from the experience. So you always want to be in a place where there’re going to be no distractions, no inconveniences, no one walking in on you, and the sound of the TV or whatever electronics you have in the house are not going to be blaring in the background. Finally, and I can’t [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) this one enough: rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. You gotta practice answers to obvious questions that you’re going to be asked on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

So that’s my insider tip. Let’s come back to Karen, and we’re going to talk about some more of the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that job hunters make. So what else do job hunters do that stand—you know, keeps them from being effective on their [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)?

**Karen**One of the—another big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and I know it seems so remedial like why would people forget this, but they do it quite often, is they often forget to say thank you. Not just the generic, ‘Oh, well, you know, thank you for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/),’ when you’re leaving. But one thing I always tell my job seekers: make sure you have thank-you cards in your car, and when you leave that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), go downstairs, write out a thank-you card to every single person you interviewed with. Go back upstairs and give it to the receptionist to give to each individual. And then go home, wait about 48 hours, and send an email—because make sure you’ve asked for the business card for everyone that you interviewed with before you left—and then you go ahead and you email each individual a thank you again saying, ‘I thought about this position, I’m really coveting this position, I’m very interested, thank you for your time.’ And then you say you’re going to call or [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with them later that week. But you appreciate it. And then you call again later that week because you said you would. That way, they have three different options and three different ways not to forget about you, and they appreciate the fact that you want to work there.**Jeff**So I heard you talk about was the thank-you card…**Karen**Mhm.**Jeff**…the email, you know, 48 hours later, and what was the third one that you were talking about?**Karen**Phone. Make sure that you—in the card, on the email, in the email you say you are going to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with a phone call. And the third one is you make that phone call later that week. Usually, you have the email—you meet on a Monday, by Wednesday you send the email, Friday you make the call. All right? They don’t forget about you.**Jeff**That’s right, they don’t forget about you. And even if you delay that Friday phone call to the following Monday, which I know would be my preference, because I know people like to get away on Friday. And thus, if that’s the case, I’d rather start off the week with the reminder. That’s my taste. In your line of work, you may find it better to do it on a Friday. Regardless, three contacts within a week of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is terrific.**Karen**M-hm. I mean, I remember one person—it’s a little cheesy, but this one person knew that the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager was a golfer. And when—so he wrote on a card that said… first off, he gave the the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager a golf ball. And in the box, he said, ‘When you’re making that decision, here’s your hole-in-one.’ He says, ‘Here’s the ball that will make your hole-in-one. I am that ball.’**Jeff**You know…**Karen**It was a little cheesy, but it worked. It worked. It was—the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager was like, ‘That was unique as heck,’ and I’m like, it was a little cheesy. I did kind of like advise against… I don’t like these those gimmicks, really. I really tell people stay professional. I can see the gimmicks working more in marketing or media, but if you’re if you’re not in marketing or media, stay away from the gimmicks.**Jeff**And I had a guest on several shows ago named Abby Kohut, who spoke about people using some of these non-electronic media communication techniques or marketing techniques to get themselves in the door. And Abby spoke about this one person who, in terms of getting an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), what he would do is send a shoe.**Karen**Yeah.**Jeff**He put the shoe in a box, mailed it to a manager he wanted to connect with, and basically said, ‘I’d like to get my foot in the door with you.’ And just take about… and someone else, and sometimes he, I believe, used an hourglass in there and it would say, ‘I’d like to take five minutes of your time,’ which was the amount of time of the hourglass, ‘to talk with you about why I would be a great fit.’ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2747MZ1

**Karen**You know, as a person who gets close to 200 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) a day, that would to me be an interesting distraction, but it’s one of those things I’d be like, ‘You know what? I’d like to know more about you, the person, and I just don’t see something like that fitting in a business structure unless, again, are you going into a marketing firm? Are you going into an advertising firm?’ I could see that working. But if you’re doing something that’s professional business-like, that’s just too gimmicky. It really is. I mean, I had one girl who actually sent out a bunch of flowers and said, ‘Just I could brighten up your office with just like these flowers.’ I’m like, ‘You know, just just stick to the—to the basics. Be yourself, be a businessperson, you know?’ That’s my—that’s my take on that.**Jeff**I hear you. What other sorts of things do people do that cost them opportunities?**Karen**Oh, gosh, trusting the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). I love recruiting…**Jeff**Don’t let—don’t let these folks in on this one. Come on, Karen.**Karen**I love recruiting. I have been a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for near 20—actually over [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/). Ah! I’m getting old. But one of the things that I will never do as a recruiter—and I really hate when I hear this question from a lot of recruiters—’Can you tell me where you’re actually looking, where have you interviewed, and, you know, so we won’t duplicate your efforts?’ Right. You know what? The recruiter—most [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who ask that question are planning to go ahead and send one of their candidates to that job, and believe me, they’re going to work their way out of it. They want to make sure they place you, and it’s going to make sure that they’re going to also make sure you’re not getting to accept the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that might be pending because they’re going to send their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) candidates there. They’re out to make money, and it’s going to be at your expense. So when a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) goes ahead and asks you that question, you know what you say? ‘You know, I’m confidential with my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Just tell me where you want to send me, and I’ll let you know if to if to send me there or not to send me there.’ Keep it simple. But be careful about trusting [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) way too much because guess what? They’re in it for themselves too.**Jeff**I know for myself, I have clients that I work for. For me, when I ask that question, it really is about saving time. If a person happens to have been to my client, I’m not going to approach that firm. I already know about the req. You know, so I don’t need them for it. And I’ve got a full plate at this point with clients I’m supporting. So, you know, when all is said and done, for me, it really is about that, but I know especially with less experienced [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who don’t have a full plate, they’re in situations where they are trying to get clients, and they are trying to make sure that people don’t get hired at firms that they’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with, and they will do exactly what you’re talking about, you know, try and fill the job on their own and cost you the opportunity. You so…**Karen**And one of the things as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I just say, ‘Look, this is where I’m sending it, sending you out to. Should or should I not send you there?’ And that’s how I know not to duplicate your effort, you know? I’m—so that way you have control of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and I have control of my search, so that we both can feel safe with each other. I want my candidates to trust me, and I am going to treat them with the respect that they deserve, just as I treat my clients.**Jeff**And—and for me, my—my awkwardness about that, and—and I’ve been in the search field for 40-plus years, and I have lost way too many fees and cost myself hundreds of thousands of dollars by being so trusting as to reveal who my client is, and then discover the candidate makes their first or second call after speaking with me directly to that firm because after all, you know, ‘If I can save the firm money, maybe they’ll pay me more, or they’ll like me more if I come in directly rather than from a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).’ Karen, you and I both know that that’s crazy, but firm—people sometimes think that way. And the impact is, I know for myself, you know, I can directly attribute, you know, [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I made in being so revealing to candidates earlier in my career to more than a quarter of a million dollars I lost in fees. So…**Karen**And I’ll tell you that’s a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) candidates make, too, because I’ll tell you right now, too, if a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager also finds out sometimes that you’ve also backdoored a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) after you’ve told [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) told you not to do that—and by the way, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do speak with each other, too—you can become blacklisted. I have actually had candidates blacklisted because of that behavior. There are some companies that I actually do work with on a very strong, loyal basis, and they know that if I talk to a candidate, I told them I talked to that candidate, and believe me, I will send my candidate—my clients the names that I’ve sent—I’ve spoken to before I even submit a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) at times. And so they know that if you decide to go ahead and backdoor me and they know that I would have instructed you not to, that could hurt you as a candidate, too. So don’t ever try to backdoor your [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) because it will burn you. It will, especially if your [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is a specialist, especially if they specialize in the industry that you’re recruiting—being recruited in.**Jeff**And folks, just to translate that term ‘backdoor,’ if you think of the front door as approaching the firm directly through let’s say HR, the backdoor is taking that information and approaching them directly to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager or some other way, you know, in—in what I can only describe as being sneaky and nefarious. You know, you’re trying to hurt the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) in all of this for your own betterment, and as Karen said so well, some firms—not all—some firms will look out for us, and I—’blacklist’ to me suggests that they’re going to—you’re going to be banned from all companies forever. That’s not the case. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2TCLD1Y

**Karen**Yeah, not all companies, but my client, I have had a client who will ban, and I have had it happen where they—the huge corporation, I’m not going to name the company, but it’s a Fortune 50 company—they will actually prevent up an individual from being hireable within that company for at least 5 to 10 years. And I mean, and the thing is because they don’t like unethical people. They have—this is one of the most ethical companies. In fact, when you go to work with this company, you have to do 10 ethics classes every single year. And one of the things is, is they’re going to look at your behavior, especially if it’s a government contract firm. If you demonstrate unethical behavior from the beginning, nobody wants to work for you—you know, wants you to work for them because that’s a demonstration of what you’re going to be like to work for them. And straight up as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I will never want to work with you, and I will advise to other [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that I have that I have connections with—I network with other [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that specialize in the industry that I recruit with—we actually do share, you know, like if Jeff was a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) in the HVAC industry which I recruited, I would send him [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) with my candidate’s permission. Or I would say, ‘Hey, I’m looking for some good [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), will you send me some?’ and so we do actually talk. We do have good relationships, and recruit—and people don’t recognize that. Candidates don’t recognize that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that may be in competition with each other are actually friendly competitors, and that can burn you if you cheat, if you lie, or you’re nefarious. We will all know.**Jeff**It’s a small world, folks. I’m part of a network of several hundred recruiting firms globally. You know, we have affiliates not just in the United States, but Canada, Latin America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, um, the Middle East, uh, China, Japan, India, a host of other places as well. And in situations where we run into people with what I can just call stories, we’re all looking to ensure that no one gets hurt. So, uh, I may into a scenario where um someone presents a candidate to me, I know the story behind—do you think I’m going to—do you think I’m going to accept that [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/)? Do you think I’m going to try and do anything to help you get a job? Of course not. Of course not. So, you know, just be smart about these things. Firms have this money and fees budgeted. You don’t have to sneak around to think you’re going to save them money, and I can assure you, they’re not going to pay you any more just because you came in without a fee. The money comes from different budget slots.**Karen**And yes, that money is course it is, that’s also tax-deductible for the firm. My fee is a tax deduction for them. So for them, it’s actually a benefit, as well, it’s not a huge loss. It’s—and even though it is, it’s not a huge loss. Does that make sense?**Jeff**Of course. Is there one other big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people make that you want to bring to their attention? Tell me.**Karen**The question, ‘What is your weakness?’ Oh, that one stumps everyone. And I’m like—love that question. That’s one of my favorite questions because I love to state, for example, I talk a lot. Jeff, you know me for a long time. And, in fact, you and I have also been member of the same network that you were speaking of. And one of—everybody who knows me knows Karen kind of tends to go off of the mouth because I’m, like Jeff would say, very passionate. And so when people ask, ‘What is my weakness?’, mmm, well, I’m extremely passionate about my job, which tends to make sure that I talk a lot. And so I can tend to go off a little bit and care too much, and I get too involved with my clients. But then, I guess that’s also my strength because I am so passionate, and because I care, my my clients tend to love me and trust me because they know that I’m always telling the truth and that I want to see the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) for them. So I guess my weakness is my strength.**Jeff**You mean you don’t answer that question with, ‘I sometimes work too hard’?**Karen**No. \*\[laughs\]\* Yeah, right. Yeah, the can generic one? No. Be honest. Take that weakness that you have that you know that is also something that you may also like about yourself, because everybody has something that they totally hate about themselves, but at the same time—like, I’m ADHD. At times, I hate that being ADHD. It’s the worst thing in the world. But at—but at the same time, my ADHD is what makes me so driven and be able to be so competitive and to do so well because it makes me so passionate. So that’s where we that mold—everyone. Every human being. The very thing that we often hate about ourselves is the also the very thing we can also learn to accept and love about ourselves, which makes us good at our job.**Jeff**And—and talking with an employer, I thought you lay that out beautifully. You know, you take what you perceive as—as a weakness, describe it—you don’t ignore it—you describe it faintly and then pause and—and folks, remember, I believe that part of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) involves theater. You are an actor or actress on the stage presenting yourself in a way that the audience will sit on the edge of their seat, and wait for the next great moment to come out of your mouth. So, you know, you take that and with a little bit of theater, you talk about that perceived weakness, pause for a second and go, ‘And you know, if I think about it, that’s also my greatest strength because what I’ve been able to take out of that is…’ and then you talk about the good qualities that come with having that deficiency.**Karen**And you know what? Made a good point about something, too, about the perceived weakness. Most of us always to run away in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) from our weaknesses. We get scared of it. Well, trust me, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager is seeing it. It—and the more you run from it, the more it glares. In fact, just recently, I had a candidate that my [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager perceived as very passionate, and they wondered how this individual will fit in with this company. And I was able to demonstrate by using my own passion how that individual could do so well and how they could harness it to their good. And so just remember, your first—the person [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you is seeing your weaknesses, and the more you hide from it, the more glaring it becomes. So addressing it and making it a positive is to your benefit.**Jeff**I agree with you wholeheartedly. I remember, uh, I’ve been part of an international men’s group for many years and, in order to be allowed to lead these retreat weekends around the world, we sit in front of a panel to evaluate us for suitability for doing this. And in 15 minutes—15 minutes—this seven-man panel is able to discern very clearly what a person’s strengths are, what they’re trying to hide from them, you know, really drill in on some of those points that we smell, we taste, we see uh in the person sitting opposite us. If, as Karen said, if you think you’re able to hide this from a skilled interviewer, you are absolutely mistaken. Better to just bring it out, turn it into a positive, and move on. Karen, this has been great. Thank you. How can folks reach you?**Karen**Well, they can also just go to hirecentrix.com, and that’s h-i-r-e-c-e-n-t-r-i-x.com, and you can find my information there. That’s a site that I always laugh and say we try to teach people how to sue an employer just as fast as we will teach the employer how not to be sued. What we try to do is to make sure that the employee is treated fairly and equally, and I always try to teach a company how to make sure they avoid being sued by treating their employees fairly and equally.**Jeff**Thank you. Folks, we’ll be back next time with more [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) advice to help you find work more quickly. 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### [Laid Off At a Company That Has Announced Cuts of Poor Performers #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/)

**Published:** July 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are cuts at companies that have announced layoffs of poor performers. Here's what to do.

**Content:**

# Laid Off At a Company That Has Announced Cuts of Poor Performers #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/hoHLjKhneIw)

**There are cuts at companies that have announced layoffs of poor performers. Here’s what to do.**

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### [Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-you-apply-if-theyve-interviewed-a-lot-of-people-shorts/)

**Published:** July 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My answer will surprise you.

**Content:**

# Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/s_i-vEoOb6E)

My answer will surprise you.

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### [2 Huge Final Interview Blunders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/2-huge-final-interview-blunders-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Don't you feel great when your schedule back for a final interview? Too often, people commit these blunders before going back for the final.

**Content:**

# 2 Huge Final Interview Blunders

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Don’t you feel great when your schedule back for a final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Too often, people commit these blunders before going back for the final. The result winds up being heartbreak and disappointment. Let me help you win this round.

[***Another Stupid Resume Mistake***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3fH)

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I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a coach who helps people professionally in a variety of different ways. I used to work in search, did it for a hell of a long time, helped a lot of people find work. And now I coach people to new roles.

I want to talk with you about the big final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) blunder I keep seeing happen time and again. And it’s awful. Now, let me explain how it’s set up. You get the contact. It’s a call, it’s an email, it’s some message that lets you know you’re going back for the final, and you feel you’ve got this locked up. You’re going back for the final. But you forget one thing, and don’t do the second.

The thing you forget is that you’re still competing. And, as such,

You’re competing against other people or the idea that there’s someone else out there who can do this better than you. As a result, I don’t want to say you coast into it the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) but you’re not as well [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) as you could be.

You need to always remember that you’re competing for roles. And when you get that contact about scheduling the final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), ask them how many other people are they inviting back. This way, you know. And even if they tell you “No one, it’s just you,” I’ve seen so many situations where people still get turned down, and they go back to square one to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

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So that’s a reminder, number one. Here’s the big one. The big one is that you spend no time reviewing your previous interviews. It’s not just simply for what your answers were because that’s easy. But the hard thing to admit is that there were rough edges that occurred previously. And they’re still on that and you’re thinking they are past it.

They are not past it. They are in a position where they’re still evaluating and assessing and trying to figure out if they can get through those issues and you’re okay enough to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). And that’s a weird concept. I know. But trust me. I’ve been in so many situations where issues surfaced on the first or second [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and here they are with a senior exec. And the person gets turned down for them.

So, I want to remind you, that you need to proactively address these in your conversation with them and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to answer questions that might surface. And you can acknowledge it by saying, “you know, in an earlier round, someone asked me a question that kind of seemed like they wanted me to talk this way. But I went down a different path. Let me tell you exactly what I’ve done.” And that becomes one way and one type of scenario.

Another one is you don’t have much experience with it where you can say to them. “look, I don’t have a lot of practical experience with that particular skill, or that type of situation. But since being here, what I’ve done is” and then go into some of the homework that you’ve done, to more fully understand what that scenario, what that technology, what that experience might be like.

And you can say, “I’m not going to be [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) walking in. But with practice, I can because I’ve taken the time to understand what’s needed given your environment. And I’ve gone to the drawing board to learn.”

Remember, this is going to surface and, if it doesn’t surface because they have to ask you a question, I want you to bring it up so that this way it’s not untested, it’s not unaddressed.

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [What to Do If You Hate Your Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-do-if-you-hate-your-job-2/)

**Published:** July 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3034 This is derived from an interview with Jessica Sweet on the Find Your Dream Job podcast. I hope you'll enjoy the conversation and what is shared.

**Content:**

# What to Do If You Hate Your Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This is derived from an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Jessica Sweet on the Find Your Dream Job podcast. I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation and what is shared.

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Ever feel that Sunday evening dread? Yeah, you know that feeling, wondering if your out of office message should really be a one way ticket out of your current job? You’re not alone. Today, we’re diving into an episode of The Find Your Dream Job podcast. The guest was [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach and licensed therapist Jessica Sweet and she gave some super insightful advice about figuring out if it’s time for a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) change, and if so, how to gracefully make that leap. It is

fascinating, isn’t it? I mean, we hear all the time, if you hate your job, just quit, hmm. But Jessica reminds us there’s actually a lot more to it than that. It’s less about just straight up hating your job, and more about honestly looking at if the bad outweighs any benefits, you know, financial or anything else. Yeah, it’s

about recognizing when those Sunday scaries are more than just a case of the Mondays. Jessica calls it Sunday night dread, yeah, and it’s a signal we should all be paying attention to. Oh,

absolutely. And that dread, you know, it can show up in so many ways, physically, emotionally, even mentally. It’s like your body is giving you this not so subtle nudge, like, hey, something isn’t right here.

This reminds me so much of someone I used to work with. We’ll call him Bob, and Bob, he was like the ultimate quiet quitter. Before that was even a thing like it was so obvious to everyone, he was just going through the motions. But he stayed at that job for years, even though you could tell it was making him totally miserable. It is

easy to get stuck in that pattern, but Jessica cautions against just [quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) without a plan that leap into the unknown. It’s tempting for sure, but honestly, it often just makes things more stressful in the long run.

So how do we prevent ourselves from becoming the next Bob, but also not stay stuck in a job that’s making us unhappy? One

of Jessica’s big recommendations is to actually start your job searching while you’re still at your current job.

Okay, so I can definitely see how that would be the last thing you’d want to do if you’re already feeling burned out. But I’m definitely curious. Why is that so important? Well,

[research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) actually shows that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) tend to see someone with a job as more desirable. There’s an element of social proof to it. It’s like, well, if someone else wants them, they must be valuable, plus, already being employed can actually give you a leg up when you’re negotiating your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and benefits at a new place, because you’re not coming from this place of desperation, you’re coming from a position of strength.

Okay, that totally makes sense when you put it like that, yeah, it’s kind of like dating, right? Like you’re way more likely to attract a great partner when you’re already [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) and fulfilled in your own life. But let’s be real, trying to juggle a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) while you’re working full time, that’s definitely no easy task. Oh, exactly.

It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and it takes a strategic approach. For sure, one thing Jessica warns against is, you know, falling into the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) of constantly complaining during this time.

Oh, I think I’ve been guilty of that. Sometimes it feels good in the moment to vent to co workers, but it’s probably not actually that productive. I get it. It’s totally

understandable to want to share those frustrations with people, but Jessica actually suggests that we try to channel that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into something much more beneficial, self reflection. So instead

of just fixating on what’s making us unhappy in our current job, we should be using that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) to figure out what we really want, yes,

exactly, taking the time to examine what went wrong in your previous job, or even just in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) as a whole up to this point, that can give you really valuable clues about what to look for in your next opportunity, things like journaling or talking to a trusted friend. Emphasis on trusted so maybe not your work. Bestie, this time, these are all great ways to process those feelings and uncover some of those hidden desires you might not have realized you had. It’s

like that saying those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, except in this case, it’s more like those who don’t learn from their bad [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are doomed to repeat them.

It really is like you’re holding up this mirror to [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and really seeing it clearly. It can help you see those patterns, you know, like maybe you’re always drawn to those really fast paced environments, but then you end up craving more work life balance, or maybe you do your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) work when you’re collaborating, but you’re stuck in this role that’s super isolating.

So it’s about recognizing what you really need to thrive and using that to make better choices going forward Exactly.

And once you’ve done that inner work, Jessica suggests focusing on three practical steps. Get that [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) ready to go. Dust off those [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) skills. And this is a big one, get really clear on what your target is. Yeah, that

makes sense. It’s easy to get caught up in just wanting out of a bad situation, but then you end up just feeling lost if you don’t know where you’re

going. Totally Think of it like a GPS. You need to know both coordinates where you are now and your destination to find the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) route, having that target, that vision of your ideal job or industry, well, it just makes the whole search process so much more focused. I’ve

definitely seen that happen, like when people try to be everything to everyone, they end up resonating with no one. I had a friend who was [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for everything from marketing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) to like dog walking gigs when she was having a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) crisis, no wonder nothing seemed to click. It’s true

when you’re clear. About what you want, your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) becomes more strategic, too. You can be more intentional about who you’re connecting with, and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) becomes this targeted document that really highlights the specific skills and experience that are relevant to those dream roles. So it’s

about quality over quantity, yeah, being intentional instead of just desperate. Exactly. Okay, so let’s say you’ve got a new job lined up those final days at a job you’re ready to leave, those can be so awkward. Got any advice on how to navigate that exit gracefully?

Oh, for sure, Jessica actually had some great tips on this, especially when it comes to those exit [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). You know it’s tempting to use that as a chance to air all your grievances and finally, tell your boss how you really feel,

and maybe do a little victory dance on the way out the door. Huh?

Tempting, yeah, but probably not the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. The world’s a lot smaller than you think, and you never know when you might cross paths with those people again.

Okay, good point. So how do you balance being honest about your experience without totally burning bridges.

Jessica recommends emphasizing the pull of something new, not just pushing away from the old job. It’s a subtle difference, but it can make a huge difference in how you come across.

So instead of saying, I’m out of here because this place is a dumpster fire, it’s more like I’m really excited about this new opportunity that’s a better fit for my long term goals. Got it. It’s like you’re focused on the open door in front of you, not the one slam and shut behind you, exactly. And it’s

not about being dishonest or anything. It’s just about framing things in a way that really highlights what you want. You know, those exit [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), they’re more about the company gathering information. It’s not really your chance to vent. So

what do you say when they ask? Why are you leaving? Jessica

suggests having, like, a little elevator pitch ready to go something short, positive, like, I’m so grateful for everything I’ve learned here, but I’m looking for a role where I can and then fill in the blank, you know, like lead a team or use my design skills more. This new opportunity and new company seems like a perfect fit for that.

So you’re taking the focus off what you weren’t getting and putting it on what you were pursuing. Exactly.

You’re showing them you’re ambitious and proactive. And hey, if you do still need to process some of those tougher emotions around leaving. Jessica has a great suggestion, write it all down like you’re venting in a letter to your boss, and then, ooh,

burn the letter exactly. I love that. It’s like you’re releasing those feelings without actually torching any bridges. Yeah. So basically, what we’re taking away from this is that dealing with a job you don’t love, it’s not just about [quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/). It’s about being really intentional with [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Yes, both figuring out what you want and then going after it. I

couldn’t agree more, our [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), their journey, is not just destinations, right? There are gonna be bumps along the way, for sure, detours. But you know what? Sometimes those lead to opportunities you’d never even imagined. That is

so true. Well, on that note, we’ll leave you with this thought, if you could design your ideal work life, no limits, what would that look like? What would it feel like? What impact would you make? Let those questions guide you on your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) journey, until next time, [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) diving you.

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### [25 Teacher Interview Questions & Answers [Common & Hard]](https://thebiggamehunter.us/25-teacher-interview-questions-answers-common-hard/)

**Published:** July 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You’re about to see the top 25 teacher interview questions and answers.

**Content:**

# 25 Teacher Interview Questions & Answers \[Common & Hard\]

[Originally Published on Zety.com. It is republished with permission.](https://zety.com/blog/teacher-interview-questions)

You’re about to see the top 25 teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions and answers.

But first—

## **What’s that sound?**

It’s your nerves. They’re screeching like nails on a chalkboard.

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They’ll grill you like a slab of questionable lunchroom meat.

## **Don’t worry.**

A *little* prep can turn your world around. You’ll walk in cool and ready.

Of course, you need to prove you’ve got the skills.

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- How to answer [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers with achievements that impress.
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## **25 Most Common Teacher Interview Questions \[1–10\]**

These teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions and answers will make the interviewers ask *you* a question:

*“When can you start?”*

They cover popular high school [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions, special education teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions, substitute or assistant teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions, and more.

1. ### **Why do you want to be a teacher?**

“Why did you become a teacher?” is the most common of all [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers.

Administrators want to know you’re motivated to work through inevitable frustrations. And believe me, they’ve heard every generic answer in the books.

“Because I want to help people” won’t work. Find something *specific* that shows you’re motivated like no other.

#### **Example Answer**

*I had trouble reading as a child My 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Paulette, introduced us to an amazing list of short stories and books. She read to us and worked with us on reading comprehension. Her care switched on an unquenchable thirst that led me to read thousands of books on topics as diverse as history, biology, sociology, and nature. Mrs. Paulette’s attention forever changed my outlook on life. Since then, I’ve known I wanted to do exactly what she did—to give children tools to last for their entire lives.*

2. ### **What is your teaching philosophy?**

Teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions like this ask, “Are you a good fit for our school?” It’s the teaching equivalent of “[tell me about yourself](https://zety.com/blog/tell-me-about-yourself).”

But—

Don’t answer elementary teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for an unstructured school with, “I believe in structured learning.”

Take the time to learn the *school’s* philosophy *before* the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/).

#### **Example Answer**

*I believe in teaching to each student’s passion. For instance, in one kindergarten class, my students had trouble with punctuation. I observed that one student, Mary, suddenly got excited about apostrophes. I fueled her passion with a big book on punctuation. Her enthusiasm was contagious, and soon the entire class was asking bright and animated questions. Whenever possible, I try to deliver structured lessons in an unstructured way like this.*

That answer uses the [S.T.A.R. approach](https://zety.com/blog/star-method-interview) to teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions. It shows a Situation, a Task, an Action, and a Result.

3. ### **How much do you want to know about your students in order to be most helpful to them?**

This is another of those [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers that depends on the school’s philosophy.

One administrator might think it’s crucial to know every detail. Another might say, “A doctor doesn’t need to know her patient’s favorite ice cream flavor.”

Be honest, but find common ground, as in this teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions answer:

#### **Example Answer**

*I need to know a student’s learning styles, passions, and challenges. One difficult student, Tim, was disruptive in class. I joined him on the playground on and off. It turned out he was being bullied after school by his brother’s friends. I spoke with Tim’s parents, and they had no idea. Tim became my star student, and as a result, my whole class got quieter and easier to teach.*

**How to Prepare for a Teaching [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/):**

- **[Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/)** the school online and talk to teachers. Learn their challenges.
- **Brainstorm** times you’ve solved problems like theirs.
- **Practice** sample teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions. Write up your answers and drill with 3×5 cards. When possible, describe a problem you once faced, an action you took, and a positive result for your school or student(s).
- **Gather materials** like a lesson plan, Praxis scores, and transcripts. Include images as proof of your accomplishments.

4. ### **Why do you want to work for our school district?**

Administrators want to know if you really [want *this* job](https://zety.com/blog/why-do-you-want-to-work-here).

So—find things you love about the school.

Talk to teachers who work there. Check out the school’s website, mission statement, and “About Us” page.

Finally, take some time to think of how you fit.

**Example Answer**

*I respect Snowy Peaks High’s belief in teaching to the whole child. Your focus on academics, character, community, and nature fit perfectly with my own philosophy. It’s easier to teach well-rounded students. The best lesson plan in the world can’t help a child who’s struggling in all other areas of life.*

5. ### **How can you help our school/students?**

Teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions like this don’t have to make you blink.

**Remember:**

Take the time to learn the school’s needs first.

The example below is for a school with a high percentage of disruptive students.

#### **Example Answer**

*I’ve talked to several of your teachers and heard about their challenges with classroom management. My own classroom management skills are highly developed. I’ve taken 18 continuing education credits in class management from the University of Phoenix’s online program. I was commended at my last school after fully engaging a class with over 25% disruptive students. I used a mix of nonverbal cues, transition cues, timeouts, and several other kernel-based strategies. I believe I can be just as effective here.*

6. ### **What do you find most frustrating about teaching?**

Teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions like this attempt to see if you are easily discouraged.

So—your answer has to show your inner strength.

#### **Example Answer**

*I get very frustrated with bright kids who become overconfident and don’t apply themselves. There’s nothing sadder or more common than wasted potential. At my last position, I worked with several children who weren’t trying. I implemented a research-based program to incorporate student ideas into the lesson plan. The addition of their [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) created more complete engagement. Test scores went up 15% in just two months.*

**Pro Tip:** Teaching is frustrating. Many common [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers focus on that pain. Don’t minimize it. Instead, explain your skills at working through it.

7. ### **Why should we hire you to teach here?**

This is the teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions equivalent of the old standby, *“*[*Why should we hire you?*](https://zety.com/blog/why-should-we-hire-you)*”*

The example answer below is for a school that wants technology in the curriculum.

#### **Example Answer**

*I’m well aware of your new technology initiative. We were tasked with the same challenge at my last school. Thanks to my strong tech background, I was able to add online quizzes easily. The students loved them, and they cut administrative processing by 25%.*

8. ### **How would you get your classroom ready for the first day of school?**

This and similar teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions look at your preparedness.

First steps create a [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Your *plan* for first steps says a lot about your teaching skills.

#### **Example Answer**

*I want my classroom to be welcoming and nurturing. I also make the ground rules obvious. A welcome sign and labeled desks help students feel at home from day one. Engaging posters and other visual aids help create a sense of excitement. Beyond fun, a large list of rules and consequences at the front of the room helps the class start on the right foot.*

9. ### **Why do we teach (science, math, French, etc.) in school?**

Why does your subject matter to you?

If you say, “So they can get good [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/),” you’ll flunk common [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers like this.

Think why you care about the subject at a gut level.

### **Example Answer**

*I’ve always believed our future depends on regular people using science in day-to-day decisions. Science is at the core of a sense of wonder for our natural world. That wonder can drive students to improve their learning skills. It can take them places they never thought they’d go.*

Bring a lesson plan, transcripts, and Praxis scores. Be ready to answer a question about teaching philosophy. Be familiar with newest lingo, assessments instead of tests, and the use of [rubrics](http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/112001/chapters/What-Are-Rubrics-and-Why-Are-They-Important%C2%A2.aspx) to correct assignments

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H.S. Teacher

10. ### **How do you evaluate your students?**

Common teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions like this examine how *you* measure your performance.

As usual, avoid generic answers. Cite an accomplishment and how it helped your students.

#### **Example Answer**

*I evaluate students with formal and informal methods, including quizzes and tests. I also grade in-class activities like reports, recitations, desk work, and group activities. One student, Terry, showed a strong grasp of concepts during in-class activities, but performed poorly during testing. Through working closely with him, I uncovered an undiagnosed vision problem. Terry got corrective lenses and his test scores rose to match his in-class comprehension.*

**Beware.** Teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions like the above *may* look for whether you use assessments vs tests.

Know what differentiation and universal design are. Be ready to discuss working with students with both identified and unidentified disabilities. Be able to explain how to flip a classroom. Explain that you’ll be very willing to communicate with and work with parents. Explain scope and sequence. Know who [Ross Greene](https://www.livesinthebalance.org/), Ruby Payne and Donna Beagle are. Be able to talk about how you’d apply their work in your classroom.

Brian Welsh

High School Teacher

## **15 Less Common Teacher Interview Questions \[11–25\]**

The next 15 [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers aren’t on the A-list.

As one of my teachers used to say, prepare for them anyway because they may be on the test.

You never know which teaching [job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ask-this-question-on-your-next-job-interview-3/) question you might face. More prep = less chance of a flub.

11. [What are your strengths](https://zety.com/blog/what-are-your-strengths) as a teacher?
12. [What’s your biggest weakness](https://zety.com/blog/what-is-your-greatest-weakness) as a teacher?
13. How do you interact with parents?
14. [Why did you leave](https://zety.com/blog/why-did-you-leave-your-last-job) your last teaching (or other) job?
15. What’s your educational background?
16. [Where do you see yourself in five years?](https://zety.com/blog/where-do-you-see-yourself-in-5-years)
17. How do you handle classroom management?
18. What’s your favorite subject?
19. What do you like best about teaching?
20. Tell me about your teaching style
21. How do you manage your time to get all your teaching duties done within schedule?
22. What’s the biggest challenge today’s students face?
23. Describe your worst day in class.
24. How do you motivate students to learn?
25. How have you helped a “tough” student?

Those are the top 25 teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions and answers. Want one more question to rule them all? That’s coming in a second.

Be flexible. “On the way to my first teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/), I was caught in a downpour and my car broke down. I still nailed every question. Then they asked to see my portfolio. I unzipped it and a big puddle of water splashed out onto the principal’s lap. I said, “I’m pretty sure this is a sign that this is not the place for me.” He laughed and offered me the job.

P.J. Stevenson

H.S. Teacher

3\. **The Most Important [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) Question for Teachers**

Here’s the ultimate teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) question:

*“Do you have questions for me?”*

**Why’s that earthshaking?**

1. It asks if you’re savvy enough to ask an intelligent question about the job.
2. It lets you show your interest.
3. It can show you’re an impressive candidate.
4. It lets you pry out valuable information about the position.
5. It takes time away from *their* teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions. That lets you out of the hot seat.

So, do a little head-scratching in advance.

Which of the reverse-teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions below fit the job opening best?

Which ones show you as the strongest candidate?

### **Questions to Ask in a Teacher Interview**

- What would my goals be for the first year?
- What’s the average classroom size?
- What’s the school’s culture like?
- Do you have an active PTA?
- What are the other teachers like?
- How is the interaction between the school and the parents?
- What do the other teachers like most about this school?
- How do you handle bullying?
- How do you approach student discipline?
- How do you measure teacher success?

Any of those questions to ask in a teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) will show you know your way around a lesson plan.

Look at the school’s website. Review their mission and vision statements and be ready to discuss achievements that show you fit.

Todd Mercer

High School Teacher

That’s it for our list of 25+ common [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers. Want more reverse-teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions? See our guide: [***65+ Best Questions to Ask in an Interview & Land Top Jobs***](https://zety.com/blog/questions-to-ask-an-interviewer)

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## **Teacher Interview Tips**

**Bad dream:**

You walk into the teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/). You sit. You’re sweating buckets.

They start asking questions. You *umm* and *ahh*.

Suddenly you realize you’re in your underwear.

**Sound familiar?**

Before we wrap up the top 25 teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions and answers, let’s take one minute to prepare.

The teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) tips below will jack your confidence up to the ceiling tiles.

### **Teaching Interview Tips**

- **Know the lingo.** What are AYP goals? Who are Wiggins and Marzano? What are rubrics? What should you know about proficiency-based models? Brush up on your terms and be ready to discuss them.
- **Prepare** for common [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers. Learn the school’s needs. Then brainstorm accomplishments that show how you can help.
- **Bring a portfolio.** It’s not for them to read. It’s evidence of your teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) answers. Bring materials that shows achievements, like lesson plans, worksheets, and images.
- **Dress professionally—***more* professionally than you would for work. That sends the message that you take the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) seriously.
- **Listen.** The more you ask and listen, the fewer [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions for teachers you’ll have to answer. Plus, interested = interesting.
- **Make [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/)** with the principal and all *other* interviewers.

**What to Bring to a Teaching [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/):**

Bring a complete portfolio with student work samples, your evaluations, a copy of transcripts , your teaching license, and your Praxis scores. If you have a completed [unit plan](https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2014/02/12/completed-lesson-plans/) with [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/) bring it as well.

![Aleah Denny](https://cdn-images.zety.com/pages/aleah_denny.jpg?1528129291)

Aleah Denny

H.S. Teacher

In a teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/), you may face situational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions. Those usually start with “Tell me about a time…” Need help prepping? See our guide: ***[20 Situational Interview Questions and Answers to Nail Your Interview](https://zety.com/blog/situational-interview-questions)***

Want more [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) tips for teachers and other [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/)? See our guide: [***50+ Successful Interview Tips, Advice & Guidelines***](https://zety.com/blog/interview-tips)

## **Key Takeaway**

Here’s a recap of common teacher [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions and answers:

- **Prepare.** Read the 25 teaching [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions in this guide. Spend the most effort on the top 10.
- **Do your homework.** Learn the school’s needs—both online and by talking to their teachers. Prep answers that prove you’ve got solutions.
- **Ask questions.** Pick a few general [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) questions above. They’ll show you’re present and accounted for.

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### [Employers are courting less-educated workers — finally — but they aren’t offering pay increases](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employers-are-courting-less-educated-workers-finally-but-they-arent-offering-pay-increases/)

**Published:** July 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Federal Reserve Bank of New York economist Gizem Kosar may not have cracked the Case of the Missing Wage Growth yet, but she has found a promising lead.

**Content:**

[Originally published at TheWashingtonPost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/03/employers-are-courting-less-educated-workers-finally-they-arent-offering-pay-increases/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6b630c418fee)

By [Andrew Van Dam](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/andrew-van-dam/)

October 3

Federal Reserve Bank of New York economist Gizem Kosar may not have cracked the Case of the Missing Wage Growth yet, but she has found a promising lead.

In the July release of labor market data from the bank’s Survey of Consumer Expectations, Kosar and analyst Kyle Smith [noticed something surprising](http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2018/09/just-released-are-employer-to-employer-transitions-yielding-wage-growth-it-depends-on-the-workers.html): Workers without a bachelor’s degree are switching [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) at the highest rate since the thrice-yearly survey began in 2014, but their salaries have fallen slightly in the past year.

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**Published:** July 22, 2026
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**Excerpt:** I have seen this mistake many times. The result is they seem mediocre.

**Content:**

# Resume Mistakes: Not Quantifying Your Impact

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### [Stress #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/)

**Published:** July 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six second job search tip about managing your stress.

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# Stress #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A six second [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) tip about managing your stress.

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### [Why Self-Marketing Fails: Stop Selling Start Solving](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-self-marketing-fails-stop-selling-start-solving/)

**Published:** July 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most people completely fail at self-marketing because they mistake it for arrogant bragging instead of demonstrating value.

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# Why Self-Marketing Fails: Stop Selling Start Solving

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Most people completely fail at self-marketing because they [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) it for arrogant bragging instead of demonstrating value. To stand out, you must treat self-marketing as a diagnosis—identifying a company’s specific operational pain points and presenting yourself as the cure. Stop asking for a job and start positioning yourself as an indispensable problem solver who is ready to deliver measurable impact.

Most job candidates completely fail at the concept of self-marketing because they [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) it for arrogant bragging instead of demonstrating value. True self-marketing is a diagnosis. You identify a company’s specific operational pain point and present yourself as the cure. Shifting from a me-focused pitch to a you-focused solution transforms you from a candidate asking for a job into an indispensable problem solver.

The title [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) is your first major hurdle. Leading with a job title immediately triggers the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s preconceived stereotypes. Pitch your measurable impact instead. Lead with the specific challenges you solve to differentiate yourself from everyone with the same title.

You must distinguish between what you are good at and what you actually want to do. Listing every competent skill, including those you dislike, creates a strategic error. Marketing legacy skills or administrative tasks you no longer enjoy attracts job offers for that exact same work. Edit your marketing materials to reflect only future problems you are eager to solve. Use your pitch and [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as strategic tools to dictate future value to a potential employer.

Many candidates fall into the interrogation [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), holding questions until the final minutes. This stifles influence, preventing you from unearthing priorities. Instead, weave questions into your answers. When explaining a solution, immediately ask how their team handles that challenge. Shifting from a one-way interrogation to a two-way strategic dialogue provides the clarity the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager needs to make a decision.

Focusing on how your skills benefit the company reframes the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) around shared goals, bypassing the psychological barrier of self-promotion. When you communicate as the cure to a specific operational pain, you position yourself as the most logical choice for the role.

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### [The Executive Playbook: Navigating a C Suite Transition](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-playbook-navigating-a-c-suite-transition/)

**Published:** July 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3095 C suite searches are different than those when you are less experienced.

**Content:**

# The Executive Playbook: Navigating a C Suite Transition

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3095 C suite searches are different than those when you are less experienced.

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Alright, let’s get right into it. If you’re playing in the C-suite, your next big [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move isn’t going to pop up on some job board. It just doesn’t work that way.

You need a completely different playbook. And today, we’re going to break down the exact strategy you need to master. How to engage with the elite search firms that honestly hold the keys to the kingdom.

So you’re at the absolute top of your game, but you’re thinking about what’s next. Here’s the challenge, right? At this altitude, the air is pretty thin. Finding that perfect opportunity is a really complex and often hitting process.

This isn’t about [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resume-submissions/), it’s about being found and being known by the right people at the right time. And look, this is the fundamental truth you have to get your head around first. The old methods that got you to this point, they’re not going to get you to your next one.

A C-suite transition, it demands a super targeted, strategic approach. So forget about volume, forget about casting a wide net. [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) from here on out is all about precision, relationships, and really understanding the landscape.

Okay, so to actually execute that strategy, you first have to know who the players are on the field. Because the main insight here is crystal clear. Not all [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are created equal.

In fact, for an executive, they’re really two totally distinct universes. And knowing which one to live in, well, that’s everything. This slide, this right here, breaks the whole game down.

On one side, you’ve got your contingency firms. They get paid only when they fill a role. And they’re usually competing with a bunch of other firms to do it.

It’s a volume game, mostly for non-executive [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). But then, you have retained firms. A company pays them a hefty fee up front, a retainer, to conduct an exclusive search for a top-tier executive.

They’re trusted advisors to the board, to the CEO. You see the difference? One is basically transactional, the other is deeply strategic. So here’s the absolute bottom line.

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As an executive, your time, your focus, all of your energy, it has to be pointed exclusively at the retained search world. Period. These are the firms, the only firms, handling the senior leadership roles you’re actually aiming for.

Any time you spend somewhere else is just a distraction. So now that we know who we need to talk to, let’s build the action plan. This next phase is all about creating a super-focused target list.

And again, this is about surgical precision, not just spraying your profile out to every [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) you can find on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/). This number right here, this is your North Star. Your entire outreach strategy is going to be built around a carefully curated list of just 10 to 15 firms.

Now you might be thinking, why so few? Well, because it forces you to do your homework. It forces you to be selective and to focus your precious time only on the firms that are the real power players in your specific corner of the world. And you know, you’re not just pulling these 10 to 15 names out of a hat.

The key is to identify the true specialists. You’re looking for the senior partners at firms who have a deep, proven track record, not just in your industry, like tech or healthcare, but also in your specific function, whether you’re a CFO, a CTO, or a head of sales. Okay, you’ve got your list.

It’s highly curated, it’s targeted, it’s perfect. Now comes the most critical part, making contact. How you actually engage with these senior partners will literally determine whether you start a powerful relationship or just get ignored.

You’ve basically got two paths forward here. Path number one, which is by far the most effective, is getting a warm introduction through your existing network. Path number two is a very carefully planned direct outreach.

We’re going to make path one the absolute priority, but we’ll have path two ready in our back pocket just in case. This right here is why your network is your single most valuable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) asset. An introduction from a trusted contact, maybe a former colleague, a board member you know, a mentor, it instantly elevates you above all the noise.

It just bypasses the clutter and gives you immediate credibility with a senior partner who’s probably getting hundreds of cold emails a day. So whether your contact comes through a warm intro or you’re going indirect, that first message, it’s a test. You really only get one chance to make that [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/), and you have to nail it.

There are very clear rules of engagement here. Your outreach has to be three things. First, it’s got to be short and respectful of their time.

These people are busy. Second, it needs to be a concise introduction to your background. Think your highlight reel, not your life story.

And third, a clear forward-looking statement about what you’re aiming for next. This shows them you’re strategic and you know what you want. And now for the single biggest [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) that so many [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) make.

The source material is incredibly clear on this. Whatever you do, do not just attach your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) to an email and hit send. This is what’s known in the industry as a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) dump.

***[What Recruiters Look For and Don’t Look For When They Scan Resumes](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-1By)***

And why is that so bad? Well, think about what it signals. It screams that you haven’t done your homework and you’re just blasting your info out to anyone and everyone. It’s transactional, it’s not strategic, and the result is totally predictable.

It’s a complete waste of your time, it’s a waste of theirs, and your email is going straight to the delete folder. Okay, so we’ve covered the landscape, the strategy, the execution. Let’s distill all of this down into a simple, powerful playbook that you can literally put into action the second this is over.

Here it is, your four-step C-suite playbook. Number one, ignore all the noise and focus exclusively on retained search firms. Number two, build that precise, targeted list of 10 to 15 specialists who live and breathe your world.

Number three, and this is the big one, always, always prioritize getting a warm introduction through your network. And finally, number four, when you do reach out, make sure that message is concise, strategic, and never, ever a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) dump. You know, this whole strategy really hinges on two things, relationships and credibility.

Which brings us to the final and maybe most critical question you should be asking yourself right now. When it’s time to make that call for an introduction, is your network strong enough and is it ready to go to bat for you? Because the preparation for your next big move, it starts today.

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### [AI for Introverts: High Quality Research Wins](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-for-introverts-high-quality-research-wins/)

**Published:** July 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most networking advice tells you to take a highly extroverted back door--blasting your network. Here's something that will work for you. 

**Content:**

# AI for Introverts: High Quality Research Wins

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The front door of the modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to an enterprise [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you are letting an unyielding database dictate whether you’re worthy of being spoken to as well as your market value.

But most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice tells you to take a highly extroverted back door–blasting your network, attending exhausting mixers, or cold-calling old colleagues to ask for a vague favor. For an introvert, this approach is a massive energetic drain. More importantly, it shifts the cognitive burden of “finding a fit” onto a busy contact, which usually results in polite radio silence.

To break through without burning out, you have to execute a direct, peer-level approach that actually favors an introverted skill set: you skip the superficial social transactional cycles entirely and obtain access by offering deep, asynchronous solutions to a complex corporate vulnerability.

The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) tool to execute this strategy is artificial intelligence. But the market is currently getting this completely wrong. Professionals are using LLMs to spam corporate networks with generic boilerplate. Decision-makers spot that automated noise quickly.

As an introvert, your natural strength is deep analysis, not glad-handing. You need to understand a fundamental rule of the modern [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) landscape: **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier, but multipliers work both ways. If you multiply generic automation, you just get a mountain of spam. But if you multiply high-fidelity [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), you get immediate access to the room.**

Stop letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speak for you with synthetic enthusiasm that inaccurately represents you. Instead, use it as your internal Chief of Staff to run deep, surgical diagnostic [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on a company’s public pain points. You don’t need a massive network; you just need a few highly accurate, data-driven observations that sound like an indispensable peer who already understands their business.

### 1. Sourcing High Fidelity Research Privately

If you feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model a generic prompt like, *“Write a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) message to a COO,”* the multiplier runs backward. It generates a wall of synthetic enthusiasm with phrases like *“I hope this finds you well”* or *“In today’s fast-paced corporate climate”* that triggers someone’s mental spam filter and compromises your professional posture.

To make the multiplier work for you, lean into your natural preference for quiet, solitary investigation. Gather the target company’s recent public data trails. Grab their latest quarterly earnings call transcript, a recent industry [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) given by their CEO, or their main competitor’s macro moves. Feed that raw text into the model.

Give [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) a highly structured diagnostic prompt:

> *“Analyze this transcript from the perspective of an institutional investor. Identify the top two operational or infrastructure risks implied by this growth strategy. Cross-reference these risks with my core expertise in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction this leadership team will face.”*

Now you’re leveraging the machine for raw data synthesis, not generic writing. You are uncovering the strategic deficits of your target companies quietly, behind the scenes, before ever saying hello.

### 2. The 80/20 Rule: Enforcing Low-Friction Cadence

Once you have isolated the data, keep a strict 80/20 operational rule. Let the the system do the heavy cognitive lifting of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and pattern recognition (the 80%). You handle the final execution (the 20%) to inject your own human voice, rhythm, and industry shorthand.

To strip away the corporate boilerplate that betrays an automated script, run the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) back through with a strict fluff-decoupling digital directive:

> *“Review this observation. Strip out all generic corporate boilerplate, introductory filler, and synthetic enthusiasm. Shorten the sentences to vary the cadence, use direct active verbs, and ensure the tone reflects the clinical brevity of a busy operator.”*

When you get the output, manually verify it. Busy [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) write with short, punchy paragraphs. Your message should match that exact baseline. It shouldn’t sound like a sales pitch; it should read like an internal memo.

### 3. Engineering the Low-Interaction Value Hook

Let me show you what happens when you multiply high quality [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) instead of generic automation. I recently worked with an introverted Ops Lead who cringed at the idea of traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) calls.

We used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze a target company’s earnings report. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isolated a specific comment from the CFO about localized margin compression due to a recent regional warehouse consolidation.

We didn’t look for an open job description, and we didn’t ask for a “virtual coffee chat.” We targeted a peer-level contact in that department and sent a direct, one paragraph note written with brevity:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s regional warehouse integration this quarter. Having navigated a restructuring at my last firm, I noticed that inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief, 1-page framework on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag. No strings attached. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

They responded within three hours. Why? Because the message wasn’t automated spam begging for a chat; it was a high quality delivery of value that could be reviewed asynchronously. They traded notes over text, and the contact ultimately routed the file directly past the corporate filters into the internal priority lane. A few months later it resulted in them being invited to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for a new role and ultimately being hired.

### The Bottom Line

Traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) rewards the loudest voice, but AI-driven strategy rewards the deepest preparation. If you use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to blast generic messages to thousands of people, you are simply automating your own rejection and exhausting your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

Stop letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speak for you. Use your natural analytical baseline to uncover the strategic deficits of your target companies, map the pain points your future peers are facing, and approach the market with a solution in hand. That is how you bypass the filtering software, skip the small talk, and get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on your own terms.

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### [The Disengaged Interviewer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-disengaged-interviewer/)

**Published:** July 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3094 Have you ever been interviewed by someone who isn't paying attention? I know I wasn't perfect when I interviewed people. Here's how to deal with it.

**Content:**

# The Disengaged Interviewer

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3094 Have you ever been interviewed by someone who isn’t paying attention? I know I wasn’t perfect when I interviewed people. Here’s how to deal with it.

[***Fix Your Resume: Stop Giving Away Your Age!***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qoQlbl1oD7lHo0yscAtGL)

Alright, let’s dive right into something that I think we’ve all felt before. You’re in a [job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ask-this-question-on-your-next-job-interview-3/), you’re doing your absolute best, but the interviewer, they look like they’d rather be literally anywhere else. It’s a terrible feeling, right? Makes you feel completely powerless.

Well today, we’re going to talk about how to flip that script and handle it like a total pro. So, picture this, you’re in the hot seat, we’ve prepped for days, you know your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/) inside and out, but the person across from you is just gone. Completely zoned out.

So what do you do? Do you just keep talking into the void and hope something sticks? Or is there a way to take back control? Oh, you know the signs, right? The classic glance at the watch, maybe they’re checking their phone under the table. You get these short, kind of vague answers to your questions. There are no [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/).

And you get that sinking feeling in your stomach that says, yep, I am losing them. Right. So let’s put a name to this whole mess.

We’re going to call it the awkward [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/). It’s that moment when the whole vibe is just off and you start second-guessing every single word coming out of your mouth. And let’s be more specific, the person causing this is the disengaged interviewer.

It’s someone who is just clearly bored, distracted, or otherwise not present. Just spotting this is one thing, but what you do next, that’s what makes all the difference. So how do you actually handle it? Well, here’s the secret.

It’s not just what you do, it’s when you do it. Before you make any move, you’ve got to read the room. And for that, timing is absolutely everything.

***[Stupid Interview Mistakes: Appearing Unmotivated](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2tr)***

You have to ask yourself, when is this happening? Look, if they seem a little distracted in the first two minutes, just let it go. Seriously. They could be shifting gears from their last meeting, thinking about lunch, whatever.

Don’t overthink it. But if you’re 15, 20 minutes in and it’s still happening, okay, now you’ve got a pattern and it’s time to figure out what’s really going on. And this brings us to the main event.

This is the power move. Instead of just sitting there and taking it, you’re going to pull out a very simple but incredibly powerful tool, the direct question. It sounds intimidating, but it’s really just two easy steps.

First, just pause. Stop talking. Take a breath.

Get calm. The silence itself is powerful. Then, you’re going to address what’s happening, directly, but really, really politely.

And here’s the phrase. You can pretty much use this word for word. You say, you know, I could be reading this wrong, but I get the sense you’re not interested in this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/).

Am I catching you at a bad time? See how brilliant that is? It’s not an attack. You’re giving them an out. You’re just asking for information.

And let’s be super clear here. The goal is clarity, not confrontation. You’re a detective.

You’re just trying to figure something out. Is there an emergency at work, distracting them? Or have you said something that made them decide you’re not a fit? You don’t know, so you’re just asking. Okay, so you’ve asked the question.

Now what? Well, their answer is going to send you down one of two paths, and each one has a really clear next step for you. So here’s the fork in the road. Option one.

They say something like, oh, I’m so sorry, yes, there’s a crisis with a client, my mind is elsewhere. Great. You just show some understanding, maybe even [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) to reschedule.

But if they say, well, to be honest, I haven’t heard the experience I’m looking for, ding, ding, ding, that’s your answer. They’ve just told you it’s not a fit. And the moment you get that confirmation, the moment they tell you it’s not a fit, it is time for your professional exit.

This isn’t about storming out. It’s about ending the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) on your own terms, with total class. And here’s your script for that.

[***Career Management Mistakes: 10 Things You May Be Doing Wrong***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-8x)

You immediately call me, say, okay, I appreciate your honesty, and I definitely don’t want to waste any more of your time. Thank you, and good luck with the search. And that’s it.

You stand up, shake their hand, and walk out with your head held high. You just respected your own time and theirs. Now this leads us to the single most important rule in this entire playbook.

The golden rule. No matter what happens, no matter how they respond, you never ever get nasty. The second you get defensive or rude, all you’re doing is proving them right.

Look, your professionalism is everything. It’s your currency in the working world. By handling this situation with grace, you leave a good impression, even if you didn’t get the job.

Trust me, the world is small. You never ever want to burn a bridge. So it kind of leaves you with the final thought, right? We always walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/passing-the-water-test-on-an-interview-shorts/) thinking the person on the other side of the table holds all the power.

But when you have the confidence to ask for clarity, and the professionalism to walk away from a situation that isn’t right for you, well, who really has the power then? Something to think about. That’s it for this time. See you on the next one.

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Finding Where The Hidden Job Market is Hiding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** July 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Shally Steckerl explains many best practices for finding opportunities, information and people to network with on this show.

**Content:**

# Finding Where The Hidden Job Market is Hiding

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**FROM THE ARCHIVES**

I have yet to find anyone who brings more [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) or passion to sourcing job opportunities than Shally Steckerl.

Shally explains many [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) practices for finding opportunities, information and people to network with on this show.

You will want to take notes during this show or be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to listen to it several times.

***[Stop Reciting Your Resume: How to Use Stories to Get Hired](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ1QY5L7)***

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio, episode 1316. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and welcome.

Now, I’m finishing up this week of shows from [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio, the early days. And this was one of my favorites: an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Shally Steckerl, who was a sourcing [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), on finding where the hidden job market is. It is, it was one of my favorite [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Hope you find it helpful, hope it helps you too. And if you’re interested in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter](https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flinkedin.com%2Fin%2Fthebiggamehunter). Mention that you listened to this video, or listened to the show, I should say, because frankly, I like knowing that I’m helping some folks. And also because I’m bumping up against LinkedIn’s limitations for first-level connections, I’m only accepting connection requests from people in the US who are not in certain fields like insurance or financial services or real estate, or overseas, unless they make mention of listening to the show or watching my videos. Sorry about that folks, but like I said, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) limits the number of connections that you can have, and this is my way of dealing with it. Now with that, let’s get going.

Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and welcome. I start off each show with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) tip that I call the “job search insider.” And today I want to talk with you about expanding your vision of the kind of firms that you look for. You see, the propaganda’s pretty obvious as to how people get taught about how they should look for work. And the [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) is always to the large firm. After all, large firms always [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) stability, right? Well, wrong. If anything, if you look at the statistics from this recession, yes, small companies have gone out of business, without question. But large firms have [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) hundreds of thousands of workers. Many of them have sold off operations, they’ve moved businesses to private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), and many smaller firms, frankly, have been the growth engine for the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) that’s been going on.

By focusing on only large firms, what often happens is you put yourself in the position of competing with so many people for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) when there’s so many other firms out there that you could be looking for, looking at. So again, don’t neglect smaller or mid-sized firms because you think that they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) stability. Experience tells me that they don’t, and that many of the new [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) being created are being done by the smaller and mid-sized firms.

So that’s my tip for today. Let me introduce my guest for this time, which is Shally Steckerl, who’s the president of The Sourcing Institute and has 18 years of sourcing and recruiting experience. Shally’s background is building enterprise recruiting engines for Fortune 500 brands, helping them efficiently find unfindable talent. He’s the author of the industry textbook, *The Talent Sourcing and Recruitment Handbook*. Shally, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Radio. Great to have you on.

**Shally Steckerl:** Thank you, and an honor and a pleasure to be here. Appreciate the invite.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** You’re welcome, and I’ve been a fan of yours, oh, for the longest time, back to JobMachine.

**Shally Steckerl:** Wow, thank you.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** You’re welcome. You know, with that kind of an introduction, I just want to alert our listeners to the fact that we’re going to focus today on finding the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that are not easy to find. Going out there and where do you find all these [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? And I want to encourage you to get something to take some notes with, because Shally is a master at this kind of work. So, where do people start? How do they start finding some of these organizations, Shally?

**Shally Steckerl:** Yeah, well, you know, I want to bounce off of something that you mentioned during the intro, which was about the large [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) being the ones that kind of get all the press and all the juju around, you know, people wanting to go work for them. And I think around the world, that’s very much the case. But I kind of sit on both sides of the fence with that one, I’ve got to be honest with you. Part of me is, my business is to develop the efficient recruiting strategies for those, exactly those companies. But at the same time, I’m the other kind of company. And as a matter of fact, today I just hired a young lady that starts on Monday, that is a recent college grad, and I’ve got a lot of hope that that’s going to turn into a really good opportunity for her and for us.

So, you know, I’m here to tell you that I think a lot of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) that goes on is with the small businesses. And it’s just, it just kind of goes unnoticed. And a lot of the growth comes from there. The challenge is, how do you identify those [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) because most of those kinds of companies, including, for example, myself, we don’t have the big budgets to post ads in the big job board distribution networks and all that. It’s not like I can afford to, you know, spend a bunch of money to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) an entry-level person right now. So, how do you find out about those [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? They’re not, they’re not easy to find, and that’s I think part of what you wanted me to come [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to talk about today, right?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** Absolutely, because so often people go to the job boards, they go on, you know, to all the obvious places that you and I know about, and don’t use some of those [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) tools that you’ve pioneered for so long. So, where’s the starting place that people should begin with?

**Shally Steckerl:** Well, the challenge with where the starting place is really comes from identifying what you want to do first. Not that I want to get into career advising or consulting, but really, what I, my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) advice is always to narrow your field down and find a handful of companies, maybe a list of top 10 companies in your mind that you want to target. Not because of their size and not because they’re the top 10 [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) of choice, but because they’re in the business that you want to be in, or they do the things that you want to do. And then focus all of your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and attention on trying to penetrate those companies by [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) in through all of your available resources, including social media and, you know, the friends and family and all that.

So I’m not saying go out and find, you know, the 10 big companies. I’m saying, what do you want to do? If you want to, if you want to sell software, then look at what 10 companies that are really cool, interesting, exciting, that are small or even medium-sized companies, not just the big ones. And where do you go for that? Well, there’s a couple of places that I would recommend going for that.

Something I want to point out though right from the beginning is, part of this is about conducting [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) around those, identifying those companies. It’s not about finding the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Because as I said, like with the [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) that I just made now, that wasn’t a job that was publicly advertised on a job board. Often times, these [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) aren’t, quote-unquote, open to the public, you know, because they’re not really published.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** So what’s going to happen is once you identify the firm, you may use informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and other forms of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) to get the kind of penetration you need to introduce yourself to that organization.

**Shally Steckerl:** Exactly, right. So the first thing is, find relevant companies. Then the second thing is, find relevant people at those relevant companies. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a big or small company. Once you have those relevant companies, then you start targeting people for, for [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) because when you go in to do [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), it’s, it’s um, I like to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to it as the mental Rolodex example, or the mental Rolodex exercise. You know, if I, if I go to you and say, “Hey Jeff, who do you know?”, your mind draws a blank. You’re like, “Well, gee, Shally, I know some people, I know a lot of people in fact, but what do you mean who do I know, about what?”

But what if instead I go, “Hey Jeff, who do you know that’s in biotech in Atlanta?” Or, “Who do you know that works in a startup in Boston?” Then, I can, then you can, your mind starts thinking, “Oh, okay. I can narrow it down. Like, first I’m gonna think who do I know in Boston? Who do I know that’s…” And that way, your social [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), in-person and online, is more efficient. So rather than going around asking, “Who do you know that’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)?”, instead, “Who do you know that works at this company?” or “Who do you know that works in this sector?” and you can start narrowing the field.

So you find the relevant companies, then you find the relevant people, and you use your network to get closer and closer to those people. And if you’re lucky enough to get an informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), that may lead to an introduction to someone else and so on. And in my case, as a matter of fact just today, the informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) turned into “You’re hired” because the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) went that well. But your question still stands, which is, where do you find those things?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** And I want to just pause you for a second and say, you sound like a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). This is exactly what we do professionally to find, to network our way from one person to another to another in order to find that one individual our clients are going to want to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). Beautifully done. Please continue, Shally, you’re doing great.

**Shally Steckerl:** So there’s a place, there’s a couple of places I would point to. One of them is a company that recently, well maybe not so recently, sold to salesforce.com, and it’s called Jigsaw. It was called Jigsaw when it was sold. Now, I believe it’s just called data.com. The reason I’m pointing you there is because it’s, it’s free use, you can set up an account for free, and it’s a, it’s a barter, an exchange, it’s a, it’s a swap meet of business contacts. What that means is, you bring your contacts in, enter them into the system, and for every contact that you put in, you then are able to get out someone else’s contact.

And it’s a barter system, much like I don’t know back in the day if anybody remembers Rolodex parties, where business people would get together for an hour and, you know, have maybe pizza or whatever, and everybody would bring their Rolodexes with them. And you know, like, “Well, I used to work with IBM but I don’t work with them anymore, here’s a contact at IBM. Do you know anybody at Microsoft?” and then the other person would swap cards. Pretty much that. \\par

Now Salesforce owns it, and it still remains free, and you can play for free by swapping contacts, or you can also pay and get the data. So either way, if you want to pay by putting your effort in or pay by putting your dollars in, it’s not very expensive, but either way you get the results. And then what you do is you go in there once you’ve targeted those companies, and find people with job titles that are so close to that, that you know you can get an introduction to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) authorities. It’s not going to be necessarily able to find *the* [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager that would be the one that hires you, but you might, of course, but through something like this, for example Jigsaw, you can identify the names of people that are close to that department, then send them, for example, a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) invite or something or even just an email, “Hey, I want to meet you, I’m looking for an opportunity in this area, want to ask a couple questions”, informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I’m sure you’ve talked about that many times on your show. So that’s a good starting point.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** And I want to just tell the listeners, I think they just recently dropped the Jigsaw domain and they’re now using data.com exclusively. And when you do that exchange, they’re not looking for the home email address of someone. They’re looking for the professional email address. So you can’t give them a Gmail or a Hotmail account, you have to give them the desk account for them, because otherwise they’re just not going to accept it. And there’s another service that’s similar and I think maybe a little bit better than theirs: ZoomInfo, which I know professionally [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use all over the world. And I think they have a way where if you open up Outlook to them, if you’re using Outlook and you open that up to them, they’ll allow you access to their database as well because in effect, what they’re going to do is update their database with your information in there, in order to maintain its relevance. So that’s an alternate service to data.com.

**Shally Steckerl:** Right. So with that, ZoomInfo doesn’t have a free version except for when you provide these contacts through integrating your email. So that is correct, but you have to basically give up… they’re going to look in your inbox and update all the [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) they have on the people from extracting signature files in your email: first name, last name, email address, job titles for all those people, which might be fine. Just be sure you’re not doing this from your employer and violating any kind of internal corporate [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), you know…

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** Absolutely. Thank you for pointing that out, Shally.

**Shally Steckerl:** Just, you know, be aware. Then also, the other thing would be, interestingly enough, I’ll give you… actually, I’m going to give you two more. One is [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and I’m sure you’re like, “Oh great,” roll your eyes up into your head and go, “Hey, tell me something I haven’t heard, Shally, like really, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), seriously?” But what I’m actually going to tell you about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is different than what most people are going to tell you about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). What I’m saying is, once you’re inside of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and you’ve identified, remember the first stage is identify those 10 companies that you want to target, you can choose one of those companies and look them up on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

And what happens is, often those companies, most companies now have a company page, whether that page is a premium page that that company has actually acquired the rights to manage and is updating constantly, or it is a free page that’s been created for that company by [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), of course, makes the difference easy to understand. If the company is sponsored, then the company gets to put their content on it. If the company’s page is free, like with a small business like mine, they’re simply just going to list, “Here’s the people that work at this company, and here’s the name of the company,” etc.

But here’s the interesting thing in it: you look for that company, and as you identify a company that you’re interested in, go to their company page. For example, if you were to look at let’s say, ZoomInfo as a company, right? And on their company page, on the right-hand side as you view it, partway down there’s a sort of a navigation menu or bar that begins at the top with how you’re connected to people at this company, and then below there might be, if they’re managing and paying for it, there might be some posts from the company itself. But scroll a little bit lower, and there’s a little box that sort of hides there, and it says, “People also viewed.”

What is interesting about that little box on the right-hand side is that there’ll be six icons of companies that are very similar to that company. What’s important about that is that this is a human-edited database, as opposed to a lot of the other websites that [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) information about businesses and they use, for example, SIC codes or some other kind of industry typification or codification system that limits their ability to select whether the company is, for example, in manufacturing or in services. Well, what if they do both? What if they’re in fast-moving goods and in services?

So when you go on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and you look up that company, for example as you mentioned earlier ZoomInfo, and you look on the right-hand side under “People also viewed,” you’ll notice InsideView, and OneSource, and Dun & Bradstreet, which all provide business information, and you’ll also notice NetProspex, which is a small startup. That’s neat because that’s probably not a company you would have ever thought of before! But those are the kinds of companies that are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for the kinds of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that aren’t really very widely published, just because they don’t have the wherewithal and the means to do that. So now you have another, because of your original target company, you now have another company that you can look at, and of course, now go back to everything else you’ve ever been told about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and do all the other stuff. But at this point, you now have identified another company.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** And thus, a person could go out and do [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) about that firm. And I just want to back up the one thing, one term you used: SIC codes. This is a code that’s been generated to define an industry. I don’t recall the organization that created these codes, but they’re, I think they’re three-digit codes primarily, and correct me if I’m wrong, Shally, that define a firm by its industry. Annoying, useless, only if you’re doing aggressive [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) do you want to know these things. You can find all the same information through other vehicles.

**Shally Steckerl:** It’s the US Census Bureau, and it’s the Standard Industrial Classification system, SIC. There are others, there’s a five-digit one, but basically what these do is they put a company into a bucket. Like Xerox is a heavy equipment office manufacturer, heavy office equipment manufacturer. Well, yeah, but they’re also so much more than that. And nowadays, companies are so flexible and so dynamic that there’s not just one code. So that’s why that’s kind of going out of date, out of style. \\par

What you’ll find on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is that those six icons are there because other people like you that are [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), for business opportunities, for all kinds of reasons that they’re on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), are clicking on those companies because those companies are like the other company that they clicked on. So it’s a kind of a human association game, you know, like word association. If I say “brown,” what do you think? Oh, “chocolate,” or whatever, right?

So that’s what’s happening on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is, I say “ZoomInfo” and you say, “Oh, NetProspex.” Well, I didn’t know about NetProspex. Now, guess what I can do? I can take NetProspex’s domain, netprospex.com, and I can go to Google and type in the “related” command: `related:` (that’s r-e-l-a-t-e-d colon), and then the domain, in this case `netprospex.com`, without any spaces after the colon. So `related:netprospex.com`, and then Google will give me back a dozen or so sometimes other websites that are statistically similar based on Google’s PageRank analysis.

So what Google is saying is, “Like this NetProspex, here are a dozen other websites that have a lot of the same content.” And now, from NetProspex, I can see other companies like InsideView, which is another organization, OneSource, which came up earlier, and here’s data.com, which we’ve been talking about before, as well as ZoomInfo, as well as Hoovers. So I’m able to build a target list. Now, I can go into data.com or ZoomInfo or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or into my Rolodex or send an email out to all of my friends and colleagues and ask, “Does anybody know anybody that works at NetProspex or at InsideView?” And then I can ask for an introduction. That’s the way I recommend you go about doing it.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** And if you… it’s beautiful what you’ve laid out for folks, and I hope you’ve been taking notes, gang. And if you haven’t, listen to this audio again. There’s going to be plenty of more information coming. And one thing I just want to mention to the listeners is that there’s a little Chrome extension that makes one part of this easier for folks if you use Google Chrome, and that is if you want to see who’s in your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) network easily who might work at one of these firms, it’s an extension called “Who Works At.” And it will tell you who in your network works at these firms, so you can reach out to them about a role. It’s a nice little tool.

So now that they have this list, we’re reaching out to folks, trying and doing informational [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with them, and that’s beautiful. Are there other tools or techniques that you can suggest to folks in order to find some of these avenues, the non-job board situations?

**Shally Steckerl:** Yes, absolutely. So I would say don’t limit yourself to just [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), because not everybody’s on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). There are only 93 million people in the United States on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and of course, you know the population of the United States is far bigger than that. In fact, if you just limited it to people that are employed, that would be at least double that number if not greater. So not everybody’s on there and you’re not going to find everyone for a variety of reasons.

So try other places as well. Chances are very likely that you will find them on Facebook, because a majority of people do have a Facebook account. I’m not saying everyone, there are of course still people who don’t have a Facebook account. But if you can put their name, their first and last name, into Facebook Graph Search, for example, or just… you will be able to find their page, and even if you’re not connected to them, you might see who’s connected to them from you. In other words, second degree or third degree away, a friend of a friend. And you might be able to send them a message. Most people have the [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) enabled.

Now those messages are not emails, they’re Facebook messages that go into their Facebook inbox. So if they’re not using Facebook or don’t log in very much, they may never get it. But it’s at least one other alternative way to contact them, especially if you don’t have an email address or a phone number for the person. And again, use the same kind of pitch as before: “I’m [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), want to meet some people at this company or in this business.”\\par

Another thing that you can do is simply inside of Facebook, taking [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of Facebook’s Graph Search that’s already built-in, which is very intuitive, and it uses natural phrases, natural language. By that I mean, you ask a question the way that you would ask a question verbally to another person. So, for example on Facebook, up in the top bar, you can start typing: “People… people that work at NetProspex.”

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** Interesting.

**Shally Steckerl:** It’ll… yeah, and it’ll bring back… so you just type “people that work at NetProspex” and it’ll bring back NetProspex’s page, as well as a list of all the people on Facebook that work at NetProspex. And then, here’s the nice thing about it, on the right-hand side, there’s a refinement that you’re allowed to do that allows you to narrow it down by position, so for example, [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or VP of sales, right? And you can now search amongst the NetProspex contacts in Facebook for those that have that title.

You can also search by location, say only the ones that are in my state in Georgia, or in a city in Atlanta, or in a hometown, etc. like that, or even how close they are to you. So you could say, “Show me all the people that I know that work at NetProspex,” or “Show me all the people that my friends know that work at NetProspex,” and that would be your second degree, if you will. And you can even go a third: “friends of my friends’ friends,” that’s about as far as you go. You can also find people that are not my friends, that would be strangers, but it might be a little bit more difficult, more challenging to reach them, where it might be easier if there’s someone between you and I, and I can call that person to get introduced to you or email that person to get introduced to you.

But Facebook, because of size and because of the kind of information that they’re putting together intelligently, rather than requiring people to enter it—see, that’s the difference. On Jigsaw or data.com, as you said, I have to put a business card in, and they expect business information. On ZoomInfo, that information is found by their robots, like Google if you will. On [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), that information is entered by the user. These are three different ways: either I’m giving somebody your information, the web is finding your information, or you’re putting your information in on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

On Facebook, I started by creating the account, but then Facebook is asking everybody else that knows me questions about me and confirming that information and putting it in here. So that’s why once in a while you’ll get a message that says, “Do you know blah blah from so and so or such and such?” or “Did you use to work… Shally just said that you used to work with him, is that true or not?” And when you do that, that starts to build that profile.

So Graph Search is able to capture that information and be a very accurate way to search. So you’ve got yet another avenue at your disposal. Now don’t be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that Facebook is social or, “Well, I only have my personal stuff on Facebook.” That’s fine. You can share only what you want to share. You can make sure that your page settings are such that you’re not sharing any photos with people, for example, that you don’t know, or any blog posts or anything. You have full control over what you want to show or not show.

And it’s perfectly okay to ask for an introduction through Facebook, even though you’re not sharing all of your content, because it’s much the same way in a business meeting. When you show up to a business meeting, you talk about your abilities, your skills, and you ask questions about the company. You don’t necessarily talk about your personal life. It might come up, but it’s not usually appropriate. So it’s understood that when you’re talking business, it doesn’t matter if it’s on Facebook or on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), you keep it to business. So it’s okay to use Facebook—totally okay to use Facebook—to approach people and network. That’s what it’s for.

You might even find high school colleagues, you know, that were high school alumni with you that are now people who work at that company. And now you’ve kind of, you know, you got two wins: one, you’re reconnecting with someone that you used to know, and two, you’re getting introduced to a company. Or maybe someone that was part of your sorority or fraternity or a volunteer organization or something like that, and that helps you make that introduction. So identify the company, then look for the people, get the introductions, and then keep [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) off of that.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** So Shally, so far you’ve spoken about using services like data.com, and I added in ZoomInfo, and then we moved to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and using company pages to find relevant information about similar firms to the ones that you’ve targeted, and now we’ve moved over to using Facebook to really network effectively. How does Twitter fit into all of this? And I just want to say, we have a limited amount of time, so excuse me if we keep this concise, okay?

**Shally Steckerl:** Absolutely. Well, Twitter does fit in, but Twitter is a little bit less… it’s a little bit more shallow of a relationship, okay? So on the scale of depth of relationships, you have the ability to have a much deeper relationship on Facebook than on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), because on Facebook you can have social, you can have games and interactions that are outside of that. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is kind of strictly business.

Twitter is even shallower than that because, you know, I may follow you and you may not know who I am, I may be a complete stranger, or you may follow me and I may not know who you are. So it’s a much lighter environment, and it’s also louder. It’s lighter and louder, which means that the gig on Twitter is to be able to be found, and to use Twitter as a way to grow your network.

But when you go to search on Twitter, it’s very limited because you only can find the information that person has either tweeted or is on their bio. You can go to search.twitter.com and look for people that have a particular job title or company name in their title, and also you can do a radius search by location. But that only works if that person on their Twitter identified that location. So if I on my Twitter account typed in “Atlanta, Georgia,” then you might find me. But since it’s a blank entry form, I can actually type in, you know, “third planet from the sun,” and that’s what shows up, which won’t come up obviously when you’re searching for Atlanta, Georgia.

And I might have my job title and my company name, or I might choose not to. So Twitter can be a little bit too far removed, but you do want to, if you are using it, you do want to have your information on there and follow people that are in that industry.

So the way that you use Twitter for this is, you’re looking to connect with people in the, you know, in the content management industry. Well, great, follow really good, top-notch thinkers in content management on Twitter, and then you have what’s called the halo effect. Because I’m hanging out with smart people in content management, other people think that I’m also a smart person in content management or I’m associated with them, and you ad-hoc network that way. So that’s the way that you can use Twitter.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** Beautiful. Is there one last tip for the audience that you have for them that will help them find or network into some of these harder-to-find situations, the non-job board situations?

**Shally Steckerl:** Yes. You probably have a ton of spreadsheets on your computer of, um, lists of people. This could be, you know, from a, from a sales lead list or something like that, business cards that you scanned in over time. You can use that Excel spreadsheet, save it as a comma-delimited or CSV file, and you can upload that spreadsheet into [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and Facebook, and Twitter, and many others, by the way. \\par

When you do that, for example on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), you upload the spreadsheet of, you know, maybe it’s a contact spreadsheet of all the people that you knew at a particular company, or all the alumni from a particular organization, or whatever. When you do that, then [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) will go through there and see if any of the emails match IDs of people that already have [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) accounts, and give you the option of saying, “Hey, assuming that you already know this person because you’ve got their email address, which means you probably know them, would you like to send them an invitation to connect?” And now you’re simply sending an invitation to connect to someone that you already know or used to know without having to do all the necessary legwork of finding them. Same thing happens on Facebook and Twitter, you can import that.

Really, all you need is a list of first name, last name, and emails, in fact, quite frankly, just the emails, that’s what they look for. But if you have first name, last name, and email in any kind of system—a CRM system that you used when you were, you know, selling real estate, or whatever—anything that is a pile of email addresses, you can put that into these systems and ask the system to recognize people that you already know.

And in some of them, like on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and Facebook, you can even scan through your Yahoo and Gmail to look for contacts inside of there, like we were talking about with ZoomInfo. And you might find… for example, last time I did this, not that long ago, I found 800 people in my Gmail that I had not connected with! These are people that have emailed me, we’ve had exchanges with, we’ve had conversations, but it never occurred to me to ask them to connect on Facebook. So all of a sudden, now I got 800 new connections on Facebook, and they’re people that I already know, but wasn’t connected to. So that’s another tool that’s in your arsenal.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** So folks, what Shally and I have been talking about here is mobilizing all your resources. Mobilizing all your relationships in some way, shape, or form so that you can do the legwork for the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) that you do. The [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) starts off with you figuring out the kind of organization you want to work for and what you want to do for them. That’s the starting place that Shally started off with. And then from there, using all these tools that he’s been talking about, find people with whom you can do informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) or who you may know well enough already to ask for introductions.

And when you do those introductions, do not hesitate to ask at the end of the chat with someone: “Is there something I need to know or something you want to tell me about what I’ve done here that would be helpful for me in my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)?” [Asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/) from people is a big part of what gives them a good feeling about this process. Always ask for advice, don’t always act as though you’re just there for yourself.

Shally, we’ve been racing through a ton of material. Thank you so much for making time to do this and, folks, if you haven’t gotten it all, listen to the show again. He’s giving you so much to work with, that’s terrific. Before we go, Shally, um, tell folks how they might be able to get a copy of your book.

**Shally Steckerl:** Well, my book is on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and in most bookstores. It’s called *The Talent Sourcing and Recruitment Handbook*, and it’s a 500-page textbook. If you are interested in becoming a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), this is your textbook into doing that. And we also have on our website, `thesourcinginstitute.com`, we have an online curriculum that’s a diploma or certificate program that will teach you how to be a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) if you’re interested in that. But the book is *The Talent Sourcing and Recruitment Handbook*, and you can get it from Amazon, or if you want a short URL, here’s an easy one to remember: `shally.me/shallybook`. `shally.me/shallybook`.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/):** So that’s today’s show. I hope you find it helpful, and if you did, here are a few ways to get even more from me. First of all, visit my website, www.thebiggamehunter.us. I have several thousand blog posts there that you can watch, listen to, or read to help you find your next job.

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 I’ll be back tomorrow with more. In the meantime, have a great day.

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#  How to Time Your Interview Follow-Up #shorts 

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-september-13-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [The Top 10 Highest Paying Marketing Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-10-highest-paying-marketing-jobs-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** From an Article by TrackMaven.com, this is a video where I tell you what they are.

**Content:**

# The Top 10 Highest Paying Marketing Jobs

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

From an Article by TrackMaven.com, this is a video where I tell you what they are. [This is a link to the article](https://trackmaven.com/blog/10-highest-paying-marketing-jobs/)

## [***LinkedIn Profile Differentiation***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-Ka)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/JeffAltman-79-212x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3200 episodes.

### **[*Minimizing Risk with Your Job Search or Career Change*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fps)**

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/): [⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠](https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter)

***[You Don’t Need a Job Description](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-283)***

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### [Recruiters Don’t Fill That Many Jobs #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/)

**Published:** July 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One thing recruiters know that you may not know is that they don't fill that many jobs.

**Content:**

# Recruiters Don’t Fill That Many Jobs

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/cliJqI3blWw)

One thing [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know that you may not know is that they don’t fill that many [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

[***They Are All Lying (In a Job Search)***](https://wp.me/s4aIk1-in)

One thing [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know that most Job hunters don’t, they don’t fill that many [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Now, even if you’re in a large city, how many [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) do you think one [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) fills? It’s not a lot. A very successful one, If can hit fill 30 a year, 50, and you live in New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas, and 50’s a lot. And imagine that one recruiting firm has 50 [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). That translates into (and this is for a very successful one) filling full time positions– 2500 out of that one office. That’s highly unlikely.

So don’t just simply focus on recruiting firms or job ads. Start working your network to try and get more results.

There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us). Go to the blog. There is info to help you.

## [***LinkedIn Profile Differentiation***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-Ka)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/JeffAltman-79-212x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/),

[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) with over 3000 episodes.

### **[*Minimizing Risk with Your Job Search or Career Change*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fps)**

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [No BS Career Advice: July 19, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

**Published:** July 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more. 

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: July 19, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Average skills?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Average-skills-1024x1024.png)

My newest book is out I’m offering it for 50% off. “[Networking for Introverts: Build Powerful Connections Without Cold Calling](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9CH4QQD)” It’s targeted for those of us who think of “working a crowded room” or “hopping on a quick call” with a stranger sick to our stomach. The examples come from my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) practice and have been completely anonymized

The price will double at the end of next week. Take me up on the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and don’t miss out.

### AI for Introverts: High Fidelity Research Wins

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

The front door of the modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to an enterprise [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you are letting an unyielding database dictate whether you’re worthy of being spoken to as well as your market value.

But most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice tells you to take a highly extroverted back door–blasting your network, attending exhausting mixers, or cold-calling old colleagues to ask for a vague favor. For an introvert, this approach is a massive energetic drain. More importantly, it shifts the cognitive burden of “finding a fit” onto a busy contact, which usually results in polite radio silence.

To break through without burning out, you have to execute a direct, peer-level approach that actually favors an introverted skill set: you skip the superficial social transactional cycles entirely and obtain access by offering deep, asynchronous solutions to a complex corporate vulnerability.

The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) tool to execute this strategy is artificial intelligence. But the market is currently getting this completely wrong. Professionals are using LLMs to spam corporate networks with generic boilerplate. Decision-makers spot that automated noise quickly.

As an introvert, your natural strength is deep analysis, not glad-handing. You need to understand a fundamental rule of the modern [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) landscape: **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier, but multipliers work both ways. If you multiply generic automation, you just get a mountain of spam. But if you multiply high-fidelity [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), you get immediate access to the room.**

Stop letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speak for you with synthetic enthusiasm that inaccurately represents you. Instead, use it as your internal Chief of Staff to run deep, surgical diagnostic [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on a company’s public pain points. You don’t need a massive network; you just need a few highly accurate, data-driven observations that sound like an indispensable peer who already understands their business.

### 1. Sourcing High Fidelity Research Privately

If you feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model a generic prompt like, *“Write a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) message to a COO,”* the multiplier runs backward. It generates a wall of synthetic enthusiasm with phrases like *“I hope this finds you well”* or *“In today’s fast-paced corporate climate”* that triggers someone’s mental spam filter and compromises your professional posture.

To make the multiplier work for you, lean into your natural preference for quiet, solitary investigation. Gather the target company’s recent public data trails. Grab their latest quarterly earnings call transcript, a recent industry [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) given by their CEO, or their main competitor’s macro moves. Feed that raw text into the model.

Give [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) a highly structured diagnostic prompt:

> *“Analyze this transcript from the perspective of an institutional investor. Identify the top two operational or infrastructure risks implied by this growth strategy. Cross-reference these risks with my core expertise in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction this leadership team will face.”*

Now you’re leveraging the machine for raw data synthesis, not generic writing. You are uncovering the strategic deficits of your target companies quietly, behind the scenes, before ever saying hello.

### 2. The 80/20 Rule: Enforcing Low-Friction Cadence

Once you have isolated the data, keep a strict 80/20 operational rule. Let the the system do the heavy cognitive lifting of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and pattern recognition (the 80%). You handle the final execution (the 20%) to inject your own human voice, rhythm, and industry shorthand.

To strip away the corporate boilerplate that betrays an automated script, run the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) back through with a strict fluff-decoupling digital directive:

> *“Review this observation. Strip out all generic corporate boilerplate, introductory filler, and synthetic enthusiasm. Shorten the sentences to vary the cadence, use direct active verbs, and ensure the tone reflects the clinical brevity of a busy operator.”*

When you get the output, manually verify it. Busy [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) write with short, punchy paragraphs. Your message should match that exact baseline. It shouldn’t sound like a sales pitch; it should read like an internal memo.

### 3. Engineering the Low-Interaction Value Hook

Let me show you what happens when you multiply high quality [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) instead of generic automation. I recently worked with an introverted Ops Lead who cringed at the idea of traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) calls.

We used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze a target company’s earnings report. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isolated a specific comment from the CFO about localized margin compression due to a recent regional warehouse consolidation.

We didn’t look for an open job description, and we didn’t ask for a “virtual coffee chat.” We targeted a peer-level contact in that department and sent a direct, one paragraph note written with brevity:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s regional warehouse integration this quarter. Having navigated a restructuring at my last firm, I noticed that inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief, 1-page framework on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag. No strings attached. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

They responded within three hours. Why? Because the message wasn’t automated spam begging for a chat; it was a high quality delivery of value that could be reviewed asynchronously. They traded notes over text, and the contact ultimately routed the file directly past the corporate filters into the internal priority lane. A few months later it resulted in them being invited to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for a new role and ultimately being hired.

### The Bottom Line

Traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) rewards the loudest voice, but AI-driven strategy rewards the deepest preparation. If you use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to blast generic messages to thousands of people, you are simply automating your own rejection and exhausting your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

Stop letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speak for you. Use your natural analytical baseline to uncover the strategic deficits of your target companies, map the pain points your future peers are facing, and approach the market with a solution in hand. That is how you bypass the filtering software, skip the small talk, and get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on your own terms.

Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Over the past week I released a number of new blog posts including:

**What [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Know That You Don’t: How They Evaluate #shorts** Excerpt: Corporate screeners look at your background through a completely different operational lens than you do. Jeff Altman cuts through generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) advice to deliver a rapid-fire breakdown of the internal metrics and unfiltered criteria [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use to score your profile in seconds. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-how-they-evaluate-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-how-they-evaluate-shorts/)

**Treating People Like a Salami | The [No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/)** Excerpt: Slicing up human relationships and professional networks into small, transactional commodities destroys long-term institutional trust. Jeff Altman highlights a major structural [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) made by short-sighted leaders and job seekers, offering a firm framework for building sustainable professional [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) instead. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/)

**Use Visual Proof to Bypass [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Parsing Software and Screeners** Excerpt: Relying strictly on dense text blocks allows automated filtering software to commoditize your value. Jeff Altman outlines a high-signal strategy using visual proof portfolios, explicit case studies, and clear achievement metrics to break through automated applicant tracking grids and capture immediate executive interest. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-visual-proof-to-bypass-ats-parsing-software-and-screeners/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-visual-proof-to-bypass-ats-parsing-software-and-screeners/)

**A [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Limerick #shorts** Excerpt: The modern [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) system is packed with daily friction and repetitive automated dead ends. Jeff Altman shares a sharp, rapid-fire lyrical take on the absurdities of the corporate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process to help you maintain your perspective while executing a high-leverage search strategy. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-job-search-limerick-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-job-search-limerick-shorts/)

**[Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), Not Worry** Excerpt: Channelling your limited executive [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into catastrophic scenarios creates massive decision fatigue and kills pipeline momentum. Jeff Altman details a strict operational mindset framework to help you convert passive [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) into active, high-impact pipeline execution and professional [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/). Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/)

**Beauty is in the Eye of The Beholder** Excerpt: Evaluating job offers and corporate cultures based on surface-level industry prestige can lead you straight into a [toxic environment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/). Jeff Altman breaks down how to audit opportunities based on your personal operational criteria, leadership alignment, and long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) leverage rather than external marketplace expectations. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/)

**The [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) People Make at the End of [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** Excerpt: The [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), never asking when they can expect to hear about next steps. Asking this critical question tells you exactly when to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) and helps you recognize if you are caught in a passive cattle call loop. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-mistake-people-make-at-the-end-of-interviews/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-mistake-people-make-at-the-end-of-interviews/)

[**No** ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-mistake-people-make-at-the-end-of-interviews/No)**BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): July 12 2026** Excerpt: To operate at the highest tier of corporate compensation and leverage, you have to transition to [Pull Dynamics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/). You do not hunt for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/); you engineer a professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) that makes you structurally desirable, forcing the market to seek you out. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-12-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-12-2026/)

**[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) #shorts** Excerpt: A six-second video about how to make your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) easier. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire tip to streamline your tactical execution so you can stop overcomplicating your search and achieve faster results. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-shorts/)

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Growth in the Era of [Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)** Excerpt: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) instantly dominates any task with a clear, standard answer, meaning traditional technical skills are rapidly losing value. Jeff Altman breaks down why your future paycheck depends entirely on your ability to manage chaos, ask profitable questions, and master the final 10% of creative polish that machines miss. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)

**Our Interesting Thinking About [Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/)** Excerpt: Many of us live frustrated and disappointed because we struggle to say “I need help,” treating vulnerability as a defect. Jeff Altman breaks down an intriguing Facebook experiment on how pride and ego hold us back, and outlines why getting support is the ultimate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) hack. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-interesting-thinking-about-asking-for-help/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-interesting-thinking-about-asking-for-help/)

**Oops! The #1 Costly [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) People Make When Accepting Job Offers** Excerpt: Accepting a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) based on surface-level excitement can lead directly to a long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) disaster. Inspired by a podcast [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Daniel Kahneman, Jeff Altman details the critical psychological [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) most professionals fall into and how to evaluate agreements to prevent a massive misstep. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/)

**The [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [Remote Job Boards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/)** Excerpt: Finding premium work-from-home positions that pay well and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) real vertical growth has become incredibly challenging. Jeff Altman bypasses the generic noise to curate the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [remote job boards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/) across tech, startups, and executive roles for 2026. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/)

**Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) #shorts** Excerpt: A six-second video about your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire, high-signal [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) pointer to strip away unnecessary details, highlighting why less is always more when you are trying to capture an recruiter’s split-second attention. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-shorts/)

**Our Interesting Thinking About [Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/)** Excerpt: Many of us live frustrated and disappointed because we struggle to say “I need help,” treating vulnerability as a defect. Jeff Altman breaks down an intriguing experiment on how pride and ego hold us back, and outlines why getting support is the ultimate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) hack. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-interesting-thinking-about-asking-for-help/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-interesting-thinking-about-asking-for-help/)

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Growth in the Era of [Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)** Excerpt: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) instantly dominates any task with a clear, standard answer, meaning traditional technical skills are rapidly losing value. Jeff Altman breaks down why your future paycheck depends entirely on your ability to manage chaos, ask profitable questions, and master the final 10% of creative polish that machines miss. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)

**A Well-Respected Man/Woman–Branding Yourself to Stand Out** Excerpt: An article in Brainz magazine reminded me of an old song that carries relevance for many of you. Jeff Altman breaks down how to shape your professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), construct a recognizable identity, and [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) yourself so that you stand out in a highly competitive executive market. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-well-respected-man-woman-branding-yourself-to-stand-out/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-well-respected-man-woman-branding-yourself-to-stand-out/)

**[The Wise Man](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-career-angles-shorts/) and The [Complainers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-career-angles-shorts/) #shorts** Excerpt: A less than 60-second story about people who complain about how a wise man suggested they do differently. Jeff Altman shares a brief, impactful tale illustrating the folly of seeking advice but refusing to change your actual execution patterns. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-shorts/)

**Level Up Your Video [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): Mastering Body Language** Excerpt: Virtual body language encompasses the nonverbal cues and gestures you exhibit during online interactions. Jeff Altman delivers a tactical guide on how to project authority, maintain [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) with the camera, and master physical cues to dominate your next video screen loop. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/level-up-your-video-interviews-mastering-body-language/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/level-up-your-video-interviews-mastering-body-language/)

**The [Merit Myth](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-merit-myth-of-finding-a-job-is-a-lie-shorts/) of [Finding a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) is a Lie #shorts** Excerpt: If you think a flawless [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) are enough to land a job, you are setting yourself up to get ghosted. The corporate meritocracy is a lie. Jeff Altman exposes the harsh realities of backroom [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and shows what it actually takes to cross the finish line. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-merit-myth-of-finding-a-job-is-a-lie-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-merit-myth-of-finding-a-job-is-a-lie-shorts/)

**Is It Over for Tech Candidates? The Shift Toward [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Executive [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)** Excerpt: The days of massive enterprise overhead are giving way to agile, [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) contracts at the leadership level. Jeff Altman breaks down how senior tech candidates must [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) their positioning from full-time structural managers to strategic, high-impact consulting partners. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-over-for-tech-candidates-the-shift-toward-fractional-executive-hiring/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-over-for-tech-candidates-the-shift-toward-fractional-executive-hiring/)

**The Three-Step Filter for Your Core Professional Circle #shorts** Excerpt: Surround yourself with high-leverage thinkers who push your limits, not passive [complainers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-career-angles-shorts/) who validate your excuses. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire, direct metric on how to screen your closest professional network for maximum ambition and execution. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-three-step-filter-for-your-core-professional-circle-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-three-step-filter-for-your-core-professional-circle-shorts/)

**The Hard Truth About Working for Early-Stage Startups** Excerpt: Startups promise massive [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) upside and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) speed-runs, but the reality is often chaotic undercapitalization and operational [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/). Jeff Altman outlines the exact diagnostic questions you must ask the founding team before signing an early-stage [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-hard-truth-about-working-for-early-stage-startups/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-hard-truth-about-working-for-early-stage-startups/)

**Don’t Sell Your Soul for a Corporate Paycheck #shorts** Excerpt: Sacrificing your core values for a slightly higher base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is a guaranteed recipe for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) rot. Jeff Altman gives a No BS reality check on how to maintain your personal alignment and professional leverage when negotiating corporate agreements. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-sell-your-soul-for-a-corporate-paycheck-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-sell-your-soul-for-a-corporate-paycheck-shorts/)

**How to Dominate Your Performance Review and Demand What You are Worth** Excerpt: Walking into a performance review hoping your manager notices your [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) is a losing strategy. Jeff Altman outlines a proactive, data-driven approach to map out your revenue-generating accomplishments, command immediate corporate leverage, and secure your compensation increase. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-dominate-your-performance-review-and-demand-what-you-are-worth/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-dominate-your-performance-review-and-demand-what-you-are-worth/)

**Another [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Job Hunters Make #shorts** Excerpt: Jamming your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) full of vague fluff and generic corporate adjectives makes [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) scroll right past you. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire correction on the formatting and content traps candidates fall into, showing how to clear the noise and present an undeniable record of clean professional value. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/another-resume-mistake-job-hunters-make-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/another-resume-mistake-job-hunters-make-shorts/)

**Master the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Skills That Can’t Be Automated** Excerpt: As automated tools dominate routine workflows, technical task compliance is no longer a defense against obsolescence. Jeff Altman breaks down the core human operational skills—complex diagnostic problem-solving, stakeholder negotiation, and deep creative strategy—that corporate systems cannot automate. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)

**How’s Your Plan Going?** Excerpt: Relying on a rigid, outdated playbook while the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) landscape rapidly changes around you is a recipe for complete pipeline stagnation. Jeff Altman delivers a direct, No BS reality check on how to audit your active execution, drop failing tactics, and [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) your plan to current market conditions. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/hows-your-plan-going/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hows-your-plan-going/)

**Pass the “So What” Test** Excerpt: Every single line, bullet point, and metric on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) needs to pass a strict operational standard: “So what?” Jeff Altman details a rigorous assessment framework to convert passive task descriptions into high-signal proof of revenue impact and enterprise problem-solving that commands immediate respect. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/pass-the-so-what-test/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/pass-the-so-what-test/)

**Your Next Job Isn’t in Your Inner Circle. It’s in the Margins.** Excerpt: Your closest professional contacts already know the same opportunities and possess the same information that you do. Jeff Altman outlines a high-leverage [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) strategy focused on the margins—weak ties, loose acquaintances, and secondary industry circles—to uncover hidden pipeline value. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-next-job-isnt-in-your-inner-circle-its-in-the-margins/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-next-job-isnt-in-your-inner-circle-its-in-the-margins/)

**[Finding a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) as an Executive or Leader #shorts** Excerpt: Landing a premium leadership role requires you to bypass standard HR filters entirely. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire directive on how to project instant operational authority and position your background so executive decision-makers recognize you as a peer, not a seeker. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/)

**The 10 [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) High-Leverage Outreach Templates for [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)** Excerpt: Sending generic InMail notes gets you ignored. Jeff Altman provides ten highly tactical, copy-and-paste outreach templates engineered to cut through the noise, target specific enterprise pain points, and secure direct consultation calls with busy leaders. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10-best-high-leverage-outreach-templates-for-linkedin/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10-best-high-leverage-outreach-templates-for-linkedin/)

**It’s Not Just What You Say on [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) #shorts** Excerpt: Long before you answer a single technical question, your nonverbal cues have already set the tone. Jeff Altman breaks down a critical, split-second physical composure [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that subtly betrays [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and dilutes your executive [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) in the loop. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/its-not-just-what-you-say-on-interviews-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/its-not-just-what-you-say-on-interviews-shorts/)

**The Shift to [Pull Dynamics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/): How to Force the Market to Chase You** Excerpt: Chasing public job board postings is a low-yield strategy for high-tier professionals. Jeff Altman maps out an aggressive positioning framework to open-source your diagnostic logic online, drawing lucrative consulting and full-time inquiries directly to you. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/)

**Crack [the Hidden Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/)** Excerpt: Over 70% of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) executive and technical roles are filled entirely behind closed doors before an internal description is ever published. Jeff Altman delivers a tactical protocol to locate unadvertised organizational deficits and source unlisted [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) tracks. Link: [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack) the hidden job market/file in seconds. Link: 

**Treating People Like a Salami | The [No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/)** Excerpt: Slicing up human relationships and professional networks into small, transactional commodities destroys long-term institutional trust. Jeff Altman highlights a major structural [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) made by short-sighted leaders and job seekers, offering a firm framework for building sustainable professional [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) instead. Link: 

**Use Visual Proof to Bypass [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Parsing Software and Screeners** Excerpt: Relying strictly on dense text blocks allows automated filtering software to commoditize your value. Jeff Altman outlines a high-signal strategy using visual proof portfolios, explicit case studies, and clear achievement metrics to break through automated applicant tracking grids and capture immediate executive interest. Link: 

**A [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Limerick #shorts** Excerpt: The modern [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) system is packed with daily friction and repetitive automated dead ends. Jeff Altman shares a sharp, rapid-fire lyrical take on the absurdities of the corporate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process to help you maintain your perspective while executing a high-leverage search strategy. Link: 

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**The [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) People Make at the End of [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** Excerpt: The [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), never asking when they can expect to hear about next steps. Asking this critical question tells you exactly when to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) and helps you recognize if you are caught in a passive cattle call loop. Link: 

[**No** ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-mistake-people-make-at-the-end-of-interviews/No)**BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): July 12 2026** Excerpt: To operate at the highest tier of corporate compensation and leverage, you have to transition to [Pull Dynamics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/). You do not hunt for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/); you engineer a professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) that makes you structurally desirable, forcing the market to seek you out. Link: 

**[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) #shorts** Excerpt: A six-second video about how to make your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) easier. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire tip to streamline your tactical execution so you can stop overcomplicating your search and achieve faster results. Link: 

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Growth in the Era of [Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)** Excerpt: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) instantly dominates any task with a clear, standard answer, meaning traditional technical skills are rapidly losing value. Jeff Altman breaks down why your future paycheck depends entirely on your ability to manage chaos, ask profitable questions, and master the final 10% of creative polish that machines miss. Link: 

**Our Interesting Thinking About [Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/)** Excerpt: Many of us live frustrated and disappointed because we struggle to say “I need help,” treating vulnerability as a defect. Jeff Altman breaks down an intriguing Facebook experiment on how pride and ego hold us back, and outlines why getting support is the ultimate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) hack. Link: 

**Oops! The #1 Costly [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) People Make When Accepting Job Offers** Excerpt: Accepting a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) based on surface-level excitement can lead directly to a long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) disaster. Inspired by a podcast [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Daniel Kahneman, Jeff Altman details the critical psychological [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) most professionals fall into and how to evaluate agreements to prevent a massive misstep. Link: 

**The [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [Remote Job Boards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/)** Excerpt: Finding premium work-from-home positions that pay well and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) real vertical growth has become incredibly challenging. Jeff Altman bypasses the generic noise to curate the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [remote job boards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/) across tech, startups, and executive roles for 2026. Link: 

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**Our Interesting Thinking About [Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/)** Excerpt: Many of us live frustrated and disappointed because we struggle to say “I need help,” treating vulnerability as a defect. Jeff Altman breaks down an intriguing experiment on how pride and ego hold us back, and outlines why getting support is the ultimate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) hack. Link: 

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Growth in the Era of [Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)** Excerpt: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) instantly dominates any task with a clear, standard answer, meaning traditional technical skills are rapidly losing value. Jeff Altman breaks down why your future paycheck depends entirely on your ability to manage chaos, ask profitable questions, and master the final 10% of creative polish that machines miss. Link: 

**A Well-Respected Man/Woman–Branding Yourself to Stand Out** Excerpt: An article in Brainz magazine reminded me of an old song that carries relevance for many of you. Jeff Altman breaks down how to shape your professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), construct a recognizable identity, and [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) yourself so that you stand out in a highly competitive executive market. Link: 

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**The [Merit Myth](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-merit-myth-of-finding-a-job-is-a-lie-shorts/) of [Finding a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) is a Lie #shorts** Excerpt: If you think a flawless [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) are enough to land a job, you are setting yourself up to get ghosted. The corporate meritocracy is a lie. Jeff Altman exposes the harsh realities of backroom [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and shows what it actually takes to cross the finish line. Link: 

**Is It Over for Tech Candidates? The Shift Toward [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Executive [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)** Excerpt: The days of massive enterprise overhead are giving way to agile, [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) contracts at the leadership level. Jeff Altman breaks down how senior tech candidates must [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) their positioning from full-time structural managers to strategic, high-impact consulting partners. Link: 

**The Three-Step Filter for Your Core Professional Circle #shorts** Excerpt: Surround yourself with high-leverage thinkers who push your limits, not passive [complainers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-career-angles-shorts/) who validate your excuses. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire, direct metric on how to screen your closest professional network for maximum ambition and execution. Link: 

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**Don’t Sell Your Soul for a Corporate Paycheck #shorts** Excerpt: Sacrificing your core values for a slightly higher base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is a guaranteed recipe for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) rot. Jeff Altman gives a No BS reality check on how to maintain your personal alignment and professional leverage when negotiating corporate agreements. Link: 

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**Your Next Job Isn’t in Your Inner Circle. It’s in the Margins.** Excerpt: Your closest professional contacts already know the same opportunities and possess the same information that you do. Jeff Altman outlines a high-leverage [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) strategy focused on the margins—weak ties, loose acquaintances, and secondary industry circles—to uncover hidden pipeline value. Link: 

**[Finding a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) as an Executive or Leader #shorts** Excerpt: Landing a premium leadership role requires you to bypass standard HR filters entirely. Jeff Altman delivers a rapid-fire directive on how to project instant operational authority and position your background so executive decision-makers recognize you as a peer, not a seeker. Link: 

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**It’s Not Just What You Say on [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) #shorts** Excerpt: Long before you answer a single technical question, your nonverbal cues have already set the tone. Jeff Altman breaks down a critical, split-second physical composure [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that subtly betrays [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and dilutes your executive [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) in the loop. Link: 

**The Shift to [Pull Dynamics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/): How to Force the Market to Chase You** Excerpt: Chasing public job board postings is a low-yield strategy for high-tier professionals. Jeff Altman maps out an aggressive positioning framework to open-source your diagnostic logic online, drawing lucrative consulting and full-time inquiries directly to you. Link: 

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### [3 Prep Tools to Fix Your Interview Weaknesses #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/3-prep-tools-to-fix-your-interview-weaknesses-shorts/)

**Published:** July 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down three powerful platforms—covering speech habits, company-specific tailoring, and anonymous technical grilling—that will give you an unfair advantage.

**Content:**

# 3 Prep Tools to Fix Your Interview Weaknesses #shorts

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### [How to Network Successfully as an Introvert Without Faking It](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/)

**Published:** July 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode lays out a clear, three-phase playbook to leverage your natural strengths

**Content:**

# How to Network Successfully as an Introvert Without Faking It

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop forcing yourself to “work the room” at loud, useless [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-the-three-second-rule-of-networking/) mixers that leave you drained. If you are an introvert, trying to mimic extroverted energy is a fast track to sensory overload and professional burnout. This episode lays out a clear, three-phase playbook to leverage your natural strengths—like deep preparation and strategic silence—to build high-value professional relationships without the fake persona.

Here is the accurate, word-for-word transcription of the video, reformatted entirely in plain text with appropriate paragraph breaks:

Picture walking into a brightly lit hotel ballroom. The noise hits you like a wall. Everywhere you look, people are aggressively mingling, trading business cards, and forcing small talk. For an introvert, that simple scenario induces immediate visceral dread. That exhaustion is a predictable outcome of being handed a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-the-three-second-rule-of-networking/) playbook written exclusively for extroverts.

This excerpt from a recent academic study on digital behavior shows that introverts, who make up as much as half the population, naturally gravitate toward controlled environments to regulate their emotional energy.

Attempting to “work a room” by matching extroverted energy directly conflicts with an introvert’s neurobiology. It demands rapid processing of high stimulation environments, which quickly leads to social burnout.

But introverts possess traits like deep thinking, meticulous preparation, and active empathy. When deployed intentionally, these are strategic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-the-three-second-rule-of-networking/) assets.

Success in professional growth does not require faking an outgoing persona. It requires a chronological playbook designed entirely around quiet strategy.

The first step tackles the visibility gap. Many introverted professionals have deep technical expertise, but they struggle to translate that knowledge into a brief, compelling personal pitch.

Artificial intelligence serves as a social buffer in this phase. By acting as a translation engine, it helps bridge the visibility gap, taking over the heavy lifting of drafting outreach messages and [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) strategy to reduce the initial friction of self-promotion.

Long before you ever reach out to someone, AI functions as your tireless [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) assistant. It takes hours of manual scrolling and target profiling and condenses it into a streamlined, 15-minute workflow. With that data in hand, you can set specific, achievable goals.

Instead of trying to collect a hundred business cards at a mixer, aim to secure a single, highly researched coffee chat. From there, use digital platforms like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-effective-is-the-easy-apply-button-on-most-job-sites/) as your quiet room.

Rather than broadcasting generic updates, focus your energy on leaving thoughtful, one-on-one comments on posts by your specific targets. This intense pre-outreach phase ensures that when you do initiate contact, you aren’t an outsider asking for a favor. You arrive armed with specific insights, replacing anxiety with quiet confidence.

When it is time for the physical interaction, the golden rule is simple: avoid large, chaotic mixers entirely. Steer your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-the-three-second-rule-of-networking/) efforts toward controlled, one-on-one meetings.

In these one-on-one sessions, strategic silence becomes your most effective tool. To understand why, look at the neuroscience. Pausing during a conversation activates the brain’s default mode network. This neural pathway processes emotional cues and empathy.

It provides the cognitive space to prepare a thoughtful, measured response, rather than a rushed reaction. You can trigger this through the three-second rule. Ask a targeted question and silently count to three in your head before speaking again. That intentional pause diffuses conversational anxiety. It gives the other person space to share more deeply and firmly establishes you as a genuine active listener.

By speaking less, you invite the other person’s full engagement. This natural restraint actually makes introverts up to 15% more effective at professional relationship building.

The final phase is the meaningful [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/). Extrovert metrics, like counting the sheer volume of hands you managed to shake, simply do not apply to this strategy.

Instead, your goal is to send one highly specific, personalized message within 24 hours of your meeting. This [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) must focus entirely on offering mutual value.

Sharing a relevant industry article or expanding on a topic you discussed works far better than trying to extract an immediate transactional gain.

A sustainable network relies on deep preparation and genuine presence, rather than high volume social performance.

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### [Figuring Out The Career To Pursue While in School](https://thebiggamehunter.us/figuring-out-the-career-to-pursue-while-in-school-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Randy Shain and I discussed selecting a major and figuring out a career direction for yourself while in school. This video works well for both parents and students alike.

**Content:**

# Figuring Out The Career To Pursue While in School

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Randy Shain and I discussed selecting a major and figuring out a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) direction for yourself while in school. This video works well for both parents and students alike.

I encourage a student to watch apart from their parent.

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you’re either watching [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV or listening to this as No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. If you’ve been listening to me for any length of time, you know from time to time I bring on an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) on some element of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) or [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), because I believe it doesn’t have to be as hard, difficult, painful, or take as long as it does. Because frankly, most of you are amateurs. It’s not what you do. You know how to do what you do professionally, but the process of getting the next job or planning [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), no expertise really, and understandably, I brought on a guest today, or I’m bringing on a guest today named Randy Shane, who I’m going to have introduce himself to you, and Randy is going to be here to help you as a parent, or you as a student, figure out what you want to be in this next phase of growing up for the parent? Anyway, you’re the one. Well, you’re the one who’s trying to goad the student along. But I want to help your son or daughter figure out what the next step is for them in their life upon graduation. Randy, welcome.

Thanks, Jeff. Thanks for having me,

my pleasure. Introduce yourself to everyone. Let them know what your background is. Let’s have some fun after that, okay?

Sure. So my name is Randy Shane. As Jeff mentioned, I started a business as a private investigator. Believe it or not, in decades ago, I did that for 20 some odd years, going on 30 years, and I decided midway along the way that I really enjoyed working with young people more than I enjoyed anything else. So six years ago, I started a different business, helping coach college students and trying to get them to make the most of the four years that they’re in school.

I found that fascinating when you and I spoke, and I didn’t ask you about it then. But how the heck does one go from being a private investigator into being a coach for students? Like, where does that connect?

It doesn’t. I’m not 100% sure that it does. I guess the the the real way that that it does is that by owning a business, we hired probably hundreds of young people over time, and so from 1993 to 2016 or so, we interviewed 1000s of students. We hired them. We trained them. We coached them. We saw them improve. We promoted them, and we built the business based on that. And so, as I mentioned earlier, some of somewhere along the line, we got big enough where I wasn’t getting an opportunity to work with the younger people as much as I wanted to, and it kind of hit me that that’s really what I wanted to do, and so that’s why I made that kind of shift.

Gotcha. And there are a million ways that you could have worked with younger people. How did this idea of becoming a mentor or a coach to younger individuals with figuring out what they wanted to be when they grew up. How did that kick in for you?

Well, I’d love to say it was my idea, but it wasn’t. So a woman from Rutgers, where I went to school, approached me and asked if I had a few minutes, and immediately gave the you know, are you looking for money? I’m not really interested in that. I feel like I gave you the money when I was there. And she mentioned, no, no, no. This is something different. It’s a mentoring program, and I didn’t really. I knew what the word meant, but I didn’t understand the context of it. And she came into my office, and after 45 seconds, literally, I just said, sign me up. This is perfect. And essentially, that program was what kicked off what I’m doing now. And it was I had to look it up. It was exactly six years ago. And at that time, they brought you in, and they had a lot of people like me who had gone to the school and who they identified as having either talent or the time, or just weren’t weren’t paying attention enough, so they just said, “Sure, you want if you want to do this, we’re [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to have you. And so, I I got a chance to speak in a particular class, and four kids approached me, and I started just [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), mentoring, and helping them.

And what’s a mentor mean to you?

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To me, it really means someone first and foremost, mentor, coach, the whole thing, is a listener, and so I think I told this story. And in fact, I just texted the young lady who I’m still in touch with all these people. She had said. That I was the first mentor in the program that actually asked her any questions, and I I said, “Well, surely you mean questions about what you want to do and so on, not just is that what you mean? And she said, “No, no, I mean any questions. And so I realized right away there’s a lot of people who [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) unquote mentor kids or others, but what they do is just talk about themselves. So we’re on this program. I’m going to be talking about myself because you’re going to be asking me questions. But ordinarily, most of the people that I’ve worked with, and again, some of them that I’ve worked with for six years, had no idea that I was an investigator. It just never came up.

Gotcha. And it’s and thus, what makes you different than the typical coach?

I think there’s two things. So the first one is definitively my background. So because of what I said earlier, I have an inordinate amount of experience as to what businesses are looking for at all stages from before you get a job, meaning that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) prep and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) and all those kinds of things, but really the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And then much more important to me and what I try to impart to the students that I work with is well, what do you need to do to be a good worker? Well, step one is figuring out where do you want to be, because sure you can fool an employer, and I used to say this on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) into thinking that you want to work there. But six months in, you get exposed and you lose your job anyway. So it makes no sense. You’re you’re much better off trying to figure out where would you like to work, what would you actually like to do, and then try to get a job in that field, and so that’s step one. And I think the second is what I just mentioned before. My focus is on the student, and it’s always on them. We end up having a relationship, of course, because that’s how you get people to trust you. I’m vulnerable to them, I tell them what’s going on in my universe and vice versa, but the focus is on them. I’m not telling them my path unless they ask. It’s not relevant to them. Much more, much more about figuring out what it is and drawing out from them what it is that they’re interested in, and then helping them accomplish that.

And you don’t arrive or act like that template of the parent, the one who tells them what to do, because they know. And the way you describe most mentors or much most coaches for college students-that’s the experience I’ve seen as well, and that’s what I’ve heard about. They act like parents. You know what you should do? Back in the Stone Ages when I grew up, well, I’m going to talk to the adults here for a sec, folks. They’re not listening to you, are they? So if you can keep doing the same thing, and all that happens is you put up a wall between you and them. You’re better off outsourcing it to someone else to do the work, and you’ll get better results. Because I know the students I coach, which is not my primary business, by the way, just to be clear, the students I coach, you know, the thing that I do is I yes, I drive the bus, but in ways that they want it driven, right?

I’m not telling them what they should do, except in the context of brainstorming, where I’m looking for something from them, and it’s a huge difference, parents. And for the students, this is what you should be looking for in the way of a coach, someone who’s actually going to listen and not lecture. You’ve sat in lecture halls long enough, right? And the problem really comes down to. And I’ve got a copy of randy’s book on my phone. I’m just going to read one line from here because I really think it’s fabulous. College doesn’t Rosa. College doesn’t teach students how to discover their innate skills and how to apply those skills to a field of interest in a long in a long-term sustainable way. College also doesn’t teach the persistence and character that’s necessary to pursue the key players and gatekeepers of whatever field ultimately is selected. Folks, parents, students, students-you’re set up to fail. And parents, you think they know what to do because you do it a certain way, and it’s not the same for them. Am I wrong? Am I wrong?

Oh, if you’re asking me, no, I do think, in fairness, it is much harder for any parent, even a parent who was an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at being a coach, to coach their own kid. So that is automatically something that has to get stated, simply because that’s just a fact of nature. And and so, even if I stunk at this, or any mentor was terrible at this, there’s some value to it, some small value. Even if you’re terrible, just being there, just having an adult tell you something. My problem with most of that [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) is that by dictating and lecturing, the student never learns anything about themselves. They just hear something, and they either do it and resent it, or they do what you just said. They put the wall up and say, “All right, this is crap. Like, what am I? Why am I listening to this person? I’m getting nothing out of it.

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Right. So, what should the student be doing here? We’re going to start with the student, sure, and then we’re going to circle back to what the parent should or shouldn’t be doing.

Sure, sure. So let’s say it’s the student is 1617, 18 years old, entering college or launching out of high school. I’m going to give you two options to work with you. Yeah, I think it’s the student who’s entering. Let’s just start with the student who’s going their first and second week in college. So the one of the things that I like to talk about, and in my book, it was a whole chapter devoted to this topic, was how to turn your likes into loves, and one of the ways to think about that is, and and I know kids these days don’t call it dating, you know, it’s we’re hanging out or whatever you want to call it, but it’s like that, and what I mean by that is you have to try a lot of stuff, and so at college there the step one is find all the clubs that they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), and almost every college it’s a big deal the amount of clubs that are offered. And taking [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of those is enormous. And one of the things that we’ll get into a little bit is one of the things I try to talk to college students about is well understanding from all the other college students that I’m working with like what these things mean. So one of the things people say is, well, I don’t like to join stuff because I don’t really like to quit, and so I like to try to figure out if it’s going to be great before I start. And so, one of the things that I always tell people is, yeah, no, no, I’m giving you permission to be a quitter. Like this is the one situation when that is an absolute thing to do. Normally, every adult will tell you, don’t quit, don’t quit, don’t quit. You’re not a quitter. Well, that prevents people from trying stuff. So I want you to try. I just spoke with a girl who tried nine clubs because she took my advice. Now, who can be in nine clubs and class? It’s impossible. But she said, “I did what you said. I tried nine clubs. She could come right out and put it that way. But basically, she was asserting she didn’t took nine clubs, dropped five of them and ended up picking the four that she was really interested in. But how did that happen? She just spent some time with each. You spend a little time and then you see, is the subject appealing and are the people appealing? If they’re not, ditch. It’s okay, right? Who cares? And for you adults, this is the equivalent of informational [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). You’re going to talk to people who are interested in the same thing your student is, so that they can figure out if this is going to be a worthwhile area for them to pursue.

Right, exactly the same. Exactly the same.

It’s a good strategy. So now that they’re in a couple of clubs, and they’re starting to go to class, and they have no time on their hands to do their homework, and the parents are worrying about their grades because they’re so busy with the social life in these clubs and dating and what have you. What does the student do next? How do they continue to explore things?

Yeah, well, I think that overall, of course, the balance between social and work is up to every student to figure out for themselves, and time management works into that. And most students will tell you that that’s one of the hardest things that they had to learn. There’s no coach that can do that for you. I can sit here and say, I think you should use this system and use your calendar feature and alarms and write it down and plan it out the night before and so on. And that works for some kids and for other kids, they’re like, oh my God, that sounds terrible. So the reality is, again, all I do in that instance is talk to kids about the idea that you’re going to have a lot more time than you think because you’re coming off of a situation in which you got up and you were at school by eight a.m. Give or take a few minutes. You’re there till three, 330 If you played a sport, you’re not home. Until 530 you eat dinner at 630 You got a little homework. Your day is structured for 12 hours, really, right? And then maybe you get a little screen time after that, and you go to bed. You rinse, lather, rinse, repeat. Now you go to college, and you’ve got tons of time between classes. Does that get wasted? What do you do with that? You don’t have to get up early all the time. Fridays, most kids don’t have class at all. What do you do with all that time? They start to realize, oh my God, I have too much time. Like that’s what you hear. I’m lonely. I’m bored. I’m nervous. I’m anxious because I don’t know what to do to fill my time. So I maintain that that theory that they can’t do too many clubs and volunteer and do this and do that and still go to class and do their work. That’s baloney. They have tons of time, more time than they know what to do with.

I agree with you, and I speak from the perspective of me. Yeah, I remember how much time I had. You know, at the beginning, being stuck with the early morning classes because those are the only ones I could get into. Upperclassmen always get the better classes, the ones where you can sleep late, and then when you finally grow into those classes, you wonder what am I going to do with that time in the morning? What do I do? Yeah, yeah. What do I do? Right. Yeah.

And you figure it out. Right. There’s oh, it’s like gas. The tongue gets occupied.

Yes. Yeah. There’s no question about that. I mean, one of the other things we talked about the club thing, and I and I really I mean that. I I feel like that’s something that each semester you can start to join, discard, join, discard. Then, as you get a little bit older, you start to take a leadership position. Maybe you start to delve a little bit deeper. You start to think, are any of these in a field that I might actually like to do for a living? That’s possible too, as opposed to just the fun stuff. I actually myself was in the marketing society for God knows what reason, and I ended up becoming like through that I learned a bunch of stuff that I did use in my first job, even as an investigator, because it taught me to do a lot of public speaking. It taught me to sell things like that that I ended up meeting, dealing with clients and so on, so it’s hard to know how you’re going to utilize the things that you learn, the skills that you’re picking up. But I can assure you that you need those skills and you need those interests. And so, all I say to kids is, I’m not here to make your life worse. I’m here to make sure that you have a structure so that you get to do the stuff you want to do. If you don’t do that, your parents are going to make your life worse. That’s for sure.

That’s a given. And folks, do you notice how passionate Randy is about this? He’s banging that table left and right. His enthusiasm is is fabulous. Thank you.

In case you haven’t noticed, folks, that’s a Knick hat that he’s wearing right now. That’s right.

Representing, despite even the even though the Jordan rules is on, I’m still putting the Knick stuff out there. It’s okay.

And he’s he’s persistent. He’s determined that one day they’ll be good.

That’s right. That’s right. Has anything to do with it, but yes, one day they’ll be good.

Is what we as fans do. So we’re talking here in terms of number one. You get into school. You explore a couple of things that you’re interested in through the club circuit. Your classes are going to be your classes at the beginning, you know. Those are going to be required courses. We can’t change those quite yet, but it’s the idea of using the first two years to figure out what your major is really going to be, in order to ensure you’re pursuing things that might help you land. Got that?

I I have something to say about that actually. Oh, good. Let’s do that. Yeah. So, to the degree possible, and this is based on your school’s requirements, I am a staunch advocate. It’s the one thing I do try to tell kids to do. I don’t tell them how to accomplish this, but I put this idea in their head: take as few core classes as you can get away with. Just take as many classes that seem interesting as possible, and there’s a reason for that. And that is that the last place you want to be is a junior in college and first starting to say, “Okay, I took a bunch of classes that were required, and I still have no idea what I like, and now I have to first start figuring that out, and oh look, there’s a class I would like, but I hadn’t taken anything else in that field, and I can’t get into that. I don’t want to take a class with a bunch of freshmen. So there’s a lot of those kinds of things that happen, and so again, I believe that to the degree you can take take a class, a writing class, take a full. Philosophy class, take a marketing class, take a psychology class, take a language, take anything that’s in the humanities. Even if you are a STEM person, take as many of these humanities kind of all over the place classes and see which ones appeal to you. And then again, if you like something, take another one. If you like it again, keep doing it. If you don’t, if you start to see, hmm, okay, I I like this, but I don’t love it. Discard that. And by the way, as you know, learning what to discard is amazing information for you. It’s crucial because there’s too many. I don’t know what the study. There is a study done about what they call. I call it the diner menu study, which is essentially when you could still go to a diner pre-pandemic, most people get the same thing, even though the diner has 72 pages of stuff. Right? I could get a lasagna or I could get lobster. Most people show up at the diner, and what do they do? They order the same. Why? Because any more than seven choices they’ve shown makes human beings anxious. So having 700 choices is just like whoa. But take a look at a college guidebook that talks to you about what classes your college has. There’s 700 classes, so most people immediately are intimidated. And what I’m suggesting is pick a few categories to start, and just leaf through and read the descriptions. If it sounds like something you’d be interested in, and it’s not at eight in the morning on a Monday, you know, give it a whirl and see what happens. And then just keep repeating that same process. And before you know it, you’ll say, “Hmm, it turns out I really enjoy history, English, philosophy. It’s not going to matter.

And I hearing with a girl from the parents’ vantage point going, “You mean you want me to waste my money on them figuring this out along the way instead of you

know when they were in high school they said they wanted to be this square peg, square hole, go for that.

Right, right. That the connotation.

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Yeah, and and I I want to leap in on one thing that you said, because you students just heard the term 30 years ago. Don’t be dismissive and ageist. You know, it’s no different now. And I speak from the perspective of I. Was a head hunter and did it for a million years, filled tons of positions, and I listened to what my clients told me over those years, and really hasn’t changed. Yes, you have to have a basic expertise, but they don’t really expect you to know anything. They want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone who they can trust. Trust is the feeling you give them in the room, not just simply the knowledge that you have. Notice hard skill, what you know; soft skill, you know the way you make them feel. Don’t lose sight of that because they’re going for trust, and they got lots of choices. Yeah, I don’t right. I don’t talk to people about the 30 years ago stuff as a way of saying, well, it’s the exact same now. Although, what is the same is that human beings need skills in order to function. I would argue that it’s way harder today. I’m the reverse of every old man that you know. I know it’s harder for students today than it was for me. I got out of school. All I had to do was go to Manhattan. I went to a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) of a company that wasn’t even looking to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). I found them in a particular book. I called. I cold called. They said, “Come on in. They were not [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), but I did an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and they hired me anyway. That doesn’t happen now. It’s really hard for you. I’m not. I’m. I’m not saying that we had it harder. We didn’t. We had it way easier. So your parents, when they say you should do what I did, that’s not going to work because that’s where you don’t have that opportunity.

Yeah, you you can’t go door to door and try and find the job because the security in the building.

Correct. Who’s going to let you in? Who’s letting you in? Yeah, exactly. Now they’re taking your temperature too. But one one of the things I wanted to point out too, Jeff, that I think is completely underutilized and used for the wrong reason is volunteering. And so I spend a lot of time writing about and talking about volunteering, and I get it. I know when I say it, people are like, “Oh, I don’t want to do that, right? Like you just whatever. And what I try to point out is two things. One, I don’t want you to volunteer for your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). In fact, I don’t want you doing anything for your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and we can discuss that separately. But as for volunteering itself, I want you to do things that you’re interested in, and if you tell me you’re interested in something, I want to see that you did it. So a kid, an example I use in the book is if a kid says, “Oh, I’m thinking maybe I’d be a teacher, and I’m like, “Well, have you ever like volunteered at a nursery school or a Big Brother program or any of these places where you got to deal with kids? No, I’m like, “Okay, so how? One, how do you know if, from your perspective, you would really want to be a teacher, and two, how would anybody else think that you’d want to do that if you’ve never done any of it? So it’s not like I’m saying volunteer at something that you hate. That doesn’t make any sense. Just volunteer at something that you think might be something you’d enjoy, and then you’ll know. And by the way, it’s a lot easier to get a volunteering gig because you’re volunteering. You’re not getting paid. You’re not getting paid. So there are companies and organizations are always looking for volunteers, always.

You bet, right?

Right, and differentiate between volunteering and unpaid internships.

See, to me, the unpaid internship is a. It’s fine if you can, and I caution. I’m not talking about people who need the money. I get it. I came from that world. My kids, fortunately for them, do not. But if you need the money, you need to get paid. You need to find something where you get paid. But if you are fortunate and you don’t need the money, then the money is not important to you. That’s not the most important thing for you. Then whatever you do is more important. And so, an unpaid internship is usually something more formal, where you still have to do an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you still have to sort of pass muster and so on. And I’m not suggesting you don’t do that, but as a freshman in college and a sophomore in college, you’re going to find that difficult to get any internship, paid or not, right? So my thing is stop telling these kids to get internships and just start telling him to do a few things like volunteer and like work. That’s another one. Just get a job. So this sort of segues me into the other piece, which is in the summer of freshman year. What would I? So now you’ve done some clubs and you’ve taken some classes that. Were not core classes, and now your summer’s coming up, and everyone’s panicked because you’re supposed to get an internship. And what do I tell these kids? Go go work in a deli. Go work in the and this all assumes all this is open. Deli, pizzeria, supermarket, any place where you have to deal with the public, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) thing for you. And why is that? Why is that?

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So we got them through freshman year. Yeah. And what happens when they hit sophomore year?

So to me, sophomore year is more of the same. But you’re dive. You’re starting to dive in a little bit deeper. And what I mean by that is you’re starting to spend some more time on some of the same activities that you started at before, and you’re really starting to discard more. You’re starting to say, “Okay, I freshman year I like this, but now, as it turns out, when I took another class and I joined the club, and I got and I volunteered somewhere, I really determined that path. That’s not for me. And some people have said to me, “Wow, this really sucks! Like I just figured out that I don’t want to end up being. I’ll use the teacher example. I don’t want to be a teacher because I went into a classroom and I shadowed a teacher over the summer, and then over over this first semester of sophomore year, and it turns out I hated the kids. It just wasn’t for me, and so what do I do? That’s not. It’s a terrible situation. And I say, are you kidding? Which would you rather have learned that three years after you graduated, and you took the two years for your master’s, and then you got into a classroom and you hated it? Like, what are you talking about? In in fact, my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) example of that is at some schools, nursing programs get you in the hospital freshman year. So you’re a smart guy. Why do you think they do that?

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To scare you off.

Yeah, they want to see like people get in there, and they’re like, “Oh, it turns out I don’t like. There’s blood. There’s blood. I don’t like needles or blood, and they just didn’t know that they wanted to help people. They wanted to be in medicine, and it’s not doesn’t make you a bad person that you don’t like needles and blood. I happen to be one of those people who’s not affected by that, but a lot of people are. And so, if you don’t like it, you better learn that quick. And it’s just fine. It’s more than fine to learn those kinds of lessons early, so the earlier the better. So again, sophomore year, as many classes as you can that are not core requirements. Every class you take is going to fill something, by the way, except at Brown and maybe a few other schools which don’t have the. Same kind of structure. Most colleges, you take a class and it’s going to count for this. You don’t even know it until you start adding it up, anyway. So it’s not going to be a big deal. But just take as many of those as you can, and only take the the minimum mandatory classes just to kind of fill whatever you have to. That’s kind of what’s happening sophomore year. I’m also a again going to advocate students, even during school, to get a job, to get a job or to volunteer. One of those in concert with your classes and your clubs. That’s that’s the recommend.

This is terrific. Perfect. And you, as a coach, kind of propel them in some way. In many respects, the story I tell myself about the work that you do is you’re the adult therapist for them.

Without pathologizing it, though, right? Like I do try to be cautious about comparing myself that way because I don’t want people thinking there’s something wrong with them because they need a coach. I’d rather liken it to this. Is what I say to parents is this is going to do two things for you. This is just like when you spent all that money and time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on the soccer coach, the piano coach, the baseball hitting instructor, right? You did that to get your kid to college, but now that they’re there, they need a different kind of help. But it’s the same thing: is yes, they should use [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) services office. Without question, they should take [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of whatever the college is providing. But it’s not the same as someone who gets to know them, and typical [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) service ratio is 500 to 2000 to one. It’s very hard, even if they’re great people, right? What are they going to do? Like, and again, they could be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) at what they do, but they can’t get to know that many students. So, a person who’s working with you and getting to know you as your coach, and really figuring you out and helping you figure out yourself what is it that you’re what you want to do, and also who’s not judgmental, right? Who doesn’t have an agenda, and that was something I should have mentioned earlier. It’s really it’s the listening, but it’s the non-judgmental part too, and that’s very hard for parents, and it’s also hard for college administrators and even college professors. So I recommend that students meet their college professors and really meet them in a way where they form a relationship. But even there, the professor sort of is interested in what he’s interested in. It’s not always true that they’re going to help you find what you’re interested in, right?

And it’s funny here. I’m going to talk to the students primarily. You’ve been on a conveyor belt, being moved along the process like your manufactured product in the old days, you got moved from elementary school to junior high or middle school to high school, and now you’re in college, and they’re working up to turn you into some processed meat. I’m sorry for you vegans out there. You pick the replacement product for the process made, so that she can graduate, and all the way through, the message is: do what we tell you to do, or else.

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Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I know school. I know kids at schools who are telling me, literally, they’re getting pushed into accounting, or pushed into something else straightforward by the administration itself, because why does a school want you to do that? Because for them, they want to say we had 90-8% of our graduates got a job within three months, and it’s easiest to get a job in these sort of well-defined fields. That’s the theory, at least. No one’s talking about two years later, when all those kids quit that job because they hate it, that’s of no consequence somehow. And so my role and my goal is to prevent that, and that stems largely from the fact that whenever we hired someone who didn’t actually really want to do what we did? Six months in, we were both disappointed, and the person we’d have to let them go, or they’d have to quit, and we’d be looking at each other like, “I really wish we had done a better job of figuring out that this wasn’t for you. Sometimes you can’t tell. Sometimes you can’t tell, and that happens. But that’s what you’re trying. That’s what me. That’s what I’m trying to prevent, and I’m really trying to prevent the kid who calls me up five years after college and says, “I hate what I’m doing, and I have no no, I have no way of getting out of it, and now I’m making a certain amount of money, and I’ve got the gold in the handcuffs. Like, what do I do out of what you call it a conveyor belt, but?” Push yourself out a few years. The golden handcuffs, meaning you’re living a certain lifestyle, and now you don’t want to give that up. You’re trapped. You don’t want to give it up, and you have to wait till you’re in your 60s to do that transition that you wanted to do. Because I’m a guy who was a head hunter for more than 40 years. I want to get out at one point, got a master’s in social work. Was going to be a therapist in private practice, and then I met my wife there.

Oh, and thus, once we decide to do the house and the child, yeah,

I put it off yet again. So it takes a long time to do these transitions. And what Randy and I are speaking about here is trying to head off the problems that are going to leave you numb for most of your life and dead from the neck up, while you’re just doing this job that you loathe, right?

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Which unfortunately so many people have to do, right? And I and I suggest to people that I’m not saying that you won’t switch [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) every few years. That’s that will happen, and that’s okay. You’re switching though when you stop learning and when you stop to when you stop getting any everything out of where you are. Once that happens, well, then it’s probably time to move on. But if you’ve picked up enough skills and the relationships you have with your coworkers are solid, you’ll be able to move on, whether it’s in the same field or a slightly different one or a completely different one. If you’ve determined that, boy, that is not actually for me. That is okay. It’s fine. It’s just you. You have to then have a in your head what are you going to be doing. So I worked with a young woman who’s lovely and got a job in retail, and I don’t mean like folding the clothes, like retail, like trying to be ultimately be a buyer. They call it, and we really thought that that’s what she wanted to do. She had worked in retail through high school, through college, really enjoyed it. Seemed like something she really wanted. No one, everyone was talking her out of it. I said, “It’s this feels like something you want to give a shot at because you’re going to regret it if you don’t, right? And and that was her response was absolutely. She tried it for two, three years. I’m losing track of time here, and decided. I think it was two years, and decided, you know what? I’m not making the impact that I want to make. I really, I’ve been always thinking about being a teacher. I want to be a teacher, even though it’s a major switch. And I, of course supported her in that notion. We got to work immediately. Like, what does that mean? What do you have to do? You have to go back to school. You still have to support yourself. You’re going to get some help with your parents. There are they going to support you? How is that going to work? And we gathered up a plan, and now she’s midway in that process and loving it, right? And this is she’s really found herself. So it was, but she does not regret the first part. Why should she? She learned about herself and she scratched that itch, and now she determined that just was not. That just was not for her. That’s okay. It happens.

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Yeah, that’s garb. That’s garbage. That doesn’t happen.

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right, right, right, and it’s fine. You are doing that. That’s what I try to say to parents. You’re not just explain to your kid that you’re telling them to do what they should be doing, except they just are probably going to have to switch companies to achieve that. When you work your way up. You learned. You met people. You learned. You met more people. You learned something else. You put that into practice. You became more valuable, and then you moved up. Well, now sometimes you have to move up somewhere else, but it’s the same idea. So the idea isn’t stupid. It’s just your execution of it, which can be a little bit behind the times. One of the things that I just didn’t want to forget in this conversation is that that for for parents reading the the book that I wrote, I have gotten tremendous [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) from parents, which I did not expect. Where did you get to you promoting the book? This allowed me to change my conversations I was having with my kids, and I was like, “Well, what do you mean? And they’re like, “Well, now I don’t feel like I have to lecture them. Now I just say, ‘Look, I read in this book. Take a look at this thing, and it talks about this. Would you maybe you could try something like that, like volunteer, like.'” The volunteering thing, etc. It says here, don’t do something for your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), which I’ll touch on in a moment. So just do the stuff you’re interested in, and all of a sudden the kid’s like, “Oh, you’re not telling me what to do, you’re not lecturing me, you’re giving me some ideas, but you’re letting me choose within those ideas the way that I execute on those ideas, and that’s a big deal. You’re not telling me which club to join. You’re just telling me I’d like you to join a few clubs. That’s the most you can expect. I’m paying for college. I’d like you to join a few clubs. That would be very. I think that that would be an important part of your experience. I’d like you to volunteer. I don’t care where. I’d like you to get a job. I don’t care where. You figure that out. If you need my help, you come to me, and that’s it. That changes everything because now you don’t need to nag. You don’t need to tell them what to do. They are not hearing you nag. They’re just hearing you make some. There’s some ground rules and some structure.

And why shouldn’t they do it for the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)?

Oh wait. hang on a second.

Sure.

Can you hear me still?

I hear you fine.

Okay, because my something happened to my this, so I’m going to take that off.

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Anything I ask you about, if you have no real knowledge, forget knowledge, no real experience doing that, you sound like a jackass. Unfortunately, it’s worse to do that than have nothing on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). I’d rather you hand me a blank slip of paper than that, and I see it all the time. People obviously did something because they thought it sounded good, but they didn’t really participate in those activities. So when I ask them about it, they don’t know what to say. And what you get, you feel exposed at that point because you are, frankly. So I always say to people, you do something for yourself. Get the job to learn the skills because you want those skills because you know you need them. Join the clubs because you’re interested, not because your parents say join the finance club instead of the marketing club because who cares about marketing, or who cares about badminton in my example from before? No, join the things that you are interested in and participate in them, because the second reason is when I go on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), who knows if someone’s going to say, “Wow, you were in that particular. You did this particular thing. You you studied this Mandarin. You took this Mandarin or you know Chinese art class. Why’d you do that? Turns out that was my minor in college, right? Like that happens all the time, because what am I looking for as an employer? Someone who’s a human being who I can like being around, right? Like it’s not just can you be good at the work, and it’s not just that that’s important, and it’s also critical that you want to work with our particular company. But more than either of those two things is: Are we going to like you, or are you going to be someone that we’re going to think is a total jerk off? And if it’s the latter, we don’t need you.

Exactly right, Randy. We could keep going on forever, and I can’t.

We actually can’t go on forever. Yeah,

that part is true as well. How can people find out more about you, the work you do, the book you have, things along those lines?

Sure, sure. So the book is called 173 Pages Every College Student Must Read. Here we go, on Amazon, I am. My company is called One On One Mentors, and you can find me just Google One on One Mentors with my name, and you’ll see it. The website is One On One Mentors do com, and call, text, email, whatever. Everything is sort of designed to be. Super easy, and I try to make the whole process one where the student ends up walking away feeling better [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), more productive, happier, and also super [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to get their parents off their back, and the parents super [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to not have to do that. No parent, you’re a parent, I’m a parent. We don’t want to nag students. You think that we want to do that stuff? We hate that. It’s in the job

description. Are you kidding? I’d

rather have any other conversation besides that one. Yeah,

me as well. Randy, this has been great. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks a lot for having me. I really appreciate you putting me on.

You’re welcome. And folks, we’ll be back soon with more. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you can visit my website, thebiggamehunter.us. I’ve got 1000s of posts about different elements of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) material that you can watch, listen to, or read that’ll help you find work more quickly, particularly for you adults, [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, magically deal with workplace-related issues, a whole host of different things. And if you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me, at the website you can schedule time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) or schedule time for a free discovery call. I’d love to help you. Got a question for me? Wizio.com. That’s wisio. com forward slash [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Ask your question, you get a three to five minute video back from me with the answer to it. Lastly, subscribe to my channel on YouTube. Click the small icon in the lower right or the picture of me in the upper left, and you’ll get more from me. Hope you have a great day and be great.

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### [Tough Interview Questions: How Lucky Are You and Why?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-how-lucky-are-you-and-why/)

**Published:** July 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This trick question suggests the answer and most people miss it entirely.

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions: How Lucky Are You and Why?

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This is one of those fun trick questions. I have to say, “trick” because let me explain the trick to you because it suggests the answer and most people miss it entirely. The question is, “How lucky are you and why.”

The key to suggesting the answer is the “and why” part because most people are going to go off on a tirade about an incredible luck lock luck or they have no luck. Pretty predictable answers.

Now, what the employer is suggesting with the question is that there are reasons why people are lucky and they want to know what your reasons are so it lets you know right off the bat they’re thinking it isn’t about luck after all. Now, you might just simply start by saying, “You know, luck is one of those funny things. You know, for example, some musicians are incredibly lucky but no one talks about the 25 years they’ve spent in the studio working up to the point where someone would notice them. Thus, they become the luckiest musicians on the planet because they’ve got the hit record. Or, you know, a variety of things. You can use movies as an example of that.

But, fundamentally, what employer generally wants to hear is, “Some people talk about karma and I’ve thought a lot of great things in my life that help to create circumstances where I receive good fortune. And thus you translate luck into good fortune. “But I don’t want to make it seem as though these things happen by accident. I work incredibly hard to make my “luck” as you will to put myself in a position where I have the opportunity to have good things happen to me. You know I do the work. You know I drive sales (You talk about the nature of work).

You know, in answering the question, you lay out a couple of things that you do that helps make you “lucky” so that it is really about luck. Most people don’t know how much I’ve done up until this point to arrive at the stage. Where they think it’s luck, I think it’s the effort that’s gone into it.”

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Maybe it was how you came up with a solution to a problem where you’d seen something similar or in junior high school. On and on and on. You can use examples like that but you know the trick is not that it’s luck but that you’ve put effort into getting “luck” to put yourself in the position to be able to be lucky.

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### [Master the AI Skills That Can’t Be Automated](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)

**Published:** July 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To maintain an edge, you must graduate from a task-performer to a system architect who orchestrates AI, human attention, and real-world connections.

**Content:**

# Master the AI Skills That Can’t Be Automated

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Simply using AI as a tool means you are already behind the curve. As autonomous digital employees replace basic execution, the market value of standard digital tasks is hitting the floor. To maintain an edge, you must graduate from a task-performer to a system architect who orchestrates AI, human attention, and real-world connections.

Learn AI is the boilerplate [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) for this decade, but simply using AI as a tool is already behind the curve. We are reaching the point where complex code, copy, and design can assemble and format themselves, completely autonomously.

Typing a prompt into a chatbot is only the first layer. The next step moves beyond the chatbot toward the **digital employee**. These are systems with their own context, their own tools, and the ability to verify their own work before it ever hits your inbox.

When you can generate infinite digital outputs instantly, the cost of digital execution hits the floor. The market value of completing a basic digital task is evaporating. Value is shifting to things AI cannot replicate: **the orchestrator, human attention, and physical connections.** Relying on pure output is a race to the bottom.

To maintain an edge, you must move past being a producer of tasks and start mastering the specific skills that capture these new gaps in the market.

## The 6 Essential Skills That Can’t Be Automated

### 1. The AI Agent Manager

Most companies are currently buried in half-working automations and a dozen different AI tools. They need someone who can build a cohesive operating system—designing local agents that have specific permissions and the memory to handle a sales [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) or a [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) project without constant human supervision.

- **How to start this weekend:** Build a personal daily briefing agent. Give it your calendar, a folder of notes, and three news sources. Set one rule: *it must show its sources and ask for approval before it sends anything.* This teaches you the core pillars of context, retrieval, and evaluation.

### 2. The Builder-Distributor

For decades, the tech industry operated on a clean split: one person wrote the code (the isolated technical builder), and a different person figured out how to sell it (the [charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) distributor). AI is compressing those two roles into one.

A single person can now use models to prototype the product, write the launch copy, and record the demo. There is no longer a handoff. You build a small version of a product, put it in front of users immediately, and use their [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) to drive the next round of marketing. This is why the concept of a **one-person, billion-dollar startup** is being discussed seriously for the first time.

### 3. The Distribution Marketer

Since AI has made shipping a landing page or an app easier than ever, the bottleneck in the economy has shifted. Creating the product is no longer the hurdle; getting anyone to notice it is.

- **The strategy:** Map out exactly where an audience’s attention lives (a specific [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) group, a Reddit thread, etc.). Find the exact, painful language they use to describe their problems, and address it *before* you ever build the product.

### 4. The Curator

The internet is flooded with polished, AI-generated noise. Algorithms are reacting by prioritizing raw human synthesis. People want a curator who can watch the timeline, find a new model demo or a news item, and explain exactly why it matters to a specific niche. Authentic human taste and the ability to build trust are the only effective filters left.

### 5. The Robotics Engineer

While the last decade rewarded moving pixels, the next rewards moving atoms. The robotics engineer combines open-source AI models with cheap hardware and manufacturing.

- **How to learn this:** Buy a low-cost robotic arm and teach it a single task, like sorting objects. You will immediately hit the friction of the real world—the lighting changes, the gripper slips, or the object moves two inches and the model fails. Solving those physical errors is where the expertise is built.

### 6. The IRL (In Real Life) Community Builder

As work becomes more isolated and digital, the value of a physical, in-person room increases. Physical gatherings hold massive economic weight. People still want to be in the same room as ambitious peers to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), find deals, and get the honest version of what’s happening in their industry.

- **How to start:** Host a dinner for six people around one sharp question. After the event, send a recap with the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) and [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/). That recap turns a single room into an ongoing, high-trust network.

## Conclusion: Become the Orchestrator

Moving beyond the screen—whether through machinery or human networks—creates a moat that software alone cannot cross.

You don’t need to master all six of these skills. **Pick one to get dangerous, and combine two or three to create undeniable leverage in the market.** The advantage goes to the generalist orchestrator, the person who knows how these pieces fit together to solve a problem.

The path forward requires graduating from the role of the worker who performs a task, to the architect who directs the system.

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### [Finding a Job as an Executive or Leader #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/)

**Published:** July 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you're looking for a senior-level position, this is how you'll get it . .  .and likely won't.

**Content:**

# Finding a Job as an Executive or Leader #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/P5hkzZCsx2M)

**If you’re looking for a senior-level position, this is how you’ll get it . . . *and likely won’t.***

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [It’s Not Just What You Say on Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/its-not-just-what-you-say-on-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** July 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Companies don't only want "the right answers" to interview questions.

**Content:**

# It’s Not Just What You Say on Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Companies don’t only want “the right answers” to [interview questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-how-lucky-are-you-and-why/).

***[You may also like, “I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted”](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [A Well-Respected Man/Woman--Branding Yourself to Stand Out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-well-respected-man-woman-branding-yourself-to-stand-out-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** An article in Brainz magazine reminded me of an old song that carries relevance for many of you.

**Content:**

# A Well-Respected Man/Woman–Branding Yourself to Stand Out

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

An article in Brainz magazine reminded me of an old song that carries relevance for many of you.

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I was reading an article in Brainz Magazine, that’s BRAINZ Magazine, where a coach was talking about her own struggles with [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and starting her business as a coach,. She employed a coach to support her. And the coach said, I’m just gonna read the exact line, “no one is going to find out about you if you’re hiding out.” And it reminded me of an old song by a band called The Kinks, you can look it up. It’s called Well-Respected Man. And it talked about a man who was regular, he goes to work at nine comes home at 5:30. Takes the same train every time. He’s ordinary. And he’s got aspirations and perversions. And he’s ordinary. And frankly, he’s dull and boring.

And the point I want to make to you is most of you, I don’t want to say you’re dull and boring but your ordinar. You’re ordinary professionally. There’s very little that causes you to stand out from others. And we live in a culture where the ability to stand out is important, professionally and personally.

I’m not suggesting you become a Kardashian. We’re not going to talk about that kind of [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/). But how do you become known and respected for what you do, and for who you are. And if you think he could do it by going to work at 9 and coming home at 5:30 and sitting in front of a TV set, I think you’re mistaken.

So the goal for you professionally, and probably for you personally, is to become involved, to do things that allow others to know about you. Because otherwise is to have this lethargic life, this lethargic [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), this being a well respected man, doing the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) thing is so conservatively (and it isn’t about your politics being conservative(. It’s about you and the life that you live, and whether you’re willing to get out of your way, and get in front of people.

Now some people are going to say, “Ahhh, What is she doing? What is he doing,” because that’s their life, and they want to keep you in the same box they’ve always known you to be in.

And I’m not saying it’s easy, but done over time, taking small steps to get people to know you makes a difference. So, for example, you can find podcasters, who do shows related to what you want to be known for and you can get interviewed. You can write and publish it on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/), and share what you write with others. You can do video for YouTube, Facebook, wherever and get known for your expertise. And then people start looking and they start finding you.

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### [Crack the Hidden Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack-the-hidden-job-market/)

**Published:** July 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact four-step framework you need to systematically build connections and leverage AI to land opportunities before they ever go public.

**Content:**

# Crack the Hidden Job Market

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most people think finding a job is a game of luck or secret handshakes, leaving them frustrated and stuck on the outside looking in. The reality is that [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) operates on a predictable system of math and human relationships, not magic. This episode breaks down the exact four-step framework you need to systematically build connections and leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to land opportunities before they ever go public.

You know that feeling, right? You hear about [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) and it just sounds frustrating. Like all these amazing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are getting snapped up before you even see them. It feels like you’re stuck on the outside. Well, today we’re going to pull back that curtain and show you how it really works.

So, what is this thing, really? A secret club? Some kind of exclusive database? It’s this big mystery that can make your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) feel like you’re trying to solve a puzzle with half the pieces missing.

Okay, so the first thing you need to get right out of the gate is this: it isn’t magic. Seriously. It’s not about luck, and it’s not about knowing some secret handshake. It’s not magic, it’s math. And look, the good news here is you don’t need to be some kind of math genius to figure this out. [The hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/), it actually runs on a really simple, predictable system. The thing is, most people just don’t know how the numbers work. So, you know what? Let’s do the math together.

All right, so when we say it’s math, I’m not talking about calculus or anything complicated. We’re talking about a very predictable reality. Human relationships will always beat just blindly submitting [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-hate-applications-2/) online. It’s a system, and like any system, you can learn how to work it.

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And this simple idea, it completely reframes your whole [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You’re shifting from this feeling of powerlessness—you know, thinking it’s all just luck—to a place of empowerment. The reality is, [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) follows a really clear formula. It’s all about relationships plus deliberate, consistent action. That’s it.

So, here’s the bottom line, the fundamental truth you’ve got to internalize: most [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled because someone knew someone. It’s that simple. A [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), a quick recommendation, a chat over coffee—that’s not a mystery, you know? That’s just human connection.

Okay, so if it’s math, how do you do the math? What are the steps? Well, it all boils down to a super clear four-step framework. This is the practical, hands-on process you can start using right now to build those relationships that open doors.

All right, let’s break this down. Step one: cultivate relationships. This means you’re intentionally building connections, not just hoarding contacts on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-just-follow-a-firm-on-linkedin/). Step two: give value first. This is huge. Always [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) help, share an interesting article, make an introduction before you even think about asking for something. Third: [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/) consistently. A single chat isn’t a relationship. It’s those consistent, light touches that build real trust. And finally, number four: stay visible. Share what you’re working on, leave thoughtful comments, gently remind people that you’re out there. These four steps, that’s the whole foundation of the system.

Now, I know what you might be thinking. Keeping track of all of this—cultivating, giving value, following up with dozens of people—it sounds overwhelming. And you’re right, it can be. But this is where a really cool modern tool comes into play. Let’s talk about your new secret weapon for managing this whole system: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

Okay, but wait. Before you tune out, think of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) not as something that replaces you, but as your own personal [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-the-three-second-rule-of-networking/) analyst. Right? It’s like having an assistant who does all the tedious, boring stuff, freeing you up to focus on what actually matters—the human parts.

The key here is how you use it. For example, an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can be like your personal CRM, categorizing your contacts, remembering the last thing you talked about. It can help you plan your outreach so nobody falls through the cracks. It can even help you draft a [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) message that sounds professional but still like you. Basically, it handles all the logistics so you can focus on the relationship itself.

And that brings us to the most important point of all of this. We’ve talked about math, we’ve talked about the four steps, we’ve even talked about [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). But you have to remember, none of that is the actual point. They’re just tools.

The whole purpose of this system, of using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), of thinking about it like math—it’s all designed to do one thing: free up your time and your mental energy. It gets rid of all that organizational clutter so that you can put your focus where it really counts, on the one thing that truly opens doors.

And what is that one thing? It’s real, genuine human connection. It’s building actual relationships. That’s the endgame. All these tools and systems, they’re supposed to help you be more human, more connected, not less. And that is how you finally crack [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/).

So, I’ll leave you with a question. Moving forward, are you going to keep counting on magic, just hoping for the best? Or are you ready to roll up your sleeves and actually do the math? The choice is totally yours.

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### [Pass the "So What" Test](https://thebiggamehunter.us/pass-the-so-what-test/)

**Published:** July 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3146  Learn the "So What" test to strip away the fluff, prove your value with tangible data, and finally get the interview call.

**Content:**

# Pass the “So What” Test

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3146 Most [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are ignored because they read like boring job descriptions instead of high-impact marketing documents. Learn the “So What” test to strip away the fluff, prove your value with tangible data, and finally get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) call.

Okay, today we’re going to talk about a super simple but incredibly powerful test that can take your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) from just another document in the pile to, wow, we need to call this person right now. So let me ask you something. Does this sound familiar? You’ve sent out what feels like a hundred [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and you’re hearing absolutely nothing back.

It’s so frustrating, isn’t it? You know you’ve got the skills, you know you can do the job, but for some reason you just can’t seem to get noticed. So what is going on? Well, more often than not, this is the culprit right here. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads less like a highlight reel and more like a, well, a boring job description.

It’s just a long list of all the things you did. But here’s the thing. Companies don’t really [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for the tasks you’ve done.

They [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for the results you can get them. To get us thinking the right way, we’re going to borrow a brilliant idea from [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) coach Jeff Allen, who you might know as [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). He came up with this fantastic little quality control test.

You can apply to every single line on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). He calls it the so what test and it is literally that simple. It’s just one little question that’s designed to slice right through all the fluff and get to the heart of what actually matters, the value you bring to an employer.

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And using it couldn’t be easier. You just pull up your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and go through it one bullet point at a time, read the line and then out loud, ask yourself, so what? And if you kind of stumble or if you don’t have a really solid answer, that’s a huge red flag. It means that line needs a rewrite.

See, this whole test is really about forcing a change in your perspective. Asking so what is just a more direct way of asking the only question that a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager is thinking, which is, why should I care about this? If a bullet point on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) doesn’t answer that question, it’s honestly just wasting space. All right, so theory is great, but let’s see how this works in the real world.

We’re going to take a super common [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) line and see what happens when we run it through the so what test. Okay, check this out. The before says, manage the company’s social media accounts.

You read that and ask, so what? Well, I guess you posted some stuff. It’s pretty weak, right? Now look at the after. Increased social media engagement by 35% in one quarter.

Now that answers the so what question, doesn’t it? The so what is a number, a real tangible result that’s actually impressive. And that’s the whole game right there. The after version passes the test with flying colors because it shows your impact.

It proves you didn’t just show up and do the job. You actually made a positive difference. You got results.

And that is what makes a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) pick up the phone. This all comes back to Jeff Allen’s core idea. You have to remember, companies [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people to solve their problems.

So your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) needs to position you not as a task doer, but as a problem solver. It’s all about the solutions you’ve provided in the past. Now, why is this small shift so important? Well, for three big reasons.

First, it instantly highlights your actual value. Second, it proves that you’re a results-oriented person, which is what every company wants. And maybe most importantly, it immediately lifts you out of the pile and separates you from all the other candidates who are still just listing their old job duties.

I want you to start thinking about your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in a completely new way. It is not a historical record of your job duties. It is a marketing document, plain and simple.

And the product it’s selling is you. Its only job is to be so compelling that it gets you in the door for that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). So I’m going to leave you with a challenge.

Go open up your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) right now and start [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) the So What Test to every single line. I promise you, there are amazing, valuable solutions hiding in there, just buried under a bunch of boring tasks, waiting for you to uncover them.

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### [Another Resume Mistake Job Hunters Make #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/another-resume-mistake-job-hunters-make-shorts/)

**Published:** July 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People make so many mistakes in their job search. This is one they make with their resume.

**Content:**

# Another Resume Mistake Job Hunters Make #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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People make so many [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). This is one they make with their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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### [Level Up Your Video Interviews: Mastering Body Language](https://thebiggamehunter.us/level-up-your-video-interviews-mastering-body-language/)

**Published:** July 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Virtual body language encompasses the nonverbal cues and gestures you exhibit during online interactions

**Content:**

# Level Up Your Video Interviews: Mastering Body Language

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In today’s increasingly digital world, the video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) has become a standard step in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process. While your qualifications and experience are crucial, mastering the nuances of **video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) body language** can significantly impact your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Just as in face-to-face interactions, your nonverbal cues convey volumes about your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), engagement, and professionalism. By being mindful of how you present yourself virtually, you can make a lasting positive impression and stand out in a competitive job market.

**Virtual body language** encompasses the nonverbal cues and gestures you exhibit during online interactions, including video calls and virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). This includes aspects like **[eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/)**, **facial expressions**, **body posture**, and **hand gestures**. Each of these plays a vital role in communication and building rapport in digital environments.

Why is being aware of your body language so important during a virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Several factors come into play:

- **[First Impressions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/):** Your virtual body language significantly shapes the initial impression you make. [Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and enthusiasm can shine through, while nervousness or disinterest can also be inadvertently communicated.
- **Nonverbal Communication is Key:** In virtual settings, nonverbal cues can become the primary means of communication, especially if technical issues affect verbal clarity.
- **Professionalism:** Demonstrating good virtual body language showcases your respect for the opportunity and indicates that you are invested in making a positive impact.
- **Engagement and Interest:** Positive body language signals your active participation and genuine interest in the conversation and the role.
- **Building Rapport:** Effective body language helps establish a connection and build trust with the interviewer, which is crucial for a successful [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).
- **Communication Effectiveness:** Clear and confident nonverbal cues ensure your messages are received as intended, minimizing the risk of misinterpretation.
- **Competitive [Advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/):** In a tight job market, paying attention to your body language can give you an edge, demonstrating your ability to communicate effectively in a virtual environment.

To help you navigate the virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) landscape with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), here are some essential tips to master your video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) body language:

- **Make Consistent [Eye Contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) with the Camera:** When speaking, **look directly into the camera lens**. This simulates natural [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) and creates a more personal connection with the interviewer, similar to an in-person conversation. While it might feel unnatural at first, resist the urge to constantly look at your own image or the interviewer’s video feed on the screen. Occasional, natural breaks in [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) are acceptable, such as when considering a question.
- **Maintain Upright and Engaged Posture:** **Sit up straight with your shoulders back**. This conveys [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), professionalism, and attentiveness. Avoid slouching or leaning too far back, as this can give an impression of disinterest or a lack of engagement. Good posture also helps you stay mentally alert and focused.
- **Smile Naturally and Authentically:** A **genuine smile** can convey warmth, friendliness, and enthusiasm. Smile appropriately throughout the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to create a positive atmosphere and leave a memorable impression. Think of something positive before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to help your smile appear more natural.
- **Use Open and Relaxed Hand Gestures Within the Frame:** Employ **natural hand gestures** to emphasize points and express yourself. Keep your gestures open and relaxed to convey [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and authenticity. Be mindful of keeping your gestures within the camera’s view. Avoid crossing your arms, as this can signal defensiveness or being closed-minded.
- **Nod and Use Appropriate Facial Expressions to Show Active Listening:** Demonstrate your engagement by **nodding occasionally** and using facial expressions that reflect interest, understanding, or agreement. This nonverbal [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) assures the interviewer that you are actively listening and processing the conversation.
- **Position Yourself Naturally in Front of the Camera:** Maintain a **comfortable distance from the camera** so that your face and upper body are clearly visible. Being too close can feel intrusive, while being too far away can make it difficult for the interviewer to see your expressions and body language. Aim to be centered in the frame with a little space above your head.
- **Minimize Distractions and Be Mindful of Your Gaze:** Avoid looking around the room or at other screens excessively. If you have notes, position them strategically so you don’t break [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) with the camera for extended periods. A cluttered background can also be distracting, so consider using a virtual background or ensuring a tidy space.
- **Dress Professionally from Head to Toe:** While the interviewer will primarily see your upper body, dressing professionally from head to toe can boost your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and mindset. Choose solid colors and avoid distracting patterns that might not translate well on video.

Remember that **practice is key**. Conduct mock video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with friends or family to get comfortable with the technology and receive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) on your body language. Recording yourself can also be a valuable tool for self-assessment.

While these tips [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a general guide, it’s also important to be **authentic**. Avoid appearing overly rehearsed or robotic. Aim to integrate these positive body language cues naturally into your communication style.

By mastering your video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) body language, you can enhance your virtual [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), build stronger connections with interviewers, and significantly increase your chances of landing your desired job opportunity. So, take these tips to heart, practice your virtual demeanor, and shine in your next video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)!

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### [#NEWLinkedInFeature(s) Captured [in] the Wild 2025.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/newlinkedinfeatures-captured-in-the-wild-2025-3/)

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# \#NEWLinkedInFeature(s) Captured \[in\] the Wild 2025.

***By Kevin Turner***

September 9, 2025

Welcome to the 6th Annual edition of the **NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Features Captured \[in\] the Wild** for **2025 PART II.**

**Thank You to all the Eagle-Eyed and Sharing-Hearts who help make this the ultimate list of NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Features and changes, without you, this resource could not be possible.**

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Thank You to all the Eagle-Eyed & Sharing Hearts

**CAPTURED \[IN\] THE WILD KEY:**

**✰** = **27 NEW,**

▲ = **87 Updates,**

**💀** = **7 RIP Removed** (Rest \[in\] Peace),

⛔ = **1 Deprecated** (available but not recommended or supported)

🧨 **= 6 Glitch(es)** (temporary issues big enough to mention)

**As of 09.09.2025 Captured \[in\] the Wild = Captured \[in\] the Wild = 128+**

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**BACKGROUND RESOURCES:**

**Prior Editions of #NEWLinkedInFeature(s) Captured in the Wild:**

🔘 [**114+ NEW LinkedIn Features & Updates for 2025 (PART I)**](https://lnkd.in/gxHe2jCv)

🔘 [**251+ NEW LinkedIn Features & Updates for 2024**](https://lnkd.in/gxHe2jCv) (PART III & Links to I & II)

🔘 [**200+ NEW LinkedIn Features & Updates for 2023**](https://lnkd.in/gXiA4aCF) (PART III & Links to I & II)

🔘 [**100+ NEW LinkedIn Features 2022**](https://lnkd.in/eYhzjFjE)

🔘 [**40+ NEW LinkedIn Features 2021**](https://lnkd.in/dsW-Zan)

🔘 [**50+ NEW LinkedIn Features 2020**](https://lnkd.in/gP5xGb6)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Rollouts (5 🌊 ⤨ ⏳ ↑)**

NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Feature Rollouts usually follow a standard 5 🌊 Waves: ⤨ Randomized, ⏳Timed, & ↑ Increasing in Size, so that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) can evaluate, adjust, sometimes eliminate, and ultimately to reduce any negative impact, unpredicted loads or code collisions that might blow up the platform.

Historically, a clean rollout takes ~30 to 90 Days to complete but over the last few of years we have had rollouts that have taken over a year to complete, some never complete, and the feature is removed.

**Product [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/):**

If you would like to be part of making [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) a better platform, miss an old feature, would like to suggest new feature or see improvements to an existing one, then fill out the [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) methods that make things happen on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

🔘 \[NEW\] LinkedIn’s little known [**‘Suggest an improvement’**](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/pcreate) directly to the Product Team: (Captured in the Wild 9.1.2024)

🔘 Microsoft’s hidden online [**LinkedIn Product Group Feedback**](https://lnkd.in/gNzpwuR9)

🔘 Job Seeker [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) email [**jobseeker-feedback@linkedin.com**](mailto:jobseeker-feedback@linkedin.com)

🔘 Mobile In App \[Shake for [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)\] (Limited Beta)

**Other Helpful and Constantly Updated \[in\] Resources:**

🔘 [**90+ Videos on on Youtube about \[in\]**](https://lnkd.in/g6xV4CEN)

🔘 [**The LinkedIn Timeline**](https://lnkd.in/e2_PdMSw)

🔘 [**30+ HIDDEN LINKEDIN RESOURCES**](https://lnkd.in/dyKk6_j)

**COMING SOON:**

► **✰ \[Executive job title Verification\]** will require that high-level titles such as Executive Director, Managing Director, and Vice President are workplace verified. This move is designed to guard against executive impersonation, and to ensure that those in senior roles can reflect their company authentically to build and maintain trust and credibility. 09.04.2025

► **✰** \[Free [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Learning Al courses for job seekers\] With 70% of Al-related skills expected to shift by 2030, Microsoft will also launch almost 100 Al courses in 15 new [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Learning paths and host a nationwide Al Learning Challenge to help job seekers build in-demand skills and address the critical skills gap facing today’s workforce. Starting September 29, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Learning will host an Al Learning Challenge offering 5 days of intensive, free Al education featuring [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) instructors and a list of top Al voices to follow to continue learning every day. 09.08.2025

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### Let’s Dive \[In\]:

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▲ \[Notification\] added that shows content that might be of interest from a ‘potential lead’ sponsored by Sales Navigator to promote their free trial.

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Captured \[in\] the Wild by [Gillian Whitney](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianwhitney/)

09.08.2025

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**✰** \[Are you looking for a new Job\] added to the top of the [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) tab with the defaulted (Actively looking) and alternative (Casually looking) buttons.

► When either button is clicked the same selection menu from \[Open to Work\] pop opens.

► You can make changes or retain any previous options to your filters and then click (Next)

► Next pop-up will give you the toggle option to **let [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), who use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know**

► Next pop-up shows you [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Alert filters created and allows you the option to toggle them off

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09.07.2025

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**✰** \[Phone support\] offered to Premium Members as part of the live chat with HELP process.

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Captured \[in\] the Wild by [John Espirian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnespirian/)

09.04.2025

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▲ \[Company Page Verification\] is no longer available to freely apply for and if you were still on the wait list to be reviewed, on September 1st, your request was dropped. Going forward, the only way to get your Company Page verified is to pay for Premium Company page.

![Verified Company Page, Verified Employee](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5612AQFGYXJVOtSB4w/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/B56Zkt9ZypIAAU-/0/1757412696601?e=1760572800&v=beta&t=GBlBeBoztUH4dQLHsD56e11_992W9YqHoxMHjq9R6Ag)

09.04.2025

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▲ \[[Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Verification\] requires members who add or update recruiter-related titles, such as ‘Recruiter’ or ‘Talent Acquisition Specialist’, to verify their workplace on their profile. When they do verify, their profile and activity will include a (Verified [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) badge. This is in addition to the (Verified [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) already available to those with a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) license.

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09.04.2025

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▲ \[CapCut integration\] allows you to share your video to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in just two taps: no more exporting hassle or extra steps to go through. And just like when you post a video directly on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), content you share from CapCut that’s related to our video trends will automatically become eligible to surface in those trends.

![Article content](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5612AQEhM8TSd-sEow/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/B56ZkuU9YcIAAY-/0/1757418874334?e=1760572800&v=beta&t=o9pe919o05FULKD0b8bLMUlzv8D6iAA6oroyRLlEsdg)

Through this process your video posted on \[in\] will also note (Made with CapCut).

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09.03.2025

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**✰** \[✦ AI-powered [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Assistant\] added to [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to reduce search, set-up, posting and screening an communication time and serve the candidate fasters too.

![Article content](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5612AQE9Wb5aXKXjPg/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/B56ZkuMXpRI8AU-/0/1757416677696?e=1760572800&v=beta&t=lN7FO0RBj0gxApUSuhQHq7qSlLOFguyV4_QF2DgswYg)

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09.03.2025

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▲ \[Invitation Manager\] adds 2 new sorting tabs (Mutual connections) & (Your school) plus a settings icon ⚙️ that when tapped presents a slide up menu for Invitations settings of (Choose who can connect with you) and (Choose what invitations to receive events, newsletters, pages and more).

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Captured \[in\] the Wild by [Lindsey Gamble](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-gamble/)

09.02.2025

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**✰** \[✦AI-powered Sales Assistant\] added to Sales Navigator

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08.31.2025

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**✰** \[Content topic prompt\] helps suggest topics that our network would be interested in hearing from us on. Clicking on it opens up the \[Start a post\] feature but the topic isn’t in the Share your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) box, so a quick copy and past and recommended.

![Article content](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5612AQFUO-n3Syq6HA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/B56ZkuHOJ0HUAQ-/0/1757415269822?e=1760572800&v=beta&t=fO4knDTHE-GcekaoHRU9wJzEX8a4GhZs_R0shivUZRQ)

Captured \[in\] the Wild by [Jayant Ghosh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantghosh/)

08.29.2025

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**✰** \[Your Daily Rundown\] added to top of Mobile Feed to keep ypu appraised of the latest news topics that might interest you.

![Article content](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5612AQH98QcJzR3jUg/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/B56ZkuKOdOKEAU-/0/1757416070369?e=1760572800&v=beta&t=2ExXkCgWuVTgQ56Lx5n0qnQIflZP1o2fAysSxFUj5tw)

Captured \[in\] the Wild by [Elliot Grossbard🎗](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotgrossbard/)

08.27.2025

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▲ \[Newsletters\] drops the 150 connections requirement to launch to zero connections.

08.13.2025

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Since 2005, TNT [Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Strategist, LLC has optimized 7K+ Profiles and Company pages with access to internal tools to increase rankings, drive [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) contact, generate 24/7 exposure, and accelerate transitions to dream [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). Most clients get recruited for their dream opportunities shortly after and directly related to their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile Optimization.

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### [Your Next Job Isn't in Your Inner Circle. It's in the Margins.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-next-job-isnt-in-your-inner-circle-its-in-the-margins/)

**Published:** July 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I tell every client who comes to me stuck: you're fishing in the wrong pond.

**Content:**

# Your Next Job Isn’t in Your Inner Circle. It’s in the Margins.

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I’ve been helping people find new [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) for a long time. Recruited for firms you’ve heard of. Coached thousands of people through transitions you wouldn’t believe. I’ll tell you the same thing I tell every client who comes to me stuck: **you’re fishing in the wrong pond.**

## The Research That Blew the Doors Off

Mark Granovetter, a young sociologist, surveyed 282 professionals ni 1973. Simple question: “How’d you find your current job?”

He expects the answer to be family, [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friends, tight colleagues. Strong ties.

**Wrong.**

More than half found their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) through *[weak ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/)*. Acquaintances. People they barely knew. Former coworkers they hadn’t spoken to in years.

Granovetter publishes “The Strength of [Weak Ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/).” It became one of the most cited papers in social science history.

**Here’s why it matters to you:** your strong ties–your work wife, your college roommate, your three [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) references–they live in *your* world. They know what you know. They talk to whom you talk to.

[Weak ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/)? They live in *other* worlds. Different companies. Different industries. Different conversations entirely.

That’s where the hidden market lives. Not in your comfort zone, but in the margins.

## Let’s Be Clear About “Weak”

Before you go spam-connecting with 500 strangers on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), stop.

**Weak doesn’t mean random.**
**Weak doesn’t mean cold.**
**Weak doesn’t mean “hey, are you [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)?”**

The [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) has caught up. MIT, Harvard, Stanford, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) ran a massive experiment. Millions of users.

The sweet spot? **Moderately [weak ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/).** People with about 10 mutual connections.

That VP you supported on a project four years ago.
The peer from your first job who’s now a Director somewhere interesting.
The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who placed you once—you ghosted each other, it happens.
The speaker you chatted with at a conference in 2019.

These people have **enough trust to hit reply** and **enough distance to bring you new intel.**

That’s your target. Not strangers. Not your besties. The *in-between*.

## Your Assignment This Week (Yes, Assignment)

Open [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Filter connections by most recent conversation. Scroll past the first 50, the ones you actually talk to.

**Who’s sitting there gathering digital dust?**

Make a list. **Twenty names.** Not two hundred. Twenty.

Now send this exact message**. Word for word if you want:**

> “Hey \[Name\] — saw you’re at \[Company/Role\]. Been following your work from afar. I’m exploring \[specific direction\] and your perspective would mean a lot. Coffee/chat sometime? No agenda. Just catching up.”

**No ask. No [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). No “know anyone [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)?”**

Just human connection. The ask comes later. *If* it comes at all.

## The Part Where You Feel Uncomfortable

You’re going to feel weird.
You’re going to think “I’m using people.”
Half won’t reply.

**Send them anyway.**

I’ve coached [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), C-suite, people restarting at 55. The ones who land? They do the uncomfortable thing. The ones who stay stuck? They wait for their strong ties to magically produce opportunities those strong ties *don’t have access to.*

Hope is not a strategy. I don’t care how many affirmations you post.

## Strong Ties Aren’t the Enemy

Your close circle? They’re your emotional infrastructure. Your references. Your “you got this” texts at 11 PM.

But for **new information** likethe unposted roles, the “we’re creating this for the right person” conversations, the intel on which [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager actually reads [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), you need bridges.

[Weak ties](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strength-of-weak-ties-in-your-job-search/) are those bridges.

## The Bottom Line

Your next role isn’t hiding in your comfort zone. It’s waiting in the margins. In the connections you’ve neglected. In the conversations you’ve been avoiding because they feel awkward.

**Twenty names. Five a day. No agenda.**

Track it. [Follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/). Watch what happens.

That’s not [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). That’s hunting.

And you didn’t come this far to graze.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [The 10 Best High-Leverage Outreach Templates for LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10-best-high-leverage-outreach-templates-for-linkedin/)

**Published:** July 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most professional networking on LinkedIn is dead on arrival

**Content:**

# The 10 Best High-Leverage Outreach Templates for LinkedIn

# **[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is dead on arrival because it relies on social begging. Job seekers land in a person’s inbox asking for “fifteen minutes to pick your brain,” “a virtual coffee,” or “insight into open opportunities.”

At any level of business, these requests are a cognitive tax. They ask a busy professional to perform uncompensated labor for a stranger. The recipient’s default response is to clear the notification and move on.

To build real pipeline leverage, you must flip the dynamic entirely. Your outreach must be clinical, direct, and inherently valuable to the person receiving it. You establish professional parity by diagnosing a common workplace problem or offering an execution tool before you ever ask for a conversation.

Here are the 10 [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), zero-fluff outreach templates—categorized by scenario—designed to bypass the noise, capture attention, and force a positive response.

### Tier 1: The Direct Project Loop (Targeting Peers and Managers)

*Use these templates when reaching out to functional team leads, managers, or peers at organizations where you want to build a bridge.*

#### 1. The Operational Friction Hook

> **Subject:** Workflow drag / \[Target Company Name\] tracking
> 
> \[First Name\] — I’ve been tracking your team’s recent expansion into automated customer onboarding. Having navigated a parallel implementation at my last company, I noticed that user drop-off usually spikes by about 12% during stage two if the third-party API verification isn’t optimized early. I put together a brief, 1-page checklist on how we insulated our onboarding metrics against that specific drag. No strings attached—let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.

#### 2. The Competitor Shift Diagnostic

> **Subject:** \[Competitor Name\] feature rollout / Process risk
> 
> \[First Name\] — Following \[Competitor Name\]’s recent push into self-service merchant portals, I ran a quick assessment of how that changes user expectations in your sector. Having built out parallel portal logic at my previous firm, I mapped the two core technical hurdles most legacy workflows experience during this transition. [Happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to drop the diagnostic checklist over to you if your team wants to stress-test your current footprint.

#### 3. The Unbundled Playbook Share

> **Subject:** Scaled content production template
> 
> \[First Name\] — I noticed your department is aggressively scaling up its content marketing output this month. When a creative team doubles its volume in a short window, production velocity typically hits a bottleneck around the approval phase due to shifting style guidelines. I open-sourced a 3-step organization playbook we used to maintain speed through our last project. Let me know if you want the Notion link for your team leads—completely open-source, no pitch.

### Tier 2: The Small Business & Growth Matrix (Targeting Founders & Owners)

*Use these templates to reach entrepreneurs, agency owners, or startup founders who need agile operators to help scale their operations.*

#### 4. The Growth Friction De-Risk

> **Subject:** \[Company Name\] / Customer retention insulation
> 
> \[First Name\] — I’ve been following your company’s recent launch of the new product line. Having steered a parallel e-commerce transition previously, I’ve consistently found that post-purchase customer service tickets leak significant revenue during month two if automated tracking [alerts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-alerts-3/) aren’t set up early. I put together a brief, 2-page operational checklist on how we insulated our retention numbers against that specific drag. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your customer [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) team.

#### 5. The Execution Bench Offer

> **Subject:** Growth operations framework / Mid-market retail
> 
> \[First Name\] — Given your company’s focus on scaling digital sales channels, I wanted to share a repeatable 30-day onboarding framework I built to stabilize internal project timelines during rapid [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) spikes. Having executed three of these rollouts as an operations lead, I’ve mapped the exact workflow steps where project deadlines tend to slip first. If you are scaling up your freelance or contract bench for upcoming projects, I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to share the diagnostic template.

### Tier 3: The Second-Degree Bridge (The Forwardable Protocol)

*Use this two-part mechanism when a mutual contact holds the key to an introduction. You give your contact an asset they can copy and paste with zero friction.*

#### 6. The Forwardable Peer Note (Sent to your 1st-degree connection)

> **Subject:** Introduction to \[Target Name\] at \[Target Company\]
> 
> \[First-Degree Name\] — I noticed you’re connected with \[Target Name\] over at \[Target Company\]. I’ve been tracking their current localization push, and since I recently ran that exact project playbook at my last firm, I put together a brief operational framework on how we mitigated production drag during the transition. I’d love to drop the notes over to them, entirely no strings attached. Would you be open to forwarding the brief note below to them? I’ve drafted it cleanly to save you the typing.

#### 7. The Appended Target Note (The text your contact forwards)

> \[Target Name\] — I saw we have a mutual contact in \[First-Degree Name\]. I’ve been following your team’s expansion into automated tool integration this quarter. Having navigated that transition previously, I’ve noticed that system synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in workflow velocity during month three if the data pipelines aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief framework on how we insulated our metrics against that specific drag. No strings attached—let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.

### Tier 4: The Internal Referral Arbitrage

*Use these when you want to turn a peer at a target company into a human router who will upload your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) directly into their priority portal.*

#### 8. The Requisition ID System Bypass

> **Subject:** Requisition #\[Number\] / Internal routing protocol
> 
> \[First Name\] — I’m preparing to submit an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) for the \[Exact Job Title\] role under Requisition #\[Number\]. I know how corporate routing pipelines operate, and I want to ensure my file bypasses the standard public keyword filters to hit the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team cleanly. If your firm runs an internal referral portal, would you be open to dropping my file into the system directly? I’ve aligned my background explicitly with the core project needs of the department to ensure it reflects well on whoever routes it.
> 
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### Tier 5: The Post-Event / Content Loop

*Use these to capitalize on industry data points, live presentations, or high-value insights shared by professionals.*

#### 9. The Presentation Autopsy

> **Subject:** Your panel notes on digital workflow drag
> 
> \[First Name\] — Caught your presentation at the \[Event Name\] summit regarding legacy asset migration risks. Your point about asset tracking latency echoing into project delays was spot on. We ran into that exact bottleneck during our 2025 scaling phase. I mapped out the simple process patch we deployed to resolve the delay without changing the core platform. If your team is currently tackling that specific bottleneck, I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to send over the template.

#### 10. The Structural Content Pivot

> **Subject:** Your recent article / Project tracking logic
> 
> \[First Name\] — Your recent analysis on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) regarding project tracking tools hit right on an active friction point in my niche. Most teams underestimate the team resistance from shifting software. Having led three cross-functional tool transitions, I built a lightweight governance framework that aligns team incentives with the software implementation timeline. [Happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to pass the asset tracking sheet over to your team if you are currently running into tracking resistance.

### The Bottom Line

Every single one of these templates operates on a strict rule: **Zero requests for charity, maximum delivery of structural leverage.**

You do not need to explain your [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) status, you do not need to pitch your entire biographical history, and you do not need to act like you are begging for a break. Deliver localized, high-fidelity insights straight to the decision-maker’s inbox, remove the friction of the interaction, and let your competence pull the right opportunities straight to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Career Growth in the Era of Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)

**Published:** July 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are relying on basic execution to protect your career, you are tracking straight toward obsolescence.

**Content:**

# Career Growth in the Era of Agentic AI

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) instantly dominates any task with a clear, standard answer, meaning traditional technical skills are rapidly losing value. To survive the next decade, your paycheck depends entirely on your ability to manage chaos, ask profitable questions, and master the final 10% of polish that machines miss. If you are relying on basic execution to protect [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you are tracking straight toward obsolescence.

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) models excel at anything with a clear loss function. If a task has a known answer, software can execute it instantly. This means traditional education, where you are graded against a static rubric, trains you for work that is rapidly depreciating. Building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) solely on solving standardized problems guarantees obsolescence.

Over the next decade, your market value depends entirely on what falls outside model [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) windows: identifying ambitious problems, mastering the finally layer of polish, and cultivating irreplaceable human networks.

Look at software engineering. Traditional system design and LeetCode-style [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) no longer correlate with job performance, because [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents can instantly generate perfect code for standard prompts. The new benchmark for top talent is how quickly someone can drop into a chaotic, undefined environment, understand the context, and identify which problems actually need solving.

Once those problems are selected, the next step is allocating computational tokens and time to solve. Managing an AI’s execution is the modern equivalent of manual labor. The market no longer rewards the ability to provide the correct answer; it rewards the ability to ask the most lucrative questions.

Because anyone can now generate a baseline product with a sloppy [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) prompt, median execution has essentially zero value. This polarization creates the Last Mile Rule: the final 10% of project effort yields 90% of the actual [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) reward. That crucial final 10% requires relentless human iteration, building clean architecture, and [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) extreme creative attention to detail. Professionals who accept an AI’s first draft will fail. The unique, human-driven finishing touches are what capture all the market’s attention and budget. Zooming out to your broader [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) strategy, remember that capital and code are abundant.

What remains strictly limited is real human relationships and a trusted professional reputation. Early [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) choices must optimize for exposure to high-level networks and communities. Time spent doing excellent work around reputable people compounds far better than maximizing your starting [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Think of your trajectory using the soccer metric xG, or Expected Goals. Evaluate potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) based on the density and quality of opportunities they generate for you. Maximizing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) xG means joining teams tackling the most ambitious version of a problem. Evaluate the raw talent of that team and ignore how clunky their initial product demo might look. You won’t convert every chance into a win, but positioning yourself in high-opportunity environments ensures you are consistently in front of the goal.

To improve your positioning and access [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), video courses, books, and guides from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), visit jobsearch.community.

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### [What Makes A Great Resume?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-a-great-resume/)

**Published:** July 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What Makes A Great Resume?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers concise advice about what goes into a great [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And I’m called [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for it’s about 40 years now. Today, I want to tell you a story about something that happened to me at a barbecue recently. Someone walked over to me and asked me a question that I think is pretty common for people. And the question was, “What should my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) look like? Like what kind of font should I have? What kind of layout should it have? Designed to to get maximum response.”

And I paused for a second and looked at the person. I said, “Instead of worrying about the fonts or the layout, try sending a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that actually fits the job instead of sending the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out for every ad that you see.”

And the person paused for a second, kind of quizzically, and said, “What do you mean?”

And I said, “You know, people tend to send out the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) over and over again, time after time, for the same job as long as it’s the same job that they’re replying to. When in point of fact, every position description is a little bit different. And as such, it’s kind of like the broken watch that’s right twice a day. You know, twice a day it gives you the right time, but the rest of the time it’s wrong. Well, it’s the same thing if you send out a standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).”

Twice a day, infrequently, it’s going to give you responses. But what about all those other times where you think you’re qualified, but the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) doesn’t make a strong enough case? What you need to do is tailor the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Tailor it so it’s obvious to the reader how you fit the job because, otherwise, you’re going to miss out on opportunities that are essential. Opportunities where you really do have the skills and you really do have the experience, but unfortunately, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just doesn’t make a strong enough case.

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### [No BS Coaching Advice Ezine | December 6 2016](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-coaching-advice-ezine-december-6-2016/)

**Published:** January 8, 2017
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

[The December 6 2016 edition of No BS Coaching Advice ](http://conta.cc/2iOO9Um)[Ezine](http://conta.cc/2iOO9Um)

## Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a leadership and career coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for what seems like one hundred years.

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### [The Wise Man and The Complainers #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-wise-man-and-the-complainers-career-angles-shorts/)

**Published:** July 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:**  A less than 60-second story about people who complain about how a wise man suggested they do differently.

**Content:**

# The Wise Man and The Complainers | #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/bUVXOm-X4m8)

A less than 60-second story about people who complain about how a wise man suggested they do differently.

## [***Things That Immediately Ruin a First Impression***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-liA)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ careers easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [The Best Remote Job Boards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remote-job-boards/)

**Published:** July 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Sixteen job boards with remote positions available to help you land a remote role 

**Content:**

# The Best Remote Job Boards

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

1\. [Remotive](https://remotive.com/) 
Vetted remote tech [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in marketing and sales.

2\. [Remote Rocketship](https://www.remoterocketship.com/)

Search work-from-home [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) at top remote companies in the US

3\. [WeWorkRemotely](https://weworkremotely.com/) 
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4\. [TryRemotely](https://tryremotely.com/) 
16,000+ remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) from growing companies.

5\. [JobBoardSearch](https://jobboardsearch.com/) 
Curated job boards in 200+ categories, including remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)

6\. [Remote. co](https://remote.co/) 
Fully remote job board with resources and tips.

7\. [LinkedIn](http://LinkedIn.com) 
Discover remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and connect with [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

8\. [FlexJobs](http://FlexJobs.com)
Access 26,000+ quality remote job listings.

9\. [Working Nomads](http://workingnomads.co) 
Find work-from-home opportunities across industries.

10\. [RemoteOK](http://RemoteOK) 
Simplifies remote job for all seekers.

11\. [Remote100K](https://remote100k.com/)

A premium job board dedicated exclusively to remote positions offering $100,000+ annually.

12\. [NoDesk](https://nodesk.co/)

NoDesk informs about remote work and connects the global workforce.

13\. [HiringCafe](https://hiring.cafe/)

An all-purpose job board with remote listings.

14\. [Arc](http://arc.dev)

Rreelance and full-time remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with an emphasis on technology positions

15\. [Wellfound ](https://wellfound.com/)

[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with startups. Includes remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) free site

16\. [Google](https://google.com)

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### [The Merit Myth of Finding a Job is a Lie #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-merit-myth-of-finding-a-job-is-a-lie-shorts/)

**Published:** July 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode exposes the harsh realities of backroom hiring and shows you what it actually takes to cross the finish line. 

**Content:**

# The Merit Myth of Finding a Job is a Lie \#shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you think a flawless [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) are enough to land a job, you are setting yourself up to get ghosted. The corporate meritocracy is a lie, and perfect candidates are being filtered out by broken [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) before a human ever sees them. This episode exposes the harsh realities of backroom [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and shows you what it actually takes to cross the finish line.

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### [Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-your-resume/)

**Published:** July 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six second video about your resume.

**Content:**

# Your Resume #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/tnYFdacI7lk)

A six-second video about your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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### [Oops! The #1 Costly Mistake People Make When Accepting Job Offers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/)

**Published:** July 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A podcast interview with  Daniel Kahneman helped me think of this topic that I hope helps you head off a disaster in your job search.

**Content:**

# Oops! The #1 Costly Mistake People Make When Accepting Job Offers

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I listened to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) given by Daniel Kahneman where he spoke about noise in our minds. It helped me think of this topic that I hope helps you head off a disaster in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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Hi. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally, because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier. I was listening to a podcast [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Daniel Kahneman, a social scientist and economist who was talking about noise, and the kind of noise that causes us to make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

We like to think of ourselves as being rational people but we really aren’t. What often happens in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is that people get distracted, and they start to forget about why it is they’re looking for a job and what they’re hoping to achieve. Thus, what starts to happen is noise starts to enter in, new inputs start to enter in and that’s not necessarily bad. But what often happens is, these are not particularly important inputs and people get seduced by them, We get to like the person we’ll be working for, we think we’ll get along with them. And we forget the fact that they, like you as a job hunter are on good behavior. You’re not really seeing them as they are. As a result, you’re getting advice from someone who has a vested interest in persuading you to join their firm.

Even if they decide to reject you, they’re still selling you on the opportunity and the potential and what a great environment this is, Have I mentioned, we’re like family around here? Now they all say this kind of stuff and you lose track of what’s important to you in a job or organization.

Many of you don’t even take the time to identify what’s important to you in the next job or organization. What will you need to see or hear to believe it’s a good choice for you. And the result winds up being you’re kind of drifting in the wind, without a clear anchor or a clear focus on what you should be evaluating for.

And thus, I always encourage people to take a little bit of time at the beginning of the search to identify those qualities. Don’t wait until you have an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), although if there’s no alternative, you do it then. Ideally, you’re doing this at the beginning of your search, identifying what it was that didn’t work for you in the last firm, seeing how that could be corrected, prioritizing the different things that you jot down. Don’t just stop at one or two things.

Put 10 or 20 things down, and then list them in order of importance between one and 2o. 1 being the most important; and 20 being the least important. And remember at the time of your [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), go back to this list. Review the position in the context of the list of things that were important to you in the next job or organization and make sure they cover at least the top five or six points on your list. Others can be bonus prizes. That’s fine.

But the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make time and time again, is they don’t take the time to do this little bit of work that will help you when you get the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) so you’re not being influenced by personalities or sales pitches, what have you and take something that you really shouldn’t accept. I hope you found this helpful.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [JobSearch.community](http://JobSearch.community), where I’ve got a bunch of video courses, books, and guides to help you. Plus, you can schedule time for a free discovery call with me at …well actually you can do that at TheBigGameHunter.us and schedule a discovery call with me. But the most important thing is at JobSearch.community, you get access to all my video courses, books and guides and can ask me questions inexpensively. You can get me on two zoom calls a month, a little bit more money. And of course I do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) through the site as well. There are lots of tools there that will help you since you don’t have to spend a lot of money because all of these are things I charge for individually and I’ve aggregated them into an inexpensive package.

Hope you have a terrific day and most importantly be great!

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [No BS Career Advice: July 12 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-12-2026/)

**Published:** July 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: July 12 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![The ultimate power in an interview.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/The-ultimate-power-in-an-interview-1024x1024.png)

My wife is going to be away for a few more weeks and while she’s been gone I’ve gotten together with friends a few times plus went to a local Shakespeare in the park to see The Taming of the Shrew. It was a delight to sit outdoors in lovely weather and watch a number of people ham it up to Shakespeare, something I have not seen in a number of years.

**I also released a new checklist on Amazon, “[The No BS 10-Minute Resume Checklist: Stop Letting AI and 6-Second Recruiter Scans Kill Your Job Search](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7Z529NT)” Includes a $20 off coupon code for a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) review by us. Order the checklist and it’s on the last page.**

## The Shift to Pull Dynamics: How to Force the Market to Chase You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The executive job market is structurally divided into two distinct operational modes: **Push Dynamics** and **[Pull Dynamics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/)**.

Most professionals spend their entire [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) stuck in Push Dynamics. When they need a new role, they update their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as though it were a history book, buy a premium subscription to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or a job board, and start pushing their credentials out into the market. They push their profiles through [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), push their messages into recruiters’ inboxes, and push their networks for introductions. This is an inherently weak, commodity posture. You are presenting yourself as a job hunter begging for permission to enter the building.

If you want to operate at the highest tier of corporate compensation and leverage, you have to transition to [Pull Dynamics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shift-to-pull-dynamics-how-to-force-the-market-to-chase-you/). You do not hunt for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/); you engineer a professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) that makes you structurally desirable, forcing the market to seek you out.

To become a magnet for enterprise talent acquisition teams, venture capital partners, and executive [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), open-source your execution framework. You have to move past standard credentialing and build an undisputed online and offline monopoly around a specific, high-stakes business transformation.

Here is the exact blueprint for shifting the leverage and forcing the market to chase you.

### 1. The Online Protocol: Open-Sourcing Your Frameworks

Most senior operators treat their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile like a digital tombstone–a static record of where they went to school and what titles they held at corporations that no longer matter. When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or a venture [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) partner lands on a profile like that, they see a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) placeholder. They have no visibility into how you actually think, manage, or execute.

To build pull [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) online, aggressively unbundle your expertise.

Stop publishing generic corporate announcements, congratulations notes, or high-level industry platitudes. Instead, treat your digital footprint as a living, clinical ledger of raw execution. Use your platform to publish no BS autopsies of common structural failures within your niche and how you solved them.

- **Document the Friction:** Pick a live, burning operational liability that your target companies are facing right now (e.g., post-merger database synchronization lag, international supply chain margin compression, or mid-tier infrastructure churn). Break down exactly *why* standard management theory fails to solve it.
- **Expose the Engine:** Don’t just say you solved a problem; open-source your literal step-by-step checklist. Publish the exact multi-phase operational layout you deployed to fix the drag. Give away the diagnostic logic, the performance metrics you tracked, and the structural organizational changes you enforced.

When you consistently put out high-quality execution stories with data, you are running a massive counter-signal to the noise of the market. Corporate decision-makers do not see someone looking for a job; they see an authority figure who has already diagnosed their internal deficit. When a headhunter runs a database query for your domain, your content serves as undeniable proof of competence. They don’t pull you into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to vet your skills; they pull you into a boardroom to buy your playbook.

### 2. The Offline Protocol: Constructing the Specialist Ecosystem

While your online footprint handles top-of-funnel discovery, your offline strategy determines your close rate and contract authority. To be hyper-desirable elsewhere, step out of traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) circles which are typically full of other people looking for a life raft and position yourself within the ecosystems where capital is deployed.

The highest-leverage offline positioning happens within the **advisory and investment matrix**.

Find the mid-market private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) operating partners, boutique venture capitalists, and specialized investment bankers who handle transactions within your functional domain. These individuals manage high-value corporate assets and are under constant operational pressure. They don’t read job boards, and they don’t look at typical [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They need a Rolodex of trusted operators who can step into a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company at a moment’s notice to stabilize a crisis or accelerate a transition.

Initiate offline contact not by asking for a job or a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) discussion, but by offering market intelligence.

Reach out to an operating partner with a precise, one-page assessment of a macroeconomic or structural shift affecting one of their current investments. [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) them a clean diagnostic tool or a brief evaluation framework they can hand directly to their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) CEOs to protect their unit economics. When you consistently deliver frictionless value to the people managing capital, you insulate yourself from the traditional applicant pool. You become the go-to specialist they call before a [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) is ever retained.

### The Bottom Line

Desirability is not an accident of your pedigree or the prestigious names on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It is a calculated byproduct of structural positioning.

As long as you keep your execution blueprints hidden behind closed doors and rely on a standardized database [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to validate your worth, you will remain trapped in the commodity push cycle.

Take command of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Turn your cumulative industry scars into a public, repeatable transformation framework. Build your digital monopoly through uncompromised, high-quality data sharing online, and anchor your reputation directly with the operators who deploy capital offline. Give the market undeniable visibility into your leverage, stop playing by the compliance rules of human resource software, and force the world’s highest-paying organizations to come looking for you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

This is a list of blog posts I released last week:

**How Honest Should You Be?**

Excerpt: You’ve had a first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the head of HR, and the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) asks you to call them tomorrow to share exactly what you think. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how much truth you should actually share to protect your professional leverage without killing your candidacy.

Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be/)

**Use This 15-Minute Strategy to Land a Job (Even Before It’s Posted)**

Excerpt: In this direct, no-BS episode, we cut through the fluff and reveal the raw power of strategic informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a high-leverage 15-minute strategy designed to unlock hidden job opportunities and position you with key decision-makers before a role ever reaches a public job board.

Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-this-15-minute-strategy-to-land-a-job-even-before-its-posted/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-this-15-minute-strategy-to-land-a-job-even-before-its-posted/)

**[What Makes You a Standout?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/) #shorts**

Excerpt: Too many job seekers make the fatal [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of letting themselves seem entirely ordinary during a search loop. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid-fire [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) principle to help you define your unique competitive differentiator and stand out in a heavily crowded talent pool.

Link: 

**Make [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Want You: Beyond Basic [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)**

Excerpt: Becoming highly desirable to top-tier [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) is not achieved by mindlessly chasing public job boards or endlessly tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) margins. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to pivot your professional positioning by treating your skills as a targeted solution to active business deficiencies, building a comprehensive proof [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), and speaking the direct language of revenue generation.

Link: 

**[Applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) #shorts**

Excerpt: Submitting a massive volume of generic [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) creates a false sense of productivity while bottlenecking your actual market value. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a sharp reality check on the hidden tactical costs of over-applying and explains how a high-signal, targeted [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) approach yields superior conversion rates.

Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/applications-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthebiggamehunter.us%2Fapplications-shorts%2F)

**About [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** Excerpt: Navigating a modern executive transition with outdated [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) playbooks is a guaranteed path to pipeline stagnation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a comprehensive reality check on current labor market dynamics and outlines the structural adjustments required to command real institutional leverage. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/about-job-search/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/about-job-search/)

**Why You Aren’t Getting [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** Excerpt: You check every requirement box, possess the exact years of experience, and look flawless on paper—yet your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) goes completely ignored. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how automated filtering systems parse talent pools and how to fix your tactical execution to secure live screenings. Link: 

**An Advantage to Having a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Premium Account #shorts** Excerpt: Deciding whether to invest in paid platform tiers requires evaluating your direct [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) return on investment. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) cuts through the marketing noise to isolate one specific, high-leverage [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Premium feature that gives job hunters a clear competitive edge. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/an-advantage-to-having-a-linkedin-premium-account-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/an-advantage-to-having-a-linkedin-premium-account-shorts/)

**Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Questions: Give Me an Example of Your [Lateral Thinking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-give-me-an-example-of-your-lateral-thinking/)** Excerpt: When corporate interviewers test your capacity for [lateral thinking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-give-me-an-example-of-your-lateral-thinking/), they aren’t looking for a standard, linear project log. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a clear script breakdown to demonstrate your complex problem-solving agility, cognitive flexibility, and executive resourcefulness. Link: 

**[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) for Digital Pros and Others** Excerpt: Building an authoritative [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) requires moving past generic [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) uploads and passive [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) circles. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares an aggressive promotional blueprint tailored for digital professionals to control their industry narrative and attract premium, unadvertised enterprise roles. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/branding-and-networking-for-digital-pros-and-others/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/branding-and-networking-for-digital-pros-and-others/)

**Your Highest-Leverage Network** Excerpt: The front door of a traditional [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) functions like a meat grinder, where submitting a standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) online allows automated algorithms to dictate your baseline market value. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how typical [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice misses the mark and delivers a direct framework for uncovering hidden [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) opportunities by shifting focus toward your highest-leverage connections. Link: 

**Second [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) #shorts** Excerpt: Transitioning from an initial screening to a formal second [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) requires a complete shift in tactical execution and behavior. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid, No BS breakdown detailing exactly how your attitude and mindset during a second-round loop determine whether an organization views you as a high-value leader or a compliance liability. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/second-interviews-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/second-interviews-shorts/)

**How to Build Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Network Fast #shorts** Excerpt: Accumulating connections without a clear business objective simply dilutes your online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) cuts through generic outreach advice to share a high-speed, tactical framework that expands [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) footprint, builds immediate professional leverage, and captures executive attention. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/)

**Setting Priorities for Your Future** Excerpt: Reacting passively to marketplace disruptions is a guaranteed path to professional stagnation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details a strict operational framework designed to help you regain control of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) trajectory, map out long-term strategic milestones, and execute daily on your highest-value goals. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/setting-priorities-for-your-future/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/setting-priorities-for-your-future/)

**Small Firms, Big Impact** Excerpt: Landing at an elite boutique or smaller firm often yields greater market leverage and executive visibility than navigating the bloated bureaucracy of a massive conglomerate. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to spot agile, high-signal organizations where your direct contributions immediately scale business growth. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/small-firms-big-impact/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/small-firms-big-impact/)

**2 [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Job Hunters Make** Excerpt: Most job seekers consistently bottleneck their own [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) pipelines by committing two preventable, systemic tactical errors. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) identifies these critical behavioral flaws and delivers an immediate corrective strategy to optimize your daily workflow and outreach efficiency. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/2-mistakes-job-hunters-make/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/2-mistakes-job-hunters-make/)

**4 [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [Job Search Tools](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** Excerpt: The modern [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) ecosystem is flooded with automated utilities, but only a select few deliver real competitive leverage. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) evaluates four critical artificial intelligence tools designed to optimize your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), automate market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), and streamline your pipeline execution. Link: 

**Strategies for Beating the Enterprise Filter in [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/)** Excerpt: [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) remains one of the oldest and most stubborn [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) utilized by Fortune 500 enterprises. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) strips away the algorithmic mystery, explaining how [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) parses data and how to structurally adjust your documentation so you pass their enterprise filters and reach a human eyes. Link: 

**The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Implementation Boom** Excerpt: The era of researching artificial intelligence in an isolated lab is officially over; we are now in the age of aggressive mass corporate integration. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) boom for implementation experts and explains how to position your operational skill set to lead high-value enterprise [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) adoptions. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ai-implementation-boom/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ai-implementation-boom/)

**[Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is Hard. [Quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) is Easy. [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) is Earned** Excerpt: A prolonged, high-stakes [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition will inevitably challenge your professional stamina and exhaust your psychological focus. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers an unvarnished reality check on the emotional friction of an extended search, offering a raw mindset framework to reset your execution and secure elite corporate offers. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)

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**Beat [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/): 5 [Expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) Tips** Excerpt: A prolonged [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) can completely drain your mental stamina and derail your operational consistency. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers five highly tactical, [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) strategies to interrupt [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) loops, manage your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), and restructure your daily pipeline execution for maximum efficiency. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/)

**Stop! How to Spot [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [Job Scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/)** Excerpt: Bad actors are rapidly weaponizing artificial intelligence to deploy hyper-convincing phishing setups, fake [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) profiles, and phantom job listings designed to scrape your personal identity data. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the sophisticated operational models behind these modern [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) scams and outlines the specific validation checkpoints you must execute to safeguard your data. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/)

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**Stop! How to Spot [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [Job Scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/)** Excerpt: Bad actors are rapidly weaponizing artificial intelligence to deploy hyper-convincing phishing setups, fake [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) profiles, and phantom job listings designed to scrape your personal identity data. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the sophisticated operational models behind these modern [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) scams and outlines the specific validation checkpoints you must execute to safeguard your data. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/)

**Secret Executive [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) Hack #shorts** Excerpt: Elite corporate [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) requires moving past cold introductory templates and generic outreach messages. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a high-leverage [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) secret that uncovers unique access points to key industry stakeholders and commands their professional attention. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/secret-executive-networking-and-branding-hack-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/secret-executive-networking-and-branding-hack-shorts/)

**I Almost Gave Up** Excerpt: A protracted, complex executive job hunt will eventually challenge your professional resolve and exhaust your psychological endurance. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) addresses the quiet, isolating moments of [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) when execution stalls and provides a strict framework to reconstruct your perspective and maintain tactical momentum. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/)

**The Top 10 Things To Do When Times Get Tough to Land A Job** Excerpt: When macroeconomic headwinds shrink market [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) volume, relying on basic job board [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) becomes a losing strategy. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) outlines an aggressive ten-point operational blueprint to restructure your pipeline, build real leverage, and capture hidden executive roles in highly competitive markets. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-10-things-to-do-when-times-get-tough-to-land-a-job/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-10-things-to-do-when-times-get-tough-to-land-a-job/)

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### [Our Interesting Thinking About Asking for Help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-interesting-thinking-about-asking-for-help/)

**Published:** July 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I conducted an experiment on Facebook about asking for help. What goes on for you?

**Content:**

# Our Interesting Thinking About Asking for Help

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I conducted an experiment on Facebook about [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/). What goes on for you?

I coach people and organizations to play big in the world, and big in their lives.

And I conducted an interesting—or at least it was to me, and apparently to some other people—experiment on Facebook over the last few days. And it started off with a question: “What is so hard about saying ‘I need help’ to someone who can help you?”

I think that’s a pretty simple question. But, here’s some of the responses. “What’s so hard about saying ‘I need help’ to someone who can help you?” Well, the answers—and I’ll just read them off to you, including my own, which is… “the ego”, “pride”—mine is going to come at the end—”pride”…

I’m not… uh, let’s see now…

“I’m not sure what the circumstances were that you’re referring to, but maybe, just maybe, the person was maligned or abused the last time or the first time he or she asked for help.”

Um, and…

Someone else talked about: “was just thinking about this the last few days. I feel like the more help I need, the harder it is to ask.”

“Pride, ego, even harder for men. My wife has tried to get me to ask for directions when we’re lost.”

“Pride and ego.”

“There’s… maybe those who need our help the most just want us to help them.”

You know…

“Stupidity, plain and simple.” Stupidity was my answer, by the way.

“Because it exposes the message I tell myself, that could be true or not, that there is something wrong with me.”

I think that’s an interesting one, in particular, Mike. And that’s who said it, Mike.

So, I want to go into question number two. Obviously, there’s the perception that there’s something faulty with someone who asks for help that seems to be ingrained in our culture. Uh, because that’s generally what was happening. You know, they asked for help—or didn’t want to ask for help because of pride, ego, being stupid (you know, that was again my thing)—and other reasons that keep them from getting the help that they need.

So, how do you feel when you ask for help?

This is interesting. Among the answers were: “fearful”, “maybe desperate”.

“Oh god. When I was younger, I knew everything and never needed any help. Wrong! Now that I’m an elder, I know there are those who are wiser than me and that I could ask for their help. Now I do.”

I don’t believe him. But that’s okay.

“Weak. I should know it all and be able to do it all.”

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! I think that’s the real thing.

“Humble and hopeful.” There were a couple of “hopefuls” in there, which I thought was interesting.

Um…

“What a great question. At the depth, I feel scared and vulnerable and incompetent.”

Right.

So, I think we’ve got this conflict that goes on within us. Yeah, I think this summarizes it very well, what a woman by the first name of Judy said, “Like I’m not worthy, or I’m inconveniencing someone.”

It’s as though we screwed up. That we’re defective in some way, we might be rebuked. There are some people who think they’ll feel hopeful, and that’s wonderful. But the vast majority don’t have that sort of reaction. And the result winds up being that many of us live a particular way that’s, frankly, frustrated, disappointed…

…you know, and how do you win? Because we don’t know everything, and we don’t know what to do all the time, and we do make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and screw up, and…

…you know, we don’t do anything to make it easy for ourselves. Yeah, “easy” is an interesting word in this context, because obviously if you’re [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/), judging by the reactions I first spoke about—fearful, scared, defective, stupid—you know, it’s not so easy.

But shouldn’t it be easy to just look at someone and say, “Can I ask you for help for a second?”

Like, if they say, “No, not a good time,” “Could I help you at some other point?”

“Okay.” You know, that’s usually what happens, right? But emotionally, we’re caught up in this turmoil.

So, I’d love you to take a little time to reflect on this for yourself and just think about what the impact is of not [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/), and how that has worked for you and not worked for you. Worked for you in the way of maybe feeling as though you are more capable than you really are…

I admit it, I’m incompetent at a lot of things. Far more than I’d like to admit, but I’m really incompetent about a lot of stuff.

And, I’d love you to… to consider that it is easier for you once you receive the help that you ask for than without it.

So, short video today. Hope you found it helpful.

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### [The Mistake People Make at the End of Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-mistake-people-make-at-the-end-of-interviews/)

**Published:** July 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to know when to follow up after an interview, don't make this mistake.

**Content:**

# **The Mistake People Make at the End of Interviews**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), never asking when they can expect to hear about next steps. That will tell them when to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/). Now the probability is you’ll hear one of three answers from them:

1. I have several more people to speak with, and I’ll be back in touch if I’m interested.
2. I expect to hear from this early part of next week.
3. To me, it’s clear that you’re in a cattle call.

The second response is: “I expect to hear from this early part of next week,” to which you might respond, “If I haven’t heard from you by Wednesday or Thursday, is it okay if I [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/)?”

That gives you permission to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/), assuming they say yes. If they say, “WAIT,” then it’s not so good.

The third option is if they say, “I expect you’ll hear from us early part of next week. We want to have you back to meet this person, this person, and this person and they start describing their roles clearly. You did well.” Again you can [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) by saying, “If I haven’t heard from you by the early part of next week, is it okay if I [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with you by Wednesday or Thursday?”

Now following a scenario where a person hasn’t gotten [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) or a decision after two outreaches, to me, who worked in search for a long time before transitioning to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) advice I can give is to take a hint.

If they were interested, they would have followed up by now. If they aren’t sure, they would have communicated to you that they still had a person or two to talk to and they would be back to you around the particular time.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Job Search #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-job-search-2/)

**Published:** July 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Job Search #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***A six second video about how to make your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) easier.***

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### [Resilience, Not Worry](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/)

**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My guest, Amy Kosh and I discuss developing resilience and positive psychology in an effort to cope and bounce back.

**Content:**

# Resilience, Not Worry

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Times are certainly complicated! My guest, Amy Kosh, and I discuss developing resilience and positive psychology in an effort to cope and bounce back.

Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you are either watching or listening to No BS [Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) Advice. On YouTube, it’s No BS [Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) Advice; as a podcast, it’s the [No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/). Periodically, I like to bring on a guest to talk with you about some element of life, the universe, and everything! And today, I’ve got a friend of mine on, Amy Kohut. And she works a practice that I think is fabulous. She works with people who are too smart for their own good. Too smart for their own good. And frankly, they stand out in so many different ways, but they’re so smart and overcommitted, they can’t see their blind spots.

So, we’re going to talk about a variety of things, and I think we’re going to have a good time despite the fact that we’re doing this in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic in March 2020. Amy, welcome. Thanks for making time today.

Hey Jeff, it’s great to talk with you. And I’m—I’m so glad we’re actually talking about this because resilience couldn’t be—come at a better time, really.

You betcha. And that brings up the subject of resilience and positive psychology, which are key parts of your practice. And folks, by the way, she’s got more certifications than a lot of people I know. If you go to her website, anunstoppablelife.com—could you spell that, because I think some people might misspell it?

Sure. I wish I had a shorter email sometimes. It’s an—A-N—unstoppable—U-N-S-T-O-P-P-A-B-L-E—life—L-I-F-E—all one word, anunstoppablelife.com.

Thank you, I’m exhausted. So, resilience, positive psychology…

Yeah.

I have an understanding of what resilience is, my definition of it, but that doesn’t make it right. What is resilience as you see it?

So, resilience is, very broadly, it’s the ability to bounce back when things happen. And it’s the—not only the ability to bounce back, but it’s also the ability to grow when things happen like that as well. So, that’s a—a really broad definition of resilience, but that’s the way it comes into play in what I do in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) work.

Gotcha. So, when I think of resilience by that definition, things don’t go the way we want them to.

Right.

And we’ve got to bounce back. Welcome to the world of coronavirus right now. Everyone I talk to is marginally or majorly depressed, and they’re frustrated with cabin fever. So, there’s that part of this, and then, of course, there’s the positive psychology, which I somehow suspect is not just, “I’m going to think positive [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Everything is going to be wonderful. I’m going to chew on this grape, and the world will be fabulous.”

So, I wish it were that easy.

I wish it were, too.

So, positive psychology is data-based, and it’s the scientific study of what makes life most worth living. Um, there’s a really great writer in positive psychology, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who talks about flourishing. And so, flourishing is not only living, but feeling amazing while you’re doing it. And that wraps into having a growth mindset. And growth mindset is part of what comes out of being resilient, because when things happen that, you know, like the coronavirus and all the craziness that we’re living with in the world right now, we not only need to be able to bounce back from it, but we need to be able to be creative with the circumstances that we’re now looking in. So, that’s really where positive psychology and resilience meet.

So, the—the world I find myself living in right now is the world of worry.

Yes.

And in the world of worry, everyone is frozen in place. Nothing goes on. Now, we understand that there’s a physical reason for us to be static, but the emotional and mental place is completely different, right?

It is. And, I would argue that there’s not even—you can limit how far away from your house you go right now given coronavirus, but it also—there is a benefit to actually physically being active. So, if you have a backyard, getting outside in your backyard and being outside in the fresh air and the sunshine, that also helps build physical resilience. And when your body feels better and more active, you’re—you’re actually telling your mind that you have a capacity to move forward and to grow. And so, when the mind gets that message, it makes it much easier to do all kinds of things like be creative, think of new ways to tackle a problem, and worry less. So, the physical activity actually helps us combat worry, depression, and [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Oh, the Holy Trinity.

So, yeah.

My version of that is shoulda, woulda, coulda, but worry, [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and what was the third one?

Worry, [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), depression, and [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/).

Oh, four! Four.

Right.

Ah, you fooled me there.

Yes. So, the old school version of this would be drop and give me ten. Because if you do ten push-ups, you’re actually increasing the oxygen in your body, you’re giving your brain a better place to work from, and you’re also starting to feel like you’ve accomplished—even something small, that can trigger a whole bunch of other positive effects.

Now, you’ve spoken about physicality as part of this and not just simply the mind. So, when you work with people, do you tend to start with the body or the mind? Or they—of course, they’re linked together.

Right. Well, so the mind sits in the body. So, they’re all…

Oh, is it? Not necessarily.

And we tend to forget that. So, we have, you know, we forget that our mind is part of our body, it’s an integral part. And when I’m working with people, whether I’m working with teams or I’m working on an individual basis, it really depends on what’s showing up and where they are in terms of how we start. But there’s always three places we can hack the system, and the system is us.

Number one!

Number one is we can hack it by changing our [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Not the easiest way to do it because you’re trying to change the [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) with the same mind that had the [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). So, not my favorite place to start.

And it’s sitting on your shoulder whispering in your ear, telling you, “Shut up! Don’t listen to them.”

Yeah, or worst case scenario of two sitting on one on either shoulder arguing with each other, and then you go, “I don’t know what to do,” right?

And that’s the world of worry.

Yes, that is the world of worry. It’s also the world of living in the past because the more we live in the past, the less we can see about what’s possible right now. So, number two…

Number two!

Number two is physical. We can change the way we are experiencing the world emotionally and the way we’re thinking about the world by changing our physical behavior. So, in the case of where we all are now, kind of housebound or on an actual lockdown depending upon where in the world we are, we can still do things like stick your head outside the window and wave your arms around and sing something, or do some push-ups on the floor, or do sit-ups with your kids, or do yoga, or walk around your backyard, or practice handstands if you’ve never done it. Any physical movement whatsoever is going to help you change your emotional—what you’re experiencing—and lower your [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) level, lower your cortisol level, and that’s going to change your thinking. The more outside activity you can get, the better off you’re going to be. But even if you’re stuck in an apartment in your house, just keep moving. Clean your house. Do the things that are going to get you physically active. So, those will really help change your system.

Guess what we’re up to. Number three!

So, number three is you can change the way you’re dealing with the experience of your emotions. And this brings me to one of my favorite words, which is response-ability. And I will give credit because I stole this directly from a really smart guy named Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. And the description makes a whole lot of sense for where we are right now in the world as a whole, as humans. So, response-ability means we have 100% ability to respond to everything all the time. We’re doing it when we’re breathing, we’re doing it when we have emotions come up, we’re doing it when we’re chilly, we’re still—we’re responding all the time. And it’s not always conscious, right? Because you don’t think about breathing. But our ability to take action is where we often get—get kind of tripped up. So, we have the ability to take action not 100% of the time. We can choose what action we want to take. Sometimes we can’t take an action because, literally, there’s—there’s nothing we can do, right? So, in—in this case, we can’t do anything about wishing that the virus hadn’t arrived because there’s nothing we can do about that. But we can take action based on it being here now and what are our choices. Action doesn’t mean doing something. Sometimes choosing to take action means actually sitting on your hands and not doing anything, but that’s what you’ve chosen as your response to what’s going on. Does that make sense?

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense because sometimes in that choosing to not act, what you’re doing, in effect, is acceptance.

Right.

These are the conditions I’m in right now. And that’s the way it’s going to be for a period of time. You can argue with it…

Right.

…but it’s—it’s really not going to do anything for you. This weekend, someone shared a section from Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great, where he talks about the Stockdale Paradox. And Admiral Stockdale was the longest-held officer in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. And the Admiral, he was beaten brutally. And he said that the people who were optimists failed. Often they were the people who committed suicide because they believed they’d be out by Christmas, and when that didn’t happen, and the Christmas after that, and the Christmas after that, they gave up hope. But for those who brutally could see what their circumstances were, could believe that this is the way it’s going to be and accept it, they survived and thrived under those horrible conditions. And hopefully, none of us have to go through the horrible conditions that exist now for—for too many. But it’s the acceptance of where you are now in the inaction…

Right.

…that—that seems to be what you’re talking about. Am I interpreting correctly?

Oh, absolutely. There’s also another key piece. So, humans like to create action because we think it means that we’re changing something, but sometimes it just digs us into a deeper hole. So, part of giving some space between the response you’re experiencing and the action you choose is—if you give it, you know, somebody once said to me, “Just give anything 72 hours. It could resolve itself. And if it doesn’t resolve itself, you’ll have a better view on what action you really need to take in 72 hours versus just going for it the minute you hear the news.” So, again, we want to create a pause between the response and the action we choose to take. And that’s a big part of being resilient.

Patience. Patience. Just pausing for a second. You know, when—when the virus caused us all to pause a week ago, I wrote up an article called “Sabbath” because it really felt like we’re about to step into a Sabbath where nothing could happen, we would choose that nothing could happen. And, of course, now I’m seeing the little glimmers a week later of people trying to elbow a little bit to try and create some room because they’re experiencing cabin fever. And we know, as humans, we hate the feeling of being uncomfortable.

Right, right.

So, it’s fascinating stuff. And—and I wonder, you know, what’s the process where you can kind of dissect where you are right now? And how do you respond—and that includes non-respond, too?

Well, that is a response.

Of course it is, I wanted you to say that officially.

Whether you choose to do something, let’s use physical because it’s an easy example. Whether you choose to do something physical or not do something is a choice. And really the question in terms of building resilience for ourselves is, which one is going to get us more of what we actually want as an outcome? And so usually, when we can pay attention to what’s going on around us first, so there’s the mindfulness piece that often comes in, right? Look at what’s happening, stop, pay attention, and then choose the action that is—is going to get you what you want next. So, we want to build resilience. So, one way to do that that’s really simple is to start to pay attention to, what’s the question that comes up right now for you, no matter what, around this whole situation? So, a lot of people are concerned about, well, how am I going to handle my business if I can’t run my business from my house? Or how am I going to work with—get my employees so that they’re not all losing their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? Or how am I going to make ends meet while I’m, you know, my boss is trying to figure all this out online? And the first great question that you can ask yourself in any of those situations is, what do you want as the outcome? So, instead of asking all the questions first, which usually induces panic in people…

Right.

…stop for a minute and figure out what specific thing do you want to have be different at the end of that day. So, we’re talking—you and I are talking on a Monday. So, I might ask you, “So, Jeff, what would you like to have be different at the end of today?” And you might come up with something like…

14 new [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) clients! 4,000 people discovering the next video I upload!

Excellent. So, those are, you know, those are responses that—you know, who—you don’t have to limit it to what’s rational, right? And that’s part that I think people forget is they feel like, “Well, because of everything that’s going on, I should really limit what I want to create.” And that’s the worst thing you can do right now. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) thing you can do is think big, as you like to say, play big, right? So, think big, and then look at what’s the first action step you need to take in order to do that. So, I have a great example: I coached a business owner this morning. And he said, “Well, the thing I want to create is I want to continue the growth of my company through this whole thing.” And we talked about, what did that look like? And he came up with three areas: one was supporting his staff, one was supporting his clients, and one was continuing to grow his business. And what he started to recognize as we brainstormed through, how do you support your staff? Well, communication is—is a big one. And also asking them how do they want to create—like, what’s it going to look [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) for them as support, because people have different ideas. What would support his clients is also one of the same things: communicate, and let his clients know that all of his staff members can work through—with agility, and they can work online. So, they’ve already gone completely online as a whole team. And letting his clients know that supports his clients so they’re not panicking, because we also happen to be in the middle of tax season…

Right.

…right? Which is…

Like, two bad things, right? The virus and tax season all at once.

…like, two bad things, right? The virus and tax season all at once.

And we’re not sure which one is worse, by the way, but that’s a different conversation.

At least one—right, at least one’s windowed. And then the third piece is, how do you continue to grow? And the thing that he came up with again was communication, because the way—the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way he can grow his company is to communicate what his team is able to do, how they’re supporting their clients, and to get that information out to people who might feel like, “Oh my gosh, my person who does this for me isn’t online, I can’t get ahold of them, and I don’t know what I’m going to do.” So, finding the one thing, like your big goal, and then what’s the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) you need to take to move toward the goal. Don’t worry about the other 20, just do the first one first.

Small, incremental steps build on one another.

Yes. You know the old adage about the elephant? How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time, boss, one bite at a time!

Yes, one bite at a time.

And—and the journey of a thousand miles begins with…

One step.

Exactly right. We—we each have our [quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/).

Yes, many of them.

Mine was Maoist, but that’s a different conversation. But, no matter.

Folks, in times like this, this is great advice because whether it’s during this time where we feel crisis and our—I know for me, when this first hit home was seizing up in my body, that caused me to start to breathe more shallow. So now, I’m getting a beaming smile from Amy…

Yeah.

…the recognition of mind and body being connected.

I have a great question for people for this one.

We’ll—we’ll get to that one second. But the notion that my body was seizing up in some way, and I was breathing more shallow, recognizing the fear there. Well, getting rid of the fear isn’t—is always as easy as taking three deep breaths. It sometimes requires, for me anyway, slowing down a little bit and seeing, okay, what’s possible now? And taking that [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) in that direction. Now, I didn’t let you speak up at that point, I was a bad host. Bad host.

No, it was a good point to make, so it was actually a great host.

Thank you. So, what were you trying to say then?

Well, no, but you—what you reminded me of was, so one of the second ways that we can deal with, asking great questions, right, is asking great questions about what are we experiencing physically right now. So, that question of when fear comes up, when you feel anxious, when you’re feeling worried or concerned or downright panicked, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) question you can ask yourself in that moment is, what is my body feeling right now? The moment you tune into what your body is feeling, you’re going to pay attention to your breath. And when you pay attention to your breath, you can ask the question, can I take a deeper breath? Right? So, it’s a little directive, but taking a deep breath does something, and it’s a biohack that I really love. And you talked about, you know, sometimes that’s not going to always cut it. However, if you start by taking a couple of deep breaths, what you’re doing is you’re providing more oxygen to your brain. When you provide more oxygen to your brain, you can think more clearly. And when you’re breathing more deeply, you’re not actually strangling yourself. So, you’re going to feel a little bit calmer, and then when you feel a little bit calmer, that’s when you get a chance to look around and go, “Huh. All right, what can I do now?”

You know, it’s funny, you reminded me of something from many years ago when I was writing my first book. And a month before it was going to come out, I had excruciating back pain. It was so bad my back was seizing up, and the only way to stop it was I’d flip myself onto the ground, onto a bed, something. And the joke in my house is that they would hear the sound, “Ahhh!” and that was me having a—a spasm at that moment. And what I learned from reading a book from John Sarno called Healing Back Pain, I believe it is, is that it is a real feeling that you have, but it’s caused by oxygen deprivation that’s induced by some event that’s held in the body.

Yes.

And thus, the idea is to identify the event. Now, amazingly, I’d say probably a year later I had my next episode with it. And it happened on three different days.

Hmm.

There was a day in November, I believe it was the 24th; it was on December 6th, coincidentally my birthday; and it was on December 23rd. And my wife asked me, “What happened? Think back. Is there a linkage between the three days?” And the three days represented the day the divorce papers from my previous wife hit with her, the day it hit with me, and the day she got it.

There you go.

And it was held in my body, and once I could realize that, no more spasms. It’s fascinating. So, the idea of asking a better question to sort through what’s going on here…

Mhm.

…what am I feeling now, how could I take a [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) and make some progress here? I use the question, “What’s possible now?”

That’s a great question.

Thank you, I love that question. It’s—it’s on page 14 of my repertoire.

So, the other great one is, “What am I not telling myself?”

Ah.

Right? So, that’s one when you really feel stuck, ask yourself the question, “What am I not telling myself?” Because we actually always know what we’re not telling ourselves, we just don’t want to say it out loud. And so, when we bring that level of curiosity to it, it becomes a lot easier to answer the question.

And you’re coming at it from a different angle than the one you might normally use.

Mhm.

I have a version of that about the lie we tell ourselves. It’s a different question…

Mhm.

…but it’s—it’s one designed to confront some tape—sorry, some stream that’s coming through our ears. We can’t use tapes anymore. What’s streaming in our head that’s a message that we’re taking in that we know isn’t true.

Yeah. So, that’s a great—that’s a great point too about, you know, the habit that we have of thinking things, which is part of what keeps us out of resilience at times. So, we’ve all developed these habits of thought. And the only thing that creates a habit is repetition. Right? So, the habit is created because we’re repeating [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) over and over and over, and then we build a belief that it’s true because we’ve repeated it so much, we think it’s actually true. It’s just a thought. So, as we start to ask questions of ourselves like, “What am I not telling myself?” or “What am I pretending not to know?” or “What’s possible now?” “What can I create next?” All those questions bring enough curiosity to help us invite ourselves into the conversation and look at, “Oh, what’s the assumption I’m making?” or “What’s the old habit that’s showing up in my thinking that’s keeping me in this place, but I want to move forward?” Does that make sense?

It’s the ham story. We—the classic ham story is about the family that always [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) the ham by cutting off one end of the ham and the other end of the ham, and that was part of the recipe. And no one knew why it was done, but it had been passed on for generations. So, they tried to follow the chain back in time until they got to the great-grandma in the nursing home, and they said, “Why did we cut the ham off at each end?” And the answer is, “Because the pot was too small.” But—but there’s a habit that develops that we do in an unthinking manner without ever asking ourselves the question after a while, “Does this really serve me anymore?”

Right.

“Could I do something different to get better results?” “No, I must do it this way!”

So, there’s a great trick too that is actually a really fun thing to do if you have kids and you want to help your kids build resilience. When you’re clear—when you’re emptying out the dishwasher or doing anything that’s kind of mechanical like that and repetitive, have—do it and have your kids do it with their opposite hand. So, if you’re used to, you know, you take all the utensils and you put them away with your right hand, do it with your left hand. And have them do it as well and make it a game. Because not only when you make things a game, it’s a lot more fun, but you’re also literally creating more resilience in your brain because you’re trying to create new neural pathways for things. And it’s another physical activity that will get you out of this, “I can’t possibly do anything else, I’m stuck in my house right now.”

What other sorts of physical activities might people do to try and build those neural pathways of difference, the non-habitual ones?

So, there are some really great ones from really small to really, um, uh, let’s say over the top, right? So, one of the really small ones is that—that can be really fun is, if you write with your right hand, practice writing with your left hand. And so if you’re writing a grocery list, write with your opposite hand because, again, you’re triggering new neural pathways, but you’re also having to think about what you’re doing in a different way. And it’s going to generate a different way of seeing the world, quite literally. So, that’s a small one. Um, other—other physical…

I’m going to update that for modern times.

Yeah.

So, since no one writes anymore…

Oh.

…and they put everything on their phone, instead of—if you’re a two-handed typist on your phone, go for one finger on the non-dominant hand and try the non-dominant hand typing for yourself instead of thumbs.

Your opposite thumb. Right. Right, right. So, even if you do two-thumb texting, you always are going to use one hand more than the other, so just do it with the opposite thumb and do it one-handed for a little while. It will—it will create a whole new way to see the world. So, that’s one thing you can do. Um, another thing is just looking at your environment and noticing, what are the things in your environment that are either lifting you up and making you feel supported and [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) and joyful, and what are the things that are really just like, “Oh, that thing that has been there for forever and I’ve been meaning to get to it.” So, do a spring cleaning. Things like that will actually really help you get a perspective on what’s possible and—and it will help you be organized. And it keeps you moving, physically.

I always think of something from coach [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) I did, where they said one wonderful line: “Environments win.” So, you create an environment that’s supportive of you, knowing that somewhere along the line what will probably happen is that paper is going to start to grow again.

Mhm.

It’s an amazing phenomenon. You get rid of all the paper and suddenly, a month later, what the hell happened? It starts to grow.

I know, right. Right. And it’s the same thing, you know, and I will bring this into the modern day, right? So, I don’t read papers. But I have a ton of journals and blogs and things I like to keep track of, and I’ll tell you if I forget, my inbox gets just filled with the stuff. So, one thing to do is set a cup—time blocking and set, you know, an hour or two on specific times during the week that you’re just going to deal with your inbox, or you’re just going to read the blogs, or you’re just going to catch up on the news. And then delete them once you’ve read them! That’s the—that’s the key.

Deleting! Oh my goodness. You mean I shouldn’t possess forever? Oh my god.

No. So, here’s one interesting thing, and I’m going to bring a little Eastern philosophy into this.

Ooh.

So, about—about a year ago, I went to a workshop. And they gave us some writing assignment before the workshop that we had to do. So, we’re—we had to write, and I wrote in my journal because I keep a journal. And in that same—I keep a bullet journal, in fact. And so, in that same bullet journal were all my notes for my business, all the notes for the upcoming workshop I was planning, all the notes for what I had to get my web designer—all of that kind of stuff was in there along with a whole bunch of other things. And we—I took the journal and we did the workshop. And in the middle of the workshop, uh, the—we were—we were told, “And now you have to burn it.” And I panicked! And I thought…

Nooo!

…”I’m terrible at marketing. I’m never going to remember all of these notes that I’ve taken from my business coach and my web designer and my marketing person. I’m going to forget all of it. I finally got it organized to write down. Holy shit, I can’t possibly burn this thing.” And I—I started tearing out just the pages for the workshop, and this woman comes along and she takes the whole journal from me and she throws it on the fire. And then she turned around and she said, “You don’t need to live in the past. Anything that’s really important, you will be able to remember.” And I—I almost smacked her!

The truth comes out!

I was really pissed because I was terrified that I wouldn’t actually remember. And what I realized was, I—I got home five days later because we had—I had nothing to write with for the rest of the five days. I got home, and I felt so calm, and I just started tackling things one at a time, and I didn’t worry about it. And she was right. When we hold on—we hold on to so much stuff. I think that’s a lot of what’s coming up, too, with, you know, we’re all stuck in our houses and it’s harder to get our hands on things. So, a lot of people went out and they bought a million rolls of toilet paper, and a million bottles of Listerine, and a million of this, a million of that. But we’re—you know, one of the things to realize is we don’t actually need as much product as we think we need. And we don’t need as many notes as we think we need. And the more we rely upon ourselves to know what’s really important, that’s where we shed old habits, that’s where we start to move into resilience. Because that means we’re always looking for towards what’s going to happen next and what can I affect positively.

And the beauty in that, Amy, seems to be that the important things we remember and know. There’s ancillaries, and they’re probably connected to the important in our psyche. It’s kind of like there’s antennae that come out from the core place that connect to these memories. But the important things we remember, and we can always track down the secondaries.

Yeah. And the more we simplify, the easier it becomes to see what we actually need to do next. When there’s all this noise, right, it’s that whole signal-to-noise thing. When there’s all this noise around, it’s really hard to see which signal is the important one.

Beautiful. Amy, this has been wonderful. How can people find out more about you and the work that you do?

So, people can find me online at my website, anunstoppablelife.com. You can email me directly from the site if you’re interested. You can also book a free two-hour strategy session with me. And um, coming up on March 30th, there’s a wellness summit I’ll be part of, and I’ll get Jeff to put some information along with the podcast and the audio for that. But that is also a free three-day, four-day wellness event with a whole bunch of really wonderful people. We’re talking about mind, body, and family and kids during the coronavirus and how to build resilience. And uh, you can also find me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at Amy Kohut, on Medium at @anunstoppablelife, and uh feel free to just email me directly: hello@anunstoppablelife.com.

Cool. And folks, we’ll be back soon with more. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you enjoyed this. And if you’re interested in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), visit my website,—let’s try that again—visit my website, nobscoachingadvice.com. I’ve got a lot more there to support you.

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### [Use Visual Proof to Bypass ATS Parsing Software and Screeners](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-visual-proof-to-bypass-ats-parsing-software-and-screeners/)

**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode delivers the raw blueprint on how to build un-fakeable, visual proof of your execution so you can get in front of decision makers 

**Content:**

# How to Use Visual Proof to Bypass ATS Parsing Software and Screeners

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The traditional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is dead, killed by AI-generated saturation that makes every applicant look identical on paper. If you’re still relying on text-based [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and keyword matching to pass automated systems, you’re playing a losing game. This episode delivers the raw blueprint on how to build un-fakeable, visual proof of your execution so you can bypass the screening line entirely and get directly in front of real decision-makers.

The systems we’ve used to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for decades are currently hitting a point of saturation where they no longer function as intended. For years, the text-based [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) was the primary currency of [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). You provided a summary of responsibilities, and automated [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), parsed those words to find a match. But the barrier to creating a perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has disappeared. With generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), anyone can produce a keyword-optimized CV that looks indistinguishable from an expert’s in just a few seconds.

When every [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is grammatically perfect and mathematically optimized for the same keywords, the signal-to-noise ratio drops to zero. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can no longer tell the difference between a high-performer and a well-engineered prompt. In a market where text is cheap and easily replicated, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have become wary of claims. In response, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) conversation is moving away from what people say they can do and onto what they have already executed.

This shift is leading to the rise of visual proof—tangible, unfakeable artifacts that validate a candidate’s experience. Consider Sarah, a mid-career product manager. Despite having a strong background, her standard [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) were consistently ignored by automated filters, leaving her stuck in a pool of hundreds of identical text-based profiles. Sarah stopped using standard job boards. Instead, she identified 10 target companies and built an explicit product improvement blueprint for each one, hosted on a Notion database.

Rather than just listing product discovery as a skill, she embedded interactive Figma prototypes, shared roadmap prioritization frameworks, and included redacted requirement documents to show how she balanced technical constraints with business goals. By sending these direct links to product directors, she bypassed the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) entirely. Within two weeks, she secured three direct [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Putting the artifacts upfront allowed those directors to see her professional judgment and product sense before they even read her name.

This approach also works for those who lack the traditional pedigree that automated systems look for. David wanted to move into a technical cybersecurity role, but his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) didn’t have the enterprise-level names usually required to pass an initial screen. To prove he could do the work, he built a physical enterprise environment in his home using cloud instances. This served as a live staging ground where he could simulate real-world security incidents.

David recorded 60-second micro-videos of his screen while he was actively mitigating these simulated attacks, analyzing live logs, and configuring servers in real time. He embedded these video links directly into the top of his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). When a technical director clicked, they didn’t see a list of certifications; they saw a professional actively demonstrating enterprise-level troubleshooting.

David was hired because his visual proof removed the uncertainty of a bad [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). His actual execution made his lack of academic credentials irrelevant. You can adopt this strategy by shifting your mindset from that of a standard applicant to that of a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) who solves specific problems.

First, keep a value ledger. Track the specific data points, dashboard screenshots, and system architectures from your daily work that show your actual contributions. Second, create explainer snippets. Use a screen recording tool to make a two-minute video breaking down the architecture of a complex problem you solved in the past. Finally, build redacted case studies. Take a business asset you’ve authored, like a workflow audit or a project schedule, and remove the sensitive data. The resulting document acts as a blueprint of how you think and execute. These assets are especially effective when reaching out to high-stakes decision-makers, such as private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) operating partners.

In a landscape where text is increasingly difficult to verify, the advantage belongs to those who stop describing what they could build and start presenting the actual blueprints of what they have already executed. To learn more about navigating this shift, visit JobSearch.Community to become an insider. You can access Jeff Altman’s [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), courses, and books there. And if this was helpful, please like, comment, and share the video to help others stand out in today’s market.

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### [A Job Search Limerick #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-job-search-limerick-shorts/)

**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I decided to have a little fun and had Google Bard write a limerick about job search.

**Content:**

# A Job Search Limerick #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/IFJ4PS3wq6A)

 I decided to have a little fun and had [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) write a limerick about [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

[***Why Does It Seem Impossible to Find a Job?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k2R)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) easier. Those things![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg) can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. *Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

Website: [https://](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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### [Beauty is in the Eye of The Beholder](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-no-bs-coaching-advice/)

**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman encourages you through a quote.

**Content:**

## Beauty is in the Eye of The Beholder

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) encourages you through a [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve hunted down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years. I’ve got some more No BS [Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) Advice to help you in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and in life. It comes from a [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) I just read, something that Salma Hayek of all people said. So let me just read it to you. The

“People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside of ourselves.”

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Life isn’t easy? It can be hard at times. And this is an opportunity. This is a time where you can fix some of the things that aren’t quite right about yourself and,through that belief that it’s worth doing, come to a better place than you are now. Work at it. Try it. Recognize that that It will turn into something beautiful.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found this helpful.

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### [Tough Interview Questions: Give Me an Example of Your Lateral Thinking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-give-me-an-example-of-your-lateral-thinking/)

**Published:** July 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I think this is an obnoxious interview question because most people have no idea what someone is talking about when they say, "So, give me an example of your lateral thinking."

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions: Give Me an Example of Your Lateral Thinking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

What the heck is lateral thinking anyway and how do I answer the question?

I think this is an obnoxious [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question because most people have no idea what someone is talking about when they say, “So, give me an example of your lateral thinking.”

Simply put, lateral thinking is a creative way toward solving a problem. However, when they are using this term, rather than the more common way of asking, they are trying to create an impression. They want to give you a sense that they are more “powerful,” they are more “knowledgeable,” and that you are stupid.

The 1st thing I want to do is encourage you to ask, “I want to confirm what you mean by lateral thinking. Do you mean creative problem-solving? Is that what you are referring to or something else?”

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!

What you’ve done is indicate that you know what they mean by lateral thinking that you want to confirm that THEY know what is meant by lateral thinking.

It’s a creative way of demonstrating that you know how to swat them back like the fleas that they are for using an obnoxious term when asking the question. So, what you’ve done is ask them whether when they are using the term, “lateral thinking,” they are referring to creative problem-solving or something else. They will respond by saying, “No! No! No!. Creative problem-solving.”

Depending upon where you are in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you would answer differently.

If you are a student and looking for your first job and trying to answer this question, you might stop and say, “You know, I don’t have many professional work experiences where I have been asked to creatively problem solve. Certainly not to the degree that you will be asking me to do. The kind of situations that I had to deal with have been relatively simple.” Then, you address how you approach them.

Let’s say, you are in a customer service situation and had to deal with an irate customer, you headed them off with the joke, a smile, a laugh, deflecting their anger In some way. How did you address the kind of situation? Maybe you had a manager who is “biting at you” for some reason. They were having a bad day and maybe you said, “I want to help you but I would really appreciate it if you tell me what is going on because you seem more upset and stressed than usual. How can I help you?”

If you’re a more experienced person, you talk about a professional situation where you were given something that was a unique challenge and how you went about dissecting the problem to come up with a creative solution and then talk about the dissection process through to the solution.to come up with the solution.

See what I’m doing? I’m starting by asking them to define the term and then talking about situations that you could have conceivably been in where you had a situation and creatively addressed an issue.

Again, if you’re a college grad, the nature of the creative problem-solving that you had to deal with may have been relatively simple in comparison to what you might be asked to do in this organization. If you are a more experienced person, you go into the situation, define how you addressed it, and go on from there.

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### [What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: How They Evaluate #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-how-they-evaluate-shorts/)

**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One thing recruiters know that you don't is how they evaluate people on their interviews

**Content:**

# What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: How They Evaluate #shorts

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### [About Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-23-about-job-search/)

**Published:** July 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Another six-second video about job hunting.

**Content:**

# About Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Another six-second video about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [Treating People Like a Salami | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/)

**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A recent experience with a urologist is the basis for today's show. Are you treating people this way, too?

**Content:**

## Treating People Like a Salami

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

An experience with a urologist is the basis for this show. Are you treating people this way, too?

[***Being Bold? No, SUPERBOLD!***](https://youtu.be/CyhmZOcgjao)

Today’s show was an exchange that I had with the office of a urologist I have been seeing for over 6 years. It culminated in a letter being sent to me firing me as a client. I’m not here to criticize the urologist. He is fine, but my issue is his office and how, in one way or another, they botched my care for at least 3 years now that I can recall. I think there was also one more episode during the 1st 3 years I saw him.

No matter, the issue came down to my feeling that I was being treated like a salami– a slab of meat that is inconvenient for them and their lack of correct follow-through. For example, the doctors care is fine. I have no issue whatsoever. But for how many years consecutively can you see a physician and have the prescription botched? Were not having a lab done that’s needed in order to extend the prescription??

On the last visit, they missed even kicking the lab and it prompted me to call them once I was denied coverage having found that what the issue was in calling them and saying, “Hey, I’m using for renewal of this prescription the required you to take a lab and you didn’t take it. And you didn’t file it with the insurance company and you punched it. I need to come in again, have it done, have it sent to the lab and if you think I’m going to pay a copayment or anything else for it, you are mistaken.”

This is the final trigger, of course, from their side because I am a BAD PATIENT. I don’t like being treated like someone who is being put to the meatgrinder and it begs the question of how often I or you make people not really feel well cared for. I know it’s a complicated issue as it is for this doctor because you are living with time limits and you are living with a certain amount of pressure and [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) occur.That’s why didn’t [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) the subject for several years because I’m human. I wasn’t being adversely affected but after 3 consecutive years of [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), I decided to speak up.

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I’m just telling you that there are probably times were you may be treating people like a salami. Were you may be treating folks like they are going into the funnel, they are chopped up, homogenized, and they have to proceed out the bottom of the funnel.

Is that the way you want to be treated? Really? Is that how you want to be treated?

Consider that there might be a better way where you show degree of care and love your client or patient or whomever the makes them feel as though they are well cared for.

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### [How Honest Should You Be?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You’ve had a first interview with the corporate recruiter, the head of HR, and the hiring manager. The recruiter says, “call me tomorrow and tell me what you think.” How honest should you be?

**Content:**

# How Honest Should You Be?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You’ve had a first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the head of HR, and the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) says, “call me tomorrow and tell me what you think.” How honest should you be?

Here’s the situation. You’ve had a first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with a firm. You met with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Head of HR. Head of an enormous business unit .Celebrity individual. [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) says, ” give me a call tomorrow at two o’clock. Tell me what you think.” How honest should you be? How honest should you be with your questions or concerns ?How honest should you be with your reservations? How honest after a first round? Here’s what I told someone.

Not at all .Speak about the challenges. Speak about the opportunities that your C. Speak about your excitement. You see, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is trying to filter out people early in the process and you really don’t know enough to make a decision on your side.

Now, after the second round, if this comes up, then it’s a little bit different .You speak about, not concerns, but questions that you have. Not big dramatic ones, but some of the questions you have that need to be addressed. Everything you say to the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is going to get funneled back to the to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager who’s going to ultimately say, “you know, this person sounds like they would be too big of a problem. Let’s pass.” And you knocked yourself out.

 The corporate or agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is not your ally here. On the corporate side, they are looking for “knockout factors. “On the third party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) side, you know, they’re going to try and manipulate you to ignore your doubts and ignore your question marks and poopoo them or say stuff that may or may not be true. More likely not true than true.

They’re going to speak about their knowledge of the firm. Have they ever worked there? Probably not. They are going to speak of their knowledge of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. Have they ever worked for that manager? No.So, even with the good party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), you have to operate witha degree of distrust because they’re blowing smoke at you because if you voice too many negatives, they’re seeing dollar signs flying off into the sunset.

So, understand when you’re talking to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ,both corporate and third party, after the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), who are checking your pulse, that’s not the time to develop “an honesty. gene.”

Think in terms of always promoting yourself. You’re always selling yourself. You can always say no later on but, for now, go further.

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Use This 15-Minute Strategy to Land a Job (Even Before It's Posted)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-this-15-minute-strategy-to-land-a-job-even-before-its-posted/)

**Published:** July 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this direct, no-BS episode, we cut through the fluff and reveal The Power of Informational Interviews.

**Content:**

# Use This 15-Minute Strategy to Land a Job (Even Before It’s Posted)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3106 Tired of submitting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) into the abyss? We tell you the truth: The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are often never publicly posted. In this direct, no-BS episode, we cut through the fluff and reveal **The Power of Informational [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)**.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Don’t Fill That Many Positions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-otq)

Alright, so let’s talk about something you’ve probably heard a million times if you’re looking for a new job or thinking about a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) change, the informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). But let’s be honest, does it actually lead to anything? Or is it just a polite way to waste everyone’s time? We’re going to get to the bottom of this. I mean, this is the real question, isn’t it? You’re busy.

The person you want to talk to is definitely busy. And the last thing anybody needs is another meeting that goes nowhere. So are they actually worth the effort? Let’s just get a straight answer on this.

And there it is. The short answer is a big, fat no. They are absolutely not a waste of time.

***[Your Digital First Impression May Be Getting You Rejected](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-owo)***

But okay, that just opens up a much bigger question, right? If they’re so great, what’s the real point? What are you actually supposed to get out of one? And this right here is the key. The whole point isn’t to walk in and ask for a job. No, no.

It’s to gain something way more powerful in the long run, real, honest-to-goodness insider knowledge. Think about it this way. It’s like targeted [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/).

You have a blind spot. You don’t know what a company’s culture is really like or what that job title actually means day to day. So you find the one person who can fill in that blank with their actual experience.

It’s the kind of stuff you will never, ever find on Google. And this is the perfect way to picture it. On one side, you have the official story, the polished job description, the company’s shiny About Us page.

But on the other side, you have the reality, the actual day-to-day [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/), the unwritten rules, the real challenges. An informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is the bridge that gets you from one side to the other. So this usually boils down to two main situations.

First, you’re eyeing a specific company. You need to talk to someone on the inside to find out about the team dynamics, the work-life balance, you know, the real scoop. Or maybe you’re thinking about a totally new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path.

Well, an informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is your chance to figure out what that job is actually like before you dive in headfirst. So who holds all the secret knowledge? The insiders, of course. You want to talk to the people who are living the reality you’re curious about every single day.

Their firsthand experience is what this is all about. They’ve walked the path, and they can tell you where all the potholes are. Okay, so you’re gathering all this great intel.

[***Why So Many Interviews?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ouh)

But how does that turn into, well, anything? This is where it gets really interesting. Because it’s not just about collecting facts. A single good conversation can kick off a chain reaction that leads to some amazing opportunities.

This is where the strategy really kicks in. Just look at how this can play out. It starts simple, right? Step one, you just learn.

But if you have a good conversation, you start to build a real connection. That’s step two. Then that person might [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to help you out.

Maybe they’ll look at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or introduce you to someone else. And all of that can eventually lead to the holy grail, them recommending you for an actual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). It all flows from that one simple [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/).

And really, that’s the big takeaway. It’s not just one thing you’re getting. It’s knowledge, it’s a new professional relationship, it’s strategic advice, and yeah, it’s a potential foot in the door.

The amount of value you can pack into one focused, respectful conversation is just huge. So keeping all of that in mind, I want to leave you with one final thought. Something to get you started on this yourself.

Seriously, think about it. If you could sit down with someone who is living your absolute dream [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) right now, what’s the single most important thing you’d need to know? Whatever that question is, that’s your starting point. Now go find an insider you can ask.

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### [Why You Aren't Getting Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-arent-getting-interviews/)

**Published:** July 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact application audit you need to stop wasting time and finally get your resume in front of a hiring manager.

**Content:**

# Why You Aren’t Getting Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You check every requirement box, possess the exact years of experience, and look flawless on paper—yet your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) goes completely ignored. You aren’t failing because you lack the skills; you’re being ruthlessly filtered out by automated software before a human ever sees your name. This episode breaks down the exact [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) audit you need to stop wasting time and finally get your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in front of a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

You check the requirements. You have the exact years of experience. On paper, you are a perfect match for the role. But weeks go by and your inbox stays completely silent. Today, we are going to fix that. We’re doing a real-time [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) strategy audit to identify exactly where your [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are stalling, and how to get them in front of a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

The reality is, most qualified candidates aren’t rejected because they lack the necessary skills. They’re being filtered out by automated systems before a human being ever even glances at their name. To follow along, you’ll need three things in front of you: your current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), your open [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, and a target job description. By understanding how these filtration systems work, we can adjust your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) so your hard-earned experience actually reaches the person making the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decision.

Step one starts with how a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) reads. They aren’t looking for evidence that you could learn how to do a job. They are scanning for immediate, fast confirmation that you have already done very similar work. Take your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and look at your bullet points. Reorder them right now so the experience most relevant to that target job description is the very first thing a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) reads. Next, adjust your professional summary. Read the target job description and naturally work their specific phrasing into your summary to establish immediate relevance.

Now for step two: clearing the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). These automated software filters eliminate more candidates than human [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ever do. Look at this comparison. On the left, a multi-column graphic layout might look nice, but the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) often can’t parse the text. On the right, a clean, single-column format ensures the software reads every single word of your qualifications. By trading complex visual design for simple machine readability, you bypass the digital bouncer and ensure a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager actually sees your profile.

Step three is quantifying your value. Scan your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for standard phrases like “managed projects” or “worked cross-functionally.” These phrases don’t actually communicate achievements. Let’s look at this breakdown. Instead of just saying “managed projects,” you add scale and impact: “Managed cross-functional projects for a team of 15, resulting in a 20% efficiency increase.” You don’t need perfect metrics, just details that provide scope.

Step four is avoiding the broad net [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Sending out [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to dozens of wildly different roles feels productive, but it actively dilutes your professional story. Narrow your focus to just one or two specific role types. When your direction is clear, your past experience reads as highly intentional rather than scattered. When you combine precise, quantified metrics with a strictly focused job target, you stop looking like a generic job seeker and start looking like a specialized [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/).

Step five is syncing your platforms. Even if you apply directly on a company’s site, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will check your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Any discrepancy between that profile and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) instantly creates hesitation. As you can see here, your resume’s headline and core summary need to directly mirror the intro section on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page.

Step six is connecting the dots. If you are shifting industries or switching [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), you have to explicitly state how your past experience translates to this new environment. Do not assume the person reading your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) will figure out your transferable skills on their own. You have to make those connections blatantly obvious in your bullet points.

Finally, step seven is understanding timing. Sometimes job market silence just means a company is already deep into internal [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) before you even applied. Apply early when you can, and maintain consistency.

By presenting a unified story across your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and online profiles and translating your skills explicitly, you remove the friction that keeps [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers from saying yes to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You likely don’t need another certificate or another year of experience. You just need a system that makes your existing value easier to recognize. When your alignment is clear, your formatting is ATS-friendly, and your skills are explicitly translated, you’ve addressed the primary technical reasons [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) get ignored.

To take your search even further, head over to [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community) to become an insider and access [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And if this audit helped you, hit like, leave a comment, and share this video to help others do the same. Taking proactive control over how your professional story is packaged and delivered ensures your qualifications are judged on their actual merit, rather than being lost in an automated filter.

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### [Second Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-second-interviews/)

**Published:** July 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about your attitude on second interviews.

**Content:**

# Second Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A short video about your attitude on second [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

[***I Lowballed My Desired Salary! Is It OK to Fix It?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b3g)

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [What Makes You a Standout? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/)

**Published:** July 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Dang! Too many people make themselves seem ordinary.

**Content:**

# What Makes You a Standout . . . #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Dang! Too many people make themselves seem ordinary.

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### [Applications #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)

**Published:** July 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six second job search tip about applications.

**Content:**

# Applications #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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A six second [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) tip about [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/).

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### [Branding and Networking for Digital Pros and Others](https://thebiggamehunter.us/branding-and-networking-for-digital-pros-and-others-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this interview, I speak with Katie Leimkuehler (pronounced LIME-cooler) about her thoughts about these areas . . . and you'll see the advice is no only for digital pros.

**Content:**

# Branding and Networking for Digital Pros and Others

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I am enjoying speaking with other professionals about their ideas of how to do things. In this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I speak with Katie Leimkuehler (pronounced LIME-cooler) about her [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about these areas . . . and you’ll see the advice is not only for digital professionals. (From the archives).

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Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and welcome. For those of you who’ve been watching me for a while, you know, most of the time, I record short shows that are designed to give you some advice, a tip on some particular subject. But Katie Leimkuhler, and I’m going to spell her name for you in a second, reached out to me.

I thought she had a terrific topic for us. Katie is a social media marketing professional and career coach who basically helps people employ personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) techniques to land [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). And Katie’s last name, K-A-T-I-E, is the first name, last name is L-I-E-M K-U-E-H-L-E-R.

Did I do that one right? I think so. Thank you. I think you would know if I did it wrong.

Katie, welcome. I appreciate you making time today. Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

My pleasure. So, Katie, if someone were working in digital and starting to think about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and all that kind of stuff, give us a sense of a couple of different places that they could kick things off for themselves. Yes, I think the first thing to think about is who you want to target, who you want to connect with and where they’re living online.

So, if you’re looking for a job or if you’re just trying to build your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), thinking about where they are. So, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) might be a great place to start. It’s just getting a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, maybe setting up some websites with your name on it, maybe a WordPress or blogging site, and Twitter or Facebook, depending on what you’re doing.

So, the first thing I would say is thinking about who you want to find you and what you want them to find, and then thinking about building your profiles so it tells a story. Now, we know so many people live on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Are there other places that the target audience lives that folks should reach out to them at? I think it depends on what industry you’re in.

So, if you’re trying to build a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and you’re in photography or design or fashion, Pinterest or Instagram might be a great place to start showcasing your work. If you’re into more of a business industry, Twitter is another great one. So, it really depends on what kind of [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) you’re trying to develop and then understanding where those people are online.

So, doing some [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) ahead of time, understanding where they are is a great tip to start. You betcha. And the one thing I remind everyone about is [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is so text oriented.

It’s more about what you write than what you show, although there are some ways to show some stuff. The other platforms, clearly, there are ways that you can showcase your work. So, we’ve got a couple of sites where the audience lives.

Where else should they start off? Well, I think the next thing is to start posting on a regular basis. So, you kind of want to get in the head of the person coming to your profile, whether it’s Twitter, whether it’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), or if you have a website, what do you want them to find? So, you want to have your work showcased there, whether it’s photography, your writing, whatever it is that you’re doing, you want to highlight that so people get a sense of what type of work you do, that you understand it, and then posting on those social networks on a consistent basis. So, that just builds credibility when you’re able to say, yeah, you know what, I am an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at writing and here are like examples, and then posting articles related to that.

So, the more you post things related to your industry, you’re building credibility and authority, and that’s what people look for when they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) or just in general to build trust with their audience. So, when you say posting, with what frequency should someone post? I would say three times a week, maybe is a good amount. You don’t want to overdo it.

Again, it depends on the social network. So, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), you could post less on if you wanted to, but I’d say three times a week. Twitter, you could post every day, and you can post multiple times a day if you wanted to.

So, it kind of does depend on the social network, but I think at least a few times a month to stay relevant on top of it, because one of the things I notice is when people abandon their social media channels, and let’s say they created a Twitter or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or whatever it might be, and then they don’t do anything with it, I kind of think, well, if they dropped the ball on that, what else are they dropping the ball on? So, to stay current, to stay relevant, to show people that you can commit to something, I think it’s really important. Folks, you may have noticed me make a face at one point about dropping the ball on something. I tend to not to think about that because I tend to be an online overshare.

So, I just acknowledge my own stuff about that. And with [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), they should post to the feed, should they post to the blogging platforms or groups, where should they post on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)? I think to the feed is a great place to start if you’re just getting into it. So, just posting articles, videos, things that you find relevant.

And then I think once you get into the swing of that, if you can post in those long form blog posts, those are a great opportunity to showcase what you know, build your credibility, like I was saying. And I’ve definitely gotten clients, I’ve gotten [recruiters reaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-arent-recruiters-reaching-out-to-me-on-linkedin-thebiggamehuntertv/) out to me, commenting on those types of blog posts. So, I think that’s really a great tool to kind of set you apart too.

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Because not everyone does that on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). A lot of them do just post to the feed. So, when you do that, you kind of are setting yourself apart.

And the cool thing, folks, that you can do if you post a blog article or to the blog, is that there’s the ability to then share to the public and share to your contacts on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), share to Twitter and Facebook. So, you can create some increased distribution for your stuff. More people see it, more people learn to know, like, trust and respect what you do, more people start reaching out to you, especially if you follow the advice about doing it with some regularity.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, any sense of what a schedule should look like? Yeah, I think… And this is [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that we’re talking about, not Twitter. You know, it’s always changing, but I know Thursdays tends to be a good day to post. So, a couple of studies came out recently around two o’clock on Thursdays, just generally in the two to five p.m. hour, tends to be a pretty good time.

And I would say, yeah, I think, you know, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday is good. Fridays, I don’t think it’s, you know, gets as much traction. So, I think one of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ways to see what works for you is posting, trying out different things and then see, okay, am I getting traction on my Monday post? Is it the time of day? Is it the type of content? So, kind of doing a little analysis in your own posting to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

Do you recommend some of the services for automating the posting as a way of convenience? I think definitely. That really helps to make it easier if you can schedule stuff. And, you know, there’s a lot of different tools like Hootsuite and Buffer that you can use to do that because it does take a step out.

So, if you find, let’s say, the 12 articles on leadership, if you’re trying to build a reputation for leadership, that you want to post for the month, you can schedule that ahead of time. So, you don’t have to remember every week or every day to log in and post something. So, it definitely keeps you consistent and is a time saver for sure.

Super. So, so far, we’ve talked about understanding where people live online, who your target audience is and where they live, and starting to talk about posting as a way of creating more awareness of who you are and what you do. What else might someone do? I’m going to use the B word that so many people are reluctant to use.

Start to [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) yourself as the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) that you want to be known as. So, I think the next step is engagement. So, I say posting is part one, engagement is part two.

So, when it comes to personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), you do want to post things that you know about, but you also want to be engaging with those conversations online. So, social media is interactive. You know, you want to have a two-way conversation.

You don’t want it to just be one way. So, joining Twitter chats on the topics of interest to you. They have them on pretty much every topic.

So, marketing, education, whatever it is, joining those, replying and interacting and commenting on other people’s posts on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), on Facebook, whatever it might be, because it showcases you do know what you’re talking about. And then people might be like, oh, well, this person, you know, I need help with X, Y, and Z. And they sent me a reply, maybe I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) them, or maybe there’s someone I can start that conversation with. So, I think engaging with your network, engaging with new people is really where things start to change, especially in your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), because it’s saying that you know what you’re talking about, and then people will reach out to you in relation to that.

Do you like Facebook groups at all for this or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) better or you tell me? So, I think it depends. I don’t know that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) groups are that strong anymore. Facebook groups are very strong.

They’ve really taken off in the last couple of years. They’re probably better than pages. I do think they’re a lot more personal.

So, if you’re trying to go there and sell your services or promote yourself, it’s probably not the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place for that. But if you’re looking to make genuine connections with people, maybe in your field, that could be a great place to do that. So, I think people there, it’s a more informal atmosphere where you can make probably a more authentic connection.

So, if that’s something you’re looking to do, I would definitely recommend it. Yeah, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) groups are pretty dead. That’s the reality to it.

Facebook groups have replaced them. We’ll see how long that currency lasts. I hope it lasts for a long time because Lord knows, I’m finally getting around to launching one in the next month or so.

But the reality is, it’s not about broadcast. If all you’re going to be doing is basically saying, buy me, buy me, no one wants to hear it, right? Why would anyone want to hear it from you? They don’t even know you because they don’t want to listen to your podcast. It’s about legitimate engagement.

And thus, it’s participation in conversations, right? Exactly. Well, and that’s one of the things in Facebook groups, like you’ll see people say, hey, I’m looking for a marketing coach. I’m looking for help with website design.

Who would you guys recommend? And then that’s your opportunity to sell yourself to them. And when people are asking for that help, that’s great. But you’re not just saying, here’s my website, come find me.

[***Leveraging Your Network***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-d6i)

And that’s such a turnoff anyways, on [social media](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-and-worst-job-hunting-advice-on-social-media/), because it comes off as an advertisement, so self-promotional. And that’s when you really lose people is when you start doing those tactics, because everyone can see through them. And they know they’re not authentic.

The only place where [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is really useful in this regard is they have a service called Profinder, which if you look along the top of the toolbar, lost along the black ribbon, toward the right, there’s probably an icon that says work. Now, this is only open if you’re a paid [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) user. So, I think you need minimally like a $49 a month account.

But then they start sending leads to you versus the kind of stuff that we’re talking about, which is more organic. But that’s a paid service. If you want to use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to draw opportunities to you, you have that chance.

But Facebook groups are so good. How would someone go about finding some of the groups? So, I think it’s kind of just searching. So, looking for if you’re looking for local groups, like just trying like, Portland interior designer, and see what happened.

A lot of pages will have groups linked to them too. So, if you’re following certain pages, a lot of them will have groups, that’s something new that Facebook has been rolling out. Just, I think, searching and finding and then asking people.

So, a lot of, if you belong to an organization, like a lot of them have their own groups. So, it just is searching for the key phrases of what you would want to join. Cool.

So, so far, again, we’ve now had an engagement to posting as part of building the [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). What else can someone do? So, I’d say the next step, if you really want to up level your personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), would be to blog or get a website, your own website. So, this could be WordPress, this could be Wix, just something to showcase or highlight your work.

Because, you know, that also tells people you’ve taken the time, you’re investing yourself, and that you’re serious. So, when people Google you, if you have a website that’s, you know, just like katielimecolor.com, that’s going to come up, opposed to everything else. So, that also will help with your search ranking.

So, I think if you really want to get your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) going, blogging and having a website is the way to go. Even if you don’t, you know, it doesn’t have to be something you’re doing all the time, if you don’t have the time for it. But just having a place to send people to see all of your work in one area will probably make it much easier than them having to come through multiple social networks to see what did you do here? What did you do there? Oh, okay, do I have to go to YouTube to watch your videos? Like, you can have a place where most of your stuff lives, you’re making it much easier for a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or whoever it is visiting your site to get that information.

And when I think of websites, whether it’s Wix, Weebly, WordPress, whatever it is, obviously great graphical content, if that’s what your work is. But ultimately, how do you keyword that in order to have or SEO that in order to have people actually find you if they’re not searching for Katie Leinkuhler? Well, I think that’s important to pick what it is that your services or your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), what it is that you want to do. So, whether it’s a job or if you’re an entrepreneur or whatever it is, you need to have those keywords.

So, for me, a lot of it is [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and social media. So, I blog about those things on my website and then people, I’ll rank for that. So, they might not be looking for me, but they might be looking for help with [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or social media issues and then I will come up for that.

So, blogging about what you want to be known for is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to go about it. Super. So, blogging, website, anything that’s content related that helps you become more magnetic, so that people want to find you and you’re attracting people to the magnet works, folks.

Where next? So, I’d say after that, if that, you know, you get that going, I would encourage people to guest blog. This I’ve seen has been a real game changer for people, especially a couple of years ago, it was really popular, but it’s still a great tactic to get your name out there. So, if, for example, I’ll use myself, like I wanted to be known in social media.

So, I found websites that took contributing writers and I sent my blog post to them and they let me blog on their site. So, I was getting all this new exposure to people and audiences that, you know, have never heard of me. And suddenly I was getting clients and questions and being able to help people that I was not initially, or initially, you know, working with.

So, that was really awesome because it opens you up to this new audience. And then they shared on their social media, again, opening it up to a whole nother audience. So, if you can find websites, businesses that take guest bloggers and share your blogs on there, that’s a really great way to build your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and get exposure to people that you probably normally wouldn’t have exposure to.

When I think of visual professionals, photographers, for example, would someone giving away some of their site, their stuff on free sites make sense just as a way of getting the word out? Or is that pushing too much? I think it does. I think you have to give in order to get. And so, in order to kind of get that ball rolling, you have to help people find you.

Otherwise, they might not even know you exist. So, initially, I think it’s totally fine, especially as you’re building your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). That’s how most people do it.

They [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), you know, maybe an opt-in to their website, maybe a downloadable ebook, something to get people in the door to see what you’re about. So, I think that’s perfectly natural. And let’s use our own relationship as an example.

How did you find me? Yeah, exactly. I was looking for podcasts that took guest speakers. And of course, I found you and that we’re interested in career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and helping people.

And I was like, this is great. So, it definitely works. So, you’re a perfect example.

Thank you, folks. I’ve got 1100 episodes of one show and 700 of another. The number one and two and an Apple podcast at this point.

So, thank you for illustrating how that works. We’ve got so much that we can cover. I’m going to hand the baton over to you.

You run with it. Okay, what should we be covering next? Sure. Well, I think the next thing I would encourage people to do if they’re in that [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) process is to think about contacting people through social media instead of the traditional route.

So, a lot of things I’ve worked with my clients on is that they say, okay, well, I apply for all these [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). And no, I don’t hear from anybody or, you know, they’re just blindly [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), hoping for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). And I always think that’s a big waste of most people’s time.

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Because you’re just you’re going and competing with thousands of people. So, in order to stand out, I always say like kind of go around instead of through, right? So, instead of doing that, um, looking up on the company that you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to finding out who the person is that would actually [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you, not the HR person that gets, you know, first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is who would [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you to find out who that person is. Maybe it’s the marketing director and you look them up on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send them a quick message.

Hey, you know what I see that you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for this position. And I’m really interested, like, would you be open to grabbing coffee? So, try and get in an informal meeting with that person. And you’re getting your foot in the door much faster than anybody else.

That tends to work really well because you’re obviously going around the typical HR process. And I think this applies to also places that you don’t see job posting. So, let’s [say there’s a company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-some-companies-say-the-position-requires-us-citizenship-or-permanent-residence/) that you really do want to work with, but you just don’t see a job, you know, that’s open for you.

Well, that’s actually a perfect opportunity because you’re, you can then email, find out, okay, I want to work in the marketing department, find that marketing person and say, Hey, I don’t see any job postings, but I’m like really interested in hearing about the company, what you do, all of this stuff, set up an [informational interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/informational-interviews-a-short-script-for-a-networking-email-asking-for-one/). And then when something does come up, they may reach out to you first because they’ve already met you, or they might have something in the works. So I’ve had several people that are like, Oh, we do have a job coming, but we just haven’t posted yet.

And you’re first in line. So it’s a really great way to kind of create your own opportunity instead of competing with other people. Cut the line, folks.

Don’t get in the line. Don’t swim in the same pool everyone else is. What you want to be doing is not following the rules.

Rules are for losers. I hate to be that blunt about it, but let’s get practical. If [job boards worked](https://thebiggamehunter.us/does-posting-your-resume-on-job-boards-work-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/), would you be using job boards? You bet.

But they don’t work. You hate them. Why would you want to do what they’re telling you to do if it doesn’t work for you? Works for them, doesn’t work for you.

Cut the line, get to the front of the line so that you are advantaged and thus you’re able to showcase yourself and just instead of just being another robot in the system, going down the conveyor belt of their convenience, it doesn’t work for you. Seriously. Yeah.

I mean, it’s really great because you definitely want to find your own way. So the other thing is once you’ve really built out your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, I remember maybe eight years ago, I was like, okay, I’m going to just fully fill this out. Immediately, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) started contacting me.

I mean, I probably every day would get someone contacting me. So the more robust your profile, the more likely, first of all, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are going to reach out to you and you don’t have to do that work. And then you’re just building this profile that really establishes who you are.

So I think just being proactive about it and knowing what you want and telling that to people. So another thing I tell people to do is, okay, so you’ve met with this person. They don’t have anything.

Well, ask them for three other recommendations of people that you should talk to. So now that they know what you’re looking for, they might have a friend at another company with a perfect opening for you. So kind of just sourcing your network of people once you meet them and continuing that down, that is a really great tactic as well.

I’m going to give you two more. This one’s, it’s quirky, but I know these work. Number one is if you’re looking for a job, put your email address and or phone number if you’re open to that in the summary area of your profile.

When you’re not looking, take it out, but just make it easy for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to reach out to instead of spending $15 per pop to reach to you. This one is new, at least new for me. And that is, you know how when people reach out to you, most of the time you decide yes or no, make a decision and that’s probably as far as you go.

I start to use a text expander to respond back. And the simple question I ask is, what prompted you to reach out to me? Was it this or that or this or that? What I’m trying to do is find out whether it’s someone who’s interested in [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), someone who’s interested because they’ve listened to my podcast or watch my videos or recommended by [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), whatever it is. Now, the fun thing about this is, if you use a text expander, you don’t have to wind up keying this in time and time again.

But LinkedIn’s algorithm seems to be favoring me a lot more. And I can see a chart where my people who’ve looked at my profile has gone from like this to it’s like this. It’s really that profoundly different.

So, I was going from like 700, 800 people a week to I’m sorry, a week to two and a half thousand. Huge difference all because I attempt to engage. So, give it a shot.

Try just responding back. They’ll respond. LinkedIn’s algorithm interprets this as engagement.

They seem to be wanting this. And let’s see if your numbers start to increase. They may not be as steep as mine because I’m [LinkedIn member](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-some-people-show-up-as-linkedin-member-in-search-results-jobsearchtv-com/) 7653.

A lot of people reach out to me just on that basis alone. But let’s see if your numbers go up from there. I love that tip.

That’s a great one. And I think that’s excellent because you’re [exactly giving them a reason](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-dont-recruiters-tell-you-the-exact-reason-you-were-rejected-jobsearchtv-com/) to respond. I also like to respond with, how can I help you? What can I help you with? So, maybe there’s something like, are they looking to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me? Are they looking to recruit? Or maybe they need help with a certain project, whatever it is.

So, that is also a way I like to respond to. So, that’s great. I love it.

Thank you. And one of the ways I try and draw the response back is, in my case, I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a video about final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). If you’d like me to send you a video about final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to do that.

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If you’re not interested, no problem. Just as curious as to what brought you to me. And the request for final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), again, gives me one more opportunity to engage with them.

I use a text expander to send it back to them. The one I use is a Chrome extension whose name escapes me. But if you look in the Chrome store, I’m sure you’ll find it.

Okay, we’ve given them ways to engage in conversations on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). What else should they do? Well, I’m trying to think. I mean, those are a lot of the good basics.

I think once you get going with that, it’s also building, you know, turning those conversations into relationships. So, one part, you know, is the engagement and getting that going. But after that, like, you want to take those online relationships offline.

I think that’s where things start to change. So, whether it’s connecting with new people that you’re looking for a job or whoever it is, I think the in-person, the phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), all of that, that’s where you really get to know people and you’re going to stand out. So, in any way, whatever it is you’re trying to achieve, I would try and get, you know, start building a relationship with them.

And that, I think, will really tip things in those people’s favor. You betcha. You know, fundamentally, this is all about the relationship.

After all, if all you’re doing is connecting and then going, you got work for me, who wants that? Over the course of time, even if it’s not in this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) or this particular business opportunity that you get the work, the idea is using this over the course of a continuum of time to build a relationship. So, people think of you. So, you’re a top of mind.

It’s kind of like firms run ads on TV repeatedly so that you remember the product, right? Except the product is now you and you have to do much the same thing to become top of mind. It’s work on your part. But trust me, it really does pay off.

I worked in search for more than 40 years building networks of people to help me fill [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) because they knew, like, trust and respected the work that I did. And now, doing the [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) that I do, there’s a great opportunity for you to mirror that by taking the long game and not just simply the short one. Yeah, I think that’s a great point.

I also think, like you were saying, top of mind is huge. So, that’s why the posting on a regular basis is great because then people see you. Oh, you know what? I see Katie there.

Oh, you know what? Actually, I’ve been meaning to reach out to her about something like that’s a big one and then also adding value. So, I like to think about, who is the person coming to my profile? Who’s coming to my website? What do they need help with? So, I try and answer those questions. If someone’s coming to me for social media, someone’s going to me for [career coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-coach-office-hours-may-7-2021-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/), I’m going to post articles about that and trying to add value to my network.

You don’t want to just kind of post generic things like, here’s my lunch. You want to post things that’s going to help people solve problems. And then they’ll relate that to you as well.

Super. Hey, Katie, thank you so much for making time today. I really appreciate it.

How can folks find you and reach out to you? Let’s see now, would it be on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and or elsewhere? Yes, for sure. Well, thank you so much for having me. So, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), Katie Lime Cooler, and my website is katielimecooler.com, which is k-a-t-i-e-l-e-i-m-k-u-h-l-e-r.com. So, I’m also on Twitter.

So, yeah, people can find me in either of those places. Super. Folks, I hope you enjoyed this.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). What I do is I try and help people find work. I try and help people in their new organizations or in their existing one be more effective.

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### [An Advantage to Having a LinkedIn Premium Account #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/an-advantage-to-having-a-linkedin-premium-account-shorts/)

**Published:** July 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's another benefit people get by having a LinkedIn Premium account.


**Content:**

# An Advantage to Having a LinkedIn Premium Account #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Find an Employee to Refer You #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/)

**Published:** July 9, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Finding an employee to refer you will get you more interviews.

**Content:**

# Find an Employee to Refer You #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Finding an employee to refer you will get you more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Strategies for Beating the Enterprise Filter in Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/)

**Published:** July 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop wasting time with over-designed templates and learn exactly how to format your resume so an actual human recruiter finally sees it.

**Content:**

# Strategies for Beating the Enterprise Filter in Taleo

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Major enterprise firms in aerospace, healthcare, and finance aren’t ignoring your job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) because you lack qualifications. They are ignoring it because your formatting is actively breaking their rigid, legacy [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). Stop wasting time with over-designed templates and learn exactly how to format your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) so an actual human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) finally sees it.

If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to major aerospace, healthcare, or financial firms, you might notice your [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) disappearing into a void. Often, this happens not because you lack the qualifications, but because your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) hits an unyielding enterprise gatekeeper: **Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/)**.

Unlike modern [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) that use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to guess your intent (e.g., connecting “cloud” to “SaaS”), [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) operates as a rigid database matrix. It explicitly calculates what you say against a predefined schema. It does not infer related skills.

1. **Structural Baseline: Single-Column Format**

This rigidity dictates how it reads your document. If you use a dual-column format, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) reads text strictly from left to right, top to bottom. It stitches line one of column one directly into line one of column two, turning a formatted bio into garbled database noise.

- **The Minimum Requirement:** Converting your document into a single-column, plain-text layout.
- **The Stakes:** Passing this structural baseline is just table stakes; failing to do so guarantees a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will never even receive a notification that you applied.

2. **Mirroring Employer Terminology**

[Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) utilizes a strict pre-screening matrix. If a job description explicitly requires a *Master of Business Administration (MBA)* and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) lists only *MBA*, using that abbreviation can trigger a rejection flag.

To earn points, you must mirror the employer’s terminology exactly. When the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) matches the phrasing verbatim, the algorithm registers an acceptance match.

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) configure these keywords into two distinct categories:

- **Preferred Qualifications:** Missing a preferred skill simply lowers your rank during a search.
- **Required Qualifications (Knockout Questions):** Organizations code mandatory requirements—like specific security clearances, professional licenses, or work authorizations—as knockout questions. These act as **automatic disqualifiers**.

**Important:** It does not matter how well the rest of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is keyword-optimized if you fail a knockout question. Tailoring your terminology yields zero return if you do not explicitly satisfy those non-negotiable requirements first. They function as the ultimate veto in the enterprise pipeline.

3. **The Recency Multiplier**

[Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) applies a recency multiplier to your experience. The algorithm heavily prioritizes skills demonstrated in your current or most recent roles.

- Keywords mapped to a **recent job** carry a high-value multiplier weight.
- Keywords mapped to **older [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)** carry a low-value weight.
- Hiding core competencies at the **very bottom of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** gives those terms almost zero scoring value.

**Optimization Example**

If a job posting requires *Enterprise Data Architecture*, do not list the skill in isolation at the bottom of your page. Instead, integrate it into a recent, specific job bullet point:

- **Generic Experience:** *Responsible for managing data projects and team coordination.*
- **Targeted Bullet Point:** *Directed **Enterprise Data Architecture** initiatives to improve global logistics efficiency.*

Integrating the exact phrase into a specific, recent outcome causes its multiplier score to spike to maximum value. Chronology dictates value in [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/); where a keyword lives on the physical layout of the page is just as important as having it there in the first place.

4. **The Notepad Test**

Before you submit your file, you must run the Notepad test:

1. Copy your complex Word or [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) document.
2. Paste it directly into a basic plain-text [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) (like Notepad or TextEdit).
3. Review the text for hidden formatting errors, smashed words, and invisible characters that corrupt the file during parsing.
4. Manually fix any layout issues in the plain-text editor first.
5. Once the text is perfectly clean, save it out as a simple, single-column [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) or Word document.

**The Optimization Blueprint**

To pass the enterprise filter, follow these three steps:

1. **Use a Single-Column Format:** Stick to a clean, plain-text friendly layout.
2. **Mirror Terminology:** Match the job description’s phrasing verbatim.
3. **Anchor Keywords Recently:** Place core skills in your most recent job descriptions.

The objective is not to trick the software. You are simply eliminating parsing friction so your true professional capability is undeniably visible to the human reviewer on the other side of the screen.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Setting Priorities for Your Future](https://thebiggamehunter.us/playing-the-decade-game-setting-priorities-for-your-future/)

**Published:** July 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The decage game is an excellent way to set priorities for your future,

**Content:**

# Playing the Decade Game: Setting Priorities for Your Future

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
Carolyn Buck Luce has a mile long [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) of achievements and along the way devised The Decade Game, an excellent way to set priorities for your future, and write “[EPIC!: The Women’s Power Play Book” a book with ideas for everyone. https://amzn.to/3kKTdgJ](https://amzn.to/3kKTdgJ)

[***Shifting Your Mindset During Your Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eRg)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, my guest today is Carolyn Buck Luce, a gifted strategist, leader and executive coach who spent her [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) building highly effective cultures, businesses, teams, and leaders in private and public [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) sectors. A diplomat, a Wall Street banker, a management [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), there’s a whole list of things she’s done in her [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Now, executive coach, it’s given her unusual and unique perspective on building a hardware operating system for organizations and she served in a variety of capacities, advancing women’s leadership, including a past board chair of the New York Women’s Foundation, a Former Woman of the Year winner by the healthcare Women’s Business Association. She even was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg in New York as a commissioner of New York City’s commission on women’s issues and if you saw the full bio just goes on forever with accomplishments and successes and somehow rather, she managed to work in writing a book, Epic, the women’s power play. I just want to make sure I had this right. The women’s power playbook. Carolyn, welcome. Thanks for your time today.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Well, also, I just have to say, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother, because I think those have been my hardest [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

I know as a dad, that’s the hardest job of all. I so admire my wife who’s taken point that her son’s so often and it’s a tough job to say the least.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

And never-ending. There is no retirement on that one.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Oh, God. I was hoping.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

My mother is 94 and I occasionally ask her when she stopped worrying about me and she looks at me and said, what do you mean stopped?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Amazing. So, folks, we’re going to play a game today and I’m gonna be the player and I’m going to be coached today. So, Carolyn is going to be my coach as we play the decade game and what the heck is the decade game? And how did you come up with this idea?

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Well, this is something that came to me when I was eight years old and I want to remember that age because that we’re going to come back to that, Jeff. But it was 1960. It was the middle of the Cold War, the first cold war, for those of you who follow the news, and we were hiding under our desks in elementary school, because of atomic bomb drills or hiding in our lockers as if that would save us and John F. Kennedy was running for president and he said, don’t ask what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country, and I was like, reporting for duty, sir because that’s when I realized it was a purpose larger than myself and then I was no longer a self-contained thing, that I was actually a baby citizen of something bigger and that I needed to answer the call. So, I had to figure out well, so what does that mean? Like, how do I live in my purpose, and the farthest that I could think was 10 years, when I would go to college and be independent leave the home and I began to start imagining what I would study and how I would answer the call and 10 years later, I ended up going to university studying Russian and my first job 21, out of school, was a diplomat in the former Soviet Union, telling American story and trying to spread the Thomson piece. So, I didn’t call it the decade game at the time. But what I learned is number one, it was up to me. Number two, I was part of something bigger. Three, I was called to do whatever my job was and four, it was up to me to figure out what that job was and that was the beginning of the decade game.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And thus, the title of the book Epic. Well, I think of Epic is being incredible, huge, monumental, enormous, and fantastical at once.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

It’s all of that and however, we think about Epic, that way as an adjective, bigger than better than greater than all about needing to do something we haven’t done yet. However, the original meaning of Epic, was a long form story, of daring do, daring to do, and daring to be that we think about the epic of Homer or the Odysseus epic. So, a long form story of daring to do and daring to be, which actually means not what you’re going to do in the future. But how you feel about your ability, and what your commitment is, because it turns out, we all were born with the power of the universe inside us and the more we own, that we’re the author of our own epic, and feel that agency. That’s what I mean by Epic.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Fabulous. I’m ready to play if you’re ready to coach.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

I am. Okay. So, now, let me just say that I want everyone to know that the decade game is a framework for reimagining what your job is because your job isn’t, what someone’s paying you to do. Your job is what is your becoming. How do you manifest epic and how do you make choices around the right experiences, the right relationships, the right skills, and the right knowledge that you are committed to acquire in order to be able to manifest your epic? So, let’s start by what’s the purpose larger than you? So, I talked about the fact that at 8. I became aware that there was a purpose larger than me around leading in a way that would create a world that works. I think we all had a moment when we first got introduced to our own purpose and interestingly, here’s the hardest question in the world, and probably the most important question of your life, which is why are you here, but we have a hard time answering it. So, our first exercise, Jeff, it missions if you’re willing to accept it is when was that moment for you where you, you realize it was a purpose larger than yourself? And how did you understand it at that time?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

I would say I was in college, I was a political kid and started to work on political campaigns in New York, because I believe people needed help and it’s interesting how fundamentally over time, that’s become an operating system for me, is helping people. So, my initial moments were, I don’t remember which a year of college it was, but kind of kicked in for me when I was there, and starting to work on politics, to try and make a change in the world through campaigns.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

So, I’m going to push you a little bit on that because the way I like to define purpose, which is sort of what holds the whole decade game together is what is a particular theory that you have about how the world gets better that you feel, and have always felt called to make your own unique contribution? So, how does the world get better? And there’s lots of different ways the world gets better, kinder, healthier, more just, more equal, more peaceful, really something almost universal like that, where you said, that’s the shift that I’m going to, that’s going to be my life’s work. So, when you talk about political campaigns and wanting to help people, what was it in particular? What was the stuckness, where the world needed to do some shifting that you said, in particular, this is my swim lane.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And what I saw at that time in college, was that most people were trapped in mediocrity and thus, they live quiet lives of desperation to use the famous crowd and they did things good enough, but they really wanted to be left alone. They were conditioned to be ordinary and mediocre, and not to aspire and where they still aspired was about being better employees, which I kind of learned. I think I knew it for the longest time. But most people were trained in school to shut up and do what they were told to do. Regurgitate a bunch of facts when you were told to do it, or else and that or else, of course, translates into when you’re in school, you’re not going to get to a good college. When in college it progresses to you’re not going to get the good job and when you get the good job or a job, you wind up in a situation where you still have to do it or else you’re gonna get [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) and it was living with these constant and perpetual fears imposed, that caused people to be small, and I want to help people break out of that and now I have language to it, but I didn’t at that time.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

So, that’s the thing about purpose. You don’t have language. Your language gets more sophisticated as you actually get wiser about how the world works. But the instinct was there. So, what I’m hearing from you, and sort of shorthand is for you, the world got better when people trusted their epic.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

I’ve to use your term. Yes.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Why not?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

No reason I can think of.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

And you’ll have your own language. But that purpose actually becomes your life’s work. So, no matter and you might be temporarily out of a product, but you’re never out of a job. Once you know that, that your life’s work is to help people find interest their epic. That makes sense?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Yes, it does and I want to translate this for the audience and say, what Carolyn has helped me do is to go back in time, and start in an earlier age, and with my first awareness of what I now call be the desire to help people be great. She calls epic and in doing that, how it’s surfaced, and you’ll notice, she prodded me a little bit more texture, in order to explore and I’m doing this because you can engage in your own process, with support with a book with the mydecadegame.com Am I right about that?

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

That’s it.

[***Staying Relevant***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-enx)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And be able to, to engage in your own version of self-discovery and start this process off for yourself and it’s better working with someone. Let’s continue.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

So, what we’ve just established is your life’s work, which should feel liberating to know that if you look back in history, all of your, [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) have been in service of your life’s work. So, to actually know what your life’s work is, is very helpful as you think about which mission you’re going to take on at any time which is the how are you going to manifest that particular life work at that particular time. So, let’s go to the next exercise because I said your job is not what people are paying you to do. Your job is who you are becoming and that’s the objective of the decade game. The objective is to say 10 years from now wouldn’t it be cool if I knew myself, and was known by the people who love me? And the people who count on me, as and then you fill in the blank. Now, do you remember the game Mad Libs? Do you ever play Mad Libs? Okay, so mad libs is you get a story. But it would have some blanks in it and it would just tell you put a noun in here, or put an adjective in here or put a verb in here. You’d come out with outrageous ideas, and it would totally change the story because I said earlier, we are the actual author of our own story, except a lot of us have stories in our head, that compress us, contain us stories of I’m not good enough imposter syndrome or I’m too much, I better dim it down. I better not really share what’s really inside. I better pretend all those types of things. So, the objective of the game is to actually come up with your future job title by answering the question, wouldn’t it be cool if I knew myself, meaning a leader at home. This home, your heart home. If I knew myself known by the people I love, which is your family, the one-on-one relationships that you love, and known by the people who count on me, which is the world because I believe all of our [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are to be the leader we longed to be at home at work and then the world in service of that big purpose. Okay, so now here’s the mad lib, you have to answer that question. Wouldn’t it be cool if I knew myself and was known by the people who love me and count on me as. Now, you have to pick a great adjective and iconic sub subject, a compelling verb, a targeted object, and an epic outcome. Now, I’m gonna say that again, and I’m going to give you an example. You have to come up with a great juicy adjectives in a super heroes subject, a compelling verb, a targeted object, and an epic outcome. So, for example, at 60, I had mandatory retirement from my partnership at EY. I was the Global Healthcare Leader. I built a billion-dollar business for EY, which is a professional services firm. But we had mandatory retirement at 60. So, I needed to set my game for 70 because by the way, I believe that every decade is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) decade yet, but you’re responsible for building it and so I set my mad lib, my new job title this way, at 70 and by the way, I turned 70 four months ago, at 70, it’s going to be so cool, because everyone’s going to know me, myself, the people who love me and the people who count on me as an organizational shaman, inspiring humans to live epic lives. So, that became my job title at 60 and then all of a sudden, I have a new job. Not what they were paying me to do but what I was going to say yes to in terms of experiences, knowledge, networks, skills, etc. So, now it’s how old will you be in a decade?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Well, I’m currently, folks, you may not know this, I’m 72. So, in a decade, let’s work with the whole numbers.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

All right.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, by the time I’m 80.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Yes, you will answer the question, how will I know myself, and be known by the people who love me, and the people who count on me as adjective, noun, verb, object, epic outcome, and make it as epic as possible. It would have to take you 10 years to be known this way.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, by the time I’m 80 the people I know and love, and everyone around me and beyond, well know me as being a bold and blessing leader, who inspires people to be great. How’s that?

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Great. Now, I will bold and blessing leader.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Who inspires people to be great.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Now, I’m going to push you a little bit

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Good. That’s the idea folks.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

My bet is you’re already known that way and it wouldn’t take so I’m looking for an exponential shift. Meaning what’s the work you haven’t yet done? This is a job, you’re gonna get promoted. What’s the work you haven’t yet done? If you were going to goose that up? And one of the things I say to my participants in the decade game masterclass is, this new job title should make you giggle. It should like Oh, my God. Yeah, that would be unbelievably cool.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, the terms I would add in are a globally recognized as a bold and blessing leader who inspires people to be great. So, the extra piece involves the visibility and it’s exponentially larger.

[***Branding Your Relevance***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iec)

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

So, you’re getting warmer and warmer, Marco Polo, because one of the things and I’ll explain this in a second. I actually ask people to look at every word they choose that adjective, the noun, the subject, the verb, etc and goose each one up, and let me tell you why. The way you play the game is it turns out that there’s 87,600 hours in the decade and if you sleep eight hours a night which I would definitely recommend, if you want to look like either you will be at our ages. That leaves [over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/),000 hours and theoretically, it only takes 10,000 hours to become a world [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/). So, you can become a world [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in five different areas of your life and those five areas in the decade game are outlined. 10,000 hours around your spiritual journey, your sense of self, the real stories that you tell yourself, the stories, you’re going to let go of. 10,000 hours in your relationship with the people you love because somehow, for some reason, it’s the hardest to be our [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self with the people we love most and there’s 30,000 hours divided into three different areas of right relationship with the world and only 10,000 of that is whatever they’re paying you for. Another 10,000 is learning for the love of learning and the last 10,000 is your gifts of yourself into the community and your actual job is to be the CEO, the Chief Experience Officer, and the CIO, the Chief Investment Officer of your talents, your trust your time, and your treasures and so that’s the job is you’ve got 50,000 hours to invest, plus talents, trust and treasures and that would allow you to get to a whole new level of epic for each one of those words. So, that’s what I want you to work on is each one should be epic.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

So, globally recognized, sorry, I have to work with two there.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

That’s okay. That’s okay. You know, iteration. This is all about design thinking and if you iterate seven times in design thinking you’ll get to 1000 times better answer.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Okay. Globally recognized. Seen. That’s the simplest, simplest way I can distill it. The word global is redundant. So, it although on first blush, it seems more accurate to say globally recognized, but to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) and accepted as a bold and blessing leader, I don’t have a better word than bold. I’ve spent years coming to that word because bold in US culture, and homogenized, this is the convention US culture and I don’t want to be homogenized, pasteurized, or anything else. I want to be bold.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

someone who loves the word epic. So, I’m just gonna, you know, in the book, I actually give people a bunch of words to inspire them. But so for example, you say leader. I like playing with words like changemaker, shapeshifter, things that are iconic. So, I’ll give you an example. I also like coming up with new words, because when you think about it, probably half the job titles that exists today didn’t exist 10 years ago. It’s gonna be the same thing in the future. So, for example, let me give you my decade game for AD, because I just created that game. Wouldn’t it be cool if I knew myself and was known by the people who love me and the people who count on me as intergenerational restorer naming the dances that are longing to happen. Intergenerational restorer naming the dances that are longing to happen. Now, do I really know what that means? No. Do I really know what organizational shaman meant? No. However, once you’re able to, and here’s the thing about the decade game, you’re not playing it in the future. This is a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You’re playing it right now. So, for example, as soon as at 60, when I said I’m the organizational shaman, inspiring humans live epic lives. A week later, I got remarried. So, I retired from EY, I got remarried and instead of choosing to go to a beach for our honeymoon, my husband I chose to climb Kilimanjaro. Now, I’ve never met a shaman, but I’m thinking, I don’t think a shaman would go to a beach in Fiji. Like so what would a shaman who wants to inspire Epic do? So, all of a sudden, you begin to look at your choices differently. You begin to look at what are the experiences I need to have, what are the things I want to learn? Who do I want to learn with? And from and those become the choices that guide your decisions. So, that’s why it’s, do I know what a restore your is yet? No. But I know that I have a gift, which is to see the dances that are longing to happen in people.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

That is beautiful. That is beautiful and there’s so much more I can go into here and I want to go a little bit further with me as a model because you spoke about intergenerational, which has been part of my work the last couple of years, recognizing that part of my job is legacy and what I leave behind and connecting with those younger as a resource, not to tell them what to do, but being the trusting advisor for them, or trusted advisor for them, of who they feel they can come to. So, I get that piece in my way. Your way can be very different because that word intergenerational really hit with me.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

And let me just say, in order to sort of take the pressure off. Everything doesn’t have to be in that decade destination. I mentioned that you’ve got 50,000 hours and so the real part of the game is once you name your purpose, your life’s work and once you give yourself an evocative epic, giggly, juicy job title, then you’ve got, you’ll see in, as you read the book, there are five pillars that hold up this temple and those pillars each are game within the game and you get a chance to name each of the pillars as well. So, for example, well, let’s talk about my 70 to 80 game. I’ve named my learning pillar, which is one of the five pillars that I’m going to put 10,000 hours into, the wisdom of the ages. Now, I don’t know what that means, either. But what I know is that I’m going to spend 10,000 hours being curious about what does Why mean, when you’re five? What’s likely to happen when you’re 10? What about when I’m my mother who’s 95? So, to be curious about the wisdom of the ages, including ancestral wisdom, and future generational wisdom, in order to be an evolutionary leader for the epic, EPOCH that relief that we’re entering into. So, you don’t have to get everything right, in terms of the decade because you have five other games within the game to play, to come up with something juicy and evocative.

So, for example, I think you have to read the book to actually construct the entire game. But I just wanted to take some pressure off. So, there you go. You have an opportunity to be able to really think about the different areas of your life in order to name each of those games around what’s the real work now, because again, your job isn’t what someone’s paying you to do and by the way, I’ve used the decade game as have many in actually doing job searching because the being able to know that your story is really important because every company has a story of what they’re leaning into. Think about it. Every company has a vision statement of how the world gets better, in a way they want to contribute in a unique way. So, for example, I work with healthcare companies. Well, every healthcare company has the same vision to make the world healthier, but their decade mission about how they’re going to contribute to that is unique to them. So, to be able to know how to actually [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) the interviewer, to be able to have a conversation about the company purpose, the team purpose, that leaders purpose and then what’s their mission? Like, what do they need to get accomplished in the next 10 years, it will be transformative, and then share why you’re there. It’s a whole different way. There’s so much of job searching and job [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), as you know, is people talk about what they did in the past. But people [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) based on the future. Can they see you in their story? Will you be a hero and make them a hero or heroine in their story? So, I use this framework in lots of different ways.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

This is fabulous. I have to say that, is there anything we haven’t covered yet that we really should, given this time that we have available?

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Yes, I’m going to do one more exercise that everyone can do, and it takes just a second. Forget the whole framework, forgot all of that. When you feel anxious, compressed, angry, resigned, or exhausted, it means you’re playing someone else’s game, and you’re not out of your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). As soon as you’re aware of that you might not know what to do, but I’m going to help you figure out how to get back into your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). So, here’s the exercise. Come up with an acronym for an adjective that starts with E, an adjective that starts with P, an adjective that starts with I, and an adjective that starts with C, an epic acronym, that destruct that describes you, when you are feeling fully in your power, connected to your purpose when you are in flow. So, for example, my epic acronym is empathetic, passionate, innovative, and courageous. So, anytime, when I’m aware that I’m playing someone else’s game, I shut my eyes. Breathe deeply and think empathetic, passionate, innovators, and courageous and I can find that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and when I do, I always make better decisions for myself, and anyone else who’s in the room. So, that’s how you play the game second by second. So, what is your epic acronym when you really are in flow in your power, in integrity, in your center, on purpose?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Energetic, I’m going to play here, folks. **\[Inaudible 38:03\].** Well, I’m actually doing this Ph because it’s the rebellious side of me. I, Independent and Courageous.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Well, I love that we both have courageous because it’s my favorite word. It comes from the root, core heart and it means to go forward with your heart in your mouth, at times a doubt, fear and uncertainty and boy, the world needs courageous humans.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And we don’t need people who are transformational, because that translates in most businesses, homogenized, commoditized, and all sorts of all the rough edges have been shaved off as though someone took a plane out and file them off. We need greatness. We need epic people in order to make the world as it should be.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

And that is sort of the essence of the game, which is how do you know that you actually that there’s no one on earth that’s ever walk that has the same fingerprint is you that has the same voice timbre as you or the same eye pigmentation, which is why face technology and voice technology work. So, what does that mean? It means no one can do what you can do. No one can see what you can see the way you see it and no one can speak the truth the way you can and that’s a call for epic because we each are we are unique and we all have been called for some purpose larger than ourselves and you are the author of that story of your epic.

[***What Are Your Goals? What is Your Strategy?*** ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-23L)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

And if you’re job searching, you want to join an organization that can see you and accept these qualities in you. Otherwise, we’re back to homogenized and pasteurized and commoditized.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

Absolutely.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

This has been a lot of fun and there’s so much more in the book. How can people find out more about the book the decade game, everything.

**Carolyn Buck Luce**

So, you can go to [**mydecadegame.com**](http://mydecadegame.com) and I do two-decade game master classes every year. You can find out more about that. You can go to [**epicwomensplaybook.com**](http://epicwomensplaybook.com). You can buy the book and give it to all the people you love on either Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Walmart or anything like that and you can always write to me at Carolyn. [**Carolyn@mydecadegame.com**](mailto:Carolyn@mydecadegame.com) and I promise I’ll answer you.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [Make Employers Want You: Beyond Basic Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/make-employers-want-you-beyond-basic-career-advice/)

**Published:** July 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Becoming desirable to employers is not about chasing job postings or tweaking a résumé endlessly.

**Content:**

# Make Employers Want You: Beyond Basic Career Advice

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Becoming desirable to employers is not about chasing job postings or tweaking a résumé endlessly. It is about positioning yourself as a solution to problems organizations already have—and doing it in a way that is visible, credible, and easy to understand. After decades in recruiting and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaching, I can tell you that most job hunters focus on the wrong things. They polish documents when they should be shaping perception.

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1. Think in terms of business problems, not job titles
    Employers do not hire “Marketing Managers” or “Project Leads.” They hire people who can increase revenue, reduce costs, improve systems, or fix something broken. Study the business model of your target companies and align your experience with their likely pain points.
2. Build a “proof portfolio,” not just a résumé
    A résumé makes claims. A proof portfolio demonstrates them. Include short case studies, before-and-after metrics, presentations, or screenshots of your work. Even in non-creative roles, you can show process improvements, cost savings, or team outcomes.

Example: Instead of saying “Improved customer satisfaction,” show a one-page summary of what you did, the steps you took, and the measurable result.

3. Become findable before you become available
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4. Speak the language of money
    Most professionals talk about tasks. Employers care about impact. Translate everything you’ve done into financial or operational terms—revenue generated, costs reduced, time saved, risks avoided. If you cannot quantify exactly, estimate conservatively and explain your reasoning.
5. Develop a point of view
    Employers are drawn to people who think, not just execute. Share your perspective on trends in your field, challenges in your industry, or better ways to do things. This signals seniority and confidence—even if you are not in a senior role.
6. Network with a purpose beyond “looking”
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7. Target companies, not just roles
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8. Control your narrative
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9. Show adaptability with evidence
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10. Use “back-channel” intelligence
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11. Make it easy to say “yes”
    Hiring is a risk decision. Reduce perceived risk by being clear, consistent, and professional in every interaction. Respond promptly, follow instructions, and communicate clearly. Small details influence hiring decisions more than most candidates realize.
12. Continue building while searching
    Do not pause your professional growth during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Take a course, complete a project, volunteer your skills, or create content. Momentum signals value. Stagnation raises questions.
13. Prepare stories, not answers
    Interviewers remember stories, not bullet points. Use concise narratives that describe the situation, your actions, and the outcome. Focus on decisions you made and why. This reveals how you think, not just what you did.
14. Be selective and intentional
    Desirability increases when you are not chasing everything. Focus on roles and companies where you truly fit and can contribute. This allows you to present yourself with clarity and confidence rather than desperation.

Ultimately, becoming desirable is about alignment and visibility. You must align your skills with real business needs and make that alignment visible to the right people. When you do this effectively, the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shifts from chasing opportunities to attracting them.

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### [4 AI Job Search Tools](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-ai-job-search-tools/)

**Published:** July 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Four AI tools that will help you with different stages of your job search. By the way, I don't receive any money if you wind up using any of the suggestions.

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### [How to Build Your LinkedIn Network Fast #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/)

**Published:** July 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It is really very easy to build your LinkedIn network fast.

**Content:**

# How to Build Your LinkedIn Network Fast? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Small Firms, Big Impact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/small-firms-big-impact/)

**Published:** July 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3152 Big companies use automated walls to turn talented people into numbers, but small firms are starving for the high-level systems and AI expertise

**Content:**

# Small Firms, Big Impact

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3152 Big companies use automated walls to turn talented people into numbers, but small firms are starving for the high-level systems and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) expertise you already possess. This episode shows you how to pivot your strategy to a field where you aren’t just an applicant—you’re the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) they’ve been waiting for.

Timestamps

- **00:00** – The Reality of the Modern [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)
- **00:37** – Section 1: The Big Company Wall
- **01:10** – Why Large Firms Filter You Out (It’s Not Personal)
- **01:33** – Section 2: Shifting Your Target to a New Playing Field
- **02:04** – Section 3: Identifying Your Untapped Value
- **02:34** – Converting Corporate Skills into Small Business Superpowers
- **03:01** – Section 4: Finding the Welcome You Actually Deserve
- **03:30** – The One Question That Changes [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) Path

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Okay, let’s talk about the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). If you’re feeling stuck, just sending [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) out into the void and hearing nothing back from the big companies, then this is for you. We’re about to flip the script on that whole strategy and show you how to go from just another applicant to an absolute game changer.

I mean, does this question even need to be asked? It probably hits pretty close to home for a lot of you. It’s so common. You pour all this time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into landing that dream job at some huge well-known corporation and all you get back is silence.

It’s so frustrating. But listen, what if the problem isn’t you? What if you’re just playing on the wrong field? Let’s just name it. We’ll call it the big company wall because that’s what it feels like, right? A massive impossible barrier.

And you know, understanding what that wall is made of is the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) to finding a way around it. You know the drill. You find a job posting, you spent hours, maybe days tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and writing that perfect [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

You hit submit, you feel a little spark of hope and then nothing. Or maybe you get that cold automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) email weeks later. It’s an exhausting cycle that honestly says very little about your actual talent.

So why is this happening? Well, at these huge firms, the competition is just fierce. You’re not up against a handful of people, you’re up against thousands. So they build these walls, right? Automated systems, super rigid requirements, things that filter you out because you didn’t use the exact right keyword.

It’s not personal, but that’s the problem. You end up feeling like just a number, another [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in the pile. But here’s the really good news.

There’s another game you can play, a totally different field where the rules are actually stacked in your favor. So it’s time. Let’s stop running headfirst into that wall and start looking for the wide open gate.

So you have two choices. There’s the common path, that laser focus on the big guys where you’re one of thousands. And then there’s the strategic pivot.

This is where you deliberately turn your attention to small and mid-sized companies. Now, this is not about lowering your standards at all. It’s about raising your impact and your odds.

[***Crisis Incorporated: So You Want to Work for a Small Company***](https://amzn.to/4ty7RGE)

And this is where it gets really interesting. The key to this whole thing is understanding your own value in this new context. It’s all about recognizing something we’ll call your untapped value.

So what is this untapped value? Well, it’s all the skills and experience you have that might feel kind of normal, even basic in a big corporate setting. But guess what? In a smaller company, those same skills can be incredibly rare and super valuable. You’re bringing them a way of thinking that they desperately need, but probably don’t have.

Seriously, just think about it. Those structured processes you learned at a big company, that’s like a superpower to a scrappy growing team. You could introduce a simple project management tool that completely changes how they work.

Your experience with systems that are built to scale could save them from making huge, costly [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) later on. And your exposure at [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), you could be the one to bring in a tool that literally doubles what their tiny marketing team can do. See, you’re not just another candidate.

You’re the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) they’ve been waiting for. And this isn’t just some cold, calculated [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. It’s also about finding a place where you’re actually appreciated.

It’s about getting the welcome you truly deserve. I really love this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), because it gets to the heart of it. It’s not just that a smaller company will [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.

They will love you for what you bring. Instead of being employee number 47,832, you become a key player. Your ideas are heard, your contributions are seen, and you can feel the impact you’re making every single day.

So let’s leave it with this thought. The next time you sit down to look for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), I want you to ask yourself a different question. Stop asking, which big company might [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me? Instead, ask yourself this, where could my skills make the biggest impact? The answer to that question might just change everything.

### [***AI and the Future of Your Job***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oKG)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Job Hunting is Hard. Quitting is Easy. Success is Earned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)

**Published:** July 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Every week, I speak with people who feel like giving up on their job search.

**Content:**

# Job Hunting is Hard. Quitting is Easy. Success is Earned

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Every week, I speak with people who feel like [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) on their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

They’ve been ghosted.

They’ve had 1st [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) that went nowhere.

They’ve rewritten their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) six times and still feel invisible.

Here’s the truth:

The [job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-state-of-the-job-market-job-searching-and-much-more-jobsearchtv-com/) doesn’t care how good you are.

It cares how well you communicate your value — and how consistent you are in getting that message out.

Let me say it plainly:

Most of you are not failing because you’re not good enough.

You’re stuck because you’re frustrated, tired, and maybe a little lost.

Want the secret to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) success?

Outlast the process. Outlearn your [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Outsmart your competition.

You [don’t need](https://thebiggamehunter.us/we-dont-need-lectures-career-angles/) to be perfect.

You need to stay in the game one more day than most people are willing to.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) easier.

You won’t land your next job by [quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) on yourself or [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/).

You’ll land by [learning what you don’t know about job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/learn-what-you-dont-know-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/), getting advice from people about it who know more than you, and then doing the work, even though it won’t work every time or most of the time. It will work with the right firm and [manager or leader](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-leaders-manage-stress-and-avoid-burnout/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2025

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

**You will find great info and [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us).**

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3000 episodes over 13+ years.

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### [The AI Implementation Boom](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ai-implementation-boom/)

**Published:** July 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3151 The era of researching AI in a lab is over

**Content:**

# The AI Implementation Boom

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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- **00:00** – The Shift: Moving from [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) to industry-wide deployment.
- **00:30** – The Data: Why entry-level coding roles dropped 35% while mid-level roles dominate.
- **01:04** – The $162,000 Reality: Identifying where the massive wage premiums are hiding.
- **02:05** – **The Tech Pivoter:** Transitioning from boilerplate syntax to MLOps and RAG deployment.
- **03:19** – **The Domain [Expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/):** Using industry knowledge in Marketing and Finance to lead [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) governance.
- **03:50** – Change Management: Why human alignment is harder than setting up the software.
- **04:33** – **The Junior Hustler:** How to beat the 73% drop in entry-level [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) with portfolio projects.
- **05:33** – The Senior Toolkit: Validating your skills through systems fluency and leadership.
- **06:21** – The 2026 Market: Why [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is now a capability layer added to every sector of the economy.

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio, episode 3151. For years, the standard advice was to learn to code. But the tech industry has moved past the phase of researching new [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) models in a lab.

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That human alignment is much more difficult than setting up the software itself. Looking at the lower right of this plot, you’ll see financial services, accounting, and legal. These fields have high automation potential, but they require a human to manage compliance and oversight.

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To transition into a senior implementation role, prove your technical competence. Certifications like AWS Machine Learning or Microsoft Dynamics 365 provide the signal employers need. You must also show the change management skills to back those credentials up, proving you can navigate organizational friction.

The specific tools and models will change every few months, but the ability to implement them securely and maintain human oversight is a durable skill that stays relevant. When you combine these technical certifications with a track record of leading human teams, you move into the top 6% of earners in the U.S. labor market. Technical expertise is only half the battle.

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### [How to Write a Resume That Proves Your Return on Investment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-write-a-resume-that-proves-your-return-on-investment/)

**Published:** July 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to transform your experience into an investment prospectus that forces employers to see you as an asset they can't afford to miss.

**Content:**

# How to Write a Resume That Proves Your Return on Investment

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### [2 Mistakes Job Hunters Make](https://thebiggamehunter.us/2-mistakes-job-hunters-make/)

**Published:** July 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What are some mistakes job hunters make?

**Content:**

# 2 Mistakes Job Hunters Make

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

What are some [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) job hunters make?

## [***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer

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questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [Your Highest-Leverage Network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-highest-leverage-network/)

**Published:** July 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Your Highest-Leverage Network

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You already know the front door of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-visual-proof-to-bypass-ats-parsing-software-and-screeners/) to a Job board or corporate portal, you are letting a machine dictate your market value.

But most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/) advice tells you to use your first-degree connections–hitting up close friends, old colleagues, or university alumni for a favor. Unfortunately, your direct network is a finite, exhausted resource. They either don’t have open headcount or they are competing for the same pool of roles you are tracking.

To break through, you have to look just past them. You must master the **Second-Degree Bridge**.

Your second-level connections on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/), the people who know the people you know, represent the largest, most underutilized goldmine in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition. According to structural [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/) data, the vast majority of professional opportunities are uncovered through these “weak ties.” Why? Because your close contacts run in the same circles you do; they have the same information you do. Your second-degree connections bridge you into entirely new ecosystems, companies, and hidden boardrooms.

Recently, I discussed **The [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) Pivot**, breaking down how to package your background to sell transformations instead of hours. Today, we look at the exact mechanics of using your first-degree network as a high-leverage mapping engine to unlock the decision-makers sitting just one step away.

### 1. The Portfolio Scan: Intentional Reconnaissance

Most professionals scroll their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/) feed passively. When they hunt for work, they search for companies, see an open role, see if they have a mutual connection, or just apply to the ad. This is a reactive, low-leverage posture.

You need to flip the process. You perform the reconnaissance *before* there is an active job opening.

Instead of searching for open [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/), use LinkedIn’s advanced filters to search your **Second-Degree Network**. Filter by your target industry, location, and specific leadership seniority titles (e.g., “Chief Operating Officer,” “VP of Infrastructure,” or “Managing Director”).

When you hit search, you will see a list of premium decision-makers who are exactly one introduction away from you. Next to each name, look at the mutual connection.

Do not reach out to the decision-maker directly yet. Your first step is evaluating the connection bridge.

### 2. The Low-Friction Referral Protocol

Once you isolate a target second-degree decision-maker, look at the first-degree contact who connects you. The conventional, low-leverage move is to message your contact and say, *“Hey, I see you know Sarah at Acme Corp. Do you mind introducing us so I can ask her about open roles?”*

This fails because it places a massive cognitive and social burden on your contact. They have to figure out what to say, look up Sarah’s information, and risk their own professional capital on an ambiguous request.

You have to eliminate 100% of the friction for your first-degree connection by using a forwardable email protocol. Write a message that your contact can simply copy, paste, and forward to the target with zero modifications.

The architecture of a high-leverage forwardable note relies on a specific value hook:

> *“Hi \[First-Degree Contact\], I noticed you’re connected with Sarah over at Acme Corp. I’ve been tracking their current regional logistics integration, and having run a parallel database restructuring at my last firm, I put together a brief, 1-page operational checklist on how we insulated our margins against data drag during the cutover. I’d love to drop the notes over to her team, completely no strings attached. Would you be open to forwarding the brief note below to her? I’ve kept it short to save you the typing.”*
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNW8JZLJ

### 3. The Human Hand-Off

Below that introductory note to your contact, insert the exact clinical message meant for the second-degree executive. Keep it entirely peer-level and focused purely on a live organizational friction point:

> *“Sarah — I saw we have a mutual contact in \[First-Degree Name\]. I’ve been following your team’s expansion into mid-market enterprise integration this quarter. Having navigated that transition previously, I’ve noticed that legacy inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the infrastructure teams aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief framework on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag. No strings attached. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

When your mutual contact receives this, they see a highly professional, clinical asset. They don’t feel like they are helping an unemployed applicant beg for a job; they feel like an elite matchmaker introducing two peers to solve a live business liability.

### The Bottom Line

Your primary network is your launching pad; your secondary network is where the actual market capital lives.

Stop exhausting your closest professional relationships by asking for generic favors or [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-visual-proof-to-bypass-ats-parsing-software-and-screeners/) shares. Treat your first-degree connections as strategic advisors who hold the keys to the next room. Map the secondary tier, isolate the critical friction points of those target leaders, and deploy high-leverage forwardable assets. That is how you bypass the software, skip the line, and let your competence pull the right opportunities straight to your inbox.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

## [***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ careers easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), hiring more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group coaching with me**

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/): [⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠](https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter)

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### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

*We grant permission for this post and others to be used on your website as long as a backlink is included to* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) *and notice is provided that it is provided by [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) *makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay.*

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### [No BS Career Advice: July 5, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-5-2026/)

**Published:** July 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more. 

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: July 5, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Your reputation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Your-reputation-1024x1024.png)

Hot weather and I do not get along. Even so last evening I went to see a performance of “The Taming of the Shrew” in town. What a delight! I haven’t seen it in so many years, and even though these are amateurs performing in public, what a lovely experience it was. . . Although the fireworks in the background made it a little complicated

## Your Highest-Leverage Network

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You already know the front door of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to a Job board or corporate portal, you are letting a machine dictate your market value.

But most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice tells you to use your first-degree connections–hitting up close friends, old colleagues, or university alumni for a favor. Unfortunately, your direct network is a finite, exhausted resource. They either don’t have open headcount or they are competing for the same pool of roles you are tracking.

To break through, you have to look just past them. You must master the **Second-Degree Bridge**.

Your second-level connections on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), the people who know the people you know, represent the largest, most underutilized goldmine in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition. According to structural [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) data, the vast majority of professional opportunities are uncovered through these “weak ties.” Why? Because your close contacts run in the same circles you do; they have the same information you do. Your second-degree connections bridge you into entirely new ecosystems, companies, and hidden boardrooms.

Recently, I discussed **The [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Pivot**, breaking down how to package your background to sell transformations instead of hours. Today, we look at the exact mechanics of using your first-degree network as a high-leverage mapping engine to unlock the decision-makers sitting just one step away.

### 1. The Portfolio Scan: Intentional Reconnaissance

Most professionals scroll their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) feed passively. When they hunt for work, they search for companies, see an open role, see if they have a mutual connection, or just apply to the ad. This is a reactive, low-leverage posture.

You need to flip the process. You perform the reconnaissance *before* there is an active job opening.

Instead of searching for open [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), use LinkedIn’s advanced filters to search your **Second-Degree Network**. Filter by your target industry, location, and specific leadership seniority titles (e.g., “Chief Operating Officer,” “VP of Infrastructure,” or “Managing Director”).

When you hit search, you will see a list of premium decision-makers who are exactly one introduction away from you. Next to each name, look at the mutual connection.

Do not reach out to the decision-maker directly yet. Your [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) is evaluating the connection bridge.

### 2. The Low-Friction Referral Protocol

Once you isolate a target second-degree decision-maker, look at the first-degree contact who connects you. The conventional, low-leverage move is to message your contact and say, *“Hey, I see you know Sarah at Acme Corp. Do you mind introducing us so I can ask her about open roles?”*

This fails because it places a massive cognitive and social burden on your contact. They have to figure out what to say, look up Sarah’s information, and risk their own professional capital on an ambiguous request.

You have to eliminate 100% of the friction for your first-degree connection by using a forwardable email protocol. Write a message that your contact can simply copy, paste, and forward to the target with zero modifications.

The architecture of a high-leverage forwardable note relies on a specific value hook:

> *“Hi \[First-Degree Contact\], I noticed you’re connected with Sarah over at Acme Corp. I’ve been tracking their current regional logistics integration, and having run a parallel database restructuring at my last firm, I put together a brief, 1-page operational checklist on how we insulated our margins against data drag during the cutover. I’d love to drop the notes over to her team, completely no strings attached. Would you be open to forwarding the brief note below to her? I’ve kept it short to save you the typing.”*

### 3. The Human Hand-Off

Below that introductory note to your contact, insert the exact clinical message meant for the second-degree executive. Keep it entirely peer-level and focused purely on a live organizational friction point:

> *“Sarah — I saw we have a mutual contact in \[First-Degree Name\]. I’ve been following your team’s expansion into mid-market enterprise integration this quarter. Having navigated that transition previously, I’ve noticed that legacy inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the infrastructure teams aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief framework on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag. No strings attached. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

When your mutual contact receives this, they see a highly professional, clinical asset. They don’t feel like they are helping an unemployed applicant beg for a job; they feel like an elite matchmaker introducing two peers to solve a live business liability.

### The Bottom Line

Your primary network is your launching pad; your secondary network is where the actual market capital lives.

Stop exhausting your closest professional relationships by asking for generic favors or [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) shares. Treat your first-degree connections as strategic advisors who hold the keys to the next room. Map the secondary tier, isolate the critical friction points of those target leaders, and deploy high-leverage forwardable assets. That is how you bypass the software, skip the line, and let your competence pull the right opportunities straight to your inbox.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week I released a number of blog posts on my website, including:

**Changing Yourself and Others #shorts** Excerpt: True personal evolution requires letting go of the habits that got you to your current level. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) draws on insights from Peter Bevelin to explain why modifying your own behavioral patterns is the prerequisite to shifting how others perceive and react to you inside corporate environments. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-yourself-and-others-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-yourself-and-others-shorts/)

**How to Turn Rejection into a Long-Term Strategy** Excerpt: Getting rejected by a top-tier company isn’t a final verdict on your worth—it is raw market data. This episode breaks down how to stop thinking like a defeated applicant and start operating like a professional scout. Learn how to reverse-engineer the decision to strengthen your market position. Link: 

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### [People Will Remember | No BS Hiring Advice | #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/)

**Published:** July 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Denise Wilkerson, the author of HIRE with FIRE: The Relationship-Driven Interview and Hiring Method," points out an easily correctable mistake people make when hiring.

**Content:**

# People Will Remember #shorts #quotes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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 Denise Wilkerson, the author of [HIRE with FIRE: The Relationship-Driven Interview and Hiring Method](https://dandyworx.com/hiring-books/hire-with-fire/),” points out an easily correctable [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

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### [I Almost Gave Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/)

**Published:** July 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You’ll go through silence. Rejection. Confusion. But if you stop? That becomes your story.

**Content:**

# I Almost Gave Up

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

**I almost gave up.**

Back when I was still doing recruiting full-time, I hit a streak where nothing closed for weeks.

I’d prepped candidates to the teeth.
I’d managed client expectations.
Still — *crickets*.
No callbacks. No [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Deals fell apart at the one-yard line.

I remember looking at my desk late one night and thinking,
**“Maybe this is it. Maybe I’m done.”**

But I didn’t stop. I adjusted.
I rewired my approach.
I stopped trying to play a perfect game and just played the damn game.

A few days later, I closed a big search. Then another. Then another.
Momentum came back — because I never really lost it. I just got tired of not seeing results.

That’s [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) in a nutshell.

**It sucks…until it doesn’t.**

You’ll go through silence. [Rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). Confusion.
But if you stop? That becomes your story.
If you keep going? That becomes your turning point.

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### [The Top 10 Things To Do When Times Get Tough to Land A Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-top-10-things-you-can-do-when-times-get-tough-to-land-your-next-job-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** July 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Things are still complicated out there. My guest, DJ Lloyd, discusses the top things that you can do when times get tough including Covid tough.

**Content:**

# The Top 10 Things To Do When Times Get Tough to Land A Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Things are still complicated out there. My guest, DJ Lloyd, discusses the top things that you can do when times get tough including Covid tough. Yes, this was recorded a while ago, but includes advice relevant today.

[***Experienced Workers***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mZo)

So, my guest today is David E. Lloyd, Jr., a US Marine veteran with almost [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience as a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) to the federal government. He’s the co-founder, let me restate that, he’s the founder of DJ the [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach, I don’t know where my head was at that moment, and the author of the job promotion manual. His work, well, what he does is help his clients with landing their next promotion, increasing their [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) within [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).

DJ, welcome. Great to have you on. Great to be here.

Yes. Thank you. So, here we are.

Times are, shall we say, complicated. You know, I’ve been through a lot of recessions, nothing like this. No one’s seen anything like this for which there’s no playbook whatsoever.

And we’re going to talk today about some of the things that people can do when times get rough, not necessarily like COVID tough, but like, tough in general. And you’ve got 10 things we’re going to talk about today. So, what’s number one? What’s the first thing that people should do in getting ready when times get rough? Well, my go to is always my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

So, whenever I am considering moving on to a new job, or considering this job I have is not working out, the first thing I do is update my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). That’s the key thing. And making sure that it’s up to date, and just making sure that it’s a fresh look sometimes can give you some ideas of what to change and what to make better, and make sure that there’s no repetition as you begin updating those different sections.

I remember in olden times, when people had [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) in Times New Roman font, you know, back in the stone ages when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and it was the ugliest thing known to humanity, but that’s what people did. Times New Roman, ugly as all hell. And I go so far as I always tell people, try and make some time every few months to just update your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), because if you’re out the door, or you’re [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of getting [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/), [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) really hits, and you miss things, you don’t language them as well.

And thus, it’s always better if you just take a few minutes every couple of months, just update your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to bring up to date so you don’t forget anything. That’s the key part. Not forgetting because sometimes when you’re [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), or you’re learning something new, or you’ve given a [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), and you forget about it, so you don’t add it to the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

But the more frequently you’re updating it, the more things you can add that are more relevant to the things that you’re learning, new things that you’re learning. And remember, folks, you can always take it out. It’s harder to remember at that time, but you can always take it out.

Yes. And with that, also, we have [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, because [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), of course, is where the headhunters are out prowling for people. And you want your profile ready and up to date, so that they’re reaching out to you because you can always say no.

Exactly. And it’s one thing that you also can do outside of just updating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is also update those profiles. And it’s something that as you’re updating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you update your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, or your Monster, or Indy, or CareerBuilder, going back and updating those profiles, keeping them current is a good thing as well.

Because I always say, like you said earlier about when you have those rough days at work, and it always motivates me to go back and update my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and update my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) profiles, my job descriptions. If you’re updating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) on the day you’re feeling homicidal, it’s too late. You should have done it before.

[***The 10-Step Guide To Making A Career Transition***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kGD)

So, that was number one. Number two. So, number two, I’ve talked to people and some of them are, I remember I was talking to a client, and she asked me, she said, hey, do we still need [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) nowadays? And I said, yeah, covers are still important.

It’s still important to create a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). And especially if you don’t have a really lengthy work history, you definitely want to include that [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). And the purpose why I say that is because it gives it extra oomph to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Because the things you can’t put onto your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), like your journey, or how you got to your current position, or how you got to your current state that you live in. I mean, most of us are moving around, moving in places that we didn’t live, were born and raised. But how did you get there? How did you get to this particular place? You can put all that in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

You can put all those things you can’t fit, I mean, in your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). All the things you can’t fit in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you get to tell your story in your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). And when you teach people how to do [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), what are your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about it? Make it personal.

You know, make it personal. It’s a letter, make it feel like a letter. And sometimes people want to reiterate the things they said on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

I said, no, don’t do that. We are, let the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) do what the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) supposed to do. Use that cover to be very personal, and be direct.

And so that you get to show that, you know, you’re a human being and you have experiences. You can mention your children, your kids, your family. You know, why did you relocate? Those things you can’t get in a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), but you can get those things in your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

Interesting. How long do you think a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) should be? I would say no more than three paragraphs. You know, usually two paragraphs is about the length of the ones that I do help people create.

But, and then usually those sentences are no more than five to seven sentences, but then each paragraph. So you don’t want it too lengthy because who wants to be reading a dissertation during a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), but you don’t want to be too short. You want it to definitely make it feel as though you put some time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into your into your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), but not overwhelm the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

Because they won’t be interested after a while. I see a letter that’s five paragraphs, I get kind of, you know, this is going to be long. So I wouldn’t suggest doing that.

Do you have people send it in as the body of an email as an attachment? Does it not matter to you? Well, usually I know monster.com allows you to submit a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). So that’s the opportunity there. It just depends.

Typically, if a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) reaches out, I won’t typically automatically send my [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) or ask the client to do that unless they really are trying to make an impression. It’s not always necessary to provide a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), but if there are those situations where you really want to impress the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), you want to stand out, especially if you don’t have an empty work history, you want to do those things. But if you have a five page [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), because you’re showing all the work history that you have, it may not be required to send a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) to them, email it to them.

It may be a little bit overwhelming to give them another page on top of that. So just be thoughtful about if you were receiving in of that, would you do that? Sometimes, you know, it’s five or six pages, and I’ve seen that five or six page [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and added a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) to that. And even I’ve seen two page [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/).

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That’s now a seven to eight page document you’re sending someone to have them look over. That’s not going to go over well when you have a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who actually, you know, have [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and who’s doing all kinds of other things in conjunction to getting your email. So just be mindful of if you’re going to do a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), you’re going to send it, be mindful of how many pages you’re sending that individual and also be mindful of what is the story you’re trying to tell them.

It may not be necessary. Great. Number three, number three, avoid restating in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), in your cover, the things you said in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

I said again, be careful not to just repeat all the things you said in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) on your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). So that’s another thing that I see people do. They will go back and just start putting a sentence form, all the bullets that they said in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

And don’t do that. Make it personal. That’s the purpose of the [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

You want to, as I say all the time to my clients, make a friend. You know, with your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), try to make it personal. Try to tell a story that’s compelling and interesting in your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

So that’s a given insight into why you made certain [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) choices and hobbies that you love. So that way they feel like, you know, I’m getting to know a person. Gotcha.

Are we on to number four or number three? Are number four now. That’s what I thought. Number four.

So nowadays we have the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and for some people, this is intimidating for some, they like the idea. And this is the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). So what it does is it looks through once you put your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) onto monster.com, Indeed, [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Builder, it goes through a little crawl.

It goes through looking at all of those words that are on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and looking for what they call keywords. And based on those keywords, they will begin to fit you into categories based on the words that it comes up with. So let’s say you have a keyword, like engineer or a network engineer, then you’re going to start getting emails, maybe from those sites about network engineering.

And this is a great thing. That’s a wonderful thing. But let’s say you have things that you don’t want to get [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) for, but you still have some of those keywords on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

You will start to get some of those listings as well. So those are some of the, I guess, the downsides of the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) system. And that’s why we’ll get into the objective later about objective statements and why I feel that it helps the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) in his [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) world to definitely reach out to you.

They know exactly what position you’re interested in because that [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) can also sort of backfire in a way to send you down a road where you’re not interested in. I agree. With an [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), I know if you position it higher in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), it thinks it’s kind of like currency.

It’s more current experience. And thus, if it’s in the top of the first page, if it’s in the first two thirds of the first page, it likes that, especially if there’s repetition. If it’s on the bottom of page two, less interested because it interprets that as being old.

So, the things you want to be interviewed for, you always want to have up high. The things you don’t want to be interviewed, you want to place low because even if it shows up as a keyword on one of these systems, it’s scored lower because these systems kind of score things like, this is a 32% possible match. Okay, I’m right over that one.

Let me go to the 87 first, and I’ll get to the number 32 sometime when hell freezes over. Yeah, and you’ll start getting those job listings. I had a client one time he was saying, hey, I’m getting all these [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that I don’t want.

I’m getting all these job lists of things that I don’t want. And then he went back with his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). He had like, okay, well, you have these keywords in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), so you’re going to get them.

So, we had to go back and sort of look at his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and rephrase things and bring up the terminology a bit so that it was up to date. Gotcha. Number five.

Number five. So, strategy in [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation. This is a scary thing for people.

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They do not like negotiating [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). They would rather just take whatever they’re being offered and complain about it later. Not the people I work with.

I meet some, and the reason why they feel that way is because you just wanted her, yes, you wanted her, I got you, you got the job. But that’s not good enough. I even had a client one time, she actually took, she knew that the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) they wanted to give her wasn’t satisfactory, but she was just trying to get a job.

She was trying to get back into the workforce and she was going to take whatever they were going to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) her. So, but then when she got the job, she had to go back to actually do what she should have done in the beginning. She had to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

So, to do that effectively, what I believe is you need to really understand your budget. Because sometimes I think when people don’t have the conviction that they really need to say, this is how much I’m worth, it’s because they don’t really know how much they’re worth. They don’t really know what it is that they need in order for their life to function.

So, I would definitely recommend, go over your budget. Look at how much your vacation costs, how much your insurance costs, how much all your utilities, all your loans or your credit cards. Look at that and really come up with a number about this is how much I need in order to survive and save.

And then look at how much you’re asking for in terms of your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). So, when you’re asked, what is your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) rate? You have that conviction because you know how much money you actually need in order to survive off of. And a lot of people are actually surprised when they actually go through that exercise.

I have this whole budget exercise they go through to really get an idea of how much money they need. Most folks go, wow, I’m not asking for enough. Or they’ll go, I’m really wasting a lot of my money that I’m getting for my [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Very true. I know, I had a situation a few years ago, where a woman I was [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), she came to me after her [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) had started. She was moving from New Jersey to Seattle and really didn’t have a sense of cost of living in Seattle.

She thought she did until she was about three [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) in and said, I can’t afford to live there. And they’re about to make me an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). And I helped her by just pausing the conversation with the firm and said, I made a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

I suspect you know this, but I made a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). I thought the cost of living between New Jersey and Seattle was comparable. It really isn’t.

And she went through four or five different items where Seattle was significantly higher. And they said, okay, and they upped what they were proposing to her to get her on board. Now, things can be rectified sometimes, but not all the time, particularly when times are tough.

And [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) think, I’ve got one over the barrel. I got one. She can’t argue with us.

She’s unemployed. Right. Right.

And they use that leverage. So, folks, be aware of what the market is for what you do. For real, not just what your friend tells you.

Exactly. Do your own [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). And my whole thing is, know what you need.

That’s the thing. Know how much you need. Don’t depend on… I mean, there are lots of websites out there that will tell you what salaries are for a particular position.

But what do you need? How much money do you need to function and creating your budget off of that? Now, given you might go out and do all your budgeting, you look at all your finances and decide that, you know, I need… I still… I know that I can make more than that. That’s totally fine. But at least you still have an idea of what your operating expenses are.

And I’m also going to remind you that from the time they start asking you about what you’re looking for, what your current compensation is, they’re negotiating. Right. Job hunters think that negotiation takes place at the end.

No, it takes place every time they’re asking a money question. That’s negotiation. So, don’t be surprised.

And there are ways to duck off of this that I know I’ve done in other videos and other [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). But for today, because we’re a little tight on time, let’s keep going. Number six.

Number six. So, what I ask people to do, especially in this particular time period where we’re looking at the whole pandemic and possibly heading to a recession, you want to take online courses. You want to show [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) that, hey, I’m learning new skills and I have new skills to provide.

So, and what’s great is a lot of [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) that’s online is free. So, I go to Unimi, Coursa. I go to these places and look and see what are trainings that are available that I could possibly get a certificate for that is free.

Or I pay, I think at Unimi you can pay $13, $15 for a class and it’s really reasonable price that they have for me. They give you a certificate and that’s something you can put on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). And so, that’s an opportunity there for you to become more competitive.

Great. Folks, Unimi is spelled U-D-E-M-I. There’s Coursera, C-O-U-R-S-E-R-A.

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I was looking for a friend of mine yesterday. Heck, Harvard has classes online that you can take for nothing or very little, like really very little. So, there’s ways to continue your [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and keep improving because that is a signal of someone who’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) motivated.

Yes. I like to see that someone who enjoys learning. And regardless of age, I talked to some people like, oh, well, I’m at a certain age, should I go back to school? And it just depends what your goals are, but you still should always continue on taking courses and learning something new.

Agreed. You may have noticed this face of mine is not 24. And I’ll simply say, older workers cop to [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) much too easily.

They think they’re getting turned down because of their age. Most of the time, it isn’t. Now, sometimes it is.

Most of the time, it’s skills deficiency, lack of preparation. Now, they’ve done nothing to upgrade their talents over the last few years. Their background is dated.

That’s the biggest issue or they don’t know how to present themselves. So, folks, keep taking classes. It makes a big difference.

Right. And I always say when someone who’s older, you have a ton of experience and that experience needs to be passed on to the younger generation. So, that’s one of the things that you show up with, that I have the ability to help others get better and help train.

So, I’m always looking at when I have a person who is older, I want to encourage them to include that [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) that they’re willing to train others on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Absolutely. And I’ll also say, folks, if you get the question that basically translates into, hey, look, I’m 34 and you’re not.

How do you feel about working with someone older than you? I’ll just simply say, folks, the way to respond is to say something to the effect of, I’ve been in your seat. I don’t want to be in your seat. I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to help you if you want it.

If you don’t want it, my feelings aren’t hurt. I’ll keep my mouth shut and do what you want me to do. And to say it with conviction, not just as though you’re going, well, and make it seem like you’re making it up on the fly.

Like you have to be real clear about this. I don’t want to be in your seat at all. If you want my advice, I’ll give it to you.

If you don’t want my advice, my feelings aren’t hurt. I’ll just do my job. I’m okay with that.

And people respond well to that. And I know that’s the big issue that a lot of older professionals have when they go on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and they see the older manager and their first response is to go, oh, I’m doomed. Seven, we’re up to number seven.

So be flexible. So sometimes when we’re stuck in a particular position and we, especially when you feel stuck and people want to get out of that particular position, they want to grow. They want to do other things and see other people who are moving ahead and they are not.

And how do you find flexibility? It may not be the answer is that I want to move to a different position or a different job or a different company. It’s just, I want to move to some greater responsibilities and greater opportunities. So if you’re in the government, my customers are government employees or they are contractors to the federal government.

I try to encourage them to look at what they call a TV wise, which is temporary duty [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), which is what will happen is they will look out and see what positions are open or who can they shadow. And they will begin getting credit for that. They can put that on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for all that [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) they’ve gotten working in a different environment, maybe a different unit or division, or they may shadow one of their coworkers and the team they’re currently with.

But that’s all things that will, you can put on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and because they are tracking that the government actually tracks this, they will help you. Those items you learn will help you get that job. So if there are a particular job that you’re interested in that you want to someday, hopefully apply for, then you will find the person who’s already doing that job and begin to sort of shadow them.

And then what happens is when you’re ready to apply for that job, you can say, I’ve already done a lot of those duties already have already have already accomplished those tasks. And that makes you more competitive for that position. Interesting.

It’s an interesting approach that the government takes. Number eight. So number eight, prepare to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) virtually.

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

So especially now we’re doing a lot of virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and people are finding out that they don’t [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) very well on the Zoom meeting. They don’t have that connection. They can’t make that connection.

And I guess I’ve never thought about that until I started talking to individuals about, hey, I’m getting interviewed and I’m doing them in Zoom meetings, but there’s something that’s not clicking. And I’m saying, well, do you smile? And they’re like, I don’t know. I do, you know, do you open the conversation up with a, with an opening? So no, not when we first started this conversation, it was like, hey, how are you? You know, how are things going? I really just didn’t jump into, you know, the top 10.

We actually had a little banter back and forth. So you want to do that before the meeting. Sometimes everyone has conversations.

So the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) may not do that, but still it’s on you to do that. One of the things back here, you see behind me, I have a ton of books behind me. So if I was the interviewer, then what I would do is if I was you and I was the interviewer, then you would simply say, hey, you know, I see you’re a book lover.

You know, what kind of books have you read lately? My face would light up because I’m a book guy. So that’s a great conversational opener. So that when you’re engaging online, you don’t have an office to really look and say, okay, let me see what’s on his desk.

So I can start a conversation about that. Cause that’s something that I do in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I try to find things that are interesting or are conversation openers in the person’s office.

But since you don’t have that ability, you want to have to really, you know, look behind the person and see, do I see any pictures or I see a fern? I think that’s a fern behind you. But that’s a conversation opener. Once you get a chuckle, you get a laugh that helps out in terms of breaking the ice.

Um, when you’re doing a zoom. Absolutely. Nine, sorry.

Nine. Well, my number nine suggestion I have send a thank you letter. So, uh, we don’t do this anymore.

I don’t, don’t send thank you letters anymore or thank you emails any, any longer. It’s sort of outdated, but it’s a great way to make yourself stand out. It’s superb.

So, um, uh, sending a thank you email is awesome. That’s great. Um, to say, Hey, I enjoyed the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Thank you for meeting with me. Um, hopefully I’ll hear a decision, uh, in a certain timeframe. If you know, the timeframe is a great, but no one sends hand letter written, thank you letters anymore.

Thank you notes any longer. If you really want to stand out, then I would do that. If I really wanted to stand out.

So before I leave the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I would definitely try to get the person’s car in order to find a way to get in contact with them through mail. And then maybe immediately after the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), um, put together a thank you letter. So that way, um, you will, uh, sort of surprise them with that.

And, um, it’s another way, if you know, the time period when they’re going to make a decision and say, it’s going to be two weeks from the day of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), then you can schedule that thank you letter so that they, so by the time they forgotten about maybe your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), then they have a little reminder and say, Hey, remember me? That thing that can be scheduled, that thing can be scheduled so that, um, you can come up in their memory one more time before they make their final decision. If you know, around the timeframe, they’re going to make that decision. And it’s a little bit farther out into the future.

That was number nine, if I’m not mistaken, right? Number nine. Number 10. Number 10, the most important out of all of them, be patient.

***[Game Show Interviewing](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-17Y)***

And that one’s interesting. Go into more about being patient. So one of the things that because we’re so busy, I get the job that I get the job that I do well, that I do well, and all the nervousness and worry about that, we forget to be diligent.

So instead of using that inner, that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), that, that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) of worrying and trying to figure out, you know, why didn’t they just say, um, chose, choose me, or had they chosen anybody yet, or just sit back and say, what can I do right now? That’s going to help me to, um, possibly not get this job, but maybe another job. So whenever I, in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I keep looking. I don’t just stop there.

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And especially if you happen to get a no, then it makes it easier when you know that you have other things lined up along the way. So when I say be patient, I really do mean be diligent and don’t just stop looking, just because there’s a one or two opportunities on the table. I’m going to do this in a way that’s designed to be playful.

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### [Stop! How to Spot AI Job Scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/)

**Published:** July 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode lays out a strict, step-by-step verification protocol to stress-test recruiters, expose live deepfakes, and lock down your personal data before you get taken for a ride.

**Content:**

# Stop! How to Spot AI Job Scams

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

That high-paying, fully remote job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) sitting in your inbox from Google or Amazon could be an entirely AI-generated [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/) designed to drain your bank account. [Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) fraud has reached record highs, with one in three job seekers encountering sophisticated traps that steal your identity and your cash. This episode lays out a strict, step-by-step verification protocol to stress-test [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), expose live deepfakes, and lock down your personal data before you get taken for a ride.

You open your inbox and see a message from a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) at Amazon, Google, or another major [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). They are offering a fully remote role with high pay, flexible hours, and almost no barrier to entry. But the person who sent that message doesn’t actually exist. They are an AI-generated persona designed to harvest your social security number, drain your bank account, and commit identity theft in your name.

This chart shows the current reality of [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). One in three job seekers now encounters [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) fraud, and those who fall for it suffer an average financial loss of $8,900. Today, we are going to walk through a precise, step-by-step protocol to investigate these offers. You’ll learn to expose deep fake [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), verify job postings, and lock down your personal data. If you have a recent [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) message sitting in your email or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) inbox right now, pull it up. We are going to test it in real time.

By learning exactly how these fraud rings operate, you remove their biggest advantage, turning yourself from a vulnerable target into an empowered investigator. Step one is scrutinizing the initial point of contact. We start by looking closely at the recruiter’s profile picture. Fraudsters use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to generate polished corporate headshots, but the algorithms make predictable [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Look for unnaturally smooth, airbrushed skin textures. Check the accessories, like mismatched earrings or asymmetrical glasses.

Next, check the surrounding details. Pay attention to warped architectural lines in the background, or hair that physically melts into the collar of their shirt. Once you’ve checked the photo, move to the email address. A sender’s display name can be set to anything, so you must verify the actual domain they are sending from. This diagram shows how scammers use typosquatting to deceive you. A legitimate email comes from a clean corporate domain, like @google.com. A fraudulent email adds hyphens and extra words, like @google-careers-hiring.com, to mimic the real [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) without owning the authentic domain.

If the domain looks suspicious, do not click any links inside that message. Instead, open a new browser window, navigate directly to the company’s official [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) page, and search for the job opening there. A legitimate recruiter’s digital footprint holds up to basic scrutiny. A scammer’s facade relies entirely on you rushing past these specific details.

Step two is evaluating how the company actually conducts its [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process. Here is an immediate deal breaker: if a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) tries to move your conversation away from official email and onto encrypted personal chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal, stop engaging. Real companies do not conduct [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) through personal [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) apps.

In the equipment check [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), the scammer mails a check and instructs you to buy a laptop from their vendor. When you wire the money, the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) closes. The vendor is the scammer, the check bounces, and you absorb the loss. To avoid this, remember the golden rule of [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/): real [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) pay you; you never pay them for the privilege of working.

Step three: testing the interviewer. Scammers use real-time face-swapping software, meaning live video calls no longer guarantee you’re talking to the real person. To break an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) mask during a call, you need to introduce physical variables. First, casually ask the interviewer to turn their head 90 degrees to the side. Next, find a reason to ask them to wave their hand rapidly in front of their face. Watch their screen closely when they make these movements.

Current [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) software struggles to process sudden obstructions and extreme angles in real time. Look for rendering glitches, edge distortion, and sudden blurring along the jawline. Scammers know their software has limits, so they rely on the 10-second disconnect. They will intentionally drop the video call almost immediately to prevent the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) from glitching under your scrutiny. Seconds later, they will send a text message claiming they have a bad internet connection, attempting to safely continue the [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/) over text where their mask isn’t at risk.

Forcing the interviewer to perform complex physical movements over video is the fastest way to strip away their technological disguise.

Step four is data defense. You must withhold all sensitive information until a formal, verified onboarding process begins through a secure HR portal. There are specific items you must absolutely never share early in the process. Do not hand over your social security number, your banking details, or copies of your driver’s license. To further isolate your risk, set up a dedicated email address used exclusively for [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Keep this entirely separate from your personal and financial accounts.

Finally, never fill out emailed PDFs of tax forms or direct deposit slips, regardless of how official the letterhead looks. Real companies handle this through secure internal systems. Fiercely safeguarding these specific details acts as the ultimate firewall against identity theft. It stops the [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/) cold, even if the fraudster managed to pass all your earlier checks.

You have now successfully run that suspicious remote job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) through the ultimate step-by-step [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/) detector test protocol. You know how to verify [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) profiles, scrutinize communication channels, stress-test live video feeds, and secure your financial data. With this protocol in place, you are equipped to confidently move forward with a genuine [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) opportunity or block a scammer dead in their tracks.

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### [Beat Job Search Frustration: 5 Expert Tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/)

**Published:** July 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I've seen countless talented people navigate these turbulent waters.

**Content:**

# Beat Job Search Frustration: 5 Expert Tips

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

For many, [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) conjures images of endless [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), the dreaded [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) email, and an overwhelming sense of being lost in a vast, competitive landscape. If feelings of frustration, self-doubt, or even [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) have crept into your job hunt, know this: you’re not alone. As a very experienced [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) coach with years of experience, I’ve seen countless talented people navigate these turbulent waters. The key is understanding that frustration is normal, but it doesn’t have to dictate your journey. Let’s explore five [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) tips to help you regain control and optimize your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

## **1. Laser Focus: Target Roles, Not Just Apply Widely.**

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## **5. Prioritize You: Well-being Fuels Success.**

The emotional and mental toll of an extended [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) can be significant. It’s crucial to prioritize your well-being throughout the process. Schedule regular breaks, engage in activities you enjoy, and lean on your support system. Celebrate small wins, like securing an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or receiving positive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Maintaining a healthy work-life balance (even while job searching) will help you stay motivated, resilient, and ultimately more effective in your pursuit of your next role.

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### [What a Late-Career Layoff Looks Like in America](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-a-late-career-layoff-looks-like-in-america/)

**Published:** July 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What a Late-Career Layoff Looks Like in America

[*An executive summary of a WSJ article*](https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/heres-what-a-late-career-layoff-looks-like-in-america-in-5-charts-63f5c809?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawLq80tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF5NkNRVjdCTFVXRzNxbzh5AR6gDBiH4YyyMxvp4bLln1WP-O6e55Q9k_yZFCELwOQi4IAhi6p5f92HQRHtUg_aem_86xN_ir5_BoAda_vceT-Yw)

The Wall Street Journal article, “Here’s What a Late-Career Layoff Looks Like in America, in 5 Charts” highlights the significant challenges faced by older workers (ages 50-65) in the event of a layoff. 

Here are the key takeaways from the article:

- **Increased Vulnerability and Financial Strain:** Older workers are more vulnerable to job loss, and when [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), face significant financial hardship, including potential income drops and the need to tap into retirement savings prematurely. Many have major financial obligations like mortgages and college bills. The typical older household’s income drops by 42% after one member leaves a job prematurely.
- **Longer [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) and Reduced Pay:** Older workers often face longer periods of unemployment compared to younger counterparts. It takes nearly 26 weeks for those ages 55-64 to find a new job, compared to 19 weeks for individuals aged 25-34. When re-employed, older workers frequently experience significant pay cuts, averaging around 11%. Those who frequently work without benefits in their 50s and 60s end up with about 25% less retirement income than workers with benefits.
- - **Impact on Retirement Security:** Layoffs can severely undermine retirement security as older workers may lose benefits, miss out on 401(k) or IRA contributions (including catch-up contributions for those 50 and older), and may be forced into earlier retirement than planned.
    - **[Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) and limited options:** [Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) can be a barrier to re-employment for older workers. They are less likely to transition into new fields after a layoff, tending to remain in the same industries where they worked before losing their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).
    - **Need for Proactive Planning:** The article underscores the importance of proactive retirement planning and building a strong financial cushion to mitigate the impact of potential late-career job loss. It emphasizes that the decision of when to retire may not always be a choice, [according to Copeland of the Employee Benefit Research Institute](https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/heres-what-a-late-career-layoff-looks-like-in-america-in-5-charts-63f5c809).
    
    The article emphasizes the need for individuals to prepare for these challenges and for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to address [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) and support older workers through these transitions.

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### [No BS Career Advice August 3, 2025](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-august-3-2025/)

**Published:** August 4, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #jobsearchtips #interview #interviews #nobscareeradvice#ai #aijobsearch

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# No BS Career Advice August 3, 2025

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”*–Sir Winston Churchill*

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26 years ago, on August 1, 1999, my wife-to-be walked down the aisle of an Italian restaurant in Glen Cove, NY, and got married. It her second and my third. I learned to “interview better” in my personal life than I had previously, and we have been together as a couple through sickness and health. As has been the case for 25 of them, we have not been in the same country for 25 of them, but I’ll leave that story for another time.

What’s important is that I learned to get better at connecting and was fearless in my behavior, two qualities I see in few job hunters The skills needed to find a job are different than those needed to do a job. You can get better at them.

Practice, advice and the right information will help you get better so you don’t act as an amateur on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) as I did when I was dating.

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### 💬 NETWORKING & OUTREACH PROMPTS

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**5.** *“Give me 3 conversation starters I can use at a virtual [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event for professionals in \[industry\].”* → Builds rapport quickly and strategically.

**6.** *“Create a short and humble [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) post announcing my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to my network, including the kind of role I want.”* → Activates your network without begging.

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### 🧠 PERSONAL BRAND & ONLINE PRESENCE

**7.** *“Rewrite my [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) ‘About’ section to reflect someone who is actively seeking a \[job title\] role in \[industry\], using a confident and warm tone.”* → Attract [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and build credibility.

**8.** *“Suggest 5 content ideas I can post on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to show thought leadership in \[industry or role\].”* → Grow visibility and perceived expertise.

**9.** *“Give me a catchy [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline that sells my transition from \[old role\] to \[new role\].”* → Sharpens your positioning in search.

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### ✨ INTERVIEW PREP PROMPTS

**10.** *“Based on this job posting, what are 5 likely behavioral [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions I’ll be asked?”* → Know what they’ll ask before they ask.

**11.** *“Give me STAR-format answers to these questions using my background.”* \[paste 2-3 questions + [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)\] → Crafts strong, concise stories.

**12.** *“What’s a strong, short answer to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question: ‘Tell me about yourself’ tailored to this role?”* → Delivers a confident 30-second pitch.

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### 📟 NEGOTIATION & FOLLOW-UP

**13.** *“Draft a polite but firm email asking for an update on my job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) for \[position\], sent 10 days ago.”* → Keeps you in the game.

**14.** *“Write a response to a lowball [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that expresses interest in the role but asks for an increase, using facts and tone that preserve goodwill.”* → Avoids leaving money on the table.

**15.** *“Create a thank-you note after a second-round [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that reinforces my interest, summarizes my value, and leaves a lasting impression.”* → Leaves a professional, lasting impression.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 202

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***Last week, I released new content in my blog, including:***

**A Chrome Extension to Find Out if a Company has Sponsored Someone** 

**Listen More. Talk Less: 7 Steps to Avoiding Obvious [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)** 

**Count Yourself Aware** 

**Why Do [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Ask How The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Went?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3OC**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3OC)

**Self-Respect** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2n2**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2n2)

**The 5 Essential Entrepreneurial Skills for [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g7z**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g7z)

**When It Comes To [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), Recommendations, Skills And Endorsements Matter** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ebk**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ebk)

**Use [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) to Write a Killer [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)** [**https://youtu.be/vMlwN8cnBPg**](https://youtu.be/vMlwN8cnBPg)

**How to Achieve [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g5F**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g5F)

**7 Easy Steps to Write the Perfect [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Objective** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-n6b**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-n6b)

**Forget Putting [Objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) on Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lO8**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lO8)

**Tell Me Three Likes and Three Dislikes You Have About Your Current Firm** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bYo**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bYo)

**Avoiding [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-xh**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-xh)

**C Suite [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Prep: Conduct High-Quality Pre-Interview** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kSk**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kSk)

**Track What You Do During Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-maC**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-maC)

**You Can Learn A Big Lesson About [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) From How You Buy Detergent** [**https://youtu.be/WsomYlYY8OI**](https://youtu.be/WsomYlYY8OI)

**Listen More. Talk Less: 7 Steps to Avoiding Obvious [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4S**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4S)

**Count Yourself Aware** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fIZ**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fIZ)

**Why Do [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Ask How The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Went?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3OC**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3OC)

**Self-Respect** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2n2**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2n2)

**The 5 Essential Entrepreneurial Skills for [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g7z**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g7z)

**When It Comes To [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), Recommendations, Skills And Endorsements**

**Matter** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ebk**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ebk)

**Use [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) to Write a Killer Cover Lette**r 

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/): Director Accepted A Connection Request. Since? NO Reply? DO THIS!** 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): July 27, 2025** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvt**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvt)

**Feeling LOST During Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)? Your Environment May Be Sabotaging You** 

**What To Tell The Agency [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to Work for You** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6Ds**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6Ds)

**If You Must Go to a Job Fair, Here’s What To Do** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Vp**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Vp)

**Ask Anything About [Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://youtu.be/QXJ3SZKfYL8**](https://youtu.be/QXJ3SZKfYL8)

**Second [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Then SILENCE. What Does That Mean?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvD**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvD)

**The Layoff Journey** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvL**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvL)

**Secret [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Red Flag!: “Wear Many Hats” = RUN!** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvR**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nvR)

**Is It OK to [Refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) Someone to A [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) After Turning Down an Opportunity?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bMm**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bMm)

**Own Your Identity** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eIW**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eIW)

**Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Questions: What Makes You Effective?** [**https://youtu.be/E2GjfB4Hoa0**](https://youtu.be/E2GjfB4Hoa0)

**Leadership and [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-goQ**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-goQ)

**[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) Lessons from Your Local Supermarket** 

**How to Create a Great [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Headshot from a Selfie** 

**Think Back to Your First Job. How Did You Learn The Ropes?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6D4**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6D4)

**Why Do Companies and [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Want to Know My Past [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5oc**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5oc)

**Functional [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)?** 

**Consistency is Key in Personal [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lPS**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lPS)

**The 10-Step Guide To Making A [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Transition** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kGD**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kGD)

**7 Psychological Techniques to Get the [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Manager To Like You** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-f1w**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-f1w)

**Executive Compensation [Red Flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/): Vague Goals = Comp Disaster** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nwF**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-nwF)

**Pre-Interview [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-Gq**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-Gq)

**[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-dR0**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-dR0)

**More Phone [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Tips for Job Hunters** [**https://youtu.be/SPux7KuhxAI**](https://youtu.be/SPux7KuhxAI)

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### [Secret Executive Networking and Branding Hack #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/secret-executive-networking-and-branding-hack-shorts/)

**Published:** July 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Speaking without selling builds your credibility and gives you a natural way of turning passive visibility into active opportunities for your executive career.

**Content:**

# Secret Executive Networking and Branding Hack #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/04vUTWa6viw)***

Unlock a powerful executive [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-your-linkedin-network-fast-shorts/) and [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/branding-and-networking-for-digital-pros-and-others-jobsearchtv-com/) strategy you might be overlooking: speaking engagements! Learn how speaking without selling builds your credibility and gives you a natural way of turning passive visibility into active opportunities for your executive [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

[***One Thing You Should Do More Often***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lVU)

If you’re tired of sending cold emails and going to awkward [networking events](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-at-a-virtual-meeting-or-network-event-jobsearchtv-com/), what if I told you there’s a way to get warm leads reaching out to you, opportunities arriving in your InMails, in your emails, by text, and all forms of way reaching out to you? **I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**. People hire me for NO BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) coaching and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-5-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier.

If you’ve got credentials, put yourself out there. Speak on panels, become a guest on podcasts, webinars, alumni events. Because what this does is a couple of things. Number one, it **positions you as a thought leader** without pitching yourself. It gives you a reason to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/) with the attendees, panelists, or organizers, [people who know](https://thebiggamehunter.us/knowing-people-out-of-sequence-career-angles/) your name and your voice. You can start locally before you branch out from there, and I know a number of people who followed this advice and they’ve had great results with it. The long and the short of it is you want to be seen as the **[expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in your area of expertise** and that requires you be **visible**. The more **visible** you get, the more **AI is also going to be able to help you become even more visible**, not just simply for this search, but for many years to come.

I have a lot of great content available at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). Go to the site. I’ve got free stuff on the homepage. Become an insider. Hire me at one of the more senior tiers, more expensive tiers, because frankly, we’ll [spend more time](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-dont-need-to-spend-so-much-time-job-hunting/) and I’ll be able to help you that much more.

### [***Avoid Negative Words and Phrases in Job Interviews***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kfI)

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### [Is It Better If My Cover Letter Is Informal? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-better-if-my-cover-letter-is-informal-shorts/)

**Published:** July 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Should I Write an Informal or Formal Cover Letter?

**Content:**

# Is It Better If My Cover Letter Is Informal? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/42ixV3opOCI)

Should I Write an Informal or Formal [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)?

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### [Your Former Employer Won’t Let People Write Recommendations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-former-employer-wont-let-employees-write-linkedin-recommendations/)

**Published:** July 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I hate when companies pull this crap after a layoff. This what to do if they do.

**Content:**

# Your Former Employer Won’t Let Employees Write LinkedIn Recommendations

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Blogging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/blogging/)

**Published:** July 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are thousands of blogs that are related to your field of work and many of them are written by thought leaders and decision-makers in your field. 

**Content:**

# Blogging

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

There are thousands of blogs that are related to your field of work and many of them are written by thought leaders and decision-makers in your field. Blogs are also a way for people to become known and to showcase their talents to the world. It is a cheap and easy way to promote yourself so that you, too, can get ahead in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Human resource managers are now aware of this and scan blogs as a part of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process at many firms.

Create a blog for yourself.

You can use WordPress or Blogger to do so (I started with Blogger and graduated to WordPress). These platforms are free to use and easy to set up and customize. The blog can be used to (and they are in no particular order):

· Differentiate yourself from the competition

· **Showcase your expertise in your field**. In your work, you will have

Several good ideas that help your company. Unfortunately, you don’t always get the credit for it. Sometimes it is because you’re too far down the food chain and, sometimes it is because your idea is not big enough. It may still be a good idea. So, put it in your blog. Be careful not to post it while the idea is being implemented. You don’t want competitors to know what competitive intelligence might be damaging to your current employer. That could get you [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/). Use your discretion and write your posts in a way that shows your expertise without getting you into trouble.

· **Talk about industry trends in your field.** This will show you as having an understanding of your industry that may appeal to managers who are looking to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone. For some, it may give them the idea that you bigger potential than most. After all, the difference between a mid-level and a top-level manager is often not the number of years spent at a job; it is foresight and understanding of the industry which enables good long-term decision-making that positively impacts a company’s future. As someone they don’t know, it provides insight into you that remains unknown in other potential competitors for a job and thus gives you an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

· **Be a resource.** There are thousands of job seekers with 15-20 years of experience. So what? What makes you different? If you can be a resource for other people within your industry through your blog, you will be different. Gone are the days where information was power. Today, sharing information is also power. If you use your blog to impart knowledge and interact with people within your industry and provide them with good advice, you will do a lot more than many of your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) competitors are doing while proving to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers that you are resourceful and are willing to help others.

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Now that you’re ready to set up your blog, it is time to take some final precautions. There are certain dos and don’ts that you need to keep in mind. This will not only help you to stand out as a professional but as a blogger as well.

**Dos**

1\. **Include links to your up-to-date [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).** If people like your blog, they may want to know about your background, contact you, and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you. Putting a link on your site to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) may also give you the added benefit of getting more traffic to your website and another opportunity for people to learn more about you. Include links to a Word and a [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) version of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

2\. **Include links to your social networks**. Just as you use your website to promote your social network, you can use blogs to do the same. People like to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people they “know” or think they know. Now, you may not be able to go around becoming friends with everybody, but you can use your social networks and other avenues to give people an insight into who you are. When people read your blog and see your social networks, they get to know about your personality and feel like they know you better and trust you more.

3\. **Be analytical in your posts.** Portray yourself as an organized person and a problem solver. Since it is your blog, you get to pick the topic of every post, thereby controlling the conversation. Use this to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). For example, blog about issues within your industry and break them down. Use your judgment to analyze the problem and show steps on how you would approach it. The problem doesn’t have to be major. Simple issues will work, as long as you portray clear thinking and/or out of the box thinking.

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5\. **Be respectful of others.** Sometimes, your personal opinions may be fine with you but may offend others. You don’t want to do this during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), or really at any time. Yes, freedom of speech is important but by holding back on your blog, you are not impeding on that freedom. You are showing better judgment that doesn’t harm you in the long run.

6\. **Keep your blog up-to-date**. If your blog is interesting, people will want more; give the people what they want. However, if you post occasionally, people won’t come back as often. Post at least once or twice a week and, on other days, [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) links to articles that others have written that are appropriate for your topic.

7\. **Interact with your readers.** If someone posts something, respond to them. This will help you to build a relationship with them and show them that their opinion is important to you. If you make other people feel important, they appreciate you more.

8\. **Organize your blog.** Separate the professional section, personal section, and family section of the blog. This shows people that all aspects are important but that you have boundaries between each.

No one likes coworkers whose personal life overlaps their professional life. Portray this through your blog.

**Don’ts**

1\. **Don’t say anything critical about previous [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).** Not doing this shows poor character and forces people to ask the question: “If he is saying something bad about that person behind their back, what would he be saying about me when I’m not around?” There are other repercussions, too. Your previous employer may have contacts at your future job or may be called for a reference. If they see your blog, they can adversely affect your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Remember, your blog is public, so anyone can see it. Critical things said about people spread quickly and, at some point, the criticized people will know about it.

2\. **Don’t promote your blog if it’s not up to date.** This is unprofessional and turns off visitors. A person can be very detail-oriented and have great concentration, but when they are online, they have the concentration of a 5-year-old. If they don’t get what they want in your blog, they will go away within a few seconds and never come back. Think of it this way, you wouldn’t invite people to your house and then not be there, would you? Similarly, you shouldn’t invite people to your blog if you have nothing new o interesting to say.

3\. **Don’t discuss politics, religion, or sex.** We are a part of a diverse workforce today. There are people with differing political views, religions, and an equal number of men and women at workplaces today. The last thing you want to do is to offend someone. You never know when it will come back to hurt you. Many people believe they should be allowed to express their opinion and, in a way, they are right. But there is a time and a place for everything. This includes politics, religion, and sex. Your blog is supposed to help you find a job, not promote sexual deviance, a political or social agenda, or evangelize about your religious beliefs unless you desire to only work for companies that completely adhere to your beliefs and opinions. Unless you are willing to lose job opportunities because of your beliefs, don’t post messages that might turn off people with different beliefs than yours.

4\. **Don’t post inappropriate pictures.** Remember what I told you about cleaning up your closet? Don’t make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of cleaning your closet and then dirtying it up again.

**![Jello shot](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Jello-shot.jpg)Not exactly a good photo for your blog**

5\. **Don’t monetize your blog.** You are not blogging to make money. You’re blogging to showcase your personality and to find a job. Monetizing your blog will take people away from your blog site and that defeats the purpose . . . all for a few cents of Adsense revenue or affiliate revenue.

6\. **Don’t discuss work secrets or issues with co-workers.** We covered this earlier as well. While a topic of discussion may not seem important to you, it may be really important to your current or past employer. You may inadvertently be letting out company secrets. This may bring you legal trouble and show future [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) that you cannot be confided in.

7\. **Keep it short and simple.** Your posts should be precise and to the point. No one has the time to read on and on. You don’t want people to think that you are boring or repetitive. Oh! Spellcheck and grammar check everything!

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### [If You Aren't Getting Results from Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-getting-results-from-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** July 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People develop a bad habit when they aren't getting results from interviews.

**Content:**

# If You Aren’t Getting Results from Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

People develop a bad habit when they aren’t getting results from [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

***[You may also like, “I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted”](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

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### [Interview Mistakes:  Not Addressing a Concern Proactively](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)

**Published:** July 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One of the mistakes people make is not addressing an interviewer's concerns proactively when you sense they exist.

**Content:**

# Interview Mistakes: Not Addressing a Concern Proactively #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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One of the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is not addressing an interviewer’s concerns proactively when you sense they exist.

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [Sabotaging Yourself During a Presentation or Job Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/)

**Published:** July 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 1723 Whether you are presenting a speech to a group or being interviewed for a job, what you wear makes a difference.

**Content:**

# Sabotaging Yourself During a Presentation or Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter\]](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Whether you are presenting a speech to a group or being interviewed for a job, what you wear makes a difference. It and your manner can put you over the top, or distract the listener to distraction.

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio, episode 1723. I thought I’d be goofy there. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and welcome.

This shows a little bit different. I do periodic [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with people just because I think they compliment the work that I do and they have something to give differently than I might [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) because they’re better at it than I am. And today, I [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) a woman named Barry Barton from standanddeliverashfield.com about how people [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) themselves during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or a presentation in a couple of different ways.

Hope you find this helpful. Hope you enjoy it. And let’s get going, okay? And I have a guest today, Barry Barton, who’s the head of a firm called standanddeliverashfield.com at standanddeliverashfield.com. And what she helps people do is improve their presentation skills, which I think is very important for [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

As her website says, make an impact, convey [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), and command the world. Barry, thanks for making time. It’s great to see you.

Hi, Jeff. Nice to be here. Thank you.

So, you worked in theater, you worked in dance. How did that shape your view of this? So, I actually come from a dancer background. That is my [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) for many, many years.

But I had an actor friend and he said that a director that he worked with had them put on during rehearsal, just learning their lines and learning about their character, had them put on two distinct costume items. One was the shoes of the character and one was the hat of the character. Well, looky there.

And the putting on, I mean, there’s so many metaphors with that, but putting on these two costume items shifted them into the persona of that character. And I think all of us have experienced something like that when we put on a certain set of clothing, a certain style of clothing, we feel a certain way. We feel empowered or we feel sloppy or relaxed or like I got my play dress on.

It gives us a sense of who we are and what we’re getting ready to do. You betcha it does. And when I think about an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), when I think about a presentation, I expect that much the same thing happens for people as well.

That once they step into what I nicknamed their battle regalia, they kind of shapeshift into what that person is going to be like as they put on their performance. Is that what you say? Yes, so that’s from the interviewee person or the presenter. So there’s an experience that I’m having when I dress in a certain way, when I put that little special extra touch on my sleeves or my collar or whatever it is, I experience a boost in my [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) or a sense of who I am getting ready to stand up in front of a group of people.

And on the other side, the audience gets a sense of something as well because they’re not just listening to you. There’s, again, if I go back to theater, there is a whole visual, emotional, auditory experience happening simultaneously. And when actors and directors and anybody that’s putting on a production, you’re looking at sound, you’re looking at lights, you’re looking at costuming, you’re looking at every little detail about how to create an experience for your audience.

So you can really dive deep into this particular subject matter. But of course, in our busy lives, we want to just kind of keep it simple and doable. You betcha.

And you may not know this, but I always prepare people as part of my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). And I talk about the theater of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), because there is a performance that a person puts on that allows them to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) version of themselves for the audience. Yeah.

And there’s, you know, and I talk about this in my learning labs, is that there’s this interesting paradox that we’re always sort of existing in is that we want to go in [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and think about these elements. But we also just want to go in and kind of just let go into the flow of the moment so that we can just be relaxed to who we are. So there’s both.

There’s that ability to let go and relax and just be you. But there’s also that being intentional about the experience that you want your audience to have. And so that requires forethought and some planning ahead.

You betcha. And again, going back to [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), it’s obvious when someone’s doing public speaking, but in [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a lot of folks, they don’t really think that way. They may practice the answers to the questions.

Maybe. Right. Maybe.

Most of the time, they walk in and wing it as though this is an improv class. And it’s unfortunate. But again, going back to costuming, what one wears, how one presents and how one rehearses, goes a long way toward how well the performance is received.

Yes. And also other things as well. So, for example, if you walk in, you know, and I haven’t been in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in decades, but if you walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), let’s just say with a water bottle, that’s a squeezy bottle and you have to kind of slip on it like a baby’s bottle.

Or even have that as a presenter on stage. That’s going to give a very different impression than, again, going to the presenter on stage. If you have kind of a clear, classy glass of water, easy to pick up, easy to put down.

Those kinds of props. Let’s just say your interviewee goes by McDonald’s and gets a cup of coffee and he’s got it in his hand in the waiting room. Well, you know, I don’t know.

I don’t know. And that’s also the thing is that we can’t assume necessarily that something is going to make a particular impression. We don’t know.

And so it’s important to just make sure that you’re not giving any mixed messages about who you are and what you’re capable of. You bet. And I know there are ways that people can distract an audience.

Could you give one or two examples of things that are distracting, whether someone’s a presenter or being interviewed? Well, I just worked with this one woman and she had this constant shifting of her hair. Out of the way. And it was, you know, this nervous habit.

And as soon as she became aware of it, she was able to slow that down. So those sort of little nonverbal gestures. Another woman I worked with was [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) herself and had it.

It was so subtle, but she kind of kept lifting her shoulders up. And it was kind of like she was going, I don’t know. My name is, I don’t know.

It was not that noticeable. But again, so much of our nonverbal gesturing or body language is subconsciously received. I know there was someone I coached last week who, when answering a question from me as part of a mock [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), he was going like this as he was answering the question.

And I did a time out with him to say, are you aware that what you’re doing is answering the question and telling me no? Yes. Folks, we do this all the time. And it’s very useful to be on camera to notice these things.

So, encouragement. If you work with someone, have a recording done, as I do for the people that I coach. How about with the costume? Are there ways that people [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) themselves with how they dress for a presentation or dress for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Yeah, absolutely.

I had an experience recently where I did a presentation. It was about 150 people in the audience. And it was a personal story.

It was at an organization worldwide called Bachaca Cha. And I wore a scarf around my neck. It was a very bulky scarf.

And it was, I looked at the video and it was not a good choice on my part to wear that. I was told I should wear it so I could hide the earpiece. But I would have much preferred to have the earpiece shown and have the opening of my throat in my neck available for my audience.

And for guys, we don’t have to deal with that. We have the tie, the distracting tie. Remember the days of the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) ties or the flounder ties, guys? God, those were awful, but people wore them as though that was good.

Trust me, any nonsense along those lines is awful. So, if you have a wife, husband or partner that can guide you, folks, take some input from a trusted advisor who only has your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) interests at heart. So, we’ve spoken about some negatives.

What should people do instead? If you were giving some tips about positive things that folks could do, what might they be? The first question I instruct my clients to ask when they’re getting ready to do a presentation is, who is your audience? So, it’s knowing firsthand, [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) is just knowing who you’re going to be in front of. And so that, again, you’re not necessarily [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) who you are, how you dress, to fit in, but that there’s an alignment, that you’re not mismatched with your audience, or you’re the person that’s [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you, or the business that’s [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you. So, I think it requires, again, it’s about forethought and pre-planning to align yourself, dress, language, on all levels, so that you can be received well and easily.

Are there suggestions for women versus men that you might have in terms of dress or little details that could be problematic? Right. So, of course, if you’re on stage, especially if you’re mic’d, and women have to sometimes wear a lot of bracelets, or jingly, dangly, noise-making jewelry, that is definitely something you want to avoid. If you are on stage with lights, the lights will pick up on your jewelry, and it will create a beautiful light show for your audience, but it will also be very distracting.

So, reduce the amount of jewelry that you have on you when you are on stage, especially with lights. I’m going to leap in on the job applicant side of this, and that could be true there as well, because you don’t know the lighting that you’re stepping into. Certain types of lighting, for example, I have a window directly in front of me, which is good for lighting at my face, but if I were wearing earrings here, an ugly look for me, I must admit, and they were dangling a little bit, it could be distracting because there’ll be a glimmer there that might take someone’s eyes off of my face.

You know, it’s so interesting because when I was a dancer, we would, before we would go on stage, it was always sort of the tag check, or dancers would always cut the tags out of their leotards, or their costume, or their tights, or whatever, because you have a tag hanging out, and women know this really well, that is what the audience’s attention seems to go to. It’s the thing that’s out of place, rather than all of the other pieces that are in place. And so, those little, again, those little tiny details of, again, if you’re going into a high executive kind of business, you know, you want to make sure there’s a balance in your shirt, and there’s not, nothing is sort of cattywampa, they want to see somebody.

Could you translate that one for me? Cattywampa. Cockeyed was the language I was brought up with. There you go.

Cattywampa, that’s a new one for me. Balance, you know, they want a balanced look. So yeah, it’s those little tiny details.

I once did a speech, and I had a flap, a pocket, that was unsnapped in the back, and it was just sticking out, and my, this was in Toastmasters, and an evaluator said that was distracting. So, great speech, great presentation, practiced it really hard, but by golly, he made it my darn flap on my pants. And I know women are more the target of that kind of stuff than men are.

Men will often give another man a pass, but where a woman’s involved, often it gets picked on. I always tell this story of many years ago, this a woman who I submitted to a client was being interviewed, great appearance, presentation, blonde, wore a gold suit at a time that that would have been stylish. And the [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) talked about, [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), unquote, the light bulb.

Yeah. And that kind of harsh nonsense shows up. And in one respect, it’s better that she not have gotten the job to have worked at a place that had that kind of attitude toward her.

On the other hand, you want to have the choice. So, I always think in terms of, for women in particular, how she can wind up presenting in a way that she’s at her [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) and is in the position to make the choice. Are there any warnings or hesitations that you have for men and how they costume themselves? That’s a little bit more of a challenge for me.

You know, of course, check your zipper. In an article that I wrote, it said, check it twice. You know, that your belt is belted in and looped in.

Again, I’m going to say this again, it depends on your audience. And there’s, you know, some places that you can go and you can have your shirt out. There’s places that you don’t want to have your shirt out.

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How can folks get a hold of you? So, I am at standanddeliverashville.com and on Facebook, as well. Facebook.com standanddeliverashville.com. Yes. Super.

Yes. Barry, thank you so much for making time today. I really appreciate it.

Yes. So, that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful.

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### [6 Second Job Search Tips: Stress #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress/)

**Published:** July 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six-second job search tip about managing your stress.

**Content:**

# 6 Second Job Search Tips: Stress 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/XERsZ2sZ52E)

A six-second [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) tip about managing your [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/).

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### [Your 5% Raise May Still Have You Losing Money #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/)

**Published:** July 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Let me explain why a 5% raise may still have you losing money.

**Content:**

# Your 5% Raise May Still Have You Losing Money #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [The H-1B Job Switching Playbook](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-h-1b-job-switching-playbook/)

**Published:** July 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are planning a corporate move or navigating a layoff on a visa, you cannot afford to miss these rules.

**Content:**

# The H-1B Job Switching Playbook

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Switching [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on an H-1B visa is not a simple HR update; it is a high-stakes legal process where a single timing [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) can end your legal residency. This episode busts the terrifying rumors about the 2026 visa fees, exposes why the B-2 visitor visa bridge is dead, and gives you the exact blueprint to protect [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). If you are planning a corporate move or navigating a layoff on a visa, you cannot afford to miss these rules.

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You have a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from a better company. Or worse, you’ve just been [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). The 60-day grace period is counting down. The pressure to transition your H-1B visa is immense. To add to the panic, there is widespread fear regarding the new $100,000 fee mandated in 2026. The reality is, if you are already inside the United States on a valid status, this fee does not apply to you. It is strictly for international applicants requiring consular processing.

The actual challenge you face is navigating the updated 2026 rules to switch [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) without accidentally falling out of legal status or triggering deportation proceedings. A safe job transition is entirely possible. You just need to stop relying on outdated internet rumors and understand the strict sequential mechanics of how the legal framework operates right now.

First, we need to clarify what an H-1B transfer actually is. The term itself is dangerously misleading. Your current employer hands absolutely nothing over to your new employer. Instead, your new company must file a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new, from scratch H-1B petition with US Citizenship and Immigration Services. This creates a critical vulnerability gap. During this transition, your legal right to remain in the country is entirely dependent on correct timing and your new company’s competence in filing government paperwork. The mechanism that makes this possible without reentering the annual visa lottery is called AC21 portability. If you treat an H-1B transfer like a simple HR paperwork update, you are highly likely to make a timing error that costs you your legal residency in the United States.

Most candidates start their search by endlessly scrolling through standard online job boards, looking for any listing that includes the phrase “open to sponsorship.” [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to these generic postings often wastes weeks of your time. Many companies will string you along through multiple [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) rounds, only to back out once their human resources department realizes the actual legal costs and timelines involved. You need a different approach. You should target companies using verified government data, specifically the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and Department of Labor disclosure files. This chart compares the high failure rate of generic job boards against the much higher [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) rate of targeting companies with a proven history of paying immigration fees. By running a company’s name through these databases, you can immediately verify if they are active sponsors. Once you have an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with a verified sponsor, state your exact visa status and timeline boldly during the very first screening call. Filtering out legally unequipped companies on day one protects you from catastrophic [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) retractions late in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process.

Before you can safely resign from your current job, your new employer must complete a strict sequence of paperwork. Step one is filing a Labor Condition [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), or LCA, with the Department of Labor. This timeline illustrates the process, starting with the LCA filing. There is a mandatory 7-day waiting period before further action. The LCA proves the new job pays the prevailing wage and qualifies as a specialty occupation. Only after the LCA is certified can the employer file the I-129 petition with USCIS. The exact moment when USCIS issues an I-129 receipt notice is the point where you gain legal protection. If you resign from your current job before that I-129 receipt notice is physically in your hands, you create an illegal [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) gap.

Once the I-129 is filed, you have a choice to make regarding your start date. The first option relies on AC21 portability, allowing you to legally start working at the new company the exact day USCIS receives the petition. The tradeoff for this speed is severe. If USCIS eventually denies the petition months later, your legal status vanishes instantly, and you must stop working immediately. The security option is paying $2,965 for premium processing. This forces USCIS to make a final decision on the petition within 15 business days. This comparison matrix contrasts the two methods. AC21 portability offers an immediate start but carries high risk, while premium processing requires a 15-day wait but provides zero risk at a high financial cost. The choice between immediate speed and guaranteed security should dictate exactly how aggressively you [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) your start date with human resources.

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If you’ve been [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), the pressure is even higher. Your 60-day grace period is expiring, and you might not have a new job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in hand. Historically, candidates in this position would file for a B-2 visitor visa to bridge the gap, buying extra time to stay in the country and hunt for a job. In 2026, adjudicators are aggressively shutting down this loophole. USCIS is heavily denying these B-2 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), explicitly citing active [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) as an impermissible intent. Relying on a B-2 bridge in 2026 is a dangerous [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) that can cause your status to collapse, triggering removal proceedings and forcing immediate deportation.

There is no one-size-fits-all advice for an H-1B [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Your next steps depend entirely on which of three distinct profiles you fit into in the current market. This matrix aligns three profiles to their optimal strategy. The Upgrader has leverage—demand premium processing. The laid-off Scrambler must file under AC21 portability before day 60, avoiding the B-2 [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). The Transitioner, leaving academia, cannot transfer and must enter the wage-weighted lottery. Identifying your specific scenario upfront is the only way to turn confusing immigration law into a precise, actionable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) strategy.

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### [6 Second Job Search Tips: Applications #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications/)

**Published:** June 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# 6 Second Job Search Tips: Applications #shorts

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### [Selling Fractional Work: From Contract to C-Suite](https://thebiggamehunter.us/selling-fractional-work-from-contract-to-c-suite/)

**Published:** June 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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**Selling [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Work: From Contract to C-Suite**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) has undergone a quiet but profound transformation. For the college-educated professional, the challenge is no longer a lack of information, but an abundance of noise. As [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and internal talent acquisition teams increasingly lean on automated systems to filter high-level talent, the modern executive must pivot from being a passive subject of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to an active practitioner of it.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in an [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) isn’t about letting a bot write your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); it’s about using data-driven insights to sharpen your value proposition, optimize your digital footprint, and reclaim your most valuable asset: **time.**

### 1. Architectural Integrity: AI-Enhanced Resume Optimization

At the executive level, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a strategic document, not a chronological list of duties. However, even the most impressive C-suite CV can fall victim to an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) if it lacks the proper semantic structure.

- **Beyond Keyword Stuffing:** Use LLMs (Large Language Models) to perform a gap analysis between your current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the specific requirements of a target JD (Job Description).
- **The “Context” Prompt:** Instead of asking [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to “write my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/),” ask it to: *“Analyze this job description for a VP of Operations and identify the five most critical pain points this role is intended to solve. Then, highlight which of my attached achievements [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) address those pain points.”*
- **The Result:** You move from a generic list of accomplishments to a targeted “solution” document that speaks the language of both the algorithm and the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

### 2. Digital Presence as a Data Point

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is no longer just a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) site; it is a database that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) query using specific parameters. For the college-educated leader, your profile must satisfy the “Vector Search” logic that modern platforms use.

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools can help you analyze your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “Social Selling Index” or similar metrics to see how you rank against peers. More importantly, you can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to maintain a consistent executive voice. By feeding an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) examples of your past writing (speeches, memos, or articles), you can generate high-level commentary on industry trends that sounds like *you*, ensuring your profile remains active and favored by the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithm without requiring hours of manual content creation.

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- **Sentiment Analysis:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to aggregate and analyze recent earnings call transcripts, Glassdoor reviews, and news cycles to identify the company’s “internal weather.”
- **Predictive Analytics:** Use tools to track executive movements within your industry. AI-driven platforms can often predict which companies are likely to have a leadership vacuum based on stock performance, recent mergers, or historical turnover patterns.
- **Strategic Prep:** Ask an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to act as a “Skeptical Board Member.” Feed it the company’s recent challenges and ask it to generate the toughest questions you might face regarding fiscal stewardship or cultural transformation.

### 4. The Human-AI Hybrid Interview

The [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) remains the ultimate human-centric gate, but [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can be your most effective rehearsal coach. Advanced [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) voice tools can now conduct mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), providing real-time [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) on:

- **Pacing and Tone:** Are you speaking with the gravitas expected of a senior leader?
- **Conciseness:** Are your answers following a structured framework (like STAR or SHARE), or are you meandering?
- **[Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) Scores:** Some tools analyze facial expressions and vocal tremors to help you project more authority.

### The Ethical Edge: A Note of Caution

While [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier, it is not a substitute for executive judgment. Over-reliance on AI-generated text can lead to a “homogenized” professional identity—a death knell for a role that requires unique visionary leadership.

The goal of using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) in your search is to **automate the administrative and the analytical**, so you can **humanize the relational.** By letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) handle the keyword optimization and the data scraping, you free up your calendar for the high-stakes coffee meetings, the boardroom presentations, and the deep [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) that ultimately close executive deals.

### Final Strategy

In 2026, the most sought-after leaders are not those who ignore [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), nor those who are replaced by it. They are the leaders who demonstrate **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Fluency**—the ability to direct technology to achieve strategic outcomes. Starting your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with an AI-integrated workflow is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to prove you are ready to lead in the modern era.

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## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

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### [The Private Equity PortCo Playbook](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-private-equity-portco-playbook/)

**Published:** June 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a specific, high-leverage corridor where traditional applicant tracking systems carry almost zero weight

**Content:**

## Backdoor Protocol: The Private Equity PortCo Playbook

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You already know the front door of the executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to an online portal, you are letting a machine dictate your market value.

And as we broke down in my analysis of **The [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) Architecture**, large enterprise databases aren’t designed to find talent. They are built to automate elimination. If you try to fight a legacy relational database on its own turf, a single missing hyphen or keyword string will trigger a knockout rule and dump you into the auto-reject bucket.

But there is a specific, high-leverage corridor where traditional [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) carry almost zero weight: **The Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Company (PortCo) ecosystem.** When an investment firm acquires a mid-market business, they operate on an aggressive three-to-five-year horizon to create value, scale operations, or execute a turnaround. They do not have the luxury of waiting for human resource departments to sift through a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) portal. They need immediate execution.

To bypass the machine entirely, you need to step out of the corporate applicant pool and target the exact operators who manage these assets. Here is the clinical, no-BS strategy for executing the PortCo Playbook.

### 1. Mapping the Operating Partners

Most job seekers make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of targeting traditional venture capitalists or investment analysts. These professionals handle deal sourcing, capital allocation, and financial modeling; they are rarely involved in the day-to-day organizational scaling of the companies they buy.

You need to target the **Operating Partners** (sometimes designated as Venture Partners or [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Operations Leads).

Operating Partners are former executives—ex-COOs, ex-VPs of Engineering, and seasoned financial operators—hired by the private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firm specifically to oversee their acquisitions. They function as internal management consultants and executive matchmakers. When a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company is missing a key piece of infrastructure or suffering from operational drag, the Operating Partner is the one tasked with fixing it.

They maintain an active, private roll of trusted talent that completely bypasses traditional corporate recruiting funnels. If an Operating Partner introduces you to a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company CEO, you do not apply through an [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). You go straight to the final round [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

### 2. Identifying the Acquisition Friction

Operating Partners do not respond to generic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) requests or pitches about your past biography. To secure their attention, your outreach must lead with uncompromised, localized value.

You need to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firms that specialize in your specific domain. Use public market tracking tools, financial news releases, or dedicated platform searches on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to track their recent acquisitions.

Look for companies that were acquired between six and eighteen months ago. This is the critical window where the initial strategic audit is complete, the legacy bottlenecks have been identified, and the pressure to execute is at its absolute peak.

Once you isolate a target [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company, analyze its public footprint to diagnose its friction point. Is it struggling with supply chain globalization? Is it a legacy hardware business attempting to transition into a recurring SaaS model? Is it trying to integrate disparate data silos after an add-on merger? Cross-reference this corporate friction with your own core competence engine.

### 3. The Low-Friction Value Hook

When you reach out to an Operating Partner via [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), your message has one objective: prove you understand the operational reality of their current [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). Do not ask for a job. Asking for a job places a cognitive burden on a busy executive, which defaults to a polite rejection or total silence.

Instead, construct a direct, peer-level observation that highlights a specific risk and offers a localized tool.

- **The Architecture:** Name the specific structural challenge common to their asset type, state the exact downstream capital or operational drag it creates, and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a clean, abstract framework you have successfully used to insulate margins or velocity against that exact deficit.
- **The Script:** *“I’ve been tracking your firm’s recent acquisition of \[PortCo Name\] and their current push into mid-market enterprise data integration. Having navigated that parallel transition at my last firm, I noticed that legacy database synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during quarter two if the infrastructure teams aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief, 1-page playbook on how we stabilized our data architecture during that phase. No strings attached—let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

### The Bottom Line

Private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firms do not reward general compliance or standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) credentials; they reward specialized leverage and speed. When you position yourself as a calculated solution to a live [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) deficit, the traditional corporate gatekeepers disappear.

Stop waiting for an HR tracking system to discover your background. Identify the investment firms buying inside your domain, map the operating partners holding the keys to those assets, and knock on the door with an actionable blueprint in hand. That is how you price out the noise, skip the line, and force the market to chase you.

Tomorrow, we are shifting our focus to **The [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Executive Pivot**—breaking down how to leverage this exact same [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) ecosystem to secure high-ticket consulting and advisory retainers while navigating a transition.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [The No BS Guide to Resume Metrics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-no-bs-guide-to-resume-metrics/)

**Published:** June 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down how to translate your daily tasks into the high-impact metrics recruiters actually care about.

**Content:**

# The No BS Guide to Resume Metrics

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you work in operations, support, or administration, your [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) is likely flying completely under the radar of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers. This episode breaks down the Seven Dimensions of Operational Value, a practical framework designed to translate your daily tasks into the high-impact metrics [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) actually care about. Stop writing boring lists of duties and learn how to prove your true dollar, speed, and efficiency value on paper.

You sit down to update your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). If you don’t sell products or manage a massive budget, summarizing your daily work can be overwhelming. It often feels like you are carrying a mountain of invisible effort that completely collapses the moment you try to put it on paper.

Take Alex, a back-end organizer. When Alex tries to capture a year of [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/), the final result ends up looking like this: “Answered emails and updated manuals.” If you work in sales, proving your value is straightforward. You point directly to the money you brought in. But if you work in support, administration, or operations, your daily contributions often fly right under the radar of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers. The value of that support work is entirely real; it is simply lacking a unit of measurement.

To translate your daily efforts into a language that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) understand, you can use a measurement tool called the Seven Dimensions of Operational Value. By shifting your perspective from a basic checklist of tasks to a record of measurable outcomes, you give [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) concrete proof of the impact you bring to a team.

The first three dimensions focus entirely on efficiency, the metrics that prove how smoothly you keep the engine running. This diagram breaks down the seven dimensions, starting with speed. Look at how quantifying a bottleneck changes the story. Instead of stating that you improved a
process, you show that your actions shrank client onboarding time from 14 days down to 9 days.

Next is volume, which captures the sheer scale of the work environment you managed. Instead of just saying you supported the system, you would mention handling over 450 different technical channels that 50,000 people relied on every single month.

The third dimension is cost. This is where you look for ways your improvements prevented waste. Automating a weekly report might save your team 12 hours of manual work every single week. Tying your everyday tasks to specific timeframes and scales proves to an employer that you actively drive efficiency, rather than just passively completing assignments.

Once you establish how efficiently you work, the next three dimensions measure how well you do it. Returning to our framework, let’s look at quality. This measures accuracy and error reduction. A strong metric here shows you maintained a 98% documentation accuracy rating across three major product releases.

Then we have risk. If you updated system protocols, you quantify that by noting your updates ensured 100% compliance with federal data security audits.

Finally, satisfaction captures positive, measurable changes in sentiment. You might show that restructuring a knowledge base lifted internal developer satisfaction scores by 15%. Documenting your high accuracy and proactive error mitigation reassures an employer that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) you means building a reliable, stable foundation for their team.

That brings us to the seventh and often most intimidating dimension for anyone outside of the sales department: revenue. This section of the framework reveals how internal support work drives income. Even if you never make a pitch, you can show how designing clear technical documentation directly enabled the sales team to close four enterprise accounts worth $1.2 million.

Bringing these newly defined metrics into a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) completely changes the dynamic of the conversation. When a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager asks a standard behavioral question about how you handle problems, you can confidently share the exact steps you took to automate that weekly report and save your team 12 hours of manual work. The raw numbers earn the interviewer’s immediate attention. Explaining the context and the actions you took to achieve those numbers proves your competence and wins the job.

Every single role, regardless of the department or the title on the door, generates measurable outcomes across these seven dimensions. Look at the difference. The vague duty of answering emails fades away, replaced by a clear, data-driven record of speed, volume, and quality. Uncovering these numbers is often as simple as looking at your calendar or your sent folder from the last week.

When you look at how many requests you handled or how quickly you responded, you’ll find the evidence of your value has been there all along. You just needed this framework to see it.

Identifying your metrics is the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) to securing the role you actually want. Here is how to take the next step. There’s a lot more to help you at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). Become an Insider and get coaching from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), as well as video courses, books, and guides to help you. Or you can purchase individual products and services a la carte. We want to help.

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### [The Fractional Pivot: Sell the Transformation, Not Your Time](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/)

**Published:** July 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are an elite operator standing at a career crossroads, the most dangerous thing you can do is hunt for your next full-time corporate home

**Content:**

## The Fractional Pivot: Sell the Transformation, Not Your Time

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are an elite operator standing at a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) crossroads, the most dangerous thing you can do is hunt for your next full-time corporate home using conventional executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) playbooks.

The traditional market for permanent, full-time C-suite and VP roles has radically shifted. Enterprises facing macroeconomic volatility are increasingly hesitant to commit to multi-million-dollar executive compensation packages—inclusive of heavy [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) grants, signing bonuses, and extensive severance agreements—when they have immediate, highly specific operational fires to extinguish.

This corporate hesitation is not a deficit; it is your asymmetric leverage.

The market is aggressively unbundling executive talent. Companies that cannot afford or do not need a permanent, $400,000-a-year permanent executive are actively seeking world-class expertise on a [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) basis: dedicated, long-term, part-time operational leaders who retain ultimate accountability for their functional domain, but execute on a variable retainer.

Transitioning from a traditional full-time corporate employee to a high-earning [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) executive requires a complete rewiring of your professional identity. You must stop marketing your biographical history and start selling a highly packaged, algorithmic transformation.

Here is the exact blueprint for pivoting to a high-leverage [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) executive practice.

### 1. Demolishing the “Generalist Leader” Profile

The most common point of failure for transitioning [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) is attempting to be everything to everyone. On a traditional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you are rewarded for broad, cross-functional compliance—showing you can manage people, oversee budgets, and sit on steering committees.

In the [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) marketplace, generalist capabilities are a commodity [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). A firm will not pay a high-ticket premium retainer for general management; they buy specialized leverage to fix an isolated, high-stakes structural vulnerability.

Yesterday, we unpacked **The Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) PortCo Playbook**, mapping out how to bypass traditional recruitment networks by alignment with operational fund partners. The [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) model runs on that exact same underlying philosophy: your market value is determined entirely by your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—the precise intersection of your core functional execution engine and a specific, acute environment of corporate friction.

To productize your knowledge, you must audit [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) history across three distinct vectors:

- **The Core Trigger Event:** What is the exact organizational inflection point where your expertise becomes non-negotiable? (e.g., Post-merger infrastructure consolidation, transitioning a legacy business to a recurring SaaS model, navigating a rapid down-market margin restructuring).
- **The Clinical Playbook:** What is your proprietary, repeatable methodology for solving that specific problem? You cannot say, *“I figure it out as I go.”* You must be able to write down a clear, multi-phase technical or operational framework that guarantees a predictable result.
- **The Metric Signature:** What is the hard financial or operational unit economic shift that your playbook consistently delivers? (e.g., “Slashing tech-stack drag by 34% within 90 days,” or “Unlocking 2.5x delivery velocity for mid-market engineering teams”).

When you package your background this way, you are no longer an “interim executive looking for a project.” You are a highly specialized corporate surgical strike.

### 2. Structuring the Fractional Retainer: The Three Tests of Delivery

A successful [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) practice does not trade hours for dollars. If you bill an enterprise by the hour, you create a structural conflict of interest: you are financially penalized for being efficient. More importantly, you frame yourself as a tactical freelancer rather than a strategic peer.

You must structure your engagements using predictable, value-driven monthly retainers across three distinct deployment models:

- **The Advisory Tier:** This model focuses on strategic oversight, board-level guidance, and mentoring internal teams. It offers exceptionally high leverage with a minimal time footprint, typically requiring two to four hours per week. It is a perfect fit for highly mature organizations that possess capable, mid-level execution teams but completely lack seasoned strategic direction.
- **The Structural [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) Tier:** This model demands deep operational ownership. You are not just advising; you are running weekly standups, establishing KPIs, restructuring teams, and owning the functional P&L. This usually requires one to two days per week. It targets fast-scaling, venture-backed, or mid-market companies that require tier-one leadership but cannot justify a full-time executive [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).
- **The Interim Strike Tier:** This is a full-time, highly immersive deployment designed to stabilize an active crisis, manage a rapid turnaround, or bridge a sudden leadership vacuum over a three-to-six-month horizon. It is highly sought after by private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies or enterprises undergoing dramatic structural pivots or unexpected leadership transitions.

By maintaining a diversified [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) across these models, a single [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) executive can comfortably manage three to five non-competing clients simultaneously, effectively doubling or tripling the cash-flow generation of a standard full-time corporate [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) while completely mitigating the systemic risk of single-source [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

### 3. Activating the Direct-to-Operator Go-To-Market Loop

You cannot build a [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) executive pipeline by waiting for executive [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to call you. Traditional headhunters are paid to de-risk hires by matching exact, full-time biographical templates. They are structurally misaligned with the variable, [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) market.

Your [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) pipeline must be built through direct, peer-to-peer operator loops on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

Stop publishing standard job-seeker content. Instead, turn your feed into a live, clinical register of industry friction. Write technical autopsies of common structural failures within your niche, break down your abstract methodologies, and open-source your diagnostic tools natively in the feed.

When you identify a target organization experiencing the precise inflection point you specialize in solving, do not send your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to HR. Target the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer, or the lead board member directly with a short, asymmetric value hook:

> *“I’ve been tracking your current integration of the regional supply chain hubs this quarter. Having navigated that parallel transition at my last two firms, I’ve consistently found that inventory data synchronization logic leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief, 2-page operational checklist on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag during the cutover. No strings attached—let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

Notice what this message accomplishes: it requires no permission, it asks for no favors, and it places zero cognitive burden on a busy executive. It establishes your peer status instantly by diagnosing a real business liability before you ever talk about compensation.

When the CEO reads that, they don’t see an applicant looking for a job. They see an unbundled, high-leverage operator who can protect their numbers right now without the friction of a six-month full-time search.

### The Bottom Line

The traditional corporate ladder is a declining asset. Relying on an enterprise tracking database or a recruiter’s keyword filter to validate your executive value is a losing proposition in an oversupplied market.

Take absolute ownership of your professional [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Turn your cumulative industry scars into a packaged, repeatable transformation playbook. Define your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), structure your retainers for maximum leverage, and deliver uncompromised, surgical value directly to decision-makers. The market doesn’t reward general compliance anymore—it rewards specialized velocity. Step out of the line, build your [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-fractional-advantage-how-to-build-your-practice/) practice, and force the market to contract you on your own terms.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How to Build and Pitch Your Fractional Executive Playbook](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-and-pitch-your-fractional-executive-playbook/)

**Published:** April 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Build and Pitch Your Fractional Executive Playbook

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3133 Stop selling your time and start selling your system. This episode breaks down the exact framework to transition from a traditional executive role to a high-impact [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leader by productizing your expertise and building undeniable authority.

- **00:00** – The Shift: Why the future of leadership is [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/).
- **01:02** – The Opportunity: Understanding the 120,000+ leader market explosion.
- **01:58** – Key Drivers: Tighter budgets, remote work, and the [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).
- **02:26** – Define Your Value: Shifting from a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to a productized [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).
- **03:19** – Codifying Your System: Why frameworks justify premium rates.
- **03:39** – Building Authority: The 92.8% rule for [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) and network growth.
- **04:15** – Content Strategy: The proven mix for [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) authority.
- **04:38** – The Strategic Proposal: Outcomes, KPIs, and decision authority.
- **05:16** – Pricing Models: Retainers vs. value-based pricing.
- **05:39** – The First 90 Days: A roadmap for immediate impact and momentum.
- **06:17** – Handling Objections: Using the LAARC and “Feel, Felt, Found” methods.

This is No BS Drop Search Advice Radio, Episode 3133. Today, we’re doing a real [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session. We are building the definitive playbook for [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) like you.

You’ve got the experience, right? So we’re going to turn all that wisdom into a powerful [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) offering that you can propose, price and most importantly, land. Let’s build this thing step by step. And you’ve got to understand this isn’t some tiny little trend on the side.

The market is fundamentally changing. Companies are out there right now actively looking for flexible, high impact leaders. Leaders just like you.

The future isn’t on its way. It’s already here. So the real question is, are you positioned to grab this opportunity? So here’s our game plan for today.

We’re going to start with the opportunity itself and then get crystal clear on how to define your value. After that, we’ll talk about building your authority, grafting a proposal that just can’t be ignored, mapping out your first 90 days for maximum impact, and finally, how to handle any objection they throw your way. First up, let’s talk opportunity.

Okay, first things first, let’s get a lay of the land. Before you can go out and sell a [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) gig, you really need to understand why this whole thing is blowing up right now and what that means for you specifically. You know, clarity here is everything.

It’s so important to remember you are not a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) and you’re not an interim executive. A [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), they advise from the outside. In interim, they’re just filling a full time seat for a little while.

But you, as a [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leader, you’re totally different. You’re an embedded part time ongoing leader who’s actually responsible for driving strategy from inside the company. That distinction, it’s absolutely crucial.

And just look at the speed of this thing. The number of [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leaders literally doubled in just two years. We’re talking an explosion from 60,000 to 120,000.

See, this isn’t just some passing fad. It’s a fundamental change in how companies get their hands on top tier talent. The demand is real.

And believe me, it is picking up steam. So what’s fueling all this? Well, it’s basically a perfect storm of three major forces. First, the economy is a bit shaky, right? Companies need that C-suite brainpower, but they’re scared of the massive fixed cost of a full time [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

A [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leader saves them 40 to 60 percent. Bam. Second, remote work is completely wiped out geography as a barrier.

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And third, more and more seasoned execs, just like you, are actively looking for [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). They want more freedom, more impact. Okay, knowing the market is one thing, but knowing your exact place in it.

Well, that’s everything. This is where we stop thinking about your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and we start thinking about your product. We have to package all that amazing experience into an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) they just can’t refuse.

It all comes down to this one single question. Seriously, this isn’t about making a list of your skills. It’s about zeroing in on a painful, expensive problem that you are uniquely qualified to solve for a very specific type of company.

Your answer to this question, that’s the foundation for your entire [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) practice. And here’s what a killer answer looks like. Notice it’s not, I’m a really good marketing exec.

No way. It is specific. It’s focused on an outcome and it’s got a timeline.

It tells them who the client is, what the result will be, how long it’ll take and how you’re going to do it. This is the formula that turns your life story into a signed contract. The big unlock here is to stop selling your time and start selling your system.

You have to codify your process, your templates, your roadmaps, your frameworks. Give it a name. When you productize your expertise like this, it just screams professionalism and it lets you command those premium value based rates you deserve.

Okay, so you’ve got your product. Now you need a pipeline of clients. And here’s the secret.

[***Networking Like a Leader***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ)

The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), they don’t chase clients. They attract them. This next part is all about building a reputation that makes you the obvious choice.

So the leads start coming to you. Let this number sink in for a second. Over 92% of all [fractional work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/selling-fractional-work-from-contract-to-c-suite/) comes from [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) and your network.

Trying to cold email your way to clients. That’s a tough, tough road. Your reputation, your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/).

That is your number one business development tool. You’ve got to build it before you need it. So how do you actually build that authority, especially somewhere like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)? Well, it’s not random.

There’s actually a proven recipe. 70% of your content should be genuinely helpful. Just sharing your expertise for free.

15% should be professional stories that build trust and connection. And that last 15%, that’s your proof. Case studies, testimonials, and cold, hard, measurable results.

All right. So the ideal client has found you. They’re interested.

Awesome. Now you’ve got to move from just talking to an actual contract. A world-class proposal isn’t just some word document.

It’s a strategic tool that closes the deal and sets you both up for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) from day one. Your agreement has to be crystal clear. I mean, airtight.

Define the scope based on outcomes, not a laundry list of tasks. Spell out your time commitment and don’t forget to include the invisible work like planning. List the exact KPIs they’re going to measure you against.

And this is a big one. Clarify your decision-making authority. This stuff prevents scope creep and make sure you’re seen as a leader, not just another contractor.

Now let’s talk about pricing. You’ve got options. A monthly retainer is pretty common for these ongoing leadership rules.

Project-based fees are great for specific one-off initiatives, but really the most sophisticated model is value-based pricing, where your fee is tied directly to the results you create. Remember, the mindset shift is huge. You’re pricing the outcome, not the hours.

You know, a detailed 90-day plan is one of the most powerful sales tools you have. It takes the conversation from these abstract promises to a concrete vision of what’s going to happen. It shows the client exactly how you’re going to create value right from the get-go.

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It’s all about building momentum. The first 30 days, that’s all about learning and grabbing some quick, visible wins. The next 30 days, that’s when you start executing improvements.

And that final 30-day stretch, that’s for delivering a major result and really embedding your systems for the long haul. A clear roadmap like this just removes so much risk from the decision for a CEO. Look, no matter how great your proposal is, you’re going to face objections.

It’s just a totally natural part of the sale. The key isn’t to try and avoid them, but to have a solid framework so you can handle them with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and turn that concern into a signed contract. Here’s a super powerful professional framework.

It’s called LARC. First, you just listen. Don’t interrupt, just listen.

Then, acknowledge their concern so they know you heard them. Next, assess the real issue. Maybe ask a few questions.

Then, and only then, you respond with facts or evidence. And finally, you confirm that you’ve addressed their concern. It’s a structured, respectful process that just builds massive trust.

Now for price objections, this feel-felt-found technique is just incredible because it’s all about empathy. You start by validating their feeling. I totally understand how you feel.

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### [The Quality to Run to and Not From](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-quality-to-run-to-and-not-from/)

**Published:** July 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a quality that people run from WAY too often. People should run to it, not from it.

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# The Quality to Run to and Not From

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [AI Scams in Recruiting: What Job Hunters Need to Watch For](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-scams-in-recruiting-what-job-hunters-need-to-watch-for/)

**Published:** June 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The best defense is knowing the most common scam patterns and checking each one against basic verification steps.

**Content:**

# AI Scams in Recruiting: What Job Hunters Need to Watch For

Artificial intelligence has made job searching faster, but it has also made recruiting scams more convincing. Fake [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can now use AI-written messages, cloned voices, polished profiles, and realistic-looking job posts to lure candidates into giving away money, personal data, or access to their accounts. The result is a new generation of [job scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) that can look legitimate at first glance but fall apart under careful review.

Job hunters should assume that a professional-looking email, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, or [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) invite is not proof that an opportunity is real. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) defense is knowing the most common [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) patterns and checking each one against basic verification steps.

## 10 AI recruiting scams

1. **Fake [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) impersonation.** Scammers pose as [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) from real companies and contact candidates with legitimate-sounding job offers.
2. **Phony job postings.** Fraudsters publish [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) that do not exist, often copied from real descriptions to look credible.
3. **Email-domain spoofing.** The scammer uses a personal email or a lookalike domain instead of the company’s official address.
4. **Text-message recruiting scams.** Candidates receive unsolicited SMS messages claiming to be from HR or a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/), then are pushed to respond quickly.
5. **WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal-only recruiting.** The scammer tries to move all communication off normal professional channels.
6. **Advance-fee scams.** The “employer” asks for payment for equipment, onboarding, background checks, [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), or visa processing.
7. **Identity theft requests.** Scammers ask for Social Security numbers, banking details, copies of IDs, or other sensitive data far too early.
8. **Deepfake [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).** AI-generated audio or video is used to impersonate a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) or manager in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) or screening call.
9. **Fake assessment portals.** The candidate is sent to a bogus test site or [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) portal designed to harvest credentials or payment information.
10. **Instant-offer pressure scams.** The scammer rushes the candidate to accept immediately, skip normal [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), or act before the role disappears.

## Red flags to notice

There are several consistent warning signs across these scams. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) who refuses to use a company email, will not provide a direct phone number, or cannot be found on the employer’s website is a major red flag. [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) that sound unusually easy, pay far above market, or [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) immediate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) with little screening also deserve suspicion.

Poor grammar can still be a clue, but it is no longer the only one because AI-generated messages can be polished and persuasive. That means candidates should pay closer attention to the structure of the interaction: urgency, secrecy, unusual communication channels, and requests for money or sensitive data are more important warning signs than spelling alone.

## How to verify legitimacy

The fastest check is to verify the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) independently. Look up the person on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), check whether their profile has history, connections, and company alignment, and then confirm their identity through the employer’s official website or switchboard. If the job is real, a legitimate company should be able to confirm that the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) works there and that the opening exists.

You can also test the conversation with simple validation questions. Ask for the company’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process, the manager’s name, the role’s location, or a posting link on the official [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) page. If the person gets evasive, becomes aggressive, or insists that you continue only through an encrypted chat app, treat that as a warning sign rather than proof of urgency.

For video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), watch for inconsistencies in lighting, lip movement, voice quality, or camera behavior that suggest a deepfake or a person reading scripted responses. A closer inspection of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) details such as profile age and connections, plus face-to-face verification when possible, can help expose fraud.

## What job hunters should do

Never pay to apply for a job, and never send banking details, government IDs, or login credentials to someone you have not independently verified. Be cautious with links in emails or text messages, especially if they lead to a new portal or require immediate login. If something feels off, stop the exchange, document what happened, and report the posting or [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) to the platform and the real company being impersonated.

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) scams in recruiting work because they borrow the look and language of real [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/). Job hunters who slow down, verify identities, and trust process over pressure are much less likely to get caught.

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### [Do What Jerry Seinfeld Does #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-what-jerry-seinfeld-does-shorts-2/)

**Published:** June 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jerry Seinfeld is NOT a poor man. He's smart. Do what Jerry does.

**Content:**

# Do What Jerry Seinfeld Does #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Jerry Seinfeld is NOT a poor man. He’s smart. Do what Jerry does.

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### [Writing an Impactful Resume (for Felons)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-an-impactful-resume-for-felons/)

**Published:** June 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A well-crafted resume can be a powerful tool in overcoming these obstacles and increasing your chances of securing a job opportunity.

**Content:**

# Writing an Impactful Resume (for Felons)

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### [The Recruiter Told Me, “We'll Make a Decision by Next Friday.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-recruiter-told-me-well-make-a-decision-by-next-friday-is-this-typical/)

**Published:** June 28, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Will I get an offer or it is just a standard end of interview?

**Content:**

# The Recruiter Told Me, “We’ll Make a Decision by Next Friday. Is This Typical?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Decoding Taleo: How to Beat the Enterprise Filter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/)

**Published:** July 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most of the advice you read about Applicant Tracking Systems treats the software as a monolith.

**Content:**

## Decoding Taleo: How to Beat the Enterprise Filter

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most of the advice you read about Applicant Tracking Systems treats the software as a monolith. You are told to strip out formatting, match your keywords, and cross your fingers. While that baseline compliance works for lighter, mid-market platforms like Greenhouse or Lever, it fails catastrophically when your file hits an enterprise-grade monster like Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/).

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### The Common Ground: Baseline Automated Processing

Before breaking down Taleo’s unique structural architecture, we must acknowledge where it aligns with the broader [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) market. Like any tracking database, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) utilizes a natural language processing (NLP) tokenization engine to strip a document down into its component parts: contact data, [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) chronology, education, and specific skills.

If your file contains complex visual layouts—such as dual-column formats, graphical skill bars, icons, embedded images, headers, or footers—Taleo will scramble the structural reading order just like any other platform. It reads text strictly from left to right, top to bottom. A two-column layout means the software will read line one of column one and stitch it directly into line one of column two, turning your pristine executive bio into a garbled string of database noise.

But clearing this baseline hurdle is only table stakes. Once the data is inside the system, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) treats your history with a specific, rigid scoring logic that other systems have long abandoned.

### The Taleo Disconnect: Where Generic Optimization Fails

The defining structural difference between [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) and newer platforms is its reliance on a mechanism known as the **Pre-Screening Matrix and the Scoring Threshold**.

In agile systems like Greenhouse, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) opens a requisition and immediately looks at a feed of incoming [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). The software acts primarily as an organizational repository. In [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/), the software acts as an active gatekeeper before a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ever receives a notification that you applied.

### 1. Exact Terminology Still Matters

Many modern applicant tracking systems incorporate AI-assisted search, semantic matching, and contextual analysis that can recognize some related job titles and skills. Depending on the platform and its configuration, a candidate whose [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) says “Cloud Product Lead” may still appear in searches for “SaaS Product Manager.”

Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) often rewards a more literal approach. Although different organizations configure [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) differently—and Oracle has never publicly documented every aspect of its ranking algorithms—many [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) using [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) rely on keyword searches, Boolean queries, parsed candidate profiles, or screening criteria that work [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) when your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) contains the same terminology used in the job posting.

If a position repeatedly refers to “Cross-Functional Project Management,” and that phrase accurately describes your experience, include those words naturally in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) rather than relying only on alternative wording such as “coordinated multi-disciplinary initiatives.” Using the employer’s language improves the likelihood that both the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will recognize your qualifications.

The lesson is straightforward: don’t replace important industry terminology with creative synonyms simply to avoid repetition. Strategic repetition of relevant keywords helps both software and human reviewers.

### 2. Required Qualifications Carry More Weight Than Preferred Qualifications

Most enterprise [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) platforms, including [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/), allow [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to define required qualifications, preferred qualifications, screening questions, and workflow rules. How those features are configured varies from one employer to another.

Many organizations use knockout questions to eliminate applicants who do not meet non-negotiable requirements, such as work authorization, required certifications, professional licenses, security clearances, or minimum education. These screening questions often have a greater impact on your application’s progress than keyword matching alone.

For qualifications that are not enforced through knockout questions, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) typically review [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) based on a combination of search results, required skills, experience, and overall fit. Missing one preferred qualification does not automatically eliminate every candidate.

Your objective should be to demonstrate that you satisfy as many required qualifications as honestly possible while incorporating the language used throughout the job description.

### 3. Recent Experience Is More Influential Than Older Experience

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) consistently place greater emphasis on recent experience than work performed many years ago. Whether they search manually or use [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) search tools, they typically want to see that the skills required for the position have been used recently and in meaningful business situations.

For that reason, don’t hide your strongest qualifications inside a skills section at the end of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Reinforce your most important technical skills, methodologies, certifications, and business accomplishments within the bullet points describing your current or most recent positions.

If “Enterprise Data Architecture” is central to the position you’re pursuing, show how you applied that expertise in your recent work rather than listing it only in a summary of skills. This approach benefits both [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) searches and human readers because it demonstrates current proficiency supported by real accomplishments.

## Optimizing Your Resume for Taleo

### Mirror Important Terminology

Study the job description carefully and identify the technical skills, certifications, software, methodologies, and business functions that appear repeatedly. When those terms accurately describe your background, use the employer’s preferred wording throughout your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

For example, if the posting references “Master of Business Administration (MBA),” there is no disadvantage to presenting the credential in that same format rather than using only the abbreviation.

### Integrate Keywords Into Your Experience

Don’t rely exclusively on a Core Competencies section to communicate your qualifications. Incorporate the most important skills naturally into your professional experience, especially within your most recent positions, where [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are most likely to focus their attention.

### Test Your Resume Before Uploading

Before submitting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), copy its contents into a plain-text editor such as Notepad. This simple test helps identify hidden formatting problems, merged words, text boxes, unusual characters, or layout issues that may interfere with [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) parsing.

Once the text appears clean and readable, submit either a properly formatted Word document (.docx) or a text-based [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) if the employer accepts both formats. A clean, single-column layout remains the most reliable choice for virtually every [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), including [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/).

### The Taleo Engineering Blueprint: How to Restructure Your File

To survive this enterprise filter, you must abandon the standard aesthetic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and build a document designed to feed Taleo’s relational database exactly what its configuration schema demands.

- **Mirror the Exact Structural Taxonomy:** Print out the target job description. Isolate the nouns, acronyms, and operational tools listed under the qualifications headers. If the company lists “Master of Business Administration (MBA)” with parentheses, format it exactly that way on your document. Do not just write “MBA.” Match their capitalization, punctuation, and phrasing verbatim.
- **Anchor Your Core Keywords in Your Current Role:** Do not rely on a standalone “Core Competencies” section to carry your keyword strategy. [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) looks for chronology. Take the most critical requirements from the job description and weave them explicitly into the first three bullet points of your current or most recent position. This ensures the algorithm calculates your “Recent Use” multiplier at peak value.
- **Convert to a Pure Plain-Text Format First:** Before uploading your document to an enterprise portal, paste the entire text into a basic Notepad or plain-text editor. If you notice words smashing together, or your formatting creating strange character strings, fix those errors in the plain-text file first, then re-save it as a clean, single-column [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) or Word document. This guarantees the parsing engine reads your timeline without data corruption.

### The Bottom Line

Enterprise talent acquisition teams use applicant tracking systems such as Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategies-for-beating-the-enterprise-filter-in-taleo/) to manage high volumes of applicants, organize candidate data, support compliance requirements, and help [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) identify candidates who meet defined [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) criteria. These systems are designed to improve efficiency and consistency in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) workflows, not to independently evaluate someone’s full professional capability.

Because [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are processed through parsing and search functions, clarity and structure matter. If a document is overly complex in layout or inconsistent in formatting, key details may be misread, misclassified, or harder for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to locate. A clean, straightforward format helps ensure your experience is accurately captured and searchable within the system.

It is also important to use clear, industry-recognized terminology when describing your skills and experience. Aligning your wording with the language used in the job description—when it accurately reflects your background—can improve how easily your profile is found in [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) searches and how well it is understood during review.

Your objective is not to “impress” the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), but to ensure your qualifications are accurately represented so you are visible in [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) searches and move forward into human review. Once your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) reaches that stage, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions are made by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers who evaluate your experience, accomplishments, and fit for the role.

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# No BS Career Advice: June 28 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Broken hiring process.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Broken-Hiring-Process-Gemini_Generated_Image_kgmf7okgmf7okgmf-1024x559.png)

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## Decoding Taleo: How to Beat the Enterprise Filter

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most of the advice you read about [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) treats the software as a monolith. You are told to strip out formatting, match your keywords, and cross your fingers. While that baseline compliance works for lighter, mid-market platforms like Greenhouse or Lever, it fails catastrophically when your file hits an enterprise-grade monster like Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/).

[Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) is the legacy titan of the talent acquisition space. It is utilized by nearly half of the Fortune 500, especially within highly regulated, massive infrastructure environments: aerospace, healthcare, defense, financial services, and global logistics.

To beat [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), you cannot just optimize for a generic database parser. You must understand that [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) does not think like its modern SaaS competitors. While systems like Workday have shifted toward neural-network semantic matching, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) remains a highly rigid, index-driven relational database matrix. It does not try to guess what you mean. It explicitly calculates what you say against an unyielding, recruiter-defined configuration schema.

If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to enterprise-level organizations, you need to understand exactly how [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) operates differently from other software systems, and how to build a document that exploits its unique parsing mechanics.

### The Common Ground: Baseline Automated Processing

Before breaking down Taleo’s unique structural architecture, we must acknowledge where it aligns with the broader [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) market. Like any tracking database, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) utilizes a natural language processing (NLP) tokenization engine to strip a document down into its component parts: contact data, [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) chronology, education, and specific skills.

If your file contains complex visual layouts—such as dual-column formats, graphical skill bars, icons, embedded images, headers, or footers—Taleo will scramble the structural reading order just like any other platform. It reads text strictly from left to right, top to bottom. A two-column layout means the software will read line one of column one and stitch it directly into line one of column two, turning your pristine executive bio into a garbled string of database noise.

But clearing this baseline hurdle is only table stakes. Once the data is inside the system, [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) treats your history with a specific, rigid scoring logic that other systems have long abandoned.

### The Taleo Disconnect: Where Generic Optimization Fails

The defining structural difference between [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) and newer platforms is its reliance on a mechanism known as the **Pre-Screening Matrix and the Scoring Threshold**.

In agile systems like Greenhouse, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) opens a requisition and immediately looks at a feed of incoming [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). The software acts primarily as an organizational repository. In [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), the software acts as an active gatekeeper before a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) ever receives a notification that you applied.

### 1. Exact Terminology Still Matters

Many modern [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) incorporate AI-assisted search, semantic matching, and contextual analysis that can recognize some related job titles and skills. Depending on the platform and its configuration, a candidate whose [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) says “Cloud Product Lead” may still appear in searches for “SaaS Product Manager.”

Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) often rewards a more literal approach. Although different organizations configure [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) differently—and Oracle has never publicly documented every aspect of its ranking algorithms—many [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) using [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) rely on keyword searches, Boolean queries, parsed candidate profiles, or screening criteria that work [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) when your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) contains the same terminology used in the job posting.

If a position repeatedly refers to “Cross-Functional Project Management,” and that phrase accurately describes your experience, include those words naturally in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) rather than relying only on alternative wording such as “coordinated multi-disciplinary initiatives.” Using the employer’s language improves the likelihood that both the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) will recognize your qualifications.

The lesson is straightforward: don’t replace important industry terminology with creative synonyms simply to avoid repetition. Strategic repetition of relevant keywords helps both software and human reviewers.

### 2. Required Qualifications Carry More Weight Than Preferred Qualifications

Most enterprise [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) platforms, including [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/), allow [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to define required qualifications, preferred qualifications, screening questions, and workflow rules. How those features are configured varies from one employer to another.

Many organizations use knockout questions to eliminate applicants who do not meet non-negotiable requirements, such as work authorization, required certifications, professional licenses, security clearances, or minimum education. These screening questions often have a greater impact on your application’s progress than keyword matching alone.

For qualifications that are not enforced through knockout questions, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) typically review [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) based on a combination of search results, required skills, experience, and overall fit. Missing one preferred qualification does not automatically eliminate every candidate.

Your objective should be to demonstrate that you satisfy as many required qualifications as honestly possible while incorporating the language used throughout the job description.

### 3. Recent Experience Is More Influential Than Older Experience

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) consistently place greater emphasis on recent experience than work performed many years ago. Whether they search manually or use [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) search tools, they typically want to see that the skills required for the position have been used recently and in meaningful business situations.

For that reason, don’t hide your strongest qualifications inside a skills section at the end of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Reinforce your most important technical skills, methodologies, certifications, and business accomplishments within the bullet points describing your current or most recent positions.

If “Enterprise Data Architecture” is central to the position you’re pursuing, show how you applied that expertise in your recent work rather than listing it only in a summary of skills. This approach benefits both [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) searches and human readers because it demonstrates current proficiency supported by real accomplishments.

## Optimizing Your Resume for Taleo

### Mirror Important Terminology

Study the job description carefully and identify the technical skills, certifications, software, methodologies, and business functions that appear repeatedly. When those terms accurately describe your background, use the employer’s preferred wording throughout your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

For example, if the posting references “Master of Business Administration (MBA),” there is no disadvantage to presenting the credential in that same format rather than using only the abbreviation.

### Integrate Keywords Into Your Experience

Don’t rely exclusively on a Core Competencies section to communicate your qualifications. Incorporate the most important skills naturally into your professional experience, especially within your most recent positions, where [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are most likely to focus their attention.

### Test Your Resume Before Uploading

Before submitting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), copy its contents into a plain-text editor such as Notepad. This simple test helps identify hidden formatting problems, merged words, text boxes, unusual characters, or layout issues that may interfere with [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) parsing.

Once the text appears clean and readable, submit either a properly formatted Word document (.docx) or a text-based [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) if the employer accepts both formats. A clean, single-column layout remains the most reliable choice for virtually every [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), including [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/).

### The Taleo Engineering Blueprint: How to Restructure Your File

To survive this enterprise filter, you must abandon the standard aesthetic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and build a document designed to feed Taleo’s relational database exactly what its configuration schema demands.

- **Mirror the Exact Structural Taxonomy:** Print out the target job description. Isolate the nouns, acronyms, and operational tools listed under the qualifications headers. If the company lists “Master of Business Administration (MBA)” with parentheses, format it exactly that way on your document. Do not just write “MBA.” Match their capitalization, punctuation, and phrasing verbatim.
- **Anchor Your Core Keywords in Your Current Role:** Do not rely on a standalone “Core Competencies” section to carry your keyword strategy. [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) looks for chronology. Take the most critical requirements from the job description and weave them explicitly into the first three bullet points of your current or most recent position. This ensures the algorithm calculates your “Recent Use” multiplier at peak value.
- **Convert to a Pure Plain-Text Format First:** Before uploading your document to an enterprise portal, paste the entire text into a basic Notepad or plain-text editor. If you notice words smashing together, or your formatting creating strange character strings, fix those errors in the plain-text file first, then re-save it as a clean, single-column [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) or Word document. This guarantees the parsing engine reads your timeline without data corruption.

### The Bottom Line

Enterprise talent acquisition teams use [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) such as Oracle [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) to manage high volumes of applicants, organize candidate data, support compliance requirements, and help [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) identify candidates who meet defined [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) criteria. These systems are designed to improve efficiency and consistency in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) workflows, not to independently evaluate someone’s full professional capability.

Because [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are processed through parsing and search functions, clarity and structure matter. If a document is overly complex in layout or inconsistent in formatting, key details may be misread, misclassified, or harder for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to locate. A clean, straightforward format helps ensure your experience is accurately captured and searchable within the system.

It is also important to use clear, industry-recognized terminology when describing your skills and experience. Aligning your wording with the language used in the job description—when it accurately reflects your background—can improve how easily your profile is found in [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) searches and how well it is understood during review.

Your objective is not to “impress” the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), but to ensure your qualifications are accurately represented so you are visible in [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) searches and move forward into human review. Once your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) reaches that stage, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) decisions are made by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers who evaluate your experience, accomplishments, and fit for the role.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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**High-Paying [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) #shorts** Excerpt: Chase the compensation packages all you want, but if you do not understand the underlying market demand, you are building your target profile on quicksand. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a high-velocity breakdown of premium earning trajectories. Link: 

**Turn Your Next Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Into a Conversation** Excerpt: Sitting across from an interviewer like a criminal suspect under interrogation completely destroys your positioning. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to strategically break the standard [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) script and pivot the dynamic into a mutual consultation. Link: 

**6 Second [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Tips: [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) #shorts** Excerpt: Long, winding search strategies are losing to immediate tactical micro-adjustments. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) cuts through the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) static to drop a rapid, six-second execution tip designed to maximize your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) traction instantly. Link: 

**Finding Work with Non-Profits** Excerpt: Navigating recruitment within the [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) sector requires looking far beyond standard corporate alignment models. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details an explicit framework to evaluate operational mission health, map true stakeholder value, and secure high-impact roles. Link: 

**Answering Behavioral [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Questions The Right Way** Excerpt: Ramble through a situational prompt without a clear architectural framework and the screener will write you off as a disorganized leader. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a strict execution blueprint to format your behavioral answers for maximum command. Link: 

**Do I Have to Have Both a CV and a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile #shorts** Excerpt: Many job seekers wonder if maintaining an updated [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and an active online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) is redundant. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid reality check on how [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use both tools differently to evaluate candidates and why skipping one kills your visibility. Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): June 21 2026** Excerpt: Navigating a shifting [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) market requires raw, unvarnished truth rather than comfortable corporate platitudes. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a collection of direct insights, addressing listener questions about structural positioning, leverage, and workplace politics. Link: 

**6 Second [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Tips: [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) #shorts** Excerpt: Long, dense [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) descriptions are losing out to rapid, scannable data points that instantly prove your value. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) strips away the fluff to deliver a high-velocity micro-adjustment designed to prevent [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers from skipping your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). Link: 

**Letting Them Know How Committed You Are** Excerpt: Desperately pleading for a job or telling an interviewer you are willing to do whatever it takes completely destroys your pricing power. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to demonstrate high-signal professional commitment through your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and questions instead of desperation. Link: 

**The Two Magic Words to Use in an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) & The Story Behind The Story** Excerpt: Most candidates fail to verify if their [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) answers are actually hitting the mark with the evaluator. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) reveals two precise words that uncover hidden objections in real time, allowing you to tell the deeper story behind your achievements. Link: 

**They Don’t Respond to Your [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) After Saying They’ll Be in Touch #shorts** Excerpt: Waiting around for a corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) who promised to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) is a losing strategy that stalls your search momentum. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a hard truth on why corporate priorities shift instantly and how you must handle the silence. Link: 

**Optimize Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to Attract Headhunters** Excerpt: If your profile reads like a boring compliance document, top tier [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will scroll right past you. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the exact algorithmic and psychological tweaks required to turn your profile into a high-signal magnet for headhunters. Link: 

**Free Professional Courses for Older Pros #shorts** Excerpt: Age inflation fears can be actively countered by keeping your technical and leadership skills completely sharp. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) highlights premium, zero-cost education tracks designed to give seasoned professionals an undeniable market edge. Link: 

**Why You Don’t Even Get The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** Excerpt: You match every single qualification on the job description, yet you still receive an automated rejection. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the hidden structural bottlenecks within corporate screening systems that eliminate premium talent before human eyes ever see the file. Link: 

**Do This Before Submitting Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** Excerpt: Blasting your standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out to dozens of vacancies without running a final alignment audit is a waste of time. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a mandatory pre-submission routine to ensure your profile instantly triggers a “yes” from [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers. Link: 

**What Parts of a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile Do [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Typically Look At? Even If You Aren’t Looking?** Excerpt: Corporate scouts and headhunters are parsing your digital footprint even when you are comfortably employed. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the high-signal zones of your profile that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) analyze to evaluate your passive market value. Link: 

**The Visit | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast** Excerpt: True professional development requires stepping outside of your daily operational loop to evaluate your broader trajectory. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a raw, direct coaching session focused on navigating corporate politics and maintaining leverage. Link: 

**[Be Seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/). Be Known. #shorts** Excerpt: Blending into the background and relying solely on your output is a fast track to corporate obscurity. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a rapid, high-impact breakdown on how to actively cultivate professional visibility and build industry authority. Link: 

**[Hard Work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/), No Results: The Hard Truth #shorts** Excerpt: Putting in endless hours without matching that effort with strategic execution is a recipe for stagnation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a hard reality check on why corporate decision-makers reward market impact over baseline transactional effort. Link: 

**The Counter-Signal: Build a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Monopoly** Excerpt: Following standard, boring optimization advice leaves you looking exactly like your competitors. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) outlines a counter-intuitive strategy to establish complete dominance within your professional niche by leveraging asymmetric [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). Link: 

**AI-SEO: Get Noticed by Gemini and Perplexity** Excerpt: Modern talent discovery is shifting away from traditional keyword searches and moving toward conversational [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engines. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a forward-looking guide on how to optimize your digital assets to ensure large language models recommend you. Link: 

**4 Signs the [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) Manager May Discriminate #shorts** Excerpt: Subconscious and structural biases frequently creep into corporate evaluation loops before formal negotiations ever begin. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) highlights four clear operational warning signs that suggest a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager may be bringing discrimination or unfair bias into your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) process. Link: 

**Beat the Greenhouse [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** Excerpt: If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to tech companies, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is likely running straight into the Greenhouse platform. Most candidates fail here because they format for humans while ignoring how the system actually parses data. This episode breaks down the exact modifications required to survive the initial technical scan without sacrificing appeal to the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/). Link: 

**Sometimes You Just Need to Laugh #shorts** Excerpt: The modern job hunt can be a grinding, soul-crushing process if you do not actively take a step back. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a high-velocity reality check reminding you that sometimes the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) sanity preservation tactic is to just laugh at the corporate absurdity. Link: 

**H-1B [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/): No BS Advice** Excerpt: Looking for a job while you are on an H‑1B is not the same game as everyone else is playing. You are not just selling skills; you are selling a package that includes immigration risk, timing, and government rules most [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers barely understand. You can pretend it is all the same and follow generic advice, or you can deal with the reality and play the game like someone who wants to win. Link: 

**How to Recover Work Successes for Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** Excerpt: If you want to stand out, you need to excavate the specific data points that prove your impact—even if you have already lost access to your old company’s systems. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) outlines strategic methods to reconstruct [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) wins and retrieve vital performance metrics cleanly. Link: 

**After You Apply for a Job #shorts** Excerpt: Dropping your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) into a portal and simply hoping for a response is where most job seekers lose control of their process. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid execution step you must take immediately after hitting submit to differentiate your profile from the faceless stack. Link: 

**Why the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Rejects You (And How to Fix It)** Excerpt: Highly qualified professionals are consistently rejected by automated screening platforms like Workday and [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) before a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) ever sees their file. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the strict mechanical realities of formatting friction, vocabulary alignment gaps, and keyword proximity metrics that trigger sudden rejections. Link: 

**Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills is BS #shorts** Excerpt: The classic corporate slogan claiming companies prioritize baseline personality traits over technical capability is a complete myth. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a direct reality check on how [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) decision-makers actually evaluate talent and why relying on a good attitude will not save you if your hard metrics fall short. Link: 

**Stop Being the Product: Why You Need to Hire Your Own Ally** Excerpt: Contingency and corporate headhunters are paid by the employer, meaning their primary allegiance is never to you or [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to follow the money in modern staffing and details why serious professionals need to hire their own dedicated [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advisors to navigate high-stakes negotiations cleanly. Link: 

**Using The Myth of the Passive Job Applicant to Your Advantage** Excerpt: Companies love to chase the illusion of the “passive candidate” who isn’t actively looking, believing they represent premium talent compared to active applicants. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the corporate psychology behind this preference and outlines strategic framing techniques to make yourself look like an elite passive target. Link: 

 **After You Apply for a Job #shorts** Excerpt: Dropping your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) into a portal and simply hoping for a response is where most job seekers lose control of their process. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid execution step you must take immediately after hitting submit to differentiate your profile from the faceless stack. Link: 

**Why the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Rejects You (And How to Fix It)** Excerpt: Highly qualified professionals are consistently rejected by automated screening platforms like Workday and [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) before a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) ever sees their file. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the strict mechanical realities of formatting friction, vocabulary alignment gaps, and keyword proximity metrics that trigger sudden rejections. Link: [https://thebiggamehunte](https://thebiggamehunte/) us/why-the-ats-rejects-you-and-how-to-fix-it/

**Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills is BS #shorts** Excerpt: The classic corporate slogan claiming companies prioritize baseline personality traits over technical capability is a complete myth. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a direct reality check on how [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) decision-makers actually evaluate talent and why relying on a good attitude will not save you if your hard metrics fall short. Link: 

**Stop Being the Product: Why You Need to Hire Your Own Ally** Excerpt: Contingency and corporate headhunters are paid by the employer, meaning their primary allegiance is never to you or [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to follow the money in modern staffing and details why serious professionals need to hire their own dedicated [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advisors to navigate high-stakes negotiations cleanly. Link: 

**Using The Myth of the Passive Job Applicant to Your Advantage** Excerpt: Companies love to chase the illusion of the “passive candidate” who isn’t actively looking, believing they represent premium talent compared to active applicants. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the corporate psychology behind this preference and outlines strategic framing techniques to make yourself look like an elite passive target. Link: 

***In a few weeks, I’ll be releasing a new book about writing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for both people and the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). We’re working on final edits now and expect it will be out in January. Unlike my first cut at the topic which was little more than a pamphlet, this is a heavily researched book with many examples from my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).***

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### [Recruiters CONFESS: Why Companies Do SO MANY Interviews! #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-confess-why-companies-do-so-many-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** September 8, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This #short reveals the real reasons companies put candidates through so many interview rounds.

**Content:**

# Recruiters CONFESS: Why Companies Do SO MANY Interviews! #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the v***](https://youtube.com/shorts/NFd03qdWQNc)***ideo does not play properly***

Made it through three, four, maybe even five [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and wondering why there are more? This #short reveals the real reasons companies put candidates through so many [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) rounds.

What’s with these [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) who do a **two or three-tier [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process**? Like, really, you haven’t made up your mind enough yet that you need two more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)? Two more that I have to invest my time and effort in and get my hopes up for?

Well, let me ask you a question. When you date someone, do you, you know, propose marriage on the first date? Or do you go out on a couple of dates with them or years of dating before you drop down on one knee and propose marriage to them? I suspect it takes some time for you to make that kind of commitment, especially if you’re dating multiple people. You’re just not sure who—who do I really want to spend time with Saturday night? Is it going to be with her or her, him or him? I don’t know.

And thus, [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people is like dating. Many people wind up in situations where they have **multiple good choices** and they’re trying to figure out which choice is [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) for them, and they’re not sure. And they’re **[afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of making a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)** because **[mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) are expensive and costly**. That part we all can agree on, true. So they’re taking their sweet ass time about choosing someone because the fact is, they’re not sure and they don’t want to make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). So they keep dating until they’re ready to propose marriage. That’s the fact of it. Okay.

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### [Is It Weird To Ask About Previous Salary on an Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/)

**Published:** September 7, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** These days, you have to answer the questions in two ways--one for states where it's an illegal question and the other for states where is still legal.

**Content:**

# Is It Weird To Ask About Previous Salary on an Application

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

These days, you have to answer the questions in two ways–one for states where it’s an illegal question and the other for states where is still legal.

[***Negotiating The Counter Offer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6Rp)

(0:00 – 1:16)
Is it weird to ask about previous [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) on an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)? I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people on workplace issues and that can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading, being more effective in the work environment as overall. And someone asked me this question and I have to answer it in two ways.

The first one is there are certain places in the United States where it’s illegal to ask this question. You cannot ask about current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). They can ask about desired [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

You obviously are not in a part of the country where this is an illegal question. So, with that, is it weird? Not weird. Why do they do it? Simple.

Many organizations are looking to economize and they have the information about what they’re [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to pay and you don’t. And even with a range, you don’t know whether they’ve set up a system where they try to limit the percentage increase over your current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that they’re going to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). So, understand, for example, I had a client some years ago that tried to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people for four percent increases.

(1:17 – 1:39)
It didn’t work for very long but they tried to cap it and the way it worked is they would make the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) for a four percent increase. When it got turned down, someone would panic. They’d run up to the executive comp person saying we really need this person for an assignment and we need approval above the four percent.

(1:39 – 3:06)
Notice what they’ve done is create some hedge in there but the goal was to try and get some people for a four percent [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/). They got quite a few at a four percent [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) and this limited their financial exposure. For you, that doesn’t serve you.

You always want to be in the position where you have information, too. So, if you’re filling out an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), avoid the question about current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Answer the one about desired [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

They will probably come back to you and ask you about your current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). You can answer it or not. Understand, if you don’t, they may respond as a number of my clients used to do and say, we need this information.

The [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is going to come to an end. It’s that simple. And, for you, if this is on [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) and you’re not on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you can fill in the field and say we can discuss in person.

So, that’s a smooth way to handle it. Answer the one about desired compensation and work from there. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [What is a Better Way to Say "20 Years of Experience" On a Resume?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-a-better-way-to-say-20-years-of-experience-on-a-resume/)

**Published:** March 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it a good or bad idea to mention, "20 years of experience" on a resume? What's a better way to say it?

**Content:**

# What is a Better Way to Say “20 Years of Experience” On a Resume? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Is it a good or bad idea to mention, “20 years of experience” on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? What’s a better way to say it?

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### [The Second Interview with the Same Person](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-second-interview-with-the-same-person/)

**Published:** April 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You’ve already proven you can do the job; now you have to prove you're the best long-term investment.

**Content:**

# The Second Interview with the Same Person

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You’ve already proven you can do the job; now you have to prove you’re the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) long-term investment. This episode breaks down the “Conviction Prep Sheet,” a strategic framework to pivot from a hopeful applicant to a trusted peer. Learn how to address past weaknesses and align your execution strategy with their Q3 goals before you even sign the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

Securing a second [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) with the same person confirms that your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) matches your reality. They have already validated your baseline skills and your professional vibe, moving you from a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) pile into the shortlist of potential colleagues. This meeting functions differently than the first.

Because the interviewer already knows you are qualified, they are now calculating the risk and reward of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) you, shifting the focus from your background to your potential as a long-term investment. This mindset shift chart outlines changing expectations. Round 1 asked, can they do the job? Round 2 asks, do I want to work with them daily? This shifts your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

You must move from polite deference to the collaborative tone of a teammate. To manage this transition, we will use your notes from the first round to build a physical four-part tool, the conviction prep sheet. Drafting this strategy on paper anchors your performance.

It provides a concrete reference point that prevents you from defaulting to introductory habits, keeping you focused on your role as a strategic partner. Divide your page into four quadrants. Label the first section, callbacks, and loop closers.

Review your notes from the first meeting. Identify one specific topic the interviewer seemed particularly engaged with, and one question where your initial answer felt incomplete. Use these templates to open the conversation.

Referring to a previous point by saying, last time we spoke you mentioned, demonstrates active listening. Addressing a previous weak spot with, I reflected on your question about why, shows professional growth. Avoid the reset [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/).

Repeating your standard elevator pitch misses the opportunity to build on the rapport you’ve already established. Approaching the second [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) as a continuation of a single evolving story signals that you are already mentally integrated into the team’s current challenges. Label the second quadrant, the how strategy.

While your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) lists what you achieved in previous roles, this section focuses on the specific methods you will deploy to achieve results for this employer. Identify a known project, like an upcoming Q3 launch, and write down the tactical steps you would take to manage it. You are moving from a general description of skills to a specific demonstration of your workflow.

Consider creating a physical artifact, such as a 30, 60, 90-day plan. Bringing this to the table provides tangible evidence of your strategic thinking. Detailing your execution plan allows the interviewer to see you in the role.

It transitions their internal dialogue from, should we hire them, to, how will they handle this project next month? Label the third quadrant, insider questions. Recall the specific acronyms, internal jargon, or cultural rompers used in the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Incorporate that terminology into the questions you draft here.

Replace generic HR inquiries with advanced probes. Instead of asking about standard benefits, ask, what is the biggest hurdle I’d face in this department? Or, what would make the person in this role a rock star in your eyes after six months? Deep dive questions dissolve the subordinate interviewee dynamic. They establish you as a strategic peer who is already investigating how to solve the company’s business problems.

Label the final quadrant, consistency and gaps. This prepares you for the sanity check phase. Pinpoint one previous hesitation, like a lack of specific software experience, and draft a short plan explaining how you are bridging that gap.

Be vigilant with your data. If you cited a 20% growth metric last week, that number must remain 20% today. Interviewers use repeat meetings to cross-reference your claims and ensure your stories are reliable.

Proactively addressing weaknesses and maintaining consistent data neutralizes an interviewer’s remaining doubts, proving you are a dependable candidate under closer scrutiny. You now have a completed document containing tailored callbacks, a concrete strategic pitch, insider questions, and a defense for your gaps. This roadmap provides a level of specificity that a generic, memorized script cannot match.

Remember the [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) shift. When you enter the room, treat the interviewer as a colleague you are already working with to solve a problem. Preparing this sheet replaces the uncertainty of a hopeful applicant with the [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) of a long-term asset.

Review your quadrants twice before you walk in and treat the meeting as the first day of your new collaboration.

[***How to Answer The Bizarre Scenario Interview Question***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-PN)

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [The Final Interview with the CEO](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-final-interview-with-the-ceo-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** March 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When you meet the CEO, they already know that you can do the job. What are they looking for in this meeting, in this final interview?

**Content:**

# The Final Interview with the CEO

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

When you meet the CEO, they already know that you can do the job. What are they looking for in this meeting?

[***You Need Allies***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-e74)

I stumbled into an article that I want to give credit to TheMuse for. TheMuse.com. The article is entitled, “Here’s the Secret to Acing an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with a Company CEO.” A great article, so full credit to TheMuse. The article was written by Julia Hearts who’s the co-founder and president of Eventbrite. If you’re not familiar with firm, it’s an online marketplace for live events.

Her article really speaks to how she [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) but, from my experience in doing search, it’s uniformly consistent. Basically, she starts off with the assumption that if she’s meeting someone, her team has already they’re qualified and that she’s meeting people in what she calls, “The Founders Round.”

They’ve been interviewed by the team, they’ve done an assignment related to the skills that are needed for the job. So, they know that this person can do the job. So, after the initial introduction, she’ll start by asking the candidate to tell her, his or her story, which isn’t really to hear this lengthy auto biography. What she’s looking for is a great summary of their life and career, not just because she wants to be amused, but specifically covering these points– motivation, intention and conviction.Catch that one- motivation, intention and conviction.

From there, she progresses on to other questions where she’s looking for insights into the person. It’s not just the story, but it’s about unsolicited compliments, as she says. What she really wants to know is how well the interviewee understands the challenge that the firm is trying to solve, the skills that are needed to solve it, and how they can prove they have those skills.

She also wants to understand whether this person relates to the significance of the role and has a strong conviction for the organization. Understand, generally, if you’re meeting the CEO, meeting them at an investment bank or at major American Corporation and meeting with someone at a small to mid-sized firm who was there at the beginning, a founder in this particular case, who has an emotional connection. And, although she hasn’t said this, she’s looking for much the same sort of thing from you.

Are you inspired to help this organization achieve what it’s set out to achieve– its mission to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) that can it be in this space?–or is this just a job and, understanding that as been the underpinnings behind questions that you’re being asked, it goes a long way towards being effective.

Now, she also talks about, at the end, giving the candidate the opportunity to ask her questions, which, as a founder, I know the temptation is to give softball questions. She shares her perspective that she doesn’t want to have questions that could be easily answered on the website.

To her, that gives her the impression that they’re not well [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). What she likes to hear about is being asked questions about certain parts of the business and questions that would give a context and perspective.

So, again, [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) softball questions don’t really require a lot of thought or intelligence. The ones that require a clarification or a deeper understanding do and since that goes into the question of “can you fit into this organization,” although I normally hate the term, fit, because I don’t believe organizations know how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for fit, and I won’t go into detail. Now, I’ve done videos about this before. I’ll just simply say from a personality standpoint, care, intelligence, warmth, [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), great questions, and the points that she raises in this article will go a long way toward getting hired.

[***I Lowballed My Desired Salary! Is It OK to Fix It?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b3g)

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### [How to Turn Rejection into a Long-Term Strategy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-turn-rejection-into-a-long-term-strategy/)

**Published:** June 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Turn Rejection into a Long-Term Strategy

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Getting rejected by a top-tier company isn’t a final verdict on your worth—it is raw market data. This episode breaks down how to stop thinking like a defeated applicant and start operating like a professional scout. Learn how to reverse-engineer successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) paths, exploit “employer affinity,” and turn a painful “no” into a step-by-step blueprint straight to the position you actually want.

Okay, so let’s get right into it. Getting rejected from a job you really, really wanted, well, it feels like hitting a brick wall, right? But what if I told you that rejection isn’t the end of the story? What if it’s actually the start of a much smarter plan to get you exactly where you want to be? Today we are going to turn that painful no into your ultimate long-term weapon.

So, you got the email. That dream company, the one you’ve had on your radar for years, decided to go with someone else. Man, it is a total gut punch. You immediately start questioning everything, don’t you? Am I good enough? Will I ever get a job like that? It’s so frustrating and disappointing, but you know what? It’s a moment that almost everyone who’s ever had a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) has faced. You’re not alone in this.

But here’s the thing you have to remember. This isn’t a final verdict on you or your skills. It’s just a data point. It’s simply telling you that you might not be qualified, yet. And that one little word, yet, that’s where our entire strategy kicks off.

So, how do we get there? We’re going to use this really powerful concept I call the stepping stone. Think of it as a long-term play, a kind of strategic detour that’s going to eventually lead you right back to the front door of your dream company, only this time you’ll have the key.

Now, to really get this, we have to shift our perspective. For just a minute, I want you to stop thinking like a job applicant. Instead, I want you to start thinking like a professional baseball scout. See, they don’t just look for players who are ready for the major leagues today. No, they find the real talent in the minor leagues, the ones who just need the right kind of experience to become stars.

And this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) just nails it. As [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) says, sometimes you need that time in the minor leagues to really get ready for the majors. Your dream company? That’s the major leagues. And the stepping stone we’re talking about, that’s your time in the minors. A different company, one you choose strategically, where you’re going to build the exact skills you need to get that call up to the big show.

Okay, so the theory sounds pretty good, right? But where do you actually find these so-called minor league companies? How do you figure out the perfect stepping stone for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? Well, it turns out the answer is probably already open in another tab on your browser.

We’re going to build a super simple four-step game plan using [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). First, you just go to your dream company’s page. Easy enough. Second, you find people who have the exact job you want, and you just study their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) history. Third, and listen, this is the most important part, you look at where they worked right before they landed this dream role. Those are the companies that trained them up. And finally, step four: you target those companies. Boom. Those are your perfect stepping stones.

So, what you’re doing here, and this is so important, is you’re not just taking any old job. You’re literally reverse engineering a successful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path. By going to work at one of these feeder companies, you are intentionally getting the precise skills, the specific experience, and even the professional lingo that your dream company has already shown that it values. You’re basically becoming the candidate they can’t possibly ignore next time.

But it gets even better than that. This strategy isn’t just about beefing up your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). There’s a really powerful psychological thing happening here that gives you a massive hidden advantage when you decide it’s time to apply again.

This hidden advantage all comes down to something called employer affinity, and it’s a really simple idea with huge implications. Basically, people have a natural fondness for their old workplaces, and because of that, for other people who also worked there. It’s like being part of the same club.

And this affinity gives you real, tangible advantages. Imagine a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager at your dream company looking at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). They see you worked at their old firm. Instantly, there’s a connection. They know you speak the same professional language. They know you’ve probably been through a similar work culture. And it’s immediate proof that you have the kind of [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) they already know and respect. All of a sudden, you’re not a stranger anymore. You’re kind of like part of the extended professional family.

So, when you put this all together, you start to see that this is about way more than just finding another job. It’s about completely shifting your mindset. It’s about going from seeing this rejection as a major setback to seeing it as the perfect setup for your future [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

You know, it really just comes down to two totally different ways of looking at this. The short-term view? It’s a dead end. This is the end of the line. “I’m not qualified. I failed.” But the strategic view? It sees nothing but opportunity. “This is a chance to learn what I need. I can become qualified. This isn’t a failure, it’s just a data point.”

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So, I’ll leave you with this final thought. Please, stop looking at that rejection letter like it’s a closed door. It’s not. It’s a map. They’ve just handed you a map. So, the real question you have to ask yourself is: what if this rejection isn’t a rejection at all? What if it’s actually a roadmap pointing you down a new, smarter path that will ultimately lead you exactly where you’ve always wanted to go?

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### [Roadblocks. Perseverance. Adversity. Resilience. Determination](https://thebiggamehunter.us/roadblocks-perseverance-adversity-resilience-determination/)

**Published:** June 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Notice the things that occur around me and the events that might seem transient. Yet, many have the potential for more than just experiencing a moment.

**Content:**

# Roadblocks. Perseverance. Adversity. Resilience. Determination

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**Watching** [**Sir Paul McCartney on Carpool Karoke**](https://youtu.be/QjvzCTqkBDQ) **as he visited his childhood home in Liverpool, where he and John Lennon wrote some of the early Beatles songs, brought back beautiful memories. And then, speaking of how he wrote several of those songs based upon childhood experiences reminded me to notice the things that occur around me and the events that might seem transient. Yet, many have the potential for more than just experiencing a moment.**

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Thus, I sat in front of the tv (or telly, as Sir Paul would say) and started watching a US football game between The Universities of Georgia and Alabama for the college football championship and started to notice certain things about one of the players.

If you live outside the United States or are not a US college football fan, the name Stetson Fleming Bennett IV won’t mean anything to you, but I believe his story can have meaning for all of us.

Bennett IV grew up in a small town in Georgia and longed to play football for the University of Georgia. In high school, he was the quarterback for a team that went to 3 consecutive state championship games, threw for more than 3000 yards, ran for more than 500 more, and helped his team score more than 40 touchdowns.

His one football scholarship [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) came from Middle Tennessee State, a school that was not a football powerhouse. Others were interested until they discovered he was small (5’9″) and light (185 pounds) by football standards. Instead of being angry, he responded. ” ‘Well, you’ve just got to show them sometimes.'”

Admitted to the school as a preferred walk-on, a more highly recruited quarterback advocated for him, saying that the country’s #1 high school QB wasn’t as good as Bennett IV. He had a chance, but not much of one. He ran the scout team and shared a locker, indicative of his low status on the team.

He transferred to a junior college in Mississippi after seeing the coach recruit another player, Justin Fields, to compete with the returning starter, Jake Fromm. Later, he was recruited to play at Louisiana University. Finally, a coach at The University of Georgia recruited him again and offered him a scholarship to come back. Bennett IV told him it would need to be different this time to return.

When he returned, he discovered the coach kept recruiting others and gave them chances ahead of him. It looked like he would be the odd man out again, especially after the new offensive coordinator said as much to him in 2019. But, this time, he decided to keep working and be ready for whenever he was called on.

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The two new quarterbacks weren’t able to do so. One opted out of the season because of Covid-19. The other wasn’t medically cleared. Bennett IV competed with a freshman but lost out to him. You would think by now he would take a hint and give up on his dream.

This year, he was passed over again for the now healthy, medically cleared quarterback who was injured in the first game. Bennett IV led Georgia to a big win over their next opponent, 56-7 in which he threw for five touchdowns in the first half. Yet the following week, Georgia returned to the other quarterback until he was again injured in the first half. Then, they returned to Bennett IV and never changed.

Stetson quarterbacked Georgia in the College Football championships and, with his team-leading in a close game, fumbled the ball (it was a questionable call), and the other team, Alabama, recovered and scored a touchdown a few plays later and took the lead.

***A diamond doesn’t become a diamond without pressure.*** Bennett IV decided he would not be why his team lost.

Suddenly, he threw with more [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and completed passes all over the field. First, he threw for one long touchdown of 49 yards. Georgia took the lead. On the next possession, he threw for another. Finally, the defense intercepted a pass and scored the final touchdown. He had persevered and won a national championship.

There are many lessons we can learn from his story.

1\. **Talent is not enough.** He had talent and showed it in every opportunity he got. However, people have preconceived ideas about what they need or want. Sometimes you are bucking up against people with preconceived notions of how things should be.

2\. **Go where you are wanted.** You can’t make people hire you or believe in you. But, sometimes, they are right. You need more seasoning/experience. Go somewhere where you can get it.

3\. **Follow the dream**. Bennett IV returned to Georgia with a commitment he would have a chance. Get a commitment.

4\. **You may have to prove yourself.** As it turned out, he did not have much of an opportunity initially and needed to earn his chance many times. You may have to, too.

5\. **He [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) relentlessly** for the first opportunity to prove himself. Then, when given it, he delivered again and again and again.

6\. **Bad things will happen**. In the biggest game in his life, he made a critical [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Instead of whining or relentlessly criticizing himself, he decided not to be why his team lost. Bad things will happen. [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) and your ability to bounce back are essential.

7\. **Winning teams and people find a way to win**. Learning from your [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is important, but winning teams and people don’t dwell or belabor their [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Instead, they look ahead to find the way, any way to win. Losing teams have great explanations for what happened.

No matter where you are in your professional or personal life, there are lessons derived from Paul McCarney, Stetson Fleming Bennett IV, and his team’s victory. Whether you are a leader or a follower, it is always important to review where you are, your current opportunity, and correct course. There are steps to becoming a champion, a price to be paid, and risks.

If you are not ready yet, what steps can you take today to move the needle forward each day? What details can you see that might go unnoticed that can have huge results for you and others.

Yes, there are lessons you will see if you take a minute to notice.

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### [LinkedIn Changed. You Need to Change Your Profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-changed-you-need-to-change-your-profile/)

**Published:** June 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn made changes recently that change how you get discovered. Keywords are important but so is context. Let me explain.

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# LinkedIn Changed. You Need to Change Your Profile

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### [Keywords Have Stopped Working on LinkedIn #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/keywords-have-stopped-working-on-linkedin-shorts/)

**Published:** June 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# Keywords Have Stopped Working on LinkedIn #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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LinkedIn’s systems have changed what they want to see in a profile to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you.

Keyword stuffing your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile doesn’t work like it once did because they’ve changed how they [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) people and what causes them to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you. Let me explain what you need to do. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make finding work and succeeding at it much easier. I wrote a book called The Algorithmic Pivot available on Amazon that goes into detail about what’s necessary but the short version I’m going to give you today is does your profile read like the answer to a sentence someone might type into the search box on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to find someone like you. So they’re not entering terms anymore.

They might search along the lines of find someone who modernized legacy infrastructure and cut cloud costs without breaking reliability or find someone who built a security program to reduce risk and passed audits. Different, right? They’re not going security, legacy infrastructure. You know, they’re not doing it that way.

It’s actual sentences and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) has the ability to recognize from your profile and a couple of other places what it is you do and whether or not you fit that that demand. So, the long and the short of it is you need to think differently. The Algorithmic Pivot for 2026, my ebook on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), will help you sort that out and you’ve got to make changes otherwise you’re not going to be discoverable.

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### [Understanding Your Personal Value Proposition](https://thebiggamehunter.us/understanding-your-personal-value-proposition/)

**Published:** June 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Developing a robust value statement requires time and careful attention, regardless of whether you are pursuing traditional employment or entrepreneurial endeavors.

**Content:**

# **Understanding Your Personal Value Proposition**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The concept of a value proposition is foundational to effective [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) communication, acting as the bedrock for all personal marketing materials and interactions. Far more comprehensive than a brief introduction, this statement is essentially a clear, powerful story explaining how your specific skills can uniquely or superiorly solve a potential employer’s or customer’s problem. It serves as the single most critical factor determining why someone should hire you over the competition, and it functions as the basis for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) components, including [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) profiles, and even the condensed elevator pitch.

Developing a robust value statement requires time and careful attention, regardless of whether you are pursuing traditional [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) or entrepreneurial endeavors. It requires introspection and planning, ultimately requiring four key pieces of information: what you do, who you target, what benefits you provide, and what makes you distinctive.

### The Four Pillars of Your Value Statement

1. **What You Do:** This element demands highly detailed identification of the skills you bring to the table. These should be skills that a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager or client would truly value, extending beyond general “soft skills.” For instance, if you are in finance, analytical skills would be highly relevant.
2. **Who is Your Target Employer or Customer:** You must narrow down your focus to align your services or skills with a particular industry or company. If you have worked in a massive field, like the pharmaceutical industry, narrow it down further—are your skills relevant to drug development, finance, or payroll?
3. **What Benefits You Provide:** This is perhaps the most crucial element: the benefit must be what the potential employer or client **perceives** they will gain from [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) you, not simply what you believe you bring. While education and experience are wonderful, the focus should remain on what you can *do for them*. For example, if a company is known to struggle with timely payroll, your value statement should mention your proven [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in handling payroll without delay. Prior [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), or “homework,” on the role, company, and industry is absolutely essential to understanding their perceived needs.
4. **What Makes You Distinctive (Exclusivity):** This is the differentiator—why should they hire you instead of someone else? This component incorporates storytelling to provide specific details that set you apart. If you find yourself consistently making it to final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) but not getting selected, the lack of a strong exclusivity piece may be the reason. You must find that niche area that makes you more exclusive than other candidates.

For instance, a value statement for a marketing professional might highlight leading marketing teams in the execution of strategic [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) partnerships for specific products on a global level, and ensuring deliverables from concept to completion by emphasizing attributes like innovation and established multiple strong brands globally. This structure shows what they do (lead marketing teams), who they target (sports products globally), the benefits (project management/deliverables), and what makes them distinctive (delivering accessibility, innovation, and established brands).

### How the Mind Processes Value

The strength of a value proposition is measured by how effectively the information is delivered, and the mind processes this information in a four-stage process. Understanding these stages ensures your message resonates:

1. **Clarity:** The first step is critical—the audience must understand your [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/). If the message is unclear, it will not proceed further.
2. **Credibility:** Once they understand the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/), the mind asks, “Do I believe you can deliver?” You must successfully sell your credibility.
3. **Appeal:** If clarity and credibility are established, the audience moves to the next level: “I want what you have to offer”. A powerful value proposition that reaches this level can sometimes lead to positions being created, even if a formal job requisition wasn’t open initially.
4. **Exclusivity:** Finally, you must convince them: “I can’t find it anywhere else”. This reinforces why they should choose you over anyone else.

While the value proposition provides a detailed, often “beefy” marketing summary suitable for [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and professional profiles, it is distinct from the elevator pitch, which is a shorter, often one- to two-sentence summary designed simply to grab attention and start a conversation. The value proposition provides the essential content and focus from which that shorter pitch is derived.

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### [Using The Myth of the Passive Job Applicant to Your Advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-the-myth-of-the-passive-job-applicant-to-your-advantage/)

**Published:** June 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains The Myth of the Passive Job Applicant and how to use it to your advantage.

**Content:**

# Using The Myth of the Passive Job Applicant to Your Advantage

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains The Myth of the Passive Job Applicant and how to use it to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m called [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years. Today, I want to talk with you about the myth of the passive job applicant and how to really use that mythology to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

Now, let me first define what a passive job applicant is in the popular lexicon of [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and corporations. And that is: a passive job applicant is one who doesn’t appear as though they’re actively looking for work. Their [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are not on the job boards because they’re too busy doing what they do in their current [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

Now, the myth is that these people are superior to the active job applicants because the active ones are the ones that got [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) by their previous firms because their performance was poorer than others; that the passive job applicant is so busy doing what they’re doing that they would never see the ad on a job board that would cause them to respond. So, these are deemed to be superior applicants to the active ones.

Now, it’s a crock. You and I both know that. So, the myth really—I helped to create the myth many, many years ago when I started an agency and I didn’t really have an advertising budget that was worth much of anything. I was in New York at the time. The New York Times was costing something like $25 per column line in the classified listings, three-line minimum, and that would basically put your ad in the lower part of the page. To get any sort of visibility, it had to be on the top of the crease, which meant you ran a 40-line ad at $25 per line. It was really expensive. It’s expensive now, imagine what it was like in the early 70s.

So, in creating the myth of the passive applicant, what I would say to people is much like I described. What I do is I recruit people who aren’t actively looking for work. You get the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person available, not the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person who’s reading the New York Times on Sunday. And that resonated with organizations. My competitors started to use the line. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) started to ask whether or not I was referring passive job applicants. It was hysterical to me that things were coming full circle and, now, it’s become so popular that there’s a whole mythology created about it, even though it’s factually incorrect.

So, recognize that if there’s a firm that ran an ad and you didn’t respond to it, and they found you on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), to them, you’re a passive applicant, even though you’re aggressively looking for a job. That’s how goofy this is.

So, to take [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of the mythology, number one is: where you can, when you’re on a job board, list your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) with a blind heading. By that, I mean you know those listings where no name or address appears and they just have an email address from the job board? Even if you have to pay for it, do it, because that hides the fact that you’re looking for work. By the way, remember, your own employer is on the job boards too, trying to see whether or not their employees are looking for work. So, you want to hide the fact that you’re [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

Secondly, in terms of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), which is the obvious place where you want to be found, you want to have a great profile available. Underneath your name, you want to have a list of skills that are your strengths, not just some job title that is so generic it’s purposeless. Better to talk in terms of management experience for particular lines of business, or management experience with certain technologies, or development experience with certain technologies, or accounting experience focus in on, and then you talk about it.

You know, think in terms of what’s going to make it easy for someone to figure out whether or not to scroll down to see what you’ve done. You want to pretend a six-year-old is scanning [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) looking for people, and as such, make it obvious for them.

So, really what you want to be doing is hiding the fact that you’re looking, even if you’re out of work and aggressively looking, and having a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile where, number one is, your email address is correct. It’s bizarre to me how many people have the wrong email address on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Number two is, they have a ridiculous photo of themselves or that image block—there’s no picture there, but there’s a blacked-out image of someone there. It’s goofy. Don’t have a picture of yourself and your partner and your kids up there. Have a professional headshot appear, something that’s going to make them see that you don’t look like a sociopath and that you have a professional demeanor about you.

Also, think of your profile as a way of enticing people to contact you. Now, recognize, this means that you have to make yourself available for response. You can have a great [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and never check to see if you have messages, never respond to messages. What’s the point? You need to be out there putting yourself in the position in order to be found, and that means replying when you get InMails.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found today’s video helpful. If you did, come over to my website, which is jeffaltman.com, and you’ll see a lot more there. Or, of course, you can watch them on YouTube; you can find them at TheBigGameHunterTV. Now, there are two TheBigGameHunterTVs on YouTube—mine is the one that’s done as all one word. So, TheBigGameHunterTV, one word, and you’ll find all my other videos at YouTube.

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In addition, there are more than 50 sites where you can post your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). There’s information about my books and guides to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). There’s easy-to-work-with CareerBuilder links. There’s access to Indeed on the links page, and [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Universe on the homepage on the bottom. Both Indeed and [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Universe search thousands of sites concurrently for job leads.

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### [Stop Being the Product: Why You Need to Hire Your Own Ally](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-being-the-product-why-you-need-to-hire-your-own-ally/)

**Published:** June 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** ollow the money to find the right ally—whether it's a recruiter for speed or a career coach for long-term professional equity.

**Content:**

## Stop Being the Product: Why You Need to Hire Your Own Ally

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop throwing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a void and getting ghosted. To win the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) game, you must understand who is actually working for you and who is just selling you as a “product” to their corporate clients. Follow the money to find the right ally—whether it’s a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) for speed or a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach for long-term professional [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

Welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and today we’re examining the invisible mechanics of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) industry. You spend hours tailoring the perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), only to watch it drop into a bottomless chasm.

You wait. You hear nothing. You get ghosted.

When the silence gets too loud, you might reach out for professional help. The market offers three primary allies—recruiters, job placement services, and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaches. But picking the wrong partner for your specific situation can waste months of time, drain your savings on useless services, or [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) you in a role that leaves you miserable.

To understand which one you should hire, you need to ignore their daily tasks and follow the money. Look at who actually pays their invoice. In this multi-billion dollar ecosystem, the math strictly categorizes you.

You are either the client purchasing a service, or the product being sold. Let’s look at [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) first. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is hired and paid directly by a company looking for employees, not by the job seeker.

Their financial incentive is significant. A recruiter’s payout is typically a contingency fee, equaling 10 to 35 percent of the candidate’s first year [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). For you, this arrangement means the service costs nothing out of pocket.

You are essentially using an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) resource for free. This gives you a distinct [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) identify unlisted roles that are never publicly advertised, providing a direct pipeline to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers.

However, because the employer signs the check, the recruiter’s loyalty and fiduciary duty lie entirely with that company. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) doesn’t perfectly match the employer’s strict checklist, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) will discard it and move to a product that does. They do not exist to build your passion.

They exist to find the exact puzzle piece that fits their client’s immediate corporate void. Job placement services act as a middleman. They [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) structured support to help entry-to-mid-level candidates submit high volumes of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) efficiently.

But then there is the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach. Here, the economic equation flips. This professional is paid entirely out of your own pocket.

Paying out of pocket shifts the power dynamic. You become the sole client, ensuring their absolute loyalty to your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). A coach provides a deep diagnostic intervention.

They analyze your profile to identify specific roadblocks preventing you from landing an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). They implement concrete remedies, running mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) to cure [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), fixing structural [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) flaws, and acting as an accountability partner. A [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach is your personal strategist.

They prioritize your long-term professional trajectory over an immediate transactional placement. So how do you choose the right ally for your current situation? If you have highly sought-after, clear-cut skills, you know exactly what you want, and you need to move fast, you need a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/). If that is you, then you should let a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) sell you as a premium product to their corporate clients.

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Choosing the right [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) professional isn’t about securing your next paycheck. It’s about taking deliberate control of your long-term professional [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). For more resources and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), visit jobsearch.community. I’m Jeff Ellman.

Thanks for watching.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 15+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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### [Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills is BS #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/)

**Published:** June 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This slogan is BS AND firms don't just hire for skills either.

**Content:**

# Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills is BS #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/4yQQR_IoSSE)

This slogan is BS AND firms don’t just [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for skills either.

[***The 10-Step Guide To Making A Career Transition***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kGD)

#### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/career-coach-office-hours-september-7-2021-part-2-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [After You Apply for a Job #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/after-you-apply-for-a-job-shorts/)

**Published:** June 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# After You Apply for a Job #shorts

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### [Beat the Greenhouse ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-the-greenhouse-ats/)

**Published:** June 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact modifications required to survive the initial technical scan without sacrificing appeal to the human recruiter.

**Content:**

# Beat the Greenhouse ATS

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to tech companies, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is likely running straight into the Greenhouse platform. Most candidates fail here because they format for humans while ignoring how the system actually parses data. This episode breaks down the exact modifications required to survive the initial technical scan without sacrificing appeal to the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/).

If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to a modern tech company, there’s a massive chance your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is routed through the Greenhouse platform, and moving past that opaque active status requires a specific technical strategy. An [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), is the software [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use to organize thousands of candidates into a manageable, structured [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) pipeline. To do this, the system relies on a process called parsing. The software extracts specific data points from your document, like your [contact info](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/), work history, and skills, so [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can easily search and filter the applicant pool. In this video, we are going to break down step-by-step how to format your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) so it satisfies both the Greenhouse parser and the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) reading it. Because if you want to land an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), your document has to translate cleanly into structured data, while still looking polished to the human eye.

Let’s clear up a major misconception right away. Greenhouse does not automatically reject your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just because it is missing a few keywords. When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) opens your profile, they view a split-screen layout. The left side shows the structured data parsed from your file and a short [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) summary. On the right, they see the exact visual [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) you uploaded. They read your actual document. Since the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and the human look at two different representations of the exact same file, a successful [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) must cater perfectly to both simultaneously.

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**Step one** is fixing your format. You need to transition your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a clean, single-column, text-based [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/). That means stripping out complex visual elements. Remove tables, text boxes, progress bar graphics, and multi-column templates. You must also follow a strict placement rule for [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/). It must live in the main body of the text, never in the document header or footer. If you ignore these formatting rules, the parser struggles to read the file, and Greenhouse’s [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) summarizer will pull blank or scrambled data. Sacrificing heavy graphic design for structural simplicity ensures the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can accurately validate your experience.

**Step two** is standardizing your data. Rename your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) sections to use exact standard terms: Professional Experience, Education, and Skills. You also need to format all of your [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) dates chronologically, using the month and year standard, like October 2022. The system calculates your total tenure based on this exact date format. Using ambiguous phrasing breaks that calculation.

**Step three** is building your skills block. Create a dedicated, comma-separated skill section that mirrors the exact terminology used in the target job description. The Greenhouse [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) utilizes this specific skills block to generate a match score, comparing your profile directly against the open role. Using exact terminology makes your profile discoverable when [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use search filters to narrow down a high-volume applicant pool.

**Step four** takes us beyond the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and into the actual [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) submission process, specifically looking at the custom knockout questions on the form. These are the mandatory questions you answer when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), asking about things like work authorization requirements or specific industry certifications. This specific form input is the only place Greenhouse actively auto-rejects candidates based on system rules. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) text is not algorithmically rejected. The auto-reject is entirely driven by how you answer these specific binary form questions.

Surviving the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) phase comes down to answering those [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) questions accurately, while providing perfectly structured data for the human review. Your optimization is now complete. You have a clean, single-column, keyword-matched, text-based [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/).

This optimized document now feeds the Greenhouse parser the structured data it needs, while simultaneously remaining readable for the person reviewing your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). By aligning your format with how the platform actually functions, you ensure your qualifications reach the recruiter’s screen exactly as intended.

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### [How to Recover Work Successes for Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-recover-work-successes-for-your-resume/)

**Published:** June 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to stand out, you need to excavate the specific data points that prove your impact—even if you've already lost access to your old company's systems.

**Content:**

# How to Recover Work Successes for Your Resume

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) fail because they look like a list of chores, not a record of wins. If you want to stand out, you need to excavate the specific data points that prove your impact—even if you’ve already lost access to your old company’s systems. This episode gives you the exact framework to turn routine tasks into measurable achievements that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers can’t ignore.

Timestamps

0:00 – Why [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers ignore routine task lists.

0:30 – The PAR Method: Shifting from tasks to measurable results.

1:08 – How to mine your data while you still have internal access.

1:51 – Starting a [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Journal to simplify future job hunts.

2:18 – Recovery strategies if you’re already locked out of company systems.

3:11 – Using proxy metrics to quantify your impact without financial reports.

3:43 – The STAR Method: Packaging your data for behavioral [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

 3:58 – Before and after: Turning “worked the till” into a performance marker.

Welcome back to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV. In this episode, we are breaking down exactly how to excavate your past professional successes so you can leverage them for [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), regardless of whether you still have access to your old company’s systems. Many applicants hit a wall when updating a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) because they view their own history as a series of routine tasks rather than achievements.

Because the work felt normal to you on a daily basis, it is easy to assume it looks unremarkable to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. To bridge this gap, look at your history through the PAR method, Problem, Action, and Results. This framework shifts your focus away from what you were told to do and toward the specific business problems you solved and the measurable outcomes you delivered.

Generating these statements requires more than memory. You need to conduct a systematic historical audit of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) to find the concrete evidence that supports these claims. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers treat every line on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as an indicator of future performance, meaning your professional history only becomes an effective sales tool once it includes excavated proof of your impact.

The most efficient way to gather this proof is to mine your data, while you still have access to your internal corporate network. Your past email history is an archive of your forgotten successes. You can filter massive inboxes by using specific search operators, like Has Attachment Yes to find old project deliverables.

Searching for words like thanks, fixed, or exceeded often surfaces positive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) and metric wins that have slipped your mind. Beyond email, you should proactively download copies of your official HR reviews, official job descriptions, and monthly KPI reports. Moving these files to a personal off-site storage drive ensures you retain the primary sources of your performance data.

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You can simplify future audits by maintaining a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) journal. Logging metric goals, project milestones, and successful fires you’ve put out in real time creates a continuous record of your value. Archiving these primary sources while you are still employed creates a permanent record of your work that exists outside of company control.

It ensures that even after a sudden departure, you have the specific data points needed to build a case for your next role. If you’ve left a position, the digital corporate trail goes cold. Being locked out of internal systems makes proving your impact difficult, but not impossible.

You can often recover context using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. By finding old snapshots of your company’s website, you can verify the scale of past projects or the specific public-facing goals of your department. For the undocumented daily work, use a mental excavation framework.

Ask yourself, what fires did you consistently put out? Or try the if you vanished test. If you had disappeared tomorrow, what specific workflows would have broken or stopped getting done? You can also benchmark your performance by looking at what a replacement job posting would list as requirements. If you consistently met those targets while others struggled, or handled a volume of work that exceeded the average, you’ve identified a verifiable achievement.

Even without exact financial reports, you can quantify your impact using proxy metrics. By identifying the range of clients you managed, the frequency of a high-volume task, or the scale of a project’s reach, you can turn abstract work into concrete data. A lack of direct system access doesn’t equate to a lack of evidence.

Your professional value can be reconstructed by looking at the footprint you left behind and the comparative results you achieved. Once you have excavated this raw data, it must be translated into a format that a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) or a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager can easily digest. This is where you apply the STAR method.

Situation, task, action, and result. This structure ensures that your data is packaged as a concise narrative, specifically designed for behavioral [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) questions. This reframing turns simple duties into performance markers.

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### [Sometimes You Just Need to Laugh #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sometimes-you-just-need-to-laugh-shorts/)

**Published:** June 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Try this if your job search is wearing you down.

**Content:**

# Sometimes You Just Need to Laugh #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [4 Signs the Hiring Manager May Discriminate #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-signs-the-hiring-manager-may-discriminate-shorts/)

**Published:** June 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** in this video, I point out 4 signs that a hiring manager may be discriminating against people like you.

**Content:**

# 4 Signs the Hiring Manager May Discriminate

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

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### [What Parts of a LinkedIn Profile Do Employers Typically Look At? Even If You Aren't Looking?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-parts-of-a-linkedin-profile-do-employers-typically-look-at-even-if-you-arent-looking/)

**Published:** June 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What aspects of a LinkedIn profile do employers typically look at? Is it beneficial to have a LinkedIn profile even if you are not actively job searching?

**Content:**

# What Parts of a LinkedIn Profile Do Employers Typically Look At? Even If You Aren’t Looking?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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What aspects of a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile do [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) typically look at? Is it beneficial to have a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile even if you are not actively job searching?

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### [The Visit | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-visit-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/)

**Published:** June 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A trip to New York has set off an alarm, a trigger for me. What sets things off for you?

**Content:**

# The Visit | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A trip to New York has set off an alarm, a trigger for me. What sets things off for you?

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you’re listening to the [No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/). I try to do a show regularly to talk about life, the universe, and everything, and this one’s going to be an interesting one because I’m going to talk about something that’s going on with me. And I’m doing a trip to New York this weekend, uh, to visit with an old childhood friend who’s dying. Uh, brain cancer, apparently um, no treatment is appropriate at this point, and a group of us with who grew up together visiting visiting him, um, I’ll call it the farewell tour.

And the visit has kind of triggered some stuff for me. Um, the kind of uh indirect memories of um life coming to a conclusion for me, for him, for others, and it’s not like I’m ill, but it’s the awareness that someone with whom I was very young, um, is not going to be with me much longer.

And um, it’s been disturbing, and it showed up this morning in a conversation with my wife where, you know, my son who’s a teenager, uh, and doing all sorts of age-appropriate stuff of complaining about where he’s living, and no matter what he does, you know, he’s not living much of a life because all he does is go to school and work, and doesn’t have much time for anything else, and you know, “Welcome to life, kid.” And um, it started triggering something for me about no matter what I did, it wasn’t enough. You know, the sacrifices and choices that I made uh to take care of family. Um, and I’m curious to see how it’s going to be activated this weekend. So, I’ll do another show uh early next week. I I believe I already have one scheduled for Monday, but I’ll release another one later in the week um for my return. So, um just wanted to give you a sense that all of us have stuff that triggers us, and we’re not always immediately aware of it.

And it’s funny how it shows up. So, for example, my visit uh causes me to be activated about this trip that I’m doing, and the result winds up being that, you know, suddenly I become very sensitive to something that’s fairly innocuous. So, uh hope you have a great weekend and follow me next week for more.

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### [Be Seen. Be Known. #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/)

**Published:** June 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Being invisible to others is a surefire way to have a rougher job search.

**Content:**

# Be Seen. Be Known. #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/JwWeUwJR54c)

Being invisible to others is a surefire way to have a rougher [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

[***The Importance Of Personal Branding In The Workplace***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hzg)

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### [Do This Before Submitting Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-this-before-submitting-your-resume-jobsearchradio/)

**Published:** June 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter demands that you do this before you send out any resume.

**Content:**

# Do This Before Submitting Your Resume

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) demands that you do this before you send out any [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a coach who helps people with [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading, you know, being more effective with workplace issues, in general.

Someone asked a great question which is “Why do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ask if I’m [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) at other companies?” Now, they’re posing this during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) which is . . . it could be a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) where they’re doing an initial screening. It could be in a face-to-face [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) but you know they’re being asked during some version of screening [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

The answer really depends on whether you’re a corporate or an agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) on the standpoint of a corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and, to some degree, an agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). What they’re trying to find out is how far along are you in your process. Are you close to another [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Do you have a sense of what the money is going to be like in that other [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) or that other situation? What’s going on for you? Are other firms finding you valuable?

So, the idea is that you never make it seem like you’re exceedingly active because active job hunters tend to be devalued in the marketplace but you can say, “You know, I’ve been talking with a couple of firms that seem interested. They’re talking about some decent money.”

“What kind of money are they talking about?”

“Well we haven’t gotten to the final number yet but they’re talking about a range of . . . ” and you’re talking about the numbers that this firm, these firms are ostensibly talking about.

“How far along are you?”

“I’m like one or two [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) ahead. Seems like we’re gonna be talking on a couple of more occasions before an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) would be made or they make a decision.”

And the idea is to say it very casually because you don’t want to [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) the agency or corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) at all. You don’t want to make the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), in particular, back off with submitting you further because they were [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that they won’t be able to get to the finish line with you as soon as these other things. So speak casually. Do not make it seem as though you’re very close to an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and expect to have one later in the week. That won’t work.

Now, here’s the other reason that involves agency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Every company you tell them about, every firm that you identify . . . that’s a lead for them and they’re going to go try and get that lead, get the job to work on and try and fill it, in effect creating competition for you.

I remember there used to be one guy in my old office who . . .

I’m gonna use an old company name that doesn’t exist anymore . . . Bear Stearns

“Ah, did you meet with Jerry (whatever the last name would be)?”

“No, I talked to so-and-so.”

“No, no.”

I don’t know him. And the next call would be to whoever it was that they had mentioned in an effort to get the job lead. So, recognize everything that you’re asked has a purpose to it and when you reveal information it doesn’t necessarily help you. It helps the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) decide something about you

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### [H-1B Job Search: No BS Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/h-1b-job-search-no-bs-advice/)

**Published:** June 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# H-1B Job Search: No BS Advice

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Looking for a job while you’re on an H‑1B is not the same game as everyone else is playing. You’re not just selling skills; you’re selling a package that includes immigration risk, timing, and government rules most [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers barely understand. You can pretend it’s all the same and follow generic advice, or you can deal with the reality and play the game like someone who wants to win, not just “see what happens.”

## Stop hiding your constraints

A lot of people on H‑1B try to hide it as long as possible, like it’s a bad secret. That usually blows up later when the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) finds out you need sponsorship and suddenly “the role went in a different direction.” You’ve just wasted weeks.

Be clear and concise early with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and companies: what status you’re on, how much time is left, whether you’re portable, and what your timeline is. You’re screening them as much as they’re screening you. The ones who can’t deal with reality are saving you from a bad outcome.

## Target firms that already play this game

Some companies act like sponsoring is brain surgery. Others treat it as a normal cost of getting great people. You want the second group.

Use public information and tools that show historical sponsorship to your advantage. If a firm has never sponsored anyone, don’t make them your primary target. Spend most of your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) that have already shown they’re willing to do H‑1B or other employment-based sponsorship. That’s where your odds of serious conversations are higher from the start.

## Stop letting recruiters jerk you around

There’s a special kind of misery in dealing with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who don’t understand or don’t care about H‑1B rules. They promise you anything to get your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and then disappear when immigration comes up. You need to manage them like a pro.

Ask direct questions early:

- “Have you placed H‑1B candidates with this client before?”
- “Is the client open to H‑1B transfers or future sponsorship?”
- “Who makes the immigration decision on their side—HR, legal, or the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager?”

If you get vague answers, slow responses, or lots of “should be fine,” treat that as a red flag. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) who is [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to be blunt with you will also be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to be blunt with their client.

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## Build a backchannel, not just a front door

People obsess over the formal posting and forget that a lot of the visa decision is emotional. If someone already knows you and wants you, they’ll push harder to get sponsorship done. That means you can’t just live in the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

You want backchannel advocates: alumni, ex‑coworkers, vendors, and even people you meet at meetups and conferences who can say, “I know this person. They’re worth the paperwork.” That kind of voice cuts through a lot of fear on the employer side. It’s not just “Can we do this?” It becomes “We need to do this for this person.”

## Use non-obvious connections

The easy [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is obvious: ex‑managers, teammates, classmates. The non-obvious stuff is where you differentiate yourself.

Look for people who share a niche with you—same open-source project, same professional association, same tech stack in a specific domain. Vendors, consultants, and even people you’ve only interacted with online can be bridges into companies. Many will have zero emotional baggage around H‑1B because they see your skill first. That’s the point: expand beyond the obvious routes where everyone else is already knocking.

## Create proof of value that travels

Immigration status is a risk in employers’ minds. Your job is to overwhelm that risk with visible, portable proof that you create value. Not buzzwords—evidence.

That means:

- Public code, articles, talks, or case studies that show you know what you’re doing.
- A clear, outcome-focused [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that scream, “This person makes us money, saves us money, or reduces pain.”
- Content that gets you found: posts, videos, or short writeups that show how you think about problems in your field.

If someone can search your name and quickly conclude, “We’d be lucky to have this person,” you’ve changed the conversation from “Do we want to sponsor?” to “Can we find a way not to lose them?”

## Run parallel tracks, not a single bet

On H‑1B, the biggest [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is betting everything on one path: one [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), one extension, one lottery, one company. That’s how people wind up panicked and desperate. You need parallel tracks.

That might mean:

- Multiple active processes instead of falling in love with one “dream company.”
- Talking to different types of employers—product companies, consultancies, smaller firms that move faster.
- Staying in touch with immigration counsel so you understand timing, grace periods, and backup routes.

The mindset shift is critical: your status is a constraint, but it’s not an excuse to behave passively. You’re running a multi‑track campaign, not just hoping one [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) saves you.

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## Get ruthlessly good at timing

The calendar matters more for you than for most candidates. Transfers, start dates, grace periods—these aren’t details; they’re survival.

Stop treating timing like background noise. Map out your critical dates: I‑94 expiry, visa stamp, petition dates, grace windows. Use that to decide how aggressive you need to be and how hard you can push for faster [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). When you talk to companies, be able to say, “Here’s my timeline and where I have flexibility.” That [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) helps them see you as organized and lowers their [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) about “messy paperwork.”

## Don’t let fear turn you into a commodity

Fear makes people shrink. On H‑1B, that often looks like taking anything, saying yes to everything, and wiping all personality off your profile because you’re terrified of scaring someone away. Ironically, that’s exactly how you blend into the pile and get ignored.

You still need a sharp story: who you are professionally, what you’re [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) at, and what kinds of problems you want to solve next. You’re not begging for permission to stay; you’re offering serious value that happens to come with paperwork. The more you act like a scared exception, the more they treat you like one. The more you operate like a strong hire who happens to be on H‑1B, the easier it is for the right [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to say, “Yes, we’ll make this work.”

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Optimize Your LinkedIn to Attract Headhunters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/optimize-your-linkedin-to-attract-headhunters/)

**Published:** June 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode lays out the exact strategy to clean up your digital footprint, optimize your LinkedIn profile for algorithmic search, and turn yourself into a magnet for executive recruiters.

**Content:**

# Optimize Your LinkedIn to Attract Headhunters

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop wasting hours submitting [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to public job boards only to get ghosted. Up to 90% of top-tier roles are filled through hidden networks and direct headhunting, never making it to public sites. This episode lays out the exact strategy to clean up your digital footprint, optimize your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile for algorithmic search, and turn yourself into a magnet for executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

Look at the top executive placements in your industry. Up to 90% of those roles are filled through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and direct headhunting, never making it to public job boards. Actively submitting [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and waiting to be chosen is an exhausting cycle, but there is a high-leverage alternative: positioning yourself so the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) come to you.

To execute this strategy, you need exactly three things to start: an existing [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, a private web browser, and a highly specific target title. Controlling what a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) finds during their initial discovery phase shifts the focus from your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to your [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). This prepares the ground to move the conversation from “Why should we hire you?” to “Are you open to a conversation?”

Step one is seeing what [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) see. Open an incognito or private browser window right now. This prevents your past browsing history from skewing the results. Search your full name. You need to review the first three pages of results, and do not skip the images and videos tabs. As you scan, log every link in a spreadsheet. Categorize each result into one of three buckets: positive assets that support your expertise, neutral links like old directory listings, or negative content that could [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) a red flag.

Pay close attention to forgotten accounts on older platforms. An inactive blog from 10 years ago might show up on page one, and if it misrepresents your current executive level, it needs to be deleted or updated. Curating this footprint aggressively guarantees that the first piece of information a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager discovers aligns perfectly with the role you want.

Once your public search results are clean, we move to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Treat this platform not as a social network, but as a database. Headhunters use strict Boolean search strings to pull candidates from it. To match their queries, select five to eight core keywords. These should be industry-standard job titles and verifiable hard skills. Do not use your internal company jargon. An outside headhunter will never search for a title like “Associate Level 3.” Use the universal terms for your profession.

The algorithm weights your profile headline heavier than any other section. This is exactly where you must inject those primary target titles and skills. Next, take your secondary keywords and weave them into the first 300 characters of your about section. Scroll down to your skill section and populate it with 15 to 25 specific, verifiable hard skills.

You might be tempted to turn on the public green “Open to Work” banner. Keep it off. Broadcasting your availability to the entire network can inadvertently signal desperation to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers. Instead, navigate to your preferences and toggle the setting to the private “Recruiters Only” option. This maintains your exclusivity while keeping you visible to the right people. Optimizing these specific fields aligns your profile with the filters headhunters use to map the talent market. You have moved from being hidden in the database to being surfaced in their top-tier searches.

With your profile optimized, you can activate what we call pull visibility. This is the process of drawing headhunters to you by demonstrating clear subject matter expertise. You don’t have to post constantly. Instead, find trending industry posts and leave a deep, multi-sentence analytical comment. Go beyond simply clicking the like button and actually add to the conversation. If you prefer to avoid the main feed entirely, write niche, long-form articles or contribute your expertise to specialized online communities like GitHub or industry Discord servers. You will know this is working when you start tracking your inbound connections. When relevant professionals send you requests based on your insights, the strategy is taking hold.

Producing these public, domain-specific insights elevates you. You transition from a cold data point in a search query into a recognized and vetted industry authority. Now we engage the gatekeepers directly. Identify six to ten retained executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who operate specifically in your niche, and send them a personalized connection request. Retained [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are paid by the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) company. Provide upfront value by sending non-obvious market intelligence about competitors. Actively [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) talented colleagues. This exchange makes you a friend of the firm, the first person they call for new mandates. By treating the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) as an investigative peer, you secure permanent access to their hidden, unadvertised pipeline of executive roles.

This is how you shift the balance of power. You step out of the exhausting role of an active applicant hoping to be chosen, and step into the position of a highly sought-after passive candidate. Your clean digital footprint, your algorithmic keyword optimization, and your inner-circle [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) relationships function as one continuous automated magnet, pulling high-level opportunities directly to you.

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### [AI-SEO: Get Noticed by Gemini and Perplexity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-seo-get-noticed-by-gemini-and-perplexity/)

**Published:** June 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Now, the linear path of being found or discovered has been replaced by a multidimensional web of AI-driven discovery.

**Content:**

# AI-SEO: Get Noticed by Gemini and Perplexity

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the traditional job market, the path to [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) was linear: you wrote a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), uploaded it to a portal, and hoped a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) or a basic keyword-matching algorithm ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) found you. Now, that linear path has been replaced by a multidimensional web of AI-driven discovery. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) now use “Agentic Search,” asking platforms like Gemini, Perplexity, or specialized enterprise LLMs to “find me three project managers with experience in decentralized finance and a track record of scaling remote teams.” If your name and [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) are not structured to be understood by these models, you are effectively invisible, regardless of your talent. This guide outlines the foundational steps for ‘Personal AI-SEO’—the art of optimizing your digital footprint so you are the answer to the recruiter’s prompt.

# 1. The Consistency of the Digital Entity

Large Language Models (LLMs) do not view the internet as a collection of pages; they view it as a web of ‘entities.’ For an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model to recommend you, it must first be certain that ‘Jane Doe’ on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is the same ‘Jane Doe’ who wrote a viral industry article on Medium and the same ‘Jane Doe’ mentioned in a corporate press release. Information workers often make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of using fragmented identities—professional names on some sites and casual handles on others.

To fix this, consolidate your “Entity Identity.” Use your full professional name across all platforms. In your bios, use a consistent “Anchor Phrase.” For example, if you are a “Cybersecurity Architect specializing in Zero Trust,” that exact phrase should appear in your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline, your X bio, and your personal website. This repetition helps the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) cluster all your disparate digital activities into a single, high-authority profile.

# 2. Migrating from ‘Private’ to ‘Public’ Proof

For decades, the most valuable information about a worker’s skill was locked inside a private [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or a password-protected internal company portal. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents cannot crawl these. ***If your expertise only exists in a document on your hard drive, it does not exist in the eyes of an LLM.*** Information workers must begin “leaking” their expertise into the public domain.

This doesn’t mean sharing trade secrets; it means sharing your *methodology*. Instead of just listing “Agile Project Management” as a skill, write a public post or a blog entry titled “How I use Agile to reduce sprint cycles by 20% in FinTech environments.” By publishing this, you provide the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) with ‘tokens’—specific, context-rich words—that associate your name with high-level problem-solving. This moves you from a “keyword match” to a “proven solution” in the AI’s logic.

# 3. Optimizing for Natural Language Queries

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) no longer search for “Python + SQL + 5 years experience.” They search for natural language outcomes. They ask, “Who can help us transition our legacy data to the cloud?” To be cited, your public profile must mirror these natural language questions. On your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) ‘About’ section or personal [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), include a “How I Help” section. Frame your skills as answers to common industry problems. Use full sentences and narrative structures, as LLMs are trained to prioritize well-structured, informative prose over bulleted lists of nouns. The more your written content sounds like a high-quality answer to a recruiter’s question, the more likely the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is to cite you as the source of that answer.

# 4. The Role of Community Participation

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) models like Perplexity use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which means they browse the live web for the most current information. They often look toward community hubs where experts congregate. For information workers, being active in public [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) archives, Discord servers with web-viewable logs, and industry-specific forums is critical. When you answer a peer’s question in a public forum, you are inadvertently [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to see you as an authority. Every helpful comment, GitHub pull request, or Stack Overflow answer acts as a digital “vote” for your expertise that an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agent can count.

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### [Hard Work, No Results: The Hard Truth #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/)

**Published:** June 24, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Doing the right things doesn't guarantee anything.

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# Hard Work, No Results: The Hard Truth #shorts

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### [Common Job Interview Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/common-job-interview-mistakes/)

**Published:** May 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3051 These are critical mistakes individuals often make during job interviews without realizing the negative impact. 

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# Common Job Interview Mistakes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***EP 3051 These are critical [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) individuals often make during [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without realizing the negative impact.***

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Welcome to the Deep Dive. Today, we’re tackling something really crucial if you’re out there in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). And we’re not just talking the really obvious blunders.

We want to dissect those subtle errors, the ones that, well, they can trip you up, even if you’re a fantastic candidate. Exactly. It’s quite surprising how often really qualified people stumble, not because of skills, but just how they come across in that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) room, or the virtual room these days.

So we’re going to unpack a whole range of these missteps, everything from that first tell me about yourself question. Always tricky. All the way to the questions you should be asking at the end.

OK, so our mission here is to give you, the listener, a real edge. If you understand why certain things [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/), well, you can avoid them. Yeah, boost your chances significantly.

OK, let’s dive in. Right. So first up, a really common one, oversharing, just talking too much, maybe losing focus.

Yeah, the rambling. Yeah. Nerves kick in, right? Absolutely.

You feel you need to fill the silence. And sometimes, well, you fill it with stuff that’s just not relevant. It’s like that nervous [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

You just want to sort of word vomit your whole life story. But you have to remember what they’re actually looking for. Precisely.

They’re trying to figure out, do you have the skills, the experience for this specific job? Right. So when they say, tell me about yourself, and you launch into, I don’t know, your first summer job stacking shelves, or your pet’s name. OK, maybe not the pet’s name.

Hopefully not. But things that aren’t really hitting the mark for this role, it kind of suggests you might struggle to focus on what’s important. Yeah, makes sense.

So less life story, more professional highlights real, tailored to the job. Exactly. Keep it concise, maybe around two minutes for that opening, any longer.

And you dilute the core message, which is why you’re a great fit right here, right now. Got it. OK, what’s next? Another common [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/)? Bad-mouthing previous [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

Oh, this is a big one. It’s tempting, though, isn’t it? If you had a bad experience, you kind of want to vent. It is tempting, understandably so, sometimes.

But it just doesn’t reflect well on you. Because the interviewer is sitting there thinking, what are they going to say about us in a year or two? Exactly. It raises questions about professionalism, negativity.

Are you going to be a good team member? So even if the last place was a disaster? Find a different way, a more constructive way to frame why you left or why you’re looking. OK, so what’s the alternative, then? Focus on the positive, on what you’re seeking. Talk about the future.

Maybe you want more growth, more responsibility, a more collaborative team. So pivot from the negative past to the positive future you want. That’s it.

Keeps it forward-looking, professional. Strategic. I like it.

OK, what about long-term goals? When they ask, where do you see yourself? How do you avoid making it sound like you’re just passing through? Yeah, that’s another tricky one. If you start talking about plans that, well, clearly don’t involve sticking around in this role for long. Starting your own totally different business in six months.

Or switching [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) entirely soon. Right. That’s going to [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) commitment concerns for this specific job.

So even if you do have those bigger, different plans brewing, maybe keep them under wraps for now. At the **[interview stage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/thank-you-letters-after-second-third-or-any-late-stage-interview-thebiggamehuntertv/)**, yes. It’s usually [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

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Focus instead on your professional development within the company. How you want to grow there. Exactly.

How you see yourself learning, taking on more, contributing to their [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). You want to show you’re invested in this opportunity, even if your five-year plan looks different privately. Right.

Makes sense. OK, another one I’ve heard about sounding desperate. Oh, definitely.

A big red flag. We all need a job, but there’s a way that comes across badly. Absolutely.

Saying things like, oh, I’ll take anything, or honestly, nobody else is calling me back. Ouch. Yeah, it’s alarming for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

They start wondering, well, why isn’t anyone else calling you back? Is there something wrong here? It makes them doubt your qualifications, maybe. Or your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). Exactly.

It suggests maybe you don’t value yourself, or maybe you aren’t actually a good fit if you’re that desperate. So the better approach. Focus on the why.

Why this job? Why this company? Frame it as a positive choice. Like, I’m choosing you because. Precisely.

Highlight your genuine interest in the role, the mission, the team, whatever resonates. Make it sound like a deliberate decision, not a last resort. OK.

Now let’s talk personal stuff. Yes. Discussing personal issues.

Where’s the line in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Yeah, tricky territory. Generally, it’s [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) to avoid bringing up personal medical conditions early on, especially if they don’t affect your ability to do the job’s core function. And if you need accommodations? That’s a conversation for after a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), not before.

[**Keep the initial interviews focused**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-i-keep-my-focus-during-a-multiday-multisite-interview-jobsearchtv-com/) on your skills and experience. Right. What about other personal things? Politics, [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) history.

Politics. Just, no. Avoid it completely.

It’s a minefield. Even if you think you know the interviewer’s views, too risky. Agreed.

And [**previous salary**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-apply-for-a-job-at-half-my-previous-salary-2/)? You’re usually not obligated to share that. If they ask, you can pivot. Politely shift to discussing your expected [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for this role based on your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and experience.

Good pivot. OK, now this is an interesting one. The we versus I balance when talking about accomplishment.

Ah, yes. The subtle art of attribution. It’s important.

If you only say we, especially for collaborative projects. They don’t know what you actually did. Exactly.

It obscures your individual contribution. They’re left wondering, OK, the team did great, but what was your specific impact? But then if you only say I, I, I. Then you risk sounding like you’re not a team player, maybe a bit arrogant or self-centered. So it’s a blend.

It’s a strategic blend. Use I when you’re talking about your specific actions, your direct responsibilities, the results you drove. Use we when acknowledging the team effort, the shared [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

Showcase individual impact and teamwork. OK, related to that, how do you sound confident without tipping over into, well, cocky? It’s a fine line, isn’t it? [Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) is about clearly stating your skills, backing them up with evidence. Arrogance is more like boastfulness, maybe dismissing others.

So how do you hit that sweet spot, knowing you’re good, but not sounding like you think you’re the only one who’s good? Quantify. Quantify your impact whenever you can. Don’t just say, I improve sales.

[***Staying Relevant***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-enx)

I increased sales by 15% in six months by doing X, Y, and Z. See, specifics, data. Right, tangible results. And show some humility.

Acknowledge team members. Show you’re open to learning. Avoid sounding infallible.

Data plus humility, got it. Now prep. Everyone knows you need to prepare, but can you actually over-prepare? Oh, absolutely.

You can if you memorize answers like a script. You sound like a robot. Exactly.

It lacks authenticity. Interviewers want a real conversation, get a feel for your personality, how you think. A script just creates a barrier.

So know your stuff, have your examples ready, but deliver it naturally. Precisely. Know your key messages, your stories, but be present, be genuine.

Respond to the actual question in the moment. Okay, and what kind of prep actually matters? Because people can focus on the wrong things, right? Very common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Spending hours memorizing, I don’t know, the names of CEOs from 10 years ago, or obscure company history.

Stuff that isn’t really relevant to the role today. Right. What does matter is understanding their business now.

What are their products, their services? What are their recent challenges or successes? And critically, what does this specific role entail day to day? What are they looking for? So connect your skills to their current needs, not their ancient history. That’s the key. Show how you can solve their problems, contribute to their goals.

And [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) aren’t all the same, are they? Different stages mean different approaches. Definitely. A first round screen is different from a final panel [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), assuming they’re the same as a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

What’s the difference typically? Well, the first round might be more about basic qualifications, just checking the boxes. Later rounds dig deeper into strategic thinking, cultural fit, problem solving. So Taylor, you’re prepped for each stage.

Exactly. Know the goal of that specific [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Okay, let’s shift gears slightly.

**[Executive level interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-level-interviews-12-steps-to-win-the-job/)**. Are there specific [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) common at that senior level? Yes, there are distinct pitfalls there. One big one is focusing too much on the past, just recounting old achievements.

But isn’t your track record important? It is, but it’s not enough. At the executive level, they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for the future. They need to see how your past experience equips you to tackle their [**future challenges and opportunities**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-will-my-employers-bad-reputation-affect-my-future-opportunities-thebiggamehuntertv/).

So less, here’s what I did, more, here’s how my experience helps me solve your problem. Exactly. You need to shift the conversation from evaluation, them judging your past, to collaboration, talking strategically about their future and how you fit into it.

That’s a significant [**mindset shift**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mindset-shifts-for-a-successful-salary-negotiation/). What’s another executive [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)? Just telling stories from the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) without pulling out the principles. What do you mean? Just saying, at my last company, we did this project, without explaining the thinking behind it, the leadership approach, the values that drove it.

They need to see how you think and lead, not just what you did. Because they might think, okay, that worked there, but we’re different. Precisely.

You need to show the transferable skills, the adaptable leadership philosophy, share the why and the how, not just the what. Focus on the principles behind the [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), okay? Anything else specific to [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/)? Yes, limiting the discussion just to the specific job function. That’s a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

You mean only talking about marketing if it’s a CMO role? Right. [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) need to think organization-wide. Your discussions, your examples, your plans, they should connect to the broader business strategy, the impact across departments.

You see the big picture. You’re being hired as a leader for the whole company, essentially. Exactly.

Now, here’s an interesting one. Asking, what does it take to succeed here at the executive level? Why is that a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)? Seems like a reasonable question. At junior levels, maybe.

But for an executive, it can signal a lack of initiative. You’re expected to bring the vision to help define [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), not just ask for the formula. It makes it sound like you need your hand held, maybe.

Less like a leader who sets direction. Precisely. You should be offering insights, maybe even advising them on the role based on your experience.

That’s a key difference. Okay, one more for [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/). Blending individual contributions.

Yes, similar to the general we versus I point, but maybe even more critical at the top. You must be able to clearly articulate your specific impact, your individual initiatives, even within team successes. Vague, we did this, answers aren’t strong enough.

Gotta own your results clearly. Okay, let’s broaden back out. General [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for anyone.

Drawing a blank. Huge problem. Being stumped by common questions, strengths, weaknesses, why you want the job just signals poor preparation.

[***10 Mistakes Older Job Hunters Make (Plus Bonuses)”***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gvS)

You’ve gotta practice those. Absolutely, have thoughtful answers ready. What about not actually answering the question asked? Sounds basic, but it happens a lot.

People get nervous, they pivot, they talk around the question. And the interviewer just gets frustrated. Right, or thinks you’re being evasive.

Listen carefully, answer directly, then you can elaborate if needed. Good advice, and missing chances too, as you put it, toggle up achievements. Yeah, just stating facts versus highlighting impact.

Don’t just say what you did, explain how well you did it, what the positive outcome was. Quantify it again, if possible. Sell yourself, but based on facts.

Confidently, not arrogantly. And avoid cliches. Oh, the generic answer.

Exactly, I’m a hard worker, I’m a team player. Interviewers hear these constantly, they tell them nothing unique about you. Use specific examples instead, stand out.

Definitely. We also talked about oversharing, but there’s also just general TMI, too much detail, even on relevant stuff. All right, getting lost in the weeds.

Keep it focused, concise. Hit the key points that matter for the role. And at the end, when they ask, do you have any questions? Saying no.

Big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), huge missed opportunity. It’s just a lack of interest, lack of engagement. It’s your chance to show you’re really thinking about it.

And to learn more, always have thoughtful questions ready about the role, the team, the company challenges, the culture. Okay, and just generally, negativity or arrogance. We’ve touched on this, but worth repeating.

Absolutely critical. Maintain a positive, enthusiastic attitude. No complaining, no cynicism.

And check the ego at the door. [Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), yes. Arrogance, no.

Project positivity. What about just basic communication skills? Fundamentally important. Being unclear, rambling, using too much jargon, mumbling.

It all undermines you. Practice speaking clearly and concisely. Be easy to understand, easy to listen to, and underpinning all of this.

Preparation, preparation, preparation. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the company, understand the role, know how you fit. It sounds basic.

But so many people still don’t do it thoroughly enough. It shows. Okay, final point then.

[Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). We said don’t be cocky, but you also can’t be. Too hesitant, underselling yourself is just as bad, appearing insecure, overly modest.

It doesn’t inspire [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in the interviewer. So find that balance. Confident but humble, know your worth, state it clearly.

That’s the goal, self-aware competence. Wow, okay, that’s a lot to keep in mind. It really is amazing how many sort of small things can add up to make or break an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

It really is. But the good news is most of these are avoidable with awareness and preparation. Understanding these pitfalls gives you a massive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

Preparation, self-awareness, clear communication. Those are your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) tools. So for everyone listening as you prep for that next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), maybe reflect on this.

Have any of these little [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) tripped you up in the past without you realizing it? Thinking about it now can help you approach the next one with much greater awareness and hopefully much greater [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Thanks for taking this deep dive with us.

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### [Why You Don't Even Get The Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-dont-get-the-interview/)

**Published:** June 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 769 There are reasons why you don't even get the interview.

**Content:**

# Why You Don’t Even Get The Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 769 There are reasons why you don’t even get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

[***Stupid Resume Mistakes: Showing Markups***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2gb)

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I was [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) someone yesterday who is up for a position and in the course of the conversation, he reminded me of something in his circumstances that I thought would be helpful to you as well.

What he reminded me of was paying attention to the language that is used in the job description or the questions that are asked by HR that signal certain things that may not be obvious. For example, in his case, he was told by HR that the next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) was with someone who is trying to 4X growth within the particular business unit.

We were working on language to use that illustrated his experience with that. The language that we came up with was his background with “aggressive growth.” Instead of using the usual metrics of percentages, their language was to talk in terms of “times.” He was involved with almost 3X growth in the previous situation.

Recognize that there are signals that are used in job descriptions or in the questions that HR asks that can be a signal to you of how to communicate with them and the kind of information they are looking for.

Another thing that came up in a different conversation was concern that one firm had about someone where they perceived his background was more internally oriented, rather than externally oriented. He was savvy enough to pick up on that and said, “I just want to be clear about my background. I’ve had 5 years of internal experience and, of those 5, 3 of them were taking internal programs and bringing them to customers and converting them from internal systems to external systems, thus, of my 20 or 22 years of background, 17 of them really related to external customers.”

Notice one going with us. You always want to be listening for cues that are coming in job descriptions or in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) that signal the real interest that the firm has because job descriptions are a list of qualifications that they look for. You are looking for what you can do for them. You are looking for ways that you can demonstrate that you as a professional, with your staff level individual or in the C suite, have the capacity to deliver what it is that they want. As you know, sometimes these job descriptions and sometimes their questioning is a little obtuse.

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### [Why the ATS Rejects You (And How to Fix It)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-the-ats-rejects-you-and-how-to-fix-it/)

**Published:** June 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You are operating under a dangerous assumption: you think the automated software rejecting your applications is an advanced, discerning intelligence.

**Content:**

# Why the ATS Rejects You (And How to Fix It)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You are operating under a dangerous assumption: you think the automated software rejecting your [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) is an advanced, discerning intelligence.

It isn’t. The [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) used by major enterprises is structurally dumb. It is a baseline database parser designed for a singular operational goal: mass elimination. It doesn’t look for excellence; it looks for compliance. It is built to find reasons to reject you.

Today, we look at why the machine dumps you into the automated rejection pile, and the exact clinical steps you need to take to fix it.

### 1. The Formatting Trap: Why the Machine Blinded Itself

The number one reason highly qualified professionals are rejected has nothing to do with their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) history. It has to do with formatting friction. When a machine cannot parse your layout, it assigns a null value to your experience metrics and automatically flags you as non-compliant.

Consider what happened to a senior operations executive I advised. He had a pristine, Ivy League-caliber [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) designed by a boutique firm. It used a modern dual-column layout, custom shaded sidebars for his core competencies, and subtle horizontal lines to separate his tenure. To a human eye, it was art. To the corporate [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) parser, it was a catastrophic error.

The software read the columns horizontally across the page rather than down each column. It stitched phrases from his 2024 logistics experience directly into unrelated metrics from his 2018 corporate finance role. The resulting database profile was a scrambled, incoherent mess of text. The machine calculated a zero-percent compatibility score and instantly generated a rejection email. He was disqualified from a role he was perfectly suited to run, simply because the machine blinded itself.

- **The Rejection Trigger:** The underlying parsing engines of platforms like Workday and [Taleo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) cannot interpret complex visual design. Text boxes, multi-column templates, graphic skill bars, headers, footers, and complex table matrices completely scramble the machine’s reading order.
- **The Fix:** Force compliance by stripping your document down to a linear, single-column text asset. Use standard system fonts like Arial or Calibri. Use basic markdown or standard bullet points rather than custom symbols. If a human can see it but a baseline text scanner cannot extract it into clean plain text, the software rejects you out of hand.

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### 2. The Vocabulary Gap: Why Synonym Logic Fails

A common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) among college-educated professionals is using creative or elevated vocabulary to describe their background. You might write “Spearheaded organizational alignment” when the job description explicitly asks for “Cross-functional project management.”

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) does not possess human semantic intuition. It operates on rigid keyword string matching.

I watched this play out with a brilliant product director who was rejected from fourteen enterprise tech firms in a row. He kept rewriting his summary to sound more sophisticated, using words like “orchestrated cross-platform synergy” and “cultivated agile internal [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) loops.” When we pulled up the back-end requirements for the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) he wanted, the corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) had typed exactly three literal keyword strings into the search filter: “Product Launch,” “Agile,” and “Scrum.”

Because his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) used elegant synonyms instead of the literal, blue-collar industry terms the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) typed into the box, the machine decided he didn’t possess the required skills. He wasn’t rejected because he lacked the capability; he was rejected because he refused to talk down to the level of the software.

- **The Rejection Trigger:** If a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager inputs “Python, AWS, Agile” into the filter, and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads “engineered scalable cloud solutions using mainstream development methodologies,” the machine scores you at zero for those fields. It treats a missing exact keyword as a complete lack of competence and deletes you from the stack.
- **The Fix:** Audit the target job description for its core nouns and hard technical requirements. Mirror those exact phrases verbatim in your document. If they capitalize an acronym, capitalize it. If they hyphenate a phrase, hyphenate it. Match the machine’s exact taxonomy.

### 3. The Proximity Error: Dead Keywords

Keyword stuffing—dumping a block of uncontextualized words at the bottom of a page in white text—is dead. Modern parsing algorithms catch this trick instantly and automatically reject the profile as spam.

The software has evolved to look for context. It evaluates structural relationships through a mechanism called keyword proximity. If a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) searches for a combination of “Revenue Optimization” and “SaaS,” the software doesn’t just check if both terms exist anywhere on the page. It measures the physical distance between those words within the text block.

If “SaaS” is listed under a skills bank at the very bottom of page two, and “Revenue Optimization” is at the top of page one under your oldest job, the machine flags the relationship as weak. It assumes you haven’t used those assets together recently or in a high-stakes corporate environment.

- **The Rejection Trigger:** Enterprise software now checks for **Keyword Proximity and Chronology**. It evaluates *where* a skill appears in your timeline and how closely it is tied to an actual metric. A keyword sitting in a generic list at the bottom of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) carries almost zero weight compared to a keyword embedded inside your most recent job history. If your relevant skills are buried or detached from your achievements, you fail the algorithm’s scoring threshold.
- **The Fix:** Weave the specific technical requirements directly into your metric statements. Do not just say you know a tool; state the exact scale at which you used it. For example: *“Deployed AWS architecture to scale data ingestion velocity by 40%.”* This proves to the database that the asset was structurally integrated into your real-world delivery.

### The Bottom Line

The [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is a barrier, not an advocate. It exists to reduce a stack of 500 profiles to 10 as cheaply and quickly as possible by looking for reasons to reject you.

Remove the visual bloat from your documents, align your vocabulary with the machine’s exact requirements, and stop trying to impress a database with poetic prose. Give the machine the exact structured data it wants, clear the gatekeeper, and get your real expertise in front of a human being who can actually hire you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Free Professional Courses for Older Pros #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/)

**Published:** June 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are free courses online for older professionals.

**Content:**

# Free Professional Courses for Older Pros #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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There are free courses online for older professionals.

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### [They Don't Respond to Your Application After Saying They'll Be in Touch  #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-dont-respond-to-your-application-after-saying-theyll-be-in-touch-shorts/)

**Published:** June 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

#  They Don’t Respond to Your Application After Saying They’ll Be in Touch #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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What does it mean if an employer does not respond to your job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) after saying they will be in touch about the shortlist?

[***What Pace Are You Trying to Set For Your Job Search?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-195)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) coaching and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [Letting Them Know How Committed You Are](https://thebiggamehunter.us/letting-them-know-how-committed-you-are-jobsearchradio-com/)

**Published:** June 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Letting Them Know How Committed You Are

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) answers a question from a viewer about letting a firm know how committed he or she should be to them.

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And I received another question from from someone um looking for some advice. So let me just read the question to you before I go into the answer. That’s a good way to do it, right? So, after [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to a job with only one other applicant, as a non-citizen, how can I contact the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to let him know how committed I would be?

Okay. So, there are two dimensions to this. One is about the contact, and one is about being a non-citizen. So, I want to work with the assumption—I’m actually not work with the assumption, I’m going to do it on two layers. The first one is they know your you’re in the country on an H-1B visa. So you’ve already had an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and now you want to contact the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. I would suggest sending an email. So, uh you might call up the firm if you don’t have their email address, uh uh ask for the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s email address, um if they’re unwilling to give it to you, uh just and and you just basically tell reception, uh “I interviewed with so-and-so, I want to get their email address to send a thank-you note.” Real simple. And then the note basically says, “Thanks for making time to meet with me. Um I really enjoyed talking with you. I think the opportunity would be a terrific one for me.” And then you talk about how your qualifications. And then conclude in the last paragraph by saying, “In case there’s any doubt, I just want you to know how committed I would be to this role and to the organization. And I look forward to hearing from you about next steps in the process.” That simple.

Now, let’s assume that you don’t have an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you’ve just been to a job board or website where they clock the number of responses, so you know there’s only two people responding, you and one other person. Uh and that they don’t know that you have a visa, um or let’s assume that they do uh and you just haven’t gotten a response yet. So, you basically do the same thing. You get an email address for this person. Uh don’t know who the person is, call up reception, say, “I understand there’s a position open for such-and-such, who’s the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager for that?” They’ll try and send you to HR. Uh politely accept the transfer, and then from there, you know, duck the phone call, um and then add ask Call back uh a little while later, ask for the name of the CIO, call their office, ask for the name of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager who’s responsible uh for that position or that function. And then do much the same thing. You send them an email uh letting them know of your qualifications, indicating that you’d responded, and that you wanted to talk with them about the role um and about your background. Uh talk about how your experience fits, just like I explained in the in the previous one. Um and you can conclude by saying, “I haven’t heard from anyone about my candidacy. I just want to simply say that this role looks terrific, I have a background where I could deliver for you, and, you know, I would work very hard for you.” And, you know, you you write it in a way that demonstrates your commitment to the organization and to the position, just like in the last example I gave.

Uh and try not to be too polite. You know, one of the things that’s culturally different about US society and US culture in business and others is if you’re too polite, it’s not looked at well. You can be cordial without being obsequious, slave-like, demonstrating extreme obedience. American culture doesn’t really respect that.

So, again, two ways to respond to that. I hope you find this helpful. Uh I also have many other answers to questions on YouTube. Uh you do a search for “Ask The Big Game Hunter” and you’ll find many more. Also, I want to suggest coming over to my website, which is thebiggamehunter.us. There’s a lot of information about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) that you can watch, listen to, or read uh that will help you find work more quickly.

A few final things: First of all, if we’re not connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send me a connection request at [linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter](https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flinkedin.com%2Fin%2Fthebiggamehunter). Uh if your current firm is trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone, send me an email at jeffaltman@thebiggamehunter.us, let me know who to contact and whether I should mention your name. I’d love to help your firm staff positions.

Finally, when you get to the point where you’re going to be negotiating [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), you know, athletes, entertainers, you know, celebrity people all have agents doing negotiating. That’s not going to be the case with you. However, you can get preparation so you’re as well-rehearsed as possible to help you through the negotiation. Schedule time with me through my website, and I’d be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to go through that with you and get you [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for your negotiation.

This is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Have a great day. Take care.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [The Two Magic Words to Use in an Interview & The Story Behind The Story](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-two-magic-words-to-use-in-an-interview-the-story-behind-the-story-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)

**Published:** June 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# The Two Magic Words to Use in an Interview & The Story Behind The Story

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I discuss how to prepare for your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), how to improve your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and the two magic words to use during your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

[***What’s Your Personal Brand?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mBm)

Let’s talk today about preparing for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). This tactic can also be used for improving your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) dramatically. But, at a minimum. If you haven’t done this before and had just been sending out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), it is the gold that will help you excel on your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Here’s what you did. You go back to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and go bullet point by bullet point and ask yourself the question, “What’s the story behind this statement?” I made the statement that I did such and such. What’s the story, what events occurred? Put in you, talking to a friend or family member about what it is that she did and how you went about doing it as well as what you stepped into at the time. Prepare yourself with the story behind those facts.

This is an approach that works extremely well and [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and will help differentiate you from the competition in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). After all, if you just lay out a [resume as if it were job description](https://thebiggamehunter.us/an-ai-prompt-for-tuning-your-resume-to-a-job-description-shorts/) (I do this. I do that. I am part of a team that does this or that.), [Your resume becomes boring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/craft-a-career-highlights-reel-not-a-boring-resume/). But if you put some life into it by giving some texture to it, by contextualizing what you did and giving a bigger impact at your organization, it has enormous results and you will get many more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). [When you tell the stories behind the story](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-two-magic-words-to-use-in-an-interview-the-story-behind-the-story/) on your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you will stand out from the competition.

I also want to teach you the 2 magic words to use on your [interviews to really differentiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-little-job-interview-differentiator-what-makes-you-different/) yourself.

I’m sure you’ll be asked about what you did and how you [went about doing it](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-i-know-a-zoom-interview-went-well-or-not-jobsearchtv-com/) on your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). You’re the 2 magic words to use on your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/):

“For example.”

Then you talk about what you stepped into. Those 2 words, for example, go a long way to allowing people to see you for what you did and what you accomplish at your previous organization. It allows you to speak freely about what you’ve accomplished and doing it in the way that audiences love– stories. People love stories.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Finding Work with Non-Profits](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/)

**Published:** June 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I offer a simple way to find work with a non-profit when you have no experience in the industry but have the desire to work for one.

**Content:**

# Finding Work with Non-Profits

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a simple way to find work with a non-profit when you have no experience in the industry but have the desire to work for one.

[***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

This is a simple video to talk to those of you who are trying to make a switch to nonprofit work because you want to do meaningful things with your life than just simply shuffle paper and deal with the financial transactions, for example. You want to do work that you believe has meaning.

Some of your skills are going to be transferable and sometimes you can get that job that you want by emphasizing the transferable skills to that sector. But I![interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/interview-PRXG3HS-300x184.jpg) want to remind you that nonprofit [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) often pays less than private sector so you may need to accommodate the differences financially. You may need to take a lesser [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

However, some organizations really want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people who have experience in the nonprofit area. How do you get that experience? Answer. Volunteering. It’s one of the few times I I suggest volunteering as a way to gain experience.

Now for college students, that and interning can be an effective route toward finding work. But for adults and (and I use that with air [quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)), you are going to need to do some after-hours work to get the attention of some of these organizations.

Putting in effort sometimes on phone lines, taking calls. So, for example, you’re working a hotline dealing with people, serving meals for that kind of organization. Volunteering in some way shape or form to that firm, that organization, to get the attention of people so that they will want to come back to you at a later point to talk with you about full-time work.

Will this work all the time? Absolutely not. Nothing works all the time. However (#1), you will get a flavor for what it’s like in that organization and thus determine whether is something you really want to do or whether it was just the whim and the reality is different than your fantasy. (#2) Frankly, it’s a passion of yours period fulfill the passion. It can affect your life in many different ways by doing this volunteering and all of them are good.

[***Telling Stories, Not Tall Tales***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aK2)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [6 Second Job Search Tips: Resumes #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/)

**Published:** June 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A Six second job search tips about resume objectives

**Content:**

# 6-Second Job Search Tips: Resume Objectives #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A Six second [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) tips about [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

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### [6 Second Job Search Tips: Jobs #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-jobs/)

**Published:** June 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six-second video about the true nature of jobs.

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### [The Counter-Signal: Build a LinkedIn Monopoly](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-counter-signal-build-a-linkedin-monopoly/)

**Published:** June 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are an information worker or laptop professional aggressively hunting for a role in today’s oversupplied market, your biggest enemy isn’t the economy

**Content:**

# The Counter-Signal: Build a LinkedIn Monopoly

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are an information worker or laptop professional aggressively hunting for a role in today’s oversupplied market, your biggest enemy isn’t the economy — it is your own visibility strategy.

When desperation peaks, most professionals default to a defensive, low-leverage posture: they toggle the “Open to Work” banner, publish an emotionally charged essay about their sudden exit, and broadcast generic praise for their industry.

This conventional approach backfires because it signals dependency. It frames you as a petitioner pleading for an entry point in a crowded room.

In a hyper-saturated ecosystem, an average skill set marketed through standard professional compliance is completely invisible. To break the commodity [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), you must weaponize The Counter-Signal, an aggressive, clinical content engine that shifts your public perception from an unemployed job seeker to an active, uncopiable and unique corporate asset.

Content is not an exercise in vanity metrics, personal vulnerability, or chasing “influencer” status. For a modern laptop professional, content is a functional, live [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) that establishes your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). It doesn’t tell people you can execute; it strips back the curtain to reveal your raw diagnostic framework in real time.

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## Part 1: The Short-Term Sprint (Landing the Immediate Role)

When you are actively on the market, your content should not seek general agreement; it must provoke strategic curiosity. Conventional wisdom tells you to share “safe,” universally accepted industry insights. That guarantees you blend into the background noise.

## 1. The Contrarian Friction Audit

Instead of echoing industry consensus, identify a widely accepted “best practice” in your sector that you know is fundamentally flawed, inefficient, or leaking margin.

- The Tactic: Write a punchy, technical autopsy of this structural failure. Detail the precise historical friction it creates, name the exact capital or operational drag it inflicts on an enterprise, and lay out your contrarian, clinical solution.
- The Reality: When a line executive or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager scrolls past an article that actively dismantles an active operational headache they are facing on their shop floor, they stop. You aren’t pitching your past biography; you are diagnosing a live business vulnerability before you ever say hello.

## 2. Open-Sourcing the Proprietary Tool

Most job hunters hide their methodologies behind the equivalent of a paywall or save them for the second round of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). They treat their intellectual property like a state secret.

- The Tactic: Do the exact opposite. Take your most valuable operational asset, whether it is a complex SQL script architecture, a data migration checklist, or an algorithmic resource-allocation framework, and give it away natively in the feed.
- The Execution: Strip away all external links and fluff. Publish the raw logic and the functional template directly on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Do not ask for emails; do not redirect to a personal blog. When you reduce the friction of consuming your highest-value output to zero, you turn your profile into a high-leverage product page. You force the market to evaluate you on proof, not promises.

## Part 2: The Long-Term Engine (Insulating Your Career)

The most catastrophic error information workers make is going completely silent the moment they sign an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter. They retreat into corporate anonymity again, assuming their current [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) is a permanent shield.

Personalized [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) through continuous content is a compounding macro asset. If you only build your well when you are thirsty, you will choke on dust. You must maintain the signal when you do not need an exit path so that when market shifts occur, the market naturally defaults to you.

## 1. The Structural Trend Registrar

Once you are securely embedded inside an organization, pivot your content engine away from short-term troubleshooting and toward tracking macroeconomic tectonic shifts within your domain. Document the friction between legacy tool stacks and emerging infrastructure, or analyze how regulatory shifts alter unit economics in your space.

- The Positioning: By positioning yourself as a registrar of structural shifts, you bypass traditional corporate gatekeepers. Competitors, institutional investors, and Tier-1 [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) teams do not track applicants; they track domain experts who can articulate where the market is going next.

## 2. The Abstract Project Log

Treat your daily corporate execution as an ongoing, abstract [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) engine. Every time you optimize an enterprise workflow, untangle a cross-functional database conflict, or stabilize a declining team velocity, log the underlying engineering principles.

- The Directive: Maintain absolute discretion. Never disclose proprietary internal data, trademarked metrics, or corporate politics. Focus entirely on the generalized methodology. By maintaining this public archive over a multi-year horizon, you build an uncopiable signature of execution. When you are ready to pivot [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you will never have to submit a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a machine again; your active profile serves as your permanent, verified track record.

## The Bottom Line

An oversupplied market shows no mercy to general compliance — that is being mediocre and ordinary. If you are an information worker competing for premium remote roles, individual contributor roles, or executive leadership positions, you cannot afford to hide behind a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or an “Open to Work” badge.

Stop waiting for an [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to validate your intelligence. Take absolute ownership of your professional narrative. Turn your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) feed into an uncopiable execution layer. Document the systemic friction you see, broadcast your anomaly stack, and deliver uncompromised value to your target market.

Show the room exactly how you engineer results, and let your competence pull the right opportunities straight to your inbox.

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### [No BS Career Advice: June 21 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)

**Published:** June 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more

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# No BS Career Advice: June 21 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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My practice has gotten very busy. So many need what I know and how I guide people during a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition. I can’t share stories because it betrays confidentiality but I can say I have been supporting people with diverse experiences and backgrounds. If you want my help, schedule a session with me at[ JobSearch.Community.](http://JobSearch.Community)

## The Counter-Signal: Build a LinkedIn Monopoly

If you are an information worker or laptop professional aggressively hunting for a role in today’s oversupplied market, your biggest enemy isn’t the economy—it is your own visibility strategy.

When desperation peaks, most professionals default to a defensive, low-leverage posture: they toggle the “Open to Work” banner, publish an emotionally charged essay about their sudden exit, and broadcast generic praise for their industry.

This conventional approach backfires because it signals dependency. It frames you as a petitioner pleading for an entry point in a crowded room.

In a hyper-saturated ecosystem, an average skill set marketed through standard professional compliance is completely invisible. To break the commodity [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), you must weaponize **The Counter-Signal**, an aggressive, clinical content engine that shifts your public perception from an unemployed job seeker to an active, uncopiable and unique corporate asset.

**Content is not an exercise in vanity metrics, personal vulnerability, or chasing “influencer” status.** For a modern laptop professional, content is a functional, live [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) that establishes your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. It doesn’t tell people you can execute; it strips back the curtain to reveal your raw diagnostic framework in real time.

Here is how to architect a contrarian [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) engine to secure a premium role immediately, while systematically embedding long-term [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) into [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

### Part 1: The Short-Term Sprint (Landing the Immediate Role)

When you are actively on the market, your content should not seek general agreement; it must provoke strategic curiosity. Conventional wisdom tells you to share “safe,” universally accepted industry insights. That guarantees you blend into the background noise.

### 1. The Contrarian Friction Audit

Instead of echoing industry consensus, identify a widely accepted “best practice” in your sector that you know is fundamentally flawed, inefficient, or leaking margin.

- **The Tactic:** Write a punchy, technical autopsy of this structural failure. Detail the precise historical friction it creates, name the exact capital or operational drag it inflicts on an enterprise, and lay out your contrarian, clinical solution.
- **The Reality:** When a line executive or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager scrolls past an article that actively dismantles an active operational headache they are facing on their shop floor, they stop. You aren’t pitching your past biography; you are diagnosing a live business vulnerability before you ever say hello.

### 2. Open-Sourcing the Proprietary Tool

Most job hunters hide their methodologies behind the equivalent of a paywall or save them for the second round of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). They treat their intellectual property like a state secret.

- **The Tactic:** Do the exact opposite. Take your most valuable operational asset, whether it is a complex SQL script architecture, a data migration checklist, or an algorithmic resource-allocation framework, and give it away natively in the feed.
- **The Execution:** Strip away all external links and fluff. Publish the raw logic and the functional template directly on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Do not ask for emails; do not redirect to a personal blog. When you reduce the friction of consuming your highest-value output to zero, you turn your profile into a high-leverage product page. You force the market to evaluate you on proof, not promises.

### Part 2: The Long-Term Engine (Insulating Your Career)

The most catastrophic error information workers make is going completely silent the moment they sign an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter. They retreat into corporate anonymity again, assuming their current [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) is a permanent shield.

Personalized [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) through continuous content is a compounding macro asset. If you only build your well when you are thirsty, you will choke on dust. You must maintain the signal when you do not need an exit path so that when market shifts occur, the market naturally defaults to you.

### 1. The Structural Trend Registrar

Once you are securely embedded inside an organization, pivot your content engine away from short-term troubleshooting and toward tracking macroeconomic tectonic shifts within your domain. Document the friction between legacy tool stacks and emerging infrastructure, or analyze how regulatory shifts alter unit economics in your space.

- **The Positioning:** By positioning yourself as a registrar of structural shifts, you bypass traditional corporate gatekeepers. Competitors, institutional investors, and Tier-1 [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) teams do not track applicants; they track domain experts who can articulate where the market is going next.

### 2. The Abstract Project Log

Treat your daily corporate execution as an ongoing, abstract [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) engine. Every time you optimize an enterprise workflow, untangle a cross-functional database conflict, or stabilize a declining team velocity, log the underlying engineering principles.

- **The Directive:** Maintain absolute discretion. Never disclose proprietary internal data, trademarked metrics, or corporate politics. Focus entirely on the generalized methodology. By maintaining this public archive over a multi-year horizon, you build an uncopiable signature of execution. When you are ready to pivot [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you will never have to submit a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a machine again; your active profile serves as your permanent, verified track record.

### The Bottom Line

An oversupplied market shows no mercy to general compliance–that is being mediocre and ordinary. If you are an information worker competing for premium remote roles, individual contributor roles, or executive leadership positions, you cannot afford to hide behind a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or an “Open to Work” badge.

Stop waiting for an [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to validate your intelligence. Take absolute ownership of your professional narrative. Turn your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) feed into an uncopiable execution layer. Document the systemic friction you see, broadcast your anomaly stack, and deliver uncompromised value to your target market.

Show the room exactly how you engineer results, and let your competence pull the right opportunities straight to your inbox.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

These are among some of the blog posts I released in the last week:

**[Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) #shorts** Excerpt: When you try to make your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) appeal to every single open vacancy, it ends up appealing to absolutely no one. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a quick, No BS truth check on the high cost of generic positioning and why specialized [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) metrics always win. Link: 

**How to [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Through a [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/)** Excerpt: Surrendering your compensation expectations to an intermediary can stall your financial growth before you even speak with the decision-maker. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details a precise psychological blueprint to control the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) conversation through third-party [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) without breaking rapport. Link: 

**What To Tell The Agency [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) to Work for You** Excerpt: Agency headhunters work for the client paying the fee, not the candidate hunting for a desk. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers the explicit verbal script and boundary adjustments you must deploy to reverse this dynamic and make third-party [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aggressively market your talent. Link: 

**High Leverage [Careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) 2026: How to Capitalize on Labor Shortages** Excerpt: Persistent structural talent deficits across premium industries have created massive negotiation leverage for top-tier professionals. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) synthesizes immediate labor data to map out how to target high-friction industries and demand maximum compensation packages. Link: 

**What Leaders Do #shorts** Excerpt: True leadership isn’t defined by administrative oversight or executive titles; it is defined by a willingness to manage friction and shield teams from corporate politics. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) outlines a rapid posture check on what genuine authority looks like in high-stress environments. Link: 

**[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) #shorts Excerpt:** Relying on the illusion of stability within traditional [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) models keeps [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) completely defensive. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a rapid six-second diagnostic check on the true, changing nature of modern corporate roles and why you must continuous to treat yourself like an independent business entity.

**Link:** 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): June 14 2026**

**Excerpt:** True structural leverage in your professional life is never built through simple compliance or standard multi-tasking updates. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) unpacks a critical real-world client advisory session detailing the raw psychological adjustments and aggressive market re-positioning rules required to overcome immediate [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) rejection.

**Link:** 

**Writing [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and [Cover Letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) with [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) #shorts**

**Excerpt:** Utilizing generic prompts to generate artificial candidate marketing assets results in flat, robotic text that automated scrapers and human screeners immediately reject. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) outlines a quick, practical framework to build customized semantic prompts that protect your unique baseline voice.

**Link:** 

**What Do All Successful Athletes and Pros Have in Common?**

**Excerpt:** Top-tier operators across competitive arenas don’t build their dominance through isolated individual efforts—they submit their execution to external accountability. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains why elite professionals across sports and corporate leadership depend on rigorous coaching to isolate blind spots.

**Link:** 

**How to Use 15-Minute Micro-Sprints to Land Your Next Role**

**Excerpt:** Allowing your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) process to stretch into exhausting, multi-hour administrative sessions leads to fast tactical [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) outlines an aggressive daily time-blocking framework designed to dismantle the long game and command talent pipelines in just 15 minutes a day.

**Link:** 

**If You Look Like Everyone Else** Excerpt: Blending into a crowded sea of identical applicant profiles strips away all of your professional pricing power. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to strategically challenge standard corporate positioning models and build unique market leverage that makes you stand out. Link: 

**How to Get Hunted for [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/), Not Just Apply for Them** Excerpt: Waiting in standard online applicant queues puts [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) growth entirely in the hands of generic gatekeepers. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details an aggressive inbound positioning framework designed to optimize your professional footprint so executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) hunt for you. Link: 

**How to Create an Elevator Pitch and [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Group Introductions #shorts** Excerpt: Most professionals completely destroy their initial [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) introductions by delivering boring, long-winded [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) histories. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a high-velocity script blueprint to build a punchy elevator pitch that commands instant attention. Link: 

**Ace Your Next [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) with These Pro Tips** Excerpt: Winging a critical corporate evaluation based on your industry experience alone is a recipe for sudden rejection. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a clear set of advanced preparation rules to help you out-execute competing candidates and dominate your meeting. Link: 

**The Connector’s [Advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/)** Excerpt: High-performing professionals do not achieve exceptional placement velocity simply by working hard in isolation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the functional [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of becoming a premium network connector, detailing how to generate compounding [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) opportunities. Link: 

 **What Happens If I Don’t Give Them a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) When [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) or [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)? #shorts** Excerpt: Is it necessary to provide a CV when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) or [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) for a job at a specific company? Are there any consequences for not providing one, or is it simply considered bad business etiquette? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) gives a rapid reality check. Link: 

**The Stacking Principle: Why Average Skills in Oversupplied Markets Are Invisible** Excerpt: Holding a standard, unspecialized skill set in a saturated labor market makes your professional profile entirely transparent to screeners. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the stacking principle, explaining how to layer complementary expertise to force unique structural visibility. Link: 

**The Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Question You Aren’t Ready For** Excerpt: Most executive candidates prepare exclusively for technical assessments while ignoring hidden behavioral [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) tests. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details the precise organizational [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) doors hidden inside unexpected situational prompts and provides a strict blueprint to survive them. Link: 

**Complementing the [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) with Visual Proof** Excerpt: Words on a page only go so far when every competitor claims the exact same achievements. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to strategically back up [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) history with tangible artifacts, [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) links, and visible milestones that make your expertise impossible to deny. Link: 

**Looking for a Job As a Member of the LGBTQ+ Community** Excerpt: Navigating modern recruitment loops while evaluating corporate inclusivity demands a strategic, multi-layered [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) framework. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details a No BS blueprint to audit true organizational culture, trace authentic internal diversity signals, and protect your alignment. Link: 

**Always Do Your [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) | #shorts** Excerpt: Settling for partial efforts because a specific assignment feels beneath your current skill level silently builds a track record of mediocrity. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a rapid reality check on why consistent baseline excellence is your true long-term pricing power. Link: 

**How to Build Unshakeable [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) Through Action** Excerpt: Sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike before executing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) development goals leads to stagnation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the psychological reality of the momentum loop, explaining why [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) only builds *after* you commit to tangible field action. Link: 

**High School Grads, College Grads #shorts** Excerpt: The standard professional playbook given to entry-level candidates entering the corporate market is completely broken. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) targets fresh high school and college graduates with a raw, high-velocity warning on how to bypass traditional entry loops. Link: 

**Pretend I’m 8 Years Old. Explain to Me What You Do & Why You’re Good at It** Excerpt: Stripping away confusing corporate terminology and high-level [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) jargon exposes the core mechanics of a professional talent advisor. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a simple, direct breakdown of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advocacy and why deep industry experience matters. Link: 

**[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) And Being Solid** Excerpt: Navigating prolonged recruitment cycles while maintaining your psychological stance demands a strict operational structure. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a clear blueprint to build personal [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), block market static, and remain completely solid under pressure. Link: 

**What Happens If I Don’t Give Them a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) When [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) or [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)? #shorts** Excerpt: Is it necessary to provide a CV when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) or [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) for a job at a specific company? Are there any consequences for not providing one, or is it simply considered bad business etiquette? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) gives a rapid reality check. Link: 

**24 Hours: The Tiny Change That Quadruples Your [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Rate** Excerpt: Sitting around and letting days pass before submitting an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to a fresh corporate vacancy completely destroys your placement odds. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the high cost of delayed action, detailing how adjusting your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) timing to a strict 24-hour window radically spikes your response metrics. Link: 

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Premium: Is It Worth It?** Excerpt: Sinking monthly capital into a premium job seeker subscription won’t fix a broken positioning strategy or an invisible profile layout. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) evaluates the platform’s paid infrastructure, identifying the exact tipping points where InMail access and algorithmic metrics deliver real professional ROI. Link: 

**[Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) Channels #shorts** Excerpt: Professional [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) communities are the hidden backbone of modern industry [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) drops a rapid tactical guide on how to locate specialized [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) ecosystems, embed yourself within relevant trade channels, and source high-signal unlisted vacancies organically. Link: 

**How to Beat the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and Build a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for Real [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)** Excerpt: Stop wasting your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) trying to outsmart a mythical [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) robot that doesn’t exist. Your optimized, keyword-stuffed [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) isn’t failing because an algorithm threw it away—it’s failing because it reads like junk to actual human screeners. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to format for real corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Link: 

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### [Do I Have to Have Both a CV and a LinkedIn Profile  #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-i-have-to-have-both-a-cv-and-a-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** June 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Do I Have to Have Both a CV and a LinkedIn Profile #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/dhfVt0osBg0)

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### [If You Look Like Everyone Else](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-look-like-everyone-else-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** June 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What do you think happens if you look like everyone else?

**Content:**

# If You Look Like Everyone Else

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### [How to Create an Elevator Pitch and Networking Group Introductions #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-create-an-elevator-pitch-and-networking-group-introductions-shorts/)

**Published:** June 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are situations where you need to keep these in your hip pocket, bag or backpack and pull them out.

**Content:**

# How to Create an Elevator Pitch and Networking Group Introductions #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Answering Behavioral Interview Questions The Right Way](https://thebiggamehunter.us/answering-behavioral-interview-questions-the-right-way-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** June 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My guest, Christine Campbell and I, discuss things people do wrong and how to respond to behavioral interview questions.

**Content:**

# Answering Behavioral Interview Questions The Right Way 

# **[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Until someone comes up with a better way, [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are how firms evaluate people. My guest, Christine Campbell and I, discuss things people do wrong and how to respond to behavioral [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions.

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So my guest today is Christine Campbell. Christine is a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coach with an MA in [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) development and experience working with [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counseling clients course many fields and industries, most of whom work in Silicon Valley, up to and including a director level. Her expertise is [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) professionals to create powerful stories to address behavioral [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions so that she could walk into [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) feeling [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). Christine, welcome. Thank you for making time today.

Christine Campbell

This is so great. Thank you so much for having me, Jeff.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

My pleasure, folks, we’re gonna have fun today. I know this already. So you started in [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counseling, since transition and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), what made you segue into job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

Christine Campbell

I feel like that’s the biggest ROI. Besides the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), where just an hour with a good coach can take a job seeker to the next level, you know, you can go from horrible to bad from bad to Okay, from okay to good. And from good to great. And even from gray to excellent sometimes with just a couple of tweaks. And so I feel like that’s, that’s time well spent for me. And I also, I also enjoyed doing [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), just tricks and strategies, because I’m bossy, and I like to tell people what to do, rather than you know, your traditional coach, just as mostly a good listener and asking questions and pulling things out of people. So this suits my personality. And if you do the same thing over and over and over again, right, you get good at it. And so I really, I really enjoy that I have I, I outsource [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writing and assessments. And you know, the deeper side of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counseling, when somebody comes to me says, Gosh, I really want to get out of my field. I’m like, let me point you to Jeff. Right, let me, right? So you know, that’s the nice thing is that we get to specialize and find with all [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), right, get on the right bus and then find the right seat.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

So true. And you talked about the typical coach, she basically, I don’t wanna say the passive, but the coach [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) basically says, you have all the answers. And in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). That’s not true.

Christine Campbell

But people think it’s all common sense. But I think people often under some people underestimate the amount of common sense that they have. They’re also not the most coachable.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

I find they come to me because they want answers to their questions. They want a model to work with, that’s going to get them the results that they want. And they’re figuring it out on their own. They’re up against roadblocks, and they’re hitting their head against the wall. And they’re like a bird going help me. Help me.

Christine Campbell

Well, that’s for me, I find I I make have the biggest impact, I am most helpful for people who either have bombed [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and who are just getting desperate, or somebody who keeps coming in second or third, but never first. Or of course, somebody who has a high stakes [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coming up with a fan or you know, a job that they really, really want. So those are the three types of people who are the most open to input and easiest to work with and who will make the biggest improvement in their in their ability to integrate well.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

So let’s dive in. Okay, so what do you find people do?

Christine Campbell

What do people do wrong? People everything

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

I know everything.

Christine Campbell

Oh, no, no, no, I mean, I think the first thing is right, the assumption that just because you’re a good conversationalist, and you know how to have good conversations that it makes you automatically good [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) we there’s an art to it. And obviously preparation you know, deep dive into [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) don’t just go to the website of the company, dig deeper if you have ability to get into Dun and Bradstreet find out about the finances and their competitors and just really really become an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in the company you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

The trick question here? Yeah. Why? Why?

Christine Campbell

Okay, well so you want to build rapport right? A you want it you want to a it makes you feel better, it makes you feel confident when you feel [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), not just about your own stuff about them. You come across as intelligent also, you know, as you want to show with somebody who prepares and is knowledgeable and who did the work and, and to demonstrate I care about this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) enough that I spent a couple of hours being [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and so they also they can ask better questions, right? You know, I’ve heard of people asking so what exactly do you do here? Like, what am I Waste of time, right? So that’s short. Right? Right. So that’s the first one not being [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). And again, I focus mostly on behavioral questions, telling stories that don’t have a positive result. Right? You know, you want to make sure that when you tell a story that demonstrates you either increased revenue for the company, you decreased expenses, you created efficiencies and save time, or creative harmony, sometimes stories can have more than one component in them. If your story doesn’t have one of those four end results. It’s not impressive, right?

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

Once you repeat them again, okay?

Christine Campbell

Okay. So, the first one is, have you made money for the company? Ideally, always, like with a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you want to throw some numbers in there increased revenue in the first year by 10%, or by 10 million, the more quantity, the more you can quantify it, the more powerful it’s going to be. Were you able to save the money, you know, reduced expenses in this department by 10%? In the first three months, right, created efficiencies, cut the time down for this process by from from a month to a week? That’s really impressive. And the fourth one, create harmony, can you tell a story where there was a really, really difficult manager who was hated by everybody, and and you were able to figure out why they are that way. Get along with them, and then coach your co workers and how to interact with person with a person so that projects runs more smoothly. All of those things are right, impressive. So you want to impress the interviewer with a good result.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

Interesting. So we have the not be ready with stories not having done researching. First, we’re gonna do a deeper dive into stories in a minute. I want to get a couple more because I do a lot of [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) as well. I like to hear what other people do. It’s awful to me as well. Absolutely. So what are the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people said,

Christine Campbell

they forget to mention the hardship, I find that that is, you know, in your, in your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Mr. David Watt, what what you talked about, you know, star and sore and par, etc, etc. I find that in order to be truly memorable, and really impress people by behavior, [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) of you questions are all aimed at finding out your soft skills. And a huge, soft skill that I want to have if I’m [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) an employee is are they good problem solver? How do they deal with adversity? How do they, how much grit do they have? What’s their influence management? So a lot of people when they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) gloss over the difficulties and they say, Well, this was the situation. And then I did this and this and this and this and as a result, blah, and it’s boring, right? And it’s not impressive. You don’t really get the juicy, soft skills out of that. And when I coached my clients, I said, please bring me the suffering. Tell me the hardship. Tell me about all the problems you had to overcome. Your budget was slashed. Your coworker had to go on medical leave, you had a really you somebody was sabotaging you. I had one candidate that I coached and he went on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and he called me the next day. He said, Well, Christine, he said it was incredible. The [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) was kind of rolling along. And the interviewer was just kind of leaning back and asking questions. And then when they asked me behavior [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question, and I said oh, and the problems we encounter, he said, the interviewer physically leaned forward, and was wrapped with attention, because suddenly, people love drama. And that’s what will make you stand out from the other candidates. And then you can show your super skilled superhero skills and then produce the great result. But if you gloss over the hardship, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

There’s a an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) I did. Last year, I believe it’s, it’s called, there are stories. And then there are stories. And he writes for TV. So if you think about the model, for TV, there’s always some crisis that occurs. And the world is about to be destroyed. Like I used to know joke with friends of mine, that most movie plots were developed by software, because they’re so predictable. Everyone’s having a good time. And suddenly the world is going to end and our heroes get into the spaceship fly. And of course, there’s a problem on the ship at some point. And the female scientist and the male goon something they’re going to be attracted to one another. It used to be the other way around. It used to be the male sciences. But no matter these days, just the female scientist and the male gewoon are going to be attracted to one another, and they’re going to persevere and save the class,

Christine Campbell

almost dying in the process at least once. And at

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

the end, it’s like a James Bond movie where he and the girl would apparently wind up in the rest. Right, right. So we want to have stories that really touched the emotional heartstrings of people. Yeah, wherever we can really make a difference.

Christine Campbell

Yeah, you want the person say, Wow, that sounds really, really hard. And then and then when they listen to how you solved it, they they want you want to impress them with how you overcame hardship.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

It’s like every story we read to kids. It’s a fairy story, Once Upon a Time assigned to a group. And in this group, there were 18 people, four of whom were competent. You took over from a manager who left suddenly, that project was three months late, and you had to get it delivered on time in the next 45 days.

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Christine Campbell

Exactly. We want to hear that your risk, they want to hear that you’re resourceful. And and you know, because I usually behavior [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions, ideally come towards the end, after which it’s already been established that you’re, you know, you’ve answered the technical question. And you’ve established that you’re smart and competent, and know your stuff. And the behavioral [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), stories, in addition to just soft skills, also then allow you to talk about what tactics you’ve used, right? What, what, what, and then sometimes saying, Oh, my God, I had no idea what to do. And then I did some [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). And I figured I found this great program here that bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, but yeah, it shows your thinking and and how how resourceful you are. And that’s what you wanted any employee no matter what the level, right.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

And one of the funding, I had to write an article about this today, it’ll be out tomorrow, about dealing with fear as a leader. Because normally, when you’re stepping into situations like that there’s some version of the crisis. That’s really what we’re talking about in terms of obstacles that take place, there’s a crisis that causes everyone to be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) this thing is blown. And that’s the way you tell the story is to illustrate the crisis that took place. And then from there, how you were the hero who wrote in on the horse? Family 60 minutes later, the camera shut up. She seems like everything’s okay. Right? Everything

Christine Campbell

and or not? Or was it or one can say, Well, okay, I’ve been holding this together. And I’m so glad the calorie has arrived. Now let’s together take it to the end, right. Also, another [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people made either. Either they talk about we as a team, we as a team, we as a team, and I cannot tell as the listener, what was your part or II. So you want to make sure that when you tell your stories, you say, you know, my team and this this, and this is what I did. And this is what we did to have have both to make sure that that it’s understood that you work with others, as well as their Lone Ranger’s don’t do too well in corporations.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

Not at certain levels. They know it’s the way people ascend most of the time as being Lone Ranger’s. But they get to a level, it’s really about how you inspire teams to do great work.

Christine Campbell

Well, but even software engineers, they have regular meetings where they have to figure out together, you know, who’s working on what, and what are you doing, and where you’re stuck? And what do we got to do? Even even even in those [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? You’re, you know, no, no, no person has an island, right?

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

So let’s talk, use an example of stories and how you do a framework for folks in telling the story. So I’m going to toss the baton to you, you’re in charge of telling people how to construct the stories.

Christine Campbell

Yes, and, and I was just listening to your, the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you did with David Watts about and you and you actually parsed out that read, there’s the STAR method method, there’s the SOAR method, and that the there’s the PSR or the PA r method, and I found that interesting, I tend to go for the sore or the par methods only and I’ll spell those out. But you You did a great job saying you know, if you’re at this level, you use this etc, etc. So the STAR method stands for a situation,

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

tactic or situation task is has to be situation or task Action Result. It’s geared towards staff people primarily. Yeah, Amazon likes this framework as the exception where they wanted to associate with everything.

Christine Campbell

Google Google as well I have I have candidates who were told by Google before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), please be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to to to tell your stories using the star format. I prefer like so what I was talking about earlier about the hardship etc, etc. So you know, Mostly it’s the sore methods, the suit the situation, obstacles, action and result. And then we also and then the shorter version of that is part the problem, or PSR. problem, solution result. I mean, they’re all similar. But you know, as we, as we talked about a couple of minutes ago, you really don’t want to gloss over the obstacle. Part, because you’re missing something juicy. Juicy, right in this

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

context, so they understand what it was that you really did and the hardships that you face.

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Christine Campbell

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

You betcha. And I want to couple this part with some of the work that I do, which is I believe that most job descriptions are 80% accurate, because no one ever takes the time to update. So with that, when you arrive at an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), whether in person or zoom, or however, I believe that you start off the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) by saying, hey, thanks so much for making time to meet with me. You know, I recall the position description, but I want to get your take on the role. Could you tell me about the job as you see it and what I could do to help. And thus you hear about what their [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are about the job at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Yes, so everything is about connecting the dots with what they’re looking for. And that includes your stories, which you can have [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). But folks, you got to be able to think on your feet, especially those of you who are aspiring to leadership or who are in leadership. So in Christine’s approach, which I use as well, by the way, you know, the idea is, once you have what they’re looking for, now you’re going to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) the story to connect the dots for them. And the less you make them work to figure out how you’ve done what they need you to do, the more likely you are to get hired.

Christine Campbell

Absolutely. And what is so awesome about zoom [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) is you can tape a cheat sheet with a heading of your stories right next to the computer screen so that you don’t you’ll have deer in the headlight moments. So if somebody asks you a difficult question, you can just look to the right and go. I can tell this story now. So it makes it so much easier than having to do that live in the moment across the table.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

You betcha I tell people to this is one of the Few times I tell people by sticky notes, because if I put my finger over the camera, you can see my finger. But if I put it to the right where you tell people put the sticky note, or to the left, you can see that my fingers there. And thus, that’s where the sticky notes go. So you don’t have to break [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) to look down or to the side, you just basically are switching over slightly, and getting the note in front of you to be able to see what your answer should be. Or you can

Christine Campbell

even like right now I have the zoom doesn’t fill my screen, it just it Fields up 1/3 In the middle, you can even have a document on both sides squeeze together and have a typed out. And then you can even get the more information on there. And it’s nice and clean and tidy. So So I love zoom [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), because that way you can it just makes it easier to because people are you know, you’re nervous. And sometimes our brains go blank.

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

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Christine Campbell

So don’t over caffeinate, right, just you know, make sure you’re grounded. Make sure you’re super nervous. You walk around the block before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) so that you can come to center and just kind of, you know, calm down.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

I’ll tell people to go to the gym beforehand. Get on a treadmill or elliptical, get a run in do something that gets your heart rate going but also doesn’t give you the caffeinated edge before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Christine Campbell

Yeah, can I answer? Go back to your question, what are some things people do wrong? Worse, right? So, so you and I are both strong personalities, we are not passive people. So for us, it’s natural that if somebody were to if we were to if somebody were to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) us for a job, we wouldn’t just passively sit there and answer the questions, right? Like what you said earlier that, you know, the first question you ask us, tell me about the job descript? You know, how do you see the job, I always if you know, you have to use your your also your intuition. Some some interviewers want to be in charge, and they only have 20 minutes, and they have the 20 questions to get through. So it’s so so in that case, you do have to just comply and just go with it. But if it’s a little bit more, easygoing, make it a conversation, make it a two way street, because it is a two way street, right. And you want to get as much information out of them as they want to, as they want to get out of you. And so whenever I get asked a question as a job seeker that usually prompts me to then ask a question back, you know, I think the most number one most important question people need to ask is, what are the biggest challenge for your department right now? What are the biggest challenges? Ideally, you already know about the biggest challenges of the company? Because if it’s a larger company, then you right? We know what that Tesla’s biggest, as far right now, but it’s a smaller company that’s harder. So I just a couple of days ago, in my newsfeed, I found a great article 20 Great job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions to ask the interviewer. And I thought that was just brilliant. We don’t spend enough time preparing for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and thinking about what questions we can ask them. So that took some of the, you know, having to brainstorm out of it. But make sure you ask don’t wait until the very end to ask questions. See if you can if and get permission from the interviewer to make it turn into dialogue and get your questions in as you’re talking about a particular subject because it’s a it’s much more natural. And be it shows how engaged and interested you are.

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

I think when most people [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), there’s a distinct power differential that exists where they have all the information. And you are the supplicant. Right? And I know asking my opening question levels, the playing field, because suddenly you have information that you’d normally get in a typical [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) at the end where they go, so do you have any questions for us? And of course, you’re going to ask about the job then when it’s too late to do anything with that information anyway. Yeah, so I think my approach to this is designed to level the playing field and to turn it into a conversation instead of like the salesperson walking in with their I’m gonna make this like Willy Loman Death of a Salesman. So let me open up my briefcase and sell you everything I’ve gotten there. No, okay. Loss. Instead, you’re doing what good salespeople do these phase. And that is tell me about what you need or what you’re looking for. Let’s do requirements gathering. So this way you can tell your answers and talk about what you’ve done that matters to them, and not just talk about what you’ve done, which is different things.

Christine Campbell

Yeah. And asking upfront, how much time do we have? And also getting a sense, right. And I know that might be a maturity thing, a friend of mine got trapped. She was giving really great answers, long answers and asked lots of questions. And afterwards, she got the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), he was a young young kid, completely green behind their ears, and heat. He was the pre qualifier. And, and he said, Sorry, you didn’t pass this phase, because I had 30 questions I needed to get through. But you talked so long that I only got through my 15 questions and like, Well, why didn’t you say so? Right. It’s like, that’s a bad interviewer set expectation at the beginning. But also as the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) my friend learned from that to ask better questions at the beginning, and to have a sense what what is the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) worse agenda and also understanding the different phases? [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) phases? Right? If you’re Is it a preschool? Is it a very short pre screen [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) over the phone? Well, you you’re not going to be talking about your difficult manager. And you’re going to the conversation with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is going to be different and shorter than the actual conversation with the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. And you’re going to ask different questions of team members than you would of the of the VP. So just being mindful of this, the various levels of interviewers that you’re going to encounter and being mindful about about that, but just ask. people will tell you.

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

I think with Zoom [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), it’s easy, because you’re scheduled for a certain amount of time. You’ve gotten the calendar invite, it says nine to 9:30. You know, it’s a 30 minute [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and with the screener, the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), they’ve got a checklist of things that the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers told them to check off, I guess, have you done this? Yes. How’d you go about it? 60 seconds answer tops. Right. Have you done that? Oh, okay. Let’s go to the next one. Have you done this? Yes. Okay, keep going. And I’m a believer that you try to keep the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) interactive. So AB a minute 15 If you slip no more than a minute 30 Because no one has an attention span from

Christine Campbell

when you see the person’s eyes rolling their head stop right. I paid about pay attention read body language

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

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Christine Campbell

Yeah, ask a question right that immediately you know Tony Robbins induced a state change if it’s not if the if the emotion is in the room if the other person is becoming catatonic. Find a way to change their state and and jar them and you know, ask them a question that’ll wake them up.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

That’s a fun approach. I have to do something the Tony Robbins method of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

Christine Campbell

Oh, my God, go get them

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

a fun way of son approach to a topic. Anyway. What else? Haven’t we covered yet that we really should in storytelling and behavioral [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and things that people do wrong? I

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Christine Campbell

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

at least 20 people want a bad experience. Yeah,

Christine Campbell

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And for me, by the way, I do that question about state where we are in the process with the process like I do. That’s my next to last question. So when they when they asked, So do you have any questions for us? Next? Last question is, could you give me a sense of what your timeline is for next steps? And when I might hear back, and I tell folks, you tend to be three responses. The first one is get 20 more people to talk to get back in touch when hell freezes over. That’s one luck. The second, I’d expect to early part of next week, which is okay. So if I haven’t heard from you by Wednesday, Thursday’s, okay, if I [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/). And there’s two responses to that, which is Wait, which tells you you didn’t do quite that? Well, but that’s a signal to you. Because otherwise they’d say, Sure, no problem. And the third response that you might get is expect the early part of next week, you’ll hear from nature, other ones, because you get back to me so and so and so and so the more specificity you get, the more likely they’re interested. And then the final question I have people ask is, is there anything that you’ve heard, or not heard? That gives you a reason to question whether you’re qualified to do this? Wow, which gives people one last cut at dispelling any erroneous assumptions that a firm is making? Because sometimes, again, I work with the assumption that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers not all that skillful [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), right, the sample proof than that, but I know they’re not all that skill. So sometimes they ask a question, especially with the tech firms that lends people to think the answer is in one direction, and they wanted something different. So that question, is there anything that you’ve heard or not heard? That gives you reason to question whether I’m qualified, great question, gives them an opportunity to open up and say, I didn’t really hear a lot about such and such.

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Yeah, we want to flesh out the concerns if there if you have a way of flushing out their concerns, then

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

that’s one shot.

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Christine Campbell

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### [Turn Your Next Job Interview Into a Conversation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/turn-your-next-job-interview-into-a-conversation/)

**Published:** June 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop acting like a defendant and learn the simple mental shift that changes the entire power dynamic in your favor.

**Content:**

# Turn Your Next Job Interview Into a Conversation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most people fail before they even answer their first question because they treat the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) like a high-stakes interrogation. Having good answers is just table stakes; the top performers get hired because they know how to switch from a stiff Q&A into a genuine, two-way professional dialogue. Stop acting like a defendant and learn the simple mental shift that changes the entire power dynamic in your favor.

We’ve all been there, right? That feeling of a job interview—it’s like a high-stakes test. But what if I told you there’s a simple little shift, a strategy that can turn that interrogation into a real conversation and actually help you land the job? Well, in this explainer, we’re going to break down that exact technique.

Look, having good answers is table stakes, right? You have to have those. But [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) points out there is this hidden factor that consistently separates the people who get the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from everyone else. So what is it? Turns out, it’s not just what you say, it’s all about how you say it.

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And this is the key insight from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). He’s a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach they call [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Pretty cool, right? Anyway, after doing literally thousands of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), he spotted this crystal-clear pattern: the candidates who treat the whole thing like a test, they just come across as stiff. And you know what? They consistently lose out to the ones who don’t.

Okay, so if being stiff is the problem, what’s the fix? Well, the solution is something Altman calls the conversational shift, and it’s a total game changer—a strategy that flips the entire dynamic of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) on its head.

So, what is this strategy? It’s the conversational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). And the goal is actually really simple: you actively turn that formal, stuffy Q&A into a genuine, two-way dialogue. And what’s your main tool to do that? It’s all about asking your own smart, relevant [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions. That’s how you build that human connection.

Now, let’s be super clear about what this is not. Altman is very specific here: this is not about laughing and cracking a bunch of jokes. It’s not about being overly casual or, you know, trying to dominate the conversation. The goal here is to be engaging while still being completely professional. It’s a fine line, but it’s a crucial one.

But why does this work so well? I mean, why is it so much more effective? The answer really gets to the core of what interviewers are actually looking for underneath all the questions, and that is a real human-level connection.

Think of it this way: your main goal is to lift the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) up from being just a simple business transaction. The moment you connect with that interviewer on a human level, you stop being just another piece of paper, another [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in the pile. Suddenly, you’re a memorable person. You’re someone they can actually picture themselves working alongside, day in and day out.

Okay, so how do you actually do this? What’s the tactic? It’s a really simple three-step flow. Step one: the interviewer asks you a question. Step two: you give your great, concise, strong answer. But then—and this is the magic part—step three: you ask a relevant [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) question of your own. That’s the move. That’s what turns a one-way street, an interrogation, into a real conversation.

And remember, we’re not just talking theory here. This is a real pattern that [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) saw over and over again—as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/), as a coach, across thousands of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). This is a proven dynamic that works in the real world, with real [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) on the line.

All right, let’s pull all this together. What’s the big takeaway? Here’s what you need to remember for your very next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

The difference in the outcome is just… it’s huge. It’s stark. Based on everything Altman has seen, the candidates who can pull off this conversational style are—and I’m quoting him here—”far more effective” and ultimately far more successful than the ones who stay stiff. It’s not even close.

So, if you only remember one single thing from this entire explainer, please let it be this: the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), most successful [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are conversations, not interrogations. Simple as that.

So, as you’re getting ready for that next big opportunity, the choice is really yours. Are you walking into a test, or are you walking into an opportunity to actually connect with another person? How you answer that question might just be the thing that lands you the job.

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### [How to Tailor Your Resume for the Greenhouse ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-tailor-your-resume-for-the-greenhouse-ats/)

**Published:** June 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Greenhouse prioritizes someone's original uploaded document

**Content:**

# **How to Tailor Your Resume for the Greenhouse ATS**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Many job seekers believe that [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) are emotionless robots designed to automatically reject their [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) based on a lack of keywords. For companies using Greenhouse—a dominant [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) among mid-market tech companies, startups, and modern enterprises—this is a persistent myth. Greenhouse does not auto-reject [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) based on keyword density; instead, human [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) review your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) manually, though they are increasingly aided by [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools. To succeed, you must tailor your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to please both the human recruiter’s eye and the system’s underlying parser.

**The Dual Audience: Human [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Summaries** Unlike legacy systems that force [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to read scrambled, auto-filled data forms, Greenhouse prioritizes the candidate’s original uploaded document. In the Greenhouse profile view, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) sees your actual [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) alongside a sidebar of parsed data. Because the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) reads your file directly, visual hierarchy and clear formatting remain highly important.

However, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is effectively read twice: once by the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) and once by Greenhouse’s parsing engine. Greenhouse recently introduced an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) layer, such as the Talent Matching feature, which generates candidate summaries, match scores, and shortlist recommendations. Crucially, **this [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) only reads the parsed text, not the visual [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/)**. If your formatting breaks the parser, your skills become invisible to the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), resulting in a poor match score and a generic summary.

**Format Cleanly for the Parser** To ensure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is accurately parsed, you must stick to clean, text-based formatting. A **text-based [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/)** exported from Word or Google Docs is the ideal format because it preserves your visual design for the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) while allowing the parser to extract data reliably.

Avoid graphics-heavy headers, tables, and images. If your name or [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) is embedded in an image, the parser will miss it. Place your name, email, phone number, and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL in plain text within the main body of the document (preferably the top three lines), rather than hiding them in the document’s header or footer. Additionally, while recent Greenhouse parser upgrades handle two-column layouts better than before, a **single-column format is still the safest choice** to prevent the system from scrambling your work history in the keyword search index. Standardize your [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) dates using the “Month YYYY” format so the system can accurately extract your years of experience.

**Optimize Keywords for Talent Matching** Greenhouse’s Talent Matching [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) extracts structured data from your resume—specifically skills, job titles, years of experience, [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) dates, and company names—to compare against the recruiter’s criteria.

To optimize for this, include a **dedicated “Skills” section** featuring comma-separated plain text. Do not bury your core technical skills inside long paragraphs, as the search index and the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) rely heavily on structured skill blocks. You should also explicitly mirror the language used in the job description. While Greenhouse’s natural language processing can recognize synonyms and related terms through semantic search (such as knowing a “web developer” matches “software engineer”), exact phrase matches from the job posting are highly recommended to ensure undeniable alignment with the role.

**Align with the [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) Scorecard** Ultimately, human [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers make the final decisions using Greenhouse’s structured Scorecard system. Interviewers rate you against pre-defined focus attributes, which are directly derived from the requirements and responsibilities in the job description.

To prepare your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for this human evaluation, ensure that your bullet points provide concrete evidence of these exact attributes. Start your most recent roles with your strongest, quantifiable achievements. Use real scenarios and measurable outcomes (e.g., “increased revenue 15%”) rather than vague claims. This makes it exceptionally easy for a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) scanning your [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) to check the necessary boxes on their scorecard and move you forward in the pipeline.

Successfully navigating the Greenhouse [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) requires a balanced approach. By combining a clean, single-column [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) layout with exact-match keywords and quantifiable achievements, you can ensure that your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is perfectly legible to the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) parser while remaining highly persuasive to the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) evaluating your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

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### [Ace Your Next Interview with These Pro Tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ace-your-next-interview-with-these-pro-tips/)

**Published:** June 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this deep dive, Ronnie and Bobby share advanced, no BS interview prep techniques that help you outmaneuver even the toughest interviewers.

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# Ace Your Next Interview with These Pro Tips

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3060 “Most people prep for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) like amateurs—vague answers, poor framing, and zero strategy. In this deep dive, Ronnie and Bobby share advanced, no BS [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) prep techniques that help you outmaneuver even the toughest interviewers. Learn how to use real frameworks (not fluff), nail behavioral questions, and deliver answers that get offers.”

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Welcome to the Deep Dive. Today we’re cutting through the noise and pulling out the most vital insights from a stack of incredible sources about a topic that touches almost everyone’s life, [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Specifically how to avoid those common pitfalls, you know, the ones that can trip you up before you even really get a chance to shine.

Our mission today is to equip you, our listener, with a shortcut to being well informed and really confident for your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). We’ve taken some fantastic material, including insights from seasoned [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coaches, real world examples, and we’re going to unpack the nine key [ways people often inadvertently sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/9-ways-people-sabotage-themselves-on-interviews-jobsearchtv-com/) themselves. And more importantly, how you can avoid doing the exact same thing.

That’s right. We’re going beyond this sort of obvious dress well and beyond time advice. We’re looking at patterns, connecting the dots from, you know, successful [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and bringing you the essential wisdom to navigate these things strategically.

You’ll gain practical, actionable advice that helps you understand not just what to do, but crucially why it matters, hopefully giving you some of those aha moments. Okay, let’s unpack this. Let’s jump right into a big one.

Money. It’s often the first hurdle. And frankly, many people inadvertently, well, throw money away during negotiations because they misstep really early on.

Absolutely. The first major [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is destroying your negotiating position right at the outset, particularly when asked about [salary expectations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-answer-the-salary-expectations-question-in-a-job-interview/) during, say, an initial phone screening. [Job hunters often](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-interview-mistakes-10-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often/) don’t realize this is the very beginning of the negotiation, you know, and their first answer can dramatically limit their future earning potential.

Okay. So if you’re on that call and they hit you with the dreaded, what are your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations? Question, how do you deftly handle it without leaving money on the table? Right. The key is to pivot.

Your first move should be to ask them for the budgeted range for the position. In many places, they’re actually legally required to provide this now. Oh, interesting.

I didn’t realize that was legally required in some places. Yeah, it’s becoming more common. So if they give you a range, respond positively, but crucially, noncommittally, something like, that sounds like a good ballpark.

And I’m confident that once we determine this is a great fit, we’ll certainly agree on a fair and competitive compensation package. You [keep it open](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-keep-open-jobsearchtv-com/). Okay.

Keep it open. But what if they’re hesitant or they say they don’t have a range readily available, or maybe they push back and insist you give a number first? Yeah, that happens. If they really press you, you can say you’ve done some [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) online and seen salaries for similar roles ranging from X to Y. Give a well-researched, fairly broad range based on your experience and the [market value](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-being-filtered-out-on-linkedin-embrace-market-value-filters-and-be-found/), but then immediately reiterate that you’re sure you’ll agree on something fair once a mutual fit is established.

You can also add something like, you typically see yourself at the mid to upper end of that range. That signals your value without committing to a specific number. Right.

Signals value. Exactly. The goal is really just to defer and redirect, keeping your options open for later.

Okay. So once we’ve masterfully navigated the money talk, that leads us to the actual content of your answers. The second pitfall you mentioned is giving those generic standard responses.

The ones that sound like they came straight off a website. Oh, this is absolutely crucial. While a formulaic approach might work okay for [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions, for questions about your experience, your approach, you need to be both authentic and strategic.

We sometimes call this the yin and yang of a good [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). It’s this essential balance between genuine self-expression and [strategic alignment with the job’s](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategic-job-change-and-career-planning-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/) needs. You have to be yourself, definitely, but it needs to be your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), most relevant self, proactively selling your fit for that specific job.

That idea of authenticity is powerful, yeah, but it also feels like a bit of a tightrope walk. How do you avoid rambling or maybe oversharing, especially when you’re nervous, while still being genuinely you? That’s a great point. Start with what we call the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend answer.

Before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), literally say out loud what you’d tell your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend if they asked you about that experience or skill. Okay, like a practice run. Exactly.

Like if they asked about a past project, you might tell your friend, oh man, that one was tough, but we totally nailed it. I remember thinking, get that raw, sincere thought out. Then you edit and polish it, add the strategic elements that tie it back to the job you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for.

This helps you speak with a sincerity and emotional intelligence that interviewers really value. And they can tell, right? Oh, they can tell. They’ve heard [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) answers a thousand times.

They can smell inauthenticity a mile off, and it’s a huge turnoff. Okay. Building on that, the third major misstep you highlighted is shooting yourself in the foot when asked about negative or sensitive subjects.

Things like, why did you leave your last job? Or maybe, tell me about your previous boss’s weaknesses. Those feel like minefields. Right.

They can feel tricky. But remember, every single question, even these so-called negative ones, is actually an opportunity to sell yourself. For handling these, we use a little tool called the ABC tool.

A is for analyze. First, quickly think, what are they truly trying to learn here? If they ask about a difficult boss, they’re probably looking for things like discretion, emotional intelligence, your ability to work with different personalities, or maybe your conflict resolution skills. Ah, okay.

So understand the real question behind the question. Precisely. Then B is for brevity.

Keep the negative part incredibly brief. Don’t launch into a long winding story about why you were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) or why you had a challenging boss. For instance, if you were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), a brief professional answer might be something like, 50 positions were eliminated from my company due to restructuring, and unfortunately, one of them was mine.

After taking care of some personal business and enjoying some long-awaited time off, I started looking for not just any job, but specifically the right job where my skills could truly make an impact. See? Brief, professional, forward-looking. Got it.

Brief on the negative. Then C is for circle with positives. Always, always follow that brief, negative part with positives.

For a difficult boss question, you might say something like, my boss was incredibly passionate about his work in [achieving excellence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/achieving-excellence-careerangles-com-shorts/). While I prefer to focus on the positive aspects of my past experiences, we were actually able to achieve some remarkable things together, and I’m really looking forward to discussing those achievements with you. Or, if asked about your own weakness, briefly acknowledge it, but immediately state what you’re actively doing to improve it.

Frame it as a growth opportunity. That ABC framework sounds incredibly helpful for structuring the content. But what about the delivery? How long should answers like these actually be, particularly for those sensitive topics? Good question.

Generally, you want to aim for about a minute to maybe a minute and 15 seconds for most answers. We live in a world of short attention spans, right? Don’t make them tune out. Yeah, keep it concise.

Exactly. And for those negative topics, probably even shorter, maybe around 40 seconds or so. Just enough to address it, get off the hook, and pivot to something positive as quickly as possible.

Address it, but move on. Okay. That perfectly leads us to pitfall number four, rambling.

It’s so easy to do when you’re nervous or, you know, trying really hard to impress. Oh, this is one of the most common issues we see. The solution is partly careful planning, but also self-awareness in the moment.

Have a mental map, maybe two, three key points for common questions. And if you find yourself starting to wander, interrupt yourself gracefully. Seriously.

You can say something like, long story short is, or to get to the essence of it, what I’m trying to convey is, and then just get straight to your main point. Interviewers actually appreciate that kind of conciseness. That’s good advice, interrupting yourself.

And when you are done, how do you signal that without that awkward pause or maybe that upward inflection that sounds like you’re asking a question? Yeah, that upward inflection is deadly. Know your ending. Often it’s just a slight downward note in your voice indicating completion.

It sounds more confident than a rising tone that makes you sound unsure or like you’re asking, was that okay? You can also briefly [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to the question you were asked, or even better, [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) forward to how your experience relates directly to their company or the role. The idea is to concisely tie everything together with what they need. Okay.

So moving on to number five, don’t just sit back and hope they ask the right questions to highlight your strengths. You need to be proactive about your [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/). This feels like a real strategy shift.

It absolutely is. You need to go into every single [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) knowing what unique special qualities you want to convey. What are your top two or three key selling points? What’s your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) for this specific role? What genuinely makes you stand out from the dozens, maybe hundreds of other applicants? This requires a bit of introspection about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) narrative before you even walk in the door.

So once you’ve identified those standout qualities, how do you actually weave that into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) naturally, especially early on? Your answer to those foundational questions like, tell me about yourself or walk me through your background, needs to strategically bring out those top two or three qualities right away. And here’s a pro tip. Even before they ask, tell me about yourself, you could try to slip in a clarifying question about their top priorities for the role.

Something like, before I dive in, could you share what the top one or two priorities are for the person in this role in the first six months? Ah, clever. Get them to tell you what they care about most. Exactly.

This then allows you to tailor your initial summary. You can start with a concise, maybe 20 second synopsis of your overall experience and then directly connect it to what’s most relevant for their specific stated needs. It’s a powerful way to show your unique fit right at the start.

And it demonstrates you’ve done your homework and you’re focused on their problems. That really does sound like a [powerful way to differentiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/changing-the-power-differential-in-the-interview-jobsearchtv-com/) yourself right from the get-go, which brings us neatly to number six. Don’t wait until the very end to ask your questions.

Yes. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), the most memorable ones, become dynamic conversations, not just one-sided interrogations. This makes both parties more comfortable, honestly, and it allows everyone to shine a little more.

It really levels the playing field when both sides are engaged in a genuine dialogue. So beyond that opening clarifying question you just mentioned, what are some other practical ways to turn an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) into more of a, you know, a two-way street? Well, you can ask for more background when they pose a question. For example, you could say, that’s a great question and I’d love to answer it, but just to make sure I’m hitting the mark, could you tell me if you’re more interested in the x-aspect or the y-aspect of that, or perhaps what that looks like here at your company? So you tailor your answer better.

Precisely. It ensures your answer is targeted and immediately relevant. Also, at the end of one of your answers, you can ask something like, was that the level of detail you were looking for? Or is there anything more you’d like to know about that particular experience? Well, maybe even… Or even, how does that approach compare to how things are typically done here? The goal is simply to get them talking, show your genuine interest in their company and the role itself, and demonstrate that you’re an engaged, curious, thoughtful professional.

Moving on to number seven, being vague. You mentioned this briefly, but generalities just don’t cut it in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) setting, do they? Absolutely not. You need to be specific.

Specificity is credibility. When discussing your experience or your approach, use concrete examples. Quantify your results whenever possible.

Money saved, money earned, percentage improvements, time reductions, increased efficiency. Business fundamentally speaks the language of numbers. Even if you don’t have exact figures readily available, use strong adjectives like dramatically improved, significantly reduced, or substantially streamlined.

What about roles where it’s harder to quantify? Like, maybe more creative or people-focused roles? Great question. For roles that aren’t as easily quantifiable, use compelling anecdotal evidence. Tell a brief story that illustrates your point.

Or, even better, use direct [quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from superiors or clients about your impact. For instance, you could literally [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) a powerful compliment from a CEO about an initiative you led. Or explain how your project streamlined a process, perhaps saving five hours a week for three team members.

Frame it in terms of resources or time recovered, not just direct revenue. This makes your answers specific, interesting, and frankly, incredibly memorable compared to vague claims. That’s fantastic advice for making your impact crystal clear.

But it raises another important question. How do you prove those intangible qualities, the, you know, the soft skills or emotional intelligence? That brings us to number eight. Right, the soft skills.

You don’t just claim you’re empathetic or a good team player. You have to demonstrate it throughout the entire process. How do you demonstrate it? It means actively showing empathy and respect to everyone you encounter, from the person who scheduled the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), to the receptionist, right through to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

It means being patient if there’s an interruption, listening attentively, and generally treating people with genuine care, not just, you know, phony politeness. Interviewers are constantly observing how you interact, not just what you say. Okay, so demonstration is key.

But beyond that immediate interaction, how can you provide more concrete evidence of these softer skills in your answers? Look for social proof before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Strong [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) recommendations, for example, are often reviewed by interviewers before they even meet you. Make sure those are up to date and relevant.

Then in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) itself, have [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) stories ready. Situations where you clearly demonstrated teamwork, resolved a conflict effectively, showed leadership, or maybe coached a junior team member. Many people find structured frameworks helpful here, like star situation, task, action, result, or search situation, obstacles, actions, results.

Right, the star method. I’ve heard of that. Yeah, there’s just structured ways to tell a concise story that demonstrates your skills and impact.

But the absolute most critical part of any of these frameworks is the R, the result. Don’t just tell the story and stop. Don’t shortchange the impact you actually made.

Quantify it if you possibly can. Describe the tangible [benefit to the company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/got-the-job-offer-company-benefits-to-look-into-shorts/) or, as we mentioned, [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) someone’s positive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) about the outcome. Always, always focus on the positive outcome of your actions.

Excellent point. Okay, finally, number nine. Not preparing sufficiently in advance.

It sounds almost too obvious, but clearly it’s a massive pitfall people fall into. It’s truly astonishing how many people wait until maybe an in-person [final round interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-hr-calling-me-after-a-final-round-interview/) is to really start preparing seriously. But by then, they might have already fumbled a crucial phone screening or an earlier virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without even realizing it.

The core insight here is simple. Realize that any conversation with a potential employer, from that very first [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) call to an informal coffee chat, is effectively an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You need to have [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) some of these elements we’ve discussed.

Your key selling points, your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), your negative situation answers, as soon as you’re actively in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), maybe even before you start [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/). So you’re saying don’t wait. Don’t wait.

You don’t want the very first time these crucial words or stories come out of your mouth to be in the actual high stakes [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) situation. So for the listener who wants to be truly ready, what does comprehensive preparation really look like in practice? Okay, realistically, give yourself at least a full week to prepare properly for a significant [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Practice your answers out loud.

Seriously, not just running through them in your head, hearing yourself say it is different. Do mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Get a trusted friend, a partner, maybe even a professional coach, and actively ask for honest [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

Don’t just practice. Get specific [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) on your tone, your pacing, your body language, your facial expressions. Especially with video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) being so common now, right? Exactly.

If you’re using video, check your background obsessively for distractions. Make sure your lighting is good. Ensure your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), your excitement, your personality actually come across authentically through the screen.

And review recordings if you can. Look at how your gestures and expressions might reveal unconscious habits. Maybe you fidget or look away too much.

Anything that takes attention away from you and your message is basically a liability. Thorough preparation builds [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), reduces [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and ultimately allows your authentic [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self to shine through when it counts. Wow, that was a truly insightful deep dive into avoiding [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Really practical stuff. From mastering those tricky [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions and handling tough questions gracefully, to proactively highlighting your unique value, proving your soft skills, and truly understanding the critical power of preparation. It’s clear that strategy, authenticity, and practice are definitely your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friends.

Indeed they are. By understanding these nine common pitfalls, and more importantly, proactively addressing them, you’re not just passively answering questions anymore. You’re actively shaping the narrative.

You’re demonstrating your unique value, and you’re working to transform the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) into a genuine, engaging conversation. Remember the importance of being specific, being concise, and making every single interaction count. So what does all this mean for you, the listener? It means you absolutely have the power to transform your entire [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) experience.

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### [Being Bold? No, SUPERBOLD!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-bold-no-superbold/)

**Published:** February 4, 2024
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you've ever wanted to light up an interview or any other place in your life, my interview with Fred Joyal is something you should listen to.

**Content:**

# Being Bold? No, SUPERBOLD!

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

If you’ve ever wanted to light up an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or any other place in your life, my [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Fred Joyal is something you should listen to. [You can purchase his book with this link https://amzn.to/3h4xj32](https://amzn.to/3h4xj32)

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My own? Okay.

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Perfect. He’s played, he played in beat Richard Branson and chess on the island, and was also an answer to a Jeopardy question. I love that part of the book. And that’s really part of what we’re talking about how you stand out from everyone else. Fred, thanks for making time to talk to everyone today. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, I’m excited to be here and impart a little life wisdom or life tools that people can use.

And thus, it starts off with the question of Super Bold. Yes. What do you mean by Super Bold? And how would you translate that for someone? That’s just a Super Bold? What do you mean by being bold, or super bold?

So Boldness is [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in action. It’s, you know, [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) is something you want to feel. But you have to take it into action. Bold people do stuff, they take chances, they take risks, they start businesses, they ask for raises, they introduce themselves to anybody they want to meet. And, and super bold is to be able to summon that boldness whenever you want. And people say, Well, you’re they may be born that way. You know, that’s the way they act. I can’t do that. Well, I’m a bold introvert. I started off in my life incredibly shy, but I figured out ways to become as bold as I wanted to be. Now it took me way longer. I’ve distilled it down to something somebody can learn much more quickly, and then keep on working it the rest of their life.

That’s really cool. Because so often, I’ll speak for myself, you know, I grew up as a lower middle class kid in the Bronx. And I used to pop like Sylvester Stallone, you know, Ben de I was raised to talk. And I got to college, I was treated like an idiot. I can’t imagine why No,

No, it’s, it’s strange.

And in making conscious choices, I didn’t want to be that way. I knew I had to work at it. My first interim step was a funny British accent. I realized how ridiculous I sounded. Talking through New York, like this eventually just changed my speaking style one more time, to where it is now. Practice will help people get better. So I get where you’re coming from. Because I’ve lived my version of,

yeah, well, you you’ve done stuff to change yourself. And that’s all this is really about is like, somebody has to decide they want to be more confident, they want to act with boldness, they want to be able to summon that when they whenever they needed whenever they want. I can’t make somebody want to change, I can’t make them want to change by reading the book, they got to read the book and go, Yeah, this is who I want to become. And I’ll show him exactly how to do it. I’ll show him a fast and simple way to keep expanding their comfort zone wider and wider and wider. Till they they really achieve their dreams. And, you know, they achieved their dream, maybe a better [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and maybe a better relationship. Why wouldn’t it be all of those things, you know, so

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it should be and I’m going to pick on one word in your subtitle. And I love that word, because I know when [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) competence is only one thing they look for chemistry, [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), chemistry, maybe a little bit of [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), self [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). They, they want someone who cares. But that word [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) I’m always asked about, gee, I don’t think I’m really [charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/). I don’t want to become [charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/).

Well, that’s, that’s, that’s what boldness does. When somebody is bold enough when they’re confident just in a way that just radiates from them. That’s all the [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) is, is somebody just feeling so good about themselves, that they attract people and they’re very positive people. They’re their tribe. To make stuff better than they’re really comfortable making other people feel better about themselves. And that’s a lot of what I talked about in the book is it’s not just being bold, it’s like being bold in a, in a way that uplifts other people, as you’re achieving your dreams, because that’s, that’s gonna be the most satisfying life. And when you do that, in some of the things, I have very specific ways that I talk about how, for example, you make somebody that you’re talking to feel like they’re the only person in the room. That’s a life skill, you can learn that. But when you do that, people never forget you. And they go, they’ll say, I met Jeff, like five years ago. Yeah, really interesting, charming guy love the guy. You may not have said five words to them. But you ask them a whole bunch of questions about their life. Right? You show that you were totally interested in them, and only them at that moment. And that made a huge impression. That’s what [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) is. [Charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) is this magic that occurs when you exude [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). And you care and are really interested in people.

Bill Clinton was really good, or actually is really good at that. And if memory serves me right, again, experience of him at one point where he captivated everyone he met with we’re sure that story.

Yeah. So this was in he was fundraising. For his first campaign, it was at a large home in Beverly Hills, and there were several 100 people there. And he would meet people, one at a time. And he would lock on to them. And and that you could tell that they and it would be 30 seconds. That’s Are you shaking their hand, he’s, he’s asking them something, or they’re saying something. And you know, and I remember this, this one woman had come up to him and said, you know, my brother died in the Gulf War. And and, you know, people have forgotten about that. And he looked right at her and he said, I haven’t forgotten. So he listened to to exactly what she said. And he thought about what would be the most connected thing he could say to her. And, and she was in tears, she turned away she was in tears. And so I really believe that’s part of why he got elected is he could he, he could exude that [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), one person at a time and then eventually to large audiences.

It’s funny, one of one of the hat phrases that he would say is I feel your pain. And in retrospect, as were many years removed from his presidency, he really gave you the feeling that he felt your pain. Yeah, it for interviewers, or for interviewers still looking for any sort of a connection with the person opposite that. Yeah. And often, everyone’s a little robot there, right?

Yeah. Yeah, this is the and this is a guy that had to admit his infidelities to the world back when back when it mattered, apparently. You know, and but but that’s, it’s the same thing. For any one of us. It’s for you and me, I’m we’re going to talk about stuff that matters to me. And hopefully, I’m going to find things that matter to you. That That I can And that people who are listening on the go, yeah, that that resonates with me. And I do want to become bolder, I want to be bolder for that reason. And that’s part of what I tell people is like, this isn’t just so you’re the life of the party, it’s because there are going to be these moments that these opportunities come up, you’re going to get one chance, and it’s going to be brief. And you’re not going to want to hesitate. Because if you do, you’re going to regret it the rest of your life, it will be a create turning point in your life that you will miss and it may be somebody that you meet. That could be a connection for work, it could be a relationship, it could be giving a eulogy for a close friend or a parent. And you and I so many people, I met funerals, often unfortunately, as you get older and older and and there are people who, who I know are close to these people, they won’t get up and say anything. I’ve read eulogies for other people, because you’re like, I’m not a good public speaker. It’s like you want to be able to get up and say what you feel about that person, you’re going to get one chance at that. And life is full of these things. You want to be the one that stepped up that didn’t stop yourself. And that’s what Boldness is Most people do not stop themselves. They act, they take a shot, they go out, they put themselves out there, they don’t worry about [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) or embarrassment or any of those things. And that’s the difference

And folks, if you take away anything from this conversation, you’re going to take away more, but I want you to hear that statement again. Both people don’t stop themselves from acting as suffocate. Yeah, so yeah,

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People might laugh at me. I’ll be embarrassed. I might fail. Oh, really? It? How did you think you learn to speak English or, or walk? So, I mean, it’s like bold people go like failures are just, that’s a stairway up for them. It’s like a bumped into that wall and that wall and that wall. Oh, I got through, I found the door. You know, that’s, that’s the difference. And the thing about under confident people, and people who tell themselves they’re shy, or people who hesitate is they’re really good at coming up with what could happen, that’s bad. Or interpreting it as bad what what they can think of all the bad things that might happen. What they’re terrible at, is calculating the odds of those things actually happening. You know, they think it’s like, 90% chance it’s gonna happen. And it’s like to write bold people go, I don’t even have to calculate the odds, because I’m gonna, I’m gonna deal with whatever happens.

So what can people start to do to become more bold, more [charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/)? What sort of actions can they practice in order to start moving the needle? Knowing that it’s going to take time?

Yeah. So the, the way my book is structured is I talk about the mindset and I talk about some some social skills and communication tools. And then I dive into a whole series of exercises, five levels of boldness, muscle exercises, that you’re going to do, from from wherever you are, you could be a total shy closet case kind of person that just, you know, like, you can’t look people in the eye, right? I’m gonna, I’m gonna start you wherever you are, and move you up and up and up at a pace you can handle. But you’re going to start to do exercises that are many of them are aimed for failure. It’s like you’re going to, you’re going to smile at people until somebody doesn’t smile back, and then you’re going to go, nothing bad happened. They just didn’t smile back. You have and it’s, I want you to register that you have no idea what headspace that other person is in. They can could be the worst day of their life. They could have just gotten [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/), just gotten divorced, their blood sugar could have plummeted or whatever. You don’t know. So why are you taking it on? Why are you worried about oh, people, people are gonna think this about me? It’s like, Why do you care? What? Why would their opinions matter to you? You don’t know that? Right? So I’m gonna have you start doing simple things like smiling at people then maybe introduce yourself to a stranger every day. With no agenda. It’s, it’s, uh, you’re just gonna be me, you may just say hi. Just wanted to say hi. Just wanted to say that that hat looks righteous on you. And you know, you should wear it every day, you know, or whatever, I call it doing a drive by compliment, right you do it, you have no expectation no agenda. And when people feel you’ve got you got no ulterior motive. They just glow with it. Again, this is part of being [charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) is you you’re generous with your praise with your compliments with with your, your uplifting voice. And when you do that, it becomes magical. You feel like like wow, I’m it’s like you’re walking around, touching people with a wand. You know, because a complete stranger has gone out of their way to say something nice to them. And and then I’m going to build you up, you’re gonna start to do crazier and crazier things as the exercises go up. I’m gonna have you every time you see an employee’s only do sign you’re going in, right? Because you’re going to find out, nothing bad happens. If it’s unlocked and you go in. Nobody’s going to beat you to death on the other side. Right? Nobody’s going to arrest you. Half the time. Nobody’s going to say anything. Because they think you belong there. This is this is the other thing I want to drive home. And it’s not really in the book. But I said to people all the time. It’s like I want this to be your mantra. I belong everywhere. I belong everywhere. There’s nowhere I don’t belong. It’s a choice to feel like you don’t belong. So choose to feel like you belong. Wherever you are, you can be. I’ve been I’ve met billionaires, okay, guys who, who, who will make more money than if I live to, you know, 500 I couldn’t catch up to them. And I, I treat them like people. I’ve been in situations where I’m the worst dress like I’m the most underdressed person there. I still belong there. You know why? Because I’m just a human being like everybody else. They’re all just human beings. They may have a toxin, and I may have jeans on. But I belong there, because I’m there. Because I felt myself that.

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And folks, just want to remind you that would Fred’s doing here is to feeding the programming you’ve gotten throughout a good part of your life, with different tools and tactics. Because when you think about school, I don’t know what it’s like in other countries, I went to school in the US. And basically, the idea of school was shut up and do what we tell you to do when we tell you to do it. regurgitate the facts, when we ask for the facts, or else Or else, you won’t get a good grade and get into the college you want to get into. You will be a bomb and regresses in college, you won’t get the good job. And then you find that when you get a good job some you do a good job by being obedient and following instructions and doing people do what people tell you to do. And one day they fire you because the economy sour you go, what happened? I was doing a good job. And being a conformist doesn’t really serve most of the time, does it?

No, I mean, that’s why when you’re in that job, and you’re doing it in the conformist way, you see somebody else get a promotion, you see somebody else get a [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/), you see somebody else move to a different business, and then with a better job, you see them start their own business, and you’re like, how is this happening? It’s like it’s happening. Because you’re not conforming, they’re not they’re not waiting for somebody to tell them. Yes, they’re waiting. They’re not stopping themselves till somebody says no. And then sometimes they take it as not yet. And they try to find their way through anyway. So And sadly, as you say, this stuff is it’s not taught in school, your you are not taught even, you’re not taught how to shake hands and make [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/). Right? You’re not taught how to introduce yourself to anybody you want to meet. But why the heck not? Why wouldn’t that be a life skill? We got it, we got to spend like two days learning how to drive a car, then take the test, and another two weeks to learn how to actually physically drive it. And somebody is going to check to see if we know how that but but know how to beat somebody that you would like to meet, know how to talk like a normal person don’t know how to show you’re interested in that. Nobody teaches you that.

Agree. I was thinking the story about Steven Spielberg as a young man and how he really got launched in the movie business. He was on a tour. And he wore a suit that day and carried a briefcase. And one day he hopped off the tour bus. And he walked into one of the studio buildings and just started working on his movie. And no one championship. And he did this for a month before someone noticed him. And they said what do you do? A movie? Like how did you get me here? And he told them and

Door was open? Yeah, basically. And yeah, the beauty and the story is if you’ve seen his movies, his his company’s called ambulate. Yeah, and that was the name of the first movie. He worked on Amblin it’s a hokey movie. Maybe I’m looking at it from older eyes. But he was like 16 years old at the time doing right.

He did make Schindler’s List. So you know. Yeah, he’s got he’s got some sophistication to it. We got that. But fundamentally, for those of you who hold back, what’s the risk for you to do things differently? What might happen?

So well, is that a classic example of I belong here or not? I just went, I’m here. I must belong here. So, right. I got the suit the prove it. Yeah. So can you give us a couple of exercises that people can do? I know you mentioned smiling, which I’m pretty good at.

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Yes, you are there. But a lot of people aren’t. A lot of people are. They’re stingy with their smile. I smile at everybody. I talked to anybody in an elevator. I just stopped I’ll say something Next, you know, the guy that just got out with too much cologne on I’ll turn it to the person I’ll go, that was quite a bit of Cologne. And they’ll go, oh my god, I thought it was me. But yeah, but yes, that’s that is amazing. I said Yeah, I think there’s some on me still, you know, or and you just had this little exchange talk to strangers that’s like you pretend you’re not five years old anymore talk to strangers and and interact with without an agenda but you know then there’s little exercises and other interact without an agenda, it say more about hat? Well, you know when they say oh, you’re going to network, you’re going to meet people, it’s the worst motivation to walk into a room of people that you may want to know, what you should do is you walk in in there and say, I’m going to I’m going to make five people in this room feel really good about themselves. And I’m going to find out something really interesting about those five people. That should be your agenda. I you know, as I said before you you can have a conversation with somebody. And all you and this is one of the key rules, power tools of life. ask good questions. And and when when somebody says something interesting, you don’t try to top it. You go tell me more about that. If they say I like that people do this all the time, somebody will say I was I just got back from Rome. And they’ll say, oh, yeah, I was in Rome. Five years ago, I saw the Rolling Stones at the Colosseum, you know, and it rained and it was like, I was like, I can’t top that I just I just drank espresso and walked around in ROM. So it’s like, so that you’ve you’ve imbalance that instead of going, really? What was your favorite part of Rome? What town town I want to go back and I want if I miss something, I want you to tell me what that would be. And you and see that the nature of the question. I’m eliciting them to talk more about themselves. And I’m, I’m locked on a lockdown like Bill Clinton. I’m like, I’m attending to them. I am listening actively to what they have to say. And I’m not waiting to tell them something. I’m not trying to be funnier than them. I’m not trying to be smarter than them. I’m not trying to correct them. I I can correct anybody’s grammar that I’m talking to you. Do you think that would endear me to them? If I did that?

I don’t think so. To translate. You’re one of the outcomes of this because often people don’t understand why this is a great thing to do. One of the things I learned as a headhunter was the more they talk on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), the more they like you. Yeah. So every time you’re there, basking in their magnificence, listening to everything that they’re saying is those the most important words that could ever be uttered by a human being on the planet. They like you more doesn’t mean necessarily, you’ll get hired, but you’re getting ahead of the situation by being the one that they like, and are interested in, because you’re willing to listen and make them feel important. Instead of yourself feel important.

For Yeah, that’s they’re coming away. And they’ll say, Wow, she was great. I loved meeting her. She was so interesting. And then you and they know nothing about her because she was just great at asking, asking questions, and making them feel like they’re the most important person in the room. And they just go She’s amazing. You got to meet her. This is what this is. What you don’t plan for and you can’t really strategize is your boldness and your [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) when it radiates. All the a lot of the interesting stuff comes completely out of left field. I think it happened to me yesterday that I was walking around this trade show with with somebody. And this this man recognize me recognizes me starts to tell a compass over talks to me starts to tell me that the woman who is with you need to know this guy, right? He says he knows more about marketing in this industry than anybody. It’s just like, I wasn’t that I’ve never heard of you. And I said, I don’t know. Right but but he I let him he and before I was done, she was ready for a full on marketing consultation with me because I had connected with him three four years ago and and really just did exactly that. I was just interested in his story. I didn’t tell him that much about me. So To do who I was. But what I did was he thought he considers me like an icon in my industry. So the fact that I talked to him at all, he was so [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) about the fact that I listened to him, and remembered what he said and all of that even remembering his name, which is, hey, one of the things that people when they’re anxious, and they don’t relax in a conversation, they forget the people’s names. Use their name, say their name. Say it again, the next time you see him, know it, those things, people love their names. This is not a mystery, right? But we get if you forget it, you say, Look, you told me such an interesting thing that I forgot your name. Please remind me of your name one more time, right? You you imbedded a compliment in the request, instead of going I’m really bad with names. Can you tell me a name again? Right. It’s like, that’s like, you’re so unimportant. I didn’t register anything about you, including your name. Right? That’s when you say it that way.

You’re less important than a social security number. That’s what you say? Because everyone knows the social security number, right? It was ridiculous numbers arbitrarily chosen. But I can’t remember names.

Yes, right. Yeah, you can remember all of these digits, you know, [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) people remember the whole credit cards and everything like that. So and the secret gotta remember the secret code and all that. So what what I do is with the exercises is huge. You just start to do them, you do them every day. Now there’s a method I call the pride method, which is a five step method for doing exercises and building your boldness. You can also use it in real situations, but you’re going to use it in the exercises, to figure out what bold people already know, which is 99% of the time, nothing bad happens. And very often something good happens. And, and hey, everything good in my life. I can probably attribute to some act of boldness somewhere along the line. Either the the job, I got the business, I’m in the relationships, I have the friends I have. All just like I you know, I have a lifelong friend that I met the first day of college, it was just as I decided to talk to him because he was from the south Yeti. Interesting accent. He’s from Louisiana, when I started chatting with him. One of my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friends, it’s still to this day, because I just I didn’t sit there saying I you know, I’m shy. Right? What this is, the thing is, I always attack people who say I’m shy. It’s like, No, you behave in a shy way. You’re you’re tall, or you’re short, or you’re heavy, or you’re skinny, or you’re blonde, or you’re brunette, that’s what you are, you are not shy, you’re behaving in a shy manner. And I’ll bet you can come up with 20 times when you didn’t behave shyly at all. You were in Thanksgiving dinner with all your friends and family and you there was nothing shy about you is screaming at the football game, you’re, you know, you’re making fun of your cousin. So you’re not shy, you’re just you act shy. Sometimes, unfortunately, when it matters most that you shouldn’t, you know, there’s a whole bunch of people who are confident until it matters, till it until it until the time they actually have to step up. That’s what super bold is, is like, you step up, you never stop yourself. But when it really matters, that’s when you bring it and you mentioned is one of the exercises smiling. Another one was going through the door for employees only. And really focusing on the person that you’re speaking with. As examples of three exercises, you want to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) one or two more.

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Sure. One of the things that and this is just a, a silly thing, wear a BandAid on your face, like like right here, like right across your forehead, wear it all day, right? And embrace that sense that you go like people are looking at me, because you need to let go of the fact that people are thinking about you all the time. And that that matters. You know, I can remember being a teenager like I have a pimple it’s like, I can’t go out of the house. Why would that make any difference? Somebody Look at me go he’s got a pimple. It’s not permanent, but he clearly has a feminine, so what and so that the band aid makes you realize that your self consciousness is self administered and you want to defeat it. I actually I did this lecture to talking about Super Bowl this to about 500 high school kids. And they were really dialed in, it was really great. They were extremely receptive. And then after lunch, I came back from lunch. And five of the kids had band aids on their face. Right? And I said, and they were and other people like, Wait, did you get band aids? I want to do that. It was like they had some of they found like, you know, the, the the first aid kit in the, in the school and grab some band aids? And it was like, yes, yes, you’re getting it. So it’s just, it’s so you, you know, there’s so many insights that change how you do this. One is that people are not thinking about you anywhere near as much as you think they are. Who are they thinking about? themselves? That right? They go right, they think about you for three to eight seconds, and then they go back to their favorite subject. Right? So stop worrying about this so much. One of the exercises I have in the book is to make a list of all the people that you know, and rank on a scale of one to 10, how much their opinion should matter to you not how much it does, because you could be out of control? And how much you how much should it on a scale of one to 10. And I guarantee you, if there’s more than five people that rank 10, I would be amazed. And the rest of the people should be a one or a two, maybe a three, man whole bunch of them should be a zero. Right? Because whose you know, your mentor should matter to you, your spouse should matter to you, your your siblings should matter to you, your boss should matter to you. After that, why are you so worried about these people’s opinions of you? First of all, are they right about you? Are they are they taking a snapshot and they’re making a decision? I mean, people are judging people by social media, by the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) pictures they could possibly be posting of themselves. Or and even retouching them instead. And then going, Oh, I know this guy, you know, I just happen to meet people say, Oh, I met this actor, he was a total jerk. I said, Oh, really, you know that he’s a total jerk, because he didn’t say hi to you. So you understand him as a human being. Right? And you understand that deep down? He’s a jerk. Right? It’s like we do this. So why would you worry about that person’s opinion. When you learn to discard those opinions, you’re unstoppable.

And folks, I want to translate this into [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a moment. Practicing this shift makes you more powerful on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). If you act like a sheep, on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), there’s other sheep with comparable skills that are going to come in and be interviewed. And if everyone is a sheep, there’s nothing for the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to choose between. Pretty similar, but if you are magnificent, if you are super bold,

yes, you’re cutting to the front of the line for a lot of people, some people you may overwhelm it happens. But the idea is you’re like a product. They put colors on these product boxes, right? Hey, doubt that the colors are designed to attract people, and your personality is the color in the commentary that’s gonna make you stand out from everyone else.

Yeah, and and do you say, Oh, I don’t want to be too much. Oh, so you want to be not enough? Is that what you’re aiming for, I would rather be too much in some situations and be able to dial it back. That’d be not enough and never get a chance to dial it up. Because that’s what happens when you’re when you’re hesitating. When you know, hesitation is the opportunity killer. That’s, you know, in life in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). If you see somebody that could advance [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), now, they may not be able to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you or something like that. But you may be able to say, I’m really thinking of moving into you know, the the marketing department, you know, I know I’ve been in sales for a while but I feel like I could be in marketing. And I and I know you’re you’re the head of a marketing at this company. What qualifies? What would what does it take to qualify? How’d you get there? And you interrogate them? You go like, when did you know that you wanted to do it? What do you know? When did why did you feel like you had a grip on them? What what resources did you use? What are they going to think about you? They’re thinking? If I had a business I hired this guy, right or I hired this woman she’s she’s so curious about I’m getting better that I want to work in for me, or I’m going to the next time somebody says, because this happens to me all the time, too. I got three emails right now, do you know a person who does blank, right? Where I know somebody who needs one. That’s how 80% of the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you’re going to get are going to come from those things. So it’s about did you make an impression? Did you seem intelligent, curious, interested? [Charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), because that they’re going to remember you and they’re going to somebody says, I’m looking for, you know, somebody in my marketing department, I need somebody who’s willing to grow because I get a marketing director, she needs a right hand. And you go, I know exactly who that is. I met him two months ago. Let me find his name. You know, that’s what happens. It’s funny, because we talked about the smile at the beginning. What makes people think someone is self confident, a smile, a twinkle in the eyes, right? And if you’re deadly serious, you may be extremely competent. But is there anything for people to really attach to? Is there a likability factor? Other you’ve demonstrated great competence, obviously. But the smile, the twinkle, it shifts the conversation to human from the I’m going to hammer my knowledge into your head until it you’re the skull just explodes? Doesn’t work, does it?

Well, you know, one of the things I talked about, I have a list of things of what not to do, when you’re doing social interaction. And I talked about some of that by, you know, playing top this, and you know, I get, I get a better story than you are trying to be funny. If you’re funny, be funny, occasionally, but again, that makes it a competition, somebody has got to be funnier than you, why not go. That’s the funniest thing I ever heard. Even if it isn’t, somebody let somebody else be funny. But the thing that that under confident people and shy people do is when somebody finally lets them talk, they unload, they go into a model, an unbroken stream, because they’re there. They’re not shy. They’re just hesitating. And when somebody finally lets them talk, they can’t stop. They’re like, they’re it’s it’s this stream of, of consciousness. And there’s no pause in between. It’s really hard to listen to somebody do. And it doesn’t make you interesting, it doesn’t matter how interesting what you say is, you didn’t give them a chance to say, oh, you know, tell me more about that. Or that’s interesting. Or, you know, I didn’t understand that, or I don’t, you didn’t check to see if they care, right? You didn’t notice that they were looking in three directions, and the whole time you’re talking, cuz you never took a break? The second you catch yourself monologuing you need you need to stop talking, and then say, I’m really passionate about that. You know, I’m sorry, I go on. But But tell me more about this trip to Rome, you were not immediately ask your question. And you’ll see the relief on their faces.

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It’s so true, is relief. Fred, how can people find out more about you Super Bowl, your work? How can they connect with you? Okay, so Fred joyal.com is my website J OYAL? Yeah, thank you. So, and it’s, you know, just, you know, I have my name everywhere, and it’s my Facebook and my Instagram and all of that stuff. But the website is, is a place where you could find out a lot more about me and see, see, lectures I’ve done and articles that I’ve done. It’s also and if you want to order the, it’s gonna be on Amazon, of course, it’s it’s, it’s there. It’s in hardcover, it’s in audio, it’s me reading the audio, and it’s on Kindle as well. So it’s a digital form. And if you go to other media, like Barnes and Noble, it’s there too. So you can get it those three ways. If you don’t buy the book, the hardcover, you can go to the website, let’s say you got the Kindle or the audio version, you’re you’re listening on Audible, you want the exercises. So you can go to my website and download a [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) of the exercises. You can also go to my website and then and download the first chapter, if you want to do that. But I want you to physically have the exercises. And there’s also journaling that you’re going to do in the book. The book is about taking action. It is not a novel, it is not something to read for entertainment. It is about changing your life and that means you’re going to have to do stuff. And the journaling helps you and then The exercises are there. So for you to do step by step, and you’ll understand the pride method, and all these and power tools of communication. All of this stuff is is there in the book. So, Fred joyal.com, go to Amazon to buy the book. You can even book if you got a 30 if you need 30 minutes, because you go like, no, no, I really am shy, I can’t get out of the house. I can’t, I can’t look people in the eye, or whatever. Or you say, like I’m a CEO, and I can’t I need to interact with people and I I stink at it. I’ll do a half hour consultation with you just book it, go to my website and book. I’ll talk you off the ledge. I’ll get you out of the house.

Excellent, Fred, this has been wonderful. Thank you.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [How to Build Unshakeable Career Confidence Through Action](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/)

**Published:** June 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact mechanics of building career boldness, overcoming the fear of rejection, and shifting your mindset

**Content:**

# How to Build Unshakeable Career Confidence Through Action

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop waiting for a sudden burst of confidence before you apply for that next role or speak up in meetings. Confidence isn’t a personality trait—it’s a muscle that only grows when you lean into intentional discomfort and take risks. This episode breaks down the exact mechanics of building [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) boldness, overcoming the fear of rejection, and shifting your mindset from asking for permission to evaluating if a company is even worth your time.

We’ve all felt that sudden spike of dread. Maybe it hits when staring at a blinking cursor, or right as your hand reaches for the handle of a corporate [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) room. That hesitation manifests in quiet, destructive ways: we avoid taking on new challenges, we suppress our actual professional needs, and we struggle to set healthy boundaries in the workplace.

The data reveals how deep this [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) runs across demographics. Men typically apply for a job when they meet about 60% of the listed qualifications. Women, however, tend to wait until they hit 100%. This paralysis traps us because we’ve bought into a myth: we think we have to actually feel confident before we are allowed to take action.

Researchers use a specific term for overcoming this: [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) search self-efficacy. As this chart shows, it is a measure of a person’s belief in their ability to perform [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) exploration activities. Look at the inputs: vicarious experiences and [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) management. This replaces the vague idea of confidence with something measurable. It proves that shyness isn’t a permanent trait or unchangeable identity. You behave shyly in certain moments, but it is a temporary, constructed state.

Because it is constructed, confidence functions exactly like a biological muscle. It only grows and strengthens when it encounters deliberate resistance. To build that muscle, we have to start an action-first engine. That means abandoning a defensive fixed mindset, where your abilities feel set in stone, and adopting a highly adaptable growth mindset. In a growth mindset, failure is just data. When you encounter a gap in your knowledge, the internal dialogue shifts from a defeated “I don’t know” to a curious “I don’t know yet.”

But a mindset shift isn’t enough on its own. You need a daily workout, which comes in the form of micro-risks. Try walking down the street and smiling at strangers. Keep doing it until someone doesn’t smile back. When that happens, you’ll realize the rejection is entirely harmless. You have no idea what kind of day they are having, and their reaction says nothing about you.

Or, try walking confidently through an unlocked employees-only door. You do this to dismantle worst-case scenario thinking. Nobody is going to arrest you; most people will just assume you belong there. Surviving these tiny, daily micro-risks trains your nervous system. It creates a powerful new baseline of boldness that protects the brain against the fear of social rejection.

There’s an assumption that to leverage this boldness and network effectively, you have to be the loudest, most extroverted person in the room. That is completely false. Consider Bill Clinton. In a crowded room of hundreds of people, his [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) didn’t come from shouting over the noise; it came from locking onto one person at a time and giving them his absolute, undivided attention. [Introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/) can easily leverage this exact strategy. Instead of feeling the exhausting pressure to perform or speak, you simply deploy deep, active listening. You ask targeted questions. If someone mentions a trip to Rome, you don’t jump in to top their story with your own; you ask what their favorite part of the trip was, making them feel like the most important person in the room.

[Charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) is the magnetic pull created when you exude genuine care and intense interest in the person standing right in front of you. Once you’ve mastered these social interactions, you have to push further. Your confidence will naturally decay if you stay inside your comfort zone, making stretch assignments the crucial antidote. You have to actively volunteer for tasks that slightly exceed your current capabilities. That is the only place where actual mastery is built. Pushing professional boundaries and claiming space before you’ve mastered it matches the trajectory of some of history’s most successful [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).

The accumulation of these risks makes the final step possible: claiming your authenticity. When you sit down for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), you must reject the instinct to be a conformist just to appease the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager. Adopt the internal mantra: “I belong everywhere.” Whether you are the least experienced person at the table or the most underdressed, you consciously reframe your right to occupy that room. Showing up authentically acts as a shield. If an employer rejects the real, unapologetic you, they have successfully filtered you out of a work environment where you never would have thrived anyway.

The hesitant applicant who froze at the door becomes a candidate operating with super boldness. You stop asking for permission. Instead of begging someone for an opening, you are now evaluating if the company actually meets your standard. Ultimately, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) aren’t looking for flawless perfection or a robotic recitation of a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). They want to hire people who possess a twinkle in their eye, a genuine willingness to learn, and the unshakable courage to act.

There’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Become an insider and get coaching from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), as well as video courses, books, and guides to help you. Or you can purchase individual products and services à la carte. We want to help.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [The Connector's Advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-connectors-advantage/)

**Published:** June 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Connectors have many advantages, not simply in their job search but in their career overall.

**Content:**

# The Connector’s Advantage

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Connectors have many advantages, not simply in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) but in their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) overall. Michelle Tillis-Ledderman, the author of [The Connector’s Advantage](https://amzn.to/3qF9WAE) discusses how to become a connector and using it throughout your search and [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). BTW, she offers a bonus at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for the purchase of the book

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So my guest today is Michelle Tillis-Lederman, one of Forbes Top 25 [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) experts, and

the author of four books, including the internationally known “The 11 Laws of Likeability” and her

latest, “The Connectors [Advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/),” which is what we’re going to be focusing on today.

She’s a connection creator and CEO of Executive Essentials, which provides customized communications

and leadership programs for Fortune 500 firms and other substantial organizations. And she’s

appeared on a host of different networks,. NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR, The New York Times CNBC,

the usual suspects. Michelle, thanks for making time today. I really appreciate it. How are

you?

Good, Jeff, [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to be here.

I’m glad; it’d be terrible if you weren’t [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to be here. So connector. What’s a connector

and why do we care about that?

I love that question. A connector is simply somebody who prioritizes relationships in

everything that they do, in all of their interactions, professional, personal, across the board,

the relationship comes first. And that’s a really simplistic way of thinking about a

connector. But why we care is because connectors have an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) in whatever it is they’re

working on. Whether it’s a new job or promotion, getting a client, you know, even health and

happiness. You are going to get there faster, easier and better as a connector. And that’s

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I mean, we don’t have to do it the hard way.

You know, I tell a story in the beginning of the book about how some things have happened

for me. And I really people go ‘you’re are so lucky.’ I’m like, I’m not. I’m not lucky.

I’m a connector. And it’s those relationships that enable things to happen.

Tell us the story of how it happen for you?

Well, I think one of the stories I tell is, is when I got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), right after 9/11,

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on Thursday, I started the following Monday.

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spoken with so and so? Let me put to the two of you together?”

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I find that one stunning, because the number. I’ve always heard was 70. I knew [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

had upped it to 85. And it doesn’t surprise me. And I think what’s fascinating is also

in the original number of 70, of the 70%, 70% of them (or 49% in total) came as a result

of introductions to people that your network knew who you didn’t.

Yeah. And it’s the executive level, that number goes even higher– 90+% at the executive level.

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It’s the original social proof. You know, in The Stone Ages when I started in recruiting,

it used to be “the old boys club.” And the old boys would all know one another. They

went to the same schools, and they referred one another. There’s a Women’s Club as well

now, but more importantly, there are ways that we can connect with people in order to

develop those relationships and impressions.. So there’s lots of different ways of being

a connector. What do you recommend for people when you coach someone at an executive level?

How do you train them to be an effective conector?

So, what I talk about are the seven mindsets of the connector. And I’ll list them out;you

can choose whichever ones you want to focus on. But these are the mindsets that help enable

you to prioritize relationships. So we are an “open and accepting” connectors have a

clear vision, connectors believe in abundance, they trust, they’re social and curious, they’re

conscientious, and they have a generous spirit.

Versus the non-connector personalities who are miserly in so many different ways. Clutch,

hold on to, rather than be generous,

it’s the opposite of abundance is scarcity.. And that’s really one that people focus on

a lot, because especially in the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), there’s this scarcity mindset. “I need,” and

I need to protect. I shouldn’t tell anybody this, and somebody’s going to take this out

from under me.” You know, we take these very defensive protective stances. And I understand

it, scarcity is tangible, right? It makes sense. I understand scarcity, probably better

than anybody else. And I tell the story in my book about kind of growing up with scarcity.

And it’s a shift not to say everything’s fine.. It’s a shift to say, I believe in the possibility

of being better. I believe that there’s enough to go around. And so I take a mindset of ‘I

don’t have competitors, I have a lot of strategic partners, or alliances.’ And if I am, you

know, going after a job, and I don’t get it, what I would do at that point would say, “You

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if you build that relationship, and you help them find somebody else, you do favors. That

generous spirit that we’re talking about, of giving, then you’ve built two strong relationships.

And you know what? When we think about connecting, we’re not in a short term perspective. We’re

thinking long term, you don’t know where they’re going next. You know, you don’t know who else

they know who’s looking. And so it is really about a non-linear spirit. Right? It’s not

‘I give you. You give me.

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of different fields. And I think that’s probably the biggest inhibitor to why people are reluctant

to be connectors. Is that what you say?

I don’t know, if people are reluctant to be connectors, I think it is that that sometimes

that scarcity mindset takes over. Sometimes it’s that they don’t have a clear vision,

right. That’s why there are seven mindsets, and they enable each other. It’s hard to have

a generous spirit if you don’t have a mindset of abundance, right? And it’s hard to get

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going for.

The difference between a connector and a networker doesn’t sound radically different, except

networkers seem to be more transactional versus connectors have a mindset that it comes with

being a networker.

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Like, no, no, this book is on connecting.. He’s like, ‘well, what’s the difference?’

And I looked up at him. And I was like, ‘that’s a great question.’ And I thought about for

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I think that’s the mindset difference that. I want people to take away is that oftentimes,

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do this thing,’ right? Versus a connector is always in the mindset of the relationship,

and of connecting to others. And, you know, it could be on the playground, it could be

you when you’re volunteering for something it could be when you’re running at the park.

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Fabulous. So let’s talk about these mindsets, and give people a sense of where they might

fit in, into these attitudes. And maybe we can talk about how you can grow into a next

level mindset from that position. That good with you?

And what you just said actually made me think of the connector spectrum. And it might be

helpful for us to explain kind of the levels of connector, because you were saying grow

into, you know, and one of the things that. I want people to recognize is probably everybody

who’s listening to your show is already at some level on the connector spectrum. They’re

not non connectors, right? That’s a very rare breed of people who don’t value or believe

in the value of relationships who are really just kind of recklessly, right? At a minimum,

people are emerging, right? They’re emerging connectors, they see the value, but they’re

not really competent in their skills, not really employing those skills, yet those mindsets,

then we have the responsive connector. So when your responses Connect, or people are

asking you for introductions, people are asking you to connect, people are asking you for

favors, and you are responding. Right? So you are actively responding. But it’s only

when somebody else is doing the initiation.. If you want to get to the acting connector

level, and this is a great target group for most people, you want to start initiating

as well don’t just respond, but initiate be thinking, How can I help this person be thinking?

Who would they want to connect with? be thinking, who do I want to connect with, and who can

help me connect with those people. So being a little more proactive, and initiating will

get you to that acting level? Now,

I’m gonna pause you there for one second, because I want to work with with this one,

since this is the one that you consider the initial aspirational category. So put me in

that position. I’m attempting to connect,. I’m a coach, I help people find work. I do

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to be a more effective connector, let’s assume that all I’m doing is waiting for the email

to come in from someone who wants help. That sounds like a lot of you, folks. What could

I do differently,

As the coach or the candidate.

I’m going to be the candidate trying to find additional situations.

Alright. So as a candidate, what you want to be thinking about is, you know, look at

some technical things that you can do is to continue to support and nurture the network

that you have and expand, right. So if we are just being in that responsive acting level,

then we’re really focusing on the network that we have, and making sure that it is,

is strong. So I want you to maybe spend 15 minutes a week on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Find five new

connections a week. Send five notes to people that you already connect with, engage with

them on social media. That’s one place you can do it. Maybe make five phone calls a week.

Maybe send five emails a week. So it’s just you don’t have to do big things. But like

yesterday, something popped into my head and. I immediately texted her saying, I’m thinking

about you. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.. And then we got into a text chain. You know,

somebody emailed me after 15 years, and we got on the phone for an hour and a half. So,

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nurturing the network that you have, and I want you to always do this. Ask this question

in whatever you’re doing. What are you working on? You know, how can I help? You know, where’s

your focus right now? Or who do you want to connect with? Any one of those questions,

is going to tap into your generous spirit and your willingness and desire to add value

to somebody else. And when you do that, the connection strengthens, and it extends.

So some of you, as you were talking about this, you reminded me of someone I knew many

years ago, the first woman commodities broker dealer, Merrill Lynch, I say the old Merrill

Lynch, pre financial collapse. And she had an audio tape, you know, a little cassette

tape of the top performers at Merrill Lynch at a junket in Hawaii, that used to happen,

and they have a speaker coming to talk to them. And he said, I want to teach you how

to increase your book by seven to 10% in three seconds. Is there anything else I can be doing

to help you? That was the simplest question in the world, and really was about service

and about help? It wasn’t saying any more business? It wasn’t transactional in that

way. It was just the friendly question. Designed to deepen the relationship a little bit more.

Yeah. And, and I don’t want to get sidetracked.. I want to take your time. But I do want you

to be able to answer that question as well.. Right? I want you to pose it, but I want you

to have an answer for it. And that’s that clear vision, right? Because somebody might

say, Oh, thank you so much for asking, what about you? How can I help you? And if you

don’t have Oh, no, no, no, no, that’s not what we’re trying to do either. Right. You

can have an answer. You can say, Well, you know, right now I’m focused on connecting

to people this industry or, you know, I am really thinking about the job with this company,

and would love to talk to somebody know anybody

who works there. And I think we all know relationships.. Come out of give and take. But it starts with

a gift.

Yeah. And it’s give without expectation. But if they invite the question, make sure you

have an answer.

So we’ve covered two of the spectrum because you repeat the first two again.

So everyone has a non connector, emerging connector to responsive connector all the

way up to the first target, which is acting connector. And that might be as far as people

need to get, the further up the spectrum you go, the faster easier, better the results

can be. So you know, it’s not I am a what you call a global superconductor. So I got

a job in literally three days after I got, you know, cleaned out my desk, that’s rare.

When we start to think about two other levers we can pull one is the depth of our connections.

So how deep in a geographic region an industry that function? Can we go? Right? somebody

knows, Oh, she knows everybody in town, or she knows everybody in media, or my sister

knows everybody in, you know, that’s an HR professional, or whatever it might be. So

having that depth in a certain area, that’s called a nice connector. When you start to

have breath, that’s when you are a super connector.. So the breath could be up and down the ladder

across demographics, geographics. function.. Industry, right, so you got a guy, right,

you always know somebody. That’s that super connector. And when you know people beyond

your country’s borders, then you’re a global super connector.

I love these descriptions. And I’m gonna back up to the niche connector. Because thinking

of my own background in search, where I have specific expertise, that becomes a nice connector,

someone who has in depth knowledge around some subject that allows the

subject is the people in that subject. Right.. And you are definitely

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conversation, and that we elevate to get in breath. And how does someone become more expansive,

when they’ve been? I don’t wanna say siloed.. But they’ve self created the silo.

I love that. And this is so important right now. And you know, I wrote this book about

it, you know, it came out over a year ago.. And it is probably more relevant right now

than ever, because the last section of the book is called expanded, diversify your connections.

And I talked about how to be an inclusive connector. And with the social unrest, and

with the polarization of our country, it is so important to think about how do we expand

and diversify because when you have diversified thought, you actually make better decisions,

you make more innovative decisions, you make faster decisions, when you are open to other

ideas, and you have that relationship, you are seen as more innovative, more credible,

more trustworthy. So yes, it’s so important.. And by the way, before I forget, I have a

quiz. So people can take a little quiz, you’ll put it in the show notes, to figure out what

level they are. So they know how to get up to that next level. So if you are thinking

about that expansion, how to be inclusive, there’s certain mindsets just in that, but

you want to make sure that you are putting yourself in places to be social curious, and

the mindset with people that are different than you. And one of the tips is to have a

host mindset, wherever you are, whether it’s in person or online, have a host mindset,

invite others into the conversation, especially those that might not be using their voice

for those that might not look like everybody else, or those that might have been there

for the first time. So by making other people comfortable by inviting them in, I have a

friend another author, he says that every time he goes to a conference, he looks for

the person who looks the most out of place goes over and introduces himself and asks

if they’ll sit with him. And I just love that it’s just simple little things to to, you

know, and he doesn’t because I think he’s always felt like the unicorn, and he wants

other unicorns to feel, you know, part of the group. But you know, I love the idea of

just looking for somebody who you don’t normally get to talk to. And

I remember the days when we couldn’t meet in person. Remember back in the old days when

we actually met in person? One of the . . . one of the classic scenarios was, you know, you’re

at some version of the conference, whether you’re the speaker or just another attendee,

having a host mindset might be walking over to that one person at the large table seated

by themselves and sitting down next to them.. But first asking, “Can I put my plate down

for a second?” Or “can I get something for you” as part of the simple question that starts

the conversation that allows you to break the ice with someone. Because they can say,

“Oh, I’m saving that!” Okay, fine. But it opens up a door to conversation with someone

who you don’t know, and allows them to feel comfortable with you. I love the smile on

your face.

I love that you said that because I have a story. And it was, I don’t know, maybe two

years ago or something like that. I was at the National Speakers Association Conference.

It’s like 1500 people, a huge conference hall.. I . . . you know, it can be very overwhelming.

And it’s probably the first time I had gone in years. And I, I saw this woman sitting

alone at a table eating lunch. And I walked over and I said, “Nobody should be eating

alone. Can I join you?” And she said, “Absolutely.”. I sat down and we started chatting. Turns

out this woman was sitting alone because she was tired of being bombarded by everybody.

Because she was the founder of TEDx.

When she told me that, you know, 20, 30 minutes into a conversation, I was like, Okay, I’m

like, “Oh, looks like you wanted to be alone.”. And at one point, somebody who knows me took

a picture of us from another table. She was holding my hand. And he sent me a text going,

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have lunch with you, because you came over for me. You didn’t come over for you.”

And there, folks is huge takeaway. If you haven’t caught this yet, pay attention. It’s

give first, care first.

I had no idea who she was. I just didn’t want to see somebody eating alone. And I, you know,

wanted to give them company. And I love her.. We’re still friends. We talk about kids, it’s,

you know,

Perfect, absolutely perfect. And notice, folks, this isn’t hard. It’s about caring about other

people, and having conversations with them, about where they are and not about, “I need,

I need.” And going back to that miserly spirit that I spoke about earlier of being (I’m going

to use the New York term that if you want me to translate, folks, I’ll do that\_ the

mooch.

There is something about that I think of it as being hungry. I know that when you’re in

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be a figurative hunger. But it’s, it can kind of feed that desperation and feeds that scarcity

mindset. And this feeds, you call it the moocher, the miser, I just want you to think about

that, that focus on what you’re full of, right?. When you focus on the fullness of what you

have and what you’re grateful for. And when we practice gratitude, that actually helps

us embody the mindset of abundance. And, you know, this has been a really challenging year.

I mean, God, you know, 2020 has not been easy for anybody, even if your business is doing

well, it’s still been a difficult year socially, emotionally. We’ve all had losses, we’ve all

given up things that were important to us this year. And so, you know, when we think

about practicing gratitude, it’s, it’s a shift.. It is going like, “Oh, you know, my son had

to do his Bar Mitzvah virtually. Oh, we had to cancel this vacation. Oh, right. Or I can

say, Oh, my God, I am so grateful every day, that my kids are old enough to manage homeschooling.

I’m so grateful that I have my dogs that cuddle me, I’m so grateful that we have a deck outside,

but that we can sometimes work outside and get fresh air. And so, like, I mean, I just

couldn’t list list, I can fill up your whole half hour with things that I’m grateful for.

And so it’s an idea of focusing on that will enable you to try to start to reach that mindset

of abundance, because that really is going to flip a switch for you and how you interact

and how you connect.

Folks, it’s kind of like opening up from a clenched fist to an open hand. And being

Likr a hug.

I’m starting with baby steps. We work up to the hug. If someone’s that has a closed fist,

we’re not getting into a hug instantly. But we start the small steps that change things.

Like any change, it’s a new habit. Try it, see what works. See what doesn’t work. Experiment.

What’s the worst that’s going to happen? You’re going to be back in the same position anyway.

But you might not be.

And I give a lot of practical to do’ss and what I call mindset missions in the book so

that they can implement the concepts.

You got one you’re willing to share tonight.. Come on, Michelle.

Sure. So, one of the mindsets. You know, one of the I guess, arguments people always get

is “I don’t have the time, especially now.. Like I’ve got the homeschooling. I got the

blah blah. I get it. I really, really get it. It’s my my major excuse, as well. But

there’s a lot of underutilized time in our life. And I’m not talking about downtime.

I want people to have their downtime, their relaxation time, absolutely protect it. But

you know, when we were commuting, and some people still are, that’s kind of underutilized

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that’s a really great time to clean up your email to send a few notes, Fridays, from four

to 5pm is the least productive hour of the workweek. That could be your hour for connecting,

right? So it is, think about the things that you already do. So, for example, I said, I

could take my dog to the dog park, right?. I might invite somebody to go to dog park

with me, I go to the gym. I’ve had meetings at the gym, or at the diner after the gym

because I have to eat breakfast anyway. I’ve had business meetings, getting my nails done.

So if you think about the things that you’re doing already, invite somebody to do them

with you. And you find underutilized time.

There’s so many different ways and places that people can experiment with this, even

during COVID and all the other justifications.. That’s the polite way of saying rationalizations

that people use to not be connected. Now I’m curious, during these times are, it’s a little

bit harder. Do you have one suggestion that people can implement, since they can’t necessarily

tag along with someone or have some tag along with them to have. One suggestion you might

have for folks.

I don’t think it’s harder, necessarily. It might be a little harder for new people. But

I think it’s actually the reason because people always say, “I don’t have any reason to reach

out.” Well, yes, you do. Just say, How have you been holding up? How you doing? How is

your holiday? How are you feeling?” I mean, anything like that. Thinking about you. But

that’s all you need to do. So it’s really easy right now. And I will say that, you know,

we have a group in my town, and we we have one guy who is like the cruise director, right,

from The Love Boat. I’m dating myself, but that’s okay. And he has done a 80s, 90s trivia

night. And now we’re doing a game night. And we’ve done birthday dinners. And I’ve had

people in my backyard meetings to warm it up, college reunions and high school and business

school and, and so it’s kind of like everybody wants that right now. So it’s really easy

to say, “hey, let’s do this.”Create something.. Pick a date. Invite people. And even if it’s

online, people show up.

Yeah, you know, I walked into the excuse scenario, in posing it as being harder. I know, for

me, I’m talking to lots of people. And, as we’re recording this, it’s the last day of

November 2020. And we’re entering or have just entered, the pre Christmas run up, which

historically is the easiest time of the year.. People are more generous. Start with people

who you can text who you haven’t spoken with in a while. Reach out. Do that. “Hi, how are

you? How are you holding up” conversation.. Expand it, as Michelle has suggested, and

you know, reconnect, and then don’t let it go fallow. So what haven’t we covered yet

that we really need to focus. In your typical, direct to the point, fast paced manner, we’ve

covered a lot over what what haven’t we covered that we really should?

You know, one of the things I want to circle back to because I know we talk a lot about

the job. But one of the things about the connection [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/), it also impacts your health and

happiness. And I don’t want that doesn’t get lost, because I think that’s also something

that’s impacting people a lot right now. And social isolation is an epidemic in this country,

and has been so amplified by social distancing and quarantine and COVID. And there’s a greater

impact to your mortality, for being socially isolated than there is to smoking 15 cigarettes

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### [High School Grads, College Grads #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-high-school-grads-college-grads-2/)

**Published:** June 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six-second job search tip for students.

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### [Always Do Your Best | #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)

**Published:** June 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A simple quote from Og Mandino to remind us why we should.

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# Always Do Your Best | #shorts

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### [Complementing the Resume with Visual Proof](https://thebiggamehunter.us/complementing-the-resume-with-visual-proof/)

**Published:** June 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# Complementing the Resume with Visual Proof

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### Case Study 1: The Product Strategy Blueprint

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Recognizing that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) were fatigued by text-heavy descriptions of “cross-functional leadership,” Sarah stopped [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to open listings entirely. Instead, she built a dynamic [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) using a text-first database structure on Notion. She identified ten target companies and built an explicit **Product Improvement Blueprint** for each.

Instead of explaining her product discovery process in text, she embedded actual artifacts from her previous work:

- A live, interactive Figma prototype showing her user-experience architecture.
- An embedded Miro board displaying her multi-variable roadmap prioritization framework.
- A redacted product requirement document (PRD) demonstrating how she aligns technical constraints with business [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/).

Sarah sent a direct, personalized link to this Notion repository to the product directors at her target companies. By putting the artifacts upfront, she visually demonstrated her product sense before an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) was ever scheduled. Within two weeks, she secured three direct [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers who completely bypassed the corporate recruitment gatekeepers.

### Case Study 2: The “Home Lab” Technical Walkthrough

David wanted to transition into a highly technical cybersecurity role, but faced a major barrier: his background was non-traditional, and his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) lacked the pedigree or enterprise names required to clear the standard corporate [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) threshold.

David knew that simply listing certifications on a piece of paper would not distinguish him from thousands of other people trying to break into the industry. He decided to leverage the **Deployment Method** to make his technical execution completely undeniable.

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He hosted these micro-videos on a clean [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) page and embedded the links directly into the top third of his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) profile. When a local technical director clicked the link, they didn’t see a list of bullet points—they saw someone actively demonstrating enterprise-level troubleshooting. David was hired over people with superior academic credentials because his visual proof eliminated the risk of a bad hire.

## Designing Your Own Artifact Strategy

Implementing a visual proof strategy requires shifting your mindset from that of a standard applicant to that of an active [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/). If you want to integrate this approach into your current [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), map your past outcomes into concrete, external resources.

- **The Value Ledger:** Begin maintaining a daily ledger of your professional outputs. Track specific data points, dashboard screenshots, and system architectures that show your distinct operational contributions.
- **The Explainer Snippet:** Identify a highly complex problem you solved in a past role. Use a screen-recording tool to create a concise, under-two-minute video breaking down the architecture of that solution.
- **The Redacted Case Study:** Take a complex business asset you previously authored—whether it is a marketing campaign breakdown, a project schedule, or a workflow audit—and redact any sensitive corporate data. Turn it into a downloadable [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) that acts as a blueprint of your execution.

Ultimately, the market will continue to move away from unverified claims. In a landscape where text is cheap and easily replicated, the people who succeed will be those who stop telling companies what they can build, and start showing the blueprints of what they have already executed.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Job Search Resilience And Being Solid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-resilience-and-being-solid/)

**Published:** June 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This interview with Stuart McCalla of Evolution was a thoughtful conversation about many different emotional subjects related to job search starting with resilience.

**Content:**

# **Job Search Resilience And Being Solid**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

## Job Search Resilience And Being Solid

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
This [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Stuart McCalla of Evolution was a thoughtful conversation about many different emotional subjects related to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) starting with [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/).

[***Roadblocks. Perseverance. Adversity. Resilience. Determination.***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gRJ)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 00:04

So my guest today is Stuart McCalla. Stuart has worked in tech and in some of the most well known companies in the country. He’s a managing partner at Evolution, a [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) culture and leadership development firm. And Stuart has taken his life lessons and professional lessons and woven them into a [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) culture he provides to clients. Stuart. Welcome. Thanks for making time today.

**Stuart McCalla** 00:33

Thank you, Jeff, thank you for having me.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 00:36

It is my pleasure. So folks, we’re gonna be talking about a bunch of things. But I think it really is gonna start off with talking about [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) and [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). So when we think about [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), Stuart, why is it important to people to be resilient through their search

**Stuart McCalla** 00:57

Well, a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), especially in this day, and age can be a brutal thing. Most people experience job searches as not a pleasant experience.

**Stuart McCalla** 00:57

Exactly. Even maybe a little bit worse than that, right? It’s it can be a really intense. And more so because a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) people put their worth attached to their job. And so getting a no or [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) can be really intense for folks. And so, crafting or cultivating a sense of [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is going to help you be more successful in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and be able to navigate the nuances, the weirdness, the rejections, the highs, the lows of any [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) that anybody’s engaging with.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 01:06

It’s up there with root canal

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 01:13

So some people think of [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) as having one definition. I want to make sure the audience understands your definition of [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), How would you define it for them.

**Stuart McCalla** 01:53

It’s a great question. You know, [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) for me is multi layer, but it really is the idea of knowing who you are. And not being knocked around or not your sense of who yourself is not being shaped by the forces around you. And that you’re able to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) to the situation around you still stays true to who you are. So [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is not ‘I can overcome anything’ because anybody can overcome anything and change who they are to overcome that thing. If you’re resilient, if you are adaptable, if you are sure of who you are, then nothing’s gonna knock you off your pedestal or knock you off your balance basically. Right.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 02:38

It’s so funny and, folks, if you’re listening to this in podcast form, Stuart presented that sentence, that definition, solid. Firm. There was a quality in his speech and in his manner, that he was unmovable.

**Stuart McCalla** 03:00

Yeah, thanks. Thanks for that. But that’s many years of dealing with, you know, job searches and clients and, you know, knowing who you are, getting to the heart of who you are in any [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). [Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is going to be almost like personal self development. You’re going to struggle. So as you can imagine, it’ll, it’s a crucible that refines you. And so seeking a job or getting a job and a job that you want. Think of it as a crucible, think of it as a passage for you to go through and enjoy it that way.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 03:36

It’s so funny, because, you know, having worked in search for as many years as I did, I spoke to 1000s and 1000s of people who were basically like fish in a pond, trying to jump on whatever hook got thrown in the water for them. And that sense of certainty about who they are and what they want was non-existent. I needed a job, any job. Any job became their manner. And thus anyone meeting with them will get that sense of [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and desperation that so many people have as they engage in that [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)?

**Stuart McCalla** 04:22

Yeah. And, you know, I think it’s not very useful to adopt that stance of desperation, [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And I want to just say an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), I know that people have are desperate and anxious because the world you know, if you’re having a job and you’ve got like two kids, and you know, you may be the only breadwinner or maybe one of two and you need that income, it can feel very defeating and [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) producing. So what can you do under [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) and how do you learn to deal with [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/)?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 04:57

You anticipated my next question. That’s perfect. We had to do a segue at some point.

**Stuart McCalla** 05:05

Great Minds, right?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 05:07

Or something like that. So how do you start developing that sense of [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/)?

**Stuart McCalla** 05:13

Yeah. So I’ll tell you what I did iand everyone is going to be a little bit different. But the first thing I did was I made sure to collect people around me who were mentors and guides. And you’d be surprised a lot of folks will say, ‘Well, you know, in getting a job, I don’t need a mentor.’ I’m like, actually probably do. A mentor is going to be able to tell and be a voice of reason for you. You’re going to be telling, they’re going to be able to tell you, ‘hey, maybe you shouldn’t do it this way.’ Or ‘have you thought about a different way,’ or ‘this is my experience.’ And having that information come in, that you can process, analyze, and then move on. And use is super useful. And many people really want to be mentors, you’d be surprised a lot of folks who have said to me, ‘Well, I don’t know any mentors,’ I’m like, ‘well go ask your old boss,’ if you have a good relationship with that person. Go ask somebody in your field. Do an informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You might not be able to get the person that you want, but they might pass you on to somebody else that might become a become a mentor. So that’s one first, that’s the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/), I think

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 06:18

I’m going to add it into one thing have or [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach to work with you.

**Stuart McCalla** 06:24

Well, I mean, I’ll just say, you know, I’ve . . .

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 06:27

and the same issues with [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) exists with mentors. They’re very good coaches. And there are some really infantile baby coaches, talking about the [dream job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/14-tips-for-landing-your-dream-job-from-experts/) with wonder. You know, it’s childish advice that you get from them, because they don’t know.

**Stuart McCalla** 06:47

Well, I think, you know, the coaches is, we’ll go off a little bit of a tangent here. But the coaches who I think are most profound, have done their own work. So they know where they stand in the world. And so coaches, the coaches that I’ve seen, and I’m hoping I can count myself one of them. But it’s not for me to say. It’s for my clients, and for the people who interact with me that when I do my own work, I show up differently. And so the same thing with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). If you do your own work, if you investigate the things about yourself that people have said, sometimes you’d make do in the job, or if you have a practice by which you are journaling, and you’re reflecting on your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and see the highs and lows that are happening within your life. There’s a lot of community, that can be some weird ones, so but if you if you join a community of people who are doing similar work, I mean, be careful, I think I’ll just let’s just say that, right. But if you join a community of people who are doing that work as well, too, you then develop and have that skill reflected back to you, that sort of self-exploration. You know, deep dive within yourself. And it’s not something you do every day. But as you do, a little bit, it’s it’s funny. I just got done with a weightlifting class. And I’m 51 years old, and weightlifting was not my thing for a long time. But what I loved about it was it is an incremental developmental skill. And the same thing with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). It’s an incremental developmental skill, and building that [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) in that system around you is incremental, and developmental,. It’s not going to happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time. So develop that time and be deliberate about it. I remember writing notes. I still look at my notes from when I was looking for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), and I wrote notes on everything that I happened in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). What did i . . . What did I learn? What did I like? What did I not like? Why did I not like about that person? What was my experience? Like, ask yourself questions after [every job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-do-after-every-job-interview-shorts/). And you’ll see over time a pattern developing and that’s what you want.

[***Resilience, Not Worry***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bPv)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 08:56

Absolutely true. And, you know, for so many people, they think they’re supposed to figure out things by themselves.

**Stuart McCalla** 09:06

That’s right.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 09:07

I’m an adult, I should know. That’s the shorthand for ‘I can do this by myself. I should be able to do this by myself.’ And I always ask the question, ‘and who told you that?’

**Stuart McCalla** 09:21

Not only who told you that? But why did you even think . . . You know, all the most successful people that I know have a team around them. Whether it’s a team they pay for. It’s a team that they’ve built over time through relationships. They have a team around them. When I coach my clients, and I’ve, you know, coach CEOs and senior vice presidents and executive vice presidents. The first thing I ask is, what’s the team around you as you’re embarking on this [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) journey? It’s not just me. I’m one person. That’s going to give you an insight. But do you have a naturopath? You know, a therapist Got the spiritual adviser, a yoga teacher, like, whatever it is around you, but it’s not just to one person, it’s not two people, it’s probably about six or seven. And just develop that team around you that you can go to, so that you’re not doing it by yourself. Nobody has ever accomplished anything by . . . So I’m gonna say this completely declaratively. And I could be completely wrong. But no one has accomplished anything by themselves, that has had huge impact in the world.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 10:31

And there are a lot of people who operate at a lower level, and are thinking of themselves as having impact. And they do, of course.

**Stuart McCalla** 10:40

And they do, of course,. I mean, that’s, that’s also a thing. So many people in their [job search don’t see](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-job-search-mistakes-making-it-hard-for-employers-to-see-your-value-jobsearchtv-com/) the impact they have even on the companies that they’re going and [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 10:52

So in developing [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) around the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), I want to connect it with that for a second. What sort of things should a person be cultivating in order to develop that [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/)? That solid quality? We’ve spoken about having a team of advisers around someone as an [important](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-qualities-are-most-important-when-managing-a-team/) quality, and developing a degree of, I don’t wanna say personal certainty, although that could be a shorthand some people could use for it. But, you know, being solid. I’m going to go back to that word from earlier.And how do you start developing that solidness as an individual, male or female? How does that work? Where do you start?

**Stuart McCalla** 11:41

And I love that you said that it’s not gendered. It’s not it’s male, female, it’s young, it’s old. There’s people in their 60s who are developing this sort of solidity. And the way that I think about it is depth. Have you looked at the deepest aspect of yourself, and swam with the sharks in your psyche? Right, so have you noticed, oh, wow, there are these family histories that I hold, or there’s trauma that has been passed on intergenerationally. Or there’s, you know, things that I do that I’m unaware of that have negative impact on my family, or the people around me. But that solidity comes from examining who you are. And I’m biased as a coach, because that’s what I do with my clients. And I do with myself, like, I don’t do anything with clients, with my clients when I’m not doing myself. But that, knowing who you are, and that solidity makes you grounded, feet on the ground, feeling the earth, feeling the power of the earth. And, in a lot of times, when I’ve helped people around, trying to get a job, they get so focused on the, as you said, jumping on any hook, that they can’t really just enjoy the pond that they’re in right now. And of course, you may get the . . . you might, you might have to take the job, the first job that comes your way, once again. I’m not saying don’t take the right job, or don’t take the job for you if you’re in dire straits, around finances, and you have to, you know, provide for your children, your family. But don’t think of it as that’s the end or be all. Think of yourself as a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). So if you hold yourself solidly– who am I as Stuart. I’m not the flashy, go lucky, [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) guy that’s going to make you feel necessarily great about everything when you’re in a [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) conversation with me. I’m the kind of guy that’s going to hold you and be solid with you, as you explore sometimes intense experiences, all to make you a better leader.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 13:47

And hat exploration serves in the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) process.

**Stuart McCalla** 13:53

Absolute. It’s essential in the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) process. That exploration and it was so interesting when I first discovered that because I said I took notes. And as I was talking to my mentors, they would say, ‘Oh, you have a whole bunch of assumptions about the people that you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with. That they don’t know you, that they’re not. I mean, how disrespectful that is. If you go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), like this person’s, you know, an idiot. That’s not That’s not, it’s not. it’s probably not gonna go well for you in the job experience. Or this person doesn’t see me or they don’t you know, the way sometimes we hold sour grapes, especially when we don’t get the job or we made a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). What happens if we go in and we say, ‘Okay, what is my experience of this? What am I doing in this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) that I noticed is either going great or going not so great. And who are the people that I can talk to who can reflect back to me both the positive things that I’m doing, and also the not positive things and negative things that I’m doing? So you’d have a mirror

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**Stuart McCalla** 14:04

And you’ll notice folks, that he spoke about himself, because I know so many professionals, so many people looking for work, always blame someone else. Yeah. It’s their fault. Why aren’t they (fill in the blank)? You’ve got a part in this equation, too. So there’s a dynamic that exists between you and other people, that helps to create the flow of the conversation that allows you to either perform at a world class individual or not.

**Stuart McCalla** 15:42

I love that you’re saying and reminding people that it is . . . there is an equation to this. And I’ll just [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) folks how can this person sitting in front of you that’s [interviewing you know who you really](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-know-your-dont-really-want-to-interview-them/) are. They have 15, maybe 30 minutes talking to you. And they’re making all sorts of assumptions about who you are. So it’s not the person in front of you that’s the issue. It’s what can you do to get past that person to the decision-maker. So let’s be tactical here. Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go less, less theoretical, and more tactical, right. So you’re in any job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you’re looking for the decision-maker, and it’s usually not necessary, it’s usually not the person [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. And you’re making a good enough impact on the person that’s [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you so that you can get past the next level. Be yourself. You’d much rather be yourself and get rejected and not be yourself and get into a job. You’re like, ‘this sucks. right?’ So be yourself. Move as, as, be thoughtful, be kind, be who you are. Hopefully, you’re thoughtful and kind. If you’re not, well, I don’t know what to tell you. But develop that work, develop that aspect of yourself, right. And be thinking of it as a, as a strategic process. You’re in a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I [remember going to a job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/remember-to-show-this-on-job-interviews/) and, especially in the tech world, sometimes you have like four or five, six [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). And you’re like, by the time the fifth one rolled around, I was like I don’t even know if I want to work with this company. This is crazy, right? But there’s a goal that I’m trying to reach. And I know what that goal is. And so I’m going to be strategic about who I’m going to talk to, what am I going to deal with, what am I going to put up with, so I can get to that decision maker and have that in depth detailed conversation.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 17:34

It’s funny how often . . . [Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is so much like dating, in that people have this nice dating facade to start off with. And often, it takes a long time to lower the guard and open up as a real person so that you can [decide whether or not you want to be](https://thebiggamehunter.us/take-the-pillow-test-to-decide-whether-to-change-jobs/) in relationship with whoever this person is, and they with you. Or whether you’re just going to keep the act up in which case you never know whether they fall in love with you or the act. And the same thing exists professionally with [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). As Stuart pointed out, be yourself and as I like to say, risk everything by being yourself. Because if you’re rejected because of who you are, wow, that’s great.

**Stuart McCalla** 18:28

It really is. There’s such a relief when you’re rejected for who we are, for who you are because, if you think what happened if I wasn’t who I was and I ended up getting this job because I’ve done both. So I think I’m what I’m speaking about this. I’ve done both. I remember trying to contort myself into a into a position into a shape so that I could get a job. I got the job and I was extremely miserable. Jeff I was one it was the most miserable job I’ve ever been in and it had nothing to do with the people. It was all about what I was presenting in this position, within this role that I was in

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 19:06

And thus the expectations you created with them.

**Stuart McCalla** 19:09

That’s right that’s right. And so they were looking for a quiet <chuckle>, a quiet non-confrontational yes, man.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 19:22

They got a one out of three maybe.

**Stuart McCalla** 19:24

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 20:21

I assume . . . Well, folks, I always do a pre [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with my guest. And in speaking with Stuart, one of the things he wanted to speak to are mental models. and how to deploy mental models as part of this. I hand the baton to you. Take it away.

**Stuart McCalla** 20:42

Yeah, well, mental models are great lenses by which you look at the world and help you make determinations. So there are [mental](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-mental-toughness-careerangles-shorts/) models on the developmental side, like who are you as a person. Enneagram is one that we’ve, I’ve heard people use. The leadership circle profile. Center for Creative Leadership, there’s all these mental models that people use in order to determine who you are as a leader, and who you are as a person. There are also mental models on the kind of work that you do. So I used to do Agile [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) for a long time. So if anybody knows what that is, it’s a type of business methodology around understanding the way work happens in business, both from the individual all the way to this systemic. So integral theory is a great mental model for people to use. Cynefinm David Snowden’s work, it’s a great mental model to use.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 20:45

Could you spell that for people.

**Stuart McCalla** 21:38

Sure, and it sounds nothing like how it’s spelled, like how it sounds. It’s CYNEFIN. He’s Welsh, I believe. And he used that’s that I don’t remember what the term means. But whether you’re whether the thing that in front of you, the problem that you’re facing, whether it’s simple, complex, complicated, or chaotic, it’s a great way to look at anything actually. Is it a simple problem? complex problem? Is it a complicated problem, or is it a chaotic problem. And I’m not going to go in and try to explain a class on connection right now. But I think for anybody who’s looking at it, what would be like to take that model and try and wrap your job, your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) into that is a simple problem or me trying to find a job by just going out and sending 200 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). This is a complicated problem. Like there’s a [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) practice that I can use. Is it a complex problem, I don’t know what this thing is. I’m going to keep trying to figure it out. And so I’m going to try all these different tools or tactics, or it’s chaotic. I have no idea what’s going on. So I’m just gonna throw out my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and stand in the middle of the street. Whatever it is I can do to make sure that [people notice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-notice-part-2-career-angles/) me. So having those models are super useful, especially in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). So collect models and think of them almost like, you know, when you go to the eye doctor, they put the different lens in front of you. And they’re like, do you see now? You’re like, ‘Nope, still can’t read whatever that thing is, but they, what the right model might get in front of your face. And often they’re like, ‘oh, I can see it clearly.’ Now, I can see what I need to I see what I need to do, or I see my next step. So you know, really use those models. And I would say like, put them in front of your face and look at the problem of your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) from that perspective.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 23:22

And it seems like that leads to the idea of experimentation.

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**Stuart McCalla** 23:25

Oh, yes. It’s so funny when we were talking last I was I remember saying that. And it also goes with [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) game, but we’ll talk about that in a second. But experiments really are the way that you’re going to get the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) job. Should I show up early? Should I show up on time? Should I wear a t shirt? Should I wear a shirt? Should I be myself? Should I be somebody else? These are all experiments that you can try when you’re doing your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And I would say write down the experiment ahead of time to say ‘this is what I’m going to be. This is what I’m going to try. And I know I’ll be successful when this happens. So you have an idea, a hypothesis. And then you have the result by which you know that hypothesis is successful. And a lot of times people will go through a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and not be deliberate about it. The biggest thing for me when I was going through [job searches was being deliberate and creating](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-create-your-own-luck/) the experiments, the people that I could document and my notes. And it seems like a lot of work for a job. But it is a job. Like getting a job or [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) is a job in and of itself. So treat it as such and document it.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 24:43

And it’s for those of you who are younger looking at this over a lifetime.

**Stuart McCalla** 24:49

That’s right.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 24:50

And for those of you who are older, you’re looking at it for the balance of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Why not?

**Stuart McCalla** 24:54

Why not? Why not? Because here’s the thing. If you experiment and build [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), build mentorship, build a team around you, can you imagine if you got the . . . I actually got a job that I loved doing this. I loved the people I was with. Every day, I walked into that job, and I felt I am being well used. And it’s interesting way to put it right. But my work was having an impact. I was sitting with a small, you know, four hundred person company, but I was sitting with the CEO and all the C-suite execs because they valued my opinion. But I also could go and talk to the individual programmer, because they also valued my opinion, because I wasn’t trying to be above . . . it was a it was the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of both worlds. I was able to travel different levels in that organization. I wouldn’t have gotten that job if I hadn’t experimented and thought about what kind of work do I want to do? And I didn’t get that job the first time. And I didn’t get to that job the third time, but I got that job the fifth time.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 26:01

Beautiful. And you mentioned the term [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) game, if I’m not mistaken.

**Stuart McCalla** 26:06

Yeah. Yeah. It was a term I came across in the early 2000s. Dating myself.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 26:14

I hope you’re having a good time.

**Stuart McCalla** 26:18

Oh, good Lord, Jeff!

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 26:22

I told you, I did this.

**Stuart McCalla** 26:28

But, you know, getting a no, I remember the first time. I got a no [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I was like, G-d, I really wanted this job. I knew it’d be great. And I ran across this term, the [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) game. And this was the idea that you go and seek [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) to, to numb yourself a little bit to the idea of getting a no. And so part of my experiments is I would go out and try and get no’s. I would ask, I mean, there was some companies,I’d say like, ‘I could be a vice president at 32 [years old](https://thebiggamehunter.us/pretend-im-8-years-old-explain-to-me-what-you-do-why-youre-good-at-it/). I could be a senior vice president of a large tech company,’ and they’re like, ‘What? Who are you? Don’t call us again? Right?’ That was a clear No, right? There were some other companies that I would try stuff. And they would say, ‘Oh, well, maybe not yet. But if you did these four or five things, we might consider you. Now, isn’t that powerful? That in the [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/), I got learning at the same time, right? That’s what and that’s what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the learning. You’re not looking just to get in. No, you’re looking to get the learnings out of that. I mean, I tried things. I remember asking a very well known designer, for him to be a mentor of mine. He was leading the class with like, 3000 people in it. And how often he said, Hey, can you be a mentor? And he said, ‘Well, I don’t live here.’ And I was so freaked out that he was considering me to be a mentor of mine that I just turned around and walked away. But here’s the thing, he didn’t say no. Right? And so that’s the thing I’m looking for is . . . and I really advise people to really go out and try things. And be not [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of the now.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 28:11

And isn’t it interesting how often people are really [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of the Yes,

**Stuart McCalla** 28:16

That’s right.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 28:16

As you, as you just expressed, suddenly, ‘oh, my god, he hasn’t rejected me yet! I’m outta here.

**Stuart McCalla** 28:24

Well, that’s the thing is, I love that you’re saying that you have to be ready for the yes. Because you probably will get a yes. That will blow your mind. That will freak you out. That will make you sweat buckets, and great. Do it anyway. One of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) advice I got from a mentor is, you know, go for a job that makes you feel like you have to learn something new every day is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) job to be in. And it’s it’s so true. It’s so true.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 28:54

What haven’t we covered yet that we really should.

**Stuart McCalla** 29:00

Um Well, I think what I said earlier around being a job seeker, is personal development. And if I can really emphasize that for folks, that it’s almost secondary to the job you get because a job is not the end all, be all. It shouldn’t define you. But if you use it as a way to investigate, develop and learn about yourself . . . Who am I under [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/)? Who am I? Oh, when things are going great?Great. What do I feel like when I talk about or talk with leaders? What are some of the things that I struggle with when I [work with teams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-things-managers-can-do-to-help-their-teams-truly-work-smarter-not-harder/) or work as an individual contributor and especially for the people who are in what are called underrepresented groups. Keep going. Keep going. Every job isn’t, as I said, it’s not the one that defines you. But it’s who you are as a person. And that’s what you’re looking for.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 30:01

Beautiful, Stuart. Thank you. How can people find out more about you the work that you do? Everything?

**Stuart McCalla** 30:09

Well, first of all, I’m on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) because [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), but please look me up as Stuart. McCalla on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). I’m also on Evolution.team. We’re a world-class group of coaches. I do a lot of work with leaders, especially in transition. So if you’re in a transition state, especially at the higher levels of leadership, right, so if you’re an SVP or higher, even a CEO, so reach out to me there. I’m actually going to be at .la in this week, actually talking about diversity in venture capital. So there’s lots of different ways to find me,

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 30:54

Stuart, thanks for making the time today. And, folks, we’ll be back soon with more. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I do no BS [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). I do it globally working with people around [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, improving their management and leadership, resolving workplace issues, a holistic approach to you and [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). If you’ve got questions for me, you can schedule time for a free discovery call, schedule time for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). You can do that through my website, TheBigGameHunter.us. And while you’re there, there’s a ton in the blog that’ll help you. It’s information you can watch, listen to or read. I also have courses and books that I’ve written. Again, available through the website.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 31:41

Lastly, connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com/in/TheBigGameHunter. Have a terrific day and, most importantly, be great. Take care.

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### [Pretend I'm 8 Years Old. Explain to Me What You Do & Why You're Good at It](https://thebiggamehunter.us/explain-to-me-what-you-do-and-why-youre-good-at-it-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/)

**Published:** June 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I'd like you to pretend like I'm 8 years old. I'm in 1st or 2nd grade. And, I'd like you to explain to me what you do and why you're good at it."

**Content:**

# Pretend I’m 8 Years Old. Explain to Me What You Do & Why You’re Good at It

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

“I’d like you to pretend like I’m 8 years old. I’m in 1st or 2nd grade. And, I’d like you to explain to me what you do and why you’re good at it.”

I found this great question and I just thought it’d be a useful one to get you [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for. Now, the title of the video is a shortened version of it. The question goes, “You know, you’re seven or eight years old, you’re in first grade, second grade at most. Explain to me what you do and why you’re good at it.”

I think this is a lovely question because it really takes a lot of the BS out of the description. What you’re designed to do, or what you have to do is boil it down to the core essence of what it is that you do. Because there w,ere a lot of situations that can be “jargon rich,” where people say a lot of BS, and in point of fact, it can really be condensed. It can really be made much more clear.

It also gives the interviewer a sense of how you can explain concepts or seemingly complex concepts, and make them simple. So, here’s how you might answer.

First of all, a one sentence, tops two sentences to describe what you do. So, if I were answering it from my time in recruiting, I might say, I help companies [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people, by finding them for them. One sentence. Notice what I did? Now, that might invitefollow up questions but, the key thing is the one sentence and then this one.

“Do you understand? And just want to make sure you do? Because if you don’t, I’ll go back and try and explain it differently.”

Then, from there, why you’re good at it. So, in the case of my time in recruiting, I might say something along the lines of, “I’m extremely well-organized. I’m a good communicator.” So, I can explain to people what the opportunity is, and explain to my client company, the firm that hires people, why this person would help them fill their job?” One sentence. It was a long one but it’s one sentence. Maybe it could be broken in two Then, you’d [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) by saying, “Do you understand? Or shall I explain it a little differently?”

Again, you’re talking to a seven or eight year old in first grade, second grade tops. So the idea is to be simple. Now, if you think that was a more complicated answer that needs to be, leave a message, let me know what it should have been. But, again, condense what you do you do into very simple sentences. And always [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) by saying, “Do you understand. I just want to make sure that you do because, if you don’t, I’ll explain it in a different way.”

What that does is demonstrate that you have a service orientation, because you care about the listener, you’re not just babbling some nonsense that they want to understand. After all, you’re in first grade. You’re seven or eight years old.

From there, what you’re doing is making it clear that you want to make sure that they understand. And you’ve broken the concepts down, in my case, two sentences, one of which was a little long, but it had space for them to pause and for me to absorb whether or not they seem to understand.

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### [The Tough Interview Question You Aren’t Ready For](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-tough-interview-question-you-arent-ready-for/)

**Published:** June 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Dang! This question is starting to surface on interviews and most people can't answer it.

**Content:**

# The Tough Interview Question Employers Are Starting to Ask That You Aren’t Ready For 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Dang! This question is starting to surface on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and most people can’t answer it.

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### [Slack Channels #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/)

**Published:** June 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Slack channels are a great way to connect and impress.


**Content:**

# Slack Channels #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Slack channels are a great way to connect and impress.

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### [Avoiding Career Management Scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/avoiding-career-management-scams-jobsearchradio-com-2/)

**Published:** May 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers a few warning signs to help you avoid career management scams.

**Content:**

# Avoiding Career Management Scams

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers a few warning signs to help you avoid career management scams.

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [How to Beat the ATS and Build a Resume for Real Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-beat-the-ats-and-build-a-resume-for-real-recruiters/)

**Published:** June 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Beat the ATS and Build a Resume for Real Recruiters

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Watch the video](https://youtu.be/Sd8-VkZWrEY)

Stop wasting time trying to trick a mythical [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) robot that doesn’t exist. Your “optimized” keyword-stuffed [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) isn’t failing because a computer threw it away; it’s failing because it looks like a machine wrote it, and the actual [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager spent six seconds throwing it in the trash. This episode breaks down the real mechanics of modern [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) so you can write for the actual humans holding the power to hire you.

75% of all submitted [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are thrown out before a human being ever sees them. If you spend time looking for [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) online, you will inevitably hear about the villain responsible for this statistic: the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). The story goes that a ruthless [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) robot scans your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), looks for exact formatting, and automatically deletes your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) if it doesn’t like what it sees. This fear spawned an entire industry of rules. You are told to never use a two-column layout. You are told to hit a specific keyword density. You are told you need to run your document through third-party scanners to get a passing [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) match score. Job seekers end up stripping away all the context of their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), writing dense, robotic [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) designed to appease an algorithm. They optimize for a machine and end up sabotaging their chances with the actual [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager.

But data from millions of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) at companies like Amazon and Microsoft confirms a different reality. The auto-rejecting robot does not exist. No major platform on the market today is programmed to throw your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in the trash just because you used the wrong font or missed a specific buzzword. An [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is actually just a highly sophisticated filing cabinet. It is a database designed to organize candidate information and manage a recruiter’s workflow. It does not make [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) decisions on its own. If you spend hours trying to trick a piece of software that isn’t actually trying to reject you, you are fighting the wrong enemy. To get an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), we have to look at what is actively filtering your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). When you hit submit, you usually have to answer a few basic questions about your visa status, your location, or your years of experience. These are called knockout questions.

This flowchart shows the only real automated filter in the process. If a job requires three years of experience and you select one on the drop-down menu, the system routes your file straight to a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) bin. Your answers to these binary questions are what disqualify you, not your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Once you pass those questions, the system parses your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Older databases try to extract your text to build an HTML preview profile. If you have a complex layout or tables, the system can scramble your text into a messy, unreadable block. This is where the myth of the formatting penalty comes from. But a scrambled preview does not equal a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) can always click a button and open your original, untouched file. Submitting a clean, single-column [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) is smart because it prevents parsing errors and makes the recruiter’s life easier. But a stray graphic isn’t going to trigger an instant deletion. Your actual answers to the knockout criteria do.

While legacy systems rely on parsers and knockout questions, the newest platforms use machine learning to evaluate your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). They have moved away from counting exact keyword matches and now use semantic ranking. Instead of blindly searching for the term “project management,” the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) reads for context. It understands that terms like Scrum, sprint planning, and iterative delivery demonstrate the same skill. The algorithm evaluates the depth of your experience and sorts the candidate pool into graded tiers. The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) logs in and starts pulling [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), only looking at the A tier. The candidates in the B, C, and D tiers are still in the system. They were never formally rejected by the machine, but they will likely never [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) by human eyes. This contextual intelligence is exactly why you cannot rely on old optimization tricks. Pasting the entire job description in white text at the bottom of your document or stuffing a skills section with every buzzword you can find used to work on older systems. Today, platforms like Workday and Greenhouse actively scan for invisible text and mismatched skills. When they find them, they attach a fraud indicator directly to your profile. If you try to outsmart a contextual machine learning model with a trick from 2015, you aren’t going to end up in the top tier. You are going to get your file flagged as spam.

Once you make it into that top tier, you face the actual final hurdle of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process: a real person. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) typically manage dozens of open roles and hundreds of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). They do not read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) like a book. They scan it, spending an average of 6 to 10 seconds to make a decision. In that tiny window, they are looking for specific evidence that you can handle the daily responsibilities of the role. They want to see that the scope of your past work matches the specific problems they need solved today. If you wrote a dense, repetitive document packed with isolated keywords just to please an algorithm, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) scanning it at high speed will skip right past it. To survive that six-second scan, you have to write for the human. Start by tailoring your content. Use the exact phrasing from the job description to describe your actual experience. Data shows that candidates who tailor their [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) convert to [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) at roughly twice the rate of those who don’t.

Then apply this formula to your bullet points. Start with a strong action verb, explain exactly what you did, and finish with a measurable result. That measurable result is critical. Dollar signs, percentages, and hard numbers physically stand out, instantly proving your impact. And don’t feel forced to cram all of this onto a single page. Analysis of over 200,000 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) shows that a well-organized two-page document performs equally well across all experience levels. Don’t cut vital context just to save space. Keep your formatting clean so the database can organize your file, but make sure your writing is sharp, contextual, and persuasive. The machine might sort the pile, but a human makes the hire.

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### [The Stacking Principle: Why Average Skills in Oversupplied Markets Are Invisible](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)

**Published:** June 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When thousands of people share your exact functional title and educational pedigree, the market treats you as an interchangeable cog.

**Content:**

# The Stacking Principle: Why Average Skills in Oversupplied Markets Are Invisible

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you market yourself on a baseline capability like “project management,” “financial analysis,” or “software engineering,” you are functionally invisible.

These are not differentiators. They are [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) skills in an oversupplied market. When thousands of people share your exact functional title and educational pedigree, the market treats you as an interchangeable cog. When a business has an abundance of options, it filters strictly on price or structural convenience, forcing you to compete in a race to the bottom.

To break out of the [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), you must stop selling individual ingredients. You need to stack your anomalies–the rare combinations of disjointed domains, specific operational histories, and baseline technical execution that define your Onlyness. The goal is not to be a slightly better version of your peers; the goal is to become the only logical solution to a highly specific, high-stakes corporate friction point.

### 1. The Trap of the Linear Expertise Curve

Most [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) development models push professionals down a linear path: if you are a marketer, become a better marketer; if you are an engineer, learn another language. This advice works beautifully in an undersupplied market where demand outpaces capacity. In an oversupplied market, it is a liability.

Think about how standard [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement typically functions versus how you actually build a market monopoly.

In a standard linear progression, you start with your core baseline skill and continuously try to add more of that same skill on top of it. You take more courses, hit more standard milestones, and check the same boxes as everyone else in your field. All this does is cement your status as an interchangeable cog in a massive corporate wheel.

The Anomaly Stack completely breaks this model. Instead of stacking more of the same commoditized capability, you take your core baseline execution engine and intentionally layer an entirely disjointed domain and a specific operational anomaly directly on top of it. You are no longer multiplying standard compliance; you are engineering an unassailable market monopoly that makes you the only logical solution to a complex corporate crisis.

As you climb the linear expertise curve, the marginal utility of your skill flattens out. The market will not pay a premium for a 10% improvement in your core function because it can buy an “adequate” version of that skill for a fraction of the cost. True market value is unlocked at the intersection of mismatched domains.

### 2. Identifying Your Anomalies

An anomaly is any structural detail in your professional history that deviates from the standard linear path of your peer group. It is the thing that makes your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) look “weird” to a low-level corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/), but makes you priceless to a line executive dealing with a multi-layered crisis.

To map your stack, isolate assets across three distinct tiers:

- **The Core Lever:** Your baseline execution engine (e.g., Data Architecture, Corporate Finance, Supply Chain).
- **The Disjointed Domain:** A secondary capability completely outside your main function (e.g., Deep Behavioral Psychology, Distributed Ledger Technology, Predictive Margin Modeling).
- **The Operational Anomaly:** The specific, high-velocity environment where you earned your scars (e.g., Hyper-growth post-Series B, rapid down-market restructuring, cross-border corporate integration).

### 3. Engineering the Stack for Maximum Leverage

One skill is a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). Two combined skills create a niche. Three stacked anomalies create a monopoly. Let’s look at how stacking transforms an invisible professional into a premium asset.

Consider a senior finance director competing in an oversupplied market. If they lead with standard accounting and forecasting, they blend into a sea of thousands.

- **The Linear Profile:** “Corporate Finance Director with 12 years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, and team leadership.” (Invisible. Fully commoditized.)
- **The Anomaly Stack:** Combine Corporate Finance + Semantic Data Integration + Post-Acquisition Restructuring.
- **The Monopolistic Frame:** “A financial operator specializing in mid-market software mergers. I integrate disparate, non-relational data systems from newly acquired entities into unified predictive margin models, protecting cash flow during rapid restructuring phases.”

Look at what happened to the competition. By stacking the anomalies, this professional is no longer competing against every finance director on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). They are now competing only against the tiny handful of people who can write financial structures and manipulate raw data infrastructure during an active corporate merger. They have priced out the noise.

### The Bottom Line

Stop trying to win an oversupplied game by doing more of the same. The market doesn’t reward general compliance; it rewards specialized leverage.

Audit your history. Isolate the operational anomalies and disjointed domains you’ve accumulated over [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), and stack them directly on top of your core execution engine. Turn your profile into an uncopiable signature. When you anchor [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) in your Onlyness, you stop chasing the market and force the market to chase you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Looking for a Job As a Member of the LGBTQ+ Community](https://thebiggamehunter.us/looking-for-a-job-as-a-member-of-the-lgbtq-community-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** June 17, 2026
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**Excerpt:** My guest, Amanda Boyd, and I discuss things to look for and, for employers, how to signal that you are an inclusive environment.

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# Looking for a Job As a Member of the LGBTQ+ Community

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

People who are LGBTQ+ have additional concerns when looking for a job. Will my new employer be accepting of me or disapproving? My guest, Amanda Boyd, and I discuss things to look for and, for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), how to signal that you are an inclusive environment.

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 00:00
So, my guest today is Amanda Boyd. She’s the founder of “Visible Talent” company in Akron, Ohio, which is a national inclusive recruiting agency specializing in connecting LGBTQ plus individuals and allies to ideal inclusive [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). Her firm’s mission is not only to support job seekers a comfortable and confident [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) experience, but to connect with [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) wanting to improve their diversity, mission, and commitment to DEI through [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) practices that go beyond lip service. Amanda, welcome.

Amanda Boyd 00:40
Thank you for having me.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 00:41
My pleasure. So, when I hear someone starting a business as yours. There’s a backstory. Tell me about it.

Amanda Boyd 00:59
I have been somebody who grew up very blue collar. I’ve been working most of my adolescent life into my adulthood now and I’ve worked everywhere from a free market to a fast food restaurant to, I was ahead of campus security at my undergrad and even now, my most recent [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) was as an art teacher, and now I’m an entrepreneur. So, when I think about back to my experiences, where I wasn’t the one [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), where I’m the one going in blindly to these [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and to these [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), situations, or opportunities that I’m trying to achieve for myself. I always felt as its somewhat disadvantage as an out in somewhat androgynous, noticeably visible lesbian. When I was an undergrad, my professors used to tell me, don’t tell them that they’re not going to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you at the education field is too conservative, even though I was an art teacher and so I went into these things and like, you got to wear a dress, you should probably wear a skirt, you have a pantsuit, what’s going on and it became this kind of like sense of [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) for me going into my first professional experience, is what do I wear, and I’m going to be judged and already minus one going into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) blindly, not knowing what the attributes or values of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) person was going to be and I probably went through five or seven different [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), as I’m coming out of undergrad, where I just didn’t get the position and I was being interviewed by a sisgendered white men. I always felt like whether that was because of me, and who I am, or it was because of my lack of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) because I felt like I had something to hide. I was never really sure what was happening there until I met a principal in 2009 who saw me and when I say that she saw me, I meant that she used language that made me know that it was going to be okay. She asked me, oh, what’s your life? Do you have a partner? Do you have this, what’s going on, and just that small verbiage that she used let me know that I was in a safe place and that was actually the first person that gave me a chance professionally as somebody 22 coming out of school and as I reflect on that, and it was all uphill from that point, for me being able to kind of come out of my shell. But I never wanted to have employees as I became an entrepreneur feel that way in my [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and I always wanted to give younger people a ted talk that it’s okay, you’re not going to be for everyone. But as long as you’re being authentic then you’ve got somewhere to go and you can stand up on your own two feet. So visible talent is just that, it’s an opportunity for employees to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) and be hired and it’s an opportunity for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to really put their money where their mouth is when it comes to diversity.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 04:04
And when you talked about your experience, when was that? What decade?

Amanda Boyd 04:11
This is 2007, 2009. So, we’re talking like George W. We’re talking issue one, we’re talking don’t ask, don’t tell us, don’t want to fact. We’re talking, people are closeted in the military. People aren’t able to get married. People are trying to navigate civil unions. Adoption is the subject, surrogacy legal support was nonexistent. So, it was a different time. It was 15, [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) ago.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 04:39
And the other thing for the those who don’t know, you used the term sisgendered. You **[define it for them as well](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-well-defined-is-your-job/)**.

Amanda Boyd 04:48
Again, I’m not an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) on the gender terminology, as a profession but sis versus trans is you can kind of do it for simplicity terms. Cisgender mean that you identify with the biology of birth and a transgender mean that you have gender identity that differs profile.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 05:11
Thank you. Because I want to make sure the audience follows what you said. So, with that, we’re going to be covering advice for both job hunters and [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to ensure that job hunters recognize environments where they can feel safer. I have to say safer because not necessarily safe, but safer and from an employer’s perspective, the kinds of things that they want to be doing to demonstrate a real commitment. So, let’s start off on the employee side.

Amanda Boyd 05:51
I think there are a lot of choices that need to be made by somebody going into their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) field, when it comes to their sexuality. Everyone has their own threshold of what they’re willing to share and it’s usually erring on the side of closeted. But I would really empower in this day and age where we are going through a gender revolution. We are looking at the brink of the Federal Equality Act, is where is your breaking point. I don’t mean that you need to put your sexuality after your name as a moniker on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). But you can definitely put your pronouns. Are there ways that you can gently allude to your sexuality or even ally ship to the community by doing things like putting your volunteer work on the bottom of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Can you [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) in gender neutral language? How out do you want your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to be and that of course is a personal choice? But when you do that, I would empower you to stick to it, and if someone misgenders you, correct them. If somebody speaks about people in your life in terms of gender, or spouse that doesn’t reflect your lifestyle, husband, wife, etc., so on, speak up. If someone assumed you don’t have children, because you are a member of the community, speak up and so that kind of like having your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) translate into your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), have it been the same. It’s really easy to be out on paper, and go into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and cover inside yourself and not be as comfortable or as not to stand up for yourself or not to correct people who may or may not be ignorant or not even prejudiced, could just be ignorant to your needs and your preferences in the way that people speak to you.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 07:44
I’m going to interrupt for just one moment. I know that there was a point where I was working with a number of people who consider themselves gay friendly and they would always [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to a partner and I started to correct them and say, remember, wife, husband, partner, because there’s equality in marriage in the United States now and I don’t know what other nations, but at least in the US, there’s marriage equality. So make no assumptions about who the spouses or the marital status of the [**person that you’re talking with and I know**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whos-the-smartest-person-you-know-personally-what-makes-them-the-smartest-person-you-know/) for myself, when I’ve spoken to people who’ve been referred to me as [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), as people to coach, I’ve always used that language and I’ve been thrilled when someone’s come out and say, I was talking with my husband about this for a man or talking to my wife, for a woman, because she felt comfortable or he felt comfortable opening up to me that there was a spouse of the same gender and for those of you who are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), and this is on both sides of the equation. I have to assume and please correct me, because I just don’t know that the choice about revealing is a reflection of your comfort and your willingness to be yourself.

Amanda Boyd 09:11
I would tend to agree with that. I don’t mean to speak for everyone. Some people have a very strong line, if they want to **[keep their work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/other-than-money-what-would-have-inspired-you-to-keep-working-at-your-last-job-jobsearchtv-com/)** life and their private life private, but at some point, your private life comes into work and so I would tend to agree that the level of authenticity that you come into the workplace with, does reflect your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and comfort level and I do think, it matters, something as simple as your attire. How are you going to present yourself in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) along with what you do on paper, what is your person? Are you going to be somebody who’s going to be gender neutral? Are you going to be present yourself as transgender, even though you might have and if you want to talk about terminology between cisgender? Dead names are also a big issue for transgender community is, do I put my legal name or do I put my preferred name and at what point does that differ between having the legal name change having a being process? Do you present yourself as female, but allow them to call you, William? If you are in that, and that’s your identity, that’s fine. But what if you prefer a different name? How does that go on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and I do think that is also a personal preference but whatever you do, be comfortable in it and realize that if you are not going to be accepted in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you are not going to be accepted in the workplace. So, is that the life you want to live?

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 10:55
Again, I’m learning along with some of the people, my audience that you would fill, you would have the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) with your preferred name. When you do the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) for HR, you might have the conversation by saying, so this way, it’s not with the workers. We’re making the decision. It’s with HR going. This is how I was born. This is the way you’ll find my background.

Amanda Boyd 11:25
I was and I would definitely equate it no different than somebody who may be made named to married, divorced name to going back to the name. You don’t have to be ashamed of this situation or tread on it because name changes happen in every type of identity.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 11:42
Absolutely true. So, the first thing is making decisions about the degree of output that you’re willing to pay and what’s the second thing that someone might do?

Amanda Boyd 11:59
I do think you should present yourself authentically in whatever gender expression that you choose when you go into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I think that pulling that, like I said, I have always in favor of going in there authentically realizing that if I’m accepted in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I have a better chance of being accepted in the workplace and it really is a taking the temperature for the culture of an organization. The last thing I would say, besides [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and attire and gender expression, would be the negotiations. Heterosexual women tend to be the most complacent when it comes to asking for negotiations and [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). or asking for certain things in their contract and I think that if you are somebody that needs certain things in your life, whether it be adoption or surrogacy support, whether it be gender identity, ability in your healthcare, whether it be more higher wage, I think that sometimes in our community, we are less likely to ask for that negotiating because maybe we don’t feel like we are entitled to it. It’s really easy to feel, you have to come out as a child, you have to come out as a spouse. You have to come out in the workplace. I think that we should be asking for equality as well, when we’re talking about our pay, and our benefits and our packages that we’re accepting from [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 13:26
It gives me the idea that it’s part of the lack of freedom that people feel to be themselves that you can’t ask for fear.

Amanda Boyd 13:39
They’re not entitled to it, like they’re not good enough for it, or they’re being to appreciative about the job instead of knowing what they have to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in the workplace.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 13:51
Interesting. One of my things is helping people play big in the world and with that, comes the idea that supporting people with feeling free enough to ask to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/), if necessary, reject the offers that are inadequate, so that this way, there’s always going to be some firm that will provide the right [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). It’s a question of timing. Sometimes, if you need something now, I don’t presume to make decisions for people. But there’s an awareness of what you’re stepping into, and the compromises you’re choosing to make going into such an environment. I don’t encourage or discourage; I don’t have that power but it’s going unconsciously.

Amanda Boyd 14:45
Absolutely. I was in another life. I was an art teacher and I had a professor told me, you can always start strong when it comes to classroom management and when it comes to classroom accountability, but you can’t go in there soft and expect to be able to have a bunch of six year old. Do what you say and that’s what we’re trying to commandeer our [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). But at the same time, if you come in strong with what your needs are, and who you are, it’s going to be a lot easier than that expectation is going to be set from the beginning.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 15:18
Excellent. Do we have more tips or we going on the employer side now?

Amanda Boyd 15:22
I would go actually to the employer. I got more to tell that.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 15:24
Oh, good. They need to hear without a doubt.

Amanda Boyd 15:32
Tip number one is, don’t assume that you can see the diversity in your applicants.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 15:38
Oh, they don’t have gaydar.

Amanda Boyd 15:41
Of course not. We all might have our own level of gaydar. But yeah, I will tell you that, it’s really easy. Well, I’ll just [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) gay people. Done. My DEI goal, my quota has been met. I will tell you that, contrary to popular belief that you need to act first, before you start trying to change things, you need to take the temperature of your culture. You need to be listening to your allies because whether you think or not, the allies are going to be the most direct route to increasing your company’s inclusion.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 16:17
Define an ally for the audience.

Amanda Boyd 16:18
Yes, an ally is somebody who might not identify as a member of the LGBTQ plus community. But maybe they are in favor of equal rights. Maybe they have a child that identifies a neighbor, a friend, a colleague. They are the people that are going to be more likely to stand up to bigotry. They are going to be more likely to call you out on your BS, if you are doing something that is not aligned and sometimes you have to ask, and when you ask, you’ll be surprised the people that have opinions, or that have relationships in their life, that involve the community. So, I think that before you try to change, make policy changes to be more inclusive. You should probably start listening to your people, because your allies are going to be the ones steering the ship.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 17:10
And let’s say it’s an environment where there are some allies, some not. How does someone navigate that environment as a leader of an organization?

Amanda Boyd 17:21
Again, as I told the employees that they had to go in there and have their tipping point of what they’re expecting to do prior, how is their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) going to be? I would also empower the [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to say, how inclusive do are we going to be and what level of non-inclusivity are we going to accept?

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 17:46
That’s interesting because I don’t know that any employer can say, we’re not going to be a particularly inclusive environment.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 17:56
Gay is okay. Black is okay. I’m not sure about Latin x.

Amanda Boyd 18:07
So yes, there are different levels of acceptance. But I think that when you have an environment that might be mixed in their politics, in their views, and their morals and their values, I think that cultures attract likeminded culture, we’re all people and I think that people that no longer fit a culture will weed themselves out if it’s something that is that much of a **[deal breaker](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-application-asked-if-i-had-signed-an-nda-i-have-is-this-a-deal-breaker-jobsearchtv-com/)** to them. So, I wouldn’t voice so much about the naysayers as much as I would **[try to listen more to members](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-handle-team-members-trying-to-take-over-management-of-the-team-no-bs-management-advice/)** of the community that might currently be in your organization, or the allies and around them. I would also want to let you know that as an employee, we are looking for the smallest signals of inclusiveness of inclusion. You don’t have to have a gay, a pride flag on your front door. You don’t have to come around and make special accommodations during Gay Pride Month. We don’t have to have an office parade but what we do need are the small signals during the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), onboarding, and job process that signals to us that you are a safe place.

Amanda Boyd 19:29
The first thing I always look for on a company website. Do you have a diversity mission statement? It’s not going to be but if it’s there, we are going to notice it. On the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), do you have pronoun options? Am I being required to choose from a binary situation of male and female or are you going to be open and not just saying he, she, he, him, she her, they them, but do you have that other because the other is important, because self-identifying and gender expression and gender identity is as fluid as the number of people that you have in your organization. So, we have that diversity mission statement, have the pronoun option, one that you might not think about is reviewing your [**company dress code**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ignoring-your-companys-dress-code-can-get-you-fired/). A lot of dress codes are binary by just tradition. Funny story is that I grew up in near Sandusky Ohio and I worked at Cedar Point many summers of college students. Their dress code, it’s better now, horribly gendered. Males couldn’t have their hair longer. Women had to wear a different type of tie to their shirt, when I was a housekeeper when I was working at the hotel. Are you required?

What is business attire for your organization and if that’s the case, it is already harder for heterosexual and cisgender women because the suit thing. What is the equivalent of the suit and tie? But do you require a suit and tie? Is that where you’re saying that gender is defined in the business world? It’s something very slight, but am I going to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as less professional or more professional if I wear a suit? What’s funny is that, there was a study recently that talked about how people are being promoted in the workplace and it appears that it all revolves around the masculine identity of the individual. So, homosexual or bisexual women that present themselves as more masculine and their expression tend to be promoted more so than straight women that it might be more traditionally female expressed. But at the same token, straight males seem to be promoted more often than more feminine gay males. So, it’s this thing, where are we equating our promotions? Are we equating [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) and moving up in the company in that kind of binary option where we’re talking about somebody who’s more authoritarian or masculine, being somebody who’s ready for the position? So, I would look at your soft skills as well and say, am I really judging this promotion based on the performance of the individual aside from how people dress? So that’s kind of where I am with dress code is, we don’t realize, even subconsciously, whether it’s written or not, what is your dress code? What are you expecting people to wear to work? Spousal benefits and what kind of health care are you choosing for your employees? Are you choosing health care that is going to be gender affirming, and allowing people to have gender affirming surgeries, more health care? Are you choosing healthcare that’s allowance for spouses to be involved? Do they have adoption benefits? Do you have surrogacy benefits? Our adoption options, because these are things that are very expensive in the community, and that we’re looking for, especially for high performing professionals within the communities that we need these to live with our families for the most part and that’s kind of a sticking point as well.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 23:31
I’m going to talk to parents, and is expensive, we did an international adoption and this is going back to 2001. We travelled to Central Asia and the cost of the adoption of that time was $35,000, which we had to bring us cash with us in new bills, because they don’t take checks in getting in that country through the currency system, because they had just extracted themselves from the old Soviet Union or Russia, and needed new bills. Lots of little things. So, the idea of adoption benefits I get, I know how expensive it is.

Amanda Boyd 24:16
You know, and my wife and I are self-employed and so that becomes an option too. It’s like, how do you afford that? What we have, two children as well and going through the fertility process and trying to navigate that through an infertility clinic because when you can’t, when you don’t have the male and female partnership, people when you go into a fertility clinic, they assume you’re infertile and so what kind of testing are they going to put through your insurance? That’s unnecessary. So, I was able, I’d like I’m digressing here. But I was able to again, using these principles of standing up for who I am. I said, I don’t need these tests because I’m not infertile. I’m just gay. I don’t need X, Y or Z. So, I think, I was able to get probably half of those procedures not done because I didn’t need to be treated as infertile, I just needed to be treated as a person in a different type of relationship. So that’s what I would tell [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) should do. Use the small signals, have a mission statement, have some pronoun options, assess your dress code, culturally, listen to your allies, pick healthcare that works for everyone.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 25:32
And for someone who has a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, of course, pronouns present there, so that when someone is researching who they’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with, they see the pronouns and it’s a signal.

Amanda Boyd 25:46
Yes, and what’s really interesting too is that you’re seeing a lot of allies take on even emojis on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles. They’re putting the pride flag after their pronouns and parentheses, even though they may or may not be a member of the community. So, I think this kind of emoticon world that we’re living in, where symbols are everything. Having the words of your pronouns is a very simple way to signal to someone that you are a safe place in an inclusive place. But I do think that, even on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), where it’s more professional, I think people are open to having those symbols on their professional page, because it’s just again, it speaks louder than words sometimes.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 26:25
And for those who don’t understand. They don’t know, they don’t care.

Amanda Boyd 26:31
No one thinks less of you because you put in your pronouns. I think you’re attracting the attention from the people that you want to signal to.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 26:41
So, what else should we be talking about today, that we haven’t spoken about?

Amanda Boyd 26:47
What would you be talking about, the Federal protections that we’re about to see, the Equality Act? As of 2020, there were 22 states and DC, that only 22 states have expressed the inability to discriminate in the LGBT community and so we’ve got 28 states here where you can still be [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/).

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 27:22
Bizarre.

Amanda Boyd 27:25
I don’t think anybody, regardless of their sexuality, your personal life, inside a lawful person should not be any reason to be able to dissuade the performance that you’re doing on the job.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 27:41
So true. So, in the new Equality Act, there’s federal protection to ensure that there’s no terminations or wrongful termination based upon gender preference, gender orientation, etc.

Amanda Boyd 27:55
Yep. I do a lot of contracts in my line of work with recruitment and anytime you go to a lawyer and ask them to draft the contract, they have the standard. Currently, federal protected things, gender, sex, all of these things that you cannot discriminate against and sexual orientation and gender identity and expression are not yet there and so I always have to ask my attorneys to add them. I say I realized this, but my company does not discriminate on the federally protected, demographics as well as these additional ones. So, it’s always interesting to see that, by default, people are giving you the minimum and you’d have to ask for more.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 28:38
So true. Amanda, this is fabulous. I really mean that. How can people find out more about you and the work that you do?

Amanda Boyd 28:48
I’m very active on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). If you want to get in touch with me personally, I will tell you to go to my [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) account, which is just Amanda Boyd, and the OIG with my [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page, which is the “Visible Talent Company”. You can also go to visible talent company.com to see my current job openings that I’m filling. You can also sign up to be a part of my general [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) pool, where you’re just putting your name, your hat in the ring there and allowing me to add you to my database for searches. If you’re a company or an employer that wants to reach out to me, same way, you can reach me at info at Visibletalentcompany.com. Send me a quick inquiry. We’ll do a quick call to see what your needs are and how I can help you fill your most valuable, will bake vacancies inclusively.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 29:28
As you’re doing consulting around DEI, for companies as well?

Amanda Boyd 29:33
Yes, I’ve done it on a smaller scale because just timing. I’ve been so lucky to be inundated with a lot of people that are wanting to fill positions. So, we’re talking to people like Joanne Fabrics, just went public. They have a brand-new diversity and inclusion department that they are starting that they’re launching with that we’re working to partner with to fill those positions for store management and for warehouse workers for interns record. So, we’re seeing some big changes here in the in the DI round, and more and more companies, thankfully have been reaching out to me to kind of open this up on a national scale.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 30:11
Wonderful. Amanda, thank you and Phil and folks, we’ll be back soon with more. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You can visit my website, which is thebiggamehunter.us where I’ve got a ton of information that you can watch, listen to or we help you find work more quickly. In addition, I just want to remind you of my course, called “The Ultimate Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Framework”, a video course that you can order at thebiggamehunter.us forward slash [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). It will help you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) far better than your competition and it’s also available as a paperback and kindle book on Amazon. Lastly, connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). [LinkedIn.com\\in\\Thebiggamehunter](http://LinkedIn.com\IN\Thebiggamehunter). Hope you have a terrific day and be great. Take care.

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### [How to Get Hunted for Jobs, Not Just Apply for Them](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-hunted-for-jobs-not-just-apply-for-them/)

**Published:** June 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to be hunted, you have to flip the script and make it stupidly easy for recruiters and hiring managers to see you as the answer to a problem they already have.

**Content:**

# How to Get Hunted for Jobs, Not Just Apply for Them

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most people think [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) means chasing postings, tweaking a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and praying someone notices. That’s the slow lane. If you want to be hunted, you have to flip the script and make it stupidly easy for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers to see you as the answer to a problem they already have. No fluff. No wishful thinking. Just the moves that make you attractive enough that they come to you.

## **Decide what you actually want**

You cannot be hunted for “something in tech” or “a better opportunity.” That’s noise. People reach out when they can quickly connect your background to a specific need they understand.

Pick a lane: role, level, and general industry focus. Stop worrying about every possible option and decide what you actually want to be known for. If you’re fuzzy, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) get fuzzy and keep scrolling. Clear signal in, targeted outreach out.

## **Fix your LinkedIn headline and About**

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is where a lot of the hunting starts, so you can’t look like everyone else. A headline that says “Open to work” or “Looking for new opportunities” tells them nothing. You’ve used the most valuable text on your profile to say you’re unemployed. That doesn’t sell anything.

Your headline needs to sell an outcome, not your state of mind. Think in terms of role plus results: what you do and what happens when you do it well. The About section then backs that up with a short, direct story: who you are, what problems you solve, and a few concrete wins that line up with the roles you expect to be contacted about.

## **Make your resume and profile easy to skim**

No one is reading your life story. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) skim. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers skim. If they can’t see your value in a few seconds, they move on. That’s the reality.

This means:

- Clear job titles that match the market, not internal weirdness.
- Bullet points focused on outcomes: numbers, improvements, changes.
- Consistent language between your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) so they tell the same story.

You’re not writing for an academic committee. You’re writing for busy people who might have 60 seconds to decide if you’re worth a call.

## **Show evidence of recent, relevant activity**

You get hunted more when you look current and plugged in, not like someone who woke up after a five‑year nap. Activity matters.

Post short, useful [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about your work. Comment intelligently on industry topics. Share a quick lesson from a project, a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) you corrected, a pattern you’re seeing. You’re teaching the market how to think about you. The more visible you are around a specific set of problems, the more likely it is that someone with that problem decides you’re worth contacting.

## **Build a real network, not a contact list**

Connections aren’t a trophy count. They’re distribution. The bigger and more relevant your network, the more likely your name shows up in searches and mutual connections. But just sending random requests isn’t the play.

Connect with people in your lane: peers, a level or two above you, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who fill the kinds of roles you’d actually accept, and leaders in the companies or sectors you care about. Then stay lightly in touch. React to their updates. Share something useful once in a while. You’re keeping the relationship warm so when they hear of something, your name is already there.

## **Treat recruiters like partners, not obstacles**

A lot of people complain about [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and then wonder why [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t help them. Here’s the truth: **good [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) remember the people who are easy to work with and clearly positioned.**

That means you:

- Answer messages promptly, even if it’s a “no” for now.
- Are clear about what you want and what you don’t.
- Follow through when you say you’ll send something or call back.

You’re [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) them to think, “This person makes me look good when I present them.” Those are the people who get pulled into more searches and hear about roles before they hit the market.

## **Ask for referrals like an adult**

Waiting for the universe to notice you is not a strategy. If you’ve done good work, there are people who can vouch for you. You need to make it easy for them.

Reach out to former managers, peers, clients, and vendors. Be specific: “If you hear about someone needing X, Y, Z, I’d love to be on their short list.” You’re not begging. You’re planting a seed. The more clearly you describe what you want, the easier it is for people to match you with what they see in their world.

## **Keep your story consistent everywhere**

If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) says one thing, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) says another, and your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) answers drift all over the place, you look like a risk. Hunters look for patterns: role, industry, skills, impact. When your story lines up across everything—profile, [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), conversations—you look intentional.

That consistency helps people trust that you know who you are professionally. Trust leads to introductions. Introductions lead to offers. This is how you start hearing, “I thought of you for something” instead of “We went in a different direction.”

Getting hunted isn’t about being the loudest or the most “inspirational.” It’s about sending a strong, clear signal into the market: here’s who I am, here’s what I do, here’s the kind of problem I solve, and here’s proof. Do that well and consistently, and you’ll spend less time chasing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) and more time deciding which opportunities are actually worth your time.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [What Happens If I Don't Give Them a Resume When Applying or Interviewing? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-happens-if-i-dont-give-them-a-resume-when-applying-or-interviewing-shorts/)

**Published:** June 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it necessary to provide a CV when applying or interviewing for a job at a specific company? Are there any consequences for not providing one, or is it simply considered bad business etiquette?

**Content:**

# What Happens If I Don’t Give Them a Resume When Applying or Interviewing? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Is it necessary to provide a CV when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) or [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a job at a specific company? Are there any consequences for not providing one, or is it simply considered bad business etiquette?

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [24 Hours: The Tiny Change That Quadruples Your Interview Rate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/24-hours-the-tiny-change-that-quadruples-your-interview-rate/)

**Published:** June 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3109 This show exposes the single, biggest mistake nearly every job seeker makes that guarantees their resume lands at the bottom of the pile.

**Content:**

# 24 Hours: The Tiny Change That Quadruples Your Interview Rate

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3109 This show exposes the single, biggest [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) nearly every job seeker makes that guarantees their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) lands at the bottom of the pile.

Alright, let’s talk about something we’ve probably all gone through. You’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) online, right? You find the perfect one. You spend ages tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

You pour your heart into that [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). You finally hit submit. And then? Crickets.

Just nothing. It has to be one of the most frustrating things about looking for a job today. You know that feeling, right? It’s like your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just gets sucked into this giant black hole.

You keep sending them out, one after another, and you can’t help but wonder, did a real human being even lay eyes on this? All that work, all that effort, and it just vanishes. Well, it turns out this is a real thing. People actually call it the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) black hole.

It’s that digital abyss where all our [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) seems to disappear completely unseen. And think about it. We spend hours on this stuff.

It’s not just a quick click. We’re crafting the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), trying to show exactly what we can do. And when you get total silence back, not even a thanks but no thanks email, man, that is just so demoralizing.

In this chart, this pretty much sums up the brutal reality for so many of us. Look at this gap. We call it the effort versus reward gap.

The bar for [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) sent is sky high. But the one for responses received, it’s tiny. It really does feel like you’re just shouting into the wind.

But what if I told you there’s a way to completely flip that script? So the good news is there actually is a solution. And it’s not what you think. It’s not about sending out even more [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) or rewriting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for the 100th time.

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Nope. It’s about a really simple but super powerful little trick. A filter that can honestly change the entire game for you.

And believe it or not, it all comes down to this one number. 24. Seriously.

This number, this is the key. It’s the key to escaping that black hole and finally, finally getting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in front of an actual person. So what is it? It’s called the 24-hour filter.

And the strategy couldn’t be simpler. You only, and I mean only, apply to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that have been posted in the last 24 hours. Now I know what you might be thinking.

Wait, why would I limit my options like that? It sounds kind of backwards, right? But stick with me because there’s a brilliant reason why this works so well. Okay, so here’s the why. It’s all about something called the early applicant [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

It really is all about timing. You know the saying, the early bird gets the worm. Well, in the world of online [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), that is a massive, massive understatement.

Just imagine it like this. Think of it like going to a party. The person who applies on day seven, they’re showing up super late.

The party is already packed, right? The host, that’s our [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), is totally swamped, juggling a million things. It’s almost impossible to stand out. But you, the applicant on day one, you’re one of the first people through the door.

The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is fresh, they’re engaged, they actually have the time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) to pay attention to you. Suddenly, you’re not competing with 200 people. You’re competing with maybe 20.

And really, that’s the whole idea right there. This isn’t some magic trick that guarantees you the job. Let’s be real.

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What it does do is something maybe even more important. It all but guarantees that your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) will at least get read. You get your foot in the door.

Okay, that all sounds great in theory, right? But how do you actually do it? Let’s get super practical for a second. I’m going to walk you through exactly how you can put this to work, like right now. And you’ll be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to hear it is incredibly easy on pretty much any job site.

Let’s take [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), for example. Step one, you do your normal search, project manager or whatever. Step two, you find the date posted filter.

And step three, you just select past 24 hours. That’s it. A couple of clicks and boom, you’re ahead of the game.

And honestly, that’s the beauty of this whole thing. This isn’t some massive, complicated strategy. You don’t have to completely change everything you’re doing.

It’s just a tiny little tweak to your daily routine that can make a huge, huge difference in your results. So what’s the big takeaway here? It’s really about shifting your entire mindset. It means moving away from that spray and pray method of just sending your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) everywhere.

Instead, you’re going to be targeted. You’re going to be strategic. So here’s the new playbook.

First, we’re going to stop playing the numbers game. No more sending out hundreds of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), hoping one sticks. Instead, we’re going to focus on freshness.

Our number one priority is just getting our [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) seen. And the way we do that by being first in line every single time. Look, it really all boils down to this one question.

The old way has you fighting for a tiny bit of attention in a huge, noisy crowd. But this way, this gives you a VIP pass right to the front. So the next time you fire up that [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), just ask yourself this.

Why would I ever compete with the crowd when I can be first in line?

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, carer transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [LinkedIn Premium: Is It Worth It?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-premium-is-it-worth-it/)

**Published:** June 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3107 I am frequently asked whether someone should become a LinkedIn Premium member. This is what I think.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn Premium: Is It Worth It?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3107 I am frequently asked whether someone should become a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) Premium member. This is what I think.

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Okay, so if you’re a professional, you’ve probably stared at that little gold premium button on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) and asked yourself the big question, is this thing actually worth the money? It’s a question that comes up all the time. And today we’re going to break down a strategy to get a real answer for you without spending a single cent. I mean, this is the million dollar question, right? Whether you’re actively on the job hunt or you’re just trying to level up in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

It’s a tough call. You see all these promises about what it can do, but you’re wondering, yeah, but will it really deliver for me? We’re calling this the premium question. You know, that little moment of hesitation right before you’d have to pull out your credit card, but what if you could just skip all that uncertainty and go straight to clarity? Well, let’s walk through exactly how to do that.

And Hey, if you’re asking this question, you are definitely not alone. Not by a long shot. This is one of the most common things people wonder about the platform, but the good news is there’s a really smart way to figure this out for yourself.

And it doesn’t involve guessing or just trusting someone else’s review. The answer, my friends, lies in what I like to call an insider strategy. This isn’t about just clicking some random button you see on the site.

It’s about being proactive to get exactly what you need, which is a totally risk-free test drive. Because at the end of the day, the only person who can really decide if premium is worth it for you is you. The absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to know for sure is to just get your hands on it and try the features out for yourself.

And that’s how long you get. A full 30 days to make up your mind. For free.

Now here’s the key. You just have to contact [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) support and ask for a trial. 9 times out of 10, they’re [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to give you one.

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It really just boils down to three simple steps. First, you’re going to contact [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) support. Second, you just ask them straight up for a free trial.

And third, now this is the pro move. You ask for a list of all the features that are included. Think of that list as your roadmap for the next 30 days.

And you don’t need to cook up some elaborate story. You can say something as simple as this. Hey, I’m not real sure if premium is for me.

I want to see what features are there. That’s it. It’s honest, it’s direct, and it works.

All right, let’s fast forward. You’ve got your 30-day trial. Now what? Let’s get really specific and focus on the people who can probably get the most out of this.

Job seekers. Here are the exact features you want to be test driving. So during your trial, you want to zero in on these.

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The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is there to help you find the skills and experience you already have that just aren’t being highlighted well enough. You’re optimizing, not making stuff up. So you’ve made it to the end of your 30 days.

You’ve sent some in-mails. You’ve used the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools. You’ve gathered your data.

Now it’s the moment of truth. Time to look at the results and make the call. And that’s really what this whole thing has been about.

After 30 days of actually using the service, you’re the only one who knows if it’s worth it for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), your goals, your wallet. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to think about this is like your own personal experiment. You are the scientist for 30 days.

So what did your data show? Did you get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)? Did you make better connections? Did it actually move the needle for you? That’s the only result that matters. So you’ve got the strategy and it costs you nothing. Your 30-day experiment is ready to go whenever you are.

The only question left is what are you going to discover?

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [How to Use 15-Minute Micro-Sprints to Land Your Next Role](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-15-minute-micro-sprints-to-land-your-next-role/)

**Published:** June 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to dismantle the "long game" and dominate the market in just 15 minutes a day.

**Content:**

# How to Use 15-Minute Micro-Sprints to Land Your Next Role

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Watch here***](https://youtu.be/wkf5ScGJhYI)

Stop treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) like a marathon and start treating it like a series of tactical strikes. High-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) lead to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/); precision micro-sprints lead to offers. Learn how to dismantle the “long game” and dominate the market in just 15 minutes a day.

For professionals, the greatest threat to a successful [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is the paralyzing weight of the long game.

Viewing a search as one massive, singular project leads to procrastination or the [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) of firing off high-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). To maintain a high-level search while employed, you must deploy micro-sprints: 15-to-20-minute blocks of focused, high-intensity activity dedicated to a single function.
Compartmentalizing your effort into these bursts allows you to make progress without the fatigue of constant context switching.

The first function is the reconnaissance sprint. Instead of passively browsing job boards, you actively investigate a target company to find their specific strategic pain points. Set a 15-minute timer and scan a companyâ€TMs 10-K filing. Jumping straight to the risk factors section reveals friction keywords like
“regulatory headwinds.” By the sprint’s end, write a single sentence defining the problem and root cause. This becomes your pitch foundation.

Next is the semantic alignment sprint. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile are marketing assets that must be tuned to the knowledge clusters that AI-driven [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) are programmed to find. Use a 15-minute block to cross-reference your experience section against a specific job description and rewrite exactly three bullet points. This graphic illustrates the shift from listing daily duties to proving quantifiable outcomes. You move from a generic management claim to a specific result, like architecting a pipeline that reduced deployment errors by 18%. Executing these first two sprints aligns your data with the market’s current expectations.

The third function is the digital handshake sprint. Standard [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) often fails because generic connection requests are easily ignored. This diagram breaks down a direct message structure that avoids asking for time. You spend 15 minutes analyzing a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager’s recent posts to draft a message that leads with a high-value observation. Injecting a contrarian view or a specific insight from your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) signals that you are a peer providing value.

The final phase is the authority signal sprint. The objective is to encourage algorithms to proactively serve your profile to headhunters. This mockup demonstrates how to cultivate that discovery. You spend 15 minutes replacing generic comments with mini-articles: structured responses that inject hard data points or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) lessons into the posts of industry leaders. These high-resolution outreach sprints create points of professional contact with decision-makers before an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is ever submitted.

Complexity and procrastination will stall [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) advancement. Viewing the search as a series of tactical strikes makes the process manageable. You are operating as a professional performing high-level market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and engagement. Commit to these 15-minute strikes for one week. You will generate
more momentum than you would from dozens of hours of aimless browsing. Success in a modern job search requires advancing with precision.

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### [What Do All Successful Athletes and Pros Have in Common?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/)

**Published:** June 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter answers this and more.

**Content:**

# What Do All Successful Athletes and Pros Have in Common?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) answers this and more. (From the archives)

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I coach people in organizations to play big. Now, the Olympics are on right now. Yay! And athletes from all over the world are competing for the gold medal. They’ll settle for silver, they’ll settle for bronze, they’ll swallow hard and enjoy that moment in the sun even though they did not win gold. But understand one thing about each and every one of them. None of them was an Olympic athlete when they started out. After all, when you think about it, every master started off as a disaster. You know, some of these athletes were very young and started practicing, and they were awful. But it meant a lot to them and they tried to get better. And now here they are at the ultimate moment in their lives to get the gold medal.

Professional athletes, all of these people are talented. But talent isn’t enough, is it? There are a lot of extremely talented people who don’t always wind up getting the results that they want, right? Often, you know, talented people… well, I see any number of people who’ve showcased in clubs around New York in my life, and showcased in different places who are extremely talented, but they don’t get that opportunity to really shine on the big stage. And often, they’re going out themselves, they’ve got teachers, they’ve got advisors, and they’re not connecting.

The greats all have a coach that they work with, the ones that really help them excel. Professional athletes all do, and not only that, they practice incessantly, right? You know, you tell me that, you know, the Super Bowl champions don’t practice relentlessly? They don’t practice all out?

And what are you doing? Who’s helping you excel? You’ve plateaued, in all probability, and you’ve gotten complacent with where you are. There’s a part of you that’s given up excelling.

[Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach, whether it’s me or someone else. Get a coach to help you. Life is too short and, as I’ve said many times, a lifetime is not a long time. We like to think of ourselves as immortal, but, you know, that’s a foolish notion. During the time of your life, play big. Get out there. Get someone to work with you to spot your blind spots. Get [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) relentlessly. Try to improve yourself a little bit every day. If you did one-tenth of one percent per day about some aspect of your life that you’re unhappy with or you’re not completely satisfied with, you know, in a year, how much progress would you have made? I’m not going to do the math formula for you; go do it on your own.

But, you know, your goal, your objective has to be to leave it on the table, leave it on the field when it’s time for you to pass. Coaching will help you do that, as it has for so many others. I want to encourage you to get a coach. If you’re interested in me, reach out to me. You can email me at jeffaltmancoach@gmail.com or visit my site, nobscoachingadvice.com, and get some encouragement while you’re there. And then after that, reach out to me. Let’s schedule a session, let’s get acquainted. I want to help you succeed by your measure of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

Have a great day.

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### [Writing Resumes and Cover Letters with ChatGPT #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/)

**Published:** June 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You can't just flip your AI-generated resume or cover letter to people.

**Content:**

# Writing Resumes and Cover Letters with ChatGPT #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/n79zoV8ciKQ)

You can’t just flip your AI-generated [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) to people.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [Jobs #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-jobs-2/)

**Published:** June 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six-second video about the true nature of jobs.

**Content:**

# Jobs #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/S9Izb_1vi-0)

A six-second video about the true nature of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

***[A Free AI Cover Letter Generator from a Good Source](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-l2c)***

Don’t let them fool you. It isn’t a permanent position. It is a full-time job.

[***Be Careful Using AI to Write Resumes and Cover Letters***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k0r)

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/JeffAltman-81-209x300.jpg)

[***The Future of Jobs Report 2025: A Comprehensive Summary***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mpd)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [No BS Career Advice: June 14 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-14-2026/)

**Published:** June 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: June 14 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Desperation compromises your positioning Gemini_Generated_Image_h8ndw6h8ndw6h8nd](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Desperation-compromises-your-positioning-Gemini_Generated_Image_h8ndw6h8ndw6h8nd-1024x559.png)

One of my last conversations on Friday afternoon was with a coaching client whom I met for one session. In that session, I provided him with advice on positioning himself in his [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), as well as how to present himself effectively in video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

He told me that after that session, everything changed for him. He told me that he just finalized details for an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) he received and was starting on Monday.

**One session made a difference. 30 Minutes.**

Maybe I can do that for you.

Last week, I announced I was offering “[**The Resilience Pivot: Turn Job Search Rejection into Career Success**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNW8JZLJ)” at a discount, $0.99, for a limited time. This will be the last week for the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). after all, [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) isn’t about “banging your head against a wall” until it breaks.

This week, I am adding, “[Job Search Strategies for Recent Graduates: A Guide to Your First Post-Graduation Job Search](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYZSZQTX)” for $0.99.

Don’t let your son or daughter’s hard-earned, expensive education go to waste. “[Job Search Strategies for Recent Graduates](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWKR72KK)” is the practical, no-nonsense guide they need to bridge the gap between graduation and gainful [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Forget generic advice – this book delivers targeted strategies, specifically designed for today’s competitive job market.

## The Stacking Principle: Why Average Skills in Oversupplied Markets Are Invisible

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

If you market yourself on a baseline capability like “project management,” “financial analysis,” or “software engineering,” you are functionally invisible.

These are not differentiators. They are [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) skills in an oversupplied market. When thousands of people share your exact functional title and educational pedigree, the market treats you as an interchangeable cog. When a business has an abundance of options, it filters strictly on price or structural convenience, forcing you to compete in a race to the bottom.

To break out of the [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), you must stop selling individual ingredients. You need to stack your anomalies–the rare combinations of disjointed domains, specific operational histories, and baseline technical execution that define your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). The goal is not to be a slightly better version of your peers; the goal is to become the only logical solution to a highly specific, high-stakes corporate friction point.

### 1. The Trap of the Linear Expertise Curve

Most [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) development models push professionals down a linear path: if you are a marketer, become a better marketer; if you are an engineer, learn another language. This advice works beautifully in an undersupplied market where demand outpaces capacity. In an oversupplied market, it is a liability.

Think about how standard [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement typically functions versus how you actually build a market monopoly.

In a standard linear progression, you start with your core baseline skill and continuously try to add more of that same skill on top of it. You take more courses, hit more standard milestones, and check the same boxes as everyone else in your field. All this does is cement your status as an interchangeable cog in a massive corporate wheel.

The Anomaly Stack completely breaks this model. Instead of stacking more of the same commoditized capability, you take your core baseline execution engine and intentionally layer an entirely disjointed domain and a specific operational anomaly directly on top of it. You are no longer multiplying standard compliance; you are engineering an unassailable market monopoly that makes you the only logical solution to a complex corporate crisis.

As you climb the linear expertise curve, the marginal utility of your skill flattens out. The market will not pay a premium for a 10% improvement in your core function because it can buy an “adequate” version of that skill for a fraction of the cost. True market value is unlocked at the intersection of mismatched domains.

### 2. Identifying Your Anomalies

An anomaly is any structural detail in your professional history that deviates from the standard linear path of your peer group. It is the thing that makes your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) look “weird” to a low-level corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/), but makes you priceless to a line executive dealing with a multi-layered crisis.

To map your stack, isolate assets across three distinct tiers:

- **The Core Lever:** Your baseline execution engine (e.g., Data Architecture, Corporate Finance, Supply Chain).
- **The Disjointed Domain:** A secondary capability completely outside your main function (e.g., Deep Behavioral Psychology, Distributed Ledger Technology, Predictive Margin Modeling).
- **The Operational Anomaly:** The specific, high-velocity environment where you earned your scars (e.g., Hyper-growth post-Series B, rapid down-market restructuring, cross-border corporate integration).

### 3. Engineering the Stack for Maximum Leverage

One skill is a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). Two combined skills create a niche. Three stacked anomalies create a monopoly. Let’s look at how stacking transforms an invisible professional into a premium asset.

Consider a senior finance director competing in an oversupplied market. If they lead with standard accounting and forecasting, they blend into a sea of thousands.

- **The Linear Profile:** “Corporate Finance Director with 12 years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, and team leadership.” (Invisible. Fully commoditized.)
- **The Anomaly Stack:** Combine Corporate Finance + Semantic Data Integration + Post-Acquisition Restructuring.
- **The Monopolistic Frame:** “A financial operator specializing in mid-market software mergers. I integrate disparate, non-relational data systems from newly acquired entities into unified predictive margin models, protecting cash flow during rapid restructuring phases.”

Look at what happened to the competition. By stacking the anomalies, this professional is no longer competing against every finance director on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). They are now competing only against the tiny handful of people who can write financial structures and manipulate raw data infrastructure during an active corporate merger. They have priced out the noise.

### The Bottom Line

Stop trying to win an oversupplied game by doing more of the same. The market doesn’t reward general compliance; it rewards specialized leverage.

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### [Is It OK to Follow Up If the Employer Said No Calls or Emails?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/)

**Published:** June 16, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Is it appropriate to follow up on a job application via email if the employer specifically requested no phone calls or emails regarding status updates?

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# Is It OK to Follow Up If the Employer Said No Calls or Emails?

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### [High Leverage Careers 2026: How to Capitalize on Labor Shortages](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)

**Published:** June 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The national unemployment numbers are a lie hiding massive labor shortages in industries desperate for talent.

**Content:**

# High Leverage Careers 2026: How to Capitalize on Labor Shortages

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The national unemployment numbers are a lie hiding massive labor shortages in industries desperate for talent. If you want to dictate your pay, benefits, and schedule, you need to understand where the critical talent gaps are right now. This episode breaks down the raw reality of the tech, trade, and infrastructure sectors so you can stop wasting time and switch to a high-leverage [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

We will look at shortages in the US labor market and where there are opportunities. This chart highlights a sharp contradiction in the 2026 data. While national [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) figures look stable on one axis, the other shows massive, spiking job deficits isolated within specific industries.

Looking at the baseline, the broader economy remains steady. As of April 2026, the national unemployment rate is holding at 4.3%. But beneath that average, specific sectors face massive shortfalls. Construction needs 349,000 new workers right now. Nursing has a projected gap of 64,000 professionals, and the global artificial intelligence sector is currently missing roughly 1.6 million qualified engineers. These numbers reflect a severe mismatch between the current workforce and required technical skills. The people looking for work often lack the specialized [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) these open roles demand. This shortage shifts the market leverage. When you hold the specific skills an employer needs to keep their business running, you gain the power to dictate your pay, your benefits, and your schedule. Pivot into one of these high-demand roles requires a serious commitment. Gaining this level of expertise involves a heavy investment of your time, your capital, and your mental [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). To capitalize on these shortages, you have to weigh that upfront cost against the long-term payoff. It comes down to identifying which path offers the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) return on investment for your personal risk tolerance.

We will start with the heavy trades, focusing on roles like elevator mechanics, nuclear welders, and transmission linemen. The entry requirements are rigorous. You can expect to spend four to five years in demanding apprenticeships, followed by testing for niche certifications like an ASME stamp or NRC nuclear clearance. The daily reality involves harsh environments. You often work at extreme heights or in confined spaces, taking a physical toll that builds up over a 30-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). That physical sacrifice results in immediate financial leverage. Base salaries routinely reach $100,000 to $130,000, with overtime potential that can double those figures, all while avoiding student loan debt. Employer demand is driving these numbers. In the power sector, nearly 50% of the current lineman workforce is eligible to retire in the next decade, forcing companies into bidding wars to find replacements. The heavy trades tradeoff is a long-term exchange. You trade physical longevity and geographic stability for high-leverage, debt-free financial security.

Next is the hypertech frontier, centered on the surge in demand for artificial intelligence engineers and cyber security professionals. The entry cost here is cognitive. You must commit to continuous, intense, self-directed learning to master rapidly evolving fields, like deploying neural networks and fine-tuning large language models. This sector currently faces a significant entry barrier. While tech companies have massive skill gaps, many refuse to train junior talent, holding out instead for senior specialists who can ship working code on day one. Overcoming that barrier unlocks elite compensation. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engineers capable of building functioning models are currently securing $250,000 base salaries. This sector also offers unique lifestyle benefits. Because the talent pool is so small, companies frequently [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) absolute remote flexibility to stay competitive in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) market. The tech tradeoff replaces a relaxed work pace with a high-stress environment, where you must constantly update your skills to avoid becoming obsolete.

Finally, we evaluate critical infrastructure role, specifically nursing, allied health professionals, and educators. The entry path is highly structured. You must complete traditional degree programs, pass state licensure exams, and navigate bureaucratic hurdles before you can begin [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). The daily operational reality in these fields is shifting toward technology. Medical and educational staff are now integrating advanced [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) workflow tools, and adapting to collaborative, team-based care models. This work requires high emotional endurance. You are managing rising patient and student needs, while working within stretched budgets and under-resourced legacy systems. The primary benefit of these licenses is absolute geographic freedom. Hospitals, clinics, and school districts in every zip code are actively [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/). Facilities are using significant sign-on bonuses to attract staff. Beyond the money, these roles provide a tangible sense of purpose that is difficult to find in other industries. The critical infrastructure tradeoff exchanges your daily emotional bandwidth and schedule stability for a deeply meaningful [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) that automation cannot replace.

We can compare these paths using an effort versus impact framework, plotting the barrier to entry against the resulting earning leverage. The heavy trades have a high formal [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) barrier, but that investment leads directly to high earning leverage. The hypertech field has a lower formal degree barrier, but yields extreme earning leverage for those who can prove their technical expertise. Critical infrastructure sits in the center. It requires a moderate barrier to entry and yields moderate financial leverage, but provides total job stability. If you are looking for high income without a degree, the heavy trades [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a path to wealth in exchange for a physical toll. If you are focused on rapid technical mastery, the tech sector offers outsized [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) leverage and location independence for those who can navigate the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) competition. If you prioritize long-term security, healthcare and education [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) an untouchable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path in exchange for high emotional effort. Every high-leverage [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in 2026 requires a significant upfront cost. Success in a pivot relies on choosing the specific cost you are willing to bear.

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### [What To Tell The Agency Recruiter to Work for You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** June 14, 2026
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**Excerpt:** An agency recruiter is representing you to their client. What can you tell them to motivate them to push for you and the offer you want?

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# **What** To Tell The Agency Recruiter to Work for You

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An agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is representing you to their client. What can you tell them to motivate them to push for you and the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you want?

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I was working with someone recently and they were about to talk to an [agency recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/questions-to-be-prepared-to-answer-with-the-agency-recruiter-jobsearchtv-com/) about money. Now, I’ll simply say that. If you’d be interested in my helping you with a negotiation, if you have here enough from this that you think I could help as I have for many others, connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) act [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com/in/theBigGameHunter and ,once we’re connected, message me and tell me that you are interested in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you through the negotiation, willset up a time to speak.

Now, back to the scenario. It was a situation where they’re about to have the money conversation with the agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Now, you’ve got to know that agency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) atmoments like that are salivating because, frankly, they’re in a situation where they’re seeing the commission check coming and they hate the notion of negotiating because they are fearful that their client is going to just say, “no..”

So, knowing that, as I was working with this person. I said, “you know, there’s a couple of different ways that you can approach this,” and I kind of staged the scenario for them. This is what I told them.

The starting point to your negotiation with them is to say this. ready?these are magic words, ready?

“If you can get me this, I’ll accept the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) instantly and set up the start date.”

You start with that. So there’s no back and forth. For the agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), they suddenly have something that they can target that they know they can get the results that they want and thus they can go to the mat for you .Now, from there. If for some reason it doesn’t workout, you turn around and watch my video or listen to my podcast called, “The Easiest Way to [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a Higher [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for Yourself.”

Follow that strategy as the back up to this so that, in this way, you make them squirm and make them feel uncomfortable and make them run to their client and fear that they’re going to lose the deal. So, the first thing is to be crystal clear..

“If you can get me X number of dollars, I’ll [accept the offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-offer-acceptance-email/) and set up the start date.”

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### [How to Negotiate Salary Through a Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/)

**Published:** June 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains the dirty little secret of working with a recruiter and how to negotiate salary when you are being represented by one.

**Content:**

# How to Negotiate Salary Through a Recruiter

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the dirty little secret of working with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and how to negotiate [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) when you are being represented by one.

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and I want to talk with you about negotiating [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) when you’re working through a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Now, most of the time, I’m a big advocate of working with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to find the position. Why? Frankly, a couple of things.

The relationship with the employer that greases the skids for you getting in the door and number two, the ease from your standpoint. After all, they handle all your scheduling, handle all the peripheral nonsense and deflect it from you where your inexperience can distract you from the process from seeing the employer as they should [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/). But when it gets to [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation, there’s an interesting dynamic and that is the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) smells blood in the water, the blood being their fate and their job is to close the deal.

That’s true whether it’s a retained [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) or a contingency [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/). The retained firm will talk very nicely and say, you know, well, they won’t even address it. They’ll dismiss it as nonsense but it’s, you know, everyone’s working to make a living and this isn’t social work.

So, ultimately, they’re trying to close the [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and get the position filled just like the contingency firm. So, the tendency is to push and bully very nicely or very aggressively the candidate into taking what the employer offers. I wish it weren’t true but, you know, statistics tell me this.

Not the way I work. I really do try and make a match on the money but most [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t. After all, at the end of the day, you’re the one transaction and they’re going to try and work with that employer for many years to come.

So, their natural tendency is to try and squeeze you rather than squeeze the employer. Now, when you’re working through a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), it’s important, just like it is when you’re negotiating with an employer directly, to know what your real value is. Now, sometimes your numbers may be wrong.

Now, you’re talking to friends who are shooting from the hip and don’t really have any data. So, you need to know your data and to understand that the data reflects a range. So, I’ll give an example.

You’re looking at a job that’s 130 to 150 or if you’re a lower level individual, 60 to 70 thousand or an even higher level individual, 4 to 425. Okay? It’s human nature to only hear the top number. 70,000, 150, 425 and focus in on that number and if you’re offered a dime less to say, hey, how come I didn’t get all the money? After all, my value is whatever it is.

At the end of the day, you want to be in the range and you want to drive it up as high as possible. So, when you’re working with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), you have to say things to him or her along the lines of they’ve come in a touch low and I’m frankly disappointed and I have other things going on that will come in at a better number than this. Why don’t you circle back and see if they’ll improve it.

They’ll try and probe more and, from their standpoint, if the contingency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is panicked, then the retained [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I’m not going to project on them. I’ll just simply say that they’re going to try and push a little bit harder on the employer to up the number. Without that, you’re basically going to be stuck with with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the headhunter, the search professional who’s going to be trying to push you into that box of the number rather than trying to have them push back at the employer in a diplomatic way.

You need to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to walk away from the situation if you take this strategy. I want to be absolutely clear about that because they may say she’s not going to take it or he’s not going to take it unless you up the money. You know, in the example of the senior execs, I’ve said from day one, 425 and, you know, they’ve come in at 415.

I believe my value is 425 and the ten thousand dollar difference I’m going to make for them many times over in the course of my work. If they don’t see the value, then this isn’t the right place for me and with that, you’ve thrown the gauntlet down to say, I’m [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to walk away unless they hit my number. Eight times out of ten, they’re going to hit the number.

If they aren’t, they’re being foolish and you don’t want to join a company populated with fools. For the hundred for the person looking at that job at 130 to 150, where you zero in on 150, you’re making 125. You’re probably not going to get to the 150 but you’ve got to push them up a little bit.

So, again, you circle back to the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). This is true of the 60 to 70 thousand dollar job, as well. You circle back to the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and very calmly say, they’ve come in a bit short.

I’ve got other things going on. This is a market where I can land and I prefer it being there but, you know, if they don’t value me sufficiently, then I’ll be very [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) at this next place I’m talking to. And by doing that, you’re going to force them to earn their check and earn their fee.

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### [Resumes #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-resumes-3/)

**Published:** June 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A short video about resumes.

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# Resumes #shorts

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### [How to Use AI for Networking Arbitrage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

**Published:** June 12, 2026
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**Excerpt:** This episode delivers a strategic blueprint on how to turn machine intelligence into an analytical asset

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# How to Use AI for Networking Arbitrage

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Sending out endless [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) only to face absolute silence isn’t a problem with your qualifications; it’s a failure to scale attention in a system built to ignore you. Standard [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) scripts and generic [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) blast emails have become background noise to top [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/). This episode delivers a strategic blueprint on how to turn machine intelligence into an analytical asset that uncovers company friction points, mirrors executive language, and earns you peer-level respect before you ever hit send.

You have the qualifications, you’ve put in the work, you hit send, and you hear absolute silence. When a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) stalls, the bottleneck is rarely your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). The problem is an inability to scale attention in a system designed to ignore you.

Pointing out a shared university or a mutual third-degree connection used to work. Today, those are baseline pleasantries. They have lost their power as strategic catalysts.

Because everyone has access to automated, AI-generated mass emails, the standard cold pitch carries zero weight. Applicants are trapped in a volume game where standard outreach is treated as noise. To break through, you have to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) differently.

This is [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) arbitrage, using machine intelligence as an analytical engine to map a company’s internal friction points before you ever initiate contact. Shifting from an automation for volume mindset to an analytical leverage mindset provides a distinct [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) when trying to capture an executive’s attention in a crowded digital market. Leaders are public-facing entities.

They leave massive data trails across quarterly investor calls, industry panels, and white papers. This diagram represents the delta, the gap between market promises and infrastructure reality. Feed their public commentary into a language model.

Prompt it to act as an institutional investor, isolating top operational risks. Finally, cross-reference these risks with your core expertise to generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction they face. Leading with this targeted insight reframes the dynamic, positioning you as an advisor identifying a blind spot rather than an applicant seeking an opening.

Sending that insight to an HR professional often wastes your momentum. Talent acquisition teams are trained to filter for historical compliance, matching task titles to current openings, rather than evaluating forward-looking strategic utility. You need to reach your future peer, the line executive who actually owns the budget and feels the daily pain of that operational gap.

[***Networking Arbitrage: Using AI to Map Value Before You Message***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-p8h)

To find them, extract the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile text of five leaders who successfully transitioned into your target domain during a market contraction. Run this data through your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model to isolate the hidden common denominators in their background. Ask specifically for the vocabulary they use to describe their wins and the exact inflection points that preceded their promotions.

Take those semantic markers and use them to filter your second-degree network. When you draft your message, you will automatically mirror the internal vocabulary of their executive suite. Speaking this internal language helps you navigate past automated filters and demonstrates a familiarity with the company’s specific operational environment.

The human brain easily detects synthetic text, over-index on words like synergy, delighted, or transformative, and your message gets mentally flagged as spam. Apply the 80-20 rule of production. Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) do the heavy cognitive lifting, the data aggregation, and trend analysis, but reserve the final 20% of execution entirely for your authentic human voice.

Run your draft through one final tonal audit. Tell the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to strip out all corporate boilerplate and generic filler. Force it to shorten sentences and adopt the clinical brevity of a wartime CEO.

Your command of data hygiene is an explicit indicator of your judgment. Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools to unearth unlisted personal cell phone numbers doesn’t signal resourcefulness, it signals a liability. Keep your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) strictly to public signals.

Never input proprietary metrics, unannounced financial data, or sensitive structures from a former employer into a public model to build your case studies. A leader who compromises data security to secure an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) will not be trusted with an enterprise budget. Sticking to public signals proves you have the judgment required to handle a professional P&L.

[Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) this methodology systematically changes the power dynamic of the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). AI-driven [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is an exercise in leverage. It is about arriving at an understanding of the challenges a company is facing faster than your competition can.

Grounding your outreach in this way creates strategic alignment, making the resulting [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) conversation a logical next step based on the value you’ve already demonstrated. To upgrade [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) strategies and implement tactics like these, head over to jobsearch.community. You can become an insider to get direct coaching from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), plus access to a full library of video courses, books, guides, and services designed to give you a structural edge. If this approach helped you rethink your outreach, please share this video, leave a comment, click the like button, and follow the channel to help other professionals navigate their search.

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### [Interview Red Flags: Resistance to Change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/)

**Published:** June 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Change is often met with resistance, even from those who claim to want it.

**Content:**

# Interview Red Flags: Resistance to Change

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Open positions exist because organizations need to evolve — whether it’s building better products, creating efficiencies, attracting clients, or improving team performance. However, change is often met with resistance, even from those who claim to want it. A client of mine found this out the hard way when he was hired to overhaul a company’s customer support department. Despite being brought in specifically to implement change, the higher-ups weren’t on board, and his efforts were ultimately blocked.

David’s boss’s boss was the primary obstacle. Despite [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) him to make improvements, she became defensive when those changes didn’t align with her outdated ideas. In one of his [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), she hinted at her reluctance by stating, “I may have opinions about this \[function\], since I used to do this years ago.” Although this didn’t immediately [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) any alarms for David, it should have. A [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) question such as, “How do you handle differing viewpoints?” might have exposed her real attitude toward change. More insight could have been gleaned from her body language or by seeking input from her colleagues about how she dealt with opposing ideas.

***[4 Interview Red Flags](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv18R-ERNY8)***

The real problem was that this manager’s experience in the customer support department was decades old. Technology and processes had evolved since then, but she clung to outdated practices that no longer worked. She overruled David’s modern, efficient strategies in favor of methods from the 1980s. The result? A demoralizing work environment where every day felt like an uphill battle. David’s efforts to improve the department were constantly blocked, and innovation was stifled by a mindset stuck in the past.

This situation isn’t unique. As [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) Stokes points out, some [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers “just don’t have an improvement mindset. They may be so old school that they just want to maintain the status quo.” These managers aren’t necessarily malicious, but their inability to embrace change can severely limit the progress of the very teams they’re supposed to lead. That’s why it’s crucial to pay attention during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Red flags like a rigid attachment to outdated practices can be subtle, but they’re there if you listen closely.

When [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a new role, it’s essential to ask probing questions that reveal how decision-makers respond to change and different opinions. This can save you from stepping into an environment where your innovative ideas will be met with resistance rather than embraced.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2024

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### [How to Use Perplexity AI to Find Open Job Roles](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-perplexity-ai-to-find-open-job-roles/)

**Published:** June 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact mechanics to make Perplexity AI map open roles to your background and pull the LinkedIn profiles of the decision-makers.

**Content:**

# How to Use Perplexity AI to Find Open Job Roles

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop wasting hours tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just to throw it into an online applicant tracking black hole. This episode breaks down the exact mechanics to make Perplexity [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) map open roles to your background and pull the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles of the decision-makers. If you want to stop filling out blind web forms and start pitching real human beings, this is how you do it.

You spend hours tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), only to watch it vanish into the silent void of online [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) portals. In the next 6 minutes, you will learn how to use Perplexity [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to bypass that line entirely, and pinpoint open [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) that match your exact experience. Even better, we will force the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify the specific [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager for each role, giving you a direct point of contact.

To execute this, you need three things: a free Perplexity account, a finalized [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and an open tab on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). By moving away from blind online submissions, you regain control over your job hunt through targeted, direct [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

Navigate to perplexity.ai. You will notice its interface is built strictly for clean, immediate search. Look at this attach file icon right inside the search bar. Click it and upload your finalized [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). While Perplexity excels at live internet parsing, it cannot read your mind. It requires highly rigid instructions to operate as your specialized [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/).

We start by building a master prompt. The first phase commands the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to search for open job postings that explicitly fit the data in your attached [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). The second phase instructs the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to read every single job posting it finds, and extract organizational indicators regarding the leadership structure. The third phase demands an X-ray search of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) uses those data points to locate exact profile links for those suspected leaders.

This text on screen is the complete master prompt: Ask it to search for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) fitting the attached [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), look for indicators of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager, conduct an X-ray search of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for their profile, and present back a list of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) with a match [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) level and the manager’s link. [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) these exact constraints turns a basic chatbot into an automated targeted [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) assistant. Hit enter, and the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) immediately generates a prioritized list of specific open roles, tailored precisely to your background.

Next to each job, you will see a match [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) score. The system calculates these percentages by weighing your specific [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) experience against the stated requirements of the role. To verify how it reached these conclusions, click the thinking drop-down. This reveals the transparent mechanics of the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) sourcing its data in real time.

You will notice it relies heavily on the X-ray search to bypass standard limitations found within LinkedIn’s native search engine. This diagram shows how an X-ray search works. Adding the operator `site:linkedin.com/in` forces the engine to block standard websites and isolate professional profiles. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) then cross-references these profiles against internal indicators found in the original job descriptions. Understanding this back-end logic allows you to trust the data and confidently verify the reasoning behind the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) selections. The final output gives you a specific name and direct hyperlink to the likely [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager.

Be aware of the first potential failure point. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is making a highly educated guess and it successfully identifies the exact boss about 50% of the time. However, even when it misses the direct manager, it reliably points you to senior team members in the right department, who can act as powerful internal [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/).

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### [Career Advice for New Grads: What Experts Say](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-advice-for-new-grads-what-experts-say/)

**Published:** June 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you were giving advice to someone who was graduating from college today and had to look for a job, what advice would you give them?


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# Career Advice for New Grads: What Experts Say

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I worked in [recruiting](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23recruiting&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) for a long time before transitioning to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I can’t remember many graduating classes that were optimistic about their prospects of [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) after graduation. Heck, even in the movie “The Graduate,” the young Dustin Hoffman didn’t know what he wanted to do after he graduated. It’s one of the reasons the advice he receives, “plastics. Go into plastics,” is as funny as it was.

If you were giving advice to someone who was graduating from college today and had to look for a job, what advice would you give them?

**[Alex Freund](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexfreund-interviewcoach/):** Great question, [Jeff Altman, MSW, CCTC](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter/). It is one I often hear about nowadays. You’re right, grads have always faced some uncertainty, but 2025 throws a pretty tricky curveball. Even though unemployment is historically low overall, youth unemployment is hovering around 10%, and competition is fierce.
Here is my advice: Stay open to industries or roles you haven’t considered. Sometimes, detours lead to surprisingly great destinations.

Upskilling now is appropriate. Whether certifications, micro-credentials, or learning new tools, investing in your skill set keeps you competitive and confident.
[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) opens doors through personal connections. Don’t hesitate to reach out, ask for intros, or join professional groups.

You can think short-term for now. Part-time or contract work might not be the dream, but it’s a way to stay active, gain experience, and be ready when full-time opportunities open.

I am sure there are several other good ones, but I couldn’t think of them now. Let’s see what our other friends say about this critical topic.

**[Marty Gilbert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martygilbert/): [Jeff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter/)… great movie.**

If I was giving advice to someone looking for their very first job out of school, I would recommend that they go through some type of an assessment to understand what their interests are versus what their strengths are. And understand where the two overlap so that you could start to get a sense for what kind of a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path you might want to pursue. Too often people come right out of school and simply apply to almost anything hoping that they can get something quickly. But it may not end up being something that they’re [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) with longer-term.

I am sure there are several other good ones, but I couldn’t think of them now. Let’s see what our other friends say about this critical topic. 
If I was giving advice to someone looking for their very first job out of school, I would recommend that they go through some type of an assessment to understand what their interests are versus what their strengths are. And understand where the two overlap so that you could start to get a sense for what kind of a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path you might want to pursue. Too often people come right out of school and simply apply to almost anything hoping that they can get something quickly. But it may not end up being something that they’re [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) with longer-term.

**My response: [Marty Gilbert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martygilbert/) great advice. I might say multiple assessments to look for multiple overlaps**

**[Jeff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter/)… in fact, some [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools could be a great free way to get started**

**[Jeff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter/)… Even Perplexity and [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) can be effectiBenjamin never did get into plastics, but he sure got into…”And here’s to you Mrs. Robinson…”**

**Which leads me to the second worst song ever recorded: The Frank Sinatra version of “Mrs. Robinson.” Listen to it at your own risk. (I warned you) ve when given the right kind of prompts**

**[Eric Buntin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-buntin/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BMrU5r3%2FLQoqctSwdBQgs7Q%3D%3D):** Be tech savy — either consider an emerging or growing tech role OR know those that can lean into and heavily leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and machine learning.

Eric Buntin being tech knowledgeable is an essential skill for everyone, especially with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) becoming prevalent

**[Nancy Aaronson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancykrullaronson/):** I’d say don’t go to college; learn a trade instead. There’s a grant-funded Advanced Manufacturing boot camp coming up soon at Bergen Community College.

IMO, there will be fewer middle man [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that college trains people for.

**[Terrence H. Seamon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrence-seamon/): If the movie The Graduate were updated for today, the character who recommended plastics would say “AI. Go into [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).”**

### **[Al Smith “the HIRED guy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alsmithhired/)**

Benjamin never did get into plastics, but he sure got into…”And here’s to you Mrs. Robinson…”

Which leads me to the second worst song ever recorded: The Frank Sinatra version of “Mrs. Robinson.” Listen to it at your own risk. (I warned you) 

### **[Kathryn Stoehr](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-stoehr-03b6821?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BKlWNS4tKRFOJi0Vb8cN06g%3D%3D):** It may sound simple enough, but start with the goal. Visualize where you see yourself today, and 5-10 years from now. Look at what jobs are available on job boards that have acceptable salary/location/interest, then tailor your education and update your resume for the jobs that most interest you. This is common sense that a lot of young people overlook.

[Kathryn Stoehr](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-stoehr-03b6821/) Thanks for adding your voice. I’ll add that is the starting point. However, it’s important to pay attention to trends and changes that should cause a change of plan.

Thanks for adding your voice. I’ll add that is the starting point. However, it’s important to pay attention to trends and changes that should cause a change of plan.

Agreed. Some [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) available today may go away in a few years. The way I explain it to teenagers is in terms of fashion (a well fitted favorite pair of jeans can last for years but something trendy may go out of style next season). Choose what you like, based on what you see on job boards, then get the skills and education to get that job. Meanwhile always be cognizant of “trendy” [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), such as [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) which is the rage now.

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### Rohit Sarkar: It would be ‘Clarity’.
Be clear about
– What you want to do.
– What you can do
– Why and how you’re gonna do it.

Good idea AND it is easier to think about what you don’t want to do first

[David Schuchman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidschuchman/) Great question, Jeff, Tagging on to the good suggestions of the others, I would also advise new graduates to set up and attend informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). People new to working full time in their industry of study or interest need to learn as much as possible from people that have experience.

[Hope (Lovell) Newman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hopelovellnewman/): I would say look inside before you look outside. Without understanding your own strengths, skills, values, and personality, it’s hard to find a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) that will be satisfying.

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### [What Leaders Do #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-leaders-do-no-bs-leadership-advice-shorts/)

**Published:** June 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Brian Tracy defines the difference between leaders and followers.

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# What Leaders Do #shorts

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### [Going on an Interview? In a Bad Mood? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/)

**Published:** June 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's what to do to change your mood.

**Content:**

# Going on an Interview? In a Bad Mood? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/4mcyfeXCXWU)

Here’s what to do to change your mood.

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### [Don't Upload Your Resume to Your LinkedIn Profile #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-upload-your-resume-to-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** June 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I see this mistake too often and it can cost you interviews and jobs 

**Content:**

# Don’t Upload Your Resume to Your LinkedIn Profile

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Is It Acceptable to Combine Two Similar Jobs Into One Listing on a Resume?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-acceptable-to-combine-two-similar-jobs-into-one-listing-on-a-resume/)

**Published:** June 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it acceptable to combine two similar jobs into one listing on a resume?

**Content:**

# Is It Acceptable to Combine Two Similar Jobs Into One Listing on a Resume?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Is it acceptable to combine two similar [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) into one listing on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)?

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### [What's Keeping My Boss From Seeing My Cover Letter, Resume and Work Samples Online?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)

**Published:** June 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What's preventing employers from noticing your resume, cover letter, and work samples?

**Content:**

# What’s Keeping My Boss From Seeing My Cover Letter, Resume and Work Samples Online?

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### [Recruiters and Cover Letters #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-and-cover-letters-shorts/)

**Published:** June 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Recruiters read a ton of cover letters.

**Content:**

# Recruiters and Cover Letters #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [So Why Should I Hire You?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/so-why-should-i-hire-you-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** June 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to answer that tough interview question, "So why should I hire you?"

**Content:**

# So Why Should I Hire You?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to answer that tough [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question, “So why should I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you?”

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I want to talk with you that that tough [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question, “So, why should I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you?”

This is actually the core question that [every interviewer or employer is asking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-key-to-answering-every-brainteaser-you-are-asked-on-an-interview/) themselves as they are trying to make a decision between the different choices. Even if they don’t ask you this outwardly, I am going to give you tactic for introducing it to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) at that very and.

So, here’s how to basically answer that question. “So, why should I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you? Well, from what you tell me about the position, you’re looking for someone with such and such type of background. This is what I’ve done along those lines.”. Then, you kind of review your [experience for them that fits](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-does-your-experience-fit-this-position/) that description.

Then, you continue by saying, “and the other [thing that I bring to this job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/scary-things-job-hunters-do-the-halloween-episode/) is the motivation and drive to succeed within your organization.” If you’re in sales, you can talk about how you, as a salesperson, stepped into a dying function and helped turn it around. If you managed the sales function, you could talk about how you helped an organization achieve numbers that never been achieved before within their organization. You can do stuff along those lines.

If you’re in operations-oriented, you can talk about how you stabilized an organization and help them make money or save money from the role that you were in.

Quantify it in terms of numbers. How much did you help them make? How much did you help them save in your role? Think in that way.

So, that’s how to answer it in the direct question.

Often is not a question that is asked but at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you might be asked something along the lines of, “So, is there anything else?” or if they haven’t asked that question and are about to wrap up, you can say, “Would you mind if I just covered one more thing with you?” They will say, “Sure!”

You’ll have an answer [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for them that [lasts 2 minutes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-question-about-the-last-minute-change/). “So, the question that you’re asking yourself is probably, “So, why should I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you? What’s going to be different about you than the other [people that I am meeting with](https://thebiggamehunter.us/final-interviews-finish-this-sentence-most-people-i-meet-are-jobsearchtv-com/), many of whom are quite qualified?” Again, review your background that fits the job as they described it to you and then continue by saying, “and I am motivated.”

Then, you talk about your motivation and how it’s played itself out in previous organizations and how you helped that organization in the past make money or save money and how much and talk about how you want to do it for this firm.

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### [Targeting PE Operating Partners](https://thebiggamehunter.us/targeting-pe-operating-partners/)

**Published:** June 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode delivers the exact strategy to bypass corporate gatekeepers and position yourself directly in front of the private equity partners

**Content:**

# Targeting PE Operating Partners

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are an executive waiting for traditional [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to find your next role, you are losing money every day. Standard [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) work to manage risk for giant corporations, not to find the perfect fit for your specific operational skill set. This episode delivers the exact strategy to bypass corporate gatekeepers and position yourself directly in front of the private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) partners who have the real power to hire you.

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If you’re an executive with a strong track record of actually fixing broken operations, you’ve probably spent months trying to get on the radar of the big [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), only to find your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) tossed aside because it didn’t perfectly match their current openings. Traditional [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) operate entirely by checking boxes. If your past industry vertical doesn’t look exactly like the one they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) for right now, they won’t put you forward. The hard truth is that these [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t work for you. They work to manage risk for their giant corporate clients. Finding the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) possible role for your specific skill set is not their primary objective.

Sitting passively in a recruiter’s database comes with a heavy cost. While you wait for a perfect match, you are missing out on the fastest-growing [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) market for elite talent: private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies.

Relying on traditional HR gatekeepers guarantees you remain a piece of paper in a slow queue, rather than an active dealmaker securing a high-stakes role. Private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) operates in an entirely different reality. When a PE firm acquires a mid-market company, they run on a strict three-to-five-year timeline to scale the business and sell it. That compressed timeline creates massive financial pressure. These investors cannot afford to wait 6 to 12 months for a traditional retained [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) to run its course.

This diagram shows the core conflict. On top, you have the slow, 12-month corporate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) pipeline. On the bottom, a private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) holding period, where every week an acquired company spends without a proven leader means cash is actively draining away. They need immediate EBITDA growth. While a traditional search stalls in endless screening rounds, the private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firm is losing capital. They need someone inside that business today to protect their investment.

The solution is clear: to land these unlisted roles, you have to bypass the slow talent acquisition professionals entirely. You need to go straight to the strategic architects of the PE firm—the operating partners. In the private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) ecosystem, your speed to impact is vastly more valuable than your ability to pass a bureaucratic HR screening.

This chart shows how the traditional [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) model compares to direct outreach to an operating partner across three critical metrics. Let’s look at pacing. A traditional [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) moves at a slow corporate pace. An operating partner operates on what we call the urgency vector. The urgency vector means if you identify a problem costing them money and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a fix today, they will build a position around you by tomorrow.

***[The Glocap Guide To Getting A Job In Private Equity](https://amzn.to/4xdBMWP)***

Next is authority. Traditional searches are bound by rigid HR compliance. Operating partners use the authority lane. They have the absolute power to bypass standard protocols and drop you directly into the C-suite without waiting for a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) committee to agree.

Finally, there’s opportunity scale. A headhunter pitches you for a single open role. An operating partner offers the [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) multiplier. Bypassing HR to target these partners effectively upgrades you from fighting for one specific job to accessing dozens of hidden opportunities simultaneously.

Operating partners are not investment bankers. They are seasoned former CEOs, former corporate COOs, and deep industry experts, hired specifically to drive business improvement on the ground.

This chart illustrates how these operating teams are structured within PE funds. They range from captive, full-time internal consulting groups on the left, all the way to networks of external advisors and bench players on the right. Getting into this world operates a bit like a mafia. To get paid work, you need a trusted insider to vouch for you—usually based on previous hands-on work you’ve done together.

That voucher carries heavy risk. If an operating partner brings you in to fix a company and you fail to deliver, their internal political capital drops, and the value of their future vouch declines. Because their own reputation and [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) are on the line, these partners demand proven, hands-on execution every time. They will take real-world capabilities over a prestigious, theoretical pedigree every single time.

The fastest way to fail with an operating partner is to send them a standard biography or [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). A passive list of past titles will be ignored. Worse, it will burn a bridge with a highly connected decision-maker who doesn’t have time to figure out where you fit. You have to pivot your strategy. Abandon the bio pitch and put in the work to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the PE firm’s mid-market acquisitions over the last six months.

Your outreach needs to be a direct, no-BS message that highlights a specific, urgent operational reality at one of those companies, like a bleeding supply chain or a broken pricing strategy. Outline exactly how you intend to fix it. This approach requires significantly more friction and upfront effort than clicking an apply button on a job board. You are doing the diagnostic work before you even get in the room. Trading a low-effort [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) blast for a high-friction, bespoke pitch is the only proven way to trigger that urgency vector and get hired.

This quadrant chart answers the core question: is the intense effort of researching acquisitions and writing bespoke pitches actually worth your time? Passive [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles and job boards sit here, in the low-effort, low-impact quadrant. [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) through generalist [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) takes high effort with endless [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), but yields low impact because you’re fighting for a single role against hundreds of others. Targeted pitches to operating partners live in the high-effort, high-impact quadrant.

The ultimate payoff for reaching this quadrant is what we call the [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) multiplier. An operating partner oversees 5, 10, or sometimes 20 different companies. If you earn their trust but don’t fit Company A’s immediate needs, they can slide you into Company B tomorrow, or keep you on deck for their very next deal. Winning the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) of a single operating partner yields an exponentially higher return on [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) than sitting through dozens of standard [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) screenings.

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### [Using AI to Map Strategic Friction Before You Message](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-ai-to-map-strategic-friction-before-you-message/)

**Published:** June 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Using AI to Map Strategic Friction Before You Message

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You already know the front door of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) (the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you are letting a machine dictate your market value.

But most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice tells you to use the back door, hitting up your old colleagues or university alumni for a favor. As you know, the back door is just as crowded. It’s full of people looking for a shortcut.

To break through, you have to take **[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. You have to jump out of line, run down the alley, and find a way into the building by offering something the company desperately needs.

The absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to crack open that Third Door is to leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). But stop using it as a ghostwriter to spam people with “personalized” boilerplate. High-level decision-makers can spot a bot-generated message in about two seconds, and it gets deleted almost immediately after uttering a few mental expletives.

Instead, you need to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as your **Chief of Staff**. You use it to do deep, surgical [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on a company’s public pain points so that when you knock on that Third Door, you sound like an indispensable peer who already understands the business.

You can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to get a human [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) that puts you in that negotiation room.

### 1. The Operational Audit: Finding the Unpicked Lock

Most professionals personalize their outreach by looking at a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and saying, *“Hey, I see we both worked at Oracle in 2018.”* That’s a baseline pleasantry. It doesn’t prove you can solve their problems.

At the executive tier, you lead with value. You want to identify the exact operational drag that is keeping a target leader awake at night.

Instead of guessing, gather the target company’s recent public data trails. Grab their latest quarterly earnings call transcript, a recent [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) given by their CEO, or their main competitor’s macro moves. Feed that text into an LLM.

Give the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) this specific diagnostic prompt:

> *“Analyze this transcript from the perspective of an institutional investor. Identify the top two operational or infrastructure risks implied by this growth strategy. Cross-reference these risks with my core expertise in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction this leadership team will face.”*

Now you have an intelligence briefing. You aren’t pitching your past biography; you are diagnosing a live business problem before you ever say hello.

### 2. The 80/20 Rule: Machine for Context, Human for Voice

Once you have the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), let the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) help you structure the outreach, but enforce a strict 80/20 rule. Let the machine do the heavy cognitive lifting of data synthesis (the 80%). You must handle the final execution (the 20%) to inject your own human voice, rhythm, and industry shorthand.

To strip away the “AI-politeness” that triggers a recipient’s spam filter, run your draft back through the model with a strict fluff-decoupling prompt:

> *“Review this outreach draft. Strip out all generic corporate boilerplate, introductory filler, and synthetic enthusiasm (e.g., ‘I hope this finds you well,’ ‘In today’s fast-paced world’). Shorten the sentences to vary the cadence, use direct active verbs, and ensure the tone reflects the clinical brevity of a busy COO.”*

When you get the output, manually verify it. If it sounds like a corporate press release, kill it. Leaders typically write with short, punchy paragraphs. Your message should match that exact baseline.

### 3. Knocking on the Third Door

Let me show you how this works in practice. I was coaching a VP of Operations who wanted to land at a high-growth logistics firm.

We used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze the target company’s Q1 earnings report. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) identified a specific comment from the CFO about localized margin compression due to a recent regional warehouse consolidation.

We didn’t look for an open job description, and we didn’t ask for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). We targeted a director-level peer in that department and sent a direct, two-sentence note:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s regional warehouse integration this quarter. Having navigated a parallel restructuring at my last firm, I noticed that inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief, 1-page framework on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag. No strings attached. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

The director responded within three hours. Why? Because the message wasn’t a burden; it was a delivery of value. They traded notes, and at the end of the conversation, the director said, *“We actually need someone with this exact framework right now. Let me route your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) directly through our internal executive priority lane.”*

### The Bottom Line

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier, but multipliers work both ways. If you multiply generic automation, you just get a mountain of spam. But if you multiply high-fidelity [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), you get immediate access to the room.

Stop letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speak for you. Use it to uncover specific strategic deficits of your target companies, map the pain points your future peers are facing, and knock on [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) with a solution in hand. That is how you bypass the software, skip the line, and get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

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### [Master Your Interview Body Language](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-your-interview-body-language/)

**Published:** June 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact gestures that project authority and the simple framework to make your body language your greatest ally.

**Content:**

# Master Your Interview Body Language

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You can nail every question and still lose the job if your body language screams “unprepared.” Stop letting unconscious habits like fidgeting or crossing your arms undermine your credibility. This episode breaks down the exact gestures that project authority and the simple framework to make your body language your greatest ally.

Have you ever left a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) thinking, “Man, I completely nailed those questions”? But then, you just don’t get the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Well, the reason might be something you didn’t even say out loud. So today, we are going to dive into that powerful, unspoken language of your body, and how to make sure it’s telling the right story.

Think about it. You’ve probably spent hours, maybe even days, polishing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), rehearsing your answers. But what about the story you’re telling the second you walk into that room? You know, with your posture, your hands, all of that? That is so often the missing piece of the puzzle, and believe me, it can make all the difference.

All right, so where do we even begin? Well, before we can start building good habits, it’s actually super important to know what might be holding you back. Let’s get into some of those common, and let’s be honest, often totally unconscious actions that can send a completely different message than what you want.

It is wild how easily these little things get misinterpreted, right? You might cross your arms just because, I don’t know, it’s comfortable. But to an interviewer, it can totally scream closed off or defensive. And that constant pen tapping or leg shaking? Yeah, that’s like a loud and clear broadcast of nervous [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), which can easily come across as a lack of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) or even a lack of preparation.

Just think about it for a second. You could be giving the most brilliant, well thought-out answer, but if your body language is just screaming [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you’re pretty much undermining your own credibility. Your message gets all tangled up, and the interviewer is left with this nagging sense of doubt.

Okay. So now that we know what not to do, let’s totally flip the script. This isn’t about becoming a robot or a statue. It’s about swapping out those nervous little tics for confident, intentional gestures that actually boost your words.

Okay, here’s a really simple three-step framework to keep in your back pocket. First, actually use your hands, but do it gently. They’re like tools to help you paint a picture. Second, be strategic. A nice, subtle gesture can really emphasize a key point or a huge accomplishment you’re talking about. And third, and this is so important, keep the movements controlled. We’re going for calm and purposeful here, not, you know, a giant theatrical performance.

Let’s just let this sink in for a minute. “Controlled and natural.” That’s the magic formula right there. See, if your gestures look all rehearsed or robotic, you’ve kind of missed the point. They should feel like a genuine part of how you communicate, which adds this whole other layer of authenticity to what you’re saying.

All right, let’s bring this all home. We’ve talked about what to avoid and what to embrace. So what is the one big idea you should carry with you into that next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)?

Listen, the goal is not to be motionless. Sitting perfectly still can actually make you seem really rigid and, frankly, a little weird. Instead, the focus should be on being intentional. You want to make your body language an ally, a tool that reinforces your words and powerfully shows off your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

So, I’m going to leave you with this question: Now that you know all this, which confident gesture are you going to practice first? Because turning an unconscious habit into a conscious skill, well, that’s the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) to really, truly mastering your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/).

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### [The Executive Protocol:  Precise Targeting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-protocol-precise-targeting/)

**Published:** June 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the "Executive Protocol"—a high-leverage system that combines machine speed with human judgment to secure C-suite interviews in half the time.

**Content:**

# The Executive Protocol: Precise Targeting

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are burning social capital by blasting generic, AI-generated messages into the void. This episode breaks down the “Executive Protocol”—a high-leverage system that combines machine speed with human judgment to secure C-suite [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) in half the time. Stop playing the numbers game and start playing the leverage game.

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are approaching [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) entirely the wrong way. They’re either quietly hiding behind a polished [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), hoping someone spots them, or they’re aggressively blasting out generic, AI-generated messages that scream desperation.

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and senior leaders can spot a templated outreach message instantly. Using standard [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) prompts to mass produce your introductions doesn’t show efficiency. It immediately damages your professional credibility. Treating artificial intelligence as an excuse to spam the market is a complete misunderstanding of what the tool actually does. When you rely on cheap volume over deliberate quality, you’re not playing a numbers game. You are actively disqualifying yourself from the role before you even secure an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

At the C-suite level, every [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) operates under a strict constraint. You have a finite number of hours in the day, and a distinctly finite reservoir of social capital.

Success requires a different operating model, one we call the Executive Protocol. It works by merging your high-level human judgment with raw, calculating machine speed. Leaders who continue to rely solely on manual [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) or basic automation are already falling behind their peers. Adopting this hybrid operating system provides the technical efficiency required to compete for high-stakes roles, while your competitors are still manually scrolling.

Before you send a single message, you have to secure your foundation. Run your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile through an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool to identify and strip out weak phrasing. If your headline says “seeking new opportunities”, remove it. That is a red flag, not a value proposition.

Next, you move to targeting. Instead of randomly browsing, instruct [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools to map out specific organizational charts at your target companies, and surface hidden second-degree contacts you didn’t even realize you had. Look at this comparison: sending out 500 random connection requests yields almost nothing. But curating a heavily researched, highly specific list of 80 targeted individuals will consistently produce conversations. This deliberate, precise targeting is exactly how you protect and maximize your limited social capital.

Stop treating [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as your personal copywriter. Start deploying it as your dedicated [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) department. Before you reach out to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager, feed [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) their recent [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts, their company’s latest earnings calls, and any public [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) they’ve given. You force the model to process that noise to summarize exactly what that specific individual cares about right now. Processing this intelligence before you make contact ensures your first interaction is rooted in their current priorities, rather than your past assumptions.

With the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) complete, you can now instruct the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to generate a first draft of your outreach message, matching the tone you want to project. But here is the non-negotiable step: you must rewrite that draft yourself. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) writes in recognizable patterns. You have to inject your own perspective, your specific history, and your actual personality to make the message sound like you. The machine analyzes the data to find the conversational hook. Your human judgment is what successfully throws it.

A common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) make is sending one high-value message, getting no response, and simply walking away. Instead, construct a professional [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) cadence with reminders at 7, 14, and 30 days. Pestering is empty repetition. Persistence means every touch adds value: sharing an article or offering insight on recent news. To manage this, you need a data tracking system. Log every single message you send, every response you receive, and every door that opens. When you track the data, patterns emerge. You learn what works, double down on it, and apply the exact same operational discipline you use in the C-suite directly to your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

At the end of the day, an algorithm will never replace a genuine human relationship. You still have to show up and do the [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) of earning trust. What [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) actually provides is time compression. It drastically shrinks the hours required to locate the right targets, craft highly tailored messages, and maintain total consistency. This compression allows you to manage dozens of high-value relationships in the time it used to take to manage five. Use that leverage. Now, stop reading and start reaching out.

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### [Using Small Town Networking Techniques For Getting Hired In Big Cities](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-small-town-networking-for-getting-hired-in-big-cities/)

**Published:** June 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My wife and I have moved several times to places where we knew no one. What do we do to make friends and connections with people, particularly in the small towns we've lived in and how could it apply to you?

**Content:**

# Using Small Town Networking Techniques For Getting Hired In Big Cities

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[**You may also enjoy, “Networking When You Are Inexperienced”**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gnj)

**Living in New York City as I did for so many years, everyone tended to live an anonymous life. Former Beatle John Lennon lived anonymously here with no one bothering him when he was on the street walking somewhere. I remember seeing George Harrison standing on the open door of his Rolls-Royce, looking for someone. No one approached him. Generally, celebrities can live anonymous lives in New York City.**

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**When my wife and I moved to Long Island,** we started to spend less time in Manhattan. We began to spend more time with other parents, particularly adoptive parents (we adopted our son from Kazakhstan) and found great relationships with other adoptive parents.

**Eventually, we moved to a small town** in northeastern Pennsylvania that was six blocks by six blocks with one traffic light. The town’s population was a few thousand, stretching beyond the immediate village to a few miles outside. We developed great relationships in this small town before deciding to move to Asheville, North Carolina. But, again, we need to build new relationships with people just as we had before.

**What did we do, and how can you apply** it to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) (or trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), for that matter)? What have others done to network into new roles? Why should you even try to network? *It’s so uncomfortable!*

**Unlike celebrities, you don’t want to live** an anonymous life professionally. You want to have people know about you, like you, trust you and respect you, not just for your work before who you are. No one will [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) someone they don’t trust or like. You want people to feel comfortable knowing you and be willing to recommend you to others.

**In addition, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) works [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)** for job hunters. Many years ago, I interviewed Dave Opton, the CEO and founder of Execunet, an organization committed to helping senior professionals network and find work. Dave told me that [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) filled 70% of all positions. Of those, 70% of the 70% (or 49%) were filled as a result of introductions to people their network knew who were unknown to the job hunter.

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) now says that 85%** of positions are filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). If that is true and 70% of them come from introductions to people your network knows who you don’t, we are now an almost 60% of positions are filled due to introductions to people unknown to the other person.

**Why should you network?** *Because it works!*

**As for how to network,** there are many different ways to do it.

**One of my favorite stories involves** an out-of-work banker who was on the phone talking with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) when his cleaning person walked by and overhearing him, ask for a copy of his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). He avoided giving it to her for several visits before his wife approached him and told him to give it to her. As it turns out, their cleaning person was the wife of the bank president. She cleaned homes to remain humble. He got his next job through them. In his,

> **“So talk to everyone and [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on every lead. You never know where the introduction may come from that results in you being hired.”**

**Small towns have under-the-radar** power players. These are the people who everyone knows. They can be auto mechanics, bookkeepers, or people known to everyone because they are a “legacy” in the town. In Charlotte, NC, one such power player was a local barber who trimmed the hair of senior bankers in town. The way you network with these people was to visit with him a few times and wait for him to ask you, “So what do you do?” That was a signal that he liked you. He provided many introductions that resulted in many people being hired. You know people who are connectors because they serve others or invest in firms that need help.

**If you have a child in school, the school** can be a great gateway to meeting other people. We met other parents through our son and his school. The school ran get-togethers for families but, I know, that may not happen in big cities. Your son or daughter may have playdates or other opportunities to meet children. Children have a parent or parents who you can get to know. They know people, too. Build a relationship in advance of when you might need it just by being the parent and having your son and daughter play with other children.

**Neighbors are an underutilized resource**. When we lived in Pennsylvania, a neighbor of ours and I were talking and walking. While we were, he mentioned to me that his firm in town was having trouble finding people and did I think I could help. I went on to fill three positions with them in engineering, even though they thought they were well connected in town.

**When I lived in New York, I was able** to do the same thing with my neighbors, who all knew what I did (although I never pushed it on them) but knew that they could come to me if they needed help. Being friendly to your neighbors as you wait for the elevator, the train or bus, or in the store can help you land that next role.

**Don’t ignore business [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) groups**. The local Chamber of Commerce in my town in North Carolina provides excellent services to small businesses while also supporting large companies move into town. In addition, there are business [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) groups lie BNI where owners meet to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) business opportunities to one another. These groups exist worldwide and afford you a chance to meet with small to midsize business owners, as well as local power players who can provide introductions.

**In BNI, one of the ways to become known** is to make yourself available to substitute for someone unable to attend. The chapter will allow you to speak and tell everyone about yourself toward the end of the meeting. Be friendly and not a wallflower when allowed to introduce yourself and network. Like with the Chamber of Commerce, these are business owners who are known within the community. People know people, and if they like you and trust you, they may introduce you to others.

**John Sampson, a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/),** once said that the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) toward being an effective networker is to “get out of the house.” In the United States and other parts of the world, we can do that again and implement many of these [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) techniques in person. Where restrictions still exist, these can all be done virtually.

**You will not be successfu**l if you don’t engage with people. Most people will be friendly and willing to help if only you ask for support.

**Don’t let pride interfere with what yo**u know you need to do. The worst thing that can happen is that you try, and nothing improves. If you don’t try, things will remain the same. Nothing improves.

**Take a chance on being neighborly. What do you have to lose?**

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### [Job Search Tips: Resume Submissions #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resume-submissions/)

**Published:** June 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A 6-second job search tip about how to get more responses to your resume submissions

**Content:**

# Job Search Tips: Resume Submissions #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/QK1kquxK_DQ)

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### [Reorder Your Skills on LinkedIn #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/)

**Published:** June 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn often lists your skills in a wacky order.


**Content:**

# Reorder Your Skills on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Why Your Resume Doesn't Get Results #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** June 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why doesn't your resume get results? It's really easy to understand and correct.

**Content:**

# Why Your Resume Doesn’t Get Results #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/dTH8oCXKGTQ)

Why doesn’t your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) get results? It’s really easy to understand and correct.

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Why doesn’t your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) get results? Why are they not getting me [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)? It’s really very easy.

They don’t really care about everything that you’ve done. They care about everything that you’ve done that relates to what they need. And if you’re sending the same generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out over and over again, like the broken watch, that’s right twice a day, guess what’s gonna happen? DELETE.

So connect the dots for interviewers so they understand exactly exactly what you’ve done that relates to the job description that you’ve seen, or what you’ve been told by the employee who’s recommended that you apply, etc, etc, etc.

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### [How to Project Authority and Charm in an Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/)

**Published:** June 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most professional advice treats charisma like a genetic trait. That is dead wrong.

**Content:**

# How to Project Authority and Charm in an Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professional advice treats charisma like a genetic trait. You either have it, or you are doomed to be the quiet, hyper-qualified professional who gets passed over for the smooth talker.

That is dead wrong.

Charisma in a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) isn’t about being the loudest person in the room, telling jokes, or having a booming theatrical voice. At any level, whether you are a senior leader or an individual contributor, charisma is a clinical framework. It is the [projection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rejection-is-part-of-the-job-search-process-shorts/) of two distinct signals simultaneously: **High Authority** and **High Warmth**.

When you balance those two levers, you don’t just look smart. You look like an indispensable professional. Even if you are a deep introvert who hates small talk, charisma is a skill any person can systematically practice and execute.

Here are 5 practical, no BS pointers to instantly project capability and connection the next time you sit down across from a decision-maker.

### 1. The 2-Second Pause: Trading Reaction for Commanded Authority

When an interviewer asks a tough question, the standard human reaction is to answer immediately to prevent dead air. People dread silence because they think it looks like hesitation.

But rushing to fill the void signals [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). It makes you look like a test-taker desperate to get the right answer.

- **The Tactic:** When a question is leveled at you, intentionally pause for a full two seconds before you say a single word. Keep direct [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/), nod slightly, and look like you are evaluating a strategic dataset.
- **The Charisma Factor:** That silence doesn’t signal weakness; it commands the room. It shows the interviewer that you are not reactive. It shifts the perception of your character from someone under interrogation to an advisor formulating a clinical thesis.

### 2. The Contextual Mirror: Validating the Strategic Burden

True charm isn’t about getting people to like *you*. It is about making the other person feel deeply understood. The fastest way an introvert can build high-warmth rapport without faking an extroverted personality is to reflect the company’s pain back to them.

- **The Tactic:** Instead of jumping straight into your past achievements, mirror their question to validate the struggle behind it.
- **The Execution:** If they ask, *“How do you handle cross-functional engineering delays?”* do not start reciting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Start with: *“That question tells me you are likely experiencing a common mid-market friction point: product teams pushing features faster than architecture can scale them. Am I reading that correctly?”*
- **The Result:** You have immediately pivoted the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) into a collaborative problem-solving session. You aren’t pitching; you are diagnosing.

### 3. The Structural Cadence: Lowering Your Vocal Pitch at the Finish Line

[Introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/) and some laptop professionals  frequently lose professional weight through what linguists call “up-talk”–allowing the pitch of their voice to rise at the end of a sentence, making a statement sound like a nervous question.

- **The Tactic:** Control your vocal cadence by practicing the **Down-Ending**. Ensure the final three words of your sentences drop slightly in tone and pitch.
- **The Charisma Factor:** A declining vocal inflection signals absolute certainty. It gives your words structural weight. When you say, *“We stabilized EBITDA by 14%,”* and the word *“fourteen”* lands with a downward cadence, it sounds like an unshakeable market fact, not a hope.

### 4. The Structural Brevity Protocol: Cut the Conversational Lubrication

Nothing kills [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) charisma faster than a rambling answer that leaks [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) as it goes. People think they need to give a 10-minute historical overview to prove their depth.

Busy decision-makers want a clinical summary.

- **The Tactic:** Use a strict **3-Sentence Core** framework for your initial answers: state the historical friction, detail the exact asset you allocated to resolve it, and name the quantifiable outcome.
- **The Implementation:** *“We were losing 12% in margin velocity due to supply chain bloat. I consolidated our regional distribution centers into a single agile hub. That structural pivot recovered $1.4M in annualized revenue within 90 days.”* Stop talking right there. Let them ask for the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) details. Brevity signals complete [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in your data.

### 5. The Collective Pronoun Shift: Owning the Strategy, Sharing the Win

To balance High Authority with High Warmth, you have to master how you distribute credit. If you use “I” for everything, you sound like an isolated, high-ego operator. If you use “We” for everything, you sound like a passenger who just watched others do the heavy lifting.

- **The Tactic:** Use **“I” for the strategic allocation**, and **“We” for the functional execution**.
- **The Formula:** *“****I*** *engineered the post-merger integration framework, and then* ***we*** *mobilized the engineering teams to execute the legacy data migration over a 48-hour sprint.”* This precise alignment shows you have the personal authority to architect a plan, but the relational warmth to honor the team that pulled it across the finish line.

### The Bottom Line

Charisma isn’t an entertainment performance; it is a display of controlled intention. When you pause deliberately, mirror their problems, anchor your voice, practice brevity, and balance your pronouns, you remove all the defensive friction from the conversation.

You stop behaving like someone looking for permission to join a company. You start behaving like a trusted operator who is ready to step into the room and deliver results.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Should I Bring A Resume to Job Interviews? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-bring-a-resume-to-job-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** June 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Should I bring my resume to job interviews?

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# Should I Bring A Resume to Job Interviews? #shorts

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### [THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION - JUNE 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)

**Published:** June 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 172,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

**Content:**

# THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION – JUNE 2026 
[By the US Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)

```
MAY 2026

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 172,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was
unchanged at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
occurred in leisure and hospitality, local government, and health care. Employment in
financial activities declined.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
Note.

Household Survey Data

The major labor market indicators from the survey of households continued to show little or no
change in May. The unemployment rate held at 4.3 percent and has remained in a narrow range of
4.3 percent to 4.5 percent since July 2025. The number of unemployed people, at 7.3 million,
changed little over the month. (See table A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates showed little or no change in May for
adult men (4.0 percent), adult women (3.8 percent), teenagers (14.7 percent), and people who
are White (3.8 percent), Black (6.6 percent), Asian (3.8 percent), or Hispanic (5.0 percent).
(See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of people jobless less than 5 weeks declined by 286,000 to 2.2 million in May,
largely offsetting an increase in the prior month. The number of long-term unemployed (those
jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed over the month at 2.0 million but is up by
524,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for 27.5 percent of all unemployed
people in May. (See table A-12.)

The labor force participation rate held at 61.8 percent in May, and the employment-population
ratio changed little at 59.2 percent. These measures showed little change over the year, after
accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.)

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.8 million, changed little
in May. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part time
because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table
A-8.)

In May, the number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at
6.2 million. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively
looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take a job.
(See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
to the labor force changed little at 1.7 million in May. These individuals wanted and were
available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of
the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, was 486,000 in May,
essentially unchanged from the previous month. (See Summary table A.)

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 172,000 in May, similar to the gain of 179,000
in April. In May, job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, local government, and health
care. Employment in financial activities declined. (See table B-1.)

Leisure and hospitality added 70,000 jobs in May, well above the average monthly gain of
14,000 over the prior 12 months. Over the month, food services and drinking places added
48,000 jobs.

In May, employment in local government rose by 55,000, largely reflecting a gain in local
government, excluding education (+44,000).

Health care added 35,000 jobs in May, in line with the average monthly gain of 38,000 over the
prior 12 months. Over the month, ambulatory health care services added 26,000 jobs, including
a gain of 11,000 in home health care services. Employment continued to trend up in hospitals
(+6,000).

Social assistance employment continued to trend up in May (+12,000), mostly in individual and
family services (+10,000). Over the prior 12 months, social assistance had added an average of
17,000 jobs per month.

Employment in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction increased by 5,000 in May and is
up by 10,000 since February.

Financial activities employment declined by 22,000 in May and is down by 107,000 since a 
recent peak in May 2025. Over the month, job losses occurred in insurance carriers and related
activities (-11,000) and commercial banking (-3,000).

Employment in transportation and warehousing was essentially unchanged in May (+1,000) but is
down by 92,000 since reaching a peak in February 2025. Over the month, transit and ground 
passenger transportation (+9,000) and warehousing and storage (+6,000) added jobs. Air 
transportation lost 9,000 jobs, largely reflecting a business closure.

Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including 
construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, information, professional and 
business services, and other services.

In May, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 12 
cents, or 0.3 percent, to $37.53. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 
3.4 percent. In May, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory 
employees rose by 8 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.31. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.3 
hours in May. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged at 40.4 hours, and 
overtime edged up to 3.1 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory 
employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised up by 29,000, from 
+185,000 to +214,000, and the change for April was revised up by 64,000, from +115,000 to 
+179,000. With these revisions, employment in March and April combined is 93,000 higher than
previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from 
businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the 
recalculation of seasonal factors.)

_____________
The Employment Situation for June is scheduled to be released on Thursday, July 2, 2026, at
8:30 a.m. (ET).

```

 [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)

 [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)

 [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)

 [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)

 [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)

 [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)

 [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)

 [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)

 [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)

 [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)

 [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)

 [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)

 [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)

 [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)

 [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)

 [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)

 [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)

 [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)

 [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

 [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)

 [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)

 [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)

 [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)

 [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)

 [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)

 [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)

 [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)

 [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)

 [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)

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### [No BS Career Advice: June 7, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)

**Published:** June 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: June 7 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Don't Ask for Time Gemini_Generated_Image_rvpwyxrvpwyxrvpw](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dont-Ask-for-Time-Gemini_Generated_Image_rvpwyxrvpwyxrvpw-1024x559.png)

The ones we love sometimes are under pressure. It is up to us to support them while the deal with the crises of their lives. My wife has spent two months has been working to navigate State of New York systems for her niece. Yesterday, it is one with her sister.

For many of you, you make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of letting others in to listen or help. You hold it and it leaks out with others feeling what you are going through and unable to help. Let them in.

This is why I chose to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), “[The Resilience Pivot: Turn Job Search Rejection into Career Success](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNW8JZLJ)” at a discount, $0.99, for a limited time.

[Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is hard. I’ve helped many people land roles and sometimes the support they need is from family, friends, and others. Sometimes it is about cultivating [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/).

***Remember: If you don’t have time to read or skim everything you want today, save the article.***

## Using AI to Map Strategic Friction Before You Message

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

You already know the front door of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) (the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) is a meat grinder. When you upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you are letting a machine dictate your market value.

But most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice tells you to use the back door, hitting up your old colleagues or university alumni for a favor. As you know, the back door is just as crowded. It’s full of people looking for a shortcut.

To break through, you have to take **[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. You have to jump out of line, run down the alley, and find a way into the building by offering something the company desperately needs.

The absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to crack open that Third Door is to leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). But stop using it as a ghostwriter to spam people with “personalized” boilerplate. High-level decision-makers can spot a bot-generated message in about two seconds, and it gets deleted almost immediately after uttering a few mental expletives.

Instead, you need to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as your **Chief of Staff**. You use it to do deep, surgical [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on a company’s public pain points so that when you knock on that Third Door, you sound like an indispensable peer who already understands the business.

You can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to get a human [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) that puts you in that negotiation room.

### 1. The Operational Audit: Finding the Unpicked Lock

Most professionals personalize their outreach by looking at a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and saying, *“Hey, I see we both worked at Oracle in 2018.”* That’s a baseline pleasantry. It doesn’t prove you can solve their problems.

At the executive tier, you lead with value. You want to identify the exact operational drag that is keeping a target leader awake at night.

Instead of guessing, gather the target company’s recent public data trails. Grab their latest quarterly earnings call transcript, a recent [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) given by their CEO, or their main competitor’s macro moves. Feed that text into an LLM.

Give the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) this specific diagnostic prompt:

> *“Analyze this transcript from the perspective of an institutional investor. Identify the top two operational or infrastructure risks implied by this growth strategy. Cross-reference these risks with my core expertise in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction this leadership team will face.”*

Now you have an intelligence briefing. You aren’t pitching your past biography; you are diagnosing a live business problem before you ever say hello.

### 2. The 80/20 Rule: Machine for Context, Human for Voice

Once you have the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), let the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) help you structure the outreach, but enforce a strict 80/20 rule. Let the machine do the heavy cognitive lifting of data synthesis (the 80%). You must handle the final execution (the 20%) to inject your own human voice, rhythm, and industry shorthand.

To strip away the “AI-politeness” that triggers a recipient’s spam filter, run your draft back through the model with a strict fluff-decoupling prompt:

> *“Review this outreach draft. Strip out all generic corporate boilerplate, introductory filler, and synthetic enthusiasm (e.g., ‘I hope this finds you well,’ ‘In today’s fast-paced world’). Shorten the sentences to vary the cadence, use direct active verbs, and ensure the tone reflects the clinical brevity of a busy COO.”*

When you get the output, manually verify it. If it sounds like a corporate press release, kill it. Leaders typically write with short, punchy paragraphs. Your message should match that exact baseline.

### 3. Knocking on the Third Door

Let me show you how this works in practice. I was coaching a VP of Operations who wanted to land at a high-growth logistics firm.

We used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze the target company’s Q1 earnings report. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) identified a specific comment from the CFO about localized margin compression due to a recent regional warehouse consolidation.

We didn’t look for an open job description, and we didn’t ask for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). We targeted a director-level peer in that department and sent a direct, two-sentence note:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s regional warehouse integration this quarter. Having navigated a parallel restructuring at my last firm, I noticed that inventory synchronization logic usually leaks about 14% in margin velocity during month three if the legacy databases aren’t decoupled early. I put together a brief, 1-page framework on how we insulated our numbers against that specific drag. No strings attached. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

The director responded within three hours. Why? Because the message wasn’t a burden; it was a delivery of value. They traded notes, and at the end of the conversation, the director said, *“We actually need someone with this exact framework right now. Let me route your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) directly through our internal executive priority lane.”*

### The Bottom Line

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier, but multipliers work both ways. If you multiply generic automation, you just get a mountain of spam. But if you multiply high-fidelity [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), you get immediate access to the room.

Stop letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speak for you. Use it to uncover specific strategic deficits of your target companies, map the pain points your future peers are facing, and knock on [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) with a solution in hand. That is how you bypass the software, skip the line, and get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

### [ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7) is my book that explains why the most successful professionals in the age of automation have stopped acting like employees and started operating as a “Company of One”. [Available on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7).

This week, I released (or re-released) the following content in [my blog](https://www.thebiggamehunter.us/blog) :

**Don’t Hire ANYONE … #shorts** Excerpt: Standard [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) practices frequently lead to bad matches and expensive turnover. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a sharp perspective shift for managers, detailing why you need to selectively curate talent based on execution rather than just open seats. Link: 

**The Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) PortCo Playbook: Bypassing the [Search Firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to Target Operating Partners Directly** Excerpt: Waiting for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to bring you [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company roles leaves you fighting for scraps. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) maps out an aggressive backdoor strategy to identify, pitch, and position yourself straight to the PE operating partners pulling the strings. Link: 

**Spamming Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Does Work #shorts** Excerpt: You’ve been told high-volume [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) is dead, but it actually has a hidden mathematical utility. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the raw volume numbers and specific conditions under which [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) spamming can still unlock unexpected pipeline wins. Link: 

**Is It [A Bad Sign](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) That I Haven’t Gotten [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) When Promised? #shorts** Excerpt:

When a corporate timeline completely slips, candidate paranoia sets in instantly. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a direct reality check on internal [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) delays, HR bottlenecking, and how to interpret the silence without panicking. Link: 

**The 5 Step Roadmap to Your First IT Job** Excerpt: Breaking into information technology without pre-existing corporate tenure feels impossible. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) builds a structured, step-by-step technical and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) roadmap to land your baseline role and launch a sustainable tech [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Link: 

**When Every Day Feels Like Hell** Excerpt: Enduring a toxic, broken workplace day after day drains your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and destroys your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) performance. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares critical psychological and tactical preservation steps to survive the daily [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) while building your exit ramp. Link: 

**What Does It Mean When A Job You Applied to Opens a New Posting on the Same Site? #shorts** Excerpt: What does it mean when a job you applied to opens up a new posting on the same site 3 weeks later with the same requirements? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the internal corporate dynamics behind reposted listings and what it signals for your candidacy. Link: 

**Take Control of Your [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** Excerpt: Stop treating [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like a one-sided interrogation where you’re desperately trying to prove your worth. This episode delivers the exact question you need to ask to take control, evaluate the employer, and ensure the role builds [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Link: 

**[Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Can Feel Like a Roller Coaster #shorts** Excerpt: The modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) cycles rapidly between high-signal [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) loops and complete radio silence. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a direct reality check on how to emotionally decouple from the volatility, steady your focus, and protect your professional posture. Link: 

**The First 30 Seconds of an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** Excerpt: [First impressions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/) dictate the narrative arc of your entire evaluation loop. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) looks at how prominent figures standout in high-pressure environments, converting those frameworks into tactical job-hunting strategies to command authority instantly. Link: 

**You’re Going to Have to Take The [First Step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/)** Excerpt: In his book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There,” Marshall Goldsmith points out that often what makes someone successful are the very qualities they will need to modify to take their next step up. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how to override professional inertia. Link: 

**[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Protocol: Bypassing the HR Meat Grinder** Excerpt: Submitting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) cold online means letting a machine dictate your market value through rigged screening filters. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) introduces “The Third Door Protocol”—an actionable blueprint to jump out of the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) lines, identify real corporate friction points, and get introduced directly to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) desks as a high-priority employee [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Link: 

**People Will Remember | No BS [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) Advice | #shorts** Excerpt: Candidate experience and organizational posture stick with applicants long after an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) finishes. Denise Wilkerson, author of “HIRE with FIRE,” joins [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to break down a common, easily correctable [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that managers make during the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) loop that permanently damages their employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Link: 

**Why Are You Staying in That Job? #shorts** Excerpt: Complaining about a toxic boss, stagnant pay, or zero growth options means nothing if you refuse to change your situation. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a direct, uncomfortable reality check on why comfort is killing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) momentum and how to begin plotting your exit. Link: 

**Finding [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) Managers on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Like a Pro** Excerpt: Stop pitching generic corporate inboxes or waiting around for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to notice you. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details an advanced Boolean search protocol to map out corporate reporting lines, pinpoint actual decision-makers on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and initiate high-signal conversations. Link: 

**4 Steps to Getting Better [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Results** Excerpt: If your current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is stuck in a black hole, tweaking words won’t fix it; you need a structural overhaul. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) builds a clean, four-step optimization framework designed to highlight data-backed execution and capture maximum stakeholder attention. Link: 

**How to Connect With [The Hidden Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) #shorts** Excerpt: Most open roles are filled before they ever make it to a job board. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid-fire, No BS breakdown on how to penetrate internal corporate networks and uncover unlisted opportunities right from your phone. Link: 

**How to Write a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) That Proves Your Return on Investment** Excerpt: [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t buy responsibilities; they buy results. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details exactly how to restructure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullets to focus on metrics, financial impact, and performance value so companies clearly see the financial return of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) you. Link: 

**Be Open #shorts** Excerpt: Rigid parameters destroy candidate flexibility. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a direct reminder to stay structurally open to unexpected industries, pivots, and alternative organizational setups to maximize your incoming pipeline. Link: 

**AI-Driven [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/): How to Map & Fix Relationship Debt** Excerpt: Neglecting your professional ecosystem until you urgently need a job leaves you at an immediate disadvantage. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) introduces an AI-backed operational framework to map your historical network and systemically resolve connection gaps. Link: 

**Personal [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) SEO: Get Discovered by LLMs** Excerpt: Modern [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are no longer just searching keywords on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/); they are asking [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) models for curated talent lists. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down how to format, index, and position your digital footprint so large language models select you first. Link: 

**Get Your [Energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) Up #shorts** Excerpt: Low [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) kills candidate chemistry before you ever answer a technical question. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a rapid, No BS framework to manually elevate your state, project infectious enthusiasm, and command authority during video screens or panels. Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/): May 31 2026** Excerpt: The modern workplace requires a constant tactical realignment. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a comprehensive, direct breakdown of macro market movements, internal corporate positioning strategies, and crucial [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) rules to keep you ahead of the curve. Link: 

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### [What Do Employers Look For in a Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** June 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What do employers look for in a resume? The same thing they always look for.

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# What Do Employers Look For in a Resume? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

What do employers look for in a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? The same thing they always look for.

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### [The Effort to Earning Matrix:  Hacking the College ROI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-effort-to-earning-matrix-hacking-the-college-roi/)

**Published:** June 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop trading your sanity for a future paycheck and learn how to position your natural strengths for maximum financial return.

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# The Effort to Earning Matrix: Hacking the College ROI

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You don’t need to destroy your mental health over advanced calculus or grueling engineering labs just to secure a high-paying [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Data shows an inverse relationship where some of the highest-earning fields consistently award lower grades, meaning you can strategically target high-ROI majors without the extreme academic stress. Stop trading your sanity for a future paycheck and learn how to position your natural strengths for maximum financial return.

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You want a high-paying [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) after graduation, but you also want to survive the next four years without sacrificing your mental health to advanced calculus, organic chemistry, or grueling engineering labs. It feels like you have to choose between your sanity right now and your bank account later.

This table shows a DePaul University study mapping average student GPAs against mid-career salaries. Look at the top earners. The data reveals a direct inverse relationship: academic departments with the highest wealth consistently award the lowest grades. In this context, an easy major strips out advanced math and hard science requirements. Instead, you’re evaluated on project-based learning, practical writing, and critical thinking. If you select your path based on this relationship between effort and outcome, you can reach high-tier [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) brackets without the extreme stress of a traditional STEM track. We measure ROI by mapping coursework difficulty against earning potential.

The bottom right is the traditional STEM path: high effort, high earnings. Your target is the top left: high earning potential with a manageable workload. We call this the golden quadrant.

Let’s start by looking at the corporate generalists. This group includes majors like business administration, marketing, and supply chain management. The coursework difficulty here stays low because you aren’t memorizing theoretical math equations. Instead, you’re analyzing practical case studies, managing group projects, and [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) basic analytics to real-world business problems. Looking at the chart, these degrees drop right into the golden quadrant. Starting salaries land in the mid-50s, and mid-career ceilings for management roles routinely exceed $135,000.

However, because these programs are highly accessible, a lot of people graduate with them. You leave school with a broad understanding of business, but you lack a specialized technical skill to defend against market competition. You overcome that by using your free time during school. You have to aggressively pursue competitive internships and specialized certifications, like a Project Management Professional credential or a Google Analytics certificate. A generalist degree grants you broad corporate access, but to stand out to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), you have to manually build your own specialization outside the classroom.

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Next, we look at the rapidly growing tech sector, focusing specifically on information technology and data analytics. These programs bypass the grueling requirements of a computer science or software engineering degree. Rather than writing complex code from scratch, you focus on practical logic, managing existing systems, and basic statistics. Returning to the quadrant chart, these degrees sit very high up on the earning scale. You’re looking at entry-level salaries starting around $66,000 to $70,000, along with a massive amount of remote work flexibility.

The challenge here is the speed of the industry. University curriculums often struggle to update fast enough to keep pace with real-world technological innovation. To bridge that gap, you have to constantly self-educate. Your success depends on acquiring third-party vendor certifications from providers like AWS, platforms like CompTIA, or networks like Cisco, on your own time. A tech-lite degree successfully gets your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) past the initial HR filters, but it’s your ongoing, self-taught vendor certifications that actually dictate your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) ceiling.

The final category is for students with natural reading, writing, and analytical strengths. This includes majors like communications, economics, and psychology. The academic ease here comes from the format of the work. You trade high-stakes lab exams and memorization for media analysis, essay writing, and behavioral studies. Our chart shows that these specific paths [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) high financial returns.

Graduates routinely move into human resources, public relations, or market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) roles, with mid-career earnings landing between $70,000 to $99,000 a year. This path requires you to navigate non-linear [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) trajectories. Your degree title won’t always dictate your job title. You have to prove your competence through your own initiatives. That means building a tangible [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) of work while you’re still in school: professional writing samples, mock PR campaigns, or freelance projects that show [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) what you can actually do. These programs produce highly adaptable generalists. However, you bear the entire burden of providing the tangible proof of value that the diploma itself leaves out.

The data shows that you don’t need a STEM degree to reach high-tier [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) brackets, but a lower academic barrier doesn’t mean the effort disappears. As this graphic illustrates, choosing a major with an easier academic workload simply shifts the required effort away from the classroom and over to professional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) building. Picking an accessible degree allows you to strategically choose exactly where and how you apply your effort to maximize your financial return.

Let’s map out your exact degree path based on your natural strengths. If you want clear corporate progression and broad industry [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), follow the corporate progression branch toward business administration or finance. If you want to earn money in the tech sector without heavy coding or advanced math, follow the tech-lite branch toward information technology or data analytics. And if you are a strong writer and critical thinker who is comfortable self-directing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), take the third branch toward communications or economics. A smart college strategy aligns the required work with your natural, innate strengths.

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### [Misconceptions College Grads Have About Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/misconceptions-college-grads-have-about-job-hunting-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** January 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My guest, Steven Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com and I discuss a veritable Top 10 List of them to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot.

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# Misconceptions College Grads Have About Job Hunting

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

There’s a lot you’ve learned in school and one thing most of you think you know that you don’t is how [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) works. My guest, Steven Rothberg of [CollegeRecruiter.com](http://www.JobSearch.Community) and I discuss a veritable Top 10 List of them to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 00:05

So my guest today is Steven Rothberg. Steven is the founder and chief visionary officer of collegerecruiter.com, a job site where Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and other [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) who [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) at scale advertise their job openings, which tend to be part time, seasonal, internships, and other entry level [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that require zero to three years of experience. At any given time. There are about, catch this one, folks, 2 million active job postings on collegerecruiter.com. Steven, welcome. Thanks for making time today.

**Steven Rothberg** 00:44

It’s so great to be here. Jeff, the sun is shining and your face is beaming.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 00:48

Oh, I know I was entertaining. So folks, we’re gonna be talking to those of you who are about to graduate school or, are in your senior year and talk with you about some of the misconceptions. I think you have. I know Steven believes you have, as you enter into the workforce about what this process is going to be like. So we’re going to do a top 10 list. Ooh. Steven, what do you think the first one is? Okay.

**Steven Rothberg** 01:23

Wow, I guess I’m David Letterman here. Right? So with the top 10 list, probably the biggest misconception that we hear at collegerecruiter from [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), from students, recent grads, [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Services is this, and it’s been this way forever. We went live in 96. It’s been that this way, since before we went live. But people have this perception that if they . . . that, by the day, they graduate, they need to have a job lined up. And maybe that was true. Yeah, it’s like maybe that was true when my grandparents were graduating, and maybe even my parents, like in the 40s, and 50s. But, you know, for as long as I’ve been able to put my own socks on, it just hasn’t been true. The reality is, is that in most years, most students graduate without a job. And within six months of graduating, the vast majority of them have a job in their chosen [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path. That path might be consistent with their major. They might be an engineer if they went through engineering school. And it might be something completely different. They might have gone through engineering school, but what they really want to do is create art and sell it on Etsy. And that’s what they’re doing. Whatever it is. So you don’t have a job lined up by graduation? Take a chill pill. You’re in good company.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 02:52

It is so true. And even when I went back to what was in school, and was graduating back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Yeah, there were some type A personalities that [were working hard,](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-career-angles/) or in their senior year, they were wearing suits on to the college campuses. Folks, you’ve seen movies from the 60s. No one ever wore suits. But these, these little Republicans, no did no disrespect to Republicans, I really mean that. But 1960, come on, these Nixon Republicans were wearing suits on campus, and we were making fun of them relentlessly. So I’ll just simply say, Don’t sweat it. Don’t sweat it. You weren’t focused on this. You were having a good time, trying to get grades . . . maybe. And now you’re out there. And now you’re saying to yourself, “oh, shoot, or maybe the other word. I have to find a job. Because I don’t want to live with these people forever.”

**Steven Rothberg** 03:53

They don’t want you to live with them forever either.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 03:58

But they tend to be more discreet about it, because they understand that they’re the fallback position. So they really want to get you out. So it’s now the time to start focusing. Maybe.

**Steven Rothberg** 04:09

 Yeah, and to be clear, right, Jeff, there’s nothing wrong with having a job before you graduate. There’s a lot of good stuff with that I did. And it relieved a lot of pressure, a lot of [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/). I could enjoy the last few months of school. That was all great. But don’t sweat it if you’re in roughly the half that don’t. Ready for number two?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 04:31

number 2!.

**Steven Rothberg** 04:35

At some point in this, you’re going to have to pretend that you’re the count on Sesame Street and but not this one. So here’s another really big misconception and I hear this more from [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and more from the College [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Service Offices than I do from the actual candidates. But a lot of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and a lot of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) service office people would have us believe that the only good place to find an internship if you’re a student or the only good place to find an entry level job if you’re graduating is through your college or university [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) service office. And I have two letters for you– BS.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 05:11

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I have a friend who’s worked in one of those college offices. And he’s a former executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), retired, moved south. And every once in a while, he teaches classes. Now he’s gotten his PhD, but because of his previous [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), they bring him into the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) services office, to teach folks there how to do it. And they are clueless, absolutely clueless. And yes, some [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) may come into their offices. But most of the time, they’re gonna give you some of the most asinine, anachronistic ideas about how to find work. No, this is not the place to focus.

**Steven Rothberg** 05:54

There are there are about 7400 post-secondary schools in the US. One year, two year four year colleges and universities. There is no way that there are 7400 highly qualified people in that role. And many of those offices have multiple people. I think the reality is, if you go to one of the 100, or 200, sort of [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) funded schools, you’re going to probably get some really good advice. But for the vast majority of the other [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) service offices, they’ve got one paid staff person, maybe a couple students who are working on like a work study program. And even if they’ve got great [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), and they really want to be able to help you, they just don’t have the time. So there’s an association that a lot of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Service Offices belong to that’s called the National Association of Colleges and Employers–NACE. And they reported, I think, probably five, six years ago, something like that, that only 15–15% of students find [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) through their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) service office. So if you’re not having [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) finding that job through [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) service office, again, take a chill pill 85% of your classmates are just like you. Use the office, they do have good information, there are well trained people in those offices, the vast majority of them, they want to be able to help you. Most of them don’t have time to be able to help you as much as they would like. And definitely lots of students find [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) through [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) services. But the reality is, most don’t. So use other channels.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 07:38

And here we have one of those friendly disagreements. My experience has been not all that competent, and I must in all candor say, you know, if you’re in an A plus university, you probably have an A+ [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Service.

**Steven Rothberg** 07:50

Yes.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 07:51

If you went to a school no one’s ever heard the name of before. probably you don’t.

**Steven Rothberg** 07:57

They don’t.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 07:58

You have to start looking outside of that venue, even though they promised you upon admission that they were there to help. Just don’t have the ability to.

**Steven Rothberg** 08:08

Yeah, and as an as a University of Minnesota alum, I think we can agree that you definitely don’t want to go to the University of Wisconsin or count on any help from them. Right? That’s just an expression better dead than red. Sorry, just had to work that in here somehow. Number three?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 08:26

Number three.

[***Launch Your Career. Get Ahead.***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-g7a)

**Steven Rothberg** 08:29

Number three is the flip side of this, that using [your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) Service Office is a waste of time. This I hear from students, I usually hear this from students or recent grads, who have never actually used their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) service office. So it’s kind of like friends of mine who won’t try sushi but say that sushi is really awful, right? If you’ve tried the sushi, and you really don’t like it, that’s fair. If you’ve used [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) service office, and they were a bunch of idiots, they couldn’t help you. They wouldn’t help you, whatever. Fair enough. But if you’ve haven’t tried using [your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) Service Office, do. Most of those offices do have good information. Most of them do have [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) coming on campus who are specifically looking to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people like you. Most of the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counselors, [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Service office directors, do have a lot of [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) to help people like you. And so a lot of students do find [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) or other help–Resume writing assistance, [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), whatever through those office. It is not a waste of time for some students, but again, I think we’re in agreement that the better funded the office, the more likely it is that you’re going to get the help that you need. And the reality is universities have chosen to fund football stadiums a lot more than they’ve chosen to fund [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) services,

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 10:05

Go figure. The place where they make the money, the place where it’s already too late, you know, not getting any more money from you. So what a surprise. Are we up to number four?

**Steven Rothberg** 10:23

Four, absolutely, we’re seeing was just still in single digits. So you and I are able to count this side. Another misconception and this one, I’m going to pin right on the students and recent grads, and this is the cheapness factor. I have a friend who has a computer, and she has written three [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) in her life, and therefore she should write mine. No, if you can afford it, have a professional do it. If your car needs repairs, might you have a friend who can repair it? Yeah, maybe, you know, if you need your wisdom teeth pulled, might you have a friend who can do that, maybe, um, you know if they’re a dentist, and they have the proper tools and whatever. But the reality is, is that very few people have any experience whatsoever in writing [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), and writing them in a way that is compelling, and designed to do what the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is designed to do, right? In my view, the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a document that is supposed to get you from from point zero to .1. In other words, starting your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and getting an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And once you have that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), then a lot of other things become a heck of a lot more important. But a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a, it’s a specific kind of a document. You can be the world’s [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) writer, and be horrible at writing [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), or the other way around. So get help from an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), whether that’s some kind of great software, whether that’s a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach, whether that’s somebody who writes [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) for a living, but, boy, when I see people complaining about they’ve applied to 50 [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), and I look at their skill set, and I look at the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) they’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to. And it’s like there’s something missing here. Why aren’t they getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), nine times out of 10, it’s the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/),

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 12:21

and the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that they’re sending out repetitively without edits to demonstrate how they fit that particular job. They act like the broken watch that’s right twice a day. They send that out constantly. And it doesn’t make a case for that job. It’s one thing if you post that [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) on a job board, because you need something generic to draw people to you but when you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for something, you want to do a certain amount of tailoring to demonstrate the fit. But your point was that all your friends and all your family, they’re not [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writers. That even your Dad, your mom who may work professionally, your aunt or uncle, whoever it is, they’re not [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writers. They may read them, but it’s different. So [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone who knows how to do this because, trust me, it’s different writing for you than for someone with 15 or [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience.

**Steven Rothberg** 13:22

Yeah,

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 13:23

and they’re not gonna know how to write your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). And you’re gonna look at it, and you’re gonna have to smile and say, “Thanks, mom. Thanks, dad.” And you know, it sucks. They feel like you have to use it.

**Steven Rothberg** 13:37

Yeah. And then you don’t want to show them the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that you’re actually using, which is not the one that they’d helped you with. But hey, moms and dads are great. As a dad, I can say dads are great. Well, occasionally, maybe some dads, I’ll meet when at some point. Ready for the next one?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 13:54

Number five.

[***Recent Graduate? Five Things to Keep In Mind While Negotiating an Offer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-frS)

**Steven Rothberg** 13:56

If I don’t graduate with an internship, I’ll never get hired into a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) related role, Wrong. Wrong, Wrong.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 14:03

They ought to do a song on this one. <Buzzer sound> goes off. Not true. Yeah.

**Steven Rothberg** 14:10

So this is a misconception that I think is spawned more by the [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Service office folks than than anybody else. And one of the things that I really detest about how the specifically American higher education system has evolved, and it’s different in other countries, this is not how the world operates, is that the American higher education system is all about the money. And one of the ways that schools make money off the backs of students who are racking up a massive amount of student debt is to say to those students that you can only call something an internship if you pay us money, so that you can call it an internship, and then we’ll give you one course credit, that’s going to get you closer to graduation by about 14 minutes. And it’s despicable, quite frankly. You can go and you can work and do any job for any employer without the permission of your college or university. And don’t let them tell you otherwise, if you can’t call it an internship for purposes of getting class credit, you can still call it an internship on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) because that [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is between you and your employer or potential employer. So if your employer calls it an internship, so can you, even if you don’t pay your school hundreds of dollars for the privilege of having that internship and getting a measly course credit hour. At the end of the day, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the candidate that is most likely to be able to do the job. And if you can demonstrate to that employer, that you’re looking to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me to do X, Y, and Z. and I have done X, Y and Z for this other organization, then that employer is not going to care what your job title was. They’re not going to care what you were paid. They want more than anything else to know that you can do the work. Your previous job title matters to get you your foot in the door. The pay you got matters to some [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) who are going to try to base the pay, what they pay you on what you were paid in your previous job, although that’s becoming less common. But an internship is not something that is in control of [your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) Service Office.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 16:48

So true. I did a master’s in social work because I was thinking of becoming becoming a therapist in private practice. And we were forced to do four semesters of field work and pay for a part time job is what it comes down to. So we were paying the course credits, which were more than a few $100. at the masters level, for the privilege of going to in my case, the first year was awful. A social services agency in midtown Manhattan, where termination of the client began at the time that they were doing the intake with them, because they were never coming back because it was a place where there were a lot of drugs and alcohol. And they were just there for the night and gone. But you had to go through this. And folks, you don’t have to in a lot of programs. Master’s in social work, you’re stuck with that. But many of you don’t have to do this. Even if you’ve got a part time job, I think the idea is if you can flip this into something full time at graduation, and after graduation, that’s the original idea. The internships, they get a chance to try you out and figure out if they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. But so much of this now is just garbage, no reason to put up with.

**Steven Rothberg** 18:10

Yeah, and you know, the smaller the organization you’re working for, the more likely it is that your manager or the owner or the executive director, would be very [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to have the conversation with you of “can I call this an internship?” I mean, we’ve we’ve had students work for us that we weren’t advertising the role as an internship. They came to work for us. And they’re like, you know, I’m basically an intern and can I call it that? It’d be helpful on my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).” It’s like, hell yeah, what you’re doing is that is is basically an internship and oh, by the way we’re paying you. So let’s not get into that part of the conversation. But by the way, the Social Work work that you were describing, sounds like they were paying you in drugs and alcohol. I think that’s more than fair compensation for that kind of work. But another story for now.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 18:58

Not the case. Not the case!

**Steven Rothberg** 19:02

So, next item. Number six, is it? Yeah. Okay. I think so. Yeah. So now now we’re sort of starting to lose track; it must be the drugs and alcohol. So Okay, the next one is, this was something really common for my parents’ generation and the ones before that. So think like older baby [boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/), you know, people who were born in, say, like the 30s 40s, maybe 50s had this attitude that if you’re good at something, that’s the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path you should pursue. So, like my father, for example, really good at math. So therefore, he became an accountant. Miserable at being an accountant. He was good at it, but he didn’t like it. So at a relatively early age, I think he was in his 30s. He got the heck out of accounting and did something where he could enjoy his life. That I think is something that there’s sort of a current generation of students, Gen Z have a better handle around, it’s one thing to be good at something, it’s another thing to have to do that day after day after day after day for the rest of your life. So just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean that’s what you need to have as your chosen [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 20:14

That example of your dad growing up back in the day, was very common. And I remember when I went into recruiting, I got that message from my dad who’s tried to be helpful to me, because I’m someone who graduated with an undergraduate in political science. For those of you who are going to listen to this, as a podcast, I gave a thumbs up and a sarcastic look on my face. So the reality is, you may not like it, even though you may have an intrinsic capability to do it. Just be aware, if you’re not sure of what to do. I always encourage people, there are [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) assessment exams, that will give you ideas. They’re not perfect. You have to test what they recommend to you but it gives you some ideas of things to explore well. How do you test those ideas? You talk to people who are doing the work. I don’t know anyone who is doing the work! You can find them on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). You can ask people that you know. There’s lots of different ways that you can get introduced to someone who’s very willing, excuse my slang here, to talk to the nice puppy who’s thinking of going into the field is going to sit there panting in front of them and give you a real idea of what it’s like to work in the field. The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly, just so you know, because surprises are never good.

**Steven Rothberg** 21:45

Yeah, although what is always good, it’s a Clint Eastwood reference. So the good, the bad, and the ugly for those of you who aren’t film buffs, but another misconception is higher education is a waste of money. Now I see this BS being trotted out more and more over the last few years, mostly by people who are wealthy, mostly by people who are highly educated themselves, mostly by people who would never dream of telling their own kids not to pursue some kind of higher education. It is an excuse for keeping lower income and middle income people in lower income and middle income [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Education is always a good thing. Political Science degree is unlikely to [lead you directly into a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/an-underutilized-resource-for-job-leads/). There just aren’t very many [job postings](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-dont-companies-include-salary-in-job-postings/) that for political scientist, but it does do a phenomenal job of [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) your mind and the critical thinking skills that you acquire in a major like that are more in demand by more [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) than anything else. You can train somebody to read a balance sheet, but you can’t train them to think critically.

[***How College Seniors Can Prepare For The Job Market***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eVw)

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 23:10

Thank you for letting me know that that’s those years of tuition I did back in the stone ages were not a complete wastec of time.

**Steven Rothberg** 23:22

You know, another one that bugs me is that there’s a misconception is that you need to accept any job that is offered to you that offers great experience, instead of great pay. This is sort of the unpaid internship scenario or somebody who’s graduating and being paid poverty wages, and the employer will basically say, ‘Well, you should be so grateful to work for us. We’re going to give you all this fantastic experience, and we’re going to pay you a pittance or perhaps nothing.’ Now, in some years, during recessions or during depressions, maybe you have to choose between [a job that offers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-how-long-can-you-consider-a-job-offer/) great experience and great pay. This is not one of those job markets, you absolutely should be able to find a job that offers both great experience and great pay.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 24:25

And we’re recording this in April of 2022. You may watch this at a different time were times are different. But right now we’re dealing with labor shortages, and firms desperate to find people. They want people who meet certain standards, so they keep recycling [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) over and over again, without pulling the trigger many times. But the reality is, don’t fall for this BS. Unless your family is independently wealthy and is willing to write checks to you to deal with your apartment, to buy you a house, to pay your bills, you’re going to need money from somewhere. And if you can’t afford to go to work for someplace, don’t do it, I’ll also let you in on a little secret, folks. Once you start that job, continue to look for a while to find something that actually will pay you money. And if asked about it, because I never believe in lying, you tell individuals I needed to get to work. I’m making less than subsistence wages, I want to come to join your firm. I’m going to commit to being with you for a lengthy period of time. Pay me properly. You know what cost of living is like here? Imagine being in the Bay Area making $15 an hour and expecting to find that pay your rent and eat one or the other.

**Steven Rothberg** 25:51

Yeah. And the another problem with taking a job that– this isn’t a misconception, but just to build on what you were saying, Jeff, is that if you start off working for say, $15 an hour, and you should really be working at $25 an hour. It becomes really, really hard to get your pay up to the level where it should be because the employer that hired you is unlikely to basically double your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). The next time you’re that you deserve a [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/), they might increase it by five or 10%. You’re just never going to catch up. And there are definitely a lot of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) still who will say “Oh, well, okay, well, we’re gonna consider [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for this job, what were you making in your last job, and you tell them 15 bucks an hour, and then they’re good, maybe they’re gonna [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you 20, when really you should be getting 25 or 30. So if you start off [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) making below market wages, it’s going to be really hard to catch up.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 26:50

They’re already places in the country where it’s no longer legal to ask about your current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). That’s starting to eliminate that scenario. But many people, most parts of the United States, they can still ask that. And in other parts of the world, they could ask. So just be aware, if you take something below market, you’re gonna hurt yourself for many years to come. It’s gonna be hard to catch up.

**Steven Rothberg** 27:15

Yep, absolutely. Um, two more, I think

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 27:19

So I think two. So we’re up to number nine.

**Steven Rothberg** 27:24

Number nine is pressure that I think parents and grandparents put on mostly [young adults](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-conversation-with-a-young-adult/). So what are you going to do with your life? Like when you’re 20, or 21? You know, what you’re going to be doing when you’re 60? Even if you think you know what you’re going to be doing when you’re 60. Right? Put down the bong because, no, you don’t. You, at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), I think can map out the next five years. You know, for those of us of a certain generation or older that remember the Soviet Union, highly centralized economy, like the trains didn’t move unless somebody in the Kremlin said, move that train from A to B, even the Soviets only had five year plans, because they knew to plan further out than that was just a falling. Now, that’s not to say that you can’t have dreams, and think, ‘Hey, I would love when I’m 60 to be doing X, Y and Z.’ But to map out [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) for the next 40 years, I’m going to be doing this for two years, and then that for three years, and then that for 18 months, then that for four years. Gee! No way. So I would say at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), try to figure out where you want to be five years from now and then map that out. There are a number of tools online that are great for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) mapping. One of them is a partner of collegerecruiters. It’s a it’s a site called zippia. Z-I-P-P-I-A. And you can do things like put in a major, and it’ll say, Oh, if you have this major, these are the different occupational paths that you can follow and this is what they pay. And you can click and search for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in those areas. Or in this case, you can say, ‘hey, I want to have a job with this job title. How do I get there?’ And it will say these are the 12 different paths to getting to that. I want to be a project manager. These are the 12 different ways that you can become a project manager. But don’t try to. . . Don’t allow yourself to be put in that parent or grandparent box of what are you going to do when you’re their age.

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**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 29:41

You know, they and most of you were raised with the idea of climbing the ladder. as though there’s a ladder to [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Reid Hoffman, who founded [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) came up with a different concept a few years ago. He refers to me as a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) jungle gym where you’re leaping from one part of the jungle gym to another, because there’s no direct progressions anymore. So you need to be alert to how your field is evolving, and where the opportunities are there because the path is not linear anymore. Especially with all the changes in technology that have occurred and are about to occur, you have to be the CEO of your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Don’t outsource your [career planning](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hows-your-plan-going/) to your employer. They have their interests at heart, not yours. And by looking out for yourself, number one, your wages will be higher. And number two, you’re not going to get caught short, like musical chairs. Remember musical chairs like when you were little, and discover that the field that you’ve committed to is going away. So be aware of that jungle gym idea, folks. It does make a difference. And number 10.

**Steven Rothberg** 31:01

Number 10 is taking a few months off after graduation is a bad idea. Misconception! I think it is one of the greatest things that a recent grad can do. And those few months off might come immediately after graduation. Or it might be a year or two or three years after graduation. And if you can’t afford it, take a few months off and but you can figure out a way of taking a couple of weeks in between graduation and your first job or a couple of weeks in between your second job and your third job. Do it. You know when we look back on our lives, and people who are on their deathbeds, no one ever says, I wish I had worked more. But a lot of them say things like ‘I wish I had experienced more, traveled more, you know, sheltered some puppies so that they could find forever homes, whatever it is that really charges your batteries. If you’re financially able to take that time, do it. We just hired a new head of sales and partnerships for collegerecruiter. And he was working for the same company for I think it was eight years. And he says to us, is it okay if I take a week off from my last day with my old employer and my first day with collegerecruiter? Right. And in our minds, it’s like when we wish you had started six months ago. But yeah, take that week off. Once you’ve been here a month, we’re gonna hardly even remember that week. But it will allow you to, to recharge your batteries and to come in feeling fresh and invigorated. And you know, when people going straight from you know, 12, 13, 14 years of school right into the workforce, and then maybe right into another job and then right into another job. For God’s sake, breathe, take a breath.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 33:02

It’s so true. No one is going to care that you took a few weeks off, a few months off after graduation. You’re a kid, you’re supposed to do stuff like this. Enjoy your life because you when you get to be my age. I’m not going to be assumptive about you–your age, ok. There comes a point where you do have regrets about not having done certain things. For now, you may be pushed, shall we say, by parents or other individuals that do stuff that doesn’t ring true. Go out and have a good time. You have my permission. My permission is more important than your parents. Right?

33:46

Right. Yeah. You know, when I’m talking to people about like, what kind of job should they be looking for? So like, one thing is you want a job that’s going to allow you to pay your bills. You want a job that’s going to allow you to do meaningful work, , something that you’re interested in, that you care about. And you want a job that maybe leaves the world a better place than what you found it in. And if you can get all three of those. What else is there?

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 34:13

Well, this is where I was about to pull the joke of ‘greed is good.’ Sorry, an old 1980s movie reference, folks. I apologize.

**Steven Rothberg** 34:25

Yes, Mr. Gordon Gekko.

**[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** 34:28

It’s an Oliver Stone movie, so I get permission to use it. But the fact of the matter is, this is what you’ll aspire to. And that’s and for now upon graduation, have a little bit of a life because you’re gonna be working a lot of hours going forward. Steven, this has been a lot of fun. How can people find that more about you, CollegeRecruiter , EVERYTHING?

**Steven Rothberg** 34:53

Yeah, sure. So if you’re looking for part time, seasonal, internships, [entry level jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/winning-job-interviews-for-entry-level-professionals/), we focus on those that have that requires zero to three years of experience. We’re global. So we have English language [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in dozens of countries. Go to our site collegerecruiter.com. You don’t need to log in. In fact, we don’t accept, we don’t make it possible for anybody to register with our site or provide any personally identifiable information. So you know we’re not going to be taking your data and then selling it to the highest bidder. We have literally 10s of thousands of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) who are advertising their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with us. And it’s our mission to help students and recent grads find better [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), great [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).

**Steven Rothberg** 35:43

And if an employer happens to stumble into this because they’re curious? Same thing? There’s information on the site about how to advertise with you I’m sure?

**Steven Rothberg** 35:51

Yeah, absolutely. They can they can email me it’s Steven@collegerecruiter.com or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com/in/StevenRothberg. Hit me up.

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### [Stop Applying and Start Auditing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-and-start-auditing/)

**Published:** June 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the three specific frameworks you need to audit your career and land a role that actually fits.

**Content:**

# Stop Applying and Start Auditing

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop wasting your time on “spray and pray” [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) that lead nowhere. You aren’t failing; you’re trapped by psychological biases that keep you in a cycle of [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/). This episode breaks down the three specific frameworks you need to audit [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and land a role that actually fits.

If you’re currently looking for a job, you know the exhaustion. You spend hours pushing out [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), replacing a lack of clarity with sheer volume. But struggling to figure your next move is not a personal failure. It usually comes down to two measurable psychological traps: the sunk cost fallacy, where you feel tied to the years you’ve already invested, and identity attachment, where changing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) feels like losing a piece of who you are.

When those traps take hold, the reflex is to act. You fire off hundreds of AI-polished [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) hoping something sticks, without pausing to define what you actually require from the role. The result is entirely predictable. You become a blurry silhouette in a massive [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) pool. If you do land a job this way, the odds are high that it will be a severe mismatch for your skills and goals.

We need to bypass the generic advice and break this loop. To do that, we are going to match your specific [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) blockage to one of three analytical frameworks. Skipping this self-reflection saves you time today, but it ensures you’ll spend the next several years in another mismatched role, building toward a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) you never actually wanted.

Profile one is the spray and pray applicant. You are frustrated, tight on time, and sending your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to anything that loosely resembles your background. The specific error here is operating under the delusion that [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) volume equals [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) momentum. It doesn’t. To fix this, you have to stop [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/)
completely and run a baseline audit on your past roles.

The mechanics are straightforward. Look at your previous job. Write down the expectations you had before you started, and place them right next to the actual reality of your daily tasks. This isolates what you want to do from what you can do. From that contrast, extract three strict non-negotiable values. That might be a hard compensation floor, remote work flexibility, or a specific team structure. Implementing this filter cuts down the raw volume of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) you can apply for, but it takes you out of a position of desperation and puts you in a position of alignment, giving you actual leverage in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

Profile two is the optimizer. You are an early to mid-career professional. You feel unfulfilled, and you are trying to weigh competing priorities like pay, lifestyle, and social impact. To map priorities, we use the WAM framework, defining [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) options by three axes: wealth, autonomy, and meaning. Wealth measures [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) capital: rare skills, economic optionality, and financial runway. Autonomy is control over tasks, while meaning measures your counterfactual social impact. The [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) optimizers make is falling into control traps. This happens when you try to maximize autonomy before you have built enough [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) capital to actually command that leverage in the market. The math of this model requires satisficing. If you decide to chase peak meaning or peak autonomy, you almost always have to make a conscious, calculated sacrifice regarding your peak wealth. So the optimizer has to accept a compromise across these three axes. Continuing to hunt for a mythical, perfect dream job that maximizes all three will only keep you paralyzed.

Our third profile is the paralyzed pivot. You are further along in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you desperately want a change, but you are frozen by the psychological weight of the status you’ve already built. You are stuck because status quo bias makes the familiar feel safe. Your identity is attached to your current title, making a pivot feel like a threatening loss of self.

To unfreeze, you need Odyssey prototyping. Instead of one massive leap, you draft three divergent five-year plans. The expected path is your current trajectory. The alternative path is what you’d do if your industry vanished. The wild card is your dream scenario. Execute these prototypes through micro-experiments. Shadow a friend in another industry, conduct informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and gather real, physical data without making a full commitment.

Prototyping requires committing your time to experiments while you still hold your current job. But this effort replaces guesswork with real data, letting you test a new life before you actually commit your livelihood to it. True [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) clarity is never found by endlessly scrolling job boards. It is engineered by auditing your past, recognizing the capital you need for the autonomy you want, and prototyping your future.

Overwhelmed? Audit your values. Torn between priorities? Chart your options on the WAM axis. Terrified to pivot? Prototype three distinct futures.

Regardless of which profile fits you, there is one final requirement: you must set a hard decision deadline. Open-ended deliberation leads to perpetual postponement. Setting a specific date to make your choice forces you out of analysis paralysis and into execution. Not deciding is still a decision. Committing to an imperfect path today is always better than letting the compounding cost of inaction make the choice for you.

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### [Escape the LinkedIn Commodity Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/)

**Published:** June 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to trade low-value volume for high-friction signals that actually land high-ticket roles. 

**Content:**

# Escape the LinkedIn Commodity Trap

Most professionals treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a digital [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), but [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use it as a live data set. If you’re relying on “Easy Apply” and generic job titles, you’re invisible to the algorithm. Learn how to trade low-value volume for high-friction signals that actually land high-ticket roles.

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We are going to audit your digital footprint by evaluating the exact return on investment of trading low-
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real-world experience to broadcast a high-resolution digital signal. This quadrant chart maps the signal
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The green open-to-work photo frame is a primary example. While it shows readiness, high-value
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The easy apply button functions as a volume trap. Because the process is frictionless, a single posting
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Algorithmic silence is another silent killer. If you don’t engage with the platform, the system assumes your
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### [Mastering Interview Anxiety: The Psychology of Unflappable Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

**Published:** June 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the exact "pre-performance routine" used by elite athletes to manual override the fight-or-flight response.

**Content:**

# Mastering Interview Anxiety: The Psychology of Unflappable Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop letting a surge of adrenaline hijack your brain during high-stakes [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). This episode breaks down the exact “pre-performance routine” used by elite athletes to manual override the fight-or-flight response. Learn the science-backed physiological and linguistic shifts that project authority when the pressure is highest.

**Timestamps**

0:00 – The Biology of the “Freeze Response” in [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)

0:27 – The Pre-Performance Routine: Mastering Your Physiology

0:54 – Power Posing: Hacking Your Testosterone and Cortisol

1:33 – Decatastrophizing: Neutralizing Worst-Case Scenarios

:00 – Overcoming the Spotlight Effect and Affect Labeling

2:25 – Cognitive Reframing: Turning Judges into Teammates

 2:52 – The 10-Second Buffer: How to Reset Mid-Interview

3:16 – The Physiological Sigh: A Biological Reset Button

3:41 – The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Method 4:10 – The 3-Second Silence Rule for Tough Questions

4:31 – The Past-Tense Buffer: Reframing Your Weaknesses

Welcome to JobSearchTV. When you sit down across from a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager, you are entering high stakes social theater, a direct test of your emotional regulation. You’ve likely felt your mind go entirely blank right after a difficult question.

That freeze response is biological. Under extreme pressure, your body releases a surge of adrenaline, triggering a fight or flight reaction that literally hijacks your brain’s executive function. You can manually override this reaction.

Elite athletes use a strategy called a pre-performance routine, a structured step-by-step toolkit designed to regulate the body and mind before the pressure hits. By [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) these same steps to [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you take that uncontrolled panic response and replace it with a projected state of unflappable authoritative [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). Let’s build your routine.

Step one starts two minutes before your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) begins, ideally in a private space. You are going to adopt the Wonder Woman power pose, standing tall, chest out, hands on hips, taking up as much physical space as possible. If you look at high status leaders facing immense pressure, you will notice they consistently utilize this exact open stance to project composure and authority.

This chart illustrates quantitative findings from Harvard [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on body language. It shows that holding the specific physical stance alters your brain chemistry. Testosterone, which drives [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), rises by 20%, while cortisol, your primary [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) hormone, drops by 25%.

While holding this stance, you’re going to apply a psychological technique called decatastrophizing. Mentally confront your worst case what-if scenarios. What if I stumble on my words? What if I completely blank on a question? When you force yourself to confront those exact fears while physically holding a dominant low [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) posture, you preemptively starve your brain of the [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) hormones required to trigger a panic attack.

As you walk into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) room, recognize a cognitive [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) called the spotlight effect. This is the false assumption that the interviewer is hyper focused on judging your every physical movement and potential flaw. When you sit down and feel your heart start to use affect labeling.

Silently tell yourself that you are feeling adrenaline because you care about the opportunity, actively identifying the physical sensation as productive [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) rather than fear. Next, apply cognitive reframing. Instead of viewing the interviewer as a hostile judge interrogating you, shift your internal narrative to view them as a future peer, and the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) itself as two teammates collaborating on a problem.

By actively re-categorizing the person across the table as a teammate, you neutralize your brain’s threat detection system. This ensures your cognitive resources remain fully available to analyze and answer their questions. Even with strong preparation, a highly complex or aggressive question can catch you off guard, causing a sudden mid-interview spike in anxiety and physiological panic.

When that happens, reach for your glass and take a slow sip of water. This simple, natural movement buys you 5-10 seconds of processing time without making you appear panicked or frozen. During that window, execute a physiological sigh.

This is a rapid biological reset button that offloads the buildup of carbon dioxide in your system, immediately lowering your physiological arousal. This diagram outlines the exact mechanics of the You take a double inhale through the nose to fully inflate the air sacs in your lungs, followed by an extended 6-second exhale through the mouth. If your mind is still racing, rely on the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding backup method.

Push your big toes firmly into the floor inside your shoes. That physical sensation forces your brain to process external stimuli instead of looping internally on anxiety. These tactical movements are entirely invisible to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager.

They give you immediate manual control over your autonomic nervous system, keeping you grounded while seated right at the table. Eventually, you will face the notoriously anxiety-inducing question, what is your greatest weakness? This is a diagnostic of your self awareness. When asked, apply the 3-second silence rule.

Pause, give a slight genuine smile, and then begin. This delay projects gravitas and signals neurological safety to your own brain. Then you use a linguistic structure called the past tense buffer.

You must place your flaw strictly in the past tense, and your coping mechanism in the present tense. Rather than making a fatal, identity-based admission, like I am bad at delegating, you apply the formula, in the past I took on too much, now I use a weekly delegation audit. That is your completed pre-performance routine.

Hacking your posture, executing a cognitive reframe, managing your breathing with the physiological sigh, and [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) the linguistic pivot. Successfully executing these techniques proves to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager that you possess the emotional intelligence and self-regulation required to handle high-pressure environments. If this routine helped you prepare, like this video, subscribe to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV, and tell us your most panic-inducing [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) question in the comments below.

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### [Lessons Learned from a Job Search #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/lessons-learned-from-a-job-search-shorts/)

**Published:** June 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Tim Parker, who just accepted a VP Business Development role, shared his lessons learned

**Content:**

# Lessons Learned from a Job Search #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/U8V_L2QuB38)

I’ve done these for my podcast , No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio, but I’m going to move it to YouTube. Tim Parker, who just accepted a VP Business Development role, shared his lessons learned

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### [Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)

**Published:** June 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A six second video about interviewing.

**Content:**

# Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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A six-second video about [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

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### [4 Steps to Getting Better Resume Results](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/)

**Published:** June 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Before it closed in anticipation of a move to its new home, I took my son to The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York for lunch.

**Content:**

# 4 Steps to Getting Better Resume Results

## (Lose 25 Pounds, Grow Hair and Lose 3 Inches Of Belly Fat) 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Before it closed in anticipation of a move to its new home, I took my son to The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York for lunch. One of the owners, Alex, is an old friend, and my son and I hadn’t been back to New York for a few years since moving to North Carolina. Everything came together beautifully.[![](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/four-seasons-bar-300x200.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/four-seasons-bar.jpg)

We sat at the bar with Alex and ordered lunch. The appetizer arrived for each of us. My son looked at it.

“It’s beautiful!”

We ate it, an entrée and dessert, and each time he exclaimed how wonderful each item looked and tasted.

Each dish was beautifully [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), plated, and presented with a discerning eye to how a guest would receive it.

When an employer asks for a menu to order a new [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), s/he is not looking for a Quarter Pounder or Big Mac. They want something aesthetically beautiful that delights just like my son was delighted by each dish.

They want something special.

Is every job description you read the same? No.

Is every job you submit your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to the same? Of course, they aren’t.

If all these job descriptions are different, why do you submit the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as though you are flipping burgers at a fast-food restaurant?

Every day, people send the same generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out as though each position was identical and each employer was attempting to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) identical skills and attributes. Too often, the results they receive are like the broken watch that is right twice a day–hit or miss [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

They list their name, phone numbers, and email address, list an objective, education, and chronology of experience with dates of [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). The [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) includes some successes or accomplishments. This is their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

In the days prior to computers when changing a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) required you to re-type different versions, this made sense. Today, when computers allow you to customize, spell and grammar check documents so easily, you are missing out on opportunities and costing yourself money by being lazy and not tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for each opportunity you are interested in. You are not serving a beautiful meal. You are preparing a Quarter Pounder!

Here are several steps that you can do to improve your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and get better results.

 1. **Each employer will be interested in different attributes of your experience.** They often indicate it by the items they describe in their job ad or the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) described to you. Emphasize the experiences that you have that relate to the skills being sought and the functions you will perform in the job they will ask you to perform. If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a staff position, emphasize your staff experience and minimize your management experience. If you are being hired to be a leader, write about your recent leadership.

2\. **[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are more interested in recent work, rather than work you did many years ago.** Use more space in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to highlight recent experience, rather than things you did before Barack Obama became President.

3\.  **Like setting a goal where you make them (specific, measurable, achievable within a specific period of time), describe your successes or achievements concretely.** Reducing costs is a nice start but it is more powerful to describe something as reducing operational costs globally by 2%. Increased departmental sales by 27% resulting in . . . You get the idea. Use action verbs wherever possible

4\. **Ask someone you trust to critique what you’ve written.** Too often, people believe that they can do everything by themselves without [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/). Ask a friend in your industry to critique what you’ve written to ensure you’re on target and aren’t missing the mark.

[![](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sports-car.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sports-car.jpg)If you were buying a sports car and the car salesman started showing you a minivan, you would probably scratch your head and ask, “Uh, excuse me but I want to see a sports car.

“But this is a great car!”

“And I want a sports car..”

Every day, job hunters try to sell minivans to sports car owners. Their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in no way, shape or form fits the requirement and they become indignant at not hearing anything from the employer or [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

You’ve served them a Quarter Pounder when they wanted something special.

*One more thing. If you follow these instructions, you will feel better about yourself, lose 25 pounds instantly and take 3 inches off your waist. The growing hair stuff is wishful thinking on my part.*

## [***I Keep Sending Out Resumes, Following Up and Getting No Results***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bXY)

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### [Finding Hiring Managers on LinkedIn Like a Pro](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-hiring-managers-on-linkedin-like-a-pro/)

**Published:** June 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Finding Hiring Managers on LinkedIn Like a Pro

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you want to find [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), stop behaving like a polite tourist and start acting like a professional hunter who knows exactly what they’re tracking. This is where most job hunters blow it: they treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a giant job board instead of what it really is–a searchable database of people with the authority to say “yes.”

You’re not on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to collect “Likes.” You’re there to get in front of the person who can hire you or walk your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into that person’s office. Once you accept that, the way you use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) changes fast.

**Know who you’re hunting**

Before you start clicking around, you need a target. “Hiring manager” is not a job title. In your world, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager is the person two levels up from where you sit today or want to sit next.

If you’re a senior developer, that might be an Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, or VP of Engineering. If you’re in marketing, maybe it’s a Director of Marketing or VP of Demand Generation. The point is simple: figure out the real-world titles of the people who could conceivably own the budget for the role you want.

Then you layer in industry and function. You’re looking for “Director of Supply Chain, consumer goods, New York,” not “manager somewhere who might like my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).” Precision saves time and gets you talking to decision-makers instead of people who can only say, “I’ll pass your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) along.”

**Use LinkedIn’s search the right way**

Now you go hunting.

Start with the search bar and switch to the **People** filter. Type in the title you identified–“Director of Engineering,” “VP Sales,” “Head of Product”–then start narrowing. Filter by location, current company, or industry. This is where the database becomes useful.

Next, use the “Current company” filter to zero in on organizations you actually want to work for. Build a short list of 15-30 companies. Run the same title search against each. Now you’ve got a list of real human beings with the authority to help you—not a faceless “careers@company.com” inbox.

If you see someone who looks like they might be too senior, don’t overthink it. Senior people have [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers reporting to them. They can [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you down just as easily as someone can [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you up. And often, they’re more responsive than HR because they live with the problem you can solve.

**Read profiles like a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/)**

Finding names is step one. The hunters separate themselves by reading profiles with intent.

Look for language that tells you what this leader cares about–growth, cost control, transformation, quality, retention. Their About section, featured posts, and recent activity are gold mines. You’re trying to answer a simple question: “What problem is this person paid to solve?”

Once you know that, you can position yourself as someone who has solved pieces of that problem before. You’re not another “hard worker and team player.” You’re the person who cut onboarding time by 25%, increased lead quality by 18%, or automated a reporting process no one else wanted to touch.

**Engage before you pitch**

This is where most of you get nervous and start spamming connection requests and [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Stop.

You do not start by asking for a job. You start by acting like a peer. Follow the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager. Turn on the bell for their posts. Watch what they talk about. Then you begin to show up intelligently.

Comment on their posts with something that actually adds to the conversation. Not “Great post!” but something like, “Curious how you handled X when Y happened; we ran into that in our rollout and solved it by doing Z.” You’re signaling, “I understand your world. I’ve been in the trenches.” That’s how you get noticed.

Do this consistently for a little while. When your name rings a bell, you’re no longer a stranger. You’re the person who keeps leaving useful comments. That’s a much better place to start a direct conversation.

**Reaching out without sounding desperate**

When you do reach out, keep it short, direct, and low-pressure. You’re not begging. You’re not dumping your life story into a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) message.

Something like:

“Hi \[Name\], I’ve been following your posts about scaling the engineering team at \[Company\]. I’ve led similar work around \[specific result\] in \[industry\]. I’m exploring what might be next for me this year. Open to a brief 10–15 minute conversation to compare notes?”

You’re positioning yourself as a professional talking to another professional. If they say no, fine and you move on. If they say yes, great! You prepare, ask smart questions, and treat it like the beginning of a relationship, not a one-shot chance at a role.

**Don’t forget you’re also being hunted**

The other side of this is making it easy for [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to find you. You want to be hunted on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). That means your headline, About section, and experience need to send a clear signal about what you do and what level you play at.

If your headline still says “Seeking new opportunities” or “Open to work,” you’re wasting prime real estate. Use that space to advertise your value: “Senior Product Manager | B2B SaaS | Turn 0–1 ideas into shipped features that move revenue.” That’s language a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager can work with.

Finding [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) isn’t magic. It’s a repeatable process: decide who you need, use the tools like a pro, act like a peer, and show up consistently. Do that, and you stop being just another [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in the stack and start becoming someone decision-makers recognize and respect.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Why Are You Staying in That Job? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-you-staying-in-that-job-shorts/)

**Published:** June 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This video begins a new feature I introduce of #shorts I release on #TikTok.

**Content:**

# Why Are You Staying in That Job?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/gk1QObhpr8U)***

This is a new feature I introduced of #shorts I release on #TikTok.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [You're Going to Have to Take The First Step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/)

**Published:** June 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# You’re Going to Have to Take The First Step

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In his book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There,” Marshall Goldsmith points out that often what makes someone successful are the very qualities they will need to modify to take their next step up.

I was doing a class last night in they posed a wonderful paradoxical question you. I am just going to repeat it to you.

“If you can’t lose the game, the game is not worth playing.”

The metaphor that this version of [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) does is that most things can be enjoyed and be made more successful when, instead of thinking of it as work or a task, we construct a game about it. So, again, to just repeat, if you can’t lose, the game is not worth playing. In other words, if there’s no challenge here, why bother?

As a result, most people take the safe route in order to advance, and frankly, it leads to mechanistic behavior because, frankly, at the end of the day, where’s the fun in all of this? Where’s the challenge to all of this? So, if you can’t lose the game, the game is not worth playing.

Here’s the second one. When you really play, you always win because failure (what most people would associate with not being successful) is a learning opportunity. You grow from it. You expand yourself and, in the course of stretching to achieve, you’re changing yourself. This isn’t about the outcome, per se. It’s about who you become in the course of doing this.

What got you here, won’t get you there. For job hunters, this is hugely important because, at the end of the day, you’re going to need to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) to new roles unless you want to stay doing the same thing the next 30 or 40 years of your life. I don’t think you want to do that period I think you want to grow and stretch and learn from this experience and being in and environment that supports you.

That’s true in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), as well. You’re going to need to learn new skills and start thinking of, not just simply the immediate search, the totality of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) development. You need to build a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for yourself. You need to construct solutions that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) want reach out to you for that you want to become known. In other words, you want to build “the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) of you.”

There’s never been a time in human history where it is easier than now to build one. After all, you’ve got YouTube here. You have video, you have live streaming. There’s twitter. There’s Facebook. There’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). There are all sorts of venues where you can do things. There’s public speaking. There’s all sorts of venues where we can practice doing things differently then you have to this point and create “the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) of you.”

I’m not expecting you to get on YouTube and do 1000 videos plus like I’ve done (by the time you see this, I am already over 4000+) the important thing is that you start thinking in terms of what you want to be known for. What qualities and experiences and successes and knowledge do you have and do you want to be known for so that people want to reach out to you and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you opportunities instead of you seeking them out at a time to time we you get a crisis or feel desperation.

You are far better being “the go to person” in your field, rather than being someone who’s always like as supplicant, hat in hand, trying to find something.

After all, the person who gets ahead, isn’t always the smartest semicolon they don’t always work the hardest (although those great qualities to have). People get ahead by being alert to opportunity. Sometimes those are internal to your organization. More often than not, they are external.

Since most [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) connections, you want to make sure that people know about you. Practice and put yourself in situations where you can speak publicly. Be the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at a conference or one of the experts at a conference where people bring you in to espouse on your knowledge and your successes.

Never done it before? There was a time I never did a YouTube video. You learn. Get yourself into Toastmasters. Practice there. It’s an easy supportive environment where you can learn that skill. Write an article. Get it published. Never did it before? Most people never did the first time they write one. You may make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and you will learn from it. It’s okay.

Just start exposing yourself to new instead of getting yourself into this or rut where you are constantly doing the same repetitive thing over again. At the end of the day, each time you take a step toward evolving [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and making sure that people know about you, you are closer to never being out of work.

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### [Take Control of Your Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/take-control-of-your-interview/)

**Published:** June 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode delivers the exact question you need to ask to take control, evaluate the employer, and ensure the role actually builds your career.

**Content:**

# Take Control of Your Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop treating [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like a one-sided interrogation where you’re desperately trying to prove your worth. If you walk into the room begging for approval, you’ve already lost the game. This episode delivers the exact question you need to ask to take control, evaluate the employer, and ensure the role actually builds [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

So, what if you can take your next job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) and turn it from this super stressful, one-sided interrogation into, well, a real conversation about your future? Today, we’re going to look at one simple question that does exactly that. It completely flips the dynamic and puts your own growth right at the heart of the whole thing. And trust me, this is an absolute game-changer, especially if you’re just starting out in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

Oh yeah, we’ve all been there. Your heart’s pounding, you’re trying to remember all those perfect answers you practiced. It’s a totally universal feeling, right? But what if all that pressure is actually coming from a kind of flawed idea of what an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) is even supposed to be? Let’s take a look at that little voice inside our heads that’s causing all this [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

I mean, this is basically the soundtrack playing on a loop in our brains, isn’t it? “Don’t mess up. Don’t mess up.” It’s this constant, nagging pressure to perform, to prove that you’re good enough, that you’re worthy of the job. But you know what? This whole proving yourself mindset, that’s exactly what we need to flip on its head. There’s a much, much better way to approach this.

So, let’s explore this new mindset. It’s actually a pretty simple shift, but it is so powerful. We’re going to from trying to prove our worth to focusing on our own growth. And that one little change, well, it makes all the difference.

This right here is the core idea. A job shouldn’t just be about what you can do for a company. It should be about what that company and that role can help you become. And if learning is your top priority, then suddenly the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) isn’t just a test anymore. It’s your first and maybe [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) chance to figure out if real growth is even possible there.

And this, this slide just captures the whole power shift perfectly. See, instead of just sitting there hoping they’ll approve of you, you become an active player in the game. You’re evaluating them just as hard as they’re evaluating you. And that, that transforms you from just another candidate into someone who is actively and smartly building their own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

Okay, so how do you actually put this new mindset into action? How do you make it real? Well, it all comes down to asking one single, incredibly powerful question.

And seriously, don’t think of this as just another question you tack on at the end. It’s not. Think of it as a strategic key. It’s the tool you’re going to use to unlock a totally different kind of conversation, to gather really critical information, and [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of all, to show off your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) qualities without ever sounding like you’re bragging.

Ready for it? The question is this: “What might I learn in the course of my work here that I don’t already know?” It sounds so simple, right? But it’s open-ended, it’s totally forward-looking, and believe me, it has this incredible power to just instantly change the entire vibe of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

So, why? Why is this question so ridiculously effective? Let’s actually break down the impact it has not just on the interviewer, but on you, too.

You know, this question really works its magic on three different levels. First, it just screams ambition and curiosity. You’re not just looking for a paycheck; you’re actually thinking about your long-term development. Second, it immediately shows that you’re coachable, that you’re eager to learn, which is a quality every single manager on the planet is desperate to find. And finally, and this is probably the most important part, their answer is pure gold for you. It helps you figure out if they are the right place for your goals.

So, when you ask it, you’ve really got to listen. I mean, really listen. Do they light up and give you a clear, enthusiastic answer? Or do they kind of stumble and give you something vague? A great answer will be specific. They might mention a new piece of software you’ll master, or a formal mentorship program, or a skill that somebody else in that same role developed. A vague answer, you know, something like, “Oh, uh, you’ll learn a lot,” that’s a massive red flag. Their response tells you everything you need to know about what that job is really like.

Okay, so you have the mindset. You have the question. Now, let’s talk about putting this into practice and making your next move.

The next time you walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), I want you to go in there as a learner who’s searching for the right place to grow. And look, this isn’t about being arrogant; it’s about being strategic with [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). You have to remember, it’s a two-way street. You are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) them just as much as they are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you.

So, I’ll leave you with this final thought. Before you spend all your time obsessing over the questions they might ask you, take a minute and focus on the answer to this one. Because honestly, knowing what you want to learn next is the real key to [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) that doesn’t just pay the bills. It’s the one that’s actually going to build your future.

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### [The First 30  Seconds of an Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-first-30-seconds-of-an-interview-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** June 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Robert Herjavec has discussed how to standout on Shark Tank, I take that and convert it to job hunting.

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# The First 30 Seconds of an Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Robert Herjavec has discussed how to stand out on Shark Tank, I take that and convert it to [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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Robert Herjavec from Shark Tank did a video recently where he talks about how to stand out on the show. Now, I think there are lessons for job hunters here. Let me just take these out.

Sorry. They’re useful. And I’m going to translate what Robert says into something for job hunters.

So, the first thing he talks about is the first 30 seconds. You know, the cast on the show, the Sharks, they’re all out there 12 hours a day, listening to pitch after pitch. They’re bored.

They’re tired. They’re hungry. You know, they don’t want to be there.

They’d rather be back in their business. But they’re committed to doing the show and doing it well. So, they come out and they put on a performance.

Sounds like many [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers you’ve talked with. They’re bored, tired, hungry. Some of them are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) multiple people a day.

Their staff is the same way. They’re distracted because they have other things to do. You have to engage them in the first 30 seconds.

Now, there’s a couple of ways to do it. Robert talks about how they walk into the tank. So, for you, it’s your approach to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager or the person who you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

How do you approach them? Now, in many cases, the first phone call, the first contact is by phone. So, it’s how do you respond to your calls? Now, you may be getting a call on a mobile. You’re looking at it and going, who the hell is that? You pick up with that same . . . like this is a Viagra salesman on the phone.

And lo and behold, it’s an HR person, a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, someone who’s doing screening for the manager who works in the department. You need to . . . while you’re in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), you need to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to focus in on every time you answer the phone, this could be someone that you’re selling to. So, for the first moment you pick up, you answer, Hi, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

How can I help you? And you speak with a certain style and aggressiveness that [alerts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-alerts-3/) people that you’re awake and not asleep at the switch. Next, when they introduce themselves, and this could be in person. Let me just do with phone right now.

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If they introduce themselves to you over the phone, you immediately lead them to, hey, thanks so much for making the call. Now, I remember the position description, but I’d like to get your take on the role. Could you tell me about the job as you see it and what I can do to help? So, that makes them talk about the job with you at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

So, mentally, you can get your switch turned off and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to talk about what you’ve done that matters to them and not just simply talk about what you’ve done. There’s a difference in there between those two. Talk about what you’ve done that matters to them versus talk about what you’ve done.

Now, if it’s in person, remember, you’re walking in and you’re shaking hands with someone. There’s a certain [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) and command that you have, especially if you’re a manager or above [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for position. Now, these lessons are all true, no matter where you are in an organization, but it’s particularly critical for people at a manager level or above.

Why? Because you’re a visible representative of the person who’s evaluating you, the VP, the director, the SVP, whoever it is, at a more senior level than you, you represent them. And if you come across like a slug, you don’t make it seem like they are going to be able to . . . you reflect poorly on your future boss. Let’s put it that bluntly.

And you present yourself poorly for yourself. You’re a bad representative for them and for you. So, it’s a turn off immediately.

And if you think force of ideas makes a difference, trust me, it’s a big world. It’s a big country. A lot of people are going to be as capable as you and present better.

So, don’t be a slouch with this. Dress well, present well. Now, Robert talks about, you know, there are people who walk in the tank, and they don’t know their numbers, and they help them.

And there are people who walk in who don’t know their numbers, and they beat the crap out of them. That’s the difference in how someone presents. Now, I want to be clear.

There are people who interpret what I’ve been saying as talking about being professional. I think in terms of being honest, open, effective, strong, [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), a leader. I don’t care what level you are in an organization.

It doesn’t mean that you have to present as ruthless. You can be a nice person, be a nice person, and firms will like you and engage you. Now, I also want to say that there’s another thing that comes into play.

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And that’s the notion of engaging on a human level, how you speak to them as an honest individual who’s engaged and forthright and self-confident. Now, there’s the classic question of, tell me about yourself. So, I’ve already talked about, you know, thanks for making the call or thanks for meeting with me tonight.

You know, I recall the position description, but I want to get your take on it. Could you tell me about the job as you see it and what I can do to help? So, that’s the first thing you do. So, if you’re meeting them in person for the first time, and you’re sitting down in the chair and you ask that question, then when they get around to tell me about yourself or whatever equivalently languaged question they ask, here’s what I want you to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with.

It’s the standard answer to that question. But you need to do some homework. And this is the way I’d like you to continue on with it.

So, I’m sure a lot of people say similar things to you before. But what makes me different is . . . and then you talk about a difference maker for them. What makes you stand out from the other 25 people that they’ve talked to already about this job? I don’t care if you’re a recent grad, a college senior who’s preparing for his first job or in the C-suite looking for another position.

That’s the difference maker. That’s the thing that’s going to really get their attention. Figure out what your critical difference is.

And you can say things like, again, this is going to be a certain level of individual. You know, a lot of people say this kind of stuff to you before. But what makes me different is I’ve actually delivered on what I’ve talked about.

I’m someone who stepped into an organization with problems. And what I’ve done is . . . and you talk about how you took a disengaged organization and got them to reconnect. How did you do that? Well, often organizations with engagement problems, hired engaged people, but along the way, they got turned off by management decisions that they didn’t buy into.

So, I got there by . . . you see where I’m going with this? You think of a difference maker and then be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to talk about the [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) questions that would naturally come from that. So, it’s 30 seconds to get their attention. That first question, tell me about the roles you see and what I can do to help, is a great attention getter.

It follows up with another attention getter where you talk about your differences from the standard individual who walks in the door and have a [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) speech that really encapsulates how you are different and how it’s going to benefit them to have you around. If they don’t like the idea that you took a disengaged team, for example, and turn them into a productive organization because of how you reach buy in, hey, this isn’t a place for you, is it? I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found this helpful.

Now, I want to also say that, for those of you who are looking for a job, one of the things people don’t learn how to do is how to market themselves. We’re in the school system. Are you taught how to find a job? Where do you learn about this stuff except through trial and error? Well, my site, [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community) is a place where you can really do that.

I’ve got great information available for you. Plus, you can ask me questions through the site where I’ll answer them and help you deliver on your message. I’ll help you with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

I’ll do a critique. I provide a discount for that service. I’ll help you with your [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

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Have a great day. Take care.

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### [Should I Look at the Interviewer's LinkedIn Profile Even Though They'll See?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-look-at-the-interviewers-linkedin-profile-even-though-theyll-see/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:**  I answer, "Do hiring managers and recruiters look at LinkedIn?

**Content:**

# Should I Look at the Interviewer’s LinkedIn Profile Even Though They’ll See?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 I answer, “Do [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) look at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)?

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach, the head coach for JobSearch.Community

I’ve got two questions today, and the first one is the title of this video that basically asks the question of, should I look at the interviewer’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page, even though they’ll see that I looked at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page? Ooh, the horror. They might see I looked at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page. Oh, terrible, terrible.

Yes, look at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page. By all means, look at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page. Here’s a, a little piece of reality: they’re not checking that all the time. They’re busy. They’ve got other things to do. If they notice that you looked at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page, well, they’ll know that you researched them. That’s a good thing. If they see that you didn’t look at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page, they might think that you didn’t, and that’s not a good thing.

Now, if you’re still nervous, there’s a thing in the privacy features where you can hide who you are, and basically put yourself in the position where you’re seen as being job title at fill-in-the-blank. But that’s going to signal them that it’s you, too. So, there’s really no hiding it. Just go do it and stop worrying about it.

Which leads to the second and related question: do [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers look at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)? And the answer is absolutely. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) look at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for a couple of reasons. Number one is it’s a, you know, it gives some texture to a person’s background that sometimes [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) don’t.

I’ll also tell you, people lie, and [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles aren’t always consistent or congruent. And thus, the lies can be exposed. What kind of lies? Simple: dates. Dates on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) are different than dates on the profile. Happens all the time. Pretty dumb, isn’t it?

There’s also the thing about where the emphasis on the background is. I remember when I worked in technology recruiting, and, you know, there was a job for a person with one programming language, and the strength was in a different one, but they had a little bit of exposure to it, and they were hiding it in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), I could go to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and see it very clearly. So, yes, they look at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles regularly, as well they should.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found my answers helpful. Visit my website, thebiggamehunter.us. There’s much more there that you can watch, listen to, or read to help you find work more quickly. Also, want to mention, if you’re interested in [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), connect with me through my website. There’s a button on the home page, you can schedule a free discovery call.

If you’re watching on YouTube, click the small icon in the lower right, subscribe to my channel. You’ll get notifications whenever I release new information. And by the way, subscribe to my podcast, No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. It is number one in Apple Podcasts for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). As of Monday, it’ll be 1,600 episodes. No one is close. No one is even close, and I can say that because I have the number two show and I discontinued it a few months ago. So again, that’s No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio.

Have a great day, and take care.

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He is the original host and creator of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) in iTunes the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 15+ years.It is also available on Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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### [Spamming Your Resume Does Work #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/spamming-your-resume-does-work-shorts/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Spamming your resume does work. It really does.

**Content:**

# Spamming Your Resume Does Work #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Spamming your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) does work. It really does.

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### [Job Hunting Can Feel Like a Roller Coaster #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-can-feel-like-a-roller-coaster-shorts/)

**Published:** June 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The highs and lows of job hunting are brutal!

**Content:**

# Job Hunting Can Feel Like a Roller Coaster #shorts

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### [What Does It Mean When A Job You Applied to Opens a New Posting on the Same Site? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/)

**Published:** June 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What does it mean when a job you applied to opens up a new posting in the same site 3 weeks later with the same requirements?

**Content:**

# What Does It Mean When A Job You Applied to Opens a New Posting on the Same Site? 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [When Every Day Feels Like Hell](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-every-day-feels-like-hell/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What do you do when every day feels like a Black Friday? What do you do with every day sucks?

**Content:**

# When Every Day Feels Like Hell

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

What do you do when every day feels like a Black Friday? What do you do with every day sucks? (From the archives)

You know, as I’m recording this, it’s Black Friday. Ooh, Black Friday! The day where every retailer talks about going into the black, which was the derivation of the name. And the other derivation was the fact that there was nothing the journalists had to write about on the day after Thanksgiving, so they concocted this entire ridiculous thing called Black Friday. And having driven my son and his two cousins to the mall on Long Island, man, that was hell.

But what do you do if every day feels like a Black Friday? And by that, I’m not talking about a sale day. I’m talking about feeling doom. What do you do when every day feels like it sucks? And I’m just going to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a couple of simple things that really require a shift in attitude. And it starts off with figuring out what do you want to do differently? What’s the outcome that you want to get? And why? Why do you want to do this? What’s the point of all of all of this that you might want to engage in?

And then giving yourself a break if you’re not perfect. You see, somewhere along the line, most of you got the idea that you’re screwed. That no matter what you did, you’re in a bind where you’re damned if you did, and damned if you didn’t. That if you failed, it was awful. You know, most of the things that most of you have failed at, frankly, are not life-threatening. You can recover from that, and learn from it. Doing it a little bit differently the next time.

That’s really where that idea of a black day comes from for most of you, where most of you feel as though, oh man, no matter what I do, it sucks. It’s hell. Why bother? But it does matter if you do it. The world is not as good a place as if you’re trying, you’re aspiring, and you’re at your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

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### [Is It A Bad Sign That I Haven't Gotten Feedback When Promised? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I haven't received any feedback (every day, they are finding another excuse). What does it mean?

**Content:**

# Is It A Bad Sign That I Haven’t Gotten Feedback When Promised? #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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I was interviewed last week and they told me that they will give me a [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/) for my [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on Monday. However, three days have passed and I haven’t received any [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/) (every day, they are finding another excuse). What does it mean? Is it a [good sign](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-good-sign-if-a-recruiter-wants-to-call-your-references-shorts/) or a bad sign?

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can![tough-interview-questions-how-do-you-define-success-in-your-work-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail.jpg](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/tough-interview-questions-how-do-you-define-success-in-your-work-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg) involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***The Final Interview With The Company President***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cYq)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

[***The Top 10 Hiring Mistakes Managers Make***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fSp)

**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at ⁠[www.TheBigGameHunter.us](http://www.TheBigGameHunter.us/schedule)⁠ to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [How to Build Authority on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-authority-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** June 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode gives you the exact tactical blueprint to stop acting like an interchangeable commodity and start signaling real structural authority.

**Content:**

# How to Build Authority on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most people use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) entirely wrong by treating it like a standard social network and posting generic industry updates. If you want to stand out to decision-makers, you must command monopoly power over a specific problem and execute high-yield commentary. This episode gives you the exact tactical blueprint to stop acting like an interchangeable [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) and start signaling real structural authority.

Most professionals [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) activity for impact. Publishing generic industry updates or congratulating distant connections treats [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a standard social network. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) functions as a global relational directory. For a college-educated leader, visibility only holds value when it signals structural authority. Blending into the background of standard professional content reduces a high-level [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) to an interchangeable [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/).

Now [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/) requires activating your [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), the specific intersection of operational history and problem-solving blueprints that no other professional can duplicate. Instead of generic titles like “results-driven operations executive,” define your explicit domain. State that you specialize in supply-chain restructuring to stabilize EBITDA within 120 days. This structural alignment establishes the profile as a declaration of monopoly power over a specific problem.

Standard long-form posting is a low-yield strategy. It relies on algorithmic luck to reach the right eyes. High-yield commenting bypasses the algorithm. It involves identifying 15 to 20 target [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) and delivering data-backed insights directly into their active threads. These contributions must be clinical expansions or data-backed counterpoints, not generic praise. Clinical informed critiques signal peer-level competence to the original poster and their network. This mechanism uses an existing high-value audience to validate your authority.

[***LinkedIn Mistakes: Not Sharing Contact Information with Connections*** ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mnA)

When an executive clicks through to the profile, they must encounter immediate proof of work. A blank featured section or a link to a company [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) fair ends the engagement instantly. Treat this space as a curated landing page. Pin three high-signal assets: an operational playbook, a panel recording, and a data visualization of market shifts.

When publishing original content, adopt a stance of intellectual contrarianism. Avoid the standard corporate orthodoxy regarding leadership or innovation. Use your operational lens to dismantle a common industry trend. Highlight the hidden structural debts or risks that other [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are silently worrying about. Anchoring the profile, executing surgical infiltration, and broadcasting explicit proof creates a high-signal [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) that the market actively seeks out.

To scale your compensation framework alongside this market authority, visit jobsearch.community. Become an insider for coaching, courses, and guides from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Like, share, and follow to ensure these structural frameworks reach other leaders in your network.

[***Should You Apply If They’ve Interviewed A Lot of People?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lgN)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can![tough-interview-questions-how-do-you-define-success-in-your-work-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail.jpg](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/tough-interview-questions-how-do-you-define-success-in-your-work-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg) involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***The Final Interview With The Company President***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cYq)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [The Third Door Protocol: Bypassing the HR Meat Grinder](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-third-door-protocol-bypassing-the-hr-meat-grinder/)

**Published:** June 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# The Third Door Protocol: Bypassing the HR Meat Grinder

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You are playing a game that is rigged against you.

Every day, smart, college-educated professionals log onto [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), find a job they want, and click “Apply.” They upload a tailored [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into a corporate portal/ATS, hit submit, and wait.

Then the automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) email arrives.

You think a human being looked at your background and decided you weren’t a fit? They never saw it. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) hit a system like Workday, Lever or Greenhouse, the machine misread your formatting or didn’t see the exact keyword string it wanted, and it dumped you in the trash. That is the Front Door. It is a meat grinder.

Most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice tells you to use the Back Door–asking friends for favors or hitting up alumni. But at most levels, particularly at the executive and senior level, the Back Door is crowded with everyone else looking for a shortcut.

You need to take **[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

Alex Banayan wrote a book called [*The Third Door*](https://amzn.to/4fQi8K7), and his blueprint is exactly how I coach people to land elite roles. Think of it like a nightclub. There are three ways in:

- **The First Door:** The main entrance, where the line curves around the block and 99% of people wait, hoping to get in. (That’s the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) portal).
- **The Second Door:** The VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through. (That’s executive [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and internal corporate royalty).
- **[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/):** The door where you jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the window, go through the kitchen, and find a way in.

If you want a job in this market, particularly at an executive or senior-level job, you have to stop standing in lines. You need to use Third Door mechanics to bypass the software entirely.

Let me tell you how it works.

### The Executive Who Refused to Wait in Line

A few months ago, I was coaching a senior director of operations. Let’s call him Jim. Jim had a top-tier degree, fifteen years of clean corporate experience, and a track record of saving companies millions of dollars. He was an absolute asset.

Jim found a role at a major firm that fit him perfectly. He spent hours tailoring his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and submitted it through the company’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) portal. He stood in the First Door line.

Three days later, the machine spit him out. Automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). No human interaction.

Jim called me, furious and defeated. He said, “Jeff, I meet 100% of the requirements. Why don’t they want me?”

I told him the truth: “They don’t even know you exist, Jim. The machine broke your data. We are jumping out of line and finding [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).”

### Banging on the Kitchen Window

We didn’t look at the job board this time. We went to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to find the person who would be Jim’s peer at the firm—another director in an adjacent department who was actively dealing with the company’s scaling pains.

Jim didn’t send a message asking for a job. Asking a stranger for a job puts a burden on them, and busy people say no to burdens. If you knock on [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) asking for a handout, it stays locked. You have to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a tool.

Jim sent a direct, two-sentence note to this director:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s expansion into the EMEA market. Having navigated that same supply-chain bottleneck at my last firm, I put together a brief outline of the specific vendor risks that usually pop up in month three. Let me know if you want me to forward the notes.”*

The peer responded within four hours. They didn’t talk about open [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/); they traded operational notes. Jim showed he was a competent operator who understood the reality on the ground. He cracked the window open by delivering immediate value.

At the end of the conversation, the peer said, “You know, we are actually looking for someone with your background to handle this exact issue. Let me drop your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) directly into our internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) lane.”

[Jim used his onlyness to pry open the door](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7)

### Why the Third Door Changes the Machine’s Rules

When Jim’s new contact uploaded his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) through the internal employee portal, Jim didn’t enter the tracking system as an applicant. He entered as a solution.

- **The Priority Tag:** The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) didn’t just parse Jim’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); it stamped it with a “High-Priority Employee Referral” flag.
- **The Gatekeeper Bypass:** In most enterprise tracking systems, profiles introduced through [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) bypass the automated keyword knockout rounds entirely. They are routed directly to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager’s active desk.
- **The Vetting Premium:** A human being opened Jim’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) because someone already inside the building put their own reputation on the line to say, “This person understands our business.”

Jim got the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) invite 48 hours later. Same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Same company. Completely different result.

### The Big Game Hunter’s Bottom Line

*The [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is an efficiency tool for human resources, not a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement tool for you.* When you submit your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) cold, you are letting a machine dictate your market value.

Stop standing in the long line at the front door. Jump out of line, identify a public problem a future peer is facing, and knock on [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) with a solution in hand. That is how you bypass the machine and get the room.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

[***AI and the Future of Your Job***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oKG)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

[***The Cost of a Long Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oM3)

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 2700 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

You can also have your #jobsearchquestions answered Tuesdays at noon Eastern. Search for [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach Office Hours on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and mark that you’re attending. You’ll have access to the recording if you miss it live.

*[**When Following Up Backfires**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oL4)*

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### [Developing Your Brand | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/)

**Published:** August 27, 2022
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A No BS episode about developing your personal brand.

**Content:**

## Developing Your Brand | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

A No BS episode about developing your personal [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m called The Game Hunter because I hunted down leaders and staff organizations for more than 40 years,

You may have heard the term [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) in the context of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), and you may have even started doing some work on branding– creating a profile for yourself on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), developing a reputation for yourself you in your profession. That’s all fine and good.

If you’re 1st learning about [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), congratulations! You’re going to be doing work to help yourself, not on this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), but on the next one.![branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/you-re-a-professional-develop-a-brand-for-yourself-nobsjobsearchadvice-com1_thumbnail.jpg) That’s because the fact is [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is not something that you do overnight and suddenly people go, “Oh! That’s Lady Gaga in front of us! That’s unbelievable!”

Lady Gaga and others like her spent years becoming Lady Gaga. They worked on creating an image for themselves. They suddenly didn’t just pop out on the scene and become rock stars. They paid their dues. They did their work. They developed the relationships and the acts in order to become Lady Gaga, for example.

So think in terms of not just this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), but more importantly every [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) that you do in the future. That even while you’re doing great work and that you’re [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) doing what you’re doing where the doing it, you are going to be doing things to help people learn about you, to find out about you, to understand you and trust you and thus want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you, rather than an absolute stranger that they know nothing about.

[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the thing that gives you the edge. It is the thing that says, “that’s [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). He knows what he’s talking about.” That’s how good a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) that is.

So I want you think, not in terms of being me or Lady Gaga. I want you to think in terms of what you, but for can do to develop a reputation that others will like and trust, not for this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), but for every other one that you are involved with from this point on,

I hope you found this tip helpful and if you want to find out more advice come over my website, thebiggamehunter.us. There is a lot more there.

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### [Don’t Hire ANYONE … #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-hire-anyone-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Who doesn't love Tina Fey? Her quote about how to avoid this hiring mistake is priceless.

**Content:**

# Don’t Hire ANYONE … #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The ](https://www.JobSearch.Community)[Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [The Private Equity PortCo Playbook: Bypassing the Search Firms to Target Operating Partners Directly](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-private-equity-portco-playbook-bypassing-the-search-firms-to-target-operating-partners-directly/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To land these unlisted, high-stakes roles, you need to bypass the headhunters entirely and go straight to the source.

**Content:**

# The Private Equity PortCo Playbook: Bypassing the Search Firms to Target Operating Partners Directly

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are a senior-level professional or an executive, you’ve probably spent months trying to get on the radar of the “Big Five” [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). You send your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart, or Heidrick & Struggles, hoping they’ll slot you into their next major corporate assignment.

You may be hunting in the wrong woods.

Those [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t work for you; they work for their corporate clients. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) sits in their database until an exact, identical match pops up–which rarely happens. Meanwhile, you’re missing out on the fastest-growing [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) market for elite talent: Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies (PortCos).

When a Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) (PE) firm acquires a mid-market company, they don’t have time to wait six months for a traditional [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) to find a leader. They need a proven operator inside that business *immediately* to protect their investment, streamline operations, and scale EBITDA.

To land these unlisted, high-stakes roles, you need to bypass the headhunters entirely and go straight to the source: the **Operating Partner**.

### The Mid-Market Crisis: A Story of Urgent Demand

A year ago, I was working with a VP of Supply Chain named Mark. Mark had a brilliant track record of fixing broken distribution networks, but he was stuck in an endless loop of screening [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with traditional [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who kept telling him he “didn’t fit the exact industry vertical” of their current openings.

I told him, “Mark, stop trying to please [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who are checking boxes. You need to find a PE firm that is bleeding cash because of a bad supply chain.”

He did [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). We bypassed the standard job boards and looked at mid-market PE firms that had recently acquired three manufacturing companies over the previous six months. He didn’t look for HR leads. He found the specific Operating Partner managing that [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

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Mark sent a direct, no BS note to the Operating Partner. He didn’t ask for a job. He flagged an operational reality:

> *“I’ve been tracking your recent acquisition of \[Company A\] and \[Company B\]. Having navigated post-merger supply chain integration during market contractions, I’ve noticed that combining regional distribution hubs usually leak about 12% in margin drag during the first 90 days if the inventory logic isn’t decoupled early. I put together a brief framework on how we insulated our margins against this specific drag at my last firm. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

The Operating Partner called Mark the next morning. Three weeks later, Mark was brought on as the interim COO of one of their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies. No job posting. No [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/). No [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

### Why the Operating Partner is Your Ultimate Target

Operating Partners are not investment bankers. They are former CEOs, COOs, and senior operators hired by the PE firm to oversee their acquisitions. They speak your language, they feel the operational pain acutely, and they have the absolute authority to install talent without consulting a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) committee.

When you approach an Operating Partner using this playbook, you trigger three massive advantages:

- **The Urgency Vector:** PE firms operate on a strict 3-to-5-year timeline to scale and flip a company. Every week a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company spends underperforming is lost capital. If you present a solution to their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) drag, they will create a role for you.
- **The [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Multiplier:** A traditional [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) has one opening. An Operating Partner oversees five, ten, or twenty companies. If you don’t fit the immediate need at Company A, they will frequently slide you into Company B or hold you on deck for their next acquisition.
- **The Authority Lane:** Operating Partners do not care about bureaucratic box-checking. They care about capabilities. They care about the results you can deliver NOW. They can bypass standard HR compliance protocols and drop you directly into the executive suite because their primary metric is [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) velocity, not headcount compliance.

[***The Job of Your Dreams: The Woman’s Guide on how to find a Job in Private Equity***](https://amzn.to/3POV300)

### The Bottom Line

The traditional [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) model is slow, passive, and built to manage risk for giant corporations. If you are a high-value operator, you cannot afford to wait for a headhunter to discover your value.

Stop pitching your past biography to people who don’t understand your work. Identify the PE firms investing heavily in your space, locate the Operating Partners holding the operational mandates, and show them exactly how you will protect their [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). That is how you take control of the market and secure the room.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

# ***[The Paper LBO: Proven Methods for Acing the Private Equity Interview](https://amzn.to/4aCBz4Z)***

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [No BS Career Advice: May 31 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-may-31-2026/)

**Published:** June 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: May 31 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![The most valuable connections](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/The-most-valuable-connections-Gemini_Generated_Image_q1eleqq1eleqq1el-1024x1024.png)

Trust me.

Navigating government systems is awful and opaque. Even when they’re trying, you have to read between the lines to understand what they are trying to say.

My wife is navigating one in the State of New York to get her niece into a group home. Weeks and weeks, and it isn’t solved yet.

I listen to her tell me about this person or that one and this agency or another. It’s frustrating for her.

When I was much younger, I did a few brief stints in the NYC government and bumped up against the bureaucracy. Lessons learned.

**LAST WEEK!**

For years, I have shared, sold and taught, “The Ultimate Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Framework,” an easy-to-follow methodology for [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

I recently updated it and now titled it as “[Interview Mastery: The Ultimate Job Interview Framework](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2747MZ1)” **at a special introductory price of $0.99.**

Stop winging your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and losing out on the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) you deserve.

The skills needed to find a job are entirely different from those needed to do a job. Most job hunters learn the hard way that trial and error costs them great opportunities. They walk into the room unprepared, fumbling for answers, and projecting uncertainty instead of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

In [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Mastery: The Ultimate Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Framework, I deliver a direct, clear, and No BS formula designed to help you outperform your competition. Drawing from my decades of recruiting and coaching experience, I break down the hidden “theater” of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) and strip away the power differential between you and the employer.

**Available for $0.99 on Amazon**

## The Private Equity PortCo Playbook: Bypassing the Search Firms to Target Operating Partners Directly

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are a senior-level professional or an executive, you’ve probably spent months trying to get on the radar of the “Big Five” [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). You send your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart, or Heidrick & Struggles, hoping they’ll slot you into their next major corporate assignment.

You may be hunting in the wrong woods.

Those [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t work for you; they work for their corporate clients. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) sits in their database until an exact, identical match pops up–which rarely happens. Meanwhile, you’re missing out on the fastest-growing [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) market for elite talent: Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies (PortCos).

When a Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) (PE) firm acquires a mid-market company, they don’t have time to wait six months for a traditional [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) to find a leader. They need a proven operator inside that business *immediately* to protect their investment, streamline operations, and scale EBITDA.

To land these unlisted, high-stakes roles, you need to bypass the headhunters entirely and go straight to the source: the **Operating Partner**.

### The Mid-Market Crisis: A Story of Urgent Demand

A year ago, I was working with a VP of Supply Chain named Mark. Mark had a brilliant track record of fixing broken distribution networks, but he was stuck in an endless loop of screening [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with traditional [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who kept telling him he “didn’t fit the exact industry vertical” of their current openings.

I told him, “Mark, stop trying to please [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who are checking boxes. You need to find a PE firm that is bleeding cash because of a bad supply chain.”

He did [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). We bypassed the standard job boards and looked at mid-market PE firms that had recently acquired three manufacturing companies over the previous six months. He didn’t look for HR leads. He found the specific Operating Partner managing that [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

Mark sent a direct, no BS note to the Operating Partner. He didn’t ask for a job. He flagged an operational reality:

> *“I’ve been tracking your recent acquisition of \[Company A\] and \[Company B\]. Having navigated post-merger supply chain integration during market contractions, I’ve noticed that combining regional distribution hubs usually leak about 12% in margin drag during the first 90 days if the inventory logic isn’t decoupled early. I put together a brief framework on how we insulated our margins against this specific drag at my last firm. Let me know if you want me to drop the notes over to your team.”*

The Operating Partner called Mark the next morning. Three weeks later, Mark was brought on as the interim COO of one of their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies. No job posting. No [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/). No [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

### Why the Operating Partner is Your Ultimate Target

Operating Partners are not investment bankers. They are former CEOs, COOs, and senior operators hired by the PE firm to oversee their acquisitions. They speak your language, they feel the operational pain acutely, and they have the absolute authority to install talent without consulting a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) committee.

When you approach an Operating Partner using this playbook, you trigger three massive advantages:

- **The Urgency Vector:** PE firms operate on a strict 3-to-5-year timeline to scale and flip a company. Every week a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company spends underperforming is lost capital. If you present a solution to their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) drag, they will create a role for you.
- **The [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Multiplier:** A traditional [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) has one opening. An Operating Partner oversees five, ten, or twenty companies. If you don’t fit the immediate need at Company A, they will frequently slide you into Company B or hold you on deck for their next acquisition.
- **The Authority Lane:** Operating Partners do not care about bureaucratic box-checking. They care about capabilities. They care about the results you can deliver NOW. They can bypass standard HR compliance protocols and drop you directly into the executive suite because their primary metric is [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) velocity, not headcount compliance.

### The Bottom Line

The traditional [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) model is slow, passive, and built to manage risk for giant corporations. If you are a high-value operator, you cannot afford to wait for a headhunter to discover your value.

Stop pitching your past biography to people who don’t understand your work. Identify the PE firms investing heavily in your space, locate the Operating Partners holding the operational mandates, and show them exactly how you will protect their [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). That is how you take control of the market and secure the room.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

In the last week, I released and released more content including:

**The B****est Way to Proofread Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** Excerpt: You know you have to proofread your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). What is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses a highly strict framework to catch minor layout glitches and textual [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that automated tracking software rejects before hitting submit. Link: 

**Master Your [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Body Language** Excerpt: Non-verbal [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) speak louder than your answers. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details subtle posture adjustments, micro-expressions, and eye-contact protocols that project authority and competence on camera or in person. Link: 

**What a Hostage Negotiator Can Teach You About [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Negotiation** Excerpt: Treating a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussion like a hostile corporate battle guarantees you will leave money on the table. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) adapts core tactical empathy models used by crisis negotiators to help you win major [counteroffers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/counteroffers-should-you-accept/) when terms change unexpectedly. Link: 

**Management vs Leadership #shorts** Excerpt: Managing processes is mechanical; leading people requires strategic influence. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a rapid-fire breakdown on how to shift your executive vocabulary from baseline management to high-signal leadership. Link: 

**Surprised!** Excerpt: Ever been blindsided by a completely unexpected question or sudden shift during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to maintain your executive composure, process the shock in real time, and pivot smoothly without breaking character. Link: 

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) EasyApply #shorts** Excerpt: Clicking that quick apply button feels productive, but is it actually working? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the harsh reality of the EasyApply feature and why it usually routes your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) straight into a black hole. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-easyapply-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-easyapply-shorts/)

**Crack [the Hidden Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/)** Excerpt: Most open positions are never posted publicly online. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) details tactical [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) strategies and backchannel approach methods to uncover and win unlisted corporate roles before your competition even knows they exist. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack-the-hidden-job-market/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack-the-hidden-job-market/)

**Don’t Limit Yourself When You Network #shorts** Excerpt: Restricting your professional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) circle to immediate peers is a critical [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a No BS reminder to expand your horizon and connect across industries to reveal unexpected professional pipelines. Link: 

**Age Proof Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/): 10 Steps to Get Hired** Excerpt: Facing institutional [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) search? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) delivers a clear, ten-step framework designed to modernise your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), update your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) presentation, and command respect as a high-signal veteran candidacy. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/age-proof-your-job-search-10-steps-to-get-hired/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/age-proof-your-job-search-10-steps-to-get-hired/)

**Common Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)** Excerpt: Top-tier candidates frequently tank their own [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) by making basic, preventable blunders. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the standard mistakes—from poor company pre-research to rambling answers—and how to fix them instantly. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/common-job-interview-mistakes/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/common-job-interview-mistakes/)

**Is it Rude to Ask for an Update on a Job [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)? #shorts** Excerpt: Candidates often worry that checking in makes them look desperate or annoying. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) gives a No BS breakdown on how to professionally [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) status without irritating the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) team. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-ask-for-an-update-on-a-job-application-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-ask-for-an-update-on-a-job-application-shorts/)

**Engineering High-Value Visibility on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)** Excerpt: Merely having a profile isn’t enough; you need tactical [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to engineer meaningful, high-signal visibility that captures the attention of executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and decision-makers in your industry. Link: 

**Match Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to Job Descriptions for Free #shorts** Excerpt: You don’t need expensive software platforms to beat automated [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a straightforward, free strategy to align your resume’s keywords directly with any target job description. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/match-your-resume-to-job-descriptions-for-free-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/match-your-resume-to-job-descriptions-for-free-shorts/)

**Is It OK to [Refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) Someone to A [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) After Turning Down an Opportunity?** Excerpt: Declining a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) doesn’t mean you have to burn the bridge. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the professional etiquette of passing along a qualified peer’s information to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/), turning a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) into a high-value relationship builder. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-refer-someone-to-a-recruiter-after-turning-down-an-opportunity/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-refer-someone-to-a-recruiter-after-turning-down-an-opportunity/)

**Sometimes You’ve Gotta Do What You Gotta Do #shorts** Excerpt: [The job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) can force hard choices that don’t match your perfect [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) timeline. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a direct, clear reality check on making pragmatic [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) decisions when circumstances require immediate action. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/sometimes-youve-gotta-do-what-you-gotta-do-shorts/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/sometimes-youve-gotta-do-what-you-gotta-do-shorts/)

**Mastering [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/): The Psychology of Unflappable [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** Excerpt: Stop letting a surge of adrenaline hijack your brain during high-stakes [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). This episode breaks down the exact “pre-performance routine” used by elite athletes to manually override the fight-or-flight response. Link: [https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

**How to Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Arbitrage** Excerpt: Sending out endless [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) only to face absolute silence isn’t a problem with your qualifications; it’s a failure to scale attention in a system built to ignore you. This episode delivers a strategic blueprint on how to turn machine intelligence into an analytical asset. Link: 

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### [Should I Follow Up? It's Been 4 Weeks of Interviewing for a Job I Really Want. #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/)

**Published:** June 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Everything has gone really well and even received great responses on my follow up emails. Should I follow up again today?

**Content:**

# Should I Follow Up? It’s Been 4 Weeks of Interviewing for a Job I Really Want. #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/azCQ0Pr69rg)

I’ve had a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), 1 in-person [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) with the president, a “design challenge”, and 2 additional in-person [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with department heads. Everything has gone really well and even received great responses on my [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) emails. Should I [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) again today?

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### [They Asked for PDFs About Work That Won't Launch for 2 Weeks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/)

**Published:** June 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A potential new employer asked me to send PDFs of work from my company that won't be launched for another two weeks. What should I do?

**Content:**

# They Asked for PDFs About Work That Won’t Launch for 2 Weeks 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/tPsavm3JGNA)

A potential new employer asked me to send PDFs of work from my company that won’t be launched for another two weeks. I don’t want to lose my job potentially, but I don’t want to jeopardize this new opportunity either. What should I do?

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

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### [Get Your Energy Up #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/)

**Published:** June 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Being out of work, waiting for a contact, saps the life out of you. You've got to get your energy up!

**Content:**

# Get Your Energy Up

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

**[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/VKlIY2vatVE)**

Being out of work, waiting for a contact, saps the life out of you. You’ve got to get your energy up!

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Personal AI SEO:  Get Discovered by LLMs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/personal-ai-seo-get-discovered-by-llms/)

**Published:** May 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to engineer a digital entity that LLMs can actually find, verify, and recommend.

**Content:**

# Personal AI SEO: Get Discovered by LLMs

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) like it’s 2010. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents are now the gatekeepers of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), and if your expertise is locked in private PDFs, you don’t exist to them. Learn how to engineer a digital entity that LLMs can actually find, verify, and recommend.

**Timestamps**

0:00 – The Death of the Linear Job [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)

0:15 – Understanding Agentic Search and LLM [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)

0:40 – Why Your Private [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is Making You Invisible

 0:57 – Defining Personal [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) SEO

1:18 – How Large Language Models Process Human Data

1:48 – The Power of the “Anchor Phrase” in Professional Bios

2:10 – Moving Proof of Expertise to the Public Domain

2:50 – How Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Scans Your Profile

3:22 – Turning Community Contributions into Digital “Votes”

4:10 – Becoming a Legible Solution for Machine Intelligence

4:27 – Resources and Coaching at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community)

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### [The 5 Step Roadmap to Your First IT Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-5-step-roadmap-to-your-first-it-job/)

**Published:** June 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a battle-tested, 5-step roadmap to move you from zero experience to a hired professional in 6 to 12 months.

**Content:**

# The 5 Step Roadmap to Your First IT Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you’re tired of shouting into the void of “Easy Apply” buttons and getting nothing but [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) emails, this is for you. Most [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is theoretical garbage—this is a battle-tested, 5-step roadmap to move you from zero experience to a hired professional in 6 to 12 months. Stop guessing and start executing a plan that actually bypasses the filters and puts you in front of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers.

**Timestamps**

0:00 – The Reality of the Current IT Market

0:49 – Step 1: Building a Technical Foundation (CompTIA vs. Google)

1:08 – How to Break the “Perpetual Study Loop”

 1:38 – Step 2: Hands-on Labbing & Enterprise Tools

2:02 – Turning Lab Work into a Verifiable [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)

2:25 – Step 3: Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to Optimize Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) & [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

3:21 – Step 4: Smart [Applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) vs. The Digital Black Hole

4:14 – Step 5: Mastering the Technical [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)

4:59 – The Numbers Game: What it Actually Takes to Get Hired

5:28 – Advanced Resources & Coaching

If you want to find an entry-level IT job in today’s market, you need a specific plan for the next 12 months. Standard [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) usually stops at get certifications and do labs. While that’s technically true, it doesn’t provide the actionable steps needed to actually move from an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

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The common [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) here is the perpetual study loop. Many candidates spend months reviewing material, but never actually sit for the certification exams. To avoid this, you should purchase and schedule your exam date before you even begin studying.

This creates a hard deadline on your calendar, forcing your study schedule to work backward from a fixed point. This upfront commitment creates the accountability needed to ensure you finish the curriculum and earn a verifiable credential. Step two requires you to take that theoretical knowledge and apply it in a practical home lab environment.

You need to gain experience with the tools used in enterprise environments. This includes setting up Windows Server, managing users and Active Directory, and navigating the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and Entra. Simply doing these labs is only the first half of the process.

To get hired, you need to turn that work into evidence. You do this by documenting your technical process step-by-step using Markdown language. Once your documentation is complete, host those files in a public GitHub repository.

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Step four is about changing how you apply. Your first move should be to stop using the easy apply or one-click [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) features. Those features often lead to a digital black hole where your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is buried under thousands of other identical [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) from around the world.

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Keep track of every [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) in a structured spreadsheet. This ensures you stay organized as you manage multiple outreach efforts. 10 targeted [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) with direct outreach are more effective than hundreds of generic submissions that never get seen by a human.

Step five is mastering the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). Once you get to the table, you have to be able to talk through your technical knowledge clearly. A common hurdle is the tell-me-about-yourself question.

Many candidates hesitate here, which can set a shaky tone for the rest of the conversation. To fix this, record yourself delivering your elevator pitch 10 to 15 times. Watching the playback helps you spot verbal tics and refine your posture until the delivery feels natural.

You can also use the chat GPT voice feature to conduct mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Ask it for five technical questions common for a junior sysadmin and practice answering them out loud. This vocal practice builds the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) needed to articulate your technical knowledge and answer difficult questions under pressure.

Even with a great plan, the IT job market is competitive. Success requires a high level of consistency over several months. In many cases, it takes between 30 and 150 optimized [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to secure just one or two [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

You can focus on the difficulty of the market, or you can focus on the variables you can control, your certifications, your labs, and your outreach. Executing these five steps shifts your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) from a passive wait-for-a-callback into an active campaign that highlights your technical capabilities. There is a lot more to help you at [jobsearch.community](http://jobsearch.community). Free content, one and $2 content, video courses, books, guides to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [A High-Signal AI Outreach Strategy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-high-signal-ai-outreach-strategy/)

**Published:** June 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop being a liability and start using high-signal tactics that command respect.

**Content:**

# A High-Signal AI Outreach Strategy

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Decision-makers are drowning in automated garbage; if your outreach looks like a generic [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) template, it’s going straight to the trash. This episode breaks down the “80/20” rule for using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) powerhouse while keeping your human edge to actually land the meeting. Stop being a liability and start using high-signal tactics that command respect.

Timestamps

00:00 – The crisis of the modern executive inbox.

00:22 – The “Uncanny Valley” of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) writing.

00:41 – Why “polished” messages are now a digital red flag.

01:03 – The Pivot: Moving from scale to integrity.

01:20 – The 80/20 Workflow: Machine synthesis vs. human insight.

01:38 – Anatomy of a high-signal prompt.

01:53 – Performing a “Fluff Audit” to remove corporate filler.

02:10 – Ethical boundaries and security risks with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools.

02:37 – Using public signals to demonstrate strategic depth.

02:54 – Before & After: Transforming a coffee chat into a context exchange.

03:24 – Building the “Value Loop” of unique expertise.

03:48 – Resources and coaching at JobSearch.Community.

Modern executive inboxes are under siege. Every morning, decision makers face an unrelenting flood of automated, low-grade noise. These messages often appear grammatically perfect, yet they signal a complete lack of originality.

They rely on the same generic corporate filler— passionate, synergy, and deep dive. In robotics, the uncanny valley describes the revulsion felt when a machine looks almost, but not quite, human. This happens in writing when a message follows a perfect structure, but lacks the idiosyncratic rhythm and specific soul of human conversation.

The result is a visceral sense of unease in the reader. Experienced [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) have developed a high-sensitivity filter for this synthetic tone. A polished, overly enthusiastic three-paragraph structure is now a digital red flag.

For a knowledge-educated professional, the risk of using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) lies in its tendency to erase your unique voice, making you sound exactly like everyone else in the pile. Surviving in this market requires a pivot. You must move away from using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for mere scale and start using it to demonstrate high-level integrity.

This requires a strict operational protocol. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) serves as your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) synthesizer, never as your final author. The machine handles the 80% of tedious labor, synthesizing quarterly reports and identifying specific strategic friction points.

You provide the remaining 20%. This is where you inject the tonal nuance, industry inside jokes, and immediate context a machine cannot replicate. Obtaining those clinical observations requires a specific prompt structure.

By instructing the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to distill operational concerns into three bullet points and avoid salesy language, you maintain a clinical, observant tone that commands respect. Even with a precise prompt, you must perform a fluff audit. You have to strip away corporate filler that suggests you have nothing original to contribute.

This specific division of labor proves to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager that you have done actual, strategic work rather than deploying a lazy pitch. In defensive outreach, your professional judgment is being evaluated from the very first touch point. Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to scrape private cell phone numbers or non-public data signals a lack of professional boundaries.

These aggressive tactics are immediate ethical [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/). Security is equally vital. You must never input proprietary metrics or internal data from your current employer into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool to generate your pitch.

Professional outreach should restrict its analysis to public signals, SEC filings, official blogs, and earnings calls. This shows respect for boundaries while highlighting your attention to detail. Referencing a public signal with a unique insight shows strategic depth.

Using private data makes you a liability. Look at the transformed outreach message. By removing the corporate fluff, we are left with a clinical, targeted piece of communication.

The strategy shifts from an amateur request for a generic coffee chat to a professional [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) for a context exchange. You pair the AI’s identification of a strategic gap with your own peer-level observation, noting how a specific lever for [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) worked when you navigated a similar crisis in your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). This creates a value loop.

It establishes an oneliness, a unique combination of public market insights and personal expertise that mass outreach tools cannot replicate. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) serves as a force multiplier for [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), but securing the meeting requires a human being who demonstrates both high-level intelligence and high-level discretion. There is much more to help you at [SobSearch.Community](http://jobsearch.community). Free content, $1 and $2 information, and if you become an insider, you get access to all the content, plus coaching from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 2700 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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### [Career Branding Lessons For Today’s Professional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-branding-lessons-for-todays-professional/)

**Published:** June 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When it comes to your career and your future, there are no small mistakes. Everything you do has an impact on your career.

**Content:**

# Career Branding Lessons For Today’s Professional

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When people go to a store to buy detergent, they never pick up the box or container, flip it over, read the list of ingredients, and decide, “Hmm. The interrelationship of the chemicals in this [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) will make my laundry cleaner than the ones in this one. Instead, they decide based on the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), the price, whether they have a coupon, and whether someone told them to buy the particular [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for any or all of those reasons. It has nothing to do with the ability of the detergent to clean their laundry better than another one.

**This is an example of how [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) shapes our decision-making**

When it comes to [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and your future, there are no small [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Everything you do has an impact on [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Whether you realize it or not, you are building a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for yourself as you go. Everything from what you say to what you wear carries meaning and can either hurt or help your long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) prospects. If you’re serious about your future and want to stand out from the rest of the competition, then these are a few helpful tips about [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) yourself in [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and beyond. With commitment, anyone can take steps toward building their [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), but it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and effort to get started, but once you understand what [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) means for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), the world opens up with new opportunities and potential contacts that will be invaluable down the line.

**Who knows about you?**

The [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) to building a positive [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is making sure that the information people see about you is accurate and helpful. When you think about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), consider the overall impression that people have of you right now. Do they know your name? What kind of work have you done? What do you want them to know about you? What do they know about you that’s true or false? What do they know that helps [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? What do they know that hurts [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? If few people know anything about you, you are invisible. You might not be able to control what others say about you, but you can control and create the information about yourself that’s out there.

**Know your audience**

When it comes to [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you need to know your audience. Who do you want to hire you? Who do you want to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) opportunities to you? You need to know where your ideal job can be found, how to be qualified to work there, and how to have people who work there know about you. Whether it’s attending [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events, joining professional groups, or spending time on websites and apps designed to help you connect with potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), be in the right places to meet the right people while doing things that will help them get to know, like, trust and respect you. Learn your audience’s perspective. What do they care about? What do they have in common with you? What are their pain points? What would they like to see in a potential employee… like you?

**Be mindful of your choices**

Build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) by being mindful of your choices. Don’t just be aware of the things you put out there about yourself; make an effort to be mindful of the choices you make for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Maintaining the right appearance and being mindful about where you choose to advertise and promote yourself while ensuring you have the right supporting documents can help make a good [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Make sure your documents are clean, error-free, and up-to-date. Make sure your online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) is well-maintained. You don’t want to be the person who doesn’t take care of their image. A sloppy look or sloppy work can leave a bad impression that can be hard to overcome.

**Be authentic**

Be authentic in everything that you do, and you’ll go a long way to building your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). After all, what’s the point of [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) yourself if you’re not being genuine? Be careful not to misrepresent yourself, and don’t be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to tell the truth either. You’re likely to attract [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and clients who resonate with you and your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) if you’re being authentic with them.

**Show, don’t just speak, your value by becoming a subject matter [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/)**

It’s not enough to say what you can do for them; you have to demonstrate it. Pick a subject that you’re audience cares about, and use it to demonstrate your value to potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and consulting clients. You can demonstrate your value by creating a blog that advises people in your field, publishing articles in trade publications and/or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), being interviewed for a podcast, for a YouTube show, or even writing a book. Whatever you do, make sure that you’re showing [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and clients the value you can provide, not just telling them about it. If someone can’t see it, then it’s likely that they won’t believe you, and they won’t contact you, let alone hire you.

**Develop a platform for your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/)**

Build a platform for your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) by creating an online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). You could start a blog, join an online community, or publish articles on social media. You can also create and manage an online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) by setting up an online [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), joining professional networks, and ensuring that you have a strong and consistent [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) on all professional websites where you have an account. What does your online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) say about you? Can potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) find you online? What do they see when they visit your website or social media pages? Is there information on your site that helps potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) see how you can benefit them?

**Get targeted [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and certifications**

Build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) by getting targeted [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and certifications that enhance your expertise or fills gaps in your background. What are [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) looking for in a hire? Many industries have certification boards that determine what certifications are required at what level. You can use those certification boards to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) by researching the certification requirements for the industries you want to work in, then working to get those certifications and putting them on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, and website.

**Network like crazy**

By far, one of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ways to build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) and connect with the right people is through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and elevating your network. There are many [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events and opportunities for you to meet, connect and network with people to make connections that may benefit [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). In addition, you can also network online, in professional groups, and through social media. When you’re [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), make sure that you’re asking questions, not just talking about yourself. You want to make connections with people and build relationships with them. they see how valuable you can be to them. REMEMBER: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) goes both ways. Help them while you are promoting yourself.

**Conclusion**

[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) yourself is not putting together a good [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) yourself is not just showing up to [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). It’s about forming connections, providing value, and making sure that you are presenting yourself in a way that makes you stand out from the crowd. Successful [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) takes time and effort, but the results are well worth it. If you’re serious about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), it’s time to start building your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).

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### [AI-Driven Networking: How to Map & Fix Relationship Debt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-driven-networking-how-to-map-fix-relationship-debt/)

**Published:** May 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Your professional network is a living ledger. If you only log in when you want to make a withdrawal, you will find the account closed.

**Content:**

# AI-Driven Networking: How to Map & Fix Relationship Debt

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the lifecycle of a professional [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), technical skill and operational execution are only half the ledger. The hidden asset—or liability—that dictates your upward mobility is what I call **Relationship Debt**.

Relationship debt is the accumulated deficit built when you allow your professional network to go dormant, only reaching out when you need an immediate favor, like a job recommendation or an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Whether you are a high-level individual contributor (IC) or a senior leader, treating your network like a transactional vending machine signals a profound lack of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) stewardship. It’s bad business, and frankly, people see right through it.

To break this cycle, you need to shift from reactive [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) to proactive capital management. By utilizing [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as an analytical engine, you can map the hidden deficits in your professional ecosystem and systematically clear that debt before you ever need to ask for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/).

### 1. The Individual Contributor Ledger: Rebuilding the Peer Architecture

For individual contributors, relationship debt typically accumulates horizontally. You get so deeply embedded in your day-to-day code, designs, or analysis that you lose touch with the peers, former managers, and technical leads who moved on to other organizations. When an internal pipeline freezes, you are left with zero high-fidelity advocates inside your target firms.

- **The Strategy:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to execute a semantic audit of your professional history to identify where your functional network has clustered.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Protocol:** Compile a list of your top 20 past collaborators from the last 5 years. Feed their current titles and companies into an LLM.
- **The Diagnostic Prompt:**
    
    > “Analyze this cohort of past professional connections. Group them by their current technical ecosystems and market sectors. Identify the primary macro operational challenge their respective organizations are facing right now. Draft a low-friction, value-first touchpoint for a past peer that offers a specific technical resource or insight related to that challenge, requiring zero immediate favors.”
- **The Action:** Re-engage by sending a specific technical asset such as a white paper, an open-source framework, or a clinical observation about an industry shift.

Keep the message structure clean and direct:

> “I saw your team is scaling \[X\]. We ran into a similar structural bottleneck at my last firm and found that \[Y\] was the only real lever. Thought this data point might save you some cycles.”

### 2. The Senior Leadership Ledger: Mapping Enterprise Vulnerabilities

For [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) and senior directors, relationship debt accumulates vertically and cross-functionally. A leader’s debt isn’t just about forgetting to stay in touch; it is a failure to maintain relationships with the capital allocators, board members, and operating partners who control the mandates for unlisted executive roles.

- **The Strategy:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find the strategic misalignment between your past leadership network and the current market requirements.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Protocol:** Input the company names of your past executive sponsors, former clients, and board contacts alongside recent macro news from their respective industries.
- **The Analytical Prompt:**
    
    > “Review this list of executive contacts and their corporate domains. Based on current market pressures (such as margin compression, regulatory shifts, or supply chain volatility), identify which of these leaders is managing a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) company or department under the highest strategic duress. Synthesize a high-level operational thesis that highlights how a turnaround framework could insulate their specific business unit.”
- **The Action:** Initiate a peer-to-peer context exchange. Reach out to the leader under duress with a professional, low-ego note.

> “I’ve been analyzing the recent market shift regarding \[Industry Pressure\]. Having navigated a parallel restructuring during the last cyclical downturn, I put together a brief framework on how we protected margin integrity without halting product velocity. Let me know if you want the brief to share with your leadership team.”

### The Relationship Debt Balance Sheet

**Transactional Approach (High Debt)****The Asset Framework (Zero Debt)**“Hey, it’s been 3 years. I’m looking for a new role, can you forward my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to your VP?”“I’ve been analyzing your sector’s shift. Here is a specific asset to save your team cycles.”### 3. The Automation Audit: Eliminating the Sentimental Bot

The fastest way to compound your relationship debt when re-engaging is to send a message that sounds like it was written by an automated nurturing sequence. Phrases like *“I hope this finds you well,”* or *“Congrats on the new role, let’s catch up!”* are low-signal conversational noise. The human brain filters them out instantly.

- **The 80/20 Rule of Re-engagement:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze the macro trends and outline the operational pain points (the 80%). Do not let the machine write the final message (the 20%).
- **The De-Boilerplate Filter:** Run your outreach script through a final stylistic filter. Ask the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/):
    
    > “Strip out all generic conversational openings, emotional hyperbole, and synthetic enthusiasm from this draft. Keep the sentences short, direct, and focused. Ensure the tone reflects the natural vocabulary of two busy professionals trading high-value notes.”

### The Bottom Line

Your professional network is a living ledger. If you only log in when you want to make a withdrawal, you will find the account closed.

By leveraging [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify where the market is creating friction for your connections, you can systematically deliver value before you ever ask for access. You move from a position of market dependency to a position of true [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) agency.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Be Open #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-open-shorts/)

**Published:** May 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It's important to remain open.

**Content:**

# **Be Open**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Vb_WALJU4lY)

It’s important to remain open.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Essential Job Search Tools](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)

**Published:** May 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The hiring process relies heavily on automation, AI screening, and structured evaluations. To compete, you need specific tools

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# **Essential Job Search Tools**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**NOTE**: There are NO affiliate links in this article. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even provide a link to the product or website to avoid being accused of hiding affiliate links. You all know how to find a website to evaluate these products for your own use. I also am not endorsing these products. I am offering information about different products and tools that are available to help you.

Getting a job requires more than submitting a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process relies heavily on automation, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) screening, and structured evaluations. To compete, you need specific tools to tailor your [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), find the right roles, prepare for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) your compensation. Here is a direct breakdown of the tools and strategies that work.

**[Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and [Applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/)** A single, static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) will not pass modern [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)). You must tailor your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) for every [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to match the specific job description. Jobscan remains the standard for scoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) against a job posting, highlighting missing keywords to help you pass automated filters.

If you want a dedicated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) builder, Kickresume offers extensive templates and an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) writer, while Rezi focuses heavily on real-time [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) optimization. For those who prefer a single platform for multiple tasks, Seekario offers an all-in-one suite that includes [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) building, tailoring, [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) generation, and tracking.

For high-volume, FastApply automates the process by tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) for specific roles and [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) across multiple job boards automatically. If your main issue is organization, Teal provides a highly effective free [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) tracker with a drag-and-drop interface. You can also use general [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) or Claude to rewrite [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) bullets and draft [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), though they lack built-in [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) scoring.

**Finding the Right Roles** Targeting the right job boards saves time. If you want remote work paying over $100,000, use Remote100K. They manually vet high-paying remote roles, eliminating low-quality listings. Tech professionals should look at Peerlist, a platform that requires a high profile score to apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) and uses project walls to verify actual coding and design skills. Freelancers and independent contractors should use Contra, a commission-free platform focused entirely on project portfolios rather than traditional [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents are also changing how people apply. Browser-based agents like Claude Code and [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) Codex can navigate job boards, read postings, and fill out simple [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) on your behalf. However, they consistently fail on complex, multi-page enterprise [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) forms. Remember that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help with speed, but your overall strategy matters more. [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to dozens of incorrect [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) with an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agent is a waste of time.

**[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and Personal [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/)** Personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is a practical requirement. The vast majority of [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) vet candidates on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) before making contact. Make sure your profile has a professional photo, a headline that states your specific value instead of just your current title, and a summary focused on quantifiable achievements. Ensure your job titles and dates match your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) exactly; discrepancies will immediately [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/).

For active [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), do not rely on cold outreach alone. Lunchclub uses [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to match you for 1:1 video calls based on your specific professional intent, such as mentorship or job seeking. If you need to manage a large network on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), LeadDelta helps you tag and organize your connections, acting as a personal CRM. Having a personal website or [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) is also highly recommended. Tools like Carrd or Notion allow you to quickly set up a page showcasing your work samples and a downloadable [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/).

**[Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Preparation** Practicing for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with standard [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) chatbots provides a false sense of security. They are programmed to be agreeable and will not tell you if you missed the core leadership signal a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager is looking for.

Instead, use dedicated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) coaches. Revarta is highly effective for behavioral and leadership [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). It provides honest, critical [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) based on the STAR method and actual [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) standards, pointing out exactly where your answers lack depth. If your main issue is vocal delivery, Yoodli analyzes your speech, identifying filler words, [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/), and pacing issues. If you have video [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), Huru provides excellent practice for on-camera delivery. Under no circumstances should you use real-time [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) copilots that feed you answers during live [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). These are considered cheating and will destroy your professional reputation.

**[Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Negotiation** When you receive an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), never [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) verbally over the phone. Always ask for 24 hours to review the written [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Once the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is in writing, the employer is fully committed to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) you, and your leverage increases significantly.

Use platforms like Levels.fyi to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) accurate [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) data, especially for technology roles. Present your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) request as a range rather than a single number, and anchor that range 10 to 15 percent above their initial [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Base your argument on the return on investment you will bring to the company, highlighting specific past achievements, rather than your personal financial needs.

If the employer states that the base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is locked within a strict internal band, do not give up. Pivot immediately to total compensation. You can often successfully [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for a signing bonus, accelerated [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) vesting, extra paid time off, or a professional development budget. Total compensation is where [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have the most flexibility.

**Conclusion** The right tools streamline the repetitive, time-consuming parts of the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to optimize your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) for [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) filters, organize your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) pipeline, and practice your behavioral [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) answers. By automating the mechanical tasks, you can focus your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on strategic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), demonstrating your actual skills, and negotiating the compensation you deserve.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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He is the original host and creator of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) in iTunes the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3000 episodes over 14+ years.It is also available on Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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### [Your Online Presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/)

**Published:** May 29, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Check your online presence. You never know.

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# Your Online Presence

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Check your online presence. You never know.

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### [LinkedIn Mistakes: Not Sharing Contact Information with Connections #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-mistakes-not-sharing-contact-information-with-connections-shorts/)

**Published:** May 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I have been accepting connection requests from people today and been shocked by the job hunters who don't share their email addresses on LinkedIn

**Content:**

# LinkedIn Mistakes: Not Sharing Contact Information with Connections #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/rta8JtGrMco)

I have been accepting connection requests from people today and been shocked by the job hunters who don’t share their email addresses on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

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### [Proofread Your LinkedIn Profile #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/proofread-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** May 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:**  @BrendaMellerMarketing  shared this simple to implement idea for proofreading your LinkedIn profile.

**Content:**

# Proofread Your LinkedIn Profile

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/s_KfgTLTND0)

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### [How to Connect With The Hidden Job Market #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-connect-with-the-hidden-job-market-shorts/)

**Published:** May 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The hidden job market can be connected with.

**Content:**

# How to Connect With The Hidden Job Market #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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[The hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) can be connected with.

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### [Bypassing the ATS with Referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/bypassing-the-ats-with-referrals/)

**Published:** May 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Bypassing the ATS with Referrals

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You are wasting your time.

Every day, I see smart, college-educated professionals log onto [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), find a job they love, and click that “Apply” button. They upload a beautiful [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), hit submit, and wait. And wait.

Then the automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) email arrives, or worse, silence.

Do you think a human being looked at your background and decided you weren’t a fit? Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) hit a system like Workday or Greenhouse, the machine misread your formatting or didn’t see the exact keyword string it wanted, and it dumped you in the virtual trash.

If you want a job, you have to stop [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) through the front door. The front door is a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). You need to use a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) to bypass the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) entirely.

Let me tell you a story.

### The Executive Who Played the Wrong Game

A few months ago, I was coaching a senior director of operations. Let’s call him Jim. Jim had a top-tier degree, fifteen years of clean corporate experience, and a track record of saving companies millions of dollars. He was an absolute asset.

Jim found a role at a major firm that fit him perfectly. He spent more than an hour manually tailoring his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), matching every keyword he could find, and submitted it through the company’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) portal.

Three days later, the machine spat him out. Automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). No human interaction.

Jim called me, furious and defeated. He said, “Jeff, I meet 100% of the requirements. Why don’t they want me?”

I told him the truth: “They don’t even know you exist, Jim. The system broke your data. I keep telling you to avoid [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/). Are you ready to change tactics?”

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### The Backdoor Protocol

I had Jim log back onto [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). We didn’t look at the job board this time. We looked at the company’s people page.

We found a person who would be Jim’s peer at the firm, another director in an adjacent department. They went to the same university, but more importantly, they shared the same operational stress points.

Jim didn’t send a message asking for a job. Asking a stranger for a job puts a burden on them, and busy people say no to burdens. Instead, Jim sent a direct, two-sentence note:

> *“I’ve been tracking your team’s expansion into the EMEA market. Having navigated that same supply-chain bottleneck at my last firm, I put together a brief outline of the specific vendor risks that usually pop up in month three. Let me know if you want me to forward the notes.”*

They responded within four hours. They traded notes. Jim showed he was a competent peer who understood the operational reality, not a desperate job seeker.

At the end of the conversation, the peer said, “You know, we are actually looking for someone with your background. Let me drop your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) directly into our internal system.”

### Why the Internal Lane Changes Everything

When Jim’s new contact uploaded his [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) through the internal employee [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) portal, a few critical things happened automatically behind the scenes:

- **The Priority Tag:** The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) didn’t just parse Jim’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); it stamped it with a “High-Priority Employee Referral” flag.
- **The Gatekeeper Bypass:** In many enterprise tracking systems, referred profiles bypass the automated keyword knockout rounds. They are routed directly to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager or the lead recruiter’s inbox.
- **The Vetting Premium:** A human being opened Jim’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) because someone already inside the building put their own reputation on the line to recommend him.

Jim got the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) invite 48 hours later. Same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Same company. Completely different result.

### The Bottom Line

The [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is an efficiency tool for human resources, not a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement tool for you. When you submit your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) cold, you are letting a system dictate your market value.

If you continue to apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/), you are playing the volume game and it isn’t set up for you to win. It is set up to filter [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and track them through a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process to ultimately onboarding.

Instead, find a future peer, identify a public problem they are facing, [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a piece of high-value context, and let them handle the entry point.

Work the network, find the person, and get referred. That is how you bypass the machine and get into the room.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Engineering High-Value Visibility on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/engineering-high-value-visibility-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** May 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn is a global relational directory, and for a college-educated leader, visibility is only valuable if it signals structural authority.

**Content:**

# Engineering High-Value Visibility on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professionals [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) activity for impact. They publish generic industry updates, share corporate press releases, or congratulate distant connections on work anniversaries. This approach treats [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a standard social network. It is not. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a global relational directory, and for a college-educated leader, visibility is only valuable if it signals structural authority.

When you blend into the background of standard professional content, you become an interchangeable [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). To get noticed for the right reasons, you must transform your profile and your platform engagement into a high-fidelity broadcast of your unique market utility.

### 1. Activating Your Onlyness: The Core Anchor

The ultimate defense against becoming a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) is your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—the precise intersection of your operational framework, industry history, and specific problem-solving blueprint that no other professional can duplicate. Getting noticed on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) begins with anchoring your [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) in this undeniable signature.

- **The Strategy:** Your profile should immediately answer the most critical question an executive or capital allocator has: *What specific, structural drag can this person eliminate that no one else can?*
- **The Optimization:** Move away from generic summaries like “Results-driven Operations Executive.” Instead, define your explicit domain intersection.
- **The Frame:** *“Operational leader at the intersection of supply-chain restructuring and mid-market manufacturing. I step into organizations facing post-acquisition margin compression and implement localized automation frameworks to stabilize EBITDA within 120 days.”* This isn’t a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) headline; it is a declaration of monopoly power over a specific problem.

### 2. High-Yield Commenting: The Peer-Level Infiltration

The most efficient way to get noticed by decision-makers is not by writing long-form posts that depend on algorithm luck. It is by embedding your expertise inside the comments sections of high-value industry conversations.

```
[The Visibility Vector]
Standard Posting (Low Yield):      --> High-Yield Commenting (High Yield):
Publishing an unread text block    --> Injecting a surgical insight directly 
hoping an executive sees it.           into a C-suite leader's live thread.

```

- **The Tactic:** Identify 15 to 20 target executive peers, board members, or industry analysts within your target sector.
- **The Execution:** When they publish an industry observation or a strategic question, do not respond with generic praise like “Great insight!” Instead, deliver a **Surgical Contribution**–a 3-sentence, data-backed counterpoint or expansion that proves you understand the micro-dynamics of their business.
- **The Logic:** When a chief operating officer sees a clinical, deeply informed critique or validation in their comments, they don’t just read it; they click through to the profile behind it. You are using their existing audience to validate your own authority.

### 3. Curation of Proof: The Structural “Featured” Section

When a peer or a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) lands on your profile due to a high-yield comment, your “Featured” section is the landing page that converts their curiosity into an inbound engagement. If this section is blank, or if it simply links to your company’s latest [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) fair, the momentum dies instantly.

- **The Strategy:** Treat this space as a curated [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) of your signature thinking.
- **The Content Mix:** Pin exactly three high-signal assets: a 1,000-word white paper detailing your operational playbook, a video recording of an industry panel you anchored, or a data visualization mapping a macro market shift in your sector.
- **The Objective:** This provides immediate, tangible proof of work. It allows a visiting decision-maker to witness the execution of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) without requiring a formal [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

### 4. The Counter-Cyclical Post: Intellectual Contrarianism

If you choose to publish long-form content, avoid the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) of regurgitating standard corporate orthodoxy. The corporate world is flooded with identical advice on “how to be a empathetic leader” or “the importance of innovation.” High-value professionals stand out by offering data-driven, **counter-cyclical perspectives**.

- **The Strategy:** Address a standard industry assumption and systematically dismantle it using your unique operational lens.
- **The Prompt Structure:** Identify a common trend or tool that everyone in your sector is adopting, and highlight the hidden structural debt or security liability it creates.
- **The Tone:** Keep the delivery entirely clinical, analytical, and low-ego. You are not complaining; you are auditing an industry-wide blind spot. When you highlight a risk that other [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are silently worrying about, you position yourself as the leader equipped to navigate it.

### The Bottom Line

Getting noticed on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for the right reasons requires a shift from self-promotion to **value delivery**. When you anchor your profile in [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), infiltrate high-level conversations with surgical insights, and back up your claims with an explicit record of proof, you cease to be a passive participant in the digital landscape. You become a high-signal asset that the market actively seeks out.

**We have structured your digital signal for premium visibility. Should we move into the “Negotiated [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) Pivot” next to ensure your compensation framework scales alongside the market authority we are building?**

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Sometimes You’ve Gotta Do What You Gotta Do #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sometimes-youve-gotta-do-what-you-gotta-do-shorts/)

**Published:** May 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** BEING AN ADULT IS HARD.

**Content:**

# Sometimes You’ve Gotta Do What You Gotta Do

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/cpXypjWEYTc)

BEING AN ADULT IS HARD.

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### [Match Your Resume to Job Descriptions for Free #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/match-your-resume-to-job-descriptions-for-free-shorts-jobsearchtv/)

**Published:** May 27, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Zapier's Chrome extension can compare your resume against job descriptions in real-time and get AI improvements for perfect matching and interview preparation.

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# Match Your Resume to Job Descriptions for Free #shorts

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### [Is It OK to Refer Someone to A Recruiter After Turning Down an Opportunity?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-refer-someone-to-a-recruiter-after-turning-down-an-opportunity-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/)

**Published:** May 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A viewer was curious about whether it was OK to refer someone to a recruiter even though they, themselves, were not interested in the job.

**Content:**

# Is It OK to Refer Someone to A Recruiter After Turning Down an Opportunity from Them?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A viewer was curious about whether it was OK to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) someone to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) even though they, themselves, were not interested in the job.

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 The question I received for someone is, is it okay to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) someone to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) after turning down an opportunity from them? I’m not going to beat around the bush.

The answer is, yeah. What is a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) hired to do? A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is hired to fill a position. You may not be interested in what they have to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), but you’re helping them by referring your friend to them, [by referring your former colleague](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ive-had-a-minor-felony-conviction-and-a-former-colleague-wants-to-refer-me-for-a-job/) or your colleague to them.

It’s a good thing. They will appreciate it. Now, if you’re just referring some piece of spam to them, I’ll just give an example that always happened with me.

The person who I contact for the manager or director role, referring the person who is not a manager or director person, but aspires to be that, they’re not going to fill that job. Another example used to be the, you know, I’m trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a developer and I’m getting a business analyst referred to me. Two completely different functions, right? Once you’ve heard about the position, you have a roadmap for the job and you can say to them, tell me a little bit more.

I’m not interested, but I may [know someone](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-referred-when-someone-offers-to-refer-you-if-they-know-someone-jobsearchtv-com/). And they’ll go into it a little bit more detail. Ask another [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) question or two for them because that’s going to let them know that you’re trying to [really think](https://thebiggamehunter.us/in-case-you-were-wondering-what-recruiters-really-think-about-you-jobsearchtv-com/) about it.

And then, you know, say to them, I want to send you someone’s name and number. I’m going to message them now and I’m going to include you in the message. So just reply all so that I know you’ve gotten back and gotten in touch with them and they’ll know that I’m the frame of reference for the introduction.

And after that, you can take me out of the loop, but it just lets me know that I’ve made the [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). You’ve [replied back](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-you-reply-back-to-a-rejection-email-jobsearchtv-com/) and it’s all being handled. It’s just, yes, they want [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) from people because [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) are often, in the recruiter’s mind, a good source for a client because a person who they believe to be qualified for the role is referring someone else who understands what the role might be.

Again, don’t give them spam [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Don’t give them garbage [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). It has to be something valid for the role or another role that they’re recruiting for.

Otherwise, you’re just [wasting their time](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-tips-ways-to-avoid-wasted-time/) and you look very foolish. So that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful.

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Mention that you watch or listen to my content. I like knowing I’m helping folks. Once we’re connected, if you’re interested in [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), let me know.

I think it’s easier at the website. But if that’s the way you want to do it, so be it. Lastly, join my group on Facebook called [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Angles.

It’s focused on helping you do better at work. Information there is shared daily and I’m attempting to build a supportive group there. Ask to join.

I’m not letting [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) in. So, I want to make it a safe place for everyone. I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

And in the meantime, I hope you have a great day. Be great!

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### [Should I Have a Website?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-have-a-website-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** May 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter answer someone's question about whether or not to have a website.

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# Should I Have a Website?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) answer someone’s question about whether or not to have a website.

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I’m a university student that’s [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Apparently, they’re graduating. Should I have a personal website? I have a GitHub and a SlideShare account already.

Is it a good idea to make a personal website with the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and all the links to GitHub, SlideShare and other sites? So, here’s my thought. You can do that. It’s going to take time and you also have to then think about SEO.

Here’s a simpler way to go about doing it. Number one is get to a service like about.me or flavors.me. Link all your sites through there. They’ve got far more readily found discovery than your site will have.

Get a simple blog account like a blogger account or a Wix page. Put your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) there. Link everything to it from about.me or flavors.me. You’ll accomplish the same thing.

It’ll take you a lot less time and their results are going to be far more effective than what your website will probably draw. So, that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful.

And if you did, I want to encourage you to take me up on my free seven-day trial at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). That’s my site with curated information that you can watch, listen to or read to help you find work more quickly. And, and I want to remind you, subscribe to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Radio on iTunes or Stitcher. It helps me a lot.

It helps other people discover the show. You’ll get podcasts delivered to you Monday through Friday, very early in the morning. They’re bite-sized morsels designed to help you find work.

Hope to have you back soon. Have a great day. Take care.

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### [Age Proof Your Job Search: 10 Steps to Get Hired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/age-proof-your-job-search-10-steps-to-get-hired/)

**Published:** May 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Stop fighting stereotypes and start leading with the advantages of a battle-tested career.

**Content:**

# Age Proof Your Job Search: 10 Steps to Get Hired

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) isn’t just about your birth year–it’s about how you project your skills and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). This episode breaks down 10 immediate, practical steps to modernize your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) and communication style so [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) see your value instead of your age. Stop fighting stereotypes and start leading with the advantages of a battle-tested [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

**Timestamps**

00:00 – The 3 [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) look for on mature [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

00:37 – Step 1: Why your AOL email address is a liability

00:52 – Step 2: Modernizing your phone number and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL

01:02 – Step 3: Killing the “Years of Experience” summary

01:12 – Step 4: Using expertise-driven language over year counts

01:20 – Step 5: The danger of hiding your graduation dates

01:39 – Step 6: Setting the standard for a professional [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile

01:59 – Step 7: Matching your wardrobe to modern corporate standards

02:16 – Step 8: Demonstrating tech-savviness in real-time

02:39 – Step 9: Using the PARV framework to communicate value

02:59 – Step 10: Targeting the right organizations for high-yield results

03:27 – Adopting a “Consultant Mindset” during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)

03:49 – Projecting [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and countering stamina stereotypes

[Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is a reality, but it often stems from how a candidate is perceived rather than a direct [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) of their experience. When [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers look at a mature [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), they are often scanning for three specific red flags—outdated technical skills, a perceived resistance to new processes, and a lack of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) for a demanding role. To counter those assumptions, we can work through a 10-step checklist designed to address these perceptions throughout the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process.

Completing these steps shifts your position. Instead of fighting an uphill battle against stereotypes, you lead with the advantages of a battle-tested [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Step 1 begins with your email.

In this side-by-side comparison, the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) on the left uses an AOL address. To a modern [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/), this signals a lack of technical evolution. Use a clean, professional Gmail address instead, as shown on the right.

Step 2 modernizes your contact formatting. Remove the parentheses from your area code in favor of a dot-format phone number, and provide a direct link to your customized [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL. Step 3 updates your professional summary.

Phases like 45 years of experience immediately anchor the reader to your age before they’ve seen what you can actually do for them. Step 4 involves swapping specific year counts for phrases like highly experienced or extensive background. This keeps the focus on your expertise.

Step 5 addresses your history. Many mature applicants try to hide their age by deleting [college graduation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-speaker-at-your-college-graduation-shorts/) dates or early [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) milestones. However, this often backfires.

Missing dates create a credibility gap that makes [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers pause. Including your full timeline shows you have nothing to hide, and reinforces a transparent professional history. Step 6 is your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/).

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To meet current expectations, you need a high-resolution, shoulders-up headshot, and a background banner that reflects your specific industry. Refreshing these digital elements removes the surface-level indicators that often trigger an unconscious bias regarding a candidate’s outdatedness. Step 7 focuses on your physical presentation.

Aligning your wardrobe and grooming with current corporate standards shows that you are attuned to the modern workplace. A suit or a pair of glasses from a decade ago can reinforce an interviewer’s fear that your ideas are stuck in the past. Step 8 involves demonstrating tech rather than just talking about it.

This means being comfortable with the tools of the trade, using a tablet for notes, wearing a smartwatch, or navigating a video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) without technical hitches. When you lead with modern aesthetics and a casual proficiency with technology, the interviewer can focus on the actual substance of your qualifications. Step 9 is communicating your experience through the PARV framework.

The framework starts by defining a specific problem your previous employer faced, followed by the action you took to resolve it. You then explain the measurable result of your work and the value it created, like increased efficiency or reduced overhead. Step 10 is targeting the right organizations.

[Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to rigid, massive corporations often leads to lower yields for mature candidates. Instead, look for small-to-medium businesses, startups in need of seasoned leadership, or companies in the middle of a relocation that require operational stability. By framing your history as a series of PARV solutions and targeting high-need companies, you position your age as an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

During the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), shift your mindset from being an applicant to being a business [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/). Asking W questions like what is the current strategy or what are the primary obstacles to this goal pivots the session into a peer-level business conversation. It is also vital to avoid any defensive or pessimistic comments regarding your age or the length of your search.

Instead, look for opportunities to weave in evidence of your current momentum. Mentioning active hobbies or physical fitness helps counter stereotypes about low [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), demonstrating that you have the stamina required for a leadership role. Taking control of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) dynamics and projecting unforced positive [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) signals that you are focused and ready to contribute immediately.

While market [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) is a real challenge, these 10 steps address the specific perceptions that hold most candidates back. When you align your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), your appearance, and your value proposition with modern standards, you demonstrate that your experience is a direct answer to the market’s needs. Start with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile today.

Proper positioning ensures that when you walk into that next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), you are seen for exactly what you are, a seasoned professional who is ready to lead.

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Don’t Limit Yourself When You Network #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-limit-yourself-when-you-network-shorts/)

**Published:** May 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Networking shouldn't be confined to a professional setting.

**Content:**

# Don’t Limit Yourself When You Network #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) shouldn’t be confined to a professional setting.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2800 episodes.

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### [No BS Career Advice: May 24 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-may-24-2026/)

**Published:** May 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more.

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# No BS Career Advice: May 24 2025

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Memorial Day is not a [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) day. It is a day to honor those whose lives ended in service to our nation.

Yes, we may celebrate it . . . but it should be about honoring them.

But it is a day to be thankful for those who were willing to serve us in the past so we might have today and a future.

## Engineering High-Value Visibility on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professionals [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) activity for impact. They publish generic industry updates, share corporate press releases, or congratulate distant connections on work anniversaries. This approach treats [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a standard social network. It is not. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a global relational directory, and for a college-educated leader, visibility is only valuable if it signals structural authority.

When you blend into the background of standard professional content, you become an interchangeable [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). To get noticed for the right reasons, you must transform your profile and your platform engagement into a high-fidelity broadcast of your unique market utility.

### 1. Activating Your Onlyness: The Core Anchor

The ultimate defense against becoming a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) is your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—the precise intersection of your operational framework, industry history, and specific problem-solving blueprint that no other professional can duplicate. Getting noticed on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) begins with anchoring your [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) in this undeniable signature.

- **The Strategy:** Your profile should immediately answer the most critical question an executive or capital allocator has: *What specific, structural drag can this person eliminate that no one else can?*
- **The Optimization:** Move away from generic summaries like “Results-driven Operations Executive.” Instead, define your explicit domain intersection.
- **The Frame:** *“Operational leader at the intersection of supply-chain restructuring and mid-market manufacturing. I step into organizations facing post-acquisition margin compression and implement localized automation frameworks to stabilize EBITDA within 120 days.”* This isn’t a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) headline; it is a declaration of monopoly power over a specific problem.

### 2. High-Yield Commenting: The Peer-Level Infiltration

The most efficient way to get noticed by decision-makers is not by writing long-form posts that depend on algorithm luck. It is by embedding your expertise inside the comments sections of high-value industry conversations.

```
[The Visibility Vector]
Standard Posting (Low Yield):      --> High-Yield Commenting (High Yield):
Publishing an unread text block    --> Injecting a surgical insight directly 
hoping an executive sees it.           into a C-suite leader's live thread.

```

- **The Tactic:** Identify 15 to 20 target executive peers, board members, or industry analysts within your target sector.
- **The Execution:** When they publish an industry observation or a strategic question, do not respond with generic praise like “Great insight!” Instead, deliver a **Surgical Contribution**–a 3-sentence, data-backed counterpoint or expansion that proves you understand the micro-dynamics of their business.
- **The Logic:** When a chief operating officer sees a clinical, deeply informed critique or validation in their comments, they don’t just read it; they click through to the profile behind it. You are using their existing audience to validate your own authority.

### 3. Curation of Proof: The Structural “Featured” Section

When a peer or a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) lands on your profile due to a high-yield comment, your “Featured” section is the landing page that converts their curiosity into an inbound engagement. If this section is blank, or if it simply links to your company’s latest [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) fair, the momentum dies instantly.

- **The Strategy:** Treat this space as a curated [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) of your signature thinking.
- **The Content Mix:** Pin exactly three high-signal assets: a 1,000-word white paper detailing your operational playbook, a video recording of an industry panel you anchored, or a data visualization mapping a macro market shift in your sector.
- **The Objective:** This provides immediate, tangible proof of work. It allows a visiting decision-maker to witness the execution of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) without requiring a formal [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

### 4. The Counter-Cyclical Post: Intellectual Contrarianism

If you choose to publish long-form content, avoid the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) of regurgitating standard corporate orthodoxy. The corporate world is flooded with identical advice on “how to be a empathetic leader” or “the importance of innovation.” High-value professionals stand out by offering data-driven, **counter-cyclical perspectives**.

- **The Strategy:** Address a standard industry assumption and systematically dismantle it using your unique operational lens.
- **The Prompt Structure:** Identify a common trend or tool that everyone in your sector is adopting, and highlight the hidden structural debt or security liability it creates.
- **The Tone:** Keep the delivery entirely clinical, analytical, and low-ego. You are not complaining; you are auditing an industry-wide blind spot. When you highlight a risk that other [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are silently worrying about, you position yourself as the leader equipped to navigate it.

### The Bottom Line

Getting noticed on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for the right reasons requires a shift from self-promotion to **value delivery**. When you anchor your profile in [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), infiltrate high-level conversations with surgical insights, and back up your claims with an explicit record of proof, you cease to be a passive participant in the digital landscape. You become a high-signal asset that the market actively seeks out.

**We have structured your digital signal for premium visibility. Should we move into the “Negotiated [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) Pivot” next to ensure your compensation framework scales alongside the market authority we are building?**

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

**How to Use 15-Minute Micro-Sprints to Land Your Next Role** **Excerpt**: Stop treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) like a marathon. Use short, focused 15-minute bursts instead. **Link**: 

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**Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Questions: Solve This Problem** **Excerpt**: The ability to solve this problem is one of the leading predictors of success on the job. **Link**: 

**Many [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Have Already Caught On #shorts** **Excerpt**: They can spot what you’re doing. **Link**: 

**The Benefit of [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Practice #shorts** **Excerpt**: Quick video explaining why [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) practice is so important. **Link**: 

**Disagreement #shorts** **Excerpt**: Short [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and art about living life. **Link**: 

**What Leaders Do #shorts** **Excerpt**: Real leadership isn’t about the title; it’s about what you do when no one is forcing your hand. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a swift, punchy look at the daily behaviors that separate true leaders from managers. **Link**: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): May 17 2026** **Excerpt**: A comprehensive review of the modern job market strategies you need right now to remove friction, run micro-sprints, and stay ahead of competing talent. **Link**: 

**After the [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** **Excerpt**: The [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) doesn’t end when you walk out the door or close the Zoom window. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) maps out the immediate steps you must take to maintain momentum and protect your candidacy. **Link**: 

**Stupid [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): The Top Questions to NEVER Ask at a Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** **Excerpt**: The questions you ask at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) tell the employer exactly how you think. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the standard, self-serving questions that immediately disqualify top talent. **Link**: 

**Avoiding [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Management Scams** **Excerpt**: Outplacement and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaching scams are on the rise, targeting vulnerable professionals with fake promises. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) gives you the direct warning signs to spot a scammer before you hand over a dime. **Link**: 

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**Stop [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) and Start Auditing** **Excerpt**: If your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) strategy consists of mass-clicking ‘Apply Now,’ you are failing. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains why you need to halt the submissions and audit your professional alignment first. **Link**: 

**[Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Red Flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/): We’re Like Family #shorts** **Excerpt**: When an interviewer tells you ‘we’re like a family here,’ run. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the toxic corporate boundary violations hidden behind this common phrase. **Link**: 

**[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Arbitrage: Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to Map Value Before You Message** **Excerpt**: Stop sending cold, useless [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) messages. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) reveals how to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map out undeniable professional value before you ever hit send. **Link**: 

**The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Implementation Boom** **Excerpt**: Companies aren’t just playing with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) anymore; they are embedding it. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how the implementation boom alters [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) profiles and what you must show to stay employable. **Link**: 

**How to Transition from Corporate to Nonprofit Without Losing Your Mind** **Excerpt:** Stop assuming your corporate “savior complex” will fix a nonprofit; it will only get you rejected. This episode breaks down the brutal reality of resource scarcity, the culture of consensus, and how to actually penetrate [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) of mission-driven work. **Link:** https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-transition-from-corporate-to-nonprofit-without-losing-your-mind/

**Small Firms, Big Impact** **Excerpt**: Big companies filter you out with walls of automation. Small and mid-sized firms need the systems and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) expertise you already have. **Link**: 

**Stupid [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Spamming Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) #shorts** **Excerpt**: Spamming your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) rarely works and often backfires. **Link**: 

**How Do You Politely Decline Giving Someone a Reference?** **Excerpt**: Practical advice on how to politely say no when asked for a reference. **Link**: 

**What Are the Indicators of a Strong [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts** **Excerpt**: Quick insights on what makes a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) strong versus weak. **Link**: 

**The Illusion of the Formality [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** **Excerpt**: Think a late-stage [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) labeled as a “mere formality” means the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is guaranteed? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the hidden psychological traps of final rounds and how dropping your guard can unexpectedly disqualify you. **Link**: 

**Translating Responsibility into ROI** **Excerpt**: Listing passive responsibilities on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is actively holding you back. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to restructure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullets to map your past duties directly to business return on investment (ROI). **Link**: 

**The Skills Needed to Find a Job #shorts** **Excerpt**: Being competent at your actual job is completely different from being competent at *finding* a job. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a swift reality check on the unique marketing and pipeline-building skills required to stay employable today. **Link**: 

**What Can You Do If Your [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is Always Rejected?** **Excerpt**: Getting hit by a wall of continuous automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/)? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) fields a listener Q&A to deliver clear alternatives to the traditional “apply online” loop when the algorithm locks you out. **Link**: 

**What Can You Do If Your [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is Always Rejected?** Excerpt: Getting hit by a wall of continuous automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/)? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) fields a listener Q&A to deliver clear alternatives to the traditional “apply online” loop when the algorithm locks you out. Link: 

**The Skills Needed to Find a Job #shorts** Excerpt: Being competent at your actual job is completely different from being competent at [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a swift reality check on the unique marketing and pipeline-building skills required to stay employable today. Link: 

**Translating Responsibility into ROI** Excerpt: Listing passive responsibilities on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is actively holding you back. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to restructure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullets to map your past duties directly to business return on investment (ROI). Link: 

**The Illusion of the Formality [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)** Excerpt: Think a late-stage [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) labeled as a “mere formality” means the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is guaranteed? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the hidden psychological traps of final rounds and how dropping your guard can unexpectedly disqualify you. Link: 

**9 Ways People Sabotage Themselves on [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** Excerpt: Candidates routinely destroy their own chances before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) even gets past the introductory stages. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) exposes the nine self-sabotaging habits—from poor active listening to subtle arrogance—that sink top talent.

I’ll be releasing a new book this week on [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). It is a modernized ideas I used in my first book on the subject. Keep an eye out for my announcement later this week.

This week, I referred to “onlyness” in the article., It comes from my book on the subject, “[ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7).” $9.99 on Amazon. Understanding the concepts will help you avoid presenting your credentials like everyone else’s.

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### Jeff Altman, MSW, CCTC

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### [Is it Rude to Ask for an Update on a Job Application? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-ask-for-an-update-on-a-job-application-shorts-2/)

**Published:** May 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I don't want to do the wrong thing.

**Content:**

# Is it Rude to Ask for an Update on a Job Application? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [LinkedIn EasyApply #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-easyapply-shorts/)

**Published:** May 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A jobhunter shared her thoughts about LinkedIn EasyApply. I agree.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn EasyApply #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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A jobhunter shared her [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [EasyApply](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-effective-is-the-easy-apply-button-on-most-job-sites/). I agree.

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### [The Best Way to Proofread Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-way-to-proofread-your-resume/)

**Published:** May 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# The Best Way to Proofread Your Resume

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You know you have to proofread your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). What is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way. In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to proofread your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for 40 plus years.

I wanted to give you some advice about proofreading your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Everyone thinks they do it. Everyone thinks their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has no spelling or grammatical [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), no punctuation errors, no misused words. That I know is true because they wouldn’t be sending me [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) if they didn’t think their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) was right.

But I read so many [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that have [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in them. Words that are incorrectly used: “your” and “there,” y-o-u-r, t-h-e-r-e, t-h-e-i-r, t-h-e-r-e. And I know most people could catch the difference, but sometimes the software jumps the word, no one notices, it gets through.

Here’s my advice for proofreading. I know it’s a little quirky, but I know it’ll be effective. I want you to read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) from the end to the beginning. Start with the last sentence. Read it. Is it correct? Is it grammatically correct? Is its spelling always correct? Good. Go to the next sentence up from that. Start at the end, work your way up to the beginning.

Why I suggest that is for a couple of reasons. Number one is it’s the exact opposite of what you expect, so you’re going to see things freshly instead of the way that it was constructed. Habit also tells us that we start to skim when we see things in the familiar way. This is not a familiar way of doing things. And third, because frankly, I see more errors at the back end of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) than I do at the beginning. It seems as though the later we get into the job history, the more likely it is that you’ll make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) as you start rushing a little bit.

So, start at the end, work your way up. Last sentence to first sentence of every section of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Make sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors. Make sure there are no misused terms or misused words, and look for specific words that might be in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that if misspelled would also be correct. Now, I’ll give you an example, and again, this is old technology, but so often the word Novell, which was an IT term, N-O-V-E-L-L, would get misspelled as N-O-V-E-L or the word “novel.” Maybe someone’s keyboard stuck, and only one “l” came out. Whatever the reason was, that was a common misspelling. The software wouldn’t recognize it because “novel” is a word. Look for terms like that that might exist within your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that if misspelled might get through the spell checker, and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) won’t have those dumb errors that cause people like me and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers to go, “Huh? What was she thinking? What was he thinking?”

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found this helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, just do something that communicates that you like this video.

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### [Do Employers Ask Weird Personal Questions for a Reason? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-employers-ask-weird-personal-questions-for-a-reason-shorts/)

**Published:** May 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Do employers ask weird personal questions during interviews for a specific reason, or is it just for fun?

**Content:**

# Do Employers Ask Weird Personal Questions for a Reason? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/jnWubI8p32I)

Do [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) ask weird personal questions during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) for a specific reason, or is it just for fun?

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/JeffAltman-79-212x300.jpg)

[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the original host and creator of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) in iTunes the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 14+ years.It is also available on Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [SURPRISED!! #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/surprised-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/)

**Published:** May 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a quote from Denis Waitley I think you will recognize.

**Content:**

# SURPRISED!! #shorts

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### [Management vs Leadership #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/management-vs-leadership-careerangles-com-shorts/)

**Published:** May 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This quote from Stephen Covey makes it clear what the difference is.

**Content:**

# Management vs Leadership 

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### [9 Ways People Sabotage Themselves on Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/9-ways-people-sabotage-themselves-on-interviews-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** May 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this interview with Job Search and Interview Coach, Thea Kelley we have fun talking about some of those stupid/goofy/ridiculous mistakes people make on interviews.

**Content:**

# 9 Ways People Sabotage Themselves on Interviews

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

In this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Coach, Thea Kelley we have fun talking about some of those stupid/goofy/ridiculous [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

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Yeah, yeah, a little bit more of a pad at the beginning of the video. Hi, this is Jeff Hopp, the Big-Game Hunter. And you’re either watching [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV or listening to this No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice. That’s a call that No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. Every once in a while, I mess up the intro. I’d like to spend some time daily providing great information about [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I frankly believe it doesn’t have to be that hard, difficult, painful, or take as long as it does. It’s just [the skills they need to find a job ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-skills-needed-to-find-a-job-shorts/)are different than those needed to do a job. And for those of you who’ve been with me for a while, you’ve noticed that periodically what I’m doing this year is bringing in guests to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) them about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and different elements. And today,

Thea Kelley tonight, he is a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coach based in San from the San Francisco Bay Area, working with job hunters nationwide. She has a book out, it’s an Amazon bestseller called, “Get That Job: The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/),” that was hailed as excellent on Forbes.com. Now she’s gonna have a couple of promos for you at the end of the show. If there’s a point where you go, “I’ve got to go do something else,” forward to the end, pick up the information from her about how to subscribe, how to get some of the gifts that she has. So this way, you know, moves out the Welcome. Yes, we had such a nice time chatting about the show a while back when we were planning it, so I’m really jazzed to be here talking with you again.

And we’re gonna have another good time today. How did she become a coach? How did you wind up going into this field? Well, back at the beginning of the big recession in 2008, I was working as a corporate trainer and I got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). And before that, I had had been working with job seekers before in various other [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), but at some point, I wound up as a corporate trainer. I got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) because it was a real estate related business and I feel like I’m going too long anyway. To keep me going while I was looking for a job, I started writing some [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and then I thought, “Well, I like this a lot better than I liked my job. I’m just gonna keep doing this.” And so it’s been, gosh, ten years I’ve been in my own business now, and there were like another ten years before that that I was working with various agencies like Lee Hecht Harrison and Jewish Vocational Services and stuff like that. Cool. And today we’re going to be talking about ways that people shoot themselves in the foot on their [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), because Lord knows I’ve seen a million times and I’ve gotten the debriefs after someone does an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I was still doing search, and I’m hearing all the stories from people for my, my clients that were telling me about what this imbecile did, and we’ve all been that imbecile at one time or another.

I was never [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) old. What they do for a job? Perfect. So let’s talk about some of the ways that people shoot themselves in the foot. What’s the first one we’re going to talk about? Well, let’s start with money, Jeff. Oh, money. So don’t throw it away. And there is, there are a couple ways that people throw money away in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And the first thing they do that really messes it up is destroying their negotiating position by not having a good answer to the question, “What are your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) expectations?” And that’s one of the first questions they hit us very often. That happens in the phone screening, right? And that’s when this beginning the negotiation, right? And job hunters don’t recognize that. No, they don’t. So when you’re asked about your expectations, the first thing you want to do is put it back on them and say, “Can you tell me what the range is that’s budgeted for the position?” And in certain states, they’re legally required to tell you, although don’t get hung up on that because if they forget what the law is, you don’t want to confront them about it. But usually, a lot of times, they will tell you the range. Then what you want to do is not commit to that range, but sound generally positive. So you say, “That sounds like a good ballpark and I’m sure that once we decide this is a fit, we’re gonna be able to agree on a compensation package that’s fair.”

Excellent. And and I know I’m an East Coast guy, I came out of New York area where the law is, you can’t ask the question about current compensation. And a lot of firms in the New York area have, whether they’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) someone in New York or [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) someone in Iowa, they’ve all stopped asking the question about current compensation. Yes. His phone numbers, which used to be one of the determinants of where someone lives, aren’t valid anymore because we all Nobel funds, right? And I hope that they won’t ask you that question, but if they do, again, you want to sort of switch it back to, “Well, I, we’re just getting started now. You’re learning about me, I’m learning about the position. Can I ask you what is the range for the position?” If you haven’t already asked that. And then give the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ballpark answer. Now, if they happen to come back with, “Well, we don’t really have a range,” or “You know what, I’m really looking for is what you want,” or they somehow dodged the question, then a good way to answer that is to say something like, “Well, I’ve been looking around online. I’ve been talking to people and I’m seeing salaries anywhere from blank to blank.” And give them a well researched and fairly broad range, but then go on to say, “And I’m sure that once we agree this is a fit, we’ll be able to agree on something that’s fair.”

So you notice even in giving them a range, you’re not saying, “I expect something in this range.” You’re just saying, “This is what I’m seeing out there and I’m sure we’ll be able to agree on something that’s fair.” We have to say something more specific, and I’m wondering if you might just hit in a phrase along the lines of, “What I’m looking at that low end of the range, I’m seeing people more junior than myself. So I don’t see myself as being a low end of a range kind of woman, a low end of the range kind of guy. I see myself more at mid to upper level of this, and we can, as you said, sort that out as we go further along.” Yeah, that’s a very good idea. Yeah, because that closes off them saying all, “One fifty, two, two and a quarter. We can get him for one fifty.” Okay. Absolutely. Good, good. Or, you know, don’t even tell them that low end that you saw that wouldn’t work for you is, so either or both of those approaches. And by the way, one of the free gifts that you mentioned, Jeff, is a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), “How to answer the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) question” infographic. So it just walks you through what I just said about what to say if they say this, what to say if they say that. Excellent, excellent.

Got that commercial in, did you? Well, you know, it’s got tools. They can get, you know, it’s really handy to have these little tools like that. You betcha.

So we’ve covered the first one of our nine ways. Yes. So what’s number two? Okay, number two is, don’t give standard answers that you heard on on a podcast or saw online. So anything I tell today, don’t go, “Oh, that’s exactly what I’m gonna say.” Maybe with the exception of the, the what, what are you looking for [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) wise? That one you can be a little formulaic, but the questions that are really about you, never just give an answer because you found it on in line and it sounds good. You want to really be authentic and at the same time strategic. And authentic and strategic are what I call the yin and yang of a good [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You’ve got to be real, you got to be yourself, but you want to be your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self and you want to be proactively selling yourself for the job.

And I think one thing that really helps you be authentic is if you’ve tried to figure out how you would answer a certain question, start with what I call the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend answer. Go ahead and start, you know, think of it not in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), but ahead of time, say out loud what you would say if you were just telling your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend the answer. And then look at what you said and kind of edit it, polish it, strategize a little bit, but start from that actual core of what it really is for you and just saying in a way that conveys sincerity. Alright? Because one of the things that firms evaluate for, particularly the more, more senior you are, are the emotional intelligence qualities. And thus, the idea that you want to sound sincere, right? What are the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ways to sound sincere is to be sincere, right? If you go in and you’re very phony, they’re not gonna trust you. They’re gonna be like, “I can’t put my finger on it, but I just don’t know who that guy is.”

I just don’t feel comfortable. And they know how to smell BS because they’ve smelled that way too many times. No BS [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). Hey Teej ik, yeah, it’s funny. And you know, on the one hand, there’s the idea of being authentic. Yeah. And on the other side, what was the other part of that? And be never why you’re there. You’re not there to chitchat and smooch, you’re there to make it very clear why you’re gonna do a great job in that job. Super. So we’ve got the money questions so far. We’ve got the authentic versus strategic scenario, how to convey yourself well and answering questions. What’s number three? Okay, three is don’t shoot yourself in the foot when you’re asked a question about some kind of negative or sensitive subject, mainly negative subjects. These would like, “I hate my boss,” you’re not going to say that, right? And sometimes they’ll even ask, “Tell me about your past boss,” or “What, what was your past boss? Well, what were his or her greatest strengths and weaknesses?” And that’s when you have to remember that every question is an opportunity for you to sell yourself for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And so you, I have an ABCI tool I just made up this morning preparing for this. Yeah.

With regard to negative questions, you want to do ABC. A is analyze. So why are they asking this? What are they trying to learn about you? So let’s say they’ve asked, you know, “What are the [strengths](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-greatest-strengths/) and weaknesses of your previous boss?” What they’re looking for here is, are you discreet? Did you have a good relationship with your boss? Are you able to work well with a variety of different personalities? They’re looking for emotional intelligence here. And so your answer would be, say something positive about your boss. Even if they’re a terrible boss, chances are there is something positive you can say. Let’s say you had a boss who micromanaged you to pieces and had a tendency to yell now and then. You could say, “My boss was very passionate about his work and about excellence, and I really wouldn’t want to go to what is, what his weaknesses were. That’s not for me to say. But we were able to do some great work together, and I’m looking forward to talking about some of the things that we achieved.” Sweet. Nice way to dance off the weaknesses, right? So that was the A, you analyze, what are they trying to find out here and address it. B is brevity. Anytime you need to say anything about anything negative, now in this answer, you didn’t even say anything negative because it’s about somebody else. But let’s say the question is, “What are your weaknesses?”

Or let’s say the question is, “Why have you been unemployed for the last year?” Okay, you’re being on unemployed for the last year or having a gap in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or not having a certain skill or experience that they are hoping you have, that is a negative. So when you talk about the negative part of it, keep it super brief. So don’t be like, you know, how big story about why you haven’t worked in a year. Make it just something very brief, like, “50 positions were eliminated from my company and one of them was mine. And after taking care of some personal business and also taking some long awaited time off to go see the world, I started looking for not just any job, but the right job.” So yes, you know, you are admitting the negative, which is that you were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), but you’re keeping that part super brief and going into positives. So keep it brief and I was gonna get to see unless you manage, okay? ‘Cause I’m trying to keep it brief. C is circle the negatives with positives. And I was doing that in the examples I gave also. Yeah. I was gonna say surround them with positives, but I wanted to make it a C, right? I don’t know which of these is correct for you out there and play.

Okay. C for certain circle, circle those negatives with positives. So for instance, if they ask you, “What are your weaknesses?” you might say, “While I am very, very good at X, it’s like the main part of the job. I am currently working on building up my skills in Y, the part that you’re a little weak on. And here’s what I’m doing about that in Z.” And that’s again going back to positives. So ABC: Analyze what they’re looking for, B, keep it brief, and C, circle it with positives. And I’m a believer in most answers to questions should be kept to about a minute to a minute and 15. I agree.

Attention span. We live in an ADHD culture and, you know, one listens for very long. As such, the goal is if you can keep it to a minute, minute 15 in total, and especially on a negative topic, witnesses, an invitation to criticize, 40 seconds because that gets you off the hook faster or less. Yeah, yeah. We’ve got three covered. What’s number four? Oh yeah, so speaking of being brief, don’t be a rambling man or a rambling woman. That may be fine for an Allman Brothers song, but it’s a good [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). So this is one of the most common problems that people come to me with as an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coach. Almost everybody tends to wander a little. And so first thing is have a little bit of a plan about how you’re gonna answer any common question that you can anticipate they’re gonna ask. If you know that you’re gonna need to mention this, that and the other thing, having mapped out what those three things are and kind of gotten that in your head, then when they ask the question, you know, just hit those three things and don’t wander off into other stuff. Another way is if you do find that you’re wandering in your answer and that it’s getting long, just stop yourself at some point and say, “But I’m getting too much in the weeds here. Long story short is,”

Or, “To get to the essence of it.” Feel free to interrupt yourself like that and then just get right to the point. And if I could give one more tip on being brief, know how you’re gonna end your answers. A lot of times people have trouble ending an answer because they’re like, “What do I say at the end? Do I just like stop?” No. It’s you want to have an ending like where you either [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to the question, blahdy blahdy blahdy blah, and so that’s, I think, my greatest accomplishment at my [current role](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recurring-problem-did-you-have-in-a-previous-or-your-current-role-that-you-didnt-resolve/). My version is I signal, I teach people to signal the end of the answer. I think of the way most people speak is having a musical tone. So it’s funny, I was listening for your version of this.

It’s the slight downward note. Yeah. So, so the classic criticism of the valley girl is that everything ended in an up. And there are people who just talk that way, and you don’t want to do that because it makes us sound like you do, you’re just not really very sure of yourself, right? And that’s how it gets interpreted whether true or not. Has you heard me, and true or not, I went in a downward note. And that’s often the signal to people, at the end, the answer is done with. There you go. And one more thing on that, we can, you can [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to the question to kind of wrap it up, or another thing, you can [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) forward to if you were to join their company. So you can say, “And that is my greatest accomplishment at my current role. And I wonder if you maybe have a project involving blah-dee-blah that I just spoke about.” Sweet. You can. Yeah, yeah, ’cause the idea where every Spanish to tie the bow with what they need. Yeah.

And to just check in with them to make sure that this was something that they were, that they could use, right? And so all the things we just talked about, by the way, are things that you need to not just hear once and then go to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You need to practice doing these things, either with a friend or on your own or with a coach, you know, so that you’ve got the experience of wrapping up an answer or using the downward. It’s funny, one of the things I tell job hunters is great athletes all practice.

Right. Steph practices, he’s on the court seven days a week. LeBron is on the court seven days a week. And great entertainers on rehearse, and job hunters go on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and the first time the words ever come out of their mouth are at the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and they wonder why they don’t deliver. And another thing those people do that most people don’t realize is they do also mental practice. They, they don’t just go out and practice on the court with a real basketball. They will also practice in their mind shooting the ideal, very difficult shot that maybe they have trouble with and doing it perfectly. And that way, their programming themself to do that thing perfectly. She’ll think about that, imagine before your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), imagine the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and imagine it all going really well, just the way you want it to. Imagine being calm and confident and you’d be surprised what a different second mental tennis. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. Jim Galloway, “The Inner Game of Tennis.” Yeah.

With me too. Was that number four? Number five that we just did? That was four. That’s what I thought. Number five, number five is a biggie, and even though I’m burying it in the whole middle there, it’s a biggie. And that is, be proactive about your [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/). Don’t just go to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and hope they’ll ask you the right questions. You have to go there knowing what it is you especially want to get across and what you especially want to get across part of it is what’s unique and special about you. So you need to somehow identify what are your, what I call key selling points or your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/)? What is it about you that’s gonna make you stand out from the other people? And that can be a hard thing to figure out.

And I actually, the first chapter of my [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) book is about that. And one of the free gifts is a free report on how to figure out what makes you stand out and emphasize that in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And one way that you emphasize it, by the way, in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is by making sure that your answer to that very first question, that “Tell me about yourself,” or “Walk me through your background,” or even, “Why are you interested in this job?” Your answer needs to bring out the top two or three, or maybe four things about you that make you stand out from the competition. Nice. I know the way I coach people is I work with the assumption most job descriptions are 80% accurate because what usually happens is someone gives notice in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager calls to HR and says, “You got that job description we use to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Thea?”

Yes, she just gave notice. Could you get that out to, you know, there are sources right now and see what we can turn up? And no one ever updates. I’ve confirmed there’s so many times with different people I’ve coached. So the first thing they tell people to do is to say, “Hey, thanks so much for reaching out to me. You know, I recall the position description,” or, “I’m curious why you reached out to me. Could you give me a sense of the role and what I can do to help?” So you can hear the thinking about the job. And thus, when they say, “Tell me about yourself and what you’ve been doing,” or, “Walk you through your background,” what they’re able to do is start off with what I’ve considered the 20-second synopsis of their experience. “I’ve been in the field now for X number of years. For the last five years, I’ve worked for so-and-so. This is that, for that work for so-and-so, doing this. But what’s probably most relevant in my background for this role, right, is my experience with…” Right? [People tell](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-you-have-to-tell-people-where-youre-going-shorts/) me in person when they use that phrase, it’s like they noticed like a dog’s ears perk up. They have the Scooby ears. Those of you are too young to be relevant to Scooby-Doo cartoon character, Scooby would wind up… I think, I think that that’s, that’s just become part of the culture. You know, you don’t have to have actually watched Scooby-Doo cartoons.

Just making sure. So the idea is as quickly as possible to tie the bow to show how you’re special. That’s very true. And to sort of bring together what I said and what you said, you need to know what’s special about you and you need to know what they’re looking for and find the common elements between the two. And that question of, you know, “What are you really looking for? What’s your top priority for the job?” You want to answer, ask that before they and get the chance to say, “Tell me about yourself.” So try to slip that in right about when the small talk is drawing to a close and say, “Well, thank you very much for inviting me to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and I wonder if I could ask you a quick question before we start.” And then you asked that question that you just mentioned, Jeff, about, you know, “Can you tell me a little bit more about what’s really most important in this role,” or, “I’ve read the job description, but I just want to give, in your own words, you could tell me what, what do you really need?” So yeah, those things very important. As I said, we have a lot of common approaches even though we’re on opposite coasts. Number six, I believe it is. Thanks.

Number six. Oh, yes, a related point is, don’t wait till the end to ask questions. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and by which I mean the ones most likely to get you the job, are the ones that turn into a conversation rather than simply being a question, answer, question, answer, sort of interrogation, because a conversation is so much more comfortable for both parties and so everybody gets to shine a little more and show a little more of who they really are. So here’s some examples. First of all, that question before things even start. Then another thing is, when you’re asked a question that you could give a better answer if you knew a little bit more about the background of the question. So try asking them, saying, “I’d love to answer that, and before I do, I wonder if I could ask you, are you more interested in the X aspect or the Y or can you tell me a little bit about what that looks like here in this company?” And then their answer’s gonna probably help you be able to give a much better answer. Excellent. Yeah. And and so that helps them turn it into more of a conversation or or you could at the end of your answer, you could say, “I’ll go ahead and answer it,” and then say, “Is there anything more you’d like to know about that?” or, “How does that relate to how you do things here?” or, “I read online that that you do blah blah blah in this, this particular methodology, and I’m wondering how that relates to what I just said,” or something like that.

Yeah, the idea is to get them talking, get a dialogue, because if if they are sitting up high on on the Christian looking down is the Sultan or I’m not sure what a female Sultan would be called. I don’t know either. There weren’t any. I’m not aware of female Sultans. I just knew about Sultans. If they’re sitting up high on the pillow looking down upon and the supplicant was power differential, and the idea is to level the playing field as much as you can. Try going into conversation because suddenly there’s a point where the more they start talking, you’ll notice they’re liking you more. Yeah, yeah. And and and asking good questions is a skill and they will be, and it makes you, it shows that you’re interested, shows that you really, you want to know all about the company, you want to learn. You know, they may remember that you ask good questions more than they even remember what your answers were. Agreed. Yes. Number seven. We’re up to number seven. Yeah. Seven: be specific. So one of the most common problems that I hear in the people that I work with is being vague, giving answers that are generalities. So when they’re asked about their experience doing this or that, you know, they talk very high level or when they’re asked, “What’s your approach to doing something?” They’ll say, “My approach is,” but they don’t [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) an example. So one of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ways to be expense specific is to add examples. Quantities are also valuable if you can. When you’re talking about what you did, talk about the [results and quantify](https://thebiggamehunter.us/unable-to-quantify-results-or-impact-for-your-resume-shorts/) the results, because if you say that I came up, implemented Salesforce at our company and that really improved efficiency or improved sales, well, do you mean just a teeny bit? What do you mean a lot? You know, so try to give an approximate number.

Honestly, this is another one of things where you want to be authentic. Don’t make something up if you really don’t have the number. Then describe it with an adjective instead. Dramatically, or significantly, or by pretty good amount. Or, you know, just at least give a sense of how much. And stories, money saved, money earned, percentage improvement. If you’re in a role that can’t be quantified in in those ways, Paulson was always my classic example of this, and I [handled 14% more calls than comparable people in my office](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-handle-office-politics/). Right. Yeah.

Numerical measure because business is the language of numbers. It is, it is. And and then if you, if you’re like an HR, for instance, sometimes numbers don’t always come into your work. Try and give instead [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) anecdotal, make maybe [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) somebody, like do you remember something really powerful that the CEO said to you about your initiatives? Did he say, “This is the transformation I’ve been trying to make happen for the past 10 years. Thank you for doing this.” You know, you could literally [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) that and it really makes your answer more specific and interesting and memorable. Excellent. Yeah. What are we up to now? Is it eight? Okay, eight. Yeah, be ready to prove your, your soft skills and your emotional intelligence. So, so many of the other things you’re gonna talk about in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) are technical skills of one sort or another. It’s how to do the job, you know, how to manage the project, how to write the code, how to add up the figures. But they’re also looking for somebody who has good emotional intelligence, and this means things like self-awareness, social skills, communication skills, empathy. So there’s no use claiming these things. There’s no use to saying, “I have a little pathetic person.” Yeah, anybody can say that. Everybody thinks that about themselves. So when it comes to things like that, you need to kind of prove it. One way you can prove it is by demonstrating it on the spot by showing empathy toward everybody you run into in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And that doesn’t mean getting all mushy gushy about it, you know, if the person says, “Oh, I’m having a hectic day,” you don’t need to say,

“Oh, is that hard for you?” You’re not being a therapist. But you do need to say, but if they say they’re having a crazy day, you could say, “Oh, I know, but you said it seems like you’re keeping on top of it, huh?” Or, “Whoa, that sounds challenging.” Just a simple little thing that shows you’re listening. Empathy can also be a matter of being patient when there’s an interruption, especially, you know, when you’re at the front desk and you’re first arriving there and the receptionist is too busy to immediately get to you.

You know, bye-bye looking relaxed about it and realizing, “Hey, she’s got a lot on her hands right now,” or, “He has a lot on his hands.” They’re gonna get a good vibe about you, and really, it counts what everybody in the place thinks about you, because you never [know who the interview is gonna ask](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-ace-any-interview-by-knowing-interview-questions-to-ask-and-answer/), you know, “What you think of that person?” I’ve had clients ask the driver who, who brings someone from the airport for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Beth the receptionist, when I used to do a lot of work on Wall Street, it used to be the shoeshine guy. He’d come around and shine everyone’s shoes in the trading floor. “You know, what do you think of that guy?” Because they were looking for how they treated people. Like, there’s one video I did call “The Waiter Test,” and if you’re out for a meal with someone who’s going to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), it’s, it’s observing how they deal with the waiter. Right. And yet, if you’re obsequious about it and you’re obviously you’re obviously doing it,

It’s obviously not usual for you to be nice to the waiter, then it’s gonna come across kind of phony. So instead of going from, “How is this looking?” go from, just go from your heart and go from a place of actually trying to appreciate and respect everybody around you for real. And it works out so much better. Authentic care works wonders. And as Groucho said, “If you can fake hearing, you can make anyone convinced.” Yeah. School of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). One more way, by the way, a couple more ways to show these the some intangible soft skills.

It’s not just also you also to have social proof for them. So things like teamwork are getting along well with people or communication skills. Don’t wait until they check your references because they’re never gonna check your references if they don’t like what they saw in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and before of that. So I always tell people, you have [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) recommendations. They’ll see that before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), they’ll already have that in their mind. And sometimes you could even slip in a reference to it. You know, you could say, “I have been told I’m very empathetic. You may have noticed that in my [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile.” Go easy on that. But and one more, one more way you can demonstrate intangible things like emotional intelligence and communication skills is by having stories about it. So a good [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) story or a conflict resolution story can show your people skills and and you don’t necessarily have to wait till they ask for it. It could come up.

Oh, but they almost always will ask the people skills and the conflict resolution kind of questions, especially on leadership roles. Yeah. Often what I coach people for is PAR because they’ve heard of the STAR acronym, but I don’t believe in STAR for more senior people. I like SOAR. SOAR with the T being substituted for an O for objective, situation, objective, action, and result. And the idea becomes it contextualizes it a little bit more for a staff person. STAR’s perfect. More senior person, SOAR works better. Or if you can’t remember it, PAR, which is the simplest one, problem, action, results. Yeah, that’s really the heart of it. The other things are interesting refinements. You might want to sometimes look up these things. Yeah, I, I wrote a blog post about STAR versus SOAR. I use SOAR in my book. My version of it is situation, obstacles, actions, results, just to bring out the fact that if you’re saying here was the problem and here’s how I solved it, here’s the result,

We may not realize that there was this huge thing that got in the way that made it even harder than it sounds. Maybe you should mention, but yeah, [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) is good too, to identify, you know, “Here’s what I was trying to accomplish.” Yeah, if I got to write about what that was about, you’re absolutely right. And everything works as long as you haven’t mapped that in your mind into a framework. You don’t have to memorize these things, you just have to have a sense because it’s your life, you should be able to talk about it. But to me again, a minute 15 is as much as you can have an attention span for. And thus from the, if you want to go to more detail for you, exactly, that was gonna be one of my suggestions about how to keep things short is to make it too short and then say, “Well, and that was just really brief, would you like me to say more about anything?” But you would talk about this SOAR thing. That’s important. And I mentioned stories earlier and I didn’t say much about it.

And one of the biggest things to remember about stories, the thing a lot of people get wrong is they’ll say, “Well, this was the problem and here’s what I did,” but you’ve left out what difference did that make? What was the impact of that? How did that benefit the company? And that’s the juicy part. That’s the part you really want to say a lot about. Like, like you said, Jeff, you want to quantify what that meant in terms of four percentage of efficiency or in terms of dollars. You want to maybe [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) what somebody said about it. Don’t shortchange the R in PAR or SOAR or STAR or whatever. It’s that R that’s really super important. Remember the power R. All right, maybe they’ll help you remember.

Okay, number nine. Number nine: prepare in advance. Yes. And people don’t do this. And I’m not sure like, and they wait until an in-person [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is scheduled, but by that point, they may have already goofed up the phone screening. Realize that as soon as you put yourself in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and maybe even before, but as soon as you apply to any job, you never know when you’re gonna get that phone call somebody saying, “Do you have a few minutes to chat?” Please realize that that chat is an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Any conversation with somebody of

Potential job is an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And you need to have to worked out in advance a lot of these things we’re talking about. So yeah, don’t wait. You ready for me? The first session I do with anyone I coach is my [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) framework. And the idea becomes I want them to have time to practice. And you know, we do a mock [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Second, that’s fine. They could do it with a husband, wife, or partner afterwards. They don’t need the mock. And they just go through some basic questions as long as the words come out of their mouth and they’re not just thinking the answer. You are so right.

Our approach is so similar because what I usually do with clients is have a first meeting where we talk about what you might call the framework, the key stuff, what are your key selling points, how are you gonna answer, “Tell me about yourself,” in the most strategic way, we’re getting your stories ready. And then I let them go away with that and to on then think about it because it takes like about a week to prepare all that. And then we get back together, look at that again a little bit and then go on to the [mock interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/google-has-a-free-mock-interview-service-jobsearchtv-com/). So don’t think that getting [ready for an interview is an overnight thing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-one-thing-you-need-to-do-while-in-school-to-get-ready-for-interviews-a-job-jobsearchtv-com/). Give yourself at least a week to prepare for it.

I meant making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) offline. Practice with someone. Yeah, and get [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Get [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). And, you know, I like doing my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) by video because I can record this session and send it to them afterwards through Zoom. So they can [see the same things](https://thebiggamehunter.us/we-all-see-things-through-our-own-lenses-nobscoachingadvice-com/) I’m seeing. Yeah. I can critique them. “Oh, that’s why he said that.” Oh, because you had no idea what your habits are like and what your gestures were like, yours for life. That either can be too flamboyant, too dramatic, or, you know, code yourself with the mannerism. Right, right. Or maybe you’re never smiling and you’re just coming off kind of flat, you know, and the excitement isn’t coming across and the interpersonal thing isn’t coming across. So you need to see that and realize that. Exactly right. So we’ve covered nine major points here. Yes, we.

Any surprises? Any any bonus round after this? I’m just curious. Oh, I tried so [hard to work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-career-angles/) at all into nine. We didn’t really say anything about clothes or whatnot. I think a lot of people already know that, but just a quickie about that is ask the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) when they first call you and set up the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to ask, “What do people generally wear on the job there?” I know different offices have a different culture and different habits, and what would you suggest I wear to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? And then another good rule of thumb is for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), dress one level up from how you dress to do the job. So if you are looking at a Silicon Valley job, something like that way you’d be going in in in jeans and t-shirt and flip-flops, then you don’t want to wear a suit to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), but you don’t want to wear jeans and flip-flops either. You want to go in in nice slacks and, you know, a shirt that is not a band t-shirt and nice pair of shoes that are preferably not athletic shoes or sandals, you know, so just just a level up from where you would on the job. And for video and, you know, for video, I always tell people, take a look behind you where you’re going to be for the video. Notice what’s there. Someone I was [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) recently, he’s got the cross trainer in the room where he does the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Were you planning on that staying there? That’s an exercise machine, right? Yeah.

And the distracting. Yeah, it’s like, “What is that thing?” Yeah. And anything that takes someone away from their attention on you is it a liability. It can a, what to wear. It could be how you speak, it can be, you know, anything around you on video and of course in an in-person [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Right. And it’s easy to get irritated about all this. I understand that. It’s really easy to feel like, “My God, why are they examining every last little thing about me?” And I understand that. And, you know, you just put yourself on the other side of it and realize that when you first meet somebody, don’t,

You decide within seconds kind of what your vibe about them is, how you feel about them. And that’s what’s going on there and then some because interviewers are always a little scared in a way. Even if they’re not emotionally scared, they’re kind of institutionally scared because they know that if they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the wrong person, it could end up costing them something like, I think, a third of the first year’s [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) to to get that person out and bring a new person in. So they’re a little paranoid and that’s why you need to be very careful with them. It’s so true. They are. You know, whether you’re an HR or a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, it’s like the candidate is a reflection of the parent. So with HR, you send it to a line manager. It’s like bringing your eight-year-old over to visit someone’s home. Right. Yes.

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How could people find out more about you and the work that you do, the free gift, the website, all that kind of stuff? Okay. I have a blog, it’s for job seekers, a helpful tip article at least once a week. It’s called Great Job Sooner.com. Great Job Sooner. That’s what everybody wants, right? And if you go there and you subscribe, it promises you a free report on how to stand out in the [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). And that was what I mentioned about identifying your key selling points and whatnot. What it doesn’t yet say is that there’s two other free gifts as well. Oh, you can also get, like we said, the how to answer the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) question infographic and a negotiation template that it’s like a worksheet that enables you to plan out your negotiation, meeting what you’re gonna bring up with them, you know, what you’re gonna say after they’ve made their counteroffer. It’s not something to bring in the meeting and look at this list, but it’s something to help you prepare so that you know what you’re doing. So you can get all those at Great Job Sooner.com. And there’s also a button there you can click to get a free consultation if you’d like to talk with me about my [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) services or my services to help you with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) strategy, just about any aspect of your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I would like to help. Super. And folks, we’ll be back soon with someone else with more information, a lot more to help you.

I’m [Jeff Altman The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/learning-no-bs-job-search-advice-from-the-big-game-hunter-jeff-altman/). And as it’s the case with Thea, if you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), visit my site, [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).us. There’s a button on the homepage that says “Schedule.” You can schedule a free discovery call with me or dive right into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), whatever serves you [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). And I’ve got thousands of posts there that you can watch, listen to, or read that’ll help you. Read those, watch them. Yep. There’s a ton, it’s like more than 7,000. And now learn is right now, if you have a an Amazon product, a Fire TV, Fire Stick attached to your TV, what have you, you can download the [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV app and watch my videos there and learn in that milieu as well. So I hope you found this helpful.

I’ll be back soon with more. In the meantime, hope you have a great day. Be great. See ya. Welcome. And let me just stop by asking, how did you get into this [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) work? Well, Jeff, back in 2008 when the Great Recession started, I was a corporate trainer, and I was [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) as part of a big reduction in force at my company. And prior to that, I had had some physicians working with various agencies that helped people get [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). So drawing on that previous experience and my interest in that, I started writing a few [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). And very soon, I began to realize, “I really like this better than I was liking that corporate [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) job. I’m just gonna continue doing this.” And so I hung out my own shingle, and I’ve been doing this ever since, writing [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), helping people with [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) strategy.

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### [The Skills Needed to Find a Job #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-skills-needed-to-find-a-job-shorts/)

**Published:** May 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You need more than competence to land a job.

**Content:**

# The Skills Needed to Find a Job #shorts

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### [What Can You Do If Your Application is Always Rejected?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-can-you-do-if-your-application-is-always-rejected/)

**Published:** May 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What can you do if your application was rejected more than 1,000+ times for work?

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# What Can You Do If Your Application is Always Rejected?

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### [Translating Responsibility into ROI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/translating-responsibility-into-roi/)

**Published:** May 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The market pays a baseline rate for execution, but it pays a premium for stewardship.

**Content:**

# **Translating Responsibility into ROI**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The traditional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) framework is a structural liability. Most experienced professionals write their history as a biography–a dense list of duties, scopes, and functional responsibilities. This approach frames [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) through an employee mindset. To command authority at the highest tier, you must treat your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as an **investment prospectus**.

When a board or a chief executive reviews your profile, they are not looking to buy your past time; they are looking to allocate capital to an asset that yields a predictable return. If your documentation focuses on what you were “responsible for” rather than how you deployed corporate resources to drive enterprise value, you are being viewed as an administrative cost, not an operational lever.

1. **The Core Shift: Responsibility vs. Allocation**

The market pays a baseline rate for execution, but it pays a premium for **stewardship**. Responsibility is passive; it describes the boundaries of your playground. Capital allocation is active; it metrics how effectively you used cash, headcount, and technology to alter the trajectory of the business.

\[The Executive Framing Shift\]

Legacy Framework (Cost Center): –> The Allocation Framework (Asset):

“Responsible for a $5M budget.” –> “Allocated $5M to optimize infrastructure,

 yielding a 22% reduction in OPEX.”

- **The Legacy Approach:** *“Managed a global marketing budget of $12M and led a team of 45 cross-functional professionals.”* This tells the reader you cost the company money and headcount, but fails to justify the expense.
- **The Allocation Approach:** *“Allocated a $12M global marketing budget across high-velocity digital channels and optimized a 45-person matrix organization to drive a 34% increase in customer lifetime value (LTV) while reducing acquisition costs by 18%.”*

2. **The Architecture of the Investment Thesis**

The first half-page of your document dictates the lens through which the rest of your history is evaluated. If it begins with a generic summary full of corporate BS, like “visionary leader with excellent communication skills,” the reader’s brain flags it as low-signal white noise.

- **The Strategy:** Replace the summary with a clinical, three-sentence **Investment Thesis** that defines your precise market utility.
- **The Formula:** State your target ecosystem, the primary macro friction point you resolve, and the historic financial or operational velocity you generate.
- **The Execution:** *“Operational leader specializing in post-merger integration within the enterprise software sector. Known for identifying hidden redundancies and restructuring legacy infrastructure to protect margin integrity. Historic track record delivers an average of 14% EBITDA expansion within the first 18 months of acquisition.”*

3. **Bullet Point Re-Engineering: The ROI Anchor**

Every single bullet point under your professional chronology must function as a micro-case study. If a point does not connect a specific tactical action to a macroeconomic or structural result, it must be deleted.

To achieve this, use a rigid mathematical balance in your text: **\[Action Verb\] + \[Context/Friction\] + \[Skill/Tool Applied\] = \[Quantifiable Scalar Outcome\]**.

- **Step 1 (Identify the Drag):** Locate a time when the business was losing efficiency, capital, or market velocity.
- **Step 2 (The Allocation Metric):** Define the exact resource you deployed (capital, time, or human engineering) to solve it.
- **Step 3 (The ROI Yield):** Calculate the net-positive result to the balance sheet. Instead of stating you “helped clean up data,” write: *“Re-engineered the data collection pipeline using advanced semantic clustering, reducing reporting latency by 40% and freeing up $1.2M in annualized engineering capacity.”*

4. **The Human Capital Metric: Headcount Optimization**

Managing a team is not an achievement; it is a cost. High-value leaders do not boast about how large their department is, because an unnecessarily large team signals organizational bloat. Instead, frame your leadership through the metric of **team velocity** and talent leverage.

- **The Metric:** Focus on revenue-per-employee, output acceleration, or the retention of top-tier talent.
- **The Optimization:** Turn *“Led a engineering team of 60”* into *“Optimized a 60-person engineering organization by implementing agile product workflows, accelerating sprint velocity by 28% while reducing voluntary annualized attrition to under 4%.”*

**The Bottom Line**

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is the initial test of your strategic acumen. When you scrub it of bloat and anchor it entirely in capital allocation, you alter the power dynamic of the search. You cease to be a person asking for permission to join a company. You become an asset class that a leadership team cannot afford to misallocate

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### [How Do You Apply For Jobs You Are Overqualified For? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-apply-for-jobs-you-are-overqualified-for-shorts/)

**Published:** May 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why do you want a job you are overqualified for?

**Content:**

# How Do You Apply For Jobs You Are Overqualified For?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/abSSfD52aSM)

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### [The Illusion of the Formality Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-illusion-of-the-formality-interview/)

**Published:** May 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Formality interview? What makes you think it's a formality?

**Content:**

# The Illusion of the Formality Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Formality [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)? What makes you think it’s a formality?

Welcome back to the channel. Picture this. You’re walking into the building for your final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

Your posture is perfect. Your [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) is pristine. The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) called yesterday to tell you that you’ve got no competition.

They said the team loves you. You’re the clear winner. And this final meeting is merely a formality to sign off on your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/).

It is completely human to let your guard down here. You start coasting. You assume your only job today is to show up and let the [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) confirm what they already think of you.

Then, three days later, your phone rings. It’s the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/). They decided to go in a different direction.

You didn’t get the job. The [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) was believing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) was ever truly locked up. In high stakes [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/), final round and hired are two very different states.

Coasting leaves you exposed because while you’ve stopped selling, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) team is still actively weighing you against standards you aren’t yet addressing. To understand why the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) vanished, we have to look at the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager. For many [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), making a final choice is a high-risk commitment.

They aren’t just looking for reasons to say yes. They are looking for reasons to avoid making a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). This [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) triggers a psychological retreat.

They invent a phantom competitor, a fantasy that a perfect candidate is still out there. This imaginary alternative is a powerful notion. You are fighting an idealized concept.

No living person can beat a flawless phantom. To keep the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) open and justify that fantasy, the interviewer needs a reason to doubt you. They start hunting for proof that you aren’t the perfect choice they’re hoping for.

They look for the rough edge. This could be a minor hesitation, an incomplete answer, or a small technical gap that surfaced in your previous rounds of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Once they identify that rough edge, they will zero in on it.

They will pick at it repeatedly, testing whether that specific inconsistency indicates a larger problem with your experience or your fit for the role. Every finalist they bring back to the table undergoes this same scrutiny. It’s a defense mechanism used to filter out risk.

Those past [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) do not magically vanish between rounds. They stay on the record, and the final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) is exactly where they are brought back into focus. Failing to anticipate that the team is specifically looking for these flaws is often what leads to that final, unexpected [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/).

You have to go into this meeting as though nothing is locked up yet. You must be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to sell your value as if the process is starting from zero. Before the meeting, conduct a personal reconnaissance mission.

Rigorously review your previous conversations and identify your own rough edges, the moments where your answers weren’t as sharp as they could have been. Prepare clear, factual rebuttals for these specific points. You need to address these issues proactively, so they don’t resurface when the decision is made.

This self-audit effectively neutralizes the doubts the interviewer was planning to probe. You’re removing the obstacles before they can be used against you. During the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), you don’t wait for them to find the flaw.

You seize conversational control and address it before they can. The mechanics are simple. Answer a standard question, then deliberately pause.

Use that moment to shift the direction of the meeting. Then, you deliver this script. There’s something I want to address from my previous [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

When I was asked about this topic earlier, I didn’t give a complete answer reflecting my experience. Can I correct any misimpressions I created right now? This move changes the atmosphere. It shows the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager that you have the accountability and self-awareness they are looking for.

By taking proactive ownership of your past answers, you provide the reassurance the manager needs. You address the phantom competitor head-on, making it much easier for them to stop the search

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/JeffAltman-79-212x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [The Micro Sprint Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-micro-sprint-job-search/)

**Published:** May 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** High-volume, low-intent applications lead to burnout; precision micro-sprints lead to offers.

**Content:**

# The Micro Sprint Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) like a marathon and start treating it like a series of tactical strikes. High-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) lead to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/); precision micro-sprints lead to offers. Learn how to dismantle the “long game” and dominate the market in just 15 minutes a day.

**Timestamps**

00:00 – The danger of the “Long Game” mindset.

00:17 – Defining the Micro-Sprint: 15-minute tactical blocks.

00:36 – The Reconnaissance Sprint: Finding strategic pain points.

01:04 – The Semantic Alignment Sprint: Optimizing for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

01:45 – The Digital Handshake Sprint: High-value [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

02:13 – The Authority Signal Sprint: Cultivating discovery through content.

02:40 – Moving from procrastination to professional market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/).

For professionals, the greatest threat to a successful [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is the paralyzing weight of the long game. Viewing a search as one massive, singular project leads to procrastination, or the [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) of firing off high-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). To maintain a high-level search while employed, you must deploy micro sprints—15 to 20-minute blocks of focused, high-intensity activity dedicated to a single function—compartmentalizing your effort into these bursts allows you to make progress without the fatigue of constant contact switching.

The first function is the reconnaissance sprint. Instead of passively browsing job boards, you actively investigate a target company to find their specific strategic pain points. Set a 15-minute timer and scan a company’s 10-K filing.

Jumping straight to the risk factor section reveals friction keywords like regulatory headwinds. By sprint’s end, write a single sentence defining the problem and root cause. This becomes your pitch foundation.

Next is the semantic alignment sprint. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile are marketing assets that must be tuned to the knowledge clusters that AI-driven [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) are programmed to find. Use a 15-minute block to cross-reference your experience section against a specific job description and rewrite exactly three bullet points.

This graphic illustrates the shift from listing daily duties to proving quantifiable outcomes. You move from a generic management claim to a specific result, like architecting a pipeline that reduced deployment errors by 18%. Executing these first two sprints aligns your data with the market’s current expectations.

The third function is the digital handshake sprint. Standard [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) often fails because generic connection requests are easily ignored. This diagram breaks down a direct message structure that avoids asking for time.

You spend 15 minutes analyzing a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager’s recent posts to draft a message that leads with a high-value observation. Injecting a contrarian view or a specific insight from your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) signals that you are a peer providing value. The final phase is the authority signal sprint.

The objective is to encourage algorithms to proactively serve your profile to headhunters. This mock-up demonstrates how to cultivate that discovery. You spend 15 minutes replacing generic comments with mini-articles, structured responses that inject hard data points or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) lessons into the posts of industry leaders.

These high-resolution outreach sprints create points of professional contact with decision makers before an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) is ever submitted. Complexity and procrastination will stall [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) advancement. Viewing the search as a series of tactical strikes makes the process manageable.

You are operating as a performing high-level market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and engagement. Commit to these 15-minute strikes for one week. You will generate more momentum than you would from dozens of hours of aimless browsing.

Success in a modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) requires advancing with precision.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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### [Wrestling to Find Enough Leads?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ask-the-big-game-hunter-wrestling-to-find-enough-leads/)

**Published:** May 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter responds to a question one of his listeners has with advice for help to get more job leads for his job search.

**Content:**

# Wrestling to Find Enough Leads?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), responds to a question one of his listeners has with advice for help to get more job leads for his [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I received an email today from one of my listeners to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio who had a question for me. He basically says, I’m looking for a GM or senior sales and marketing leadership role and he describes the size of the firm he works in and his areas of expertise, which in his case is industrial manufacturing or polymer engineered materials.

He tells me where he lives, where he’s also open to and then he continues and he did a nice job here. I fully realized that at my level that [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) should be the main focus of ever having spoken to numerous accountants, lawyers, consultants and some business owners in the area but have not unearthed opportunities and targeting specific companies in attempt to find some connects to get a better understanding of the company’s trends, unmet needs before working up to speaking to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager but have not had much [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Any tips would be helpful.

Now, excuse me. I’m just going to fidget in my chair for a moment and say that this guy’s doing a lot of the right things. I’ll add in a couple of more here.

Business coaches. The CEO of the organization may be using a business coach. One of the largest, if not the largest, of the business [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) services is an organization called Vistage, V-I-S-T-A-G-E, that brings together small groups of small to medium-sized businesses.

[***Understanding The Interviewer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hsX)

I tend to think of them as being small or they may [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to as small or SMB businesses. Under 50 million dollars in sales to get together on a monthly basis and have the CEOs to work with one another to support one another. Mastermind groups.

Finding some of the mastermind groups may also be an entree point and, in effect, what Vistage is doing here is like a mastermind for CEOs. So, business coaches, accountants, lawyers, great approach to take. Insurance people is a funny one because sometimes you’re hearing about a business being sold and there’s someone who might be interested in buying a business.

That’s not expressed here but there may be an opportunity for someone to buy one of these firms that comes up for sale. But fundamentally, this person’s doing a lot of the right things and I commend them. The hard thing is once you’ve reached these people one time, often it’s the second or third approach that’s what makes a difference.

After all, imagine what it’s like to be on their side. Ring, ring. Hi, I’m looking for a job.

Do you know anything at my level with any of your clients? No, I don’t know anything but what they’re really saying is I don’t know you well enough to recommend you. So you need to build up your credentials with them in order for them to have enough trust to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you to their client. After all, you reflect badly on them if you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and do a poor job.

So, again, it’s not just simply one time. It’s multiple times. It’s going to the chamber of commerce meetings for your areas and not just doing it once but doing it multiple times, looking for ways to get the business owners, business leaders, business [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), people who sell to those individuals on multiple occasions in order to make those connections to find work.

## [***Standing Out on an Interview***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hoC)

This is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this video helpful. If you did, you’re watching on YouTube.

Share it. Leave a comment. Click the like button.

Do something that lets people know that it was worthwhile. Then go over to TheBigGameHunter.us and go exploring. I’ve got lots more content there to help you find work.

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This is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Have a great day. Take care!

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg) resolving workplace issues.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [After Getting Job Search Advice: What To Do Next #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/after-getting-job-search-advice-what-to-do-next-shorts/)

**Published:** May 21, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Shelley Piedmont offered this advice about following up after getting job search advice.

**Content:**

# After Getting Job Search Advice: What To Do Next

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Does Not Having a LinkedIn Profile Make You Less Hirable? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/does-not-having-a-linkedin-profile-make-you-less-hirable-shorts/)

**Published:** May 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Does not having a LinkedIn profile make you less hireable or even unhirable?

**Content:**

# Does Not Having a LinkedIn Profile Make You Less Hirable? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [How to Transition from Corporate to Nonprofit Without Losing Your Mind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-transition-from-corporate-to-nonprofit-without-losing-your-mind/)

**Published:** May 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you're serious about pivoting to purpose, you need to unlearn your corporate playbook today.

**Content:**

# How to Transition from Corporate to Nonprofit Without Losing Your Mind

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

Stop assuming your corporate “savior complex” will fix a nonprofit; it will only get you rejected. This episode breaks down the brutal reality of resource scarcity, the culture of consensus, and how to actually penetrate [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) of mission-driven work. If you’re serious about pivoting to purpose, you need to unlearn your corporate playbook today.

**Timestamps**

0:00 – The “Dead Weight” of Corporate Success

0:14 – Lessons from Icons: Armani, Angelou, and Child

1:04 – The Illusion of Competence & The Savior Complex

2:13 – Financial Reality: Working More for Less

3:06 – Corporate Hierarchy vs. Nonprofit Consensus

3:44 – Redefining Success: Impact Over ROI

4:46 – How to Infiltrate [the Hidden Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/)

5:15 – Scrubbing the Corporate Jargon from Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)

5:50 – The Sector-Switcher Scorecard: Mapping Your Risk

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You reach a point in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) where the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) looks perfect and the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is great, but the title you worked so hard to achieve suddenly feels like dead weight. If you are feeling the urge to start over in your 40s, history is on your side. Giorgio Armani walked away from medical [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and military service before founding his fashion house well into his 40s.

Maya Angelou worked as a streetcar conductor and a cook before publishing her breakthrough book and becoming a civil rights icon at age 41. And Julia Child spent her early [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in government intelligence before mastering French cooking and hosting her own television show in her 50s. Today, that same transition often takes the form of a successful corporate professional deciding to trade their pursuit of a higher tax bracket for a mission-driven role in the nonprofit sector.

These icons succeeded because they were willing to learn an entirely new craft from the ground up. In the nonprofit world, that means setting aside the corporate playbook to understand a sector with its own rules, constraints, and definitions of success. The core problem for most sector switchers is an illusion of competence.

They assume they can simply copy and paste their top-down corporate playbook into a nonprofit environment. This often manifests as the savior complex. You walk in thinking the organization desperately needs your business savvy to save them from their own inefficiency.

Add to that the misconception that working for a cause means you get a lighter workload or a better work-life balance. In reality, you usually end up working harder for considerably less money. Mission-driven organizations operate as complex ecosystems of community stakeholders, donors, and volunteers.

Managing these relationships requires a different approach than managing a corporate supply chain. If you are serious about making this move, we need to evaluate the tangible trade-offs you will face and then map out the exact steps required to infiltrate the sector’s relationship-driven job market. Because if you walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) treating the nonprofit like a struggling company you are trying to acquire, they will reject you.

Survival requires adapting to their reality. Evaluating corporate assumptions against nonprofit reality begins with resource allocation. Incoming [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) face a sobering financial reality.

Roughly two-thirds of all U.S. nonprofits operate on total annual budgets of under $1 million, including all salaries and benefits. In the corporate world, you are used to having a dedicated support staff, an IT help desk to fix your hardware, and the budget to hire a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) when a problem gets complex. Under severe nonprofit cash constraints, those safety nets do not exist.

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You cannot throw money at a problem or delegate it away. The trade-off is clear. You gain incredible professional autonomy and the chance to rapidly diversify your skills, but you have to be willing to sit down and do the basic administrative work yourself.

That resource scarcity directly affects how decisions are made, bringing us to our next reality check, the culture of consensus. A corporate hierarchy thrives on swift, top-down execution. Nonprofits rely on a slow, deliberate process of collaboration.

Your board of directors is not made up of shareholders prioritizing profit margins. They are passionate community volunteers who expect to have their voices heard on the organization’s direction. Consensus building will reduce your operational speed, but taking the time to listen to all stakeholders is the only way to build long-term community trust, which is the primary currency of this sector.

Moving to the final row of our matrix, defining success without financial metrics is a difficult adjustment. Instead of proving value through immediate financial returns and quarterly targets, these nodes represent a different focus, community health, educational [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), and social justice. In this environment, outcomes are often qualitative.

Determining if an educational program changed a child’s trajectory requires subjective, long-term social science [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), not a quick spreadsheet. You have to rewire your brain to find motivation in incremental progress, rather than the immediate satisfaction of hitting a numerical sales target. Success in this sector looks like this.

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The tangible, human-centric impact of delivering services to a community. You are trading the clarity of a P&L for the complexity of human outcomes. If you require hard, quantifiable financial data to feel successful at the end of the week, the nonprofit sector will completely drain you.

If you accept those trade-offs and still want to pivot, you have to bypass standard [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) and infiltrate the sector’s relationship-driven [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) pool. A massive number of nonprofit roles make up [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/). Because teams are small and budgets are tight, critical positions are filled by trusted [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) before they show up on job boards.

To access those [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), you need to prove your value up front. That means offering pro bono consulting through platforms like Taproot or consistently showing up to niche industry gatherings. It means scrubbing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) of corporate jargon.

If a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager sees terms like sales, shareholders, or ROI, they will reject the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) immediately. Translating those concepts shows that you respect their culture and proves you aren’t just a voluntarist looking for a temporary project. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers look for this language shift as evidence that you have done the work to understand the specific professional dialect of the nonprofit world.

The purpose pivot comes down to a specific exchange, trading efficiency, vast resources, and a high [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for community impact and a collaborative culture. To figure out your optimal entry point, we can use this sector switcher scorecard to map [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) profile against your personal risk tolerance. First is the cautious explorer.

You are past 40, established, and need to maintain the financial stability you spent decades building. Your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) approach is low risk. Keep your day job while doing pro bono work to build relational currency.

Next is the mid-level hard skill switcher. You work in IT, human resources, or marketing and want your tasks to have a direct social outcome. You will likely take a pay cut, but your functional skills make you competitive for direct hires on niche boards because nonprofits lack technical expertise.

Matching your entry strategy to your actual financial risk tolerance is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to prevent transition [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) before you even begin. Finally, we have the profile of the burned out executive, accustomed to rapid execution and unquestioned authority. If this is you, you must systematically deconstruct your leadership style.

You have to check your ego at the door, sit down, and start listening to the people who are already doing the work. Trading a corner office for a collaborative workspace changes how you exercise power. The reward is seeing your professional expertise solve a community problem instead of just increasing a profit margin.

Purpose does not come with a corporate expense account. [The hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) rewards those who prove their worth first.

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### [How Do You Politely Decline Giving Someone a Reference?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-politely-decline-giving-someone-a-reference/)

**Published:** May 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A common predicament for people . . . How do you do it?

**Content:**

# How Do You Politely Decline Giving Someone a Reference?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A common predicament for people . . . How do you do it?

**\[00:00\]** I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and leadership coach. I help people find work, [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) better, lead and manage people better, generally be more effective in the workplace. And one of the things that shows up from time to time is people asking you to give them—asking you to provide a reference for them as part of their search.

**\[00:23\]** And there are times you don’t want to give the reference. You know the person is marginal at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). So how do you do that? Now, I can do this in a couple of different ways because I know I get those reference requests all the time. Like, people will message me for recommendations on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). And they’re in India or Spain and they say I should provide a recommendation for them, even though I haven’t been within a thousand miles of them anytime of their life. And I’m supposed to write a recommendation that says what a wonderful employee they are. Doesn’t work, does it?

**\[01:04\]** And I’m not going to try gaming the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) system with fraudulent recommendations. I think it’s bad for everyone. So, the first thing is, is this really a personal or professional recommendation that you’re trying to [turn down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-were-turned-down-you-put-too-much-pressure-on-yourself-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)? Let’s say it’s a professional one. Why don’t they already know that you don’t value their work? What is it about you and your leadership style or your work as a co-leader where they don’t get it, that you don’t like their work, or you think they’re a problem, or you think they’re dishonest? That’s on you, that’s not on them.

**\[01:41\]** And I would politely say to you, adjust. Because that’s a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that’s causing people to think you value them more highly than you do. That doesn’t mean that you’re supposed to be rude or obnoxious, but it does suggest that the one way out of this is by saying, “You know, I think a better reference for you would probably be,” and you point them to someone on the team who knows their work better and could probably say something about them.

**\[02:07\]** “Yeah, but, um, they won’t give me a reference.” Well, and then you laugh and go, “I’m not really your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) reference. I think you ought to find someone else.”

**\[02:19\]** Now, if it’s a personal reference and they want you to substantiate something about them personally, well, you can always say, “I really only know you to a limited degree. And thus, you know, if they start probing deeply, you know, I don’t really have the data about you because we’ve really only hung out with one another once or twice, or spent any time with one another once or twice. So there’s got to be a better reference than me for this.”

**\[02:49\]** So, you have to be somewhat forthright with them and point them to situations where you just don’t really know enough about them to provide the reference. And fundamentally, that’s what you’re trying to do, is point them to someone else to provide it or politely say, “I really don’t know you.”

**\[03:10\]** And in my case, where it’s people more than a thousand miles away who I’ve never spoken with before in my life, and they expect me to write a recommendation about them and do—do it from their LinkedIn—I have to do all the work for them, and I don’t even know them. And I would politely say, “Explain this one to me. We’ve never worked together before. We haven’t been within a thousand miles of one another before. How am—how is someone supposed to believe that I, as a coach, or before that as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), have a way of substantiating the quality of your work? Could you explain that one to me?” And normally, they would go away.

**\[03:50\]** In your case, if it’s a former colleague or a friend of yours who’s asking to write a recommendation, or to provide an oral recommendation because they’re doing a [reference check](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-reference-check-trap/), well, you can politely point out to them that, “Well, you know, we haven’t worked with one another before.” And all they have to do is to take one look at the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to see that we’re in completely different fields and have never worked with one another. “Just explain to me how this would work for your benefit, because I don’t see it. I think they’ll figure out pretty quickly that I’m just a friend of yours masquerading as a professional reference.”

**\[04:29\]** [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) makes it harder to cheat these days because there’s data there, and it just shows where the ties are and where they aren’t. So, recognize that. You can’t game it like you used to, and if you try to, trust me, you’re the one who’s going to get hurt because firms are going to recognize the BS and pull offers from you.

**\[04:52\]** I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful. Visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us. You know, I’ve got a ton more there that you can watch, listen to, or read that will help you find work more quickly.

**\[05:03\]** Also, I want to mention, you know, I’ve—I’ve got a great YouTube channel at JobSearchTV.com. That takes you directly to the channel, and you can watch all my videos and podcasts there. It’s more than six and a half thousand, 7,000 posts at this point, of material there that you can watch as well. And you can subscribe to my channel there by clicking a small icon in the lower right.

**\[05:29\]** And I’m available on BingeNetworks.tv, which is an app for Fire TV. It’s an app for Apple TV, Roku, 90-some-odd video platforms that my content is available on through the BingeNetworks.tv app, so you can watch me there.

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**\[06:02\]** Have a great day!

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### [Salary Negotiation: Understanding Deal Dynamics in a Negotiation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/salary-negotiation-understanding-deal-dynamics-in-a-negotiation-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** August 20, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When you go into a negotiation of any sort, whether as a job hunter, a hiring employer or within an organization, this is what goes on underneath the surface.

**Content:**

# Salary Negotiation: Understanding Deal Dynamics in a Negotiation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When you go into a negotiation of any sort, whether as a job hunter, a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) employer or within an organization, this is what goes on underneath the surface.

Here, I’m going to talk with you about negotiating. Now. The truth of the matter is this is a video that’s going to be useful whether you’re trying to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) your job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) as a job hunter or as an employer because the reality is deal dynamics exist in any situation anytime you’re negotiating. These are the variations that you have to deal with.

So, for you as a job hunter, you may hear an employer ask the question, “So, where are you in your search? What else is going on for you?” You know what they’re trying to find out? It’s really very simple. What they’re trying to find out is do they have competition, whether you have leverage to play with them, whether there’s a situation where you as a job hunter can really bargain with them because, hey, it doesn’t matter. You’ve got three things going on.

Thus, when you don’t have anything going on, they think they’ve got an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) and, thus, the correct answer for the job hunter is always to say, “I’m very close to two other things right now. I really like this one a lot. But, the reality is, as I said to someone yesterday, you may not have noticed this but there’s no one with my name on the Forbes or Fortune list of wealthiest Americans. So, compensation’s important to me. Thus, I want to encourage you to make your strongest [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) because I’m confident other firms are about to do that, as well.”

Thus, what you’ve done is signal to them that, “hey, you know, you don’t have the leverage here. They can’t really push your buttons and say, ‘you know, you want to keep looking for a job or do you want this job,”‘ especially in recessionary times where people don’t really have choices.

It’s always very important that you indicate that you certainly will have choices, you’re about to have choices and not give them that [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) because, ultimately, this is a question that signals who wants this more. And the one who wants it more is more willing to compromise.

Do you want to compromise?

And, for you as a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager who’s in a situation hearing this, often, if this is your first choice, you’re starting to look at your second choice as a possibility but stick with your first one and ride that out because you never know if they’re bluffing or not.

Is there a time constraint here? Do you as an employer have to bring on someone by end of year, by end of budget year, some other variable because you have to start a new project? You know, what’s making it, right now, that they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you and, thus, what alternatives do they have?

Now, sometimes, an employer’s going to try and regain leverage by saying, “Well, I have two other people I’m talking with on finals. What’s your timeline?” Or, “I have two other people that I’m talking with,” and they’re signaling to you that, much like you’ve signaled to them, that you have choices, they’re trying to say that they have choices, too. That’s fine.

Job hunters often respond with that knot in the pit of the stomach that says, “I’m gonna lose this,” and the idea is you always want to draw them in and, for you, as the employer, you never want to give your leverage away because the reality is, ultimately, yes, you will have other choices. You’ve decided this is your first one but you want to get them at the right price, right?

Ultimately, what you’re trying to do is to see who wants it more. What alternatives exist? What’s the timeline for decision making? Can you move the needle forward right now? What’s the real price point to complete the transaction?

Ultimately, when I think about most negotiations from a comp perspective, for job hunters or [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), one side really wants it more than the other and is willing to make fewer accommodations to the other side.

So, I want to remind you these are the deal dynamics and, once you’re on board, there are other situations where you’re dealing with deal dynamics, as well. This subject is going to surface time and time again and you need to remind yourself, even in internal situations who wants this more? Who has the leverage here and how can you get what you want out of the situation without excessive compromise.

Notice, I used the phrase *“excessive compromise,”* rather than “*compromise.* “ Ideally you want to do it without compromise.

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### [Stupid Job Search Mistakes: Spamming Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-job-search-mistakes-spamming-your-resume-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** May 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Maybe there's one person you know who has been successful spamming their resume. Then, there are the other thousands who do it and get no results and worse.

**Content:**

# Stupid Job Search Mistakes: Spamming Your Resume #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/PsbI7ZIv3dY)

Maybe there’s one person you know who has been successful spamming their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Then, there are the other thousands who do it and get no results and worse.

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### [Interview Red Flags: We’re Like Family #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-were-like-family-shorts/)

**Published:** May 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This interview flag is a warning sign to run!

**Content:**

# Interview Red Flags: We’re Like Family #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/fgm3JiE-5MY)

A warning sign to run!

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### [What Are the Indicators of a Strong Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-are-the-indicators-of-a-strong-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** May 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What Are the Indicators of a Strong Resume?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

What are the key indicators of a strong [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) versus a weak one?

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Like Atypical Answers***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-js7)

Easy! You’re getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). A weak [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) isn’t getting you [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), a strong one is.

Now we could look at, you know, are we talking about a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or a tailored [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? You always tailor your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for each individual position you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for, because otherwise you’re little more than a spammer.

So, strong resumes—that’s the way I’m going to look at it—strong [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) versus weak ones. Strong [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that you generate per job get you [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Weak [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) reflect the fact that you’re not getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and as a matter of fact, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) may not make a case for why you’re qualified to do these positions.

So the long and the short of it is, keep plugging, keep tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), keep looking until such time as you have the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter in your hand. And even then, wait a month or two before you pull yourself off the market. I can’t tell you how many times, you know, people I knew took positions and discovered that what they were told about the new job wasn’t true, and thus they were stuck. They were stuck, and you don’t ever want to be in that position.

So I’ll just simply say, focus in on demonstrating to them that you have a world-class background, so that this way they always want to be talking with you.

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### [After the Interview #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/after-the-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** May 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's one thing you can do after an interview to stand out.

**Content:**

# After the Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/wF18wzIfdA0)

Here’s one thing you can do after an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to stand out.

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### [Networking Arbitrage: Using AI to Map Value Before You Message](https://thebiggamehunter.us/networking-arbitrage-using-ai-to-map-value-before-you-message/)

**Published:** May 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The standard LinkedIn pitch has been thoroughly devalued

**Content:**

# Networking Arbitrage: Using AI to Map Value Before You Message

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) stalls, the bottleneck is rarely a lack of qualifications. It is almost always an inability to scale **attention**. In an ecosystem crowded with automated templates and low-effort connection requests, the standard [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) pitch has been thoroughly devalued. For leaders and individual contributors, breaking through requires a clean break from automation-for-volume. You must use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as an analytical engine to map corporate friction points before you ever initiate contact.

Let’s step back, dismantle the boilerplate [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) email and replace it with an AI-driven methodology designed to establish immediate peer-to-peer authority.

### 1. Move Past the Shared Connection

Most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice relies on vanity indicators: a mutual colleague, an overlapping university, or a shared geographic region. These are baseline pleasantries, not strategic catalysts. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) allows you to bypass the pleasantries and execute **Deep Personalization** by isolating an executive or person’s current operational burden.

- **The Strategy:** [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are public-facing entities. They leave data trails in the form of quarterly investor calls, panel transcripts, white papers, and industry panels. Your objective is to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find the delta between what they are promising the market and what their infrastructure can realistically deliver.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Protocol:** Feed a target executive’s recent public commentary or their company’s latest macro updates into an LLM.
- **The Analytical Prompt:** *“Analyze this text from the perspective of an institutional investor. Identify the top two operational or infrastructure risks implied by this growth strategy. Cross-reference these risks with my core expertise in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction they will face.”*

By leading your outreach with this insight, you change the dynamic. You are no longer an applicant looking for an opening; you are an advisor flagging a blind spot.

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### 2. Semantic Proximity Mapping: Locating the Functional Peer

Targeting the wrong node in an organization wastes critical momentum. HR professionals and talent acquisition leads are trained to filter for historical compliance (matching past titles to current openings). They are rarely equipped to evaluate forward-looking strategic utility. You need to reach your **Future Peer**—the line executive who actually owns the budget and feels the pain of the unpicked lock.

- **The Tactic:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build a profile of your ideal internal advocate based on semantic [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) paths rather than rigid corporate titles.
- **The Execution:** Extract the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile text of five leaders who successfully transitioned into your target domain during a market contraction. Ask the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model to isolate the hidden common denominators in their background: *What vocabulary do they use to describe their wins? What specific inflection points preceded their promotions?*
- **The Outreach Alignment:** Use those semantic markers to filter your 2nd-degree [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) network. When you reach out, your language will automatically mirror the internal vocabulary of their executive suite, signaling immediate cultural and operational fit.

### 3. Evade the Automated Filter

The human brain is remarkably adept at recognizing synthetic text. If an executive senses even a fraction of an AI-generated template like over-indexing on words like “transformative,” “passionate,” “delighted,” or “synergy,” the message is immediately thought of as spam.

- **The 80/20 Rule of Production:** Leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for the heavy cognitive lifting–the data aggregation, the trend analysis, and the structural outlining (the 80%). But reserve the final execution (the 20%) entirely for your own human voice.
- **The Tonal Audit:** Run your drafted message back through the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) with a highly restrictive stylistic prompt: *“Review this outreach draft. Strip out all corporate boilerplate, introductory filler, and generic conversational lubrication. Shorten sentences to vary the cadence, use direct active verbs, and ensure the tone reflects the clinical brevity of a wartime CEO.”*

### 4. Compliance as a Trust Signal

Your command of data hygiene is an explicit indicator of your judgment. Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools to unearth unlisted personal cell phone numbers or scraping protected internal directories doesn’t signal resourcefulness; it signals a liability.

- **The Guardrail:** Restrict your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) strictly to **Public Signals**. When you analyze an executive’s [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) on a public industry shift, you demonstrate market awareness.
- **The Security Parameter:** Never input proprietary metrics, unannounced financial data, or sensitive operational structures from your current or former employer into a public model to help build your case studies. A leader who compromises data security to secure an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) will not be trusted with an enterprise P&L.

### The Bottom Line

AI-driven [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is an exercise in leverage, not volume. It is about using machine intelligence to arrive at an understanding of the challenges a company, leader and/or manager is facing faster than your competition can. When you ground your outreach this way, the conversation shifts from a transactional job request to an active strategic alignment.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Stupid Interview Mistakes: The Top Questions to NEVER Ask at a Job Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-the-top-questions-to-never-ask-at-a-job-interview/)

**Published:** May 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter tells you 5 questions to NEVER ask at a job interview if you want to get a job offer. 

**Content:**

# Stupid Interview Mistakes: The Top Questions to NEVER Ask at a Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) tells you 5 questions to NEVER ask at a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) if you want to get a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m called [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I coach people to play their professional and personal games big. And I’m coming to you today to talk with you about, you know, some of the top questions to not ask at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Why do I [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) this? Because someone asked one of these stupid questions on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) recently. They were doing well, but, you know, once they got to a couple of the dumb things, or once people come to a couple of these dumb things that are asked, it’s like knocking yourself out of consideration. So, you know, I don’t think most of you at a professional level are going to do this, but I’ve got to cover it.

So, let’s just start off by saying the worst question or thing to say at an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is, “I don’t have any questions.” There’s got to have been something that got raised in the discussion, you know, in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that you have questions about. “Tell me what a typical workday is like” is a great question, you know, especially if you’re at a non-managerial level, or a non-staff level if you’re an hourly worker. “Tell me what a typical day would be like in this role.” I’ve got a couple of others that I’ll give at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that you should ask instead, but let’s start off with “I don’t have any questions” as being the dumbest thing you could possibly ask.

Other than, here’s the next one: “Can you tell me about the company?” You know, it’s one thing back in the stone ages if you had to go to a library to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) a firm, not the case anymore. Just do a quick web search, find out about the organization, what they do, how business is for them. It’s not difficult. So, you know, spend a little time researching in advance instead of talking about the company, asking them about the company.

Another thing never to talk about is vacation time, sick time, holidays, paid time off, you know, things along those lines. You know, “When can you take lunch during a day?” Trust me, there’s going to be time to have lunch. But, you know, all this other stuff is extraneous. It’s going to be in a brochure that you’ll get later on. If they don’t want to send it to you until you accept the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), just simply say, “I just want to check this stuff out. You know, can you just give me a rundown on what the benefits are, including vacation time, sick time, PTO, holidays that are recognized, things along those lines, just so I’m aware of it, so there’s no surprises.”

Here’s another stupid one: “What’s the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) for the job?” Now, trust me, if you’re hitting the wrong number, if you’ve come up too high, they’re going to try and talk you down from it. So don’t worry about it. You know, at the end of the day, remember, the job ad probably covered it, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) probably covered it. Why do you think that’s the wrong information? Be aware of it when you walk in the door instead of asking it on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

This one I like in particular, and I’ll simply say, any question beginning with the word “why.” You know, “Why do you do it that way?” Instead, “Can you tell me more about…” is a better way to phrase it. “Can you tell me more about the way you handle this kind of situation?” or “Why you chose this approach?” instead of “Why?” “Why” is a confrontational question. Any question beginning with “why” in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) makes them think like you think they’re stupid or mindless or… You have to sound curious instead of confrontational.

Last thing, and this wouldn’t be an executive level, but it tends to run into in staff and hourly workers: “Tell me about your disciplinary process.” You know, like, let’s not invite the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) question of, “Okay, perhaps this person’s had a discipline problem before.” They’re not going to [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) it as a subject, they’re just going to assume that’s the case and that’s why you’re asking the question.

So, I’ll simply say, these are some of the things not to ask on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I’m sure you don’t, but just in case you’re dumb enough to do it, stop it! Stop it, I tell you!

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you enjoy this video. My website is thebiggamehunter.us. There’s a lot there to watch, listen to, and read to help you find work more quickly. And if we’re not connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send a connection request at [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com/in/thebiggamehunter. If you have some questions about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), reach out to me through my website instead of asking your stupid friends or maybe a former manager who knows as little as you do. You know, I’m an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), I’ve done this for more than 45 years, over 90,000 hours of work. It takes 10,000 to be an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) and I’ve got nine times that in the way of experience. So let me help you instead of asking dumb people. Again, you can find out more at my website.

Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [The Benefit of Interview Practice #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-benefit-of-interview-practice-shorts/)

**Published:** May 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a quick video to explain interview practice is so important.

**Content:**

# The Benefit of Interview Practice

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/W4W0AyxPvHM)

This is a quick video to explain why [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) practice is so important.

[***The Warning Sign of a Problem or That They Aren’t Sure***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ic2)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [No BS Career Advice: May 17 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-may-17-2026/)

**Published:** May 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more.

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: May 17 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Dont Wait](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dont-Wait-Gemini_Generated_Image_seihucseihucseih.png)

It was a busy week with several new hires, several new people to work with during their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, the release of my newest book, supporting my wife as she helps her niece transition to a temporary group home and works with social workers to find something more permanent. Emotionally, it has been difficult for her as I listen and ask questions. I want to fix the problem, but I can’t so I listen.

The book, :[Starting Over: The No BS Playbook: How to Land a New Job After 10+ Years With One Employer Whether You Chose to Leave or Were Forced Out](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1817G2M)” will be available for Kindle for $0.99 for this final week before reverting to its normal price of $9.99. The audiobook is at its normal price.

I hope you like it and leave a review.

## Networking Arbitrage: Using AI to Map Value Before You Message

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

When a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) stalls, the bottleneck is rarely a lack of qualifications. It is almost always an inability to scale **attention**. In an ecosystem crowded with automated templates and low-effort connection requests, the standard [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) pitch has been thoroughly devalued. For leaders and individual contributors, breaking through requires a clean break from automation-for-volume. You must use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as an analytical engine to map corporate friction points before you ever initiate contact.

Let’s step back, dismantle the boilerplate [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) email and replace it with an AI-driven methodology designed to establish immediate peer-to-peer authority.

### 1. Move Past the Shared Connection

Most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) advice relies on vanity indicators: a mutual colleague, an overlapping university, or a shared geographic region. These are baseline pleasantries, not strategic catalysts. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) allows you to bypass the pleasantries and execute **Deep Personalization** by isolating an executive or person’s current operational burden.

- **The Strategy:** [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are public-facing entities. They leave data trails in the form of quarterly investor calls, panel transcripts, white papers, and industry panels. Your objective is to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find the delta between what they are promising the market and what their infrastructure can realistically deliver.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Protocol:** Feed a target executive’s recent public commentary or their company’s latest macro updates into an LLM.
- **The Analytical Prompt:** *“Analyze this text from the perspective of an institutional investor. Identify the top two operational or infrastructure risks implied by this growth strategy. Cross-reference these risks with my core expertise in \[Your Specialization\] and generate a concise, peer-level observation regarding the friction they will face.”*

By leading your outreach with this insight, you change the dynamic. You are no longer an applicant looking for an opening; you are an advisor flagging a blind spot.

### 2. Semantic Proximity Mapping: Locating the Functional Peer

Targeting the wrong node in an organization wastes critical momentum. HR professionals and talent acquisition leads are trained to filter for historical compliance (matching past titles to current openings). They are rarely equipped to evaluate forward-looking strategic utility. You need to reach your **Future Peer**—the line executive who actually owns the budget and feels the pain of the unpicked lock.

- **The Tactic:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build a profile of your ideal internal advocate based on semantic [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) paths rather than rigid corporate titles.
- **The Execution:** Extract the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile text of five leaders who successfully transitioned into your target domain during a market contraction. Ask the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model to isolate the hidden common denominators in their background: *What vocabulary do they use to describe their wins? What specific inflection points preceded their promotions?*
- **The Outreach Alignment:** Use those semantic markers to filter your 2nd-degree [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) network. When you reach out, your language will automatically mirror the internal vocabulary of their executive suite, signaling immediate cultural and operational fit.

### 3. Evade the Automated Filter

The human brain is remarkably adept at recognizing synthetic text. If an executive senses even a fraction of an AI-generated template like over-indexing on words like “transformative,” “passionate,” “delighted,” or “synergy,” the message is immediately thought of as spam.

- **The 80/20 Rule of Production:** Leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for the heavy cognitive lifting–the data aggregation, the trend analysis, and the structural outlining (the 80%). But reserve the final execution (the 20%) entirely for your own human voice.
- **The Tonal Audit:** Run your drafted message back through the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) with a highly restrictive stylistic prompt: *“Review this outreach draft. Strip out all corporate boilerplate, introductory filler, and generic conversational lubrication. Shorten sentences to vary the cadence, use direct active verbs, and ensure the tone reflects the clinical brevity of a wartime CEO.”*

### 4. Compliance as a Trust Signal

Your command of data hygiene is an explicit indicator of your judgment. Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools to unearth unlisted personal cell phone numbers or scraping protected internal directories doesn’t signal resourcefulness; it signals a liability.

- **The Guardrail:** Restrict your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) strictly to **Public Signals**. When you analyze an executive’s [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) on a public industry shift, you demonstrate market awareness.
- **The Security Parameter:** Never input proprietary metrics, unannounced financial data, or sensitive operational structures from your current or former employer into a public model to help build your case studies. A leader who compromises data security to secure an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) will not be trusted with an enterprise P&L.

### The Bottom Line

AI-driven [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is an exercise in leverage, not volume. It is about using machine intelligence to arrive at an understanding of the challenges a company, leader and/or manager is facing faster than your competition can. When you ground your outreach this way, the conversation shifts from a transactional job request to an active strategic alignment.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week, I released a lot of new content including:

**A High-Signal [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Outreach Strategy** **Excerpt:** Stop being a liability and start using high-signal tactics that command respect. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how to shift your outreach from generic noise to high-value signals. **Link:** 

**How Do I Overcome My Fear of [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)?** **Excerpt:** Fear of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is a common problem. Arguing with the fear won’t work. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares tactical mindset shifts and preparation techniques to perform with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). **Link:** 

**Should I Include Personal Interests on My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts** **Excerpt:** Does anyone really care if you enjoy hiking or sourdough baking? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses whether personal interests add value or just clutter to your profile. **Link:** 

**Why You Should Never Use a One Page [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** **Excerpt:** The one-page [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) rule is a relic of the past. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains why cramming your experience hurts your chances with modern [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) systems. **Link:** 

**How to Ask for a [Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Without Feeling Like a Burden #shorts** **Excerpt:** [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is about relationships, not just favors. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares a simple script to ask for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) that feels natural and respectful. **Link:** 

**Is This Why [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Ignore Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile?**

**Excerpt:** You have the skills, but your profile isn’t getting hits. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the common profile [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that make [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) scroll right past you.

**Link:** 

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**Photos on a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) #shorts**

**Excerpt:** Is a headshot a modern touch or a fast track to the ‘no’ pile? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) gives a No BS answer on whether photos belong on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in 2026.

**Link:** 

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**What Do You Tell A Soon-to-Be Grad About [the Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)**

**Excerpt:** The advice for new grads has changed. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares the hard truths and tactical shifts a soon-to-be graduate needs to hear to compete in today’s market.

**Link:** 

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**A High-Signal [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Outreach Strategy**

**Excerpt:** Stop being a liability and start using high-signal tactics that command respect. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how to shift your outreach from generic noise to high-value signals.

**Link:** 

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**How Do I Overcome My Fear of [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)?**

**Excerpt:** Fear of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is a common problem. Arguing with the fear won’t work. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares tactical mindset shifts and preparation techniques to perform with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

**Link:** 

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Should Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile Be Different from Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)?

Excerpt: Consistency is key, but context matters. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to tailor your

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to complement your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) without simply duplicating

them.

Link: 

resume-and-cover-letter/

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No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): May 10 2026

Excerpt: A daily curation of the most effective strategies for [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)

preparation, and navigating complex workplace dynamics from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big

Game Hunter.

Link: 

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Spotting Covert Racism on [Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

Excerpt: Not all bias is loud. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how to identify the subtle, covert

signs of racism during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) process and what it means for your potential future

at a company.

Link: 

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Land a New Job Without Ads or [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/): 10 Easy Tactics

Excerpt: Most [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) are never posted. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares ten tactical, &#39;No BS&#39; ways to

bypass traditional job boards and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to land your next role through direct action.

Link: 

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[Raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) Your Hand . . . Again

Excerpt: Visibility is a choice. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) talks about the importance of consistently

stepping up and volunteering for opportunities to ensure you remain top-of-mind for

promotions.

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**A Visit to an Elephant Camp: A Reminder About Conditioning and Success** **Excerpt:** Like elephants tethered by thin ropes they could easily break, many professionals are held back by mental conditioning from early in their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explores how to break free from these self-imposed limitations. **Link:** 

**When is the [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) Time to Look for a New Job? #shorts** **Excerpt:** Timing is everything, but it’s not always about the market. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares the No BS perspective on the optimal moment to start your next [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. **Link:** 

**Why Are They [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) 1 More Person After Asking for My References? #shorts** **Excerpt:** It’s frustrating to be at the finish line and see the goalposts move. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the internal corporate logic behind that ‘one last interview’ with another candidate. **Link:** 

**What “We’ll Get Back to You” Really Means in [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** **Excerpt:** Decoding the standard [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) sign-off. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) pulls back the curtain on what [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers are actually thinking when they use this ambiguous phrase. **Link:** 

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**Win the [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) in 5 Minutes** **Excerpt**: The first five minutes of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) often determine the outcome. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares the ‘No BS’ techniques to establish authority and rapport immediately, setting the stage for a successful [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). **Link**: 

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**Going for a Signing Bonus** **Excerpt**: Don’t leave money on the table. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the tactics for successfully negotiating a signing bonus and why timing is the most critical factor in your request. **Link**: 

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**The Sovereign [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/): Navigating the Marathon** **Excerpt**: [Your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) is a marathon, not a sprint. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explores the ‘Sovereign Career’ mindset, teaching you how to maintain autonomy and long-term value in an ever-shifting job market. **Link**: 

**Why Is It Important to [Follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) in a Timely Way? #shorts** **Excerpt**: Timing can make or break an opportunity. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down why fast, strategic [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) keeps you top-of-mind and signals high professionalism to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers. **Link**: 

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**[Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) Are Advertisements** **Excerpt**: Stop treating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) like a dry historical document. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to shift your mindset to view your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as a targeted marketing piece designed to sell your value. **Link**: 

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**[Over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/)? Updating a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts** **Excerpt**: [Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) later in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) requires a specific strategy. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares quick, essential tips to modernize your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and combat [age bias](https://thebiggamehunter.us/overcoming-age-bias-in-job-search/) effectively. **Link**: 

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**Surviving the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Parser** **Excerpt**: Don’t let an algorithm kill your chances before a human ever sees your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) pulls back the curtain on how [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) read data and how to format your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to survive the scan. **Link**: 

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**Your Conviction: [Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) Checks** **Excerpt**: Dealing with a criminal record during a background check can be stressful. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers a direct, practical guide on how to navigate disclosure, maintain control of your narrative, and handle [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) verifications with integrity. **Link**: 

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In addition to my new book, let me remind you of two others.

[**The Over 50 Professional’s Guide to Job Search Success: Proven Techniques to Overcome Age Bias, and Thrive in Today’s Job Market**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5K781V) **and** [**10 Steps to Changing Careers: Break Free and Do Work You Love**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5K781V). Both are available as paperbacks, Kindle books and PDFs.

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### [Can an Employer Track If You've Used The Same Resume/Cover Letter for Multiple Jobs?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-an-employer-track-if-youve-used-the-same-resume-cover-letter-for-multiple-jobs/)

**Published:** May 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Can an employer track if you have used the same resume and cover letter for multiple job applications?

**Content:**

# Can an Employer Track If You’ve Used The Same Resume/Cover Letter for Multiple Jobs? 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Can an employer track if you have used the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) for multiple [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/)?

Another question I received was, “Can an employer track if you’ve used the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) for multiple [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/)?”

Certainly in their system that they they can. Certainly in theirs. So, you know, if you’re just generically sending the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) for every job, whether it’s a similar job or a dissimilar job.

Uh, I remember [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) someone from my other podcast I dis I I um I discontinued many years ago. Uh, and he was a search professional working with one of the large accounting firms or a hospital. I don’t remember which one it was.

And what he said to me was that if we start to notice that a person is submitting their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to lots of different [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) in lots of different fields, we can block them as a [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) “serial applier.” Oh, a serial applier! Oh, the horrors. But they’re trying to save themselves time, so they can see in their system that you’ve applied multiple times. Of course they can. They can see that you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for things that don’t relate to your background also.

So, don’t make that [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Don’t keep spamming your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and thinking you’re gonna get a different result. Always tailor your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to demonstrate your fit for the role. If you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a a a programming position and an orderly job at a hospital, how does that work? You don’t have the skills in one of these, or both.

So, the long and short of it is, don’t fool around with this stuff. Yes, they do track it, they do block people. It’s not worth it.

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### [Using AI for Job Search: Stop the Friction](https://thebiggamehunter.us/using-ai-for-job-search-stop-the-friction/)

**Published:** May 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode forces you to look at your calendar and choose the AI tech tier that actually fits your life so you can start landing interviews today.

**Content:**

# Using AI for Job Search: Stop the Friction

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3150 Stop blasting out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and getting ghosted. Most job hunters waste more time “researching” [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools than actually [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) them; this episode forces you to look at your calendar and choose the tech tier that actually fits your life so you can start landing [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) today.

Welcome to No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. If you’re exhausted from blasting out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and hearing nothing back, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a path to automate the repetitive parts of the search and get your time back. But there’s a new problem.

With dozens of new [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writers and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) generators launching every day, simply figuring out which software to use can actually drain more of your week than manually filling out [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). This funnel shows a traditional job hunt, highlighting the three bottlenecks where [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) gets trapped. First, at the top, you lose hundreds of hours just scouring job boards to find roles fitting your skills and [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) needs.

Then, in the middle, you get stuck rewriting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullets to align with specific keywords of every job description. Finally, at the bottom, you write custom [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), leaving a tiny trickle of actual submitted [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to show for all that manual work. You’ll hear plenty of influencers claim they’ve found the single perfect tool to fix all of this.

That tool does not exist. The most effective [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) strategy requires an honest look at your own schedule. You have to match the complexity of the software to your current technical comfort level and the actual hours you have available to spend setting it up.

Picking the right tier of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is the only way to avoid trading job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) fatigue for software management fatigue. Let’s break down the three tiers. Tier one is for the time-poor job seeker.

If you’re working a full-time job and [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to roles on your lunch break, you’ll want to look at off-the-shelf SaaS tools like Teal, Jobscan, or [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).io. These are paid products. You’ll typically need to spend between $15 and $40 a month for a premium subscription to unlock their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) features. The setup requires almost zero effort.

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You spend about five minutes uploading your standard base [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into their system and you’re ready to go. This matrix evaluates each option. For tier one, setup time is low while financial cost sits in the middle.

The platform gives basic [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) keyword alignment, putting personalization quality at a low to medium level. They generate broad [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), requiring very low technical skill. But that convenience comes with a heavy trade-off.

Because the software handles all the heavy lifting behind the scenes using pre-built templates, your final [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) will look and read exactly like the [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) of every other candidate using that same platform. You miss out on deep granular personalization. Tier one forces a clear compromise.

You spend money to gain speed, sacrificing nuanced personalization so you can get [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) out the door today. Tier two targets the strategic optimizer. If you want highly tailored [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) but don’t want to learn how to code, building custom GPTs is your sweet spot.

You will need a premium subscription to an LLM like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) or Clod, usually around $20, and you’ll have to dedicate roughly 30 to 60 minutes to set up your workstays. That time is spent writing detailed system instructions. You tell the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) exactly how to act, give it your personal framework for formatting [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) bullets, and set strict rules for what it can and cannot say.

Back on our matrix, tier two requires medium setup time but keeps recurring costs low. Because the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) references your permanent [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) file and follows your rules, personalization quality is high. It generates hyper-personalized materials in minutes, requiring a medium level of technical skill.

You do have to endure a learning curve. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) will make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) early on, and you’ll need to troubleshoot those hallucinations by tweaking your prompts until it reliably gives you what you want. That initial hour of setup pays for itself quickly.

Once the prompt is dialed in, you reclaim 10 hours a week that used to disappear into manual [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) edits. Tier two requires a moderate initial time investment, but it gives you a highly competitive customized [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) loop without paying for individual [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) software. Tier three is for the systems architect.

If you want the machine to do the hunting for you, you are looking at full agentic automation. The upfront friction here is severe. You will spend weeks watching tutorials and learning how to use node-based automation platforms like N8n to build your workflows.

You have to manually connect the wiring between multiple services, pulling in API keys from Cloud, OpenAI, and your Gmail account so they can communicate with each other. You also need to build a secondary database in a tool like Notion to store, organize, and track all the data your system pulls in. Looking at the matrix, tier three demands extreme setup time with variable low cost.

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Tier three shifts your effort from doing daily manual [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to maintaining a complex technical engine. It pays off heavily, but only if you have the unemployed hours required to actually build it. It’s easy to look at complex [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) systems online and feel paralyzed, assuming you’re doing the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) wrong if you aren’t writing code.

But if you only plan to send out three or four [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) a week, overengineering an autonomous workflow is a massive waste of your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). This flowchart organizes the decision around your actual constraints. To pick the right tool, you just need to identify your current situation.

If you are currently employed, strapped for time, and need to start submitting [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) immediately, follow path A and stick to the tier one SaaS platforms. If you are targeting highly competitive roles where deep personalization matters, take path B. Block off a weekend, refine your prompts, and build tier two custom GPTs. And if you are out of work, comfortable with tech, and want to turn your job hunt into a hard skill you can put on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), take path C and invest in tier three agentic workflows.

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### [Many Employers Have Already Caught On #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/many-employers-have-already-caught-on-shorts/)

**Published:** May 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** They can spot what you're doing.

**Content:**

# Many Employers Have Already Caught On #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Over 50? Updating a Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/over-50-updating-a-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** May 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Avoid this classic mistake older workers make.

**Content:**

# Over 50? Updating a Resume? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Avoid this classic [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) older workers make.

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things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Tough Interview Questions: Solve This Problem](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-solve-this-problem-2/)

**Published:** May 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The ability to solve this problem is one of the leading predictors of success on the job.

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions: Solve This Problem

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This comes from an article in HBR.org. The article is called, “7 Rules for Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Questions That Result In Great Hires.” in the article, Dr. John Sullivan points out that there are [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) firms make with [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). He encourages people to recognize that the ability to solve this problem is one of the leading predictors of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) on the job.

So, he poses this question. Provide them with a description of an actual problem that they will face on their 1st day. “*Walk me through the broad steps that you would take to solve the problem*.”

Before asking this question, before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), the interviewer has taken some time to identify certain basic expectations they have for answering the question. So, for example, it’s important to recognize that an individual would gather data, consult with the team or the customer, identify [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) metrics, and such.

Another thing I tend to think of is that this is a variation of the case study [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question, except your face to face with the case. As a result, think in terms of asking about the resources that you have available to them. How large a budget exists? All the meta-questions that define the terrain for yourself in stepping into this new solution.

So, for example, as I said, in the article, they talk about gathering data, consulting with the team and customers, identifying [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) metrics, what kind of budget, what’s the timeframe for work, who are the people I’m working with, do they tend to be open or closed in how they communicate. There are lots of different things that, from a case study, you need to draw in from then in order to answer the question well.

So, I just want to remind you don’t forget that has these questions and then start looking at solutions and options. But, the goal from their standpoint is to get a sense of how you think, how you can impact their bottom line, how you can help this department be more effective.

You can’t do that unless you know more and that’s really what this is designed to accomplish.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2020

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### [Resumes Are Advertisements](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resumes-are-advertisements/)

**Published:** May 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most job hunters treat their resume like a participation trophy. Resumes have one purpose. 

**Content:**

# Resumes Are Advertisements

Most job hunters treat their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) like a participation trophy. They think that if they list everything they’ve ever done, someone will eventually reward them with a [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).

**Wrong.**

A [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has one job: To get a total stranger to stop looking at a screen and say, “I need to talk to this person before my competition does.” Here are the 10 moves for you to get results from your ad.

## 1. Cut the Career Novel (The 6-Second Rule)

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t read; they skim. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a three-page manifesto, you’ve already lost.

- **The Shift:** If you can’t prove you’re the solution in two pages (or one, if you’re junior), you don’t understand the job well enough. Every line must justify its existence. If it doesn’t scream “I can solve your problem,” delete it.

## 2. Lead With Results, Not Responsibilities

“Responsible for…” is the language of a clerk. It describes what you were *told* to do, not what you actually *did*.

- **The Shift:** Use the $Impact = Result + Context$ formula.
- *Instead of:* “Managed a team of 5.”
- *Use:* “Architected a workflow for a team of 5 that slashed project turnaround time by $30\\%$ over 6 months.”
- Business is a game of numbers. If you don’t have numbers, you don’t have a story.

## 3. Kill the Objective Statement

“Seeking a challenging role…” is the most selfish sentence in the English language. The employer doesn’t care what *you* want; they care what *they* need.

- **The Shift:** Replace it with a **Professional Profile**. This is your 15-second “elevator pitch” in text. It should identify the “pain” you fix and the “value” you bring. “I am the person who fixesProblem X using Method Y

## 4. Tailor or Fail

Sending a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is like using a fishing net with giant holes in it—you might catch something, but it’ll be by accident.

- **The Level 8 Shift:** You aren’t just matching keywords for a robot (the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)). You are matching the *language* of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager. If they call it “Customer Success” and you call it “Account Management,” you look like an outsider to them. Speak their dialect.

## 5. Deploy Power Verbs

“Helped,” “Assisted,” and “Participated” are “vague-speak.” They signal that you were in the room, but someone else did the heavy lifting.

- **The Shift:** Use verbs that denote **Ownership**. “Orchestrated,” “Engineered,” “Captured,” “Negotiated.” You want to sound like the person who drove the bus, not the person looking out the window.

## 6. Scannability is Your Secret Weapon

If a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) has to hunt for your phone number or your most recent job title, they’ll just move to the next file.

- **The Shift:** Design for the “F-Pattern” scan. Use bold headers, clean bullet points, and plenty of white space. A “pretty” [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) with complex columns often chokes the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). Keep it simple so the human AND the machine can both find the gold.

## 7. Dominate the Top Third

The “Above the Fold” rule from newspapers applies here. If the top third of the first page doesn’t hook them, the rest of the document is irrelevant.

- **The Shift:** Your most impressive metric, your most relevant skill, and your “Solution Statement” must all live in this real estate. This is where you make the “No BS” case for your hireability.

## 8. Modernize Your Skillset

Listing “Microsoft Office” in 2024 is like listing “Can use a telephone.” It’s expected; it’s not a differentiator.

- **The Shift:** Focus on the “Force Multipliers.” What tools make you faster, smarter, or more profitable than the next person? If it’s not relevant to the *next* job, it’s clutter.

## 9. Illustrate Progression (The Upward Trajectory)

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) aren’t just [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) who you are; they are betting on who you are becoming.

- **The Shift:** Frame every job change or internal move as an “Expansion of Scope.” Even if your title didn’t change, show how the *complexity* of the problems you solved increased. You aren’t a static asset; you’re an appreciating one.

## 10. The Zero-Tolerance Proofread

A typo isn’t just a misspelling; it’s a signal that you don’t care about the details. If you can’t handle a two-page document about yourself, why should they trust you with a multimillion-dollar budget?

- **The Shift:** Read it backward. Read it out loud. Give it to a “brutally honest” friend. One error is an “Unforced Error,” and in the Big Game, that gets you benched.

### The Hunter’s Bonus: Integrity is Your Brand

Don’t lie. Don’t “stretch.” A reputation takes years to build and 5 minutes to destroy. Focus on your *real* wins, and present them with the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) of someone who knows exactly what they are worth.

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### [Disagreement #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/disagreement/)

**Published:** May 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Short Thoughts. Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We're On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We'll Feel Good If You Do.

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# Disagreement

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[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/_d9YFEXbF-E)

Short [Thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Art That Has to Do With Living Life. Tell Us We’re On the Right Track By Liking Our Videos. We’ll Feel Good If You Do.

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### [Why Is It Important to Follow Up in a Timely Way? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-important-to-follow-up-in-a-timely-way-shorts/)

**Published:** May 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why is it important to promptly follow up with a company after an interview?


**Content:**

# Why Is It Important to Follow Up in a Timely Way? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Why is it important to promptly [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with a company after an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)?

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### [Tell Me About Yourself #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tell-me-about-yourself-shorts/)

**Published:** May 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jack Kelly wrote this for Forbes. It gives a high-level perspective on how to answer the question.

**Content:**

# Tell Me About Yourself

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/H0KSQvs8sLk)

Jack Kelly wrote this for Forbes. It gives a high-level perspective on how to answer the question.

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When the interviewer asks, tell me about yourself, what they’re really asking you is, “Tell me about what you do at your job and why your background is right for this.”

This opens the door for you to sell your background, skills, education, talents, current and past responsibilities to prove that you can do all that’s required for this new position.

Walk the interviewer through your daily responsibilities, projects you are proud of working on, and some of your previous roles. Avoid going back more than 10 years. You should also add details about your education, interests, and remember, everything you say should relate to the position you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for. Share only positive things. There’s no need to list your faults. There’s a lot more [JobSearch.Community](JobSearch.Community)

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### [Your Career #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-shorts/)

**Published:** May 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Kevin Kermes shared a simple statement on LinkedIn worth sharing

**Content:**

# **Your Career**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

@KevinKermes1 shared a simple statement on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) worth sharing

[Your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) is your responsibility, not your employer’s.

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### [Stupid Interview Mistakes: TMI & Seeming Angry](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-interview-mistakes-tmi-seeming-angry-video/)

**Published:** May 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, I talk about two complementary poisons that cost people jobs--sharing too much information and appearing angry.

**Content:**

# Stupid Interview Mistakes: TMI & Seeming Angry

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 In this video, I talk about two complementary poisons that cost people jobs–sharing too much information and appearing angry.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people and organizations to play big. And I’m continuing my series on stupid [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and I wasn’t quite sure how to accurately express this in a title, so I just decided to throw both of them in together. So, this is the stupid [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of TMI, or too much information, and appearing angry, which to me, they go hand in hand with one another.

You see, maybe you got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) or [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) from a job. Maybe it’s you work at a place where you’re the outsider and everyone else kind of keeps you aside, or you don’t get along with your boss, or whatever the reason is. You’re in a situation that you’re angry and frustrated about, and you start going off on these, you know, answering questions with way too much detail too, that no one really cares about, and it just gives people the idea that, “Hey, this guy’s weird,” you know? “Uh, I’m not sure I really want them around,” you know what I mean?

So the result winds up being you talk yourself out of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), which often happens with veteran individuals where their [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) or their anger about getting [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), in particular, is so poisonous to their landing the next situation. It’s like you go out on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), it’s too soon after the layoff has taken place and you wear your heart on your sleeves. Or, you got into a fight with your boss and, “I’m mad, and let me tell you on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) what it is that this person did to me, that they’re wrong and I’m right.”

Who wants to hear it? You’ve got to, you know, put aside any anger or heartbreak that you have about losing a job or being in a situation that isn’t working for you. You have to bring the story down to the facts and talk about them in a way that’s very casual and it doesn’t reveal quite as much as this vulnerability does.

So just remember, the next firm hears that kind of stuff and wonders who the loose cannon is. And frankly, since you’re sounding like it, the likelihood is they’re going to decide it’s you since they don’t have any countervailing evidence to offset it. So just hold back. You’re just going to hurt yourself and damage your prospects with a firm.

I hope you found this helpful. And again, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). If you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me because you’re a senior professional and you believe, you know, for some reason the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) isn’t going right, email me at jeffaltman@thebiggamehunter.us. In the subject line, put the word “coaching” so I know what it’s about. And if you’re not a senior professional, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place is jobsearchcoachinghq.com where I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) curated information that I’ve developed and others have as well that’ll help you find work more quickly.

Have a great day.

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### [Going for a Signing Bonus](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-for-a-signing-bonus/)

**Published:** May 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The offer is close or there is a problem that money will make go away, under what conditions will a company be more responsive to a signing bonus.

**Content:**

# Going for a Signing Bonus

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is close or there is a problem that money will make go away, under what conditions will a company be more responsive to a signing bonus.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach who helps people be more effective in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), managing and leading teams, overall being more effective in the workplace.

Now, this is a show, this is a video, where I want to talk with you about signing bonuses, because, frankly, in good labor markets, these are golden times to go for a bonus. Now, there tend to be three situations where firms are more generous with their bonus.

Number one, you’re walking away from an annual bonus. Maybe you’re a senior professional, maybe you’re a junior, doesn’t really matter. But, you know, it’s a month or two away from bonus time. The fourth quarter of the year, bonus time. Christmas bonus, annual bonus, however your firm describes it, this bonus is coming. And of course you don’t want to leave it. You’ve got money coming you’ve been working so hard for, for so long. What do you do?

You know, I’d have to leave behind, you know, a bonus. How much was your bonus? Well, the previous year my bonus was X, but this year I’m expecting X plus Y because we’ve had a better year, yada yada yada. Okay, and that becomes part of the negotiation. Now, if… there were times when I was still doing search where people had been out of work for a while and they’d say, well in whatever two years ago was—or I’m sorry, it wasn’t that they were out of work for a while, it’s that their firm hadn’t done well in the previous year. So there was no bonus. So I’m just going to pick two dates at random. In 2018 I received a bonus of X number of dollars. How about 2019? Zero. Well, no bonus for them. So the likelihood of you getting a signing bonus to make up for the lost bonus . . . they’re not going to do that because your own firm didn’t give you that bonus, got it? But for many of you, you’re leaving a bonus behind, and that becomes a negotiating tool.

Number two is when times are good, it’s a differentiator between one firm or another. And as such, if the money’s close, there’s one of two ways you can approach it. Number one is you go for an increase in [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) to get you to say yes. Number two is you go for a signing bonus. The [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of one is the increase in [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is baked into every [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) you get from that point on for the rest of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). So for the next five years, again I’m going to pick a simple number, $100,000 and they make it 105 or 110, and you get a 3% [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/), it doesn’t sound like a lot, but every [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) is baked into the higher [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). In contrast, if they gave you a $10,000 bonus, it has more of an impact today. So whichever way you’re more comfortable with it, go for that approach. But clearly when markets are good, firms are giving signing bonuses for people at all levels of the spectrum.

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And the third situation, which tends to be more for junior or less experienced people, is in terms of helping with a relocation. Now when they think relo, they’re thinking of the big ticket relo. We’re packing up your house, we’re moving it across the country, they’re doing that kind of a relo. But for less experienced people, they’ve got the contents of an apartment and they need a U-Haul truck and a couple of friends to pack it on both ends. And that kind of thing often is the kind of signing bonus

”I remember when I was working with consulting firms that would want someone to move from New Jersey to Florida, Florida to Naperville, Naperville to New Jersey. You know, it was a pretty common bonus and there were conditions applied to it. It could only be for moving expenses and you need to provide receipts for it as well. And it sounds quirky because it’s obviously a relocation thing that they’re calling a signing bonus.

Those are three instances that are easy to go for. Hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Visit my website, [thebiggamehunter.us](thebiggamehunter.us), where I’ve got thousands of posts that you can watch, listen to, or read that will help you find work more quickly. In addition, if you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from me that can include help with a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation. I obviously charge for that, of course. ”but help with a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation, critiquing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, preparing you for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) (first, second, third, wherever you are in the cycle), helping you with your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) to help you get better… Again, at my website, you can schedule time with me for one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), or if you’re at the beginning of your search and you want my help throughout the entire process, we can schedule a free discovery call so we can figure out if this makes sense. Lastly, if you’re watching on YouTube, in the lower right-hand corner you’ll notice a small icon. Click on that so you can subscribe to my channel, get notified whenever I release something new. I hope you have a great day today. Take care.

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### [Decoding the Headhunter’s Agenda](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-the-headhunters-agenda/)

**Published:** May 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3149 Stop treating headhunters like your personal talent agents; they don't work for you, they work for the corporation.

**Content:**

# Decoding the Headhunter’s Agenda

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3149 Stop treating executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) like your personal talent agents; they don’t work for you, they work for the corporation. This episode strips away the mystery of the “hidden” job market and explains the specific sourcing logic used by top-tier headhunters. If you want a seat at the C-suite table, you need to stop acting like a candidate and start acting like a strategic partner.

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You have a polished track record, you speak at conferences, and your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is optimized. Yet, top [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aren’t returning your calls. This [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) often stems from missing [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/).

At the senior executive level, many of the most lucrative and challenging positions are never posted to public job boards. These confidential high-level roles are exclusively controlled by executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). They manage the entry point to the C-suite for their client organizations.

To reach these roles, you have to understand the specific sourcing logic headhunters use. Most active job seekers misread the incentives that drive a recruiter’s decision-making. The tension exists because candidates often act transactionally, asking the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) to find them a job.

However, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is bound by a strict corporate mandate to solve a specific problem for the employer. If your approach doesn’t align with those professional incentives, you risk being categorized as a non-viable candidate before a search even begins. Many leaders struggle because they view the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) as a personal talent agent.

This assumes the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) exists to market you to potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). In the talent agent model, you are the client. Agents market you to maximize income.

In retained search, the structure is inverted. Corporations are the sole clients, paying a direct retainer. The recruiter’s loyalty is strictly to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) organization.

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Retained [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) handle specific mandates exclusively. They will not cross-market your candidate file to multiple companies while you are under consideration. You should avoid practitioners who promise hidden job access in exchange for large upfront fees.

Legitimate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are paid by the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) firm, never you. When you stop expecting individual representation, you can engage with [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) as a strategic partner. Understanding the recruiter’s client-first focus explains why cold [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) uploads are frequently ignored.

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) prioritize high-level relationships over database volume. This relationship-driven approach follows Dunbar’s number, the anthropological theory that humans can only maintain roughly 150 stable relationships. For a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/), this 150-person limit is their most guarded resource.

Elite [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) rely on this inner circle for [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) and candidates. They protect this limit fiercely, which creates a barrier for the thousands of external [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) that arrive every month. If you reach out only when you need a job, you are often flagged as a transactional contact.

In a world of finite relationship capacity, transactional requests are usually discarded to make room for peers and sources. To enter that inner circle, you have to be helpful when you aren’t looking for a move. When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) calls to ask for a recommendation or market insight, take the call.

By sharing objective market intelligence or nuanced observations about industry trends, you provide the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) with high-value search data. When you recommend other high-quality candidates for their current mandates, you help them succeed. This moves you from a passive file to a trusted industry source.

Consistently acting as a referrer and an advisor is how you eventually breach the Dunbar number barrier. This strategy requires a long-term investment in mutual [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). You give your time now so that you are the first person they call when a matching executive mandate eventually opens.

The dynamic changes once you are officially vetted for a specific search. As their lead candidate, your relationship moves from discovery to partnership. Since the recruiter’s income depends on a successful hire, they are motivated to help you prepare.

They want to ensure you present yourself in the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) light to their client. You should use this time to extract information the company won’t put in a handbook. Ask about culture quirks, why the position became vacant, and the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager’s priorities.

The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) can also provide the true compensation ranges and the organization’s actual stance on flexible work arrangements before you meet the board or the CEO. Remember that while they help you prepare, they are also assessing your professional demeanor for the client. They are looking for leadership attributes that go beyond your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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If you appear high-maintenance or overly aggressive during these early talks, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) may warn the client that you are a cultural risk, effectively ending your candidacy. If you treat the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) as a collaborative buffer, they can handle the difficult negotiations and provide a channel for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) that clarifies the employer’s needs. Tactical execution depends on your current situation and how quickly you need to make a move.

If you are an active searcher, perhaps you’re currently unemployed or in an urgent transition, you need to shift your focus. Retained searches can take months. Active searchers should target contingency firms, use their personal networks, and apply directly to corporate human resources departments for more immediate results.

For active searchers, optimizing your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile determines whether you appear in a recruiter’s initial screening. Use exact titles like chief financial officer rather than vague leadership descriptions to ensure you show up in Boolean searches. Then there is the passive strategist.

This is the leader who is currently employed but looking for a specific high-level [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) leap. These leaders should identify search partners specializing in their domain. They engage with the recruiter’s insights and build long-term rapport as an industry source without asking for immediate favors.

Keep in mind that [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) in retained search is rarely personal. These firms are looking for a perfect fit dictated by the client’s strategy, not just a qualified candidate. Maintaining professional courtesy when you don’t get the role ensures you remain a viable prospect in their database for the next appropriate mandate.

So that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful. Here are a few more ways to get advice.

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With that plus [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from him, you will land more quickly. You can also purchase individual books, courses, and guides from him if you prefer not to be in his insider programs. Again, that website is jobsearch.community. Have a terrific day and be great!

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

***[Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)***

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

You can also have your #jobsearchquestions answered Tuesdays at noon Eastern. Search for [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach Office Hours on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and mark that you’re attending. You’ll have access to the recording if you miss it live.

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### [Win the Interview in 5 Minutes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/win-the-interview-in-5-minutes/)

**Published:** May 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3148 This episode breaks down a high-performance 3-part script that shifts you from a passive applicant to an active negotiator.

**Content:**

# Win the Interview in 5 Minutes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3148 Most job hunters wing their [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and wonder why they aren’t getting offers. This episode breaks down a high-performance 3-part script that shifts you from a passive applicant to an active negotiator. Learn how to uncover an employer’s real needs and pivot your experience to solve them instantly.

Professional athletes practice every single day, but most job hunters walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), hear a question, and answer for the very first time. That trial and error approach leads to fumbled sentences, awkward pauses, and missed opportunities. In the next six minutes, we are going to fix that.

Grab a pen and a piece of paper. We are going to build your customized three-part [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) script. Putting a structural framework on paper before you ever step foot in the room removes the guesswork.

It turns you from a passive applicant hoping to get packed into an active negotiator. Step one happens the moment you sit down, right after the initial pleasantries. Before the interviewer asks you anything, you need to find out what they actually want.

Most written job descriptions are only about 80% accurate. They are often reused from older postings and rarely updated. If you base your answers solely on that document, you are flying blind.

Thanks so much for making time to speak with me. Would you tell me about the job as you see it and what I can do to help? Asking this question first forces the interviewer to tell you exactly what is top of mind today, filling in the missing 20%. You now have a targeted cheat sheet for the rest of the conversation.

Instead of guessing what matters to them, you can tailor every subsequent answer to the specific problem they just told you they need solved. Once you have their answer, the interviewer will almost certainly ask, tell me about yourself. The default reaction for most people is to nervously recite their entire chronological work history.

We are going to script a two-part formula instead. This diagram shows how it works. You start with a tight 20-second overview of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), and then you immediately transition into a pivot.

For part two, write down this exact bridge phrase. But what’s probably most relevant about my background for this position is, from there, complete the sentence by repeating the exact needs the interviewer gave you moments ago. By feeding their own requirements right back to them, you stop making them work to figure out if you fit the role.

You prove instantly that you are the exact solution to their immediate problem. Next, the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) will shift to behavioral questions. These are the prompts asking for specific examples of your past work.

This matrix shows three frameworks you can use to outline your stories based on [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) level. Use STAR for entry-level roles, SOAR for experienced positions, and PAR if you are in leadership. Whichever framework you choose for part three of your script, your written outline must dedicate the vast majority of its focus to the action you took and the result you achieved.

Now put a hard timer on your story. It must take no longer than one minute and 15 seconds to say out loud. We live in a short attention span culture.

If your answer drags past 75 seconds, the interviewer stops paying attention and thinks about their next meeting. To keep it tight and avoid sounding like a rehearsed robot, apply the talk to your brother rule. Read your drafted story out loud to yourself.

Edit the words until you sound like you are casually explaining how you solved a tough problem to a smart friend or sibling. Delivering a perfectly timed conversational story demonstrates high-level communication. It proves your competence while keeping the listener fully engaged.

Look at your page. You now have an opening question to uncover their needs, a tailored pivot for your introduction, and a strictly timed story framework. Add one final safety net question to the bottom of your paper to ask as the meeting wraps up.

Is there anything you’ve heard or not heard that gives you a reason to hesitate about my being qualified for this role? Interviewers are human. They get distracted or ask unclear questions. This gives you a final opportunity to clarify your experience and erase any lingering doubts before they make a decision.

The script is written. Your last step is to practice saying it out loud over and over until the words become pure muscle memory. Doing this work ahead of time eliminates the [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) of winging it.

You replace desperation with the kind of unshakable [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) that makes an employer trust you and ultimately hire you.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

***[Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

***[Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C Suite Professionals](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oJc)***

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

You can also have your #jobsearchquestions answered Tuesdays at noon Eastern. Search for [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Coach Office Hours on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and mark that you’re attending. You’ll have access to the recording if you miss it live.

**[*Networking Like a Leader*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ)**

***Schedule a discovery call at my website,* [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us) to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [The Sovereign Career: Navigating the Marathon](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-sovereign-career-navigating-the-marathon/)

**Published:** May 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3147 In a rapidly changing economic landscape, the traditional 40-year career path is no longer sustainable for those living into their 90s

**Content:**

# The Sovereign Career: Navigating the Marathon

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3147 In a rapidly changing economic landscape, the traditional 40-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path is no longer sustainable for those living into their 90s. This video outlines a strategic shift from being a managed employee to a high-impact advisor, focusing on decoupling income from time and leveraging professional wisdom to ensure long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) sovereignty.

The deal you signed was simple. Work hard, climb the corporate ladder, secure a director title by 45, and coast to retirement. But the math behind that deal has collapsed.

Medical science and longevity trends suggest you will likely live well into your 90s. You simply cannot fund a 30-year retirement with a 40-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). The professional timeline has stretched.

We are no longer running a 40-year sprint. We are running a 60-year marathon. Many professionals reach a senior level and freeze.

They enter an inertia zone, believing their university degree and their senior title act as a suit of armor against market disruption. Clinging to that traditional timeline doesn’t [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) security. It leaves you economically fragile and entirely exposed the moment an algorithm or a restructuring targets your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

When the layoff happens, the default reaction is to update the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and start clicking Easy Apply on digital job boards. But those systems are built by HR gatekeepers to find reasons to say no. To a bot, your decades of experience represent a high [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and a massive benefits load.

You are filtered out as an expensive liability before a human ever sees your name. Competing solely on technical skills, like operating software or managing a budget, reduces you to a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). You are inviting the company to compare your price against a younger worker or a cheap [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) subscription.

Participating in this system as a job seeker is a suicide mission for your morale. The digital black hole is designed to reject high-priced problem solvers, not welcome them. To survive, you have to stop being an employee and start operating as a company of one.

You aren’t looking for a job. You are pitching a strategic service contract to an anchor client. While an employee is managed by a boss and focuses on assigned tasks, an advisor is managed by results and strategy.

Look at the bottom. Employees are paid for time. Advisors are paid for their economic impact across the entire market.

This alters your posture in every meeting. Employees sit in offices asking permission to act. Consultants diagnose the company’s pain points and provide immediate solutions.

Repositioning yourself this way changes your relationship with the firm. You move from a budget line item that can be cut to a strategic partner that the company cannot afford to lose. Skills tell a client how to do something, but they depreciate fast.

Wisdom tells a client whether they should do it at all. As technical labor becomes automated, your judgment is the only asset that gains value. To prove that value, you must conduct a value audit, a deep diagnostic of the last 15 years, to uncover your hidden return on investment.

Every high-level intervention you’ve ever made falls into one of three buckets—generating revenue, avoiding massive costs, or mitigating catastrophic risks. This reveals your delta—the hard mathematical difference between what it costs to employ you and the financial value your [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) creates. If you cannot quantify your wisdom into specific dollars saved or risks avoided, you remain a target.

In a disruptive economy, companies don’t hire applicants. They hire solutions to expensive problems. You must abandon generalist titles like operations director.

Instead, you find your [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), becoming the only choice for a specific mess, like an M&A integration [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) for European fintechs. You build a trust web around this niche by spending 80% of your time giving. You solve problems for peers and share market intel, prepaying for access long before you ever need a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/).

[***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

We are ending the era of the informational [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Asking to pick someone’s brain signals that you are an amateur with nothing to trade. You replace it with the intelligence briefing.

You sit down with a decision-maker, a direct buyer, and trade market data. You [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) an insight about a regulatory shift or a competitor’s failure, and in exchange, they reveal the bottlenecks they are actually losing sleep over. By defining an exact niche and trading actionable intelligence, you bypass HR gatekeepers entirely.

You enter the room as an expected authority, not an applicant. When you secure the executive meeting, the power dynamic flips. You aren’t there to be vetted.

You are there to perform a high-stakes diagnostic. You lead with questions that uncover the true cost of their unsolved liabilities. You are evaluating whether the company’s internal mess represents a project worth your specific expertise.

Elite professionals use strategic silence to control the room. If a CEO low-balls the rate, you don’t get defensive. You simply stop talking, letting the silence demonstrate that you are perfectly willing to walk away.

This level of control requires meticulous rehearsal. Great athletes practice seven days a week. You must practice the right answers until the performance is flawless.

Controlling the frame of the conversation completely shifts your status. You stop being a beggar seeking a paycheck and become a savior offering a lifeline. Eventually, you reach an economic realization.

Top-tier organizations do not actually need your physical [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) for 40 hours a week to solve their biggest problems. You transition to a [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) advisory model. You sell five hours of high-impact judgment to prevent a $10 million catastrophe, rather than selling 40 hours of operational attendance.

Decoupling your income from your time allows you to scale your wealth and protect your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). You share in the value created, rather than the clock you punch. Transforming from an internal expense to be managed into an external asset to be consulted is the ultimate victory.

It guarantees your relevance, your income, and your control over the entire 60-year marathon.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

***[Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C Suite Professionals](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oJc)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

[***Networking Like a Leader***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ)

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 12+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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### [Should Your LinkedIn Profile Be Different from Your Resume and Cover Letter?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-your-linkedin-profile-be-different-from-your-resume-and-cover-letter/)

**Published:** May 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it necessary for your LinkedIn profile to be different from your resume and cover letter, or can you simply copy and paste the same information into each document?

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# Should Your LinkedIn Profile Be Different from Your Resume and Cover Letter?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Surviving the ATS Parser](https://thebiggamehunter.us/surviving-the-ats-parser/)

**Published:** May 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In the market for more experienced professionals, the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is a data parser to be optimized.

**Content:**

# Surviving the ATS Parser

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the market for more experienced professionals, the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) is not a gatekeeper to be “tricked.”It is a **data parser** to be optimized. For a college-educated professional, the [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) of the “black box” [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) is rarely a reflection of your qualifications; it is a failure of your document’s structural integrity.

Recently, I discussed the **Signal-to-Noise Ratio** and how to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build high-resolution outreach. Today, we move into the technical “Last Mile”: ensuring your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** survives the machine’s extraction process so it actually reaches a human decision-maker.

### 1. Structural Fluidity: Designing for Machine Readability

Most rejections happen because the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) parser couldn’t translate your layout into its database. When a machine encounters a complex layout, it often reads horizontally across the entire page, scrambling your job titles, dates, and achievements into a nonsensical string of text.

- **The Goal:** Create a “flat” document that allows for 100% extraction accuracy.
- **The Logic:** Avoid headers, footers, tables, and multi-column layouts. While these are visually engaging for humans, they act as “noise” to a machine.
- **The Action:** Save your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as a standard .docx or a “flattened” [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/). Test its integrity by copying all text and pasting it into a plain Notepad file. If the [contact info](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/), dates, or titles are scrambled, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) will likely discard your profile before a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) ever sees it.

### 2. Semantic Clustering vs. Keyword Stuffing

Modern [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) platforms like **Workday**, **Greenhouse**, and **Lever** have evolved beyond simple keyword counting. They now use **Natural Language Processing (NLP)** to identify “skill clusters.” They look for the relationship between a tool and a measurable outcome within a specific context.

- **The Goal:** Build “Value Anchors” that link your technical skills to your signature impact.
- **The Logic:** A parser assigns low weight to a generic “Skills” bank at the bottom of a page. It assigns high weight to skills embedded within your professional experience.
- **The Action:** Instead of just listing “Strategic Planning,” use: *“Orchestrated a 3-year strategic planning roadmap that recaptured 12% market share in the EMEA region.”* This proves to the machine, and the eventual human reader, that you possess both the skill and the seniority to apply it.

### 3. The Acronym Bridge: Capturing Every Search Query

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use varying search strings within the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). One [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) might search for “PMP,” while another searches for “Project Management Professional.” If your document only contains one version, you risk being filtered out of 50% of the relevant search results.

- **The Goal:** Maximize discoverability across different human search behaviors.
- **The Strategy:** Always use the format **“Full Term (Acronym)”** for degrees, certifications, and industry-specific tools.
- **The Action:** Audit your document for terms like “Master of Business Administration (MBA)” or “Search Engine Optimization (SEO).” Providing both ensures you remain in the result set regardless of the specific query used by the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/).

### 4. The Referral Priority Lane: The Final Bypass

The most effective way to “bypass” the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is to enter it through a **[Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Portal**. Most modern systems have a separate dashboard for referred candidates, often flagging them with a “High Priority” or “Internal Referral” badge that moves them to the top of the queue.

- **The Goal:** Use your network to change how the machine weights your data.
- **The Strategy:** Never apply through the “front door” (the general [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) page) if you can avoid it. Use a **Micro-Sprint** to find a peer within the organization and secure a unique [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) link.
- **The Impact:** When you apply via a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), your document is still parsed, but the “human-in-the-loop” filter is triggered significantly earlier. You are viewed as a vetted asset rather than a cold data point.

### The Bottom Line

Bypassing the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is a game of **Signal vs. Noise**. When you provide clean formatting, semantic clusters, and a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) signal, you remove the friction that causes the machine to discard your profile. You aren’t “beating” the system; you are making it impossible for the system to ignore you.

Once the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) validates your technical fit, your Onlyness—your unique perspective and demonstrated resilience—takes over.

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### [What "We'll Get Back to You" Really Means in Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-well-get-back-to-you-really-means-in-job-interviews/)

**Published:** May 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What is the significance of an interviewer saying they are still interviewing other candidates and will get back to you soon?

**Content:**

# What “We’ll Get Back to You” Really Means in Job Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [When is the Best Time to Look for a New Job? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-is-the-best-time-to-look-for-a-new-job-shorts/)

**Published:** May 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A trick question with a true answer.

**Content:**

# When is the Best Time to Look for a New Job?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

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A trick question with a true answer.

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### [Why Are They Interviewing 1 More Person After Asking for My References? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-they-interviewing-1-more-person-after-asking-for-my-references-shorts/)

**Published:** May 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why are they interviewing someone else who was referred to them after asking for my references?

**Content:**

# Why Are They Interviewing One More Person After Asking for My References?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Why are they [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) someone else who was referred to them after asking for my references?

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

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### [How Do I Overcome My Fear of Interviewing?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-i-overcome-my-fear-of-interviewing-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** May 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Fear of interviewing is a common problem for people. Arguing with the fear won't work.

**Content:**

# How Do I Overcome My Fear of Interviewing?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Fear of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is a common problem for people. Arguing with the fear won’t work but there are different things you can do that will work. Here, I discuss a few things you can do to to overcome your fear.

The question for today is how do I overcome my fear of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)?

I want to start by saying that arguing with your fear and telling it that it’s wrong, it’s crazy, it doesn’t work. You can’t argue with it.

Generally, what you’re going through his fear of the unknown, fear of what’s going to happen and being unprepared for it. As generally with this kind of fear is all about.

You just don’t know what’s can happen and you are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of what will happen… Or worse – [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of the consequences of what will happen if you fail to perform.

The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to overcome your fears by preparing to perform. What were doing is learning how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) well.

How do you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) well? There are many different ways. The way I’m recommending is by joining my site, [JobSearchCoachingHQ.com](http://www.JobSearchCoachingHQ.com). It is a great vehicle for helping people learn how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) because there are tons of questions that are asked that you can practice answering.

You see the question first, answer for yourself, listen to how I teach you how to do it, and then practice it again. And again. And again.Part of what I teach is the theater of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

So [JobSearch.Community](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ1QY5L7) is great for basic questions, advanced questions, those annoying brainteasers and a host of other questions you might be asked.

You can also work with a friend, someone who is in your field, give them a series of questions, or tell them the kind of job you are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for and destined to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you. Have them critique how they see you. Have them give you [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Go over it again. And again. And again. Until you become more masterful.

I want to be clear. I said, “more masterful.” I didn’t say perfect. Perfection takes time and with an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), the first time or two you go on a real [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you may not be perfect at it.

After all, practice DOES make perfect and you are going to need practice. So, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way, the very [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to overcome your fear is by practicing questions and answers with people’s when it comes to those magic moments you are well [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/).

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### [Human Intent, Machine Speed: The Executive Protocol for AI Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/human-intent-machine-speed-the-executive-protocol-for-ai-networking/)

**Published:** May 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Let me be direct with you. Most executives are networking wrong.

**Content:**

## Human Intent, Machine Speed: The Executive Protocol for AI Networking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Let me be direct with you. Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) wrong. They’re either blasting out generic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) messages that scream “I’m desperate,” or they’re hiding behind their résumé and hoping someone notices them. Neither works. What does work is combining your human judgment with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speed — and if you’re not doing that yet, you’re already behind.

Here’s the executive protocol for using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) in your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Follow it.

### 1. Stop Treating AI Like a Shortcut. Treat It Like a Research Department.

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That’s not a shortcut. That’s strategy.

### 2. Build Your Target List With Surgical Precision.

Random [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is a waste of your time. At the executive level, you have a finite number of hours and a finite amount of social capital. Spend it wisely.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build a structured target list. Identify the companies you want to work for. Then go deeper — identify the specific people at those companies who would either hire you or [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools can help you cross-reference industry connections, map org charts, and surface second-degree contacts you didn’t even know you had.

Eighty people on a precise, prioritized list will outperform five hundred random contacts every single time. Be deliberate about who gets your attention.

### 3. Personalize at Scale — But Never Lose the Human Touch.

Here’s where it gets interesting. You can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to draft the first version of every outreach message. Feed it the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). Tell it the tone you want. Let it generate a draft. Then rewrite it in your voice.

That last step is non-negotiable. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) writes in patterns. You have a personality, a history, and a perspective that no model can replicate. The goal is for your message to sound like you on your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) day — confident, specific, and relevant to that person.

A message that references something real about the recipient — their recent promotion, a strategy shift at their company, a talk they gave — will always outperform a polished but generic note. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) finds the hook. You throw it.

### 4. Follow Up Like a Professional, Not a Pest.

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) give up too early. One message, no response, they move on. That’s leaving serious opportunity on the table.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build a [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) cadence. Set reminders. Draft [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) messages at 7 days, 14 days, and 30 days. Each touch should add value — share a relevant article, reference something new that happened at their company, or [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a brief insight that shows you’ve been paying attention.

What you’re doing is staying top of mind without being annoying. There’s a difference between persistence and pestering. Persistence is intentional and value-driven. Pestering is just repetition. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) helps you stay consistent; your judgment keeps it classy.

### 5. Optimize Your LinkedIn Presence Before You Send a Single Message.

Nobody’s responding to your outreach if your profile doesn’t back you up. Before you launch a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) campaign, run your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile through an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool and ask it to identify gaps, weak language, and missed keyword opportunities for your target roles.

Your headline should not say “Experienced Executive Seeking New Opportunities.” That’s a red flag, not a value proposition. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help you reframe your headline, rewrite your summary, and strengthen your bullet points so that by the time someone clicks on your profile after receiving your message, they see someone worth a conversation.

Your profile is your [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Make sure it’s earning the meeting.

### 6. Track Everything. Iterate Fast.

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) without data is guesswork. Build a simple tracking system — [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help you set one up — where you log every outreach, every response, every conversation, and every [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/). Review it weekly.

Which messages are getting responses? Which companies are opening doors? Which contacts are turning into actual conversations? When you track the data, patterns emerge. You double down on what’s working and you cut what isn’t.

This is how [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) operate in every other part of their professional life. Apply the same discipline to your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

The bottom line is this: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) doesn’t replace the relationships. You still have to show up, be genuine, and earn trust. But [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) compresses the time it takes to find the right people, craft the right message, and stay consistent. That’s the edge. Use it.

Now stop reading and start reaching out.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: May 10 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-may-10-2026/)

**Published:** May 11, 2026
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# No BS Career Advice: May 10, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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*Last week, I told you a new book would be released and I would notify you when it was available on Amazon.*

*Unfortunately, there was a delay. I am hoping to have it out this week and will share a special edition when it is.*

## Human Intent, Machine Speed: The Executive Protocol for AI Networking

Let me be direct with you. Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) wrong. They’re either blasting out generic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) messages that scream “I’m desperate,” or they’re hiding behind their résumé and hoping someone notices them. Neither works. What does work is combining your human judgment with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) speed — and if you’re not doing that yet, you’re already behind.

Here’s the executive protocol for using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) in your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Follow it.

### 1. Stop Treating AI Like a Shortcut. Treat It Like a Research Department.

The first [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make is using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to mass-produce outreach. Wrong move. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and senior leaders can smell a templated message from a mile away. Instead, use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as your personal [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) team.

Before you reach out to anyone — a target [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager, a peer at a competitor, a former colleague now at a company you want — use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to learn everything about them. Their recent posts. Their company’s earnings calls. Their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) activity. Their public [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Ask [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to summarize what that person cares about professionally right now. Then write the message yourself, in your own voice, using that intelligence.

That’s not a shortcut. That’s strategy.

### 2. Build Your Target List With Surgical Precision.

Random [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is a waste of your time. At the executive level, you have a finite number of hours and a finite amount of social capital. Spend it wisely.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build a structured target list. Identify the companies you want to work for. Then go deeper — identify the specific people at those companies who would either hire you or [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools can help you cross-reference industry connections, map org charts, and surface second-degree contacts you didn’t even know you had.

Eighty people on a precise, prioritized list will outperform five hundred random contacts every single time. Be deliberate about who gets your attention.

### 3. Personalize at Scale — But Never Lose the Human Touch.

Here’s where it gets interesting. You can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to draft the first version of every outreach message. Feed it the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). Tell it the tone you want. Let it generate a draft. Then rewrite it in your voice.

That last step is non-negotiable. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) writes in patterns. You have a personality, a history, and a perspective that no model can replicate. The goal is for your message to sound like you on your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) day — confident, specific, and relevant to that person.

A message that references something real about the recipient — their recent promotion, a strategy shift at their company, a talk they gave — will always outperform a polished but generic note. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) finds the hook. You throw it.

### 4. Follow Up Like a Professional, Not a Pest.

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) give up too early. One message, no response, they move on. That’s leaving serious opportunity on the table.

Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to build a [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) cadence. Set reminders. Draft [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) messages at 7 days, 14 days, and 30 days. Each touch should add value — share a relevant article, reference something new that happened at their company, or [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a brief insight that shows you’ve been paying attention.

What you’re doing is staying top of mind without being annoying. There’s a difference between persistence and pestering. Persistence is intentional and value-driven. Pestering is just repetition. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) helps you stay consistent; your judgment keeps it classy.

### 5. Optimize Your LinkedIn Presence Before You Send a Single Message.

Nobody’s responding to your outreach if your profile doesn’t back you up. Before you launch a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) campaign, run your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile through an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool and ask it to identify gaps, weak language, and missed keyword opportunities for your target roles.

Your headline should not say “Experienced Executive Seeking New Opportunities.” That’s a red flag, not a value proposition. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help you reframe your headline, rewrite your summary, and strengthen your bullet points so that by the time someone clicks on your profile after receiving your message, they see someone worth a conversation.

Your profile is your [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Make sure it’s earning the meeting.

### 6. Track Everything. Iterate Fast.

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) without data is guesswork. Build a simple tracking system — [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help you set one up — where you log every outreach, every response, every conversation, and every [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/). Review it weekly.

Which messages are getting responses? Which companies are opening doors? Which contacts are turning into actual conversations? When you track the data, patterns emerge. You double down on what’s working and you cut what isn’t.

This is how [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) operate in every other part of their professional life. Apply the same discipline to your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

The bottom line is this: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) doesn’t replace the relationships. You still have to show up, be genuine, and earn trust. But [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) compresses the time it takes to find the right people, craft the right message, and stay consistent. That’s the edge. Use it.

Now stop reading and start reaching out.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week, I released a lot of new content including:

**Stupid [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Turning Down an Invitation**

Excerpt: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t just about what you need now; it’s about the relationships you’ve built for the future. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses a common but critical [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): declining invitations that could open doors you don’t even know exist yet.

Link: 

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**How to Get More [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): Have a Video [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)**

Excerpt: A video [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) allows you to showcase your personality and communication skills in a way a flat document never can. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how to leverage video to stand out to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and land more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Link: 

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**Indeed: Which Job Site Is Better. EP 3142**

Excerpt: Most job hunters treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and Indeed as interchangeable versions of the same thing. That’s exactly why their [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) go ignored. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the fundamental differences and how to use each platform to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

Link: 

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**[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/): Abandoning the Main Line in Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)**

Excerpt: Most professionals approach their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) like they are standing in line at an exclusive nightclub. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how to find the ‘third door’ to bypass the crowded main entrance and get the results you want.

Link: 

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**Why Doesn’t [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Rank [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? #shorts**

Excerpt: Here’s a fun question: Why does [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) not rank [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) dives into the reasons why this data isn’t publicly ranked and what it means for your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

Link: 

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**Why Was I Rejected and Then Offered the Job By My Employer?**

**Excerpt:** It’s a bizarre scenario: you’re told ‘no,’ then suddenly offered the role. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the internal corporate shifts and budget reallocations that cause this about-face.

**Link:** 

**Personal [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) SEO: Get Discovered by LLMs**

**Excerpt:** In 2026, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aren’t just searching Google; they’re asking [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Learn how to optimize your digital footprint so Large Language Models recommend you for the right roles.

**Link:** 

**Even If You’re Short on Experience, Pass the “So What” Test**

**Excerpt:** Lack of experience isn’t the dealbreaker—it’s the lack of perceived value. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shares how to frame your limited background to prove you can solve a company’s problems.

**Link:** 

**Should I Include My [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL on a CV or [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)?**

**Excerpt:** Is it a waste of space or a modern necessity? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) weighs in on when to include your social links and how to ensure your profile is ready for the click.

**Link:** 

**A Reminder When You [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) #shorts**

Excerpt: People get caught up emotionally when they [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). It is important to remember that this is a business transaction. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) reminds you to keep your cool to get the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) deal.

Link: 

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**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): May 3, 2026**

Excerpt: A curation of the latest [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) strategies, [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) tips, and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), designed to help you navigate the modern workplace.

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**A [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) Accepted My Connection Request & Hasn’t Responded Since**

Excerpt: It’s a common [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/): you reach out, they accept, and then… silence. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the reality of [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) workflows and how to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) without being a nuisance.

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**Age Proof Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): 10 Steps to Get Hired**

Excerpt: This episode breaks down 10 immediate, practical steps to modernize your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) and communication style so [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) see your value instead of your age.

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**The “Safe Job” [Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/): Is [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) Being Targeted?**

Excerpt: The idea of a ‘safe job’ is a dangerous myth in today’s economy. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses why staying in a role for safety might actually be the riskiest move you can make for your long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

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**10 [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Signal Killers**

Excerpt: [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a live data set that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use to filter for specific types of people. This post details how high-value professionals unknowingly sabotage their search through platform “signal killers.”

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**Knowing You Made a [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) #shorts**

Excerpt: Jim Collins, the author of “Good to Great,” offers a thought about the exact moment you believe you made a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and how to address it.

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**Did [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) from the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Reject You?**

Excerpt: The myth that an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) bot is silently tossing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is overstated. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down the reality of how [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) systems actually function in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process.

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**Crack Your Offer’s Code**

Excerpt: This episode breaks down the “hidden math” and 8 structural pillars corporations use to build your job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), helping you understand what is truly on the table.

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**Are [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Done by Phone Easier or Harder? #shorts**

Excerpt: Are [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) done by phone usually easier or harder? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the nuances of phone-based screening and how to prepare for success.

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**Everybody’s Lying**

Excerpt: In the world of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/), from [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) answers, there is a pervasive culture of ‘polishing’ the truth. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses how to spot the lies and find authenticity.

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**Asking for Directions**

Excerpt: Many job seekers treat their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) like a solo road trip without a map. Learning to ask for professional directions isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a shortcut to your destination.

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**A Hidden Gem to Find People to Network with on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)**

Excerpt: Most people use the same tired search filters. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) reveals a ‘hidden gem’ feature on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that uncovers high-value [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) connections most users miss.

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**5 Career-Stalling [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) Make and How to Pivot**

Excerpt: Executive [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) don’t just stop; they stall due to specific, avoidable habits. Learn the top five [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) high-level leaders make and the tactical pivots required to regain momentum.

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**[Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) Situation Summary May 8 2026**

Excerpt: A deep dive into the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) breaks down what the May 8, 2026, [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) report actually means for your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) prospects and the broader economy.

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**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): You Don’t Do the Work or Listen to [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)**

Excerpt: The two fastest ways to derail [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) trajectory are stagnation and defensiveness. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains why a lack of execution and an inability to process [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) are fatal flaws.

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While you wait for the new book, let me remind you of two others.

[**The Over 50 Professional’s Guide to Job Search Success: Proven Techniques to Overcome Age Bias, and Thrive in Today’s Job Market**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5K781V) **and** [10 Steps to Changing Careers: Break Free and Do Work You Love](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5K781V). Both are available as paperbacks, Kindle books and PDFs.

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### [A Visit to an Elephant Camp: A Reminder About Conditioning and Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-visit-to-an-elephant-camp-a-reminder-about-conditioning-and-success-career-angles-shorts/)

**Published:** May 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a short story about how elephants are kept imprisoned that I believe is a good reminder for many of us.

**Content:**

# A Visit to an Elephant Camp: A Reminder About Conditioning and Success

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/0sNdY86WZqk)

This is a short story about how elephants are kept imprisoned that I believe is a good reminder for many of us.

## ***[Debunking Myths About HR and Job Search](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-le1)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [Raise Your Hand . . . Again](https://thebiggamehunter.us/raise-your-hand-again-career-angles/)

**Published:** May 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Raise Your Hand . . . Again

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Many people, myself, as well, have written about the mind-numbing quality of the school system (for future reference, anything that refers to itself as a “system” is something to avoid). Between it’s preparation for the world of work through obedience and memorization, we also learn peer pressure in school.

When I went to school, there was clearly male gender pressure (I can’t say with certainty that it existed for girls in the same way. I don’t think it did, at least in the school I went to). You didn’t try to appear too smart and you certainly didn’t want to be publicly embarrassed for a wrong answer when asked a question by a teacher, so we stopped raising our hand to be called on.

And that carried through college and into the workforce where volunteering was looked down upon by co-workers. “Brown nosing” was the term used for someone who volunteered so much and was so “good” and put in so much effort that their nose was their nose was . . . I don’t have to be explicit about where their nose was thought to be.

Thus, I learned that being one of the guys (that included women) and “getting along” and not being so “big” or “outstanding” kept me safe from criticism. In Australia, the term, “tall poppy syndrome” refers to a tendency in Australian society to try and cut people down to size who are considered to be too successful or prominent (cutting the tall poppies down to size) because, generally, they don’t like others to do *too* well.

I know I learned that lesson much too well but now is a different time when, frankly, I believe it is important for people to buck the system and [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) their hand again. Speak up in meetings. Volunteer for assignments. Be great!

Not long ago, a man I know and love walked over to me and asked, “Why do you keep doing things to stand out? Why can’t you be one of the guys?” I answered, “I have spent much of my life doing exactly that and now, I want to be with people who will support me with being great, not going along and getting along.”

Can you pick one place to start practicing? Just one to start. When you’ve done one for a few weeks, add a second place to (metaphorically) [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) your hand and do great things. You may fail at some but don’t go back to getting along.

You will help your organization AND you a lot!

So, [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) your hand a lot! Watch how things change.

© [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc. Asheville, NC 2018, 2024

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### [Spotting Covert Racism on Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/spotting-covert-racism-on-job-interviews/)

**Published:** May 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Some of you may think a few of these are overt. For employers, there are several signals you give that show you're a loser.

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# Spotting Covert Racism on Job interviews

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### [Employment Situation Summary May 8 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employment-situation-summary-may-8-2026/)

**Published:** May 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent

**Content:**

# Employment Situation Summary May 8 2026

[**US Bureau of Labor Statistics**](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)

```
Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was
unchanged at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
occurred in health care, transportation and warehousing, and retail trade. Federal government
employment continued to decline.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
Note.

Household Survey Data

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent in April, and the number of unemployed
people changed little at 7.4 million. Both measures changed little over the year. (See table
A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult women
(3.9 percent), teenagers (14.4 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.3
percent), Asian (3.3 percent), or Hispanic (5.0 percent) showed little change in April. (See
tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of people jobless less than 5 weeks increased by 358,000 to 2.5 million in April.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially
unchanged at 1.8 million and accounted for 25.3 percent of all unemployed people. (See table
A-12.)

Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.8 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
at 59.1 percent, changed little in April. These measures edged down over the year after
accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) 

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons increased by 445,000 to 4.9
million in April. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working
part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs.
(See table A-8.)

The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.1
million in April. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
to the labor force changed little at 1.8 million in April. These individuals wanted and were
available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of
the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, was also little
changed in April at 475,000. (See Summary table A.)

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, after showing little net change
over the prior 12 months. In April, job gains occurred in health care, transportation and
warehousing, and retail trade. Federal government employment continued to decline. (See table
B-1.)

In April, health care added 37,000 jobs, in line with the average monthly gain of 32,000 over
the prior 12 months. Over the month, job gains occurred in nursing and residential care
facilities (+15,000) and home health care services (+11,000).

Transportation and warehousing employment increased by 30,000 in April, reflecting a gain in
couriers and messengers (+38,000). However, employment in transportation and warehousing is
down by 105,000 since reaching a peak in February 2025.

Retail trade added 22,000 jobs in April. Employment increased in warehouse clubs,
supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers (+18,000) and in building material and
garden equipment and supplies dealers (+13,000). These gains were partially offset by job
losses in department stores (-7,000) and in electronics and appliance retailers (-2,000).
Retail trade employment had shown little net change over the prior 12 months.

Employment in social assistance continued to trend up in April (+17,000), reflecting a gain of
24,000 jobs in individual and family services.

Federal government employment continued to decline in April (-9,000). Since reaching a peak in
October 2024, federal government employment is down by 348,000, or 11.5 percent. Federal
employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the
establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period
that included the 12th of the month.

Employment in information continued to trend down in April (-13,000). Telecommunications lost
3,000 jobs, while employment continued to trend down in motion picture and sound recording
industries (-6,000) and in computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting,
and related services (-4,000). Information employment is down by 342,000, or 11.0 percent,
since its most recent peak in November 2022.

Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; financial
activities; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.

In April, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 6
cents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.41. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.6
percent. In April, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
employees rose by 11 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $32.23. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to
34.3 hours in April. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.4
hours, and overtime was unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2
and B-7.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised down by 23,000, from
-133,000 to -156,000, and the change for March was revised up by 7,000, from +178,000 to
+185,000. With these revisions, employment in February and March combined is 16,000 lower than
previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from
businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
recalculation of seasonal factors.)

_____________
The Employment Situation for May is scheduled to be released on Friday, June 5, 2026,
at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

```

 [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)

 [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)

 [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)

 [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)

 [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)

 [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)

 [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)

 [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)

 [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)

 [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)

 [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)

 [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)

 [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)

 [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)

 [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)

 [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)

 [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)

 [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)

 [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

 [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)

 [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)

 [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)

 [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)

 [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)

 [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)

 [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)

 [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)

 [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)

 [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)

 [HTML version of the entire news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm)

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### [Land a New Job Without Ads or Recruiters: 10 Easy Tactics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/land-a-new-job-without-ads-or-recruiters-10-easy-tactics/)

**Published:** May 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Land a New Job Without Ads or Recruiters: 10 Easy Tactics

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most information workers in the US get hired through conversations, not “Apply” buttons. If you’re willing to be a little braver and a lot more intentional, you can land a new job without ever responding to a posting or talking to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/). Here are 10 practical ways to do it—and what to do if none of them work.

## 1. Ask your existing network directly

[Referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) are still the fastest, lowest‑risk way most companies hire. Start with people who already know and (ideally) like you: former colleagues, managers, clients, vendors, classmates.

Be specific: “I’m targeting senior product roles in B2B SaaS—do you know anyone leading teams in that space I should talk to?” Vague requests like “keep me in mind” rarely produce anything.

## 2. Run a structured LinkedIn outreach campaign

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is the backbone of [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) for information workers. Instead of scrolling and lurking, build a list of target companies, then:

- Find [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers, peers, and cross‑functional partners
- Send short, human connection notes (“I like what you shared about X…”)
- After connecting, ask for a quick conversation, not a job

You’re playing the long game: [be visible](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/), relevant, and easy to remember when something opens.

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## 3. Use informational interviews as your main tool

Informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) work because they lower the stakes for the other person and [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) the quality of the conversation for you.

Ask for 15–20 minutes to learn about:

- How they got into their role
- What’s changing in their organization or industry
- What they’d look for if they were [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) your role

You’re not begging for a job; you’re collecting intel and planting seeds. A meaningful minority of these conversations eventually lead to direct introductions and unposted roles.

## 4. Target alumni networks

Alumni networks are underrated and usually underused. People are more willing to help someone who shares a school, bootcamp, or program with them.

Use LinkedIn’s alumni tools or your school’s platform to:

- Filter by location, industry, and function
- Reach out with, “As a fellow \[school\] alum exploring X, I’d love your insight on…”

Again, you’re building relationships that can surface roles before they ever go public.

## 5. Show your work in public

For information workers, your [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) is no longer just a designer or engineer thing; it’s your proof. Posting thoughtful content can pull opportunities toward you.

Depending on your function, that might look like:

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- A GitHub repo or small side project for engineers
- Case studies on your personal site for PMs, marketers, analysts

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) managers watch who consistently contributes value. You want to be top‑of‑mind when they think, “We really should hire someone for this.”

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## 6. Tap professional associations and meetups

Industry groups, Slack/Discord communities, and meetups are often where people talk about [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) needs *before* HR gets involved.chenected.

Don’t just join—participate:

- Ask smart questions
- [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) help when others are stuck
- Let people know what you’re exploring

Backchannel conversations like “We might need someone like you soon, let’s talk” happen there a lot more than you think.

## 7. Go direct to hiring managers at target companies

You can absolutely bypass postings by going straight to the people who own the problems you solve.

Steps:

1. Identify 20–40 target companies.
2. Find the leader who would likely manage your role.
3. Send a concise note along the lines of:

    - “If you ever need someone who’s done X, Y, Z, I’d love to be on your radar.”

You’re not asking them to invent a job for you; you’re positioning yourself as a low‑friction solution when the need becomes acute.

## 8. Offer project‑based or fractional help

Some organizations aren’t ready to open a full‑time req but *are* willing to pay for a project, pilot, or [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) engagement first.

If you’re comfortable with it, you can:

- Propose a time‑boxed project that solves a real problem
- [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a clear deliverable, timeline, and outcome

Those projects often turn into “We should just keep you” conversations, or they become strong proof in your [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

## 9. Volunteer your skills strategically

This isn’t “work for free forever;” it’s about carefully chosen, time‑bound contributions where you can demonstrate value and expand your network.

Consider:

- Nonprofits that need analytics, marketing, IT, or operations help
- Early‑stage startups that could use a bit of structure or process

Be explicit about scope and time. You’re there to help and to create real stories you can tell about recent work in your field.

## 10. Leverage conferences and events like a hunter, not a tourist

Conferences, virtual summits, and niche events compress hundreds of relevant people into a few days.

Before you go:

- Identify 10–15 people you’d like to meet
- Reach out in advance to schedule quick coffees or video chats
- [Follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) afterward with context (“We talked about your roadmap for X…”)

Most people drift through these events; if you’re intentional, you can walk away with real leads and warm relationships.

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## If none of this works: what then?

If you’ve genuinely tried these routes for a few months and you’re still not getting traction, you don’t “try harder” at the same things; you change the problem you’re solving.

Here’s what to do:

1. **Audit the fundamentals**
    Make sure your résumé, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) stories clearly align with a *specific* type of role. If your positioning is fuzzy—too many titles, industries, or messages—you’ll be forgettable and hard to place, no matter how much [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) you do.
2. **Tighten your target**
    Sometimes people are “open to anything in tech/finance/marketing.” That’s not a target. Pick one role, in one or two industries, at a couple of company sizes. It’s easier for others to help you when you’re crystal clear about what you want.
3. **Get external [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)**
    Don’t guess. Ask a few people who hire in your space—or a coach—to look at how you present yourself and tell you where the disconnect is. Often the issue isn’t your background; it’s how you’re telling the story.
4. **Use postings and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) strategically—not as your only path**
    If the above methods aren’t working yet, then yes, layer in selective [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) relationships. Use them as additional channels, not your entire strategy. Your odds go up when you attack the market from multiple angles.

Finding work as an information worker in the US without ads or [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is absolutely possible—but it requires you to act like a proactive professional, not a passive applicant. You build relationships, show your work, and make it easy for decision‑makers to see where you fit. The more intentional you are about that, the less you’ll need to rely on “Apply” and hope.

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### [What Do You Tell A Soon-to-Be Grad About the Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-you-tell-a-soon-to-be-grad-about-the-job-market/)

**Published:** May 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What Do You Tell A Soon-to-Be Grad About the Job Market

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I’d tell students this: don’t panic, but don’t be passive either. Yes, [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) feels tough right now. Yes, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is changing how companies hire. And yes, a lot of entry-level [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) are getting more competitive. But that does not mean you’re doomed. It means you need a smarter approach than the one people used a few years ago.

The old idea was simple: graduate, apply online, wait for responses, and hope for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). That approach is much weaker now. A lot of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) is filtered, automated, or slowed down. So if you only apply and wait, you may end up frustrated. You need to do more than that.

What helps now is showing proof that you can do useful work. That could be internships, school projects, volunteer work, part-time [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/), freelance work, or even a strong [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) want people who can solve problems, learn quickly, and communicate clearly. A degree matters, but it is no longer enough by itself.

You also need to use your network. That does not mean being fake or pushy. It means talking to people, asking good questions, and letting people know what kind of role you want. A lot of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) never get filled through open [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) alone. They get filled because someone knew someone who seemed reliable and ready.

And yes, learn to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Not because it replaces you, but because it makes you more effective. If you can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), draft, organize, brainstorm, or prepare faster than other candidates, that gives you an edge. The people who will do [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) are not the ones who fear [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) the most. They are the ones who learn how to work with it.

The biggest thing I’d say is this: don’t let the noise talk you out of your future. Every generation graduates into some kind of mess. This one just happens to include [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), automation, and a lot of [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). That is real. But so is opportunity. If you stay focused, build skills, make connections, and keep moving, you can absolutely find your way in.

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### [Own Your Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/own-your-onlyness/)

**Published:** May 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** IMO, trying to prove you're the best is the wrong game to play.

**Content:**

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IMO, trying to prove you’re the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is the wrong game to play. 

It puts you into a realm where subjectivity affects people’s thinking about you. 

It makes it a hard game to win. 

If you compete to be the only, you are now in a different arena. 

It is worth competing to be the only.

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### [Photos on a Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/photos-on-a-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** May 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** From time to time, I see pictures of people on their resume.

**Content:**

# Photos on a Resume

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/LYp3mYsBZpA)

From time to time, I see pictures of people on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

***[Asking for Directions](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-1Ul)***

Don’t put your picture on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). There is always going to be some person who isn’t going to like it, who’s going to make fun of something about your appearance, your hair, your clothes, whatever. Don’t make it easy for them.

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### [Is This Why Recruiters Ignore Your LinkedIn Profile?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-this-the-reason-recruiters-ignore-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** May 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:**  This is a classic mistake people make that prevents them from being contacted.

**Content:**

# Is This Why Recruiters Ignore Your LinkedIn Profile?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/kd9M4WJcjF8)

This is a classic [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make that prevents them from being contacted.

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things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

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### [Asking for Directions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/asking-for-directions/)

**Published:** May 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One of the great stereotypes of the 20th century was that men don’t ask for directions when they are lost.

**Content:**

# Asking for Directions

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

One of the great stereotypes of the 20th century was that men don’t ask for directions when they are lost. How many arguments occurred in the car between a couple, trying to figure out where the next turn was, and he was not willing to pull into a gas station to ask the attendant?

It must’ve been a woman who came up with the idea for GPS, if not, certainly the GPS app on a mobile phone. How many relationships were saved with those inventions?

Difficulty [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/) is not unique to men. Women have the same problem, too. The fact is, both genders seem to find it preferable to figure things out on their own without help or assistance, even though it is harder, takes longer, and is often met with failures along the way.

We all know that [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-love-hate-relationship-with-asking-for-help/) from someone who actually knows what they are talking about is a useful, though underutilized shortcut. Why is it so damn hard to ask for help?

Great athletes will have coaches, whether they are on a team or individual sports. We all know that Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player of his era, if not of all time. But we forget that it took many years until he won his 1st championship. It took a special coach who could see his greatness and persuade him that he needed to play less and do it within a system in order to be a champion. After leading Jordan, Pippin, and the Bulls to 6 NBA titles, Phil Jackson moved on to the Los Angeles Lakers where he led Kobe Bryant to 5 NBA rings. A great coach made a difference.

[Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) doesn’t only work in sports. It is effective in the entertainment field and in business, as well. If I said the name Seth Riggs to you, most of you who read this would probably go, “Who?” I’m sure you would know a few of the people that he coached:

Michael Jackson

Ray Charles

Barbra Streisand

Madonna

Stevie Wonder

What did these men and women know that most of us struggle with?

They know that having an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) coach to advise them will help them achieve excellence. They know that having an outside set of eyes (and ears) conditioned to look for excellence can propel them further than figuring it out on their own.

I know doing [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) on the web and other places is where I fell short when I was trying to lose weight. I kept trying to follow one diet or another over the course of 2 years yet all that was happening was that I would lose no more than 5 pounds before it would start to reappear on my body. It was incredibly frustrating to wake up one day and see myself way more than I ever had in my life.

One day, I decided to take the advice I give to others and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach. Between diet and hard exercise, I have lost 30 pounds and feel fabulous. I couldn’t figure it out without her plus her experience allowed me to “outsource” my thinking to her and trust that I would get results.

Whether you are [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), having trouble [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) staff, having business problems that you cannot figure out, or struggling with personal relationship problems, good [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) can make a difference.

Yes, you will spend some money, but isn’t it worth it to you to get some help in an area where your expertise is, shall we say, imperfect?

Find and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach to help you achieve your goals and be the woman or man you want to be.

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### [Career Mistakes: You Don't Do the Work or Listen to Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-mistakes-you-dont-do-the-work-or-listen-to-feedback/)

**Published:** May 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Career Mistakes: You Don’t Do the Work or Listen to Feedback

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Here are two more [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when managing their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) – – you don’t do the work or listen to [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people and organizations to help them be much more effective and today I thought I would address actually two career [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people make much too often that prove damaging and it doesn’t really matter where you are in the cycle of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). The first one is one of the most profound ones that people make and it’s the idea of not doing the work.

They think they’re working hard. They think they’re putting in an effort but they’re really working at 60 or 70 percent capacity. As a result, you’re not really developing the effort muscle.

You’re not really trying hard to deliver the goods, to be effective, to get results for what you’re trying to do and as a result, people notice this kind of thing like I remember years ago being in a workshop where someone was describing their circumstances as, you know, I work hard half the time and when explored it and the conclusion was so you’re a 50 kind of guy, right? And that’s really what a lot of you are. You’re doing 60 percent effort, 70 percent effort, maybe 80 but the thing that makes the difference between a great athlete and a sensational champion is often 100 effort. I’m not going to go to 110.

You can’t do that. But the notion that you’re putting in 70 effort and expecting to get heavy results from your organization over the next organization is ludicrous and with that comes the notion that I think goes in tandem with that is not taking [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) is often how others see you and whether you agree with it or not, recognize how others see you.

I know it’s hard but if you’re not seen well maybe there’s something there for you maybe they’re wrong and maybe it’s time to look elsewhere but more importantly think about it for a while see if there’s validity to it ask others for input as well and it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be right either but you need to hear how you’re being seen and viewed because ultimately this is the perception that or the press that you have within your organization especially from senior people when all is said and done career development requires knowledge and effort and a whole host of things but the big one is learning as you develop if you don’t learn through the [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) that you receive how are you going to move forward ultimately you have to learn these lessons about how others see your effort learn from the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that you make rather than trying to cover them up so that you can move forward hope you find this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). If you’re interested in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), you can connect with me on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com forward slash i n forward slash TheBigGameHunter.

Once we’re connected, message that you’re interested in [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). We’ll set up time for a free discovery call and if you’re watching this on youtube see that little icon down there click on it and subscribe to my channel you’ll get notices whenever i release a new video. Also, visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us. I’ve got thousands of blog entries that you can watch, listen to or read that will help you find work more quickly.

Have a great day and take care

Put your mobile number there, please. Don’t put a home number where you’re going to wait until you get home from work that night, forget to check messages, wait another day, and then get pissed off at the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who are in your inbox and they’ve called once or maybe twice because you haven’t gotten back to them. And it’s your [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), but you’re pissed at them.

Just put the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). You can say, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, embed it, make it a live link. Embed the URL in whatever text you write on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), so people can find you quickly.

After all, the things that you do to inspire [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) by being smart about your presentation seem small, but they build on themselves like blocks or bricks in a building and suddenly have a very firm structure there. And firms love to see things. They’d love to talk to people who inspire [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

They don’t like to hesitate because when they hesitate, you know, they pause for a second and normally go on to something else. So, just make it easy. Put your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL underneath your name, city, state, zip code.

Zip code, in particular, is important. Phone number that you want to be called at. Check your phone messages if it’s on your mobile when you go to lunch or before the end of your workday.

Respond to messages. You know, when you get them, don’t wait until you get home to write a message back with your time and availability. Just call.

It’ll take you 15-20 minutes tops to have a quick chat with someone about your background. And I’ll simply say, just do it. It will serve you well.

It doesn’t take a lot of effort. Hope you found this helpful and have a great day.

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### [A Hidden Gem to Find People to Network with on LinkedIn #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-hidden-gem-to-find-people-to-network-with-on-linkedin-shorts/)

**Published:** May 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Everyone wonders how they can find someone at a firm they want to interview with to refer them or introduce them to a hiring manager.

**Content:**

# A Hidden Gem to Find People to Network with on LinkedIn #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/HTExMN2ORyg)

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [Everybody’s Lying #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/everybodys-lying-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** May 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One of the basic truths of job hunting is that everybody's lying.

**Content:**

# Everybody’s Lying

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/28uwbL0l4QY)

One of the basic truths of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is that everybody’s lying.

***[Six Questions To Ask In The Interview To Avoid Any Surprises Your First Day On The Job](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9vW)***

Looking for a job? Everybody’s lying.

After all you’re lying about how much you really know, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who scheduled the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is lying about the job, and they’re lying to the employer.

And you know what? [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers are lying, too. After all, someone got [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) from that job, someone quit that job, and they’re telling you what a great opportunity it is. It’s a terrific team of people. Have I mentioned we’re like family around here?

Of course! They’re lying to you!

So just remember, everyone’s posturing. Everyone’s trying to look good. Everyone’s trying to finesse the situation. You, them, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). They’re lying? They’re really lying? You think they’re lying to me?

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3000 episodes over 14+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

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### [Should I Include My LinkedIn URL on a CV or Resume?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-include-my-linkedin-url-on-a-cv-or-resume-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio-2/)

**Published:** May 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** As usual, "Yes," but . . . 

**Content:**

# Should I Include My LinkedIn URL on a CV or Resume?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

As usual, “Yes,” but . . .

Good morning, it’s [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And the question for today is, tell me, tell me, what’s the question? Should I include my [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL on my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or CV? Now, every time I answer a question, it seems like I’m answering yes, but. But if it fits, I’m going to say it.

Yes, but. Here’s the thing. First of all, let me say that, yes, I think firms are going to check your background, regardless.

They’re looking for congruence between what you say on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and what’s on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Why do they do this? Because people lie. They exaggerate one component of their background and minimize others.

And suddenly, you discover that this programmer . . . I’m using programmer as an example, who’s [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) doing Java development, has been doing primarily C sharp or worse C programming for most of their career. In the last six months, they’ve been working in Java, and it shows on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Again, an exaggerated example, but it is some of the things that you find here.

You find dates that are different on the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile from what’s on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). How stupid can you be? So, understand that if you’re going to put a URL, as you should, because it makes it more convenient for people, because they’re going to look for you anyway, and better that they find you easily than someone else who looks or acts like you, or has a similar background to you, and rejects the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) because their background just seems weird to them and they’re confused. After all, trust me, I’ve only done this for 40 some odd years.

There are people with identical names working for the same large firm. And suddenly, you discover something incongruent about the wrong person’s background. So just make it easy for them.

You can put the link on not as the full link, but underneath your name, city, state, zip code, you don’t have to put the address just city, state, zip code. I’ve covered that in other videos. Phone number where you want to be called.

Put your mobile number there, please. Don’t put a home number where you’re going to wait until you get home from work that night, forget to check messages, wait another day, and then get pissed off at the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who are in your inbox and they’ve called once or maybe twice because you haven’t gotten back to them. And it’s your [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), but you’re pissed at them.

Just put the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). You can say, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, embed it, make it a live link. Embed the URL in whatever text you write on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), so people can find you quickly.

After all, the things that you do to inspire [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) by being smart about your presentation seem small, but they build on themselves like blocks or bricks in a building and suddenly have a very firm structure there. And firms love to see things. They’d love to talk to people who inspire [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

They don’t like to hesitate because when they hesitate, you know, they pause for a second and normally go on to something else. So, just make it easy. Put your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) URL underneath your name, city, state, zip code.

Zip code, in particular, is important. Phone number that you want to be called at. Check your phone messages if it’s on your mobile when you go to lunch or before the end of your workday.

Respond to messages. You know, when you get them, don’t wait until you get home to write a message back with your time and availability. Just call.

It’ll take you 15-20 minutes tops to have a quick chat with someone about your background. And I’ll simply say, just do it. It will serve you well.

It doesn’t take a lot of effort. Hope you found this helpful and have a great day.

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### [Even If You’re Short on Experience #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/even-if-youre-short-on-experience-shorts/)

**Published:** May 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:**  @jessicaholbrookhernandez3502  offered this advice for less experienced people as a reminder of what you can do.

**Content:**

# Even If You’re Short on Experience #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/pon9Xty_dBg)

[ @jessicaholbrookhernandez3502 ](https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCjjvoJT6DTdKoXvtFkHfoHg) offered this advice for less experienced people as a reminder of what you can do.

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### [Why Was I Rejected and Then Offered the Job By My Employer?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-was-i-rejected-and-then-offered-the-job-by-my-employer/)

**Published:** May 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Should I go ahead and apply again or tell them that I applied with the company before but was rejected immediately?

**Content:**

# Why Did My Employer Reject Me for a Job & Then Call Me a Few Weeks Later Offering It to Me? \#shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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If a company rejected me when I directly applied but after a few months an [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) agency calls me for the same role, should I go ahead and apply again or tell them that I applied with the company before but was rejected immediately?

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### [5 Career-Stalling Mistakes Executives Make and How to Pivot](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-career-stalling-mistakes-executives-make-and-how-to-pivot/)

**Published:** May 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For a high-level leader, the primary danger in a job search isn't a lack of experience; it’s the reliance on a playbook that is ten years out of date.

**Content:**

# 5 Career-Stalling Mistakes Executives Make and How to Pivot

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

For a high-level leader, the primary danger in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) isn’t a lack of experience; it’s the reliance on a playbook that is ten years out of date. Executive roles are not “filled”; they are “awarded” to the person who represents the lowest risk and the highest strategic upside. When a leader approaches the market with an employee mindset, they inadvertently signal that they have reached their ceiling.

To maintain your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** and command the room, you must avoid these five common structural errors.

### 1. Treating the Resume as a Biography

Many [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) produce a six-page chronological “history of everything.” This forces the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) to do the heavy lifting of figuring out your relevance. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a list of duties rather than a record of **Capital Allocation and ROI**, you are being viewed as a manager, not an operator.

- **The Fix:** Move to a **Thesis-Driven [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)**. The first half-page should establish your “Investment Thesis”—why [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) you is a sound financial and strategic decision.
- **The Action:** Every bullet point must answer: *“How did this move the needle on EBITDA, market share, or enterprise value?”* If it doesn’t have a metric, it’s fluff.

### 2. Over-Reliance on “The Big Search” Firms

Many leaders assume that sending their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to a “Big Five” [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) (like Korn Ferry or Spencer Stuart) is a completed strategy. In reality, these firms work for the client, not you. You are simply a data point in their database until a specific search fits your exact profile.

- **The Fix:** Cultivate the **Boutique and PortCo Relationship**. Focus on boutique firms that specialize in your specific niche or the Operating Partners within Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firms.
- **The Action:** Use a **Micro-Sprint** to identify the Operating Partners at the top 10 PE firms investing in your sector. They are the ones tasked with finding “Turnaround Operators” for their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies.

### 3. The “Generalist” Identity Crisis

In an attempt to be “flexible,” [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) often present themselves as “Global Leaders” who can do “anything.” In a high-stakes search, “anything” is synonymous with “nothing specific.” The market pays a premium for the **Surgical Strike**, not the general practitioner.

- **The Fix:** Double down on your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Intersection**. Are you the “SaaS Scale-up specialist for EMEA” or the “Post-Merger Integration [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) for Manufacturing”?
- **The Action:** Scrub your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) of “General Excellence” buzzwords. Replace them with specific, high-resolution industry friction points you solve.

### 4. Failing the “Digital Turing Test”

If an executive has a dormant [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and an outdated headshot, they signal a lack of digital fluency. In 2026, a leader who cannot navigate the digital town square is viewed as a liability to the company’s modern [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) and culture.

- **The Fix:** Curate an **Authority Signal**. You don’t need to be an “influencer,” but you must be an “expert participant.”
- **The Action:** Spend 15 minutes a day leaving high-level, contrarian, or additive comments on posts from industry thought leaders. This ensures that when a board member Googles you, they see a leader engaged with the future, not a relic of the past.

### 5. Defensive Interviewing (The “Interviewee” Trap)

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) wait for questions and then answer them. This is the behavior of a candidate, not a peer. If you are defending your background for 60 minutes, you have failed to take control of the strategic narrative.

- **The Fix:** Shift to the **Consultative Defense**. Approach the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) as a working session to solve the company’s problems.
- **The Action:** Lead with a **Diagnostic Question**. *“I’ve analyzed your Q3 report; it seems the 4% margin compression is coming from \[X\]. Is that where you want me to focus my first 90 days, or is there a deeper structural issue we haven’t discussed?”*

### The Bottom Line

The [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) is a test of your ability to lead. If your search is disorganized, generic, or passive, the market assumes your leadership will be too. By pivoting from a “Job Seeker” to an “Operational Asset,” you bypass the friction and move directly into the high-value conversations that define [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

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### [There Are A Lot of People Who Are Competent #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-are-competent-shorts/)

**Published:** April 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I’ve interviewed hundreds of thousands of people. What I’m telling you when this video is absolutely true. The are a lot of people who are competent.

**Content:**

# There Are A Lot of People Who Are Competent #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/-qC9Lu7ji-I)

I’ve interviewed hundreds of thousands of people. What I’m telling you when this video is absolutely true.

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### [Crack Your Offer's Code](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack-your-offers-code/)

**Published:** May 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the "hidden math" and 8 structural pillars corporations use to build your offer.

**Content:**

# Crack Your Offer’s Code

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3145 Most people sabotage their negotiation by reacting with emotion instead of logic the second a number is mentioned. This episode breaks down the “hidden math” and 8 structural pillars corporations use to build your [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), giving you the blueprint to counter-offer with precision. Stop guessing what you’re worth and start negotiating against the actual constraints of the machine.

Welcome to No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. Episode, episode number 3145. You get the call.

The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) says you got the job. For about five seconds, you feel pure elation. Then they read you the proposed [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and the excitement vanishes, instantly replaced by the [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) of evaluating the number.

The most common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) candidates make happens right here. In that split second, they either accept the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) purely out of relief, or they immediately push back because a superficial internet search told them they should be making more. That [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) did not come out of thin air.

It is the highly calibrated output of a rigid corporate machine. To [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) successfully, you have to suppress your emotional reaction. Your first job is to reverse engineer their hidden math.

Every compensation package is built on an architectural framework. Companies rely on eight distinct pillars to construct their initial [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). First, they lay down the external baselines.

They benchmark the market rate to see what competitors pay for similar roles, and then they adjust that floor based on the cost of living in your specific geographic location. Next come the rigid internal constraints. Each department is allocated a strict budget by leadership.

They also have to maintain internal alignment. If they pay you significantly more than a current employee doing the exact same work, they create a massive retention issue. The upper levels are all about you.

They factor in your specific background and the role’s overall value to achieving business goals. If the position has clear advancement opportunities, they may intentionally start your base pay on the lower end to leave room for your growth potential. Finally, the roof has a built-in expansion joint.

This is the negotiation range. Many companies intentionally budget three to five percent above their initial [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), fully expecting you to counter. Identifying which of these structural pillars is dragging your number down dictates your entire negotiation strategy.

Before you present a counter [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), you have to investigate the context. If you don’t know how they built the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), you don’t know what you’re negotiating against. You need to extract their hidden constraints safely.

This requires a completely neutral, non-confrontational tone. You are simply seeking information. Ask them directly, but softly.

The [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is close to my expectations. Just so I understand, how was the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) determined for this role? Then isolate how they weighed your personal experience. Say, I appreciate the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

I’d love to hear a little more about how my qualifications specifically contributed to reaching this compensation level. Listen closely to their explanation without judgment. Executing this intelligence gathering phase narrows the information gap.

You are no longer guessing what they value. You are identifying the specific levers available for your counter [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Your evaluation must extend beyond the base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

You need to map out the entire total rewards package. Ask for the specific timeline for [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) reviews and increases. Figure out how bonus structures and [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) factor in, and see if they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) benefits like paid relocation or a signing bonus.

When you finally ask if they can be a little flexible with the starting [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), follow a strict rule. You must be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to answer with a definitive number that will make you say yes without making them say no. But as you ask these questions, stop focusing on the numbers for a moment.

Analyze the human reaction across the table. You are looking for the tell. Notice how they respond to being questioned.

Are they providing helpful context, or are they exhibiting subtle physical signals of impatience and hidden hostility? The way a company reacts to these questions serves as a preview of the working relationship. If they respond to a request for transparency with impatience or hostility, you have evidence of a potential cultural mismatch before you ever sign the contract. Thanks for tuning in to No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [Why Your "Master Resume" Is Killing Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-master-resume-is-killing-your-job-search/)

**Published:** May 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3134 Learn how to weaponize AI and strategic keyword placement to force your application to the top of the stack and secure the interview.

**Content:**

# Why Your “Master Resume” Is Killing Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3134 Stop sending generic [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) into the digital abyss. If you aren’t tailoring your experience to the specific demands of the job post, you’re invisible to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Learn how to weaponize [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and strategic keyword placement to force your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to the top of the stack and secure the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/).

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You spend hours drafting a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), hit submit, and nothing. Your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) falls into the void, disappearing alongside hundreds of others. We are going to fix that.

Today, we will stop sending out generic master [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and instead build a targeted, keyword-optimized document that demands attention. Step one is gathering your materials. You need four things ready right now.

Your current master [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), a target job description, access to an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) chat tool, and your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. A standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) often acts like a megaphone, broadcast to anyone who will listen. A targeted [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) asks a specific question, how can I solve your company’s problem? Effective [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) function as marketing tools designed to answer a single employer’s needs.

Let’s start with keywords. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are not searching their databases for vague soft skills like team player or well-spoken. They are searching for functional, job-specific hard keywords.

Open that target job description. We need to extract the exact job titles and technical requirements the employer is asking for. This split-screen diagram shows exactly how to do this.

Read the posting on the left and highlight the functional skills they need, like contract negotiation. Now bring that exact language over to your document, replacing empty fluff words with those functional skills. Next, look at your work experience section.

A [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) full of every responsibility you have ever held distracts the reader from your actual qualifications. Aggressively cut any duty from your past [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that is not applicable to this new position. If it does not serve the exact demands of the target role, cross it out.

By intentionally removing those irrelevant details, you focus the employer’s attention exactly where it needs to be, on your most applicable qualifications. Now that we have a pruned list of relevant responsibilities, we need to convert them into value-added accomplishments. We can use an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) chat tool to speed up this process.

Before you do anything else, remove all your personal contact information from the document. Never feed your private data into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool. Once your document is scrubbed clean, copy your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the target job description and paste them both into your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tool.

This chat interface shows the exact prompt you need to use. Type, tailor my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) achievements to match the demands of this specific job description. When the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) generates the revised bullets, you must read through them carefully.

Verify that every modified achievement is factually accurate before you cobble it over to your final [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) translates your actual background into the specific language this employer values. Let’s move to the very top of your document.

This is where your opening statement sits, and its strategic purpose is to grab the reader’s attention immediately. Look at this comparison. An outdated objective tells the company what you expect from them.

A modern opening summary sells your attributes pertaining to the role, like fund accountant with five years experience streamlining profit and loss management. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) look for an introductory statement that fits exactly what they are trying to find. You must respond directly to their needs to persuade them you are qualified and tempt them to keep reading.

Directly below that opening summary, add a dedicated primary knowledge or skills section. Populate this new section exclusively with those industry-specific hard keywords we extracted from the job description back in step one. This architectural wireframe illustrates how your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) should be built.

By slotting these keywords into the top third of the page, you ensure your document passes the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). An [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the software [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use to scan, sort, and rank candidate [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) based on specific search terms. The top third of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) acts as a gatekeeper.

If you do not instantly prove your value and pass the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) filters up front, detailed accomplishments lower down the page will never [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/). Now that your local document is optimized, we have to look at your public digital footprint, specifically your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Take the tailored information from your new document and update your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline, your About section, and your most recent experience.

This scanning graphic shows the process from a recruiter’s perspective. When a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager receives your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), they perform a congruence check by cross-referencing your document with your public profile, looking for matches between your dates, titles, and skills. Let’s review what you have accomplished.

You started with a list of past duties and systematically translated it into an ATS-friendly marketing package. Ensuring that your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and your digital profile tell the same story bridges the gap between shouting into the void and securing an actual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). For further [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), video courses, and resources to help you step into your next role, head over to[ jobsearch.community](http://jobsearch.community).

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### [Career Suicide](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-suicide/)

**Published:** May 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Let's talk about the job hunter relationship with recruiters and how not to commit career suicide.

**Content:**

# Career Suicide

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

Let’s talk about the job hunter relationship with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

I will preface this all by saying not every [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is capable.

Not every [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is experienced.

As a matter of fact some of them lie and are incompetent.

Be that as it may, let’s also talk about job hunters.

[***Job Search Mistakes– Only Relying on Recruiters***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-rD)

In the recruiting business, there are a couple of basic jokes that we tell.![student ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/student-pexels-kampus-production-5940861-200x300.jpg)

The first joke that we tell new [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is, “How can you tell a job applicant is lying to you,” and the answer is “Their lips are moving.”

The next joke is “How can you tell an institutional customer is lying to you? The answer is, “Their lips are moving.”

The third one is “How can you tell a recruiter’s lying to you?” The answer is, “Their lips are moving.”

It’s not that everyone is actually lying; everyone is posturing for advantage—you, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the employer– everyone is trying to get the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) deal possible.

However, let’s talk with you about stupid thing that job applicants sometimes do.

Let me tell you a story from my time doing recruiting.

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There’s a person I worked with who’s is a very experienced guy in IT. He was out of work for five months when I met him.

I didn’t understand why until I started working with him.

He would say one thing to me and say something different to my client.

I had relationships with the firms I recruited for; I’d worked with them for years; they trusted me. With one of the firms, I’d work with them since they were half 1 billion in size and now they do close to $12 billion in revenue.

Obviously, I go back with them a long time and have worked with this practice for many years.

I asked the job hunter a simple question.

“Would you accept less than what you’re making now?”

He said, “Yeah, I guess so.”

“How much less?”

He told me.

I spoke with my client; they were unwilling to pay what he was previously earning; they just didn’t see the value in it.

The number he now quoted to me was now something they found acceptable.

So I scheduled an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for him.

He talks to my client; they ask him how much will you accept?

He started with the original [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Wrong. You don’t do that.

The impact of that was they come to me; they asked me about it and I told them about my conversation with him. They, in turn, respond by saying, “No. We want to verify that;” So they call him a second time and ask the question again.

He stated the same high number and they said, “We’re not interested.”

That’s the impact of your deception.

You say one thing to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and then you say something different to the client.

You think you can [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) at the end but can’t.

You have to at least make them fall in love first because, as I say to people all the time, “No love? No money. No honey.”

You can say things like, “I was making such and such and am flexible. I prefer not to be flexible but if it’s necessary to get a good job with an organization I respect and admire, I’ll take a few dollars less.”

But when you say one thing to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and something different to a client, understand the company and the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) have a lengthy relationship with one another.

They know you’re lying.

They know you’re blowing smoke at them and they won’t tolerate it.

They start asking themselves pretty quickly “What else is s/he lying about? Where else are they are they going to give me a headache that I don’t really need to have?”

“We don’t really care because we are looking for someone who’s honest and forthright, not someone who’s going to, shall we say, ‘finesse us all the time.”

Be honest about things.

If you say something to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) stick with it. If not, explain why you changed your mind.

With the screener, stick to the original script until you get to the real decionmaker. After you’ve won them over, then you might be able to get them to improve the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). If you do it with the screer, they have no power to say yes. They have the power to reject your candidacy but not [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Are Job Interviews Done by Phone Easier or Harder? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-job-interviews-done-by-phone-easier-or-harder-shorts/)

**Published:** May 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Are job interviews done by phone usually easier or harder?

**Content:**

# Are Job Interviews Done by Phone Easier or Harder? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/VKxks_0XawI)

Are [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) done by phone usually easier or harder?

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### [No BS Career Advice: May 3, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-may-3-2026/)

**Published:** May 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: May 3, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![Don't be a candidate Gemini_Generated_Image_zav3jgzav3jgzav3](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dont-be-a-candidate-Gemini_Generated_Image_zav3jgzav3jgzav3.png)

## ***I’m going to be releasing a new book this week on Amazon for $.99 for those you who have not looked for work in a long time. When it is available, I will let you know through this channel.***

## 10 LinkedIn Signal Killers

### How High-Value Professionals Sabotage Their Search

In the attention economy, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is either a high-resolution signal of your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** or it is digital white noise. For an information professional, the platform is often treated as a static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) repository. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the platform’s current logic. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a live data set that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use to filter for specific types of **people**, specifically, those who represent a solution to a strategic problem their (internal) client has.

If you are currently looking for work, you are probably committing at least three of these tactical errors. These are not just “aesthetic” issues; they are signal killers that tell the algorithm and the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) that you are a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/), not an asset.

### 1. The “Open to Work” Scarcity Signal

While well-intentioned, the green “Open to Work” photo frame often triggers a subconscious “scarcity” bias. High-value **people** are usually perceived as being in high demand. By broadcasting availability to the entire network, you inadvertently signal that the market hasn’t already claimed you.

- **The Fix:** Set your “Open to Work” preferences to **“Recruiters Only.”** This keeps the signal invisible to your current employer and peers while appearing in the backend search results where it actually matters.

### 2. The Passive Headline

If your headline is just your current or former job title, you are wasting the most valuable real estate on your profile. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) searching for a “Marketing Director” will find 50,000 results.

- **The Fix:** Move from a title to a **value proposition**. Use: *\[Title\] | \[Specific Quantitative Result\] | \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Specialty\].* This ensures that when a **person** scrolls through a list of names, yours provides an immediate “reason to click.”

### 3. The Third-Person “About” Section

Writing about yourself in the third person (e.g., “Sarah is an experienced leader…”) creates a layer of artificial distance. It feels like a dated bio from a conference brochure.

- **The Fix:** Write in the first person. This is your one opportunity to speak directly to a future peer. Explain not just what you have done, but the specific **logic** you use to solve problems.

### 4. Skill Under-Optimization

The “Skills” section is the backbone of the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) search algorithm. If you have listed generic skills like “Microsoft Office” or “Leadership,” you are making yourself invisible to high-level searches.

- **The Fix:** Align your skills with the **Knowledge Clusters** of your target role.

### 5. The “Easy Apply” Addiction

The “Easy Apply” button is a volume [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Because it requires zero friction, a single posting can receive thousands of entries. In this environment, you are just a data point in a massive, unmanageable pile.

- **The Fix:** If you find a role through “Easy Apply,” do not use the button. Go to the company website or find a **person** on the team to secure a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). High-resolution search requires high-friction effort.

### 6. Algorithmic Silence

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) prioritizes **people** who are active. If you haven’t posted or commented in six months, the algorithm assumes your profile is dormant and deprioritizes you in search results.

- **The Fix:** You don’t need to write long-form posts. Leave two expert-level comments a day on industry-leading posts. This signals to the system that you are an active participant in your field.

### 7. The Missing “Proof of Work”

Most profiles are a list of claims. Without the “Featured” section, you are asking a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) to take your word for your expertise.

- **The Fix:** Use the Featured section to pin a white paper, a project summary, or a recording of a presentation. This provides immediate, tangible evidence of your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

### 8. Contextless Connection Requests

Sending a connection request without a note is the digital equivalent of staring at a **person** in a hallway without speaking. It is a missed opportunity to establish a peer-level rapport.

- **The Fix:** Always include a 2-sentence note identifying a specific, public piece of context that made you reach out. Never use the default option [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) offers.

### 9. Ignoring the Recruiter View

Most **people** never see what their profile looks like on the “Recruiter” side of the platform. They don’t realize that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) see a condensed, data-driven version of their history.

- **The Fix:** Ensure your “Location,” “Industry,” and “Education” are standardized. If you use non-standard terms, the recruiter’s filters will skip you entirely.

### 10. The Identity Crisis

If your profile tries to appeal to everyone (e.g., “I’m a Project Manager, Writer, and Life Coach”), it appeals to no one. In a professional search, “Generalist” is often synonymous with “Unspecialized.”

- **The Fix:** Pick a lane. Your profile should be a laser-focused signal for the specific role you want next.

### BONUS PROMPT: Identifying and Defeating the Specific Gatekeeper

Even if you optimize your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), eventually you will have to enter a formal system. Not all systems are equal; a Workday parser looks for different signals than Greenhouse. To win, you must identify the “referee.”

**The Strategy:** Find the job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) URL from the company’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) page. Look at the domain (e.g., `companyname.lever.co` or `wd5.myworkdayjobs.com`). Once you know the software, use these prompts to tailor your data.

**Bonus Prompt 1: System Identification & Quirks** *“I have identified that this employer uses the \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name, e.g., Workday/Greenhouse\] system. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the specific parsing strengths and weaknesses of \[[ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\]. Based on this, identify if this system prefers ‘Skills’ sections at the top of a document or if it extracts data more accurately from within chronological work history. List any ‘parser-unfriendly’ formatting to avoid in this specific software.”*

**Bonus Prompt 2: Tailoring for the Algorithm** *“Now that we know the system is \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\], analyze the provided job description and my current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Rewrite my ‘Technical Experience’ section using the specific keyword density and ‘Knowledge Cluster’ logic that \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\] uses to rank professionals in \[Insert Your Industry\]. Ensure the phrasing remains compatible with standard NLP (Natural Language Processing) patterns used by this specific tool.”*

### The Bottom Line

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is not a digital trophy case; it is a search engine. When you stop making these 10 [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), you move from being a **person** who is “looking for work” to a **person** who is “being sought for their expertise.”

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

---

### I released a lot of new content this week including:

**How to Keep Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Moving When a [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) Process Stalls Excerpt: When a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process stalls, most people either obsess over that one opportunity or emotionally check out of their search. Both choices hurt you. The goal isn’t to wait better; it’s to keep momentum so this delay doesn’t stop your progress. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-keep-your-job-search-moving-when-a-hiring-process-stalls/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-keep-your-job-search-moving-when-a-hiring-process-stalls/)

**The Newest [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Job Market Signals Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses a few trends noticed on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) recently and what these market signals mean for your current [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) strategy. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-newest-linkedin-job-market-signals/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-newest-linkedin-job-market-signals/)

**A [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Strategy to Get Hired Excerpt: Jeff shares a specific, actionable way to use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to get hired by leveraging your network and the platform’s unique algorithm to stand out to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-linkedin-strategy-to-get-hired/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-linkedin-strategy-to-get-hired/)

**Be [Prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to Walk Away from a Job [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) Excerpt: To avoid wasting your time, [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), and resources, you can decide to end the negotiation and look for other opportunities or partners. Jeff explains why having a walk-away point is your strongest leverage. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-prepared-to-walk-away-from-a-job-offer/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-prepared-to-walk-away-from-a-job-offer/)

**Make Your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Edited [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Standout** Excerpt: EP3140 You are drowning in a sea of perfectly tailored but totally soulless competition. The only way to stand out is by mastering the one thing a bot can’t do. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses how to inject your unique professional voice into AI-generated documents. Link: 

**The [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of Recent YouTube [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Videos** Excerpt: EP 3137 In a job market defined by AI-driven filters and unprecedented competition, traditional [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) methods are no longer effective. Jeff curates and breaks down high-impact strategies from recent video content to help you navigate modern [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/). Link: 

**Space Out Multiple [Follow-Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) Emails #shorts** Excerpt: Steven Mostyn, Chief Human Resources Officer, [Management.org](http://management.org/) shared [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about how to stage [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) emails. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains the delicate balance between being persistent and being a nuisance during the post-interview phase. Link: 

**[Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) Like Everyone Else? #shorts** Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains why blending in with other candidates is a recipe for being forgotten. He discusses how to differentiate yourself by moving beyond generic “canned” answers. Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): April 26 2026** Excerpt: No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice. A compilation of essential insights and quick tips for today’s professional. Link: 

**AI-SEO: Get Noticed by Gemini and Perplexity Excerpt: Now, the linear path of being found or discovered has been replaced by a multidimensional web of AI-driven discovery. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how to ensure your profile and content are optimized for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) search engines. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-seo-get-noticed-by-gemini-and-perplexity/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-seo-get-noticed-by-gemini-and-perplexity/)

**Integrity in [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Outreach Excerpt: Your ability to signal human authority while employing [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) outreach is your most valuable asset. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the critical balance between using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for efficiency and maintaining a human touch in your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/integrity-in-ai-outreach/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/integrity-in-ai-outreach/)

**The Micro Sprint [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Excerpt: High-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) lead to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/); precision micro-sprints lead to offers. This approach focuses on short, intense bursts of high-quality activity to generate results without the fatigue of a traditional search. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-micro-sprint-job-search/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-micro-sprint-job-search/)

**What Excuses Can I Use to Take Time Off for an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/)? #shorts Excerpt: What excuses can I give to take leave to give an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) for a new job? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® shares practical and believable reasons to step away from your current desk for a meeting. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-excuses-can-i-use-to-take-time-off-for-an-interview-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-excuses-can-i-use-to-take-time-off-for-an-interview-shorts/)

**How to Transition from Corporate to Nonprofit Without Losing Your Mind Excerpt:** Stop assuming your corporate “savior complex” will fix a nonprofit; it will only get you rejected. This episode breaks down the brutal reality of resource scarcity, the culture of consensus, and how to actually penetrate [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) of mission-driven work. **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-transition-from-corporate-to-nonprofit-without-losing-your-mind/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-transition-from-corporate-to-nonprofit-without-losing-your-mind/)

**Is It Rude to Contact The [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) Manager Directly & Ask Them Out for Coffee? Excerpt:** Is it rude to contact the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager of a job posting directly and inviting them for a coffee to ask more about the job? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses the etiquette and strategy behind direct outreach. **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-contact-the-hiring-manager-directly-ask-them-out-for-coffee/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-contact-the-hiring-manager-directly-ask-them-out-for-coffee/)

**Why Your “Perfectionist” Weakness Is Costing You the Job Excerpt:** The “perfectionist” answer is the fastest way to signal to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) that you lack self-awareness. This episode explores why this [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) response backfires and how to actually answer the “What is your greatest weakness?” question. **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-perfectionist-weakness-is-costing-you-the-job/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-perfectionist-weakness-is-costing-you-the-job/)

**Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Questions: What Are Your Strengths? #shorts Excerpt:** People worry about answering the question about their weaknesses and then blow this one. Jeff explains how to frame your strengths as solutions to the employer’s specific problems. **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-strengths-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-strengths-shorts/)

**Getting a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile #shorts Excerpt:** [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how to upload a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and connect it to your profile to make it easier for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to find your data. **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/getting-a-resume-on-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/getting-a-resume-on-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Are Mock [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Effective? #shorts Excerpt:** [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter®, explains how to use simulated [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) to identify blind spots before the real meeting. **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-mock-interviews-effective-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-mock-interviews-effective-shorts/)

**Stupid [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Turning Down an Invitation** Excerpt: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t just about what you need now; it’s about the relationships you’ve built for the future. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses a common but critical [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): declining invitations that could open doors you don’t even know exist yet. Link: 

**How to Get More [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): Have a Video [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** Excerpt: A video [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) allows you to showcase your personality and communication skills in a way a flat document never can. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how to leverage video to stand out to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and land more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Link: **https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-interviews-have-a-video-resume/**

**Indeed: Which Job Site Is Better. EP 3142** Excerpt: Most job hunters treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and Indeed as interchangeable versions of the same thing. That’s exactly why their [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) go ignored. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains the fundamental differences and how to use each platform to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). Link: 

**[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/): Abandoning the Main Line in Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** Excerpt: Most professionals approach their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) like they are standing in line at an exclusive nightclub. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how to find the ‘third door’ to bypass the crowded main entrance and get the results you want. Link: 

**Why Doesn’t [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Rank [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? #shorts** Excerpt: Here’s a fun question: Why does [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) not rank [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) dives into the reasons why this data isn’t publicly ranked and what it means for your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).Link: 

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### [10 LinkedIn Signal Killers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-linkedin-signal-killers/)

**Published:** May 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn is a live data set that recruiters use to filter for specific types of people

**Content:**

# 10 LinkedIn Signal Killers: How High-Value Professionals Sabotage Their Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the attention economy, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is either a high-resolution signal of your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** or it is digital white noise. For an information professional, the platform is often treated as a static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) repository. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the platform’s current logic. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a live data set that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use to filter for specific types of **people**, specifically, those who represent a solution to a strategic problem their (internal) client has.

If you are currently looking for work, you are probably committing at least three of these tactical errors. These are not just “aesthetic” issues; they are signal killers that tell the algorithm and the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) that you are a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/), not an asset.

### 1. The “Open to Work” Scarcity Signal

While well-intentioned, the green “Open to Work” photo frame often triggers a subconscious “scarcity” bias. High-value **people** are usually perceived as being in high demand. By broadcasting availability to the entire network, you inadvertently signal that the market hasn’t already claimed you.

- **The Fix:** Set your “Open to Work” preferences to **“Recruiters Only.”** This keeps the signal invisible to your current employer and peers while appearing in the backend search results where it actually matters.

### 2. The Passive Headline

If your headline is just your current or former job title, you are wasting the most valuable real estate on your profile. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) searching for a “Marketing Director” will find 50,000 results.

- **The Fix:** Move from a title to a **value proposition**. Use: *\[Title\] | \[Specific Quantitative Result\] | \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Specialty\].* This ensures that when a **person** scrolls through a list of names, yours provides an immediate “reason to click.”

### 3. The Third-Person “About” Section

Writing about yourself in the third person (e.g., “Sarah is an experienced leader…”) creates a layer of artificial distance. It feels like a dated bio from a conference brochure.

- **The Fix:** Write in the first person. This is your one opportunity to speak directly to a future peer. Explain not just what you have done, but the specific **logic** you use to solve problems.

[***LinkedIn Mistakes: The Skimpy Profile***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-i1)

### 4. Skill Under-Optimization

The “Skills” section is the backbone of the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) search algorithm. If you have listed generic skills like “Microsoft Office” or “Leadership,” you are making yourself invisible to high-level searches.

- **The Fix:** Align your skills with the **Knowledge Clusters** of your target role.

### 5. The “Easy Apply” Addiction

The “Easy Apply” button is a volume [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Because it requires zero friction, a single posting can receive thousands of entries. In this environment, you are just a data point in a massive, unmanageable pile.

- **The Fix:** If you find a role through “Easy Apply,” do not use the button. Go to the company website or find a **person** on the team to secure a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). High-resolution search requires high-friction effort.

### 6. Algorithmic Silence

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) prioritizes **people** who are active. If you haven’t posted or commented in six months, the algorithm assumes your profile is dormant and deprioritizes you in search results.

- **The Fix:** You don’t need to write long-form posts. Leave two expert-level comments a day on industry-leading posts. This signals to the system that you are an active participant in your field.

### 7. The Missing “Proof of Work”

Most profiles are a list of claims. Without the “Featured” section, you are asking a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) to take your word for your expertise.

- **The Fix:** Use the Featured section to pin a white paper, a project summary, or a recording of a presentation. This provides immediate, tangible evidence of your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

### 8. Contextless Connection Requests

Sending a connection request without a note is the digital equivalent of staring at a **person** in a hallway without speaking. It is a missed opportunity to establish a peer-level rapport.

- **The Fix:** Always include a 2-sentence note identifying a specific, public piece of context that made you reach out. Never use the default option [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) offers.

### 9. Ignoring the Recruiter View

Most **people** never see what their profile looks like on the “Recruiter” side of the platform. They don’t realize that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) see a condensed, data-driven version of their history.

- **The Fix:** Ensure your “Location,” “Industry,” and “Education” are standardized. If you use non-standard terms, the recruiter’s filters will skip you entirely.

### 10. The Identity Crisis

If your profile tries to appeal to everyone (e.g., “I’m a Project Manager, Writer, and Life Coach”), it appeals to no one. In a professional search, “Generalist” is often synonymous with “Unspecialized.”

- **The Fix:** Pick a lane. Your profile should be a laser-focused signal for the specific role you want next.

### ***[How Do You Know It’s Time to Give Up?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-7Oc)***

### **BONUS PROMPT: Identifying and Defeating the Specific Gatekeeper**

Even if you optimize your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/), eventually you will have to enter a formal system. Not all systems are equal; a Workday parser looks for different signals than Greenhouse. To win, you must identify the “referee.”

**The Strategy:** Find the job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) URL from the company’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) page. Look at the domain (e.g., `companyname.lever.co` or `wd5.myworkdayjobs.com`). Once you know the software, use these prompts to tailor your data.

> **Bonus Prompt 1: System Identification & Quirks** *“I have identified that this employer uses the \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name, e.g., Workday/Greenhouse\] system. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the specific parsing strengths and weaknesses of \[[ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\]. Based on this, identify if this system prefers ‘Skills’ sections at the top of a document or if it extracts data more accurately from within chronological work history. List any ‘parser-unfriendly’ formatting to avoid in this specific software.”*

> **Bonus Prompt 2: Tailoring for the Algorithm** *“Now that we know the system is \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\], analyze the provided job description and my current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Rewrite my ‘Technical Experience’ section using the specific keyword density and ‘Knowledge Cluster’ logic that \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\] uses to rank professionals in \[Insert Your Industry\]. Ensure the phrasing remains compatible with standard NLP (Natural Language Processing) patterns used by this specific tool.”*

### The Bottom Line

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is not a digital trophy case; it is a search engine. When you stop making these 10 [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), you move from being a **person** who is “looking for work” to a **person** who is “being sought for their expertise.”

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [LinkedIn Mistakes: The Skimpy Profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-mistake-1/)

**Published:** June 8, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a major mistake people make when they are on LinkedIn.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn Mistakes: The Skimpy Profile

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses a major [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when they are on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).***

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and I want to talk with you today about one of the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I keep seeing time and again on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that way too many people are making with their profiles. It’s what I call the skimpy profile. Yes, the skimpy profile, the skimpy [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile.

Maybe you’ve written two lines under each employer and you have this enormous summary. You know, maybe you’ve done it the other way around. Not the other way around is a good example.

But, you know, let’s say you have this profile that I see all the time, two lines under each employer, two lines under the summary. How do you think people are going to find you? Seriously, how do you think people will find you except if they already know you? Part of what you use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for is to attract opportunities to you. People knock on your metaphorical door.

They reach out to you and say, hey, I’ve got an opportunity. Let’s talk. You say yes or no after you hear about the opportunity.

Not before. After. Then, you know, again, if you think about it, if you’ve got two lines there, there’s no keywords, there’s no SEO, there’s nothing there that’s interesting to a potential employer or [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) reaching out to you.

And if you stuff the summary area with all your keywords and write this enormous summary and then don’t have anything to back it up under your [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have no idea when you did this thing. Now, you’ve got to understand, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are all trained by the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) experience and they will believe the job hunters are trying to con them in order to get an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). So, when they see lots of summary stuff at the beginning of a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and relatively little at the end, you know, like the functional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that tells you everything about this person’s life and where they work but separated from one another and then from there, you discover that this person did some of the good stuff but they did it 15 years ago.

No value. So, you know, you have to look at your profile as though it’s an extended [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). I don’t mean it’s a longer [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

It’s an extension of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). So, you have to have a good quality summary that it does outline what you’ve done and how you went about doing it and a few of the metrics. You want to have your [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) there, you know, email address, phone number, particularly if you’re [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).

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### [Knowing You Made a Hiring Mistake #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/knowing-you-made-a-hiring-mistake-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts/)

**Published:** May 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jim Collins, the author of "Good to Great" https://amzn.to/3CYP7H2 offers a thought about the exact moment you believe you made a hiring mistake.

**Content:**

# Knowing You Made a Hiring Mistake | No BS Hiring Advice | #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/SAEV7zUQ9G4)

Jim Collins, the author of “Good to Great”  offers a thought about the exact moment you believe you made a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

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### [Did AI from the ATS Reject You?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-ai-from-the-ats-reject-you/)

**Published:** May 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The myth that an AI bot is silently tossing your resume is overstated

**Content:**

# Did AI from the ATS Reject You?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**Most [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) don’t have [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that outright auto-rejects [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) on its own.** The myth that an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) bot is silently tossing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is overstated—rejections usually come from recruiter-set rules like knockout questions, minimum match scores, or hard filters for things like location or certifications. Only about 8% of [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) turn on content-based auto-rejection.

That said, several systems use **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for screening, scoring, and ranking** that can effectively bury or deprioritize low-scoring [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) so humans never see them:

- **Eightfold [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)** — Stands out for deep-learning [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that scores candidates on skills and fit, sometimes using external data. It’s been sued over how it ranks people without their knowledge.
- **hireEZ** — [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) screening and matching that analyzes [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) as they come in.
- **Workday** — Has [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) features for scoring; its parser is notoriously picky with formatting, which can make [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) disappear.
- **Ashby** — Lets [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) set AI-assisted criteria to filter or surface candidates quickly.

Popular ones like **Greenhouse**, **Lever**, and basic [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) mostly rely on keywords and human-configured filters rather than fancy [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) judgment. The 75% [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) stat you hear is real, but it’s more about bad formatting, missing keywords, or failing basic requirements than some sentient [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) hating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Bottom line: Tailor for keywords and clean formatting, and you beat most of the automated gates.

From Grok

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### [How Do I Juggle a Lot of Interviews? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-i-juggle-a-lot-of-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** May 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What should I do when I send lots of job applications and I receive many calls for interviews at one time?

**Content:**

# How Do I Juggle a Lot of Interviews? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/in_JPSGrSMY)

What should I do when I send lots of [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) and I receive many calls for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) at one time?

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### [A Recruiter Accepted My Connection Request & Hasn't Responded Since](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-recruiter-accepted-my-connection-request-hasnt-responded-since/)

**Published:** May 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What should I do? I connected with a recruiter on LinkedIn. The recruiter accepted but has not responded to any of my messages.

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# A Recruiter Accepted My Connection Request & Hasn’t Responded Since

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### [A Reminder When You Negotiate Salary #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-reminder-when-you-negotiate-salary-shorts/)

**Published:** May 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People get caught up emotionally when they network. It's important to remember this.

**Content:**

# A Reminder When You Negotiate Salary #shorts

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### [Get The Interview Prep Tool That Will Help You Nail The Job! #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-the-interview-prep-tool-that-will-help-you-nail-the-job-shorts/)

**Published:** December 20, 2024
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### [Coming Out of a Career Break?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/coming-out-of-a-career-break/)

**Published:** May 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# Coming Out of a Career Break?

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### [The "Safe Job" Trap: Is Your Career Being Targeted?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-safe-job-trap-is-your-career-being-targeted/)

**Published:** May 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3143 Think your years of experience and loyal service make you unshakeable? Think again.

**Content:**

#  The “Safe Job” Trap: Is Your Career Being Targeted?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3143 Think your years of experience and loyal service make you unshakeable? Think again. In this episode, we’re exposing the **“Safe Job Trap”** and revealing how [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is quietly erasing the [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) of the most dedicated professionals

Welcome to episode 3,143 of No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. I’m your host, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Open your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) feed right now and you will see a flood of the Open to Work hashtag.

Thousands of deeply experienced professionals are suddenly sitting at home, entirely unemployable. Why are highly loyal workers with decades of specialized experience suddenly finding themselves completely shut out of the market? This chart shows what many call professional [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). It represents the flawed mindset that a steady, predictable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) guarantees lifelong security.

For workers under 50, this complacency blinds them to massive industry shifts right up until that supposedly secure path collapses. The corporations that previously relied on offshoring to cut costs are now actively deploying artificial intelligence to strip away routine cognitive labor. Actively clinging to a predictable, risk-averse role actually makes you the easiest possible target for algorithmic replacement.

Technological extinction has happened before. In the 1980s, the IT industry shifted away from older programming languages like OS Cobol toward a newer transaction system known as CICS. CICS is a server system that allowed [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to process many requests simultaneously.

One New York tech [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) actively refused to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) to this shift. He called me complaining that his clients only wanted CICS developers, but he insisted on hoarding his vast pool of OS Cobol candidates. I told him his clients didn’t care about his candidates’ outdated skills.

He was out of business entirely within six months because the market ruthlessly prioritizes efficiency over legacy talent. Consider how banking used to work. You would stand in line to hand a physical check to a teller, who then manually verified your identity against paper signature cards.

Today, consumers and corporate managers alike strongly prefer the speed and self-service convenience of interacting with machines. Whenever an emergent technology provides a faster, cheaper alternative, holding onto an outdated skillset is [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) suicide. That exact same cycle of rapid obsolescence is actively sweeping through modern white-collar office environments right now.

Today, vendors deploy advanced artificial intelligence, or software that mimics human learning, to visually analyze candidates during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). The software measures entirely abstract metrics, scanning your facial movements to determine your perceived truthfulness and overall [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) levels. Those algorithmic judgments are then directly compared against the established behavioral profiles of the company’s highest-performing employees.

Modern [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) acts as an autonomous gatekeeper, making the final call to disqualify candidates long before a human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) ever sees a single [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). [Your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) survival is solely your responsibility. Blaming your employer for difficult co-workers or a lack of [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) resources is a complete waste of your time.

Staying out of [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) for years builds up professional cholesterol, leaving you critically unprepared for the intense scrutiny of the modern [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process. Adopt the bacon mentality. Abandon your comfort zone, take calculated risks, and actively hunt down emerging industry trends before they become mainstream.

This chart shows how early adoption creates a massive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). I secured my spot as member 7,653 on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) because I recognized an intriguing idea and jumped in at the absolute beginning of the curve. Look at your own daily tasks and aggressively outline exactly how machine learning—systems that automatically improve from data without explicit programming—will disrupt your specific role.

In this era of algorithms and automated screening, the only real [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) security comes from continuous, proactive adaptation. If you want to stay ahead of the curve, visit jobsearch.community to become an insider and access my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and resources. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I’ll see you next time.

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### [College Grad Interview Questions: Describe a Teacher You Really Connected With.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/describe-a-teacher-you-really-connected-with/)

**Published:** May 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# College Grad Interview Questions: Describe a Teacher You Really Connected With.

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers an answer to the question about the teacher you really connected with.

Hi! I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years. I want to talk with you today as a recent grad or someone who’s entering the workforce and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) one of those tough [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions that you’re going to be asked on your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

And today’s question is could you describe a teacher that you really connected to and what was it about them that you really connected with? Now, it may not be that language but it’s words to that effect. They’re asking you about a teacher that inspired you, motivated you, pushed you and what they’re looking for isn’t the name of that teacher although it’s a cool thing to say their name. What they’re looking for is that you can be motivated because they’re thinking about a mentor.

What they’re looking for is . . . I’ll give you a simple answer. You know, there was so and so who was a professor of mine at fill in the blank name of the school. What she did was really inspire us to be bigger than we were and through that inspiration, you know, created a lot of excitement in me in this subject in this career.

That’s one possible example. Another one might be I remember this teacher I had, fill in the blank name. What he did was really push us hard, drive us to excel, challenge us all the time.

You notice different types of answers can be done and from that they can look at selecting a mentor for you. Part of the reason they ask this is to see if you have the emotional intelligence to be part of the team. Yeah, I get that.

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Once you’re on board, they have no interest in emotional intelligence but play the game, okay? This is ostensibly what they’re trying to find out about you, what the motivation is for you, how to motivate you, who to connect you with and whether you can be reflective. Now, the subtlety here is it’s a distraction because often the next question is gonna be one of those tough, difficult, grinding kind of questions that that will really blow your mind. So, recognize it’s a deflection.

You still have to answer it sincerely and then from there, be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for some tough [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions that have nothing to do with us. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful.

Come over to TheBigGameHunter.us. Go exploring because there’s a lot there that you can watch, listen to or read to help you find work more quickly. There are pages up there that have rough . . . that point to different articles I’ve written or videos or podcasts. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, check the blog area.

I’m moving the content over there. And if we’re not already connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send a connection request at TheBigGameHunter.us. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you have a great day!

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### [We Are All Contractors](https://thebiggamehunter.us/we-are-all-contractors-career-angles/)

**Published:** May 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I don’t care if you think your job is permanent. It isn’t.

**Content:**

# We Are All Contractors

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

I don’t care if you think your job is permanent. It isn’t. Permanent [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) is a lie to give you the impression that you have a job for life.

You don’t.

Your job may be “full time” but it certainly isn’t permanent.

If you started to think of your work as being like a contractor, what would you do to market yourself?

Improve?

Make yourself more valuable.

Own [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and do not abdicate responsibility to an employer.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2019, 2024

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### [LinkedIn vs. Indeed: Which Job Site Is Better](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-vs-indeed-which-job-site-is-better/)

**Published:** May 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3142 Most job hunters treat LinkedIn and Indeed as interchangeable versions of the same thing. That’s exactly why their applications go ignored.

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# LinkedIn vs. Indeed: Which Job Site Is Better

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3142 Most job hunters treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) and Indeed as interchangeable versions of the same thing. That’s exactly why their [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) go ignored. One is a high-speed search engine; the other is a high-value professional network. If you’re tired of shouting into the void of ‘Easy Apply’ buttons, you need to understand the fundamental DNA of these platforms. In this no-nonsense guide, we break down exactly when to use each to double your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) rate and stop wasting time on the wrong strategy.”

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio, episode 3142.

Alright, let’s get right into it. We’re tackling the big one today, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) versus Indeed.

But listen, this isn’t going to be some boring list of features. Nope, we are digging into a real strategic guide. The goal here is to help you figure out which platform to use, when to use it, and most importantly, why, so you can stop just spinning your wheels and actually start seeing some results.

So here’s the game plan for today. First up, we’re going to look at the core philosophy of each platform. You know, what makes them tick? Then we’ll get into the hard data.

What do the numbers actually say? From there, we’ll build out a specific playbook for all you laptop professionals out there. We’ll also cover where Indeed really truly shines. And finally, we’ll wrap it all up with a simple, no-nonsense strategy that you can put into action, like today.

Alright, let’s get one thing straight right from the start. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) and Indeed are not the same thing. You can’t just swap one for the other.

If you want to use them effectively, you absolutely have to understand what they were built for. I mean, they were born from completely different ideas. They’ve got totally different DNA.

So what is that fundamental difference? Well, think of it like this. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) started its life as a professional network, right? It was all about building your reputation, making connections. The job board was kind of bolted on later.

And that’s key because it works for people who are actively looking and for those passive candidates that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) love to find. But Indeed, it was born a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) engine, pure and simple. It’s built for speed, for quick searches, for quick [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

It’s for the person who is actively, right this second, hunting for a job. Okay, so we’ve got these two totally different approaches. But what does that actually mean for your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), you know, in the real world? Let’s cut through all the noise and just look at the cold, hard data.

What do the numbers tell us about where you should really be spending your time and energy? And this chart, this right here is the core trade-off. It’s everything. With Indeed, you get this absolute firehose of job postings.

You can send out a ton of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), super high volume. But your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) rate, it’s going to be lower. Now look at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/).

It flips the script completely. Yeah, you’ll probably send out fewer [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), but your chance of actually landing an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), way, way higher. It really is the classic showdown, quantity versus quality.

I mean, just let that sink in for a second. You’re twice as likely to land an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). If there’s one number you remember from today, make it this one.

It proves that firing off 100 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) on Indeed might feel like you’re being productive, but sending just 20 really targeted, well-thought-out [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/), that could get you so much further. It is the definition of working smarter, not harder. And here’s the why behind it all.

It comes down to how [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) see these platforms. They think of Indeed as a way to cast a really wide net, you know, to fill the top of their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) funnel with a lot of candidates. But when it comes to those professional roles, where your specific experience and background are absolutely critical, they go to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/).

That’s where they expect to find those more targeted, higher quality candidates. They’re just fishing in different ponds for different fish. All right, so with all that data in our back pocket, let’s get tactical.

If you’re what we call a laptop professional, you know, working in corporate or tech, maybe a remote friendly job, your strategy has got to be laser focused. For you, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) is absolutely your main stage. And here are three huge reasons why.

First, your profile gives so much more context than a boring flat [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) ever could. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) actually use it to see if you’ll be a good fit. Second, the whole platform is built for [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

And that is your secret weapon for tapping into that hidden job market and getting those warm intros. And third, and this is a big one, a great profile is always working for you in the background, pulling in [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and creating opportunities, even when you’re not actively looking. Yeah, you really have to stop thinking of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) as just a job board.

For a professional, it’s so much more. It’s your living [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). It’s your personal PR engine.

It’s your direct line to the people who make the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) decisions. This is the place where you build your reputation, show off what you know, and make the connections that land you that next great role. Sometimes before anyone else even knows the job exists.

But hold on. This doesn’t mean we should just throw Indeed in the trash. Not at all.

You just have to know what its superpower is. And Indeed’s power is all about pure, unfiltered volume, speed, and massive reach. And for certain types of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), trust me, it is the undisputed king.

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So where does it really dominate? High volume [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), that’s where. Think about it. A company needs to hire, say, 50 warehouse workers or 20 customer service reps.

And they need them fast. They are going straight to Indeed. Every time.

Now for you laptop pros, it’s still an amazing tool for market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). You can jump on, do a quick search, and instantly get a feel for job titles and what the salary ranges are looking like. Plus, it’s great for catching those roles at companies that aren’t super active on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/).

Okay, we’ve gone through the theory. We’ve looked at the data. We’ve talked about the playbooks.

Now it’s time to bring it all home. Let’s build a simple, no BS strategy that you can start using literally the second this is over. This is how you make both platforms work for you.

This table here pretty much lays it all out side by side. If you’re a laptop pro, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) is your home base. That’s your primary stage for [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), and sending out those really high quality [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

You’ll use Indeed more as a backup, a supplemental tool. Now for everyone else, if you’re an hourly, blue collar, or any kind of high volume role, you just flip that. Indeed is your main engine.

It’s your go-to. And [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/), that’s more like a long-term investment, a place to park your professional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) for the future. It boils down to this.

LinkedIn’s [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) is quality and Indeed’s [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) is volume. So here’s your concrete step-by-step guidance. Step one, for you laptop pros, your week should revolve around [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/).

I’m talking updating your profile, connecting with people, actually engaging with content. Then maybe once a week, you hop on Indeed to scan the market. Step two, for everyone in hourly or operational [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), you need to be leading hard on Indeed.

Be on there daily. That’s where the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are. And just set up a basic [LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/).

Think of it as a just-in-case for when you’re ready to move up into a supervisor role or something in corporate later on. And that brings me to what might be the single most important piece of no BS advice I can give you. And this applies no matter which platform you’re on.

You have got to stop relying on that easy apply button as your main strategy. It is a psychological trap. I get it.

It feels good to see that [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) sent number go up, but it almost never leads to actual offers because it’s a low-effort move and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) know it. Remember, your goal is not to apply for the most [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). It’s to get the right job.

So I’m going to leave you with this one question to think about. I want you to take a really honest look at how you’re spending your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) time. Are you just mindlessly clicking buttons and hoping for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)? Or are you strategically, thoughtfully building a case for the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) you actually want? Because your strategy, it really should match your ambition.

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### [Resumes That Work: 3 Steps to More Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resumes-that-work-3-steps-to-more-interviews/)

**Published:** May 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Few people read physical resumes. As a result, you need to think of this screener and what they are looking for when you submit one.

**Content:**

# Resumes That Work: 3 Steps to More Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

(from the archives)

***[How Far Back Should My Resume Go?](https://youtu.be/X1Pdz7uQnRc)***

All people who are involved with helping you get a new job, whether as third-party [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or as representatives of a company evaluating you for [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) or are receiving hundreds of emailed [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) a day. Having done professional search work for a loooong time (more than 40 years), I have seen both [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) change and how they are delivered change. The change in delivery means that how you think of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) being seen needs to change too.

Few people read physical [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

Instead, we look at windows that show one­-fourth or one-third of a page. We are willing to look at two or three “PageDown’s” when we make a decision. Critically examine your![Woman writing a resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/woman-writing-a-resume-pexels-anete-lusina-5240849-300x200.jpg) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) each time you scroll down.

- Where does your eye fall? Within two or three PageDown’s, have you communicated the information that would make an employer want to meet you?
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### [Don’t Be Afraid of AI #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-be-afraid-of-ai-shorts/)

**Published:** May 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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### [How to Get More Interviews: Have a Video Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-interviews-have-a-video-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** May 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You may think this is weird but for many firms, if done right, it will make you a stand out.

**Content:**

# How to Get More Interviews: Have a Video Resume #shorts 

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### [Why Doesn't LinkedIn Rank Recruiters? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-doesnt-linkedin-rank-recruiters-shorts/)

**Published:** May 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's a fun question. Why does LinkedIn not rank recruiters?

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# Why Doesn’t LinkedIn Rank Recruiters? #shorts

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### [Stupid Networking Mistakes: Turning Down an Invitation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-networking-mistakes-turning-down-an-invitation-video/)

**Published:** May 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do I politely decline a meeting with a CTO while mentioning that I would like to be in touch with him / or get in touch when I am actively looking."

**Content:**

# Stupid Networking Mistakes: Turning Down an Invitation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

“I got an email invite from CTO of a software startup that was recently acquired. He mentioned looking up my profile/works online and was interested to talk to me over a coffee. I am, however, not looking for a change in job right now. How do I politely decline him while mentioning that I would like to be in touch with him / or get in touch when I am actively looking.”

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). Here’s a fun question. How do I politely decline a coffee invite by the CTO of a successful startup? And they go on to say, I got an email invitation from the CTO of this startup that was recently acquired. He mentioned looking up my profile and my work online and was interested in talking with me over coffee.

I’m not looking for a job right now. Thus, how do I politely decline while mentioning that I would like to be in touch with him or her when they’re actively looking? And this person’s in the Bay Area. Now, I want to take this into a broader range of an answer and talk about how do you respond to an invitation for coffee from someone who might be interested in talking with you about you or might be interested in talking with you about them.

So, it goes back to the basic idea of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Why do you network? Well, it’s to build up relationships so that at a time where you might actually need help, they know, like, trust and respect you. And in this particular case, maybe this person is talking about recruiting you.

Maybe they would like to build up a relationship to find out whether or not there might be something at your organization. I don’t know your level of where you are professionally. So, it could go either way.

The likelihood is that they’re going to be talking about trying to recruit you. Now, a long time ago, I learned a wonderful lesson. It’s the notion that, you know, the person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or work the hardest.

Those are great qualities to have. People get ahead by being alert to opportunities. Sometimes they’re internal to their organization.

Sometimes they’re external. Whether you’re changing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) or interested in changing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) right now or not, developing a relationship with a successful individual, someone who’s further along the road than you are, can always pay off. And thus, the decline is really a goofy response.

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Let’s do it. You [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) dates and times that you’re available. I want to be clear when meeting with you.

I’m not out looking for a position. So, this way, you’re not leading them astray. But I encourage you, get out there and talk to people.

Your network is your net worth. And developing a relationship with someone now, when you’re not actively looking, can only be profitable to you at some point in the future. Hope you found this helpful.

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### [Advanced Strategies for Obtaining Professional LLM Authority](https://thebiggamehunter.us/advanced-strategies-for-obtaining-professional-llm-authority/)

**Published:** April 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Once you have established a basic digital presence, the challenge shifts from 'being found' to 'being prioritized. This creates LLM Authority.

**Content:**

# **Advanced Strategies for Obtaining Professional LLM Authority**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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# 2. Engineering the Knowledge Graph with Structured Data

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By providing this structured roadmap, you reduce the ‘computational cost’ for the LLM to understand who you are. While other people rely on [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to “guess” their background from messy web snippets, you are providing a clean, verified data set. This significantly increases the likelihood of being included in the “Knowledge Panel” or “Summary” of an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) search result, as the model has high [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in the accuracy of your data.

# 3. Cultivating High-Authority Proximity

In the world of LLMs, you are judged by the company you keep—digitally speaking. This is

“**Contextual Proximity**.” If your name appears on a page alongside recognized industry

“**entities**” (like a major university, a top-tier tech firm, or a well-known industry leader), the AI’s attention mechanism assigns you a portion of their authority. This is the digital version of ‘guilt by association,’ but in a positive sense.

Advanced workers should focus on “**Digital Co-occurrence**.” This means seeking out guest appearances on high-authority podcasts (ensure they have text transcripts for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) indexing), co-authoring white papers with established names, or speaking at recognized conferences that publish their speaker lists online. When an LLM sees your name repeatedly occurring in the same ‘space’ as established leaders, it concludes that you belong in that same tier of talent.

# 4. Creating ‘Citable Assets’ for RAG Models

Models like Perplexity and Gemini’s ‘Search’ feature are designed to provide citations. To get cited, you must produce “Citable Assets.” A citable asset is a piece of original content that provides specific data, a unique framework, or a new perspective that others want to reference. This could be a “2026 [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Survey for UX Designers” or a “Framework for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/)

Governance in Small Business.”

When other people (or [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) itself) reference your original framework, you become a ‘primary source.’ In the hierarchy of LLM responses, primary sources are given significantly more weight than secondary observers. By becoming the person who ‘defined the framework’ rather than just the person who ‘uses the tool,’ you move to the very top of the authority ranking, ensuring that you are not just a candidate the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) mentions, but the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) recommends.

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### [Answering Interview Questions: General Guidelines](https://thebiggamehunter.us/answering-interview-questions-general-guidelines/)

**Published:** April 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most people are nervous on interviews. If you simply allow yourself to feel nervous, you'll do much better.

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#  Answering Interview Questions: General Guidelines

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Rehearse your answers and time them. Never talk for more than 90 seconds straight.

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### [Is It a Good Sign If They Want to Do an In-Person Interview? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-good-sign-if-they-want-to-do-an-in-person-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** April 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If a company directly calls you for a face-to-face interview, is it a positive sign?

**Content:**

# Is It a Good Sign If They Want to Do an In-Person Interview? #shorts

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### [Getting a Resume on your LinkedIn Profile #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-getting-a-resume-on-your-linkedin-profile-2/)

**Published:** April 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to upload a resume to LinkedIn connected to your profile.

**Content:**

# Getting a Resume on your LinkedIn Profile #shorts

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### [Tough Interview Questions: What Are Your Strengths? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-strengths-shorts/)

**Published:** April 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People worry about answering the question about their weaknesses and the salary they are looking for and then blow this one.

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions: What Are Your Strengths? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Are Mock Interviews Effective? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-mock-interviews-effective-shorts/)

**Published:** April 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Do you think mock interviews are effective?

**Content:**

# Are Mock Interviews Effective? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Do you think mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are effective?

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### [Is It Rude to Contact The Hiring Manager Directly & Ask Them Out for Coffee?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-contact-the-hiring-manager/)

**Published:** April 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it rude to contact the hiring manager of a job posting directly and inviting them for a coffee to ask more about the job?

**Content:**

# Is It Rude to Contact The Hiring Manager Directly & Ask Them Out for Coffee

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 Is it rude to contact the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager of a job posting directly and inviting them for a coffee to ask more about the job?
 I found this opportunity that has everything I’m looking for right now. I feel I can deliver, however, they ask for 10 years when I bring only 3 years of direct experience with the role and +5 of work experience. I feel I’m better off contacting the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to ask more questions.

By the way, at the end of this video you will hear me make a little squealing sound because I had trouble finding where to cut off the video. I hope you have a laugh.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). And I was asked a question I thought was great. Is it rude to contact the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager of a job posting directly and invite them for coffee? I want to ask them more about the job. And then it goes on to say, I found this opportunity that has everything I’m looking for right now.

I feel I can deliver. However, they ask for 10 years when I bring only three years of direct experience with the role and five years of work experience. I feel I’m better better off contacting the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to ask more questions.

So, is it rude? Absolutely not. Is it likely to be responded to favorably? Absolutely not. And let me explain why.

So, I want to invite you to put yourself in the position of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, not the job hunter perspective. So, they have an absolute stranger contacting them who wants to invite them to coffee to ask them for questions and they’re not qualified for the role. Why do I say they’re not qualified for a role? Real simple.

Five years of experience is a different level of individual in most organizations and most functions than someone with 10 years of experience. They haven’t managed people. They may have done some of the functionality but from a staff perspective, not from a leadership perspective.

And thus, when you say you have three years of background, not direct experience and five years overall, what you’re telling me is you don’t fit the job and you want to try and talk your way in. Now, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, before he’s going to agree to anything, if they have half a brain in their head, is going to say, not quite yet. Can I see a copy of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? I need to see whether it’s worth my time.

Now, if your background screams that you fit this job, well, yeah, they’d be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to meet you for coffee because they’re going to turn it into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you won’t . . . you’ll have time to ask questions but unless you follow some of my advice, it’ll be at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) when they’ve already evaluated you. So, is it rude? Absolutely not. Is it likely to be responded to favorably? Absolutely not because you’re not qualified.

You know this already. You’re too junior for the role and, by the way, from a language perspective, and again, I’m not trying to be rude but people use the word feel for think. I feel I would be qualified.

I feel I’m better instead of I think I’m better. When you use the word feel, you indicate you’re insecure about yourself and your capability around something. So you come to the feeling word rather than the think word.

Just switch your language here and be more direct. I feel I can deliver isn’t true. You think you can deliver.

Your feeling about your ability to deliver is irrelevant because you have no data to determine whether you can deliver. Think you can deliver. Think you’re better off contacting the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

That’s the accurate statement. Now, if you’d like me to coach you because I work with people worldwide, reach out to me. Email me at jeffaltman at TheBigGameHunter.us and the subject line, put the word [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

I look forward to helping you. Take care. I forgot to cut it off.

I apologize. It’s there somewhere. Yes, so it is.

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### [Integrity in AI Outreach](https://thebiggamehunter.us/integrity-in-ai-outreach/)

**Published:** April 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Your ability to signal human authority while employing AI outreach is your most valuable asset.

**Content:**

# Integrity in AI Outreach

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In a job market where executive inboxes are besieged by low-grade automation, your ability to signal **human authority** is your most valuable asset. For a college-educated professional, the risk of using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is not that it will fail to write; it’s that it will write something that sounds exactly like everyone else. To win, you must pivot from the “efficiency” of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to the **integrity** of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

The standard “personalized” message—the one that pulls an alma mater or a generic shared connection—is now a digital red flag. It signals that you’re using basic automation to scale mediocrity. To move the needle, you need to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find the strategic gaps in a person’s publicly stated roadmap. If your outreach doesn’t [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a peer-level observation that is synthetically impossible to replicate with a mass-outreach tool, it will be categorized as noise and deleted.

### 1. The Anti-Bot Protocol: Killing the Uncanny Valley

Executive-level recipients have developed a high-sensitivity filter for “uncanny valley” text.

> **The Uncanny Valley:** Originally a concept in robotics, this refers to the point where an artificial representation looks and acts almost—but not quite—like a human, causing a sense of unease or revulsion in the observer. In written outreach, this happens when a message is grammatically perfect but lacks the idiosyncratic rhythm, specific context, and “soul” of human-to-human communication.

- **The Rule of 80/20:** Let the machine handle the 80%—the heavy lifting of synthesizing quarterly reports and identifying strategic friction points. You, the **person**, provide the final 20%: the tonal nuance, the industry “inside joke,” or the reference to a live event that happened this morning.
- **The Fluff Audit:** [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) defaults to corporate filler. It overuses words like “passionate,” “synergy,” “deep-dive,” and “transformative.” These words tell a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager you have nothing original to contribute.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“Distill the primary operational concerns from \[Executive Name\]’s last three [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) into three bullet points. Draft a low-ego, peer-to-peer opening that addresses one of these points. Strictly avoid corporate buzzwords and ‘salesy’ language. Keep the tone clinical and observant.”*

**The Goal:** The recipient should think: *“This person has actually done the work and isn’t wasting my time with a pitch.”*

### 2. Defensive Outreach: Compliance as a Leadership Signal

As a high-level individual contributor or executive, your judgment is being evaluated from the first touchpoint. Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to scrape private emails or referencing non-public data isn’t just aggressive; it’s a red flag for your professional ethics. In 2026, data hygiene is a core leadership competency.

- **Stick to Public Signals:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze what the **person** *wants* the world to see (press releases, public blogs, earnings calls). Referencing a specific point made in a public forum shows respect for professional boundaries while highlighting your attention to detail.
- **The Privacy Guardrail:** Avoid [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools that “predict” personal cell phone numbers or private data. Reaching out on a private channel with a business pitch signals a lack of professional boundaries.
- **The Security Protocol:** Never input proprietary data from your current employer into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Your “Onlyness” should be built on your expertise and public market insights, not on leaked internal metrics.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“Based only on public SEC filings and the official ‘Newsroom’ page, identify the most recent operational shift at \[Company\]. Draft an inquiry asking for a peer-level perspective on how this shift impacts \[Your Niche Area\].”*

**The Logic:** Mentioning a public signal with a unique insight shows strategic depth. Mentioning private data makes you a liability.

### 3. Closing the Value Loop

High-resolution outreach works because it creates a **Value Loop**. You use the machine to find a specific, public problem, and you use your unique background to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a potential solution or a high-level observation.

- **The Strategy:** Replace the “coffee chat” (a request for a stranger’s time) with a “context exchange.”
- **The Execution:** *“I saw your comments on \[Industry Shift\] in \[Publication\]. When I navigated \[Similar Event\] at \[Previous Firm\], we found that \[Specific Insight\] was the only real lever for [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/). I’ve mapped out how that might apply to your current roadmap—open to a quick exchange of notes?”*

### The Bottom Line

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier for [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), but it’s a subtractive force for your “Onlyness” if you let it speak for you. By implementing the **Anti-Bot Protocol** and respecting **Compliance Guardrails**, you ensure your outreach is perceived as a high-signal, human-to-human interaction.

In a world of automated noise, the **person** who demonstrates both high-level intelligence and high-level discretion is the one who gets the meeting.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [The Third Door: Abandoning the Main Line in Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-third-door-abandoning-the-main-line-in-your-job-search/)

**Published:** May 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most professionals approach their careers like they are standing in line at an exclusive nightclub.

**Content:**

# The Third Door: Abandoning the Main Line in Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most professionals approach their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) like they are standing in line at an exclusive nightclub.

They are waiting at the **First Door**—the main entrance where 99% of the crowd stands, clutching their [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and waiting for a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) to check the list. This is the world of “Apply Now” buttons and automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) emails.

Then there is the **Second Door**—the VIP entrance where the silver-spooned and the ultra-connected slip through. If you weren’t born with the password, you assume you’re stuck in the line at the First Door.

But according to Alex Banayan, there is always **[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. It’s the entrance where you jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, crack a window, or sneak through the kitchen. It is the path of the operator who realizes that the “official” way in is designed to keep people out.

To find your next role, you must stop being a candidate and start being the person who finds the cracked window. Here are 10 atypical techniques to kick open [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

### 10 Atypical “Third Door” Techniques

1. **The “Pre-Hire” Diagnostic Audit** Instead of a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), send a 3-page “Operational Audit” of one of their public-facing products or processes. Don’t just point out flaws; provide the technical roadmap to fix them. You aren’t asking for a job; you are demonstrating that you’re already doing the work.
2. **The “Future Peer” Content Play** Identify the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager. Don’t ask for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). Reach out and ask to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) *them* for an article or post you are writing about “The Future of \[Their Specific Niche\].” It flips the power dynamic and establishes you as a peer in the industry conversation.
3. **The Investor Inbound** For startups or mid-cap firms, don’t message HR. Message the Associate or Principal at the Venture Capital or Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firm that funded them. Tell them: *“I’m an operator in \[Field\]. I see a gap in \[[Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Company X\]. If you want to protect your investment, let’s talk about how I can plug it.”*
4. **The “Ex-Employee” Reconnaissance** Find the person who previously held the role you want. Reach out and ask: *“What was the one thing the leadership team desperately wanted but never got?”* Use that answer to build your entire “Onlyness” pitch to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager.
5. **The Conference “Shadow Event”** If your target company is attending a major conference, don’t wait for a booth visit. Host a small, curated dinner or “coffee roundtable” at a venue across the street and invite three of their mid-level directors to discuss a specific industry friction point.
6. **The White Paper Tag** Write a high-resolution 1,500-word white paper on a trend affecting the target company’s industry. Publish it on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or Substack and tag the C-suite in the comments with a specific question about their 2026 roadmap.
7. **The “Internal Advocate” [Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Loop** Instead of asking for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), ask a current employee for a “Technical Review” of your [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) or project. If the work is good, they will often [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) the [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) themselves to get the “Referral Bonus” without you ever having to beg.
8. **The Podcast Pitch** Every mid-to-large company now has an internal or industry-facing podcast. Pitch yourself to the producer as a guest to speak on a very specific, non-obvious technical challenge. Being “The Guest” is a 10x stronger signal than being “The Applicant.”
9. **The Reverse [Search Firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) Maneuver** Find the boutique executive [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that *don’t* have the listing. Send them a one-pager on your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and say: *“I know you don’t have this role now, but I’m the person you call when your biggest client has a \[Specific Crisis\].”*
10. **The “90-Day Value” Memo** Write a memo titled: *“What I Will Accomplish in My First 90 Days.”* Break it down into 30-60-90 day increments with specific KPIs. Send this directly to the VP of the department. It forces them to visualize you in the role, rather than just reading about your past.

### The Third Door Requires Resilience

[The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) isn’t “easier” than the First Door. In fact, it requires more [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), more [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), and the [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) to be ignored or rejected by the “kitchen staff” before you find the way into the main room. But while the First Door is a game of chance, [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is a game of **agency**.

### **BONUS PROMPT: Identifying the Gatekeeper**

To use [the Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) effectively, you still need to understand the machine you are bypassing. If you choose to use the First Door as a backup, you need to know which “referee” is calling the game.

**The Strategy:** Go to the job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) URL. Look at the domain name (e.g., `companyname.lever.co` or `wd5.myworkdayjobs.com`). Once identified, use these prompts:

> **Bonus Prompt 1: System Identification** *“I am [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a role where the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) URL is \[Insert URL\]. Identify which [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) this company uses. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and list the top three data-parsing quirks of this specific system (e.g., how it handles headers, tables, or multi-column layouts) so I can ensure 100% data extraction.”*

> **Bonus Prompt 2: Tailoring the Signal** *“Now that we know the system is \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\], analyze my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the job description. Rewrite my ‘Technical Skills’ section to specifically align with how \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\] ranks ‘Knowledge Clusters.’ Prioritize the keywords that this specific system’s algorithm is known to weight most heavily for \[Insert Job Category\].”*

The First Door is for those who believe the system works for them. [The Third Door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is for those who know they have to work the system.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [What Excuses Can I Use to Take Time Off for an Interview? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-excuses-can-i-use-to-take-time-off-for-an-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** April 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What Excuses Can I Use to Take Time Off for an Interview? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/6m0LsM7comE)

What excuses can I give to take leave to give an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) for a new job?

What excuses can I give to take time off for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) for a new job? A lot of things. “I’m not feeling well. I’m going to stay out.” You know, you can always do that one. “I’m not feeling well.” And if they call you and you’re in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) and you have your phone off—you should have your phone off, right?—you can always say, “I had the phone off. I was taking a nap because I wasn’t feeling well.”

And then just when you call them back, don’t be in a place with a lot of commotion about you so that you know they’re not hearing lots of loud noises that basically say I’m not at home, I’m not in bed sick, all that sort of stuff.

So what excuses can you give? The “I’m not feeling well” excuse is always a good one. Not the death in the family, that’s bad karma. Not one that sounds stupid. You can have a doctor’s appointment that you need to address. You can always say, “I noticed something over here inside my mouth that was a little problematic, so I need to have a doctor’s appointment to have it looked at.” No one’s going to ask to open your mouth.

Or it could be my wife, husband, or partner’s in town, we’re going to have lunch today. Or, “Oh, I overslept.” Or, “Oh, I need to leave early. My wife, husband, or partner got tickets for such and such and we’re going to go out tonight.” There are lots of different things that you can do that are not particularly creative that’ll give you the opportunity to take time off your

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### [Space Out Multiple Follow-Up Emails #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/space-out-multiple-follow-up-emails-shorts/)

**Published:** April 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Steven Mostyn, Chief Human Resources Officer, Management.org shared thoughts about how to stage follow-up emails

**Content:**

# Space Out Multiple Follow-Up Emails

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/BR8XadtgbAQ)

Steven Mostyn, Chief Human Resources Officer, Management.org shared [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about how to stage [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) emails

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\#jobsearchtv #jobsearch #followup

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### [Interviewing Like Everyone Else? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interviewing-like-everyone-else-shorts/)

**Published:** April 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What happens when you interview like everyone else?

**Content:**

# Interviewing Like Everyone Else? | #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZX-S1q4jgbI)

What happens when you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like everyone else?

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### [Make Your AI Edited Resume Standout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/make-your-ai-edited-resume-standout/)

**Published:** April 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP3140 You are drowning in a sea of perfectly tailored but totally soulless competition. The only way to stand out is by mastering the one thing a bot can't do

**Content:**

# Make Your AI Edited Resume Standout

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP3140 Now that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can instantly write a flawless [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), you are drowning in a sea of perfectly tailored but totally soulless competition. The only way to stand out isn’t with better keywords, but by mastering the one thing a bot can’t do: telling the messy, human story of the specific problems you’ve solved. This episode breaks down exactly how to use the “Situation” in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) to hook [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and make your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) unforgettable.

Alright, let’s talk about a huge challenge popping up in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) right now. One that’s kind of changing the game for all of us. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is here.

And yeah, it’s making [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) writing way easier. But, you know, with all that convenience, comes a really big problem. And this is the big one, isn’t it? I mean, if every single person [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resume-submissions/) can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to create a flawless [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) that hits every single keyword, what makes you special? How does a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) look at a pile of perfect [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and decide to pick yours? So let’s really get into it.

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You’ve got these incredible [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools now. They can look at a job posting, look at [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) history, and boom, out comes this perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). And on the surface, that sounds amazing, right? No more guessing games with keywords.

But there’s a catch. And that catch is, everyone starts to sound exactly the same. It’s like a sea of perfectly tailored but totally generic [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

Everyone is optimized, sure, but they don’t have a soul. So the game has changed. It’s not about being perfect anymore.

It’s about being the one they remember. So what’s the fix for this super modern high-tech problem? Well, funny enough, the answer is something ancient. It’s storytelling.

The tools have changed, for sure, but connecting with another human being? That’s totally timeless. Okay, so you’ve probably bumped into these before, right? The famous STAR method. Situation.

Action. Result. Or maybe SOAR, which throws an obstacle in there.

And of course, CAR. Challenge. Action.

Result. They’re all awesome for structuring your wins, and you can see they’re all kind of built from the same blueprint. Now, your first instinct might be to just fill in all the blanks for these formulas, right? Just follow the recipe.

But that’s not the secret sauce. That’s not what’s going to make you stand out from all those [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). The real trick is way, way simpler.

It’s right there. The whole secret is hiding in the very first letter. That’s it.

The S in STAR. The C in CAR. That is your new secret weapon.

And hey, don’t just take my word for it. [Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) coach [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) says it perfectly. It’s always going to be in the first letter where you can really contextualize the issue.

That first letter is where you give everything else meaning. Okay, so let’s dig into that. Why is that first letter, the situation, so powerful? Why is it the king? Because that’s where context lives.

And context is what turns a boring list of tasks into a story people actually want to read. Think about it this way. The situation isn’t just some boring intro.

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It’s the whole setup. It’s the actual, specific, maybe even messy problem you had to deal with before you could do anything else. It’s the before picture.

So when you nail the situation, it does a few amazing things. One, it gives context. Two, it makes the problem crystal clear.

Three, and this is huge, it makes the reader feel something for you. They get it. And four, it acts like a hook.

They just have to know what happens next. I love this comparison to a bedtime story. Your results, you know, save the company a million dollars.

That’s the happily ever after. It’s nice, but it’s kind of predictable, right? But the situation? Ah, that’s the good part. That’s the scary dragon.

The impossible quest. That’s the beginning that makes us lean in and actually care about the ending. So what’s the big takeaway here? It’s all about the hook.

You have to grab them from the very first word. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) isn’t just a list of your greatest hits. It’s a collection of many stories, and you need to make the beginning of each one absolutely irresistible.

All right, let’s wrap this up. Your job is simple. Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) do the boring stuff.

The keywords, the formatting. Your job is to be the storyteller. So when you’re using Star or Car, focus all your brainpower on that first letter.

The situation. The challenge. Describe the problem so well that the reader feels it.

Hook them. That’s how you go from being just another perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) to being the one they can’t forget. So I’ll leave you with this one thought.

Go pull up your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). Right now. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can polish the endings, the results, but only you can tell the beginning of the story.

So ask yourself, what’s the most compelling, gripping challenge you’ve ever solved that’s missing from this page? Because that’s the story they really need to hear.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [The Newest LinkedIn Job Market Signals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-newest-linkedin-job-market-signals/)

**Published:** April 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A few trends I've noticed on LinkedIn recently

**Content:**

# The Newest LinkedIn Job Market Signals

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

- **The “AI Job Killer” Myth Busted:** [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) recently confirmed that the current global [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) slowdown is actually being driven by high interest rates, not [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) replacing humans. However, they note that by 2030, **70% of core job skills** will change due to generative AI—so your day-to-day work will evolve even if your title stays the same.
- **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Roles are Booming for Grads:** According to LinkedIn’s newly released *Grads’ Guide 2026*, “AI Engineer” and “AI Specialist” are officially the fastest-growing entry-level roles. Even for non-technical positions, companies are heavily prioritizing candidates who can demonstrate basic [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) literacy and prompt-engineering skills.
- **Small Businesses & Emerging Hubs are [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/):** If you are struggling to land a corporate role, look smaller. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) at micro-businesses (1 to 10 employees) has surged by **168%** for entry-level candidates. Furthermore, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) hotspots are moving away from traditional major metros and into emerging, mid-sized cities.
- **The Rise of “Cloned Recruiter” Scams:** A major warning circulating over the past 24 hours highlights a massive spike in highly sophisticated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [job scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/). Fraudsters are actively cloning real [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) profiles on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to dangle fake, lucrative remote [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/), ultimately tricking candidates into paying upfront for “required” CV edits or fake home-office equipment.

**The Takeaway:** While the market is highly competitive and algorithmic screening is rigorous, optimizing your profile for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) literacy, targeting smaller companies, and staying vigilant against scams are your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) bets for [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/) in 2026.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: April 26 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-april-26-2026/)

**Published:** April 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews  #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: April 26 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

***“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~ Maria Robinson***

![Every Interviewer ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Every-Interviewer-Gemini_Generated_Image_a8xbt5a8xbt5a8xb.png)

Thursday was a rough day. My wife was in an accident while driving in Maryland, our car was totaled, she is all right (the important thing), and I had to do remote support for her because there was no way I could get to her before she could get a replacement car to continue her drive north.

My Mom was in the hospital at one point with a painful case of shingles. It is often brought out by something stressful. I remember telling her, “You can only do what you can do.” It was helpful to me to remember that while feeling so frustrated in gthe moment.

## Integrity in AI Outreach

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In a job market where executive inboxes are besieged by low-grade automation, your ability to signal **human authority** is your most valuable asset. For a college-educated professional, the risk of using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is not that it will fail to write; it’s that it will write something that sounds exactly like everyone else. To win, you must pivot from the “efficiency” of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to the **integrity** of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

The standard “personalized” message (the one that pulls an alma mater or a generic shared connection) is now a digital red flag. It signals that you’re using basic automation to scale mediocrity. To move the needle, you need to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find the strategic gaps in a person’s publicly stated roadmap. If your outreach doesn’t [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a peer-level observation that is synthetically impossible to replicate with a mass-outreach tool, it will be categorized as noise and deleted.

### 1. The Anti-Bot Protocol: Killing the Uncanny Valley

Executive-level recipients have developed a high-sensitivity filter for “uncanny valley” text.

**The Uncanny Valley:** Originally a concept in robotics, this refers to the point where an artificial representation looks and acts almost—but not quite—like a human, causing a sense of unease or revulsion in the observer. In written outreach, this happens when a message is grammatically perfect but lacks the idiosyncratic rhythm, specific context, and “soul” of human-to-human communication.If a message is too polished, too enthusiastic, or follows a predictable three-paragraph structure, it’s flagged as synthetic. To maintain integrity, use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a **[research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) synthesizer**, never as your final voice.

- **The Rule of 80/20:** Let the machine handle the 80%—the heavy lifting of synthesizing quarterly reports and identifying strategic friction points. You, the **person**, provide the final 20%: the tonal nuance, the industry “inside joke,” or the reference to a live event that happened this morning.
- **The Fluff Audit:** [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) defaults to corporate filler. It overuses words like “passionate,” “synergy,” “deep-dive,” and “transformative.” These words tell a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager you have nothing original to contribute.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“Distill the primary operational concerns from \[Executive Name\]’s last three [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) into three bullet points. Draft a low-ego, peer-to-peer opening that addresses one of these points. Strictly avoid corporate buzzwords and ‘salesy’ language. Keep the tone clinical and observant.”*

**The Goal:** The recipient should think: *“This person has actually done the work and isn’t wasting my time with a pitch.”*

### 2. Defensive Outreach: Compliance as a Leadership Signal

As a high-level individual contributor or executive, your judgment is being evaluated from the first touchpoint. Using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to scrape private emails or referencing non-public data isn’t just aggressive; it’s a red flag for your professional ethics. In 2026, data hygiene is a core leadership competency.

- **Stick to Public Signals:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze what the **person** *wants* the world to see (press releases, public blogs, earnings calls). Referencing a specific point made in a public forum shows respect for professional boundaries while highlighting your attention to detail.
- **The Privacy Guardrail:** Avoid [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools that “predict” personal cell phone numbers or private data. Reaching out on a private channel with a business pitch signals a lack of professional boundaries.
- **The Security Protocol:** Never input proprietary data from your current employer into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Your “Onlyness” should be built on your expertise and public market insights, not on leaked internal metrics.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“Based only on public SEC filings and the official ‘Newsroom’ page, identify the most recent operational shift at \[Company\]. Draft an inquiry asking for a peer-level perspective on how this shift impacts \[Your Niche Area\].”*

**The Logic:** Mentioning a public signal with a unique insight shows strategic depth. Mentioning private data makes you a liability.

### 3. Closing the Value Loop

High-resolution outreach works because it creates a **Value Loop**. You use the machine to find a specific, public problem, and you use your unique background to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a potential solution or a high-level observation.

- **The Strategy:** Replace the “coffee chat” (a request for a stranger’s time) with a “context exchange.”
- **The Execution:** *“I saw your comments on \[Industry Shift\] in \[Publication\]. When I navigated \[Similar Event\] at \[Previous Firm\], we found that \[Specific Insight\] was the only real lever for [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/). I’ve mapped out how that might apply to your current roadmap—open to a quick exchange of notes?”*

### The Bottom Line

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a force multiplier for [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), but it’s a subtractive force for your “Onlyness” if you let it speak for you. By implementing the **Anti-Bot Protocol** and respecting **Compliance Guardrails**, you ensure your outreach is perceived as a high-signal, human-to-human interaction.

In a world of automated noise, the **person** who demonstrates both high-level intelligence and high-level discretion is the one who gets the meeting.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

This is what I released (or re-released) in my blog this week:

**10 Ways Thank You Notes Can Quietly Tilt the Scales After a Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) Excerpt: Thank you notes after [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are not magic, and they will not rescue a terrible performance. However, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how they can quietly reinforce your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) and address any lingering concerns.Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-ways-thank-you-notes-can-quietly-tilt-the-scales-after-a-job-interview/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-ways-thank-you-notes-can-quietly-tilt-the-scales-after-a-job-interview/)

**Corporate to Nonprofit: A [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Transition Guide Excerpt: You want to move into the [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) or “not-for-profit” sector. Most people think this transition is a “soft” move. It isn’t. Jeff provides a roadmap for translating your corporate value into the mission-driven world.Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/corporate-to-nonprofit-a-career-transition-guide/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/corporate-to-nonprofit-a-career-transition-guide/)

**Lessons from a Successful [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) #shorts Excerpt: Continuing this series, this person offered 4 lessons from their successful [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Jeff highlights the key takeaways that helped them navigate the market effectively.Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/lessons-from-a-successful-job-search-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/lessons-from-a-successful-job-search-shorts/)

**Stupid Final [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Being Too Excited! Excerpt: It’s the final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) and you’re meeting the “Grand Poobah.” Jeff explains why being overly wound up or exuberant can actually be a turn-off and how to maintain a professional, calm [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-final-interview-mistakes-being-too-excited/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-final-interview-mistakes-being-too-excited/)

**A New Question to Ask At The End of Your [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) #shorts Excerpt: This is a smart question to start asking at the end of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) in addition to all the others. Jeff shares a specific inquiry that can reveal more about the role and your fit within the team. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-new-question-to-ask-at-the-end-of-your-interview-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-new-question-to-ask-at-the-end-of-your-interview-shorts/)

**Why Is It So Difficult for an Unemployed Person to Get a Job? Excerpt: The answer is simple and, no, it is not that all [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have entered into a conspiracy against unemployed people. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains the psychology of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) and why “the gap” creates perceived risk. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-an-unemployed-person-to-get-a-job/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-an-unemployed-person-to-get-a-job/)

**The Old School [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Is Dead Excerpt: EP 3136 A generic [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) stands no chance against the gatekeepers blocking your way. Jeff discusses how to modernize your approach to grab attention in a world of automated screening. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/)

**Is it OK to [Follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) to Confirm They Received My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts Excerpt: Is it appropriate to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with an employer just to confirm receipt of your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)? Jeff shares why this common habit might [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as a nuisance and what you should do instead. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-to-confirm-they-received-my-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-to-confirm-they-received-my-resume-shorts/)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): April 19, 2026 Excerpt: A collection of No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to help with [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), and more. Jeff provides his weekly roundup of strategic insights for job seekers. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-april-19-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-april-19-2026/)

**Stupid Final [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Being Too Excited! (Repost/Featured) Excerpt: It’s the final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) and you’re meeting the “Grand Poobah.” Jeff explains why being overly wound up or exuberant can actually be a turn-off and how to maintain a professional, calm [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-final-interview-mistakes-being-too-excited/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-final-interview-mistakes-being-too-excited/)

**How to Recover Work Successes for Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Excerpt: If you want to stand out, you need to excavate the specific data points that prove your impact—even if you’ve already lost access to your old company’s systems. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® shares strategies for reconstructing your achievement history. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-recover-work-successes-for-your-resume/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-recover-work-successes-for-your-resume/)

**Why Do People Say They Were Tricked By a [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/)? #shorts Excerpt: Why do people say they were tricked by a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-fill-that-many-jobs-shorts/) or [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aren’t honest? Jeff breaks down the misalignment of incentives between candidates and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and how to protect yourself. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-people-say-they-were-tricked-by-a-recruiter-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-people-say-they-were-tricked-by-a-recruiter-shorts/)

**Why Is It So Difficult for an Unemployed Person to Get a Job? (Repost/Featured) Excerpt: The answer is simple and, no, it is not that all [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have entered into a conspiracy against unemployed people. Jeff explains the perceived risk associated with unemployment and how to mitigate it. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-an-unemployed-person-to-get-a-job/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-an-unemployed-person-to-get-a-job/)

**The Old School [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Is Dead (Repost/Featured) Excerpt: EP 3136 A generic [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) stands no chance against the gatekeepers blocking your way. Jeff discusses the transition from traditional letters to modern “value-proposition” [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/)

**Is it OK to [Follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) to Confirm They Received My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts (Repost/Featured) Excerpt: Is it appropriate to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with an employer to confirm receipt of my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) materials? Jeff provides the “No BS” answer on whether this helps or hurts your candidacy. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-to-confirm-they-received-my-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-to-confirm-they-received-my-resume-shorts/)

**The Golden Rule of [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) #shorts Excerpt: Nathan Brunner, CEO, Salarship, was quoted saying this in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® breaks down the essential rule for [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) success. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-golden-rule-of-job-interviews-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-golden-rule-of-job-interviews-shorts/)

**Verbal Job Offers Excerpt: EP 3134 Getting a verbal job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) feels like a victory, but it’s not the finish line. This video explores why a verbal promise lacks legal protection and explains why you should continue your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) until a written contract is signed. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/verbal-job-offers/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/verbal-job-offers/)

**Stop Bombing Your [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Excerpt: EP 3138 Being great at your daily job doesn’t mean a damn thing if you don’t know how to play the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) game. Jeff discusses the mindset shift required to move from a competent worker to a winning candidate. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-bombing-your-interviews/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-bombing-your-interviews/)

**How Can I Find Out About [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Growth and Collaboration? #shorts Excerpt: What are ways to find out about [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth and collaboration when [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with a company? Jeff shares specific questions to ask your future manager to uncover the true internal culture. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-find-out-about-career-growth-and-collaboration-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-find-out-about-career-growth-and-collaboration-shorts/)

**The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Implementation Boom Excerpt: EP 3151 The era of researching [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) in a lab is over. Jeff discusses how [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is moving into practical, everyday implementation in the workplace and what that means for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) trajectory. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ai-implementation-boom/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ai-implementation-boom/)

**Why Don’t Final [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Convert? Excerpt: I have a lot of experience that allows me to recognize a few possible explanations. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® breaks down the hidden reasons why candidates often stumble at the one-yard line and how to ensure you seal the deal. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-dont-final-interviews-convert/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-dont-final-interviews-convert/)

**The Resilient Defense: Mastering the Executive Live-Case Excerpt: [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) isn’t just about surviving the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/); it’s about proving you are the person who will help the company survive whatever comes next. Jeff discusses how to handle high-pressure case studies and live scenarios during executive searches. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-resilient-defense-mastering-the-executive-live-case/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-resilient-defense-mastering-the-executive-live-case/)

**[Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Coming Across as Desperate #shorts Excerpt: This is a big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make because they are desperate. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains how desperate [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) shifts the power dynamic and what you can do to project [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) instead. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-coming-across-as-desperate-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-coming-across-as-desperate-shorts/)

**You Are Not Defined By Your Current Situation Excerpt: True [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) begins with a fundamental realization: your current situation is a season, not a destination. Jeff offers encouragement and a mindset shift for those struggling with a long or difficult [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-are-not-defined-by-your-current-situation/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-are-not-defined-by-your-current-situation/)

**The Golden Rule of [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) #shorts Excerpt: Nathan Brunner, CEO, Salarship, was quoted saying this in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses this essential principle and how it should guide your behavior in every interaction. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-golden-rule-of-job-interviews-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-golden-rule-of-job-interviews-shorts/)

**The Game For an Executive [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Is Different Excerpt: EP 3138 You need to think differently about constructing an executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) than when you were an individual contributor. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses shifting from a tactical focus to one of leadership, strategy, and business impact. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-game-for-an-executive-resume-is-different/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-game-for-an-executive-resume-is-different/)

**The Structural Bypass: Defeating the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) via Data Integrity Excerpt: When the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) “rejects” a high-performing individual, it is rarely a judgment on their talent; it is often a failure of the document to provide clean, legible data. Jeff explains how to optimize your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for automated systems without losing the human touch. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-structural-bypass-defeating-the-ats-via-data-integrity/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-structural-bypass-defeating-the-ats-via-data-integrity/)

**Small Firms, Big Impact Excerpt: EP 3152 Big companies use automated walls to turn talented people into numbers, but small firms are starving for high-level systems and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) expertise. Jeff explores the advantages of targeting smaller, more agile organizations in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/small-firms-big-impact/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/small-firms-big-impact/)

**Don’t Hire ANYONE … #shorts Excerpt: Who doesn’t love Tina Fey? Her [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) about how to avoid this [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is priceless. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® shares a quick lesson on the importance of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) for fit and culture rather than just raw skill. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-hire-anyone-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-hire-anyone-shorts/)

**How Can I Find Out If an Employer is a Good Place to Work Before [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/)? #shorts Excerpt: What are some ways to determine if an employer is a good place to work for before [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) and potentially getting rejected? Jeff shares [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) strategies to vet a company’s culture and employee satisfaction beforehand. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-find-out-if-an-employer-is-a-good-place-to-work-before-applying-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-find-out-if-an-employer-is-a-good-place-to-work-before-applying-shorts/)

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### [A LinkedIn Strategy to Get Hired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-linkedin-strategy-to-get-hired/)

**Published:** April 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's a way to use LinkedIn to get hired.

**Content:**

# A LinkedIn Strategy to Get Hired

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Here’s a way to use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to get hired.

[***How to Add Value on LinkedIn***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k6m)

Hey there, and welcome. So, are you just tired of sending your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into that, you know, that big black hole? Yeah, you’re in the right place, because today we’re going to break down a really powerful, proactive [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) strategy. This is all about getting the attention of the right people. I’m talking about the ones who can actually hire you. All right, let’s just dive right in. I mean, does this sound familiar? You spend hours—I mean, hours—getting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) just right. You hit apply on, I don’t know, dozens of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/), and then what do you hear? Nothing. Crickets. It is so frustrating, right? It feels like you’re just another file in this massive, endless digital pile. But here’s the thing: what if I told you the problem isn’t your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? What if it’s the entire strategy? You know, we’ve all been taught there’s pretty much one way to get a job: you find an opening and you apply. Simple. But if that is your only strategy, I’m telling you, you are playing a losing game. The data—well, the data shows that’s just not how most people actually land a job. Yeah, that’s right. Just relying on that apply button, it’s literally one of the least effective ways to get hired.

Think about it: the majority of positions, especially the really good ones, they’re filled way, way before they ever become a public job posting that you see online. The whole system, it’s just geared towards something else entirely. So you’ve got these two job seekers, right? On one side, you’ve got the old way, the passive way: you just apply and you wait. It’s a pure numbers game, and honestly, the odds are terrible. But on the other side, you have the new proactive way, and this—this is all about strategically making yourself visible to the people who matter before they even know they have a job opening. Okay, so if just [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) doesn’t work, then what does? The answer isn’t some, you know, secret hack or trick. It’s a fundamental shift in how you approach this whole thing. It really all comes down to one super powerful concept, and wait till you see the number behind it. It’s pretty stunning: 85%. Just look at that number seriously. Now, depending on which stats you look at, it’s anywhere from 70 to a staggering 85% of all [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) are filled through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

Let that sink in. That means if you’re only [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) online, you’re basically fighting over this tiny little slice of the pie, maybe just 15% of all the available roles. The real game, the real action, it’s happening somewhere else completely. Now hold on, when I say [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), I know what you’re thinking, and no, I don’t mean that awkward thing where you ask strangers for a job. Just forget that picture entirely. The new [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is all about this: proactively building visibility. It’s about having real, substantive, intelligent conversations. Why? So that when a role does open up, your name is already the one they’re thinking of. All right, this is where the rubber meets the road. I’m going to walk you through a super simple three-step playbook that you can start using on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like today. This is how you become a recognized name in your target industry.

The key here, it’s all about being strategic and, maybe more importantly, being consistent. So the strategy basically has three pillars: first, we’re going to target with real precision; second, we signal our interest; and third—and this is the big one—we engage thoughtfully. So let’s break down exactly what that looks like. Okay, step one: precision. And I mean it, stop this spray and pray approach with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Seriously, just stop. Instead, I want you to make a list of companies you genuinely want to work for. Then hop on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and find the specific VPs or senior leaders in those departments. Here’s a great way to think about it: who would be your future boss’s boss? Those are the decision makers you need to get on the radar of. All right, step two: this is such a simple but weirdly powerful move on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that almost everyone overlooks. So once you’re following the company page you’re targeting, go to their ‘About’ tab. You’re going to see a little button that says something like, “I’m interested.” Click it. That one click is a direct, official signal to that company’s [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). It basically says, “Hey, I’m here and I’m open to opportunities.” It puts you right into their internal talent pool. Easy.

But look, targeting and signaling, that just gets you in the game. That gets you a seat at the table. Thoughtful engagement is how you win the game. This is the step that separates you from literally everyone else. It’s what turns you from just another name on a list into a real person they actually want to talk to. So okay, what does thoughtful engagement even mean? What does it look like? Well, first, let’s talk about what it’s not. It is not leaving comments like, “Hey, great post.” That is totally invisible. A good comment, a thoughtful one, actually adds to the conversation. It’s interesting, it’s supportive, it offers a real insight. You want to say something that makes that senior leader you’re targeting physically stop scrolling and think, “Huh, that’s a really great point.” But how do you do that, especially if you, you know, maybe don’t totally agree with what they posted? The key is to frame it constructively. You can start with a golden phrase like this: “I’m curious, when I think about this problem…” and then you add your perspective.

See what that does? It turns a potential argument into a real, substantive conversation, and it shows you’re a critical thinker, not just a contrarian. Okay, let’s switch gears for a second. I want you to put yourself in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) manager’s shoes. Let’s look at the impact of this whole strategy from their perspective. What is actually going on in their mind when you do this stuff and you do it consistently? Okay, so at first, you’re invisible. You’re just another applicant in the pile. But then, boom, they see your thoughtful comment on their post. Okay, now you’re visible, you’re on the radar. A few more smart comments over a couple of weeks, and now they’re not just seeing you, they’re curious. They click on your profile, they want to know who is this person, and before you know it, with that consistent, smart engagement, you’ve become a recognized name. You’re not a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) anymore; you are a real candidate in their mind.

So if you take one thing away from this, let it be this: the whole point, the crucial point, is that this entire strategy is about building recognition. That’s it. You’re not asking for a job, you’re not begging for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/). You are simply demonstrating your value, your expertise, and your interest, one thoughtful comment at a time. You are transforming yourself from a total stranger into a known, respected professional right in front of their eyes. So really, the only question left is, who are you going to target first? I mean, think about it right now: that one leader, that VP, that company you’ve always admired. The playbook is right here in front of you. So go out there and start building the kind of visibility that actually gets you hired. Whose attention are you going to capture first?

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### [How to Keep Your Job Search Moving When a Hiring Process Stalls](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-keep-your-job-search-moving-when-a-hiring-process-stalls/)

**Published:** April 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# **How to Keep Your Job Search Moving When a Hiring Process Stalls**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process stalls, most people either obsess over that one opportunity or emotionally check out of their search. Both choices hurt you. The goal isn’t to wait better; it’s to keep momentum so this one stalled process doesn’t control your future.

Here are practical strategies I like people to use.

## 1. Clarify what “stalled” actually means

First, separate story from facts.
Did they give you a timeline that’s passed, or did you assume one? Has no one replied at all, or has communication simply slowed?

Send one clear, concise [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) asking for a status update and next steps. If you already did that and still hear nothing, treat the process as stalled, but not dead.

## 2. Protect your pipeline: never bet on one role

The biggest [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I see is emotional monogamy with one opportunity. You had a great conversation and mentally stop your search while you “wait to hear.” That’s how weeks evaporate.

Set a simple rule: until you have a written [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), you keep sourcing, [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), and [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). One process slows down? Fine. Your pipeline shouldn’t.

## 3. Create a weekly activity plan

Momentum is built on behavior, not feelings. When things stall, your emotions will lie to you and say, “Nothing is happening.” Your job is to give yourself proof that *you* are still moving.

For example, each week:

- X targeted [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to roles you actually want
- Y [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) conversations or messages
- Z [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/) on existing processes

Write it down. Track it. The list keeps you honest when your brain wants to spiral.

## 4. Follow up the right way, at the right pace

There’s a difference between professional persistence and pestering.
If they gave you a timeline, [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) once shortly after it passes. If they didn’t, one [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) about a week after your last touchpoint is reasonable.

Your message should be:

- Short
- Polite
- Clear about your continued interest
- Easy to answer

Something like: “I’m still very interested in the role and wanted to see if there’s any additional information you need from me or any update on next steps.”

## 5. Use the pause to strengthen your positioning

A stall is a great time to tighten the story you’re telling about yourself.

Ask:

- Does my résumé clearly signal the role I want?
- Does my [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile reinforce that message?
- Do my [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) examples actually speak to what this market is buying now?

Sometimes the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to keep momentum isn’t chasing more activity; it’s improving the quality of how you show up so every new conversation lands better.

## 6. Expand your target list thoughtfully

If you’ve been laser-focused on a narrow band of companies or titles, use this lull to widen the lens, *intentionally*, not desperately.

You can:

- Add adjacent titles that still leverage your strengths
- Look at smaller firms, not only marquee brands
- Explore related industries that hire similar skill sets

The point is to increase opportunity without throwing strategy out the window.

## 7. Work your network instead of refreshing your inbox

When a process stalls, people refresh email or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) every 10 minutes. That’s addiction, not strategy.

Replace that habit with outreach:

- Reconnect with former colleagues
- Ask for intel on specific companies
- Request warm introductions where possible

You’re shifting [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) from passively waiting on one company to actively creating new options with many.

## 8. Rehearse and refine while you wait

Don’t assume you’ll be “ready” when they finally resurface. Use the stall to sharpen your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) game.

Practice:

- Your concise “Tell me about yourself”
- 3–4 strong achievement stories tied to outcomes
- Clear, confident answers about compensation and start dates

Record yourself, watch it back, and adjust. If this process revives—or another one heats up—you’ll be sharper than when things first slowed down.

## 9. Set emotional guardrails

A stalled process often becomes a story: “They’ve forgotten me,” “I blew it,” “No one wants me.” That story bleeds into your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on every new call.

Give yourself a simple rule:
“I can be disappointed, but I will not make this *personal* without evidence.”

You’re allowed to care. You’re not allowed to let one company’s silence define your worth or hijack the rest of your search.

## 10. Know when to move them to the “inactive” column

Momentum also means knowing when to stop investing mindshare.

If:

- You’ve followed up a few times over several weeks,
- There’s been no response, no new information, and no movement,

**stop chasing**. Move that opportunity to “inactive” in your tracking system. If they come back later, great, but your plan cannot depend on it.

Mentally closing that loop frees up [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) for roles where people are actually behaving like they want to hire someone.

A stalled [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-will-remember-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts-quotes/) process is [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/), not a verdict. You can’t control their pace, their budget, or their internal chaos. You *can* control your pipeline, your habits, and the story you tell yourself. Keep your calendar full, your skills sharp, and your options open. That’s how you maintain momentum—no matter what one company decides to do.

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### [Why Your "Perfectionist" Weakness Is Costing You the Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-perfectionist-weakness-is-costing-you-the-job/)

**Published:** April 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The "perfectionist" answer is the fastest way to signal to a recruiter that you lack self-awareness.

**Content:**

# Why Your “Perfectionist” Weakness Is Costing You the Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3141 The “perfectionist” answer is the fastest way to signal to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) that you lack self-awareness. This episode cuts through the cliché advice and gives you the exact blueprint to handle high-stakes questions, spot toxic workplace [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/), and use the P-P-F framework to command the room from minute one.

That one moment, the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), it can feel like everything is riding on it, right? Well, today we’re gonna break down the tips you absolutely need, not just to survive the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), but to really stand out and win the job. Welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) TV. All right, let’s get right into it.

In just the next few minutes, we’re gonna take all that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) and flip it into some serious, rock solid [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). I mean, let’s be real, who hasn’t felt this way? Your palms are sweaty, your heart’s racing, it feels like your entire future is on the line in this one conversation. We have all been there.

But what if you could change that? Just imagine walking into that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), whether it’s on a screen or in a room, feeling completely [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and in control. Well, that’s exactly what we’re gonna help you do today. So what’s the secret sauce? It’s one word, preparation.

Seriously, it’s the most powerful weapon you have against those nerves. It lets you show up as your absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self. So let’s dive into what that actually looks like.

All right, first things first, we have got to nail your personal pitch. It all starts with that classic question that you know is coming, so tell me about yourself. And getting this one right is a huge deal.

This isn’t just an answer to a question, you’re setting the tone, the whole vibe for the rest of the conversation. A great answer puts you in the driver’s seat from minute one. So how do you structure it? It’s easy, just think present, past, future.

Start with the present. What are you doing right now? Talk about your current job, maybe a quick win you’ve had recently, then connect it to the past. Give a brief highlight of the key experiences that got you to this point.

And finally pivot to the future. This is where you tie it all together and explain why this specific job is the perfect next step for you and what you’re gonna bring to the table for them. Okay, moving on.

Let’s tackle those tricky questions. And yep, we’re starting with the one everybody dreads. So what are your weaknesses? But don’t worry, there’s a really smart way to handle this.

Here’s the deal, you wanna avoid two big mistakes here. First, don’t mention a huge critical flaw that makes them think you can’t do the job. But also you got to avoid the fake weakness, like, oh, I’m just too much of a perfectionist.

Nobody buys that anymore. Instead, aim for a real relevant area where you’re genuinely trying to improve. And then, this is key, immediately talk about the specific steps you’re taking to get better at it.

See, this approach shows that you’re human, but more importantly, it shows you’re self-aware and you’re committed to growth. And honestly, recognizing something you need to work on and then actually doing something about it, well, that’s a powerful strength. Let’s face it, a ton of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are virtual these days, right? So getting the tech and the setup right isn’t just a nice to have, it’s absolutely critical.

Think of this next part as your pre-flight checklist for nailing that video call. And please, don’t just wing it. Do a full tech check, your camera, your mic, your internet connection the day before, and again, 15 minutes before you go live.

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Dress professionally. Yeah, even if they can only see your top half, it actually puts you in a more professional mindset. Find a quiet spot with a clean, simple background.

And remember, you can still build that human connection online. So have a simple, neutral topic ready to break the ice. Now, this is super important.

An [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) is a two-way street. You aren’t just there to impress them, you are also [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) the company. And that means you need to know how to spot potential [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/).

So what is a red flag exactly? It’s pretty simple. It’s any major difference between what was written in the job description and what you’re actually hearing in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). It’s a warning sign that the reality of the job might be very different from what you expected.

Here’s a classic example for you. The job description promises a fixed nine to five schedule, but then in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), they casually mentioned that you should expect 50-hour weeks and that you’ll be on call during weekends. That disconnect right there, that is a textbook red flag.

Okay, so you’ve crushed the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), you’re feeling great, but wait, your work is not quite done yet. We need to talk about sticking the landing and making an amazing final impression. Let’s talk about the power of the [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/).

So is a [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) a total deal breaker? Not always, but honestly, why risk it? It’s such a simple act of professionalism and it shows you’re serious about the role. And think about it, if it’s a close race between you and another candidate, that small detail could be the thing that tips the scales in your favor. Plus, a well-written [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) is one last chance to show off your skills.

It showcases your communication and your writing ability, and it just reinforces that you’re a thoughtful, capable person. It’s your final opportunity to shine. All right, let’s do a quick recap.

One, craft your personal story using that present-past-future model. Two, frame your weaknesses as opportunities for growth. Three, prepare your tech and your space for those virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Four, ask good questions so you can spot any [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/). And five, always, always send that professional [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/). There is a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Visit the site, download the free content, become an insider, and get access to all the content plus [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), or purchase individual products and services.

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### [How Can I Find Out If an Employer is a Good Place to Work Before Applying? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-find-out-if-an-employer-is-a-good-place-to-work-before-applying-shorts/)

**Published:** April 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What are some ways to determine if an employer is a good place to work for before applying and potentially getting rejected?

**Content:**

# How Can I Find Out If an Employer is a Good Place to Work Before Applying? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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What are some ways to determine if an employer is a good place to work for before [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) and potentially getting rejected?

What are some ways to determine if an employer is a good place to work for before [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) and potentially getting rejected? Well, you know, I will say if you go to sites like Glassdoor, you’re going to get the two extremes in the response: “Wow, what a great place to work!” or “This place is awful. God, stay clear.” But between the two poles, there’s a more textured answer.

Also, contact people who work for the firm through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). “Um, you know, I’m [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a job in such and such department doing such and such. Um, I want to get an idea of what it’s like to work for the firm. Can you point me to someone who works in that department?” “Who does the job report to?” “I’m not exactly sure, I just saw a job ad.” And you can send them a job description and basically respond by saying, “I don’t know who the job is with, but this is the position description. Do you know someone who might fit into a group like this?”

Um, and thus, you know, you would answer it or have them answer by elaborating a little bit more. And it’s not just what they say, but how they say it that’s going to make the difference.

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### [Be Prepared to Walk Away from a Job Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-prepared-to-walk-away-from-a-job-offer/)

**Published:** April 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To avoid wasting your time, energy, and resources, you can decide to end the negotiation and look for other opportunities or partners.

**Content:**

# Be Prepared to Walk Away from a Job Offer

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

I contributed to a section of a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) collaborative article that discussed, “walking away from a negotiation and pursuing your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA). Sometimes, the impasse is caused by a fundamental mismatch between the parties’ expectations, demands, or values, which makes it impossible to find a mutually acceptable solution. To avoid wasting your time, [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), and resources, you can decide to end the negotiation and look for other opportunities or partners. However, before you walk away, you should make sure that you have exhausted all other options, communicated your reasons and intentions clearly, and left the door open for future cooperation.”

I responded:

Approaching this from a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) perspective, the threat of walking away is a job hunter’s most important leverage. If an employer threatens to rescind an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), they were never really into you and they are exerting power and control and you should walk away, telling them why you are doing it. Keep [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) during a time when you are negotiating. You may not get what you want in the negotiation and then will have to start over if you reach an impasse. In a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) situation, get advice from trusted people or negotiation experts. They [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) frequently. You don’t. You are out of your depth.

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### [The Golden Rule of Job Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-golden-rule-of-job-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** April 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Nathan Brunner, CEO, Salarship, was quoted saying this in an interview.

**Content:**

# The Golden Rule of Job Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Interview Mistakes: Coming Across as Desperate #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-coming-across-as-desperate-shorts/)

**Published:** April 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a big mistake people make because they are desperate.

**Content:**

# Interview Mistakes: Coming Across as Desperate #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Avoid Giving Generic Answers #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/avoid-giving-generic-answers-shorts/)

**Published:** April 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Being authentic is a way to differentiate yourself from your competition. This is how.

**Content:**

# Avoid Giving Generic Answers #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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*Being authentic is a way to differentiate yourself from your competition. This is how.*

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### [You Are Not Defined By Your Current Situation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-are-not-defined-by-your-current-situation/)

**Published:** April 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** True career resilience begins with a fundamental realization: your current situation is a season, not a destination.

**Content:**

# You Are Not Defined By Your Current Situation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Our identities are often tightly interwoven with our job titles, the companies we work for, and the trajectory of our [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). When that trajectory hits a plateau or, worse, a downward slope due to layoffs, industry shifts, or personal setbacks, it is easy to fall into the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) of believing that our current circumstance is a reflection of our inherent worth. However, true [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) begins with a fundamental realization: your current situation is a season, not a destination.

##  The Trap of Situational Identity

Psychologically, we tend to anchor our self-esteem to our most recent achievements. When you are “between roles” or stuck in a position that doesn’t utilize your talents, the ego takes a hit. You might start referring to yourself as a “job seeker” or an “applicant” rather than a professional with a decade of expertise. This shift in language is dangerous because it moves you from a position of power to a position of supplication. [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) starts by reclaiming your narrative—viewing yourself as a high-value asset currently in a phase of strategic transition.

## Building the Muscle of Resilience

[Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is not the absence of struggle; it is the ability to navigate through it without losing your sense of direction. To build this muscle, you must focus on ‘indispensable’ skills—those that cannot be automated or easily replaced. This includes high-level judgment, emotional intelligence, and the ability to solve complex problems for specific buyers. While a job can be taken away, the ‘yield’ of your experience—the wisdom and refined judgment you’ve gained over the years—remains yours forever.

##  Growth in the Grey Areas

The periods of uncertainty are often where the most significant professional growth occurs. These “grey areas” provide the space to pivot, to learn new technologies, and to re-evaluate what you actually want from [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Instead of viewing a gap as a void, view it as a laboratory. It is a time to experiment with new [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) strategies, to consult, or to deepen your expertise in a niche area. The most successful [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) are rarely linear; they are a series of intentional jumps and recalibrations.

##  Maintaining the Long View

When you are in the thick of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) or a difficult project, the days feel long and the progress feels slow. During these times, it is vital to maintain a “long view” of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) is built on the quiet efforts of the present—the learning, the outreach, and the persistence—even when the results aren’t immediately visible. Remember that the right role will recognize your worth, but only if you continue to recognize it yourself first.

Stay confident in your abilities. Your current situation is merely the backdrop for your next great chapter. Keep learning, keep searching, and above all, keep believing that you are far more than the sum of your resume’s bullet points.

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### [The Resilient Defense: Mastering the Executive Live-Case](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-resilient-defense-mastering-the-executive-live-case/)

**Published:** April 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Resilience isn't just about surviving the interview; it's about proving you are the person who will help the company survive whatever comes next.

**Content:**

# The Resilient Defense: Mastering the Executive Live-Case

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In executive and high-level individual contributor roles, the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/) is rarely about your past; it’s a [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) test of your future utility. This is where many **people** falter—not because they lack the skill, but because they lose their **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** under pressure. This stage requires a specific type of **Strategic [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/)**: the ability to maintain your unique perspective while being interrogated by a room full of **people** paid to find your breaking point.

### 1. The Anatomy of the Stress Test

In a high-stakes [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/), the “Case” is often a real-time problem the company is currently facing. They aren’t just looking for the “right” answer; they are looking for your **Problem-Solving Architecture**.

- **The [Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/):** Many **people** try to guess what the interviewer wants to hear. This signals a “Follower” mindset.
- **The Defense:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to simulate “Red Team” scenarios before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/).
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“I am [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for \[Role\] at \[Company\]. Their current market challenge is \[X\]. Act as a skeptical COO. Challenge my proposal that \[Your Strategy\] is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) path forward. Focus on the risks of capital allocation and cultural friction.”*

### 2. Strategic Resilience: The “Anchor” Technique

[Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is usually defined as “bouncing back” from [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). In the context of a Live-Case, [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is **Internal Stability**. It is the ability to have your ideas challenged without becoming defensive or shrinking your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to fit a “safe” narrative.

- **The Move:** When a **person** pokes a hole in your logic, don’t pivot immediately. Anchor first.
- **The Script:** *“That’s a fair critique of the scalability. My logic is based on \[Specific Industry Data Point\]. If we assume that variable changes, here is how I would recalibrate the framework without losing the core objective of \[Specific Outcome\].”*
- **The Goal:** You are demonstrating that you can handle high-pressure conflict without losing your strategic integrity. You are showing them how you will act in a board meeting when things go sideways.

### 3. Using AI to Map “Failure Modes”

[Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is built on preparation. You cannot be rattled by a question you’ve already answered for yourself. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map out the “Failure Modes” of your own strategic approach.

- **The Workflow:** Feed your proposed strategy for the company into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).
- **The Prompt:** *“Analyze this strategic approach for \[Company Name\]. Identify three ways this plan could fail in the first 90 days. For each failure mode, provide a ‘resilience protocol’ that an operator would use to course-correct.”*
- **The [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/):** By internalizing these “pre-mortems,” you walk into the room with the quiet [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) of a **person** who has already considered the worst-case scenario.

### 4. The Operator’s Pivot: From Defense to Offense

True [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is the ability to turn a defensive moment into a value-add. When a case study starts to feel like an interrogation, an operator shifts the [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) back to the business outcome.

- **The Pivot:** If they push you on a technical detail, answer it briefly, then pull back to the macro view.
- **The Frame:** *“We can dive deeper into the \[Technical Detail\], but the broader [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) of this model depends on how we handle \[Market Factor\]. In my experience, that is where the real margin is won or lost. Shall we focus there?”*
- **The Impact:** You’ve just taken control of the room. You’ve moved from a student being tested to a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) solving a problem.

### The Bottom Line

The Live-Case Defense is the final gate. It is designed to see if your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is a fragile mask or a resilient reality. By using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to “Red Team” your ideas and stress-test your logic, you ensure that your unique value isn’t just something you wrote on a resume—it’s something you can defend in a storm.

[Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) isn’t just about surviving the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-mistakes-not-addressing-a-concern-proactively-shorts/); it’s about proving you are the **person** who will help the company survive whatever comes next.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How Can I Find Out About Career Growth and Collaboration? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-find-out-about-career-growth-and-collaboration-shorts/)

**Published:** April 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What are ways to find out about career growth and collaboration when interviewing with a company?

**Content:**

#  How Can I Find Out About Career Growth and Collaboration? #shorts 

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

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What are ways to find out about [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth and collaboration when [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with a company?

Um, the first thing that you’re doing is focusing in on demonstrating you’re fit for the job. It’s kind of like in dating. In dating, we don’t talk about on the first date whether or not we’re interested in marriage and having children; we’re trying to get to know one another. So focus on demonstrating how your background fits the role.

There will come a point in the [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) where they’ll ask you, “Do you have any questions for us?” One of the questions is, “I’m sure you know I’m not interested in staying in this role for the next 30 years of my life. If I do quality work, what sort of advancement potential exists here? Could you give me an example of someone’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path and how they’ve progressed within the organization who started off working for you and has moved on to other things, or has grown within your group?” That deals with the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth question.

For collaboration: “Give me a sense of the working environment here.” Now the truth is, I wouldn’t take anything that a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager says at face value. I’d want to meet with the team and talk with them about what [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth is like and how collaborative the environment is before I would ever accept something from the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager is trying to fill a job. That’s all they care about. And I hate to be this blunt, but I will be: what they care about is, can you solve their problem? They don’t care about you and what you want. They may say to the contrary, but it’s the rare employer that really does.

So the long and the short of it is, you have to ask questions of people in order to find out whether what this firm can do to help you. And thus, in the question of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth, I’ve covered that. With collaboration, it starts off and may start off with, “You know, you’ve been here a lot longer than I would have been by the time I joined. Question for you: you know, I’m used to working in a collaborative environment and not a dog-eat-dog environment. What’s it like here?”

No one will ever tell you it’s a dog-eat-dog environment. They may start to hedge their answer about collaboration, and thus through that indirect answer, they’re telling you they’re not a particularly collaborative environment.

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### [Why Don’t Final Interviews Convert?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-dont-final-interviews-convert/)

**Published:** April 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I have a lot of experience that allows me to recognize a few possible explanations.  

**Content:**

# Why Don’t Final Interviews Convert?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A coach I know asked for advice. Her client was frustrated. They’d gone through the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) process for 10+ opportunities.
Conversations about compensation and start dates have happened.

At times, she was told she was overqualified or too expensive.
At the 11th hour, a “perfect candidate” showed up (10+ times!), and the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) didn’t happen.
[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) have given my client positive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) in extensive debriefs. They have not given them any actionable information.

So, let’s be detectives. Think about:
1\. Your intuitive response about why offers haven’t happened, what comes to mind?
2\. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process steps after the final round of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). What could go wrong?
3\. What could my client do to avoid this throughout the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process?

I don’t know her client but having worked in recruiting for as long as I did, filled as many positions as I helped filled, and coached even more through an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) lifecycle, I have a lot of experience that allows me to recognize a few possible explanations.

Too experienced and too expensive are the same answer.

Working with the assumption that this is a senior professional and not an individual contributor (they were), the disconnect between what leadership and staff thinks is needed is common. It’s why I believe [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) should start by asking about the role and what you can do to help, particularly if they’ve seen a job description.

HR people I’ve interviewed laugh when I say job descriptions are 80% accurate. “If we’re lucky” is the common lament.

I don’t know your client but too often people focus on demonstrating competence to the exclusion of all the other things people assess for–self-confidence, character, chemistry, [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), that someone cares, that they can connect with the person, so they can trust them. All soft skills, but pivotal for leadership roles.

Sometimes a rough edge surfaces early in the process, but there is so much good that the person brings that they keep moving forward until someone speaks up. “We need IPO experience. She’s never taken a company public,” for example.

Your client needs to recognize where rough edges are occurring and address them proactively and not think they’ve gone away.

Depending upon her personality type, she may have trouble reading a room and speaking to her opponents during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). It requires someone willing to confront an opponent, which in leadership you have to do, and not just shuffling through the process, hoping things work out.

Time and again, I hear stories like hers. Everything is going well until it isn’t. S/he invests so much time, effort and heart, shared their hopes with others and left feeling crushed with the disappointment of not being chosen.

Too often, people treat final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) as though they are certain of being hired.

In fact, they are usually among a few finalists. Even when they are the only person being interviewed on this round, they are still competing with the idea that there might be someone better out there to choose from and an employer restarting their search again.

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### [When It Comes To LinkedIn, Recommendations, Skills And Endorsements Matter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-it-comes-to-linkedin-recommendations-skills-and-endorsements-matter/)

**Published:** April 23, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Recommendations, skills, and endorsements are a way of demonstrating social proof on LinkedIn for you and your abilities.

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# When It Comes To LinkedIn, Recommendations, Skills And Endorsements Matter

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

When I was buying my last car, I went online for reviews to see what owners thought of the make and model before ever contacting the dealer. People gave me a lot of great information that allowed me to feel comfortable with my choice of cars and [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) prices is. After all, people are very generous online when it comes to sharing information. This is so true with books, music, and scores of other things, including your expertise.

Recommendations, skills, and endorsements are a way of demonstrating social proof on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) for you and your abilities. Recommendations are long-form testimonials that people provide about you and your work. Because [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) allows you to screen these before approving them for your profile page, no bad recommendations need to appear there. However, an organization can discern what it wants by looking at them — and they do look at them.

Imagine you were trying to [hire someone](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-someone-you-and-your-team-dont-know-what-youre-doing/) and you saw that a candidate had been endorsed for a particular skill four times. Would you be as impressed with them as you might be with someone who is endorsed for it 40 times? How about 140 times? How about 440 times? There is an impact that people receive with skills and endorsements on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and texture provided through recommendations.

Since companies scan [LinkedIn profiles for congruence between your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-getting-a-resume-on-your-linkedin-profile-2/) and profile, they notice recommendations and check whether you have been endorsed repeatedly for the skills and experiences that you claim to have on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). After all, they notice that you might have relatively few endorsements for a particular skill or experience that is required for their position and that you have received many, many more for a different skill. That [sends a clear signal](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-send-signals-this-is-a-job-from-hell-jobsearchtv-com/) to them: where your expertise really lies. Your [LinkedIn profile needs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-you-really-need-a-linkedin-profile/) to demonstrate congruence with what you are claiming to be an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) on when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a position.

In addition, if you are being “hunted” by a firm for a role, recommendations, skills, and endorsements clearly communicate whether you have simply dabbled with something or you’re an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at it.

So how do you build up your recommendations, skills, and endorsements?

This is something that you should be doing throughout [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). You need to ask people to write testimonials for you. Every time you complete work of significance, ask for a recommendation from those who positively benefited from it. Recommend them too. Reciprocity on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is always appreciated.

Only endorse people for skills that are and will be significant for them. As a coach (and before that, an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) I’ve been endorsed for software development life cycle skills more than 100 times. What I actually know about this skill would fit in a thimble, yet more than 100 people felt that this was a significant skill to endorse me for. Why?

Compiling recommendations, skills, and endorsements on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) are a powerful and effective way to build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) in your area of expertise so that when a role opens that might appeal to you, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), both corporate and third-party, are able to find you and reach out to you to discuss opportunities with you.

After all, the person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or hardest-working (although those are great qualities to have). The person who gets ahead is the one who stays alert to opportunities. Sometimes, those are internal to your organization. More typically, they will be outside of your firm.

Increasing your recommendations, skills, and endorsements should be a part of your [career branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-tips-for-career-branding-that-will-take-you-far/) strategy in an effort to draw attention to yourself and differentiate yourself from others. It doesn’t take long, but it should be done regularly.

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### [Including a Handwritten Letter When Applying for Jobs?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/including-a-handwritten-letter-when-applying-for-jobs/)

**Published:** April 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it acceptable to include a handwritten letter with my resume and cover letter when applying for jobs?

**Content:**

# Is It OK to Include a Handwritten Letter With My Resume and Cover Letter When Applying for Jobs? 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Is it acceptable to include a handwritten letter with my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)?

Is it acceptable to include a handwritten letter with my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? Um, what does the handwritten letter do that a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) doesn’t do? Makes no sense. Like, what are you going to say? “I really need the job?” No, you don’t want to come across as desperate. Desperate isn’t good in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) or in dating. No one likes the desperate person; there’s always something wrong with them.

So the handwritten letter… like, how are you submitting this [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Normally people send it online. Are you going to scan it and send this handwritten note? Why? Why? If you’re not qualified, they’re never going to open up the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) file. If you’re doing this in person, maybe they can’t read your handwriting. So why would you do this? You’re just hurting yourself, and you don’t want to do that.

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### [Verbal Job Offers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/verbal-job-offers/)

**Published:** April 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Verbal Job Offers

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3134 Getting a verbal job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) feels like a victory, but it’s not the finish line. This video explores why a verbal promise lacks legal protection and explains why you should continue your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) until a written contract is signed.

Timestamps

- **0:00** – The excitement of the verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/): Is it the finish line?
- **0:56** – Decoding the “14-day wait” and why it poses a risk to candidates.
- **1:47** – Verbal vs. Written: Comparing the lack of protection to a “career safety net.”
- **3:13** – The Golden Rule: Why you must **keep [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)** despite the good news.
- **4:01** – A 4-step proactive strategy for handling a verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) professionally.
- **5:01** – Final takeaway: Being your own #1 advocate in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

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Alright, let’s just jump right into it. Picture this, you’ve gone through what feels like a million [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), you absolutely crushed the final one, and then your phone rings. It’s HR, and they’ve got amazing news.

But here’s the thing, is this really the finish line? Today we’re going to talk about that super intense moment when you get a verbal job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and why what you do next is, well, it’s everything. And this is a real [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), you know, it sounds so familiar to so many of us, you get that rush of pure excitement, that feeling that all your [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) finally, finally paid off. You hear those magic words, you’ve been selected, and you think, yes, the job is mine, it’s a massive moment.

And that’s the big question, isn’t it? Your first instinct is to breathe a huge sigh of relief, maybe pop open something bubbly, and immediately shut down your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). But hold on a second, is that actually the smartest play here? Let’s really dig into this. Oh, that phone call is pure adrenaline.

It’s total validation. It means they want you. But let’s be super clear about what you’ve actually received.

It’s a promise. It’s an expression of their intent. And that’s a fantastic, wonderful sign, but it is not the same thing as a locked-in, confirmed job.

Okay, so here’s where things get interesting. What often comes right after the good news is something like, we’ll get the official [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter to you, but it’ll probably take about 14 days. And this? This is where that little seed of uncertainty starts to get planted.

14 days. Just think about that. That is two whole weeks.

They might just call it getting the paperwork together, but for you, it’s two weeks of being in total limbo. Two weeks where, let’s be honest, anything could happen. That waiting period, that’s a risk.

And this brings us to the absolute heart of the matter. The huge, enormous difference between a verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and a written one. You gotta understand, one is basically just a conversation.

The other? That’s your career’s safety net. I mean, just look at this side-by-side. A verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? It’s a conversation.

It’s almost never legally binding. But a written [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? That’s a formal document. That is a real commitment from them to you.

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It’s why we say one gives you zero protection, while the other is your shield. This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) right here, it says everything you need to know. Until you are holding that official document, with the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), the start date, all the benefits, everything confirmed in black and white, you have absolutely no security.

It’s a tough truth, but that’s the reality you have to operate in. So, knowing all this, what’s the game plan? Well, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) strategy is actually the exact opposite of what your gut is telling you to do. It feels totally counterintuitive, I get it, but it is the single most important thing you can do to protect yourself in this situation.

Okay, so you’re in this waiting game, you’ve got a really promising verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) on the table, but nothing is guaranteed yet. So what is your next move? I mean, do you just wait, sit by the phone, refresh your email every five minutes, and basically put your entire [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) on pause? That’s the passive approach, and honestly, it’s a huge gamble. It puts all the power in their hands, not yours.

So here it is, the most direct, most powerful advice I can give you. You have to keep [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). Seriously.

Do not pause your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Do not cancel those other [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) you have lined up. You keep moving forward like nothing has changed, until you have a signed contract.

Now listen, this isn’t about being negative or disloyal to the company that just called you. Not at all. This is about being strategic.

Think of it as your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) shield. You are proactively making sure that no matter what happens, you are coming from a position of strength. This right here.

This is your new mindset. It’s the logic you need to live by. If another potential employer asks you if you’re still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), your answer is yes.

And why? Because you’re right. A verbal promise is not an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). This phrase should be your mantra.

So here’s the playbook, plain and simple. Step 1. Acknowledge their call. Thank them.

Tell them you’re excited. Step 2. Immediately get back to your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Step 3. Absolutely go to your other [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

And Step 4. You don’t stop any of this until you have secured that signed written contract. So why is this strategy so effective? Well because there’s simply no guarantee with a verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Things happen.

Budgets get cut. Priorities shift. Key people change their minds.

Heck, even written offers can get pulled back sometimes. By continuing to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you keep all your options on the table, and it puts you in the strongest possible position. You’re not desperate, you’re in demand.

If you take one thing away from all this, let it be this. This is the golden rule of job searching. An [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) isn’t real until it is written down and signed by both of you.

Until you have that legally binding document, you do not have the job. So yeah, celebrate the good news from the phone call, but do not stop until the ink is dry. And that just leaves us with one last thing to think about.

At the end of the day, a company is always, always going to look out for its own [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) interests. So who is the number one person responsible for protecting [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), your finances, and your future? The answer is simple. It’s you.

Always.

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### [Do Companies Ever Interview People to Gather Data With No Interest in Hiring?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-companies-ever-interview-people-to-gather-data-with-no-interest-in-hiring/)

**Published:** April 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is usually a signal these firms give that shouldn't be ignored.

**Content:**

# Do Companies Ever Interview People to Gather Data With No Interest in Hiring?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Usually the people asking the question are not the ones being targeted to do this HOWEVER there is usually a signal these firms give that shouldn’t be ignored.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people. I try and help you perform at a high level in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) or your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), with staffing, with managing and leading, a whole host of things related to the workplace.

In this video, I’m just trying to get caught up on questions I’ve been asked. Do companies ever [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) people to gather data with no interest in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)? Absolutely. Of course, that happens.

Now, it tends not to be for the junior people. It tends to be for more experienced leadership individuals. So, if you’re relatively inexperienced, they don’t really care.

What they care about is for veteran people. And, as such, sometimes they’re trying to understand the process that your firm is involved with making decisions. For example, they’re trying to create a new system that relates to or competes with something that your firm is known for.

They [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in order to get a sense of how the system was architected. I’m just pulling one example. But do you think there’s any great secrecy around accounting and how things are done in accounting? How about engineering? Do you think there’s any great secrets about how things get engineered? No.

So, I’ll just simply say, yes, it happens. And we’ll never know how to recognize it unless they give you a homework assignment to do. Sometimes, the homework assignments translate into free consulting.

And, as such, I’ve always encouraged people politely decline to do a homework assignment. Well, other people will do it. Yes, I understand that.

And if this looks like free consulting to me, I don’t work for free. Do you? Oh, no, we’re not doing free consulting. It’s going to be based upon what we see.

You mean having a conversation with me isn’t adequate, even though most firms find it easy to make such choices? Well, we like to do it differently. That is great. I’m glad you like to do it differently.

I’m just not going to do it. I’m going to tell you to your face that I don’t do free consulting. This has nothing to do with anything we’re doing.

And that’s really the key to this is if it vaguely looks like something that relates to what they’re asking you to do once you’re on board, don’t do it. Just politely push it away. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [How to Add Value on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-add-value-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** April 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is an experiment where I use txt-to-speech to create an audio of a small part of a post by Carol Kaemmerer

**Content:**

## How to Add Value on LinkedIn

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

This is an experiment where I use txt-to-speech to create an audio of a small part of a post by Carol Kaemmerer who I interviewed for the show in [Episode 2391 about foolish LinkedIn mistakes](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nk20xNFiyk9C65mDDQemz)

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### [Defeating the ATS via Data Integrity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/defeating-the-ats-via-data-integrity/)

**Published:** April 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When the ATS "rejects" a high-performing individual, it is rarely a judgment on their talent; it is often a failure of the document to provide clean, legible data.

**Content:**

# Defeating the ATS via Data Integrity

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) is often viewed as a gatekeeper to be tricked. In reality, it is a **parser** designed to turn your professional history into structured data. When the system “rejects” a high-performing individual, it is rarely a judgment on their talent; it is often a failure of the document to provide clean, legible data.

Today, we focus on the “Clean Room” strategy—optimizing the structural integrity of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) so your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** actually reaches human eyes. To bypass the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you don’t need “hacks”; you need a document that speaks the machine’s language without losing its human soul.

### 1. The Parser Test: Ensuring Data Extraction

Most “rejections” happen before a human ever sees your name because the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) parser couldn’t translate your layout into its database. If the machine can’t find your “Education” or “Skills” sections because they are buried in a graphic, you are effectively invisible.

- **The Goal:** Create a “flat” document that allows for 100% data accuracy.
- **The Example:** Avoid multi-column layouts, tables, and images. While these look aesthetically pleasing to humans, many parsers read them out of order (e.g., reading across Column A and Column B as a single line), creating a nonsensical text string.
- **The Action:** Save your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as a standard .docx or a “flattened” [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/). Test it by copying all the text and pasting it into a plain Notepad file. If the [contact info](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/), dates, and titles are scrambled, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) will scramble them too.

### 2. Semantic Clustering: Moving Beyond Keyword Stuffing

Modern [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) platforms like **Workday** and **Greenhouse** no longer just count keywords. They use **Natural Language Processing (NLP)** to identify “skill clusters.” They look for the relationship between a tool and its context.

- **The Goal:** Build “Value Anchors” that link skills to specific outcomes.
- **The Example:** Don’t just list “Python” in a skills bank at the bottom. The parser assigns more weight to: *“Developed an automated reporting tool in Python that reduced manual data entry by 40%.”*
- **The Action:** Ensure every primary keyword from the job description is paired with a verb and a metric. This tells the system not just that you *know* the word, but that you have *applied* the skill.

### 3. The Acronym Bridge: Capturing Every Search String

Different [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use different search strings within the same [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). One might search for “MBA,” while another searches for “Master of Business Administration.” If you only use one, you miss 50% of the potential hits.

- **The Goal:** Maximize discoverability across varying human search habits.
- **The Example:** In your “Education” or “Skills” section, always use the format: **“Full Term (Acronym).”** \* **The Action:** Scan your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for terms like “Project Management Professional (PMP)” or “Search Engine Optimization (SEO).” Providing both ensures that no matter how the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) filters the database, your profile remains in the results.

### 4. The Referral Priority Lane: The Ultimate Bypass

The most effective way to “bypass” the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is to enter through a **[Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Link**. Most [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) platforms have a separate dashboard for referred candidates, often highlighting them with a “High Priority” badge or moving them to the top of the recruiter’s queue.

- **The Goal:** Use your network to change how the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) weights your profile.
- **The Example:** Instead of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) through the general “Careers” portal, use a Micro-Sprint to find a peer within the organization and ask for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) link.
- **The Action:** When you apply via a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), your data is still parsed, but the “Human-in-the-Loop” filter is triggered much earlier. You aren’t just a data point; you are a data point with an internal endorsement.

### The Bottom Line

Bypassing the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is a game of **Signal vs. Noise**. When you provide clean formatting, semantic clusters, and a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) signal, you remove the friction that causes the machine to discard your profile. You aren’t “beating” the system; you are making it impossible for the system to ignore you.

By the time your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reaches a human, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) has already validated your technical fit. Now, your Onlyness—your unique perspective and demonstrated impact—can take over the conversation.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Why Do People Say They Were Tricked By a Recruiter? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-people-say-they-were-tricked-by-a-recruiter-shorts/)

**Published:** April 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why do people say they were tricked by a recruiter or recruiters aren’t honest?

**Content:**

# Why Do People Say They Were Tricked By a Recruiter? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Y7zD2_NCx2o)

Why do people say they were tricked by a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) or [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aren’t honest?

Um, I worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) for a lot of years. So if you want to take this as someone defending my former profession, you know, I don’t think it is, but you’ll hear me and make your own decision. Not every [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is honest. However, the big thing is [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) aren’t honest too. And most of the time, the good [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are parroting the deceptions that corporate [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers and corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are giving them, and they’re communicating it to you. So the real thing isn’t about the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/), because if you don’t want to trust them, you don’t have to trust them. It’s about why you listen to the employer and what they’re telling you without questioning them more deeply.

You see, when they do behavioral [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) questions, don’t they deep dive further and want to find out more about what you did? Of course. Same thing needs to happen for you when they talk with you about the role, responsibilities, and what you’re expected to accomplish during your tenure. One thing you can always ask is, “What happened to the person who sat at the desk you’re going to assign me to? Why did they leave?” “Oh, they left for a better opportunity.” “What made it a better opportunity? Why couldn’t they get that opportunity here?” “I needed them to do this and they wanted to do something different, and thus they left for a different organization.” What they’re indirectly telling you is once you start working for them, they’re not going to really upwardly promote you all that often. So you got to start thinking beyond simply the script that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers will give you to persuade you to come to work there.

Remember, you as a job hunter embellish the truth a little bit to finesse situations, right? Well, so do they. They want to fill that job. So they’re going to say all sorts of wonders: “We’ve got a terrific opportunity. We’re a great team of people here. Did I mention we’re like family?” Yeah, family like in the Christmas movies that are at one another’s throats! They don’t mention that part of it. Nor do they talk with you about why people leave or how much turnover rate there is, and you don’t ask about it. You’re [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that if you ask questions like this, they’re going to be turned off, and I understand, but you have to look out for you. If you join a viper’s nest, if you join a high turnover environment, and an agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is saying all sorts of complimentary things, you’re listening to the agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) who’s just parroting what they’ve been told.

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### [No BS Career Advice: April 19 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-april-19-2026/)

**Published:** April 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more.

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: April 19, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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I hope the stories that came out on Friday about the end of the war in the Middle East are true.

**Last weekend, I released “**[**Executive Job Offer Forensics: Deep Dive Due Diligence**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRVDDCY)**.”**

It’s a rigorous, six-phase framework to strip away [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) polish and find the ground truth of any organization. You will learn to stop being a “candidate” hoping for an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and start acting as an “investigative partner” auditing a high-stakes investment.

**As with my last book, I released it for a discounted price–$2.99–to help more people and obtain a few reviews on the platform. The audiobook costs more.**

**The price will go up next weekend. Order it before you need it because the process I outline starts as soon as you receive an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).**

**“**[**Executive Job Offer Forensics: Deep Dive Due Diligence**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRVDDCY)**.” $2.99 for Kindle and as a PDF**

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## Turning Job Search Inertia Into Action with Micro-Sprints

For professionals, the greatest enemy of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) isn’t a lack of opportunity; it’s the paralyzing weight of the “Long Game.” When a search is viewed as a singular, massive project, it inevitably leads to procrastination or the [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) associated with high-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). To maintain a high-level search while holding down a current role or managing a transition, you must move to deploying **Micro-Sprints**.

A Micro-Sprint is a 15-to-20-minute block of focused, high-intensity activity dedicated to a single function. By compartmentalizing your search into these bursts, you avoid the fatigue of “context switching” and ensure that every action you take reinforces your **Onlyness**–that unique intersection of your expertise and the market’s specific needs.

Here is how to apply Micro-Sprints across the four vital functions of a typical search.

### 1. The Reconnaissance Sprint: Finding the “Internal Weather”

Most people spend hours browsing job boards. This is passive motion. A Reconnaissance Sprint is an active investigation. Your goal is to find the specific “pain points” of a target company so your outreach doesn’t sound like a generic request for work.

- **The Goal:** Identify one specific strategic problem at a target employer.
- **The Example:** Instead of reading an entire 80-page 10-K filing, set a 15-minute timer to scan the “Risk Factors” section for a specific company. Look for keywords like “integration friction,” “customer acquisition costs,” or “regulatory headwinds.”
- **The Action:** By the end of the sprint, you should have one sentence written down: *“Company X is currently struggling with \[Problem Y\] because of \[Factor Z\].”* This sentence becomes the foundation of your future pitch.

### 2. The Semantic Alignment Sprint: Coding Your Signal

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile are not historical documents; they are marketing assets. They need to be tuned to the “Knowledge Clusters” that AI-driven recruitment tools and [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) are programmed to find.

- **The Goal:** Optimize one specific section of your profile for a single target role or industry trend.
- **The Example:** Take the “Professional Experience” section for your most recent role. Use a 15-minute sprint to cross-reference it against a specific job description. For example, if the job description emphasizes “Data Privacy” and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) says “Compliance,” bridge that gap.
- **The Action:** Rewrite three bullet points to move from “duties” to “outcomes.” Shift from *“Managed a team of developers”* to *“Architected a CI/CD pipeline that reduced deployment errors by 18% during the Q4 push.”* You are aligning your data with the market’s current expectations.

### 3. The Digital Handshake Sprint: High-Resolution Outreach

Networking is often viewed as a chore, leading to generic “I’d love to connect” messages that get ignored. A Handshake Sprint focuses on one person and one high-value observation.

- **The Goal:** Send one highly personalized message that proves you are a peer, not a solicitor.
- **The Example:** Find a post from a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager or a potential peer at a target firm. Spend 15 minutes reading their last three posts or a recent [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) they gave to understand their professional “vibe” and current priorities.
- **The Action:** Draft a message that leads with an observation, not a request. *“I read your piece on \[Topic\] and noticed you mentioned \[Specific Point\]. My experience at \[Previous Company\] showed that \[Contrarian View\] often yields better results in high-growth environments. I’d love to trade notes on how your team is handling \[Current Challenge\].”*

### 4. The Authority Signal Sprint: Cultivating Discovery

If you want to be headhunted, you have to be findable. The algorithm prioritizes accounts that contribute “Signature Perspectives” to the platform. This sprint ensures you are seen by the right people before you ever apply.

- **The Goal:** Leave two high-value comments on industry-relevant posts.
- **The Example:** Find a post by an industry leader discussing a trend, such as the impact of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) on operational resiliency. Spend 15 minutes drafting a thoughtful response that adds a data point or a lesson learned from your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).
- **The Action: Your comment should function as a “Mini-Article.”** For instance: *“In my experience scaling operations for \[Firm\], we found that \[Variable X\] was often overlooked. The real bottleneck was actually \[Insight\].”* This trains the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithm to associate your name with that specific subject matter.

### The Bottom Line

Complexity and Procrastination are the enemy of progress. When you view your search as a series of 15-minute tactical strikes rather than a mountain of work, you remove the emotional burden of “looking for a job.” You are simply a professional performing high-level market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and peer engagement.

By the end of the week, these micro-sprints will have generated more momentum than a dozen hours of aimless scrolling. You aren’t just moving; you are advancing with precision.

**Which of these four functions–Reconnaissance, Alignment, Handshaking, or Authority–feels like the biggest hurdle in your search right now?**

**Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026**

I also released new content in my blog including:

**The Final Countdown Before Your Interview**

Excerpt: Jeff [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Barrie Barton of [StandandDeliverAsheville.com](http://standanddeliverasheville.com/) about the final things you should do before walking in for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), giving a presentation, or running a meeting. Learn the physical and mental prep required to deliver a high-stakes performance.

Link: 

**Navigating the New Era: No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Strategies for Launching Your Job Search**

Excerpt: EP 3132 breaks down the evolving professional landscape, where traditional “career ladders” have been replaced by a more competitive, tech-driven market. The show provides a high-level roadmap for launching a search in 2026.

Link: 

**Spray and Pray #shorts**

Excerpt: Too many people make the “Spray and Pray” mistake—sending hundreds of low-quality applications—and wonder why they don’t get results. Jeff explains why this strategy is actually damaging your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

Link: 

**Workday and PDFs**

Excerpt: While many enterprise [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) systems, including Workday, can parse PDFs, they are notoriously sensitive. Jeff explains why Word files are often considered more reliable if you want to ensure your data is parsed correctly every time.

Link: 

**“Can I See You for a Minute?”**

Excerpt: When a manager asks, “Can I see you for a minute?” on a Friday afternoon, they usually know the person is about to quit. Jeff discusses the “resignation ritual” and how to handle that final conversation with professionalism.

Link: 

**Advice from a Hostage Negotiator**

Excerpt: Have you ever been in a situation where someone you are negotiating with suddenly changes their position? Jeff applies high-stakes crisis negotiation tactics to [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions, helping you stay calm and strategic when the employer moves the goalposts.

Link: 

**How to Break Into the Hidden Executive Job Market**

Excerpt: This episode reveals the sourcing logic of top [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and how to position yourself as an industry source rather than a desperate applicant. Learn how to get “on the radar” of the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who handle roles that are never posted publicly.

Link: 

**Open to Consulting or Temp Work? #shorts**

Excerpt: When is the peak time of year for people who are open to consulting or temp work? Jeff identifies the seasonal cycles of the staffing industry so you can time your availability for maximum billable hours.

Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): April 12 2026**

Excerpt: Many people forget that you are not chosen purely based on competence. Jeff discusses the “Trust Variables”—character, [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), and chemistry—that outweigh technical skill once you’ve made it to the final round.

Link: 

**The Seven Fundamentals of Job Interviewing**

Excerpt: Many job interviewers think they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) better than they do or the sweat of fear comes pouring down like rain on a spring day. Jeff breaks down the core pillars of a successful [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), from emotional control to storytelling.

Link: 

**Executive Summary: [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and The Great Mismatch**

Excerpt: The global labor market is currently navigating a profound talent crisis known as the “great [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) mismatch.” This executive summary explores why companies are struggling to find the right talent despite high [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) volumes.

Link: 

**How Should You Answer “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume”?**

Excerpt: How should one respond to an interviewer who asks, “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume”? Jeff discusses the strategic intent behind this opening question and whether it is ever appropriate to decline a deep dive into your history.

Link: 

**The Second [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) with the Same Person**

Excerpt: You’ve already proven you can do the job; now you have to prove you’re the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) long-term investment. Jeff explains how to handle a repeat [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) with the same stakeholder without sounding repetitive or losing momentum.

Link: 

**Why Is a [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) Contacting Me For The Same Job I Was Rejected For? #shorts**

Excerpt: Why is this [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) contacting me for a position I was already rejected for? Jeff clarifies the internal “disconnect” that often happens in large recruiting firms and how you should handle the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/).

Link: 

**How to Become an Irresistible Hire**

Excerpt: EP 3131 This episode reveals the three-pillar strategy to flip the power dynamic, move from vaguely a fit to an obvious solution, and make [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) chase you. Learn how to package your expertise so you aren’t just a candidate, but a necessity.

Link: 

**How to Get Headhunted Without Applying**

Excerpt: For the high-performing individual contributor (IC), the most efficient way to secure a new role isn’t by chasing “Easy Apply” buttons; it is by becoming discoverable. Jeff explains how to optimize your digital footprint so [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) come to you.

Link: 

**Decoding the Headhunter’s Agenda**

Excerpt: EP 3149 Stop treating headhunters like your personal talent agents; they don’t work for you, they work for the corporation. Jeff pulls back the curtain on [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) incentives and how to use that knowledge to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

Link: 

**Avoiding Depression During a Job Search**

Excerpt: A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) can be a long, lonely journey that takes a toll on your mental health. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® discusses how to stay upbeat and proactive while you are looking for work.

Link: 

**20 [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Wins You Can Achieve in 15 Minutes**

Excerpt: A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) often feels like a marathon, but the most effective progress is usually made through high-intensity micro-sprints. Here are 20 things you can do in 15 minutes or less to help your search.

Link: 

**What Should I Do If I am Rejected For a Job I Love?**

Excerpt: It’s a gut punch to be rejected for a job you really wanted. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® explains what to do when you don’t get the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and how to keep the door open professionally.

Link: 

**How Far Back Should You Go in Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? In Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile? #shorts**

Excerpt: How far back should your work history go on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile? [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® provides a rule of thumb for how much experience to show to modern [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

Link: 

**Applying for a Job vs Being Referred #shorts**

Excerpt: The statistics from Greenhouse are striking about what you want to do. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® shares data on why [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) are so much more effective than cold [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/).

Link: 

**How to Build and Pitch Your [Fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Executive Playbook**

Excerpt: EP 3133 Stop selling your time and start selling your system. This episode breaks down the exact framework to transition from a traditional executive role to a high-impact [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) leader by productizing your expertise.

Link: 

**Leveraging [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to Break Into Private Equity**

Excerpt: In the competitive world of Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), technical competence is just the baseline. To succeed in this environment, you must stop behaving like an employee and start behaving like an asset by identifying your “Onlyness.”

Link: 

**Using [AI for Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/): Stop the Friction**

Excerpt: This episode forces you to look at your calendar and choose the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tech tier that actually fits your life so you can start landing [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) today. Jeff discusses how to integrate [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools without letting them become a distraction.

Link: 

**SHRM’s Advice for OnBoarding GenZ College Grads #shorts**

Excerpt: The Society for Human Resource Management offers a few ideas for how NOT to lose your new hire before they start. Jeff shares tips on bridging the communication gap with the newest generation.

Link: 

**The Real Reason You Didn’t Get the Job #shorts**

Excerpt: It isn’t always about your skills. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), The Big Game Hunter® reveals the hidden reasons behind [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) decisions and how you can prepare for the “unspoken” criteria that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use to filter candidates.

Link: 

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### [Turning Job Search Into Action with Micro-Sprints](https://thebiggamehunter.us/turning-job-search-into-action-with-micro-sprints/)

**Published:** April 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To maintain a high-level search while holding down a current role or managing a transition, you must move to deploying Micro-Sprints.

**Content:**

# Turning Job Search Into Action with Micro-Sprints

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

For professionals, the greatest enemy of a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) isn’t a lack of opportunity; it’s the paralyzing weight of the “Long Game.” When a search is viewed as a singular, massive project, it inevitably leads to procrastination or the [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) associated with high-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). To maintain a high-level search while holding down a current role or managing a transition, you must move to deploying **Micro-Sprints**.

A Micro-Sprint is a 15-to-20-minute block of focused, high-intensity activity dedicated to a single function. By compartmentalizing your search into these bursts, you avoid the fatigue of “context switching” and ensure that every action you take reinforces your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**–that unique intersection of your expertise and the market’s specific needs.

Here is how to apply Micro-Sprints across the four vital functions of a typical search.

### 1. The Reconnaissance Sprint: Finding the “Internal Weather”

Most people spend hours browsing job boards. This is passive motion. A Reconnaissance Sprint is an active investigation. Your goal is to find the specific “pain points” of a target company so your outreach doesn’t sound like a generic request for work.

- **The Goal:** Identify one specific strategic problem at a target employer.
- **The Example:** Instead of reading an entire 80-page 10-K filing, set a 15-minute timer to scan the “Risk Factors” section for a specific company. Look for keywords like “integration friction,” “customer acquisition costs,” or “regulatory headwinds.”
- **The Action:** By the end of the sprint, you should have one sentence written down: *“Company X is currently struggling with \[Problem Y\] because of \[Factor Z\].”* This sentence becomes the foundation of your future pitch.

### 2. The Semantic Alignment Sprint: Coding Your Signal

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile are not historical documents; they are marketing assets. They need to be tuned to the “Knowledge Clusters” that AI-driven recruitment tools and [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) are programmed to find.

- **The Goal:** Optimize one specific section of your profile for a single target role or industry trend.
- **The Example:** Take the “Professional Experience” section for your most recent role. Use a 15-minute sprint to cross-reference it against a specific job description. For example, if the job description emphasizes “Data Privacy” and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) says “Compliance,” bridge that gap.
- **The Action:** Rewrite three bullet points to move from “duties” to “outcomes.” Shift from *“Managed a team of developers”* to *“Architected a CI/CD pipeline that reduced deployment errors by 18% during the Q4 push.”* You are aligning your data with the market’s current expectations.

### 3. The Digital Handshake Sprint: High-Resolution Outreach

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is often viewed as a chore, leading to generic “I’d love to connect” messages that get ignored. A Handshake Sprint focuses on one person and one high-value observation.

- **The Goal:** Send one highly personalized message that proves you are a peer, not a solicitor.
- **The Example:** Find a post from a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager or a potential peer at a target firm. Spend 15 minutes reading their last three posts or a recent [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) they gave to understand their professional “vibe” and current priorities.
- **The Action:** Draft a message that leads with an observation, not a request. *“I read your piece on \[Topic\] and noticed you mentioned \[Specific Point\]. My experience at \[Previous Company\] showed that \[Contrarian View\] often yields better results in high-growth environments. I’d love to trade notes on how your team is handling \[Current Challenge\].”*

### 4. The Authority Signal Sprint: Cultivating Discovery

If you want to be headhunted, you have to be findable. The algorithm prioritizes accounts that contribute “Signature Perspectives” to the platform. This sprint ensures you are seen by the right people before you ever apply.

- **The Goal:** Leave two high-value comments on industry-relevant posts.
- **The Example:** Find a post by an industry leader discussing a trend, such as the impact of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) on operational resiliency. Spend 15 minutes drafting a thoughtful response that adds a data point or a lesson learned from your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).
- **The Action: Your comment should function as a “Mini-Article.”** For instance: *“In my experience scaling operations for \[Firm\], we found that \[Variable X\] was often overlooked. The real bottleneck was actually \[Insight\].”* This trains the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithm to associate your name with that specific subject matter.

### The Bottom Line

Complexity and Procrastination are the enemy of progress. When you view your search as a series of 15-minute tactical strikes rather than a mountain of work, you remove the emotional burden of “looking for a job.” You are simply a professional performing high-level market [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and peer engagement.

By the end of the week, these micro-sprints will have generated more momentum than a dozen hours of aimless scrolling. You aren’t just moving; you are advancing with precision.

**Which of these four functions–Reconnaissance, Alignment, Handshaking, or Authority–feels like the biggest hurdle in your search right now?**

**Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026**

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### [Unconventional Strategies & The ROI Matrix](https://thebiggamehunter.us/unconventional-strategies-the-roi-matrix/)

**Published:** April 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the ROI Matrix so you can stop wasting time on 1% callback rates

**Content:**

# Unconventional Strategies & The ROI Matrix

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Online [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are a graveyard for talent. This episode breaks down the ROI Matrix so you can stop wasting time on 1% callback rates and start using the high-friction, high-reward strategies that put you directly in front of decision-makers.

Timestamps

00:00 – The Digital Black Hole: Why your [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are vanishing.

00:14 – The Data: Why high volume leads to zero callbacks.

00:40 – The 80% Rule: Mapping [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/).

01:19 – The Trade-off: Why you must trade comfort for results.

01:31 – The ROI Matrix: A framework for Effort vs. Impact.

02:14 – The Digital Trenches: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) in [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/), Discord, and Reddit.

03:31 – The Proof Providers: Using the Briefcase Technique and public builds.

04:51 – Attention Grabbers: Breaking norms with ads and physical mail.

06:07 – Archetype Strategy: Picking a path for [introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/) vs. extroverts.

06:55 – The New Paradigm: Shifting from “Candidate” to “Solution.”

If you’ve been [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) recently, you know the drill. You spend hours tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), hit easy apply, and watch your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) vanish into a digital black hole. It’s exhausting, and worse, it rarely works.

This line graph shows exactly what’s happening. The number of online [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) submitted is going straight up. But look at the callback rate.

It’s plummeting toward zero. You are competing against thousands of automated clicks for a single role. But here’s reality check.

This chart shows that public listings represent only a tiny fraction of the actual [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) out there. Up to 80% of open roles live entirely in what we call [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/). These are high quality positions that companies fill internally, through employee [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), or by direct [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) outreach, before a public job link is ever even created.

They want trusted human connections, not algorithmic matches. Playing the traditional [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) numbers game is a losing battle. To actually land a role right now, you have to bypass the software filters completely, and get yourself directly in front of the human beings making the decisions.

Now, if you’ve looked up alternative ways to find a job, you’ve probably been flooded with unconventional advice. It can feel overwhelming, and it’s completely normal to worry about looking desperate or wasting your time on internet gimmicks. Tapping into the hidden market requires a strict trade-off.

You have to trade the comfort of clicking apply for a process that involves more friction, more vulnerability, and a lot more upfront effort. This chart shows the framework we’re going to use to evaluate 13 different unconventional [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) strategies. On the bottom axis, we have the effort and cost required.

On the vertical axis, we track the potential impact of that strategy. By mapping the tactics onto this grid, you can clearly see the trade-offs. This lets you choose the right approach based on your specific budget, your timeline, and your personality.

Navigating this market is a matter of resource allocation. You’re choosing exactly where to spend your personal effort to get the highest professional return. We start in the top left quadrant.

These are high-impact strategies that won’t cost you a dime, but they demand a serious daily commitment of your time. We call this the digital trenches. First is targeted [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) communities.

You can’t just join and lurk. You have to show up daily in niche industry channels, answer questions, and build rapport to hear about unlisted roles. Next is Discord and Reddit value add.

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These platforms strictly ban self-promotion. Your only path to visibility here is providing free, high-quality technical help to other users until [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers notice your expertise. Third are curiosity conversations.

This means reaching out to acquaintances or former colleagues for low-pressure informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). You aren’t asking for a job, you’re asking about their current challenges, which frequently leads to organic [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Fourth is webinar [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

Instead of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) online, you attend niche virtual events. You bypass the standard gatekeepers by directly [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) engaged speakers or other attendees during the session. Finally, reverse job searching.

Rather than hunting for open headcounts, you build a list of companies based strictly on shared values, and you initiate contact regardless of whether they have a job posted. [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in this quadrant is a slow burn. You have to set aside your ego, suppress the urge to explicitly ask for a job, and focus entirely on building genuine digital karma.

Moving to the top right quadrant, we find the proof providers. These strategies require massive upfront preparation and the vulnerability to prove your competence before anyone even asks. First up is the briefcase technique.

You [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) a company’s specific pain points and walk into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) with a custom 30, 60, and 90 day plan to solve them. You literally hand them the solution. Next is building in public.

You share your work in progress, your learning milestones, and even your failures on a public blog or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). It takes emotional vulnerability, but it builds a transparent record of your problem-solving abilities. Third is project-based pitching.

You identify a target company and create a free tailored audit or a piece of usable code for them. It’s a heavy lift, but it provides undeniable proof of what you can do. Finally, the parachute approach.

You bypass HR entirely and send a highly personalized cold pitch directly to a decision maker, offering to solve a specific problem. Often this results in them creating a new role just for you. What these strategies do is bypass the standard [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) screening process altogether.

You change the dynamic from an employer evaluating a candidate to a business buying a solution. Now we look at the bottom right quadrant. These are the attention grabbers, tactics that require financial capital or a willingness to break standard professional norms to force a reaction.

[***Lessons from a Successful Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-l4q)

Strategy 10 is targeted social ads. For about $50 to $150, you can use Facebook or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) advertising tools to force your professional profile directly into the feeds of employees at a specific target company. Strategy 11 is shock and awe mail.

You spend money to send a physical three-dimensional package directly to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager’s desk. It’s polarizing, but physical mail has a near 100% open rate. Next are video or infographic [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

These high production issual pitches will immediately break standard applicant tracking software, but when they land in a human’s inbox, they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) massive differentiation. Finally, non-traditional meetups. This means showing up at hobby or sports groups to build trust with professionals outside of the office.

The ROI is slow and uncontrollable, but the connections are highly authentic. These aggressive tactics carry social and financial risks, but they guarantee one thing, you will absolutely stand out in a saturated digital landscape. This chart represents the fully mapped landscape of [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/).

There are 13 distinct ways to bypass the standard [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process, each requiring a different combination of time, capital, and social risk. If you’re highly technical or more introverted, focus your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on the top half of the board. Lean into deep work, community problem solving, and open source contributions.

Let your actual skills do the talking. If you’re extroverted, work in sales, or have an urgent timeline, look to the bottom right. You can leverage a small budget or use bold outreach to force immediate attention and jump the line.

And if you’re short on time but need the absolute highest leverage possible, prepare the briefcase technique. Doing your homework on a company’s specific problems before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) pays the highest dividends. These paths succeed because they pull you out of the automated pile and into a direct human conversation.

You are operating on terms that most applicants never consider, using either high value contributions or targeted visibility to speak directly to the people who can hire you. Navigating this [hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) takes precision. To cut through the noise and refine your personal approach, you need proven, [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) guidance.

Check out the resources listed on your screen right now to continue building out your strategy and start targeting the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that actually matter.

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**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 2900 episodes over 15+ years.

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### [Lessons from a Successful Job Search #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/lessons-from-a-successful-job-search-shorts/)

**Published:** April 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Continuing this series, this person offered 4 lessons from their successful job search.

**Content:**

# Lessons from a Successful Job Search 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/dJViwP0dyzw)

Continuing this series, this person offered 4 lessons from their successful [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

[***Be Careful Using AI to Write Resumes and Cover Letters***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k0r)

[***Reverse Engineering the ATS for Results***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-f7E)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [Why Is It So Difficult for an Unemployed Person to Get a Job?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-an-unemployed-person-to-get-a-job/)

**Published:** April 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The answer is simple and, no, it is not that all employers have entered into a conspiracy against unemployed people.

**Content:**

# Why Is It So Difficult for an Unemployed Person to Get a Job?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The answer is simple and, no, it is not that all [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have entered into a conspiracy against unemployed people. (From the archives)

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). And the question is, why is it so difficult for an unemployed person to get a job? Now, to me, the answer involves confronting a belief that a lot of people have about all the bias that companies have against [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) unemployed people. That’s the easy answer.

The more honest answer, the one that you don’t want to hear is, either number one, you don’t have the skills that the market is looking for, or number two, you don’t know how to job hunt. Let me break it down for you. In terms of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), if you’re not getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) stinks.

If you’re getting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and not invited back, you don’t [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) well. If number three is if you’re getting invited back and nothing further happens, you’re not connecting with people all that well. See where I’m going with this? There are clear skills deficiencies that you have that can be corrected.

Now, there are lots of different ways to learn how to do things better. Yes, you can [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a professional [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writer to write your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for you. You can also join a site like mine, [JobSearch.Community,](http://JobSearch.Community) where I have curated information that can pick you up anywhere along the line and help you dissect the problems.

Plus, you can ask me questions that allows me to help you dissect it because you’re not an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). After all, as Malcolm Gladwell points out so well in Outliers, an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) is someone with 10,000 hours of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) experience. You have how much? So, you’re my no means [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) and you don’t really know what firms look for.

You’re guessing at it. Get some help. That’s really the thing that you need now is help.

It’s not that firms discriminate, although some firms do for chronic long-term unemployment. They do that because they believe in a good job market like they believe it is now. There’s a reason why someone’s not getting a job and it’s poor skills.

So, they use your being out of work for a long time as code for other people have screened he or she. They found them deficient. We’re not going to find anything different.

So, that’s the problem. You don’t know how to do the search properly. You’re an amateur and you think you know what you’re doing and you don’t.

Again, tough message but one that needs to be heard. Hope you found this helpful. Again, the site is [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). Have a great day!

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### [A New Question to Ask At The End of Your Interview #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-new-question-to-ask-at-the-end-of-your-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** April 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a smart question to start asking at the end of interviews in addition to all the others.


**Content:**

# A New Question to Ask At The End of Your Interview #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/KEBAY3eVCpU)

This is a smart question to start asking at the end of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) in addition to all the others.

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### [Corporate to Nonprofit: A Career Transition Guide](https://thebiggamehunter.us/corporate-to-nonprofit-a-career-transition-guide/)

**Published:** April 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You want to move into the non-profit or "not-for-profit" sector. Most people think this transition is a "soft" move. It isn't.

**Content:**

**Corporate to Nonprofit: A [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Transition Guide**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You’ve spent years in the corporate trenches. You’ve hit the targets, managed the teams, and played the game. But lately, something is off. You’re looking for more than just a paycheck; you’re looking for a purpose.

You want to move into the [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) or “not-for-profit” sector.

Most people think this transition is a “soft” move. They think it’s going to be easier, slower, and filled with “nice” people who just want to do good.

Let me disabuse you of that notion right now.

[Non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) work isn’t “corporate lite.” In many ways, it’s harder. You’re often working with fewer resources, more stakeholders, and a bottom line that isn’t measured in dollars, but in lives changed or missions met.

If you’re serious about making the jump, you need to stop thinking like an applicant and start thinking like a strategic partner. Here is how you bridge the gap without falling into the “corporate refugee” [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/).

### The Reality Check: What You’re Actually Facing

Before you update your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you need to understand the concerns that [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers have about you. Yes, even with your impressive corporate pedigree, they are worried.

**1. The “Boredom” Factor**

They’re [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) you’re “taking a break.” They worry that as soon as a high-paying corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) calls you back with a 30% [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/), you’ll be out the door. They want to know you’re running *to* the mission, not *away* from the [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/).

**2. The Resource Shock**

In the corporate world, if a printer breaks or a software license expires, there’s a department for that. In a small [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/), you might be the person fixing the printer while drafting a grant proposal. They need to know you’re willing to “do the dirty work.”

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**3. The Culture of Consensus**

Corporate culture is often top-down. Non-profits are often about consensus. Decisions can take longer because more stakeholders—boards, volunteers, donors—have a seat at the table. If you’re used to “command and control,” you’re in for a shock.

### How to Find the Work (and Get Noticed)

Don’t just sit on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) hitting “Easy Apply.” That’s a loser’s game. In the [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) world, relationships are the currency.

**Start with Your Passion, Not Your Title**

Don’t look for “VP of Marketing” roles. Look for organizations solving problems you actually care about. Is it food insecurity? Education? The environment? When you lead with the mission, your corporate skills become the *tool* to solve their problem, not the focal point.

**The “Bridge” Strategy**

The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to get hired by a [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) is to already be working with one.

- **Volunteer:** Not just for a day. Take on a project that uses your professional skills.
- **Board Service:** Many smaller non-profits are desperate for corporate expertise on their boards. This gives you an inside look at the “business” of the mission.
- **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/):** Use sites like *Idealist.org* or *Foundation List*, but focus on informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Ask people in the sector, “What is the biggest challenge your organization is facing right now?”

### [***Finding Work with Non-Profits***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-10R)

### Translating “Corporate-Speak” into “Mission-Speak”

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) needs a makeover. If you send a standard corporate [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), it will be tossed. You need to translate your achievements into their language.

- **Sales** becomes **Development or Fundraising.**
- **Operations** becomes **Program Coordination or Mission Delivery.**
- **Marketing** becomes **Community Engagement or Advocacy.**
- **Profitability** becomes **Sustainability or Impact.**

Show them that you understand their bottom line. Instead of saying “I increased revenue by 20%,” say “I secured funding that allowed us to expand services to 500 more families.”

### Overcoming the Hurdles

The biggest hurdle isn’t the pay cut—it’s the mindset.

You have to move from being a “boss” to being a “steward.” You’re there to serve the mission. If you bring your corporate ego into the room, you’ll be rejected before the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) is over.

[***Finding NonProfit Jobs***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fEY)

**Show Your Conviction**

During the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), address the “money question” head-on. Tell them, “I know what I’m walking away from, and I’m doing it because I believe this mission is a better investment of my time.”

**Be a Strategic Partner**

Don’t just tell them what you’ve done. Tell them what you *will* do. Ask about their Q3 goals. Ask about their donor retention. Show them that your corporate efficiency can help their mission go further.

### Final Thoughts

Transitioning to a [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) isn’t about “retiring” into a feel-good job. It’s about [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) your hard-won skills to a different kind of game

It requires humility, a willingness to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/), and a genuine heart for the cause. If you have those, you aren’t just a corporate refugee—you’re the exact kind of talent the [non-profit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-work-with-non-profits/) world is starving for.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [The Best of Recent YouTube Job Search Videos](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-of-recent-youtube-job-search-videos/)

**Published:** April 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3137 In a job market defined by AI-driven filters and unprecedented competition, traditional application methods are no longer effective.

**Content:**

# The Best of Recent YouTube Job Search Videos

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3137 In a job market defined by AI-driven filters and unprecedented competition, traditional [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) methods are no longer effective. This video provides a curated “new playbook” for 2026, synthesizing high-impact strategies from top [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) experts to help you move from being a generic applicant to a strategic solution for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

**00:00** – **Introduction** A reality check on the “brutal” 2026 job market and why old advice just doesn’t cut it anymore.

**00:45** – **1. The Reality Check** Understanding the new landscape of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) screening and why seeing the field for what it is remains the first step to winning.

**01:27** – **2. Strategy Over Volume** The numbers game is over. Learn why targeting four roles where you are an 80% fit is superior to mass-applying to 100 roles.

**02:21** – **What Employer Silence Really Means** A deep dive into why “radio silence” is the most important [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/) you can receive, signaling that your approach needs a major overhaul.

**02:56** – **3. Your Tactical Toolkit** [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and Positioning: How to transform a boring history report into a “Sales Pitch Resume” using achievement headlines and impact metrics.

**03:43** – **4. The Human Connection** Why your greatest [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) in an automated world is the ability to bypass [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and connect directly with decision-makers.

**05:01** – **5. Unconventional Wisdom** The “Rat Race Rules”: Shifting your mindset from what you want (a salary) to being the solution to a company’s specific, broken process.

**05:58** – **6. The Common Thread** Summarizing the 2026 secret: Moving away from antiquated job boards toward targeted outreach and selling specific outcomes.

All right, let’s just be real for a second. If you’re out there looking for a job in 2026, you already know, it is brutal. All that old advice you’ve heard, it just doesn’t cut it anymore.

So what we’ve done here is put together the ultimate playlist. We’ve gone through all the noise and pulled out the sharpest, most effective strategies from the top [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) gurus on YouTube. This, right here, is the new playbook for getting hired.

Let’s get into it. Look, if you’re feeling beat down and frustrated, you are so not alone. Milo from the channel How to Job, well, he doesn’t pull any punches.

He calls it what it is, the toughest job market in human history. The old rules are just gone. But here’s the good news.

There is a new set of rules, a new playbook, and we’re about to break it down for you, track by track. Okay, so first things first, a reality check. Before we can even talk about solutions, we gotta get real about the new landscape.

We’re up against [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that screens you out, a sea of other applicants. The competition is just insane. And you know what? Acknowledging that reality, really seeing the field for what it is, that’s the first step to actually winning.

Six to eight seconds, that’s it. That is literally all the time a real human, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/), spends looking at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) before they swipe left or right. So if you’ve been blasting out hundreds of generic [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and just hearing crickets, well, this little number right here, it explains everything, doesn’t it? You’re basically just shouting into a black hole.

And that brings us to the first huge, huge theme we heard from every single [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) we checked out. The numbers game is over. Done.

The whole spray and pray method with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), it’s officially dead. In 2026, it is all about having a targeted, intelligent strategy. So kicking off our playlist, we’ve got the experts over at Talent Lube.

Their whole thing is about making this critical shift, you know, moving away from just mindless button clicking to making smart, strategic [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) that actually get you noticed. And honestly, this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from them just nails it. Think about it.

Your time, your energy, it’s not infinite. So why are you wasting it on a hundred [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) that are a total long shot? Instead, you’ve got to focus all of that effort on those few roles where you are a genuinely strong fit. It’s the absolute definition of working smarter, not harder.

Okay, next up on the playlist, this one’s from Get Corporate Ready, and it gets right into one of the most painful parts of the whole [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), that awful, deafening silence you get after you hit apply. This is such a critical point. A [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) email, believe it or not, that’s almost good news.

It means a human being actually laid eyes on your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). But getting nothing, complete and total radio silence, that is the real [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/). That’s the signal you need to listen to.

It means your entire approach, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), how you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), it’s not even getting past the first digital gatekeeper. Silence means it’s time for a major overhaul. So with that in mind, let’s talk tactics.

Let’s get into the toolkit. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) has to survive that brutal six second scan, how in the world do you actually build one that makes the cut? For this, we’re turning to certified [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) strategist, Greg Langstaff. His whole philosophy is simple, but it is so powerful.

Stop thinking of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) as a boring history report. Start treating it like an advertisement for you. And this is it.

This is the key. You got to stop writing, responsible for managing social media, no. Instead, you say, grew audience engagement by 80% by launching a new content strategy.

See the difference? One is a chore. The other is a result. And in this market, results are the only thing that matters.

You have to prove your value with cold, hard, measurable facts. Now let’s talk about the biggest secret weapon in your entire arsenal. In a world jam-packed with automated systems, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) screeners, and those digital black holes we talked about, your greatest [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) isn’t digital at all.

It’s human. Our next [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), Emily Durham, who used to be a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) herself, dropped this absolute gem on Good Morning America. And it’s all about who you should be talking to and who you should probably be ignoring.

I mean, just think about it for a second. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are basically professional gatekeepers. Their job is to filter out hundreds of people.

The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager, on the other hand, that’s the person who has a real problem that they desperately need to solve. When you connect directly with them, you stop being just another name on a spreadsheet. You start becoming the solution they’ve been looking for.

Alright, let’s bring Milo from How to Job back into the mix, because he has a very direct take on the single biggest [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) people make, the one thing that is absolutely killing most job searches. And that’s just being passive. You know, he’s asking a really tough question here.

Is your entire strategy for changing your life and [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) really just clicking an upload button and what, hoping for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)? If that’s you, you have to realize that’s not a strategy for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). That is a strategy for silence. Okay, time to switch gears.

[***How to Build and Pitch Your Fractional Executive Playbook***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oPu)

We’ve heard from the strategists. We’ve heard from the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). Now it’s time for some raw, unfiltered, street-smart advice on how this game is really played.

And for that, we have to turn to our final [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), Ratty. He’s the resident, well, rat from the channel Floyd Bishop, and he serves up the most direct, no-nonsense tips you’ll ever hear for navigating the rat race. And man, this is just so powerful because it’s so simple, so raw.

It flips the whole script. Stop thinking about what you want. Stop thinking, I need a job, I want a salary, and start thinking about what their problem is.

You know, maybe they’ve got a process that’s totally broken, or a sales number they just can’t hit. Your entire mission, your whole reason for even talking to them, is to walk in and be the answer to that problem. Be their solution.

So we’ve heard from a whole range of voices here, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), strategists, even a very street-smart rat. And yeah, their styles are all pretty different, but if you listen closely, you start to realize they’re all singing the same tune. They’re all pointing to one single, unified strategy for winning this thing in 2026.

This slide really just lays it all out, plain and simple. The old way, that passive approach of just mass [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) and waiting by the phone? It’s done. It’s over.

The 2026 way is active, it’s strategic. It means shifting from sending out generic [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to selling your specific outcomes. From just hoping someone replies to actively building real human connections.

It’s about stopping the spray and pray, and starting to position yourself as the exact solution to a very specific problem. And at the end of the day, this is the ultimate takeaway. In an age where [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can write a flawless [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) in 5 seconds, your humanity? That has become your single greatest competitive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

The ability to connect with another person, to understand their problem, to build a real relationship? That’s the one thing that can never, ever be automated. So there you have it. The new playbook is crystal clear.

The only question left is, what are you going to do with it? And I don’t mean tomorrow or next week. Based on everything you just heard, what is the one thing you will do differently today to change the outcome of your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)? Go do that?

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### [Stop Bombing Your Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-bombing-your-interviews/)

**Published:** April 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3138 Being great at your daily job doesn't mean a damn thing if you don't know how to play the interview game.

**Content:**

# Stop Bombing Your Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3138 Being great at your daily job doesn’t mean a damn thing if you don’t know how to play the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) game. Most people walk into the room blind to the actual rules and [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) their own chances before the first handshake by falling for early salary traps and giving robotic, [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) answers. This episode breaks down the exact [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) costing you offers and gives you the hard-hitting frameworks to prove your value, put the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager at ease, and get the money you deserve.

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio, Episode 3,138. On this show, I’ll be talking about several ways you may be shooting yourself in the foot. Okay, let’s just start with this right here, because this one sentence, it’s everything.

You can be an absolute genius at what you do, a total rock star, but if you don’t get good at the completely separate skill of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), well, you’re never even going to get the chance to prove it. So many candidates end up sabotaging themselves without having a clue. So this explainer is all about teaching you the skills you need to win the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) game.

We’re going to kick things off with that fundamental problem, then we’ll dive into some huge money [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) people make right at the start. After that, we’ll talk about controlling the conversation, how to provide undeniable proof of your value, and we’ll wrap it all up with a total mindset shift about the person sitting across the table from you. Alright, so section one, the two skill problem.

Look, to win any game, you have to know what game you’re playing. And that’s what this is all about, breaking down the fundamental challenge that every single job seeker is up against, whether they realize it or not. Here’s the core issue, right? Being amazing at your job has almost nothing to do with being amazing at [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for it.

The [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) is a performance. It’s a game with its own unique set of rules. And if you don’t know those rules, you’re basically walking onto the field with a massive disadvantage from the get go.

Okay, let’s move on to our second big point, early game money [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/). This is all about how to protect your negotiating power. Let’s take into one of the first and honestly, one of the most expensive [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) you can make.

And it usually happens right in that initial phone screen. You know the question, it always comes up early. So what are your salary expectations? Answering that directly is a total trap.

The second you give a number, you’ve just set the absolute ceiling on what you can possibly earn. You’ve lost pretty much all your leverage before you’ve even had a real chance to show them what you’re worth. The fix is to completely flip the script on them.

So the key is to turn that question right back around. You ask them for their budgeted range. Now if they really push you to go first, do not give your personal number.

Instead, you [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) up a researched market range. You can frame it something like this. You know, based on my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) for a role with these kinds of responsibilities, the market rate seems to fall somewhere in the X to Y range.

I’m really confident that if we both agree this is a great fit, we’ll be able to land on a number that’s fair for everyone. All right, section three. This is a big one, controlling the conversation.

The goal here is to be proactive, not just reactive. Once you pass that initial screen, you have to master the art of the conversation itself. Remember, this is not an interrogation.

It’s a dialogue that you need to help guide. Let’s start with a really common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/). Using those generic scripted answers you find on some top 10 [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) questions website.

Come on, interviewers can smell a [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) answer a mile away. So what’s the fix? I call it the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend test. Just imagine explaining your answer to your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend.

That’s your real authentic core answer. Then you just polish it up a little bit for a professional setting. Now, when you’re giving those awesome authentic answers, you have got to be mindful of the clock.

Seriously, people’s attention spans are short. You’ve basically got about 60 to 75 seconds to make your point before their mind just starts to wander. So you want to aim for concise and impactful.

And here’s a crucial little vocal cue. You have to signal the end of your answer. Don’t just trail off and create this awkward silence.

Instead, you end your sentence with a clear downward inflection in your voice. It just sounds final and confident. It’s a tiny little change that makes a huge difference in the flow of the conversation.

But okay, beyond how you finish your answers, let’s talk about how you can guide them. The single [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to control the conversation is to be proactive. Don’t just sit back and wait for questions.

You guide them to your strengths. For instance, when they hit you with that classic, tell me about yourself, you use this magic phrase to bridge your past directly to what they need right now. So now that you’re guiding the conversation to all the right topics, you have to deliver the goods.

It is just not enough to say you’re good at something. You have to provide cold, hard, undeniable proof. Look, saying I’m a hard worker or I’m a great team player is completely useless.

It’s a generality. And generalities are forgotten the second you say them. What you need to do instead is use specific quantities.

We’re talking percentages, dollar amounts, numbers of things. And you tell compelling stories. Specificity is what sticks in their brain.

It’s what makes you memorable. In a really simple, powerful way to structure these stories is the SOAR framework. You just describe the situation, the [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) you were aiming for, the actions you took, and this is the most important part, the results.

You have to live in the R section. What was the actual, tangible impact of what you did? But, you know, what about when they ask you about something negative, like why you were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) or about a bad boss? For that, you use the ABC tool. First, A, analyze why they’re asking.

It’s usually a test of your emotional intelligence. B is for brevity. Keep the negative part of your story under 40 seconds.

And C is for circle. You surround that little negative fact with a bunch of positive learnings or outcomes. But listen, frameworks like SOAR and ABC are only going to work if you practice them the right way.

And just thinking through the answers in your head, that does not count. You have to see them out loud. Better yet, record yourself on video.

Then, you have to actually watch it back. You’ll immediately spot any weird, distracting habits, and you can check if your energy level is where it needs to be. And finally, let’s talk about the interviewer’s secret fear.

Understanding this, well, it requires a complete mindset shift about who you’re really talking to in that room. Because spoiler alert, it is not just about you. You probably walk in thinking all the pressure is on you to perform, but the reality is the interviewer is often just as nervous, if not more so.

And why is that? Because [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers are, as it’s put here, institutionally scared. They are terrified of making a bad hire. And here’s why they’re so scared.

A bad hire is an absolute disaster. It’s expensive. It’s painful.

It costs the company a fortune in lost productivity, recruiting costs, [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) time. You name it. But even more than that, it makes the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager look terrible to their own boss.

They have a lot of skin in this game. So if you take one thing away from this whole thing, let it be this. Your most important job in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) isn’t just to answer questions.

It’s to make the interviewer feel safe. Your job is to give them the evidence, the stories, and the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) to prove that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) you is the smartest, safest, lowest risk decision they could possibly make. That is how you win the game.

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### [The Game For an Executive Resume Is Different](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-game-for-an-executive-resume-is-different/)

**Published:** April 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3138 You need to think differently about constructing an executive resume than when you were an individual contributor.

**Content:**

# The Game For an Executive Resume Is Different

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3138 You need to think differently about constructing an executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) than when you were an individual contributor.

his is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio, Episode 3,138. Okay, let’s just dive right in. I want you to pull up your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), seriously, and ask yourself that question.

Is it just a list of things you’ve done? A history report? Or is it a compelling business case for why a company should hire you to lead? Because honestly, the answer to that question could be the very thing standing between you and your next big executive role. You see, here’s the trap. Most senior-level professionals, and I mean most, are still using a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) strategy they figured out way back in their early [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

It’s the strategy of a doer. And look, it worked. It got them this far.

But to make that jump to true leadership, we’re talking VP, C-suite, that same strategy actually starts to hold you back. It becomes a liability. The difference isn’t your font choice.

It’s the entire strategic approach. So today, we’re going to break down the five crucial shifts that will turn your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) from a simple history into a powerful argument for your leadership. We’ll talk about what I call the Executive Altitude Problem.

Then we’ll get into how to shift your focus, how to think about your audience, the language you use, and finally how to redefine your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) as a truly strategic document. So let’s start with this idea, the Executive Altitude Problem. Put simply, the game has completely changed.

You know, all the skills and accomplishments that made you a fantastic senior manager or a killer director, they’re just not the same things a board is looking for in an executive. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) has to start speaking their language from their altitude. Now, the first, and I think maybe the most important shift, is all about your focus.

You have to stop just listing what you did, and you have to start spelling out why it mattered to the entire business. This is the leap from just talking about tasks to talking about transformation. And you can see the difference so clearly here.

An individual contributor’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), well, it’s all about execution, right? I completed this project, I managed that system. But an executive’s [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), it has to highlight strategic impact. My leadership drove this growth.

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My influence guided the company through this massive change. It’s a fundamental shift from looking at your department to seeing the entire organization. This example just makes it so tangible.

Implemented is a task. It’s what you did. But championed, that’s leadership.

And notice how the executive version doesn’t just stop there. It connects that action directly to a huge business outcome, a $50 million growth plan. See, one is about doing the work.

The other is about creating the strategic vision that made the work matter in the first place. This whole shift in focus leads us right into our next point, your audience. You are no longer writing for a piece of software or a junior [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/).

You are writing for the people in the boardroom. Just think about it. A junior-level [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) has one main job.

Get past the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). So it’s all about keywords. But at the executive level, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is being read by CEOs, by investors, by board members.

And trust me, they are not scanning for keywords. They are searching for vision. They want to understand how you think, how you lead.

And if you can drive the whole company forward. Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) has to read like a business narrative, not a checklist. Okay, so this brings us to the actual language you use.

Once you get your focus and your audience right, the specific words and numbers you choose have to change big time. They have to signal true executive presence. Your voice has to match your altitude.

Let’s talk about metrics. A doer proves they were busy. How much did I do? An executive, on the other hand, proves their impact was massive.

How big were the results? You’ve got to shift from talking about budget saved to talking about shareholder value created. From clients you managed to markets you expanded. It’s a complete shift from measuring activity to measuring enterprise-level impact.

And the verbs you use are absolutely critical. Words like developed, supported, managed. Those are performer-level words.

They’re fine, but they’re not leadership. To signal you’re a director, you need leader-level verbs. Orchestrated, transformed, drove, led.

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These words just carry more weight. They communicate that you’re the ones heading the direction, not just following it. And here’s something that might seem a little backwards.

At this level, less is more. A really long, dense [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) that’s just packed with bullet points, it can actually undermine you. It buries your message in detail.

A sharp, concise document with a powerful summary and just a few key high-impact achievements, that signals [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). It signals authority. So let’s bring all this together now.

We need to completely reframe the purpose of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). You are no longer trying to prove you are capable of doing a job. You’re way past that.

You are now establishing your credibility as a leader who can shape a company’s entire future. So this is the new definition. An executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is not a history report.

It is a strategic marketing tool. It’s your business case. Its one and only purpose is to communicate your influence, your strategic decision-making, and your vision for the future.

And here it is, the ultimate takeaway. At the end of the day, when a board is making a multi-million dollar [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) decision, they are not just buying your past accomplishments. They are investing in your mind.

They’re investing in your strategic thinking, your judgment, your vision. Your resume’s primary job is to give them a really clear window into how you think. So I’ll just leave you with this question.

You have worked so hard to reach this new altitude in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). The real question is, have you done the work to make sure your most important marketing document has come along with you? There’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Come to the site, I have free info, become an insider, and get [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) in all my content. You can also purchase individual products and services too.

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### [Is it OK to Follow Up to Confirm They Received My Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-to-confirm-they-received-my-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** April 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Is it OK to Follow Up to Confirm They Received My Resume? #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Is it appropriate to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with an employer to confirm receipt of my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) materials?

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### [One Reason to Get a Paid LinkedIn Membership](https://thebiggamehunter.us/one-reason-to-get-a-paid-linkedin-membership/)

**Published:** April 17, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is now a good reason to have a paid LinkedIn membership

**Content:**

# One Reason to Get a Paid LinkedIn Membership

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Yf12FPWtyho)

There is now a good reason to have a paid [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) membership.

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### [Elevator Pitches #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/elevator-pitches-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** April 19, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I recently listened to a group of people give elevator pitches. Here's what I think. #shorts

**Content:**

# Elevator Pitches #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/kV22N2UfyZE)

I recently listened to a group of people give elevator pitches. Here’s what I think. #shorts

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**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [SHRM’s Advice for OnBoarding GenZ College Grads #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/shrms-advice-for-onboarding-genz-college-grads-shorts/)

**Published:** April 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The Society for Human Resource Management offers a few ideas for how NOT to lose your new hire before they start.

**Content:**

# SHRM’s Advice for OnBoarding GenZ College Grads

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

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The Society for Human Resource Management offers a few ideas for how NOT to lose your new [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) before they start.

### [***How To Create An Employer Branding Strategy That Attracts Top Talent***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jo0)

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Number one: during finals, week, send them a care package, branded ideally, but it doesn’t have to be their way.

Number two, set them up with a mentor. Mentors are going to start the conversation, build a relationship between your organization and that new environment.

Number three, let them start doing some part-time work and forward some [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) materials to the them, in advance advanced so they can start doing some prep work in advance. Have an office tour. There’s just lots of little things that you can do that will get them immersed. There’s a lot more at my website [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://TheBigGameHunter.us)

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### [Applying for a Job vs Being Referred #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/applying-for-a-job-vs-being-referred-shorts/)

**Published:** April 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The statistics from Greenhouse are striking about what you want to do.

**Content:**

# Applying for a Job vs Being Referred #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/jIyhaRwIZlk)

The statistics from Greenhouse are striking about what you want to do.

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [10 Ways Thank You Notes Can Tilt the Scales After a An Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-ways-thank-you-notes-can-tilt-the-scales-after-a-an-interview/)

**Published:** April 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Thank you notes after interviews are not magic, and they will not rescue a terrible performance.

**Content:**

# 10 Ways Thank You Notes Can Quietly Tilt the Scales After a Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Thank you notes after [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are not magic, and they will not rescue a terrible performance. But they *may* tip the scales when things are close, and that’s what this is about–edge, not miracles.

Here are 10 ways they can make a difference.

## 1. They remind them you exist

Interviewers are busy, distracted, and talking to a lot of people. A short, sharp thank you drops your name back on their screen and jogs their memory of the conversation.

If they liked you but then got buried in other priorities, that quick reminder can move you from “I should get back to them” to “Let me push this forward.”

## 2. They let you resell your fit

A [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) is one more chance to connect the dots between what they need and what you bring.

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## 3. They help you fix what you missed

Most people walk out of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) thinking, “Damn, I wish I’d said X.” A [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) is the perfect place to cover that gap.

You can add a brief example, clarify an answer you rushed, or bring in a detail that would have strengthened your case. Short, precise, not an essay–but it can close a hole in your story.

## 4. They signal real interest

Plenty of people [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) casually or because someone nudged them. A thoughtful [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) says, “I’m still interested. I’m still engaged.”

That signal matters, especially when a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager is choosing between people who look similar on paper. All else being equal, they’re going to lean toward the person who behaves like they want the job.

## 5. They show professionalism and courtesy

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers notice how you treat people. A concise, respectful note demonstrates basic professionalism, follow-through, and awareness that someone invested time in you.

You’re giving them a sample of what you’ll be like with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders. That can nudge someone from “good candidate” to “good colleague.”

## 6. They make you more memorable in a stack

You’re rarely the only one they’re talking to. If they meet eight people and only two send strong thank you notes, those two are more likely to stick in their mind.

The note by itself will not win you the job, but it can move you from “one of the middle” to “one of the standouts” when they sit down to debrief.

## 7. They can strengthen your relationship with the recruiter

If there’s a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) involved—agency or corporate–looping them in on a [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) or running it by them first can help them help you.

You show you’re coachable and serious, and you give them something tangible to advocate with: “Here’s the note they sent your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager—this person is on top of things.”

## 8. They give you a clean reason to follow up

Sending a thank you opens a door for future [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) that doesn’t feel pushy or awkward.

You can later [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to it: “As I mentioned in my note right after our conversation, I remain very interested in this role and wanted to see where things stand.” That continuity feels professional, not needy.

## 9. They differentiate you in conservative or traditional cultures

Some organizations still put a lot of weight on manners and formality. In those environments, not sending a thank you can be read as indifference or a lack of polish, even if that’s not your intent.

If you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) in a more traditional industry or at a firm that prides itself on “old-school professionalism,” the absence of a thank you may quietly hurt you. The [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) of one may quietly help.

## 10. They’re a low-risk hedge in a close decision

There are situations where you and another finalist are effectively tied. At that point, tiny things can break the tie–responsiveness, attitude, how easy it feels to work with you.

A well-written [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) won’t carry a weak [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) across the finish line, but it may be the small additional data point that nudges a close call in your favor. For the three to five minutes they take, that’s a decent return on effort.

The bottom line: thank you notes are not a magic spell, and they’re not mandatory in every case, but they are a simple, controlled way to add a bit more weight on your side of the scale. Write them short. Make them specific. Use them to remind, resell, and repair—not to grovel.

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### [How Far Back Should You Go in Your Resume? In Your LinkedIn Profile? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-far-back-should-you-go-in-your-resume-in-your-linkedin-profile-shorts/)

**Published:** April 16, 2026
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**Excerpt:** How far back should your work history be on a resume or LinkedIn profile?

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# How Far Back Should You Go in Your Resume? In Your LinkedIn Profile? #shorts

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### [What a Hostage Negotiator Can Teach You About Salary Negotiation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-a-hostage-negotiator-can-teach-you-about-salary-negotiation/)

**Published:** May 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What a Hostage Negotiator Can Teach You About Salary Negotiation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You’re at the finish line. The verbal [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) was $165k. You’re ready to sign.

Then the written [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) arrives: **$150k.**

Suddenly, the “goalposts” have moved. Most people react with either immediate anger or defeated silence. Both are losing moves.

**Hostage negotiators have a different playbook.** When the terms change unexpectedly, they don’t get furious—they get curious.

**The “Hostage Negotiator” Move:** Instead of a confrontational “Why did you lie to me?”, you use a **Label**.

*“It seems like something has changed on your end regarding the budget for this role since our last conversation.”*

**Why this works:**

1. **It stays calm:** You aren’t accusing; you’re observing.
2. **It forces an explanation:** It puts the burden of proof back on them to explain the discrepancy.
3. **It preserves the relationship:** You are solving a problem *with* them, not fighting *against* them.

Negotiation isn’t an act of war; it’s a process of discovery. If they moved the goalposts, your job isn’t to kick the ball—it’s to find out who moved the field.

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### [Stupid Final Interview Mistakes: Being Too Excited!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-final-interview-mistakes-being-too-excited/)

**Published:** April 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Stupid Final Interview Mistakes: Being Too Excited!

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

It’s the final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Your meeting The Grand Poobah full function. And then you blow it.

[The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I’m trying to illustrate one of those stupid final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people make, where they’re just too excited. And I’m obviously exaggerating quite a bit. If you’ve watched my videos, you know that I’m a little bit more subdued most of the time, and people get excited at final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). This is it. It’s me and another person competing for this job. I got this one in the bag. You know, it feels great, and you’re walking in and you’re meeting the Grand Poobah of the function. This is an important person, but you feel really good. You’re excited, and suddenly it’s all wrong, because you’re not the same person you were at the previous [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

You’re so wound up, you’re so excited, you know, it’s a turn off. You seem almost psycho. And the problem becomes, who wants to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a psycho? Right? You’ll lose just from your behavior. My Reminder, if you feel you that you’re excited, get there a little bit early, but don’t go up to the offices. Hang out in your car. Hang out in a coffee shop, hang out somewhere where you can just take a minute and relax. Sit down. Do some deep breathing, inhale deeply and exhale slowly. Meditate for a few minutes. Do something that you find relaxing and enjoyable to calm your nerves. Because really, when you’re too excited, it’s too much nervousness, there’s too much adrenaline in your system. Drink a chamomile tea. Do something to slow yourself down to normalcy, because they don’t want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the exuberant one, you know, the one who sounds like they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a normal human being who just happens to love what they do. So let it rip, but not over rip, if you know what I mean, you don’t want to come across like you’re a wrestler. You don’t want to come across as a psycho. You just want to be a great human being who delights in what they do, who enjoys it a heck of a lot, but doesn’t cross that line into bizarre behavior.

So I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you enjoy this. Visit [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://TheBigGameHunter.us). There’s much more there that you can watch, listen to or read that will help you find work more quickly. Also want to mention, if you’re interested in one on one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me at my website, on the home page, there’s a button there that will allow you to schedule a free discovery call with me, and there’s, you know, I can definitely help, as I’ve helped 1000s of others over the course of my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). So reach out to me. I’d love to help. And if you’re watching on YouTube and want to subscribe to my channel, there’s a little icon the lower right hand corner. Just press on that. You’ll be subscribed to the channel. Get notifications whenever I release something new, and I’d love to help you. I mentioned that before, I’d love to help you. Have a great day and take care. Bye.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [Avoiding Depression During a Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/avoiding-depression-while-job-hunting/)

**Published:** April 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Avoiding Depression During a Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 I discuss several things you can do to keep yourself on point during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) avoid the malaise and depression too many people slip into. I mentioned connecting with me via coach.me in the video. I no longer work with the service. Instead, reach out to me through [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](http://www.TheBigGameHunter.us).

Today’s video is to help individuals who may be fighting depression in the middle of their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And depression is insidious. It shows up in lots of different ways.

And the simplest way it becomes obvious is you find it difficult to do the things you know you need to do. And, as a result, it kind of feeds on itself and sends you into a spiral where nothing is getting done. You start to punish yourself for not getting things done and then criticizing yourself for not getting not doing the things you know to get done.

You get the idea. So, here’s a couple of ways that I’ve learned over the years in my work as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and my [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) as a therapist to help people defeat the depression that comes with [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because, after all, it wasn’t just that you decided that you weren’t being treated fairly or that you got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) or [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) from your employer. It’s all the build up to that that may have worn you down.

So, here’s a couple of things to do. First of all, establish a routine for yourself and maintain it. So, for example, if you were used to getting up at 6 30 to go to work, get up at 6 30 to start your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

Go through the same routine you did in the morning. I’m not going to walk you through your normal routine but you know what you normally do and just continue on with it. When I was working from home many years ago when I was living in New York, the one additional thing I did as part of my routine was I would go out to get a copy of the New York Times, come back, get into my jacuzzi and take a long bubble bath for a while.

And I felt as though by going out in the morning and just getting a sense of the weather, I just learned what other people were going through and it kind of got me connected with work. You’ll find your version of a good routine but establish one. From there, I want to encourage you to do some exercise.

It doesn’t have to be sweat and grunt exercise. You don’t have to . . . if you haven’t exercised before, go for a three-mile jog. It’s beyond reasonable to expect that.

But even if it’s as simple as going for a one-mile walk, it’s something that you can do that will get you out and invigorate you. Start doing something like reaching out to people as part of your search, just to check in with them, say hi, chat a little bit, let them know that you’re looking for work that can be part of your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and just reconnect with folks to help them and help yourself stay connected. Go to a support group.

***[STOP COMPLAINING START WORKING](https://amzn.to/4c6w28W)***

There are any number of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) groups out there that will help individuals make more connections and support with one another with leads and support one another with [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). So, get to a network support group or a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) group and just chat up people and that will help you feel good. There are things that you can do to volunteer sometimes.

One day a week for an afternoon like Friday afternoon, you might find a volunteer opportunity that’ll give you motivation and inspiration to appreciate what you have even though it’s not going perfectly. I’m going to remind you about one of those qualities that serves you very well, which is perseverance. You’ve always had a determination or been determined throughout [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

This is going to be another way that you’re going to need to show that perseverance and determination. Try a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) journal. Talk about some of the successes that you’ve had, the positive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) that you’ve received along the way.

Just jot down some notes for yourself because there are times where the funk may get too profound and it becomes a good way to remind you of things that you can do that will inspire you because you’ve inspired others. And I don’t want to neglect the idea of getting some professional help. Sometimes, the rut or depression becomes too profound and you need help.

Don’t skimp or scrimp on spending money to take care of yourself. After all, if you’re depressed and you go to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) feeling depressed, how motivated do you think others are going to be in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you? So, get some help. Often, talking to your friends will be enough to take you out of the funk.

But if it doesn’t work, definitely get some professional advice and support in order to help you break through. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful.

Hope you visit my website, which is TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more there that you can watch, listen to or read to help you find work more quickly. And if we’re not connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send a connection request at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com forward slash IN forward slash TheBigGameHunter. I accept connection requests from people worldwide.

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Finally, [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I have coached people for years. Now, I’m doing work now through . . . and this is my lowest cost way of working with someone, which is primarily through text, through a service called coach.me, where, particularly for those of you who are feeling depressed and need some support in just taking small incremental action and setting goals for yourself, it’s a perfect way for you to do it.

I’d be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to help you. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you have a great day.

Take care.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![jeff altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/what-should-you-wear-for-a-video-interview-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

Also, subscribe to [⁠JobSearchTV.com⁠](https://jobsearchtv.com/) **on YouTube** and **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio**, the #1 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 3100 episodes over 15+ years.in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music and almost anywhere you listen or watch podcasts.

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [20 Job Search Wins You Can Achieve in 15 Minutes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-job-search-wins-you-can-achieve-in-15-minutes/)

**Published:** April 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A job search often feels like a marathon, but the most effective progress is usually made through high-intensity micro-sprints.

**Content:**

# 20 Job Search Wins You Can Achieve in 15 Minutes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) often feels like a marathon, but the most effective progress is usually made through high-intensity micro-sprints. When you feel overwhelmed by the “Search,” stop looking at the horizon and focus on 15-minute tactical wins.

These tasks aren’t about busywork; they are designed to sharpen your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—that unique intersection of your expertise and a company’s pain—and keep your profile pulsing in the algorithm. Here are 20 high-impact actions a person can complete in a quarter-hour.

### Phase 1: Algorithmic Calibration

Your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) is a data set. These tasks ensure the machines and the people behind them see the right signals.

1. **The Headline Audit:** Rewrite your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline from “Job Title at Company” to “Specific Result | Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) | Target Value.”
2. **Banner Refresh:** Replace the default [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) background with a custom graphic or a high-quality photo of you in your element (speaking, whiteboarding, or in a professional setting).
3. **Skills Pruning:** Remove the five “softest” skills from your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) list (e.g., “Microsoft Word”) and replace them with five specific technical or strategic “Knowledge Clusters.”
4. **The “Featured” Pin:** Pin one high-performing post or a link to a project that proves you are a person who solves problems, not just a person who holds a title.
5. **Location Check:** Ensure your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) location is set to the city where you *want* to work, not necessarily where you currently sit.

### Phase 2: Reconnaissance & Target Mapping

Stop looking for job postings; start looking for **Internal Weather**.

6. **Earnings Call Synthesis:** Pick a target company. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to scan their latest earnings call for three “Risk Factors” mentioned by the CEO.
7. **Follow the Leader:** Follow five C-suite [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) at your top target companies. Ring the “Notification Bell” on their profiles.
8. **The “Future Peer” Search:** Find three people who hold the job you want at your target company. Study their background for one specific “Experience Gap” you share.
9. **Boutique Search:** Identify one boutique recruiting firm that specializes in your niche and send a 150-word note to one of their partners.
10. **The News Alert:** Set a Google Alert for your top three target companies plus the keyword “merger” or “restructuring.”

### Phase 3: High-Resolution Outreach

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is a digital handshake. Keep it fast and lead with value.

11. **The “Value” Comment:** Find a post by a target [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. Leave a three-sentence comment that adds a contrarian or [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) perspective to their thought.
12. **The [Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Check:** Search your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) 1st-degree connections for anyone who works at a target company. Draft a specific, low-friction inquiry about the team culture.
13. **Reconnect with a “Node”:** Send a “no-ask” message to a former colleague who is now a leader at another firm. Mention a specific project you both crushed.
14. **The Podcast Pitch:** Find a small industry podcast. Send the host one specific “Onlyness” topic you could speak on for 15 minutes.
15. **The Alumni Filter:** Filter a target company’s employees by your university. Find one person and ask for a 15-minute “Career Pathing” sync.

### Phase 4: Asset Optimization

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and profile should be living documents that reflect current market reality.

16. **The “About” Hook:** Rewrite the first two sentences of your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “About” section to focus entirely on the *problem* you solve for a person, not your history.
17. **Bullet Point Polish:** Pick one bullet point on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to convert it into a measurable outcome (e.g., from “Managed budget” to “Optimized $2M P&L for 12% savings”).
18. **The Recommendation Request:** Send a specific, pre-written prompt to a former peer. Ask them to vouch for one specific skill you are currently pivoting toward.
19. **The Video Intro:** Record a 60-second “video resume” or intro on your phone. You don’t have to post it yet, but having it ready for a DM is a massive differentiator.
20. **The Calendar Block:** Look at your week. Block out 15 minutes at 9:00 AM every day for “The Morning Sprint” to ensure consistency.

### The Bottom Line: Motion vs. Action

There is a difference between motion (feeling productive) and action (moving the needle). Many people spend hours browsing job boards—that is motion. Spending 15 minutes synthesizing an earnings call to identify a company’s pain point is action.

By breaking your search into these micro-sprints, you maintain your sanity while building a cumulative “Authority Signal” that makes it impossible for the market to ignore your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

[***The Cost of a Long Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oM3)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

*[**When Following Up Backfires**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oL4)*

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [How to Become an Irresistible Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-become-an-irresistible-hire/)

**Published:** April 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3131 This episode reveals the three-pillar strategy to flip the power dynamic, move from vaguely a fit to an obvious solution, and make employers chase you.

**Content:**

# How to Become an Irresistible Hire

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3131 Stop being just another invisible applicant in an #ats filled with [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). This episode reveals the three-pillar strategy to flip the power dynamic, move from “vaguely a fit” to an “obvious solution,” and make [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) chase you.

**Timestamps**

- **00:06** – The “Business of One” mindset shift.
- **00:55** – Pillar 1: Becoming the obvious solution to a specific pain point.
- **01:34** – Moving from a generic bio to a high-impact sales page.
- **02:48** – Why depth beats breadth for attracting inbound interest.
- **03:12** – Pillar 2: Using “Thinking Artifacts” to show how you solve problems.
- **04:13** – Why you must audition for your next role in public.
- **05:03** – Pillar 3: Lowering the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) risk with a “Proof File.”
- **06:09** – Flipping the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) into a collaborative working session.

[***Networking Like a Leader***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ)

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio, episode 3,131. Alright, welcome. Let’s talk about that feeling, right? The most frustrating part of the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

You send out what feels like a million [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), and all you hear back is crickets. It’s like you’re invisible. But what if the problem isn’t your experience? What if it’s your entire approach? Today, we’re going to dive into a massive mindset shift.

So here’s the game plan. The big idea is to stop acting like just another applicant in the pile. You need to start operating like a business, a business of one that solves a really specific, really painful problem.

We’re going to break this down into three core pillars. First, how to make yourself the obvious solution. Then we’ll get into showing them how you think, not just what you’ve done.

And finally, we’ll talk about how to lower their risk, making it a total no brainer for them to say yes to you. Alright, let’s jump right into pillar number one. This is all about your foundation, your professional [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).

The goal here is simple. When a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager lands on your profile, they shouldn’t have to guess what you’re all about. It should be an instant, ah, I get it.

Look, vague candidates are the ones who get ghosted. It is really that simple. If your whole vibe is, I can do a bit of everything, what a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager hears is, I’m an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at nothing.

So the key is to own one single, painful, expensive business problem. We’re talking about things like customer churn or messy ops or high employee turnover. You got to pick one and make that your entire story.

And this slide just nails the difference. I mean, look at the old way, that bio, experienced professional with a demonstrated history. That’s just generic fluff.

It could be literally anyone. But now check out the new way. It’s not a bio.

It’s a sales page. It’s super specific. It’s got a number in it, and it tells a company exactly what value you bring to the table.

There’s zero guesswork about why they should pay you. Okay, so how do we carry this over to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Easy. Every single bullet point needs to follow this formula.

Problem, action, proof. You start with the pain the business was feeling. Then you say exactly what you did about it, and you finish with a hard, measurable result.

That’s how you turn your boring list of chores into a highlight reel of your business impact. And forget about those clunky, personal websites nobody has time to click through. What you really need is a simple, one-page impact [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).

That’s it. Just one page. Fill it with maybe three to seven short case studies that use that same formula we just talked about.

Problem, what you did, and the result. And here’s the pro tip. Add a visual, a screenshot, a diagram, something that makes your work real.

Trust me, this is the document that gets passed around the office with a note saying, we have to talk to this person. So the big takeaway from this whole first pillar is this. Depth beats breadth every single time.

If your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile makes it look like you’re open to 12 different kinds of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), guess what? [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are going to contact you for none of them. You’ve got to commit. Pick one core title, one industry.

That’s how you start attracting the right kind of opportunities, the really good ones. Okay, great. So now they know what problem you solve, but that’s only half the battle.

Now we’re moving on to pillar two, and this is all about showing them how you solve it. This is where you really get to flux your brain and go way beyond what’s on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). What you need to do is create thinking artifacts.

I love that term. These are just pieces of content you put out there publicly that prove how you think. It shows your brain in action.

It could be anything, really. A teardown of a company’s sales funnel, you could rewrite a terrible job posting you saw, or map out a better onboarding flow. The point is, smart work gets noticed by other smart people.

And this is a fantastic little psychological trick. Don’t just say, I improved onboarding. That’s so generic.

Instead, give your process a name. Call it something like my three-step onboarding compression method. What does that do? It immediately signals that you think in systems.

It tells them you have a framework, something that’s repeatable and scalable, and wow, is that valuable to an employer. You have to practice live problem solving right out in the open. You’re basically auditioning for your next job publicly.

[***Strategic Interview Questions to Ask***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMw)

So find the leaders in your industry on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or wherever, and when they post something, don’t just comment, great post, that’s useless. Leave a comment with a real micro solution, a tiny piece of valuable insight. You have no idea who’s watching, and trust me, decision makers are definitely watching.

And when you’re doing this, remember your audience. You’re not writing for your co-workers, you’re writing for their bosses. So you have to talk about the stuff that VPs and directors actually care about.

We’re talking risk, cost, time, growth, those big picture things. When you frame your ideas that way, that’s when you get the senior leaders to notice you and maybe even slide into your DMs. All right, on to our final pillar.

So far, you’ve shown them what you do and how you think. This last piece is all about the psychology of the [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). Your one and only goal now is to make it as easy, as low risk as possible for them to say yes and give you the job.

Okay, so a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager reaches out, they’re interested. You can’t just respond with more promises. You need to hit them with proof.

You should have a proof file ready to send at a moment’s notice. We’re talking three to five killer assets you can just fire off instantly. A quick loom video explaining a dashboard, a before and after case study, a page of testimonials.

This stuff turns your claims into cold, hard evidence. What we’re trying to do here is remove something called mental friction. And that’s just any little question or doubt that pops into the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s head that might slow down a yes, stuff like, hmm, there’s an [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) gap here, or, oh, they’re switching [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).

You’ve got to get ahead of those things, address them proactively, and spin them into a positive, explaining why that experience actually makes you a better candidate. And this next one, this is a huge mindset shift for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) itself. Stop treating it like a test where you have to give the right answers.

Instead, treat it like a working session, like it’s your first day. Ask really smart questions about their challenges and then start brainstorming solutions with them right there on the call. Seriously, companies [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the person who already feels like they’re on the team.

You know, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) time to get a job is before it’s even posted. And the way you do that is by creating warm proximity. I love this concept.

[***AI and the Future of Your Job***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oKG)

You basically pick 20 to 30 target leaders, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers in your field, and you just consistently and thoughtfully engage with their stuff over time. It’s not about just [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). It’s about building genuine relationships so you’re a familiar face when a need comes up.

And look, when you do reach out and ask for help, you have to make it super specific and super easy for them. A vague ask like, hey, let me know if you hear of anything, that gets ignored. Why? Because it puts all the work on them.

But a specific ask like the one you see here respects their time and gives them a really clear, simple thing they can do for you. Your chances of getting a helpful response go through the roof. Okay, let’s wrap this all up.

We’ve just walked through the three pillars that will totally transform you from being just another generic applicant into a targeted, irresistible solution to a company’s biggest problems. And this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) right here, it’s the whole shebang in a nutshell. It’s all about being focused, proving your value, making yourself a low risk bet, and tying everything you do back to a real business pain.

When you build your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) around that idea, something amazing happens. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) don’t just notice you, they start chasing you. So I’m going to leave you with one last question to think about.

As you go forward from here, just keep asking yourself this. The answer will define your entire strategy and ultimately, your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). There is a lot more to help you at [jobsearch.community](http://jobsearch.community.). Become an insider and you get access to all my video courses, books and guides to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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[***The Cost of a Long Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oM3)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

*[**When Following Up Backfires**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oL4)*

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [The Old School Cover Letter Is Dead](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/)

**Published:** April 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3136 A generic cover letter stands no chance against the gatekeepers blocking your way.

**Content:**

# The Old School Cover Letter Is Dead

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3136 A generic [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) stands no chance against the gatekeepers blocking your way.

- **00:00** – **Introduction:** The “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio” introduction and the goal of getting noticed in a sea of applicants.
- **00:20** – **The [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) “Black Hole”:** Discussing the [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) of automated rejections and being “ghosted.”
- **00:40** – **The Gatekeepers:** An explanation of the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) and the swamped [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/).
- **01:04** – **Why Traditional [Cover Letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) Fail:** A blunt look at why “old school” [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) are no longer effective.
- **01:30** – **The Fatal Flaws:** Breaking down why generic [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) feel impersonal and boring.
- **01:53** – **The Six-Second Rule:** The critical amount of time a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) actually spends looking at your materials.
- **02:10** – **The Solution: Disruptive [Cover Letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/):** Introducing the concept of a “connection story” instead of a summary.
- **02:38** – **The Party Analogy:** How a job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) should feel like a natural conversation rather than a list of skills.
- **03:00** – **Crafting Your Story:** Examples of how to write connection stories for companies like Google or Nabisco (Oreo).
- **03:46** – **The 4-Step Process:** 1. Find Connection. 2. Open with a Story. 3. Connect Skills. 4. Make the Ask.
- **04:10** – **Storytelling in Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/):** How to weave narrative elements into your bullet points and achievements.
- **04:25** – **Making the [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) a Story:** Strategies for quantification, mirroring keywords, and framing bullets as “mini-stories.”
- **04:53** – **The Final Question:** “What’s the story only you can tell?”
- **05:11** – **Conclusion & Resources:** Information on where to find more [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) at JobSearch.Community.

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This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio, episode 3136. Today, we are diving into a job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) strategy that, frankly, just works. It’s all about how you can actually get noticed in what feels like an endless sea of applicants.

It’s a really cool approach, so let’s get right into it. So, does this sound familiar? You spend hours polishing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), you find that perfect job, you hit submit, and then… Crickets. Nothing.

Maybe you get that automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) email, or worse, you just get ghosted. It’s that dreaded [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) black hole, and it is probably one of the most soul-crushing parts of looking for a job. Well, today we’re talking about how to fix that for good.

Okay, so to figure out the solution, we’ve got to understand the problem. Every single time you apply, you’re up against two big gatekeepers. First up is the machine, you know, the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

It’s just software that scans and sorts your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) way before any human ever lays eyes on it. Then, if you make it past the machine, you have to grab the attention of the human, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) who is just swamped looking at hundreds, maybe thousands of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). For years, we were all told the [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) was our secret weapon.

Right? The one way to talk directly to that human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/). But that old-school approach? It’s completely useless against these modern gatekeepers. Let’s talk about why.

Yeah, pretty blunt, right? The traditional [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) is dead. Don’t do it. But you know what? It gets right to the point.

That old, stuffy, to-whom-it-may-concern letter? It’s not just failing to help you. It might actually be hurting you. So what’s so bad about them? Well, first off, it’s basically just your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) written out in paragraph form.

Why would they read that? They already have your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). Second, with all the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools out there now, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) just assume a robot wrote it anyway, so it feels completely impersonal. And here’s the biggest problem.

They don’t create any kind of human connection. They are just so boring. And this, this is the number that changes everything.

Six seconds. That is the average amount of time a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) spends looking at your stuff.

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Six.Seconds. A boring, generic [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) has zero chance of stopping them in their tracks. It’s just going to get a quick scan and then tossed right into the no pile.

Alright, so if the old way is dead and buried, what’s the new way? Well, the solution is something called the disruptive [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). And it’s built from the ground up to beat that six-second timer. And don’t let the word letter fool you.

It’s not really a letter at all. It’s a connection story. The entire goal here is to make the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) feel something, to show them on a really personal level that you actually get their company, and you’re not just blasting out [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to anyone and everyone.

I love this analogy because it just clicks. It’s not a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) summary. It’s a party conversation.

Think about it. If you met a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) from your dream company at a party, you wouldn’t just walk up and start listing your skills, right? Of course not. You’d start a real conversation.

You’d tell them a little story about why you think their company is so cool. That’s exactly what this new approach does, just in writing. Okay, so what do these connection stories actually look like in the real world? Let’s break down how you can write your own.

Check this one out. Imagine you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to Google. Starting with, I remember the first time I used Google Search and it changed my life.

I mean, wow. That’s personal, it’s interesting, it immediately makes a connection to what the company does, and it makes the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) lean in and think, okay, tell me more. You’ve just bought yourself way more than six seconds.

Or how about this one? Six Oreos and a glass of milk was my go-to snack of choice after every soccer game. I mean, you instantly know who they’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to, right? This story doesn’t mention a single skill or qualification. Not at first.

What it does is create an emotion. It’s about nostalgia. It’s a personal link to the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).

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And that makes you unforgettable. So the whole process is actually pretty simple. You can break it down into four basic steps.

First, you’ve got to dig deep and find your genuine personal connection to the company. Second, you lead with that story right at the beginning to grab them. Third, and this part is crucial, you have to pivot from your story to how your skills can help them solve their problems.

And finally, you make the ask. You confidently ask for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). But here’s the thing.

This whole storytelling idea, it can’t just stop with the [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). For your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) to be really powerful, that same story has to flow through your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) too. Your entire [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) package needs to tell one single compelling story about you.

So how on earth do you make a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) tell a story? Well, first, you quantify everything. Put numbers on your achievements to show your real impact. Second, you mirror the keywords from the job description.

That’s your ticket past the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) machine. And third, you frame your bullet points as tiny little stories. Don’t just say you managed a team.

Say you led a 5-person team to increase sales by 20% in 6 months. See the difference? You’re showing the result. It’s all about showing, not just telling.

And really, that brings us to the most important question of all. Because at the end of the day, when you’re competing against hundreds of other people, your skills can start to look pretty similar on paper. The one thing that nobody else has is your story.

Your passion. Your unique connection. So what’s the story that only you can tell? There is a lot more to help you at JobSearch.Community. Visit the site, become an insider to receive [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and all my content, or, if you prefer, purchase individual pieces of content.

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### [The Seven Fundamentals of Job Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-seven-fundamentals-of-job-interviewing-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)

**Published:** April 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:**  Many job interviewers think they interview better than they do or the sweat of fear comes pouring down like rain on a spring day.

**Content:**

# The Seven Fundamentals of Job Interviewing

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

 Many job interviewers think they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) better than they do or the sweat of fear comes pouring down like rain on a spring day.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Stuart C. Taylor, the author of “[How to Ace a Job Interview](https://amzn.to/4ksApxK)” about the 7 fundamentals of [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) every job applicant MUST be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for.

Episode 834 of no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), advice Radio. I’m your host. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the head coach for JobSearch.Community

welcome. It’s Sunday, and I’m continuing a series that I’m doing of bringing in some of my episodes from [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio, from where I’ve interviewed experts about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Now these are longer form shows, about a half hour in length, I would say, so it’s a good investment in time for you to learn things related to effective [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

This show was released. I believe in 2014 or 2015

the material is still perfectly valid. My guest here, Stewart Taylor, did a very nice job on this show. Now, the audio quality was recorded over a phone line, so if it’s not as good as it normally is, that’s the reason why. But the material is still good, and I thought it was worthwhile. So I hope you find this helpful. I hope you give no BS, [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice radio, five stars on whatever podcast service you listen to it on, and that you reach out to connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), com, forward slash in. Forward slash [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), now let’s get going. Hi. This is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio on web, talk radio.net,

this is a show where I like to spend a half hour talking with an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in recruiting about some element of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), because frankly, in my 40 years of doing search, I found that people just don’t do as well in [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) as they do in their work. So on this particular show, we’re going to be talking about [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). And my guest is Stuart C Taylor, the president of top performers, a recruitment and [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) firm based in the Washington, DC area. Stuart recruits sales and management professionals in health care and a variety of other fields. In addition, he conducts [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) seminars nationwide, and has appeared on numerous TV, radio and other broadcast venues. He’s the author of How to ace a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Stuart, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio. Great to have you on, Jeff, thank you for having me on.

My pleasure. Stuart, one thing I know about

about Job Hunters is they think they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) better than they do,

and

your laugh gives me agreement. Thank you.

And your book talks about seven fundamentals of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). So let’s go through some of these fundamentals. Okay, what’s the first one that you would point to? The job hunters need to focus in on? I’m going to address that. I just want to circle back to your comment about interviewers thinking that they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) better than they do. The test on that is, if you’ve been on more than one [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you didn’t get the job, you can [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) better, that’s the answer. So if someone thinks they’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) really well and they’ve been on several [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and have not landed a job, they should be paying close attention, because it’s very expensive and time consuming to go around the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) circle without actually getting the job. And most of those things are fixable things, so hopefully we’ll get to address some of those today. I guess we will. Yeah, in terms of the fundamentals, the first one is really a knowledge of what you want. I have an analogy in my book How to ace a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), which I call it the dating analogy. And it’s very simple, and it’s applicable to probably 99.999%

of the living, breathing population,

and that’s dating. Everyone has dated at some point. They’ve gone out on dates, and simply put, the dynamic between the interviewer and the interviewee is virtually identical to that of two people dating with the intention of marriage or a long term commitment. And if people understand that simple premise, these fundamentals will make sense, and you can apply it on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). For example, game plan is for everyone to fall in love. Yes.

Well, the only Okay, the only difference, the only the only exception to that dynamic being the same is take out the romance, but everything else is really the same, the desire for long term commitment, the trust, the ability to communicate, the common goals, the being better together than individually, all those things, just how you communicate the interest, the expression of interest, so and the knowledge of what you want, which is the first fundamental which you had asked about. And so if you’ve ever been on a date where the person really didn’t know what they wanted, but you know what you want, it’s a very frustrating position to be in. And so when you’re on an interviewer, the interviewer knows what they want, and when you show up, you have to demonstrate that you know what you want. You can’t be all over the board. If they’ve got position A, you can’t say, Well, I’m also interested in B, C, D, E and F, and I can do any of those things. You’ve got to be very focused to the specific needs of that employer.

And it’s interesting Stuart, because I find that job Hunter is walk in. Some of them have seen a job description. Some of them really haven’t, and they are kind of all over the place. It’s why, when I coach people myself about [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), I want them to get laser focused on being able to deliver the information that the firm is looking for as well. So I’ll talk with them about what I call the single [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) question they should ask on any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that’s basically thanking them for making the time to chat that they had spoken with Stuart about the position and gotten the description, but wanted to get their take on the job. And so could they tell you about the position as they see it, the interviewer sees it, and what they could do to help so that, that way they could focus in and not be all over the place, as you pointed out, there very good, and you touched on something critical is, is, I can’t tell you how many people show up on a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that have not taken the time to find out what that job entails. So again, imagine, imagine a date, and your date says, I really want to marry you. I really want to be with you. You’re the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. And then you ask them, so what do you know about me? And the person comes up crickets. They don’t, they don’t. They don’t know anything about well, all of a sudden, their credibility is gone. You no longer can take that person as a serious candidate. And it’s the same thing on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). If you have not taken the time to [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the job, find out as much as you can about what are the specific requirements of that job, what are the requirements of the needs for that company, and what are my interests? So that they’re lined up, you can’t convince an interviewer of anything, and one of the first questions they’ll often ask you is, so what do you know about our company? What do you know about this position? And if, if you can’t answer anything, it’s kind of hard to explain why you’re there.

What sort of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and how might they go about researching the company or or the position? Well, that’s the beauty of it. It’s really easy. I mean, everyone has the internet at their fingertips, literally, with iPhones. So one of the things I tell people, I do seminars, and one of the things I talk about in the seminars, is there is no excuse for walking into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that you’ve had more than five minutes notice of without any information about the company, because in five minutes I can turn on my iPhone, go on the internet, Google the company, and find out something about the company. Not even in two minutes. I can do that. So Granted, most people have well more than five minutes to prepare. So if you haven’t done that,

when you have an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you’re basically telling the interviewer you weren’t worth five minutes of my time. And so flip that on the other side. It is so easy to access the information. You can do a web search. You can do a go to their website, which is very helpful, although that’s company sponsored information, but it’s a great start. So it’ll give you what the company is promoting about themselves, which is important to know, companies don’t generally put out any dirt on themselves or anything that’s wrong with the company. So that’s where you’re doing some additional due diligence to find out, what is this environment? What’s the climate? And it’s not so much to say, I’m not going to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with this company, but it’s to understand, hey, here’s some of the challenges this company is dealing with in the marketplace. And now that I understand that, I can plug myself in and say, Hey, here’s how I can help address some of the challenges and the

real life situations that I might deal with as an employee of your company, Google searches, talking to existing employees, talking to companies, clients, their customers are a great source of information, because they have nothing to hide. They’ll tell you what they like, what they don’t like, the challenges, the pitfalls, etc. So you have a good understanding of the scope of the position.

Beautiful. Great information. Stuart, now I know I took you off on a tangent a little bit there, but I think it’s good material that you provided. So we covered the first one, knowledge of what you want, and then I took you off into the tangent of researching the first.

Them the job and how to go about doing it. What would you say that the next fundamental is? Well, interestingly enough, the tangent was, the next one

is understanding the job and understanding that the company. And that goes back to taking the time to find out if you can get out job description. Read the job description. This does several things. One is it demonstrates to the employer or the interviewer that, hey, you are valuable enough for me to take the time to prepare. And the other thing it does, which is really important, is if I know what the five key things are are that are required to duties in this particular job, I can then, prior to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/),

determine will work. How do my strengths line up with those requirements? So when I show up on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I can actually point, go point to point and say, I understand these are, this is what’s required. Here’s how I fit that. And it’s a very, very helpful exercise. It’s a critical exercise for a successful [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Very well put. And I agree with you wholeheartedly, unless people dot the i’s and cross the T’s for the interviewer, you can’t assume that you’re going to get the question asked of you. That’s going to allow you to reveal this better, to be proactive and reveal the information the course of answering the question than to have them try to pull teeth with you. Right, right?

So we’ve got tips one and two, or fundamentals, one and two. What would you say? The third one is, well, you’ve got to have the ability to do the job. So

Stuart Taylor is not going to go try out for the NBA, because I don’t have that ability. I can play a little corner hoops, but that’s it. So you’ve got to and again, if I don’t read the job description, I may think I have the ability, but I really, I really don’t. So to move that obstacle out of the way, and it does not mean you can’t have a stretch goal for a job. It just simply means, do I have what’s required, if it’s requiring a mechanical engineering degree? Do I have that? Yes, no. If it’s acquiring management at the acumen, you know, have I managed people? Have I managed situations? How have I handled that? So it’s looking and making sure do I have the necessary skill set. And what I talk about at length in my book is how to actually go about assessing your strengths and making sure they line up perfectly with whatever job you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for. And the reason for that being important is

if I’m an employer and I’ve got a job that requires 10 key elements for the person to succeed in that position. And Candidate A comes up to me, and they present that they’ve got nine of those 10 elements very effectively. Candidate B shows me they’ve got 10 of those 10 elements.

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I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Candidate B

even if Candidate A were actually better, if they’re not able to communicate that they line up point by point with what the requirements are that they’ve got the skill set required to perform those duties. A 90% is not good enough. I want someone that is 100% aligned with the job that I have, which means they’ve got to have the necessary background and skill set to do it. And where a lot of people fail on

this is they don’t take the time. Even people that take the time to review the company say, Okay, I learned all about the job. I learned a job description. They don’t take time to do review themselves. Just do a self assessment on yourself so that you know exactly what you’re bringing to the table. The worst thing that can happen on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is you show up

and you cannot remember

one of the key things about yourself,

not remembering a key thing makes that thing invisible to the interviewer, which means you don’t have it in their eyes. So you have to remember 10 out of 10 things, or five out of five things, whatever the requirements are, and be able to articulate those if you haven’t done a simple spreadsheet on what are my strengths, what am I bringing to the table on how do these line up with this particular job? You’re doing yourself a disservice, because nerves and all sorts of other things get in the way. Time can get in the way where you just don’t remember to share those things, and if you’ve rehearsed it a few times in your head prior to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), it’s a lot easier to have it at the tip of your tongue when you need it to say, here’s my strength. Here’s how I line up with this particular job. And as I’m sure you know, many interviewers are not particularly skillful.

As veteran search people, we’re working hard to extract information from Job Hunters. Yeah, we’d like it provided and offered up to.

To us without a lot of effort, but because we have a financial interest, we go the extra mile. Many interviewers on the corporate side really don’t, and they’re not skillful enough to read between the lines in order to determine what’s missing and that it might be there.

No, I’m at that is that is such a great point, because I think most people go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) thinking that the interviewer knows everything, because they’re the interviewer. They’ve got to and the reality is, a lot of interviewers were, let’s just say, I do a lot with sales. So a lot of sales representatives that are great sales people get promoted into a management position. Then guess what? They have an opening on their team, and they’re told go [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for this, this position. They don’t know even what to ask for. They don’t know what to say. They have just their own knowledge, correct or incorrect of a certain bit of information that they may know to ask you or not. And so you’re sitting across the table from someone, and they might not know what to ask you to uncover your strengths. So the onus is on you, the candidate, the interviewer, the interviewee, the person that’s being interviewed, excuse me, has to know and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to share who they are. Despite the fact that the interviewer may not have the skills to uncover it, you’ve still got to make it visible, because that interviewer that doesn’t have the skill

or the experience is still going to evaluate you based on what you say or don’t say. So you hit that on the head. That is such a great point.

My audience has heard me say many times that the skills needed to find a job are different than the skills needed to do a job, and the skills to be successful in a job are very different than the skills needed to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), qualify, assess and promote, not promote, but

recruit and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people for your team.

They go hand in hand, but they’re completely different skill set, with the result being, as we both agree, there are people in the role of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), not really all that capable of doing well in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) or the evaluation of the assessment. So the onus is on you the job Hunter, to make sure that everything is pre chewed and pre digested for the interviewer, so that when you walk out of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) there’s not a doubt that you can do that job. Excellent. So we’re going to come back to Stuart in just a moment, but first I’m going to go into my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) insider tip for this show, and this one’s on [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writing. And for those of you who’ve heard some of my [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with people about effective [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), you’ve heard guests and myself talk about the importance of metrics, and I want to lay out a formula for metrics and how to express it on a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that I think will be very helpful, and this comes from an article I read this week about what Google recommends for displaying metrics in a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). So for example, what they ask people to do is state what they’ve done by comparison to others in the role, and then from there, explain exactly how they’ve gone about doing it. So in the example that they [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), they talk about wrote 50 op ed articles for such and such newspaper by comparison to six for the average writer, and then talking about how they went about doing it, it’s a very clear comparison between you and your competition that allows you to stand out, and it will be a subject for investigation once they invite you in for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). So that is my tip for this time. I want to come back to Stuart, and we have covered some great points so far. Let us go on to the fourth fundamental.

And by the way, I love your tip, and I love it so much I want to, I want to say something, just to complement what you said.

So often I get [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), because I do recruiting, and I get [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) from people, and they put their percent to goal. For example, they put 105%

110% 120%

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and what I tell them is, that’s nice, but those are just numbers that that tells me that you’re above your goal, but it doesn’t tell me where you ranked in accordance, in comparison to everyone else doing the same thing, which is what you just touched on. And so if you’re 105%

the goal and everyone else is 300% the goal, you’re at the bottom, you’re last. So the hunter, or if you’re 90% the goal and everyone else is 20% the goal, you’re at the top. So just to support what you said is, it’s so important to put that relative data a.

On your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and when you’re on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), to make sure someone gets the understanding of what does that number mean, where are you ranked? Are you the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) or are you the worst? And you want to make sure that you’re obviously highlighting where you’re the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). And for someone who might be an executive, you can talk about percentage growth within your business unit and compare it with what your predecessor did. So if growth is at

85%

or 12% and your predecessor had 1% or negative growth, you’ve demonstrated a baseline for comparison. Exactly, excellent. Thank you. So we’ve got three of them so far, which is knowledge of what you want,

researching the firm and the job, and, of course, the ability to do the job. What would you say the fourth fundamental is fourth one. And I go back to the dating analogy to emphasize this point, if you are sitting across the table from someone that is has got the look you’ve been looking for. They’ve got the intellect, they like the things you do. He’s got all these things in common. And this is a person that you could imagine spending your life with,

because they’ve got everything that you’re looking for, and they tell you that, finally, they give you the words you always wanted to hear,

and they say that they love you and they can’t wait to spend the rest of their lives with you and et cetera, et cetera. But they say it like this,

I really, really love you. I really believe we could have a great, great, wonderful life together. That’s how I respond. It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it. And it’s got to be from the heart. It’s got to be passionate. It’s got to be, you know, heartfelt. And people get on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), it’s, I mean, don’t forget, you’re dealing with another human being, you can be serious, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be expressive. And then, in fact, people want and need to see some form of expression and interest and enthusiasm from you and and so nerves can make you less enthusiastic, or thinking

like this. Well then, then your words can get lost, and so you need to make sure you are expressing with passion and enthusiasm your desire and interest to move forward with this company, just as you would want someone to do so with you if you were dating with the intention of getting married, you need that to feel that, wow, that’s the glue. And I’ll tell you, enthusiasm can cover a whole lot of evils and ills, you know, if you’re super enthusiastic and passionate, I don’t mean jumping up on the table and dancing around or going crazy. I just mean expressing yourself, you know, with with with desire and interest, and that can light someone’s fire more than saying, Hey, I’m a five time presidents Club Award winner. And so, matter of fact, often it does, you know. And so it’s very important to show that be you be excited, and let people know that you’re interested. And often it’s the tiebreaker between one person and another, because again, we’re remembering how [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers are looked at. Imagine you’re a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, you’ve gone through 27 [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). You’ve selected that one you know that one special person you want to spend the next three years with, working side by side, and lo and behold, you extend an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that gets turned down. Suddenly it becomes a basis of conversation. Why they turn it down? And the meta message invariably is, what did you do wrong that you couldn’t get them on board so often when, when [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers are dealing with two people who are very close, one of the things that causes them to choose one versus another is, do I think I can get this person on

Absolutely?

Thank you. And it’s interesting. I’m just listening to what you’re saying, and the these principles for [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) are also very effective on the reverse side for the [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). You know, if

you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with an employer that’s completely dry and boring, you may not want that job either. You know, just like they may not want you if you’re dry and boring. And so it’s it’s very interesting how the the dynamics and the fundamentals are applicable to both the employer and the employee, potential employee.

One of the tricks I tell job Hunter, I’ve got a YouTube video about this. But one of the tricks I tell job Hunter is, the more they meaning the employer, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, talks, the more they seem to like you.

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So

when they get to that point where they’re talking a lot, they’re trying to sell to you, because it matters to them, that.

For coming on board and they want to leave you with a good feeling. It does two things. It does exactly that, you know they’re they’re doing that, and people love to talk about themselves. And if you create an environment where someone can do that, they feel better about you, it’s like, wow, I was able to express myself here. And so it covers both, both, both aspects,

beautiful.

What would you say? The next fundamental is,

yeah, I have a positive attitude, and I we don’t have time today to get into all the specific details of what that means. It’s a layered it’s a very deep statement. By having a positive attitude, it doesn’t just mean saying, hey, I can do this, which is part of it, but it is very important to go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), really, with no negativity at all. And good interviewers will try to get you to tell on yourself or say something negative about yourself, or say something negative about someone else, or say something negative about a situation, and see how you handle that

a good interviewee, which are all the people listening for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), will know that I don’t care how many times someone asks me to try to say something negative or trash somebody else or really speak disparagingly about a situation or individual. I will not do it. I will describe a situation that’s challenging, I will describe an individual, perhaps that was challenging, but you’ll never get me to personally attack that person, and I will always provide a solution on how I work through that negative situation or that challenge. And so the and again, I’m just covering the surface of this, but if there’s one takeaway, it is for to always provide solutions to the situation that you’re in, and never leave leave a statement or an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or dangling with a problem and oh yeah, that person was really terrible to work with. You know, they didn’t show up on time, they didn’t know what they’re doing, period. Never end it with that. And matter of fact, you shouldn’t even speak that harshly about someone else, it would be more of along the lines of, well, yeah, that person was challenging. We had meetings, and they really weren’t present at many of the meetings. So here’s what I did. You know, I re allocated responsibilities to the other team members. We had a [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session with that one missing, you know, absentee member. We were able to bring the group together. At the end, we got everything done. The job was completed. We got an exceptional

rating on the project. So you always ending it with here’s our work through the difficult situation.

Nicely put. You know, I had a situation with a candidate. He’s on a fourth [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). They’re all being done by phone because he’s in Canada. My client is in the heartland, in the US, and he said something stupid about a former manager of his, and then he used the profanity in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) when the client told me about this afterwards, I was dumbfounded. We’re talking about 175

$200,000

person who’s hired people himself. He knows better, but [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have this way of drawing out the worst by buddying up sometimes and people hurt themselves. So absolutely positive attitude, nothing critical, being able to discuss the situation without personalizing it and being critical of anyone else, right? I’ll give you a funny one. I had a at my old company. I We always had

tag team [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). So I would do the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), then another manager would do a [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on candidates that I I liked, and vice versa. And so there’s this one candidate that I had liked, and she had done a very nice job, and I forwarded her on for a second [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And due to this manager’s schedule, he could only meet her for like, the late lunch. And so he meets her for lunch, and

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the waitress comes by and says, Well, it’s like they didn’t drink it. She ordered a glass of wine.

And it was just

funny she ordered wine.

So, you know, now, if the interviewer were to order first and order wine, that might be okay, but you got to stay on the conservative side. No profanity, no alcoholic beverages, you know, no jokes. Just, you know, you do want to be yourself, but not

transparent,

exactly. So, yeah, it’s, it’s, it was very interesting. And you’re right. Good interviewers are very good at getting people to put their guards down, and that’s their job. It’s like, okay, I want to find out who you are, and the interviewer needs to remember I am in a professional situation. I can show them who I am. I can even tell them a personal example. But it’s still an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). It’s still a professional environment, and if you decide to check that at the door, you’re basically telling the employer.

It. By the way, when I’m hired, I’ll do whatever I want to do, because I don’t even have any rules on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and you’re going to get yourself disqualified or increase the likelihood of that happening. They are there to evaluate and assess. They are not there to be your friend. And as a result, it is critical to keep the guard up, because they’re going to draw out the worst. So we’ve covered five points so far. We’ve got two more yet to go and not a lot of time. What’s point number six? Well, I’ll touch on the last two fairly quickly, the ability to communicate effectively with the interviewer, and that covers a multitude of levels as well,

from body language to how you are, how you are speaking, your manner of speaking, I’ll touch on a few things that I think will be helpful. Is

going back to the terms of engagement and demonstrating interest and enthusiasm. Your body language, your [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/), all communicates. It’s very significant things to an interviewer, just as on a date, your body language and [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) communicate very powerful messages. So one of the things is, you know, [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) has to be excellent. Your handshake defines you. And I talked to someone several months ago on a program. He’s like, I can’t believe we’re still talking about the handshake. I’m like but we are because people don’t necessarily realize when you shake someone’s hand, if you have a firm, professional business handshake, you have just defined yourself as competent, capable, professional. If you have a weak, wimpy handshake, or you catch them wrong, they catch your hand, catch the end of your fingers, or you’ve got no grip in your hand. You’ve communicated that I’m I’m weak, I’m probably not very energetic, I probably don’t have any impact or [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). And you’ve communicated that. So that’s, that’s where they start. That’s the first few seconds. And so your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) really can’t succeed if you’ve started it off on a bad note, like that [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) as well. I’m confident, if you’re looking someone in the eye, if you’re looking away every few minutes, or you’re distracted by let’s just say you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) in a hotel lobby and they’re doing construction, well, that’s hard not to pay attention to, but if you’re looking over at it every few seconds, you’re conveying that you know what that is more important than whatever it is you’re talking about. So you’ve got to focus, and you’ve got practice doing this.

I’m going to pause you here for one second about the handshake, because our audience is an international audience, and the advice that you’ve given is very US centric. The firm handshake in some cultures, a softer handshake is more appropriate. The depth of the bow is how the measure the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) is and respect is measured. So the advice Stuart is giving is appropriate for the US, but you have to do the positive thing for your culture in order to ensure that you’re not unintentionally being perceived as being rude. Very, very true. And I will let me circle back to that is, is I wholeheartedly agree. And you know, I’m being from the US. This information is US centric, but if someone from another culture has a softer handshake and they come to the US that is not acceptable, it still conveys the same whether someone is from another country or from

New York, and they are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for the same position, and one person has a soft handshake, because that’s culturally acceptable in their culture, it will still communicate all the negative things in this culture. And so you have to know your audience, and probably vice versa. If a US citizen are going to another culture where that’s different, it would be very advisable to learn what the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to, you know, for my salutations and greetings. But yes, here for particularly, and I’ve worked with some companies that are international, companies that work with students and people coming in from other countries for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), they have to know that. You know what, if you have this off handshake, you’re going to get yourself disqualified, and you’re not even going to know why you got this qualified, because they’re not going to say you had a weak handshake. No one’s going to tell you that, but they’re exactly the reason based on it, exactly right

in the back of their mind. It sticks like a thorn, and they come up with a different excuse or explanation for it, because there’s something in congruent with your behavior, with what their expectations are, somewhere in the role. So

great tip. What’s the seventh fundamental? The seventh one is, is compatibility with the interviewer and the simple, simply way to put. Simplest way to put that is, if you’re doing the other six, you’re very likely to be compatible with the interviewer. Now here’s the beauty of it. If the interviewer is the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, and you find yourself very uncomfortable, you just can’t You’re just not feeling right. You’re not compatible.

With this individual. Don’t take that badly. That’s just that’s actually good. You do not want to step into a job where you’re directly reporting to someone with whom you are you’re not compatible. It’s just like stepping into a relationship with someone with whom you’re not compatible. It’s set up for absolute failure, misery, and it does not really matter what you’re getting paid. It’s not going to last, then you’ve got another blemish on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for short turnaround job If, however, the person you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with is a screener or not the direct person that you would be reporting to, and you don’t feel

the warm fuzzies with that person. Do bend over backwards, do somersaults to try to get to be as compatible as possible with this person, so that they forward you on to the next step. I’ve had people that had initial [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with someone like, I really didn’t like them. I don’t like the way they asked the questions. I was like, but that’s not the person that’s going to be [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. And you just stopped giving 100%

midstream on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), so they disqualified you, and you never even got to the person that you’d be working with. That’s sad, you know. So sometimes you have to bite the bullet and say, Okay, how can I how can I adjust, or how can I just deal with this awkwardness to get to the next step? But there are lots of things you know, just from

again does go back to some of the physical [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/), etc. One of the things, you know, if an interviewer speaking really fast, just from a relate relatability standpoint, try to speak out a little more quickly. And I don’t mean make yourself uncomfortable, but if an interviewer speaks very slowly, you might and you speak tend to speak quickly, slow it down just a notch, so that you are on the same kind of wavelength is that interviewer and increases their comfort level.

I’ll also mention that if you get lazy with the screener, you never know where you’re going to run into them again. I’ve had so many instances where I’ve attempted to present someone to a client and and the firm tells me they met this person two, three years before, what their impressions of that person were at that time. You just never know. Doesn’t matter what market area, what field you’re in, what geography that you’re in. It may seem like an enormous market, but it’s far smaller than you think it is, and you’ll discover very quickly. How many people know one another, and how [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) like this come back to bite you in the butt? Yeah, people don’t forget. [First impressions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/) are almost impossible to erase.

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Very true. Stuart, this has been terrific. Thank you so much. How can people reach you?

Okay, well, I’ve got a website. My company website is topperformers.com

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someone wants to follow me on Twitter, I my handle is get the job. 123,

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and where is your book available? The book is available on my website. It’s also available on amazon.com and the book is called How to ace a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) by Stuart C Taylor, how to ace a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). And it’s a quick, easy read take about an hour and a half to get through, and I’ll tell you the difference between moving on to a second [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or getting a job and not can be the difference of a [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) or the difference of something so small, but usually fixable. And so what the book does is it covers all the nuances, subtle nuances, and the greater things, including the seven fundamentals that will help an individual really improve their [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) skills. And like I said in the beginning, if someone’s been on more than one [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or they haven’t interviewed in a long time, this book has been helping everybody. And I read the book, I got the job. I read the book, I got the job. And it’s fun to read, believe it or

not, beautiful. Stuart, thank you so much.

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### [Why Is a Recruiter Contacting Me For The Same Job I Was Rejected For? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-a-recruiter-contacting-me-for-the-same-job-i-was-rejected-for-shorts/)

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### [Executive Summary: Hiring and The Great Mismatch](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-summary-hiring-and-the-great-mismatch/)

**Published:** April 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The global labor market is currently navigating a profound talent crisis known as the "great hiring mismatch."

**Content:**

# **Executive Summary: Hiring and The Great Mismatch**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**[Based on a podcast episode from Korn-Ferry](https://youtu.be/9geKLqBA9Gk?si=1NHplzR9mgHWsRoA)**

The global labor market is currently navigating a profound talent crisis known as the “great [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) mismatch.” Despite an abundance of available positions–recently marked by 7 million job openings in the United States and over 700,000 vacancies in the United Kingdom–companies are consistently struggling to fill roles across diverse fields. For example, one major semiconductor company recently advertised for more than 3,000 open positions alone. This mismatch is fundamentally driven by a critical shortage of candidates possessing the right skills to work effectively alongside artificial intelligence. Characterized by its unprecedented speed, unevenness, and unpredictability, this talent gap threatens to cause significant losses in corporate productivity and revenue if left unaddressed.

**Key Points**

- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Skills Deficit:** Nine out of ten corporate leaders face shortages in AI-critical skills, with one in three reporting skill gaps of 40% or higher. For white-collar workers, this deficit exists because organizational [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) has been deeply fragmented. Companies have largely failed to understand or clearly define the specific technological skills they need, leaving workers unable to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) amidst the ambiguity.
- **The Frontline Worker Disconnect:** The mismatch also severely impacts frontline roles in manufacturing and retail. Younger generations increasingly view these [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) as undesirable, prioritizing workplaces that [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a distinct sense of purpose, flexibility, and rapid [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) progression—elements typically absent in traditional frontline work.
- **The Erosion of Human Critical Thinking:** Unlike past technological advancements like the internet or the telegraph, which primarily improved the transmission and storage of information, the generative [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) revolution intervenes directly in the human process of creating thought. Experts warn that cognitive abilities follow a strict “use it or lose it” principle. An overreliance on [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is causing a noticeable decline in fundamental skills, ultimately damaging the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and independent capabilities of young professionals and future leaders.
- **[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) Process Delays and Automation Pitfalls:** The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) cycle is significantly slowing down, with the average time from job posting to hire increasing by over 65%—from 29 to 48 days—between late 2022 and November 2025. Furthermore, using impersonal [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) chatbots for scarce or senior roles creates a “black box” experience that makes candidates feel undervalued and disinterested in the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process.
- **The Entrepreneurial Illusion:** There has been a recent 37% increase in new business filings compared to 2025, largely perceived as an AI-driven boom. However, experts caution this phenomenon may actually be the result of a tight, difficult job market, with many individuals launching businesses without genuine [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) competence or foundational entrepreneurial skills.

**Action Items**

- **Audit Internal Skills Before Retraining:** Instead of blindly initiating [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) programs, companies must first take a step back and invest time in auditing the hidden skills of their current workforce while precisely defining what organizational capabilities they will need in the future.
- **Return to “White-Glove” Recruiting:** Organizations should restrict automated [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) chatbots solely to high-volume roles. For scarce and senior positions, companies must provide a highly personalized, human-led recruitment experience to make top candidates feel genuinely wanted.
- **Communicate Transparently During [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/):** To combat extended [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) timelines, managers must actively maintain interaction with the candidates they are pursuing rather than leaving them in the dark indefinitely.
- **Institute Mentorship and Apprenticeship Models:** To offset the loss of critical thinking caused by [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) overreliance, businesses should deploy vintage apprenticeship models. Fostering in-person communication between senior leaders and young talent will organically develop the next generation of experts.
- **Adopt Analog Screening Techniques:** To accurately evaluate a candidate’s genuine abilities without [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) assistance, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers should emulate leading tech companies by incorporating traditional pencil-and-paper tests into their candidate screening methodologies.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Advice from a Hostage Negotiator](https://thebiggamehunter.us/advice-from-a-hostage-negotiator-video/)

**Published:** April 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Have you ever been in a situation where someone you negotiating with suddenly changes their position?

**Content:**

# Advice from a Hostage Negotiator

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

 Have you ever been in a situation where someone you negotiating with suddenly changes their position? Chris Voss has and I provide you with two tactics to use when you are confronted with this.

[***Overcoming Ageism in Your Job Search as an Experienced Professional***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lt6)

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people and organizations to play big. And I was listening to a podcast today where Chris Voss was being interviewed.

Chris is a former FBI hostage negotiator, lead negotiator. I can’t say he’s a tough guy. I’ve never met him.

But, man, he has stepped into some interesting situations. So he was talking about situations where people wind up dealing with someone who suddenly changes their positions. Now, he’s obviously talking about a hostage negotiation.

But I think it could be interesting if you’re a job hunter and an employer changes their position on something. You’re an employer and a job hunter comes back with a different demand or request. And the third circumstance is you’re a business.

You’re selling something. The person you’re selling to suddenly changes what they say or do. And you’re trying to capture the situation.

Voss came up with a great response to that. Actually, there’s two of them I really liked. The first one, let’s say you’re a job hunter and an employer suddenly is talking with you about different money.

Or you’re an employer, you’ve made an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and now they’re countering with more money. And, of course, the business one, as well. Here’s the fun response, right? Sounds like you’re trying to teach me that I can’t rely on what you’re saying.

Boing! How do you respond to that if you’re an employer who’s being told that by a job hunter because you’ve issued a lower [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) after leading them to believe that he’s going to get a higher number? If you’re an employer dealing with a job hunter, can you imagine throwing that one into the mix when the job hunter is trying to up the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? Sounds like you’re trying to teach me that I can’t rely on what you’re saying. Wow! And then, of course, let’s say from the employer perspective, you have a job hunter who suddenly is issuing a counter demand. And before you hit the first response, you can always try this one.

Ready? How am I supposed to do that? And you say it in a flat, kind of neutral, slow, FM radio kind of voice. And lo and behold, it’s kind of like a shocking moment for them that kind of takes them out of their equilibrium because most of them have summed up their courage in order to make this demand. And what you’re trying to do is the equivalent of a pattern interrupt.

So, the first one, I really love. Sounds like you’re trying to teach me that I can’t rely on what you’re saying. But let’s try saying it this way.

Sounds like you’re trying to teach me that I can’t rely on what you’re saying. Again, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope to be able to help you.

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### [Leveraging Onlyness to Break Into Private Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leveraging-onlyness-to-break-into-private-equity/)

**Published:** April 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To succeed in this environment, you must stop behaving like an employee and start behaving like an asset.

**Content:**

# Leveraging Onlyness to Break Into Private Equity

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

The Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) (PE) landscape is famously insular, guarded by a phalanx of Ivy League credentials and standardized financial modeling tests. For most, it feels like a high-stakes [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) war. If you approach PE as a **person** looking for a “job,” you are already at a disadvantage. To succeed in this environment, you must stop behaving like an employee and start behaving like an **asset**.

The secret to bypassing the traditional bottleneck lies in cultivating your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**–that specific intersection of your experience and your vision for future value–and delivering it with an **Operator Mindset**. In PE, they don’t buy [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/); they buy a person’s ability to drive an Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

### 1. The Operator Mindset vs. The Employee Mindset

The fundamental barrier to entry for most talented **people** is a failure to understand the “buyer’s” psychology. Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) firms are not “employers” in the traditional sense; they are capital allocators who buy businesses to fix, grow, and flip them.

- **The Employee Mindset:** Focuses on *permission* and *tasks*. A **person** with this mindset says, “I have ten years of experience in supply chain management; here is a list of my duties.” They look for a role that fits their current skills and expect a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in exchange for their time.
- **The Operator Mindset:** Focuses on *[equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)* and *outcomes*. This **person** says, “I have identified three systemic inefficiencies in mid-market manufacturing logistics that represent a 15% EBITDA drag. I have a proven framework to claw that back.”

The operator speaks the language of the fund. They don’t want a job description; they want a mandate to create value. When you approach a PE firm as an operator, you aren’t asking for a salary—you are offering a partnership in value creation.

### 2. Identifying Your Onlyness Intersection

In PE, “general excellence” is common. What is rare is **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the reason a Managing Director picks up the phone. It is the friction between your technical mastery and a niche industry insight.

To find your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) for PE, you must answer: *What do I know about the “pipes” of an industry that a **person** sitting in a glass tower in Manhattan doesn’t?*

- **Technical [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/):** You aren’t just an IT director; you are the **person** who has navigated three different legacy-to-cloud migrations in the specific context of HIPAA-compliant healthcare startups.
- **Operational [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/):** You aren’t just an HR lead; you are the **person** who is an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in post-merger cultural integration for fragmented, family-owned HVAC businesses.

Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) loves “Roll-ups” (buying many small companies to create one large one). If your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) aligns with a fund’s current “Investment Thesis” (e.g., “We are buying dental practices across the Midwest”), you become the most valuable **person** in their network.

### 3. The Reconnaissance: Finding the “Investment Thesis”

You cannot leverage your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) if you don’t know where the fund is placing its bets. You must perform “Deep Reconnaissance” to understand their **Active [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/)**.

- **The Tactic:** Go to a firm’s website and look at the **people** running their current [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) companies. Identify the common thread. Are they focused on SaaS, Industrial Services, or Consumer Goods?
- **The [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Prompt:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to synthesize the firm’s public movements: *“Analyze the last five acquisitions by \[PE Firm Name\]. What is the underlying operational challenge these companies share (e.g., customer churn, outdated tech stacks, fragmented supply chains)? Based on my [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) in \[Your Field\], draft a thesis on how I would improve the margins of their most recent acquisition.”*

### 4. Bypassing the Front Door: The Portfolio Approach

The most effective way to enter Private [Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is not through the firm’s “Careers” page, but through the **people** at their **[Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Companies**. PE firms often need “Operating Partners” or high-level individual contributors to go into a newly acquired, struggling company and fix it.

- **The Move:** Reach out to the **Operating Partners** at the PE firm—not the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). These are the **people** tasked with making the companies profitable.
- **The Pitch:** *“I’ve been tracking your acquisition of \[Company X\]. In my 12 years of operating in this space, I’ve found that \[Specific Industry Pain\] usually kills the exit multiple. I’ve developed a 90-day protocol for mitigating this. I’d like to share my findings on how this could be applied to your current [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/).”*

### 5. Writing the “Value-Add” Narrative

Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and outreach materials must be scrubbed of “Employee” language. Replace “Managed a team of 50” with “Optimized labor costs by 12% across a $100M P&L.”

In PE, every word must be a signal of **Financial Literacy**. You need to demonstrate that you understand how your operational decisions impact the **Exit Multiple**. If you can prove that you are the **person** whose [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) directly leads to a higher valuation when the firm eventually sells the company, you are no longer just someone looking for work. You are a “Deal-Winner.”

### The Bottom Line

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### [How Should You Answer "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume"?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-should-you-answer-tell-me-about-yourself-or-walk-me-through-your-resume/)

**Published:** April 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How should one respond to an interviewer who asks, "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume"? Is it appropriate to say "no?"

**Content:**

# How Should You Answer “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume”? 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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How should one respond to an interviewer who asks, “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume”? Is it appropriate to say “no??”

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### [Spray and Pray #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/spray-and-pray-shorts/)

**Published:** April 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Too many people make this mistake and wonder why they don't get results.

**Content:**

# Spray and Pray

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Cnlx1h20394)

Too many people make this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and wonder why they don’t get results.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

Spray and pray refers to the process of blasting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out to the world as though that’s going to get you a job, let alone an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). It doesn’t work. Occasionally you’ll get an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like the broken watch is right twice a day. But don’t do it.

Rapidly firing off [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) after [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) with the hopes of landing an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) let alone a job rarely receives the results that you want. Instead, what you should be doing is tailoring your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for each individual role so that this way, a firm and it’s [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) can see how your background fits the role. There’s a lot more available at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.community)

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [No BS Career Advice: April 12 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-april-12-2026/)

**Published:** April 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: April 12 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

![You are more than your resume Gemini_Generated_Image_7ystnj7ystnj7yst](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/You-are-more-than-your-resume-Gemini_Generated_Image_7ystnj7ystnj7yst-1024x1024.png)

Many people forget that you are not chosen purely based on competence. All the other variables are about you as a person that, coupled with competence, allows them to trust you. Your character, [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), chemistry with them, ability to connect with them, and your care for doing great work gives you the opportunity to be chosen.

My book, “**The Panel [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Playbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Room (and the Job)” was listed as the #1 new release for [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on Amazon. Thank you!**

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It’s a rigorous, six-phase framework to strip away [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) polish and find the ground truth of any organization. You will learn to stop being a “candidate” hoping for an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and start acting as an “investigative partner” auditing a high-stakes investment.

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## How to Get Headhunted Without Applying

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In the current job market, the traditional [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process is a bottleneck. For the high-performing individual contributor (IC), the most efficient way to secure a new role isn’t by chasing “Easy Apply” buttons; it is by becoming **discoverable** to the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers who are actively scanning for specific, high-resolution talent.

To do this, you must move beyond being a generalist and cultivate your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—the unique intersection of your technical skills, your industry history, and the specific problems you solve. When you shift your profile from a “resume” to a “signal,” you stop being a candidate and start being a target.

### 1. Shift from Keywords to “Semantic Clusters”

Most professionals think in terms of keywords (e.g., “Software Engineer,” “Accountant”). However, modern [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithms and [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) tools use **Semantic Search**. They aren’t just looking for a title; they are looking for a cluster of related skills that prove you can handle a specific environment.

- **The Tactic:** Don’t just list your tools; describe the **context** in which you used them. If you are a DevOps engineer, listing “AWS” is table stakes. Describing how you “Optimized AWS architecture for a high-traffic fintech platform during a 300% user surge” creates a semantic link between your skill and a high-stakes business outcome.
- **The Result:** When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) searches for “Scale,” “Architecture,” and “Fintech,” your profile rises to the top because you’ve provided the machine with a high-resolution data set.

### 2. The “Passive Signal” Protocol

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) prioritize passive candidates–those who are currently working and successful–over active applicants. To be reached out to, your profile needs to project **Continuous Authority**.

- **Engagement as Discovery:** Stop “liking” posts. Instead, leave one thoughtful, [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) comment on a major industry leader’s post every day. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help you synthesize their points, but your comment must provide a “Signature Perspective.”
- **The Logic:** [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) tools often surface profiles that are active in relevant industry conversations. Every [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) comment you leave serves as a digital breadcrumb leading back to your profile.

### 3. Leveraging AI for Deep Context

To be found, you need to speak the language of the companies you want to join. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a **[Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) Engine** to identify the current “Internal Weather” of your target industry.

- **The [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) Prompt:** *“Analyze the last three major product launches in the \[Specific Industry\] space. What were the primary technical hurdles reported by users? Based on my background in \[Your Specialty\], draft a 150-word summary of how my experience directly solves those hurdles.”*
- **The [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/):** Use the insights from this analysis to update your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “About” section. Instead of a generic bio, lead with: *“Helping \[Industry\] companies solve \[Specific Problem\] through \[Your Methodology\].”*

### 4. Semantic Mapping: Identifying the “Hidden Referrers.”

If you want to be headhunted, you need to be on the radar of the people who already work where you want to go. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your network for **Functional Twins**.

- **The Workflow:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze your 2nd-degree network for people who have made the jump from your current company (or a competitor) to your preferred employer.
- **The Outreach:** Reach out with a technical inquiry, not a job request. *“I noticed you’ve been at \[Target Company\] for a year. I’m currently solving a \[Specific Technical Challenge\] similar to what you navigated during your transition. I’d love to get your take on how that environment handles \[Specific Constraint\].”*
- **The Payoff:** This peer-to-peer engagement often leads to an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), which bypasses the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) entirely and puts your profile in front of a human.

### 5. The “Anti-Resume” Headline

Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline is the most important real estate on your profile. If it just says your job title, you are a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/).

- **The Formula:** \[Current Title\] | \[Specific Achievement\] | \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)\].
- **Example:** *“Backend Engineer | Scaled API response times by 40% | Specializing in Decentralized Finance Architecture.”*
- **The Guardrail:** If your headline could be used by anyone else in your company, it isn’t strong enough. It must be a specific signal that only you can send.

### The Bottom Line

Bypassing the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process requires a shift from **volume to value**. By using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify industry pain points and updating your profile to reflect your unique solution to those pains, you train the market to find you.

When your profile is a high-resolution signal of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you don’t need to apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). The [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) will find you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week, I released additional advice including:

**College Grad? Free [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Services #shorts Excerpt: If you’ve graduated from a community college or 4-year college or university, there are a few services still available to you. Jeff highlights how to leverage your alma mater’s resources to jumpstart [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) search for free. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/college-grad-free-job-search-services-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/college-grad-free-job-search-services-shorts/)

**Believing the BS Excerpt: [The job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is full of conventional wisdom that is actually designed to benefit [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), not candidates. Jeff deconstructs the common lies professionals tell themselves and explains how “believing the BS” keeps you stuck in a cycle of low-value [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/believing-the-bs/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/believing-the-bs/)

**The [Over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/) Pivot: Stop [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/). Start Targeting Excerpt: For professionals [over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/), the “Apply” button is often a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) for [age bias](https://thebiggamehunter.us/overcoming-age-bias-in-job-search/). Jeff outlines a strategic pivot: stop competing in the automated [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) pile and start a surgical targeting campaign that leverages your legacy and network. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-over-50-pivot-stop-applying-start-targeting/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-over-50-pivot-stop-applying-start-targeting/)

**The Power of Effective [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Negotiation Excerpt: Most people leave thousands of dollars on the table because they treat negotiation as a confrontation rather than a collaboration. Jeff shares the psychological framework for effective negotiation that ensures you get paid your market value without damaging the new relationship. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-power-of-effective-salary-negotiation/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-power-of-effective-salary-negotiation/)

**Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Questions: What Are Your 5 Ideal Personality Traits? Excerpt: This question isn’t just about self-awareness; it’s a test to see if your “Onlyness” aligns with the company’s culture. Jeff explains how to select traits that demonstrate high-performance potential and leadership maturity. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-5-ideal-personality-traits/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-5-ideal-personality-traits/)

**[Self-Sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) During a Presentation or Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Excerpt: EP 1723 Whether you are presenting a speech to a group or being interviewed for a job, what you wear makes a difference. It and your manner can put you over the top, or distract the listener to distraction. Link** [**https://youtu.be/m1LeGx\_Gtyk**](https://youtu.be/m1LeGx_Gtyk)

**Why Are [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) So Stressful?** Excerpt: [Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) are a process where someone you don’t know asks you questions and sits in judgment of you. Jeff breaks down the psychological pressure of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) process and how to manage the “performance anxiety” that affects even senior leaders. Link: 

**Targeting a Company You Want to Work For #shorts** Excerpt: This is a smart way to target companies you want to work for via [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Jeff shares a specific [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) tactic to bypass the standard [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process and get your profile in front of the actual decision-makers. Link: 

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): April 5 2026** Excerpt: In this weekly roundup, Jeff synthesizes the most important [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) strategy lessons from the past week. From avoiding “BS” conventional wisdom to the “Over 50 Pivot,” get the high-level roadmap you need to stay competitive. Link: 

**Strategic [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Questions to Ask** Excerpt: Most candidates ask questions to be polite; elite candidates ask questions to perform due diligence. Jeff outlines the high-level strategic questions that reveal the true health of a company and whether the role aligns with your actual [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) goals. Link: 

**Daily Blog Post Report: Wednesday, April 8, 2026**

**Why Your Employees Are Failing Excerpt: For you who manage teams or lead organizations, there are reasons why your employees are not performing to your expectations. Jeff explores the root causes of underperformance and how leadership gaps often contribute to team failure. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-employees-are-failing/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-employees-are-failing/)

**Job Hopping and Gaps #shorts Excerpt: Jeff addresses two of the most common [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) concerns—frequent job changes and [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) gaps. He provides a quick strategy on how to frame these “red flags” as a narrative of growth and intentionality. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hopping-and-gaps-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hopping-and-gaps-shorts/)

**Stop Being the Product: Why You Need to Hire Your Own Ally Excerpt: Follow the money to find the right ally—whether it’s a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) for speed or a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach for long-term professional [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Jeff explains why job seekers often mistakenly think the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is on their side when, in reality, they are the “product” being sold. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-being-the-product-why-you-need-to-hire-your-own-ally/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-being-the-product-why-you-need-to-hire-your-own-ally/)

**People with Fresh Ideas #shorts Excerpt: Eraldo Banovac, the author of “Reasonably Through Life,” joins Jeff to discuss why it’s vital for organizations to hire people with fresh ideas to avoid stagnation and foster innovation. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-with-fresh-ideas-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-with-fresh-ideas-shorts/)

**The Role of a [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) Isn’t What You Think #shorts Excerpt: People often [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) what the role of a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) actually is. Jeff clarifies the incentive structure of the recruiting industry so you can manage your expectations and interact with them more effectively. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-role-of-a-recruiter-isnt-what-you-think-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-role-of-a-recruiter-isnt-what-you-think-shorts/)

**Can Anyone See My Profile on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or Is It Just Visible to Members? #shorts Excerpt: Jeff answers a fundamental privacy and visibility question: Can people outside of the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) network find and view your professional profile, or is it restricted to logged-in members? Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-anyone-see-my-profile-on-linkedin-or-is-it-just-visible-to-members-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-anyone-see-my-profile-on-linkedin-or-is-it-just-visible-to-members-shorts/)

**Food Services [Careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) Outside the Back of the House Excerpt: Many people think food service [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) are limited to the kitchen or waitstaff. Jeff explores the corporate and high-level management opportunities within the food industry that professionals often overlook. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/food-services-careers-outside-the-back-of-the-house/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/food-services-careers-outside-the-back-of-the-house/)

**The Sovereign [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/): Navigating the Marathon Excerpt: A [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) isn’t a series of 100-meter sprints from job to job; it is a marathon that requires a “Sovereign” mindset. Jeff discusses how to maintain ownership of your professional journey and avoid [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) by pacing yourself for long-term [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-sovereign-career-navigating-the-marathon/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-sovereign-career-navigating-the-marathon/)

**Semantic Mapping: The [Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Shortcut Excerpt: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is often inefficient because we look for “names” rather than “concepts.” Jeff introduces Semantic Mapping as a way to identify high-value [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) by mapping the industry problems you solve to the specific people who face them. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/semantic-mapping-the-referral-shortcut/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/semantic-mapping-the-referral-shortcut/)

**How To Create An Employer [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) Strategy That Attracts Top Talent Excerpt: For organizations, your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) isn’t what you say in your ads—it’s what candidates say about you after an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Jeff provides a framework for building an authentic employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) that acts as a magnet for high-performers. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-create-an-employer-branding-strategy-that-attracts-top-talent/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-create-an-employer-branding-strategy-that-attracts-top-talent/)

**Unable to Quantify Results or Impact for Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts Excerpt: What should you do if you can’t quantify your impact? Colleen Paulson offers advice about how to showcase your value even when you don’t have hard numbers or percentages to lean on. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/unable-to-quantify-results-or-impact-for-your-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/unable-to-quantify-results-or-impact-for-your-resume-shorts/)

**The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Too Many [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) Make (And How To Correct It) Excerpt: Most C-level professionals seem to make this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) all the time. Jeff discusses the “Aggressive Issue” and how [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) can recalibrate their approach to project authority without being perceived as abrasive. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-mistake-too-many-executives-make-and-how-to-correct-it/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-mistake-too-many-executives-make-and-how-to-correct-it/)

**Why [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Comments Are the New Water Cooler #shorts Excerpt: If you hasn’t looked for a job in a long time, the way you find out about [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) has changed. Jeff explains why the comment section is now the most powerful [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) tool in your arsenal. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-linkedin-comments-are-the-new-water-cooler-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-linkedin-comments-are-the-new-water-cooler-shorts/)

**The Aggressive Issue Excerpt: Authority and aggression are often confused in high-stakes [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Jeff explores how to strike the right balance between being a “take-charge” leader and being a team player that people actually want to work for. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-aggressive-issue/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-aggressive-issue/)

**Do You Have A Website? Here’s Why You Should. Excerpt: In the age of “Onlyness,” a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is just the beginning. Jeff explains why owning your own digital real estate is the ultimate way to control your narrative and showcase your [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) without platform limitations. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-you-have-a-website-heres-why-you-should/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-you-have-a-website-heres-why-you-should/)

**Make [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Suck Less Excerpt: Irina Pichura shared her [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about improving your results and experiences of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). Jeff explores how to shift the power dynamic of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) to make it a more collaborative, less stressful exchange for both parties. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/make-interviews-suck-less/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/make-interviews-suck-less/)

**The Counteroffer You Shouldn’t Accept Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) presents the counteroffer you should not accept as well as the one you should hope an employer does make. Learn why most [counteroffers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/counteroffers-should-you-accept/) are “staying bonuses” in disguise and how to spot the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-counteroffer-you-shouldnt-accept/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-counteroffer-you-shouldnt-accept/)

**11 Prompts to Code Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Excerpt: 11 [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) prompts to help your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) be understood by [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) and help you get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). This technical guide ensures your professional narrative survives the initial algorithmic cull. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/11-prompts-to-code-your-resume-for-the-ats/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/11-prompts-to-code-your-resume-for-the-ats/)

**How Do [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Filter Out People Who Apply to A Lot of [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? #shorts Excerpt: How do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) filter low-quality job hunters who apply for a job in hundreds of companies? Jeff discusses the digital “footprint” of the mass-applicant and why targeted quality always beats high-volume quantity. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-recruiters-filter-out-people-who-apply-to-a-lot-of-jobs-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-recruiters-filter-out-people-who-apply-to-a-lot-of-jobs-shorts/)

**Win the [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) in 5 Minutes Excerpt: EP 3148 This episode breaks down a high-performance 3-part script that shifts you from a passive applicant to an active negotiator. Learn how to set the tone and establish your value within the first five minutes of the conversation. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/win-the-interview-in-5-minutes/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/win-the-interview-in-5-minutes/)

**People hire me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/)** because I make finding work much easier. I don’t write [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). I leave it to people who are experts at that. I am someone who has helped tens of thousands of people actually *find work.*

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### Jeff Altman, MSW, CCTC

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### [How to Get Headhunted Without Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-headhunted-without-applying/)

**Published:** April 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Get Headhunted Without Applying

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the current job market, the traditional [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process is a bottleneck. For the high-performing individual contributor (IC), the most efficient way to secure a new role isn’t by chasing “Easy Apply” buttons; it is by becoming **discoverable** to the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers who are actively scanning for specific, high-resolution talent.

To do this, you must move beyond being a generalist and cultivate your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—the unique intersection of your technical skills, your industry history, and the specific problems you solve. When you shift your profile from a “resume” to a “signal,” you stop being a candidate and start being a target.

### 1. Shift from Keywords to “Semantic Clusters”

Most professionals think in terms of keywords (e.g., “Software Engineer,” “Accountant”). However, modern [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithms and [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) tools use **Semantic Search**. They aren’t just looking for a title; they are looking for a cluster of related skills that prove you can handle a specific environment.

- **The Tactic:** Don’t just list your tools; describe the **context** in which you used them. If you are a DevOps engineer, listing “AWS” is table stakes. Describing how you “Optimized AWS architecture for a high-traffic fintech platform during a 300% user surge” creates a semantic link between your skill and a high-stakes business outcome.
- **The Result:** When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) searches for “Scale,” “Architecture,” and “Fintech,” your profile rises to the top because you’ve provided the machine with a high-resolution data set.

### 2. The “Passive Signal” Protocol

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) prioritize passive candidates–those who are currently working and successful–over active applicants. To be reached out to, your profile needs to project **Continuous Authority**.

- **Engagement as Discovery:** Stop “liking” posts. Instead, leave one thoughtful, [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) comment on a major industry leader’s post every day. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help you synthesize their points, but your comment must provide a “Signature Perspective.”
- **The Logic:** [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) tools often surface profiles that are active in relevant industry conversations. Every [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) comment you leave serves as a digital breadcrumb leading back to your profile.

### ***[How to Get More Interviews: Submit a Video with Your Resume](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jpb)***

### 3. Leveraging AI for Deep Context

To be found, you need to speak the language of the companies you want to join. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a **[Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) Engine** to identify the current “Internal Weather” of your target industry.

- **The [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) Prompt:** *“Analyze the last three major product launches in the \[Specific Industry\] space. What were the primary technical hurdles reported by users? Based on my background in \[Your Specialty\], draft a 150-word summary of how my experience directly solves those hurdles.”*
- **The [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/):** Use the insights from this analysis to update your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “About” section. Instead of a generic bio, lead with: *“Helping \[Industry\] companies solve \[Specific Problem\] through \[Your Methodology\].”*

### 4. Semantic Mapping: Identifying the “Hidden Referrers.”

If you want to be headhunted, you need to be on the radar of the people who already work where you want to go. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your network for **Functional Twins**.

- **The Workflow:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze your 2nd-degree network for people who have made the jump from your current company (or a competitor) to your preferred employer.
- **The Outreach:** Reach out with a technical inquiry, not a job request. *“I noticed you’ve been at \[Target Company\] for a year. I’m currently solving a \[Specific Technical Challenge\] similar to what you navigated during your transition. I’d love to get your take on how that environment handles \[Specific Constraint\].”*
- **The Payoff:** This peer-to-peer engagement often leads to an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), which bypasses the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) entirely and puts your profile in front of a human.

### 5. The “Anti-Resume” Headline

Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline is the most important real estate on your profile. If it just says your job title, you are a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/).

- **The Formula:** \[Current Title\] | \[Specific Achievement\] | \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)\].
- **Example:** *“Backend Engineer | Scaled API response times by 40% | Specializing in Decentralized Finance Architecture.”*
- **The Guardrail:** If your headline could be used by anyone else in your company, it isn’t strong enough. It must be a specific signal that only you can send.

### The Bottom Line

Bypassing the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process requires a shift from **volume to value**. By using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify industry pain points and updating your profile to reflect your unique solution to those pains, you train the market to find you.

When your profile is a high-resolution signal of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you don’t need to apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). The [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) will find you.

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### [How to Break Into the Hidden Executive Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-break-into-the-hidden-executive-job-market/)

**Published:** April 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode reveals the sourcing logic of top search firms and how to position yourself as an industry source rather than a desperate applicant.

**Content:**

# How to Break Into the Hidden Executive Job Market

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) treat headhunters like personal agents, but that’s a fast track to being ignored. To land high-level, unposted roles, you must understand that the recruiter’s loyalty is to the corporation, not you. This episode reveals the sourcing logic of top [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and how to position yourself as an industry source rather than a desperate applicant.

Timestamps

00:00 – The [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) of the “Hidden” job market.

00:24 – Who really controls the C-Suite entry points.

01:00 – The Talent Agent vs. Retained Search model.

01:34 – Red flag: [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) fees and who actually pays.

01:50 – Why cold [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) uploads are a waste of time.

02:02 – Dunbar’s Number: The 150-person relationship limit.

02:40 – How to build “Passive Value” before you need a job.

03:25 – Transitioning from discovery to partnership once vetted.

03:43 – Information to extract: Culture quirks and real compensation.

04:02 – The invisible assessment: Leadership demeanor.

04:32 – Tactics for Active Searchers vs. Passive Strategists.

05:03 – [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) optimization: Exact titles vs. vague descriptions.

05:30 – Why [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) in [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) is rarely personal.

05:53 – Resources for continuous [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) growth.

You have a polished track record, you speak at conferences, and your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is optimized. Yet top [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) aren’t returning your calls. This [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) often stems from missing [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/).

At the senior executive level, many of the most lucrative and challenging positions are never posted to public job boards. These confidential high-level roles are exclusively controlled by executive [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). They manage the entry point to the C-suite for their client organizations.

To reach these roles, you have to understand the specific sourcing logic headhunters use. Most active job seekers misread the incentives that drive a recruiter’s decision-making. The tension exists because candidates often act transactionally, asking the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) to find them a job.

However, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is bound by a strict corporate mandate to solve a specific problem for the employer. If your approach doesn’t align with those professional incentives, you risk being categorized as a non-viable candidate before a search even begins. Many leaders struggle because they view the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) as a personal talent agent.

This assumes the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) exists to market you to potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). In the talent agent model, you are the client. Agents market you to maximize income.

In retained search, the structure is inverted. Corporations are the sole clients, paying a direct retainer. The recruiter’s loyalty is strictly to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) organization.

Retained [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) handle specific mandates exclusively. They will not cross-market your candidate file to multiple companies while you are under consideration. You should avoid practitioners who promise hidden job access in exchange for large upfront fees.

Legitimate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are paid by the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) firm, never you. When you stop expecting individual representation, you can engage with [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) as a strategic partner. Understanding the recruiter’s client-first focus explains why cold [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) uploads are frequently ignored.

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) prioritize high-level relationships over database volume. This relationship-driven approach follows Dunbar’s number, the anthropological theory that humans can only maintain roughly 150 stable relationships. For a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/), this 150-person limit is their most guarded resource.

Elite [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) rely on this inner circle for [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) and candidates. They protect this limit fiercely, which creates a barrier for the thousands of external [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) that arrive every month. If you reach out only when you need a job, you are often flagged as a transactional contact.

In a world of finite relationship capacity, transactional requests are usually discarded to make room for peers and sources. To enter that inner circle, you have to be helpful when you aren’t looking for a move. When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) calls to ask for a recommendation or market insight, take the call.

By sharing objective market intelligence or nuanced observations about industry trends, you provide the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) with high-value search data. When you recommend other high-quality candidates for their current mandates, you help them succeed. This moves you from a passive file to a trusted industry source.

Consistently acting as a referrer and an advisor is how you eventually breach the Dunbar number barrier. This strategy requires a long-term investment in mutual [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). You give your time now so that you are the first person they call when a matching executive mandate eventually opens.

The dynamic changes once you are officially vetted for a specific search. As their lead candidate, your relationship moves from discovery to partnership. Since the recruiter’s income depends on a successful hire, they are motivated to help you prepare.

They want to ensure you present yourself in the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) light to their client. You should use this time to extract information the company won’t put in a handbook. Ask about culture quirks, why the position became vacant, and the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager’s priorities.

The [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) can also provide the true compensation ranges and the organization’s actual stance on flexible work arrangements before you meet the or the CEO. Remember that while they help you prepare, they are also assessing your professional demeanor for the client. They are looking for leadership attributes that go beyond your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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If you appear high maintenance or overly aggressive during these early talks, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) may warn the client that you are a cultural risk, effectively ending your candidacy. If you treat the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) as a collaborative buffer, they can handle the difficult negotiations and provide a channel for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) that clarifies the employer’s needs. Tactical execution depends on your current situation and how quickly you need to make a move.

If you are an active searcher, perhaps you’re currently unemployed or in an urgent transition, you need to shift your focus. Retained searches can take months. Active searchers should target contingency firms, use their personal networks, and apply directly to corporate human resources departments for more immediate results.

For active searchers, optimizing your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile determines whether you appear in a recruiter’s initial screening. Use exact titles like chief financial officer rather than vague leadership descriptions to ensure you show up in Boolean searches. Then there is the passive strategist.

This is the leader who is currently employed but looking for a specific high level [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) leap. These leaders should identify search partners specializing in their domain. They engage with the recruiter’s insights and build long-term rapport as an industry source without asking for immediate favors.

Keep in mind that [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) in retained search is rarely personal. These firms are looking for a perfect fit dictated by the client strategy, not just a qualified candidate. Maintaining professional courtesy when you don’t get the role ensures you remain a viable prospect in their database for the next appropriate mandate.

So that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful. Here are a few more ways to get advice.

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### [Open to Consulting or Temp Work? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/open-to-consulting-or-temp-work-shorts/)

**Published:** April 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When is the peak time of year for people who are open to consulting or temp work?

**Content:**

# Open to Consulting or Temp Work? #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

When is the peak time of year for people who are open to consulting or temp work?

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### [Workday and PDFs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/workday-and-pdfs/)

**Published:** April 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** While many enterprise ATS systems, including Workday, can parse PDFs, they are notoriously sensitive, and Word files are often considered more reliable

**Content:**

# Workday and PDFs

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Workday often experiences issues reading and importing [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) files, particularly when parsing [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Users commonly encounter errors with formatting, mapping data, and file uploads (often requiring manual cleanup), with some reports indicating that PDFs may show messed-up fonts or trigger system errors. 

**Common [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) Issues in Workday**

- **[Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Parsing Failures:** Workday’s [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) frequently struggles to parse complex [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) layouts, often misreading data fields.
- **Upload Errors:** Users report “Your document wasn’t uploaded” or “The [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) file could not be loaded” errors, sometimes even when files are under the size limit.
- **Formatting Issues:** Generated [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) documents can have formatting glitches, such as removed lines or unreadable text, especially if the [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) uses complex formatting.

**Workarounds and Recommendations**

- **Use Word (.docx):** Many users find that uploading [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) as Word documents instead of PDFs significantly reduces errors and mapping issues.
- **Use Standard Formats:** Avoid complex, multi-column [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) or heavily designed templates, as these confuse the parser.
- **Check File Size:** Ensure the [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) is not too large.
- **Use Plain [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/):** If you must use [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/), use a simple text-based [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) rather than one with scanned images or heavy graphics.

While many enterprise [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) systems, including Workday, *can* parse PDFs, they are notoriously sensitive, and Word files are often considered a more reliable alternative for [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/).

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### [“Can I See You for a Minute?”](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-see-you-for-a-minute/)

**Published:** April 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I have always told people that when a manager is asked, “Can I see you for a minute,” on Friday afternoon, they know that the person is about to quit

**Content:**

# “Can I See You for a Minute?”

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I have always told people that when a manager is asked, “Can I see you for a minute,” on Friday afternoon, they know that the person is about to quit and quickly start to calculate whether or not to seek authorization to make a counteroffer.

When a manager approaches an employee late in the day and asks the same question, often it is the signal that you are about to be [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/).

Most people are shocked when it happens, even when they thought they were mentally [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for it to happen.

It’s like a scene from the Godfather when Clemenza is going to take Michael to a meeting with his rival in the other gang and Michael suddenly pulls away. Clemenza is left surrounded by thugs and the consigliere.

Generally, you will walk into an office where your manager, someone from human resources, and perhaps one or two others are present. Like Clemenza in the movie, you have arrived at your execution with everyone participating.

“As you know, the firm has been experiencing some problems financially and we’ve decided to layoff several hundred (or several thousand) people.”

And with that incantation, you will soon hear that you are among the ones who are going to be [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/). [Laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). Participating in a RIF. A reduction in workforce.

Whatever the language is, that is the ultimate outcome. You have been [canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/).

Sometimes, companies give you 90 days’ notice to find a job. Sometimes, you are told that there is no reason for you to stay. They will pay you for the next two weeks. Thank you for your service.

A friend of mine was called into his manager’s office, [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/), asked for the keys to his company car, put in a car room a car service, and driven home

However, it is told to you, they are telling you that they don’t want you anymore.

**Severance consists of several elements:**

**Financial:**

1. A cash award, commission, bonus, and deferred compensation due to

you. Rights under your pension, profit-sharing plan, and 401K.

2. Accrued vacation and sick time payout due
3. Reimbursed business expenses
4. Stock option statement and exercise schedule

**Insurance:**

1. Health, dental and life insurance, as well as disability insurance
2. Information about COBRA coverage (how long are you eligible to remain on your current insurance plan and at what cost)

**Post-Employment Services**

1. Are you eligible for outplacement? For how long? What will outplacement [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you
2. References
3. Letters of recommendation
4. Access to your office voice mail (having office voice mail gives people the impression that you are still working for the company and that can improve your bargaining position for a new job

**Return of Company Property:**

1. Return of the company car, credit cards, keys, mobile phone, laptop, and other equipment
2. Return customer lists and proprietary information

**Your post-termination commitments**

1. What does your non-compete require of you? Have you signed a non-disclosure (NDA) agreement? How will you be allowed to speak of your work?
2. Are there additional obligations you have under a non-disparagement agreement or confidentiality agreement?
3. **DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING WHILE YOU ARE IN THE MEETING UNTIL YOU HAVE IT REVIEWED BY AN ATTORNEY!**

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It is a horrible thing to do but it is not unusual for a piece of paper to be slid in front of you to sign while you are there. You may be told that you won’t be paid until the release is signed, all the while people are speaking, making it impossible to concentrate on what you are reading (as though they didn’t know that).

Imagine for a moment that you were someone who resigned a year before and was pleaded with to stay with your company and did. Accepting a counteroffer happens with all levels of staff from most junior to the executive suite.

At the senior level, you are probably an older worker where the notion of age discrimination raises the possibility of a lawsuit. Persistence can often result in an increase in your severance.

Asking for more often results in better deals being constructed for one worker and not another.

As the old saying goings, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Present yourself differently than the average worker that the employee handbook was constructed for.

After all, you were:

1. A long-tenured employee
2. Someone who took a counteroffer from the company who stayed
3. Someone who was a higher achiever than the average who shouldn’t be lumped in with all the others.
4. Someone who needs the termination changed to be on the insurance plan another month

So try to separate yourself from your colleagues who were also [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) and be politely persistent.

You may improve your package and walk away a bigger winner than anyone else.

Oh, yes. Do not tell off your boss.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2008, 2010, 2016, 2020

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### [Navigating the New Era: No BS Job Search Strategies for Launching Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/navigating-the-new-era-no-bs-job-search-strategies-for-launching-your-job-search/)

**Published:** April 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Navigating the New Era: No BS Job Search Strategies for Launching Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3132 This episode of **No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio** breaks down the evolving professional landscape, where traditional “career ladders” have been replaced by a more competitive, tech-driven market. The show provides a structured, 10-week framework to help you move from reactive [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to intentional, high-impact [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) building.

**Video Timestamps**

- **0:00** – **The Death of the [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Ladder:** Why the old rules of “neat steps” no longer apply in today’s market.
- **0:21** – **The New Playing Field:** Understanding how leaner teams and AI-driven [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) change your search.
- **1:06** – **Critical Reflection:** Why you shouldn’t start with your CV, but with honest questions about your skills and value.
- **1:39** – **Skill Gap Analysis:** A 3-step method to identify and close the gaps that matter to [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).
- **2:20** – **Impact Over Duties:** How to shift your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) from a list of tasks to a record of measurable results.
- **3:06** – **Must-Haves vs. Nice-to-Haves:** Defining your non-negotiables ([salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), culture, flexibility) to find the right fit.
- **3:25** – **The 10-Week Action Plan:** An overview of the four-phase roadmap to land your next role.
- **3:59** – **Phase 1: Taking Stock (Weeks 1-2):** Analyzing tasks, finding gaps, and capturing your strengths.
- **4:17** – **Phase 2: Positioning (Weeks 3-6):** Updating your profile to lead with outcomes and specializing your focus.
- **4:40** – **Phase 3: Testing the Market (Weeks 7-10):** Gathering peer [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) and tracking real-world responses.
- **5:06** – **Phase 4: Moving with Focus (Ongoing):** Leveraging [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), practicing patience, and maintaining momentum.
- **5:27** – **The Takeaway:** Shifting from a reactive mindset to one of clarity and intent.

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio, episode 3,132. You know, if your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) feels a whole lot tougher than it used to, you are definitely not going crazy. The game has totally changed.

The idea of a neat step-by-step [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) ladder, that’s pretty much gone, and we have to get real about that from the get-go. Ok, so let’s get into it. Before you can win, you have to understand the new playing field.

And believe me, it’s a different world out there. It’s leaner, way more competitive, and technology is running the show in ways that, well, they directly affect your search. So what does this actually mean for you? Well, it means companies are being super cautious.

Teams are smaller, which makes every single [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a massive decision. And that slows everything way down. You’ve got more people fighting for fewer [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

And on top of all that, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has to get past a robot gatekeeper, the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), before a human being even lays eyes on it. All while [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is starting to nibble away at routine tasks, which changes what [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are even looking for in the first place. So, facing all of that, where in the world do you start? I’ll tell you where you don’t start.

You don’t start with your CV. Nope, you start with some real, honest reflection. A great [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is built on clarity.

And that clarity only comes from asking yourself a few tough questions before you even think about [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/). First up, are my skills actually current? This is a big one. What made you a star five years ago might not even get you in the door today.

Skills have a shorter shelf life now, and being brutally honest with yourself about this is your [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) to getting a real [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). And look, you don’t need to get all overwhelmed trying to figure this out. Here’s a super simple, no BS way to do it.

Just pull up three real, live job ads for the role you’re targeting. Scan them. What patterns do you see? What tools or skills keep popping up? Don’t try to learn ten new things at once.

Just pick one, maybe two, high-impact areas to work on. That’s it. It’s manageable, and it’s incredibly effective.

Okay, next question. Let’s say you apply. Would your value, what you bring to the table, actually stand out? Remember, you’re not just up against other people.

You’re fighting for the attention of an algorithm in a field that is seriously crowded. Just being good at what you do isn’t enough anymore. You have to prove it, and you have to prove it fast.

Now, this right here is a game-changer. What doesn’t work is what everybody does. Just listing your job duties.

[***Career Mistakes: Not Taking Charge of Your Career***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNM)

A long laundry list of tasks. What works is showing your impact. The secret is to turn your actions into results.

Did you save the company time? Did you cut costs? Did you make a process run smoother? Put a number on it if you can. That’s the language that gets you past the robots and makes a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager sit up and pay attention. And finally, question number three.

And honestly, for your own sanity, this is probably the most important one. What do you actually want? I mean, really want. A job that looks perfect on paper can be a nightmare in real life.

And trust me, spending months chasing a role that was never a good fit is the biggest waste of time there is. So, before you even type a URL into your browser, get crystal clear on your non-negotiables. You’ve got to separate your must-haves from your nice-to-haves.

Be specific. What [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) do you need? How much flexibility? What kind of team culture do you thrive in? This clarity becomes your compass, and it will save you from so many dead-end [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Okay, so once that reflection is done, it is time to turn all that insight into action.

Let’s build a real, practical 10-week plan. And I want you to think of this not as some endless, soul-crushing search, but as a short, focused project. It has a clear beginning, a middle, and an end.

And here’s the roadmap. It’s actually pretty simple. First, we’re going to take stock of where you are right now.

Then, we’ll spend a good chunk of time positioning you for the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you really want. After that, we test the market to see what’s working, and finally, we move forward with purpose. So, Weeks 1 and 2, it’s all about getting your ducks in a row.

You’re going to list out your daily tasks, what’s just routine versus what requires your actual human brain. You’ll officially pick out those one or two skill gaps we talked about, write down solid examples of your impact, and lock in that all-important must-have list. Alright, Phase 2 is all about positioning.

This is where you take everything you’ve learned about yourself and turn it into a powerful story. You’re going to rewrite that CV and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to scream outcomes, not duties. You’re going to take a short course or do a mini-project to close that top skill gap.

And this is key. You’re going to specialize. Stop trying to be everything to everyone.

A sharp, focused profile is a magnet for the right opportunities. Now, for Phase 3, it’s time to get some real-world [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Don’t just blast out a hundred [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) into the void.

No, talk to people who are already in the roles you’re aiming for. Find someone you trust who hires people and ask them for brutally honest [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) on your CV. Then, and only then, apply to just a few carefully chosen roles and pay attention to the response.

[***Strategic Interview Questions to Ask***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMw)

This is all about learning and tweaking your approach. And finally, Phase 4. This is the new way of operating, an ongoing mindset. You only apply where you know you’re a strong contender.

You lean on your network because [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) are still absolute gold. You practice patience because this stuff takes time. And you always, always keep a few conversations going at once.

You don’t put all your emotional [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into one perfect role that might not happen. So after all that, what’s the big takeaway here? What does this all boil down to? It’s about making a shift. From being reactive and just hoping for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), to being proactive and moving with intention.

Look, people are still building amazing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), even in this crazy market. The ones who are succeeding, they’re not just getting lucky. They operate with more clarity and more intent.

They know exactly what they want, they know what they have to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), and they have a smart plan to connect those two things. This whole thing isn’t about doing everything at once. That’s a recipe for [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/).

It’s just about starting. So I’ll leave you with this question. What is one small, real thing you’re going to do this week to start taking back control of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? There’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community.

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### [The Counteroffer You Shouldn’t Accept](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-counteroffer-you-shouldnt-accept-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/)

**Published:** April 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter presents the counteroffer you should not except as well as the one you should hope an employer does make.

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# The Counteroffer You Shouldn’t Accept

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) presents the counteroffer you should not except as well as the one you should hope an employer does make.

Hi! I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I want to talk with you about [counteroffers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/counteroffers-should-you-accept/) and get real with you. There are very few circumstances, in my opinion, where a counteroffer should be considered.

Let me just walk you through why not. Let me just walk you through what my thinking is. You’ve spent a period of time working for an organization, day in and day out.

You’re frustrated. [Frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) is anger that should be directed outside but you’ve spent a lot of time internalizing anger. So, you’re in conflict in some way.

And finally, you’ve gotten to the point where you’ve decided to do something about it. That’s great news. You’ve gone out on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

You’ve kissed a lot of frogs. Finally, Prince Charming has shown up and there’s a firm that wants to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you and it looks great. You have an opportunity to make more money, to resolve some of the previous issues, whatever the reason was.

And you’ve received an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that you find acceptable. You give your notice and your boss comes over to you while you’re sitting there whistling, I’m getting out. I’m getting out.

I’m feeling [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/). And says something to the effect of, can I see you in my office for a minute? And they bring you in and you’re there. Maybe HR is there.

And now what they’re going to do is [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you money to salve the wound. There’s been a wound on your arm for a long time. And now they’re going to put some nice lotion called more money there.

And they’re going to promise you that they can do things better. And you suddenly go, wow, look, the world is spinning around me. They’re going to be good to me now.

It’s kind of like a puppy. You know, a puppy that’s been hit a bunch of times and suddenly goes, okay, they’re going to be good fool for me here. Okay.

And this is supposed to be enough to keep you. Think about that. That’s really what’s going on.

Instead, what they should be doing is saying something to the effect of, you know, we made a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). I really wish we had the chance to correct things with you. But, you know, the next firm is really getting someone terrific.

In other words, acknowledging the error that they made and how they conducted themselves, which you’ll notice, you know, in the counter [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) financial situation, they never do. And even when they do, it goes by so quickly, because they really think all it’s going to take is the money. It’s kind of like . . . and I hate using this analogy.

It’s something like being abused. You’ve been hit for a while. And the puppy suddenly goes, I’m out of here and starts running away.

And then the master says, okay, doggie, I’ll do better. What happens is people revert the whole pattern. It’s not so easy to change, is it? How many times have you tried to lose weight or go to the gym and bulk up? It’s not going to be easy for your manager to change.

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### [How Do Recruiters Filter Out People Who Apply to A Lot of Jobs?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-recruiters-filter-out-people-who-apply-to-a-lot-of-jobs/)

**Published:** April 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do recruiters filter low-quality job hunters who apply for a job in hundreds of companies?

**Content:**

# How Do Recruiters Filter Out People Who Apply to A Lot of Jobs? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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How do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) filter low-quality job hunters who apply for a job in hundreds of companies?

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### [Make Interviews Suck Less](https://thebiggamehunter.us/make-interviews-suck-less/)

**Published:** April 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Irina Pichura shared her thoughts about improving your results and experiences of interviewing.

**Content:**

# Make Interviews Suck Less

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtu.be/iAeIYI2DeJ0)

Irina Pichura shared her [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about improving your results and experience of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

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### [The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-mistake-too-many-executives-make-and-how-to-correct-it/)

**Published:** April 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most C-level professionals seem to make this mistake all the time.

**Content:**

# The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

When Michael Jordan practiced free throws, he would complete his ritual from the foul line of bouncing the ball four times and flipping it with a reverse spin. He would then catch it and shoot it with his eyes open and sink the shot. Then he would do the same thing, and just before shooting, he would close his eyes and shoot the free throw.

What he wanted to do is commit to his stroke and the fundamentals he had practiced for years. After all, standing at the line, he was still 15 feet from the basket, and the rim was 10 feet above the ground. He understood that he might not sink the shot with the same percentage but he would certainly be able to shoot with the same form he had successfully practiced for years. He finished his career making 83.5% of his free throws.

Most C-level professionals seem to do the process in reverse. They never practice, let alone prepare for their [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) until they miss their shot at a career-elevating opportunity that they could have won and cost themselves and their team (wife, husband, partner or family) the big game. It is from that pain of disappointment that they learn that the [skills needed to find a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-skills-needed-to-find-a-job-shorts/), [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) well, and [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a compensation package effectively are different than the skills needed to lead an organization and do their job.

Correcting this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) does not take much time, but does involve some effort.

**1. Develop a [framework for answering interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ultimate-job-interview-framework-jobsearchtv-com/) questions.**

Don’t be so rehearsed as to memorize your lines. Learn a framework for discussing your successes and your previous career choices and decisions. I have debriefed too many [busy leaders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-help-others-manage-grief-16-lessons-for-business-leaders/) who have emerged from meetings having believed that they could simply “wing it” and answer questions. After all, they were telling something autobiographical.

**2. Rehearse your answers.**

It is not enough to think of the answers. The words need to be spoken in order for you to realize how well you will deliver them once you are in the arena. Like Jordan or any other athlete or entertainer who steps out in front of an audience, you need to practice until the performance is second nature.

**3. Enlist a coach or mentor to evaluate your performance *before* you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).**

Having an extra set of eyes on your performance here will help you deliver at an elite level. When one of my clients sat down with me after losing an opportunity he really wanted to win, it took less than 30 minutes for him to identify a major hole in his game, correct it and start running practice drills to excel at answering questions. A good coach will become your ally in this phase of your life. (By the way, don’t rely on the [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-noticed-by-an-executive-search-firm/) who is representing you to do this. Their interest is with the institutional customer who has hired them).

**4. Know you will be putting on a performance.**

I remember seeing the Broadway show *Cats* with the original cast. By this time, they had performed six days a week for eight shows a week for several months. Yet they made the performance seem as fresh as opening night. Remember that, although you may be answering the same questions you have performed in rehearsal, your performance has to seem like it is opening night, and you are saying the lines fresh and new, not bored and disinterested. This is the first time the audience is hearing you perform. They want to see you star. Let them see you command the stage as you would the organization.

The time to begin practice is *before* you need to. It takes time and effort over time to make your shot second nature. Once you have done that for a while, you can shoot that foul shot with your eyes closed and know you will sink it.

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### [Your Conviction: Employment Checks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-conviction-employment-checks/)

**Published:** May 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You may go through more than one kind of screening as you interview for jobs.

**Content:**

# Your Conviction: Employment Checks

[Republished with permission of CareerOneStop.org](https://www.careeronestop.org/ExOffender/FindAJob/GetInterviewReady/employment-checks.aspx)

## You may go through more than one kind of screening as you interview for jobs. It’s good to know all the types of checks that employers might do before and after you are hired.

Most [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) do some type of background check or pre-screening on all job candidates.

![](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/construction-workers-pexels-pixabay-33266-300x200.jpg)[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) want to know as much as possible about a person before making a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). This helps [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) know that they are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a person who has the right skills and qualifications for the job. They also want someone who will represent their company well.

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) cannot do most of these checks without your permission. Often you are asked to sign a document allowing the company to do a specific check. This can happen when you fill out a job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) or submit a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), or it can happen during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process.

There are several types of pre-screenings or checks an employer can do. It’s common to do more than one type of check on a candidate. Some checks or screenings are done after you are hired.

### Employment history checks

Your past [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) is verified in several ways. The most common way is to use databases updated directly from company payroll records. This information uses your Social Security number to find your past [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager might contact a past employer personally to verify [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). They usually talk to the human resources representative at your past employer.

In most cases, a past employer is allowed only to reveal the dates of your [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with that company, job titles you held, and if you are eligible for rehire. Any other details, including your job performance or reasons for leaving the job, are not discussed.

### References

If you list a former supervisor or coworker as a personal reference, that person can talk about your job performance in detail. Your personal reference can say if you were a good worker, got along with people, describe your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) skills, and other things.

Be sure to give your references a copy of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) so they know the dates you worked, your exact job title, and other details about your past [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

### Social networking and internet searches

The number of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) that check social [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) profiles is growing rapidly. Social [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) sites include Facebook, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and Twitter. Many [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) say they will not [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone who has posted inappropriate content or photos on these sites.

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) also use search engines, such as Google or Bing, to check for questionable information on job candidates. Make sure you know what information [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) can find when they type in your name.

Not all of the information found on the Internet is used to disqualify a candidate. In fact, it’s a good idea to use social [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) sites to help you create a good reputation and build your network.

### Drug testing

An employer may require a drug test during the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process and after you’re hired. They are used to determine if someone has recently consumed alcohol, prescription medication, or illegal drugs.

According to the National Clearinghouse for Drug & Alcohol Information, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) can use several types of drug tests:

- **Pre-employment tests.** An employer can decide to not make a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) based on the results of a drug test given before [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a person unless the finding is a prescribed medication — then they can not discriminate.
- **Reasonable suspicion and for-cause tests.** When an employee shows signs of not being fit for duty or has a documented pattern of unsafe work behavior, the employer can issue a drug test.
- **Random tests.** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) might issue drug tests to all employees at unscheduled times. This discourages employees from using illegal drugs at any time.
- **Post-accident tests**. An employer may test employees who are involved in an accident or unsafe practice incident to find out if alcohol or other drug use was a factor.

Each employer has its own policies regarding drug testing. You will know if a drug test is part of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process. After [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), the company will give you a copy of their employee drug policies.

### Credit checks

Checking a candidate’s credit report is more common than in the past. However, an employer should have a sound business reason for this. If the credit information is directly related to a job, it’s OK to check. Otherwise, using credit as part of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process might be discriminatory.

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) should let you know about their policies and procedures related to credit checks. The use of credit information should be both relevant and fair. Job seekers and human resource staff should [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FERC) and state regulations.

### Pre-employment screenings

Other common pre-employment screenings include:

- General knowledge. This measures an applicant’s basic knowledge of what is required to perform the job. An example is to solve math problems. If required, it is done usually at the beginning of the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process.
- Aptitude screening. This measures an applicant’s skills and ability to learn new skills. It can be a written test or a hands-on test or demonstrating a task related to the job.
- Psychological screening. This measures an applicant’s ability to handle the situations and environments that might be encountered on the job. An example is to ask how you would handle a difficult customer or a fast deadline.

It might make you nervous to know that an employer gives these screenings and checks, but think of these checks as a good thing.

Some of these screenings take a lot of time and cost the employer money. They are only given to people who are seriously being considered for [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). So, if you are asked to go through one or more of these checks, that might mean you are close to getting hired.

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### [Do You Have A Website? Here's Why You Should.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-you-have-a-website-heres-why-you-should/)

**Published:** April 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There were a number of interesting articles in Forbes not long ago.

**Content:**

# Do You Have A Website? Here’s Why You Should.

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***[How to Get More Interviews: Submit a Video with Your Resume](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jpb)***

There were a number of interesting articles in Forbes not long ago. The key points were:

80% of all open positions are not advertised

![job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/job-search-PSX_20180715_151204-freerangestock-1024x606.jpg)For any given position, 118 people apply; 20% will get [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Talent management software will weed out 50% of all [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) before anyone even looks at the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)

On average, [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) last 40 minutes and a decision is communicated in 24 hours to 2 weeks later

In the US, more than 40% of candidates are uncomfortable negotiating [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) resulting in more than $500000 in lost income by the time they reach 60

Last year, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) reported that 56% of their job offers were rejected.

56% of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are impressed by a job applicant’s personal website, more than any other personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) source . . . fewer than 7% of job applicants have a website.

What a personal website does is allow you to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) an employer an insight into your personality beyond what your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is telling them about it (which usually if nothing) and allows you to “control” your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).

By controling your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), I mean that when firms or [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) search you, they will find your website relatively quickly and, thus, what you want them to know about you.

You don’t want to discuss politics or religion on the site, nor have it look incomplete. You want it to provide your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), opinions and idea about professional matters and not, for lack of a better term, “nonsense.”

Obviously, if you are in a creative field, a personal website is an absolute requirement as a home for your [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) and your evolution.

But beyond that, make sure that it includes a great headline derived form your elevator pitch, your [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) (but not your address), a bio, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), a professional summary of your experience, results and/or successes, links to articles you’ve written, podcasts you’ve recorded, professional organizations you’re a member of, videos you’ve recorded and testimonials and endorsements.

Given how popular websites are with [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), shouldn’t you be proactive?

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### [Unable to Quantify Results or Impact for Your Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/unable-to-quantify-results-or-impact-for-your-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** April 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What should you do if you can't quantify your impact? Colleen Paulson offers advice about how.

**Content:**

# Unable to Quantify Results or Impact for Your Resume?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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What should you do if you can’t quantify your impact? Colleen Paulson offers advice about how.

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### [How To Create An Employer Branding Strategy That Attracts Top Talent](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-create-an-employer-branding-strategy-that-attracts-top-talent/)

**Published:** April 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The key difference between firms that are talent magnets and the others was in their employer branding and the effort they put into an employer brand strategy and delivery on that strategy.

**Content:**

# How To Create An Employer Branding Strategy That Attracts Top Talent

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**I worked in recruiting for many years before transitioning to becoming a global coach for individuals and firms trying to improve. I worked with a number of firms that did extraordinary work to become a magnet for talent. Then, there were the others. They were the firms that hired the leftovers from the others and had to work hard and spend more money than they wanted to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the talent they needed. The key difference I saw was in their employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and the effort they put into an employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) strategy and delivery on that strategy.**

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Employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is a must-have for any successful business. It’s the practice of creating a positive image of your company and its culture, to attract and retain the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) talent. An [effective employer branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-tip-for-effectively-communicating-your-employer-brand-to-prospective-hires/) strategy can help you stand out from the competition and make your company an employer of

 choice. It also helps you to attract top talent who are looking for an environment that is stimulating and rewarding. Creating [an employer branding strategy isn’t](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-isnt-about-catchy-slogans/) easy, but with the right planning, it can make all the difference in helping you achieve your goals.

Think of it like how firms create an image for their product. When I say generic [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), most people associate it with cheaper. When I say Mercedes-Benz, The New York Yankees, Apple, or “Three Guys in a Garage” startup, each carries an impression that you associate with that business. Creating an [employer brand strategy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-making-the-mistake-of-presenting-the-firm-as-great-for-everyone-shorts/) is like for you as an employer. It is the launch point for attracting and keeping the people you want.

### What is employer branding?

[Employer branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-change-your-job-descriptions-shorts/) is the process of building a compelling and consistent message around your company’s culture, mission, and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) practices. It’s a way of representing your company tailored to potential employees and their unique wants and needs. An effective [employer branding strategy will help you attract talent](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-attracting-talent/) to your company and retain your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) people. It should [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) and accepted as a critical part of your recruitment strategy. When you take the time to develop a strategy that is authentic to your business, you’ll be sending a strong message to the marketplace about the type of company you are and the people you employ and want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

### **Why is employer branding important?**

Employer [branding will help you differentiate your company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-big-employer-branding-mistake-companies-make/) from other [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) in your industry or market area and make your company an employer of choice, attracting new talent that might not otherwise be familiar with your firm. Employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is all about creating an honest and positive image of your company and the culture that exists within it. It’s about communicating to both existing employees and new hires that they are valued and essential to your organization. It can help increase recruitment fill rates, reduce time-to-hire, reduce turnover and help you to create a competitive edge. When you create an employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), you’re not just selling your company or department— you’re selling the experience that comes with being part of it. This translates into cost savings for your firm.

For example, in working with one firm and helping them reduce the time to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) from 4 months to 7 weeks, there are real cost savings. In helping another firm look at its culture and reducing turnover from 37% per annum to 23%, there is real money involved!

### **Identifying Your Target Audience**

One of the first steps in creating an effective employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy is to identify the target audience you hope will be interested in what you have to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). To do this, you’ll need to do [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and get acquainted with [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) in your locale and industry, as well as the commonalities of your current staff. Start by taking a close look at your industry and the types of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you currently have open. This will help you to identify the types of candidates you need and the types of skill sets they’ll need to possess. Although some may suggest considering age range, and gender, as well as the location, and level of experience of the candidates you are hoping to attract, I want to discourage you from considering age and gender for much the same reason as race. It is illegal in the US and many other nations to use these attributes as part of your decision-making process, plus it results in homogenized thinking that misses blind spots and lacks a diversity of thought and experience.

Like politicians and senior leadership that only hears one opinion, you will wind up with a homogeneous environment that loses the benefit of different eyes and voices.

### **Crafting Your Employer Value Proposition**

Your value proposition is the reason why a potential employee should work for your company. It’s a clear and concise message that spells out the advantages a potential employee would receive by working at your business. When developing your employer value proposition, there are a few things to keep in mind.

First, you don’t want to focus on what your company needs — you want to take into account what the employee receives, too. After all, you don’t have any control over what they take away from the experience. Second, you’ll want to keep it short and simple. A good rule of thumb is to keep your [employer value proposition](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-create-an-employee-value-proposition-shorts/) to 10 words or less. Doing this ensures you keep the focus on the advantages that come from [working for your company and its people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-recruiters-steal-your-best-people-company-inflexibility-about-where-they-work/). Seth Godin states it simply, “People like us do [things](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-dumb-things-people-do-when-submitting-their-resume/) like that.”

Then, if you are running ads to attract people or having leadership talk about the firm and the environment, you want there to be unified [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) that tells people what’s in it for them to join and then back that up with how they are treated, managed, and led once on board.

### **Developing Your Employer Branding Strategy**

Once you have a better idea of the type of person you want to attract, it’s time to put together a strategy for how you will introduce your company to this audience. This is where your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy comes in. There are a number of things you’ll want to consider when developing your strategy. Start by identifying the type of employees you want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). What hard and soft skills do you want them to have? What type of attitude and culture do you want them to possess or come from? How do you want them to feel about working for your company and this department? These are all questions that you’ll need to answer when putting together your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy. Keep in mind that you don’t want to be misleading or outright lie to people. You want to provide a clear and honest representation of your company. This is going to come through in the content you create to promote your [employer brand and the experience you create for people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-dont-punish-your-best-people/) when interviewed and onboarded.

### **Creating Your Employer Branding Content**

Now that you’ve put together a strategy for how you will introduce your company to potential employees, it’s time to start creating the content that will be the foundation of your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy. The content that you create to promote your employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) will vary in terms of what format it takes. It could include everything from your firm’s [mission statement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/personal-mission-statement-30-examples-writing-guide/) (you do know what the mission statement is) to a video showcasing your company culture, to a podcast [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) employees who work for your firm. The key is to find different ways to introduce your company to potential employees and show them why they should work for your firm. When creating content, there are a few things you’ll want to keep in mind.

**Get to know your audience ‒** Who are they? What do they care about? What do they want from their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)? This will allow you to create content that is tailored to their needs and interests.

**Share your company’s story ‒** What is the history of your business? Why did it start? What is your mission? This will help you create content that truly represents your organization and the culture that surrounds it.

**Find your company’s voice ‒** Now that you’ve gotten to know your company’s story or become reacquainted with it, and have created content that reflects it, you’ll want to find your company’s voice. This is the tone and style that will come across in all of your content. When companies find their voice, it will differentiate you from the competition and will keep you from sounding like everyone else. No one wants to work for a company that is the same as any other. What makes yours unique?

### **Amplify Your Employer Branding Efforts**

Once you’ve created a robust employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy, you’ll want to make sure you’re amplifying your efforts. This will help to ensure that you are reaching the largest audience possible and that you are effectively communicating your employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Some ways to amplify your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) efforts include:

- **[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) or marketing firm ‒** You may want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) or marketing firm to help elevate your efforts. They can provide you with valuable insights and expertise while helping you get your [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) efforts off the ground.
- **Invest in a social media marketing strategy ‒** Social media is a great way to increase the reach of your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) efforts. When done correctly, it can help you connect with new employees and can help to reach a broader audience.
- **Create or re-engineer a robust website that emphasizes working for your firm ‒** An employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) website or a significant section of your existing site is a fantastic way to introduce your business to potential employees. It can also be a great way to keep current employees engaged and motivated. You can also use a section of your current site to communicate with people. Remember: Focus on what they need and want, not your needs and wants. Focus on making them fall in love with your firm and thinking to themselves, “I hope I can [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with them.”

### **Measuring the Impact of Your Employer Branding Strategy**

Now that you’ve put together a robust employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy, it’s time to see the results and tweak your efforts if you need to. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to do this is by tracking the progress of your efforts to help you to better understand how your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) efforts are impacting your business and allow you to make adjustments if necessary.

There are a few ways to track the progress of your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy.

- **Track candidate source ‒** Track the [source of your candidates and new hires](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-we-having-so-much-trouble-sourcing-candidates-no-bs-hiring-advice/) to see how many are coming from your employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) efforts. This will give you a better idea of how [effective your work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-work-effectively-with-contingency-recruiters/) has been.
- **Measure social media traffic ‒** Track the number of contacts you receive from different social media platforms and efforts and how many new [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and new hires occur. Remember, you probably won’t get instantaneous results from your [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) efforts. They will occur over time.

Recessions come and go. Boom times come and go. Spending too much time finding new people to fill seats at your firm is very expensive. An employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy can provide immense benefits to your organization, department, team, etc. while creating a work culture that yields huge results.

The final point I want to make is that it often takes a year or more to create a [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy and a moment to harm or destroy it. Monitor places in the firm where turnover is reoccurring to see what remedial efforts can be made to correct it and get it in sync with your climate and culture.

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### [Why LinkedIn Comments Are the New Water Cooler #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-linkedin-comments-are-the-new-water-cooler-shorts/)

**Published:** April 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you haven’t looked for a job in a long time, where are you find out about the hidden job market has changed.

**Content:**

# Why LinkedIn Comments Are the New Water Cooler #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you haven’t looked for a job in a long time, where are you find out about [the hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) has changed.

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### [Can Anyone See My Profile on LinkedIn or Is It Just Visible to Members? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-anyone-see-my-profile-on-linkedin-or-is-it-just-visible-to-members-shorts/)

**Published:** April 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Can anyone see my profile on LinkedIn, or is it just visible to members?

**Content:**

# Can Anyone See My Profile on LinkedIn or Is It Just Visible to Members? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Can anyone see my profile on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), or is it just visible to members?

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### [Food Services Careers Outside the Back of the House](https://thebiggamehunter.us/food-services-careers-outside-the-back-of-the-house-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** April 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Chef Shawn Bucher offers ideas for careers to consider if the kitchen in a restaurant is not right for you.

**Content:**

# Food Services Careers Outside the Back of the House

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Being in the back of the house can be tough. Chef Shawn Bucher offers ideas for [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) to consider if the kitchen in a restaurant is not right for you. His book, “[Food People Management](https://amzn.to/2LjKw93),” is available on Amazon . His first book is “[First Timer’s Cookbook and Bakebook: Your First Steps to Great Cooking](https://amzn.to/2LhZah1)”

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Sean is a food service [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) and the owner of multiple food related businesses with more than 25 years of experience. He’s the author of the first timers cookbook and big book and his latest book, food people management. Sean, thank you for making time today. I appreciate Oh, my pleasure. So how did you get into culinary arts, food services? What’s your story about this? Well, I definitely took in a very non traditional approach. You know, a lot of people really know that’s what they want to do, and they move right into it. And for me, it was very different, because I really like to create. I like to do things with my hands. I like to step back and say, Wow, I made that. And in high school, I had taken all the art classes I could, whether it was ceramics or drawing or painting or whatever. And my guidance counselor said, you know, you ought to look at a trade college. It’s just up the road. We’ll pay for it. You get high school credit, college credit. And I thought, yeah, why not? So I looked through the course catalog, and in there it had culinary art. So it was like, well, perfect. It’s an art class. I’ll be doing watermelon carvings and ice sculptures. It’s

gonna be great.

So obviously, I get in there the first day, and the instructor’s like, Okay, time for lunch for 200 people in the next three hours. And I thought, oh, man, what did I get myself into? But I ended up being good at it. I ended up sticking with it. And, you know, through the course of that, I was able to move into apprenticeships and and work in different aspects of the industry, and really kind of figure out where I wanted to end up. And, you know, that’s that’s very untraditional. A lot of people, they kind of go into one thing and they stick there for a little while. And for me, I know I just knew myself. I needed to jump around to a few things and really see where it was that I was going to fit. And it’s interesting. I have friends in the restaurant business in New York. You know, owners of great restaurants, executive chefs or former executive chefs at great restaurants. So I always think about a restaurant, and thus, when I was talking to someone near and dear to me about his interest in culinary arts, my son and trying to help him into a culinary program, I introduced him to one of the chefs, and he offered some guidance. But now he’s out of school and thinking about, yeah, there’s other stuff I might rather do than just be up till two in the morning every night. Right? Yeah, it’s, it can be brutal. I mean, that that’s a big part of, really, what changed for me now I spent, I spent 12 years in operations, day in, day out, you know, working every night, weekend, holiday,

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you know, and really just spending the 60 plus hours on my feet at 29 I had that back surgery, and I really that kind of changed things for me. I had to recreate myself, I had to go back to school, I had to finish degrees and things, because I just I had to find a new role within the industry that wasn’t going to force me to be on my feet all day, every day. Plus, I was starting a family, and I wanted to be there for them, and not have to just be working all the time. So for you, it became health issues that started to take you out of the kitchen.

That was kind of the initial catalyst. And that was, I had been thinking about it for a long time. I had tried to get out of the business a few times. I tried to get into real estate in 2008 and obviously we know what happened in 2008 and it just wasn’t meant to be but, but, you know, the the underlying thing here was that I was always very passionate about this industry. I was passionate about food, I was passionate about cooking. I was passionate about education, and that’s where I ended up moving to, is getting out of the day to day in the kitchen and moving into an instructor role. So I taught culinary school for a few years, and that led into consulting, which essentially is educating, and that’s kind of where it’s led me to today. And when students go to a culinary school, are they kind of like my son with the expectation of going into a restaurant, or are they really thinking about the breadth of the industry and they’re just shocked into what it’s going to actually really be like? And.

Yes, there is, I think there’s a lot of deer in the headlights kind of reactions that that when students come in, that the problem is, is, you know, when I got in this business, 25 years ago, it was not quite as glamorous as it is now. Chefs weren’t the rock stars then that they are now. And so there were, there’s a perception among a lot of young people, especially, that I’m going to get in this business, and people are going to just, you know, fawn all over me and and it’s going to be nothing but fun. And, you know, I’m going to be creative all the time. The reality is, is it’s still a brigade system, so you still have to start at the bottom and work your way up. So regardless of whether you go get a degree at a culinary school, you still have to prove yourself. You still have to make sure that that’s what you want to do. And that’s the advice I give to not only students, but just people I run into, is first and foremost, figure out if this is really what you want to do. Because if you go and you spend all this money on a culinary education, and then get out and realize that, man, this really isn’t what I want to do, then you’re a little bit behind the eight ball. Now you’re saddled with with debt, or you spend all this money on an education you’re potentially not going to use. But if you get in the kitchen and work as a hostess, as a busboy, as a server, as a cook. You know, whatever role or capacity that that you can get into initially, you really get a sense for what it’s going to be, because initially, at least, there is a lot of nights, weekends and holidays, and there is a lot of proving yourself before you can move into some of these other [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). I was very fortunate in that I recognized that the chefs who really got ahead had both experience and education, but they also had kind of a vision of who they wanted to be and what they wanted to do, because they had they had jumped around a lot. They had gone to hotels or they had gone to restaurants, they had gone to country clubs or hospitals, and they had kind of gotten an overall perspective of what the industry was, and then they were able to craft a path forward from there. And so that’s what I tell young people today, or anybody who even is wanting to change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), because there’s a lot of people that want to go from being an architect or an accountant or whatever into being in food. It’s a very, very different mindset, very, very different skill set. I mean, just it’s very different. And so you get this culture shock initially. But if you’ve worked in a hotel or worked in a restaurant, worked in some sort of food service outlet, you get the pace, you get the hours, you get the different demands, and then from there, you can kind of craft it the path that you want to take. So if someone were looking for, I’m going to start with fast am I [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) off looking at fast paced and then going to slow pace or just looking at options in general, in our conversation? That’s That’s a great point. I mean, I think

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Know about yourself until you’re put into certain situations. I was the type of person initially that did not want to manage conflict. I did not want to get into sticky situations where I was having to either either compensate guests, or I was having to apologize for some of these [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). I was the guy that wanted to just hide in the back. But what I realized was that the more I dealt with conflict, and the more I was able to work through those things, the better I got at it. And then I started to gravitate more towards management and more towards some of the front of the house operations. So [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) is always going to evolve. You’re always going to start somewhere and probably end up somewhere else. 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We have a cultural shift from, you know, when I got in this business, it was the Wizard of Oz. Nobody cared what was behind the curtain, just as long as food came out and it tasted Okay. Nowadays, the presentation of it and making it Instagramable is almost more important than the taste, in some cases, because people eat with their eyes first, and that’s the society we live in. We’re sharing food. We’re we’re sharing pictures of what we eat. We’re sharing where we’re at, you know, and we’re, we have this global network that’s very interested in that. So you have a you have a whole different skill set there. Whereas if you learn how to cook, you may not be the greatest writer, but now it’s almost like if you learn to cook and you can write, you can start a blog, you can start a YouTube channel. 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Somebody’s got to work those hours with the grocery stores after about eight 9pm things are things are pretty well done for and so I know a lot of people that have migrated more into the grocery space to to have a little bit lesser impact on those late night hours, but still be able to, still be able to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) high quality food. Now, the food that they’re offering is definitely less, Altman nude, it’s it’s more. You know, you’re filling deli cases. You’re selling more things retail, but that’s a little bit slower pace than having a ticket come in and having three minutes to get it out. Now you’re doing more bulk things, and you’re able to do it in a in a little bit slower setting, to where you don’t have quite those, you know, demands on you got to get this, got to get this, got to get this neat food in the window. So those, those are a couple of options there. You can even move more into manufacturing. Now, there’s a lot of opportunities of people actually manufacturing food. And I’ll give you an example. I was in Portland yesterday, and there’s a well known ice cream concept called salt and straw. And salt and straw really built a name for themselves by doing small batch ice creams. Well, one of the things they’ve done to differentiate themselves is they’re now packaging that ice cream and selling it in some of the specialty markets in like the Portland airport. So now they’ve migrated from being this, this single location restaurant, into being more of a food manufacturer. Now they’re selling retail. 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For those who are educated and experienced, there’s a lot of opportunities that aren’t the traditional restaurant world. You’re not You’re not confined to one location. You have the ability to really spread your wings and flex different muscles and skill sets. So just to be clear, I’m going to back up just a touch. In the grocery setting. Is that really the hot bar? Or are there actual restaurants that are being put into the into the grocery facility? Well, I have seen actual restaurants in there that are doing table service, but I’ve also seen the majority of it is more kind of the fast casual model will where people will walk up to the counter and place their order, and someone will make it and then and give it to them right away. Gotcha. So I tend to think of the whole foods. Example of you’re going over your point. You know you’re saying, I want these four items in my stir fry,

exactly. Stir fries, deli sandwiches. Those are all burritos. Those are all, you know, hot button items right now, rice bowls, Noodle Bowls, very customizable, because that’s that’s really what fast casual is about, is a high, higher quality ingredient that’s very customizable. And what kind of comp does someone make and and what part of the country would you be answering that question from?

Well, it’s, you know, I have a little bit different perspective, because I get to go everywhere. I get to go east to west, and see a lot of different segments in a lot of different places. And that’s what I always tell people. The only [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) I have as a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) is I just get to see a lot of things with that experience. I would say that obviously, on the coastal regions, you’re going to be making more, but your living expenses are going to be more also. Whereas you know, getting more towards the center of the country and even into the south, your living expenses are going to be less, but you’re also going to be making a little bit less. So right now, for a restaurant manager, you’re probably, for a single unit, you’re probably somewhere in the neighborhood of between 40 and $60,000

a year. Now that’s going to be, that’s going to be very generic, and that’s going to be kind of based on volumes, but that’s kind of just the general 40 to 61

unit management. Now, if you get into the multi unit management, you’re going to jump up 20, 30% so you’re going to be closer to that 80,000 range when it comes to being that base compensation. Now, restaurants are very, very numbers driven, especially when it comes into multi units and chains. And so a lot of compensation is based on performance, whether that’s a share of profits or, you know, by hitting certain labor costs and food costs, you’re getting some sort of incentive there. So people are really incentivized, and you depending on those compensation models, you can make lot more money. I mean, I worked with with a regional chain to incentivize their managers pretty heavily to perform, and we had managers that were making almost 50% of their [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and bonuses. So if you’re really good at what you do, the the limit on what you can make is is exponential. I mean, you can really do very well. But the downside is, is a lot of [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), and a lot of the people that try to get people into culinary school, they paint this picture that you’re going to get out and you’re going to be making 80 to $100,000

it’s really only about the top 10% of earners out there in the restaurant business are making $100,000

or more, that’s very It’s not typical in this industry, mostly because the margins are so low. You know, we generally go by a 30% food cost, 30% labor costs, 30% overhead, and that only leaves that 10% of profit, and so that that’s really hard to pull a lot of money out of that. You know, with those margins, it’s funny. A friend of mine I mentioned to you the other day was an executive chef at a restaurant, and at the point,

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In my own restaurant again, as long as I have to depend on it for income, because the business is so fickle and is so challenging, it just makes it very, very difficult to be able to make ends meet. Now, what I’ve seen out there kind of going along the lines of your friend, is, yes, when chefs start getting into their later 50s and early 60s and retirement and benefits start becoming very, very important, and we’re seeing that shift earlier. People are starting to get wiser to that earlier now and demanding the benefits that that they need, as far as retirement and health care. And so what I see is a lot of times those chefs when, when they’re done making a name for themselves, when they’re done with the TV appearances and they’re done with the competitions and the awards, they’re ready more for kind of that retirement, pre retirement lifestyle, we’ll say they move more into hospitals, they move more into healthcare. They move more into corporate roles where it’s not as demanding of them, day in and day out, they can kind of step back. They can make a little bit better living, and they can really have those benefits to fall back on. And honestly, truth be told, that’s kind of where I ended up at at 29 after having my back surgery and realizing that health care was never going to get cheaper, my family was only going to get bigger, which meant it was going to get more expensive and I was going to need more time, and so I needed to find a way to do that, and that was why I gravitated more towards the larger corporations that had more of that stability and those benefits. So we’ve been generally speaking about management [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with a couple of exceptions, for someone who moves into corporate space or government or hospitals, what kind of roles exist for them in those areas? That’s a great question. You know.

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Service all at the same time, but because of his [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in his dedication, he was able to do it, and he was able to be compensated very well for it. So for the person who was in your classes when you were teaching and suddenly they wake up one day and go, Holy cow, this is not exactly what I thought it was. What did they do next? Because I know they didn’t go into running a hospital and their food service. Now they may have had a six month course at that point. What do they do next? Well, that’s a great question, you know, and that’s, that’s the challenge. The challenge is, you know, what do I do if this isn’t really what I want to do? And I think you know that I don’t think that’s primarily a food service challenge. I mean, in this setting, it definitely is. I think most people come to a realization sometimes later in life, that maybe this really isn’t what I want to do, and I want to change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). I mean, my father in law was one of them. He He became, he went from working in in kind of these computer and manufacturing facilities into nursing, and he became a nurse later on in life, and is very passionate about it, and wishes he had found it sooner. But I think in food service, for those people that get in, and they start down that path, you know, I was told to get in. I go to culinary school. What I always tell people is, you know, start, start here and grow here. So if you want to go to school, go to a trade college where your bill is going to be 234, $1,000 not 50, $60,000

don’t get straddled with all this debt from the get go, because you’re going to get out and make 1012, bucks an hour. And how do you survive paying $1,000 a month in student loans on 1012, bucks an hour, you just can’t and so, you know, I, what I My advice for anybody who gets in that situation is to you can either be proactive or reactive. To be proactive, which is ideal, you know, get that little base level of experience, get kind of the introductory education. Make sure that’s what you want to do. If it’s not, then you kind of cut your losses and move on, and you’re able to do it without a lot of harm done, or a lot of time wasted, or a lot of money spent. If you, if you go down that path, and you spend a lot of money, and you kind of have to react. You can still find different opportunities out there. There’s a lot of people, food brokers, for example, food brokers are always looking for people to come work trade shows and kind of sell their products. So maybe, maybe you don’t have the skill set of cooking on the line really, really quickly, but you’re very personable, and you want to, you want to sell stuff. Well, you can go work for Simplot or Tyson, or, you know, these big manufacturers, or any one of these brokers that that kind of represents their products, and travel around and do some of that. There’s a lot of different options out there for you to to look at. You kind of just have to step outside the box, though, and and you know, realize that there are opportunities you just have to network and ask around about them. Because the more you network, regardless of whether it’s this business or another one, you’re going to find opportunities or they’re going to find you. So feed brokers is one option where you’re appearing at trade shows, or you’re that person at at the store who’s prepping food for everyone,

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trying a little taste of such and such. I have that, right? Yeah, absolutely. That’s, I mean, there’s opportunities there. You can go work for food distributors and essentially take customers orders. So Cisco us foods, you know, those are kind of the big, main distributors for food, but they they have tons of opportunities all the time. You can do everything from working in the warehouse to stocking food to being out on the street selling food to the customers. Gotcha.

And I’m wondering, I’m asking for selfish reasons, and I’m saying that, folks, you don’t know this, my son’s just completed a culinary program. So let me just step in here with that to make it clear why I’m digging a little deeper here. So you complete a program you decide a restaurant’s not for you. Food brokers is one option.

Food manufacturers, food distributing, food writing,

you know, food testing there’s, there’s always opportunities for people to test products and be kind of like quality assurance people, you know, they those aren’t always the highest paying [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), but it’s a great alternative to kind of the [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) of the restaurant business. And this is, of course, the YouTube star who’s prepping food for a market, showing people how to do it, yada yada yada, anything else that I haven’t asked about that i should

Well, you know, I think anybody who is either looking to get in this business or looking to improve their skill set, it the biggest things that I would suggest is is, again, really learning your craft. Because the two things that I see continually throughout my business and throughout helping my clients, is that you either have regardless of the food business, whether it’s a food truck or a grocery store or a restaurant or a hotel, whatever it is, you either have business people that don’t really know food. Their food just sucks. They’re just it’s terrible, but they make a ton of money. People are not going to go back there that’s not going to become a hot spot if the food is not great or the service is not great consistently. So what I would suggest to people is find a way to blend your passion for food and your talent and your knowledge with a way to make money with it. Now, if you don’t want to work those hours, there’s a lot of different ways of going about that. You know, you go work for some of these these companies, whether they’re food manufacturers or equipment manufacturers or rep agencies or brokers. There’s a lot of different opportunities within that, whether it’s just working in an office or running samples to customers or taking orders. I mean, there’s, there’s a lot of different options there that allow you to be in food, but not necessarily. Of food, is kind of the way I like to say it. But the key to all that is really [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), building your network, going to trade shows, volunteering your time for different events, going out, meeting people, working with people, because the more you do that, the more you’ll be aware of what opportunities are out there and where you might fit into all of that. Thank you, Sean, how can people find out more about you? Buy the book, all that sort of stuff? Well, you can the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to look at me up is probably business, chef.org That’s the website for the podcast that we run. You can also look up first timers, cookbook.com that’s that’s another option there. Or you can find me on all, any of the social media, Instagram and Facebook, where it make food, make money. We are on Twitter, Chef Sean b You can find me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at Chef Sean Boucher, so yeah, absolutely reach out to me. I’d love to help. I’d love to be able to impart any wisdom or guidance or make connections for you. But yeah, I’m all about helping people in this industry, because I think the stronger we make each other in this industry, the stronger our industry becomes. And that’s B, C, B, U, C, H E R. Folks, yep, S, H, A, W, n, b, U, C, H, E, R, Shawn, thanks for making time and folks. I’ll be back soon with someone else and more podcasts and videos to help you land work. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). If you’re interested in my working with you one on one as a coach, reach out to me through my website, [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).us.

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### [Why Your Employees Are Failing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-employees-are-failing/)

**Published:** April 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For you who manage teams or lead organizations, there are reasons why your employees are not performing to your expectations

**Content:**

# Why Your Employees Are Failing

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

For you who manage teams or lead organizations, there are reasons why your employees are not performing to your expectations

This is JobSearchTV on YouTube. Every day, millions of people look for work, and countless managers try to hire them. But a familiar [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) happens when a new hire comes on board, struggles to meet expectations, and inevitably quits or gets [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/).

When that happens, you usually hear the same complaints from leadership. They claim the new employee lacked the necessary skills, they were lazy, or they were simply a bad fit for the company culture. But if you look closely at these failures, you find a consistent pattern.

With very few exceptions, the reason an employee fails rests entirely with the manager and the institution, not the person who was hired. People generally fail in a new role for two distinct reasons before they even sit at their desk. Either the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager did not actually know how to evaluate the candidates they were [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), or they actively misrepresented the reality of the work environment.

If you manage a team and notice a constant cycle of underperformance and turnover, the talent pool isn’t the problem. The evaluation and management processes you rely on are broken. Let’s examine the first common defense a manager uses when a hire goes wrong, the claim that the employee lacks the particular skills needed for the job.

This diagram illustrates a standard [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) pipeline, showing how a candidate passes through multiple approval stages. It usually starts with a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that gets screened by a talent acquisition team. Then the candidate meets with people from your specific department.

After that, they meet with you, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. And finally, someone in a more senior position approves the hire. If a person meets with at least four different evaluators who all approve their hire, their lack of requisite skills cannot be entirely their own fault.

*[**How Recruiters Steal Your Best People: Overloading Them**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iYG)*

The individual didn’t trick the company. The evaluators made a collective [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). The second defense you often hear is that the employee simply lacks motivation.

Few people join an organization actually wanting to be incompetent or problematic. Usually, they arrive excited, having performed well at their previous [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). But over time, they encounter severe institutional friction, co-workers with negative attitudes, a lack of tools to do the job, and heavy workloads that push them until they break.

Managers do not accidentally recruit unmotivated people. They take capable, excited individuals and fail to disclose the reality of the working environment, ultimately creating the lack of motivation they later complain about. In 1998, Jean-Francois Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barceau published an article in the Harvard Business Review detailing the set-up-to-fail syndrome.

The Harvard Business Review is a prominent management magazine published by Harvard University. Their [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) pointed out that an employee’s poor performance is often directly caused by their boss. This flowchart maps out the behavioral cycle they describe.

It typically begins with a good working relationship that fractures when the employee makes a minor [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), like missing a single deadline. In response, the boss suddenly increases their level of supervision and scrutiny. The employee immediately senses this lack of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

They might pick up their pace out of panic, but they also withdraw emotionally from the boss. They take on too much work to prove themselves, which leads to more failure and a habit of hiding or hoarding problems. The manager observes these new issues and adds even more controls and pressure.

This closed loop actively creates the exact hostile conditions that force the subordinate to leave the organization entirely. This dynamic often leads to a third excuse from leadership, blaming the failure on poor communication. An employee might receive completely incoherent instructions from a manager and say nothing.

But what looks like a failure to understand expectations is often a logical response to a history of being criticized. They stay quiet because the manager has built a culture where staff are terrified of asking for clarity and facing their boss’s scorn. When employees are perceived to be weak performers, they live down to the low expectations their managers hold for them.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, dictated by heavy-handed micromanagement. We can see the converse of this reality by looking at chef Gordon Ramsay on the reality television show Hell’s Kitchen. While throwing things and insulting staff should never be replicated in your workplace, Ramsay demands absolute excellence from the average cooks he brings onto his show.

By holding intensely high expectations, the contestants end up competing at a vastly higher level than they ever did at their home restaurants. Lance Secretan, a leading executive coach, outlines the mechanical difference between forceful management and true leadership. He separates it into two distinct concepts, motivation and inspiration.

According to Secretan, motivation operates as a push mechanism. It is the act of lighting a fire underneath someone to force them to move forward. Inspiration is a pull mechanism. It is the act of lighting a fire within someone, giving them the internal drive to push themselves toward a shared goal. If you are leading a team and struggling with constant turnover, it is possible that years of institutional friction have tempered your own internal fire, leaving you burned out and cynical. True leadership requires you to refuse to drag your team down into that same [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/).

You have to take accountability for your own environment, rekindle that internal fire, and learn how to inspire your staff to greatness, instead of blaming them for failing in a broken system. So that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful.

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### [Job Hopping and Gaps #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hopping-and-gaps-shorts/)

**Published:** April 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Employers worry about making a bad decision that proves costly.

**Content:**

# Job Hopping and Gaps #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/vL8ev5XI8LY)

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) worry about making a bad decision that proves costly.

[***Job-Hopping or Career Exploration: Embracing a Non-Linear Career Path***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-khH)

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### [The Role of a Recruiter Isn't What You Think #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-role-of-a-recruiter-isnt-what-you-think-shorts/)

**Published:** April 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People often mistake what the role of a recruiter is.

**Content:**

# The Role of a Recruiter Isn’t What You Think #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/sAfxuAL57aQ)

People often [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) what the role of a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is.

[***Better Interviews via Strategic Comms***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-min)

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### [11 Prompts to Code Your Resume for the ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/11-prompts-to-code-your-resume-for-the-ats/)

**Published:** April 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** 11 AI prompts to help your resume be understood by applicant tracking systems and help you get more interviews when applying for jobs

**Content:**

# 11 Prompts to Code Your Resume for the ATS

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) isn’t read by a human first—it’s processed by a machine. Most college-educated professionals make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of writing for the recruiter’s eyes while ignoring the **[Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/))** logic. If the parser cannot categorize your data, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) never sees your “Onlyness.”

To bypass the black box, you must stop treating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as a static document and start treating it as a data set. Here are 10 core prompts plus a vital bonus strategy designed to align your experience with the “Knowledge Clusters” the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is programmed to find.

### Phase 1: Semantic Alignment

Before you edit a single bullet point, you need to understand the machine’s “Target Profile.”

**Prompt 1: The Keyword Cluster Map**

> *“Act as an [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) parser. Analyze the provided job description and my current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Identify the top 10 ‘Hard Skill’ clusters and 5 ‘Soft Skill’ vectors the system will prioritize. Create a table showing where my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) matches and where it has ‘null’ values.”*
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2TCLD1Y

**Prompt 2: The Seniority Calibration**

> *“Compare the level of responsibility in this job description with my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Identify specific verbs and leadership nouns (e.g., ‘Architected’ vs ‘Assisted’) that I must use to ensure the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ranks me at the \[Senior/Executive\] tier rather than an individual contributor.”*

### Phase 2: Bullet Point Optimization

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) doesn’t just look for words; it looks for **Contextual Proximity**—how close a skill is to a measurable result.

**Prompt 3: The STAR Vector Converter**

> *“Take the following bullet point from my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/): \[Insert Bullet\]. Rewrite it into a ‘Situation, Task, Action, Result’ format that anchors the skill \[Skill Name\] to a quantifiable metric. Ensure the phrasing remains compatible with standard NLP (Natural Language Processing) patterns.”*

**Prompt 4: The Synonym Expansion**

> *“The job description uses the term ‘\[Industry Term A\]’ but my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) uses ‘\[Industry Term B\]’. Rewrite my relevant experience section to include both terms naturally, ensuring the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) recognizes the semantic overlap without triggering a ‘keyword stuffing’ penalty.”*

### Phase 3: Structural Defense

If the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) cannot “read” your layout, it will discard your data regardless of your qualifications.

**Prompt 5: The Parser Test**

> *“Review the following [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) text. Identify any ‘un-parsable’ elements such as complex tables, headers, or unconventional section titles. Suggest standard, high-readability headers (e.g., ‘Professional Experience’) that ensure 100% data extraction.”*

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**Prompt 6: The Acronym Balancer**

> *“Analyze my technical skills section. For every acronym (e.g., ‘KPI’, ‘CRM’), ensure the full spelled-out version is included once. Rewrite the section to follow the ‘Acronym (Full Term)’ format to capture both variations in an [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) search.”*

### Phase 4: Competitive Benchmarking

You aren’t just trying to pass; you are trying to outrank the other 200 applicants.

**Prompt 7: The Gap Analysis**

> *“I am missing the specific skill \[Name\]. Based on my existing experience in \[Similar Field\], draft an ‘Equivalent Competency’ statement that allows an [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to see my relevance even without the exact keyword match.”*

**Prompt 8: The Sentiment Audit**

> *“Analyze the ‘tone’ of the job description. Rewrite my Professional Summary to match this sentiment using high-frequency adjectives that align with the company’s stated cultural values.”*

### Phase 5: Final Guardrails

**Prompt 9: The Role-Specific Frequency Check**

> *“In the job description, identify the three most frequently occurring nouns. Tell me how many times they appear in my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). If the density is below 2%, suggest three natural places to integrate them.”*

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**Prompt 10: The Human-in-the-Loop Filter**

> *“Now that we have optimized for the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), review the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) one final time as a human [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) Manager. Identify any areas where the optimization has made the prose sound robotic. Suggest minor edits to restore my unique professional voice.”*

### **BONUS PROMPT: Identifying and Defeating the Specific Gatekeeper**

Not all [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) systems are created equal. Workday handles data differently than Greenhouse or Lever. To win, you need to know which “referee” is calling the game.

**The Strategy:** Go to the job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) URL. Look at the domain name (e.g., `companyname.lever.co` or `wd5.myworkdayjobs.com`). Once identified, use this prompt:

> **Bonus Prompt: The System-Specific Architect** *“I have identified that this employer uses the \[Insert [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name, e.g., Workday/Greenhouse\] system. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the specific parsing strengths and weaknesses of \[[ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Name\]. Based on this, should I prioritize a ‘Skills’ section at the top, or should I integrate them purely into my work history? Tailor my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) structure specifically to maximize the search score for this specific software’s algorithm.”*

### The Bottom Line

Bypassing the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) isn’t about tricking the system; it’s about speaking its language. By using these prompts, you ensure that your data is clean, your skills are clustered, and your impact is quantifiable.

Once the machine gives you the green light, your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is finally free to do its work on the human who reads it next.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Things You Can Do To Prevent HR Screeners From Hitting 'Delete'](https://thebiggamehunter.us/things-you-can-do-to-prevent-hr-screeners-from-hitting-delete/)

**Published:** March 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Ordinary people who do ordinary work in ordinary ways get ordinary results.

**Content:**

# Things You Can Do To Prevent HR Screeners From Hitting ‘Delete’

[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](http://JobSearch.Community)

Working in search and now as a coach, I’ve easily reviewed more than 750,000 résumés over the course of my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). As statistics bear out, very few submitted résumés result in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). As I told a guest on my podcast, No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio, when I worked in search, on a typical day, out of 200 résumés, the number that might *vaguely* fit a role I might be recruiting for was around 1%! All of these people believed they were qualified, yet few were. What were they doing wrong? They weren’t doing this:

[***Stupid Interview Mistakes as Reported by Forbes***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-219)

**1. Push hard to accelerate [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) development.** It isn’t always true that slow and steady wins the race. In search, this is often interpreted as a signal that you and your work are ordinary. The firm that you’re trying to join has enough mediocre people without adding another. If you can demonstrate you are on a growth path and, say, a firm recognized you [![delete](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/delete-u-j-e-s-h-7ySd00IGyx4-unsplash-214x300.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/delete-u-j-e-s-h-7ySd00IGyx4-unsplash-scaled.jpg)for exceptional work, you stand a stronger chance than if your background shows that you are promoted every five to six years. They think you are hiding.

**2. Make sure your résumé demonstrates a fit for the role within one page.** Some people submit the same résumé to every job, and like the broken watch that’s right twice daily, sometimes their résumé shows they can do the job. And then there are all the other times when it is little more than spam. We live in a culture where speed is important. Few people want to read a lot. Their systems screen out people, and if they read your résumé and you don’t make a strong case for your fit quickly, they will reject you.

**3. Mention the impact of the work you did.** Many people neglect to mention whether their work helped their firm make or save money. By what percent did your work improve operations? Are you doing work with an enormous budget and impact, or do you live somewhere else? Make sure you’re clear, especially if your scope is *huge*. If you don’t, you make yourself seem like a “commodity.” Commodities are rarely valued highly.

**4. Make sure your résumé and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile are congruent.** I’m often asked to evaluate a résumé, and before I do, I look at the person’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to see how it describes the work that they do—only to find sometimes that they don’t match up at all. What’s the message that you send when that occurs? The answer is you are lying.

**5. Take the HR screener seriously.** Don’t act as though the screener is required to submit your résumé to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager when, in fact, they are a timesaver for that individual. I remember the person who went so far as to say, “Come on. When am I going to get to the real decision-maker?” They were told, “You are talking with her, and you can leave now.”

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**6. Connect the dots about your fit everywhere.** I find it remarkable how often people talk themselves out of opportunities by emphasizing the wrong things. You have a job description, and, hopefully, you start a conversation with the screener by asking about the role they have in mind for you. Make the fit obvious, as though a 6-year-old is going to be evaluating you for this job. We live in an attention-deficit culture where relevant information needs to be communicated concisely. Too many words expressed over too much time will cause an interviewer’s eyes to glaze over. They don’t want to talk about your experience; they want to talk about your experience that matters to them and can solve their problem.

**7. Practice for when the phone rings and the screener is on the other end.** Instinctively, you want to start the conversation by saying, “Thanks so much for making time to reach out to me. Could you talk with me about the role you’re recruiting for and what I can do to help?” Job descriptions, job ads, and third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) descriptions are about 80% accurate. By asking about the role at the beginning of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you can talk about what you’ve done that matters to them instead of what you’ve done.

**8. Be introduced to the firm by someone who they know, like, trust and respect.** When you apply for a job, it is like being an individual fish in a pond with hundreds of other fish, all jumping to land on the one hook in the water. Being introduced can help you cut the line and get to the front. It gives you the [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of arriving with a halo over your credentials because you’re recommended by a respected individual. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with being recommended by HR. It’s just that they don’t have the power to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. They do have the power to reject you. See if you can get to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager through a friend, former colleague or ally in the organization.

**9. Remember to talk about what makes you special.** You can tell them in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), on your résumé and/or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile or wherever you have a platform. It is not boasting to talk about how you are better than others if it is true. They won’t know about your successes unless you tell them.

Ordinary people who do ordinary work in ordinary ways get ordinary results. It’s fine to accept that, but if you want to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as better than ordinary, you have to stake your claim and [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as world-class as you believe you are. That doesn’t mean you become a loudmouth or abrupt and rude. It actually means telling the truth about yourself and your capabilities and standing in your authority and power.

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### [Tough Interview Questions: What Are Your 5 Ideal Personality Traits?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-are-your-5-ideal-personality-traits-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** April 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Another cute one and how to answer it,

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions: What Are Your 5 Ideal Personality Traits?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Another cute one and how to answer it,

Although this question that I posed in the title looks like it’s an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question, it’s really a part of your preparation for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

Now, I picked up this idea from the book, “301 Smart Answers to Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Questions.” It’s been out for a while. I thinking you can get a [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) online; that’s what I was able to do.

But the short version of how to prepare in this respect for the kind of personality you want to show in your answers from demonstrating emotional intelligence they will [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in two steps.

The first idea is to select five adjectives that you believe are going to capture your with the with work persona and it starts off with the first two. These are personality traits that you might use if you were going to describe yourself to a close friend or a date.

So, the example that’s offered in the book, the first two that you would pick from there is intelligent and perceptive. You pick ones that work for you. You might use smart, clever . . . Whatever it is you pick two that you think you might use to describe yourself to civilian . . . LOL . . . But by that I mean someone who is not working with you professionally.

Then, the next three are really adjectives that you believe would allow you to do a great job. So, again, following the example from the book, industrious, empathetic, creative

So, what you’re looking for our ways that you can demonstrate your personality in the course of answering the question. You might speak in terms of . . . let’s say you’re in a situation where a firm asks you, “What would you do to fulfill our company’s vision?” Of course, this is a question that is going to be asked of a more senior professional, and you might talk about going to an off-site retreat, bringing senior leadership, working with the firm’s mission statement, distilling it down to a couple of sentences, working to bring this out to everyone and you might talk in terms of your qualities of empathy and creativity in that situation.

There are lots of different ways to illustrate personality in the course of your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) but the idea, very simply, is wherever you can, firms are not [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) robots. . . At least they are not asking you to be a robot. They are looking first human beings who will fit into their culture and, as such, what you’re looking for is a way of expressing that in the course of your answer.

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### [Career Mistakes: Not Taking Charge of Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-mistakes-not-taking-charge-of-your-career/)

**Published:** March 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode breaks down the hard-won lessons from the Baby Boomer generation to show you how to pivot from a "loyal employee" to the CEO of your career.

**Content:**

# Career Mistakes: Not Taking Charge of Your Career

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3130 Stop waiting for a company to manage [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) for you—they won’t. This episode breaks down the hard-won lessons from the Baby Boomer generation to show you how to pivot from a “loyal employee” to the CEO of your own professional life.

## **Episode Timestamps**

- **00:00** – Introduction: Hard-won [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) wisdom from the Boomer generation.
- **00:18** – Meet [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/): The “Big Game Hunter” and source of these [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) lessons.
- **00:46** – **Lesson 1: The Myth of Security** – Comparing the “Boomer Promise” of loyalty to the modern reality of self-reliance.
- **01:57** – **Lesson 2: [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Red Flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/)** – Real-world stories of “lazy loyalty” and ignoring the signs of stagnation.
- **03:29** – **Lesson 3: Are You the CEO of [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)?** – Taking back control and managing your professional growth like a business.
- **04:32** – Stretch Yourself: The importance of seeking excellence over perfection.
- **04:52** – **Lesson 4: Becoming Invisible** – The “Danger Zone” of becoming an interchangeable cog in the corporate machine.
- **05:32** – The Power of [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/): Why 70–85% of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are found through connections.
- **06:13** – **Lesson 5: [Adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) or Be Left Behind** – Staying relevant in a rapidly evolving workplace.
- **07:04** – Conclusion: The ultimate self-assessment—would you promote yourself?

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This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. Today, we’re diving into some really powerful, hard-won wisdom from the baby boomer generation. And look, these aren’t just stories, they’re cautionary tales about [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) missteps that had some pretty serious consequences.

The goal here? So you don’t have to learn these lessons the hard way. So where’s all this coming from? Well, our source is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You might know him as [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

And he saw these career-decimating [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) happen firsthand, not just to his friends, but to himself, too. And this really gets to the heart of it, doesn’t it? This isn’t just about getting older, it’s about getting wiser. The hard knocks he’s talking about, they came from a fundamental misunderstanding of how the workplace actually works, a misunderstanding that all started with the promise of job security.

So let’s kick things off with that foundational belief, the one that shaped how an entire generation thought about their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and, well, how that belief totally crumbled. You know, what’s so wild about this slide is just how different these two worlds are. [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) were basically sold a promise, be loyal to your company, and your company will be loyal right back.

You climb the ladder, step by step, all the way to a secure retirement. But today’s reality? It is a completely different game. It’s all about relying on yourself, building a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) of skills you can take anywhere, and just constantly transforming.

The [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) ladder? Yeah, that’s been replaced by a jungle gym. The tough part is events like the Great Recession proved, in a really painful way, that job security was an illusion. At the end of the day, companies are going to protect their own interests first.

And the real irony? Playing it safe, you know, keeping your head down, doing the same thing over and over, that became the riskiest move you could make. And why? Because of corporate efficiency stuff like Lean and Six Sigma. They were designed to make processes repeatable, which in turn made the employees running those processes, well, repeatable and disposable.

So believing in this myth of job security caused a lot of people to just miss the warning signs. Let’s look at a few stories of [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) that were ignored until it was way too late. So meet Jerry, a really capable guy who suddenly found himself reporting to someone from [Gen X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/). Now, management gave him all the classic reassurances, right? Oh, you’re too capable for what’s available, or we’ve got something big planned for you in the next budget.

But the real message was crystal clear. His path up the ladder in that company was gone. And then you’ve got Juanita.

***[Strategic Interview Questions to Ask](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMw)***

She was the perfect example of what’s called lazy loyalty. For years, she ignored calls from [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), thinking her dedication would pay off. But instead, she just became old reliable while her co-workers got all the cool, high-profile projects.

And when the layoffs hit, that loyalty meant absolutely nothing. She was cut in the second round. Now, this one’s a little more subtle.

Sunil’s boss was always telling him what a great job he was doing. But those compliments, they were just placebos. They were designed to make him feel good while his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) was basically going nowhere.

It cost his manager nothing to say those nice things. But Sunil paid the price by not realizing his opportunities were not matching the praise. The key takeaway here is to watch what they do, not just what they say.

So, do any of these stories hit a little too close to home? These aren’t just random examples. They’re patterns. And recognizing them is the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/).

The next one? It’s taking back control. And this brings us to what is probably the most important mindset shift of all. You just can’t wait around for a company to manage [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) for you.

You have got to step up and own it yourself. I mean, what a powerful way to think about it, right? As the CEO, you’re the one responsible for the strategy, the finances, the long-term health of you incorporated. And your family? They’re your board of directors, the people you’re ultimately accountable to.

It just completely changes your relationship with your job. Okay, so how do you act like a CEO? First, you stop handing over the keys. Don’t just go along with whatever the company gives you.

Second, you have to do a really honest assessment of your own weaknesses. What skills are you missing? What experiences do you need? Then, you got to actively push for projects to close those gaps. And finally, you have to be your own biggest advocate.

Because just being the quiet team player can easily [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as giving them permission to pass you over. Right, and being a CEO means you have to push the envelope. The source material uses this great analogy to yoga.

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You know, small stretches over time can dramatically increase your flexibility. It’s the same thing here. You’re never going to be perfect, but you can always aim for excellence.

And hey, if you’re not making any [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), it probably just means you’re not trying anything new. You’re not stretching. All right, another huge [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) was just letting yourself fade into the background.

People worked really hard, but in the process, they became invisible. Let’s dig into how that passive approach can be a total [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) killer. This one says it all, doesn’t it? It’s just so easy to become that reliable, essential part of the machine.

But the problem with being an essential part is that you quickly get taken for granted. You become a cog. And this just nails the danger perfectly.

Cogs work, sure, but they’re interchangeable. They don’t have a voice. They don’t have a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).

And eventually, they just get worn out and swapped for a new one. Your goal has to be to be more than just a cog in the machine. Becoming invisible has another massive side effect.

Your network goes dormant. And get this number. Somewhere between 70 and 85% of people find their next gig through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

So if you’ve let all those connections get rusty, you are cutting yourself off from the single most effective way to find your next opportunity. But here’s the good news. It really doesn’t take much to keep your network alive and well.

You just have to develop what the author calls the staying in touch gene. It’s not about big asks or huge favors. It’s a quick text, sharing an article you thought they’d like.

The real key, though, is to connect when you don’t need something. That way, the relationship is already warm when you eventually do. And that brings us to our final and maybe the most urgent lesson of them all.

The world just does not stand still, and neither can [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). I mean, just think about it. 10 years ago, how we work was completely different.

The pace of change is just getting faster and faster. A really common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) was to get skeptical about new things, to prefer the old standard way of doing things. You just cannot afford to have that mindset today.

So the big question here is, are you preparing now for a future you can’t even fully picture yet? You know, the easiest way to fall behind is to get stuck in a rut. The source calls it the commute, work, eat [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Every day is the same.

You’re not meeting new people. You’re not learning new things. That’s not a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

That’s just a holding pattern. And breaking out of that cycle is absolutely critical for your long-term growth. So we’re going to end with this question.

It really ties everything we’ve talked about together. If you take a really honest look at your skills, your network, your ability to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/), how proactive you’ve been, have you earned it? And if the answer is no, well, now you know what you need to work on. Answering that question for yourself is step one.

But if you’re looking to take the next one, there’s a lot more to help you over at jobsearch.community. We’re talking video courses, books, guides, [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), and even [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile critiques, plus [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) prep services. Thanks for listening to No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [People with Fresh Ideas #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/people-with-fresh-ideas-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts/)

**Published:** April 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Eraldo Banovac, the author of "Reasonably Through Life," tells you why it's important to hire people with fresh ideas.

**Content:**

# People with Fresh Ideas #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Why Are Job Interviews So Stressful?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-job-interviews-so-stressful/)

**Published:** April 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Job interviews are a process where someone you don't know asks you questions and sits in judgment of you. What could be stressful about that?

**Content:**

# Why Are Job Interviews So Stressful?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) are a process where someone you don’t know asks you questions and sits in judgment of you. What could be stressful about that?

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people and organizations helping people become more effective with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), with [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), managing and leading, being more effective in the workplace in general. The question I received was why are [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) so stressful? Oh, stressful! There’s a couple of reasons why.

Number one is, frankly, you don’t know what’s going to happen and if you think about your background and when you are most successful generally there’s a degree of familiarity with what you’re walking into so the result winds up being you’re comfortable you’re not intimidated you’re not frightened so when you’re going to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you don’t know what’s going to be asked of you you probably haven’t [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) yourself and by preparation I mean answering questions about the predictable questions you might be asked as well as rehearsing those answers so that you’re comfortable delivering your lines great athletes will practice great entertainers rehearse job hunters go to [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and usually the first time the words are ever spoken or at the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and then they wonder why they don’t deliver their lines well does that make a lot of sense to you so the [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) is really the fear held within you from not knowing and has nothing to do with the questions. After all, when you get asked questions and you know the answer, you’re pretty good at it, right? So, the more preparation you have, the more you put into the rehearsal, the better that you do and also the better your performance is. The less fear that you feel, the less [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) that you have.

Try it. I think you’ll find it works. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [Strategic Interview Questions to Ask](https://thebiggamehunter.us/strategic-interview-questions-to-ask/)

**Published:** April 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn how to turn the "Do you have any questions for us?" moment into a high-impact investigation that ensures you're joining a winning team, and not walk into a trap.

**Content:**

# Strategic Interview Questions to Ask

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

EP 3128 The single most important part of your job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) happens after you think it’s over. Learn how to turn the “Do you have any questions for us?” moment into a high-impact investigation that ensures you’re joining a winning team, and not walk into a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/).

**Timestamps**

- **00:00** – The “Secret Weapon” hidden at the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).
- **00:50** – Flipping the script: Moving from candidate to investigator.
- **01:27** – The 30-60-90 Day roadmap question.
- **02:01** – Gathering intel on your predecessor.
- **03:09** – Decoding the team’s actual reputation within the company.
- **03:55** – The Manager’s Playbook: Questions for leadership roles.
- **04:54** – Motivation vs. Inspiration: The difference that defines great leaders.

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Okay, so what if I told you that the single most important part of your next job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) actually happens after you think it’s over? Yeah, I’m serious. We’re about to turn that one moment into your absolute secret weapon for landing the right role, not just any role. Oh, you know the moment I’m talking about.

We’ve all been there, right? The [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) feels like it’s winding down. The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager kind of leans back in their chair and hits you with that classic line. For most people, this is just a throwaway moment.

But for you, after this, it’s going to be the main event. Trust me. Because look, this isn’t just about ticking a box to show you’re interested.

No way. This is your one golden opportunity to pull back the curtain to really peek behind the scenes and find out what the job, the team, and yeah, the manager are actually like before you commit. It’s all about flipping the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) script.

The core idea here is super simple, but it’s a game changer. You’re going to completely flip the script. From now on, you’re not just the one being interviewed.

Nope. You’re the one doing the [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) too. You’re an investigator trying to figure out if they are a good fit for you.

Okay, so let’s start with decoding your role. How do you uncover what you’ll really be doing? Because let’s be honest, job descriptions can be so vague, right? They’re full of corporate speak. Well, these next few questions are designed to slice right through all that noise and give you a super clear picture of what you’d actually be doing day-to-day.

Okay, let’s kick things off with this first one. It’s so simple, but so powerful. You’re basically asking for a roadmap.

You’re not just asking, what’s the job? You’re asking, what does this job look like in action? From the moment I walk in the door, it’s brilliant. And here’s why that question is so effective. It’s like a truth serum for your potential boss.

First, it forces them to define your actual duties, not just some vague list. Second, it makes them tell you exactly how they’re going to measure your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). And third, bam, you’ve got a solid benchmark for every single performance review.

No more guessing games. All right, next up, we’re putting on our detective hats. This one is all about asking about the person who had the job before you.

It sounds simple, but trust me, this question is a masterclass in subtlety. You can learn so much from the answer. And look at the payoff here.

Just like that, you get a playbook for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). You learn what to do more of, and just as importantly, what to avoid. And here’s the kicker.

You can usually read between the lines to figure out if your predecessor got promoted. That’s a huge green flag. Or if they ran for the hills, which, well, that could be a major red flag.

Okay, this next one might just be my favorite. I call it the time travel question. You’re literally asking the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to fast forward a year into the future and tell you what an absolute out-of-the-park home run would look like in this role.

You’re getting them to define what A plus work really means to them. And here’s the most crucial part. While you’re sitting there listening to their answer, you might just uncover some, let’s say, wildly unrealistic expectations.

And wouldn’t you rather find out that a manager is setting you up to fail before you take the job? Absolutely. Okay, let’s move on to reading the team’s reputation. So you’ve got a pretty good picture of your role now.

It’s time to zoom out a little bit. Because you’re not just taking a job, you’re joining a team. So what’s the reputation around the company? How are they really perceived? Now, pay attention to the little bit of genius in this next question.

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### [The Power of Effective Salary Negotiation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-power-of-effective-salary-negotiation/)

**Published:** April 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Salary negotiation, often concluded in a few minutes, plays a crucial role in determining your overall compensation.

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# The Power of Effective Salary Negotiation

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### Long-Term Perspective

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**Published:** April 5, 2026
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### [College Grad? Free Job Search Services #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/college-grad-free-job-search-services-shorts/)

**Published:** April 5, 2026
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**Excerpt:** If you've graduated from a community college or 4 year college or university, there are a few services still available to you.

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### [No BS Career Advice: April 5 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-april-5-2026/)

**Published:** April 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: April 5 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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## Semantic Mapping: The Referral Shortcut

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), executive or otherwise, the standard “Who do I know?” query is a low-yield strategy. Most professionals look at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) network as a simple list of names and titles, but that’s not enough. The high-leverage move is **Semantic Mapping**: using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify the “hidden nodes” in your network who share your specific problem-sets, regardless of what their current company or title says on the surface.

Think of this as the shortest path to a high-value [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Why? Because it bases the connection on shared technical or strategic DNA rather than just social proximity.

### 1. The Fallacy of the “Warm Intro”

Traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) relies on “Weak Ties”—people you haven’t spoken to in years who likely don’t understand your current **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. When you send a generic “Can you introduce me?” request to a weak tie, it usually hits a dead end. They can’t advocate for you because they can’t actually articulate your value.

**Semantic Mapping** flips the script. Instead of looking for a friend, you’re looking for a **Functional Twin**. You use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find people in your second-degree network who have navigated the exact “market friction” you’re currently targeting.

### 2. The Semantic Search Workflow

To do this right, you have to move beyond keyword searches. Keywords find titles; Semantic Mapping finds **experience patterns**.

- **The Data Input:** Export your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connection data or use an AI-enabled sales intelligence tool to get a clear view of your extended network.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Analysis:** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) your target company’s recent “Strategic Hurdles” (found in 10-K filings or earnings calls) along with your own [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).
- **The Prompt:** *“Analyze my second-degree network. Identify individuals who transitioned from \[Your Current Industry\] to \[Target Industry\] during a \[Specific Market Event, like a post-merger integration\]. Highlight those whose [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) trajectory mirrors my expertise in \[Specific Skill, like Supply Chain Resiliency\].”*

### 3. Identifying the “Hidden” Node

The result of this analysis is a list of people who possess the “Translation Key.” These individuals understand both where you’re coming from and where you want to go because they’ve already made the jump themselves.

> **The Logic:** A “Hidden Node” is an executive who solved the exact problem your target company is facing right now, using the tools you already master. They are your highest-probability referrers because your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) actually validates their own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path.

### 4. The Outreach: Inquiry Over Ask

Once the Semantic Map identifies your target, your outreach needs to be a peer-level technical inquiry. Whatever you do, don’t ask for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) in the first message. Instead, ask for **Validation of the Pattern**.

- **The Script:** *“I noticed you navigated the \[Specific Transition\] at \[Company X\] a few years back. I’m currently architecting a similar shift in \[Current Industry\] and noticed your current firm, \[Target Company\], is signaling a move toward \[Specific Strategy\]. Given your experience with \[Shared Problem\], does that strategy align with the hurdles you saw during your own transition?”*
- **The Result:** You’ve signaled that you’re a peer who understands their history. Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) will actually respond to this because it treats them as a subject matter [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), not just a gatekeeper.

### 5. Closing the Loop: The Referral “Pull”

When the “Hidden Node” responds, the [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) happens via **Pull**, not **Push**. As you discuss the technical nuances of the shared problem, the natural conclusion for them is: *“We’re actually looking for someone who understands this right now. You should talk to my team.”*

By using Semantic Mapping, you’ve bypassed the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and the HR screening layer entirely. You’ve entered the organization through a “High-Confidence” node who can vouch for your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** based on a shared strategic reality.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

**Last week, I released content in my blog including:**

**I Have a Verbal [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). The [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) Isn’t Getting Back to Me. Excerpt: Jeff provides a step-by-step strategy for handling “offer ghosting.” When a week passes without a formal letter and the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) goes silent, learn how to re-engage without appearing desperate or damaging your standing. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-have-a-verbal-offer-the-recruiter-isnt-getting-back-to-me/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-have-a-verbal-offer-the-recruiter-isnt-getting-back-to-me/)

**How to Know If Your Company is Planning Layoffs Excerpt: Layoffs rarely happen without warning signs. Jeff identifies the subtle organizational shifts—from sudden budget freezes to “closed-door” executive meetings—that signal a reduction in force is imminent, allowing you to prepare your exit strategy early. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-know-if-your-company-is-planning-layoffs/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-know-if-your-company-is-planning-layoffs/)

**The Two Major Reasons Your Employees Fail and Quit Excerpt: Retention isn’t just about [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Jeff breaks down the two primary leadership failures—lack of clear expectations and the absence of a psychological safety net—that drive top talent to underperform and eventually walk out the door. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-two-major-reasons-your-employees-fail-and-quit/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-two-major-reasons-your-employees-fail-and-quit/)

**Pretend I’m 8 Years Old. Explain to Me What You Do & Why You’re Good at It Excerpt: In this unique breakdown, Jeff simplifies the complex world of executive [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and headhunting. He explains his role as a “guide for grown-ups” who helps people find the place where they can be their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), using simple metaphors that reveal the core of his expertise. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/pretend-im-8-years-old-explain-to-me-what-you-do-why-youre-good-at-it/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/pretend-im-8-years-old-explain-to-me-what-you-do-why-youre-good-at-it/)

**What Should I Do If I’m Stuck in a Job I Hate? Excerpt: Being “stuck” is a mental state as much as a professional one. Jeff offers a tactical roadmap for those feeling trapped, focusing on how to build an “escape pod” while maintaining your current performance to avoid [being fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/) before you’re ready to leave. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-should-i-do-if-im-stuck-in-a-job-i-hate/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-should-i-do-if-im-stuck-in-a-job-i-hate/)

**What Are Your 5 Ideal Personality Traits? Excerpt: EP 1739 This isn’t an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) question. It should be part of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) preparation. Link:** [**https://youtu.be/qJZBJ0ooGkw**](https://youtu.be/qJZBJ0ooGkw)

**[Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Desperation is Not a Good Look When [Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Excerpt: Desperation reminds people of stalkers. Jeff explains how a “needy” [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) in [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/) triggers a subconscious [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) from [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers and how to project confident detachment instead. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-mistakes-desperation-is-not-a-good-look-when-job-hunting/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-mistakes-desperation-is-not-a-good-look-when-job-hunting/)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): March 29 2026 Excerpt: In this weekly roundup, Jeff synthesizes the most important lessons from the past week’s content. From the “Onlyness” factor to executive due diligence, get the high-level strategy you need to stay ahead of the market. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-29-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-29-2026/)

**The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About Job Part 4B Excerpt: The deep-dive continues into the final stages of the decision-making process. Jeff discusses how to analyze the “fine print” of an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) beyond the numbers, including non-competes, severance triggers, and [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) vesting schedules. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-jobs-part-4b/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-jobs-part-4b/)

**[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and the Future of Your Job Excerpt: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is no longer a “future” threat—it is a current tool. Jeff explores the specific industries most ripe for disruption and provides a roadmap for “AI-proofing” [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) by leaning into the uniquely human skills that machines cannot replicate. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-and-the-future-of-your-job/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-and-the-future-of-your-job/)

**Why Your “Helpful” Advice Is Sabotaging Your Partner’s [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) Excerpt: When a partner is struggling with their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), our instinct is to “fix” it. Jeff explores the psychological toll of unsolicited advice and how to provide true support that empowers your partner’s professional growth instead of stifling it. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-helpful-advice-is-sabotaging-your-partners-success/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-helpful-advice-is-sabotaging-your-partners-success/)

**Strategic [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Questions to Ask Excerpt: EP 3128 The single most important part of your job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) happens after you think it’s over. Learn how to turn the “Do you have any questions for us?” moment into a high-impact investigation that ensures you’re joining a winning team, and not walk into a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). Link** [**https://youtu.be/wX9100k4pyM**](https://youtu.be/wX9100k4pyM)

**Is It Necessary for Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Profile and [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Be Different? #shorts Excerpt: Is it necessary for your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to be different from your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), or can you simply copy and paste the same information? Jeff explains the strategic difference between the two and why a “copy-paste” approach is a missed opportunity for personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/).**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-necessary-for-your-linkedin-profile-and-resume-be-different-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-necessary-for-your-linkedin-profile-and-resume-be-different-shorts/)

**Vetting [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Excerpt: Not every [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) who reaches out has your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) interests—or the right connections—in mind. Jeff provides a framework for [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) the interviewer, ensuring you only partner with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who actually understand your market and can deliver real opportunities.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/vetting-recruiters/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/vetting-recruiters/)

**Knowing You Made a [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Excerpt: The cost of a bad hire is astronomical, yet many managers wait too long to admit they made the wrong call. Jeff identifies the early warning signs that a new hire isn’t going to work out and why a fast “course correction” is better for the team and the individual.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/knowing-you-made-a-hiring-mistake/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/knowing-you-made-a-hiring-mistake/)

**Who Will Do A Better Job For You – A [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) Or A Coach? Excerpt: People often confuse these two roles, but their incentives are diametrically opposed. Jeff breaks down the difference between a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) (who works for the employer) and a coach (who works for you) to help you decide which professional you actually need right now.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/who-will-do-a-better-job-for-you-a-recruiter-or-a-coach/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/who-will-do-a-better-job-for-you-a-recruiter-or-a-coach/)

**The 10-Step Guide To Making A [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Transition Excerpt: Moving into a new industry or role requires more than just a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) update—it requires a complete pivot in strategy. Jeff outlines a 10-step blueprint for a successful transition, from identifying transferable “Onlyness” to navigating the “hidden” job market in a new field.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10-step-guide-to-making-a-career-transition/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10-step-guide-to-making-a-career-transition/)

**Crack Your Offer’s Code Excerpt: Negotiations begin much earlier than the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) stage; they start at your first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Jeff explains how to decode the true value of an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and provides tactics to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a better deal once the numbers are on the table. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack-your-offers-code/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crack-your-offers-code/)

**Craft a [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Highlights Reel, Not a Boring [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) #shorts Excerpt: If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is just a list of duties, you’re losing the reader. Jeff discusses how to treat your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) like a “highlights reel” that showcases your wins and “Onlyness” rather than a dry administrative history. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/craft-a-career-highlights-reel-not-a-boring-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/craft-a-career-highlights-reel-not-a-boring-resume-shorts/)

**Leveraging [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for High-Resolution Executive [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Excerpt: In a market saturated with automated bots, a standard [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) request is a low-value [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). Jeff explores “Hyper-Contextualization”—using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) engine to prove you understand an executive’s specific business logic before you ever speak. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/leveraging-ai-for-high-resolution-executive-networking/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leveraging-ai-for-high-resolution-executive-networking/)

**The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About a Job: Part 5 Excerpt: In the final installment of the series, Jeff covers the “Gut Check” vs. “Data Check.” Learn how to synthesize everything you’ve learned during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) process to make a final, confident decision that aligns with your long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) trajectory. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-a-job-part-5/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-a-job-part-5/)

**Leading An Organization When You Have To Layoff People Excerpt: Laying off staff is the hardest part of leadership. Jeff discusses the ethical and operational necessities of managing a reduction in force, focusing on transparency, empathy for those leaving, and maintaining the morale of the “survivors” who stay. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/leading-an-organization-when-you-have-to-layoff-people/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leading-an-organization-when-you-have-to-layoff-people/)

**[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Like a Leader Excerpt: EP 3129 Leaders are great networkers. Learn from how they do it. Link:** [**https://youtu.be/BAL-Wu17IbE**](https://youtu.be/BAL-Wu17IbE)

**What Not to Do If You Don’t Hear Back Right Away #shorts Excerpt: Silence from an employer can trigger [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), but your reaction in those first few days is critical. Jeff explains why you must keep your cool and avoid the common [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that can turn a “maybe” into an immediate “no.”**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-not-to-do-if-you-dont-hear-back-right-away-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-not-to-do-if-you-dont-hear-back-right-away-shorts/)

**Find Out What Your Team Is Like #shorts Excerpt: You’re not just [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a job; you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a daily environment. Jeff shares a specific question you can ask to peel back the corporate veneer and see the real dynamics of the team you’ll be joining.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-out-what-your-team-is-like-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-out-what-your-team-is-like-shorts/)

**When [Following Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) Backfires Excerpt: There is a thin line between “persistent professional” and “pest.” Jeff identifies the specific behaviors—like multi-channel “bombarding”—that cause [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to blackball candidates instead of speeding up the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-following-up-backfires/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-following-up-backfires/)

**If I Get Called By A [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) Is There Anything I Should Look Out For? Excerpt: Getting “the call” is exciting, but it’s also the start of a vetting process. Jeff breaks down the [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) to watch for during that initial outreach, from vague job descriptions to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who seem more interested in your current boss than [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-i-get-called-by-a-recruiter-is-there-anything-i-should-look-out-for/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-i-get-called-by-a-recruiter-is-there-anything-i-should-look-out-for/)

**Pass the “So What” Test Excerpt: EP 3146 Learn the “So What” test to strip away the fluff, prove your value with tangible data, and finally get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) call. Jeff explains why most [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) fail by listing duties instead of impact. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/pass-the-so-what-test/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/pass-the-so-what-test/)

**If I Get Called By A [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) Is There Anything I Should Look Out For? Excerpt: Getting “the call” is exciting, but it’s also the start of a vetting process. Jeff breaks down the [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) to watch for during that initial outreach, from vague job descriptions to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who seem more interested in your current boss than [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-i-get-called-by-a-recruiter-is-there-anything-i-should-look-out-for/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-i-get-called-by-a-recruiter-is-there-anything-i-should-look-out-for/)

**[Applying for a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) Online? #shorts Excerpt: The “Apply” button is often a black hole. Jeff shares a 60-second strategy to ensure your online [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) actually gets seen by a human being instead of being buried by an algorithm. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/applying-for-a-job-online-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/applying-for-a-job-online-shorts/)

**Own Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and Get Hired Faster Excerpt: When you stop trying to be the “best” and start being the “only,” the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) dynamic shifts in your favor. Jeff discusses how to identify your unique value proposition and communicate it so clearly that you become the only logical choice for the role. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/own-your-onlyness-and-get-hired-faster/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/own-your-onlyness-and-get-hired-faster/)

**[Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) Situation Summary: April 3 2026 Excerpt: Jeff breaks down the latest [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) report and what the current labor market numbers mean for you. Whether you are currently searching or safely employed, these trends dictate your leverage in the coming quarter. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/employment-situation-summary-april-3-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employment-situation-summary-april-3-2026/)

**The Cost of a Long [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Excerpt: A protracted search costs more than just a paycheck; it erodes your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and your market value. Jeff explores the “hidden” costs of a long search and how to pivot your strategy if you’ve been on the market for more than 90 days. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-cost-of-a-long-job-search/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-cost-of-a-long-job-search/)

**People hire me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/)** because I make finding work much easier. I don’t write [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). I leave it to people who are experts at that. I am someone who has helped tens of thousands of people actually *find work.*

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### Jeff Altman, MSW, CCTC

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### [Semantic Mapping: The Referral Shortcut](https://thebiggamehunter.us/semantic-mapping-the-referral-shortcut/)

**Published:** April 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The high-leverage move is Semantic Mapping: using AI to identify the "hidden nodes" in your network who share your specific problem-sets

**Content:**

# Semantic Mapping: The Referral Shortcut

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), executive or otherwise, the standard “Who do I know?” query is a low-yield strategy. Most professionals look at their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) network as a simple list of names and titles, but that’s not enough. The high-leverage move is **Semantic Mapping**: using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify the “hidden nodes” in your network who share your specific problem-sets, regardless of what their current company or title says on the surface.

Think of this as the shortest path to a high-value [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Why? Because it bases the connection on shared technical or strategic DNA rather than just social proximity.

### 1. The Fallacy of the “Warm Intro”

Traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) relies on “Weak Ties”—people you haven’t spoken to in years who likely don’t understand your current **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. When you send a generic “Can you introduce me?” request to a weak tie, it usually hits a dead end. They can’t advocate for you because they can’t actually articulate your value.

**Semantic Mapping** flips the script. Instead of looking for a friend, you’re looking for a **Functional Twin**. You use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find people in your second-degree network who have navigated the exact “market friction” you’re currently targeting.

### 2. The Semantic Search Workflow

To do this right, you have to move beyond keyword searches. Keywords find titles; Semantic Mapping finds **experience patterns**.

- **The Data Input:** Export your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connection data or use an AI-enabled sales intelligence tool to get a clear view of your extended network.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Analysis:** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) your target company’s recent “Strategic Hurdles” (found in 10-K filings or earnings calls) along with your own [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).
- **The Prompt:** *“Analyze my second-degree network. Identify individuals who transitioned from \[Your Current Industry\] to \[Target Industry\] during a \[Specific Market Event, like a post-merger integration\]. Highlight those whose [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) trajectory mirrors my expertise in \[Specific Skill, like Supply Chain Resiliency\].”*

### 3. Identifying the “Hidden” Node

The result of this analysis is a list of people who possess the “Translation Key.” These individuals understand both where you’re coming from and where you want to go because they’ve already made the jump themselves.

> **The Logic:** A “Hidden Node” is an executive who solved the exact problem your target company is facing right now, using the tools you already master. They are your highest-probability referrers because your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) actually validates their own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path.

### 4. The Outreach: Inquiry Over Ask

Once the Semantic Map identifies your target, your outreach needs to be a peer-level technical inquiry. Whatever you do, don’t ask for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) in the first message. Instead, ask for **Validation of the Pattern**.

- **The Script:** *“I noticed you navigated the \[Specific Transition\] at \[Company X\] a few years back. I’m currently architecting a similar shift in \[Current Industry\] and noticed your current firm, \[Target Company\], is signaling a move toward \[Specific Strategy\]. Given your experience with \[Shared Problem\], does that strategy align with the hurdles you saw during your own transition?”*
- **The Result:** You’ve signaled that you’re a peer who understands their history. Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) will actually respond to this because it treats them as a subject matter [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), not just a gatekeeper.

### 5. Closing the Loop: The Referral “Pull”

When the “Hidden Node” responds, the [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) happens via **Pull**, not **Push**. As you discuss the technical nuances of the shared problem, the natural conclusion for them is: *“We’re actually looking for someone who understands this right now. You should talk to my team.”*

By using Semantic Mapping, you’ve bypassed the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and the HR screening layer entirely. You’ve entered the organization through a “High-Confidence” node who can vouch for your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** based on a shared strategic reality.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [The Final Countdown Before Your Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-final-countdown-before-your-interview/)

**Published:** April 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I interview Barrie Barton of StandandDeliverAsheville.com about the final things you should do before walking in for an interview, giving a presentation, or running a meeting.

**Content:**

# The Final Countdown Before Your Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Preparing for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is not limited to looking at a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile or three and reviewing what’s on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Here, I [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Barrie Barton of [StandandDeliverAsheville.com](http://www.StandandDeliverAsheville.com) about the final things you should do before walking in for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), giving a presentation, or running a meeting.

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and welcome. And for those of you who’ve been following me for a while, you know that generally I’ve stopped doing [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with any regularity, but I interviewed Barry Barton a couple of weeks ago, Barry, wave to the camera. And she did a great job and she had more material that I thought would be relevant for you, whether you’re looking for a job, doing a presentation, going to a meeting, stuff related to the preparation beforehand.

But we’re not going to talk about researching people. Let’s talk to death. But we’re going to talk about the final countdown, where you’re working, you’re going to do the dance with me, before you actually walk in for the meeting, for the presentation, for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), to get yourself ready.

So, Barrie Barton of [standanddeliverashville.com](http://standanddeliverashville.com). Welcome. Well, thank you very much, Jeff. It’s wonderful to be back.

Glad to have you back. And I thought this was a great topic. Because I think most people have the idea of doing a certain amount of prep beforehand.

But there’s this one period of time right before they’re starting a presentation, a meeting, an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that I think gets ignored. I know I haven’t really covered it with any regularity. So, what do you think people want to be doing? You know, I think we can all use that little extra boost, that little extra sort of leg up approach.

And it doesn’t take a lot of time. That’s the thing. Caffeine, that works.

It doesn’t take a lot of time. It doesn’t really take a lot of even really knowledge. It’s finding certain things that get you ready, that get you [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/).

Now, there’s some of us are extremely nervous. You know, for example, when I speak, I’ve been up in front of an audience most of my adult life, as a dancer on stage, speaking, and I still get nervous. And so, I need, personally, I need to get connected to my breath, my body, and my voice.

And some folks, they need the opposite. They need to calm down. They need to sit down.

They need to close their eyes. They need to relax their body. And so, it’s more like a volume knob.

Do I need to amp up or do I need to take my high amp and amp it down? So, I’m going to give you a couple suggestions, if that’s okay. Of course it is. That’s why you’re here.

So, maybe we could start with the person who’s feeling nervous. Because I think it’s a common trait that people have, that they’re a little bit nervous going into the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). They’ve got a lot of stuff running through their head.

And how do they calm down? So, this can be done for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), giving a presentation, leading a meeting, going into a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event, anything where you’re feeling maybe a little bit at odds, a little nervous. So, it can be for really anything. But let’s say you’re getting ready to go for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

You’re 10 minutes from where you’re going. Maybe you’re walking in a city street, on the subway, in your car. You need to figure out the techniques that work for you.

So, I’m going to give you a couple of ideas. Number one, I wholeheartedly believe in getting somehow or another, getting some physicality. So, that can be as simple as, now of course you don’t want to do this in the waiting room in front of the secretary.

You don’t want to do this in the middle of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or right before you go on stage. You want to do this in private. But as simple as, some people will do a little jumping just to get the blood flowing, shaking the whole body, shaking the hands, shaking the shoulders, just kind of shaking out the nervousness is a great way.

So, that creates the blood flow. And then you begin to feel enlivened, but it also has a tendency to relax you. Another way is you want, because you’re going to be using your voice, you want to be warming up your vocal cords.

I got to pause you here for a second and back up. You said shaking and getting physical and getting yourself what to some people might seem amped up, is actually going to be calming. It will be.

That’s interesting. It seems counterintuitive that it would happen that way. Well, I think it’s that endorphin gets going, the cortisol level drops down.

And so, the body actually feels calmer. And I think many of us have experienced this after we, for those of us that do regular exercise, you can feel actually kind of a both of, I feel more [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), but I also feel calmer. So, it’s both.

It’s creating both states of being, moving the body. Back to the vocal cords. That’s a really effective one.

The vocal cords, you’re in the car, sing [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) birthday, sing a song, anything to get your voice warmed up and moving, and do articulation exercises. So, it could just simply be like saying boo. Wow.

So, again, you’re warming up the articulators of your lips so that you’re not fumbling over your words. That’s another one. Interesting.

Yes. Very interesting. I know there was a sentence I used to train people to say, where you emphasize a different word in the sentence, and it has a completely different meaning.

Now, these days, it’s an awful sentence to say, but I’m going to say it as an illustration. And the sentence, I’m going to say it in a flat way. I did not say he beat his wife.

And if you say, I did not say he beat his wife. Versus, I did not say he beat his wife. I did not say he beat his wife.

You get the idea. Each word creates a different meaning to the sentence and also helps to loosen up your vocal variety and practice a little bit. Right.

I have my clients stand with a partner and they go back and forth, just saying one, two, three, back and forth, just saying the numbers all the way up to 20. But the rule of the game is that you have to say the number with a different emotion. So, you might say it sad, like one.

The next one would be two. Let’s play the game. Back and forth, yes.

One. Two. Three.

Four. Five. Six.

Seven. That’s it. And as you and I obviously experience, we get playful.

We lighten up a little bit. And that’s a good thing, too. Any type of a situation where, whether you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), presenting, running a meeting, where your personality comes out, you’re richer as a presenter.

Right. It makes a big difference in how you connect with people. Right.

So, we’ve been talking about nervous people. Is there more for the nervous ones? This could be for nervous or not nervous, but anybody that just really wants to give themselves an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). And I do this, again, this is something I love to do in my learning labs, but you can do it, again, in the car to yourself out loud.

You can tell the story, and it’s important that you figure out what this story is going to be on a regular basis, of a time in life that you succeeded. So, I, you know, that time when I got up in front of the class and I gave that results of my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) paper, I not only did I get an A plus from the teacher, but I got a lot of pats on the back from my colleagues, and I was offered that job because of that presentation. So, what you’re doing is you’re reminding yourself, you’re sort of, you’re bringing your past self, a past [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) into the present moment.

And it is incredibly, it’s a really perfect affirmation, and it’s a perfect anchor for saying, did it then? I’m doing it now. Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous.

Is there more for the nervous person? Are those the basic points you coach people into doing to prepare? Yeah, definitely. Those are some really strong ones. And then one, I’m going to give you one more.

And again, this could be nervous or anybody, again, that just really wants to kind of just go for the, go for the gusto, is if you are on your way someplace to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in the car, on the subway, wherever you are, listen to a piece of music that gives you pleasure, that really amps you up. Again, you’re giving yourself this sense of, you’re reminding yourself maybe of a time in your life. You are maybe able to sing along with the song, but the song is evoking an up [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) for you, mentally, physically, and you know, even memories.

So again, that is going to calm you down and bring pleasure to you. Put aside all your worries, put aside all the, you know, rehearsing in your mind of what you’re going to say. Just get into this joyful, upbeat, positive, affirming mindset.

I think that in itself carries you a long, long way. I agree. And the one reminder, folks, is don’t start singing so loudly, you cause yourself laryngitis.

I’ve done that one before. Before going into a meeting, I was in the car, I was having a great time and I lost my voice. Kind of embarrassing to walk in and I’m kind of croaking my answers.

Not the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to present. So just have some fun with it, but just be cautious. A little of the great.

So we’ve been focusing on the nervous person. Going into the meeting, the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), the presentation. How about for the not nervous person? That’s kind of the one who needs to get amped up.

They’re just feeling off. Well, again, I think all of these are for the nervous person and for the person that is already somewhat confident, but just wants that leg up. And for the person that might feel a little subdued because they’re so nervous that some people get so nervous that it taps their [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) down.

And I think that all of these are going to awaken the body, wake up the voice, calm the nerves, and give you that extra, you know, it gives you that extra little mileage that maybe the other people in the waiting room getting ready to do that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) haven’t done. And I think really, I think the main point of all of this is that you are creating a state of being. That’s really what it is, is that you’re creating a state of being.

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And that reads, even if you make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), even if you maybe don’t have the perfect answer, that there’s a [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) about you, that you’re not holding in or fidgety, that you’ve kind of got some control going in of your body and your voice. And I also, and I just shared this with a candidate, I’m helping a candidate for county commissioner in my area, and he’s got a full-time job. And he’s going from here to there.

And I said, I want you to figure out three things that you’re going to do every single time, the same song, same three exercises to get yourself [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). Because what happens is that when you create your preparation ritual, your sequence of preparation, that the body, the mind, the whole, your whole self says, okay, I know this. This is what is getting me ready to go do this.

And by creating your own ritual, you’re not having to think about well, what should I do next? You’re not having to make a choice. You say, okay, I did my shaking. I did my, my vocal.

I took a deep breath and I listened to that rock and song on the, on my, you know, iPod or whatever. iPod, you’re dating yourself. Sorry.

I know I am. I am from, you know, from I’ll just simply say for myself, I remember seeing Tony Robbins, what seems like a hundred years ago. And folks, if you’ve ever seen Tony do a presentation on YouTube or Netflix, wherever, you’ll see that this is a man with an incredible amount of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

And he’s on stage all the time. And I remember him doing an exercise with all of us. There’s like several thousand of us in a ballroom at a hotel in Manhattan.

And I remember coming out of that with a gesture where if I was going into a situation, I’m just going to pull back ever so slightly and I’ll elevate my hands a little bit. So you can see, I would go, yes. And that will jack up my [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) a lot.

So in this way, if I was feeling off, I would just start pumping my fist and that would energize me. Folks, you’re going to have your own version of this. Barry’s got some great stuff, particularly for your voice, where you’re going to be speaking and you want to make sure you’re on.

It does make a difference. That’s the good point, Jeff. What you just said is you have to find yours.

You have to find what works for you. How are you? Why? What do you need? Figure that out. Do it on a regular basis.

That’s the winner. You betcha. Is there anything I haven’t asked you so far that I should in order to give my audience what they need for prepping the last few minutes? Um, goodness.

Well, I could make a suggestion on a book if that is . . . Fabulous. So I do a lot of preparation things. I’ve always done the physical and the vocal.

But in reading this book, and it’s also, there’s a short podcast by Daniel Pink that also has this, and the book is called Psyched Up, How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed. It is by Daniel McGinn. Fabulous.

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

Folks, I’ll have a link in the show notes to it. So if you want to click through on Amazon, you’ll be able to order the book there. Fabulous.

Barry, how can people reach you if they’re interested in you [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) them in some way for speaking or anything else that you’re involved with? Right. I’m at standanddeliverashville.com. You can find me at my website. Is there an email address where they could message you as well? That is trickbarry, B-A-R-R-I-E, at standanddeliverashville.com. Fabulous.

And folks, you know, I come out with a lot of content. I hope to be able to help you with more. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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It’s helpful to them. And once we’re connected, then drop me a message through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). We’ll schedule a time to speak and see if it makes sense.

Hope you have a great day and take care.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [Employment Situation Summary: April 3 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employment-situation-summary-april-3-2026/)

**Published:** April 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Employment Situation Summary: April 3 2026

[US Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)

```

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate
changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal
government employment continued to decline.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
Note.

Household Survey Data

Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.2
million, changed little in March. These measures also changed little over the year. (See table
A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for people who are Asian (3.7 percent)
decreased in March. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (4.0 percent),
teenagers (13.7 percent), and people who are White (3.6 percent), Black (7.1 percent), or
Hispanic (4.8 percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8
million in March but is up by 322,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for
25.4 percent of all unemployed people in March. (See table A-12.)

Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.9 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
at 59.2 percent, changed little in March. These measures also showed little change over the
year, after accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) 

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little
in March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part
time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See
table A-8.)

The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.0
million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
to the labor force increased by 325,000 in March to 1.9 million. These individuals wanted and
were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not
looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a
subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, increased
by 144,000 in March to 510,000. (See Summary table A.)

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, following a decrease in
February (-133,000). In March, job gains occurred in health care, in construction, and in
transportation and warehousing. Federal government employment continued to decline. Payroll
employment had changed little on net over the prior 12 months. (See table B-1.)

Health care added 76,000 jobs in March. Employment in ambulatory health care services rose by
54,000, reflecting an increase of 35,000 in offices of physicians as workers returned from a
strike. Employment also increased in hospitals (+15,000). Over the prior 12 months, health
care had added an average of 29,000 jobs per month. 

Employment in construction grew by 26,000 in March but had shown little net change over the
prior 12 months.

In March, transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs, reflecting a gain in couriers and
messengers (+20,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing is down by 139,000 since
reaching a peak in February 2025.

Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in March (+14,000), primarily in
individual and family services (+11,000).

Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak
in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent. Federal
employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the
establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period
that included the 12th of the month.

Employment in financial activities edged down by 15,000 in March, reflecting a loss in finance
and insurance (-16,000). Employment in financial activities is down by 77,000 since reaching a
peak in May 2025.

Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
information; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.

In March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9
cents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.38. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.5
percent. In March, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
employees edged up by 5 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.07. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to
34.2 hours in March. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged at 40.2 hours, and
overtime was also unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2
and B-7.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised up by 34,000, from
+126,000 to +160,000, and the change for February was revised down by 41,000, from -92,000 to
-133,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 7,000 lower
than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from 
businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
recalculation of seasonal factors.)

_____________
The Employment Situation for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 8, 2026,
at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

```

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]CategoryMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Change from:
Feb.
2026-
Mar.
2026Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_sum.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

273,023274,676274,766274,85892Civilian labor force

170,641170,465170,483170,087-396Participation rate

62.562.162.061.9-0.1Employed

163,509163,097162,912162,848-64Employment-population ratio

59.959.459.359.2-0.1Unemployed

7,1327,3687,5717,239-332Unemployment rate

4.24.34.44.3-0.1Not in labor force

102,382104,211104,283104,771488Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

4.24.34.44.3-0.1Adult men (20 years and over)

3.93.84.03.8-0.2Adult women (20 years and over)

3.74.14.14.0-0.1Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

13.813.614.913.7-1.2White

3.73.73.73.6-0.1Black or African American

6.27.37.77.1-0.6Asian

3.54.24.83.7-1.1Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

5.14.95.24.8-0.4Total, 25 years and over

3.33.63.73.6-0.1Less than a high school diploma

5.85.35.65.90.3High school graduates, no college

4.24.64.84.7-0.1Some college or associate degree

3.53.63.53.60.1Bachelor’s degree and higher

2.63.03.02.8-0.2Reason for unemployment

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

3,3223,4953,6203,403-217Job leavers

8691,03886789831Reentrants

2,1822,1682,3202,254-66New entrants

743796805714-91Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

2,3622,1662,3192,138-1815 to 14 weeks

2,1542,1512,0781,998-8015 to 26 weeks

1,0101,2021,2061,212627 weeks and over

1,4991,8131,8991,821-78Employed people at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

4,7714,8734,3964,497101Slack work or business conditions

3,1533,1812,8383,107269Could only find part-time work

1,2531,3791,2511,126-125Part time for noneconomic reasons

22,64722,89922,72822,76739People not in the labor force

Marginally attached to the labor force

1,6871,6621,6191,944325Discouraged workers

502475366510144Footnotes
(1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation.

NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
CategoryMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.p "Preliminary"))EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY
(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

67160-133178Total private

67180-129186Goods-producing

-145-2043Mining and logging

-2-2-12Construction

645-1326Manufacturing

-52-615Durable goods([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

-56115Motor vehicles and parts

-4.21.3-0.10.6Nondurable goods

0-4-70Private service-providing

68135-109143Wholesale trade

-13.92.16.73.3Retail trade

15.712.7-8.09.7Transportation and warehousing

-17.422.6-48.521.0Utilities

1.60.21.5-1.2Information

-9-27-21-3Financial activities

2-392-15Professional and business services([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

-163672Temporary help services

-4.718.8-0.14.4Private education and health services([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

68119-4291Health care and social assistance

67.7106.9-27.889.9Leisure and hospitality

275-1144Other services

1035-9Government

0-20-4-8(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

2061368Total private

10821579WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES
AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

Total nonfarm women employees

49.950.050.050.0Total private women employees

48.448.548.548.5Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

81.581.681.581.6HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

34.234.334.334.2Average hourly earnings

$36.11$37.15$37.29$37.38Average weekly earnings

$1,234.96$1,274.25$1,279.05$1,278.40Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

115.7116.5116.4116.2Over-the-month percent change

0.00.4-0.1-0.2Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

199.8206.9207.4207.6Over-the-month percent change

0.50.80.20.1DIFFUSION INDEX
(Over 1-month span)([5](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.5 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

Total private (250 industries)

48.051.649.256.8Manufacturing (72 industries)

44.445.846.547.9Footnotes
(1) Includes other industries, not shown separately.
(2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries.
(3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours.
(4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls.
(5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

```
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates

1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment?

   The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates
   of employment, and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey
   employment series has a smaller margin of error on the measurement of month-to-
   month change than the household survey because of its much larger sample size. An
   over-the-month employment change of about 122,000 is statistically significant in
   the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change
   in the household survey is about 650,000. However, the household survey has a more
   expansive scope than the establishment survey because it includes self-employed
   workers whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, agricultural
   workers, and private household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey.
   The household survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups.
   For more information on the differences between the two surveys, please visit
   www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.htm.

2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys?

   It is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants. However,
   neither the establishment nor the household survey is designed to identify the legal
   status of workers. Therefore, it is not possible to determine how many are counted in
   either survey. The establishment survey does not collect data on the legal status of
   workers. The household survey does include questions which identify the foreign and
   native born, but it does not include questions about the legal status of the foreign
   born. Data on the foreign and native born are published each month in table A-7 of
   The Employment Situation news release.

3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions?

   The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by
   incorporating additional information that was not available at the time of the
   initial publication of the estimates. The establishment survey revises its initial
   monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 2 months, to incorporate
   additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey and recalculated seasonal
   adjustment factors. For more information on the monthly revisions, please visit
   www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cestn.htm#Revisions-Between-Preliminary-and-Final-Data.

   On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that
   re-anchors estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment
   insurance tax records. The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors
   in the estimates. For more information on the annual benchmark revision, please visit
   www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm.

4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms?

   Yes. About 46 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business
   establishments with fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is
   designed to maximize the reliability of the statewide total nonfarm employment
   estimate; firms from all states, size classes, and industries are appropriately
   sampled to achieve that goal.

5. Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses?

   Yes. Monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for
   the net employment change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment
   comes from an econometric model that forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of
   business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the net impact that
   can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The
   establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because
   the survey is not immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There
   is an unavoidable lag between the birth of a new firm and its appearance on the
   sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new businesses to the survey
   twice a year. More information on business births and deaths in the establishment
   survey is available at www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.

6. Is the count of unemployed people limited to just those receiving unemployment
   insurance benefits?

   No. The estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households.
   All people who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are
   included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if
   they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to
   unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey.

7. Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who want a job but are not currently
   looking for work?

   Yes. However, there are separate estimates of people outside the labor force who
   want a job, including those who are not currently looking because they believe no
   jobs are available (discouraged workers). In addition, alternative measures of labor
   underutilization (some of which include discouraged workers and other groups not
   officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in table A-15 of The
   Employment Situation news release. For more information about these alternative
   measures, please visit www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#altmeasures.

8. How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates?

   In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period that includes
   the 12th of the month. Unusually severe weather is more likely to have an impact on
   average weekly hours than on employment. Average weekly hours are estimated for paid
   time during the pay period, including pay for holidays, sick leave, or other time off.
   The impact of severe weather on hours estimates typically, but not always, results in
   a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some employees may be off work for
   part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, while some workers,
   such as those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours.
   
   It is not possible to precisely quantify the effect of extreme weather on payroll
   employment estimates. In order for severe weather conditions to reduce employment
   estimates, employees have to be off work without pay for the entire pay period.
   Employees who receive pay for any part of the pay period, even 1 hour, are counted in
   the payroll employment figures. For more information on how often employees are paid,
   please visit www.bls.gov/ces/publications/length-pay-period.htm.

   In the household survey, the reference period is generally the calendar week that
   includes the 12th of the month. People who miss the entire week's work for weather-
   related events are counted as employed whether or not they are paid for the time
   off. The household survey collects data on the number of people who had a job but
   were not at work due to bad weather. It also provides a measure of the number of
   people who usually work full time but had reduced hours due to bad weather. 
   
   Current and historical data are available on the household survey's most requested
   statistics page, please visit data.bls.gov/toppicks?survey=ln.

```

```
Technical Note

   This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current
Population Survey (CPS; household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics
survey (CES; establishment survey). The household survey provides information
on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the "A" tables,
marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 eligible households
conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

   The establishment survey provides information on employment, hours, and
earnings of employees on nonfarm payrolls; the data appear in the "B" tables,
marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each month from the payroll
records of a sample of nonagricultural business establishments. Each month
the CES program surveys about 119,000 businesses and government agencies,
representing approximately 622,000 individual worksites, in order to provide
detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm
payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 26 percent of all nonfarm
payroll jobs.

   For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a particular week or
pay period. In the household survey, the reference period is generally the
calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month. In the establishment
survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which may or
may not correspond directly to the calendar week.

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys

   Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect the entire civilian 
noninstitutional population. Based on responses to a series of questions on 
work and job search activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample
household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force.

   People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid employees
during the reference week; worked in their own business, profession, or on their
own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm.
People are also counted as employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs
because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal
reasons.

   People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria:
they had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at
that time; and they made specific active efforts to find employment sometime during
the 4-week period ending with the reference week. People laid off from a job and
expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The
unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the
eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits.

   The civilian labor force is the sum of the employed and unemployed.
Those people not classified as employed or unemployed are not in the labor 
force. The unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the 
labor force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a 
percent of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the 
employed as a percent of the population. Additional information about the 
household survey can be found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm.

   Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn from private
nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as
from federal, state, and local government entities. Employees on nonfarm
payrolls are those who worked or received pay for any part of the reference pay
period, including people on paid leave. People are counted in each job
they hold. Hours and earnings data are produced for the private sector for
all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees. Production
and nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and related employees
in manufacturing and mining and logging, construction workers in construction,
and nonsupervisory employees in private service-providing industries.

   Industries are classified on the basis of an establishment's principal
activity in accordance with the 2022 version of the North American Industry
Classification System. Additional information about the establishment survey
can be found at www.bls.gov/ces/.

   Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and methodological
differences between the household and establishment surveys result in important
distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the surveys. Among these are:

   --The household survey includes agricultural workers, self-employed workers
     whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and private
     household workers among the employed. These groups are excluded from the
     establishment survey.

   --The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the employed.
     The establishment survey does not.

   --The household survey is limited to workers 16 years of age and older.
     The establishment survey is not limited by age.

   --The household survey has no duplication of individuals, because
     individuals are counted only once, even if they hold more than one
     job. In the establishment survey, employees working at more than one
     job and thus appearing on more than one payroll are counted separately
     for each appearance.

Seasonal adjustment

   Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor force and the levels
of employment and unemployment undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These 
events may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and the opening
and closing of schools. The effect of such seasonal variation can be very large.

   Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year,
their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular
seasonal variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal developments, such as
declines in employment or increases in the participation of women in the labor
force, easier to spot. For example, in the household survey, the large number of
youth entering the labor force each June is likely to obscure any other changes
that have taken place relative to May, making it difficult to determine if the 
level of economic activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment
survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 20 percent at the end
of the spring term and later rises with the start of the fall term, obscuring the
underlying employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal employment changes
at the end and beginning of the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be
adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more discernible. The seasonally
adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with which to analyze changes in
month-to-month economic activity.

   Many seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted in both the household
and establishment surveys. However, the adjusted series for many major estimates,
such as total payroll employment, employment in most major sectors, total employment,
and unemployment are computed by aggregating independently adjusted component series.
For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the adjusted series for four
major age-sex components; this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be
obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons, or 
more detailed age categories. Percentage distributions of unemployment by reason and
duration are derived from the sum of the independently seasonally adjusted component
series and will not necessarily match calculations made using the seasonally adjusted
total unemployment level. Additional information about seasonal adjustment in the 
household survey can be found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm#sa.

   For both the household and establishment surveys, a concurrent seasonal adjustment
methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using all
relevant data, up to and including the data for the current month. In the household
survey, new seasonal factors are used to adjust only the current month's data. In the
establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are used each month to adjust the
three most recent monthly estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to
incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated seasonal adjustment factors.
In both surveys, 5-year revisions to historical data are made once a year.

Reliability of the estimates

   Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject to both
sampling and nonsampling error. When a sample, rather than the entire population,
is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may differ from the true
population values they represent. The component of this difference that occurs
because samples differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its variability
is measured by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-percent
chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate based on a sample will differ by
no more than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value because of sampling
error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence.

   For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total nonfarm
employment from the establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 122,000.
Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from one month to
the next. The 90-percent confidence interval on the monthly change would range from
-72,000 to +172,000 (50,000 +/- 122,000). These figures do not mean that the sample
results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent
chance that the true over-the-month change lies within this interval. Since this
range includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that
nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased that month. If, however, the reported
nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then all of the values within the 90-percent
confidence interval would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at
least a 90-percent chance) that nonfarm employment had, in fact, risen that month.
At an unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent confidence interval
for the monthly change in unemployment as measured by the household survey is
about +/- 425,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about
+/- 0.3 percentage point.

   In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have lower
standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates which are based
on a small number of observations. The precision of estimates also is improved when
the data are cumulated over time, such as for quarterly and annual averages.

   The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling error,
which can occur for many reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the
population, inability to obtain information for all respondents in the sample,
inability or unwillingness of respondents to provide correct information on a
timely basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in the collection or
processing of the data.

   For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 2 months
are based on incomplete returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled
preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive revisions to a monthly
estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, that the estimate is
considered final.

   Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is the
inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new firms. To
correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an estimation
procedure with two components is used to account for business births. The first
component excludes employment losses from business deaths from sample-based
estimation in order to offset the missing employment gains from business births.
This is incorporated into the sample-based estimation procedure by simply not
reflecting sample units going out of business, but imputing to them the same
employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This procedure accounts for
most of the net birth/death employment.

   The second component is an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the
residual net birth-death employment not accounted for by the imputation. The
historical time series used in the ARIMA model is derived from the unemployment
insurance universe micro-level database and reflects the actual
residual net of births and deaths over the past 5 years. In addition to this
time series of actual residual net of births and deaths series, the
ARIMA-based component of the birth-death model includes current sample
information to inform the forecasts. More information on business births
and deaths in the establishment survey is available at
www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.

   The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted once a
year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment obtained from
administrative records of the unemployment insurance program. The difference 
between the March sample-based employment estimates and the March universe counts
is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy for total survey
error. Benchmarks also incorporate changes in the classification of industries
when necessary. The absolute average benchmark revision for total nonfarm
employment over the prior 10 years is 0.2 percent. Over this time, revisions 
ranged from -0.4 percent to 0.3 percent.

Other information

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HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, sex, and ageNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a01.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population

273,023274,766274,858273,023274,633274,816274,676274,766274,858Civilian labor force

170,653170,206170,102170,641171,541171,495170,465170,483170,087Participation rate

62.561.961.962.562.562.462.162.061.9Employed

163,412162,153162,764163,509163,760163,992163,097162,912162,848Employment-population ratio

59.959.059.259.959.659.759.459.359.2Unemployed

7,2428,0527,3377,1327,7817,5037,3687,5717,239Unemployment rate

4.24.74.34.24.54.44.34.44.3Not in labor force

102,369104,560104,756102,382103,092103,321104,211104,283104,771People who currently want a job

5,6005,8805,7285,9106,1396,2085,8385,9746,040Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

133,175132,586132,627133,175133,957134,046132,546132,586132,627Civilian labor force

90,31888,83588,82790,30690,73990,78089,20089,10188,846Participation rate

67.867.067.067.867.767.767.367.267.0Employed

86,21684,46084,85286,45786,61686,81285,34885,21085,111Employment-population ratio

64.763.764.064.964.764.864.464.364.2Unemployed

4,1024,3753,9753,8494,1233,9683,8523,8913,736Unemployment rate

4.54.94.54.34.54.44.34.44.2Not in labor force

42,85743,75043,79942,86943,21843,26643,34543,48543,780Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

124,082123,612123,657124,082124,889124,981123,570123,612123,657Civilian labor force

87,13585,94585,93186,96587,62887,63886,09686,00685,796Participation rate

70.269.569.570.170.270.169.769.669.4Employed

83,48582,03882,42983,59484,04384,19982,78382,59182,562Employment-population ratio

67.366.466.767.467.367.467.066.866.8Unemployed

3,6503,9073,5033,3713,5853,4393,3133,4153,235Unemployment rate

4.24.54.13.94.13.93.84.03.8Not in labor force

36,94637,66737,72637,11737,26137,34437,47437,60637,860Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

139,848142,180142,231139,848140,676140,770142,130142,180142,231Civilian labor force

80,33681,37081,27480,33580,80280,71581,26581,38281,241Participation rate

57.457.257.157.457.457.357.257.257.1Employed

77,19577,69377,91277,05277,14477,18077,74977,70277,737Employment-population ratio

55.254.654.855.154.854.854.754.754.7Unemployed

3,1403,6773,3623,2833,6583,5353,5153,6803,503Unemployment rate

3.94.54.14.14.54.44.34.54.3Not in labor force

59,51260,81060,95759,51359,87360,05560,86560,79860,991Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

131,080133,541133,593131,080131,935132,034133,489133,541133,593Civilian labor force

77,15378,38478,18176,99777,44277,35178,12878,18378,007Participation rate

58.958.758.558.758.758.658.558.558.4Employed

74,39875,12175,12574,15674,30274,30674,92574,96574,861Employment-population ratio

56.856.356.256.656.356.356.156.156.0Unemployed

2,7543,2633,0552,8413,1403,0443,2033,2183,146Unemployment rate

3.64.23.93.74.13.94.14.14.0Not in labor force

53,92755,15755,41354,08254,49354,68355,36155,35855,587Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population

17,86217,61317,60817,86217,80817,80117,61717,61317,608Civilian labor force

6,3665,8775,9906,6796,4706,5066,2416,2946,284Participation rate

35.633.434.037.436.336.635.435.735.7Employed

5,5284,9945,2115,7595,4155,4865,3905,3575,425Employment-population ratio

31.028.429.632.230.430.830.630.430.8Unemployed

8378837799201,0561,020851937858Unemployment rate

13.215.013.013.816.315.713.614.913.7Not in labor force

11,49611,73611,61811,18311,33811,29511,37611,31911,324Footnotes
(1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, race, sex, and ageNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a02.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population

207,221202,426202,436207,221207,980208,058202,423202,426202,436Civilian labor force

128,796123,852123,915128,694128,477128,617123,997123,986123,841Participation rate

62.261.261.262.161.861.861.361.261.2Employed

123,888118,878119,335123,896123,517123,778119,412119,402119,371Employment-population ratio

59.858.758.959.859.459.559.059.059.0Unemployed

4,9084,9744,5804,7984,9604,8384,5854,5844,470Unemployment rate

3.84.03.73.73.93.83.73.73.6Not in labor force

78,42578,57478,52178,52679,50379,44178,42678,44178,595Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force

66,56463,73063,83166,44466,68366,70063,83463,76863,724Participation rate

69.668.868.969.569.469.468.968.968.8Employed

64,08761,14861,58464,18164,31164,41161,73461,57461,684Employment-population ratio

67.066.066.567.167.067.066.766.566.6Unemployed

2,4772,5822,2462,2632,3712,2892,1002,1942,040Unemployment rate

3.74.13.53.43.63.43.33.43.2Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force

57,33355,88555,76357,15056,99357,00855,66155,68255,596Participation rate

58.157.157.057.957.557.456.956.956.8Employed

55,48954,04753,92955,26555,05155,17853,74853,87453,721Employment-population ratio

56.255.255.156.055.555.654.955.154.9Unemployed

1,8441,8391,8341,8851,9431,8311,9131,8081,875Unemployment rate

3.23.33.33.33.43.23.43.23.4Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force

4,9004,2364,3215,1004,8014,9094,5024,5364,521Participation rate

38.235.336.039.837.738.537.537.837.7Employed

4,3123,6833,8214,4494,1554,1903,9293,9553,966Employment-population ratio

33.630.731.934.732.632.932.733.033.1Unemployed

588553500651646719572581555Unemployment rate

12.013.111.612.813.514.612.712.812.3BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population

35,68735,38835,41135,68735,96135,99535,36435,38835,411Civilian labor force

22,16622,22622,15522,20522,94822,72822,16022,28622,195Participation rate

62.162.862.662.263.863.162.763.062.7Employed

20,78720,49920,59320,82421,06521,02420,55320,57920,621Employment-population ratio

58.257.958.258.458.658.458.158.258.2Unemployed

1,3801,7271,5621,3821,8841,7041,6071,7071,574Unemployment rate

6.27.87.16.28.27.57.37.77.1Not in labor force

13,52013,16213,25613,48113,01313,26713,20413,10213,216Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force

10,52210,08110,06710,51310,77610,66910,14810,11310,057Participation rate

69.367.867.769.370.469.668.368.067.6Employed

9,8369,3279,2889,8719,9699,9389,4029,4079,328Employment-population ratio

64.862.862.465.165.164.963.363.362.7Unemployed

686754778642807731747706729Unemployment rate

6.57.57.76.17.56.97.47.07.3Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force

10,86011,39311,29010,86311,23811,22211,17711,36911,308Participation rate

60.963.863.260.962.562.462.663.763.3Employed

10,32510,60210,65110,29710,44010,40310,45910,56510,617Employment-population ratio

57.959.459.657.758.157.858.659.259.4Unemployed

535792639566798820717804691Unemployment rate

4.96.95.75.27.17.36.47.16.1Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force

785751799829934837835804830Participation rate

29.328.230.031.034.831.231.330.231.1Employed

626570654656656684692606676Employment-population ratio

23.421.424.524.524.425.526.022.825.4Unemployed

159182145174278153143197154Unemployment rate

20.324.218.120.929.818.317.124.518.5ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population

19,24121,09921,17619,24119,83619,78820,85621,09921,176Civilian labor force

12,68813,86713,89712,65113,08313,03613,82813,89213,860Participation rate

65.965.765.665.866.065.966.365.865.4Employed

12,25813,18913,40212,21012,61712,56513,24113,22213,348Employment-population ratio

63.762.563.363.563.663.563.562.763.0Unemployed

430678495442466471588670512Unemployment rate

3.44.93.63.53.63.64.24.83.7Not in labor force

6,5537,2327,2796,5906,7536,7527,0277,2077,317Footnotes
(1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, sex, and ageNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a03.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population

51,08352,61452,67551,08351,97152,08052,54752,61452,675Civilian labor force

34,39835,39235,58534,32635,02535,01435,40335,39635,515Participation rate

67.367.367.667.267.467.267.467.367.4Employed

32,59233,40233,82032,57333,26233,28633,67133,55133,794Employment-population ratio

63.863.564.263.864.063.964.163.864.2Unemployed

1,8061,9901,7651,7531,7631,7281,7321,8451,722Unemployment rate

5.25.65.05.15.04.94.95.24.8Not in labor force

16,68517,22217,09116,75716,94617,06617,14417,21817,160Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force

18,35018,42718,35818,28218,70018,74418,42418,45518,330Participation rate

79.378.978.579.079.379.379.079.078.4Employed

17,44917,47117,58817,45517,85617,93517,70017,61817,621Employment-population ratio

75.474.875.275.475.775.975.975.475.3Unemployed

900957770828844809724837709Unemployment rate

4.95.24.24.54.54.33.94.53.9Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force

14,44515,48815,71414,41314,84514,81215,47315,42315,648Participation rate

62.363.364.262.262.962.663.463.163.9Employed

13,76814,68614,90913,74614,18614,14014,73114,65914,857Employment-population ratio

59.460.160.959.360.159.860.360.060.7Unemployed

677801804667659672742764792Unemployment rate

4.75.25.14.64.44.54.85.05.1Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force

1,6041,4771,5121,6311,4801,4581,5061,5181,537Participation rate

33.630.831.534.230.930.531.431.632.0Employed

1,3751,2451,3221,3731,2201,2101,2411,2741,315Employment-population ratio

28.825.927.528.825.525.325.826.527.4Unemployed

229232190258260248266245221Unemployment rate

14.315.712.615.817.617.017.616.114.4Footnotes
(1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment\[Numbers in thousands\]Educational attainmentNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force

8,9868,2188,5019,0588,8719,0148,8638,5398,578Participation rate

47.745.146.348.146.746.745.746.846.7Employed

8,3927,6287,9288,5338,2698,5078,3928,0638,076Employment-population ratio

44.541.843.245.343.544.143.344.244.0Unemployed

594590573525602507471476502Unemployment rate

6.67.26.75.86.85.65.35.65.9High school graduates, no college([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a04.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

Civilian labor force

36,17636,15436,38436,06537,15336,67536,66736,09736,293Participation rate

56.756.656.556.557.957.456.656.556.3Employed

34,57634,22934,57434,56735,52935,20734,99734,35134,602Employment-population ratio

54.253.653.754.255.455.154.053.853.7Unemployed

1,6001,9251,8111,4981,6241,4681,6701,7461,691Unemployment rate

4.45.35.04.24.44.04.64.84.7Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force

36,35036,53436,08036,20436,27236,45535,88936,33835,992Participation rate

62.862.361.962.561.961.861.361.961.8Employed

35,04435,14934,75734,94434,99635,08534,59835,05734,714Employment-population ratio

60.559.959.760.459.759.459.159.859.6Unemployed

1,3061,3841,3231,2601,2751,3701,2921,2811,278Unemployment rate

3.63.83.73.53.53.83.63.53.6Bachelor’s degree and higher([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a04.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

Civilian labor force

67,12067,67767,60966,74767,19667,41967,02067,23467,265Participation rate

72.471.971.972.072.272.672.871.471.5Employed

65,40465,62565,74065,00665,25065,55565,02565,21665,364Employment-population ratio

70.569.769.970.170.170.670.669.369.5Unemployed

1,7162,0521,8691,7421,9451,8631,9952,0181,900Unemployment rate

2.63.02.82.62.92.83.03.02.8Footnotes
(1) Includes people with a high school diploma or equivalent.
(2) Includes people with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals for those 25 years and over because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, veteran status, and period of serviceTotalMenWomenMar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

17,34817,01515,27514,9322,0732,083Civilian labor force

8,4808,1097,2496,9671,2311,142Participation rate

48.947.747.546.759.454.8Employed

8,1607,7966,9966,7351,1641,061Employment-population ratio

47.045.845.845.156.250.9Unemployed

3203142532336781Unemployment rate

3.83.93.53.35.47.1Not in labor force

8,8688,9068,0267,965842941Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population

5,6165,8084,6314,7509851,058Civilian labor force

4,3844,3913,6863,667698724Participation rate

78.175.679.677.270.968.4Employed

4,2494,1943,5883,528661666Employment-population ratio

75.772.277.574.367.162.9Unemployed

135197971393858Unemployment rate

3.14.52.63.85.48.0Not in labor force

1,2321,4179451,083287335Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population

3,2213,1502,7112,686510464Civilian labor force

2,2002,0321,8411,768359264Participation rate

68.364.567.965.870.356.9Employed

2,0821,9501,7441,705338245Employment-population ratio

64.661.964.363.566.352.8Unemployed

1188298642119Unemployment rate

5.44.15.33.65.77.2Not in labor force

1,0211,118870918151200Vietnam-era and earlier wartime veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population

4,9624,6494,7744,471188178Civilian labor force

6635276315053222Participation rate

13.411.313.211.316.812.2Employed

6275175964953222Employment-population ratio

12.611.112.511.116.812.2Unemployed

3610361000Unemployment rate

5.41.95.72.0––Not in labor force

4,2994,1224,1433,966156156Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population

3,5493,4083,1593,025390383Civilian labor force

1,2331,1591,0901,027143133Participation rate

34.734.034.533.936.634.6Employed

1,2021,1351,0681,006134129Employment-population ratio

33.933.333.833.334.433.6Unemployed

3125222194Unemployment rate

2.52.12.02.06.13.1Not in labor force

2,3162,2492,0691,998247250NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

246,193248,490113,099113,085133,094135,405Civilian labor force

159,933159,87281,97080,92177,96378,951Participation rate

65.064.372.571.658.658.3Employed

153,348153,14078,27777,33775,07175,803Employment-population ratio

62.361.669.268.456.456.0Unemployed

6,5856,7323,6943,5842,8913,147Unemployment rate

4.14.24.54.43.74.0Not in labor force

86,26088,61831,12832,16455,13256,454NOTE: Veterans served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and were not on active duty at the time of the survey. Nonveterans never served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August 1990-August 2001), Vietnam era (August 1964-April 1975), Korean War (July 1950-January 1955), World War II (December 1941-December 1946), and other service periods (all other time periods). Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified only in the most recent one. Veterans who served during one of the selected wartime periods and another period are classified only in the wartime period. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 75,000).

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, sex, and agePeople with a disabilityPeople with no disabilityMar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

34,40036,209238,623238,649Civilian labor force

8,2208,706162,433161,396Participation rate

23.924.068.167.6Employed

7,5798,038155,833154,726Employment-population ratio

22.022.265.364.8Unemployed

6426676,6006,670Unemployment rate

7.87.74.14.1Not in labor force

26,17927,50376,19077,253Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force

3,3513,60080,59578,800Participation rate

42.143.282.882.8Employed

3,0193,33777,02675,317Employment-population ratio

37.940.079.279.1Unemployed

3322633,5693,483Unemployment rate

9.97.34.44.4Not in labor force

4,6064,73516,68716,417Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force

3,4723,55371,64372,110Participation rate

39.840.773.273.4Employed

3,2403,23168,90069,339Employment-population ratio

37.237.170.470.6Unemployed

2323222,7432,772Unemployment rate

6.79.13.83.8Not in labor force

5,2445,16626,26926,098Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force

1,3981,55310,19510,486Participation rate

7.98.123.523.2Employed

1,3201,4709,90710,071Employment-population ratio

7.47.722.822.3Unemployed

7883288415Unemployment rate

5.65.32.84.0Not in labor force

16,32917,60233,23434,737NOTE: A person with a disability has at least one of the following conditions: is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing; is blind or has serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses; has serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition; has serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs; has difficulty dressing or bathing; or has difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status and nativityTotalMenWomenMar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

50,44749,72524,98923,52925,45826,196Civilian labor force

33,71933,40119,25918,16914,45915,232Participation rate

66.867.277.177.256.858.1Employed

32,22531,97418,39817,46213,82714,512Employment-population ratio

63.964.373.674.254.355.4Unemployed

1,4941,428861707633720Unemployment rate

4.44.34.53.94.44.7Not in labor force

16,72816,3245,7305,36010,99810,964Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population

222,576225,133108,186109,097114,390116,036Civilian labor force

136,935136,70071,05970,65865,87666,042Participation rate

61.560.765.764.857.656.9Employed

131,186130,79167,81867,39063,36863,401Employment-population ratio

58.958.162.761.855.454.6Unemployed

5,7485,9103,2413,2682,5082,642Unemployment rate

4.24.34.64.63.84.0Not in labor force

85,64188,43337,12738,43948,51449,993NOTE: The foreign born are those residing in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth. That is, they were born outside the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam, to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The native born are people who were born in the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam or who were born abroad of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status\[In thousands\]CategoryNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries

2,2512,1622,1592,3532,2002,3322,1522,2572,256Wage and salary workers([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

1,5091,3991,4261,5781,4591,5711,4001,5001,496Self-employed workers, unincorporated

717751702739761751756757721Unpaid family workers

251231––––––Nonagricultural industries

161,160159,992160,606160,964161,635161,716160,883160,706160,550Wage and salary workers([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

152,079151,241151,896151,913152,150152,671151,874151,786151,853Government

22,13421,98621,60621,77222,04021,97321,59121,73921,325Private industries

129,945129,255130,290130,141130,088130,708130,384130,046130,542Private households

555621641––––––Other industries

129,390128,634129,649129,508129,600130,160129,710129,388129,805Self-employed workers, unincorporated

9,0348,6828,6699,0819,4769,0529,0568,8418,737Unpaid family workers

476940––––––PEOPLE AT WORK PART TIME([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

All industries

Part time for economic reasons([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

4,9004,6274,6164,7715,4875,3414,8734,3964,497Slack work or business conditions

3,2453,0853,1963,1533,4453,4363,1812,8383,107Could only find part-time work

1,3071,2561,1311,2531,6501,5141,3791,2511,126Part time for noneconomic reasons([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

23,19823,39823,31422,64723,06822,25122,89922,72822,767Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

4,8134,5714,5724,7075,4175,2824,8364,3804,476Slack work or business conditions

3,1943,0593,1683,1193,4343,4273,1672,8463,096Could only find part-time work

1,3051,2561,1311,2511,6351,4971,3731,2501,124Part time for noneconomic reasons([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

22,78123,01722,94822,22422,68521,83922,52022,35722,393Footnotes
(1) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.
(2) Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the survey reference week and excludes employed people who were absent from their jobs for the entire week.
(3) Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for an economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable business conditions, inability to find full-time work, or seasonal declines in demand.
(4) Refers to people who usually work part time for noneconomic reasons such as childcare problems, family or personal obligations, school or training, retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, and other reasons. This excludes people who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as vacations, holidays, illness, and bad weather.

– Data not available.
NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-9. Selected employment indicators\[Numbers in thousands\]CharacteristicNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over

163,412162,153162,764163,509163,760163,992163,097162,912162,84816 to 19 years

5,5284,9945,2115,7595,4155,4865,3905,3575,42516 to 17 years

1,9041,7631,8292,0811,9351,9381,9261,9632,00018 to 19 years

3,6243,2313,3823,7093,4743,5473,4653,4183,45920 years and over

157,883157,159157,554157,750158,345158,506157,708157,555157,42320 to 24 years

14,46814,52814,55514,56814,45614,38714,74014,70914,63325 years and over

143,416142,631142,999143,218143,908144,171142,913142,777142,80625 to 54 years

105,417104,765105,120105,292105,852106,087105,063104,909105,00725 to 34 years

36,37036,27836,39236,33036,13236,40136,44236,33136,36235 to 44 years

36,96236,51936,61836,85937,22637,30436,63536,55636,52945 to 54 years

32,08531,96832,11032,10332,49432,38231,98632,02232,11655 years and over

37,99937,86637,87937,92738,05638,08537,85037,86837,799Men, 16 years and over

86,21684,46084,85286,45786,61686,81285,34885,21085,11116 to 19 years

2,7312,4222,4242,8632,5722,6132,5662,6192,54916 to 17 years

9447937811,03093592592090486018 to 19 years

1,7871,6291,6431,8601,6311,6891,6501,7401,70720 years and over

83,48582,03882,42983,59484,04384,19982,78382,59182,56220 to 24 years

7,2857,2877,5837,3647,3847,3107,4897,4457,63225 years and over

76,20074,75174,84676,29676,64576,90475,32575,15074,97025 to 54 years

55,88054,94355,00555,96256,26456,44855,27055,23055,10425 to 34 years

19,31519,18819,14719,32219,28519,30719,39819,29119,17135 to 44 years

19,79919,20719,33319,79419,96120,04219,31019,30019,33145 to 54 years

16,76516,54916,52516,84517,01717,10016,56216,63916,60355 years and over

20,32019,80819,84020,33420,38120,45620,05519,92019,865Women, 16 years and over

77,19577,69377,91277,05277,14477,18077,74977,70277,73716 to 19 years

2,7972,5722,7872,8952,8422,8742,8242,7372,87616 to 17 years

9609691,0481,0511,0001,0141,0071,0591,14018 to 19 years

1,8371,6031,7391,8491,8431,8581,8151,6771,75120 years and over

74,39875,12175,12574,15674,30274,30674,92574,96574,86120 to 24 years

7,1827,2416,9727,2047,0737,0777,2527,2647,00225 years and over

67,21667,88068,15366,92367,26367,26767,58867,62867,83625 to 54 years

49,53749,82250,11549,33049,58849,63949,79349,67949,90325 to 34 years

17,05517,09117,24517,00816,84717,09417,04417,04017,19135 to 44 years

17,16217,31217,28517,06417,26417,26217,32517,25617,19845 to 54 years

15,32015,41915,58615,25715,47715,28315,42515,38315,51355 years and over

17,67918,05818,03817,59317,67517,62817,79517,94817,934MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

45,81245,07145,33945,79246,30846,28945,38845,19945,327Married women, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

36,88637,60138,15736,76837,40537,25437,11937,41337,963Women who maintain families([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

10,26510,40910,328––––––FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

134,163133,085133,752135,055134,325135,215134,441134,341134,676Part-time workers([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

29,24829,06929,01328,45329,45228,71228,72728,47828,290MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders

9,1328,5108,5138,9359,2928,8488,7238,3718,357Percent of total employed

5.65.25.25.55.75.45.35.15.1SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated

6,8607,0306,732––––––Self-employed workers, unincorporated

9,7529,4339,3719,82010,2379,8039,8129,5979,458Footnotes
(1) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. Prior to January 2020, referred to people in opposite-sex married couples only.
(2) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not a spouse of either sex. Prior to January 2020, referred to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse.
(3) Employed full-time workers are people who usually work 35 hours or more per week.
(4) Employed part-time workers are people who usually work less than 35 hours per week.

– Data not available.
NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjustedCharacteristicNumber of
unemployed people
(in thousands)Unemployment ratesMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over

7,1327,5717,2394.24.54.44.34.44.316 to 19 years

92093785813.816.315.713.614.913.716 to 17 years

38038333115.417.218.016.316.314.218 to 19 years

54954753612.915.614.412.213.813.420 years and over

6,2126,6346,3803.84.13.94.04.03.920 to 24 years

1,1911,1781,0077.68.38.27.07.46.425 years and over

4,9555,5245,3213.33.73.53.63.73.625 to 54 years

3,8104,2054,0323.53.93.73.83.93.725 to 34 years

1,5231,8121,8374.04.94.34.94.84.835 to 44 years

1,2321,2631,2123.23.43.53.33.33.245 to 54 years

1,0541,1309833.23.23.13.03.43.055 years and over

1,1531,2941,2882.93.13.03.23.33.3Men, 16 years and over

3,8493,8913,7364.34.54.44.34.44.216 to 19 years

47847550114.317.316.817.415.416.416 to 17 years

17318717714.318.019.220.617.117.118 to 19 years

30729232414.117.115.515.514.316.020 years and over

3,3713,4153,2353.94.13.93.84.03.820 to 24 years

6796715448.49.19.47.18.36.725 years and over

2,6442,8062,6543.33.73.43.53.63.425 to 54 years

2,0282,0731,9943.53.83.53.63.63.525 to 34 years

8869719424.44.73.94.64.84.735 to 44 years

6086105983.03.43.33.43.13.045 to 54 years

5354924543.13.33.12.72.92.755 years and over

6167336602.93.23.13.43.53.2Women, 16 years and over

3,2833,6803,5034.14.54.44.34.54.316 to 19 years

44246235813.215.414.610.014.411.116 to 17 years

20719615416.516.416.811.815.611.918 to 19 years

24225521211.614.213.39.013.210.820 years and over

2,8413,2183,1463.74.13.94.14.14.020 to 24 years

5125074636.67.46.97.06.56.225 years and over

2,3112,7182,6673.33.73.63.83.93.825 to 54 years

1,7822,1322,0383.54.03.94.04.13.925 to 34 years

6378428953.65.24.65.34.74.935 to 44 years

6256536133.53.43.73.13.63.445 to 54 years

5206375303.33.23.13.44.03.355 years and over

5295726222.92.93.03.13.13.4MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

9881,0191,0182.12.42.12.22.22.2Married women, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

9341,1361,1542.52.72.62.92.93.0Women who maintain families([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

6276015495.86.25.75.55.55.0FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

5,7756,0595,8544.14.54.34.24.34.2Part-time workers([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

1,3331,5451,3584.54.84.64.85.14.6Footnotes
(1) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. Prior to January 2020, referred to people in opposite-sex married couples only.
(2) Data are not seasonally adjusted. Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not a spouse of either sex. Prior to January 2020, referred to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse.
(3) Full-time workers are unemployed people who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs.
(4) Part-time workers are unemployed people who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time jobs.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment\[Numbers in thousands\]ReasonNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

3,5524,0903,6263,3223,5603,4733,4953,6203,403On temporary layoff

9601,2211,0128181,002929839925877Not on temporary layoff

2,5932,8692,6132,5032,5582,5442,6572,6942,526Permanent job losers

1,8702,1101,9361,8131,9361,9692,0082,0371,881People who completed temporary jobs

723759678691623575649658645Job leavers

8588708878698618321,038867898Reentrants

2,1552,3632,2152,1822,6002,3372,1682,3202,254New entrants

677729610743774840796805714PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

49.150.849.446.745.746.446.647.646.8On temporary layoff

13.315.213.811.512.812.411.212.212.1Not on temporary layoff

35.835.635.635.232.834.035.435.434.7Job leavers

11.810.812.112.211.011.113.811.412.4Reentrants

29.829.430.230.733.331.228.930.531.0New entrants

9.39.08.310.49.911.210.610.69.8UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE
CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

2.12.42.11.92.12.02.12.12.0Job leavers

0.50.50.50.50.50.50.60.50.5Reentrants

1.31.41.31.31.51.41.31.41.3New entrants

0.40.40.40.40.50.50.50.50.4NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to total unemployed in table A-1 because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment\[Numbers in thousands\]DurationNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks

2,0852,1981,8382,3622,5402,2892,1662,3192,1385 to 14 weeks

2,3382,5402,1572,1542,1902,0692,1512,0781,99815 weeks and over

2,8193,3133,3422,5093,0993,1433,0153,1053,03315 to 26 weeks

1,2201,3441,4221,0101,1901,1951,2021,2061,21227 weeks and over

1,5991,9691,9191,4991,9101,9481,8131,8991,821Average (mean) duration, in weeks

23.625.326.122.923.124.423.725.725.3Median duration, in weeks

10.911.212.89.79.811.411.011.111.5PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks

28.827.325.133.632.430.529.530.929.85 to 14 weeks

32.331.529.430.728.027.629.327.727.915 weeks and over

38.941.145.535.739.641.941.141.442.315 to 26 weeks

16.916.719.414.415.215.916.416.116.927 weeks and over

22.124.526.221.324.426.024.725.325.4NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to total unemployed in table A-1 because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]OccupationEmployedUnemployedUnemployment
ratesMar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Total, 16 years and over([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

163,412162,7647,2427,3374.24.3Management, professional, and related occupations

72,01971,9951,7061,8162.32.5Management, business, and financial operations occupations

31,08831,0887178142.32.6Professional and related occupations

40,93040,9069901,0022.42.4Service occupations

26,67526,6271,5631,5135.55.4Sales and office occupations

30,38930,5301,2761,3864.04.3Sales and related occupations

13,86113,9676447374.45.0Office and administrative support occupations

16,52716,5636316493.73.8Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

14,44913,7138269525.46.5Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

95988513111012.011.1Construction and extraction occupations

8,4758,0145546586.17.6Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

5,0144,8141401832.73.7Production, transportation, and material moving
occupations

19,88119,8991,1761,0285.64.9Production occupations

7,9237,6853393254.14.1Transportation and material moving occupations

11,95812,2148377046.55.4Footnotes
(1) People with no previous work experience and people whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjustedIndustry and class of workerNumber of
unemployed
people
(in thousands)Unemployment
ratesMar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Total, 16 years and over([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a11.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

7,2427,3374.24.3Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers

5,5675,6254.14.1Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

8281.44.7Construction

5736985.46.7Manufacturing

4795133.13.4Durable goods

2883352.93.3Nondurable goods

1901783.63.6Wholesale and retail trade

9338334.74.4Transportation and utilities

3602924.23.2Information

133945.03.6Financial activities

2903092.82.8Professional and business services

8478394.34.2Education and health services

7808612.83.1Leisure and hospitality

8288586.26.2Other services

3373005.04.5Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers

1311508.29.7Government workers

4235541.92.5Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers

4443984.34.0Footnotes
(1) People with no previous work experience and people whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2025 data, industries reflect the introduction of the 2022 Census industry classification system, derived from the 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Data for 2025 are not strictly comparable with earlier years.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization\[Percent\]MeasureNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Feb.
2026Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Nov.
2025Dec.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026Mar.
2026U-1 People unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force

1.71.92.01.51.81.81.81.81.8U-2 Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force

2.12.42.11.92.12.02.12.12.0U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)

4.24.74.34.24.54.44.34.44.3U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers

4.54.94.64.54.94.64.64.64.5U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other people marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force

5.15.65.35.15.55.35.25.35.3U-6 Total unemployed, plus all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force

7.98.38.07.98.78.48.17.98.0NOTE: People marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. People employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]CategoryTotalMenWomenMar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026Mar.
2025Mar.
2026NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force

102,369104,75642,85743,79959,51260,957People who currently want a job

5,6005,7282,6842,7402,9162,989Marginally attached to the labor force([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

1,5391,809796877743931Discouraged workers([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

458468276216182253Other people marginally attached to the labor force([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

1,0821,340521662561679MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

9,1328,5134,3183,9974,8144,516Percent of total employed

5.65.25.04.76.25.8Primary job full time, secondary job part time

5,2324,7692,6772,3792,5552,390Primary and secondary jobs both part time

2,4402,1508387041,6021,446Primary and secondary jobs both full time

393383237244155139Hours vary on primary or secondary job

1,0001,146528621472525Footnotes
(1) Data refer to people who want a job, have searched for work during the prior 12 months, and were available to take a job during the reference week, but had not looked for work in the past 4 weeks.
(2) Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for reasons such as thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination.
(3) Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as school or family responsibilities, ill health, and transportation problems, as well as a number for whom reason for nonparticipation was not determined.
(4) Includes a small number of people who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail
\[In thousands\]IndustryNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Change from:
Feb.2026 – Mar.2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Total nonfarm

157,540156,728157,204157,775158,377158,592158,459158,637178Total private

133,646133,487133,631134,127134,818135,263135,134135,320186Goods-producing

21,28421,10321,12321,25321,55921,50121,48121,52443Mining and logging

6155955945996206026016032Logging

40.936.836.937.441.237.136.737.60.9Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

573.6557.8557.4561.1578.5565.0564.2565.51.3Oil and gas extraction

117.7115.5115.4115.8118.2115.5116.3116.1-0.2Mining (except oil and gas)

186.1182.5182.5183.6189.7187.3187.3187.1-0.2Coal mining

40.039.138.838.140.139.138.838.3-0.5Metal ore mining

45.545.645.545.445.745.645.645.60.0Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying

100.697.898.2100.1103.9102.7102.9103.30.4Support activities for mining

269.8259.8259.5261.7270.6262.2260.6262.31.7Construction

8,0498,0038,0058,1088,2738,3178,3048,33026Construction of buildings

1,828.01,818.01,825.31,843.81,860.11,859.51,865.81,873.47.6Residential building construction

919.4905.7907.4915.7935.5926.6928.5931.63.1Nonresidential building construction

908.6912.3917.9928.1924.6932.9937.3941.84.5Heavy and civil engineering construction

1,122.21,112.61,115.51,147.71,180.31,206.11,200.81,204.63.8Specialty trade contractors

5,098.75,071.95,063.75,116.45,232.55,251.05,236.95,252.015.1Residential specialty trade contractors

2,331.02,287.22,282.82,306.12,394.42,369.12,357.82,369.011.2Nonresidential specialty trade contractors

2,767.72,784.72,780.92,810.32,838.12,881.92,879.12,883.03.9Manufacturing

12,62012,50512,52412,54612,66612,58212,57612,59115Durable goods

7,8317,7657,7787,7997,8547,8037,8047,81915Wood product manufacturing

405.7390.3390.7392.2407.1394.0392.3393.61.3Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing

410.7410.1410.0415.8416.9418.2418.7421.52.8Primary metal manufacturing

364.5363.1363.4362.4364.8364.2363.7362.6-1.1Fabricated metal product manufacturing

1,432.71,435.91,438.71,444.31,434.21,438.81,440.51,445.75.2Machinery manufacturing

1,092.81,082.11,083.51,085.81,094.91,084.41,085.51,087.41.9Computer and electronic product manufacturing

1,001.8984.3984.0984.31,005.6988.3987.4987.50.1Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing

100.098.298.599.1101.098.698.799.81.1Communications equipment manufacturing

79.180.781.080.579.280.781.280.6-0.6Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing

384.5368.1367.2367.5385.8369.4368.7368.4-0.3Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

409.8409.9410.5411.1410.8411.6411.4412.10.7Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing

28.427.426.826.128.828.027.326.7-0.6Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing

428.0432.9433.8435.9428.3432.8433.9435.81.9Transportation equipment manufacturing([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

1,743.71,727.51,733.11,740.21,750.11,739.21,738.71,745.26.5Motor vehicles and parts([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

972.9944.1948.8951.3975.3952.3952.2952.80.6Furniture and related product manufacturing

337.1331.7333.1331.5337.8333.9334.6332.6-2.0Miscellaneous manufacturing

613.6606.7608.1606.9614.2609.2609.1607.5-1.6Nondurable goods

4,7894,7404,7464,7474,8124,7794,7724,7720Food manufacturing

1,770.61,766.31,770.01,765.51,781.91,780.21,779.91,778.5-1.4Textile mills

82.579.979.378.982.780.079.879.2-0.6Textile product mills

94.394.594.694.494.094.294.394.2-0.1Apparel manufacturing

80.173.473.473.581.074.573.874.30.5Paper manufacturing

354.7354.9354.7358.0354.5354.9355.4357.82.4Printing and related support activities

345.5339.2339.8340.8345.8340.7340.8340.4-0.4Petroleum and coal products manufacturing

109.3106.9106.9106.6111.0109.2108.8108.5-0.3Chemical manufacturing

898.8893.9897.3892.6898.8898.0898.3893.1-5.2Plastics and rubber products manufacturing

707.8695.0693.4696.0708.1697.0693.9696.42.5Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing

345.0336.3336.3340.2354.5349.9347.0349.62.6Private service-providing

112,362112,384112,508112,874113,259113,762113,653113,796143Trade, transportation, and utilities

28,55428,60628,37728,40528,79228,65428,60528,63833Wholesale trade

6,040.66,017.36,020.36,033.76,062.06,044.66,051.36,054.63.3Merchant wholesalers, durable goods

3,399.73,387.93,388.13,394.23,407.83,397.43,400.23,402.11.9Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

2,196.22,190.82,193.42,201.82,207.22,206.62,209.92,212.52.6Wholesale trade agents and brokers

444.7438.6438.8437.7447.0440.6441.2440.0-1.2Retail trade

15,301.815,365.615,253.315,277.015,457.515,426.215,418.215,427.99.7Motor vehicle and parts dealers

2,046.52,037.42,038.72,038.02,053.32,056.22,053.92,045.3-8.6Automobile dealers

1,290.51,288.61,288.61,286.81,292.01,296.61,293.11,289.2-3.9Other motor vehicle dealers

162.2154.0154.6155.4164.9161.6160.7157.9-2.8Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers

593.8594.8595.5595.8596.3598.1600.1598.2-1.9Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

1,386.51,305.11,310.81,342.31,390.71,353.91,352.11,346.8-5.3Food and beverage retailers

3,232.63,254.13,247.23,244.53,250.73,258.63,253.63,263.59.9Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers

774.1766.4753.3750.5779.6763.5757.0756.3-0.7Furniture and home furnishings retailers

400.2395.7388.9387.8400.5391.0388.8387.6-1.2Electronics and appliance retailers

373.9370.7364.4362.7379.1372.6368.2368.70.5General merchandise retailers

3,197.93,234.93,193.83,190.23,244.63,230.13,232.03,234.42.4Department stores

915.7939.4913.2916.4940.0933.5932.9937.24.3Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers

2,282.22,295.52,280.62,273.82,304.62,296.62,299.12,297.2-1.9Health and personal care retailers

1,057.71,052.81,043.01,045.91,061.71,044.61,044.41,049.34.9Gasoline stations and fuel dealers

1,036.81,054.11,050.01,049.01,047.41,061.31,060.91,059.9-1.0Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers

1,105.71,157.21,116.31,117.31,135.21,143.71,145.51,149.74.2Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers

1,464.01,503.61,500.21,499.31,494.31,514.31,518.81,522.73.9Transportation and warehousing

6,612.36,619.76,499.16,490.56,671.76,578.06,529.56,550.521.0Air transportation

566.8564.2571.1575.2567.4569.7574.3575.20.9Rail transportation

156.1149.6150.0150.0155.8151.0150.4149.6-0.8Water transportation

67.368.968.469.169.672.471.471.60.2Truck transportation

1,469.01,446.21,440.41,442.61,491.41,465.61,464.91,464.1-0.8Transit and ground passenger transportation

502.1504.4505.4505.8487.6494.0492.2492.20.0Pipeline transportation

55.156.456.255.955.055.655.955.90.0Scenic and sightseeing transportation

24.624.525.326.732.032.934.034.30.3Support activities for transportation

828.9824.6822.6823.3831.9826.0824.5826.21.7Couriers and messengers

1,070.71,158.91,035.41,019.21,100.21,080.41,030.41,050.820.4Warehousing and storage

1,871.71,822.01,824.31,822.71,880.81,830.41,831.51,830.6-0.9Utilities

599.5603.2604.4604.1600.4604.7606.2605.0-1.2Information

2,8562,7822,7692,7722,8672,8152,7942,791-3Motion picture and sound recording industries

350.7330.9327.6328.1359.3352.4338.5337.4-1.1Publishing industries

904.4894.7893.6897.9906.4901.7902.0902.80.8Broadcasting and content providers

340.0333.4334.5332.8340.4334.8334.1334.20.1Telecommunications

598.7578.3572.5572.1598.2580.0576.0574.4-1.6Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services

482.8467.1462.4461.2482.9467.5464.1462.6-1.5Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services

179.5177.6177.9179.7179.6178.3179.4180.00.6Financial activities

9,1459,1009,1029,0769,2019,1479,1499,134-15Finance and insurance

6,723.66,701.16,691.56,669.66,743.06,710.46,706.16,689.9-16.2Monetary authorities-central bank

19.918.818.718.620.018.918.918.8-0.1Credit intermediation and related
activities

2,563.32,551.42,543.42,533.92,565.32,550.82,545.32,536.8-8.5Depository credit intermediation([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

1,780.61,782.31,777.41,772.41,780.61,781.21,777.91,773.6-4.3Commercial banking

1,374.71,365.21,361.31,356.61,373.81,364.61,361.21,356.8-4.4Nondepository credit intermediation

503.2495.0492.8493.3505.1495.3494.0494.50.5Activities related to credit intermediation

279.5274.1273.2268.2279.6274.3273.3268.6-4.7Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities

1,122.51,150.31,157.71,153.31,132.41,158.71,165.31,163.4-1.9Insurance carriers and related activities

3,017.92,980.62,971.72,963.83,025.32,982.02,976.62,970.9-5.7Real estate and rental and leasing

2,421.82,399.32,410.42,406.72,458.12,436.82,442.72,444.01.3Real estate

1,838.81,827.91,838.61,829.61,859.31,848.51,854.61,851.4-3.2Rental and leasing services

561.5550.2550.6555.9577.0566.8566.6571.24.6Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)

21.521.221.221.221.821.521.521.4-0.1Professional and business services

22,22022,04022,14822,18922,45722,40822,41522,4172Professional, scientific, and technical services

10,768.010,762.010,820.510,775.210,782.310,790.410,803.610,790.1-13.5Legal services

1,207.01,230.81,228.31,223.91,215.71,233.91,233.81,233.1-0.7Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services

1,200.41,153.51,196.51,197.21,126.01,129.21,128.41,125.3-3.1Architectural, engineering, and related services

1,695.21,734.51,734.21,734.91,718.41,750.41,753.41,757.44.0Specialized design services

146.4147.4147.0148.5148.3148.8149.0150.31.3Computer systems design and related services

2,384.52,374.02,381.02,343.82,408.92,374.22,381.32,368.1-13.2Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

1,849.11,860.31,865.61,857.71,864.31,871.11,873.51,872.5-1.0Scientific research and development services

928.1904.9906.0907.8933.0913.7912.3911.4-0.9Advertising, public relations, and related services

479.8474.2478.5473.3482.1476.5479.1476.2-2.9Other professional, scientific, and technical services

877.5882.4883.4888.1885.6892.7892.8895.72.9Management of companies and enterprises

2,613.02,606.72,602.32,606.12,620.92,619.62,617.72,614.9-2.8Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services

8,839.28,671.28,725.58,807.79,054.08,998.28,993.59,012.018.5Administrative and support services

8,326.28,154.08,207.78,287.58,535.18,475.38,468.98,486.117.2Office administrative services

616.4615.0617.6617.8620.2618.3620.0621.31.3Facilities support services

179.1179.6181.2183.0179.9181.1182.4183.51.1Employment services([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

3,160.73,059.23,101.93,133.33,223.63,170.53,173.73,184.711.0Temporary help services

2,477.52,372.52,412.62,434.22,528.32,470.22,470.12,474.54.4Business support services

660.7630.8628.0626.0663.6632.6629.0629.20.2Travel arrangement and reservation services

185.3175.1177.5179.1186.5178.4180.4180.80.4Investigation and security services

1,032.81,035.21,036.81,036.41,038.81,045.11,043.71,044.00.3Services to buildings and dwellings

2,165.72,134.32,137.32,179.92,294.12,314.82,305.02,307.72.7Other support services

325.5324.8327.4332.0328.5334.6334.7335.00.3Waste management and remediation services

513.0517.2517.8520.2518.9522.9524.6525.91.3Private education and health services

27,23127,64727,79927,88227,13227,74627,70427,79591Private educational services

4,193.63,992.24,160.94,173.94,055.54,052.04,037.14,038.81.7Health care and social assistance

23,037.323,655.123,637.723,707.923,076.023,694.423,666.623,756.589.9Health care([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))

17,991.718,339.318,303.918,363.518,028.118,363.618,331.218,407.676.4Ambulatory health care services

8,994.79,148.69,116.99,150.49,012.69,160.79,123.79,178.054.3Offices of physicians

2,976.53,051.13,010.73,036.52,985.43,052.33,012.93,047.935.0Offices of dentists

1,045.11,054.41,052.81,053.41,050.81,055.91,055.71,058.93.2Offices of other health practitioners

1,296.71,327.61,333.01,327.01,298.01,330.81,331.91,334.72.8Outpatient care centers

1,170.91,192.31,193.51,198.91,171.31,191.91,193.81,199.25.4Medical and diagnostic laboratories

308.9313.4309.5308.1308.8311.7308.2308.40.2Home health care services

1,833.61,838.51,844.01,851.51,835.51,847.01,847.81,854.76.9Other ambulatory health care services

363.0371.3373.4375.0362.8371.1373.5374.20.7Hospitals

5,602.85,730.55,736.05,752.45,612.65,734.15,745.05,759.914.9Nursing and residential care facilities

3,394.23,460.23,451.03,460.73,402.93,468.83,462.53,469.77.2Skilled nursing care facilities

1,531.71,569.21,567.11,571.61,538.01,574.41,575.11,577.52.4Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities

685.3701.0701.6703.7686.9703.8703.2705.01.8Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly

1,009.21,018.11,012.01,013.61,009.81,018.41,013.41,015.11.7Other residential care facilities

168.0171.9170.3171.8168.2172.3170.8172.11.3Social assistance

5,045.65,315.85,333.85,344.45,047.95,330.85,335.45,348.913.5Individual and family services

3,425.03,703.03,718.33,721.43,434.33,712.33,721.33,732.210.9Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services

234.0235.1235.5238.2233.8236.0236.0237.91.9Vocational rehabilitation services

283.4276.0277.3279.2284.7280.3279.3280.31.0Child care services

1,103.21,101.71,102.71,105.61,095.21,102.11,098.81,098.5-0.3Leisure and hospitality

16,40616,25216,33816,56416,82316,96616,95516,99944Arts, entertainment, and recreation

2,504.32,416.92,453.02,530.42,669.92,668.62,686.82,700.814.0Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries

564.2530.7559.4588.5593.9591.8608.1619.611.5Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions

171.5170.7168.5173.7179.3182.9181.3181.70.4Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries

1,768.61,715.51,725.11,768.21,896.71,893.91,897.41,899.52.1Accommodation and food services

13,901.413,835.313,885.414,033.614,153.114,296.914,268.614,298.029.4Accommodation

1,870.31,827.51,839.71,862.11,944.71,930.41,928.31,936.27.9Food services and drinking places

12,031.112,007.812,045.712,171.512,208.412,366.512,340.312,361.821.5Other services

5,9505,9575,9755,9865,9876,0266,0316,022-9Repair and maintenance

1,465.41,457.71,469.51,470.31,469.21,471.51,479.41,472.6-6.8Personal and laundry services

1,579.61,591.11,589.41,586.11,594.51,608.71,606.81,601.8-5.0Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations

2,904.62,908.32,915.82,929.92,923.12,945.52,944.92,948.03.1Government

23,89423,24123,57323,64823,55923,32923,32523,317-8Federal

2,9912,6712,6702,6602,9882,6852,6762,658-18Federal, except U.S. Postal Service

2,391.22,078.92,068.12,058.42,390.02,090.32,075.72,059.4-16.3U.S. Postal Service

599.4592.0602.3601.5598.3594.6599.9598.6-1.3State government

5,6755,4195,6125,6245,5235,4795,4805,476-4State government education

2,807.92,568.52,759.02,767.92,647.72,612.22,614.12,611.1-3.0State government, excluding education

2,867.12,850.62,852.62,856.22,875.72,866.82,866.02,864.8-1.2Local government

15,22815,15115,29115,36415,04815,16515,16915,18314Local government education

8,476.68,344.88,479.18,526.58,198.88,234.78,238.98,248.19.2Local government, excluding education

6,751.56,806.16,811.96,837.46,849.16,930.36,929.76,934.85.1Footnotes
(1) Includes other industries, not shown separately.
(2) Includes motor vehicle manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing, and motor vehicle parts manufacturing.
(3) Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjustedIndustryMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table2.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table2.f.p "Preliminary"))AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private

34.234.334.334.2Goods-producing

40.040.140.140.0Mining and logging

44.345.845.845.9Construction

39.339.539.539.2Manufacturing

40.340.240.240.2Durable goods

40.840.640.640.6Nondurable goods

39.439.639.739.6Private service-providing

33.133.233.233.1Trade, transportation, and utilities

33.934.034.134.1Wholesale trade

39.239.239.239.2Retail trade

29.629.930.030.0Transportation and warehousing

38.538.338.338.4Utilities

42.242.242.842.8Information

37.337.537.537.5Financial activities

37.737.437.437.4Professional and business services

36.436.736.636.6Private education and health services

32.632.732.532.4Leisure and hospitality

25.325.525.525.3Other services

32.132.232.132.2AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing

2.93.03.03.0Durable goods

2.93.03.03.0Nondurable goods

2.93.03.03.0Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjustedIndustryAverage hourly earningsAverage weekly earningsMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private

$36.11$37.15$37.29$37.38$1,234.96$1,274.25$1,279.05$1,278.40Goods-producing

36.9037.9938.1738.371,476.001,523.401,530.621,534.80Mining and logging

40.1340.7340.6740.931,777.761,865.431,862.691,878.69Construction

39.2240.5340.7140.921,541.351,600.941,608.051,604.06Manufacturing

35.2536.2036.3936.591,420.581,455.241,462.881,470.92Durable goods

37.4838.3438.6438.881,529.181,556.601,568.781,578.53Nondurable goods

31.4932.6132.6132.761,240.711,291.361,294.621,297.30Private service-providing

35.9336.9637.0937.151,189.281,227.071,231.391,229.67Trade, transportation, and utilities

30.6731.6931.7931.871,039.711,077.461,084.041,086.77Wholesale trade

38.3039.5839.5939.721,501.361,551.541,551.931,557.02Retail trade

25.2126.0826.1426.23746.22779.79784.20786.90Transportation and warehousing

31.2132.2532.4532.481,201.591,235.181,242.841,247.23Utilities

52.1054.2054.6754.772,198.622,287.242,339.882,344.16Information

51.8353.9554.4154.611,933.262,023.132,040.382,047.88Financial activities

47.1148.6148.7849.021,776.051,818.011,824.371,833.35Professional and business services

43.6745.0345.2145.281,589.591,652.601,654.691,657.25Private education and health services

35.3436.1336.2236.201,152.081,181.451,177.151,172.88Leisure and hospitality

22.7323.3023.4123.49575.07594.15596.96594.30Other services

32.6433.7633.9033.691,047.741,087.071,088.191,084.82Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted\[2007=100\]IndustryIndex of aggregate weekly hours([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Index of aggregate weekly payrolls([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
Feb.
2026 – Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
Feb.
2026 – Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private

115.7116.5116.4116.2-0.2199.8206.9207.4207.60.1Goods-producing

98.398.398.298.1-0.1163.9168.7169.4170.20.5Mining and logging

86.386.686.587.00.6139.1141.7141.2142.91.2Construction

112.1113.2113.1112.6-0.4191.0199.4200.0200.10.1Manufacturing

91.991.091.091.10.1150.6153.3154.0155.00.6Durable goods

90.289.289.289.40.2150.3152.0153.2154.40.8Nondurable goods

94.694.594.694.3-0.3151.2156.3156.5156.80.2Private service-providing

120.7121.6121.5121.3-0.2210.7218.4219.0218.90.0Trade, transportation, and utilities

106.6106.4106.6106.70.1176.4181.9182.7183.40.4Wholesale trade

104.8104.5104.6104.70.1167.9173.0173.3173.90.3Retail trade

93.193.994.194.20.1155.2161.9162.7163.40.4Transportation and warehousing

147.6144.8143.7144.50.6234.3237.5237.2238.80.7Utilities

109.7110.4112.3112.1-0.2188.7197.8202.8202.80.0Information

97.796.495.795.6-0.1180.3185.2185.4185.90.3Financial activities

113.6112.1112.1111.9-0.2208.8212.5213.3214.00.3Professional and business services

127.8128.6128.3128.30.0226.1234.6234.9235.30.2Private education and health services

144.5148.2147.1147.10.0245.6257.6256.2256.20.0Leisure and hospitality

121.4123.4123.4122.7-0.6222.7232.0233.0232.6-0.2Other services

110.8111.9111.6111.80.2198.2207.0207.4206.4-0.5Footnotes
(1) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.
(2) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjustedIndustryWomen employees (in thousands)Percent of all employeesMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Total nonfarm

79,05779,29379,26679,35049.950.050.050.0Total private

65,28765,61665,58765,66448.448.548.548.5Goods-producing

4,9364,8814,8864,89022.922.722.722.7Mining and logging

8582828213.713.613.613.6Construction

1,1931,1911,1921,19214.414.314.414.3Manufacturing

3,6583,6083,6123,61628.928.728.728.7Durable goods

1,9221,8931,8931,89724.524.324.324.3Nondurable goods

1,7361,7151,7191,71936.135.936.036.0Private service-providing

60,35160,73560,70160,77453.353.453.453.4Trade, transportation, and utilities

11,16111,08411,07811,08938.838.738.738.7Wholesale trade

1,850.31,832.31,833.21,828.830.530.330.330.2Retail trade

7,395.47,386.17,393.37,400.547.847.948.048.0Transportation and warehousing

1,759.61,709.91,696.21,704.226.426.026.026.0Utilities

155.6155.4155.7155.225.925.725.725.7Information

1,1451,1321,1281,12739.940.240.440.4Financial activities

5,0725,0044,9944,98255.154.754.654.5Professional and business services

10,18310,13210,13210,14445.345.245.245.3Private education and health services

20,77121,25621,23321,27476.676.676.676.5Leisure and hospitality

8,7918,8748,8858,90852.352.352.452.4Other services

3,2283,2533,2513,25053.954.053.954.0Government

13,77013,67713,67913,68658.458.658.658.7Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table6.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))\[In thousands\]IndustryMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table6.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table6.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private

109,899110,358110,173110,387Goods-producing

15,31115,26315,23015,258Mining and logging

463450448449Construction

6,0076,0506,0386,054Manufacturing

8,8418,7638,7448,755Durable goods

5,3295,2835,2735,285Nondurable goods

3,5123,4803,4713,470Private service-providing

94,58895,09594,94395,129Trade, transportation, and utilities

24,41224,33324,29624,323Wholesale trade

4,802.44,768.24,769.54,771.5Retail trade

13,277.913,289.013,291.613,303.7Transportation and warehousing

5,855.05,796.05,753.65,766.7Utilities

476.5479.9481.4481.0Information

2,2922,2372,2142,218Financial activities

6,9636,9456,9476,933Professional and business services

17,62417,60117,59617,603Private education and health services

23,76424,33724,29824,376Leisure and hospitality

14,67214,75414,69914,780Other services

4,8614,8884,8934,896Footnotes
(1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table7.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))IndustryMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table7.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table7.f.p "Preliminary"))AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private

33.733.833.833.8Goods-producing

40.941.141.241.1Mining and logging

44.846.346.347.3Construction

40.240.240.440.1Manufacturing

41.141.441.541.4Durable goods

41.441.841.941.8Nondurable goods

40.740.841.040.9Private service-providing

32.532.732.632.6Trade, transportation, and utilities

34.134.334.434.4Wholesale trade

39.239.239.239.4Retail trade

30.330.730.730.6Transportation and warehousing

38.038.038.138.2Utilities

42.442.343.043.2Information

36.036.236.036.2Financial activities

37.337.537.237.3Professional and business services

36.336.736.636.6Private education and health services

31.831.831.631.6Leisure and hospitality

24.224.324.424.3Other services

31.131.331.331.3AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing

3.73.93.93.9Durable goods

3.73.93.93.9Nondurable goods

3.83.93.93.9Footnotes
(1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))IndustryAverage hourly earningsAverage weekly earningsMar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private

$31.02$31.94$32.02$32.07$1,045.37$1,079.57$1,082.28$1,083.97Goods-producing

32.2233.2533.4333.581,317.801,366.581,377.321,380.14Mining and logging

37.1037.7437.7237.961,662.081,747.361,746.441,795.51Construction

36.7738.2938.4538.621,478.151,539.261,553.381,548.66Manufacturing

28.9229.6129.8229.951,188.611,225.851,237.531,239.93Durable goods

30.6331.4031.6431.771,268.081,312.521,325.721,327.99Nondurable goods

26.2826.8226.9827.111,069.601,094.261,106.181,108.80Private service-providing

30.7831.6731.7431.771,000.351,035.611,034.721,035.70Trade, transportation, and utilities

26.5927.3627.4427.56906.72938.45943.94948.06Wholesale trade

31.8532.7732.9533.001,248.521,284.581,291.641,300.20Retail trade

21.3522.0022.0222.06646.91675.40676.01675.04Transportation and warehousing

29.8630.8430.9131.141,134.681,171.921,177.671,189.55Utilities

46.0347.4347.8547.981,951.672,006.292,057.552,072.74Information

42.5544.4244.6444.641,531.801,608.001,607.041,615.97Financial activities

36.8938.4938.6138.681,376.001,443.381,436.291,442.76Professional and business services

36.7537.7737.8837.921,334.031,386.161,386.411,387.87Private education and health services

32.4733.1433.1633.111,032.551,053.851,047.861,046.28Leisure and hospitality

20.0020.7220.8120.84484.00503.50507.76506.41Other services

28.5029.3829.4929.39886.35919.59923.04919.91Footnotes
(1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))\[2002=100\]IndustryIndex of aggregate weekly hours([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Index of aggregate weekly payrolls([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
Feb.
2026 – Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2025Jan.
2026Feb.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
Feb.
2026 – Mar.
2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private

123.4124.3124.1124.30.2255.9265.3265.6266.50.3Goods-producing

95.795.995.995.8-0.1188.8195.2196.3197.00.4Mining and logging

110.2110.7110.2112.92.5237.8243.0241.8249.23.1Construction

120.9121.8122.1121.6-0.4240.1251.8253.6253.50.0Manufacturing

83.483.383.383.2-0.1157.8161.3162.5163.00.3Durable goods

82.983.083.083.00.0158.5162.6164.0164.60.4Nondurable goods

84.283.783.883.6-0.2156.4158.5159.9160.20.2Private service-providing

131.0132.5131.9132.10.2276.5287.8287.1287.90.3Trade, transportation, and utilities

116.5116.8117.0117.10.1221.4228.4229.4230.70.6Wholesale trade

111.7110.9111.0111.60.5210.0214.6215.8217.30.7Retail trade

102.0103.4103.5103.2-0.3186.7195.1195.3195.2-0.1Transportation and warehousing

168.4166.7165.9166.70.5320.0327.2326.4330.41.2Utilities

103.3103.8105.8106.20.4198.5205.5211.4212.80.7Information

94.292.491.091.60.7198.4203.3201.1202.50.7Financial activities

122.2122.6121.6121.70.1277.4290.3288.9289.60.2Professional and business services

142.8144.2143.8143.80.0312.2323.9323.9324.40.2Private education and health services

161.1165.0163.7164.20.3345.3360.9358.3358.90.2Leisure and hospitality

130.1131.3131.4131.60.2295.4309.0310.5311.30.3Other services

106.0107.3107.4107.50.1220.2229.7230.8230.2-0.3Footnotes
(1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
(2) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.
(3) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

**Last Modified Date:** April 03, 2026

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    THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- March 2026

    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate
    changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
    occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal
    government employment continued to decline.
    
    This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
    labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
    survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
    about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
    Note.
    
    Household Survey Data
    
    Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.2
    million, changed little in March. These measures also changed little over the year. (See table
    A-1.)
    
    Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for people who are Asian (3.7 percent)
    decreased in March. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (4.0 percent),
    teenagers (13.7 percent), and people who are White (3.6 percent), Black (7.1 percent), or
    Hispanic (4.8 percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
    
    The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8
    million in March but is up by 322,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for
    25.4 percent of all unemployed people in March. (See table A-12.)
    
    Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.9 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
    at 59.2 percent, changed little in March. These measures also showed little change over the
    year, after accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) 
    
    The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little
    in March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part
    time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See
    table A-8.)
    
    The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.0
    million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
    actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
    a job. (See table A-1.)
    
    Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
    to the labor force increased by 325,000 in March to 1.9 million. These individuals wanted and
    were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not
    looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a
    subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, increased
    by 144,000 in March to 510,000. (See Summary table A.)
    
    Establishment Survey Data
    
    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, following a decrease in
    February (-133,000). In March, job gains occurred in health care, in construction, and in
    transportation and warehousing. Federal government employment continued to decline. Payroll
    employment had changed little on net over the prior 12 months. (See table B-1.)
    
    Health care added 76,000 jobs in March. Employment in ambulatory health care services rose by
    54,000, reflecting an increase of 35,000 in offices of physicians as workers returned from a
    strike. Employment also increased in hospitals (+15,000). Over the prior 12 months, health
    care had added an average of 29,000 jobs per month. 
    
    Employment in construction grew by 26,000 in March but had shown little net change over the
    prior 12 months.
    
    In March, transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs, reflecting a gain in couriers and
    messengers (+20,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing is down by 139,000 since
    reaching a peak in February 2025.
    
    Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in March (+14,000), primarily in
    individual and family services (+11,000).
    
    Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak
    in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent. Federal
    employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the
    establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period
    that included the 12th of the month.
    
    Employment in financial activities edged down by 15,000 in March, reflecting a loss in finance
    and insurance (-16,000). Employment in financial activities is down by 77,000 since reaching a
    peak in May 2025.
    
    Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
    quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
    information; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.
    
    In March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9
    cents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.38. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.5
    percent. In March, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
    employees edged up by 5 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.07. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
    
    The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to
    34.2 hours in March. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged at 40.2 hours, and
    overtime was also unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
    nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2
    and B-7.)
    
    The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised up by 34,000, from
    +126,000 to +160,000, and the change for February was revised down by 41,000, from -92,000 to
    -133,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 7,000 lower
    than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from 
    businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
    recalculation of seasonal factors.)
    
    _____________
    The Employment Situation for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 8, 2026,
    at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

    ```
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]CategoryMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Change from:
    Feb.
    2026-
    Mar.
    2026Employment status
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_sum.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    273,023274,676274,766274,85892Civilian labor force
    
    170,641170,465170,483170,087-396Participation rate
    
    62.562.162.061.9-0.1Employed
    
    163,509163,097162,912162,848-64Employment-population ratio
    
    59.959.459.359.2-0.1Unemployed
    
    7,1327,3687,5717,239-332Unemployment rate
    
    4.24.34.44.3-0.1Not in labor force
    
    102,382104,211104,283104,771488Unemployment rates
    
    Total, 16 years and over
    
    4.24.34.44.3-0.1Adult men (20 years and over)
    
    3.93.84.03.8-0.2Adult women (20 years and over)
    
    3.74.14.14.0-0.1Teenagers (16 to 19 years)
    
    13.813.614.913.7-1.2White
    
    3.73.73.73.6-0.1Black or African American
    
    6.27.37.77.1-0.6Asian
    
    3.54.24.83.7-1.1Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
    
    5.14.95.24.8-0.4Total, 25 years and over
    
    3.33.63.73.6-0.1Less than a high school diploma
    
    5.85.35.65.90.3High school graduates, no college
    
    4.24.64.84.7-0.1Some college or associate degree
    
    3.53.63.53.60.1Bachelor’s degree and higher
    
    2.63.03.02.8-0.2Reason for unemployment
    
    Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs
    
    3,3223,4953,6203,403-217Job leavers
    
    8691,03886789831Reentrants
    
    2,1822,1682,3202,254-66New entrants
    
    743796805714-91Duration of unemployment
    
    Less than 5 weeks
    
    2,3622,1662,3192,138-1815 to 14 weeks
    
    2,1542,1512,0781,998-8015 to 26 weeks
    
    1,0101,2021,2061,212627 weeks and over
    
    1,4991,8131,8991,821-78Employed people at work part time
    
    Part time for economic reasons
    
    4,7714,8734,3964,497101Slack work or business conditions
    
    3,1533,1812,8383,107269Could only find part-time work
    
    1,2531,3791,2511,126-125Part time for noneconomic reasons
    
    22,64722,89922,72822,76739People not in the labor force
    
    Marginally attached to the labor force
    
    1,6871,6621,6191,944325Discouraged workers
    
    502475366510144Footnotes
    (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation.
    
    NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
    CategoryMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.p "Preliminary"))EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY
    (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
    
    Total nonfarm
    
    67160-133178Total private
    
    67180-129186Goods-producing
    
    -145-2043Mining and logging
    
    -2-2-12Construction
    
    645-1326Manufacturing
    
    -52-615Durable goods([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    -56115Motor vehicles and parts
    
    -4.21.3-0.10.6Nondurable goods
    
    0-4-70Private service-providing
    
    68135-109143Wholesale trade
    
    -13.92.16.73.3Retail trade
    
    15.712.7-8.09.7Transportation and warehousing
    
    -17.422.6-48.521.0Utilities
    
    1.60.21.5-1.2Information
    
    -9-27-21-3Financial activities
    
    2-392-15Professional and business services([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    -163672Temporary help services
    
    -4.718.8-0.14.4Private education and health services([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    68119-4291Health care and social assistance
    
    67.7106.9-27.889.9Leisure and hospitality
    
    275-1144Other services
    
    1035-9Government
    
    0-20-4-8(3-month average change, in thousands)
    
    Total nonfarm
    
    2061368Total private
    
    10821579WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES
    AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    Total nonfarm women employees
    
    49.950.050.050.0Total private women employees
    
    48.448.548.548.5Total private production and nonsupervisory employees
    
    81.581.681.581.6HOURS AND EARNINGS
    ALL EMPLOYEES
    
    Total private
    
    Average weekly hours
    
    34.234.334.334.2Average hourly earnings
    
    $36.11$37.15$37.29$37.38Average weekly earnings
    
    $1,234.96$1,274.25$1,279.05$1,278.40Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    115.7116.5116.4116.2Over-the-month percent change
    
    0.00.4-0.1-0.2Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    199.8206.9207.4207.6Over-the-month percent change
    
    0.50.80.20.1DIFFUSION INDEX
    (Over 1-month span)([5](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table10.f.5 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    Total private (250 industries)
    
    48.051.649.256.8Manufacturing (72 industries)
    
    44.445.846.547.9Footnotes
    (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately.
    (2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries.
    (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours.
    (4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls.
    (5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ```
    Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates
    
    1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment?
    
       The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates
       of employment, and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey
       employment series has a smaller margin of error on the measurement of month-to-
       month change than the household survey because of its much larger sample size. An
       over-the-month employment change of about 122,000 is statistically significant in
       the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change
       in the household survey is about 650,000. However, the household survey has a more
       expansive scope than the establishment survey because it includes self-employed
       workers whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, agricultural
       workers, and private household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey.
       The household survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups.
       For more information on the differences between the two surveys, please visit
       www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.htm.
    
    2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys?
    
       It is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants. However,
       neither the establishment nor the household survey is designed to identify the legal
       status of workers. Therefore, it is not possible to determine how many are counted in
       either survey. The establishment survey does not collect data on the legal status of
       workers. The household survey does include questions which identify the foreign and
       native born, but it does not include questions about the legal status of the foreign
       born. Data on the foreign and native born are published each month in table A-7 of
       The Employment Situation news release.
    
    3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions?
    
       The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by
       incorporating additional information that was not available at the time of the
       initial publication of the estimates. The establishment survey revises its initial
       monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 2 months, to incorporate
       additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey and recalculated seasonal
       adjustment factors. For more information on the monthly revisions, please visit
       www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cestn.htm#Revisions-Between-Preliminary-and-Final-Data.
    
       On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that
       re-anchors estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment
       insurance tax records. The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors
       in the estimates. For more information on the annual benchmark revision, please visit
       www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm.
    
    4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms?
    
       Yes. About 46 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business
       establishments with fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is
       designed to maximize the reliability of the statewide total nonfarm employment
       estimate; firms from all states, size classes, and industries are appropriately
       sampled to achieve that goal.
    
    5. Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses?
    
       Yes. Monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for
       the net employment change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment
       comes from an econometric model that forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of
       business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the net impact that
       can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The
       establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because
       the survey is not immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There
       is an unavoidable lag between the birth of a new firm and its appearance on the
       sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new businesses to the survey
       twice a year. More information on business births and deaths in the establishment
       survey is available at www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.
    
    6. Is the count of unemployed people limited to just those receiving unemployment
       insurance benefits?
    
       No. The estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households.
       All people who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are
       included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if
       they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to
       unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey.
    
    7. Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who want a job but are not currently
       looking for work?
    
       Yes. However, there are separate estimates of people outside the labor force who
       want a job, including those who are not currently looking because they believe no
       jobs are available (discouraged workers). In addition, alternative measures of labor
       underutilization (some of which include discouraged workers and other groups not
       officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in table A-15 of The
       Employment Situation news release. For more information about these alternative
       measures, please visit www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#altmeasures.
    
    8. How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates?
    
       In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period that includes
       the 12th of the month. Unusually severe weather is more likely to have an impact on
       average weekly hours than on employment. Average weekly hours are estimated for paid
       time during the pay period, including pay for holidays, sick leave, or other time off.
       The impact of severe weather on hours estimates typically, but not always, results in
       a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some employees may be off work for
       part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, while some workers,
       such as those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours.
       
       It is not possible to precisely quantify the effect of extreme weather on payroll
       employment estimates. In order for severe weather conditions to reduce employment
       estimates, employees have to be off work without pay for the entire pay period.
       Employees who receive pay for any part of the pay period, even 1 hour, are counted in
       the payroll employment figures. For more information on how often employees are paid,
       please visit www.bls.gov/ces/publications/length-pay-period.htm.
    
       In the household survey, the reference period is generally the calendar week that
       includes the 12th of the month. People who miss the entire week's work for weather-
       related events are counted as employed whether or not they are paid for the time
       off. The household survey collects data on the number of people who had a job but
       were not at work due to bad weather. It also provides a measure of the number of
       people who usually work full time but had reduced hours due to bad weather. 
       
       Current and historical data are available on the household survey's most requested
       statistics page, please visit data.bls.gov/toppicks?survey=ln.

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    Technical Note

       This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current
    Population Survey (CPS; household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics
    survey (CES; establishment survey). The household survey provides information
    on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the "A" tables,
    marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 eligible households
    conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
    
       The establishment survey provides information on employment, hours, and
    earnings of employees on nonfarm payrolls; the data appear in the "B" tables,
    marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each month from the payroll
    records of a sample of nonagricultural business establishments. Each month
    the CES program surveys about 119,000 businesses and government agencies,
    representing approximately 622,000 individual worksites, in order to provide
    detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm
    payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 26 percent of all nonfarm
    payroll jobs.
    
       For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a particular week or
    pay period. In the household survey, the reference period is generally the
    calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month. In the establishment
    survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which may or
    may not correspond directly to the calendar week.
    
    Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys
    
       Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect the entire civilian 
    noninstitutional population. Based on responses to a series of questions on 
    work and job search activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample
    household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force.
    
       People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid employees
    during the reference week; worked in their own business, profession, or on their
    own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm.
    People are also counted as employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs
    because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal
    reasons.
    
       People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria:
    they had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at
    that time; and they made specific active efforts to find employment sometime during
    the 4-week period ending with the reference week. People laid off from a job and
    expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The
    unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the
    eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits.
    
       The civilian labor force is the sum of the employed and unemployed.
    Those people not classified as employed or unemployed are not in the labor 
    force. The unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the 
    labor force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a 
    percent of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the 
    employed as a percent of the population. Additional information about the 
    household survey can be found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm.
    
       Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn from private
    nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as
    from federal, state, and local government entities. Employees on nonfarm
    payrolls are those who worked or received pay for any part of the reference pay
    period, including people on paid leave. People are counted in each job
    they hold. Hours and earnings data are produced for the private sector for
    all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees. Production
    and nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and related employees
    in manufacturing and mining and logging, construction workers in construction,
    and nonsupervisory employees in private service-providing industries.
    
       Industries are classified on the basis of an establishment's principal
    activity in accordance with the 2022 version of the North American Industry
    Classification System. Additional information about the establishment survey
    can be found at www.bls.gov/ces/.
    
       Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and methodological
    differences between the household and establishment surveys result in important
    distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the surveys. Among these are:
    
       --The household survey includes agricultural workers, self-employed workers
         whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and private
         household workers among the employed. These groups are excluded from the
         establishment survey.
    
       --The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the employed.
         The establishment survey does not.
    
       --The household survey is limited to workers 16 years of age and older.
         The establishment survey is not limited by age.
    
       --The household survey has no duplication of individuals, because
         individuals are counted only once, even if they hold more than one
         job. In the establishment survey, employees working at more than one
         job and thus appearing on more than one payroll are counted separately
         for each appearance.
    
    Seasonal adjustment
    
       Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor force and the levels
    of employment and unemployment undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These 
    events may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and the opening
    and closing of schools. The effect of such seasonal variation can be very large.
    
       Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year,
    their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular
    seasonal variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal developments, such as
    declines in employment or increases in the participation of women in the labor
    force, easier to spot. For example, in the household survey, the large number of
    youth entering the labor force each June is likely to obscure any other changes
    that have taken place relative to May, making it difficult to determine if the 
    level of economic activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment
    survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 20 percent at the end
    of the spring term and later rises with the start of the fall term, obscuring the
    underlying employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal employment changes
    at the end and beginning of the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be
    adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more discernible. The seasonally
    adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with which to analyze changes in
    month-to-month economic activity.
    
       Many seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted in both the household
    and establishment surveys. However, the adjusted series for many major estimates,
    such as total payroll employment, employment in most major sectors, total employment,
    and unemployment are computed by aggregating independently adjusted component series.
    For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the adjusted series for four
    major age-sex components; this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be
    obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons, or 
    more detailed age categories. Percentage distributions of unemployment by reason and
    duration are derived from the sum of the independently seasonally adjusted component
    series and will not necessarily match calculations made using the seasonally adjusted
    total unemployment level. Additional information about seasonal adjustment in the 
    household survey can be found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm#sa.
    
       For both the household and establishment surveys, a concurrent seasonal adjustment
    methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using all
    relevant data, up to and including the data for the current month. In the household
    survey, new seasonal factors are used to adjust only the current month's data. In the
    establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are used each month to adjust the
    three most recent monthly estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to
    incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated seasonal adjustment factors.
    In both surveys, 5-year revisions to historical data are made once a year.
    
    Reliability of the estimates
    
       Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject to both
    sampling and nonsampling error. When a sample, rather than the entire population,
    is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may differ from the true
    population values they represent. The component of this difference that occurs
    because samples differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its variability
    is measured by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-percent
    chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate based on a sample will differ by
    no more than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value because of sampling
    error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence.
    
       For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total nonfarm
    employment from the establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 122,000.
    Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from one month to
    the next. The 90-percent confidence interval on the monthly change would range from
    -72,000 to +172,000 (50,000 +/- 122,000). These figures do not mean that the sample
    results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent
    chance that the true over-the-month change lies within this interval. Since this
    range includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that
    nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased that month. If, however, the reported
    nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then all of the values within the 90-percent
    confidence interval would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at
    least a 90-percent chance) that nonfarm employment had, in fact, risen that month.
    At an unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent confidence interval
    for the monthly change in unemployment as measured by the household survey is
    about +/- 425,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about
    +/- 0.3 percentage point.
    
       In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have lower
    standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates which are based
    on a small number of observations. The precision of estimates also is improved when
    the data are cumulated over time, such as for quarterly and annual averages.
    
       The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling error,
    which can occur for many reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the
    population, inability to obtain information for all respondents in the sample,
    inability or unwillingness of respondents to provide correct information on a
    timely basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in the collection or
    processing of the data.
    
       For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 2 months
    are based on incomplete returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled
    preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive revisions to a monthly
    estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, that the estimate is
    considered final.
    
       Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is the
    inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new firms. To
    correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an estimation
    procedure with two components is used to account for business births. The first
    component excludes employment losses from business deaths from sample-based
    estimation in order to offset the missing employment gains from business births.
    This is incorporated into the sample-based estimation procedure by simply not
    reflecting sample units going out of business, but imputing to them the same
    employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This procedure accounts for
    most of the net birth/death employment.
    
       The second component is an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the
    residual net birth-death employment not accounted for by the imputation. The
    historical time series used in the ARIMA model is derived from the unemployment
    insurance universe micro-level database and reflects the actual
    residual net of births and deaths over the past 5 years. In addition to this
    time series of actual residual net of births and deaths series, the
    ARIMA-based component of the birth-death model includes current sample
    information to inform the forecasts. More information on business births
    and deaths in the establishment survey is available at
    www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.
    
       The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted once a
    year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment obtained from
    administrative records of the unemployment insurance program. The difference 
    between the March sample-based employment estimates and the March universe counts
    is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy for total survey
    error. Benchmarks also incorporate changes in the classification of industries
    when necessary. The absolute average benchmark revision for total nonfarm
    employment over the prior 10 years is 0.2 percent. Over this time, revisions 
    ranged from -0.4 percent to 0.3 percent.
    
    Other information
    
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    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, sex, and ageNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a01.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026TOTAL
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    273,023274,766274,858273,023274,633274,816274,676274,766274,858Civilian labor force
    
    170,653170,206170,102170,641171,541171,495170,465170,483170,087Participation rate
    
    62.561.961.962.562.562.462.162.061.9Employed
    
    163,412162,153162,764163,509163,760163,992163,097162,912162,848Employment-population ratio
    
    59.959.059.259.959.659.759.459.359.2Unemployed
    
    7,2428,0527,3377,1327,7817,5037,3687,5717,239Unemployment rate
    
    4.24.74.34.24.54.44.34.44.3Not in labor force
    
    102,369104,560104,756102,382103,092103,321104,211104,283104,771People who currently want a job
    
    5,6005,8805,7285,9106,1396,2085,8385,9746,040Men, 16 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    133,175132,586132,627133,175133,957134,046132,546132,586132,627Civilian labor force
    
    90,31888,83588,82790,30690,73990,78089,20089,10188,846Participation rate
    
    67.867.067.067.867.767.767.367.267.0Employed
    
    86,21684,46084,85286,45786,61686,81285,34885,21085,111Employment-population ratio
    
    64.763.764.064.964.764.864.464.364.2Unemployed
    
    4,1024,3753,9753,8494,1233,9683,8523,8913,736Unemployment rate
    
    4.54.94.54.34.54.44.34.44.2Not in labor force
    
    42,85743,75043,79942,86943,21843,26643,34543,48543,780Men, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    124,082123,612123,657124,082124,889124,981123,570123,612123,657Civilian labor force
    
    87,13585,94585,93186,96587,62887,63886,09686,00685,796Participation rate
    
    70.269.569.570.170.270.169.769.669.4Employed
    
    83,48582,03882,42983,59484,04384,19982,78382,59182,562Employment-population ratio
    
    67.366.466.767.467.367.467.066.866.8Unemployed
    
    3,6503,9073,5033,3713,5853,4393,3133,4153,235Unemployment rate
    
    4.24.54.13.94.13.93.84.03.8Not in labor force
    
    36,94637,66737,72637,11737,26137,34437,47437,60637,860Women, 16 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    139,848142,180142,231139,848140,676140,770142,130142,180142,231Civilian labor force
    
    80,33681,37081,27480,33580,80280,71581,26581,38281,241Participation rate
    
    57.457.257.157.457.457.357.257.257.1Employed
    
    77,19577,69377,91277,05277,14477,18077,74977,70277,737Employment-population ratio
    
    55.254.654.855.154.854.854.754.754.7Unemployed
    
    3,1403,6773,3623,2833,6583,5353,5153,6803,503Unemployment rate
    
    3.94.54.14.14.54.44.34.54.3Not in labor force
    
    59,51260,81060,95759,51359,87360,05560,86560,79860,991Women, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    131,080133,541133,593131,080131,935132,034133,489133,541133,593Civilian labor force
    
    77,15378,38478,18176,99777,44277,35178,12878,18378,007Participation rate
    
    58.958.758.558.758.758.658.558.558.4Employed
    
    74,39875,12175,12574,15674,30274,30674,92574,96574,861Employment-population ratio
    
    56.856.356.256.656.356.356.156.156.0Unemployed
    
    2,7543,2633,0552,8413,1403,0443,2033,2183,146Unemployment rate
    
    3.64.23.93.74.13.94.14.14.0Not in labor force
    
    53,92755,15755,41354,08254,49354,68355,36155,35855,587Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    17,86217,61317,60817,86217,80817,80117,61717,61317,608Civilian labor force
    
    6,3665,8775,9906,6796,4706,5066,2416,2946,284Participation rate
    
    35.633.434.037.436.336.635.435.735.7Employed
    
    5,5284,9945,2115,7595,4155,4865,3905,3575,425Employment-population ratio
    
    31.028.429.632.230.430.830.630.430.8Unemployed
    
    8378837799201,0561,020851937858Unemployment rate
    
    13.215.013.013.816.315.713.614.913.7Not in labor force
    
    11,49611,73611,61811,18311,33811,29511,37611,31911,324Footnotes
    (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
    
    NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, race, sex, and ageNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a02.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026WHITE
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    207,221202,426202,436207,221207,980208,058202,423202,426202,436Civilian labor force
    
    128,796123,852123,915128,694128,477128,617123,997123,986123,841Participation rate
    
    62.261.261.262.161.861.861.361.261.2Employed
    
    123,888118,878119,335123,896123,517123,778119,412119,402119,371Employment-population ratio
    
    59.858.758.959.859.459.559.059.059.0Unemployed
    
    4,9084,9744,5804,7984,9604,8384,5854,5844,470Unemployment rate
    
    3.84.03.73.73.93.83.73.73.6Not in labor force
    
    78,42578,57478,52178,52679,50379,44178,42678,44178,595Men, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    66,56463,73063,83166,44466,68366,70063,83463,76863,724Participation rate
    
    69.668.868.969.569.469.468.968.968.8Employed
    
    64,08761,14861,58464,18164,31164,41161,73461,57461,684Employment-population ratio
    
    67.066.066.567.167.067.066.766.566.6Unemployed
    
    2,4772,5822,2462,2632,3712,2892,1002,1942,040Unemployment rate
    
    3.74.13.53.43.63.43.33.43.2Women, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    57,33355,88555,76357,15056,99357,00855,66155,68255,596Participation rate
    
    58.157.157.057.957.557.456.956.956.8Employed
    
    55,48954,04753,92955,26555,05155,17853,74853,87453,721Employment-population ratio
    
    56.255.255.156.055.555.654.955.154.9Unemployed
    
    1,8441,8391,8341,8851,9431,8311,9131,8081,875Unemployment rate
    
    3.23.33.33.33.43.23.43.23.4Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    4,9004,2364,3215,1004,8014,9094,5024,5364,521Participation rate
    
    38.235.336.039.837.738.537.537.837.7Employed
    
    4,3123,6833,8214,4494,1554,1903,9293,9553,966Employment-population ratio
    
    33.630.731.934.732.632.932.733.033.1Unemployed
    
    588553500651646719572581555Unemployment rate
    
    12.013.111.612.813.514.612.712.812.3BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    35,68735,38835,41135,68735,96135,99535,36435,38835,411Civilian labor force
    
    22,16622,22622,15522,20522,94822,72822,16022,28622,195Participation rate
    
    62.162.862.662.263.863.162.763.062.7Employed
    
    20,78720,49920,59320,82421,06521,02420,55320,57920,621Employment-population ratio
    
    58.257.958.258.458.658.458.158.258.2Unemployed
    
    1,3801,7271,5621,3821,8841,7041,6071,7071,574Unemployment rate
    
    6.27.87.16.28.27.57.37.77.1Not in labor force
    
    13,52013,16213,25613,48113,01313,26713,20413,10213,216Men, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    10,52210,08110,06710,51310,77610,66910,14810,11310,057Participation rate
    
    69.367.867.769.370.469.668.368.067.6Employed
    
    9,8369,3279,2889,8719,9699,9389,4029,4079,328Employment-population ratio
    
    64.862.862.465.165.164.963.363.362.7Unemployed
    
    686754778642807731747706729Unemployment rate
    
    6.57.57.76.17.56.97.47.07.3Women, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    10,86011,39311,29010,86311,23811,22211,17711,36911,308Participation rate
    
    60.963.863.260.962.562.462.663.763.3Employed
    
    10,32510,60210,65110,29710,44010,40310,45910,56510,617Employment-population ratio
    
    57.959.459.657.758.157.858.659.259.4Unemployed
    
    535792639566798820717804691Unemployment rate
    
    4.96.95.75.27.17.36.47.16.1Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    785751799829934837835804830Participation rate
    
    29.328.230.031.034.831.231.330.231.1Employed
    
    626570654656656684692606676Employment-population ratio
    
    23.421.424.524.524.425.526.022.825.4Unemployed
    
    159182145174278153143197154Unemployment rate
    
    20.324.218.120.929.818.317.124.518.5ASIAN
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    19,24121,09921,17619,24119,83619,78820,85621,09921,176Civilian labor force
    
    12,68813,86713,89712,65113,08313,03613,82813,89213,860Participation rate
    
    65.965.765.665.866.065.966.365.865.4Employed
    
    12,25813,18913,40212,21012,61712,56513,24113,22213,348Employment-population ratio
    
    63.762.563.363.563.663.563.562.763.0Unemployed
    
    430678495442466471588670512Unemployment rate
    
    3.44.93.63.53.63.64.24.83.7Not in labor force
    
    6,5537,2327,2796,5906,7536,7527,0277,2077,317Footnotes
    (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
    
    NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, sex, and ageNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a03.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    51,08352,61452,67551,08351,97152,08052,54752,61452,675Civilian labor force
    
    34,39835,39235,58534,32635,02535,01435,40335,39635,515Participation rate
    
    67.367.367.667.267.467.267.467.367.4Employed
    
    32,59233,40233,82032,57333,26233,28633,67133,55133,794Employment-population ratio
    
    63.863.564.263.864.063.964.163.864.2Unemployed
    
    1,8061,9901,7651,7531,7631,7281,7321,8451,722Unemployment rate
    
    5.25.65.05.15.04.94.95.24.8Not in labor force
    
    16,68517,22217,09116,75716,94617,06617,14417,21817,160Men, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    18,35018,42718,35818,28218,70018,74418,42418,45518,330Participation rate
    
    79.378.978.579.079.379.379.079.078.4Employed
    
    17,44917,47117,58817,45517,85617,93517,70017,61817,621Employment-population ratio
    
    75.474.875.275.475.775.975.975.475.3Unemployed
    
    900957770828844809724837709Unemployment rate
    
    4.95.24.24.54.54.33.94.53.9Women, 20 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    14,44515,48815,71414,41314,84514,81215,47315,42315,648Participation rate
    
    62.363.364.262.262.962.663.463.163.9Employed
    
    13,76814,68614,90913,74614,18614,14014,73114,65914,857Employment-population ratio
    
    59.460.160.959.360.159.860.360.060.7Unemployed
    
    677801804667659672742764792Unemployment rate
    
    4.75.25.14.64.44.54.85.05.1Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    1,6041,4771,5121,6311,4801,4581,5061,5181,537Participation rate
    
    33.630.831.534.230.930.531.431.632.0Employed
    
    1,3751,2451,3221,3731,2201,2101,2411,2741,315Employment-population ratio
    
    28.825.927.528.825.525.325.826.527.4Unemployed
    
    229232190258260248266245221Unemployment rate
    
    14.315.712.615.817.617.017.616.114.4Footnotes
    (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
    
    NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment\[Numbers in thousands\]Educational attainmentNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Less than a high school diploma
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    8,9868,2188,5019,0588,8719,0148,8638,5398,578Participation rate
    
    47.745.146.348.146.746.745.746.846.7Employed
    
    8,3927,6287,9288,5338,2698,5078,3928,0638,076Employment-population ratio
    
    44.541.843.245.343.544.143.344.244.0Unemployed
    
    594590573525602507471476502Unemployment rate
    
    6.67.26.75.86.85.65.35.65.9High school graduates, no college([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a04.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    36,17636,15436,38436,06537,15336,67536,66736,09736,293Participation rate
    
    56.756.656.556.557.957.456.656.556.3Employed
    
    34,57634,22934,57434,56735,52935,20734,99734,35134,602Employment-population ratio
    
    54.253.653.754.255.455.154.053.853.7Unemployed
    
    1,6001,9251,8111,4981,6241,4681,6701,7461,691Unemployment rate
    
    4.45.35.04.24.44.04.64.84.7Some college or associate degree
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    36,35036,53436,08036,20436,27236,45535,88936,33835,992Participation rate
    
    62.862.361.962.561.961.861.361.961.8Employed
    
    35,04435,14934,75734,94434,99635,08534,59835,05734,714Employment-population ratio
    
    60.559.959.760.459.759.459.159.859.6Unemployed
    
    1,3061,3841,3231,2601,2751,3701,2921,2811,278Unemployment rate
    
    3.63.83.73.53.53.83.63.53.6Bachelor’s degree and higher([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a04.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    67,12067,67767,60966,74767,19667,41967,02067,23467,265Participation rate
    
    72.471.971.972.072.272.672.871.471.5Employed
    
    65,40465,62565,74065,00665,25065,55565,02565,21665,364Employment-population ratio
    
    70.569.769.970.170.170.670.669.369.5Unemployed
    
    1,7162,0521,8691,7421,9451,8631,9952,0181,900Unemployment rate
    
    2.63.02.82.62.92.83.03.02.8Footnotes
    (1) Includes people with a high school diploma or equivalent.
    (2) Includes people with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees.
    
    NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals for those 25 years and over because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, veteran status, and period of serviceTotalMenWomenMar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026VETERANS, 18 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    17,34817,01515,27514,9322,0732,083Civilian labor force
    
    8,4808,1097,2496,9671,2311,142Participation rate
    
    48.947.747.546.759.454.8Employed
    
    8,1607,7966,9966,7351,1641,061Employment-population ratio
    
    47.045.845.845.156.250.9Unemployed
    
    3203142532336781Unemployment rate
    
    3.83.93.53.35.47.1Not in labor force
    
    8,8688,9068,0267,965842941Gulf War-era II veterans
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    5,6165,8084,6314,7509851,058Civilian labor force
    
    4,3844,3913,6863,667698724Participation rate
    
    78.175.679.677.270.968.4Employed
    
    4,2494,1943,5883,528661666Employment-population ratio
    
    75.772.277.574.367.162.9Unemployed
    
    135197971393858Unemployment rate
    
    3.14.52.63.85.48.0Not in labor force
    
    1,2321,4179451,083287335Gulf War-era I veterans
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    3,2213,1502,7112,686510464Civilian labor force
    
    2,2002,0321,8411,768359264Participation rate
    
    68.364.567.965.870.356.9Employed
    
    2,0821,9501,7441,705338245Employment-population ratio
    
    64.661.964.363.566.352.8Unemployed
    
    1188298642119Unemployment rate
    
    5.44.15.33.65.77.2Not in labor force
    
    1,0211,118870918151200Vietnam-era and earlier wartime veterans
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    4,9624,6494,7744,471188178Civilian labor force
    
    6635276315053222Participation rate
    
    13.411.313.211.316.812.2Employed
    
    6275175964953222Employment-population ratio
    
    12.611.112.511.116.812.2Unemployed
    
    3610361000Unemployment rate
    
    5.41.95.72.0––Not in labor force
    
    4,2994,1224,1433,966156156Veterans of other service periods
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    3,5493,4083,1593,025390383Civilian labor force
    
    1,2331,1591,0901,027143133Participation rate
    
    34.734.034.533.936.634.6Employed
    
    1,2021,1351,0681,006134129Employment-population ratio
    
    33.933.333.833.334.433.6Unemployed
    
    3125222194Unemployment rate
    
    2.52.12.02.06.13.1Not in labor force
    
    2,3162,2492,0691,998247250NONVETERANS, 18 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    246,193248,490113,099113,085133,094135,405Civilian labor force
    
    159,933159,87281,97080,92177,96378,951Participation rate
    
    65.064.372.571.658.658.3Employed
    
    153,348153,14078,27777,33775,07175,803Employment-population ratio
    
    62.361.669.268.456.456.0Unemployed
    
    6,5856,7323,6943,5842,8913,147Unemployment rate
    
    4.14.24.54.43.74.0Not in labor force
    
    86,26088,61831,12832,16455,13256,454NOTE: Veterans served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and were not on active duty at the time of the survey. Nonveterans never served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August 1990-August 2001), Vietnam era (August 1964-April 1975), Korean War (July 1950-January 1955), World War II (December 1941-December 1946), and other service periods (all other time periods). Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified only in the most recent one. Veterans who served during one of the selected wartime periods and another period are classified only in the wartime period. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 75,000).
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status, sex, and agePeople with a disabilityPeople with no disabilityMar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026TOTAL, 16 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    34,40036,209238,623238,649Civilian labor force
    
    8,2208,706162,433161,396Participation rate
    
    23.924.068.167.6Employed
    
    7,5798,038155,833154,726Employment-population ratio
    
    22.022.265.364.8Unemployed
    
    6426676,6006,670Unemployment rate
    
    7.87.74.14.1Not in labor force
    
    26,17927,50376,19077,253Men, 16 to 64 years
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    3,3513,60080,59578,800Participation rate
    
    42.143.282.882.8Employed
    
    3,0193,33777,02675,317Employment-population ratio
    
    37.940.079.279.1Unemployed
    
    3322633,5693,483Unemployment rate
    
    9.97.34.44.4Not in labor force
    
    4,6064,73516,68716,417Women, 16 to 64 years
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    3,4723,55371,64372,110Participation rate
    
    39.840.773.273.4Employed
    
    3,2403,23168,90069,339Employment-population ratio
    
    37.237.170.470.6Unemployed
    
    2323222,7432,772Unemployment rate
    
    6.79.13.83.8Not in labor force
    
    5,2445,16626,26926,098Both sexes, 65 years and over
    
    Civilian labor force
    
    1,3981,55310,19510,486Participation rate
    
    7.98.123.523.2Employed
    
    1,3201,4709,90710,071Employment-population ratio
    
    7.47.722.822.3Unemployed
    
    7883288415Unemployment rate
    
    5.65.32.84.0Not in labor force
    
    16,32917,60233,23434,737NOTE: A person with a disability has at least one of the following conditions: is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing; is blind or has serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses; has serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition; has serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs; has difficulty dressing or bathing; or has difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]Employment status and nativityTotalMenWomenMar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Foreign born, 16 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    50,44749,72524,98923,52925,45826,196Civilian labor force
    
    33,71933,40119,25918,16914,45915,232Participation rate
    
    66.867.277.177.256.858.1Employed
    
    32,22531,97418,39817,46213,82714,512Employment-population ratio
    
    63.964.373.674.254.355.4Unemployed
    
    1,4941,428861707633720Unemployment rate
    
    4.44.34.53.94.44.7Not in labor force
    
    16,72816,3245,7305,36010,99810,964Native born, 16 years and over
    
    Civilian noninstitutional population
    
    222,576225,133108,186109,097114,390116,036Civilian labor force
    
    136,935136,70071,05970,65865,87666,042Participation rate
    
    61.560.765.764.857.656.9Employed
    
    131,186130,79167,81867,39063,36863,401Employment-population ratio
    
    58.958.162.761.855.454.6Unemployed
    
    5,7485,9103,2413,2682,5082,642Unemployment rate
    
    4.24.34.64.63.84.0Not in labor force
    
    85,64188,43337,12738,43948,51449,993NOTE: The foreign born are those residing in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth. That is, they were born outside the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam, to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The native born are people who were born in the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam or who were born abroad of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status\[In thousands\]CategoryNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026CLASS OF WORKER
    
    Agriculture and related industries
    
    2,2512,1622,1592,3532,2002,3322,1522,2572,256Wage and salary workers([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    1,5091,3991,4261,5781,4591,5711,4001,5001,496Self-employed workers, unincorporated
    
    717751702739761751756757721Unpaid family workers
    
    251231––––––Nonagricultural industries
    
    161,160159,992160,606160,964161,635161,716160,883160,706160,550Wage and salary workers([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    152,079151,241151,896151,913152,150152,671151,874151,786151,853Government
    
    22,13421,98621,60621,77222,04021,97321,59121,73921,325Private industries
    
    129,945129,255130,290130,141130,088130,708130,384130,046130,542Private households
    
    555621641––––––Other industries
    
    129,390128,634129,649129,508129,600130,160129,710129,388129,805Self-employed workers, unincorporated
    
    9,0348,6828,6699,0819,4769,0529,0568,8418,737Unpaid family workers
    
    476940––––––PEOPLE AT WORK PART TIME([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    All industries
    
    Part time for economic reasons([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    4,9004,6274,6164,7715,4875,3414,8734,3964,497Slack work or business conditions
    
    3,2453,0853,1963,1533,4453,4363,1812,8383,107Could only find part-time work
    
    1,3071,2561,1311,2531,6501,5141,3791,2511,126Part time for noneconomic reasons([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    23,19823,39823,31422,64723,06822,25122,89922,72822,767Nonagricultural industries
    
    Part time for economic reasons([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    4,8134,5714,5724,7075,4175,2824,8364,3804,476Slack work or business conditions
    
    3,1943,0593,1683,1193,4343,4273,1672,8463,096Could only find part-time work
    
    1,3051,2561,1311,2511,6351,4971,3731,2501,124Part time for noneconomic reasons([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a05.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    22,78123,01722,94822,22422,68521,83922,52022,35722,393Footnotes
    (1) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.
    (2) Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the survey reference week and excludes employed people who were absent from their jobs for the entire week.
    (3) Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for an economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable business conditions, inability to find full-time work, or seasonal declines in demand.
    (4) Refers to people who usually work part time for noneconomic reasons such as childcare problems, family or personal obligations, school or training, retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, and other reasons. This excludes people who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as vacations, holidays, illness, and bad weather.
    
    – Data not available.
    NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-9. Selected employment indicators\[Numbers in thousands\]CharacteristicNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026AGE AND SEX
    
    Total, 16 years and over
    
    163,412162,153162,764163,509163,760163,992163,097162,912162,84816 to 19 years
    
    5,5284,9945,2115,7595,4155,4865,3905,3575,42516 to 17 years
    
    1,9041,7631,8292,0811,9351,9381,9261,9632,00018 to 19 years
    
    3,6243,2313,3823,7093,4743,5473,4653,4183,45920 years and over
    
    157,883157,159157,554157,750158,345158,506157,708157,555157,42320 to 24 years
    
    14,46814,52814,55514,56814,45614,38714,74014,70914,63325 years and over
    
    143,416142,631142,999143,218143,908144,171142,913142,777142,80625 to 54 years
    
    105,417104,765105,120105,292105,852106,087105,063104,909105,00725 to 34 years
    
    36,37036,27836,39236,33036,13236,40136,44236,33136,36235 to 44 years
    
    36,96236,51936,61836,85937,22637,30436,63536,55636,52945 to 54 years
    
    32,08531,96832,11032,10332,49432,38231,98632,02232,11655 years and over
    
    37,99937,86637,87937,92738,05638,08537,85037,86837,799Men, 16 years and over
    
    86,21684,46084,85286,45786,61686,81285,34885,21085,11116 to 19 years
    
    2,7312,4222,4242,8632,5722,6132,5662,6192,54916 to 17 years
    
    9447937811,03093592592090486018 to 19 years
    
    1,7871,6291,6431,8601,6311,6891,6501,7401,70720 years and over
    
    83,48582,03882,42983,59484,04384,19982,78382,59182,56220 to 24 years
    
    7,2857,2877,5837,3647,3847,3107,4897,4457,63225 years and over
    
    76,20074,75174,84676,29676,64576,90475,32575,15074,97025 to 54 years
    
    55,88054,94355,00555,96256,26456,44855,27055,23055,10425 to 34 years
    
    19,31519,18819,14719,32219,28519,30719,39819,29119,17135 to 44 years
    
    19,79919,20719,33319,79419,96120,04219,31019,30019,33145 to 54 years
    
    16,76516,54916,52516,84517,01717,10016,56216,63916,60355 years and over
    
    20,32019,80819,84020,33420,38120,45620,05519,92019,865Women, 16 years and over
    
    77,19577,69377,91277,05277,14477,18077,74977,70277,73716 to 19 years
    
    2,7972,5722,7872,8952,8422,8742,8242,7372,87616 to 17 years
    
    9609691,0481,0511,0001,0141,0071,0591,14018 to 19 years
    
    1,8371,6031,7391,8491,8431,8581,8151,6771,75120 years and over
    
    74,39875,12175,12574,15674,30274,30674,92574,96574,86120 to 24 years
    
    7,1827,2416,9727,2047,0737,0777,2527,2647,00225 years and over
    
    67,21667,88068,15366,92367,26367,26767,58867,62867,83625 to 54 years
    
    49,53749,82250,11549,33049,58849,63949,79349,67949,90325 to 34 years
    
    17,05517,09117,24517,00816,84717,09417,04417,04017,19135 to 44 years
    
    17,16217,31217,28517,06417,26417,26217,32517,25617,19845 to 54 years
    
    15,32015,41915,58615,25715,47715,28315,42515,38315,51355 years and over
    
    17,67918,05818,03817,59317,67517,62817,79517,94817,934MARITAL STATUS
    
    Married men, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    45,81245,07145,33945,79246,30846,28945,38845,19945,327Married women, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    36,88637,60138,15736,76837,40537,25437,11937,41337,963Women who maintain families([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    10,26510,40910,328––––––FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS
    
    Full-time workers([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    134,163133,085133,752135,055134,325135,215134,441134,341134,676Part-time workers([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a06.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    29,24829,06929,01328,45329,45228,71228,72728,47828,290MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS
    
    Total multiple jobholders
    
    9,1328,5108,5138,9359,2928,8488,7238,3718,357Percent of total employed
    
    5.65.25.25.55.75.45.35.15.1SELF-EMPLOYMENT
    
    Self-employed workers, incorporated
    
    6,8607,0306,732––––––Self-employed workers, unincorporated
    
    9,7529,4339,3719,82010,2379,8039,8129,5979,458Footnotes
    (1) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. Prior to January 2020, referred to people in opposite-sex married couples only.
    (2) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not a spouse of either sex. Prior to January 2020, referred to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse.
    (3) Employed full-time workers are people who usually work 35 hours or more per week.
    (4) Employed part-time workers are people who usually work less than 35 hours per week.
    
    – Data not available.
    NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjustedCharacteristicNumber of
    unemployed people
    (in thousands)Unemployment ratesMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026AGE AND SEX
    
    Total, 16 years and over
    
    7,1327,5717,2394.24.54.44.34.44.316 to 19 years
    
    92093785813.816.315.713.614.913.716 to 17 years
    
    38038333115.417.218.016.316.314.218 to 19 years
    
    54954753612.915.614.412.213.813.420 years and over
    
    6,2126,6346,3803.84.13.94.04.03.920 to 24 years
    
    1,1911,1781,0077.68.38.27.07.46.425 years and over
    
    4,9555,5245,3213.33.73.53.63.73.625 to 54 years
    
    3,8104,2054,0323.53.93.73.83.93.725 to 34 years
    
    1,5231,8121,8374.04.94.34.94.84.835 to 44 years
    
    1,2321,2631,2123.23.43.53.33.33.245 to 54 years
    
    1,0541,1309833.23.23.13.03.43.055 years and over
    
    1,1531,2941,2882.93.13.03.23.33.3Men, 16 years and over
    
    3,8493,8913,7364.34.54.44.34.44.216 to 19 years
    
    47847550114.317.316.817.415.416.416 to 17 years
    
    17318717714.318.019.220.617.117.118 to 19 years
    
    30729232414.117.115.515.514.316.020 years and over
    
    3,3713,4153,2353.94.13.93.84.03.820 to 24 years
    
    6796715448.49.19.47.18.36.725 years and over
    
    2,6442,8062,6543.33.73.43.53.63.425 to 54 years
    
    2,0282,0731,9943.53.83.53.63.63.525 to 34 years
    
    8869719424.44.73.94.64.84.735 to 44 years
    
    6086105983.03.43.33.43.13.045 to 54 years
    
    5354924543.13.33.12.72.92.755 years and over
    
    6167336602.93.23.13.43.53.2Women, 16 years and over
    
    3,2833,6803,5034.14.54.44.34.54.316 to 19 years
    
    44246235813.215.414.610.014.411.116 to 17 years
    
    20719615416.516.416.811.815.611.918 to 19 years
    
    24225521211.614.213.39.013.210.820 years and over
    
    2,8413,2183,1463.74.13.94.14.14.020 to 24 years
    
    5125074636.67.46.97.06.56.225 years and over
    
    2,3112,7182,6673.33.73.63.83.93.825 to 54 years
    
    1,7822,1322,0383.54.03.94.04.13.925 to 34 years
    
    6378428953.65.24.65.34.74.935 to 44 years
    
    6256536133.53.43.73.13.63.445 to 54 years
    
    5206375303.33.23.13.44.03.355 years and over
    
    5295726222.92.93.03.13.13.4MARITAL STATUS
    
    Married men, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    9881,0191,0182.12.42.12.22.22.2Married women, spouse present([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    9341,1361,1542.52.72.62.92.93.0Women who maintain families([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    6276015495.86.25.75.55.55.0FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS
    
    Full-time workers([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    5,7756,0595,8544.14.54.34.24.34.2Part-time workers([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a07.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    1,3331,5451,3584.54.84.64.85.14.6Footnotes
    (1) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. Prior to January 2020, referred to people in opposite-sex married couples only.
    (2) Data are not seasonally adjusted. Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not a spouse of either sex. Prior to January 2020, referred to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse.
    (3) Full-time workers are unemployed people who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs.
    (4) Part-time workers are unemployed people who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time jobs.
    
    NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment\[Numbers in thousands\]ReasonNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
    
    Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs
    
    3,5524,0903,6263,3223,5603,4733,4953,6203,403On temporary layoff
    
    9601,2211,0128181,002929839925877Not on temporary layoff
    
    2,5932,8692,6132,5032,5582,5442,6572,6942,526Permanent job losers
    
    1,8702,1101,9361,8131,9361,9692,0082,0371,881People who completed temporary jobs
    
    723759678691623575649658645Job leavers
    
    8588708878698618321,038867898Reentrants
    
    2,1552,3632,2152,1822,6002,3372,1682,3202,254New entrants
    
    677729610743774840796805714PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
    
    Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs
    
    49.150.849.446.745.746.446.647.646.8On temporary layoff
    
    13.315.213.811.512.812.411.212.212.1Not on temporary layoff
    
    35.835.635.635.232.834.035.435.434.7Job leavers
    
    11.810.812.112.211.011.113.811.412.4Reentrants
    
    29.829.430.230.733.331.228.930.531.0New entrants
    
    9.39.08.310.49.911.210.610.69.8UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE
    CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
    
    Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs
    
    2.12.42.11.92.12.02.12.12.0Job leavers
    
    0.50.50.50.50.50.50.60.50.5Reentrants
    
    1.31.41.31.31.51.41.31.41.3New entrants
    
    0.40.40.40.40.50.50.50.50.4NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to total unemployed in table A-1 because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment\[Numbers in thousands\]DurationNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
    
    Less than 5 weeks
    
    2,0852,1981,8382,3622,5402,2892,1662,3192,1385 to 14 weeks
    
    2,3382,5402,1572,1542,1902,0692,1512,0781,99815 weeks and over
    
    2,8193,3133,3422,5093,0993,1433,0153,1053,03315 to 26 weeks
    
    1,2201,3441,4221,0101,1901,1951,2021,2061,21227 weeks and over
    
    1,5991,9691,9191,4991,9101,9481,8131,8991,821Average (mean) duration, in weeks
    
    23.625.326.122.923.124.423.725.725.3Median duration, in weeks
    
    10.911.212.89.79.811.411.011.111.5PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
    
    Less than 5 weeks
    
    28.827.325.133.632.430.529.530.929.85 to 14 weeks
    
    32.331.529.430.728.027.629.327.727.915 weeks and over
    
    38.941.145.535.739.641.941.141.442.315 to 26 weeks
    
    16.916.719.414.415.215.916.416.116.927 weeks and over
    
    22.124.526.221.324.426.024.725.325.4NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to total unemployed in table A-1 because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]OccupationEmployedUnemployedUnemployment
    ratesMar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Total, 16 years and over([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a10.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    163,412162,7647,2427,3374.24.3Management, professional, and related occupations
    
    72,01971,9951,7061,8162.32.5Management, business, and financial operations occupations
    
    31,08831,0887178142.32.6Professional and related occupations
    
    40,93040,9069901,0022.42.4Service occupations
    
    26,67526,6271,5631,5135.55.4Sales and office occupations
    
    30,38930,5301,2761,3864.04.3Sales and related occupations
    
    13,86113,9676447374.45.0Office and administrative support occupations
    
    16,52716,5636316493.73.8Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations
    
    14,44913,7138269525.46.5Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations
    
    95988513111012.011.1Construction and extraction occupations
    
    8,4758,0145546586.17.6Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
    
    5,0144,8141401832.73.7Production, transportation, and material moving
    occupations
    
    19,88119,8991,1761,0285.64.9Production occupations
    
    7,9237,6853393254.14.1Transportation and material moving occupations
    
    11,95812,2148377046.55.4Footnotes
    (1) People with no previous work experience and people whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.
    
    NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjustedIndustry and class of workerNumber of
    unemployed
    people
    (in thousands)Unemployment
    ratesMar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Total, 16 years and over([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a11.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    7,2427,3374.24.3Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers
    
    5,5675,6254.14.1Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
    
    8281.44.7Construction
    
    5736985.46.7Manufacturing
    
    4795133.13.4Durable goods
    
    2883352.93.3Nondurable goods
    
    1901783.63.6Wholesale and retail trade
    
    9338334.74.4Transportation and utilities
    
    3602924.23.2Information
    
    133945.03.6Financial activities
    
    2903092.82.8Professional and business services
    
    8478394.34.2Education and health services
    
    7808612.83.1Leisure and hospitality
    
    8288586.26.2Other services
    
    3373005.04.5Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers
    
    1311508.29.7Government workers
    
    4235541.92.5Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers
    
    4443984.34.0Footnotes
    (1) People with no previous work experience and people whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.
    
    NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2025 data, industries reflect the introduction of the 2022 Census industry classification system, derived from the 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Data for 2025 are not strictly comparable with earlier years.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization\[Percent\]MeasureNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Nov.
    2025Dec.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026Mar.
    2026U-1 People unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force
    
    1.71.92.01.51.81.81.81.81.8U-2 Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force
    
    2.12.42.11.92.12.02.12.12.0U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)
    
    4.24.74.34.24.54.44.34.44.3U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers
    
    4.54.94.64.54.94.64.64.64.5U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other people marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force
    
    5.15.65.35.15.55.35.25.35.3U-6 Total unemployed, plus all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force
    
    7.98.38.07.98.78.48.17.98.0NOTE: People marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. People employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    HOUSEHOLD DATA
    Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted\[Numbers in thousands\]CategoryTotalMenWomenMar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026Mar.
    2025Mar.
    2026NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE
    
    Total not in the labor force
    
    102,369104,75642,85743,79959,51260,957People who currently want a job
    
    5,6005,7282,6842,7402,9162,989Marginally attached to the labor force([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    1,5391,809796877743931Discouraged workers([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    458468276216182253Other people marginally attached to the labor force([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    1,0821,340521662561679MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS
    
    Total multiple jobholders([4](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#cps_empsit_a13.f.4 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    9,1328,5134,3183,9974,8144,516Percent of total employed
    
    5.65.25.04.76.25.8Primary job full time, secondary job part time
    
    5,2324,7692,6772,3792,5552,390Primary and secondary jobs both part time
    
    2,4402,1508387041,6021,446Primary and secondary jobs both full time
    
    393383237244155139Hours vary on primary or secondary job
    
    1,0001,146528621472525Footnotes
    (1) Data refer to people who want a job, have searched for work during the prior 12 months, and were available to take a job during the reference week, but had not looked for work in the past 4 weeks.
    (2) Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for reasons such as thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination.
    (3) Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as school or family responsibilities, ill health, and transportation problems, as well as a number for whom reason for nonparticipation was not determined.
    (4) Includes a small number of people who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately.
    
    NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail
    \[In thousands\]IndustryNot seasonally adjustedSeasonally adjustedMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Change from:
    Feb.2026 – Mar.2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.p "Preliminary"))Total nonfarm
    
    157,540156,728157,204157,775158,377158,592158,459158,637178Total private
    
    133,646133,487133,631134,127134,818135,263135,134135,320186Goods-producing
    
    21,28421,10321,12321,25321,55921,50121,48121,52443Mining and logging
    
    6155955945996206026016032Logging
    
    40.936.836.937.441.237.136.737.60.9Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
    
    573.6557.8557.4561.1578.5565.0564.2565.51.3Oil and gas extraction
    
    117.7115.5115.4115.8118.2115.5116.3116.1-0.2Mining (except oil and gas)
    
    186.1182.5182.5183.6189.7187.3187.3187.1-0.2Coal mining
    
    40.039.138.838.140.139.138.838.3-0.5Metal ore mining
    
    45.545.645.545.445.745.645.645.60.0Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying
    
    100.697.898.2100.1103.9102.7102.9103.30.4Support activities for mining
    
    269.8259.8259.5261.7270.6262.2260.6262.31.7Construction
    
    8,0498,0038,0058,1088,2738,3178,3048,33026Construction of buildings
    
    1,828.01,818.01,825.31,843.81,860.11,859.51,865.81,873.47.6Residential building construction
    
    919.4905.7907.4915.7935.5926.6928.5931.63.1Nonresidential building construction
    
    908.6912.3917.9928.1924.6932.9937.3941.84.5Heavy and civil engineering construction
    
    1,122.21,112.61,115.51,147.71,180.31,206.11,200.81,204.63.8Specialty trade contractors
    
    5,098.75,071.95,063.75,116.45,232.55,251.05,236.95,252.015.1Residential specialty trade contractors
    
    2,331.02,287.22,282.82,306.12,394.42,369.12,357.82,369.011.2Nonresidential specialty trade contractors
    
    2,767.72,784.72,780.92,810.32,838.12,881.92,879.12,883.03.9Manufacturing
    
    12,62012,50512,52412,54612,66612,58212,57612,59115Durable goods
    
    7,8317,7657,7787,7997,8547,8037,8047,81915Wood product manufacturing
    
    405.7390.3390.7392.2407.1394.0392.3393.61.3Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
    
    410.7410.1410.0415.8416.9418.2418.7421.52.8Primary metal manufacturing
    
    364.5363.1363.4362.4364.8364.2363.7362.6-1.1Fabricated metal product manufacturing
    
    1,432.71,435.91,438.71,444.31,434.21,438.81,440.51,445.75.2Machinery manufacturing
    
    1,092.81,082.11,083.51,085.81,094.91,084.41,085.51,087.41.9Computer and electronic product manufacturing
    
    1,001.8984.3984.0984.31,005.6988.3987.4987.50.1Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing
    
    100.098.298.599.1101.098.698.799.81.1Communications equipment manufacturing
    
    79.180.781.080.579.280.781.280.6-0.6Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
    
    384.5368.1367.2367.5385.8369.4368.7368.4-0.3Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
    
    409.8409.9410.5411.1410.8411.6411.4412.10.7Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing
    
    28.427.426.826.128.828.027.326.7-0.6Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing
    
    428.0432.9433.8435.9428.3432.8433.9435.81.9Transportation equipment manufacturing([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    1,743.71,727.51,733.11,740.21,750.11,739.21,738.71,745.26.5Motor vehicles and parts([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    972.9944.1948.8951.3975.3952.3952.2952.80.6Furniture and related product manufacturing
    
    337.1331.7333.1331.5337.8333.9334.6332.6-2.0Miscellaneous manufacturing
    
    613.6606.7608.1606.9614.2609.2609.1607.5-1.6Nondurable goods
    
    4,7894,7404,7464,7474,8124,7794,7724,7720Food manufacturing
    
    1,770.61,766.31,770.01,765.51,781.91,780.21,779.91,778.5-1.4Textile mills
    
    82.579.979.378.982.780.079.879.2-0.6Textile product mills
    
    94.394.594.694.494.094.294.394.2-0.1Apparel manufacturing
    
    80.173.473.473.581.074.573.874.30.5Paper manufacturing
    
    354.7354.9354.7358.0354.5354.9355.4357.82.4Printing and related support activities
    
    345.5339.2339.8340.8345.8340.7340.8340.4-0.4Petroleum and coal products manufacturing
    
    109.3106.9106.9106.6111.0109.2108.8108.5-0.3Chemical manufacturing
    
    898.8893.9897.3892.6898.8898.0898.3893.1-5.2Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
    
    707.8695.0693.4696.0708.1697.0693.9696.42.5Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing
    
    345.0336.3336.3340.2354.5349.9347.0349.62.6Private service-providing
    
    112,362112,384112,508112,874113,259113,762113,653113,796143Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    28,55428,60628,37728,40528,79228,65428,60528,63833Wholesale trade
    
    6,040.66,017.36,020.36,033.76,062.06,044.66,051.36,054.63.3Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
    
    3,399.73,387.93,388.13,394.23,407.83,397.43,400.23,402.11.9Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
    
    2,196.22,190.82,193.42,201.82,207.22,206.62,209.92,212.52.6Wholesale trade agents and brokers
    
    444.7438.6438.8437.7447.0440.6441.2440.0-1.2Retail trade
    
    15,301.815,365.615,253.315,277.015,457.515,426.215,418.215,427.99.7Motor vehicle and parts dealers
    
    2,046.52,037.42,038.72,038.02,053.32,056.22,053.92,045.3-8.6Automobile dealers
    
    1,290.51,288.61,288.61,286.81,292.01,296.61,293.11,289.2-3.9Other motor vehicle dealers
    
    162.2154.0154.6155.4164.9161.6160.7157.9-2.8Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers
    
    593.8594.8595.5595.8596.3598.1600.1598.2-1.9Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
    
    1,386.51,305.11,310.81,342.31,390.71,353.91,352.11,346.8-5.3Food and beverage retailers
    
    3,232.63,254.13,247.23,244.53,250.73,258.63,253.63,263.59.9Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers
    
    774.1766.4753.3750.5779.6763.5757.0756.3-0.7Furniture and home furnishings retailers
    
    400.2395.7388.9387.8400.5391.0388.8387.6-1.2Electronics and appliance retailers
    
    373.9370.7364.4362.7379.1372.6368.2368.70.5General merchandise retailers
    
    3,197.93,234.93,193.83,190.23,244.63,230.13,232.03,234.42.4Department stores
    
    915.7939.4913.2916.4940.0933.5932.9937.24.3Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers
    
    2,282.22,295.52,280.62,273.82,304.62,296.62,299.12,297.2-1.9Health and personal care retailers
    
    1,057.71,052.81,043.01,045.91,061.71,044.61,044.41,049.34.9Gasoline stations and fuel dealers
    
    1,036.81,054.11,050.01,049.01,047.41,061.31,060.91,059.9-1.0Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers
    
    1,105.71,157.21,116.31,117.31,135.21,143.71,145.51,149.74.2Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers
    
    1,464.01,503.61,500.21,499.31,494.31,514.31,518.81,522.73.9Transportation and warehousing
    
    6,612.36,619.76,499.16,490.56,671.76,578.06,529.56,550.521.0Air transportation
    
    566.8564.2571.1575.2567.4569.7574.3575.20.9Rail transportation
    
    156.1149.6150.0150.0155.8151.0150.4149.6-0.8Water transportation
    
    67.368.968.469.169.672.471.471.60.2Truck transportation
    
    1,469.01,446.21,440.41,442.61,491.41,465.61,464.91,464.1-0.8Transit and ground passenger transportation
    
    502.1504.4505.4505.8487.6494.0492.2492.20.0Pipeline transportation
    
    55.156.456.255.955.055.655.955.90.0Scenic and sightseeing transportation
    
    24.624.525.326.732.032.934.034.30.3Support activities for transportation
    
    828.9824.6822.6823.3831.9826.0824.5826.21.7Couriers and messengers
    
    1,070.71,158.91,035.41,019.21,100.21,080.41,030.41,050.820.4Warehousing and storage
    
    1,871.71,822.01,824.31,822.71,880.81,830.41,831.51,830.6-0.9Utilities
    
    599.5603.2604.4604.1600.4604.7606.2605.0-1.2Information
    
    2,8562,7822,7692,7722,8672,8152,7942,791-3Motion picture and sound recording industries
    
    350.7330.9327.6328.1359.3352.4338.5337.4-1.1Publishing industries
    
    904.4894.7893.6897.9906.4901.7902.0902.80.8Broadcasting and content providers
    
    340.0333.4334.5332.8340.4334.8334.1334.20.1Telecommunications
    
    598.7578.3572.5572.1598.2580.0576.0574.4-1.6Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services
    
    482.8467.1462.4461.2482.9467.5464.1462.6-1.5Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services
    
    179.5177.6177.9179.7179.6178.3179.4180.00.6Financial activities
    
    9,1459,1009,1029,0769,2019,1479,1499,134-15Finance and insurance
    
    6,723.66,701.16,691.56,669.66,743.06,710.46,706.16,689.9-16.2Monetary authorities-central bank
    
    19.918.818.718.620.018.918.918.8-0.1Credit intermediation and related
    activities
    
    2,563.32,551.42,543.42,533.92,565.32,550.82,545.32,536.8-8.5Depository credit intermediation([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    1,780.61,782.31,777.41,772.41,780.61,781.21,777.91,773.6-4.3Commercial banking
    
    1,374.71,365.21,361.31,356.61,373.81,364.61,361.21,356.8-4.4Nondepository credit intermediation
    
    503.2495.0492.8493.3505.1495.3494.0494.50.5Activities related to credit intermediation
    
    279.5274.1273.2268.2279.6274.3273.3268.6-4.7Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities
    
    1,122.51,150.31,157.71,153.31,132.41,158.71,165.31,163.4-1.9Insurance carriers and related activities
    
    3,017.92,980.62,971.72,963.83,025.32,982.02,976.62,970.9-5.7Real estate and rental and leasing
    
    2,421.82,399.32,410.42,406.72,458.12,436.82,442.72,444.01.3Real estate
    
    1,838.81,827.91,838.61,829.61,859.31,848.51,854.61,851.4-3.2Rental and leasing services
    
    561.5550.2550.6555.9577.0566.8566.6571.24.6Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)
    
    21.521.221.221.221.821.521.521.4-0.1Professional and business services
    
    22,22022,04022,14822,18922,45722,40822,41522,4172Professional, scientific, and technical services
    
    10,768.010,762.010,820.510,775.210,782.310,790.410,803.610,790.1-13.5Legal services
    
    1,207.01,230.81,228.31,223.91,215.71,233.91,233.81,233.1-0.7Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services
    
    1,200.41,153.51,196.51,197.21,126.01,129.21,128.41,125.3-3.1Architectural, engineering, and related services
    
    1,695.21,734.51,734.21,734.91,718.41,750.41,753.41,757.44.0Specialized design services
    
    146.4147.4147.0148.5148.3148.8149.0150.31.3Computer systems design and related services
    
    2,384.52,374.02,381.02,343.82,408.92,374.22,381.32,368.1-13.2Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
    
    1,849.11,860.31,865.61,857.71,864.31,871.11,873.51,872.5-1.0Scientific research and development services
    
    928.1904.9906.0907.8933.0913.7912.3911.4-0.9Advertising, public relations, and related services
    
    479.8474.2478.5473.3482.1476.5479.1476.2-2.9Other professional, scientific, and technical services
    
    877.5882.4883.4888.1885.6892.7892.8895.72.9Management of companies and enterprises
    
    2,613.02,606.72,602.32,606.12,620.92,619.62,617.72,614.9-2.8Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
    
    8,839.28,671.28,725.58,807.79,054.08,998.28,993.59,012.018.5Administrative and support services
    
    8,326.28,154.08,207.78,287.58,535.18,475.38,468.98,486.117.2Office administrative services
    
    616.4615.0617.6617.8620.2618.3620.0621.31.3Facilities support services
    
    179.1179.6181.2183.0179.9181.1182.4183.51.1Employment services([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    3,160.73,059.23,101.93,133.33,223.63,170.53,173.73,184.711.0Temporary help services
    
    2,477.52,372.52,412.62,434.22,528.32,470.22,470.12,474.54.4Business support services
    
    660.7630.8628.0626.0663.6632.6629.0629.20.2Travel arrangement and reservation services
    
    185.3175.1177.5179.1186.5178.4180.4180.80.4Investigation and security services
    
    1,032.81,035.21,036.81,036.41,038.81,045.11,043.71,044.00.3Services to buildings and dwellings
    
    2,165.72,134.32,137.32,179.92,294.12,314.82,305.02,307.72.7Other support services
    
    325.5324.8327.4332.0328.5334.6334.7335.00.3Waste management and remediation services
    
    513.0517.2517.8520.2518.9522.9524.6525.91.3Private education and health services
    
    27,23127,64727,79927,88227,13227,74627,70427,79591Private educational services
    
    4,193.63,992.24,160.94,173.94,055.54,052.04,037.14,038.81.7Health care and social assistance
    
    23,037.323,655.123,637.723,707.923,076.023,694.423,666.623,756.589.9Health care([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table1.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))
    
    17,991.718,339.318,303.918,363.518,028.118,363.618,331.218,407.676.4Ambulatory health care services
    
    8,994.79,148.69,116.99,150.49,012.69,160.79,123.79,178.054.3Offices of physicians
    
    2,976.53,051.13,010.73,036.52,985.43,052.33,012.93,047.935.0Offices of dentists
    
    1,045.11,054.41,052.81,053.41,050.81,055.91,055.71,058.93.2Offices of other health practitioners
    
    1,296.71,327.61,333.01,327.01,298.01,330.81,331.91,334.72.8Outpatient care centers
    
    1,170.91,192.31,193.51,198.91,171.31,191.91,193.81,199.25.4Medical and diagnostic laboratories
    
    308.9313.4309.5308.1308.8311.7308.2308.40.2Home health care services
    
    1,833.61,838.51,844.01,851.51,835.51,847.01,847.81,854.76.9Other ambulatory health care services
    
    363.0371.3373.4375.0362.8371.1373.5374.20.7Hospitals
    
    5,602.85,730.55,736.05,752.45,612.65,734.15,745.05,759.914.9Nursing and residential care facilities
    
    3,394.23,460.23,451.03,460.73,402.93,468.83,462.53,469.77.2Skilled nursing care facilities
    
    1,531.71,569.21,567.11,571.61,538.01,574.41,575.11,577.52.4Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities
    
    685.3701.0701.6703.7686.9703.8703.2705.01.8Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly
    
    1,009.21,018.11,012.01,013.61,009.81,018.41,013.41,015.11.7Other residential care facilities
    
    168.0171.9170.3171.8168.2172.3170.8172.11.3Social assistance
    
    5,045.65,315.85,333.85,344.45,047.95,330.85,335.45,348.913.5Individual and family services
    
    3,425.03,703.03,718.33,721.43,434.33,712.33,721.33,732.210.9Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
    
    234.0235.1235.5238.2233.8236.0236.0237.91.9Vocational rehabilitation services
    
    283.4276.0277.3279.2284.7280.3279.3280.31.0Child care services
    
    1,103.21,101.71,102.71,105.61,095.21,102.11,098.81,098.5-0.3Leisure and hospitality
    
    16,40616,25216,33816,56416,82316,96616,95516,99944Arts, entertainment, and recreation
    
    2,504.32,416.92,453.02,530.42,669.92,668.62,686.82,700.814.0Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries
    
    564.2530.7559.4588.5593.9591.8608.1619.611.5Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions
    
    171.5170.7168.5173.7179.3182.9181.3181.70.4Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
    
    1,768.61,715.51,725.11,768.21,896.71,893.91,897.41,899.52.1Accommodation and food services
    
    13,901.413,835.313,885.414,033.614,153.114,296.914,268.614,298.029.4Accommodation
    
    1,870.31,827.51,839.71,862.11,944.71,930.41,928.31,936.27.9Food services and drinking places
    
    12,031.112,007.812,045.712,171.512,208.412,366.512,340.312,361.821.5Other services
    
    5,9505,9575,9755,9865,9876,0266,0316,022-9Repair and maintenance
    
    1,465.41,457.71,469.51,470.31,469.21,471.51,479.41,472.6-6.8Personal and laundry services
    
    1,579.61,591.11,589.41,586.11,594.51,608.71,606.81,601.8-5.0Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations
    
    2,904.62,908.32,915.82,929.92,923.12,945.52,944.92,948.03.1Government
    
    23,89423,24123,57323,64823,55923,32923,32523,317-8Federal
    
    2,9912,6712,6702,6602,9882,6852,6762,658-18Federal, except U.S. Postal Service
    
    2,391.22,078.92,068.12,058.42,390.02,090.32,075.72,059.4-16.3U.S. Postal Service
    
    599.4592.0602.3601.5598.3594.6599.9598.6-1.3State government
    
    5,6755,4195,6125,6245,5235,4795,4805,476-4State government education
    
    2,807.92,568.52,759.02,767.92,647.72,612.22,614.12,611.1-3.0State government, excluding education
    
    2,867.12,850.62,852.62,856.22,875.72,866.82,866.02,864.8-1.2Local government
    
    15,22815,15115,29115,36415,04815,16515,16915,18314Local government education
    
    8,476.68,344.88,479.18,526.58,198.88,234.78,238.98,248.19.2Local government, excluding education
    
    6,751.56,806.16,811.96,837.46,849.16,930.36,929.76,934.85.1Footnotes
    (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately.
    (2) Includes motor vehicle manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing, and motor vehicle parts manufacturing.
    (3) Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjustedIndustryMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table2.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table2.f.p "Preliminary"))AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS
    
    Total private
    
    34.234.334.334.2Goods-producing
    
    40.040.140.140.0Mining and logging
    
    44.345.845.845.9Construction
    
    39.339.539.539.2Manufacturing
    
    40.340.240.240.2Durable goods
    
    40.840.640.640.6Nondurable goods
    
    39.439.639.739.6Private service-providing
    
    33.133.233.233.1Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    33.934.034.134.1Wholesale trade
    
    39.239.239.239.2Retail trade
    
    29.629.930.030.0Transportation and warehousing
    
    38.538.338.338.4Utilities
    
    42.242.242.842.8Information
    
    37.337.537.537.5Financial activities
    
    37.737.437.437.4Professional and business services
    
    36.436.736.636.6Private education and health services
    
    32.632.732.532.4Leisure and hospitality
    
    25.325.525.525.3Other services
    
    32.132.232.132.2AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS
    
    Manufacturing
    
    2.93.03.03.0Durable goods
    
    2.93.03.03.0Nondurable goods
    
    2.93.03.03.0Footnotes
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjustedIndustryAverage hourly earningsAverage weekly earningsMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table3.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private
    
    $36.11$37.15$37.29$37.38$1,234.96$1,274.25$1,279.05$1,278.40Goods-producing
    
    36.9037.9938.1738.371,476.001,523.401,530.621,534.80Mining and logging
    
    40.1340.7340.6740.931,777.761,865.431,862.691,878.69Construction
    
    39.2240.5340.7140.921,541.351,600.941,608.051,604.06Manufacturing
    
    35.2536.2036.3936.591,420.581,455.241,462.881,470.92Durable goods
    
    37.4838.3438.6438.881,529.181,556.601,568.781,578.53Nondurable goods
    
    31.4932.6132.6132.761,240.711,291.361,294.621,297.30Private service-providing
    
    35.9336.9637.0937.151,189.281,227.071,231.391,229.67Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    30.6731.6931.7931.871,039.711,077.461,084.041,086.77Wholesale trade
    
    38.3039.5839.5939.721,501.361,551.541,551.931,557.02Retail trade
    
    25.2126.0826.1426.23746.22779.79784.20786.90Transportation and warehousing
    
    31.2132.2532.4532.481,201.591,235.181,242.841,247.23Utilities
    
    52.1054.2054.6754.772,198.622,287.242,339.882,344.16Information
    
    51.8353.9554.4154.611,933.262,023.132,040.382,047.88Financial activities
    
    47.1148.6148.7849.021,776.051,818.011,824.371,833.35Professional and business services
    
    43.6745.0345.2145.281,589.591,652.601,654.691,657.25Private education and health services
    
    35.3436.1336.2236.201,152.081,181.451,177.151,172.88Leisure and hospitality
    
    22.7323.3023.4123.49575.07594.15596.96594.30Other services
    
    32.6433.7633.9033.691,047.741,087.071,088.191,084.82Footnotes
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted\[2007=100\]IndustryIndex of aggregate weekly hours([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Index of aggregate weekly payrolls([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
    Feb.
    2026 – Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
    Feb.
    2026 – Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table4.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private
    
    115.7116.5116.4116.2-0.2199.8206.9207.4207.60.1Goods-producing
    
    98.398.398.298.1-0.1163.9168.7169.4170.20.5Mining and logging
    
    86.386.686.587.00.6139.1141.7141.2142.91.2Construction
    
    112.1113.2113.1112.6-0.4191.0199.4200.0200.10.1Manufacturing
    
    91.991.091.091.10.1150.6153.3154.0155.00.6Durable goods
    
    90.289.289.289.40.2150.3152.0153.2154.40.8Nondurable goods
    
    94.694.594.694.3-0.3151.2156.3156.5156.80.2Private service-providing
    
    120.7121.6121.5121.3-0.2210.7218.4219.0218.90.0Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    106.6106.4106.6106.70.1176.4181.9182.7183.40.4Wholesale trade
    
    104.8104.5104.6104.70.1167.9173.0173.3173.90.3Retail trade
    
    93.193.994.194.20.1155.2161.9162.7163.40.4Transportation and warehousing
    
    147.6144.8143.7144.50.6234.3237.5237.2238.80.7Utilities
    
    109.7110.4112.3112.1-0.2188.7197.8202.8202.80.0Information
    
    97.796.495.795.6-0.1180.3185.2185.4185.90.3Financial activities
    
    113.6112.1112.1111.9-0.2208.8212.5213.3214.00.3Professional and business services
    
    127.8128.6128.3128.30.0226.1234.6234.9235.30.2Private education and health services
    
    144.5148.2147.1147.10.0245.6257.6256.2256.20.0Leisure and hospitality
    
    121.4123.4123.4122.7-0.6222.7232.0233.0232.6-0.2Other services
    
    110.8111.9111.6111.80.2198.2207.0207.4206.4-0.5Footnotes
    (1) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.
    (2) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjustedIndustryWomen employees (in thousands)Percent of all employeesMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table5.f.p "Preliminary"))Total nonfarm
    
    79,05779,29379,26679,35049.950.050.050.0Total private
    
    65,28765,61665,58765,66448.448.548.548.5Goods-producing
    
    4,9364,8814,8864,89022.922.722.722.7Mining and logging
    
    8582828213.713.613.613.6Construction
    
    1,1931,1911,1921,19214.414.314.414.3Manufacturing
    
    3,6583,6083,6123,61628.928.728.728.7Durable goods
    
    1,9221,8931,8931,89724.524.324.324.3Nondurable goods
    
    1,7361,7151,7191,71936.135.936.036.0Private service-providing
    
    60,35160,73560,70160,77453.353.453.453.4Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    11,16111,08411,07811,08938.838.738.738.7Wholesale trade
    
    1,850.31,832.31,833.21,828.830.530.330.330.2Retail trade
    
    7,395.47,386.17,393.37,400.547.847.948.048.0Transportation and warehousing
    
    1,759.61,709.91,696.21,704.226.426.026.026.0Utilities
    
    155.6155.4155.7155.225.925.725.725.7Information
    
    1,1451,1321,1281,12739.940.240.440.4Financial activities
    
    5,0725,0044,9944,98255.154.754.654.5Professional and business services
    
    10,18310,13210,13210,14445.345.245.245.3Private education and health services
    
    20,77121,25621,23321,27476.676.676.676.5Leisure and hospitality
    
    8,7918,8748,8858,90852.352.352.452.4Other services
    
    3,2283,2533,2513,25053.954.053.954.0Government
    
    13,77013,67713,67913,68658.458.658.658.7Footnotes
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table6.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))\[In thousands\]IndustryMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table6.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table6.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private
    
    109,899110,358110,173110,387Goods-producing
    
    15,31115,26315,23015,258Mining and logging
    
    463450448449Construction
    
    6,0076,0506,0386,054Manufacturing
    
    8,8418,7638,7448,755Durable goods
    
    5,3295,2835,2735,285Nondurable goods
    
    3,5123,4803,4713,470Private service-providing
    
    94,58895,09594,94395,129Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    24,41224,33324,29624,323Wholesale trade
    
    4,802.44,768.24,769.54,771.5Retail trade
    
    13,277.913,289.013,291.613,303.7Transportation and warehousing
    
    5,855.05,796.05,753.65,766.7Utilities
    
    476.5479.9481.4481.0Information
    
    2,2922,2372,2142,218Financial activities
    
    6,9636,9456,9476,933Professional and business services
    
    17,62417,60117,59617,603Private education and health services
    
    23,76424,33724,29824,376Leisure and hospitality
    
    14,67214,75414,69914,780Other services
    
    4,8614,8884,8934,896Footnotes
    (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table7.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))IndustryMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table7.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table7.f.p "Preliminary"))AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS
    
    Total private
    
    33.733.833.833.8Goods-producing
    
    40.941.141.241.1Mining and logging
    
    44.846.346.347.3Construction
    
    40.240.240.440.1Manufacturing
    
    41.141.441.541.4Durable goods
    
    41.441.841.941.8Nondurable goods
    
    40.740.841.040.9Private service-providing
    
    32.532.732.632.6Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    34.134.334.434.4Wholesale trade
    
    39.239.239.239.4Retail trade
    
    30.330.730.730.6Transportation and warehousing
    
    38.038.038.138.2Utilities
    
    42.442.343.043.2Information
    
    36.036.236.036.2Financial activities
    
    37.337.537.237.3Professional and business services
    
    36.336.736.636.6Private education and health services
    
    31.831.831.631.6Leisure and hospitality
    
    24.224.324.424.3Other services
    
    31.131.331.331.3AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS
    
    Manufacturing
    
    3.73.93.93.9Durable goods
    
    3.73.93.93.9Nondurable goods
    
    3.83.93.93.9Footnotes
    (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))IndustryAverage hourly earningsAverage weekly earningsMar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table8.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private
    
    $31.02$31.94$32.02$32.07$1,045.37$1,079.57$1,082.28$1,083.97Goods-producing
    
    32.2233.2533.4333.581,317.801,366.581,377.321,380.14Mining and logging
    
    37.1037.7437.7237.961,662.081,747.361,746.441,795.51Construction
    
    36.7738.2938.4538.621,478.151,539.261,553.381,548.66Manufacturing
    
    28.9229.6129.8229.951,188.611,225.851,237.531,239.93Durable goods
    
    30.6331.4031.6431.771,268.081,312.521,325.721,327.99Nondurable goods
    
    26.2826.8226.9827.111,069.601,094.261,106.181,108.80Private service-providing
    
    30.7831.6731.7431.771,000.351,035.611,034.721,035.70Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    26.5927.3627.4427.56906.72938.45943.94948.06Wholesale trade
    
    31.8532.7732.9533.001,248.521,284.581,291.641,300.20Retail trade
    
    21.3522.0022.0222.06646.91675.40676.01675.04Transportation and warehousing
    
    29.8630.8430.9131.141,134.681,171.921,177.671,189.55Utilities
    
    46.0347.4347.8547.981,951.672,006.292,057.552,072.74Information
    
    42.5544.4244.6444.641,531.801,608.001,607.041,615.97Financial activities
    
    36.8938.4938.6138.681,376.001,443.381,436.291,442.76Professional and business services
    
    36.7537.7737.8837.921,334.031,386.161,386.411,387.87Private education and health services
    
    32.4733.1433.1633.111,032.551,053.851,047.861,046.28Leisure and hospitality
    
    20.0020.7220.8120.84484.00503.50507.76506.41Other services
    
    28.5029.3829.4929.39886.35919.59923.04919.91Footnotes
    (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
    
    ESTABLISHMENT DATA
    Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted([1](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.1 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))\[2002=100\]IndustryIndex of aggregate weekly hours([2](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.2 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Index of aggregate weekly payrolls([3](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.3 "Click to jump to footnotes at bottom of the table"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
    Feb.
    2026 – Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2025Jan.
    2026Feb.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Percent change from:
    Feb.
    2026 – Mar.
    2026([p](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm#ces_table9.f.p "Preliminary"))Total private
    
    123.4124.3124.1124.30.2255.9265.3265.6266.50.3Goods-producing
    
    95.795.995.995.8-0.1188.8195.2196.3197.00.4Mining and logging
    
    110.2110.7110.2112.92.5237.8243.0241.8249.23.1Construction
    
    120.9121.8122.1121.6-0.4240.1251.8253.6253.50.0Manufacturing
    
    83.483.383.383.2-0.1157.8161.3162.5163.00.3Durable goods
    
    82.983.083.083.00.0158.5162.6164.0164.60.4Nondurable goods
    
    84.283.783.883.6-0.2156.4158.5159.9160.20.2Private service-providing
    
    131.0132.5131.9132.10.2276.5287.8287.1287.90.3Trade, transportation, and utilities
    
    116.5116.8117.0117.10.1221.4228.4229.4230.70.6Wholesale trade
    
    111.7110.9111.0111.60.5210.0214.6215.8217.30.7Retail trade
    
    102.0103.4103.5103.2-0.3186.7195.1195.3195.2-0.1Transportation and warehousing
    
    168.4166.7165.9166.70.5320.0327.2326.4330.41.2Utilities
    
    103.3103.8105.8106.20.4198.5205.5211.4212.80.7Information
    
    94.292.491.091.60.7198.4203.3201.1202.50.7Financial activities
    
    122.2122.6121.6121.70.1277.4290.3288.9289.60.2Professional and business services
    
    142.8144.2143.8143.80.0312.2323.9323.9324.40.2Private education and health services
    
    161.1165.0163.7164.20.3345.3360.9358.3358.90.2Leisure and hospitality
    
    130.1131.3131.4131.60.2295.4309.0310.5311.30.3Other services
    
    106.0107.3107.4107.50.1220.2229.7230.8230.2-0.3Footnotes
    (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
    (2) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.
    (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.
    (p) Preliminary
    
    NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

    **Last Modified Date:** April 03, 2026

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    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate
    changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
    occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal
    government employment continued to decline.
    
    This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
    labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
    survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
    about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
    Note.
    
    Household Survey Data
    
    Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.2
    million, changed little in March. These measures also changed little over the year. (See table
    A-1.)
    
    Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for people who are Asian (3.7 percent)
    decreased in March. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (4.0 percent),
    teenagers (13.7 percent), and people who are White (3.6 percent), Black (7.1 percent), or
    Hispanic (4.8 percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
    
    The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8
    million in March but is up by 322,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for
    25.4 percent of all unemployed people in March. (See table A-12.)
    
    Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.9 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
    at 59.2 percent, changed little in March. These measures also showed little change over the
    year, after accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) 
    
    The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little
    in March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part
    time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See
    table A-8.)
    
    The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.0
    million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
    actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
    a job. (See table A-1.)
    
    Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
    to the labor force increased by 325,000 in March to 1.9 million. These individuals wanted and
    were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not
    looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a
    subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, increased
    by 144,000 in March to 510,000. (See Summary table A.)
    
    Establishment Survey Data
    
    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, following a decrease in
    February (-133,000). In March, job gains occurred in health care, in construction, and in
    transportation and warehousing. Federal government employment continued to decline. Payroll
    employment had changed little on net over the prior 12 months. (See table B-1.)
    
    Health care added 76,000 jobs in March. Employment in ambulatory health care services rose by
    54,000, reflecting an increase of 35,000 in offices of physicians as workers returned from a
    strike. Employment also increased in hospitals (+15,000). Over the prior 12 months, health
    care had added an average of 29,000 jobs per month. 
    
    Employment in construction grew by 26,000 in March but had shown little net change over the
    prior 12 months.
    
    In March, transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs, reflecting a gain in couriers and
    messengers (+20,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing is down by 139,000 since
    reaching a peak in February 2025.
    
    Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in March (+14,000), primarily in
    individual and family services (+11,000).
    
    Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak
    in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent. Federal
    employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the
    establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period
    that included the 12th of the month.
    
    Employment in financial activities edged down by 15,000 in March, reflecting a loss in finance
    and insurance (-16,000). Employment in financial activities is down by 77,000 since reaching a
    peak in May 2025.
    
    Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
    quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
    information; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.
    
    In March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9
    cents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.38. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.5
    percent. In March, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
    employees edged up by 5 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.07. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
    
    The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to
    34.2 hours in March. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged at 40.2 hours, and
    overtime was also unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
    nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2
    and B-7.)
    
    The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised up by 34,000, from
    +126,000 to +160,000, and the change for February was revised down by 41,000, from -92,000 to
    -133,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 7,000 lower
    than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from 
    businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
    recalculation of seasonal factors.)
    
    _____________
    The Employment Situation for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 8, 2026,
    at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

    ```

     [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)
    
     [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)
    
     [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)
    
     [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)
    
     [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)
    
     [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)
    
     [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)
    
     [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)
    
     [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)
    
     [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)
    
     [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)
    
     [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)
    
     [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)
    
     [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)
    
     [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)
    
     [Table A-15. Altern](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)```
    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate
    changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
    occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal
    government employment continued to decline.
    
    This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
    labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
    survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
    about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
    Note.
    
    Household Survey Data
    
    Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.2
    million, changed little in March. These measures also changed little over the year. (See table
    A-1.)
    
    Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for people who are Asian (3.7 percent)
    decreased in March. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (4.0 percent),
    teenagers (13.7 percent), and people who are White (3.6 percent), Black (7.1 percent), or
    Hispanic (4.8 percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
    
    The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8
    million in March but is up by 322,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for
    25.4 percent of all unemployed people in March. (See table A-12.)
    
    Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.9 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
    at 59.2 percent, changed little in March. These measures also showed little change over the
    year, after accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) 
    
    The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little
    in March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part
    time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See
    table A-8.)
    
    The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.0
    million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
    actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
    a job. (See table A-1.)
    
    Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
    to the labor force increased by 325,000 in March to 1.9 million. These individuals wanted and
    were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not
    looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a
    subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, increased
    by 144,000 in March to 510,000. (See Summary table A.)
    
    Establishment Survey Data
    
    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, following a decrease in
    February (-133,000). In March, job gains occurred in health care, in construction, and in
    transportation and warehousing. Federal government employment continued to decline. Payroll
    employment had changed little on net over the prior 12 months. (See table B-1.)
    
    Health care added 76,000 jobs in March. Employment in ambulatory health care services rose by
    54,000, reflecting an increase of 35,000 in offices of physicians as workers returned from a
    strike. Employment also increased in hospitals (+15,000). Over the prior 12 months, health
    care had added an average of 29,000 jobs per month. 
    
    Employment in construction grew by 26,000 in March but had shown little net change over the
    prior 12 months.
    
    In March, transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs, reflecting a gain in couriers and
    messengers (+20,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing is down by 139,000 since
    reaching a peak in February 2025.
    
    Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in March (+14,000), primarily in
    individual and family services (+11,000).
    
    Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak
    in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent. Federal
    employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the
    establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period
    that included the 12th of the month.
    
    Employment in financial activities edged down by 15,000 in March, reflecting a loss in finance
    and insurance (-16,000). Employment in financial activities is down by 77,000 since reaching a
    peak in May 2025.
    
    Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
    quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
    information; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.
    
    In March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9
    cents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.38. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.5
    percent. In March, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
    employees edged up by 5 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.07. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
    
    The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to
    34.2 hours in March. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged at 40.2 hours, and
    overtime was also unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
    nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2
    and B-7.)
    
    The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised up by 34,000, from
    +126,000 to +160,000, and the change for February was revised down by 41,000, from -92,000 to
    -133,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 7,000 lower
    than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from 
    businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
    recalculation of seasonal factors.)
    
    _____________
    The Employment Situation for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 8, 2026,
    at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

    ```

     [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)
    
     [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)
    
     [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)
    
     [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)
    
     [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)
    
     [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)
    
     [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)
    
     [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)
    
     [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)
    
     [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)
    
     [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)
    
     [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)
    
     [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)
    
     [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)
    
     [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)
    
    ```
    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate
    changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
    occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal
    government employment continued to decline.
    
    This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
    labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
    survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
    about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
    Note.
    
    Household Survey Data
    
    Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.2
    million, changed little in March. These measures also changed little over the year. (See table
    A-1.)
    
    Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for people who are Asian (3.7 percent)
    decreased in March. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (4.0 percent),
    teenagers (13.7 percent), and people who are White (3.6 percent), Black (7.1 percent), or
    Hispanic (4.8 percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
    
    The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8
    million in March but is up by 322,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for
    25.4 percent of all unemployed people in March. (See table A-12.)
    
    Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.9 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
    at 59.2 percent, changed little in March. These measures also showed little change over the
    year, after accounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) 
    
    The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little
    in March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part
    time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See
    table A-8.)
    
    The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.0
    million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
    actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
    a job. (See table A-1.)
    
    Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
    to the labor force increased by 325,000 in March to 1.9 million. These individuals wanted and
    were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not
    looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a
    subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, increased
    by 144,000 in March to 510,000. (See Summary table A.)
    
    Establishment Survey Data
    
    Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, following a decrease in
    February (-133,000). In March, job gains occurred in health care, in construction, and in
    transportation and warehousing. Federal government employment continued to decline. Payroll
    employment had changed little on net over the prior 12 months. (See table B-1.)
    
    Health care added 76,000 jobs in March. Employment in ambulatory health care services rose by
    54,000, reflecting an increase of 35,000 in offices of physicians as workers returned from a
    strike. Employment also increased in hospitals (+15,000). Over the prior 12 months, health
    care had added an average of 29,000 jobs per month. 
    
    Employment in construction grew by 26,000 in March but had shown little net change over the
    prior 12 months.
    
    In March, transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs, reflecting a gain in couriers and
    messengers (+20,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing is down by 139,000 since
    reaching a peak in February 2025.
    
    Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in March (+14,000), primarily in
    individual and family services (+11,000).
    
    Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak
    in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent. Federal
    employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the
    establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period
    that included the 12th of the month.
    
    Employment in financial activities edged down by 15,000 in March, reflecting a loss in finance
    and insurance (-16,000). Employment in financial activities is down by 77,000 since reaching a
    peak in May 2025.
    
    Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
    quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
    information; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.
    
    In March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9
    cents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.38. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.5
    percent. In March, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
    employees edged up by 5 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.07. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
    
    The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to
    34.2 hours in March. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged at 40.2 hours, and
    overtime was also unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
    nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2
    and B-7.)
    
    The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised up by 34,000, from
    +126,000 to +160,000, and the change for February was revised down by 41,000, from -92,000 to
    -133,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 7,000 lower
    than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from 
    businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
    recalculation of seasonal factors.)
    
    _____________
    The Employment Situation for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 8, 2026,
    at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

    ```

     [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)
    
     [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)
    
     [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)
    
     [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)
    
     [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)
    
     [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)
    
     [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)
    
     [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)
    
     [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)
    
     [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)
    
     [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)
    
     [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)
    
     [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)
    
     [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)
    
     [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)
    
     [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)
    
     [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)
    
     [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)
    
     [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)
    
     [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)
    
     [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)
    
     [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)
    
     [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)
    
     [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)
    
     [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)
    
     [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)
    
     [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)
    
     [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)
    
     [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)
    
     [HTML version of the entire news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm)
    
    [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

     [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)
    
     [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)
    
     [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)
    
     [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)
    
     [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)
    
     [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)
    
     [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)
    
     [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)
    
     [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)
    
     [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)
    
    [](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)
    
     [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)
    
     [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)
    
     [HTML version of the entire news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm)
    
    [ative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

     [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)
    
     [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)
    
     [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)
    
     [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)
    
     [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)
    
     [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)
    
     [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)
    
     [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)
    
     [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)
    
     [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)
    
     [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)
    
     [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)
    
     [HTML version of the entire news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm)

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### [The Cost of a Long Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-cost-of-a-long-job-search/)

**Published:** April 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3127 The ticking clock is not your friend. 

**Content:**

# The Cost of a Long Job Search

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

EP 3127 The ticking clock is not your friend.

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All right, let’s get right into it. Today, we’re talking about something tough, but it’s so, so important, the hidden dangers of a long [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). We’re going to break down why that ticking clock is not your friend, and more importantly, what you can actually do about it.

So let’s start with a big question. One you’ve probably asked yourself, if you’ve been on the market for a bit, when does searching for a while turn into searching for too long? I mean, is there a tipping point where the search itself actually starts to hurt you? Well, as we’re about to see, the answer is a huge resounding yes. And that brings us to our first big idea, the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) clock.

You have to understand that when it comes to finding a new role, time is absolutely not on your side. Here it is, the core principle in a nutshell. It’s a harsh reality, but the longer you’re unemployed, the tougher the search gets.

It’s like this negative spiral that gets steeper and steeper, and your job is to break out of it. Okay. So as the weeks turn into months, this isn’t just about how things look.

No, real tangible consequences start piling up and they begin to chip away at your professional standing. The very first thing to go, your power, your leverage, especially at the negotiating table. Think about it.

An employer knows you’ve been looking for a while. They know you need a job and that knowledge completely flips the power dynamic in any [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) conversation. Wow.

I mean, listen to that. That is, that’s a brutal thing to hear, right? But it gives you a raw unfiltered look into how some [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers think. They see someone who’s been out of work and they think this person needs this job.

And just like that, poof, your power to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for what you’re worth just evaporates, and then the silence sets in. The calls from [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) just stop. Why? Well, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know companies get skittish about paying a big fee for a candidate who’s been on the market for a long time, so the professional outreach dries up and suddenly you’re left relying almost completely on your own personal network.

This loss of leverage, this growing silence, it’s all building toward a really critical point. There is a specific threshold in time where the difficulty of your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) can just explode. And that threshold is the one year mark.

Now, this isn’t some random number. It’s a major psychological barrier for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and crossing it can have some pretty profound consequences for your search. This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) really nails it.

One year out of work is the point where things can go from just being difficult to becoming, well, dire. It signals a huge shift in how the entire [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) world starts to see you. So why? What is so magical and terrible about one year? Honestly, it all comes down to perception.

A [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s view of your situation is probably way, way different from your own. And here’s where things get really tricky. It’s this tale of two totally different perspectives.

From your side, it’s completely understandable. You’re thinking, Hey, the economy’s tough. I got [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/).

It’s just bad luck. But from their side, well, they see it differently. They’re looking at a stack of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and they know other people are getting hired.

So their simple and pretty cold question becomes, okay, so what’s wrong with this person? And that question leads to this incredibly harsh, unfair label. Whether it’s true or not, doesn’t even matter. You can start to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as damaged goods.

You know, a candidate that everyone else has already passed on for some hidden reason. And being seen this way has very real costs. If you do get an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), it’s often a step down, a lower title, less responsibility, and for sure, less pay.

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The company just isn’t willing to pay a top dollar. They’d rather get you at a discount, bring you in and [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), observe you for a while before even thinking about getting you back to where you were. So, okay, you’re facing this ticking clock.

You’re up against these really harsh perceptions. What on earth are you supposed to do? Well, the source material is crystal clear on this. There is only one way forward.

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### [Applying for a Job Online? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/applying-for-a-job-online-shorts/)

**Published:** April 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A reminder for you when you apply online.

**Content:**

# Applying for a Job Online? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/hSHhkgBiQTg)

A reminder for you when you apply online.

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### [Find Out What Your Team Is Like #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-out-what-your-team-is-like-shorts/)

**Published:** April 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you’re up for a management or a leadership role, it’s important to know what your team is like before joining. It can make all the difference between success and failure for you.

**Content:**

# Find Out What Your Team Is Like #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/4noi54xejM0)

If you’re up for a management or a leadership role, it’s important to know what your team is like before joining. It can make all the difference between [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) and failure for you.

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### [If I Get Called By A Recruiter Is There Anything I Should Look Out For?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-i-get-called-by-a-recruiter-is-there-anything-i-should-look-out-for/)

**Published:** April 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What should I look out for if I get contacted by a recruiter? How should I respond?

**Content:**

# If I Get Called By A Recruiter Is There Anything I Should Look Out For?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

What should I look out for if I get contacted by a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? How should I respond?

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I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people in organizations and the [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) tends to be around the workplace. So, it could be about your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), being a better manager or leader, like I said, overall being more effective at work.

And the question I received from someone basically translates into if I get a call from a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), is there something I should look out for? I don’t think look out for is the right choice of terms because it’s almost adversarial. I was started by asking the person to repeat their name and the firm that they’re with. So, this way, it logs into your mind where you can jot it down.

If it’s a company you’ve never heard the name of before, the likelihood is it’s a third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). And once you’ve heard the name and jotted it down, you know, the simplest place I would start off with is could you tell me about the role that you’re recruiting for and what was it in my background that piqued your interest? The reason I say that is they’re going to dive into their evaluation process but you don’t know what the target is that they’re looking for. So, you don’t want to talk with them about a job that you’re not interested in, right? And if you do, consider a good practice but, you know, you want to get a sense of what it is that they’re trying to find out about your background so that, in this way, you can tailor your answers to what matters to them instead of just talking about what you’ve done.

Remember, from their standpoint, they are trying to fill a job, right? And, as such, you want to know what that job is so you can talk about your experience and how it fits. Now, among the questions you might ask is, you know, what’s the comp level for the role? Well, it’s going to depend. Yes, of course, it’s going to depend.

But could you give me a sense of the range of the role? Well, it’s going to depend. I understand that. But, you know, I don’t want to waste my time talking with you about a job that’s going to pay too little.

How much are you making? I asked you first and you make a joke out of it. Well, I can’t reveal that. Why not? You know, there’s a dance that you may have to play normally with a corporate recruit . . . I’m sorry . . . with the agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who’s afraid that they can’t have the opportunity to talk you into something if they reveal the price is too low for you.

So, just understand the nonsense that goes on. That’s one thing to look out for is the dance where they’re not going to reveal compensation. A good one may or may not reveal who the client is because they don’t know if they can trust you to contact the firm directly.

So, to me, that’s not per se an issue. Could you give me a sense of who the client is and what they do? Well, it’s a major such and such. Yeah.

Where’s it located? Okay. Good. And how large a department will I be leading or heading up or working in? Good.

And you start to notice whether they can give you information about the firm, about the role because that signals to you whether they have a good enough relationship to talk with you about the job and whether you should listen. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful.

Visit TheBigGameHunter.us. I’ve got a lot more there that you can watch, listen to or read that’ll help you find work more quickly. I also want to mention, you know, if you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), what you can also do is schedule a free discovery call with me on my website. Again, that’s TheBigGameHunter.us. And if you want to subscribe to my channel on YouTube and you’re watching there, look in the lower right hand corner.

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### [What Not to Do If You Don’t Hear Back Right Away #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-not-to-do-if-you-dont-hear-back-right-away-shorts/)

**Published:** April 2, 2026
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### [Leading An Organization When You Have To Layoff People](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leading-an-organization-when-you-have-to-layoff-people/)

**Published:** April 1, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Leading an organization during times of layoffs can be one of the most challenging and difficult tasks for any senior leader.

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# Leading An Organization When You Have To Layoff People

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**Leading an organization during times of layoffs can be one of the most challenging and difficult tasks for any senior leader. It requires a delicate balance of empathy, communication, and strategic thinking to navigate the complexities of downsizing while maintaining the morale and productivity of the remaining workforce.**

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People join organizations believing this company, this organization has their interests in their hearts and minds, too, because, like in dating, there is a seduction to persuade someone to join and stay with the organization. Like with many divorces, layoffs feel like an emotional betrayal.

 I have been on the receiving end of countless calls, emails, and texts from people after being [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). No matter how decently they may have been treated by an employer at the time they were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), few heard the corporate message that accompanied their layoff. They think of all the reviews from their manager that praised their performance, where they were told they had a future with your company.

 Many were brought into conference rooms and auditoriums and told. In the last few years, mass video conference firings became a vogue until the examples of company presidents emoting guilt became the subject of ridicule. Now, we have a new vogue—email firings or just being locked out of systems as a way to let [people know](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-people-know-anyway-career-angles-shorts/) their service to a firm were no longer required.

 For you as a leader, one of the new things to contend with is that your former employees have a way to easily communicate their very real human stories of being [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). I suspect most of us have read about the person with [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) at one firm being let go, the husband and wife, and the woman a few hours after having a baby. They are not “collateral damage.” They are real people whose stories will damage your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) and recruiting efforts for years to come.

###  **What can you do?**

 When it comes to layoffs, employees want to know the reason behind the decision and the process that was followed. Communicating clearly will help reduce the layoffs’ impact and ensure that employees understand what is happening.

 The [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) in clear communication is to explain the reason behind the layoffs. This could be due to a reduction in demand for goods and services, changes in the market, or the need to reduce costs. Whatever the reason, it is important to be honest and transparent about it. This will help employees to understand why the layoffs are necessary and why their job is at risk or eliminated.

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 At times like these, senior leadership should lead with empathy and compassion when facing the difficult task of laying off employees. This is a critical time for both the employees and the company, and it is important to approach the situation with sensitivity and understanding. By showing empathy and offering support to the employees who are losing their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), you can help ease the transition and ensure that the impact is as minimal as possible.

 One way to demonstrate empathy is by acknowledging employees’ challenges and offering support to help them through this difficult time. This can include things such as offering the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counseling and [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writing services, providing financial advice and helping to connect them with job opportunities. By providing these resources, you can show the employees that you [care](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-employers-care-about-job-hopping-jobsearchtv-com/) about their well-being and are committed to helping them succeed, even after they leave the company.

 Do not ignore [mental health services](https://thebiggamehunter.us/careers-in-mental-health-services/) for your former employees. A study reported by The Lancet says that across 26 European Union countries, rapid and large increases in unemployment were associated with a significant increase in suicide rates. Imagine the news story in your local newspaper, favorite online publication, or [social media](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-and-worst-job-hunting-advice-on-social-media/) site with the headline, “Recently [Laid Off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) (YOUR COMPANY NAME) Employee Dead from Suicide.” Then, shocked, you read the story about this young person leaving behind a wife/husband/partner and three young children. No one should learn to live with that.

 It is also critical to focus on maintaining the morale of the remaining employees during layoffs. In times of organizational change, it’s easy for employees to become discouraged and demotivated, which can negatively impact their productivity and overall job satisfaction. To mitigate this, it’s important to have clear and transparent communication about the company’s goals and vision moving forward and to engage the remaining employees in shaping this new direction.

 Creating opportunities for employees to build relationships and collaborate can also help foster a sense of community and belonging within the organization. This could include team-building activities, cross-functional projects, and open forums for discussion and [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Additionally, recognizing and rewarding the [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) and dedication of employees who are staying with the company during difficult times is a powerful way to boost morale and show appreciation for their contributions.

 In short, by focusing on maintaining the morale of the remaining employees and providing them with a sense of purpose, you can ensure that your organization is well-positioned to thrive in the future.

 I have seen firsthand the devastating effects of impulsive and poorly executed layoffs. These actions can result in a loss of morale and trust among remaining employees, a negative impact on the company’s reputation, and the potential for legal repercussions. I suspect you have seen that in other organizations, too.

Therefore, it is of the utmost importance for a senior leader to approach layoffs with a clear plan and strategy in place. This plan should be thorough and well thought-out, taking into consideration not just the financial implications, but also the impact on employees, the company culture, and the future [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) of the organization. Working with your primary consulting firm and accounting firm, as well as other senior leaders with your firm will help avoid blind spots in devising your plans such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and age that can prove damaging after layoffs occur.

 In conclusion, leading during times of layoffs requires a delicate balance between being transparent and compassionate, and being firm in making difficult decisions. By [effectively communicating](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-tip-for-effectively-communicating-your-employer-brand-to-prospective-hires/) the rationale for the layoffs, addressing the concerns of the remaining employees, and engaging them in driving the business forward, the C Suite executive can help to maintain morale and productivity and build a more resilient and motivated workforce.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2023, 2024 

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### [Leading An Organization When You Have To Layoff People](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leading-an-organization-when-you-have-to-layoff-people-2/)

**Published:** November 4, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Leading an organization during times of layoffs can be one of the most challenging and difficult tasks for any senior leader.

**Content:**

# Leading An Organization When You Have To Layoff People

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Leading an organization during times of layoffs can be one of the most challenging and difficult tasks for any senior leader.

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Leading an organization when you have to layoff people. leading an organization during times of layoffs can be one of the most challenging and difficult tasks for any senior leader. It requires a delicate balance of empathy, communication and strategic thinking to navigate the complexities of downsizing while maintaining the morale and productivity of the remaining workforce.

People join organizations believing this company has their interests in their hearts and minds, too, because like in dating, there is a seduction to persuade someone to join and stay with the organization. Like with many divorces, layoffs feel like an emotional betrayal.

I have been on the receiving end of countless calls, emails and texts from people after being [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). No matter how decently they may have been treated by an employer at the time they were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). Few heard the corporate message that accompany their layoff. They think of all the reviews from their manager that praised their performance where they were told they had a future with your company.

Many were brought into conference rooms and auditoriums and told. In the last few years, mass video conference firings became a vogue until the examples of company presidents emoting guilt became the subject of ridicule. Now we have a new vogue– email firings or just being locked out of systems as a way to let people know their services to a firm were no longer required.

For you as a leader, one of the new things to contend with is that your former employees have a way to easily communicate their very real human stories of being [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/).

I suspect most of us have read ,the person with [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) at one firm being let go, the husband and wife and the woman a few hours after having a baby. They are not collateral damage. They are real people whose stories will damage your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) and recruiting efforts for years to come.

What can you do? When it comes to layoffs, employees want to know the reason behind the decision and the process that was followed. Communicating clearly will help reduce the layoffs impact and ensure that employees understand what is happening.

The [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) in clear communication is to explain the reason behind the layoffs. This could be due to a reduction in demand for goods and services, changes in the market or the need to reduce costs. Whatever the reason, it is important to be honest and transparent about it. This will help employees to understand why the layoffs are necessary and why their job is at risk or eliminated. This [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/) helps to build trust with employees and offers to set the tone for a more positive outcome for your firm.

[***Leadership Betrayals***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hAM)

Additionally, being transparent about the company’s future plans helps mitigate the remaining employees fear and uncertainty. At times like these senior, leadership should lead with empathy and compassion when facing the difficult task of laying off employees. This is a critical time for both the employees and the company. And it is important to approach the situation with sensitivity and understanding.

By showing empathy and offering support to the employees who are losing their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). You can help to ease the transition and ensure that the impact is as minimal as possible.

One way to demonstrate empathy is by acknowledging the challenges the employees may face and offering support to help them through this difficult time. This can include things such as offering them [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) counseling and [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writing services, providing financial advice and helping to connect them with job opportunities.

By providing these resources, you can show the employees that you care about their well-being and are committed to helping them succeed even after they leave the company.

Do not ignore mental health services for your former employees. A study reported by The Lancet says that across 26 European Union countries, rapid and large increases in unemployment are associated with a significant increase in suicide rates. Imagine the news story in your local newspaper, favorite online publication or social media site with the headline “Recently [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) (your company name) employee dead from suicide.” Then, shocked, you read the story about this young person leaving behind a wife/husband/partner and three young children. No one should learn to live with that.

It is also critical to focus on maintaining the morale of the remaining employees during layoffs. In times of organizational change, it’s easy for employees to become discouraged and demotivated which can negatively impact their productivity and overall job satisfaction.

To mitigate this, it’s important to have clear and transparent communication about the company’s goals and vision moving forward and to engage the remaining employees and shaping this new direction. Creating opportunities for employees to build relationships and collaborate with each other can also help foster a sense of community and belonging within the organization. This could include team building activities, cross functional projects, and open forums for discussion and [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).

Additionally, recognizing and rewarding the [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) and dedication of employees who are staying with the company during difficult times is a powerful way to boost morale and show appreciation for their contributions. In short, by focusing on maintaining the morale of the remaining employees and providing them with a sense of purpose, you can ensure that your organization is well positioned to thrive in the future.

I have seen firsthand the devastating effects of impulsive and poorly executed layoffs. These actions can result in a loss of morale and trust among remaining employees a negative impact on the company’s reputation and the potential for legal repercussions. I suspect you have seen that in other organizations too.

Therefore, it is of the utmost importance for a senior leader to approach layoffs with a clear plan and strategy in place. This plan should be thorough and well thought out, taking into consideration not just the financial implications, but also the impact on employees, the company culture and the future [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) of the organization.

Working with your primary consulting firm and accounting firm, as well as other senior leaders with your firm will help avoid blind spots in devising your plan such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and age that can prove damaging after layoffs occur.

In conclusion, leading during times of layoffs requires a delicate balance between being transparent and compassionate and being firm and making difficult decisions by effectively communicating the rationale for the layoffs, addressing the concerns of the remaining employees and engaging them in driving the business forward. The C suite executive can help to maintain morale and productivity and build a more resilient and motivated workforce.

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About a Job Part 5](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-a-job-part-5/)

**Published:** April 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is the fifth step to completing your due diligence about a job that’s being proposed to you. It’s important to use a structured approach when working through the choice.

**Content:**

# The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About a Job Part 5 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/bevUvErVCQg)

This is the fifth step to completing your due diligence about a job that’s being proposed to you. It’s important to use a structured approach when working through the choice.

Part 1: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg)

Part 2: [https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To ](https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To)

Part 3A: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Yj-ek3SSc8o ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Yj-ek3SSc8o)

Part 3B: [https://youtube.com/shorts/pjvhUqHzmDM ](https://youtube.com/shorts/pjvhUqHzmDM)

Part 4 A [https://youtube.com/shorts/633ZHy\_F\_WU](https://youtube.com/shorts/633ZHy_F_WU)

Part 4B 

[***Decisions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6D)

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### [Leveraging AI for High-Resolution Executive Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leveraging-ai-for-high-resolution-executive-networking/)

**Published:** April 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In a market saturated with "personalized" templates and automated bots, the standard LinkedIn connection request has become a low-value commodity.

**Content:**

# The Intelligence Layer: Leveraging AI for High-Resolution Executive Networking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In a market saturated with “personalized” templates and automated bots, the standard [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connection request has become a low-value [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). The challenge isn’t just getting into someone’s inbox—it’s proving you aren’t noise. To win, you must leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) not as a ghostwriter, but as a **research engine** to achieve “High-Resolution” outreach.

Recently, I wrote about the “[**Sniper Approach**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oUh)” to targeting [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). Today, we look at the specific mechanics of the “Digital Handshake”—using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to bridge the gap between your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** and a a firm’s strategic needs.

### 1. From Personalization to Hyper-Contextualization

Most professionals think personalization means mentioning a shared university or a common connection. In the executive suite, that is table stakes. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) allows you to move into **Hyper-Contextualization**: demonstrating that you understand the target’s specific business logic before you ever speak.

- **The Workflow:** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model a target executive’s recent digital output—interviews, white papers, or long-form [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“Analyze this executive’s stated priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Identify one specific technical or cultural friction point they have mentioned. Draft a two-sentence observation that connects my experience in \[Your Niche\] to that friction point.”*
- **The Impact:** You are no longer a “job seeker.” You are a peer providing a high-level observation.

### 2. Semantic Mapping: The Referral Shortcut

The most powerful [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) doesn’t happen with the [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) Manager; it happens with the “Future Peer.” Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your existing network by **Semantic Overlap** rather than just job title.

- **The Tactic:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools to analyze the work history of people in your second-degree network. Look for those who transitioned from your current industry into your target industry during a period of volatility.
- **The Outreach:** *“I noticed you moved from \[Industry A\] to \[Industry B\] during the \[Specific Market Event\]. I’m currently navigating that same pivot with a focus on \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)\]. I’d love to know if the \[Specific Framework\] you used there still holds up in your current environment.”*
- **The Result:** You are asking for an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) opinion, which is the highest form of flattery for an executive, while simultaneously signaling your own high-level competence.

### 3. The “Anti-Bot” Drafting Protocol

Because the executive class is being bombarded with synthetic messages, the “uncanny valley” of AI-written text is a massive red flag. To use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) effectively, you must use it to **synthesize**, but never to **send** without a human-in-the-loop audit.

- **The Rule of 80/20:** Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) do the 80%—the research, the synthesis of quarterly reports, and the structural drafting. You provide the final 20%: the tonal nuance, the industry “inside joke,” or the reference to a live event that happened this morning.
- **Tonal Auditing:** If the AI’s output sounds like a press release, it will be deleted. Ask the model to: *“Rewrite this in a professional, low-ego, peer-to-peer tone. Remove all corporate buzzwords like ‘synergy,’ ‘passionate,’ and ‘deep-dive’.”*

### 4. Bypassing the Compliance and Privacy Filter

As an executive, your data hygiene reflects your leadership. Using “scraped” or non-public data in your outreach can trigger [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) for both individual privacy and corporate compliance.

- **The Guardrail:** Stick to **Public Signals**. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze what the target *wants* the world to see (press releases, public blogs, earnings calls).
- **Security Note:** Never input confidential details about your current employer’s proprietary systems into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model to help write a pitch. Your “Onlyness” should be defended by your expertise, not by leaking data.

### The Bottom Line: The Power of the “Value Loop”

AI-augmented [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is successful when it creates a **Value Loop**. You use the machine to find the specific problem, and you use your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a potential solution.

For your next outreach, stop thinking about what the person can do for you. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to answer: **“What is the one piece of context this person is currently missing that my unique background can provide?”** When you lead with context, the “job” conversation happens naturally as a result of the value you’ve already provided.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Craft a Career Highlights Reel, Not a Boring Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/craft-a-career-highlights-reel-not-a-boring-resume/)

**Published:** April 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Dr. Kyle Elliot shares advice for how to think of your resume.

**Content:**

# Craft a Career Highlights Reel, Not a Boring Resume

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/-fiXwlU8c3s)

Dr. Kyle Elliot shares advice on how to think of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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### [Own Your Onlyness and Get Hired Faster](https://thebiggamehunter.us/own-your-onlyness-and-get-hired-faster/)

**Published:** April 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# **Own Your Onlyness and Get Hired Faster**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Let’s get real: when you’re [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), you’re just one of thousands of people saying they’re “passionate,” “driven,” and “results‑oriented.” Sound familiar?

That language blends you in. The people who get hired faster do one thing better than everyone else—they know and show their *[onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).*

[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is that mix of experiences, strengths, and perspective that makes you different. It’s not your résumé. It’s your story. And when you communicate that clearly, you stop competing on credentials and start competing on *value.*

## Step 1: Figure Out What Makes You the “Only One Who…”

Ask: “I’m the only one who…” and finish the sentence.

Maybe you’re the only one who built a new process that saved weeks of work. Maybe you turned a failing client into a long‑term [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) story. Maybe you thrive when things are messy and others fold.

Those examples are your proof. They make your story stand out because they’re real, not recycled.

## Step 2: Stop Sounding Generic

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) read endless profiles full of the same language. If your résumé or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline says, “Experienced professional with a proven track record,” you’ve just disappeared into the crowd.

Make your achievements specific. Say:

- “Helped my company hit its revenue goal by building an entirely new client channel.”
- “Cut onboarding time by half by reworking [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) and support.”

Specifics show impact. Fluff doesn’t.

## Step 3: Treat LinkedIn Like a Stage, Not a Storage Locker

Most job hunters treat [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) like a static résumé. They polish it once and wait. That’s a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Visibility creates opportunity.

Here’s what works:

- Post once a week. Share an insight, a lesson, or a problem you solved.
- Comment on posts from leaders in your field. Add something meaningful—not just “Great post!”
- When you connect, write a real note: “I liked what you shared about X. It made me think about Y.”

It’s not about going viral; it’s about being visible. People hire who they see, not who they scroll past.

***Leveraging [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to Scale Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)***

## Step 4: Use LinkedIn as a Research Tool

Search for people already in roles you want. Study how they describe their path. Look at their highlights, their tone, and what their managers praise publicly.

Then send short, professional messages:

> “I noticed you moved from operations to product leadership. I’m exploring something similar—what helped you make that transition successfully?”

That’s how real relationships start. Not with “Do you know of any openings?” but with curiosity and respect.

## Step 5: Keep Your Story Straight

Everything—résumé, profile, messages, interviews—should tell the same story. Who you are. What you do [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). What you want next.

Mixed messages make [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) nervous. When you’re consistent, you look confident and credible.

## Step 6: Apply Smarter, Not Wider

Here’s the truth: spraying résumés everywhere won’t get you hired faster. It just drains your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

When you know your [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you know which [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) align with your strengths. Focus there. Skip the rest. The right fit is where your uniqueness creates the most value—and where you’ll stay longer and perform better.

## Step 7: Run Your Search Like a Project

Set weekly goals: conversations, posts, [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), follow‑ups. Track what works. Adjust.

This isn’t guesswork—it’s process. The same mindset that delivers results at work delivers results in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

Your *[onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)* is what separates you from everyone else playing the same game. The moment you own it—and make it visible—you become someone [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) *want* to find.

Stop trying to look like everyone else. Start sounding like yourself. That’s how people remember your name… and hit “schedule [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/).”

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### [Vetting Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/vetting-recruiters/)

**Published:** March 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, we look at some ways to evaluate the recruiters and headhunters you'll run into during a search.

**Content:**

# Vetting Recruiters

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In this video, we look at some ways to evaluate the [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and headhunters you’ll run into during a search.

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Many people approach the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) like a game of chance. You hand your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/), wait for them to pull you up, and hope they don’t drop you back into the pile before you ever reach a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. Most of the time, you’re dealing with a basic screener.

These are [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who work off a rigid mental checklist, hunting for square pegs to jam into square holes without ever looking at the person behind the credentials. Relying on a fast-talking, desperate [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) pusher is a liability. Their priority is a quick commission, and if the fit is wrong, [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) is the one that pays for it six months later.

We need a better way to vet the person representing you. We can evaluate a recruiter’s effectiveness by looking at three specific traits—their character, their curiosity, and their technical competence. Ultimately, [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) trajectory is directly linked to the caliber of the gatekeeper you choose to trust.

High-level headhunters project a calm, honest demeanor. They don’t sound desperate to fill a role, and they don’t treat your background like a sales pitch. They respect your time by being direct and concise.

You’ll notice they listen more than they talk, refusing to exaggerate about a client or play games with the details of a position. You can also spot a professional by the way they investigate you. While an amateur just wants a [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), a pro will [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) you extensively to understand how you actually move the needle for organizations.

They look for what the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) leaves out. They ask about your organizational impact, your influence on peers, and professional [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) you care about. If they don’t know something, they’ll say so

A good [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) won’t make up answers—they’ll get answers for you. This level of investigation is the only way for them to determine if a role is actually a durable match for your skills and interests. Then there is the matter of competence.

A professional headhunter manages your expectations with a deep understanding of the current market. They walk you through the specific mechanics of the search. You should know exactly what to expect from the phone screens, the video calls, and the final in-person [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) before the first meeting even starts.

They also don’t apologize for the miss. If your background doesn’t fit with the client needs, a pro will tell you bluntly. They’ll point to the specific gap in experience that makes this particular role the wrong move.

Consider the final litmus test. Could this person write a detailed, highly targeted executive brief about you based on just one conversation? Competence is the ability to synthesize your raw history into a clear market asset that a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager can actually use. While you’re vetting the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/), remember that the mirror works both ways.

The most elite headhunters are simultaneously evaluating you. Even the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) cannot help a candidate who refuses to put in the effort. If you aren’t willing to reveal your personality, no amount of advocacy will land the job.

Many job hunters want a mommy or daddy [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) to deliver a new career without doing any heavy lifting themselves. They recycle old [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and hide their real selves, then complain when the process fails. To have a top-tier headhunter represent you, you have to be a high-effort partner.

You have to be transparent about your goals and your gaps. For more [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice, books, and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), head over to jobsearch.community. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) has more than 2,600 episodes of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) insights to help make this process much easier for you. A successful search requires both a world-class advocate and a candidate who is actually worthy of that advocacy.

[***The First Things to Do If You Are Laid Off***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2ML)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally. That can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) staff, management, leadership, career transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. *Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

Website: [w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call, or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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### [How to Know If Your Company is Planning Layoffs shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-know-if-your-company-is-planning-layoffs-shorts/)

**Published:** March 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a way to find out if your company is planning layoffs.

**Content:**

# How to Know If Your Company is Planning Layoffs

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/asGWlT0M0AE)

There is a way to find out if your company is planning to layoff people.

[***How to Announce on LinkedIn You Were Laid Off***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jtD)

If you want to know if your company is planning on layoffs and employs at least 100 people and is planning on cutting at least 50, there’s a requirement that they have to give a WARN Act notification. That’s W A R N Act notification.

Do a Google search for WARN Act and your state because there’s a reporting requirement at the state level that they have to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with. Thus, you can see in advance whether there’s a plan for employee cuts. Again, federal law, practiced by the state. They have to give 60 days notice of planned plant closings or layoffs of at least 50 people at one site.

There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us). Go to the blog. It will help you.

[***The First Things to Do If You Are Laid Off***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2ML)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally. That can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) staff, management, leadership, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. *Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

Website: [w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session, a free discovery call, or ask questions using my Trusted Adviser Services)

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Courses: [www.TheBigGameHunter.us/courses](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us/courses)

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### [Who Will Do A Better Job For You – A Recruiter Or A Coach?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/who-will-do-a-better-job-for-you-a-recruiter-or-a-coach/)

**Published:** March 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A recruiter/search professional and a career coach can be a powerful ally for you if you understand their strengths.

**Content:**

# Who Will Do A Better Job For You – A Recruiter Or A Coach?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

**He walked into my conference room two hours before his [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I was there to prepare him for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with a client for a C-level role. His shoes were scuffed, his outfit rumpled, and sweat marks were all over his shirt.**

![woman interviewing man in the office](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/810832_e09a1290f6a245cb88b5fd2060bd594b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_768,h_486,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/810832_e09a1290f6a245cb88b5fd2060bd594b~mv2.jpg)

“Tough day,” I asked.

“I was in until 2 AM working on an issue and didn’t get to sleep until 3:30.”

I peeked at my watch. It was 9:30. He was wearing the fact that it was 90 degrees out already and, knowing him as I did,” he was not ready to deliver an elite performance.

I am going to re-schedule your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for tomorrow. You’re in no shape to walk in and impress them today. Let’s use our time now to allow me to prepare you for what to expect.”

“Have you worked with them before?”

“Yes, for about 5 years. I understand what they want to see. You won’t give it to them today.”

As someone who worked in search for many years, I developed relationships with many of my clients who opened up to me about the nuances of a position they wanted to fill or the qualities in a person they wanted to experience in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Six years ago, I transitioned to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) globally. People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) related to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, and more.

I understand the difference between the role of both a recruiter/search professional and a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach. Each can be a powerful ally for you if you understand their strengths.

### **The Advantages of a Recruiter**

**[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) have access to actual job opportunities.** They have been hired by an employer to locate someone to fill a particular position.

**You [don’t pay for a recruiter to work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-they-dont-work-for-you/) for you.** That’s both good news and bad news. They are trying to fill a position with an institutional customer. They are not trying to find a job for you.

**They have actual connections and relationships with their clients.** Experienced search professionals and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do. They will know the subtleties of a position, a [hiring manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-with-the-recruiter-or-the-hiring-manager-jobsearchtv-com/), and many of the others you’ll meet with. This helps them prepare you for the specific [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) they schedule you for.

**PRO TIP:** The more a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) offers hype about “a great team of people doing exciting work for a wonderful manager at a great company,” the less experienced they usually are OR the less they really know about the position.

**[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can provide targeted guidance for you.** A very experienced [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who has done work with a client for several years. You learn a lot from your clients in the casual conversations that occur over time. You hear how they think. You learn about their non-work interests. Very experienced [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will translate that information into suggestions for how to connect with an interviewer so that you don’t have to figure it out. After all, too often, people arrive at [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and spend time “feeling out” an interviewer instead of being themselves and putting on a good performance. Targeted guidance from a [recruiter who knows their client](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-theyre-stalling-for-their-client/) will help you project more [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and personality, connect with an interviewer faster, as well show that you care about doing great work because you have an accurate feel for whom you’re meeting with.

**[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) understand the [hiring process](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-get-an-employer-to-accelerate-a-hiring-process-shorts/) with this specific company and manager.** They’ll know questions that you may be asked, have a sense of their timeline for making a decision, as well as practical advice to prepare you for a first, second, third, or ninth [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with their client while managing your expectations.

**[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can conduct [mock interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-the-purpose-of-a-mock-interview-and-its-prerequisites-jobsearchtv-com/) geared toward the specific role you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for**. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coaches can conduct mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) but will rarely be able to mirror the specific questions you might be asked for a role. The questions a coach might ask will usually be more general and not targeted to this specific job.

**Both [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and coaches can and will provide objective [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).** However, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can provide specific [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) related to the job you are [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for because they are trying to fill that position and earn a commission.

### **The Advantages of Working with a Coach**

**[Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [Coaching prepares you for interviews. Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-recruiters-prepare-people-for-interviews-better-than-interview-coaches/) can prepare you for specific [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).** Having worked in both fields, I see how my work doing [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) helps people be ready for when a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) schedules and prepares them for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Since you won’t have much time prior to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to prepare, [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) will help you get ready with a methodology and practice environment to work in. Most [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will then give you specific things to execute and deliver in your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). In effect, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) tweak what you’ve learned from an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coach.

**Coaches Work for You. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Work for Their Corporate Clients. “**Follow the money” is a famous [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from a 20th-century American political scandal. It applies here, too. When you work with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), ESPECIALLY when they are advising you about [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) discussions and [negotiation strategies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-negotiation-strategies-for-salary-and-benefits/), their advice and opinions may be influenced by the fact they are trying to get paid (if they are a contingency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) or receive their final payment if they do retained search. In contrast, you pay the coach and they work for you. A good coach may be able to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) strategies that will help you get what you want.

**PRO TIP**: Not all search professionals or [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) have your interest at heart. Not all coaches are capable of [offering strategies and tactics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/getting-them-to-increase-the-offer-use-the-competing-job-offer-tactic/) that will convert into more money or better compensation.

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### [Is It Necessary for Your LinkedIn Profile and Resume Be Different? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-necessary-for-your-linkedin-profile-and-resume-be-different-shorts/)

**Published:** March 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it necessary for your LinkedIn profile to be different from your resume and cover letter, or can you simply copy and paste the same information into each document? 

**Content:**

# **Is It Necessary for Your LinkedIn Profile and Resume Be Different? #shorts**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/jXvZ1R2JcMk)

Is it necessary for your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to be different from your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), or can you simply copy and paste the same information into each document?

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### [Job Search Mistakes: Desperation is Not a Good Look When Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/desperation-is-not-a-good-look-when-job-hunting-shorts/)

**Published:** March 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Desperation reminds people of stalkers. Is that the look you're going for?

**Content:**

# Desperation is Not a Good Look When Job Hunting

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/xUk19rewHOc)

Desperation reminds people of stalkers. Is that the look you’re going for?

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No one likes desperate people in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) or dating. Remember in dating that that stalker person who was always trying to leech on to someone? Well, in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the desperate person comes across as that as well. “Please, I need help. Please help me. I need help from you.” And no one likes that.

You don’t want to come across as one of those people. Desperation is not a good look for you. Don’t do it.

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### [I Have a Verbal Offer. The Recruiter Isn't Getting Back to Me.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-have-a-verbal-offer-the-recruiter-isnt-getting-back-to-me/)

**Published:** March 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I verbally accepted a job and I haven't given an offer letter. it has been a week since. and the recruiter is not answering my calls and emails. What should I do?

**Content:**

# I Accepted an Offer. I Haven’t Received the Offer Letter. They Aren’t Getting Back. What Should I Do?

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Heh19v_tD5Y)

I verbally accepted a job and I haven’t given an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter. it has been a week since. and the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is not answering my calls and emails. What should I do?

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### [No BS Career Advice: March 29 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-29-2026/)

**Published:** March 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: March 29 2026

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

![Specific Demand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Specific-Demand-Gemini_Generated_Image_avm9pqavm9pqavm9.png)

Did you know today is International Piano Day? Of course you didn’t but as the 88th day of the year on the calendar, it is International Piano Day representing the 88 keys of a keyboard. Try working that into conversation today!

### The Intelligence Layer: Leveraging AI for High-Resolution Executive Networking

In a market saturated with “personalized” templates and automated bots, the standard [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connection request has become a low-value [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). The challenge isn’t just getting into someone’s inbox—it’s proving you aren’t noise. To win, you must leverage [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) not as a ghostwriter, but as a **research engine** to achieve “High-Resolution” outreach.

Recently, I wrote about the “[Sniper Approach](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oUh)” to targeting [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). Today, we look at the specific mechanics of the “Digital Handshake”—using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to bridge the gap between your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** and a a firm’s strategic needs.

### 1. From Personalization to Hyper-Contextualization

Most professionals think personalization means mentioning a shared university or a common connection. In the executive suite, that is table stakes. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) allows you to move into **Hyper-Contextualization**: demonstrating that you understand the target’s specific business logic before you ever speak.

- **The Workflow:** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model a target executive’s recent digital output—interviews, white papers, or long-form [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts.
- **The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Prompt:** *“Analyze this executive’s stated priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Identify one specific technical or cultural friction point they have mentioned. Draft a two-sentence observation that connects my experience in \[Your Niche\] to that friction point.”*
- **The Impact:** You are no longer a “job seeker.” You are a peer providing a high-level observation.

### 2. Semantic Mapping: The Referral Shortcut

The most powerful [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) doesn’t happen with the [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) Manager; it happens with the “Future Peer.” Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your existing network by **Semantic Overlap** rather than just job title.

- **The Tactic:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools to analyze the work history of people in your second-degree network. Look for those who transitioned from your current industry into your target industry during a period of volatility.
- **The Outreach:** *“I noticed you moved from \[Industry A\] to \[Industry B\] during the \[Specific Market Event\]. I’m currently navigating that same pivot with a focus on \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)\]. I’d love to know if the \[Specific Framework\] you used there still holds up in your current environment.”*
- **The Result:** You are asking for an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) opinion, which is the highest form of flattery for an executive, while simultaneously signaling your own high-level competence.

### 3. The “Anti-Bot” Drafting Protocol

Because the executive class is being bombarded with synthetic messages, the “uncanny valley” of AI-written text is a massive red flag. To use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) effectively, you must use it to **synthesize**, but never to **send** without a human-in-the-loop audit.

- **The Rule of 80/20:** Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) do the 80%—the research, the synthesis of quarterly reports, and the structural drafting. You provide the final 20%: the tonal nuance, the industry “inside joke,” or the reference to a live event that happened this morning.
- **Tonal Auditing:** If the AI’s output sounds like a press release, it will be deleted. Ask the model to: *“Rewrite this in a professional, low-ego, peer-to-peer tone. Remove all corporate buzzwords like ‘synergy,’ ‘passionate,’ and ‘deep-dive’.”*

### 4. Bypassing the Compliance and Privacy Filter

As an executive, your data hygiene reflects your leadership. Using “scraped” or non-public data in your outreach can trigger [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) for both individual privacy and corporate compliance.

- **The Guardrail:** Stick to **Public Signals**. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze what the target *wants* the world to see (press releases, public blogs, earnings calls).
- **Security Note:** Never input confidential details about your current employer’s proprietary systems into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model to help write a pitch. Your “Onlyness” should be defended by your expertise, not by leaking data.

### The Bottom Line: The Power of the “Value Loop”

AI-augmented [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is successful when it creates a **Value Loop**. You use the machine to find the specific problem, and you use your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a potential solution.

For your next outreach, stop thinking about what the person can do for you. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to answer: **“What is the one piece of context this person is currently missing that my unique background can provide?”** When you lead with context, the “job” conversation happens naturally as a result of the value you’ve already provided.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week, I released more new content including:

**[Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) Aren’t Just About Responsibilities #shorts**

**Excerpt: If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads like a job description, you’re missing the point. Jeff explains why shifting from “what you were supposed to do” to “what you actually delivered” is the only way to stand out in a crowded inbox.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/resumes-arent-just-about-responsibilities-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resumes-arent-just-about-responsibilities-shorts/)

**Everything Works in [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) #shorts**

**Excerpt: There is no single “magic bullet” for finding a role, but almost every tactic—from [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) to cold outreach—can work if executed with the right volume and consistency. Jeff discusses the “all of the above” strategy.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/everything-works-in-job-search-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/everything-works-in-job-search-shorts/)

**[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Won’t Take Your Job #shorts**

**Excerpt: The fear of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) replacing workers is rampant, but the reality is more nuanced. Jeff argues that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) won’t take your job, but a person who knows how to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) better than you just might.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-wont-take-your-job-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-wont-take-your-job-shorts/)

**C Level Negotiations: Don’t Forget to [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) These**

**Excerpt: Beyond the base [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and the signing bonus, there are critical “hidden” clauses in executive contracts. Jeff breaks down the protection and lifestyle perks that C-suite professionals often overlook.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/c-level-negotiations-dont-forget-to-negotiate-these/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/c-level-negotiations-dont-forget-to-negotiate-these/)

**Never Make This [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) When Giving Notice or [Quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) Excerpt: How you leave a company is just as important as how you enter it. Jeff identifies the one common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) professionals make during their final two weeks that can permanently damage a bridge they might need later.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/never-make-this-mistake-when-giving-notice-or-quitting/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/never-make-this-mistake-when-giving-notice-or-quitting/)

**Explain to Me What You Do and Why You’re Good at It EP 1740 “I’d like you to pretend like I’m 8 years old. I’m in 1st or 2nd grade. And, I’d like you to explain to me what you do and why you’re good at it.” Link:** [**https://youtu.be/5Lf8vC1gJK4**](https://youtu.be/5Lf8vC1gJK4)

**10 [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) [Camera Blunders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-camera-blunders-sabotaging-your-virtual-interview/) Excerpt: It’s no longer just about what you say, but how you appear and present yourself through the lens of a camera. Jeff identifies the top visual and technical [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that distract interviewers and undermine your professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/).**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-interview-camera-blunders/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-interview-camera-blunders/)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): March 22 2026 Excerpt: In this edition of No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), Jeff rounds up the most critical insights from the week, focusing on the mindset shifts and tactical adjustments needed to navigate the current [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) landscape.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-22-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-22-2026/)

**The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/): Part 2 Excerpt: Picking up from Part 1, Jeff dives deeper into the investigative phase of a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Learn how to back-channel for culture fit and verify the financial health of a potential employer before you commit.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-2/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-2/)

**How to Be More Likeable in Your [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Excerpt: Competence gets you the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), but likeability gets you the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). Jeff discusses the psychology of rapport and the small behavioral tweaks that make you the candidate the team actually wants to work with.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-be-more-likeable-in-your-interviews/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-be-more-likeable-in-your-interviews/)

**What Skills Do [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Look for During [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Excerpt: Beyond the technical requirements of the role, there are universal “soft” markers that every [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager is scanning for. Jeff breaks down the top five skills that signal high-potential and long-term [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-skills-do-employers-look-for-during-job-interviews/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-skills-do-employers-look-for-during-job-interviews/)

**[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and the Future of Your Job Excerpt: EP 3125 This episode is based on an article posted by the World Economic Forum called “The Real Economics of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Link:** [**https://youtu.be/GnfD5CzfKYk**](https://youtu.be/GnfD5CzfKYk)

**In addition to the previously identified post, here are the remaining releases for Tuesday, March 24, 2026:**

**Software Developer? Ask This Question on [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) #shorts Excerpt: If you’re a software developer, make sure you ask this question at the end of every job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) you go on. Jeff explains why this specific question reveals the true health of the engineering team.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/software-developer-ask-this-question-on-job-interviews-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/software-developer-ask-this-question-on-job-interviews-shorts/)

**Command the Executive [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Screening Call Excerpt: The screening call is often treated as a formality, but for [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), it’s the first test of leadership [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Jeff discusses how to pivot from being “vetted” to commanding the narrative and setting the stage for the C-suite rounds.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/command-the-executive-interview-screening-call/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/command-the-executive-interview-screening-call/)

**[Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) In A Troubled Economy Excerpt: When the market tightens, the standard rules of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) no longer apply. Jeff provides a survival guide for navigating economic downturns, focusing on risk mitigation and identifying “recession-proof” industries and roles.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)

**Software Developer? Ask This Question on [Job Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) #shorts Excerpt: If you’re a software developer, make sure you ask this question at the end of every job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) you go on. Jeff explains why this specific question reveals the true health of the engineering team.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/software-developer-ask-this-question-on-job-interviews-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/software-developer-ask-this-question-on-job-interviews-shorts/)

**Command the Executive [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) Screening Call Excerpt: The screening call is often treated as a formality, but for [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), it’s the first test of leadership [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Jeff discusses how to pivot from being “vetted” to commanding the narrative and setting the stage for the C-suite rounds.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/command-the-executive-interview-screening-call/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/command-the-executive-interview-screening-call/)

**[Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) In A Troubled Economy Excerpt: When the market tightens, the standard rules of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) no longer apply. Jeff provides a survival guide for navigating economic downturns, focusing on risk mitigation and identifying “recession-proof” industries and roles.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/)

**When [Following Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) Backfires Excerpt: EP 3126 There are times when your desire to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) can backfire on you. Link:** [**https://youtu.be/6PgK-K1wtnQ**](https://youtu.be/6PgK-K1wtnQ)

**How Should I Show Multiple Roles at the Same Company in my [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Excerpt: Many professionals struggle to format their upward mobility within a single organization without making their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) look cluttered. Jeff explains the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to indicate multiple roles at the same company to highlight your growth and loyalty.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-should-i-show-multiple-roles-at-the-same-company-in-my-resume/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-should-i-show-multiple-roles-at-the-same-company-in-my-resume/)

**15 Ways To Evaluate Headhunters And [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Excerpt: Not all [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) have your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) interests at heart. Jeff provides a 15-point checklist to help you distinguish between a “body shop” [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) and a true talent partner who can actually move the needle for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-ways-to-evaluate-headhunters-and-recruiters/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-ways-to-evaluate-headhunters-and-recruiters/)

**The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) Part 3B Excerpt: Continuing the deep-dive series, Jeff explores the external verification process. Learn how to look past the company’s internal narrative by analyzing market position, competitor sentiment, and glassdoor trends to find the “hidden” truths.**

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### [The Two Major Reasons Your Employees Fail and Quit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-two-major-reasons-your-employees-fail-and-quit/)

**Published:** March 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I’ve come to understand that with few exceptions, the reason people fail rests with the manager and the institution and not the person.

**Content:**

# The Two Major Reasons Your Employees Fail and Quit

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**I spent a long time in recruiting before transitioning into [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I spoke to several million people during that time who looked for work or who were trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). Rarely did anyone consider they were at fault for their circumstances.**

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Having spent time considering my conversations and speaking with others, I’ve come to understand that with few exceptions, the reason people fail rests with the manager and the institution and not the person.

**That’s because people fail for two primary reasons:**

1. The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager did not know how to evaluate and assess the people s/he was [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).
2. The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager misrepresented the position and/or the work environment in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

For example, after joining, you decided that someone is a poor job fit because they lack particular skills needed, whose fault is that? Yours. You read a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It was screened by someone in your talent acquisition organization before it was referred to you. You have them meet with a person or people from your department before meeting them and then someone in a more senior position approved their [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). How is it their fault that they lacked the requisite skills? After all, they met with at least 4 people in this scenario who all approved the person being hired. Now, you’re dissatisfied… and you blame them. No, you and the others made a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), not the other way around.

Someone I consulted with questioned whether a lack of motivation was really the fault of a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager or an organization.

“Of course, it’s the manager’s fault.”

“Why is that?”

“It should have been detected during the [reference chec](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-hiring-advice-why-are-you-checking-references/)k.”

“But what if it was explored during the [reference check](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-reference-check-trap/)?”

“Then it’s definitely the manager’s fault because they have taken a motivated person and failed to disclose what the working environment was like, what the [institutional friction](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-recruiters-steal-your-top-people-hiding-institutional-friction-shorts/) was to be effective, what their co-workers were like (negative attitudes), lack the tools and resources to be successful, overworked them because they were very capable until the point they broke… Do you see how lack of motivation is a problem created by the individual?”

Few people join organizations wanting to be “the problem person” or “the incompetent person.” Usually, they join with the excitement of starting a new position and the hope that they will be successful. After all, they did pretty [well at their previous employer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ending-your-interview-well-employers/). Even if they were [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/), usually that’s an issue of “the numbers,” rather than a performance issue. Yet something changed after you hired them.

In a 1998 article in Harvard Business Review entitled, “[Set Up to Fail,”](https://hbr.org/1998/03/the-set-up-to-fail-syndrome) co-authored by Jean-Francois Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux, the authors point out that “an employee’s poor performance can be blamed on their boss.” Often, there is a dynamic in which employees perceived to be mediocre or weak performers live down to the low expectations their managers have for them. The result is that they often end up leaving the organization.”

The set-up-to-fail scenario they describe is both typical and human. Usually, it starts with good feelings and an [effective working](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-work-effectively-with-contingency-recruiters/) relationship that breaks when one side or the other disappoints. For example, the employee misses a deadline or doesn’t deliver a sale and their boss starts to increase supervision. The employee senses a lack of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and picks up their pace, withdraws emotionally from their boss and often takes on too much which often results in failure, “problem hoarding” and other perceived issues. As a result, the manager will add additional controls on behavior, pressure their subordinate and create the conditions for them to leave.

Sometimes, a manager will point to a communication issue as being a problem that is not their fault, although sometimes it is. The issue may arise not because of a failure to understand what is expected but because a manager has created a culture where staff is [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to ask for clarity. “I don’t want to see their scorn anymore,” one co-worker once told me after leaving a meeting with their manager after receiving incoherent instructions from them. You may think they should have said something however they responded logically to their history of being criticized by their manager. Whose fault is that? The employee or the manager? I think it lies with the manager.

The converse can also be true. On the reality television show, “Hell’s Kitchen,” Chef Gordon Ramsay works with a number of cooks and average chefs, demanding excellence from them and, generally, getting it. Yes, one by one, individuals are weeded out from the competition after making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). After all, it wouldn’t be good tv if there wasn’t some sort of competition with a champion crowned at the end. However, each contestant generally competes at a higher level than they did at their restaurant of origin. Just like low expectations yield matched results, high expectations can yield superior results.

To be clear, I am not suggesting you throw things or insult people on your staff as Chef Ramsay has been known to do. I am unequivocally saying that the ability of your staff to succeed also depends on you and your ability to inspire people to excellence or greatness.

[Dr. Lance Secretan](https://secretan.com/about-us/dr-lance-secretan/) is a leading executive coach globally. For 12 consecutive years, he has been ranked among both The Top 30 Most Influential Executive Coaches and The Top 30 Most Influential Leadership Experts globally.

He describes the difference between motivation as the difference between a push mechanism (motivation) and a pull mechanism (inspiration). “Motivation is lighting a [fire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-fire-someone/) underneath someone,” Secretan says. “Inspiration is lighting a fire within someone.”

Perhaps the fire within you has been tempered with time and your experience of institutional friction. Maybe as BB King sang, “The thrill is gone.” You don’t have to lower your team and recreate the conditions that have demotivated you. Find support to rekindle the fire within and carry a torch of leadership into the world.

If you are interested in speaking with me about how I can help you, schedule a free discovery call [here.](http://www.thebiggamehunter.us/)

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2023

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### [Believing the BS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/believing-the-bs-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** April 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter debunks one of the career myths we all act as though we believe.

**Content:**

# Believing the BS

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) debunks one of the career myths we all act as though we believe.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Like Atypical Answers***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-js7)

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years.

You know, I’ve made [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in my career. I suspect the same is true of you too. And just to talk about career [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), of my own, is, for quite a few years, I worked for agencies for long spans of time. And invariably, what happened was we got to a point where management started to blame staff pretty regularly, because they weren’t perfect.

Now, there were a variety of things that happened. Like in the last agency I was associated with, what would happen is that the owner would cut back on tools and resources, and we had less support to help us and we were doing more stuff. And we weren’t getting the results that we had . . . we were getting . . . used to getting when we had more of those assets. At a previous firm, we had an owner that I can just very simply say, in my opinion, was nuts at times. And he would be psychologically abusive to the staff and staff would get sufficiently frustrated. But kind of like the abused spouse, we hung in there, because we’re all making a living until we weren’t. You know, 9/11 happened. And no one can make a living in the aftermath of that.

When all is said and done, as you look at your own circumstances, many of us focus in on our immediate comfort and trying to make things work. Because we’ve grown up to believe that you go to work for a company, you work your way up the ranks, you achieve a modicum of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). And, you know, invariably things will all work out.

Well, I want to let you in on a secret. Even at the biggest firms, particularly at the biggest firms, the ones that we’ve all been propagandized to believe are the bastions of stability, there is no stability whatsoever. All the major banks [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) during the last recession, all the major manufacturing firms [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) substantial numbers of people. Every industry, every organization of any size or substance laid staff off. what’s stability was there? Zero.

But we all believe you go to work for a company, you work hard to get ahead, you work your way up the ranks. It isn’t true. When times get tough business now, unlike what they used to do in the 1950s, does what’s right for management and the shareholders and lets people go in order to survive or to last last through the storm.

That’s not being critical of them. I’m being critical of those of us who believe that working for a large firm means stability. The only stability that exists is the stability that exists with having skills and experiences that are desirable. And I have to add this in, learning the skills needed to find a job different than the skills needed to do a job.

Again, catch that one. Learning the skills needed to find a job apart from the skills needed to do the job, putting yourself in the position to be found having desirable expertise, marketing yourself, not just simply when you’re looking for work, but uniformly.

It’s not like suddenly, companies market their toilet paper, for example, on Tuesdays. You know, they are out there marketing all the time. You have to be marketing all your talk all the time. You need to be practicing and rehearsing how to respond if the phone rings and there’s a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) on the line.

But most importantly, you have to break this cycle of BS that you’ve been brought up to believe and have internalized to believe that you go to work for a company and work your way up the ranks. The fact is in this economy, in this new economy that has gone into place, since I’m not exactly sure whether it’s 2001 in the post 9/11 era or after the economic collapse in 2008. Doesn’t matter the way we are now, is business wants to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) disposable people who they can get rid of at times where it’s inconvenient.

And you have to think of it the same way. If they’re going to get rid of you, what will the next firm be looking for that you can sell to them that will make you attractive to the next firm. Apart from all your competition, what makes you unique? What makes you special? What makes you someone that they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)?

This is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this video helpful. If you did, and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, just do something that lets people know it was worthwhile.

Then, come over to my website, which is TheBigGameHunter.us and go exploring. There’s lots of great content to help you with [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). In addition, while you’re there, you can watch all my other videos, you can listen to podcasts onf my radio shows, you can search positions I’m recruiting for (discontinued), post your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to a lot of sites from mine (discontinued),. You can sign up for a complimentary subscription to either or both of my e-zines which are called No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice, and No BS [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Advice (discontinued),. A lot of stuff to help you find work ,a lot of tools to help you find work. So come over to TheBigGameHunter.us and go explore.

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Instead, contact me through live person.com or (discontinued. Go to TheBigGameHunter.us/videoanswers ) where I’m a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) and career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/). I want to help you. I want to help you get the right answers to your questions so that you can get to work more quickly.

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### [Why Your "Helpful" Advice Is Sabotaging Your Partner’s Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-helpful-advice-is-sabotaging-your-partners-success/)

**Published:** March 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Learn the high-level strategies used by elite teammates to protect a wife/husband/partner’s mental energy, build resilience, and maintain relationship trust.

**Content:**

# Why Your “Helpful” Advice Is Sabotaging Your Partner’s Success

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most partners try to “fix” a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to ease their own discomfort, but unsolicited advice only creates friction and resentment. Learn the high-level strategies used by elite teammates to protect a wife/husband/partner’s mental [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), build [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/), and maintain relationship trust when the stakes are high.

Welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) TV. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Although I’ve never been unemployed, job searches shake even the most confident professionals.

When your partner is in the thick of a search, you function as a teammate who absorbs the emotional weight of a losing season alongside them. Witnessing that struggle is uncomfortable. It triggers a natural, overwhelming instinct to try and quickly solve the problem, just to resolve your own feelings of helplessness.

Generic cheerleading like you’ve got this or unsolicited [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) often backfires, creating friction instead of comfort. This sequence illustrates the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) support [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). A partner’s struggle triggers the urge to intervene, which typically manifests as uninvited [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

That [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) often breaks the very trust your partner needs to stay resilient, leading to a sense of defeat for both of you. Shifting from a fixer to an MVP teammate requires five specific strategic pivots. Real support requires fighting the internal urge to control the situation or dictate the specific outcome of the search.

The fixer instinct usually flares up when a partner recounts negative [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) from an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). This is the moment to employ the mirror protocol. You must suppress the urge to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) solutions or critique their performance.

Rather than auditing what they said, reflect back what you hear. You might say, it sounds like you felt dejected after that conversation, instead of suggesting they should have said something different. This strategy requires high emotional discipline.

It forces you to sit with their negative emotions rather than attempting to talk them out of their feelings. Active listening builds trust. It validates their current reality without the pressure of being judged.

This matrix tracks how these actions impact the seeker. While the mirror protocol builds trust, we also have to address how a search hijacks a person’s sense of purpose. The next strategy focuses on identity protection, decoupling your partner’s self-worth from their professional title.

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You do this by consistently reinforcing the specific personal qualities you admired in them long before their [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) status changed. This shift requires you to stop using societal markers of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) or job titles to validate your partner’s value. Your role in direct conversations is to confirm their inherent worth, not to optimize their candidacy.

A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is a grind of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and research that often yields high effort with zero tangible wins for weeks at a time. You provide support by actively respecting and validating this invisible effort on a daily basis. Monitor the mundane tasks, updating materials, sending outreach emails, or securing a brief [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) call.

Celebrate these small intermediate wins explicitly. This takes constant vigilance. It forces you to delay the gratification of waiting for a final job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to show your pride in their work.

Making that invisible progress visible fuels their endurance. It rewards the momentum required to keep going. Celebrating micro-progress converts an endless marathon into a series of manageable, rewarding sprints.

External pressure often comes from well-meaning friends and family who ask the wrong questions at the wrong time. You can mitigate this by acting as a human shield or running interference. Well-meaning relatives often ask, still no job? Or the dreaded, how’s it going? These questions cause micro-shames that chip away at a seeker’s [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

If they aren’t volunteering information, it usually means things are currently stalled or they are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of a jinx. When these questions arise, intercept them immediately, change the subject, and act as a conversational buffer. This means you willingly absorb the social awkwardness or friction from family members to protect your partner.

Taking on that external social discomfort is a direct way to preserve your partner’s mental [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) for their search. Supporting a partner is not about finding the job for them. It is about creating an environment where they can survive the uncertainty of the process.

This MVP partner matrix helps you identify which strategies to prioritize based on your own natural tendencies. If you are naturally a fixer, you plot here. Your priority must be the mirror protocol.

For fixers, the rule is simple. Stop reviewing their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or offering advice unless they specifically ask for it. If you are an anxious bystander, you plot in this quadrant.

Your focus should be on running interference. Redirect your nervous [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) outward toward managing relatives rather than projecting that [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) onto your partner. Your partner needs to feel loved and supported, particularly when the grueling [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) makes them feel unlovable.

Relinquishing the desire for immediate control sustains the relationship long after the search ends. Join us at jobsearch.community to find the tools you need to support [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and your teammates.

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About Job Part 4B #jobsearchtv](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-job-part-4b-jobsearchtv/)

**Published:** March 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Especially for more senior roles it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situations you’re stepping into is part of what you do. 

**Content:**

# The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About Job Part 4B #jobsearchtv

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/gIS6qal2swQ)

Especially for more senior roles it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situations you’re stepping into is part of what you do. This is part 4B of a multi part series about creating a structured due diligence process.

These are links for the previous episodes:

Part 1: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg)

Part 2: [https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To ](https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To)

Part 3A: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Yj-ek3SSc8o ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Yj-ek3SSc8o)

Part 3B: [https://youtube.com/shorts/pjvhUqHzmDM ](https://youtube.com/shorts/pjvhUqHzmDM)

Part 4 A [https://youtube.com/shorts/633ZHy\_F\_WU](https://youtube.com/shorts/633ZHy_F_WU)

[***Decisions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6D)

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### [Building a Powerful Network #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/building-a-powerful-network-shorts/)

**Published:** March 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Powerful networks don't happen by accident.

**Content:**

# Building a Powerful Network #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/jhiG4Rn-7bU)

Powerful networks don’t happen by accident.

***[Crafting Your LinkedIn Mission Statement](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oFY)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [***Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc)

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### [Why Are You Applying for a Senior Role?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-you-applying-for-a-senior-role/)

**Published:** March 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3124 It is beyond me why you even think of applying for senior roles online.

**Content:**

# Why Are You Applying for a Senior Role?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3124 It is beyond me why you even think of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for senior roles online.

[***Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C Suite Professionals***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5nP1ouNLskMvaidX6ZZyEP)

### **Timestamps**

- **00:00** – The flawed logic of “applying” for senior roles.
- **00:38** – Where senior [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) go to die: The Black Hole.
- **00:56** – Why the “Best Person for the Job” rarely comes from an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).
- **01:28** – The Recruiter’s Confession: “We don’t respond to [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/).”
- **01:42** – How top companies *actually* fill senior roles.
- **02:14** – Breaking down the [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Playbook: Headhunting and [Referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/).
- **02:33** – Shifting your strategy: From “Better Applicant” to “Being Found.”
- **02:48** – How to get on the radar of top headhunters.
- **03:11** – Transforming your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile into a discoverability magnet.
- **03:30** – Running a “Campaign of Visibility” for your next move.
- **03:42** – Final Takeaway: Stop [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), start being recruited.

Okay, let’s talk. If you’re a senior professional, you’re probably aiming for a top-tier role, right? And you’re doing what you’ve always done – polishing up that [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), hitting apply on all the big job boards. But what if I told you that entire approach – the one we all think is the right way – is actually completely wrong? Yeah, you heard that right.

That [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is a bit of a bombshell, isn’t it? It’s really the heart of what we’re digging into today – the idea that [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a senior role is a waste of time. I mean, that sounds crazy. But it comes from someone who’s seen it from the inside, and it just might change how you think about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

So does this sound familiar? You pour hours, maybe even days, into crafting the perfect [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) for a really great senior role. You hit submit, and then… crickets. Nothing.

You’ve just been sucked into what we call the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) black hole. And you know what? A lot of senior leaders know that place all too well. We all kind of have this picture in our heads, right? That companies post a job, a flood of amazing [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) comes in, and they just pick the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) one.

It seems totally logical, it’s how the system is supposed to work. But here’s the thing. For senior roles at the really big companies, it’s a total myth.

So how do we know this? Well, a corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who’s worked for some of the biggest companies in the world basically pulled back the curtain on how [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) actually works at that senior level. And her secret? Well, that’s what we’re going to unpack right now. Just let that sink in for a second.

A top [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is saying, flat out, that they don’t use job boards or even [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) to find their senior people. The reason you’re not hearing back isn’t because you’re unqualified. It’s because they’re not even looking where you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/).

[***Is That Recruiter Legit?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oID)

So if they’re just ignoring this mountain of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), how on earth do they fill these super important roles? Well, they don’t wait for talent to come to them. No, no. They go out and hunt for it.

It’s a completely different game. And when you see it side by side like this, the difference is just, wow. It’s stark.

On one side, you’ve got this passive, reactive world we think they use, job boards, sifting through [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). But on the other side is the reality, a super active, targeted approach built on relationships. It’s all about headhunting, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), and getting [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/).

This is literally their playbook. They are not sitting there sifting through a digital pile of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Nope.

They are actively hunting for the top performers who are already out there, killing it in their fields. They’re going to their trusted contacts and asking one simple question. Who is the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person you know for this? Okay, so what does this all mean for your strategy? The whole goal shifts.

It’s no longer about being the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) applicant. It’s about being the person they find when they start their hunt. So the real question becomes, how do you get on their radar in the first place? It’s really about shifting your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/).

So stop spending endless hours tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for every single [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). Instead, focus that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on getting your name out there. You know, maybe that means speaking at industry events, publishing some articles in your field, or just becoming a known voice online.

Deliberately broaden your network. And yeah, you absolutely need a killer [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, but for a reason you might not be thinking of. See, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile isn’t just a digital [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) you attach to an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

Think of it more like a magnet. It’s a discoverability tool. You need to pack it with the right keywords, showcase your biggest wins, and tell a really compelling story.

So that when a headhunter starts searching for exactly what they need, you’re the person who pops up. So your new [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), especially at the senior level, it isn’t really a search at all. It’s more like a campaign.

A campaign of visibility. It’s all about positioning yourself so that the opportunities find you. This right here.

This is the single most important takeaway. You have to stop thinking of yourself as an active applicant. Instead, start thinking of yourself as a findable asset.

Someone so valuable that top companies want to come and recruit you. Your work, your network, your whole online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). That’s what’s going to get you hired, not your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

So I’ll just leave you with this question to think about. Based on the strategy you’re using today, are you going to have to apply for your next great role? Or are you going to position yourself to be asked? The choice really is yours.

[***Jobs on the Rise According to LinkedIn in 2026***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/25jyknI3GAbpjVssqxufGE)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),

[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### [***The Modern Job Search***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DmiTqBkRGJejVWzI8MKGx)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [***10 LinkedIn Mistakes That Are Costing You Opportunities***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cHH)

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 4A #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-4a-shorts/)

**Published:** March 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Especially for more senior roles, it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situations you’re stepping into is part of what you do.

**Content:**

# The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 4A #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/633ZHy_F_WU)

Especially for more senior roles, it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situations you’re stepping into is part of what you do. This is part 4A of a multi parts series about creating a structured due diligence process.

There are links below for the previous episodes.

Part 1: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg)

Part 2: [https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To ](https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To)

Part 3A: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Yj-ek3SSc8o ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Yj-ek3SSc8o)

Part 3B: 

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### [Leveraging AI to Scale Your Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leveraging-ai-to-scale-your-onlyness/)

**Published:** March 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Executive job search has moved beyond the era of "spraying and praying" with generic LinkedIn connection requests.

**Content:**

# Leveraging AI to Scale Your Onlyness

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) has moved beyond the era of “spraying and praying” with generic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connection requests. The sheer volume of automated noise has created a paradox: while it is easier than ever to send a message, it has never been harder to get a response. For leaders, the goal is no longer to “connect,” but to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a strategic lever for **hyper-personalized outreach** that signals high-level competence and genuine intent.

When done correctly, AI-augmented [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) doesn’t replace the human touch; it provides the deep context and research necessary to make human interaction meaningful. It allows you to project your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—that unique intersection of your specific history and vision—at scale.

### 1. Beyond Basic Personalization: Hyper-Contextualization

Standard personalization (e.g., “I see we both went to the same university”) is now the bare minimum. Automated filters and savvy [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) alike now routinely ignore these generic patterns. To stand out, you must move toward **Hyper-Contextualization**.

- **The Workflow:** Use a Large Language Model (LLM) to synthesize a target’s recent digital footprint—specifically their recent long-form posts, podcast appearances, or white papers.
- **The Prompt:** Instead of a generic summary, ask your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/): *“Analyze this executive’s last three [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) articles. Identify one specific contrarian point they made regarding market volatility and draft a two-sentence reflection that connects their insight to my experience in risk mitigation.”*
- **The Logic:** Outreach containing a “specific point of resonance”—a precise reference to a unique thought or data point—proves you aren’t a bot. It signals that you are a peer who has actually consumed their work.

### 2. Semantic Mapping: Finding the “Hidden” Node

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is most effective when it bypasses the front door. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your network not just by job title, but by **semantic overlap**.

Modern [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools can analyze your extended network to find “nodes”—people who have worked at your target company during a specific cultural or fiscal shift that mirrors your expertise. Rather than asking a contact for a job, use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify a “shared problem-set.”

> **Tactical Tip:** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the target company’s recent SEC filings. Ask: *“Who in my network has navigated a merger similar to the one \[Company X\] is currently undergoing?”* This allows you to reach out with a highly specific value proposition: *“I noticed your firm is navigating the transition to decentralized operations; I handled a similar shift at \[Company Z\] and would love to exchange notes.”*

### 3. The “Anti-Bot” Drafting Strategy

Because so much online content is now synthetically generated, the “uncanny valley” of AI-written messages is a major red flag for high-level [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/). To use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) effectively, you must use it to **draft**, not to **send**.

- **The “Human-in-the-Loop” Rule:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to generate three variations of a message: one formal, one visionary, and one problem-centric.
- **The Refinement:** Manually edit the AI’s output to include a “current-state” human element—a reference to a live event, a shared local news item, or a nuanced industry “inside joke” that an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) wouldn’t prioritize.
- **The Fact:** [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is excellent at structure and data retrieval; humans are excellent at **tonal nuance** and **timing**. By using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to do the 80% of research and drafting, you can spend your cognitive [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on the 20% of “polishing” that proves there is a real person behind the screen.

### 4. Avoiding the Compliance Trap

As an executive, your outreach must remain ethically sound. The use of “scraped” personal data that isn’t publicly available can trigger internal compliance alarms at major firms.

- **The Protocol:** Stick to **publicly accessible signals** ([LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts, company blogs, news cycles).
- **The Guardrail:** Never feed sensitive or proprietary information from your current employer into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to “help” it write a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) pitch. Use enterprise-grade [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) environments if you are dealing with sensitive industry data to ensure your search doesn’t create a data breach.

### Final Implementation: The Onlyness Edge

The “Digital Handshake” is a hybrid. It uses [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to solve the problem of **relevance** so that when the human connection finally happens, it is built on a foundation of mutual value rather than a cold ask.

For your next outreach, stop asking “What can this person do for me?” and start using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to answer “What unique insight can I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) this person based on their current challenges?” This is how you lead with your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—the unique intersection of your history and vision that makes you an incomparable asset.

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### [Why Finding a Job is Difficult Right Now](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-finding-a-job-is-difficult-right-now/)

**Published:** March 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why has finding a job become far more difficult?

**Content:**

# **Why Finding a Job is Difficult Right Now**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Why has [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) become far more difficult?

- Lowfire/Low Hire Economy: Job postings have decreased, specifically in tech and professional services
- Broken [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) Process: The rise of ghost [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) (positions that don’t need filling) and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) auto-apply bots has created massive friction, with 18-22% of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) being fake

The Solution: A Company-Forward Approach: Instead of just [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to online postings (Job Forward), you must target specific companies (Company Forward) to access the hidden job market.

- [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/): Create a list of 10-20 target companies based on mission and benefits
- Connect: Stalk them on social media, find decision-makers on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and build relationships *before* a job is posted

Rapid Fire Advice

1. ABN (Always Be [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)): Make professional friends through authentic conversations, not just stuffy events
2. Keep Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Warm: Update it frequently, even if you are employed, as job searches now take an average of seven months
3. Pivot if Necessary: If your role is declining due to [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), consider a lateral move to a hotter industry
4. Embrace [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/): List [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) literacy on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to show you are willing to use tools like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) or any large language model

Conclusion: The 2026 market is skills-focused; companies care more about what you can do than your degrees or past experience

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### [15 Ways To Evaluate Headhunters And Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-ways-to-evaluate-headhunters-and-recruiters/)

**Published:** March 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here are a few things to notice as you speak with a headhunter that will allow you to decide whether you should trust their recommendations.

**Content:**

# 15 Ways To Evaluate Headhunters And Recruiters

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***The Connector’s Advantage***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-dOw)

**When I began to work as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) many years ago, I knew very little. I looked for square pegs for square holes and conducted myself as little more than a basic screener. I would ask questions that reflected a mental checklist — Have you done this? Have you done that? How did you go about doing this? How did you go about doing that?**

![man and woman sitting down talking to each other](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/341119_16e65f40ab2a412190e41d7584558f0a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_925,h_616,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/341119_16e65f40ab2a412190e41d7584558f0a~mv2.jpg)

With time, effort, and a deep drive to work and be world-class at my profession, I slowed down and asked a better class of questions to get to know a person and what made them effective at what they did at work, or an institutional customer and how they evaluated people for the role they were trying to fill. Slowing down made me less transactional, more careful, and more caring about my work.

**Here are a few things to notice as you speak with a headhunter that will allow you to decide whether you should trust their recommendations.**

1. Top headhunters exhibit behaviors that are consistent with the qualities they look for in the people they represent. If you [pay attention](https://thebiggamehunter.us/pay-attention/), you’ll notice they SEEM honest when they ask for your help with finding someone for a client. Keep talking to them, not because they are honest. The more you listen to them talk, the more likely it is that you will learn whether they actually ARE honest.
2. They are easy to deal with because they are courteous, respectful, direct, and concise. They are not sneaky.
3. They don’t waste time pretending to know something they don’t or play games with you.
4. They don’t exaggerate when speaking about themselves or their client. They make you feel important.
5. They do not seem desperate.
6. They don’t speak quickly (unless they are extremely caffeinated). They listen to what you say and don’t say, and dig in deeper to learn more.
7. They respond to questions to the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of their abilities and don’t makeup answers when they are unsure. They are honest about what they don’t know and get answers for you.
8. They show respect for you and are knowledgeable about their client, the position they are attempting to fill (or the person they are representing if you trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone).
9. Good headhunters exhibit integrity by being dependable and honest.
10. They keep their promises by returning your calls, texts, and emails. They are thorough. The questions they ask make this obvious.
11. A headhunter won’t just ask for your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) but will speak with you extensively to understand more about you, your work, your impact as well as your influence. They will actually be curious about your work, your qualifications, your professional interests, and your [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/).
12. They’ll give advice if you ask for it and will be transparent with the process in order to manage your expectations. Yes, there may be delays, but they will walk you through what to expect in the search, how you should [prepare for each interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mobile-phone-interviews-prepare-to-ace-them-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/) whether they be phone, video, or in-person, and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a timeline for each step.
13. Do they appear knowledgeable about the market for what you do (or the kind of person you are trying to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/))? Thorough responses show a depth of understanding that will help you land the [job or an employee if you’re hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-employers-avoid-hiring-job-seekers-who-have-been-out-of-work-for-a-while/).
14. Not least of all, a [quality headhunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-spot-a-quality-headhunter/) will manage your expectations. If you appear to be a good fit, they will try to arrange for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) quickly and, at the very least, alert you of any delays. They will also let you know if you don’t fit what their client is looking for. They won’t apologize for their decision not to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you. They’ll talk about “the miss” in your background. If you are trying to [hire someone](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-do-you-look-for-when-you-hire-someone/), they will give you competitive intelligence about how your ideas for the role can make it possible or more difficult to find someone.
15. Based on your conversation with them, could they write a good executive brief for their client about me based on the conversation? If you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone, could they create a job description that focused on the skills, background, and personality traits required for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in the position? The headhunter is not very good (or the conversation wasn’t very good from their perspective and they don’t have the integrity to tell you) if the initial call was brief Remember, even if your initial screening conversation with a good headhunter doesn’t result in you getting interviewed for a position, they are the kind of people you want to have a long-term connection with.

[***Your Ambivalence About the Job May Mean Something Else***](https://youtu.be/5HkK3WYXOXI)

Although headhunters like these may seem uncommon, there are many very good ones out there. Remember, sometimes the reason the headhunter doesn’t deliver results has nothing to do with them. It has to do with you and your unwillingness to open up to them and reveal your personality.

Too often, [job hunters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-there-recruiters-who-do-search-paid-by-job-hunters/) want Mommy or Daddy headhunters to deliver a new job to them without expending much effort. They don’t take time to investigate the people who will represent them and waste too much time with requests that are not worth their effort. Then, they complain to anyone who will (pretend to) listen. The same is true of organizations that recycle job descriptions and don’t make leaders available to the [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

Do these attributes sound like anyone you’ve already spoken to or worked with?

For a few of my clients, one of the saddest days was when I told them I was transitioning from [search to coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-coach-nah-resume-writer-jobsearchtv-com/).

“But, why,” one exclaimed. [“Aren’t we paying you](https://thebiggamehunter.us/higher-wages-arent-enough-to-turn-mediocre-jobs-into-good-ones/) enough?”

“Yes, but now I’m going to be a force for good,” I said in my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) superhero voice.

We laughed and then he hired me to coach him in his [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

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### [How Should I Show Multiple Roles at the Same Company in my Resume?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-should-i-show-multiple-roles-at-the-same-company-in-my-resume/)

**Published:** March 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How should I indicate in my resume that I've held multiple roles at the same company?

**Content:**

# How Should I Show Multiple Roles at the Same Company in my Resume?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/gOcgv0oviEk)

How should I indicate in my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that I’ve held multiple roles at the same company?

## ***[Debunking Myths About HR and Job Search](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-le1)***

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [When Following Up Backfires](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-following-up-backfires/)

**Published:** April 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3126 There are times when your desire to follow up can backfire on you.

**Content:**

# When Following Up Backfires

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3126 There are times when your desire to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) can backfire on you.

***[LinkedIn’s #opentowork Post](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ouL)***

You know the feeling. You walk out of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you are just floating. You think, I absolutely nailed that.

You’re excited. You’re confident. You can already see yourself getting coffee in the break room.

But then the waiting starts. And that waiting game, wow. It can be one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the whole [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

And this is the question that just haunts you, right? You felt a real connection. The conversation was great. You had perfect answers for everything.

So why is your inbox a ghost town? It’s super frustrating and honestly, a little confusing. So let’s get into what might actually be happening during that silence and how our [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) intentions can sometimes, well, completely backfire. All right.

First, let’s talk about what’s going on with you during that post-interview quiet time. It’s a real emotional roller coaster. And if you can understand that journey, you can avoid making a really common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

I mean, does this timeline look familiar? Day one, you’re on top of the world. You’re feeling hopeful. You’re feeling good.

By day three, though, that little seed of doubt starts to creep in. And by day five, oh man, that [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) has blossomed into this powerful temptation, the urge to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) again. And it’s right there at that exact moment that so many of us mess up.

And this brings us to something we’re going to call the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) fallacy. It’s this [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) that even the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), most enthusiastic job candidates can fall right into when that post-interview [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) just takes over the driver’s seat. The source material really doesn’t pull any punches here.

It says that when you [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) multiple times in just a few days, you come across as impatient and demanding. And let’s just sit with those two words for a second because they are incredibly powerful and not in a good way. So what is this fallacy exactly? Well, it’s this mistaken belief that sending more emails or making more calls is a great way to show how interested you are.

You think you’re screaming, I’m passionate, I’m dedicated. But what they’re actually hearing is something else entirely. And this is the core of the problem.

It’s this huge gap between what you intend to communicate and how they actually perceive it. What you’re trying to say is getting completely lost in translation. I mean, look at this.

It lays out the disconnect so perfectly. On your side, your intention is to show you’re eager, you’re passionate, you’re proactive, all great things. But on their side, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager’s perception, it’s that you seem impatient, demanding, and maybe that you even lack a little professional judgment.

It’s a total communication breakdown. Let’s dig into that first word, impatient. Look, a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team is juggling a ton of stuff.

Other candidates, meetings, their own projects. To them, your constant check-ins don’t really read as eagerness. They read as you not being able to respect their process and their timeline.

A little strategic patience, that shows [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). And then you’ve got the second word, demanding. You might think you’re just asking for a quick little update, but from their perspective, it can feel like you’re making a demand on their time.

And think about it, you haven’t even joined the team yet, and the perception could be that you’re already going to be difficult to manage. Okay, so if this isn’t sending the message you want it to send, what’s the actual result? Well, unfortunately, it’s pretty much the exact opposite of what you’re hoping for. The source is really clear on this one.

This strategy is not going to get you the result that you want. So all that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), all that [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you poured into those [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/), it’s actually working against your number one goal, which is getting that job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). It’s a pretty simple chain reaction when you think about it.

Step one, you send multiple [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/). Step two, that action directly leads them to form a negative perception of you, that you’re impatient and demanding. And the final kind of devastating step, you don’t just fail to get the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), you actively push it away.

And the source uses a really strong word here, repel. This isn’t just a neutral thing where they, you know, pick someone else. Your actions can literally create an aversion.

You’re pushing the opportunity away from you, almost like you’re the wrong end of a magnet. So now that we’ve walked through this all-too-common pitfall, what’s the single most important thing you need to remember from all of this? It really just boils down to these three things. First, and this is huge, your good intentions don’t mean they’ll be perceived in a good way.

Second, those frequent [follow-ups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-master-follow-ups/), they can accidentally signal some really negative traits. And most importantly, all of this can actively push away the very opportunity you’re trying so hard to get. And that leaves us with one last question for you to really think about in your own [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

The next time you feel that post-interview [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) creeping in and your hand is hovering over the keyboard to type in another [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/), just pause and ask yourself this, is my eagerness actually helping my chances here or could it be pushing this opportunity away?

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 3B](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-3b/)

**Published:** March 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Especially for more senior roles, it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situations you’re stepping into is part of what you do.

**Content:**

# The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 3B

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/pjvhUqHzmDM)

Especially for more senior roles it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situations you’re stepping into is part of what you do.

This is part 3Bof a multi parts series about creating a structured due diligence process.

Part 1: [https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg ](https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg)

Part 2: [https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To ](https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To)

Part 3A: 

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### [The Trap Everyone Falls Into](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-trap-everyone-falls-into/)

**Published:** March 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3123 From the book, "⁠ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age ⁠ we discuss the trap almost everyone falls into in their job search and career.

**Content:**

# The Trap Everyone Falls Into

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3123 From the book, “[⁠ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age ⁠](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7) [⁠PDF⁠](https://jeffaltman.gumroad.com/l/onlyness) we discuss the [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) almost everyone falls into in their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

- **00:00** – **Introduction** The hosts introduce the “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio” and the core topic: flipping the traditional [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) mindset.
- **00:11** – **The Book Reveal** Introduction of Jeff Altman’s book, *[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/): The No BS Playbook for the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Age*, which serves as the foundation for the episode’s advice.
- **00:29** – **The [Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) of Being “The Best”** Discussion on why trying to prove you are the “best” candidate is a fundamental [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that most job seekers make.
- **01:13** – **The Race to the Bottom** An explanation of why competing to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is a losing game: it’s subjective, invites direct comparison, and ultimately leads to [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) haggling.
- **01:45** – **The Power of “Onlyness”** The hosts explain the alternative strategy: shifting from “comparison” to “differentiation.” The goal is to stop being an apple in a barrel of apples and become an orange.
- **02:31** – **Generalist vs. Specialist (Concrete Example)** A practical comparison between a general “Director of Marketing” (a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/)) and a “Market Entry Specialist for EU Fintech” (a niche authority).
- **03:23** – **The Critical Question** The hosts present the most important question you should ask yourself: “What makes you the *only* one who can do what you do?”
- **04:06** – **Where to Find the Book** Details on where to purchase *[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)* (Amazon, Audible) or how to get it via the JobSearch.Community.

[***Is That Recruiter Legit?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oID)

This is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. Today, we’re gonna talk about something that might just completely flip the way you think about your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) in your entire [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). And we’re pulling all of this from a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new book by [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

You might know him as [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). It’s called, [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), the No BS Playbook for the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Age. And wow, it really argues that most of us are making this one huge fundamental [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in our [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

It offers a totally different way to think about it. One that could be way more effective. All right, so let’s dive into the big problem first.

He calls it, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/). It’s this idea, this belief we all have that to get that dream job, you have to convince them you are the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person for it. So let me ask you directly, in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) right now, are you trying to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) candidate? I mean, really think about it.

When you’re tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), when you’re prepping for that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), isn’t your main goal to prove you’re number one? Yeah, for pretty much all of us, the answer is a big yes. But what if that whole way of thinking is just wrong? Because according to [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), it is. It’s a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/).

It’s not just hard. It’s a game you are basically designed to lose right from the start. So, why? Why is it a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/)? Well, the reason is that it forces you into something he calls a race to the bottom.

So let’s break this down. Why does trying to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) fail? First off, the whole idea of [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is totally subjective, right? I mean, whose [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) are we talking about? The [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers? They probably don’t even agree. Second, it puts you in a direct comparison.

It’s basically telling the employer, hey, line me up against everyone else. And that leads to the killer point. It invites them to haggle over your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Because when you’re just one of many comparable options, what’s the easiest way to decide? Price. Okay, so if trying to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) is the wrong way to go, what’s the right way? This is where we get to the heart of the book’s idea. It’s all about the power of what he calls [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

The core idea is right here in this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from Jeff. Don’t do comparisons, do differentiation. You have to stop playing their comparison game.

The goal isn’t to win the game, it’s to change the rules entirely, to take yourself out of that lineup altogether. So what is differentiation? It’s the strategy of moving yourself from being just another [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) they can compare toward being a unique, one-of-a-kind authority. Think about it like this.

You’re no longer an apple in a barrel full of apples. You’re an orange. Suddenly, there’s no easy comparison.

You’re not better than, you’re just different. You’re the only one. I know this might sound a little, you know, abstract.

So let’s look at a really concrete example of what this actually looks like in practice. It’s about making the shift from being a generalist to a true specialist. Okay, check this out.

On the left, you’ve got the generalist, director of marketing. Super common title, right? It’s broad, you’re competing with thousands, maybe tens of thousands of other people with that same title. Now look at the right, the niche authority, market entry specialist for European fintech firms entering the US market.

Wow, see how specific that is? This person is not competing with every marketing director out there. They’ve literally created a category of one for themselves. And that right there is the entire point.

[***Jobs on the Rise According to LinkedIn in 2026***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/25jyknI3GAbpjVssqxufGE)

One is just a job title. The other is a unique solution to a very specific problem. They’ve made themselves so different that for the right company, that European fintech firm, there’s literally no one else to even call.

So this brings us to the final and honestly, the most important question, the one you need to start asking yourself. It’s time to stop trying to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). Seriously, start asking yourself this instead.

What makes you the only one who can do what you do? What is that unique mix of skills, your specific experiences, your personal perspective that makes you, you? What problem can only you solve? That, that right there is your [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). And that is where your real power in [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is. Now, obviously we’ve only just scratched the surface here.

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Deciding About Jobs Part 3a #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-deciding-about-jobs-part-3a-shorts/)

**Published:** March 25, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Especially for more senior roles, it’s important that a structured approach to decision-making about the situation you’re stepping into.

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### [The 10-Step Guide To Making A Career Transition](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-10-step-guide-to-researching-and-making-a-career-transition/)

**Published:** March 31, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this article, I'll share 10 steps to researching a new career that goes beyond the usual advice you'll find on the first page of a Google search

**Content:**

## The 10-Step Guide To Researching And Making A Career Transition

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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1. **Values and Passions:** Begin by identifying your core values and passions. What truly motivates you? What gives you a sense of purpose and fulfillment? Make a list of your most important values, such as creativity, autonomy, helping others, or financial security. This will help you align your new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) with what matters most to you.
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## Step 4: Skill gap analysis – Bridging the divide between your current and future career

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12. **Celebrate Successes:** Recognize and celebrate your achievements along the way. Successfully acquiring new skills is a big deal!

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## Step 5: Online research – Unearthing insights about your new career

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## Step 6: Resume and cover letter tailoring – Crafting a winning first impression

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**For Your [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/):**

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## Step 8: Volunteer or intern – Obtain real-world experience for a seamless transition

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5. **Transferable Skills:** Remember to emphasize your transferable skills when [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) or [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/). Showcase the skills and experiences from your previous [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) that are relevant and useful to the new role.
6. **Flexibility:** Be open to different types of opportunities. Part-time or project-based roles can provide valuable experience for what it is really like to work in your new field.
7. **[Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the Organization:** Before [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the organization you’re interested in. Speak with people who work for them to find out how it aligns with [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals.
8. **Prepare for [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/):** Just as you would for a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in your current type of work, prepare for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with potential volunteer or internship hosts. Be ready to discuss your motivations, your skills, and what you hope to learn during your experience.
9. **Skill Acquisition:** Make the most of your time by actively looking for opportunities to apply your new skills and knowledge plus continue to learn through the work. Ask for additional responsibilities and take on tasks that stretch your abilities.
10. **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) on the Job:** While interning or volunteering, take the opportunity to network with colleagues, supervisors, and industry professionals. Building relationships can open doors to future opportunities.
11. **Ask for [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/):** Ask for regular [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) from your supervisors and mentors and use it to improve and demonstrate your dedication to personal and professional growth.
12. **Build a [Portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/):** Document your achievements, projects, and contributions during your internship or volunteer work. Ask yourself “What did I do this week? What did I learn?” Write it down and create a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) of your work that can serve as evidence of your practical experience.
13. **Get Recommendations:** At the end of your experience, request recommendations or references from your supervisors. These endorsements can enhance your credibility when [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for paid positions. Ask for them on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile!
14. **Stay Committed:** Commit to your volunteer or internship role and demonstrate your enthusiasm. Do everything world-class. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) value people who are proactive, dedicated, and passionate.
15. **Transition to Paid Roles:** If your performance is exceptional, ask about paid positions within the organization or use your newfound experience to secure paid roles elsewhere.

Remember that the goal of volunteering or interning is not just to gain experience but also to confirm your interest in the work to yourself as well as demonstrate your commitment to your new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and your ability to contribute meaningfully. It’s an opportunity to learn, network, and build a practical foundation for your transition.

## Step 9: Mentorship – Get wisdom and perspective from experienced guides

Mentorship is a powerful resource when changing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) because it allows you to benefit from the wisdom and experience of someone who has already walked the path you’re on. Here’s how to make the most of mentorship during [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition:

1. **Identify Potential Mentors:** Choose people who are experienced in your desired field. Look for mentors who have successfully transitioned into the same or a similar [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) or have extensive knowledge of the industry.
2. **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and [Referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/):** Leverage your professional network and connections to find potential mentors. Ask colleagues, friends, or acquaintances for recommendations or introductions.
3. **Professional Organizations:** Join professional organizations or associations related to your target field. Many organizations [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) mentorship programs or can connect you with experienced professionals.
4. **Online Platforms:** Online platforms like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) have features that allow you to connect with potential mentors. Look for experienced professionals in your industry and send [personalized requests to connect](https://thebiggamehunter.us/leveraging-ai-for-personalized-connection-requests/).
5. **Clarity in Your [Objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/):** Before reaching out to potential mentors, be clear about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/). Understand what you hope to achieve through mentorship and what specific guidance or support you need. Be flexible about the amount of time you want your mentor to be available to you. They have work and a life to live, too, and are doing a favor for you.
6. **Personalize Your Approach:** When approaching potential mentors, be specific about why you are reaching out to them. Explain [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition and what you admire or respect about their background or expertise.
7. **Mutual Benefits:** Frame mentorship as a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s not just about taking; it’s also about what you can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in return. Be open to sharing your skills or assisting your mentor in any way you can including doing some work on the side for them
8. **Set Clear Expectations:** Once they agree to a mentorship relationship, clarify your expectations and goals. Discuss the frequency of your interactions, preferred communication channels, and any specific areas of focus.
9. **Learn Actively:** During your mentorship, approach each interaction as an opportunity to learn. Ask questions, seek guidance, and actively apply the advice and insights you receive.
10. **[Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) and Accountability:** Encourage your mentor to provide constructive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) and hold you accountable for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition goals. A good mentor will challenge you to grow and progress.
11. **Regular Check-Ins:** Maintain regular communication with your mentor. Keep them up-to-date on your progress, challenges, and achievements. Your mentor can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) guidance and support.
12. **Diverse Perspectives:** Consider having multiple mentors or advisors with different perspectives. This can provide a broader range of insights and guidance.
13. **Respect Boundaries:** Respect your mentor’s time and boundaries. Be considerate of their schedule and understand that their availability may vary.
14. **Express Gratitude:** Show appreciation for your mentor’s guidance and support. Express your gratitude through words and actions, such as a thank-you note or small tokens of appreciation.

Mentorship is a dynamic relationship that can significantly accelerate [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition. It provides a sounding board for your ideas, helps you avoid common pitfalls, and connects you with valuable resources and networks in your new field.

## Step 10: Join professional associations – Tapping into a valuable resource network

Professional associations [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a structured way to connect with experts and peers in your desired industry and/or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), stay informed about trends, and access resources that can facilitate [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition. Here’s how to effectively leverage professional associations during your journey:

1. **Identify Relevant Associations:** [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and identify professional associations or organizations related to your target field or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). These may vary by industry. There might be regional, national, or international organizations to choose from.
2. **Membership Benefits:** Carefully review the benefits of membership for each association. These can include access to industry-specific publications, conferences, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events, webinars, job boards, and professional development opportunities.
3. **Cost and Commitment:** Evaluate the costs and commitment associated with each association. Ensure it aligns with your budget and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) goals.
4. **Local and National Chapters:** Many associations have local chapters that host events and provide [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) opportunities. Consider joining both the national or international association as well as a local chapter if available.
5. **Events and Conferences:** Participate in events and conferences hosted by the association. These gatherings are excellent opportunities to network, learn from industry experts, and stay current with the latest trends and developments.
6. **Online Resources:** Explore the online resources provided by the association, such as webinars, forums, and industry-specific publications. These can be valuable sources of information and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).
7. **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Opportunities:** Actively engage in [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events and forums within the association. Build relationships with professionals who can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) guidance, mentorship, and potential job leads.
8. **Volunteer and Leadership Roles:** Consider volunteering for leadership roles within the association, such as serving on committees or boards. This can enhance your visibility and provide opportunities to contribute to the industry.
9. **Continuing Education:** Many associations [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) opportunities for continuing education, such as certification programs, workshops, and online courses. These can help you acquire the skills and knowledge needed for your new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) as well as provide continuing education credits that you will need to maintain a certification.
10. **Access to Job Boards:** Explore job boards or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) centers provided by the association. These job listings cater to professionals in your field, making them a [valuable resource](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tapping-into-a-valuable-resource-network-professional-associations/) for you.
11. **Mentorship Programs:** Some associations [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) formal or informal mentorship programs. Participating in these programs can connect you with experienced professionals who can guide [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition.
12. **Stay Informed:** Regularly check association publications, newsletters, and industry journals to stay informed about the latest news and trends. Being up-to-date can make you more marketable to potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).
13. **Professional Development:** Take [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of professional development opportunities. This may include workshops, seminars, and certification programs that can enhance your qualifications.
14. **Collaborative Projects:** Associations often engage in collaborative projects or [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) initiatives. Participating in these can help you gain practical experience and expand your network.
15. **Leverage Your Membership:** Mention your association memberships on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. It demonstrates your commitment to the industry and can catch the attention of potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/).

Joining professional associations can be a wise investment in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) transition. It provides access to a network of professionals, resources, and opportunities that can significantly accelerate your journey into a new field. Remember to actively engage with the association’s offerings to make the most of your membership.

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**Excerpt:** 3125 This episode is based on an article posted by the World Economic Forum called "⁠The Real Economics of AI and Jobs⁠. "

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# AI and the Future of Your Job

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3125 This episode is based on an article posted by the World Economic Forum called “[⁠The Real Economics of AI and Jobs⁠](https://time.com/7357476/economics-of-ai-and-jobs/). “

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## AI & The Future of Your Job: Key Moments

- **0:00 – Introduction** The video opens by addressing the universal [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) surrounding [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and job security, framing it as a larger issue than just technology.
- **0:21 – Boom or Bust?** A look at the two extreme predictions: a “mass displacement” of white-collar workers versus a “productivity revival” that helps humans thrive.
- **1:04 – The Pace of Change** A comparison of how long it took steam power, electricity, and the internet to change the world versus the potentially lightning-fast speed of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).
- **1:39 – The 3 Forces Shaping Work** The central thesis of the video: the future is defined by the intersection of technology, global economics, and people.
- **2:00 – Force 1: Geoeconomics** Discussion on how shifting global trade and investment—such as changing factory [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in Mexico or the UK—can destroy or create [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) regardless of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).
- **3:18 – Force 2: Demographics** An analysis of the “Automation Push” in aging societies like Japan versus the “Youth Bulge” in developing nations.

So, will [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) take your job? It’s the one question that seems to be on everyone’s mind, right? And the answers you hear are all over the map. Today, we’re going to cut through all that noise. We’re going to look at the forces that are really shaping the future of work, and believe me, it’s a much, much bigger picture than just [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

Okay, let’s dive in. When you talk about [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), it really does feel like we’re caught between two completely different stories. On one hand, you hear about this massive economic boom that’s coming, but on the other, there’s this very real fear of a devastating bust for workers.

And the experts, well, they’re just as divided, with predictions that are literally worlds apart. So, on one side, you’ve got the mass displacement camp. They see a future where [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) gets integrated so quickly that it creates a new kind of rust belt, but for today’s white-collar [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), wiping out entire professions.

Then you’ve got the productivity revival believers. They have a much more optimistic take. They see [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) as a tool that will come in gradually, augmenting our abilities and giving all of us time to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) and thrive.

Now, this is where it gets really interesting if you look at a little history. Major shifts like steam power or electricity, they took decades to really change [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). Even the internet had a 10 to 20 year rollout before it was everywhere.

The big flashing question mark with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), is it speed? Is it going to be a slow burn? Or is it a lightning fast revolution? That uncertainty is what’s fueling this whole debate. But hang on, here’s a thought. What if we’re all so busy arguing about [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that we’re asking the wrong question entirely? What if this laser focus on technology is making us miss what’s really going on? You see, the truth is, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is just one piece of a much larger, much more complex puzzle.

To really get a handle on the future of your job, you need to look at three massive interconnected forces. Yes, technological change like [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is one of them, but there are also huge geoeconomic shifts and powerful demographic waves that are reshaping our world as we speak. All right, first up, geoeconomics.

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Now, this is really all about how the flow of money, trade and investment around the globe is fundamentally changing. And trust me, these shifts can create or destroy [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) just as powerfully as any new technology. Just look at the UK, for instance.

The number of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) created there by foreign companies investing in the country, it’s dropped by 3%, hitting an 18-year low. This is a pretty clear sign that the old model of globalization, just automatically creating [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in advanced economies, well, it’s starting to fray around the edges. And this isn’t just some abstract number on a spreadsheet.

Think about Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, right there on the US border. All the uncertainty around trade and tariffs is projected to cost 64,000 factory [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). These are real people, real families, feeling the impact of these global economic shifts right now.

But here’s the flip side. It’s not all about decline. This new world order is also creating entirely new job booms in very specific areas.

We’re seeing huge growth in defense in places like South Korea and Poland, a chip-making surge in Malaysia, a rush for critical minerals in Australia. So the point isn’t that [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are just disappearing, they’re moving and transforming. Okay, on to our second major force, demographics.

We’re talking about population trends, aging societies, huge waves of young people, migration. And this has a profound and honestly often overlooked influence on the future of work. So in many developed countries, we’re seeing something called the automation push.

Think about it. Populations are getting older, workforces are shrinking, and immigration is getting tighter. That creates a huge talent shortage.

So what’s the solution for companies? Well, for many, it’s to automate tasks using technologies like [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Demographics are literally pushing us towards automation. And this is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.

Japan has the world’s oldest population and historically tight immigration. So what are they doing? They’re pioneering this space. They’re actively testing and rolling out eldercare robotics to fill the gaps in their workforce and care for their citizens.

This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s a direct response to a demographic reality. Now let’s flip that coin.

In developing economies, the challenge is the exact opposite. An incredible 1.2 billion young people are set to enter the workforce in just the next decade. The pressure to create [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) for this massive wave of talent is just immense.

And that creates a completely different set of economic pressures and opportunities. So you’ve got technology, geoeconomics, and demographics all colliding at once. It’s complex, for sure, but it is not hopeless.

Now that we can see the full picture with all its challenges and its opportunities, let’s talk about the blueprint for how we can [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) and maybe even thrive in this world. The path forward really seems to rest on three core pillars. First, we have to completely revolutionize lifelong learning, making constant upskilling just a normal part of life.

Second, we’ve got to build [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) literacy for everyone, not just tech specialists, so we can all use these new tools effectively. And third, especially in developing countries, we need to launch an entrepreneurship boom to harness all that incredible young talent. And look, this isn’t just some fantasy wish list.

You can see it already working in places around the world. Singapore’s Skills Future Initiative literally gives citizens credits to constantly learn new things. Brazil is running accelerator programs to match skills [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) directly to what [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) actually needs.

The Nordic countries have been leaders in this stuff for years. It can be done. And this right here gets to the heart of it.

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So what about those 1.2 billion young people we mentioned? For them, the path forward is to create what you might call an industrial policy for entrepreneurship. This means strategically financing and supporting small businesses, freelancers, and digital startups. Look at Nigeria’s National Talent Export Program.

They are actively trying to position their country as a global hub for talent. That is how you turn a demographic challenge into a huge economic opportunity. So ultimately, it all boils down to this one big question.

The future of work isn’t about one single threat from [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). It’s about this complex intersection of technology, global economics, and people. A narrow focus on just technology is going to leave us completely unprepared.

The real challenge isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about building a strategy for the complex, multi-dimensional world that is emerging right before our eyes. The only question left is, are we ready?

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### [Command the Executive Interview Screening Call](https://thebiggamehunter.us/command-the-executive-interview-screening-call/)

**Published:** March 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want a senior-level role, you must command the environment, the data, and the conversation before the recruiter even finishes their first question.

**Content:**

# Command the Executive Interview Screening Call

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Stop treating your first screening call like a casual chat; it’s a high-stakes test of your executive [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). If you want a senior-level role, you must command the environment, the data, and the conversation before the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) even finishes their first question.

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This is [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) TV on YouTube. Welcome. So you’re aiming for a senior level role, right? Well, that first screening call you get, it’s way more than just a conversation.

It’s a test of your executive [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). That’s why today, we’re not just giving you tips. We’re giving you a full on command protocol.

Because as you can see here, when you get to this level, the standard rules, they just don’t cut it anymore. You know, in a senior level [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), they’re not just listening to your answers. They’re sizing you up, assessing your gravitas from the very first words you speak.

So to help you nail that, we’ve broken this down into three critical phases. First, we’re going to show you how to command your environment so there are absolutely no distractions. Then we’ll dive into how you can master your intel so you’re armed with all the right information.

And finally, we’ll get into how to project that executive authority, making sure you leave a powerful, lasting impression. All right, let’s get right into it. Phase one is what we call the pre-mission briefing.

And it’s all about controlling every single variable before that call even begins. First things first, the scheduling mandate. Rule number one, never, ever let a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) ambush you with an impromptu call.

A real executive commands their time. They don’t just react to other people’s schedules. So if you get that unexpected call, you politely decline and you propose a new time.

You own your calendar, period. I mean, this slide just lays it all out, doesn’t it? The difference between an amateur and a pro. Over on the left, you’ve got total chaos.

Last minute call, maybe from a noisy coffee shop with a terrible connection. But on the right, that’s the executive protocol. Scheduled meeting, crystal clear connection, and a totally controlled environment.

The contrast is just, it’s stark. Always demand technical perfection. And you know what? Always do a test call first.

And we’re not just talking about any old home office. This is your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) cockpit, your mission control. You need to be sitting at a real desk, not slouching on a couch.

Your posture has a huge impact on your voice. It projects authority. And have a visual anchor, something like a notepad.

It helps keep your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) up. And trust me, that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) comes through in your voice, conveying enthusiasm and real [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). Okay, so you’ve secured your environment.

It’s locked down. Let’s move on to phase two, mastering your intel. This is where we focus on your performance during the actual call.

All right, your secret weapon here is the cheat sheet. Seriously, you should treat the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) like an open book test. You’re expected to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), so why wouldn’t you use your notes? The trick is to do it like a seasoned executive, referencing a briefing document, not like a student who’s frantically flipping through pages.

And you know, the real power of this cheat sheet is in its simplicity. We’re talking just three sections. First, you’ve got your key company data to show you did your homework.

Second, your most impactful accomplishment stories, all ready to go. And third, your own sharp, insightful questions for them. It’s everything you need and absolutely nothing you don’t.

And here’s a small but absolutely critical detail, hydration. A dry throat or a sudden cough can completely derail even the most compelling story. Keep water within arm’s reach.

It’s a simple thing, but it helps you maintain your vocal command and keeps your delivery flawless. So with your intel at the ready, it’s time for the final piece of the puzzle, projecting executive authority. This is all about your vocal command and just unwavering focus.

Listen, on a phone call, your voice is your most powerful tool. It’s all you’ve got. So you have to use it with intention.

Vary your pace. When you’re making a really critical point, slow down. It adds weight.

It adds gravitas. But when you’re expressing your passion for the role, pick up the pace a little bit. Your voice should be as dynamic as your leadership.

And here’s a pro tip. Don’t be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) of silence. In fact, you should embrace it.

A strategic pause right after you’ve made a powerful statement shows incredible [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). It forces the interviewer to actually absorb what you’ve just said. It’s subtle, but it’s an incredibly effective way to command the conversation.

For example, asking a question like this one, does that align with the challenges the current director is facing? And then just pausing, it completely shifts the dynamic. You’re no longer just a candidate answering questions. You’re a strategic partner, a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/).

So let’s wrap this up with two final mandates. First, unwavering focus. Zero tolerance for multitasking.

No checking emails, period. Second, rigorous rehearsal. I mean it.

Record yourself telling your accomplishment stories. Listen back. Analyze them.

Refine them until they are sharp, crisp, and absolutely compelling. See, by putting this whole protocol into practice, you’re doing so much more than just answering their questions. You are actively demonstrating the precision, the focus, and the leadership that a senior level role like this demands.

So I’ll leave you with this question to think about. Is your next call just a screening? Or is it going to be a demonstration of leadership? The choice is yours. There is a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Become an insider and get access to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), video courses, books, and guides to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

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### [What Skills Do Employers Look for During Job Interviews?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-skills-do-employers-look-for-during-job-interviews/)

**Published:** March 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A super question and no so simple . . . . but I know this is right!

**Content:**

# What Skills Do Employers Look for During Job Interviews?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A super question and no so simple . . . . but I know this is right!

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### [Here’s Why You Should Follow Up on Resume Submissions on LinkedIn #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/heres-why-you-should-follow-up-on-resume-submissions-on-linkedin-shorts/)

**Published:** December 28, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A coaching client told me a story that is the basis for this video. Follow up!

**Content:**

# Here’s Why You Should Follow Up on Resume Submissions on LinkedIn #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) client told me a story that is the basis for this video. [Follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/)!

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It pays to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions that you make through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Someone I coach did that—even got a confirmation message from the platform saying, you know, “Resume’s been received; resume’s been submitted to the firm”—all the correct sort of stuff.

But she had taken the time to message the owner of this mid-sized firm and try and connect, mentioned that she had applied to this role, and got a message back saying, “Happy to connect, but we don’t seem to have received your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).” Interesting, isn’t it?

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### [Is It Rude to Ask for An Update on a Job Application? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-ask-for-an-update-on-a-job-application-shorts/)

**Published:** March 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Is It Rude to Ask for An Update on a Job Application? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Nr11Mb10p6w)

Should I [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on my [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)? Would it be rude to do?

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### [10 Interview Camera Blunders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-interview-camera-blunders/)

**Published:** March 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It’s no longer just about what you say, but how you appear and present yourself through the lens of a camera.

**Content:**

# 10 Interview Camera Blunders

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) have undergone a transformation, with virtual platforms becoming the new norm. While this offers convenience, it also introduces a whole new set of challenges when it comes to making a strong impression. It’s no longer just about what you say, but how you appear and present yourself through the lens of a camera.

So you’ve landed that big [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). You know your stuff, but in today’s world of virtual calls, your qualifications are really only half the story. Believe it or not, your on-camera [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) can make or break your chances.

Today, we’re going to break down the 10 most common camera [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that could be costing you the job and, most importantly, how to fix them. This is [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) TV on YouTube. If you like the video, share it, leave a comment, click the like button, and follow the channel.

It really does help us out. Okay, let’s get you ready for that next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). So let’s get right into it.

You could be the most qualified person in the world for a role, right? Perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), brilliant answers. But if how you look on camera is distracting or just looks unprofessional, you might be sabotaging yourself before you even get past the first question. The good news is, these are simple, totally fixable [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), and we’re going to for today.

We’ll start with why this is all so high stakes now. Then we’re going to dive into three key areas. First, setting your stage, then mastering your persona on camera, and finally, polishing the details.

You’ve got to think of it this way. The virtual [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) is your new [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-isnt-always-the-first-impression-shorts/). I mean, before you even say a single word, how you appear on that screen is already telling them a story about you.

It communicates your professionalism and your attention to detail, making it a super critical part of your pitch. To make this all really easy to remember, we’ve organized these 10 blunders into three simple categories. It’s all about your environment, your body language, and then those little finishing touches.

If you can master these three things, you’ll make sure nothing gets in the way of you making your absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) case. All right, let’s start with part one, setting your stage. This is everything you do before you even click that join meeting button.

You know, getting your angle, your lighting, and your background just right, that’s the foundation for a flawless [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Okay, first up, the low angle shot. We’ve all seen it.

Your laptop is just sitting on your desk, and the camera is looking right up at you. It’s not just unflattering, it creates this weird kind of awkward power dynamic. The fix? It’s so simple.

Just stack some books or use a laptop stand to get that camera right at eye level. This one change instantly creates a more direct peer-to-peer connection. Next, please, avoid the dark cave.

Bad lighting casts all these shadows, and it literally hides you. The interviewer can’t read your expressions, and it makes it really hard for them to build any kind of rapport with you. The key is to have your main light source in front of you.

So facing a window? That’s perfect. If you can’t do that, even a simple ring light or a lamp placed behind your screen will give you that clear, engaging look. And the last piece of your stage, the background.

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Look, an unmade bed or a cluttered bookshelf just pulls the interviewer’s focus right off of you. Every second they spend trying to figure out what books you read is a second they aren’t actually listening to your answer. So just choose a plain neutral wall or a tidy, professional-looking space.

It keeps the focus exactly where it needs to be, on you. Okay, so the stage is all set. Now let’s move to part two, mastering your persona.

This is all about your body language and how you physically present yourself on camera. These nonverbal cues communicate a ton about your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and how engaged you are. This one is huge.

[Eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/). It is so natural to watch the interviewer’s face on your screen, but to them, it just looks like you’re looking away. And a lack of [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) can come across as untrustworthy or maybe unconfident.

So you have to train yourself to look directly into the little green dot, the camera lens, especially when you’re the one talking. It creates the feeling of real [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) and it just screams [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). And next up, the slouch.

Slouching, even just a little, can make you look tired or worse, just plain disinterested. Interviewers connect good posture with [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and competence. So sit up straight, roll your shoulders back, maybe lean in just a little bit.

Good posture doesn’t just look better, it actually makes you feel more alert and powerful. Look, we all get nervous [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), but letting it out by tapping your pen, playing with your hair or swaying in your chair is super distracting. It just signals [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and it can completely undermine the confident answers you’re giving.

So before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), take a deep breath and just consciously settle your body. If you feel the need to move, try channeling that [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into small, purposeful hand gestures while you talk. All right, on to part three, polishing the details.

Think of these as the small things that pull everything together for a truly professional impression. How you’re framed in the shot really matters. If you’re too close, you look like a giant floating head.

But if you’re too far away, it’s hard to read your expressions. The sweet spot is what they call a bust shot. You basically want the frame to capture your head and shoulders with just a little bit of breathing room above your head.

This feels natural and it lets you do some expressive movement. Ah, the classic blunder of our time, professional on top, sweatpants on the bottom. Here’s why you really should avoid this.

Dressing professionally from head to toe isn’t just about avoiding a disaster if you suddenly need to stand up. It’s a psychological trick. It puts you in a professional mindset and it helps you feel fully [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and in the zone.

You know, glare from lights on your glasses or a shiny forehead can be really distracting. This is another reason why that soft, diffused lighting we talked about is so important. But here’s a pro tip.

A simple fix for any shine is just a little bit of translucent powder. It works for everyone and it creates a camera-ready look without looking like you’re wearing makeup. And finally, let’s talk about movement.

You don’t want to be a stiff statue. That just seems unnatural and disengaged. On the other hand, you don’t want to be waving your hands around wildly, which can seem pretty chaotic.

The goal here is balance. Use some subtle hand gestures to emphasize your points, nod to show you’re listening, and please remember to smile. Just be your natural, expressive self.

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**Published:** March 22, 2026
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### [Never Make This Mistake When Giving Notice or Quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/never-make-this-mistake-when-giving-notice-or-quitting/)

**Published:** March 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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### [Everything Works in Job Search #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/everything-works-in-job-search-shorts/)

**Published:** March 22, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Everything works in a job search

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### [Resumes Aren’t Just About Responsibilities #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resumes-arent-just-about-responsibilities-shorts/)

**Published:** March 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Don't just discuss your responsibilities in your resume.

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# Resumes Aren’t Just About Responsibilities

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### [Stop Being the Best: Cultivate Your Onlyness to Win](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-being-the-best-cultivate-your-onlyness-to-win/)

**Published:** March 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Cultivating your Onlyness is the only sustainable strategy in an AI-saturated market.

**Content:**

# Stop Being the Best: Cultivate Your Onlyness to Win

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In 2024, a mid-career product lead named Sarah found herself in the middle of a “standard” tech layoff. Her [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile looked like a carbon copy of ten thousand others: “Results-driven leader,” “Cross-functional collaborator,” “User-centric.” She spent two months [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to Director-level roles and got zero traction. The market saw her as a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/).

Instead of doubling down on [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), Sarah shifted to cultivating her **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**. She realized her unique intersection wasn’t just “product management”—it was the fact that she had spent five years in high-frequency trading before moving into consumer fintech. She began writing exclusively about “The Latency of Trust,” [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) high-frequency data principles to how users interact with banking apps. Within three weeks, a CEO from a Tier-1 digital bank reached out to her directly. He didn’t want a “Product Director”; he wanted the only person who understood the technical bridge between sub-millisecond data and consumer psychology. Sarah didn’t just find a job; she bypassed the entire competitive field.

Cultivating your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the only sustainable strategy in an AI-saturated market. If you are comparable, you are replaceable. Here is how to build that distinction without the fluff.

### 1. Identify the Non-Obvious Intersection

[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is not a single skill; it is the friction between two or more disparate experiences. Most professionals try to hide their “zig-zag” [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) paths to look more “consistent.” This is a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Consistency is for commodities.

- **The Audit:** Look at your history. Find the industry, hobby, or technical discipline that seems “irrelevant” to your current role.
- **The Formula:** (Primary Professional Skill) + (Secondary Niche Expertise) + (Specific Market Problem).
- **The Reality:** If you are a Marketing Director, you are one of 500,000. If you are a Marketing Director who understands the specific regulatory constraints of the 2026 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space, you are one of ten.

### 2. The LinkedIn Signal: From Generalist to Specialist

Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) feed is currently a graveyard of “congratulations” and generic industry news. To cultivate [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), your profile must function as a **narrow-band signal**.

- **The Headline Shift:** Delete the “Open to Work” banner and the generic titles. Your headline should state the specific problem you solve that no one else can.
- **The Content Protocol:** Stop sharing “Top 10 [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Tools” lists. Instead, pick a specific, high-stakes problem in your niche and provide a “High-Resolution” solution.
- **The Rule of Specificity:** If your post could be written by a generic LLM, do not post it. [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) thrives on the “dirty” details—the failures, the edge cases, and the nuanced “insider” observations that a bot hasn’t been trained on yet.

### 3. Build a “Proof-of-Concept” Garden

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is for reach, but your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) needs a “home” where the depth of your thinking is undeniable. This is where you cultivate your distinction elsewhere.

- **The Micro-Blog/Substack:** You don’t need a massive newsletter; you need a searchable archive of your expertise. When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) or peer Googles you, they should find 5-10 deep-dives into your specific intersection.
- **The Semantic Trail:** Ensure your name is associated with specific technical terms or methodologies. If you “own” a specific framework—even a small one—you become the primary source for that solution.
- **The Value:** When you send a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) message, you aren’t sending a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); you are sending a link to a thought-leadership piece that proves you are the only one standing in your specific spot.

### 4. The Anti-Networking Approach

Once your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is visible, traditional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) becomes obsolete. You no longer ask for “15 minutes to pick your brain.” Instead, you engage in **Inquiry-Based Outreach**.

- **The Move:** Find the top 10 people in your target niche. Engage with their work by adding a layer of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to their conversation.
- **The Script:** *“Your point on \[X\] was solid. However, from my perspective in \[Your Niche Intersection\], I’ve seen \[Unique Data Point\] suggest a different outcome. I’ve documented how we handled this here \[Link\].”*
- **The Result:** You aren’t a seeker; you are a peer. You are [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) the market to see you as the go-to person for that specific intersection.

### The Bottom Line

Cultivating [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is a move from **Volume to Value**. It requires the courage to be “unappealing” to 95% of the market so that you are “irresistible” to the 5% that actually matters.

The machine can simulate your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), but it cannot simulate your specific perspective. If you are still trying to fit in, you are voluntarily competing with an algorithm that is faster, cheaper, and more consistent than you.

Stop being the “best” candidate and start being the **only** one.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: March 22 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-22-2026/)

**Published:** March 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# No BS Career Advice: March 22 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Friday was the beginning of spring, the forsythia around my house are blooming. The young cherry tree in the front have begun to flower after a period of time last year when cicada covered it. I was worried that it wouldn’t make it.

My wife is away attending to a family matter so I am here doing stuff, spending time with friends, and working on finishing my newest book about panel interviews that I expect will be available on Monday.

**The Panel Interview Playbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Room (and the Job) will be released for $.99 on Monday for Kindle, PDF, and, barring something unforeseen, as an audiobook. I would appreciate your reviews. The price will be raised to a more typical price soon but, in the mean time, it will be $.99**

Share the info in networking meetings you attend, too

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## Stop Being the Best: Cultivate Your Onlyness to Win

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In 2024, a mid-career product lead named Sarah found herself in the middle of a “standard” tech layoff. Her LinkedIn profile looked like a carbon copy of ten thousand others: “Results-driven leader,” “Cross-functional collaborator,” “User-centric.” She spent two months applying to Director-level roles and got zero traction. The market saw her as a commodity.

Instead of doubling down on applications, Sarah shifted to cultivating her **Onlyness**. She realized her unique intersection wasn’t just “product management”—it was the fact that she had spent five years in high-frequency trading before moving into consumer fintech. She began writing exclusively about “The Latency of Trust,” applying high-frequency data principles to how users interact with banking apps. Within three weeks, a CEO from a Tier-1 digital bank reached out to her directly. He didn’t want a “Product Director”; he wanted the only person who understood the technical bridge between sub-millisecond data and consumer psychology. Sarah didn’t just find a job; she bypassed the entire competitive field.

Cultivating your Onlyness is the only sustainable strategy in an AI-saturated market. If you are comparable, you are replaceable. Here is how to build that distinction without the fluff.

### 1. Identify the Non-Obvious Intersection

Onlyness is not a single skill; it is the friction between two or more disparate experiences. Most professionals try to hide their “zig-zag” career paths to look more “consistent.” This is a mistake. Consistency is for commodities.

- **The Audit:** Look at your history. Find the industry, hobby, or technical discipline that seems “irrelevant” to your current role.
- **The Formula:** (Primary Professional Skill) + (Secondary Niche Expertise) + (Specific Market Problem).
- **The Reality:** If you are a Marketing Director, you are one of 500,000. If you are a Marketing Director who understands the specific regulatory constraints of the 2026 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space, you are one of ten.

### 2. The LinkedIn Signal: From Generalist to Specialist

Your LinkedIn feed is currently a graveyard of “congratulations” and generic industry news. To cultivate Onlyness, your profile must function as a **narrow-band signal**.

- **The Headline Shift:** Delete the “Open to Work” banner and the generic titles. Your headline should state the specific problem you solve that no one else can.
- **The Content Protocol:** Stop sharing “Top 10 AI Tools” lists. Instead, pick a specific, high-stakes problem in your niche and provide a “High-Resolution” solution.
- **The Rule of Specificity:** If your post could be written by a generic LLM, do not post it. Onlyness thrives on the “dirty” details—the failures, the edge cases, and the nuanced “insider” observations that a bot hasn’t been trained on yet.

### 3. Build a “Proof-of-Concept” Garden

LinkedIn is for reach, but your Onlyness needs a “home” where the depth of your thinking is undeniable. This is where you cultivate your distinction elsewhere.

- **The Micro-Blog/Substack:** You don’t need a massive newsletter; you need a searchable archive of your expertise. When a recruiter or peer Googles you, they should find 5-10 deep-dives into your specific intersection.
- **The Semantic Trail:** Ensure your name is associated with specific technical terms or methodologies. If you “own” a specific framework—even a small one—you become the primary source for that solution.
- **The Value:** When you send a networking message, you aren’t sending a resume; you are sending a link to a thought-leadership piece that proves you are the only one standing in your specific spot.

### 4. The Anti-Networking Approach

Once your Onlyness is visible, traditional networking becomes obsolete. You no longer ask for “15 minutes to pick your brain.” Instead, you engage in **Inquiry-Based Outreach**.

- **The Move:** Find the top 10 people in your target niche. Engage with their work by adding a layer of your Onlyness to their conversation.
- **The Script:** *“Your point on \[X\] was solid. However, from my perspective in \[Your Niche Intersection\], I’ve seen \[Unique Data Point\] suggest a different outcome. I’ve documented how we handled this here \[Link\].”*
- **The Result:** You aren’t a seeker; you are a peer. You are training the market to see you as the go-to person for that specific intersection.

### The Bottom Line

Cultivating Onlyness is a move from **Volume to Value**. It requires the courage to be “unappealing” to 95% of the market so that you are “irresistible” to the 5% that actually matters.

The machine can simulate your resume, but it cannot simulate your specific perspective. If you are still trying to fit in, you are voluntarily competing with an algorithm that is faster, cheaper, and more consistent than you.

Stop being the “best” candidate and start being the **only** one.

Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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Last week, I shared more content including:

**The More Recruiters Use Sizzle: What Recruiters Know That You Don’t | #shorts Excerpt: Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains what recruiters understand about the psychology of a job description and how they use “sizzle” to sell roles that might not be exactly what they seem. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-more-recruiters-use-sizzle-what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-more-recruiters-use-sizzle-what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-shorts/)

**Do Employers Care About LinkedIn Profiles? Excerpt: Is a LinkedIn profile still a requirement, or just an extra? Jeff discusses the current reality of how recruiters and hiring managers use your profile to vet you before the first phone call. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-employers-care-about-linkedin-profiles/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-employers-care-about-linkedin-profiles/)

**The #shorts Way to Prepare for a Job Interview Excerpt: If you’re short on time, this is the essential framework for interview prep. Jeff breaks down the high-impact actions you can take in minutes to significantly improve your performance. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shorts-way-to-prepare-for-a-job-interview/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shorts-way-to-prepare-for-a-job-interview/)

**Tell People You Are Job Hunting Excerpt: Keeping your job search a secret is the fastest way to slow it down. Jeff explains why vocalizing your search to your network is the most effective way to unlock the “hidden” job market. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/tell-people-you-are-job-hunting/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tell-people-you-are-job-hunting/)

**Understanding Your Personal Value Proposition Excerpt: Before you can sell yourself to an employer, you have to understand what you’re actually selling. Jeff helps you define your unique value proposition to stand out from the sea of “qualified” candidates. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/understanding-your-personal-value-proposition/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/understanding-your-personal-value-proposition/)

**Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C Suite Professionals Excerpt:** EP 3121 Learn the step-by-step framework for defining your Unique Value Proposition (UVP) and mastering the “5 C’s” of branding: Clarity, Consistency, Constancy, Community, and Commitment. We cover tactical execution for platforms like LinkedIn, how to balance personal authenticity with corporate messaging, and methods to avoid common pitfalls like “algorithm cosplay” or inconsistency. Whether you are a startup founder looking to drive growth or a senior executive aiming for a board seat, I provide the blueprint for turning your professional reputation into a competitive advantage Link: 

**10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid: Part One** · **URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/) **Description: Part one of a two‑part series sharing ten hard‑won career mistakes Boomers made so Gen X professionals avoid stalled advancement, lazy loyalty, weak networking, and surrendering control of their careers.**

**Is That Recruiter Legit? URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-that-recruiter-legit/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-that-recruiter-legit/) **Description: EP 3121 of No BS Job Search Advice Radio on how modern job scams work, how scammers impersonate real companies, the difference between headhunters and corporate recruiters, and concrete checks to verify a recruiter before engaging.**

**Job Search Lessons From 3000 Podcast Episodes URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-lessons-from-3000-podcast-episodes/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-lessons-from-3000-podcast-episodes/) **Description: A reflection on reaching 3,000 episodes of your podcast, pulling out key lessons on owning your career, avoiding “deadening” work, practicing networking, rehearsing interviews, managing your brand, and challenging standard hiring processes.**

**No BS Career Advice: March 15, 2026 URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-15-2026/​**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-15-2026/%E2%80%8B) **Description: A daily No BS Career Advice installment built around a “luck” metaphor, using a short quote to frame practical guidance on taking ownership of outcomes rather than waiting for opportunities to magically appear.​**

**What Do Hiring Managers and Recruiters Think When They Read “Looking for a Challenging Position”? URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-hiring-managers-and-recruiters-think-when-they-read-looking-for-a-challenging-position/​**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-hiring-managers-and-recruiters-think-when-they-read-looking-for-a-challenging-position/%E2%80%8B) **Description: An article explaining how hiring managers and recruiters actually react to the cliché résumé line “looking for a challenging position,” why it undermines your brand, and what to write instead to convey value clearly.**

**How to Be More Likeable in Your Interviews URL:** [**https://youtu.be/aO6o7oz0AUQ**](https://youtu.be/aO6o7oz0AUQ) · **Description: EP 1742 A Harvard Business Review Article pointed to likeability as being the #1 variable in a salary negotiation. It is true of interviewing, too.**

**Hiring Smart People Excerpt: Most companies do the exact opposite of what Steve Jobs said should be done in this quote. Jeff explains the disconnect between wanting “A-players” and actually allowing them to lead. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-smart-people-careerangles-com-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-smart-people-careerangles-com-shorts/)

**Why Career Loyalty is a Myth: Take Control of Your Future Excerpt: In this video, I deconstruct the “Myth of Career Loyalty” and expose the “Madness of Careers.” Learn why the company isn’t loyal to you and how to protect your own trajectory. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-career-loyalty-is-a-myth-take-control-of-your-future/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-career-loyalty-is-a-myth-take-control-of-your-future/)

**Why You Should Accumulate LinkedIn Recommendations Excerpt: Joel Gray, Chief Executive Officer at Aetna Better Health of Virginia, shared why some firms are switching away from checking references and why your public recommendations now carry more weight. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-should-accumulate-linkedin-recommendations-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-should-accumulate-linkedin-recommendations-shorts/)

**A Promotion Isn’t Owed To You Excerpt: Managers often do a very good job of stroking their employee’s ego and, thus, give them a sense of false security and expectations. Jeff discusses the reality of advancement. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-promotion-isnt-owed-to-you-career-angles/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-promotion-isnt-owed-to-you-career-angles/)

**10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid: Part 2 Excerpt: Five more lessons my Boomer friends and I learned the hard way so that we can pass them on to you, Gen Xers, so that you don’t have to learn by trial and error. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/)

**Looking for Job Opportunities? #shorts Excerpt: Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter highlights a common mistake in how people broadcast their availability and provides a quicker, more effective way to signal to the market that you are open for the right role. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/looking-for-job-opportunities-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/looking-for-job-opportunities-shorts/)

**The Executive High-Wire: When to Play Hardball vs. When to Flex Excerpt: Negotiating at the executive level is a delicate balance. Jeff discusses the strategic “high-wire act” of knowing when to stand firm on your terms and when showing flexibility is the ultimate power move. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-high-wire-when-to-play-hardball-vs-when-to-flex/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-high-wire-when-to-play-hardball-vs-when-to-flex/)

**Things You Can Do To Prevent HR Screeners From Hitting ‘Delete’ Excerpt: Most resumes are rejected within seconds. Jeff identifies the specific “delete triggers” used by HR screeners and the proactive formatting and content changes you can make to stay in the “yes” pile. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/things-you-can-do-to-prevent-hr-screeners-from-hitting-delete/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/things-you-can-do-to-prevent-hr-screeners-from-hitting-delete/)

**Career Pivots. Career Transitions. Work-Life Balance Excerpt: Jeff explores the intersection of shifting your professional focus while maintaining your personal sanity. This post covers the tactical steps for a pivot that doesn’t result in burnout. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-pivots-career-transitions-work-life-balance/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-pivots-career-transitions-work-life-balance/)

**What is a Better Way to Say “20 Years of Experience” On a Resume? Excerpt: Leading with “20 years of experience” can accidentally trigger age bias or make you sound dated. Jeff offers modern alternatives that emphasize your mastery and impact rather than just the passage of time. Link:**

**What is a Better Way to Say “20 Years of Experience” On a Resume? Excerpt: Is it a good or bad idea to mention “20 years of experience” on a resume? Jeff explains the potential pitfalls of age bias and offers a more modern, impact-focused way to frame your tenure. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-a-better-way-to-say-20-years-of-experience-on-a-resume/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-a-better-way-to-say-20-years-of-experience-on-a-resume/)

**The Sniper Approach: Targeting Employers is the Real Way to Win Excerpt: Most job seekers use a “shotgun” approach, blasting resumes everywhere. Jeff discusses why a “sniper” approach—identifying and deeply researching specific targets—is the only way to win in a competitive market. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-sniper-approach-targeting-employers-is-the-real-way-to-win/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-sniper-approach-targeting-employers-is-the-real-way-to-win/)

**Use ChatGPT for Job Hunting #shorts Excerpt: AI is changing the landscape of the job search. Jeff shares a quick tip on how to use ChatGPT as a tool to streamline your search without losing your personal voice. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-chatgpt-for-job-hunting-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-chatgpt-for-job-hunting-shorts/)

**The Invisible Professional: How To Stand Out In Today’s Job Market Excerpt: Many qualified candidates feel invisible in the current market. Jeff breaks down the specific branding and networking shifts required to go from being a “background player” to a recognized authority. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-invisible-professional-how-to-stand-out-in-todays-job-market/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-invisible-professional-how-to-stand-out-in-todays-job-market/)

**Is It Common for an Employer NOT to Let Someone Know They Were Not Selected? Excerpt: “Ghosting” isn’t just for dating. Jeff addresses the frustrating reality of employer silence and explains why it happens and how you should handle the lack of closure. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-common-for-an-employer-not-to-let-someone-know-they-were-not-selected/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-common-for-an-employer-not-to-let-someone-know-they-were-not-selected/)

**The Trap Everyone Falls Into Excerpt: EP 3123 From the book, “ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age PDF we discuss the trap almost everyone falls into in their job search and career. Link** [**https://youtu.be/\_x-eS3\_kcMo**](https://youtu.be/_x-eS3_kcMo)

**Should I Accept an Offer from a Company I Resigned From a Few Years Ago? Excerpt: Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter answers a question from a job seeker about returning to a former employer. Jeff explores the “boomerang” dynamic and how to determine if the reasons you originally left have actually been resolved. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-accept-an-offer-from-a-company-i-resigned-from-a-few-years-ago/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-accept-an-offer-from-a-company-i-resigned-from-a-few-years-ago/)

**LinkedIn vs. Indeed: Which Job Site Is Better Excerpt: Not all job boards are created equal. Jeff compares the two giants of the industry, breaking down which platform is superior for networking versus high-volume applications and how to use both strategically. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-vs-indeed-which-job-site-is-better/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-vs-indeed-which-job-site-is-better/)

**The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs: Part 1 Excerpt: Accepting a job offer is a major life decision that most people handle with less care than buying a car. Jeff introduces a systematic playbook for performing deep due diligence on a company before you sign the contract. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-1/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-1/)

**How to Avoid Being Fired, Reorged, Outplaced, Canned or Retrenched Excerpt: Employment security is an illusion, but there are ways to make yourself “indispensable.” Jeff discusses the survival strategies needed to navigate corporate restructuring and stay ahead of the pink slips. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-avoid-being-fired-reorged-outplaced-canned-or-retrenched/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-avoid-being-fired-reorged-outplaced-canned-or-retrenched/)

**Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C-Suite Professionals Excerpt: At the executive level, your resume is secondary to your brand. Jeff provides a comprehensive guide on how C-suite professionals can craft a digital and professional presence that commands authority and attracts high-level opportunities. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-executive-branding-a-guide-for-c-suite-professionals/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-executive-branding-a-guide-for-c-suite-professionals/)

**Why Are You Applying for a Senior Role? Excerpt: EP 3124 It is beyond me why you even think of applying for senior roles online. Link:** [**https://youtu.be/9oPJpw4uhSY**](https://youtu.be/9oPJpw4uhSY)

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### [What Should I Do If I'm Stuck in a Job I Hate?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-should-i-do-if-im-stuck-in-a-job-i-hate-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** March 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most of you may not hate your jobs but many of you are. What should you do so that your job doesn't eat you up from the insides?

**Content:**

# What Should I Do If I’m Stuck in a Job I Hate?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Most of you may not hate your [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) but many of you are. What should you do so that your job doesn’t eat you up from the insides?

***[Software Developer? Ask This Question on Job Interviews](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oV6)***

The title of this is “What to Do When You’re in a Job that You Hate” or you feel like you’re stuck in a job that you hate. Here’s a simple suggestion provided by Marshall Goldsmith period Marshall is a an international coach. He has written a number of fabulous books from a [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) perspective, including “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, “Triggers,” and many many more.

By the way, just as an aside, Dr. Goldsmith comments that he is Buddhist, share my information freely. He is great about this kind of stuff.

He had an article on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) a while ago that asked that question. He said you have a couple of choices. One choice is to suffer through the day, day by day until you either get [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) for your poor attitude or you found another job that you liked more. Perfectly valid and, Lord knows, when I worked in recruiting, most people came to me at the point where they had decided that they needed another job. Meanwhile, you’re in a position that leaves you miserable.

So, what’s the other option to create happiness and meaning in your work life, regardless of current circumstances? What he says is how you create happiness and meaning when you’re stuck in the job that you hate is that you break down your days in one-hour segments.

[***10 Steps to Becoming a Subject Matter Expert on LinkedIn***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eLp)

So, for example, you have to think of it is going to a one-hour meeting. You’re dreading this meeting as being pointless, unnecessary and you dread everything about it. So, at the end of this boring, time sucking meeting, you are going to ask yourself four simple questions, ready?

“Did I do my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) to be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/)?”

“Did I do my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) to find meaning?”

“Did I do my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) to build positive relationships?”

“Did I do my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) to be fully engaged?”

So, he’s asked the provocative question.

“If you knew were going to be tested, what would you do differently to [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) your score on any of these four items?”

He wants you to rate yourself on a 1 to 10 scale about how you did so that, this way, you’re giving yourself [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) about your performance period Now, he has worked with [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) around the world and, when asked this question, they typically respond with, “When I go into the meeting, I go with a positive attitude.”

Instead of waiting for someone to make it interesting, I make it interesting, myself. I try to let the presenter in on some ways, instead of critiquing them in my head. I try to build a positive relationship with someone. You get the idea.

His idea’s very simple. If you’re stuck in a job that you hate, from now on, pretend that you may be tested every hour. Basically, what’s going to happen but is your heart and your mind are going to thank you for it, and each our that you spent on this job, he says it’s an hour that you and I can’t get back. So, why waste your hours be disengaged and cynical. Take this personal responsibility and ask yourself four questions and overall you’ll find yourself happier.

I know when I coach people with this model. It has been very effective for them.

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### [Software Developer? Ask This Question on Job Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/software-developer-ask-this-question-on-job-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** March 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you’re a software developer, make sure you ask this question at the end of every job interview you go on.

**Content:**

# Software Developer? Ask This Question on Job Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/zqr-Xwh9K9k)

If you’re a software developer, make sure you ask this question at the end of every job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) you go on. Frankly, everyone should be asking this if you use a laptop or some other tech tool as part of your work.

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 2 #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-2-shorts/)

**Published:** March 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Especially for more senior roles, it’s important to have a structured approach to decision-making about the situation you’re stepping into. This is part one of a multi parts series about creating a structured due diligence process. 

**Content:**

# The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 2 #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/7ecrgWXL3To)

Especially for more senior roles, it’s important to have a structured approach to decision-making about the situation you’re stepping into. This is part 2 of a multi parts series about creating a structured due diligence process. Part 1: 

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

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### [Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C Suite Professionals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-executive-branding-a-guide-for-c-suite-professionals/)

**Published:** March 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I provide the blueprint for turning your professional reputation into a competitive advantage

**Content:**

# Master Executive Branding: A Guide for C Suite Professionals

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3121 Learn the step-by-step framework for defining your Unique Value Proposition (UVP) and mastering the “5 C’s” of [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/): Clarity, Consistency, Constancy, Community, and Commitment. We cover tactical execution for platforms like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), how to balance personal authenticity with corporate [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/), and methods to avoid common pitfalls like “algorithm cosplay” or inconsistency.

Whether you are a startup founder looking to drive growth or a senior executive aiming for a board seat, I provide the blueprint for turning your professional reputation into a competitive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/)

Let’s talk about something that, for today’s [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), is no longer a vanity project, it’s become a core part of leadership. I’m talking about your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). In a world where visibility really does equal influence, your reputation is, honestly, one of the most powerful strategic assets you have.

So, let’s break down why. Alright, here’s what we’re going to cover. First, we’ll dive into the problem of leadership invisibility.

Then, we’ll look at the actual, tangible return on a strong reputation. After that, we’ll get into what a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) really is, give you a step-by-step playbook to get started, and wrap it all up with the common [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) you’ll want to avoid. So, first up, let’s talk about a major risk that a lot of leaders don’t even realize they’re taking, and that’s the risk of staying silent in a world that just keeps getting louder.

Seriously, ask yourself this question. When a potential client, a future [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), or even an investor is thinking about your company, where do they go first? It’s not always your corporate website. Nope, they’re going to search for you.

And if you’re not out there shaping your own story, you can bet someone else is. You see, your silence creates something called a narrative vacuum. It’s this empty space just waiting to be filled.

And it will be filled. By your competitors, by critics, by random misinformation, you name it. If you don’t control your own narrative, the market will write one for you.

And trust me, you probably won’t like their version of the story. And this isn’t just a hypothetical problem. Check this out.

A recent study found that a whopping 53% of CEOs who aren’t on social media have major inaccuracies in their online search results. We’re not just talking about an old job title here. This is about wrong company info, [quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) being misattributed, or even some negative article from 10 years ago popping up first.

[***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

It’s basically letting a false narrative define both you and your company. Okay, so how do we flip this from just managing risk to actually creating value? Let’s get into the business case. A strong executive [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) isn’t just playing defense, it’s a huge competitive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

The connection between a leader’s reputation and their company’s is, well, incredibly direct. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) from Weber Shandwick shows that almost half, 48% of a company’s entire reputation is directly tied to its CEO. Just think about how Satya Nadella’s thoughtful, forward-looking [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) helped completely change how we see Microsoft.

The two are just fundamentally linked. One directly lifts the other. And this isn’t just about feelings or perception.

It hits the bottom line hard. Global [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) estimate that an incredible 44% of a company’s market value is connected to its leader’s reputation. Just think about that for a second.

Nearly half your company’s stock price could be influenced by how credible and visible you are. That is a massive premium. You know, at the end of the day, this all comes down to one thing, trust.

We’re just flooded with corporate [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/), with [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) content. People are craving real human connection. And this number says it all.

82% of people say they trust a company more when its senior leaders are active and visible online. Your voice is the human element that makes the whole organization feel real. I love this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) because it just nails the shift in what leadership means today.

It used to be your influence was mostly internal, but now, having a public voice, sharing your vision, engaging with your industry, that’s not just a nice little side project. It’s a core function of the job. It’s currency.

Alright, so we’ve covered the why. Now let’s get really clear on the what. There are so many myths out there about personal [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), so let’s cut through the noise.

Let’s be really clear here. A powerful executive [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is not a performance. It’s not about creating some fake persona you have to keep up with.

It’s about the authentic, consistent expression of who you are, what you stand for, and where you’re going. The whole goal is to create a magnet for the right opportunities, not a mask you have to wear every day. A really simple but effective way to build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is with this four Vs framework.

It all starts from the inside out. First, you have your vision for the future and the values that guide you. That’s your foundation.

Then you build the external part, your unique voice, how you sound, and the consistent visuals that represent you everywhere. Okay, time to go from theory to practice. Here’s a straightforward, totally manageable playbook to get you started.

And the key thing to remember is, this does not have to be overwhelming. The secret here is to start small and be really strategic. First, just audit yourself.

Google your name and see what comes up. Next, define your unique value proposition. Ask yourself, what perspective do I have that nobody else does? Then pick three to five core topics you can talk about consistently.

***[A Well-Respected Man/Woman–Branding Yourself to Stand Out](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fyn)***

Finally, just choose one key platform. For most execs, that’s going to be [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). And just start engaging.

That’s it. Start the conversation. You know, this whole thing really comes down to a fundamental mindset shift.

It’s about trading in your megaphone for a pair of headphones. So instead of just broadcasting your company’s wins, you’re listening. You’re creating a two-way dialogue, adding value with your insights, asking good questions, and building real trust.

At the end of the day, you make it about them, not about you. And finally, a huge part of building a great [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is knowing what not to do. Credibility is so hard to earn and so easy to lose.

So let’s quickly walk through the common traps that can completely derail all your [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/). Okay, these are the big ones. First, being inauthentic.

Trying to be some stoic, serious leader online when everyone who knows you knows you’re full of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). Second, being inconsistent. You know, a polished headshot on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) but a blurry photo from 10 years ago on a conference website.

Third, just way too much self-promotion. A good rule of thumb is 80-20. 80% of your content should serve your audience.

And finally, hiding behind corporate jargon or trying to be everything to everyone. That just makes you forgettable. And this just gets right to the heart of it all.

People connect with other people, not with press releases. They want your real, unfiltered take on things, not some sanitized corporate speak. In a world of automation, your unique point of view, your experience, that’s your superpower.

It’s the one thing [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can’t copy and it’s the foundation of real-thought leadership. So we’ll end on this question. What do you want your leadership legacy to be? Because at the end of the day, your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is your legacy in action.

It’s how you share your vision, live your values, and make an impact that goes way beyond the next quarterly report. It’s your chance to consciously write the story you want to leave behind. If you’re ready to start building that legacy, there’s a lot more to help you at JobSearch.Community. We’ve got video courses, books, and guides, all designed for [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/).

You can become an insider and get access to everything for one low monthly price. Or just purchase things individually. Thanks for tuning in.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 1](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-due-diligence-playbook-for-decisions-about-jobs-part-1/)

**Published:** March 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Especially for more senior roles, it’s important to have a structured approach to decision-making about the situation you’re stepping into. This is part one of a multi parts series about creating a structure due diligence process. 

**Content:**

# The Due Diligence Playbook for Decisions About Jobs Part 1

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Aw478mb98qg)

Especially for more senior roles, it’s important to have a structured approach to decision-making about the situation you’re stepping into. This is part one of a multi parts series about creating a structure due diligence process.

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### [Should I Accept an Offer from a Company I Resigned From a Few Years Ago?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-accept-an-offer-from-a-company-i-resigned-from-a-few-years-ago/)

**Published:** March 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Should I accept an improved offer from a company that I resigned from a couple of years ago?

**Content:**

# Should I Accept an Offer from a Company I Resigned From a Few Years Ago?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Use ChatGPT for Job Hunting #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-chatgpt-for-job-hunting-shorts/)

**Published:** March 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You can use ChatGPT to find jobs for you in your specific field in your specific location and much more, including applying for you.

**Content:**

# Use ChatGPT for Job Hunting #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/o1yBMECz0To)

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### [Is It Common for an Employer NOT to Let Someone Know They Were Not Selected?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-common-for-an-employer-not-to-let-someone-know-they-were-not-selected/)

**Published:** March 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No communications. No emails. No info about a decision. Is this typical?

**Content:**

# Is It Common for an Employer NOT to Let Someone Know They Were Not Selected?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

No communications. No emails. No info about a decision. Is this typical?

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### [How to Give a Recruiter A Rough Time](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-give-a-recruiter-a-rough-time-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** February 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I tell you what beats the heck out of me, why some of you are the cause, and how you can better results.

**Content:**

# How to Give a Recruiter A Rough Time

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I tell you what beats the heck out of me, why some of you are the cause, and how you can better results.

I thought I would take a minute to just talk about my [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/). I’m really feeling beaten up today. Why? Because I’ve responded back to more than 50 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to find out where the person lives.

You see, you send [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to me that have a name and a phone number. You apply for job. I don’t know where you live and in my clients are not looking to relocate people. So, the result winds up being that I don’t want to waste my time calling because all that’s going to wind up happening is that I do find that you’re in a different place (as is the case with most individuals. They are hiding their location) and I have wasted time playing tag with you and not getting any results. And I’m still getting not results but I can’t call 50 people and play “phone tag” with you and then go into a five-minute conversation where you try to persuade me that you’re going to go on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) when you when you live in Chicago and you are going to fly to Dallas all the time. After all, all of these posts basically, “know relocation. No Visa transfers. No third-party recruiters”, etc. etc.

And you are going to try to persuade me that you are going to fly back and forth all the time? My client isn’t going to buy that and neither do I.

So, I’m just making a request here. When you’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) and you sending out your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), I understand no one wants to put themselves in the vulnerable position of risking identity theft. But your name, your city, State and zip code doesn’t do that

By the way, the reason your phone number doesn’t help is you’re putting a mobile number there and mobile numbers these days are portable. So, let’s say your someone like me. I live in North Carolina and have a phone while I lived in the New York area. That 516 area code doesn’t correlate with North Carolina, does it? The result is name and phone number don’t cut it

I’m going to make one more point. Without the ZIP Code, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can’t find you in the future. Why does that matter? When you’re doing [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and, yes, you’ve applied for a job, statistics say the job you applied for you not qualify for. So, when we want to get back in touch with you when we have something that fits (this is true [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), as well) we search by a couple of things. One of them is skills. The second is location.

Do you think we look we can look up location without a ZIP Code? Of course, not. Do you think your area code is going to be what we use? No. ZIP Code is precise. That’s why I am saying minimally puts city, State and ZIP Code on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Save everyone a boatload of time. Help us help you. Really. Help us help you find work.

Having a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in our database isn’t going to do it because we can never find you again. That true of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), as well.

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### [What's Your Real Job? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reasons-to-accept-a-counteroffer/)

**Published:** March 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Recruiters do a great job of explaing why you shouldn't accept a counteroffer. These are reasons why you might consider staying

**Content:**

# What’s Your Real Job?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/8Z791An7l9A)

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do a great job of explaining why you shouldn’t accept a counteroffer. These are reasons why you might consider staying

[***I Got a Counteroffer. Can I Ask The New Firm to Increase Their Offer?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hX4)

What’s your real job at work? I don’t care if you’re a bookkeeper, a bartender, or an accountant. Whatever your job is, I think your real job is salesman. You’re selling internally, or you’re selling externally. Bartender? You’re selling customers doing an upsell. Accountant? You’re selling people internally to your value, and you’re making sure on the outside people know of your value, too.

Everyone is selling. The question is whether you’re paying attention to the fact that you are a salesman, because if you’re sitting there like a putz, like a lump on a log, thinking your work speaks for itself, it doesn’t. That’s the fact of it. Your work doesn’t speak for itself. You speak for your work. You have to make sure people know about it, and it’s your job to sell it and selling is valuable.

There’s much more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us) in the blog.

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### [Looking for Job Opportunities? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/looking-for-job-opportunities-shorts/)

**Published:** March 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People sometimes forget where to find opportunities

**Content:**

# Looking for Job Opportunities? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/b0svnCTUiag)

People sometimes forget where to find opportunities

[***Reverse Engineering the ATS for Results***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-f7E)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [The Sniper Approach: Targeting Employers is the Real Way to Win](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-sniper-approach-targeting-employers-is-the-real-way-to-win/)

**Published:** March 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# The Sniper Approach: Targeting Employers is the Real Way to Win

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the current market, “Spray and Pray” is not a strategy; it is a slow-motion [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) suicide. For the professional with a degree and a track record, hitting the “Easy Apply” button fifty times a day feels like productivity, but it is actually just contributing to the noise. When you send a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) to a generic job posting, you are voluntarily entering a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) war where the only way to win is to be the cheapest or the luckiest.

If you want to exit the slush pile, you must move to the **Sniper Approach**. This means selecting a shortlist of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and analyzing them with such depth that your eventual outreach makes it impossible for them to categorize you as “just another applicant.” You are looking for the intersection of your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** and their specific, current pain.

### 1. The Fallacy of the Numbers Game

The logic of the numbers game suggests that more [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) lead to more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). In reality, the opposite is true. High-volume, low-intent [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) trigger “Spam Filters” in modern [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)). If your profile is flagged as a serial applicant with low semantic relevance to the role, your visibility drops.

By targeting a select group—usually 10 to 15 companies—you allow yourself the cognitive bandwidth to understand their **Internal Weather**. What are their quarterly pressures? Who did they just lose to a competitor? What technical debt are they publicly complaining about? When you solve a specific problem, you aren’t an expense; you are an investment.

### 2. Using AI for Deep Employer Reconnaissance

Most candidates stop at the “About Us” page. To target effectively, you need to go into the data. You should be looking at SEC filings, recent press releases, and the social signals of their leadership team.

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is your force multiplier here. It can synthesize months of data in seconds, identifying the “Strategic Gaps” where you fit. Use these specific prompts to move past the surface level:

> **Prompt 1: The Pain Point Extractor** *“Analyze the last two earnings call transcripts and the most recent 10-K filing for \[Company Name\]. Identify the three primary strategic risks the leadership team mentioned. Based on my background in \[Your Field\], which of these risks am I [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) positioned to mitigate, and why?”*

> **Prompt 2: The Cultural/Leadership Audit** *“Synthesize the last five [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) posts and any recent [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) from \[[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) Manager Name\]. What is their stated philosophy on \[Specific Industry Trend\]? Draft a summary of where my ‘Onlyness’ aligns with their vision and where I might [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) a constructive, contrarian perspective.”*

> **Prompt 3: The Competitive Gap Analysis** *“Compare \[Company A\] with its primary competitor \[Company B\]. Based on recent news, where is \[Company A\] falling behind in \[Specific Function\]? How can a professional with my experience in \[X\] close that gap?”*
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXWDMKVB

### 3. Creating the “Incomparable” Pitch

Once you have the data, your outreach must be surgical. Because you have done the analysis, you don’t ask for a job. You propose a solution.

If you’ve discovered via Prompt 1 that the company is struggling with “Operational Silos” following a merger, your message to the lead isn’t: *“I’m a great Project Manager.”* It is:

*“I saw in the Q3 transcript that the \[X\] merger is hitting integration friction. I handled a near-identical silo-collapse at \[Previous Company\] by implementing \[Methodology\]. I’ve noted three specific pitfalls I encountered that might save your team some time. Are you open to a 10-minute exchange?”*

This is the **Digital Handshake** at its most potent. You are leading with value, backed by data, and delivered with the authority of someone who has done their homework.

### 4. The Exit Strategy from “Open to Work”

Targeting [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) requires you to remove the “Open to Work” banner—both the literal one on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) and the figurative one in your tone. A targeted candidate is a “Passive” candidate in the eyes of a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/). In the high-level market, passive candidates are always valued higher because they aren’t “looking for a job”—they are “choosing their next mission.”

When you target, you are in control. You are choosing the company as much as they are choosing you. This shift in power dynamics is subtle, but it is felt in every [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) and negotiation.

### The Bottom Line

Stop treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) like a lottery. The odds are better when you build the table yourself. Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to do the heavy lifting of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), use the prompts above to find the “Hidden Pain,” and then show up as the only logical solution to that pain.

If you aren’t the only one who could have written your pitch, you haven’t done enough [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Career Pivots. Career Transitions. Work-Life Balance](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-pivots-career-transitions-work-life-balance-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** March 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Career Pivots. Career Transitions. Work-Life Balance

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Approaching a career pivot with a velvet glove and understanding that balance may be a myth in the career triangle.

About 15 years ago, I decided I wanted to leave recruiting. I wanted to become a therapist in private practice. I was going to apply to graduate school. Eventually, I got in. I looked at different programs. I went for an MSW. I was gung ho about being a therapist and I met my wife to be there. As a result, I put that aspiration on hold because I realized what was even more important to me was becoming married, buy a house, having a child . . . All that sort of stuff. So, I shelved it and years later, it felt like a time where I could do it and began a process of transition from being headhunter to career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

I mentioned this story for couple of reasons. The first one is sometimes the path to a transition is not smooth and you have to do the right thing at that time and not force the issue.

I really wanted to be a psychotherapist and, at the same time, at that moment in time, what was more important to me was family. When I made the transition, I didn’t want to do it instantly because I had a great income going and I was successful. So, what I did and decided to engage in the process for the transition, I spoke to coaches. I tried to get a sense of what it was like professionally to be in the field. I didn’t participate in [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) calls but I really try to take some time to learn.

I attended a school in order to learn the basics of [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I thought I would due a life [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) gig but, ultimately, much of what I do starts off with career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), and then, from there, transitions into leadership and executive [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). That’s because, fundamentally, in search, you’re involved with all these elements if you our doing the job correctly. I mentioned this because, for you, considering a transition, a career pivot, there’s no linear path to change. Often, when I coach people (I have quite a few videos about transition. I think that they’re in [career change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-career-change-journey-part-1/) and there are different parts to this) but when I coach people about doing a pivot, I encourage them to take time, to try and do things on the side in order to test out what the career is like because the last thing you want to do is to give up what you currently have, as miserable as it may be making you feel, and, then, from there, find that yourself in another profession that’s not satisfactory, right?

Thus, for you. I want to encourage you to try something on the side first. I say it that way because (I’ll use myself as an example) part of the [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) program I did is they want you to work with 8 to 10 people per class [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) them so that you get that experience of being a coach and not just having book learning. Great approach. It was very helpful for me in my work.

I will also say that, for most of us, when you think of career, there is a triangle of options that exists. I say triangle because there are really three options. There is job satisfaction as one arm. There’s lifestyle. There is money.

[***Reinventing Your Career: Expert Advice for a Successful Transition***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ltU)

In looking at the triangle, in almost all cases, there’s some in imbalance. So, when you change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), when you transition into the new profession, you probably or going to find that something is missing. Like, if you go from for-profit to nonprofit, salaries tend to be lower, right? You can’t walk in and expect to command your Wall Street [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) at a nonprofit unless you or running the program and, even then, most people wind up taking a cut to do that.

In terms of work-life balance, you may be in a career where you are working easily and smoothly and there’s no real challenge to you, but you go to a profession with more demands that challenges you more, you are going to work more. It tends to be something out of balance in the equation. I say this just so you or not surprised as you start to explore options.

You may find money is a variable; you may find time is a variable I hope you don’t find your work satisfaction is the issue because why or you making the change if you’re going to a dissatisfying career just for the money or just for the time.

I’ll just say that you should try out different positions and opportunities or options by doing it part-time or by volunteering for the organization, even if it’s a for profit firm. See if you can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) yourself up and your services to do stuff on the side so that, in this way, you can see what it’s like.

You can interact with people and get a sense of what the pressures are so that there are no surprises. Yippee!”Surprises, I’ve discovered in my work in recruiting, are rarely good. Now that I do [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), as I have for quite a few years, I’ll simply say that surprises are rarely good with career transitions either.

No one suddenly goes, “you know, just to give you 40 more hours of work per week,” and people go, “YIPPEE!” It’s a bad surprise, right?

So, take time. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). Try things on the side. Ask questions. Continue doing informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) for other things that you’re curious about and don’t just lock in on one.

Often people do a bungee jump into a new profession. That is, they have the idea and they quit and they dive wholeheartedly into the pool and come up you hitting the bottom pretty quickly because they don’t have the financial reserves to prepare them for this change.

Make sure things are in alignment. Bungee jumps can lead to catastrophes, right? I’ll just simply say you need allies throughout this. If you need an ally through this transition, I’d love to help you. Reach out to me by connecting with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at www.linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter. Mention that you saw this. It just lets me know that what I do has an effect. I’ll also say that once were connected, message me. Tell me that you’re interested in career transition [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I look forward to hearing from you.

Hope you have a great day. Take care

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### [A Promotion Isn't Owed To You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-promotion-isnt-owed-to-you-career-angles/)

**Published:** March 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Managers often do a very good job of stroking their employee's ego and, thus, give them a sense of false security and expectations.

**Content:**

# A Promotion Isn’t Owed To You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Beginning with my experience as an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), to now [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) people into successful roles and [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), one thing I have learned from the people I have worked with is that managers often do a very good job of stroking their employee’s ego and, thus, give them a sense of false security and expectations.

“I see you on the fast track.”

“I see you as my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) person.”

“I’ll look out for you.”

There are many different ways that managers and leaders give people the false illusion that they are important to an organization and that they have a long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) ahead of them. Thus, they can be surprised to learn that their job security is a little bit more complicated than what their manager thinks and tells them.

[![vp](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/VP-icons8-team-m0oSTE_MjsI-unsplash-300x200.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/VP-icons8-team-m0oSTE_MjsI-unsplash-scaled.jpg)I worked with someone a few years ago who was consistently told that his work was exceptional, his future guaranteed and that everyone thought the world of him. Suffice it to say, when the deck got shuffled and he was assigned to a new role, he was shocked to discover he had been sent to corporate Siberia into a position where his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in the organization was dead on arrival. All those kind words, all the superlatives, meant nothing.

Here are five [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that I see so many people make:

**No one above your immediate manager knows anything about what you do and how good you are.** We can joke about the old saying “if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Of course it makes a sound, but no one knows it. The same is true of your work. No matter how good it is and how meaningful it has been, you can be invisible to the real decision-makers.

**You let your internal and external network become fallow**. A farm field needs tending, and so does your network of relationships. Networks don’t just exist with former colleagues and friends. They live with the people that you have positively affected within your firm, your mentor(s), your former manager(s) as well as the people you have lunch with.

**You act like it’s owed to you.** In all sports, big contract players can be phased out or cut if their performance doesn’t measure up to the contract they receive. Many people live off of their past successes and expect to be paid and promoted for them. Unfortunately, many of those successes and impacts occurred multiple years ago. No one cares about what you did when President Obama was in office. Your company has no debt to you. They paid for your services fair and square. There were no promises made beyond simply, “We are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you to do this job and will pay you the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).”

**You got out of your lane.** It may feel good to be “the helper,” the person everyone goes to for advice about how to do something or how to get something done. However, every interruption that you allow, every time you rescue someone else by giving them the answer when they couldn’t figure it out on their own, distracts you from doing the job you were hired to do. I know I’ve made this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) by allowing both less experienced people and more experienced people to ask for my advice about handling situations that took me away from what I was actually hired to do. It’s one thing to agree to do it once in a while. It’s another thing to have a Post-it note taped to your forehead that says, “Ask me anything.” I became that person!

**You became too (dis)agreeable.** When you felt taken for granted, you never spoke up. You are encouraged to “go with the flow,” or “be a team player” and not “rock the boat.” I would never suggest that you throw a tantrum at work, but it is important to practice saying one word with regularity: “no.” Because everyone else is docile and compliant, the word “no” has more power behind it. Pick your battles but don’t be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to speak up and speak out.

Conversely, acting like the sun rises and sets around you and your opinions no matter where you reside in an organization is a recipe for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) suicide. Eventually, a new sheriff rides into town, someone gets their ear and your enemies collaborate to take you out. There is an art to working with others while maintaining your professional integrity that separates people.

You are the chairman of the board of your own life. You have a board of directors that you are beholden to (your husband, wife, partner, children) who double as shareholders. Sometimes, you need an external advisor or advisors to help you navigate the different obstacles in your path that you don’t see because, like everyone, you have blind spots.

Often, it’s too late to involve this advisor/mentor/coach when a problem hits. After all, you missed the signals along the way that allowed this problem to fester and now explode. An ongoing relationship with the person or people who can function in this role will be important to you throughout [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Make time for regularly scheduled check-ins. Whether you are an entry-level employee or a senior leader, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) time to start the relationship with this person was five years ago. The second [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) time is today.

You don’t have to figure things out by yourself. After all, every great athlete has a coach who helps them succeed. Every great entertainer has a team of people around them to help advance their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Luck and talent may play a part in this. But there are a lot of talented people who never get to where they want to get to. Don’t hesitate. Cultivate the team around you to help support you over the long term.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2020, 2022

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### [Why You Should Accumulate LinkedIn Recommendations #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-should-accumulate-linkedin-recommendations-shorts/)

**Published:** March 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Joel Gray, Chief Executive Officer at Aetna Better Health of Virginia, shared why some firms are switching away from checking references.

**Content:**

## Why You Should Accumulate LinkedIn Recommendations #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

**[*Click here if the video does not play properly.*](https://youtu.be/M_5d3bHJq6I)**

Joel Gray, Chief Executive Officer at Aetna Better Health of Virginia, shared why some firms are switching away from checking references.

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[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) say that 48% of “quality hires” come from employee [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) and 40% from social professional networks. However, there is a growing trend of [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) not allowing reference checks anymore. In our digital age, it’s unfortunately not easy to verify if a recommendation is authentic anymore.

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Testimonials are much easier to trust. A [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager or [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can verify authenticity and relevance of the recommendation by reviewing the author’s profile on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and any shared connections.

There is a lot more at my website. Check the show notes for the address.

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### [Go To The Roar To Diminish Your Fear](https://thebiggamehunter.us/go-to-the-roar-to-diminish-your-fear/)

**Published:** March 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is an interesting method to how lions hunt gazelle.

**Content:**

# Go To The Roar To Diminish Your Fear

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

There is an interesting method to how lions hunt gazelle.

Gazelles are much faster than lions, but the lions have created a system to catch them. Some lions chase after the gazelle and herd them in the direction of other lions who are lying in tall grass, hiding. Once the gazelle are almost on top of them, the hiding lions stand up and roar.

The gazelle, terrified, turn around and run in the direction of the pursuing lions, which are now better able to catch and kill them, and all lions are able to feast.

If the gazelle had continued to run in the direction of the hiding lions and their roar, they would likely have been able to escape, but fear got the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of them and led to their death.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us, fear can paralyze us and prevent us from taking action. It is important to remember that in times of crisis, whether professional or personal, hesitation is fine; paralysis is not. What can you do when faced with an extraordinary situation or a crisis?

**What is the reality of the situation you are in?**

It is better to face the truth quickly rather than be optimistic, kid yourself or pretend everything is going to be all right quickly. You have assets and resources that you can employ; this is the time to use them. But when consulting with others, understand what their mental state is before accepting what they say at face value. After all, their advice may be colored by their fear.

**Pause, don’t freeze.**

Your senses may be heightened by your fear, but that doesn’t mean you should become frozen in place. Stop. Look around. Obtain useful information, not conjecture. Test your hypothesis. This is not the time for dogma. This is a time to do reconnaissance before taking action. Being frozen in place allows terror to rule your thinking, keeping you from using your senses to notice opportunities, let alone move forward. If you feel frozen, focus on your breath; take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Slowing yourself down by focusing on the breath will help you regain your senses and reduce the power of your fear.

**Start talking to people.**

This is a great opportunity to check in with people to see how they are. I tell people that the run-up to Christmas and New Year’s is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) time of the year to network. Almost everyone is responsive to a text or message that says, “It feels like 100 years since we were last in contact, so I thought I would just message you to see how you were.” Similarly, during this time of crisis, [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) someone and saying, “I want to see how you are doing” goes a long way toward creating a connection with someone.

**Become a person who listens to others.**

Your leadership can shine through by listening to people talk. You don’t have to have answers. You just have to shift their internal dialogue by listening. I have run men’s groups, both online and in person, for many years. The crux of the question I ask is simple.

“How are *you* doing?” I make space for them to talk.

For you as a leader in an organization, for you as a member of staff in an organization, recognize that the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) toward your team moving forward again is getting them to open up about what is going on inside. Talking will help them thaw the ice that has frozen them.

**Lead.**

Years ago, a friend of mine had his first official role in a nonprofit we were both involved with. To honor and recognize his accomplishment, I presented him with a gift at a breakfast we had right after he came home.

Opening the box, he found a T-shirt. On the front was the word “leader.” I encouraged him to turn it over. There he discovered a target.

“Welcome to leadership,” I said. “As a leader, you will always be a target. If you’re a great leader, you will be the target of people’s hopes, dreams, even their envy. If you’re a lousy leader, you’ll be the target of people’s disappointment, apathy and blame. You can’t not be a target. You’ll always be a target.”

So, like the gazelle in our story, you are a target. You can step into your courage, go to the roar and lead, or be fearful and turn back into the jaws of criticism.

**Look for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/).**

It isn’t enough to listen and lead. You need [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) as to how your efforts are affecting others, not just simply in their words but in their behaviors. For some of you, you may need to also listen to indirect forms of communication.

“That’s great. Have you considered…”

“I really like that. What about..”

Not everyone is a direct communicator. Not everyone will be as able as you are to lead. They may look to you to lead but want to influence how you lead. Sometimes, it is enough to listen and hear what they have to say and not act.

Leadership is an acquired skill that is cultivated in both difficult times and ordinary times. It will be granted to you not just based upon your words but your actions. Your fear is the bogeyman that can be scared off by feeling your fear and acting anyway.

Stepping into it and going toward it, whether you are a leader or a follower, allows you to exercise new muscles and stretch into new roles, prove yourself to yourself and others and help you grow professionally and personally.

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### [Job Search Lessons From 3000 Podcast Episodes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-lessons-from-3000-podcast-episodes/)

**Published:** March 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Launching No BS Job Search Advice Radio on November 20, 2010, was a step into the unknown. At the time, there were very few quality podcasts and fairly poor audio quality available.

**Content:**

# Job Search Lessons From 3,000 Podcast Episodes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Launching No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio on November 20, 2010, was a step into the unknown. At the time, there were very few quality podcasts and fairly poor audio quality available. The purpose of the show was to take the mythology out of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) because, from my work in search, I realized [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) didn’t have to be as hard as it was.

Ten years and 2,000 episodes later, I’ve taught many [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) lessons and offered [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) through the show and thought it would be a great time to summarize several important takeaways.

**1. You are the Chairman of the Board of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).** Too many people abdicate responsibility for their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) to their employer and learn the hard way that their employer is looking out for their own interests and not theirs. You have a Board of Directors — your husband, wife, partner, children — to whom you report. You are responsible for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), not the people you work for.

**2. Life is too short to do work you dislike or are bored by.** There is a sadness I feel from messages I receive from listeners who feel trapped in work that deadens them. You can take steps to change the work and the environment in which you are working. It may take effort and time, but so does living a life that slowly deadens you. See [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) lesson #1.

**3. When firms hire, competence is only one quality they look for.** Additionally, they look for [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), character, chemistry and, sometimes, [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/). These are the qualities that, when added up, lead to the big thing they look for — trust. They trust you. Without trust (or desperation — but you don’t want to step into a desperate situation), they will keep [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

**4. [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) practice, not a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) practice.** Many people make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) of lurching from one [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to another doing [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) “when needed.” They ignore the [data](https://jobs.washingtonpost.com/article/how-to-land-a-job-by-networking/ "https://jobs.washingtonpost.com/article/how-to-land-a-job-by-networking/") that [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) fills more positions than [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and ads do. Thus, when they need someone, they become “one of *those* people” who try to use their history with someone to their [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/), rather than preserving a mutually beneficial relationship. Successful [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) usually involves conserving a relationship, rather than prospecting for new ones. Too few people network except when they need something. See [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) lesson #1.

**5. Practice for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Don’t wing it.** Great athletes practice, and entertainers all rehearse. Job hunters go on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and when the first time they speak the words are at the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), they wonder why they get poor results. They are going to ask certain predictable questions in each [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Rehearse your answers by speaking them.

**6. Although we know we are influenced by brands, we do little to [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) ourselves.** We live in an age of influencers and brands yet act as though the universe will know and recognize our talents despite making no effort to become visible to people. Think proactively of the things that you can do to widen your sphere of influence so opportunities come to you, rather than you chasing them. See [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) lesson #1.

**7. Treat people with respect.** [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are human beings trying to do the job of filling positions. They are neither leeches nor parasites. They are paid by companies to fill positions. They don’t work for you, who pays them nothing. It is your responsibility to look out for yourself, not theirs. See [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) lesson #1.

**8. Negotiation starts with the first question about compensation.** Whether you live in a state where it is still legal to ask about your current salary or one where it is illegal, as soon as the conversation turns to compensation, they are negotiating. “What are you currently earning? Is that total comp or just base salary? Gee, that seems a little high. Would you be flexible?” You know nothing about the job, the team or who you’ll report to except what you’ve learned from them or online. If you are going to agree to be flexible at this stage, you need to hedge the statement to protect yourself later. “I know nothing about the job, expectations, the team or the person I’ll be working for. In theory, I can be flexible, but there is a lot more I need to know before I can commit to being flexible.” See [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) lesson #1.

**9. Everyone lies.** Many job hunters exaggerate their experience. [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) usually exaggerate the opportunity in the job. Most forget [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) do, too. I’ve never heard of a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager saying, “I have a big problem. We are way behind; the team I’ve inherited is lazy. My predecessor was [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/), and so was hers. I need help to save myself!” Instead, they talk about a great opportunity with a terrific team of people and how they are like family. They may be, but they may be more like the families in all the holiday movies that want to kill one another!

**10. Get off the conveyor belt and be treated as an individual.** The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process has been turned into sausage-making. People apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) through an [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) where they are expected to homogenize their experience so they are plucked from the thousands of others. They are asked the same questions by most [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) until, eventually, they are chosen and onboarded. Get off the conveyor belt where you are processed.

There are many more things I’ve realized, but they can all be summarized as “the skills needed to find a job are different than those needed to do a job.”

If you don’t know how to do it differently, find a coach, mentor or good friend who can guide you. Otherwise, you will be homogenized and commoditized, winding up like everyone else.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2024, 2026

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### [How to Be More Likeable in Your Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-be-more-likeable-in-your-interviews-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** March 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A Harvard Business Review Article pointed to likeability as being the #1 variable in a salary negotiation. It is true of interviewing, too.

**Content:**

# How to Be More Likeable in Your Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

A Harvard Business Review Article pointed to likeability as being the #1 variable in a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation. It is true of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), too.

One of the things I’ve always been very good at is preparing people for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). If you look at my content on YouTube you’ll see hundreds of videos I’ve done, specifically, about [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and that’s before I even get into how to answer tough [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions.

One topic I hadn’t really address and it came up to me because I was making something in Harvard Business Review about factors the weigh into a negotiation. The first variable beyond qualifications that they referenced was likability. When we think of politicians, most of the time, we vote for a politician that we like personally. Certainly, President Obama fit into that category for many Americans, even though they disagree with his policies. They liked him. They like his wife. They liked his family. It’s very different than the client we have as I record this in 2018 and, no disrespect to the current president, likability is not one of the leading things that people think of when they think of President Trump.

So, likability is a big variable negotiation, but it’s also a variable when [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/). When I saw that, I asked myself how does someone become likable? What do they do to demonstrate likability?

Now, I want to start off by saying you can’t do anything that suggests you’re a BS artist. Everything you do has to be congruent with who you really are. One of the things I always think of is a smile, a friendly demeanor about you. I’m just trying to illustrate it here with a twinkle in my eye, a good mood of my face and just being friendly with a friendly handshake that lets people know that you are a friendly kind of guy.

Now, I’m not saying that you lower your guard in anyway but you make [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/), a firm handshake. That’s true for men and women, of course and, in doing that, you demonstrate that you’re open . . . which is a big part of likability. People want believe that is someone who is open is a likable individual.

Another thing to increase likability (and this is a variation on something I’ve said differently before) they’re good listeners and one of the things that you want to foster in the course of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is having them do a lot of the talking. In my [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), I talk about the headhunter secret to knowing you did well on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). In it, I say, the more they talk, the more they like you. Part of the reason they are talking is they are selling to you. Part of it is you’ve made space for them. Maybe you’ve asked questions that allow you to listen more.

So, the goal becomes, at a certain stage in the conversation, you are doing a lot of listening and, energetically, you’re also in sync with the interviewer. So, you being open is only one variable. You also have to appear as though you’re engaged while you are listening to them (and this is the joke I’ve always told) bask in in their magnificence. They’re doing so much talking, they feel good because they are hearing the sweetest voice in the world to them . . . their own voice.

So, again, you want to be a good listener. You also want to appear open-minded. People who disagree a lot come across as being disagreeable and for a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, the last thing they want to do is [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone else’s headache.

So, again, you want to appear as though you’re a good listener and I’m not saying to be such an agreeable person that you appear to be as a suck up but you want to carry yourself in a way where you are paying attention to them.

I also want to say there is congruence in your body language. Now there are people who were energetically very excited and they talk with your hands a lot and you. I’ve always said that’s a little too much, but you do would feel free to talk with your hands and, if you’ve watched made in my videos, you know I do that a lot and I do it primarily to release [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) but it’s also an emphasis point that’s congruent with what I’m saying.

So, for you as a speaker, I want you to start thinking about how you can engage physically with your audience while still appearing likable, friendly and not a suck up, but an affable individual who is likable to them.

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### [Why Career Loyalty is a Myth: Take Control of Your Future](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-career-loyalty-is-a-myth-take-control-of-your-future/)

**Published:** March 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, I deconstruct the “Myth of Career Loyalty” and expose the "Madness of Careers"

**Content:**

# Why Career Loyalty is a Myth: Take Control of Your Future

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Are you working your tail off for a 3% raise while watching outsiders land the promotions you’ve earned? You’re not alone. In this video, I deconstruct the “Myth of [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Loyalty” and expose the “Madness of Careers”—the painful gap between the dream we were sold and the reality of being a cog in a corporate machine. We’ll dive into the Fable of the Snake to reveal the true nature of business and provide a actionable, 4-step plan to detox from false hope and start prioritizing your interests over the company’s bottom line. It’s time to stop waiting for a savior and start being your own CEO.

Today, let’s talk about something a lot of us believe in, or at least used to believe in, the myth of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) loyalty. We’re gonna dig into what happens when that whole illusion just shatters. Let’s get right into it.

You know, it’s a feeling that starts out pretty small, kind of like a nagging thought in the back of your mind, a quiet [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/). But over time, it can grow and grow, until it becomes this one, single, overwhelming word that just defines your entire professional life. Madness.

Maybe it’s that sense that the rules you thought you were playing by just don’t seem to matter anymore. If that sounds even a little bit familiar, you are in the right place, because we’re about to explore exactly where that feeling comes from. Alright, so let’s start by framing this whole conflict.

We’ll call it the madness of [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). And really, it’s all about the gigantic gap between the dream [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) we were all sold and the reality that so many of us are actually living, day in and day out. So on one side, you’ve got the dream, right? The story is simple.

Do great work, get recognized for it, and you’ll climb the ladder, earning more money and authority. But then, there’s the other side, the reality. It’s that feeling of being just a tiny ant in a giant machine.

It’s watching outsiders get hired for the very roles you’ve been working your tail off for. It’s feeling like you have to be an empty suit to get ahead. And what does that recognition look like in the world? Well, for a lot of people who are labeled a solid performer, all that [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/), all that loyalty, it all gets boiled down to a number that looks a lot like this.

3%. A 3% raise? I mean, that feels less like a real reward and more like just checking a box, doesn’t it? And this right here, this is the heart of all that [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/). It’s this fundamental disconnect.

Management says one thing, you know, we really value you. But their actions, when it comes to promotions or pay, tell a completely different story. And it’s in that gap, that incongruence, where the madness really starts to take hold.

So what happens when that disconnect just keeps going day after day, year after year? Well, it leads to something the source material calls a death by a thousand cuts. It’s this slow, painful wearing down of your ambition itself. And it’s a gradual thing, you know, it’s not overnight.

First, maybe you realize management is actually getting in the way of your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Then you’re sort of encouraged to ignore all the contradictions you see. Fear starts to creep in, fear of losing your job, and that makes you obedient.

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And eventually, you might just give up and surrender to what’s called acceptable mediocrity. You become this hollowed out version of the ambitious person you were when you started. So the crucial point is this, and it’s a real wake-up call.

The path of just being quiet and obedient, of never rocking the boat, that is not the path that leads to leadership or fulfillment. That’s a path that leads you further and further away from the person you actually want to become. To really wrap our heads around this whole dynamic, we’ve got to shift our perspective.

And there’s a powerful metaphor that explains everything. It’s called the fable of the snake. The story is pretty simple.

A snake needs to get across a river, so he asks a turtle for a ride. The turtle, you know, being a smart turtle, is a little hesitant. He asks the snake for a guarantee that he won’t get bitten.

And the snake, well, he makes a promise. A promise that sounds completely reassuring, totally logical, perfectly safe. And the turtle, because he wants to believe the promise, agrees and lets the snake climb up onto his back.

But of course, halfway across the river, the inevitable happens. The snake breaks its promise and bites the turtle, dooming them both. The turtle, in total shock, asks, why? You promised.

And right here, this is the core lesson of the whole story. The snake’s response is simple, and you really can’t argue with it. It wasn’t about malice.

It wasn’t even really about a broken promise. It was about its fundamental nature. A snake does what a snake does.

So what in the world does this mean for us? Well, a business isn’t necessarily evil, just like the snake wasn’t evil. It simply acts according to its nature. And the nature of any business is to survive and protect its owners and investors first.

That is its primary function. Everything else comes second. And here is where we connect everything back to that feeling of madness.

The madness isn’t the system itself. The madness is our misplaced faith. It’s us expecting the snake not to act like a snake.

It’s us hoping that a business will choose to be kind to us over ensuring its own survival. Now, the source material uses a really blunt metaphor here, and it’s designed to jolt us awake. This addiction we have to the idea that the company is going to take care of us, it’s a dangerous one.

It’s time to detox from that fantasy and start planning for yourself and for your interests. And this brings us to the final and honestly the most important section. Once we understand the nature of the system, how do we actually operate within it? Well, it all comes down to taking full, complete responsibility for your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

This whole thing breaks down into a clear, four-step plan. First, you’ve got to acknowledge the reality of the system, understand the nature of the business snake. Second, you have to abandon the false hope that somehow you’ll be the one exception to the rule.

Third, recognize that you are in charge of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and start planning for your interests. And finally, number four, you have to act now. Don’t wait for a crisis to start preparing.

And always remember, even a manager with the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) intentions in the world can’t save you. When the tough decisions are made way up at the top, your direct boss is usually powerless. You cannot outsource [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) security to anyone.

You’re the one in charge. So we’ll end with this. A business operates with a crystal clear understanding of its own purpose and its own nature.

The most powerful question you can ask yourself right now is, do you understand yours? And are you willing to act on it?

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### [Trusting Others' Opinions More Than Your Own](https://thebiggamehunter.us/trusting-others-opinions-more-than-your-own/)

**Published:** February 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Events have reminded me of how easy it is for me and I suspect you to trust others opinions more than your own. I give two examples.

**Content:**

# Trusting Others’ Opinions More Than Your Own

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Events have reminded me of how easy it is for me and I suspect you to trust others opinions more than your own. I give two examples.

Welcome to [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). A couple of episodes came together concurrently that prompted me to want to do this video and let me just start with the apolitical one and then go into the political one. The apolitical one is I remember years there was an acquisition that was made where a firm acquired a young startup for an unheard of amount of money for a firm that was that young.

The acquirer, in this case, Google, acquired YouTube, a company that had no earnings, no revenue, no potential, so everyone said. How are they going to monetize them? There’s the headlines. They’re spending almost two billion dollars for this firm.

What are they, crazy? There’s no potential here. Video is new. Like, what are they gonna do? Now, I want to give you a perspective and say that last year, Google’s revenues that I saw posted were 10 billion dollars.

Now, I want to do a quick review here just to make sure I [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) this correctly. Google does 10 billion dollars in annual revenue. It is increasing by 40 percent per year.

10 billion in revenue, 40 percent increase per year. Do you think Google’s made their money back and a lot more? How did we wind up trusting these geniuses who didn’t see the potential and just accepting what they said at face value? In the modern times, we’re dealing with a politically complicated situation where Russian involvement in US elections translates into undue influence on Trump and, from there, that there was collusion and on and on and on and yesterday, as I record this, former FBI director Comey came out and said a couple of very simple things including, yes, there was Russian involvement in the election. No, as of now, there’s no evidence to suggest that the president was involved with it even though there’s been lots of scary stuff put out there and I don’t present him to know the answer.

I just have to trust the FBI director in his positions and say that there’s a lot of you out there who are believing everything that you’re being told. I know it’s very easy for me to be seduced into this kind of stuff and I want to remind you and remind myself as well that just because people have an opinion doesn’t make it right. Just because they say it forcefully doesn’t make them right.

Take a moment and take a step back. Think for yourself and, if you don’t know, just pause and wait for the circumstances to clear rather than getting so vehement in one position or another. I want to be clear this isn’t about politics.

It’s about far more than that. So, sit back, relax, wait for the dust to clear. You don’t have to have all the right answers.

If anything, admitting that you need help will be a huge boost for you. You’ll learn a lot more. You can ask your own questions and come to your own conclusions without, shall we say, abdicating your power and knowledge to other people.

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### [What Do Hiring Managers and Recruiters Think When They Read "Looking for a Challenging Position?"](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-hiring-managers-and-recruiters-think-when-they-read-looking-for-a-challenging-position/)

**Published:** March 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Hiring managers and recruiters, what do you think while reading the resume line "looking for a challenging position"?

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# What Do Hiring Managers and Recruiters Think When They Read “Looking for a Challenging Position?”

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Resume Tips: What Are The Key Indicators of a Strong Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-tips-what-are-the-key-indicators-of-a-strong-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** March 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What are the key indicators of a strong resume versus a weak one?

**Content:**

# Resume Tips: What Are The Key Indicators of a Strong Resume? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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What are the key indicators of a strong [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) versus a weak one?

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### [Do Employers Care About LinkedIn Profiles?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-employers-care-about-linkedin-profiles/)

**Published:** March 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are 2 parts to my answer about whether employers care about LinkedIn profiles. The second may surprise you.

**Content:**

# Do Employers Care About LinkedIn Profiles?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

There are 2 parts to my answer about whether [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) care about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles. The second may surprise you.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people. I help around workplace issues so [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) better, managing, leading, being more effective in the workplace in general.

The question I want to answer in this video is do [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) care about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles? Now, I want to be clear there’s more than one part so hang in there as I get past the first one because the second one may surprise you. The first one is [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as the new database. After all, there are 650 million people on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as of the time of this recording, almost 700 million and thus once they have a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) account, they can search and search and find people for their firm.

It has replaced for many of them the need to receive [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They are out there recruiting people by keywords in your profile. So, yes, it matters to them from a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) perspective.

Now, here’s the other part that I was promising at the beginning and that is for some firms, it bothers them that you have data in your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile and as I wrote for Forbes, there are firms out there who tell their employees, post [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), in other words, after you’ve accepted an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and joined to get rid of everything in your profile. So, there’s no data about you and your experience. There is company name, there are dates of [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), title, that’s it.

So, from the standpoint of caring, they care because they’re aware of their conduct and they don’t want other people recruiting their staff. So, basically, what they’re doing is making you invisible and there are people in compliance in the organization who are looking for violators to have a talking to because they don’t want you to be contacted by other firms, by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), by anyone for that matter about another job. So, yes, they care on both counts.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful. Visit TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s much more there you can watch, listen to, sorry, or read that will help you find work more quickly.

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [The #shorts Way to Prepare for a Job Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-shorts-way-to-prepate-for-a-job-interview/)

**Published:** March 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here are the points you need to do to prepare for an interview, a la YouTube #shorts

**Content:**

# The #shorts Way to Prepare for a Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/T8XxM8VMwRU)

## The #shorts Way to Prepate for a Job Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**
Here are the points you need to do to prepare for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), a la YouTube #shorts

[***Interview Mistakes: Vomiting on People***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jBL)

Here are some ways to prepare for a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). First, [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) the company and the position. Prepare responses to common [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions, and then practice your answers by speaking them out loud, ideally, practicing them with someone else.

Prepare three stories that follow at least the STAR framework– Situation or Task Action Result. Look at the person’s background or people’s background on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that you’re going to be meeting with, and then calibrate your answers to what they may want to know. An HR person is going to want to know something different than a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. Right?

There’s a lot more at [JobSearch.Community ](http://JobSearch.Community)

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### [No BS Career Advice: March 15, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-15-2026/)

**Published:** March 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: March 15, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**“**My luck is like a pot of gold: I know it’s out there, but I’ve yet to see it in my paycheck.”

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It felt like all I did was work this week. Did the sessions with people. I was doing presentations for people. Even on Sunday, when my co-host and I recorded a podcast for our client. All week long, I was grinding. It felt good to get to Friday late afternoon when I could finally stop.

Sometimes in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), you have to keep grinding to keep your commitments to others and yourself, even when it is stressful. After all, you committed. **People notice when you don’t keep your commitments to yourself and others.**

### The Executive High-Wire: When to Play Hardball vs. When to Flex

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In the rarefied air of executive compensation, the stakes are rarely just about the base salary. At this level, you aren’t negotiating for a paycheck; you are negotiating for a seat at the table and the resources required to be successful. As an executive coach, the most common question I receive is: *“How hard can I push without breaking the deal?”*

The answer lies in understanding the difference between your **Market Value** (what the world pays) and your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** (the specific, irreplaceable value you bring to *this* exact problem). Negotiating is a test of your strategic judgment. If you play hardball at the wrong time, you look out of touch. If you flex too early, you signal that your value is a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/).

Here is the no-BS guide to reading the room and winning the negotiation.

### The Power Dynamics of Executive Leverage

Before you open your mouth, you must assess who holds the leverage. Leverage is not a static number; it is a shifting sentiment based on the company’s “Cost of Vacancy.”

### 1. When to Play Hardball (The “Category of One” Strategy)

You play hardball when you ***are*** the solution to a burning platform. If the board is under fire, the stock is sliding, or a major merger is at risk, they don’t want a “qualified candidate”—they want a savior.

**The Signals to Push Hard:**

- **The “Unicorn” Match:** They have explicitly stated that your unique background (e.g., merging [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) implementation with traditional manufacturing) is something they haven’t found elsewhere.
- **The Failed Search:** If the role has been open for six months or a previous hire failed, their “Cost of Vacancy” is skyrocketing.
- **The Accelerated Timeline:** They are pushing for a start date yesterday. Urgency is the ultimate premium.

**How to Play It:** In this scenario, do not [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) against a(n arbitrary) benchmark. [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) against the **value created**. If you are expected to save the company $50M in operational waste, a $50k difference in base salary is just noise. Focus on “Outcome-Based Equity” and “Performance Kickers.” Use the phrase: *“I am committed to delivering the $50M result we discussed, but the current package reflects a standard maintenance role, not the transformation lead you are asking me to be.”*

### 2. When to Be Flexible (The “Strategic Alignment” Strategy)

Flexibility is not weakness; it is a tactical investment in a long-term partnership. You flex when the role offers you a “Platform Jump”–a move that increases your future [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) even if the immediate cash isn’t at your ceiling.

**The Signals to Flex:**

- **The [Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Halo:** The company is a prestigious “Academy Company” or [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) (like Google, Goldman, or Disney) that will permanently increase your market value for the rest of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).
- **The Pivot:** You are moving into a new industry or a significantly larger P&L. They are taking a chance on your potential as much as your track record.
- **The Cultural Fit:** You have found a CEO or Board you truly believe in. At the executive level, a toxic boss is more expensive than a lower salary.

**How to Play It:** Flex on the **Base**, but anchor the **Upside**. If they cannot hit your number on salary, don’t just “accept” less. Reallocate the value. Use a “Bridge Clause”: *“I’m willing to start at your current budget of $X to demonstrate my commitment to the (team/firm/organization). However, let’s agree to a formal compensation review in six months based on the achievement of \[Objective A\].”*

### 3. The “Onlyness” Premium: Negotiating Beyond the Median

Most HR departments will try to trap you in some “Compa-ratio” talk, like the median salary for your title in your zip code. As an executive, your goal is to exit the [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) market entirely.

If they tell you the market rate is $400k, and you want $550k, you cannot justify that through “years of experience.” You justify it through **Specific Complexity**.

**The No-BS Script:** *“I respect the market data for a standard COO role. However, a standard COO isn’t currently facing a hostile takeover and a talent exodus. My [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is that I have navigated this exact intersection twice before. You can hire a market-rate COO, but the learning curve will cost you more in the first 90 days than the difference in my compensation.”*

### Navigating the “Non-Monetary” Hardball

Sometimes the cash is truly capped due to internal equity or public disclosure rules. This is where high-level coaches earn their keep. If you can’t get more money, [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for **Structural Power**.

- **Reporting Lines:** If you are a VP, [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) to report to the CEO instead of a Senior VP. This changes your internal “gravity.”
- **Governance:** [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for an observer seat on the Board or a lead role in the Investment Committee.
- **Severance (The “Golden Parachute”):** If you are taking a “Turnaround” role with high risk, play hardball on the exit, not the entry. [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for 12-18 months of severance. It signals that you know the job is dangerous and you are a professional who protects your downside.

### The Bottom Line: Judgment is the Only Product

Today, the executive who wins isn’t the one who shouts the loudest, but the one who reads the data correctly. If you play hardball with a cash-strapped startup because “that’s what my coach said,” you look like an amateur. If you flex with a Fortune 50 company that is desperate for your specific skills, you are leaving millions on the table.

Before every negotiation, ask yourself: **“Am I a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) they *want*, or a solution they *need*?”**

If you are a solution, stand your ground. If you are a candidate, build the bridge.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

***In the past week, I released content including:***

Stop Bombing Your [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) Excerpt: If you’re getting the [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) but not the offers, you’re likely making one of these critical mistakes. Jeff breaks down how to fix your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) technique to start closing the deal. Link: 

Consider it a Red Flag If They Do This Excerpt: Not every [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/) is a good one. Learn the specific behavior during the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process that signals a toxic culture or a manager you’ll regret working for. Link: 

Waiting to Get [Laid Off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) Is [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Suicide. Get Ready Excerpt: If the writing is on the wall, waiting for the axe to fall is a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/). Jeff discusses the proactive steps you must take right now to ensure you’re landing on your feet before the layoffs begin. Link: 

[Employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) Situation Summary: March 6, 2026 Excerpt: Jeff provides a breakdown of the latest [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) report and what the current [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) numbers actually mean for your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) stability in today’s economy. Link: 

How Do You Know It’s Time to Give Up? Excerpt: When a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) or a specific [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path isn’t yielding results, it’s hard to know when to pivot. Jeff explores how to distinguish between a temporary slump and a sign that it’s time to change direction. Link: 

[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on the Rise According to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) in 2026 Excerpt: EP 3118 The 2026 job market isn’t just a mystery—it’s a roadmap of real-world data showing where the money and opportunities are shifting. Stop guessing where your industry is headed and start positioning yourself for the explosion in [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), self-employment, and high-touch human roles. Link: 

What Should I Do If My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) Isn’t Generating [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)? Excerpt: If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is going into the “black hole” and you aren’t getting callbacks, Jeff explains the primary reasons for the disconnect and the specific adjustments you need to make to your strategy. Link: 

The [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/): Defending Your Value Against “Traditional” Logic Excerpt: In an executive [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), the most dangerous question isn’t about your failures—it’s about your fit. Jeff explains how to defend your unique value when faced with traditional, narrow [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) logic. Link: 

How [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) Steal Your [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) People: They Don’t Steal Them #shorts Excerpt: Managers often blame [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) for “stealing” their talent. Jeff reveals the real reason why people leave and why [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are simply the ones answering the door that you left open. Link: 

And The [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) Goes To . . . Excerpt: Ever wonder what happens behind closed doors after the final round? Jeff takes you inside the selection process and explains the final factors that determine who actually gets the call and who gets the [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). Link: 

From Fear to Friendly: Becoming a [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) All-Star Excerpt: Most people avoid [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) because it feels transactional or scary. Jeff shares a framework for shifting your mindset from “asking for favors” to “building relationships” to become a natural connector. Link: 

Tell People You Are [Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Excerpt: EP 3120 What are you doing? Keeping it a secret?Timestamps00:00 – The [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) of the “To tell or not to tell” dilemma. Link: 

Make Your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Edited [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) Standout Excerpt: EP3140 You are drowning in a sea of perfectly tailored but totally soulless competition. The only way to stand out is by mastering the one thing a bot can’t do. Link: 

[Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): When to Schedule Yourself #shorts Excerpt: When should you schedule [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) for? Let me help you with a quick tip on timing your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) for maximum impact. Link: 

Making Major Life Decisions During a [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) #shorts Excerpt: A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is already a high-stress event. Jeff discusses the wisdom—or lack thereof—in making other major life changes like moving or getting married at the same time. Link: 

[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on the Rise According to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) in 2026 Excerpt: LinkedIn’s data reveals the fastest-growing roles of the year. Jeff breaks down the list and explains what skills you need to develop now to stay ahead of these trends. Link: 

Getting Ready for a Recession Excerpt: You don’t wait for the storm to hit to fix the roof. Jeff provides a checklist for recession-proofing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and financial situation before the economic indicators turn south. Link: 

How to Avoid [Being Fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/), Reorged, Outplaced, [Canned](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) or Retrenched Excerpt: EP 1750 Even a good economy will come to an end. During good and bad times, there are winners and losers among organizations and winners and losers among people in those firms. Link: 

Busting HR Myths Excerpt: Think the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process is a rigged game where HR is actively working against you? We’re tearing down the biggest [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) myth. Link: 

What is a Leader? #shorts Excerpt: Napoleon Bonaparte has a few things to say about leadership that are worth hearing. Link: 

No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice: Corporate Theater Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the performance aspect of the corporate world and how understanding “the theater” of the office can help you navigate professional politics. Link: 

Precision [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) for the Individual Contributor Excerpt: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) isn’t just for [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/). Jeff shares a targeted strategy for individual contributors to build a professional circle that leads to consistent opportunities without the “fluff.” Link: 

The Career-Change Journey: Part 1 Excerpt: Making a major [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) shift is a marathon, not a sprint. In Part 1 of this series, Jeff covers the essential self-assessment and foundational steps needed before you make the leap. Link: 

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Pivots. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Transitions. Work-Life Balance Excerpt: EP 1744 Approaching a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot with a velvet glove and understanding that balance may be a myth in the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) triangle. Link: 

The Game For an Executive [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) Is Different Excerpt: EP 3138 You need to think differently about constructing an executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) than when you were an individual contributor. Link: 

Rudeness #shorts Excerpt: Eric Hoffer was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and the author of “The True Believer” about mass movements, and he shares a thought on rudeness. Link: 

The Career-Change Journey: Part 2 Excerpt: Building on Part 1, Jeff discusses the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) and discovery phase of a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot, helping you narrow down your options before committing to a new path. Link: 

Kill the Employee Inside You #shorts Excerpt: To reach the next level of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), you have to stop thinking like an “employee” and start thinking like a business owner. Jeff explains the mindset shift required to take true ownership of your trajectory. Link: 

Build Your [Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Community Excerpt: Relying on luck for [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) isn’t a strategy. Jeff outlines how to intentionally build a community of professional allies who are motivated to advocate for you and send high-quality opportunities your way. Link: 

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Pivots. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Transitions. Work-Life Balance Excerpt: EP 1744 Approaching a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivot with a velvet glove and understanding that balance may be a myth in the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) triangle. Link: 

When You Tell STAR Stories on [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) #shorts Excerpt: Here’s a little trick for when you tell STAR stories or any stories on job [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Link: 

Bypassing the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) with Strategic Distinction Excerpt: If you are treating an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) as a hurdle to be cleared with keyword stuffing, you are already behind. Jeff explains how to lead with distinction rather than just compliance. Link: 

Reputation and [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Excerpt: Your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is what people say about you when you aren’t in the room, but your reputation is the evidence that backs it up. Jeff discusses how to align the two to become a magnet for high-level opportunities. Link: 

The Career-Change Journey: Part 3 Excerpt: In the third installment of this series, Jeff moves from discovery into execution—mapping out the specific [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) and outreach strategy required to break into a new industry where you have no prior footprint. Link: 

The [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Premium: Negotiating Executive Compensation Beyond Market Rates Excerpt: If you are “one of many,” you are capped by market rates. If you are the “only,” you set the rate. Jeff breaks down the negotiation psychology used by top-tier [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) to secure compensation that reflects their unique impact. Link: 

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### [The Executive High-Wire: When to Play Hardball vs. When to Flex](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-high-wire-when-to-play-hardball-vs-when-to-flex/)

**Published:** March 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In the rarefied air of executive compensation, the stakes are rarely just about the base salary.

**Content:**

# The Executive High-Wire: When to Play Hardball vs. When to Flex

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the rarefied air of executive compensation, the stakes are rarely just about the base salary. At this level, you aren’t negotiating for a paycheck; you are negotiating for a seat at the table and the resources required to be successful. As an executive coach, the most common question I receive is: *“How hard can I push without breaking the deal?”*

The answer lies in understanding the difference between your **Market Value** (what the world pays) and your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** (the specific, irreplaceable value you bring to *this* exact problem). Negotiating is a test of your strategic judgment. If you play hardball at the wrong time, you look out of touch. If you flex too early, you signal that your value is a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/).

Here is the no-BS guide to reading the room and winning the negotiation.

### The Power Dynamics of Executive Leverage

Before you open your mouth, you must assess who holds the leverage. Leverage is not a static number; it is a shifting sentiment based on the company’s “Cost of Vacancy.”

### 1. When to Play Hardball (The “Category of One” Strategy)

You play hardball when you ***are*** the solution to a burning platform. If the board is under fire, the stock is sliding, or a major merger is at risk, they don’t want a “qualified candidate”—they want a savior.

**The Signals to Push Hard:**

- **The “Unicorn” Match:** They have explicitly stated that your unique background (e.g., merging [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) implementation with traditional manufacturing) is something they haven’t found elsewhere.
- **The Failed Search:** If the role has been open for six months or a previous hire failed, their “Cost of Vacancy” is skyrocketing.
- **The Accelerated Timeline:** They are pushing for a start date yesterday. Urgency is the ultimate premium.

**How to Play It:** In this scenario, do not [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) against a(n arbitrary) benchmark. [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) against the **value created**. If you are expected to save the company $50M in operational waste, a $50k difference in base salary is just noise. Focus on “Outcome-Based Equity” and “Performance Kickers.” Use the phrase: *“I am committed to delivering the $50M result we discussed, but the current package reflects a standard maintenance role, not the transformation lead you are asking me to be.”*

### 2. When to Be Flexible (The “Strategic Alignment” Strategy)

Flexibility is not weakness; it is a tactical investment in a long-term partnership. You flex when the role offers you a “Platform Jump”–a move that increases your future [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) even if the immediate cash isn’t at your ceiling.

**The Signals to Flex:**

- **The [Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Halo:** The company is a prestigious “Academy Company” or [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) (like Google, Goldman, or Disney) that will permanently increase your market value for the rest of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).
- **The Pivot:** You are moving into a new industry or a significantly larger P&L. They are taking a chance on your potential as much as your track record.
- **The Cultural Fit:** You have found a CEO or Board you truly believe in. At the executive level, a toxic boss is more expensive than a lower salary.

**How to Play It:** Flex on the **Base**, but anchor the **Upside**. If they cannot hit your number on salary, don’t just “accept” less. Reallocate the value. Use a “Bridge Clause”: *“I’m willing to start at your current budget of $X to demonstrate my commitment to the (team/firm/organization). However, let’s agree to a formal compensation review in six months based on the achievement of \[Objective A\].”*

### 3. The “Onlyness” Premium: Negotiating Beyond the Median

Most HR departments will try to trap you in some “Compa-ratio” talk, like the median salary for your title in your zip code. As an executive, your goal is to exit the [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) market entirely.

If they tell you the market rate is $400k, and you want $550k, you cannot justify that through “years of experience.” You justify it through **Specific Complexity**.

**The No-BS Script:** *“I respect the market data for a standard COO role. However, a standard COO isn’t currently facing a hostile takeover and a talent exodus. My [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is that I have navigated this exact intersection twice before. You can hire a market-rate COO, but the learning curve will cost you more in the first 90 days than the difference in my compensation.”*

### Navigating the “Non-Monetary” Hardball

Sometimes the cash is truly capped due to internal equity or public disclosure rules. This is where high-level coaches earn their keep. If you can’t get more money, [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for **Structural Power**.

- **Reporting Lines:** If you are a VP, [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) to report to the CEO instead of a Senior VP. This changes your internal “gravity.”
- **Governance:** [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for an observer seat on the Board or a lead role in the Investment Committee.
- **Severance (The “Golden Parachute”):** If you are taking a “Turnaround” role with high risk, play hardball on the exit, not the entry. [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for 12-18 months of severance. It signals that you know the job is dangerous and you are a professional who protects your downside.

### The Bottom Line: Judgment is the Only Product

Today, the executive who wins isn’t the one who shouts the loudest, but the one who reads the data correctly. If you play hardball with a cash-strapped startup because “that’s what my coach said,” you look like an amateur. If you flex with a Fortune 50 company that is desperate for your specific skills, you are leaving millions on the table.

Before every negotiation, ask yourself: **“Am I a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) they *want*, or a solution they *need*?”**

If you are a solution, stand your ground. If you are a candidate, build the bridge.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Hiring Smart People #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-smart-people-careerangles-com-shorts/)

**Published:** March 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most companies do the exact opposite of what Steve Jobs said should be done in this quote.

**Content:**

# Hiring Smart People #shorts

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)****

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Vs7P5fgUgIQ)

Most companies do the exact opposite of what Steve [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/there-are-many-fewer-full-time-jobs-shorts/) said should be done in this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

### TRANSCRIPT:

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people and have them tell us what to do.

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### [C Level Negotiations: Don't Forget to Negotiate These](https://thebiggamehunter.us/c-level-negotiations-dont-forget-to-negotiate-these-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** March 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You know about negotiating salary, title and sign on bonus. What else?

**Content:**

# C Level Negotiations: Don’t Forget to Negotiate These

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

You know about negotiating [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), title and sign on bonus. What else?

Today, I thought I would do a show about C level negotiations and a couple of the points that you want to cover in the course of the negotiation. The obvious thing involves [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), title, sign-on bonuses, when the bonus is going to be paid . . . Things along those lines. What the guarantees are . . . Stuff like that, you know about. But I want to cover a couple of other little things that you have to work your way in.

1. Tuition reimbursement. If you have kids of the appropriate age, you want to see if they may provide tuition reimbursement, not just simply for you but for your kids, as well.
2. Relocation, what are they going to cover in the way of relocation. Can you improve upon that
3. If you’re traveling for the firm, you might just simply ask whether your they’ll provide a company car for you, or reimbursement on a monthly basis for the use of your car.
4. In addition, you want to see whether or not, if for some reason, they want to go a different direction after you are hired, whether they’ll provide termination numbers for you. What’s the exit for you if they decide to go a different direction because they change plans and they want someone with a different background.44

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When push comes to shove, there are lots of little details that you want to cover in order protect your interests, because, as you know from your having worked your way up to this level, organizations can pivot at the drop of a hat and go in a completely different way. You always want to be in a position where you treated properly, given the achievement that you have to be raised at this level.

On the backend, if they let you go, as you know, it’s going to take time to land something else. What services will they provide for you in the way of outplacement, in the way of guaranteed payments for you for departure. One person I’m [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) now, has received one year of compensation for their decision to let him go after 15 years with the organization. A new COO comes in and wants to go a different direction, needs a different person. One year. A lot of firms won’t do that. Some firms will do more. Some firms will do less. Surprises are rarely good. It’s like negotiating a prenup. You want to have the prenup in place so that you can make plans, just in case. Although everyone wants to go into the discussion with an [open mind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-open-shorts/) and with the expectations of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), turnover rate is what it is (in [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and in marriages), you know you or not going to be there for the next [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of your life.

Yes, you would like to be the one who decides to leave and they may attempt to place a condition upon you that if you choose to leave, how much notice you have to give.

But especially if you’re working with a [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/), you want to lay down the marker with them about what’s not negotiable and what is so that, in this way, they can represent your interests and you know you can always change your mind at certain points and make things that are not negotiable.

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### [How to Avoid Being Fired, Reorged, Outplaced, Canned or Retrenched](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-avoid-being-fired-reorged-outplaced-canned-or-retrenched/)

**Published:** March 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 1750 The good economy has been going on for quite a while and will come to an end. Even during good times, there are winners and losers among organizations and winners and losers among people in those firms.

**Content:**

# How to Avoid Being Fired, Reorged, Outplaced, Canned or Retrenched

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

EP 1750 The good economy has been going on for quite a while and will come to an end. Even during good times, there are winners and losers among organizations and winners and losers among people in those firms.

I was thinking that this these good times since the recession in 2008 man this is a long recovery one of the longest I’ve lived through I think it’s also one of the longest ones of the US is experienced since inception and you know it’s going to come to an end because they all do. I don’t know when but they all come to even if that isn’t the immediate circumstances, there are winners and losers in the way of organizations and thus winners and losers in the way of staff that are affected by the health of their organization. So I thought I would do a video today about how to avoid [being fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/treating-people-like-a-salami-the-no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/) really your out place can really trenched what ever you want to call her take it out back and shot you know how you avoid this that understand there are no guarantees firm is going out of business. If an industry is being decimated your could be affected it’s like in New York. Taxis are being replaced by Ubers and the result winds up being there’s less opportunity for folks that there is now forget that truck drivers are going to be replaced by autonomous vehicles that’s can wipe out a lot of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), but the impact winds up being that folks need to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and where you can minimalize the impact where you work in an organization were the things that you can do proactively head this off. You should really do what so just give you a few suggestions for things that you can do number one is notice what the politics is in your organization who has power who has authority you in the longest-serving is. Every organization has politics I work for a firm some years ago where there were two people who really ran the operation and unless you were beholden to them that one owner in a looking down and done your they listen the owner listen to what these two people said and made no difference how successful you work if you work on the good side of those two people have problems and you know you have to notice how this works in this politics and every organization there people who are influencers to people who actually have power and thus, if you rub against a graying your good be affected. So if you’re concerned stay attention to the politics another thing is fit in. You know there’s a saying about tall poppies and people who are tall poppies, will their people who come around with machetes to cut them the tall poppy and in organizations people who stay in some organizations are some organizations that revel in having tall poppies but in some organizations, all they want are people who are going to fit in your good be grounds were not going to stand out from the pack that for me personally I can do this before other folks that you try to save a job you trying to remain employed. This is what you have to do and not just simply one time it has to be part of your persona activity. So flight if it in an organization that something in this is one where I know I excel is the notion of self-promotion for you as an employee of a firm you can create a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for your self apart from the organization. So, for example, employees says hi my name is I work for Facebook or Google is branded with the name of Facebook and Google and people’s impressions of those organizations good times. That’s great. However, there are times where organizations are in less prominence and the impact on the individual can be detrimental so you look the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) yourself personally apart from your organization complementing it, not opposing it, but complementing so, for example, you when I did recruiting. I work for different firms. I worked three different firms is a contractor at the search for and I branded myself is [the big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), which was a play on the notion of being a headhunter and I worked in myself promoting myself [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). 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Everything was about having me stand out in a certain it’s not just simply that term, [the big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with all the current into the thousands of videos and podcasts. I helps all the articles I’ve read the books that all involve [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) the big game. You can do that to you don’t have to be as dramatic as me you can write articles for [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in medium and other platforms and start the stand out as a professional a in the strict number one so that your current organization respects you and number two is so that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) notice. You may want to reach out to you with opportunities. Remember the person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or work the hardest one is a great qualities to have. 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### [Lost Your Job? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/lost-your-job-shorts/)

**Published:** March 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you lost your job, this is the first thing you should do.

**Content:**

# Lost Your Job? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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If you lost your job, this is the first thing you should do.

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### [Making Major Life Decisions During a Job Search #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-major-life-decisions-during-a-job-search-shorts/)

**Published:** March 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you’re in the middle of the job search, you hopefully have a lot of well-meaning people around you. They’re trying to help, but it doesn’t feel that way.

**Content:**

# Making Major Life Decisions During a Job Search #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

***Click here if the video does not play properly.***

If you’re in the middle of the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), you hopefully have a lot of well-meaning people around you. They’re trying to help, but it doesn’t feel that way.

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## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [The More Recruiters Use Sizzle: What Recruiters Know That You Don’t | #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-more-recruiters-use-sizzle-what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont/)

**Published:** March 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When recruiters use sizzle to sell the job they are trying to fill, they are signaling something to you.

**Content:**

# The More Recruiters Use Sizzle: What Recruiters Know That You Don’t #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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When [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use sizzle to sell the job they are trying to fill, they are signaling something to you.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They’re Stalling for Their Client***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jwC)

One thing [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know that most job hunters don’t, is that the more superlatives that they use to describe their client, the more fluff they use to describe the job, the less they really know. And when you look at their profile, often you’ll see less experienced search professionals with the result being, you can’t really believe what they’re saying. You have to really ignore it.

Just listen to the basics about the job, confirm it with their client, because they don’t really know what they’re talking about. Now, there are exceptions here, but most of the time, the more that they’re throwing sizzle at you, the less they really know.

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### [Interviews: When to Schedule Yourself #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interviews-when-to-schedule-yourself-shorts/)

**Published:** March 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When should you schedule interviews for? Let me help you.

**Content:**

# Interviews: When to Schedule Yourself #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/W3RBaNyyE4Y)

When should you schedule [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) for? Let me help you.

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### [Reputation and Branding #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reputation-and-branding-shorts/)

**Published:** March 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Reputation and Branding #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Your reputation and your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) need to be jealously guarded, not from big [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/), but from the thousand cuts that come from small ones.

[***Overcoming Ageism in Your Job Search as an Experienced Professional***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lt6)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [When You Tell STAR Stories on Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-tell-star-stories-on-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** March 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's a little trick for when you tell STAR stories or any stories on job interviews.

**Content:**

# When You Tell STAR Stories on Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Here’s a little trick for when you tell STAR stories or any stories on [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

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### [Getting Ready for a Recession](https://thebiggamehunter.us/getting-ready-for-a-recession/)

**Published:** March 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I thought I would devote this issue of No BS Career Advice to recession-proofing your career and your job.

**Content:**

# Getting Ready for a Recession 

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### [The Onlyness Premium: Negotiating Executive Compensation Beyond Market Rates](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-onlyness-premium-negotiating-executive-compensation-beyond-market-rates/)

**Published:** March 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In a standard executive search, salary negotiations are often a race to the "median."

**Content:**

# The Onlyness Premium: Negotiating Executive Compensation Beyond Market Rates

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In a standard [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/), salary negotiations are often a race to the “median.” [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use benchmarking data to tell you what the role is worth, and most people fight for a 5% to 10% bump above that number. But for the professional or leader who has positioned themselves through **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**, market rates are merely a floor, not a ceiling.

If you have successfully convinced the board or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager that you aren’t just the “best” candidate (I hate that word), but the **only** one capable of solving their specific strategic crisis, you have effectively exited the [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) labor market. Here is how to use that leverage to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a premium that reflects your unique impact.

### 1. Reject the Benchmark Trap

The moment a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) says, “The market rate for this role is X,” they are trying to turn you into a replaceable unit of labor. Your response must immediately pivot back to the specific value of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

- **The Reframe:** “I understand the general market data for a standard \[Job Title\]. However, we’ve spent our last few conversations discussing a very non-standard set of challenges, specifically \[Pain Point A\] and \[Pain Point B\]. My ability to solve those via my unique background in \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)\] isn’t a market-rate skill; it’s a strategic investment.”
- **The Logic:** You are moving the conversation from *cost* (what they pay for a head) to *value* (what they gain from a solution).

### 2. Negotiate for “Value Created,” Not “Time Served”

Traditional candidates [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) based on their previous salary or years of experience. An Onlyness-driven negotiation focuses on the **delta**—the measurable difference between the company’s current trajectory and the trajectory they’ll be on once you take the helm.

- **The Tactic:** Use the “Outcome-Based Bonus” or “Performance Equity” model.
- **The Script:** “Rather than focusing solely on base salary, let’s look at the $20M in operational efficiency we identified during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). I’m looking for a compensation structure that heavily weights the successful delivery of that outcome. If I deliver the ‘only’ solution to this problem, I expect the compensation to reflect a percentage of that captured value.”
- **The Result:** This shows extreme [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in your unique methodology and makes it difficult for them to say no, as they only pay the premium if you deliver the result.

### 3. Leverage the “Cost of Vacancy”

When a company is looking for a leader with [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), they are usually in a state of urgency. Every day that role remains unfilled is costing them money, market share, or cultural stability.

- **The Move:** Remind them, subtly, of the cost of starting over.
- **The Frame:** “I know the board is eager to stabilize \[Project X\] by the end of the quarter. While we are apart on the numbers, I’m the only person who can step in on Day One without a six-month learning curve. If we can bridge this gap today, we can stop the current bleed immediately.”
- **The Insight:** You are highlighting that the “discounted” candidate will actually cost them more in lost time and [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) than your premium salary will.

### 4. Expansion of the “Non-Monetary” Onlyness

Sometimes the budget for base salary is truly capped. In this case, use your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for structural power and lifestyle assets that a traditional new hire wouldn’t even think to ask for.

- **Customized Governance:** If your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is about speed, [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for a direct reporting line to the CEO or Board to bypass mid-level bureaucracy.
- **Intellectual Property/Side Ventures:** [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for the right to continue a specific board seat or external project that fuels your unique perspective.
- **The Logic:** If they want your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), they have to protect the environment that created it.

### The Bottom Line

Negotiation is the final test of whether you actually believe in your own distinction. If you fold and accept a “standard” [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/), you are admitting you are a standard “applicant” (another word I hate).

Stand firm in the value of what only you can do. The premium isn’t an ego play. It’s the market’s way of validating that a category-of-one leader is worth more than a room full of “qualified” applicants.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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**Published:** March 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# Kill the Employee Inside You #shorts

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### [Precision Networking for the Individual Contributor](https://thebiggamehunter.us/precision-networking-for-the-individual-contributor/)

**Published:** March 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For the individual contributor (IC), networking on LinkedIn has fundamentally shifted. The "numbers game" is dead.

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# Precision Networking for the Individual Contributor

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

For the individual contributor (IC), [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) has fundamentally shifted. The “numbers game” is dead. In an era where AI-driven “Apply” bots have flooded every job description, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to the top of the pile is a warm [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). But the old way of getting that [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) (sending “Can I pick your brain?” messages to strangers) now has a near-zero [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) rate.

To land a role at a top-tier firm in 2026, you must pivot from a “seeker” to a “source.” You need to use your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**, that unique intersection of your specific technical skills and your lived experience, to provide value to your peers before you ever ask for a link.

### 1. The Peer-to-Peer “Value Loop”

In a high-skill economy, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) aren’t in HR; they are the senior ICs already doing the job. These are your “nodes.” They are busy, they are protective of their team culture, and they are tired of low-effort outreach.

- **The Strategy:** Stop targeting the “Hiring Manager” and start targeting the “Future Teammate.”
- **The Workflow:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to synthesize the open-source contributions, technical blogs, or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) discussions of a peer at your target company.
- **The Prompt:***“Analyze this engineer’s recent post about \[Specific Technical Challenge\]. Based on my work with \[Similar Project\], draft a nuanced question that validates their approach while offering a brief alternative for edge-case scenarios.”*
- **The Result:** You aren’t asking for a job; you’re engaging in a professional consultation. When you eventually ask, “Is your team looking for more hands on this?” the answer is based on demonstrated competence, not a cold [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/).

### 2. Semantic Research: Mapping Problem-Sets

Most ICs search for roles by title (e.g., “Senior Product Manager”). This is a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/). Titles are inconsistent across companies. Instead, use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your network by **Problem-Set**.

- **The Tactic:** Feed your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) and a target company’s engineering or product blog into an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).
- **The Logic:** Ask, *“What specific technical debt or product hurdle is this company currently signaling in their public updates? Where does my ‘Onlyness’ in \[Specific Tool/Methodology\] provide a direct solution?”*
- **The Outreach:***“I noticed your team is transitioning to \[Specific Architecture\]. I spent the last year optimizing that exact shift at \[Company Y\] and documented the three biggest pitfalls we hit. [Happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to send over my notes if they’d be useful.”*

### 3. The “Portfolio-First” Outreach

In 2026, a [LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) is a landing page, not a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). For an IC, your “Onlyness” must [be visible](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) in the feed. When you reach out to a contact, the first thing they will do is click your profile. If they see a generic “Open to Work” banner and no signal, the conversation ends.

- **The Protocol:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to help structure “Micro-Case Studies” of your work. Post these as 300-word deep dives into a specific problem you solved.
- **The Benefit:** This creates a “Signal Trail.” When you message a peer, they see a history of you solving problems similar to theirs. It moves the trust threshold from “Stranger” to “Subject Matter [Expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/).”

### 4. Avoiding the “Bot” Red Flag

As a college-educated professional, your greatest asset is your nuanced voice. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is excellent at aggregating data, but it is terrible at “insider” tone. If your outreach sounds like it was polished by a PR firm, it will be flagged as synthetic.

- **The 80/20 Rule:** Let [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) do the 80%—the company [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), the competitive mapping, and the structural drafting. Spend your 20% adding the **Human-in-the-Loop** specifics.
- **The Guardrail:** Mention a specific, recent bug, a shared technical mentor, or a nuanced critique of a current industry trend.
- **The Fact:** In 2026, “Handcrafted” outreach—messages that contain a clear, non-algorithmic human spark—are the only ones that reliably bypass the mental spam filters of high-performing ICs.

### The Bottom Line

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) as an individual contributor is no longer about “who you know,” but about **“who knows what you can solve.”** By leading with your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and providing immediate, peer-level value, you turn your target companies’ employees into your advocates.

Stop asking for a seat at the table and start showing them how much better the table is with you at it.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How Do I Crack an Interview Without Preparation?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-i-crack-an-interview-without-preparation-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/)

**Published:** March 9, 2026
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# How Do I Crack an Interview Without Preparation?

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### [Is That Recruiter Legit?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-that-recruiter-legit/)

**Published:** March 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3121 Job scams are now a $2 billion annual industry, and scammers are using real company names to steal your identity and your savings.

**Content:**

# Is That Recruiter Legit?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3121 [Job scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) are now a $2 billion annual industry, and scammers are using real company names to steal your identity and your savings.

- **00:00 — Introduction**
    
    The hosts discuss the high stakes of the modern job market, noting that [job scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) now account for an estimated **$2 billion** in annual losses.
- **01:03 — The Modern [Job Scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/)**
    
    A breakdown of how scammers have moved past clunky phishing emails to sophisticated [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) impersonation to steal identities or money.
- **01:53 — Know What’s Legitimate**
    
    An explanation of the two types of real [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/): **Headhunters** (external, commission-based scouts) and **Corporate [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)** (internal HR employees).
- **03:22 — Red Flag Checklist**
    
    Specific warning signs to watch for, such as bad grammar, high-pressure tactics, and job offers that arrive without a single [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).
- **04:45 — The SSN Question**
    
    A deep dive into the “gray area” of Social Security Numbers. While you should never give a full SSN, it explains why some legitimate agencies ask for the **last 4 digits** to track [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) in their systems.
- **05:45 — Verification Toolkit**
    
    A step-by-step investigation process: scrutinizing email domains, checking [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profiles, and calling the company’s official phone number.
- **07:12 — Final Takeaways**
    
    The “Trust but Verify” mindset and a reminder that a real [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) has nothing to hide and will respect your due diligence.

[***Jobs on the Rise According to LinkedIn in 2026***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/25jyknI3GAbpjVssqxufGE)

Welcome to This Is No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio. Today, we are getting into something so, so important for anyone looking for a job right now. How in the world do you tell the difference between a real [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and a fake one? Because let’s be honest, in this market, it is way too easy to fall for a [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/).

So let’s break down exactly what you need to be looking for. You know, trying to find a job these days can seriously feel like you’re walking through a And yeah, most of the job postings out there are totally [legit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/). But the scams? They’re getting sneakier, more sophisticated, and they’re popping up on sites we trust, like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and Indeed.

That means we have to be on our toes now more than ever. Because just seeing a familiar logo doesn’t mean an opportunity is safe. And the stakes here are unbelievably high.

Just look at this number. According to the Better Business Bureau, we’re talking about an estimated 14 million people getting hit with [job scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) every single year. And that leads to a mind-blowing $2 billion in direct losses.

This isn’t just a little problem, it’s a huge criminal industry that preys on people when they need a break the most. So what does one of these modern [job scams](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) even look like? Well, with everything going on in the economy, scammers are really cashing in on people’s anxieties. They are way past those old clunky phishing emails.

Now, they’re impersonating real, big-name companies, using their logos, using their [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), all to build this fake sense of trust so they can steal your personal and financial information. So what’s their endgame here? What are they really after? Well, it’s pretty simple and pretty awful. They might be trying to flat-out steal your identity with these fake [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/).

Or they’ll try to get you to pay advance fees for background checks or equipment that don’t even exist. Some of the craziest scams turn you into part of the crime, having you reship packages bought with stolen credit cards. Or they’ll send you a fake check and trick you into sending them real money.

The bottom line is this, every single move they make is designed to take something valuable from you. Okay, so to get really good at spotting a scammer, first we have to have a super clear picture of what a real, legitimate recruiting professional is all about. Once we nail down what the good guys look like, the [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) of the fakes will stick out like a sore thumb.

You’ve probably heard the words [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and headhunter thrown around, maybe even used like they’re the same thing. But there’s a really important difference. Just remember this little saying, all headhunters are [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), but not all [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are headhunters.

Think of [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) as the big umbrella category. So, what’s a headhunter? Think of them like a special ops talent scout. They’re an external, third-party person a company brings in to find the perfect person for a really specific job, usually something senior or super hard to fill.

They don’t just post an ad and wait. Oh no, they proactively hunt for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) people, even if those people aren’t even looking for a job. And then on the other side, you’ve got the corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

Now this person is an actual employee of the company that’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). They’re on the inside, usually part of the HR team. Their job is to fill all sorts of roles, but only for that one company.

And they’re really focused on things like cultural fit and handling the whole process from start to finish. Putting them side by side like this makes it crystal clear, right? A headhunter is external, works on commission and has a very sales-driven approach. A corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is internal, gets a [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and is more focused on the HR side of things.

Knowing this helps a ton, because even though both are [legit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-received-an-offer-without-interviewing-how-can-i-tell-if-it-is-legit/), they play the game very differently. Okay, now that we know what the real deal looks like, let’s get into the good stuff, the scammer’s playbook. These are the big warning signs that should make you slam on the brakes and do some digging before you go any further.

Often, the first [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) show up in that very first message. First, look at the email address. Is it from a personal account, like Gmail or Hotmail? That’s a little fishy.

[***The Modern Job Search***](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DmiTqBkRGJejVWzI8MKGx)

Look for bad grammar and spelling. Real [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) know how to use spellcheck. Be super careful if they want to do official business on apps like WhatsApp.

And watch out for those high-pressure sales tactics or, and this is a classic trick, an email address that’s just one letter different from the real company’s name. Then, there are the [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) in the process itself. And here’s the biggest one of all.

You get a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) without ever having a real [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Think about it, a real company wants to talk to you, probably a few times. Also, be wary if they’re vague about what you’d actually be doing, or if the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) seems way, way too good to be true.

And this is the absolute dealbreaker. If they ask you to pay for anything, [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), equipment, whatever, it’s a [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/). Full stop.

This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) right here really says it all. This is the golden rule you have to burn into your brain. Real job opportunities don’t cost you money to get.

The company pays the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), not you. Money should never, ever flow from you to them. If anyone asks you to pay up, you run.

Alright, now let’s wade into a grey area that trips a lot of people up. It causes so much confusion. And that’s the whole social security number question.

You know, when they ask for it early on. It can feel like a massive red flag. And, well, sometimes it is.

This is a question that comes up all the time. You’re on the phone, things seem to be going great, and then they ask for the last four digits of your social. Right away, your internal [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) detector starts screaming.

So what is the deal with this? So let’s unpack this, because it’s tricky. Asking for your full social security number before you even have an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? Huge red flag, no question. But it can be legitimate for a third-party agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to ask for just the last four digits.

Why? Because their big corporate clients use these giant systems to track applicants. And your last four digits act like a unique ID, so they don’t get your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) twice from two different agencies. But here’s the key.

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They have to tell you exactly why they need it, and you should have already verified that they’re a real [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) from a real agency before you share a thing. Which brings us to the most important part of this whole thing. Taking action.

You do not have to just sit there and hope for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). Here is your own personal verification toolkit. A set of practical steps you can use to investigate any opportunity that comes your way.

It’s a simple, four-step process. First, play detective. Look up the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and their company on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

Do they have a real profile with real connections and a history? Second, put that email under a microscope. Is the domain the official company one? Third, and this one’s huge, go to the company’s actual website and check their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) page. If the job they’re telling you about isn’t listed there, that’s a problem.

And finally, confirm everything. A quick Google search of the company’s name plus the word [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) works wonders. And if you’re still not sure, find the company’s official phone number and just call them.

The motto for your entire [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) should be this, plain and simple. Trust, but verify. It’s great to be optimistic, but you have to back it up with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Taking five extra minutes to check things out is your absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) defense. And here are some specific free tools you can use. The Better Business Bureau is awesome for checking a company’s reputation.

We’ve talked about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Now, a Whois lookup is a little more technical, but it’s cool. It tells you how long a website has been around.

Scammers love to use [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new domains. And of course, never, ever underestimate the power of a good old-fashioned Google search. All right, let’s bring this all home.

Let’s wrap up with the mindset you need to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), and most importantly, to stay safe out there. This right here is the ultimate test. A real [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) from a real company has absolutely nothing to hide.

In fact, they’ll probably appreciate that you’re being so careful. But if you start asking questions and they get defensive or pushy or vague, that is your signal to just walk away. You are the one in control here.

I want to leave you with this final thought. A scammer can fake an email, they can fake a job post, they can even fake a name. But you know the one thing they can’t fake? A real company’s reputation, its history, its digital footprint built up over years.

Your job is simply to look for that evidence.

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### [No BS Job Search Advice: Corporate Theater](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-job-search-advice-corporate-theater/)

**Published:** March 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What a waste of time! Both for you and for an employer.

**Content:**

# No BS Job Search Advice: Corporate Theater

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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What a waste of time! Both for you and for an employer.

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### [Busting HR Myths](https://thebiggamehunter.us/busting-hr-myths/)

**Published:** March 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Think the hiring process is a rigged game where HR is actively working against you? We're tearing down the biggest job search myth

**Content:**

# Busting HR Myths

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Think the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process is a rigged game where HR is actively working against you? We’re tearing down the biggest [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) myths—from the uselessness of [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) to the reality of lowball salary offers—using insider secrets from a former HR executive who has signed off on thousands of hires. Stop wasting your energy on outdated, spammy [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) hacks and learn the exact frameworks to prove your value and [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) the compensation you actually deserve.

Have you ever felt like the whole [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) process is just this giant black box? You know, like you’re playing a game but nobody ever told you the rules? Well, today, we’re going to crack that box wide open. We’re about to bust the biggest myths in HR, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), and [salary negotiation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/), and we’re doing it with secrets from someone who spent years on the inside. So, who’s pulling back the curtain for us? Meet Daniel Space.

He’s a former HR business partner for huge companies like Spotify and WebMD. And look, he’s not just some [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach guessing how things work. He was the guy literally signing off on the offers.

He’s seen it all and he’s here to tell us how it really goes down. Here’s a quick look at what we’re going to cover. First, we’ll get that insider’s view from HR.

Then, we’re going to tear down the myths one by one. Cold [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), all that paperwork, and of course, the big one, the lowball salary [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/). Then, we’ll finish up with a super powerful negotiation strategy and the one key takeaway you need to remember.

So, let’s start with that view from the inside. We’re learning from someone who wasn’t just on the sidelines. He was in the trenches, building teams and managing pay at some of the biggest names out there.

He knows what works and what absolutely doesn’t. First myth up, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). We’ve all heard it, right? Some influencer tells you to just fire off hundreds of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) messages to strangers who went to your college.

But let’s be real for a second. Does that spray and pray method actually land you a job? Well, here’s the difference and it is huge. The wrong way makes you, as Daniel says, candidate 1100 who wants a job.

You’re just another notification. But the right way, that’s about playing the long game. It’s about building real relationships so that people actually want to champion you.

So, how do you actually do that? This strategy is just brilliant. Daniel tells this story about a candidate who reached out to him after she got rejected. She didn’t ask for another chance, she asked about his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

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They had a few coffee chats over time and a real professional relationship started to form. He wasn’t just some contact to be used, he became her champion. And how long did this take? Three months.

Look, this isn’t a quick hack, it’s a patient strategy. But the result is you have someone in your corner, someone who actually believes in you and is actively looking out for you. And that is way, way more powerful than any cold message you could ever send.

Okay, next up, the paperwork myth. I mean, we spend hours polishing that perfect [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), right? And then we [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) about writing the perfect [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/) after the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). But in today’s world of high-speed [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), does any of that stuff actually move the needle? Here’s the blunt truth.

At most big companies, [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are buried in [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). They use software, an [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), to filter through hundreds, sometimes thousands of candidates. They just don’t have time to read what Daniel calls extra homework.

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) has everything they need to make that first cut. And hey, don’t just take his word for it. The data speaks for itself.

A [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) poll found that a whopping 65% of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers either don’t want a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) or just flat out don’t care. That’s nearly two out of every three people making the decision. And what about thank you notes? It’s the same story.

Get this. Daniel says he’s been on over 10,000 [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) panels, 10,000. And in all that time, not once, not a single time has he ever seen a decision come down to a [thank you note](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-send-a-thank-you-note-after-i-get-the-job-shorts/).

The choice is always made based on who you are and how you interviewed. All right, let’s talk about the one topic that stresses everybody out, money. There’s this common belief that HR’s number one job is to get you for as cheap as possible.

But is that really what’s happening? Is the company trying to be your enemy in a negotiation? This is probably the biggest myth we’re going to bust today. Believe it or not, Daniel says HR people love giving a great [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/). Think about it.

They want you to be excited. They want you to say yes. Their job is to close the deal.

And a strong [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) is the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to do that. So if an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) does come in a little lower than you hoped, it’s almost never a personal attack. It’s just a business calculation.

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The real reasons are usually things you can’t see, like a fixed budget that came from the finance department, or a rigid salary ban for that specific role. Or sometimes paying you more would be unfair to the people who are already on the team. Okay, so if you know HR isn’t actively working against you, how do you successfully [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for a higher salary? Well, you have to change your entire mindset.

It’s not about what you think you deserve. It is all about clearly showing them the future value you are going to create for the company. And to do that, you’ve got to speak their language.

Here’s a key piece of insider lingo, comp ratio. It’s short for compensation ratio, and it’s the internal formula they use to figure out where your salary fits on the spectrum for that role, from a total beginner all the way up to an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/). This chart breaks it down perfectly.

If your comp ratio is low, say around 1.8, it means you’re less experienced, but you’ve got tons of room to grow your salary over time. But if they hire you at or above a 1.0, you’re already seen as a master, and there’s not much room for future raises. Companies try to avoid that.

So what’s the number one [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) people make? Sighting glass door. Daniel is crystal clear on this. Companies pay millions of dollars for real-time verified salary data.

They know that whatever you found online for free isn’t the same, and bringing it up just makes your argument weaker. So instead, you follow this simple three-step plan. First, you focus entirely on the value you’re going to bring.

***[The First Time You Hear Your Answers to Interview Questions](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jR7)***

Second, you use specific examples you talked about in your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). And third, you connect those examples directly to a problem they told you they need solved. You’re not just asking for more money, you’re proving you’re worth more.

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The company was so blown away, they upped his [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) by $75,000. That’s the power of this method. So when you put this all together, what do you get? You get a fundamental shift in your mindset.

A shift that makes your whole [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) more strategic, more effective, and a whole lot less stressful. And this, this right here might be the most important takeaway of all. A salary [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) is not a judgment on your personal worth.

It is a business decision based on a budget. The moment you can emotionally separate your self-worth from that number, you gain all the power. It’s not personal, it’s business.

So that leaves us with one final question to think about as you move forward. Are you going to get caught up arguing over a number? Or are you going to start a conversation about the incredible value you bring to the table? And look, if you want to go even deeper, there’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. There’s free content to get you started. You can become an insider and get access to all my content plus [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [The Aggressive Issue](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-the-aggressive-issue/)

**Published:** April 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice is published on alternate Mondays (except during holidays) on LinkedIn.

**Content:**

# The Aggressive Issue

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

(from the archives)

> “There are sharks and minnows in the world. If you don’t know which one you are, you aren’t the shark.”

*I usually take an easy-going tone with what I write but I am paying attention to what smart financial people are warning about in 2023. Bloomberg said they believe there is a 100% likelihood of a recession next year. A CNBC survey of economists released today said they expect a modest recession in 2023.*

*I don’t know what a modest recession is. It either is or isn’t a recession. I’ll also say I’ve never seen a soft landing in my many years of listening to financial journalists reporting on the subject.*

*My encouragement to you is to look at recession-proofing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), not your job. Recession-proofing your job is not in your control. Recession-proofing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) is. [I have a YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2p9IxyZkE_KbdeR-5J_YfyILYsCDh-nn) that will [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a few ideas. Most are <1 minute. I don’t believe any are more than 5 minutes. Take action NOW on a few of the ideas.*

*Also, within your current workplace, if you have the opportunity to affect action and/or change, start pushing people to be more aggressive with your corporate competition and don’t just look to build new. Try to take sales from your competition.*

*When times become more difficult, the pie is smaller. You will want some of your competitor’s pie.*

***[Take my poll to share your thoughts about your job and the job market.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7008057777365409792/)***

*Here are a few things to do proactively in case you’re [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/). After all, once you’re told, they are not going to give you much time to get your data.*

*[Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), work, heck, life are sometimes difficult to navigate. What can you remember when this happens?*

### [Despite ongoing global uncertainty and high-profile layoffs, labor markets remain resilient](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/despite-ongoing-global-uncertainty-high-profile-/)

*Have you seen LinkedIn’s State of the Labor Market released today? The initial 3 points of the report are:*

- The Great Reshuffle is morphing into a period of Great Mismatch, where demand for remote work opportunities continues to greatly exceed supply.
- Layoffs in media, tech and information continue in a labor market that’s still robust, but slowing rates of [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) suggest that rebalancing in the labor market is under way.
- Workers are starting to shelter in place a bit more, as the uncertainty picks up. This is a 180 degree turn from last year when members switching [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) was growing at 50% per year.

*There is much more worth reading in it.*

*Firms are about to shift to looking for people who can take someone else’s lunch. This isn’t just about salespeople. It’s about an attitude shift.*

*As I was writing this newsletter, I received a message that I was the recipient of the Brainz 500 Global Award.*

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### [The First Time You Hear Your Answers to Interview Questions #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-first-time-you-hear-your-answers-to-interview-questions-shorts/)

**Published:** March 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It is so sad to see people make this mistake. The video is under 15 seconds

**Content:**

# The First Time You Hear Your Answers to Interview Questions

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZMVgHIwxELQ)

It is so sad to see people make this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). The video is under 15 seconds

***[Promise-Keeping](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eIG)***

The first time you hear your answers to predictable [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions shouldn’t be at the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You should be practicing your answers out loud in advance, making your [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), in advance, so you don’t do them at the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

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### [Bypassing the ATS with Strategic Distinction](https://thebiggamehunter.us/bypassing-the-ats-with-strategic-distinction/)

**Published:** March 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are treating an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) as a hurdle to be cleared with keyword stuffing, you are already behind.

**Content:**

# Bypassing the ATS with Strategic Distinction

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

If you are treating an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) as a hurdle to be cleared with keyword stuffing, you are already behind. For a high-level executive, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is not just a filter; it is a data-processing engine looking for a reason to categorize you as a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). To break through, you have to move beyond “qualified” and lean into your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

**[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**—that unique intersection of your specific history, experiences, and vision—is the one data point a machine cannot simulate. In a market flooded with “professional” [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), your distinction is your leverage. Here is the no-BS reality of bypassing the black box by coding your unique value into its logic.

### 1. Hard Skills vs. Signature Impact

Modern [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) logic performs “Vector Searches,” identifying “skill clusters” rather than isolated words. If you list “Strategic Planning” without anchoring it to a **Signature Impact**, the system marks your profile as low-authority.

- **The Move:** Don’t just mirror the job description. Identify the intersection where your background solved a problem no one else could.
- **The Frame:** Instead of “Led Digital Transformation,” use: *“Architected the industry’s first \[Specific Outcome\] by integrating \[Field A\] with \[Field B\], reducing operational latency by 22%.”*
- **The Logic:** By linking disparate skill sets, you create a unique identifier. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) recognizes this as a high-value, rare data point rather than a recycled buzzword.

### 2. Formatting: The “Clean Room” Requirement

Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is irrelevant if the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) “Parser” cannot read your file. Over-designed layouts turn unique value propositions into digital gibberish.

- **The Protocol:** No columns. No tables. No images. No headers or footers containing critical [contact info](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/). Stick to a single-column, standard font like Arial or Calibri.
- **The Test:** If you cannot copy your text and paste it into a plain Notepad document without the layout scrambling, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) will likely discard it.
- **The Goal:** Use clean data so the machine can clearly “see” the milestones that differentiate you from the “standard” applicant.

### 3. The Referral Bypass: The Only Real “Hack”

The most effective way to bypass an [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is to never enter through the front door. In the current market, “Referral Portals” are the priority lane. A candidate who enters via an internal link skips the initial automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) phase and goes straight to a human recruiter’s “High-Confidence” view.

- **The Tactic:** Use your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) outreach to find a peer who recognizes your specific [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). When they [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you, the algorithm changes how it weights your data.
- **The Result:** You aren’t just a cold applicant; you are a vetted strategist. This [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) is the ultimate signal to the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) that you belong in the top 1%.

### 4. Semantic Alignment: Matching Tone to Strategic Intent

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) performs “Sentiment Analysis” to see if your professional voice matches the company’s current urgency. If a company is in a “Turnaround” phase, they aren’t looking for a “Steady Hand”—they are looking for a “Re-Architect.”

- **The Adjustment:** Analyze the Job Description for its underlying strategic need. If it implies radical innovation, ensure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) highlights the times you were the *only* person willing to break the status quo.
- **The Guardrail:** This isn’t about mirroring keywords; it’s about mirroring **conviction**. When your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) reflects the specific type of leadership the company is desperate for, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) ranks you as a primary cultural and strategic fit.

### The Bottom Line

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is designed to find the “best” version of a standard template. Your job is to prove you aren’t a template at all. By **leading** with your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you provide the machine with a data point it cannot ignore: a leader who isn’t just better, but incomparable.

Stop trying to fit in. The algorithm is actually looking for the person who stands out.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Tell People You Are Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tell-people-you-are-job-hunting/)

**Published:** March 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3120 What are you doing? Keeping it a secret?

**Content:**

# **Tell People You Are Job Hunting**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3120 What are you doing? Keeping it a secret?

### **Timestamps**

- **00:00** – The [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) of the “To tell or not to tell” dilemma.
- **00:38** – Why conventional wisdom about “quiet” searches is built on a myth.
- **01:02** – The [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Myth: Why staying silent is [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/).
- **01:49** – The high cost of keeping your search a secret.
- **02:02** – The 85% Statistic: Where the real [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are hiding.
- **02:18** – The Smart Script: How to announce your search without sounding needy.
- **03:02** – Your Secret Weapon: How to handle unexpected [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) calls.
- **04:08** – Moving from “hunting” to “setting up a magnet.”

Alright, let’s talk about something that honestly stresses everyone out when they’re thinking about a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) change. Should you tell people you’re looking for a new job? Or should you keep it a top-level secret? Turns out, one of those choices might be completely sabotaging your search before you even start. So you’re officially on the hunt.

The big question is, do you keep it totally under wraps? If you’re feeling a little shaky on the answer, hey, you are not alone. It’s a classic dilemma. But it turns out there’s a surprisingly clear answer.

Yeah, this is what we’re calling the job hunter’s dilemma. And look, there are basically two ways people think about this, but one of those ways, it could seriously be holding you back. You know, a lot of people think it’s just smarter to keep your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) on the down low.

The idea is that it gives you some kind of an edge. But honestly, that whole idea is built on a myth. A big one.

And we’re about to bust it. So why did people stay so quiet in the first place? Well, it usually comes down to one big fear. Let’s call it the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) myth, because it is a huge misconception.

So here’s the myth. There’s this old school idea that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t like candidates who are actively looking for a new gig. It’s this weird belief that if you’re on the market, you must be, I don’t know, less valuable, kind of like you’re on a clearance rack.

[***The Modern Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oHs)

The thinking goes that the real prizes are the people who have to be hunted down and persuaded to leave their current job, not the ones sending out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Okay, so let’s just cut to the chase. The source material for this is super blunt.

It calls this idea wrong thinking. And not just like, oh, that’s a slight miscalculation. No, it’s a huge self-sabotaging [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that costs you big time.

So what exactly is this massive opportunity you’re missing out on by staying quiet? Well, it’s all about using the single most powerful tool you’ve got in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) toolkit. Think about it. When you decide to keep your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) a secret, you are literally ignoring the number one source of new [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) out there.

It’s like showing up to a Formula One race and deciding to leave your fastest car on the garage. It just makes no sense. All right, get ready for this number, because it’s a big one.

As many as 85%, that’s 85% of all [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Let that sink in. By staying quiet, you’re basically invisible to the place where almost all the action is happening.

Okay, so the takeaway is you’ve got to tell people. But wait, how you tell them, that’s the whole ballgame. You don’t want to come across as desperate, right? You need to be strategic, and that’s where the smart script comes in.

So check this out. It’s a really simple but powerful little language trick. Instead of telling your friends or colleagues, hey, I’m [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), which can sound a little needy, you say this, hey, just wanted to let you know I’m starting to be open to other things.

See that shift? It’s huge. One sounds like you’re asking for a handout, the other sounds like you’re a valuable asset who’s considering their options. Okay, but what happens when a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) calls you out of the blue, right? That can throw you off your game.

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How do you handle that call without immediately giving away all your power? This next line. This is your secret weapon. You should literally memorize it.

When they ask if you’re looking, you say, actually, I’m not actively looking. You reached out to me, but I’m here to listen. Boom.

Instantly, the whole dynamic of the conversation just flipped. Let’s break down why this is so brilliant. First, you correct their assumption right off the bat.

Nope, not looking. Second, you subtly remind them who called who. They came to you.

That shifts the power. And finally, you position yourself as the prize. You’re not just looking for any old job.

You’re [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) where you are, and they’re going to have to work to impress you. And look, this is about way more than just having a few clever lines up your sleeve. These little tactics are actually part of a much bigger, much smarter way to think about your whole [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

Because at the end of the day, real [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) isn’t just about grinding away at your desk. It’s about always, always being alert to new opportunities. When you tell your network you’re open to other things, you’re not just sending out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

You’re building an army of people looking out for you, bringing opportunities right to your doorstep. You’re not hunting. You’re setting up a magnet.

So let’s wrap it up here. You now know the myth about staying silent is just that, a myth. You know where 85% of the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are hiding in plain sight.

You’ve got the scripts. You’ve got the strategy. So the real question is, what’s your next move?

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### [Rudeness #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rudeness-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/)

**Published:** March 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Eric Hoffer was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and the author of "The True Believer" about mass movements,

**Content:**

# Rudeness #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Eric Hoffer was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and the author of “The True Believer” https://amzn.to/3MbvSOs about mass movements,

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### [Employment Situation Summary: March 6, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employment-situation-summary-march-6-2026/)

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**Excerpt:** The job market report for March 2026 from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. AKA Employment Situation Summary

**Content:**

# Employment Situation Summary: March 6, 2026

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

```
Total nonfarm payroll employment edged down by 92,000 in February, and the unemployment rate
changed little at 4.4 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment
in health care decreased, reflecting strike activity. Employment in information and federal
government continued to trend down.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
Note.

 _____________________________________________________________________________________________
|											      |
|                              Changes to Household Survey Data 			      | 
|											      |
| Household survey data for January and February 2026 reflect updated population estimates.   |
| January 2026 estimates from the household survey were revised to incorporate the updated    |
| population estimates. See the note at the end of this news release for more information.    |
|_____________________________________________________________________________________________|

Household Survey Data

Both the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.6
million, changed little in February. (See table A-1. See the note at the end of this news
release and tables A and B for more information about the annual population adjustments to the
household survey estimates.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult women
(4.1 percent), teenagers (14.9 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.7
percent), Asian (4.8 percent), or Hispanic (5.2 percent) showed little or no change in
February. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.9
million in February but is up from 1.5 million a year earlier. The long-term unemployed
accounted for 25.3 percent of all unemployed people in February. (See table A-12.)

Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.0 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
at 59.3 percent, changed little in February. These measures showed little change over the
year, after accounting for the annual adjustments to the population controls. (See table A-1.
For additional information about the effects of the population adjustments, see the note at
the end of this news release and table B.)

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by 477,000 to 4.4
million in February. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were
working part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time
jobs. (See table A-8.)

The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little in
February at 6.0 million. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were
not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to
take a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
to the labor force changed little at 1.6 million in February. These individuals wanted and
were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not
looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a
subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, decreased
by 109,000 in February to 366,000. (See Summary table A.)

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment edged down by 92,000 in February, following an increase in
January (+126,000). Employment in health care decreased in February, reflecting strike
activity. Employment in information and federal government continued to trend down. Payroll
employment changed little on net in 2025. (See table B-1.) 

Health care employment declined by 28,000 in February, following a large increase in January
(+77,000). Offices of physicians lost 37,000 jobs in February, primarily due to strike
activity. Hospitals added 12,000 jobs. Over the prior 12 months, health care had added an
average of 36,000 jobs per month. 

Employment in information continued to trend down in February (-11,000). The industry had lost
an average of 5,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months.

In February, federal government employment continued to decline (-10,000). Since reaching a
peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 330,000, or 11.0 percent.

Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in February (+9,000), driven by
individual and family services (+12,000).

Transportation and warehousing employment changed little in February (-11,000). A job loss in
couriers and messengers (-17,000) was partially offset by a gain in air transportation
(+5,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing has declined by 157,000, or 2.4
percent, since reaching a peak in February 2025.

Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail
trade; financial activities; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and
other services.

In February, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 15
cents, or 0.4 percent, to $37.32. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have
increased by 3.8 percent. In February, average hourly earnings of private-sector production
and nonsupervisory employees rose by 9 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $32.03. (See tables B-3 and
B-8.)

In February, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged
at 34.3 hours. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged down by 0.1 hour to 40.1 hours,
and overtime was unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and
nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.8 hours. (See tables
B-2 and B-7.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December was revised down by 65,000, from
+48,000 to -17,000, and the change for January was revised down by 4,000, from +130,000 to
+126,000. With these revisions, employment in December and January combined is 69,000 lower
than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from
businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
recalculation of seasonal factors.)

_____________
The Employment Situation for March is scheduled to be released on Friday, April 3, 2026,
at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

               Adjustments to Population Estimates for the Household Survey

Effective with revised data for January 2026, updated population estimates were incorporated
into the household survey. Population estimates for the household survey are developed by the
U.S. Census Bureau. Each year, the Census Bureau updates their population estimates to
incorporate new information on births, deaths, and migration to estimate the change in
population since the most recent decennial census. The Census Bureau population update also
includes improvements in estimation methodology.

The 2026 update was delayed by a month due to the 2025 federal government shutdown. With the
release of February data, all household survey data for January 2026 were revised to
incorporate the new population estimates. (Household survey estimates for January 2026 have
been updated in the BLS database. However, the January 2026 Employment Situation news release
will not be reissued.) Over-the-month comparisons of February data with revised January data
are not affected by the population control adjustment, although comparisons with earlier
months may be affected.

This year, changes to Census Bureau methodology include the incorporation of updated
demographic information about the population from the 2020 Census. This marks a departure from
the "blended base" introduced in recent years that combined population totals from the 2020
Census and demographic characteristics from other sources. The new population estimates also
include updated information about a decline in net international migration. The January 2026
adjustment reflects changes back to the April 2020 Census population base, even though the
entire adjustment is incorporated in the January 2026 household survey estimates. 

While the net effect of the updated 2020 Census base on the total population level was
relatively small, shifts in the demographic composition of the population had notable impacts
on labor force measures.

The updated 2020 Census base resulted in a decrease in the population level for men (mostly
among those ages 25 to 54), while the population level for women increased (particularly among
those age 65 and over). A decline in the number of men ages 25 to 54 (who tend to have higher
labor force participation rates than other groups) and an increase in the number of women age
65 and over (who generally have lower labor force participation rates than other groups) both
put downward pressure on the overall labor force participation rate. These population changes
had similar impacts on employment and the overall employment-population ratio. The
unemployment rate was unaffected.

In addition, the updated 2020 Census base resulted in some notable population differences
across race groups. There were decreases in both the White population and the Black or African
American population, while there were substantial increases in the Asian population and people
in other race groups, including those who are two or more races. (People who report two or
more races are not included in the individual race groups.) There was relatively little change
in the number of people who are Hispanic or Latino. (People of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
may be of any race.)

In accordance with usual practice, BLS did not revise the official household survey estimates
for December 2025 and earlier months. However, to show the impact of the population
adjustments, table A displays differences in selected December 2025 labor force series based
on the old and new population estimates. 

Table A shows that the adjustment decreased the estimated size of the civilian noninstitutional
population age 16 and over in December by 231,000. However, the adjustment increased the
number of people not in the labor force by 1.2 million and decreased both the total civilian
labor force and the number of employed people by 1.4 million each. The adjustment lowered the
labor force participation rate by 0.4 percentage point and lowered the employment-population
ratio by 0.5 percentage point. The adjustment had little effect on the total unemployment
level (+15,000), and the unemployment rate was unchanged. 

These annual population adjustments can affect the comparability of household data series over
time. Table B shows the effect of the introduction of new population estimates on the change
in selected labor force measures between December 2025 and January 2026. The example in table
B can be replicated to account for an over-the-year comparison, where the effect of the 2026
population control would be subtracted from the over-the-year change to remove the effects of
the population control adjustment. 

Population controls for veterans, which are derived from a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
population model and are updated periodically, did not change with data for January 2026.

Although the official series for December 2025 and earlier will not be revised, BLS is
planning to provide an update to the experimental series that were originally introduced with
the 2025 population control adjustment. These experimental time series account for the size
and timing of the updated population control adjustments back to the April 2020 Census base.
These experimental series are not available with this news release but will be available as soon 
as practicable at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm#pop.

Additional information about the population adjustments and their effects on national labor
force estimates is available at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm#pop.
```

Table A. Effect of the updated population controls on December 2025 estimates by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, not seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)CategoryTotalMenWomenWhiteBlack or
African
AmericanAsianHispanic or
Latino
ethnicityCivilian noninstitutional population

-231-1,5401,309-5,642-6551,301403Civilian labor force

-1,417-1,630212-4,861-535938165Participation rate

-0.4-0.5-0.4-0.7-0.30.4-0.2Employed

-1,432-1,588155-4,672-520893110Employment-population ratio

-0.5-0.4-0.4-0.7-0.40.3-0.3Unemployed

15-4257-188-164456Unemployment rate

00.10.1-0.10.10.10.2Not in labor force

1,185891,096-781-121364238NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.

Table B. December 2025-January 2026 changes in selected labor force measures, with adjustments for population control effects
(Numbers in thousands)CategoryDec.-Jan.
change2026
population
control effectDec.-Jan. change, after
removing the
population control
effect[(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm#pop_ctl_tableC2026.html.f.1)Civilian noninstitutional population

-140-23191Civilian labor force

-1,030-1,417387Participation rate

-0.3-0.40.1Employed

-895-1,432537Employment-population ratio

-0.3-0.50.2Unemployed

-13515-150Unemployment rate

-0.10-0.1Not in labor force

8901,185-295(1) This Dec.-Jan. change is calculated by subtracting the population control effect from the over-the-month change in the published seasonally adjusted estimates.

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. The December to January change incorporates revised January data.

```

```

 [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)

 [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)

 [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)

 [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)

 [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)

 [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)

 [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)

 [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)

 [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)

 [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)

 [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)

 [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)

 [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)

 [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)

 [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)

 [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)

 [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)

 [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)

 [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

 [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)

 [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)

 [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)

 [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)

 [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)

 [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)

 [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)

 [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)

 [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)

 [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)

 [HTML version of the entire news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm)

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### [No BS Career Advice: March 8, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-8-2026/)

**Published:** March 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more.

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: March 8, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

– [Marilyn Monroe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe)

I present to different [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) groups in the US and Canada. On Wednesday, I presented a new topic–Onlyness, to PSG of Morris County. It’s a subject that, if you follow me, you know I have been driving home in my work for a few months. It’s based on my book, “[Onlyness: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7).” It’s about 90 pages for Kindle or PDF and as an audio book. It was fun seeing the lights go on because it is a topic that transcends the usual material job hunters hear. Contact me if you want me to present it to your group.

## The Onlyness Premium: Negotiating Executive Compensation Beyond Market Rates

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

In a standard [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/), salary negotiations are often a race to the “median.” [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use benchmarking data to tell you what the role is worth, and most people fight for a 5% to 10% bump above that number. But for the professional or leader who has positioned themselves through **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**, market rates are merely a floor, not a ceiling.

If you have successfully convinced the board or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager that you aren’t just the “best” candidate (I hate that word), but the **only** one capable of solving their specific strategic crisis, you have effectively exited the [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) labor market. Here is how to use that leverage to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) a premium that reflects your unique impact.

### 1. Reject the Benchmark Trap

The moment a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) says, “The market rate for this role is X,” they are trying to turn you into a replaceable unit of labor. Your response must immediately pivot back to the specific value of your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

- **The Reframe:** “I understand the general market data for a standard \[Job Title\]. However, we’ve spent our last few conversations discussing a very non-standard set of challenges, specifically \[Pain Point A\] and \[Pain Point B\]. My ability to solve those via my unique background in \[Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)\] isn’t a market-rate skill; it’s a strategic investment.”
- **The Logic:** You are moving the conversation from *cost* (what they pay for a head) to *value* (what they gain from a solution).

### 2. Negotiate for “Value Created,” Not “Time Served”

Traditional candidates [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) based on their previous salary or years of experience. An Onlyness-driven negotiation focuses on the **delta**—the measurable difference between the company’s current trajectory and the trajectory they’ll be on once you take the helm.

- **The Tactic:** Use the “Outcome-Based Bonus” or “Performance Equity” model.
- **The Script:** “Rather than focusing solely on base salary, let’s look at the $20M in operational efficiency we identified during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). I’m looking for a compensation structure that heavily weights the successful delivery of that outcome. If I deliver the ‘only’ solution to this problem, I expect the compensation to reflect a percentage of that captured value.”
- **The Result:** This shows extreme [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in your unique methodology and makes it difficult for them to say no, as they only pay the premium if you deliver the result.

### 3. Leverage the “Cost of Vacancy”

When a company is looking for a leader with [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), they are usually in a state of urgency. Every day that role remains unfilled is costing them money, market share, or cultural stability.

- **The Move:** Remind them, subtly, of the cost of starting over.
- **The Frame:** “I know the board is eager to stabilize \[Project X\] by the end of the quarter. While we are apart on the numbers, I’m the only person who can step in on Day One without a six-month learning curve. If we can bridge this gap today, we can stop the current bleed immediately.”
- **The Insight:** You are highlighting that the “discounted” candidate will actually cost them more in lost time and [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) than your premium salary will.

### 4. Expansion of the “Non-Monetary” Onlyness

Sometimes the budget for base salary is truly capped. In this case, use your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for structural power and lifestyle assets that a traditional new hire wouldn’t even think to ask for.

- **Customized Governance:** If your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is about speed, [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for a direct reporting line to the CEO or Board to bypass mid-level bureaucracy.
- **Intellectual Property/Side Ventures:** [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) for the right to continue a specific board seat or external project that fuels your unique perspective.
- **The Logic:** If they want your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), they have to protect the environment that created it.

### The Bottom Line

Negotiation is the final test of whether you actually believe in your own distinction. If you fold and accept a “standard” [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/), you are admitting you are a standard “applicant” (another word I hate).

Stand firm in the value of what only you can do. The premium isn’t an ego play. It’s the market’s way of validating that a category-of-one leader is worth more than a room full of “qualified” applicants.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week, I released more new content including:

**Is It OK to Remove an Employer From My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/)? #shorts**

**Excerpt: Someone left their own business to join a large firm, wants to leave it, and is wondering if they can bury the large firm on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/).**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-remove-an-employer-from-my-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-remove-an-employer-from-my-resume-shorts/)

**Is Work Not Working?**

**Excerpt: Instead of talking to your spouse or partner, schedule a time with a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) to navigate your transition without losing your mind or dignity. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/2026/03/01/is-work-not-working/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/2026/03/01/is-work-not-working/)

**15 Realistic [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Resolutions That Stick Past March and Why They Work Excerpt: Most [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) resolutions fail because they are too ambitious or static. Learn how to set manageable, monthly goals that actually move [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) forward.**

**Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-realistic-career-resolutions-that-stick-past-march-and-why-they-work/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-realistic-career-resolutions-that-stick-past-march-and-why-they-work/)

**The First 30 Seconds of an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) (Updated/Reposted)**

**Excerpt: [First impressions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/) are critical. Jeff breaks down exactly what happens in the first 30 seconds of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) and how to ensure you’re starting on the right foot. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-first-30-seconds-of-an-interview/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-first-30-seconds-of-an-interview/)

**[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on the Rise According to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) in 2026 (Updated/Reposted)**

**Excerpt: LinkedIn’s latest data shows a massive shift in the most in-demand roles. Stay ahead of the curve by understanding where the market is moving. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobs-on-the-rise-according-to-linkedin-in-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobs-on-the-rise-according-to-linkedin-in-2026/)

**Would You [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) a Well-Dressed Person Who Did Not Have an Appointment? #shorts Excerpt: If a job seeker walked into your company dressed to impress with a résumé in hand, would someone meet with him or her on the spot? Jeff discusses the reality of “walk-in” [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) in the modern era. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/would-you-interview-a-well-dressed-person-who-did-not-have-an-appointment-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/would-you-interview-a-well-dressed-person-who-did-not-have-an-appointment-shorts/)

**The First 30 Seconds of an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) (Updated/Reposted) Excerpt: Robert Herjavec has discussed how to stand out on Shark Tank; Jeff takes those principles and converts them to the world of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to help you win from the start. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-first-30-seconds-of-an-interview/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-first-30-seconds-of-an-interview/)

**[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on the Rise According to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) in 2026 (Updated/Reposted) Excerpt: Stay ahead of the curve by understanding where the market is moving. LinkedIn’s latest data shows a massive shift in the most in-demand roles for the coming year. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobs-on-the-rise-according-to-linkedin-in-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobs-on-the-rise-according-to-linkedin-in-2026/)

**Set [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Goals #shorts (Updated/Reposted) Excerpt: [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) without a goal is just socializing. Jeff explains how to set specific, measurable [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) targets to ensure your efforts lead to actual job leads. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/set-networking-goals-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/set-networking-goals-shorts/)

**The Old School [Cover Letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) Is Dead (Updated/Reposted) Excerpt: If you’re still using a standard [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), you’re wasting your time. Discover what has replaced the traditional letter and how to grab a recruiter’s attention in seconds. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-old-school-cover-letter-is-dead/)

**Crafting Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) Mission Statement Excerpt: EP 3116 There is a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) opportunity most people miss. Link:** [**https://youtu.be/no72a38QvOc**](https://youtu.be/no72a38QvOc)

**Be Careful Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains why you must be careful when a recruiter’s client reaches out to you directly or when you’re tempted to bypass the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/). There are professional risks to your reputation and your candidacy that you need to consider. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-careful/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-careful/)

**Flip Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Excerpt: Most people approach the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) from a position of need. Jeff discusses how to “flip” that script to a position of value, changing the power dynamic between you and the employer. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/flip-your-job-search/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/flip-your-job-search/)

**The Reality When You [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Excerpt: Searching for a job is often a series of “nos” punctuated by one “yes.” This post dives into the mental toughness required to handle the current market’s reality without burning out. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-reality-when-you-job-search/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-reality-when-you-job-search/)

**How to Sell Your Story in Job [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) (Not Your Skills) Excerpt: Skills are a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/); your story is unique. Jeff explains how to stop reciting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) and start telling a narrative that connects emotionally with the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-sell-your-story-in-job-interviews-not-your-skills/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-sell-your-story-in-job-interviews-not-your-skills/)

**How To Become More Disciplined– 8 Ways To Overcome Laziness And Procrastination Excerpt: A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) requires more discipline than the job itself. Jeff shares 8 actionable strategies to overcome the hurdles of procrastination and maintain a consistent daily routine. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-become-more-disciplined-8-ways-to-overcome-laziness-and-procrastination/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-become-more-disciplined-8-ways-to-overcome-laziness-and-procrastination/)

**Title: [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) #shorts Excerpt: Pooja Agnihotri gives an accurate perspective on [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/). URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-mistakes-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-mistakes-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts/)

**Title: There’s a Better Place to Apply Than Job Boards #shorts Excerpt: There’s a better place to apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) than job boards. Let me explain where that is and why you should be doing it. URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/theres-a-better-place-to-apply-than-job-boards-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/theres-a-better-place-to-apply-than-job-boards-shorts/)

**Title: The [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of Recent YouTube [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Videos Excerpt: [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), shares a curated collection of his most recent [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) videos to help you find your next role faster. URL:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-of-recent-youtube-job-search-videos/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-best-of-recent-youtube-job-search-videos/)

**Title: Build Your [Referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) Community**

**Excerpt: EP 3117 You must differentiate between your “network” (everyone you have ever met) and your “community” (the subset of people who share your interests and will actually step in to help you succeed).** [**https://youtu.be/l34-abO\_tlw**](https://youtu.be/l34-abO_tlw)

 **The Second [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) Place to Build Your Personal [Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Excerpt: We all know the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place to build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) online, but what’s the second-best place? It takes less time than the other one AND it’s easy and fun. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-second-best-place-to-build-your-personal-brand/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-second-best-place-to-build-your-personal-brand/)

**The “Onlyness” Factor: Bypassing the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) with Strategic Distinction Excerpt: Stop trying to be the “best” and start being the “only.” Jeff explains how to identify your unique value proposition so clearly that you bypass automated filters and speak directly to the human decision-maker. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-onlyness-factor-bypassing-the-ats-with-strategic-distinction/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-onlyness-factor-bypassing-the-ats-with-strategic-distinction/)

**Do This and You Are 5 Times More Likely to Be Hired Excerpt: Most job seekers follow the same tired patterns. Jeff reveals the one specific strategic shift in your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) process that statistically increases your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) probability by 500%. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-this-and-you-are-5-times-more-likely-to-be-hired/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-this-and-you-are-5-times-more-likely-to-be-hired/)

**The Outreach Edge: Using “Onlyness” to Cut Through the Noise Excerpt: Cold outreach usually fails because it looks like spam. Learn how to leverage your “onlyness” to craft messages that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers actually want to read and respond to. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-outreach-edge-using-onlyness-to-cut-through-the-noise/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-outreach-edge-using-onlyness-to-cut-through-the-noise/)

**The Final [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) with the CEO Excerpt: When you get to the CEO, the questions change from “Can you do the job?” to “Are you the right fit for the mission?” Jeff prepares you for the high-level psychological vetting that happens at the top. Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-final-interview-with-the-ceo/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-final-interview-with-the-ceo/)

**People hire me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/)** because I make finding work much easier. I don’t write [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). I leave it to people who are experts at that. I am someone who has helped tens of thousands of people actually *find work.*

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### [Resume Formatting Mistakes #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resume-formatting-mistakes-shorts/)

**Published:** March 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want your résumé to wind up in a category that no one ever looks at, avoid my recommendations.

**Content:**

# Resume Formatting Mistakes #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Jobs on the Rise According to LinkedIn in 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobs-on-the-rise-according-to-linkedin-in-2026/)

**Published:** March 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3118 The 2026 job market isn't just a mystery—it's a roadmap of real-world data showing where the money and opportunities are shifting.

**Content:**

# Jobs on the Rise According to LinkedIn in 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3118 The 2026 job market isn’t just a mystery—it’s a roadmap of real-world data showing where the money and opportunities are shifting. Stop guessing where your industry is headed and start positioning yourself for the explosion in [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), self-employment, and high-touch human roles.

**Timestamps**

- **00:19** – The 76% unpreparedness gap in today’s job market.
- **00:53** – Trend 1: The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Boom and top emerging roles.
- **01:27** – What is a Data Annotator?.
- **02:05** – Trend 2: The 69% surge in self-employment and “Founders”.
- **02:59** – Remote work comparison: Founder vs. Sales Exec.
- **03:25** – Trend 3: Why human-centric [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are thriving.
- **04:51** – A 3-step framework to navigate your 2026 [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path.

Let’s be real, navigating today’s job market can feel, well, a little chaotic, right? But what if you had a map, something drawn from actual, real-world data, showing you exactly where the opportunities are hiding? Well, that’s what we’re going to do in this explainer. We’re diving into LinkedIn’s list of the fastest-growing [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in the US. So to really get this, we need to understand the backdrop.

According to LinkedIn’s own [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), a staggering 76% of professionals say they don’t feel [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) for a job hunt. And yet, more than half are planning one this year. That’s a huge disconnect, and it really shines a light on just how uncertain everything feels out there.

So with everything in flux, where do you even begin to look? This is exactly where the data becomes our [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend. This jobs-on-the-rise list isn’t just guesswork, you know? It’s a data-driven look at the roles that have grown the fastest over the last few years. Okay, no big surprise here.

The first major trend that’s absolutely lighting up [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is the explosion of artificial intelligence. I mean, it is reshaping practically every industry, and the demand for people with these specific skills is just off the charts. Just take a look at some of these job titles, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engineer, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), and AI-slash-machine learning researcher.

They’re right there at the top. These are the folks who are building and fine-tuning the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) systems we’re all hearing about. But you know, there’s another role on this list that’s really, really interesting.

The data annotator. So what in the world is a data annotator? Well, in the simplest terms, they’re basically teachers for the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). Think about it.

They meticulously label data, you know, images, text, sounds, so that the machine learning models can learn to see patterns and make accurate predictions. It’s an absolutely critical, human-in-the-loop job that powers this entire [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) ecosystem. But let’s ask the question, who’s actually filling these roles right now? Well, LinkedIn’s data shows a pretty significant gender imbalance in these top [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

For example, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) consultants are 82% male, and [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) engineers are 77% male. That’s a really stark data point that shows us where the industry is at today. All right, shifting gears a bit, our second major trend paints a totally different picture.

It’s not just about working for a company anymore, it’s about working for yourself. We’re seeing a massive, massive shift toward entrepreneurship and independent consulting. The data is showing this explosive growth in titles like founder, strategic advisor, and venture partner.

These roles, they really reflect this desire for more control, for more autonomy, and the rise of the gig economy at some of the highest professional levels. It seems like experts are adapting to all the uncertainty by just betting on themselves. And if you need proof of this momentum, just look at this number.

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There has been a 69% year-over-year increase in [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) members adding founder to their job titles. 69%. That’s not just a tiny trend, it’s a fundamental shift in how people are approaching their entire [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).

Now, to put this into perspective, let’s compare that founder role to a more traditional path like a sales executive. Founders, they have about a 51% remote work availability, and they’re often coming from roles like software engineer. On the flip side, sales [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) have only about 2% remote availability, and they’re typically climbing a more established corporate ladder.

This data really shows the two very different worlds these roles operate in. But hold on, the story isn’t just about tech and startups, not at all. This third major trend reveals something pretty profound.

In an age where everything is becoming more automated, these high-touch human-centric [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are not just surviving, they’re absolutely thriving. We’re seeing super rapid growth in roles that require deep empathy, personal connection, and specialized human services. Think about it, psychiatric nurse practitioners who are providing crucial mental health care, travel advisors curating these one-of-a-kind experiences, fundraising officers building relationships for a great cause.

These are [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that technology can help, for sure, but it just can’t replace. And hey, remember that gender distribution chart we saw for the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) roles? Well, here’s the counterpoint. The role of psychiatric nurse practitioner is 79% female.

This is such a powerful contrast, and it highlights how different booming sectors of our economy have very, very different demographic makeups. So how do we bring all this together? Well, a [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) report itself really sums it up perfectly. [The job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is being pulled by these incredibly powerful forces.

You’ve got the advance of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), a huge pivot towards self-employment, and this enduring deep need for human connection. Okay, so we’ve looked at all the data, we’ve identified the big trends, but I think the most important question is, what does this all mean for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) path? Right? How can you actually use these insights? You can actually think about it with a pretty simple three-step framework. First, just see the big waves, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) boom, the rise of the independent professional, and that demand for human-centric roles.

Second, take a look at your own skills. What are you good at? What are you passionate about? And then third, find your fit. Where does what you do [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) intersect with these huge growing trends? Ultimately, this data isn’t just some list of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

It’s really a reflection of a world that is completely transforming. It tells us where value is being created, and what skills are really in demand. So the final question isn’t just about the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) of the future, but rather, as the entire world of work changes, how will you? And hey, there’s a lot more to help you at jobsearch.community. Things like video courses, books and guides.

Some of it’s even free. Go look for information that can really help you with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [How Recruiters Steal Your Best People: They Don’t Steal Them #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-recruiters-steal-your-best-people-they-dont-steal-them-shorts/)

**Published:** March 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Do you really believe recruiters steal your best people? Really?

**Content:**

# How Recruiters Steal Your Best People: They Don’t Steal Them

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Pq_S-G1I8GI)

Do you really believe [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) steal your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) people? Really?

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[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t steal your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) people. You lose them. I know you don’t want to hear that. You want to think that nefarious evil [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is stealing them? They’re not. You’re losing them.

One of the ways you lose them is at review time. At review time, which coincides with their work anniversary, usually, a manager sits down with their subordinate, and basically gives them a verbal beating. There’s very little love that’s offered. There’s very little in terms of things that they’ve done well, because those slides by. People forget about them; they ignore them, and instead focus on [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

You gotta show him some love. You got to show that they did some good things. Yeah, there are a couple of things they can improve upon, but heck overall, it’s a great performance.

People want to feel like you care. And if all that happens is you dump on them, you’ll lose them

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### [The Onlyness Interview: Defending Your Value Against "Traditional" Logic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-onlyness-interview-defending-your-value-against-traditional-logic/)

**Published:** March 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In an executive interview, the most dangerous question isn't about your failures. It’s about your fit.

**Content:**

# The Onlyness Interview: Defending Your Value Against “Traditional” Logic

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In an executive [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), the most dangerous question isn’t about your failures. It’s about your fit. After the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) has cleared you and the AI-driven screenings are done, you will eventually sit across from a Board or a Search Committee that asks: *“We have candidates with more direct industry experience. Why should we take a risk on your unconventional background?”*

This is the moment where most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) retreat into “safe” language, trying to prove they are just as traditional as the other guys. That is a losing strategy. In 2026, “safe” is a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). To win, you must lean into your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** as a competitive [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

Here is the no-BS framework for defending your unique value proposition when the pressure is on.

### 1. Reframe “Risk” as “Redundancy”

When a committee mentions “risk,” they are really talking about comfort. Your job is to show them that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) a traditional candidate is actually the riskier move because it leads to **strategic redundancy**.

- **The Move:** Acknowledge their “traditional” gold standard and then dismantle it.
- **The Script:** *“If you hire a candidate from a traditional \[Industry X\] background, you are [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) a mirror of your current internal logic. My [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) (merging \[Your Industry A\] with \[Your Industry B) means I see the blind spots your competitors are currently ignoring. You aren’t [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) me to fit in; you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) me to ensure the firm doesn’t stagnate.”*
- **The Logic:** You are repositioning your lack of traditional “fit” as the very “innovation” they claim to want in their mission statement.

### 2. The “Cross-Pollination” Proof Point

In 2026, the most complex business problems ([AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) ethics, global supply chain volatility, decentralized labor) are rarely solved by staying within industry silos. Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is your ability to **cross-pollinate** solutions.

- **The Tactic:** Prepare a “Bridge Case Study.” Identify a specific problem the company is facing and explain how you solved a parallel problem in a completely different sector.
- **The Frame:** *“In my previous world of \[Industry Z\], we handled \[Problem Y\] by using \[Specific Framework\]. Your industry is currently trying to solve this with \[Old Method\]. My [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) allows me to port that [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) directly into your P&L, saving you the three years of ‘trial and error’ your competitors are stuck in.”*
- **The Result:** You move from being an “outsider” to being a “shortcut.”

### 3. Mastering the AI Behavioral Gauntlet

Many 2026 [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) involve an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) “Shadowing” component—software that analyzes your responses for consistency and leadership markers. If you try to fake a traditional persona, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) will flag the cognitive dissonance in your vocal tone and micro-expressions.

- **The “Authenticity” Protocol:** Do not try to sound like a textbook. AI-driven sentiment analysis favors **conviction**.
- **The Technique:** When asked behavioral questions, anchor your answers in your “Onlyness Narrative.” If you are a leader who prioritizes “speed over consensus,” don’t soften it to sound “collaborative” if that isn’t your true [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).
- **The Goal:** Consistency creates a high “Trust Score” in [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) analytics. Being a “High-Conviction Outlier” is better than being a “Low-Confidence Generalist.”

### 4. The Final Closing: The “Only One” Statement

At the end of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), when they ask if you have anything else to add, do not give a generic “thank you.” Close with your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Statement**.

- **The Script:** *“There are plenty of people who can manage this department. But if you are looking for the only person who has \[Specific Achievement A\] while navigating \[Specific Constraint B\] to deliver \[Specific Result C\], then I am the only person in this process you should be talking to.”*
- **The Impact:** You leave the room not as one of three finalists, but as a category of one.

### Bottom Line

If you try to compete on “years of experience,” you are fighting a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/) war. If you compete on **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**, there is no competition. Stop defending why you’re different and start showing them why your difference is the only thing that will save their bottom line.

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### [Consider it a Red Flag If They Do This #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/consider-it-a-red-flag-if-they-do-this-shorts/)

**Published:** March 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Consider it a red flag if this happens during an interview.

**Content:**

# Consider it a Red Flag If They Do This #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Consider it a red flag if this happens during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/).

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### [Job Descriptions and Job Ads #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-descriptions-and-job-ads-shorts/)

**Published:** March 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This #short highlights a classic mistake job hunters make--thinking a job description or job ad is accurate.

**Content:**

# Job Descriptions and Job Ads

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This #short highlights a classic [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) job hunters make–thinking a job description or job ad is accurate.

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Do you think an ad or job description you’ve seen is accurate and what it is that they’re really looking for? -Job descriptions are at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) 80 percent accurate. Typically, they’re some institutional document used to fill previous positions like this one, and are rarely updated.

You need to find out about the position early in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or early in the screening call to understand what it is they’re really looking for. Otherwise, you could wind up barking up the wrong tree and never know it.

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### [The Second Best Place to Build Your Personal Brand #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-second-best-place-to-build-your-personal-brand-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

**Published:** March 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** We all know the best place to build your brand online, but what's the second-best place? It takes less time than the other one AND it's easy and fun.

**Content:**

# The Second Best Place to Build Your Personal Brand #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtu.be/luisEctHP08)

We all know the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place to build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) online, but what’s the second-best place? It takes less time than the other one AND it’s easy and fun.

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### [How Do You Know It's Time to Give Up?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-know-its-time-to-give-up/)

**Published:** March 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do you know when it is time to call off a job search in your respective field, you have graduated in, and then move on?

**Content:**

# **How Do You Know It’s Time to Give Up?**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

How do you know when it is time to call off a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) in your respective field, you have graduated in, and then move on?

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How do you know what it’s time to call off job searching your field, the one that you graduated in and then move on? This is a complicated and very sad question for me.

I don’t know how inexperienced or inexperienced the questionnaire is but it suggests to me that is that they are inexperienced. I just want to say that I find it very sad because the University has not done a good job of preparing this person for the world of work. It’s not that they don’t know what’s needed to do the job but they didn’t teach them how to job hunt.

So, let me backup for a second and say, you may know your field very well. You may know how to be a great manager (I’m going to extend this to people of all different career levels). You may know how to be a great manager. You may know how to be a great business leader. You may know all a lot of different things that will help you be effective professionally . . . and you don’t necessarily know how to find a job, You don’t know how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). No one taught you how to network well and, as I’ve said so many times, the skills needed to find the job are completely different than the skills needed to do a job.

So, when I listened to this question, I get very sad because I really try to coach people to be effective professionally and, in doing that, I try to help with skills development around [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). No one’s done this for this person. So, my answer is you’re not ready to give up.

No one has coached you out to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). No one helped you with your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). No one taught you how to network. No one helped you overcome your inhibitions around [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). No one has been your ally in this [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). You’ve probably have been to write a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), send it out, go on some [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), someone will [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. They haven’t used those words. They’ve kind of sent that message to you.

It doesn’t work that way. You need to learn how to be as effective in [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) as you are in your knowledge of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). I will repeat that.

You need to be as effective with your [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) as you need to be competent in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

So, for those of you who are thinking of [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) on your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), no matter what your level experience, I want to encourage you – – it’s time to we re-double your efforts. It’s time to really push yourself. [Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach!

Get some help. You need to find a career coach. (By the way, I do career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I’m not doing this out of vested interest). But you know already that what you’re doing isn’t working, right? So, you have got to do something different.

You have got to learn the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that you’re making. You need to understand what in your environment isn’t set up to be most effective . . . And, usually, that’s you. You haven’t been adequately [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/).

So now may not be the time for you to give up. Now may be the time to learn the deficiencies you have in your game and get better at them so that firms really want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.

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### [Build Your Referral Community](https://thebiggamehunter.us/build-your-referral-community/)

**Published:** March 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3117 You must differentiate between your "network" (everyone you have ever met) and your "community" (the subset of people who share your interests and will actually step in to help you succeed).

**Content:**

# Build Your Referral Community

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3117 You must differentiate between your “network” (everyone you have ever met) and your “community” (the subset of people who share your interests and will actually step in to help you succeed).

**Timestamps**

- **00:17** – The brutal truth about why modern [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) is so frustrating.
- **00:34** – Why 250 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) per role makes [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a lottery system.
- **00:52** – The dangers of “Job Board Porn” and false productivity.
- **01:22** – Shifting from an Employee Mindset to a [Consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) Mindset.
- **01:43** – Why skills are for kids and wisdom is for professionals.
- **02:19** – The vital difference between a passive network and a proactive community.
- **03:31** – The 3-step framework to activate your [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) engine.

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Welcome to The Explainer. Today, we’re diving into a new strategy for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) security that could honestly change how you think about your professional life, especially if you’re in your mid-career years. We’re going to break down the key ideas from [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach John Tarnoff on how to stop searching for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and start creating opportunities.

Okay, so if you’re a mid-career professional, you know this feeling, right? The sheer [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) of the modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). You spend all this time perfecting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you write a great [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), you send it out into the void, and then crickets. So what is going on? Why is it so incredibly tough out there? Well, here’s a huge part of the problem.

That single job posting you just applied to, on average, it gets a staggering 250 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). I mean, think about that. You’re not just competing for a job, you are literally playing the lottery.

The whole [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) system is just completely overwhelmed. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach John Tarnoff has a pretty provocative name for this whole cycle of just endlessly scrolling job boards and firing off [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). He calls it job board porn.

You know, it’s this fantasy about all these open positions that almost never leads to a real connection. It feels like you’re being productive, but it’s actually a big reason why so many people feel so stuck. But here’s the thing.

[***The Silent Language: Master Your Interview Body Language***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oF0)

While the system is definitely flawed, it’s not the whole story. The bigger issue might actually be the mindset that a lot of us are bringing to the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). It’s this old school approach that, frankly, just doesn’t work anymore.

So Tarnoff argues that the big shift we have to make is from an employee mindset to a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) mindset. What does that mean? Well, an employee kind of waits for someone to tell them what to do. They ask, what do you need me to do? But a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), they’re proactive.

They spot problems and they walk in saying, here is the value I can provide. That simple switch is a total game changer. And this goes even deeper.

Tarnoff says something that might sound a little crazy at first. For experienced pros, skills are for kids. His point is, if you’re not leading with your insight, your wisdom, and your strategic understanding, all that stuff you’ve earned over the years, then you’re really not showing what you’re truly worth.

Okay, so if blasting out [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) online is a dead end, what’s the alternative? It’s a really radical shift in where you put your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). You stop spraying [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) everywhere and you start strategically building relationships. The goal isn’t just to network, it’s to build what’s called a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) community.

Now, first things first, let’s get our terms right. We are not talking about your network, that huge list of all your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connections. That’s mostly a passive group of people who, let’s be honest, aren’t personally invested in whether you succeed or fail.

Instead, the goal is to build a community. And this is a much smaller, carefully chosen group, maybe 50 to 150 people. This is all about quality, not quantity.

It’s a group built on real trust, shared interests, and genuine mutual support. And this right here just nails the difference. A network is a big group that will probably just stand by and watch you fail.

But a community, that’s your small, dedicated crew that will actually step in and help you succeed. One is passive, the other is like your own personal team of advocates. Think about your entire professional circle like this.

Your [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) community isn’t everybody you know. No, it’s that vital 10% at the core. And that’s where you need to invest your time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), because that small group is going to generate almost all of your opportunities.

Okay, so this all sounds great in theory, but how do you actually build this thing? How do you activate this [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) community? Well, it all comes down to a really clear three-step framework. So the whole process breaks down into three key actions. First, you’ve got to define your unique superpower.

Second, you have to actively nurture your community. And third, you become a thought leader in your field. So let’s break down what each of those really means.

All right, step one is all about clarity. Your superpower is basically your unique value proposition. It’s not just your skills, it’s that special blend of your talents, your experience, and your point of view that only you can bring to the table.

This is the message that your community is going to share for you. Step two, nurturing. This is the real heart of the whole process, and it is not about constantly bugging people for favors.

It’s a team effort, and it’s built on the 80-20 rule. You should be spending 80% of your time giving, offering help, making intros, being a mentor, and only 20% of your time asking. That’s how you build trust.

And finally, becoming a thought leader. Look, this doesn’t mean you have to be some big-shot influencer with a million followers. Not at all.

It’s about consistently sharing your unique point of view. It’s about adding to the important conversations in your industry. That’s how you show everyone your strategic value.

So what’s the big payoff for all this work? Well, according to Tarnoff, it is nothing short of revolutionary. He says, if you build this system, you create this engine where opportunities are constantly coming to you. You will literally never have to go through that painful, reactive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) ever again.

And you know, at the end of the day, this strategy is about so much more than just finding your next gig. Building a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) community is about creating real, sustainable, long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) security. It’s about moving from a place of [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) to a place of control and purpose.

And that brings us to a final, pretty powerful question to think about. What if [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) isn’t something you have to go out and find, but it’s actually something you can actively create and build for yourself?

[***Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc)

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### **[*Use This 15-Minute Strategy to Land a Job (Even Before It’s Posted)*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oxP)**

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### [Do This and You Are 5 Times More Likely to Be Hired #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-this-and-you-are-5-times-more-likely-to-be-hired-shorts/)

**Published:** March 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Do this and you are 5x more likely to be hired.

**Content:**

# Do This and You Are 5 Times More Likely to Be Hired #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/zeUKAG1gfZI)

Do this and you are 5x more likely to be hired.

***[Increase Your Chances of Getting a Response to Your Application](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkC)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

[***The Exit Package***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lk3)

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

***[Are You The Target for a Job Layoff?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-47)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

[***Should I Apply to One Job at a Time and Go Through The Process or Multiple Jobs?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b6d)

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***[What You Must Do Before Your Next Job Interview](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-GS)***

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### [There’s a Better Place to Apply Than Job Boards #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/theres-a-better-place-to-apply-than-job-boards-shorts/)

**Published:** March 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There’s a better place to apply for jobs than job boards. Let me explain where that is and why you should be doing it.

**Content:**

# There’s a Better Place to Apply Than Job Boards #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/uhabZme0eco)

There’s a better place to apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) than job boards. Let me explain where that is and why you should be doing it.

[***The Big Career Management Lessons from The Shawshank Redemption***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3PP)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg) answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

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### [The Outreach Edge: Using "Onlyness" to Cut Through the Noise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-outreach-edge-using-onlyness-to-cut-through-the-noise/)

**Published:** March 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In the executive job market, your primary competition isn't just other leaders.

**Content:**

# The Outreach Edge: Using “Onlyness” to Cut Through the Noise

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the executive job market, your primary competition isn’t just other leaders. It is the sheer volume of AI-generated outreach. When every “personalized” [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) message sounds like it was written by the same algorithm, the only way to get a response from a high-level peer is to lead with your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

**[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** is the unique intersection of your specific history, experiences, and vision. In [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), it is the difference between asking for a favor and offering a perspective that no one else in the room can provide.

Here is how to use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to find that intersection and draft outreach that commands a response.

### 1. From “Connection” to “Contribution”

Most [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) fails because it starts with a request: “I’d like to connect to learn more about your firm.” In an [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/), that is a low-value ask. To move the needle, you must use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify a “Contribution Point” based on your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

- **The Move:** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model a target executive’s recent white paper or a transcript from their last industry keynote.
- **The Prompt:** *“Analyze this content for its core strategic assumption. Based on my background in \[Your Unique Intersection\], identify one blind spot or alternative perspective I could [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) that isn’t already being discussed.”*
- **The Result:** You aren’t “connecting”; you are contributing. Your message becomes: *“I read your piece on \[X\]. Given my specific experience navigating \[Y\] during the \[Z\] shift, I noticed a unique parallel that might interest you.”*

### 2. Semantic Networking: Finding the “Hidden” Peer

Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is most valuable to someone facing the exact problem you’ve already solved in a different context. AI-driven semantic search allows you to find these people, even if they aren’t in your immediate industry.

- **The Tactic:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to map your network by **problem-set** rather than job title.
- **The Logic:** If your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is “Scaling high-growth Fintech during regulatory contraction,” you should be looking for COOs in *Healthcare* facing similar regulatory shifts.
- **The Outreach:** *“While our industries differ, our current regulatory hurdles are identical. I recently solved for \[X\] using a \[Y\] framework. I’d love to share the data if you’re open to a brief exchange.”* This is a peer-to-peer value proposition that skips the “job seeker” stigma entirely.
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### 3. The “Anti-Bot” Polish: Protecting Your Brand

The danger of using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for outreach is that it tends to smooth over the very “Onlyness” that makes you interesting. If your message sounds too perfect, it feels synthetic.

- **The 80/20 Rule:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for the 80%—the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), the data synthesis, and the structure. Reserve the 20% for your **human-in-the-loop** signature.
- **The Fix:** Manually insert a “high-resolution” detail like a reference to a specific local event, a shared mentor, or a nuanced industry critique that an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) wouldn’t dare to prioritize.
- **The Goal:** The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) provides the relevance; you provide the **authority**.

### 4. Avoiding the “Ask” Trap

The final step in Onlyness-driven [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is the “delayed ask.” Today, the moment you ask for a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) in the first message, you trigger the “Recruiter Filter” in the recipient’s mind.

- **The Protocol:** Your first message should be 100% focused on your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) and the value it provides to *them*.
- **The [Follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/):** Only after they have engaged with your unique insight do you move toward the [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). By then, you aren’t a stranger asking for a hand-out; you are a recognized [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) who is a logical fit for their organization.

### The Bottom Line

In a world of automated noise, your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** is your signal. Don’t use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to blend in; use it to find the exact frequency where your unique history meets their current problem.

If you aren’t the only person who could have sent that message, don’t send it.

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### [The "Onlyness" Factor: Bypassing the ATS with Strategic Distinction](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-onlyness-factor-bypassing-the-ats-with-strategic-distinction/)

**Published:** March 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# The “Onlyness” Factor: Bypassing the ATS with Strategic Distinction

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

In the executive job market of 2026, being “qualified” is the fastest way to become invisible. When an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) scans thousands of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) for a C-suite role, it isn’t just looking for someone who *can* do the job; it’s looking for the statistical outlier. To break through the algorithmic black box, you have to move beyond “best” and lean into your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

Coined by strategist Nilofer Merchant, **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** is that specific spot in the world where only you stand, based on your unique history, experiences, and vision. In a world of AI-generated [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that all sound “professional,” your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the only thing a machine cannot replicate.

Here is the no-BS strategy for coding your unique distinction into a system designed for uniformity.

### 1. Shift from Keywords to “Signature Impact”

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) optimize for keywords like “Strategic Leadership” or “P&L Management.” The problem? Every other applicant is doing the same thing. The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) sees this as a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). To bypass the filter, you must anchor your keywords in a **Signature Impact** that only you could have delivered.

- **The Move:** Don’t just list “Digital Transformation.” Identify the intersection where your specific background solved a problem no one else could.
- **The Frame:** Instead of a generic bullet, use: *“Architected the industry’s first \[X\] by merging my background in \[Field A\] with \[Field B\], resulting in a 30% market share gain.”* \* **The Logic:** By linking disparate skill sets, you create a “unique identifier” in the system. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) recognizes this as a high-value, rare data point rather than a recycled buzzword.

### 2. Formatting: Don’t Let the Machine Mangle Your Brand

Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) doesn’t matter if the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) “Parser” can’t read it. High-level [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) often fail because of over-designed layouts that turn unique value propositions into digital gibberish.

- **The Clean Room Protocol:** Avoid columns, tables, and images. Stick to a single-column, standard font (Arial or Calibri).
- **The Test:** If you cannot copy your text and paste it into a plain Notepad document without it looking like a mess, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is likely discarding your most important achievements.
- **The Goal:** Use a clean structure so the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can clearly “see” the specific milestones that differentiate you from the “standard” candidate pool.

### 3. The Referral Bypass: Onlyness in the Human Loop

The most effective way to leverage [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is to never let the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) be the final judge. In 2026, “Referral Portals” are the priority lane. When you enter via an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), the algorithm tags you as a “High-Confidence Match.”

- **The Tactic:** Use your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) outreach to find a peer who recognizes your specific “Onlyness.” When they [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you, they aren’t just vouching for your skills; they are vouching for your unique perspective.
- **The Result:** This [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) changes how the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) weights your data. You move from a “cold” applicant to a “vetted” strategist, bypassing the initial automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) phase.

### 4. Semantic Alignment: Matching Tone to Intent

The 2026 [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) performs “Sentiment Analysis” on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) to see if your professional “voice” matches the company’s current strategic intent. If a company is in a “Turnaround” phase, they aren’t looking for a “Steady Hand. ” They are looking for a “Re-Architect.”

- **The Adjustment:** Use an LLM to analyze the job description for its underlying “Strategic Urgency.” If the JD implies a need for radical innovation, ensure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) highlights the times you were the *only* person willing to break the status quo.
- **The Guardrail:** This isn’t about mirroring keywords; it’s about mirroring **conviction**. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) reflects the specific type of leadership the company is desperate for, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) ranks you as a cultural and strategic fit.

### The Bottom Line

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is designed to find the “best” version of a standard template. Your job is to prove you aren’t a template at all. By **leading** with your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**, you provide the machine with a data point it can’t ignore: a leader who isn’t just better, but incomparable.

Stop trying to fit in. The algorithm is actually looking for the person who stands out.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How To Become More Disciplined– 8 Ways To Overcome Laziness And Procrastination](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-become-more-disciplined-8-ways-to-overcome-laziness-and-procrastination/)

**Published:** March 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Members of The Brainz Magazine community of experts will share their best tips, advice, ideas, and hacks on how to become more discipline and avoid laziness and procrastination.

**Content:**

# How To Become More Disciplined– 8 Ways To Overcome Laziness And Procrastination

[Expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) Panelists are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within the areas of Business, Mindset, Leadership, Lifestyle, and Sustainability. Members of The Brainz Magazine community of experts will share their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) tips, advice, ideas, and hacks on different topics.

[Expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) Panelists

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## 1. Introduce clarity on the final results

There is no way to reach goals and create new [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) stories without being productive and disciplined. However, many times great plans and ideas remain unapplied and never hit the ground in real life. Laziness and procrastination often explain delays or inability to take action and are sometimes wrongly interconnected. There is even a common assumption that procrastination is caused by laziness, which is rarely true. On one hand, introducing discipline and engagement in [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and processes can help overcome laziness. Procrastination, on the other hand, can be reduced by introducing more clarity on the final results, defining tasks that are going to make a real difference – needle movers – and reviewing emotional wellbeing and engagement levels. **– Emi Olausson Fourounjieva,** [**Transformational Coach for Senior Leaders**](https://digitaltransformation4humans.com/)

## 2. Plan, act, be guided, and celebrate

Being disciplined gives you more freedom. Have a plan to follow with clarity and focus. Block time for mission-critical action steps and avoid wasting time on “shiny object activities”. Have an accountability partner, a coach or mentor who guides you, inspires, and empowers you to get things done. Last but not least, celebrate your wins, big or small. **– Renate Prandl,** [**High Performance Transformation Coach**](https://renateprandl.com/)

## 3. Commit to a timeline

Put yourself on your calendar, commit to 1 to 2 hours to complete the project, and set up a finish date that makes you accountable. **– Rev Joanne Angel Barry Colon,**[**Wholistic Personal Trainer**](https://www.wholisticfitnessny.com/)

## 4. Take small steps

No one wants to think that they are lazy. No one wants to procrastinate. People have lazy times, usually in response to times when they have reached exhaustion. People have times when they procrastinate that occur because they avoid dealing with something emotionally hard for them. In both cases, ask yourself, “What’s possible now? What can I do to move the needle forward in some way?” Don’t think of taking a gargantuan step unless you are ready to take one. Instead, do something. Small steps forward will help you achieve what you want. Do it again. And again. You will find if you keep doing this, you will have moved your mind and accomplished what you need to do. **– [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),** [**Leadership and Executive coach**](https://www.thebiggamehunter.us/)

## 5. Change your point of view

To overcome your tendencies toward procrastination, you have to find ways to change your point of view that it’s tedious or that you don’t like it/don’t want to do it and make the work more fun for you. Ask yourself: What would make this task more enjoyable? Can you put on some music? Do some physical activity or dance around your house to get you pumped up? Call in a friend for assistance? What if getting things done doesn’t have to be hard or tedious? **– Dr. Adriana Popescu,** [**Clinical Psychologist and Empowerment Coach**](https://adrianapopescu.org/)

## 6. Treat time with respect

Timing is everything! It’s about having an action plan that warrants careful deliberation in taking steps to complete a task. Procrastination creeps up when time is too open. Nothing breeds laziness more than time not invested in completing a task or project. When time is treated with respect, the individual begins to treat it as a valuable asset. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) advice is to create a task list and add a time to start and complete it. Adding the tasks to an electronic device is helpful to keep on hand when on the go. Having a written agenda with the items on a calendar schedule is helpful to keep organized and stay on target. If a task is incomplete, reassign it to another day with extra priority for buffer. Having a quick glance at the end of the week to ensure all have been completed or re-evaluated will help stay in the flow of getting things done. Time buffers should be added to move things around that are flexible with due dates. Finally, have an accountability partner that will help you. **– Paula Orezi,** [**Author & Speaker**](https://www.paulaostore.com/)

## 7. Schedule everything

One way to conquer laziness and procrastination is to get a schedule and calendar. You should schedule the things you need to accomplish throughout the day. Schedule your meetings, phone calls and even your lunch. This way, you’re not working around the clock, and you’re getting things done and now burned out at the end of the day. **– Pixie Lee,** [**Business Coach**](https://bizzybossymommy.com/)

## **8.** Visualize the end result

From cleaning up the storage room to finishing an important project – amidst all other noisy and joyful distractions – there are some techniques I love to use:

- Visualize the end result! Imagine the storage room clean and empty, getting your grandma’s table fixed and ready to use in that charming space in your home. With your work project, write the first draft, feel as if it is already done, ready, and recognized as excellent at the office!
- Schedule it all, hour by hour; use soft colors for things you may allow yourself to cancel, by order of importance, and stronger colors for things you must tackle no matter what.
- Remember that being lazy wears off your self-love, so take a mini action step immediately. You will feel happier after you visualize, schedule, and love yourself more!

**– Ilaria Storch,** [**Life Coach**](https://www.lifecoachnomads.com/)

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### [The Reality When You Job Search #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-reality-when-you-job-search-shorts/)

**Published:** March 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most of the time, I focus on job search skills. Today, it is about your mindset.

**Content:**

# The Reality When You Job Search

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### [Flip Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/flip-your-job-search/)

**Published:** March 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Flip Your Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**Stop shouting into the black hole of online [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and start making companies compete for you. This shift from “Job Seeker” to “Job Shopper” is the ultimate [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) hack for anyone tired of the endless numbers game.**

**Timestamps**

**00:00 The “Numbers Game” Trap**

**00:45 Stop Being a Job Hunter**

**02:06 Define Your Destination**

**02:23 The Well-th Formula**

**02:58 People, Not Portals**

**03:43 Become a [Consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/)**

**04:12 The 90-Day Plan**

**04:33 Own [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)**

Welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) TV on YouTube. Today, we are going to flip the script on [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). We’re going to talk about how to stop seeking a job and start shopping for one.

So, does this feel familiar? You’re feeling totally drained by your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). You spend hours scrolling through job boards, sending out [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) after [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), and nothing? It feels like shouting into a black hole. You’re not alone, and it’s an exhausting cycle that can make anyone feel defeated.

And look at this number. This is not an exaggeration. A lot of people send out over 800 [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) just to get a single [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/).

I mean, that’s a strategy built purely on volume and hope. But what if I told you the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) isn’t actually a numbers game at all? So, if you’re working incredibly hard, but you’re not seeing the results you want, I want to be really clear about something. The problem isn’t your talent.

It’s not your experience, and it’s definitely not your work ethic. You don’t have to change who you are. You just need to change your approach.

And this right here is where we get to the core idea. It’s all about a fundamental shift in your identity. So, you have to ask yourself, are you a passive job seeker, kind of just hoping someone will pick you, or are you a proactive job shopper who’s actually in control? Believe me, this one shift in how you see yourself can change absolutely everything.

Let’s just break this down. On one hand, you have the job seeker. They feel busy, sure, but also exhausted, totally trapped in that endless cycle of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) online.

But the job shopper? They feel focused and in control. They know that just [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) online is a slow road, so they treat [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) like a collaboration, not some high-stakes test. And the result? Well, the seeker might eventually land one job.

The shopper? They often end up with several offers to choose from. And there it is. That’s the whole philosophy in a nutshell.

Job shopping isn’t about you chasing companies. It’s about positioning yourself so well that companies start chasing you. It’s about making yourself so valuable that you get your pick of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) opportunities.

So, how do we actually do that? Well, to become a job shopper, you have to start by getting crystal clear on what you actually want. A great [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) never ever happens by accident. So many people are just so busy [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) that they never take the time to really sharpen their focus.

But you gotta remember this. Clarity creates speed. And here’s a really practical tool to help you get there.

It’s called the Wealth Formula. It’s a simple but really powerful framework designed to help you figure out what a truly fulfilling [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) looks like for you. It’s all about making sure your next move is in perfect alignment with who you are.

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So the formula breaks down into three key parts. First, your values, what truly matters to you deep down. Second, your strengths, the things you are naturally great at.

And third, market demand, making sure there’s a real need out there for your skills. That sweet spot right in the middle, where all three of those intersect, that’s [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) sweet spot. Okay, so once you have that clarity, the next step is to completely change your strategy.

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This means you have to change your scorecard. Stop counting how many [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) you’ve sent out. Instead, start counting how many meaningful conversations you’ve had.

Every single one of those interactions is a huge step forward, opening doors that online portals just never will. All right, so you’ve done the work, you’ve networked, and you’ve got the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Now, this is where the job shopper mindset really gets to shine.

You’re not there to be interrogated. You’re there to collaborate. It’s time to shift your identity from candidate to [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/).

Seriously, think about your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Are you walking into a room to be tested? Or are you walking in to consult on a business problem? When you see yourself as an equal partner who’s there to help them solve something, the entire dynamic just shifts. The interviewer stops being a judge and becomes a potential colleague.

A [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) doesn’t just sit there and answer questions. They ask their own strategic questions. They don’t just talk about their past accomplishments.

They focus on how they can solve the company’s future problems. I mean, imagine walking in and presenting a 90-day plan, showing you’re already thinking like you’re on the team. You’re not just a candidate anymore.

You’re a collaborator. And all of this brings us to what might be the single most important takeaway from this whole approach. It’s a fundamental truth about your professional life that can empower you for the rest of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

Just let that sink in for a second. A company owns your job. That job can be temporary.

It can change. It can disappear. But [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), that collection of skills, experiences, and relationships you’ve built, that belongs completely to you.

Being a job shopper is all about taking full ownership of your professional destiny. It’s about building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) so strong that you are never, ever at the mercy of a single job again.

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### [No BS Career Advice: March 1, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-march-1-2026/)

**Published:** March 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice.

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: March 1, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**“**Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

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March. It is already March.

Time doesn’t stop. It keeps driving the bus faster and faster, with us unaware of our losing runaway until the inevitable.

Don’t waste time. As the character, Red, said in “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

---

### The “Onlyness” Factor: Bypassing the ATS with Strategic Distinction

In the executive job market of 2026, being “qualified” is the fastest way to become invisible. When an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) scans thousands of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) for a C-suite role, it isn’t just looking for someone who *can* do the job; it’s looking for the statistical outlier. To break through the algorithmic black box, you have to move beyond “best” and lean into your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**.

Coined by strategist Nilofer Merchant, **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)** is that specific spot in the world where only you stand, based on your unique history, experiences, and vision. In a world of AI-generated [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that all sound “professional,” your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the only thing a machine cannot replicate.

Here is the no-BS strategy for coding your unique distinction into a system designed for uniformity.

### 1. Shift from Keywords to “Signature Impact”

Most [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) optimize for keywords like “Strategic Leadership” or “P&L Management.” The problem? Every other applicant is doing the same thing. The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) sees this as a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/). To bypass the filter, you must anchor your keywords in a **Signature Impact** that only you could have delivered.

- **The Move:** Don’t just list “Digital Transformation.” Identify the intersection where your specific background solved a problem no one else could.
- **The Frame:** Instead of a generic bullet, use: *“Architected the industry’s first \[X\] by merging my background in \[Field A\] with \[Field B\], resulting in a 30% market share gain.”* \* **The Logic:** By linking disparate skill sets, you create a “unique identifier” in the system. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) recognizes this as a high-value, rare data point rather than a recycled buzzword.

### 2. Formatting: Don’t Let the Machine Mangle Your Brand

Your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) doesn’t matter if the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) “Parser” can’t read it. High-level [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) often fail because of over-designed layouts that turn unique value propositions into digital gibberish.

- **The Clean Room Protocol:** Avoid columns, tables, and images. Stick to a single-column, standard font (Arial or Calibri).
- **The Test:** If you cannot copy your text and paste it into a plain Notepad document without it looking like a mess, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is likely discarding your most important achievements.
- **The Goal:** Use a clean structure so the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can clearly “see” the specific milestones that differentiate you from the “standard” candidate pool.

### 3. The Referral Bypass: Onlyness in the Human Loop

The most effective way to leverage [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is to never let the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) be the final judge. In 2026, “Referral Portals” are the priority lane. When you enter via an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), the algorithm tags you as a “High-Confidence Match.”

- **The Tactic:** Use your [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) outreach to find a peer who recognizes your specific “Onlyness.” When they [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you, they aren’t just vouching for your skills; they are vouching for your unique perspective.
- **The Result:** This [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) changes how the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) weights your data. You move from a “cold” applicant to a “vetted” strategist, bypassing the initial automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) phase.

### 4. Semantic Alignment: Matching Tone to Intent

The 2026 [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) performs “Sentiment Analysis” on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) to see if your professional “voice” matches the company’s current strategic intent. If a company is in a “Turnaround” phase, they aren’t looking for a “Steady Hand. ” They are looking for a “Re-Architect.”

- **The Adjustment:** Use an LLM to analyze the job description for its underlying “Strategic Urgency.” If the JD implies a need for radical innovation, ensure your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) highlights the times you were the *only* person willing to break the status quo.
- **The Guardrail:** This isn’t about mirroring keywords; it’s about mirroring **conviction**. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) reflects the specific type of leadership the company is desperate for, the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) ranks you as a cultural and strategic fit.

### The Bottom Line

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is designed to find the “best” version of a standard template. Your job is to prove you aren’t a template at all. By **leading** with your **[Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)**, you provide the machine with a data point it can’t ignore: a leader who isn’t just better, but incomparable.

Stop trying to fit in. The algorithm is actually looking for the person who stands out.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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[**ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7) explains why the most successful professionals in the age of automation have stopped acting like employees and started operating as a “Company of One”. It isn’t a book about [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/); it’s a liberation strategy for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

---

Last week, I released a lot of new content including:

**Is It OK to Remove an Employer From My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/)?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mfa**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mfa)

**My Manager Threatened to Give Me a Bad Reference If I Quit My Job** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aLs**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aLs)

**How to Get an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) at Your Target Company** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kap**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kap)

**Understanding the Mindset of a Retained Search [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3He**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3He)

**The “Too Experienced” Card is BS** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozZ**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozZ)

**The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Playbook: 5 Strategies to Thrive** [**https://youtu.be/yWVxTbWLcFM**](https://youtu.be/yWVxTbWLcFM)

**Job Fairs: Avoid the Cattle Call**

- **Excerpt: It seems like every week, an ad appears for a job fair offering hope to unemployed people that they will get a job. Learn why these can often be a “cattle call” and how to manage your expectations.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-fairs-avoid-the-cattle-call/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-fairs-avoid-the-cattle-call/)

**How to [Negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) (for Recent Grads) EP 2208**

- **Excerpt: You can’t sound like you’re begging AND you can negotiate—even though you’re a beginner and even though you’ve never done it before.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-negotiate-for-recent-grads-ep-2208/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-negotiate-for-recent-grads-ep-2208/)

**The Private Equity [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) #shorts**

- **Excerpt: A man named Greg Head shared a post about private equity [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) that I thought was worth sharing with you. Jeff discusses the nuances of this specific [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) style.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-private-equity-interview-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-private-equity-interview-shorts/)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): February 22, 2026**

- **Excerpt: A compilation of No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to help with [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), [salary negotiation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/), and more.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-22-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-22-2026/)

**Is It OK to Remove an Employer From My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/)? #shorts**

- **Excerpt: Someone left their own business to join a large firm, wants to leave it, and is wondering if they can bury the large firm on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/).**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-remove-an-employer-from-my-resume-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-remove-an-employer-from-my-resume-shorts/)

 **The Worst [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/)**

- **Excerpt: You’ve done all the work to find a lead, but then you make this one critical error that kills your chances before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) even starts. Jeff explains how to avoid this common pitfall.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-worst-job-search-mistake/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-worst-job-search-mistake/)

**Is This Why You Are Failing at Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)? #shorts**

- **Excerpt: If you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to dozens of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and getting no response, the issue might be simpler than you think. It’s time to look at the “No BS” reality of your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) strategy.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-this-why-you-are-failing-at-your-job-search-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-this-why-you-are-failing-at-your-job-search-shorts/)

**Negotiating When You Don’t Have a Competing [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/)**

- **Excerpt: Many people think they have no leverage if they don’t have another [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) in hand. Jeff breaks down how to use market data and your own value to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) effectively regardless.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-when-you-dont-have-a-competing-offer/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-when-you-dont-have-a-competing-offer/)
- 
- **How to Answer “Tell Me About a Time You Failed”**
- **Excerpt: This is one of the most feared [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) questions. Learn how to structure your answer to show growth, accountability, and [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) without disqualifying yourself.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-answer-tell-me-about-a-time-you-failed/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-answer-tell-me-about-a-time-you-failed/)

**Dealing With [Counteroffers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/counteroffers-should-you-accept/)**

- **Excerpt: Your current boss suddenly finds the money to pay you more once you resign. Jeff explains why accepting a counteroffer is almost always a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) for your long-term [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/dealing-with-counteroffers/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dealing-with-counteroffers/)

**How to Sell Your Story in Job [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) (Not Your Skills)**

- **Excerpt: EP 3113 Most people walk into [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) selling the wrong thing—and that is exactly why they get ghosted instead of hired. This episode shows you how to flip the script, sell your results like a premium [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), and become the obvious choice in the room. If you’re still reciting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), you’re leaving offers and money on the table.**
- **Link:** [**https://youtu.be/3bbwCfhUULo**](https://youtu.be/3bbwCfhUULo)

**[Executive Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/): From Keyword Matching to Agentic Strategy**

- **Excerpt: The executive job market is no longer a game of who you know or what is on your static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). It is an ecosystem governed by [Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/) and Skills-Based Sourcing.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-search-from-keyword-matching-to-agentic-strategy/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-search-from-keyword-matching-to-agentic-strategy/)

**5 Tips For [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) That Will Take You Far**

- **Excerpt: Focus your efforts with 1 to 1 [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). There is nothing sadder than someone losing their job or having to find a new one after dedicating themselves to a firm. Learn the lessons that help you find a new job.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-tips-for-career-branding-that-will-take-you-far/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-tips-for-career-branding-that-will-take-you-far/)

**The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) With a Former Boss**

- **Excerpt: [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with someone you used to work for requires a different strategy. Learn how to handle the familiarity while still demonstrating your growth and current value.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-with-a-former-boss/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-with-a-former-boss/)

**We’re [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) Other People and We’ll Get Back to You #shorts**

- **Excerpt: What is the significance of an interviewer saying they are still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) other candidates and will get back to you soon? Jeff cracks the code on what they are really saying.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/were-interviewing-other-people-and-well-get-back-back-to-you-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/were-interviewing-other-people-and-well-get-back-back-to-you-shorts/)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): February 22, 2026 (Updated/Reposted)**

- **Excerpt: To win, you must transition from a passive candidate to an AI-augmented strategist. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) now prioritize demonstrated leadership impact and specific skill clusters over traditional credentials.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-22-2026/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-22-2026/)

- **1. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) Profiles: Why Minimal Profiles Work #shorts**
- **Excerpt: If you think about it, the answer is understandable. But there is a price people pay that I also explain. Discover why less can sometimes be more on your [LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/), and the hidden risks involved.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-profiles-why-minimal-profiles-work-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-profiles-why-minimal-profiles-work-shorts/)
- 
- **2. Rebuilding [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/): A Guide to Second Chances**
- **Excerpt: Everyone makes [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) or faces setbacks. This guide explores how to pivot, rebuild your professional reputation, and find opportunities that [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/) a fresh start and a second chance.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/rebuilding-your-career-a-guide-to-second-chances/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rebuilding-your-career-a-guide-to-second-chances/)
- 
- **3. The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) With a Former Boss (Updated/Reposted)**
- **Excerpt: How do you treat an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) with a former boss? Do you do anything different? Jeff explores the nuances of navigating these familiar yet professional high-stakes conversations.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-with-a-former-boss/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-with-a-former-boss/)
- ***[Executive Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/): From Keyword Matching to Agentic Strategy (Updated/Reposted)***
- **Excerpt: The executive job market is no longer a game of who you know or what is on your static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). It is an ecosystem governed by [Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/) and Skills-Based Sourcing.**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-search-from-keyword-matching-to-agentic-strategy/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-search-from-keyword-matching-to-agentic-strategy/) ***5 Tips For [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) That Will Take You Far (Updated/Reposted)***
- **Excerpt: [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) as a strategy can help you stand out from others and position yourself for professional [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Learn the five key tips to build a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) that lasts.**

 ***The “Hidden” Reason You’re Not Getting Promoted***

**Excerpt: You’re doing the work, hitting the numbers, and staying late—but someone else keeps getting the nod. Jeff reveals the “unwritten rules” of corporate advancement and how to make your impact visible to the right people.**

- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-hidden-reason-youre-not-getting-promoted/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-hidden-reason-youre-not-getting-promoted/)

**Handling the “What Are Your Salary Expectations?” Trap #shorts**

- **Excerpt: Answering this too early can cost you thousands or get you screened out. Jeff shares the “No BS” way to deflect the question and keep your leverage until you actually have the [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/).**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/handling-the-what-are-your-salary-expectations-trap-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/handling-the-what-are-your-salary-expectations-trap-shorts/)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) Profiles: Why Minimal Profiles Work (Updated/Reposted) #shorts**

- **Excerpt: Discover why less can sometimes be more on your [LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/), and the hidden risks involved. Jeff explains the specific price people pay for a minimal profile and how to balance brevity with [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/).**
- **Link:** [**https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-profiles-why-minimal-profiles-work-shorts/**](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-profiles-why-minimal-profiles-work-shorts/)

**3 Questions to Ask Your Future Boss**

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**Rebuilding [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/): A Guide to Second Chances (Updated/Reposted)**

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**Waiting to Get [Laid Off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/laid-off-at-a-company-that-has-announced-cuts-of-poor-performers-shorts/) Is [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Suicide. Get Ready.**

**Excerpt: EP 3114 Layoffs are no longer rare events—they’re a feature of how companies run, and waiting to see if your name is on the list is the most expensive [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) you can make. This episode gives you a simple, aggressive playbook to move from frozen and fearful to [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and in control before anyone decides your fate for you. If you only react after the pink slip shows up, you’re already too late.**

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### [Hiring Mistakes #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hiring-mistakes-no-bs-hiring-advice-shorts/)

**Published:** March 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Pooja Agnihotri gives an accurate perspective on hiring.

**Content:**

# Hiring Mistakes #shorts

***[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)***

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/Xj-dD5R9tHs)

 ***Pooja Agnihotri gives an accurate perspective on [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).***

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### [Would You Interview a Well-Dressed Person Who Did Not Have an Appointment?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/would-you-interview-a-well-dressed-person-who-did-not-have-an-appointment/)

**Published:** March 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If a job seeker walked into your company dressed to impress with a résumé in hand, would someone meet with him or her on the spot?

**Content:**

# Would You Interview a Well-Dressed Person Who Did Not Have an Appointment?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

**[*Click here if the video does not play properly.*](https://youtube.com/shorts/qWrG-pWQx1g)**

If a job seeker walked into your company dressed to impress with a résumé in hand, would someone meet with him or her on the spot?

[***Group Interviews: The Way to Answer Questions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5i)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Be Careful #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-careful-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/)

**Published:** March 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This quote from Zig Ziglar breath about the mistake people make when they compromise.


**Content:**

# Be Careful #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***Click here if the video does not play properly***

This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from Zig Ziglar is about the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when they compromise.

[***Decisions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6D)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Waiting to Get Laid Off Is Career Suicide. Get Ready.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/waiting-to-get-laid-off-is-career-suicide-get-ready/)

**Published:** March 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This episode gives you a simple, aggressive playbook to move from frozen and fearful to prepared and in control

**Content:**

# Waiting to Get Laid Off Is Career Suicide. Get Ready.

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3114 Layoffs are no longer rare events—they’re a feature of how companies run, and waiting to see if your name is on the list is the most expensive [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) you can make. This episode gives you a simple, aggressive playbook to move from frozen and fearful to [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and in control before anyone decides your fate for you. If you only react after the pink slip shows up, you’re already too late.

[***Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc)

Alright, let’s talk about a situation that is, unfortunately, becoming all too common. Your company announces layoffs. It’s that moment when most people just freeze.

But what if you didn’t? Today, we’re going to walk through a proactive playbook so you can be the one in control. You know the feeling, right? You see that email, the one for the mandatory all-hands meeting. And then the news drops.

Boom. Layoffs. The place you pour, what, 40 plus hours into every single week? Suddenly, it’s cutting people.

And this wave of just total uncertainty hits everyone. The big question is, what do you do in that very first moment? And you know, this exact scenario is what kicked off the whole idea for this explainer. It’s a headline we see again and again.

And every single time it happens, thousands of people, professionals just like you, are suddenly faced with this massive choice. A choice that could seriously define the next big chapter of their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). So in that first moment of shock and uncertainty, most people make the exact same [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

A really critical one. Let’s break down what that [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is, and more importantly, how you can sidestep it completely. This is the question that just paralyzes people, right? The news lands like a gut punch, your [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) goes through the roof, and your brain just gets stuck in this loop of, now what? Now what? But your gut reaction, right here, in this exact moment, it is everything.

Okay, so you’re at a fork in the road here, with two very different paths. Path one is the common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). You wait.

You know, you keep your head down, you try to work extra hard, you just hope for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), and you wait to see if your name is on the list. But path two, the smart move, it’s the total opposite. You start preparing.

[***Use This 15-Minute Strategy to Land a Job (Even Before It’s Posted)***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oxP)

Immediately. And look, the source material we’re pulling from is incredibly direct about this. They don’t mince words.

Waiting isn’t just a small misstep. They call it a stupid [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that’s going to really hurt them. And that’s because the cost of just doing nothing, it’s huge.

Okay, so let’s dig into the why. Why is waiting around so incredibly risky? It’s not just about feeling nervous or anxious. There are some really solid strategic reasons why just sitting on your hands is probably the worst thing you can do for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) right now.

Let’s start with a really tough question, and I want you to be honest with yourself. At this moment, when your company is making a cold, hard financial decision to get rid of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), can you really afford to believe they have your personal [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) interests at heart? I mean, the harsh reality is, when we’re talking about huge company-wide layoffs, it’s often not about how well you did your job. It’s about spreadsheets.

It’s about budgets. It’s about some new strategic direction. It doesn’t matter if you’re a top performer.

Nobody is immune. And then there’s the practical side of things. Getting ready for a job hunt isn’t like flipping a switch, you know? Updating that [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), reaching out to your network, actually practicing for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

All of that stuff takes time. And that’s time you absolutely will not have if you wait until you’re already out the door. Okay, this is a really, really important concept to get your head around.

The skills that make you amazing at your job are totally different from the skills you need to find a new job. [Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) is its own separate skill set. And let’s be honest, if you haven’t had to use those muscles in a while, they’re probably going to be a little rusty.

The source we’re looking at uses this powerful, almost brutal metaphor to really hammer this point home. It’s a pretty intense image, but it works, right? Waiting is just passive. It’s letting something happen to you.

The whole goal here is to act before that decision is completely taken out of your hands. Alright, so we’ve talked a lot about the risk of just waiting. Enough of that.

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Let’s flip the script. It’s time to get proactive. It’s time to go on the offensive with a real action plan.

And the plan itself is actually pretty simple and totally actionable. Number one, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Get it ready now.

Not tomorrow, now. Dust it off, add your latest wins and projects. Number two, your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile.

Think of it like your digital storefront. Polish it up so it really shows off your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) work. Three, your network.

Don’t wait until you’re desperate to start reaching out. Start now. Have those casual, just-catching-up conversations today.

And finally, number four, learn. [The job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) changes fast. Get up to speed on what’s working right now in the job hunt.

And let’s be super clear about something. This isn’t about panicking. It’s not about being disloyal to your company.

This is about being a smart, strategic professional who takes ownership of their own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). It’s about making sure that no matter what happens, you are not caught flat-footed. You are ready.

So, when you put all of these pieces together, it all points to one really powerful idea. This whole strategy. It’s about one thing and one thing only.

Taking control of your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Yeah, the whole point of being this proactive is to completely change your position. You go from being in this anxious, reactive mode, just waiting for bad news to drop, to being in a proactive position of strength.

You’re ready for anything, and you’ve already got options in the works. So, ultimately, it really boils down to this one simple question. When all is said and done, whose hands is [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) in? Your employer’s or yours? By taking action now, you are making a very deliberate choice to put that control right back where it belongs, in your own hands.

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### ***[LinkedIn in the AI Era](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAW)***

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### [Is It Possible to Find a Job When You Are Over 60](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-possible-to-find-a-job-when-you-are-over-60-video/)

**Published:** March 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Is It Possible to Find a Job When You Are Over 60

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

 A question from someone who is feeling discouraged about looking for work as someone who is over 60 years of age.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). The question for today is, is it possible to get a job at 60? Man, you know, I remember when I first started recruiting, I wonder what happened to people when they’re over 40. And as time progressed, that number became 50.

And now the new number is 60. I’ll just simply say, yes, it is possible to get a job at 60. And that’s in the face of all the stuff that you’re reading about age discrimination.

See, part of what happens is we start to believe, and I’m over 60, we start to believe the BS that’s thrown at us as a rationalization for why we are turned down for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). You see, yes, there is discrimination. And what happens most of the time is that people who are older think that they can coast their way into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without adequate preparation, without doing any homework, wing it and get a job.

And this is a competitive market. And you are competing with people who are equally skilled or well skilled as you. And this isn’t about age.

This is about your performance on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Yes, again, I’m going to keep repeating this. Yes, there’s discrimination, just like there was discrimination when you were 24 and they were choosing the 40 year olds because they were saying, hey, this person knows a lot more than the 24 year old.

[***The Over 50 Pivot: Stop Applying. Start Targeting***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNH)

People arrive to [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and they have opinions about who’s going to be effective in their organization. And there’s a way to prepare for this that’s going to help you defeat the bias. So, I’ll just simply say, absolutely, it is possible and happens often these days that people who are over 60 are finding work.

That’s the fact of it. So, get off the self pity. Start preparing for your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Get yourself ready to perform at a high level. And, by the way, if you’d like me to coach you, email me at JeffAltman at TheBigGameHunter.us. I’d be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to work with you. Or you can go to JobSearchCoachingHQ.com. Sign up there.

There’s a lot of great information that will help you get [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). But the real thing is the preparation. And the second thing is about whether what you do is marketable.

If you have ordinary skills, commoditized skills, skills that there are a million and one people who can do, you have to show some flexibility about geography, compensation, a host of other things. But assuming that you have marketable skills, desirable skills for your market area or are willing to move to one where what you do is marketable, as well, you’ll find a job. No question about it.

You will find a job. Hope you found this helpful. And, again, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

One-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me. Email me at JeffAltman at TheBigGameHunter.us. In the subject line, put the word [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). Have a great day!

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) you during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ to discuss one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) with me**

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### [The Modern Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-modern-job-search/)

**Published:** March 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3119 Finding a job in the current market can be overwhelming, but shifting your approach from "random applications" to "strategic connection" can make all the difference.

**Content:**

# The Modern Job Search

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/wIVFZ-_bWzw)

EP 3119 [Finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) in the current market can be overwhelming, but shifting your approach from “random applications” to “strategic connection” can make all the difference. Recently, Korn-Ferry, the [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm, shared its [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about the current job market. **00:00** – **The “Shouting into a Void” Feeling**: Acknowledging the common [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) and exhaustion job seekers face in the current market.

**00:40** – **[The Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) Paradox**: Discussing the “vicious cycle” where job seekers target roles being automated, while companies struggle to fill less “flashy” but critical roles.

**01:38** – **The 70% Hidden Market**: Highlighting that the vast majority of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled internally or via [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) before they are ever posted publicly.

**01:57** – **The 30% Lottery**: Explaining why competing for the remaining public postings through automated systems can feel like a statistical long shot.

**02:31** – **Old Way vs. New Way**: Comparing the personal connections of the past to today’s impersonal, algorithm-driven [Applicant Tracking Systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)).

**03:44** – **The 6-Step Strategic Plan**: Introducing Korn Ferry’s roadmap: Know Thyself, Assess [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), Target Efforts, Network, Warm Intro, and Have a Plan.

**04:20** – **[Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) vs. Desperation**: Emphasizing that a thoughtful strategy projects calm [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and helps you stand out in a noisy market.

All right, let’s get right into it. If you’re out there looking for a job, you know the feeling, right? It can feel like you’re just shouting into a void. It’s this huge common [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/), and today we’re going to break down why it feels that way, and more importantly, what you can do about it.

We’ll be looking at some really sharp insights from the [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm, Korn Ferry, and their take on the modern labor market. Does this hit close to home? According to Korn Ferry, this is something they hear in pretty much every conversation about [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) today. It just perfectly captures that feeling of sending out [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) after [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and crickets.

If this is you, I want you to know you are not alone and you’re not imagining things. This feeling is a core part of [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) right now. So what is really going on? Well, Korn Ferry has a name for it.

They call it a vicious cycle. And this isn’t just about more people looking for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). No, it’s a deep mismatch between what people are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for and what companies actually need.

And, you know, technology has basically put this whole problem on steroid. Okay, this slide right here gets to the absolute heart of the problem. On one side, you’ve got job seekers, like you, maybe, targeting roles that, on the inside, are quietly being automated or just aren’t a priority anymore.

But on the other side, companies have these critical [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) they are desperate to fill, but they’re not always the flashy, super sought-after positions. This mismatch is what fuels the entire frenzy, creating this tidal wave of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) for a pool of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that’s actually shrinking. So if it feels like the odds are completely stacked against you, well, the numbers actually back you up on that.

Let’s take a look at the hard data that makes this whole thing feel so incredibly difficult. Just look at this number. It is staggering.

***[Build Your Referral Community](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGf)***

Korn Ferry’s analysis shows that as many as 70% of all [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled before they even get posted publicly. They go to people already inside the company or to [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). Just let that sink in for a second.

The huge majority of opportunities are already gone before you even see the job ad. So here’s the bottom line. That entire chaotic external job market, we’re all fighting over what’s left, that other 30%.

So when you’re just one of hundreds or sometimes even thousands of applicants getting filtered through some automated system, yeah, landing an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) really can feel like winning the lottery. It’s not just in your head. It’s a statistical reality.

So how did we get to this point? A huge piece of the puzzle is that we’ve moved away from the most fundamental part of finding work, simple human connection. Let’s explore what’s been lost in this new tech-first world. And this slide just lays it out so clearly.

The old way was personal. You could literally walk into a place, talk to a real person, or have a friend say, hey, you should meet so-and-so. The new way is loud, and it’s totally impersonal.

It’s all about trying to beat these things called [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/). That’s the software that scans your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). And you’re competing with a flood of other people.

The human part, it’s pretty much been replaced by an algorithm. You know, Korn Ferry uses this perfect analogy from Alice in Wonderland. With all this automated noise and no clear direction, the whole [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) can feel completely disorienting.

It’s like the Cheshire Cat says, if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. Which, in the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), usually means you end up going nowhere. But here’s the good news.

***[Crafting Your LinkedIn Mission Statement](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oFY)***

It does not have to be this way. That feeling of being lost is actually a signal. It’s a sign that it’s time to try something different.

So instead of just [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) randomly, Korn Ferry lays out a real strategic plan to find a better path forward. And this is the million-dollar question, isn’t it? How do you actually break out of that frustrating cycle? How do you stop reacting and start being proactive? Let’s get into the strategy Korn Ferry suggests. Okay, here it is.

Korn Ferry’s six-step plan to stop shouting into the void and start making real targeted connections. It all begins with know thyself. Looking inward before you look outward.

Then it’s about targeting your efforts. But look at the last few steps. Network, network, network.

Find a warm introduction. Have a plan. It’s all about connection and being systematic.

This is the exact opposite of a random scattershot approach. And really, when you boil it all down, this isn’t just a new to-do list. It’s about a complete shift in your mindset.

It’s about moving from a place of desperation to a place of purpose. And I want to leave you with this last thought from Korn Ferry because it’s so powerful. Desperation is loud.

Strategy is calm [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). When everyone else is just frantically clicking apply, having a thoughtful strategy is what makes you stand out. It’s not just more effective.

It projects this quiet [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). So the question isn’t just about how to get a job. It’s in a market this noisy, are you going to keep shouting or are you going to build the connections that let you speak directly to the right person?

[***Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc)

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### [Set Networking Goals #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/set-networking-goals-shorts/)

**Published:** February 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Do this to get yourself in the groove for networking.

**Content:**

# Set Networking Goals #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/F-ms2ftzQ7I)

Do this to get yourself in the groove for [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)

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[***Seven Steps To Branding Yourself As An Expert***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-edP)

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [On The Road and Need to Do a Job Interview? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/on-the-road-and-need-to-do-a-job-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** March 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I was speaking with someone in his car who needed to do a Zoom interview in 30 minutes. This is where I told him to go (HINT: It was not a Starbucks or a library)

**Content:**

# On The Road and Need to Do a Job Interview?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/p8VVVoU_ibM)

I was speaking with someone in his car who needed to do a Zoom [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in 30 minutes. This is where I told him to go (HINT: It was not a Starbucks or a library)

***[What to Say in a Pre-Screening Phone Interview for a Job](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k50)***

If you’re on the road and someone wants to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you, don’t stop at a Starbucks. Don’t go to a library. Instead, look for a hotel. Try a Marriott or Hyatt. Some larger hotel where you know they’ve got great Wi Fi.

Get in there, get some coffee, use the restroom. Set yourself up for either your phone or your iPad or laptop. Make sure you’re able to make [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) with the person you’re speaking with. And set yourself up for [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) there.

Starbucks, it looks cheesy. Library? You can speak at full volume. Hotel lobby? No issue whatsoever. And they may even have an executive conference room that you can use temporarily.

There’s a lot more at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community)

***[The Phone Interview Two-Step: Nailing It Like a Pro](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kis)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Would I Be Spamming HR If I Apply to Multiple Positions at the Same Company? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/would-i-be-spamming-hr-if-i-applied-to-multiple-positions-at-the-same-company-shorts/)

**Published:** February 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Should I apply to multiple software positions at the same company at the same location, or would I essentially be spamming HR?

**Content:**

# Would I Be Spamming HR If I Apply to Multiple Positions at the Same Company?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Should I apply to multiple software positions at the same company at the same location, or would I essentially be spamming HR?

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### [LinkedIn Profiles: Why Minimal Profiles Work #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-profiles-why-minimal-profiles-work-shorts/)

**Published:** February 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you think about it, the answer is understandable. Bit there is a price people pay that I also explain

**Content:**

# LinkedIn Profiles: Why Minimal Profiles Work

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/jSt2d7VdZTY)

If you think about it, the answer is understandable. But there is a price people pay that I also explain

[***Informational Interviews: A Short Script for a Networking Email Asking for One***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-md4)

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [5 Ways to Network If You’re an Introvert #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-ways-to-network-if-youre-an-introvert-shorts/)

**Published:** February 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, I offer five very easy ways to network if you are an introvert.

**Content:**

# 5 Ways to Network If You’re an Introvert #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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In this video, I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) five very easy ways to network if you are an introvert.

[***Job Search Strategies for Introverts***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mvh)

If you’re an introvert, it doesn’t mean [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) requires that you stand in some room somewhere with a bad drink, trying to figure out how to break into a circle of people who are laughing and seem to know one another. So I want to give you five ways that you might try breaking through and doing some [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work much easier.

Step number one, technique number one, I should say: reconnect with people from your past, your quote-unquote passive network. The easiest way to do it is by reaching out to people you already know—people from your past, people who live in your phone that you haven’t been in contact with for a long time. Maybe what you say to them is, “It feels like a hundred years since we were last in contact. I thought I would reach out to you, see how you were.” And what this does, it makes it pretty easy to reach out to people. It’s a text, it’s an email, it’s a phone call where you leave a message. It’s all good.

Technique number two: focus on quality rather than quantity. It’s not about how many people you reach out to, but that you find two or three people per week who hold roles that you admire and send them a personalized connection request. Mention an article that you saw them write or a video that you observed them in—something that allows you to have a justification for reaching out to them. Then message them about an informational conversation, because it isn’t about asking for a job; what it becomes about is learning from them. Have a [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) list of questions that will help you navigate the conversation more easily.

The third technique is to leverage niche online communities like on [Slack](https://thebiggamehunter.us/slack-channels-shorts/) or Discord or industry-specific forums, because these are places where you can tap into a smaller pool of people. Maybe they have a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) channel, maybe there’s a [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) channel, but start engaging by asking questions so that in this way you can have a discussion with people. It’s that simple.

The last technique: attend micro-events or workshops. Skip the big conferences. Go to smaller ones, and maybe you’re there to learn a specific skill like a coding workshop, or a design sprint, or some aspect of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/). But what it does is provide you with a built-in conversation starter so you don’t have to rely on nonsensical small talk.

I have a lot more that can help you at [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). Come over to the site, go exploring. There is a lot there that’ll help you.

## [***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [5 Tips For Career Branding That Will Take You Far](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-tips-for-career-branding-that-will-take-you-far/)

**Published:** February 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Career branding as a strategy can help you stand out from others and position yourself for professional success.

**Content:**

# 5 Tips For Career Branding That Will Take You Far

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**When I worked in recruiting, I developed a lot of expertise. I was known to some in the New York City market but nowhere else. Everyone had inflated job titles like VP, Talent Acquisition for North America… with 2 weeks of experience. That wasn’t me.**

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I didn’t use a title even though by this time I had more than [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of experience. I realized neither job hunters nor corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) were being signaled by the recruiter’s title of their experience because of title inflation.

I started to think of how to differentiate myself, and [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) myself in a way in a way that signaled my expertise. Into my mind came the phrase, “The Big Game Hunter.” It was familiar but different than the term “headhunter” that most know but one I was able to trademark for all categories of [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). Strong, yet different. It worked for me in search and now in my work as a coach offering no BS [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) as a strategy can help you stand out from others and position yourself for professional [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). If you’re feeling uninspired about your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) or [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), or just want to stay ahead of the competition, it may be time to develop a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) strategy that will help you not just now but for years to come.

That being said, many people are hesitant when it comes to [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). They act like they’ll need an advertising team from Mad Men or marketing degrees to develop one. But this isn’t true at all and is an excuse for [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) by inaction.

[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) as an individual doesn’t have to be complicated; even small steps can impact your future job prospects. Let’s look at 4 simple tips for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) that will help you for years.

## Evaluate where you want to go

Where do you want to go with [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? Are you [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) with your job and the work you’re doing? Do you want to move up the corporate ladder? Are you looking for something completely different? Do you [know how people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/knowing-people-out-of-sequence-career-angles/) like you develop the expertise to get to where you want to get to?

Assess your strengths and weaknesses and [think about the type of work you really](https://thebiggamehunter.us/in-case-you-were-wondering-what-recruiters-really-think-about-you-jobsearchtv-com/) want to be doing. Are there any specific companies or industries you’d like![Career branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/career-branding-pexels-katerina-holmes-5905901-200x300.jpg) to work in? If you can’t find anything that fits [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals, is it time to consider starting your own business?

## Meet with people who are doing that type of work to see if it really is what you want to do.

Once you’ve identified the types of [careers and industries you want to explore](https://thebiggamehunter.us/exploring-career-paths-advice-from-an-expert/) or businesses you are interested in, it’s time to talk with real people who are doing that work. Find out where [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events are taking place and attend as many as possible. You can also connect with people on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) to meet with people in the professions you are curious about or who are doing the work you aspire to. You may discover that you’re completely uninterested in what you thought you wanted to do and discover something new, better suited to your skills and passions. You also learn steps that they took to get to where they are which will save time with your efforts.

## Define your brand and your target audience

Now that you have explored options and collected information, you have to define your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). What do you want people to think about when they hear your name or see your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? What are your core values? What do you want to be known for? What are you most proud of? What types of industries and positions do you want to target? Be as specific as possible.

For example, if you want to work in the healthcare industry, there are many subspecialties you can pursue, from nursing to pathology. Yes, you can be a generalist, however, firms value specialists more than generalists, especially early in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

Once you’ve identified your target audience, you need to know how you’re going to reach them. This can be done through self-branding, asking for advice from knowledgeable friends or former colleagues, or [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a [branding company to help you develop your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-career-mistakes-only-focusing-on-the-company-brand-jobsearchtv-com/) [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Whichever route you choose, make sure that your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is authentic for you and represents your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self. It’s also important to make sure that your [social media is aligned and congruent with your brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/create-a-personal-brand-on-social-media/) and the message you want to convey to people.

## Recalibrate your thinking

If you’ve tried all of the above and are still feeling uninspired, it may be time to recalibrate your thinking. This doesn’t mean that you need to change [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) completely, but rather embrace the aspects of your job that you enjoy and find ways to make it more fulfilling.

For example, if you’re working as an accountant but would prefer to work in marketing, you can make adjustments to your daily duties to make them more closely align with [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) goals. These steps can help you develop a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) that is true to your values, passions, and skills. This will help you stand out from the crowd and get the attention of potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and influencers. Even if you’re not currently looking for a new job, implementing these tips will strengthen your professional [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), making you more marketable in your current position.

## Showcase yourself

Once you’ve started to promote your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), it’s time to start [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with potential [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Network, network, network! Become active on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Find groups that are related to your industry. Participate in discussions in groups and in the feed. Share your expertise and knowledge. No arguing! Discussing is OK! You never know who is reading your posts, and you may just spark someone’s interest and have an opportunity land in your lap.

Choose 1-2 achievements from your past and create a visual representation of them, such as a poster or infographic (Canva is great for this). You can then use this as a social media cover or profile picture, or provide it to people you meet at [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events and job fairs.

Become a guest on podcasts. Find groups to speak to and [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) your expertise. Write a book and, if that seems to difficult, start writing articles. There are many sites including [LinkedIn and medium.com you can publish](https://thebiggamehunter.us/becoming-an-expert-with-linkedin-publishing/) them to that will give you greater professional exposure.

Many of you have chosen to be invisible professionally and missed opportunities to be escorted to the front of the line because you aren’t seen as an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), if not THE [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/). [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), knowledge, and expertise work hand in hand to help you throughout [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

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### [The Interview With a Former Boss](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-interview-with-a-former-boss/)

**Published:** February 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do you treat an interview with a Former boss? Do you do anything different?

**Content:**

# The Interview With a Former Boss

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

 How do you treat an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with a Former boss? Do you do anything different?

***[9 Ways People Sabotage Themselves on Interviews](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b27)***

Hi! I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [www.jobsearch.community.](http://www.jobsearch.community) I was on call with someone. I thought would be interesting to record this. We had a conversation about talking with your former boss. He has an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) scheduled with the former boss that was to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) him for a particular role. He asked me, “How should I prepare for the conversation?”

The short answer to this is that he is a friend and he is considering [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. As a result, he is going to evaluate and assess you. Don’t think of this is just to![cover letter | Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cover-letter.jpg) friends talking. Think of it is that he has a responsibility to evaluate and assess you. Even though he is giving you a thumbnail about what the conversation is going to be about, you might just [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) by saying, “Hey, it’s just so good to hear your voice.” Yada yada. You chat for a little bit and then switch the conversation to, “I know you give me an idea of what you are looking for. I want to go into more of a deep dive with you. Would you tell me a little bit more about the position involved in what I can do to help?” That takes it into the realm of the professional where it needs to be.

You may be a leader in an organization, but here, you are still a job hunter. You may be friends with this person, but you are still a job hunter. This is true no matter where you are in the process, whether you’re the junior individual and [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with someone who you went to college with and dormed with or, as was the case here, you are a leader talking to another veteran leader talking about returning to an organization that you previously left to work as a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) working at a client.

No matter what, you are always being scrutinized. People are going to measure you for the role AND, in this particular case, there was another subject in that the position involved wasn’t really one that he was looking for. This was a fun little twist to the situation. You see, he’s really looking for a senior role and here they wanted him to come in at a different level because it is consulting organization. What do you do if a CEO role opens up and the question comes up? You tell them you will help them higher your replacement, make yourself available, introduce them to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who you know and try to make the transition as smooth as possible, diffuse that is a potential issue and try to move on.

I hope you found this helpful. Visit [www.JobSearch.Community](http://www.JobSearch.Community). It’s my site where I can answer questions and provide you with great information designed to help you find work more quickly.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [How to Sell Your Story in Job Interviews (Not Your Skills)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-sell-your-story-in-job-interviews-not-your-skills/)

**Published:** March 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Sell Your Story in Job Interviews (Not Your Skills)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3113 Most people walk into [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) selling the wrong thing—and that is exactly why they get ghosted instead of hired. This episode shows you how to flip the script, sell your results like a premium [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), and become the obvious choice in the room. If you’re still reciting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you’re leaving offers and money on the table.​

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Alright, let’s talk about [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). We’re going to dive into this one huge [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that so many people make. And honestly, fixing it is a total game changer.

It’s the difference between landing that [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and just getting ghosted. Okay, so picture it. You’re in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) room, right? You’re sitting in that chair.

What are you actually selling? I mean, really think about it for a second. Because your answer to that one question, it literally shapes your entire [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) strategy. Now, if you’re like most of us, your first thought is probably something like, my skills, my experience.

And yeah, that sounds right, doesn’t it? But here’s the twist. That’s the big [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). So many candidates just get stuck listing their qualifications.

But the ones who actually get the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), they’re selling something different. They’re selling their results, their impact. And that one little shift, man, it’s everything.

So let’s break down this first big [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/), the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) recital [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). And you know the one I’m talking about, right? Where you basically just read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out loud. You list your skills, you walk through your [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), and you can almost see the interviewer’s eyes glazing over.

Look, it makes sense. You worked hard for those qualifications. But here’s the thing you got to remember.

They’ve already read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Repeating it adds absolutely zero new value to the conversation. OK, so why aren’t skills enough on their own? Well, this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) kind of hits the nail on the head.

When all you do is talk about how qualified you are, it just sounds like you’re bragging. There’s no substance, no proof. And you know what happens? The interviewer just starts to tune out because you’re completely missing the real question they have in their head.

The unspoken question is always, always, OK, that’s nice, but what can you actually do for me and my team? That’s it. That’s the whole ballgame. They’re not [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

They’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone to solve their problems. And to answer that question, you’ve got to understand a little bit about the brain. Dr. Adrian McIntyre talks about this idea of the upstairs and downstairs brain.

You’ve got to get past that initial emotional downstairs brain first. You have to hook them with something compelling, a story, before their logical upstairs brain will even bother to listen to your list of skills. So this brings us to the solution.

Sell your results, not your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). So what does selling results actually sound like? Well, instead of saying, I managed a team, you say, I increased my team’s productivity by 15%. You don’t say, I worked on a marketing campaign.

You say, I helped generate a 20% lift in sales leads. You see that? One is a chore. The other is an achievement.

It’s a huge difference. When you do this, you’re handing them cold, hard proof that you’re a problem solver. You’re speaking their language, the language of results.

And here’s the magic part. Their brain immediately starts picturing you doing the same thing for them. You’re not just a candidate anymore.

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You’re a solution. You’ve made your value totally, undeniably real. All right, so let’s get tactical.

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First, you set the scene. That’s the situation. Then you introduce the villain or the problem.

That’s the obstacle. Then you talk about what you specifically did. That’s the action.

And finally, the grand finale, the result, the tangible outcome. And I got to [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) this, while every part is important, the whole story hangs on that last letter, the R for result. That is the punchline.

That’s what they’re going to remember. It’s the proof that you didn’t just do stuff, you made things better. And here’s the pro tip to make that result absolutely killer.

Quantify it. Put a number on it. Money saved, revenue generated, time saved, percentages, anything.

Get specific. Why? Because I guarantee you most of your competition isn’t doing this. Numbers make your story believable and incredibly powerful.

Now, telling the story is one thing, but framing it is just as important. Let’s talk about the high value framework. I love this little thought experiment, the burger test.

You’ve got a Big Mac and you’ve got a fancy gourmet burger. The gourmet one might cost, what, five or six times more? Why? Is the meat that much better? Nah. It’s the story.

It’s the [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), the presentation, the experience. The value is created in your mind before you even taste it. So you have to ask yourself, are you showing up as the everyday option, or are you the premium choice? The stories you tell are what build that premium [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) around you.

They’re what make you worth the investment. And every great story needs one more thing, stakes. You can’t just talk about a routine, boring task.

Tell them about a time when the pressure was on, a defining moment, a real challenge. When you show you can deliver when it really counts, you go from being just competent to being indispensable. Okay, let’s wrap this all up.

At the end of the day, it comes down to this. What story will you tell? So let’s recap the big takeaways. First, you are not a list of skills.

You are a collection of accomplishments. Your job is to sell your results, your impact, and you need to frame yourself as that high value premium solution they’ve been looking for. Because really, every single [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) comes down to a choice.

You can go down path number one and tell the boring story, the story of your qualifications, which let’s be real, they already read on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Or you can tell the exciting story, the one about your results, your impact, and the real tangible value you’re going to bring to their team. The choice is totally up to you.

So what story are you going to tell?

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### [Rebuilding Your Career: A Guide to Second Chances](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rebuilding-your-career-a-guide-to-second-chances/)

**Published:** February 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Rebuilding Your Career: A Guide to Second Chances

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Finding a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) after incarceration can be a daunting challenge, but it is entirely possible with the right guidance. Here is a breakdown of the resources available through CareerOneStop to help you navigate this transition and build the future you deserve.

Video Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction to CareerOneStop and the WorkforceGPS webinar.

00:17 – Addressing the uncertainty and unique barriers faced after incarceration.

00:46 – Overview of CareerOneStop: A free, national resource available even inside many correctional facilities.

01:07 – Step 1: Building a Foundation – Meeting essential needs before [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

01:19 – Using the “Work-Ready Checklist” to handle practical roadblocks like ID documentation and record expungement.

01:52 – Step 2: Exploring [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Paths – Discovering which [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) fit your interests.

02:00 – Taking the 5-minute Interest Assessment to see long-term outlooks and median wages for various [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).

02:26 – Identifying “Common First Jobs” that have fewer barriers to entry.

02:40 – Step 3: Gaining In-Demand Skills – Becoming a top candidate through credentials.

02:51 – Identifying “Hot Certifications” (marked with a chili pepper icon) that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) mention most in job postings.

03:20 – Exploring apprenticeships and short-term certificate programs.

03:35 – Step 4: Mastering the [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) – [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and preparing for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

03:58 – Tips for addressing your criminal record honestly while focusing on your growth and work ethic.

04:13 – Practicing [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) in a stress-free zone to prepare for questions about [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and conviction history.

04:30 – Conclusion: Transforming initial uncertainty into genuine empowerment.

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Welcome to The Explainer. Today, we’re diving into a really powerful set of free tools designed for anyone looking for a second chance to build a great [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). What you’re about to see is based on a webinar from WorkforceGPS, and it breaks down this fantastic resource from the US government called [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One Stop.

So let’s just state the obvious. Trying to find a job after being released can feel, well, it can feel like an impossible challenge, right? The uncertainty, all the unique barriers. It can be really hard to even know where to start, but here’s the good news.

The challenge is absolutely real, but there is a clear path forward. The US Department of Labor sponsors this amazing website called [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One Stop, and it’s literally designed to guide you through every single step of the process. So what exactly is this thing? You can think of it like your own personal [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach that’s on call 24 seven.

It’s a national resource, it’s trustworthy, and it is 100% free. You don’t even need an account to use it. And this is a huge deal.

It’s actually available inside a lot of correctional facilities, which means you can start planning your future even before you’re released. Okay. So where do you even begin? Well, the very first and honestly, the most critical step is all about building a solid foundation before you even think about filling out a single job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

The site has something called a work ready checklist. Now this isn’t about [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) or [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) just yet. It’s all about tackling those immediate practical roadblocks first, because, you know, when you handle that stuff, you build the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) you need to walk into a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), feeling [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) and in control, and this is where the site’s practical side, just, it really shines.

It doesn’t just hand you a to-do list and say, good luck. Nope. It connects you with real local resources for everything from getting your ID to finding a local nonprofit that can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) direct hands-on support right there in your own community.

All right. So once you’ve got that foundation set, you are ready for the fun part, exploring what kind of work you actually want to do. If you have no idea where to start, there’s this fantastic interest assessment.

It only takes about five minutes. You can do it on a computer, a tablet, whatever. And it helps connect the dots between what you genuinely enjoy and real world [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that fit.

And your results pop up in the super simple clear table. You immediately see the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), what it’s long-term outlook is, and the national wage data. And from there, you can actually sort it to see, you know, what are the highest paying [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) or which ones have the biggest demand right now? And Hey, what if you just need to start working right away? The site’s got you covered there too, with a special list of common first [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

[***Your Conviction: Employment Checks***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eZX)

These are really practical options and fields that often have fewer barriers to entry, giving you immediate ideas to get your search started. Okay. Now let’s talk about a real game changer.

Moving beyond just any job to a great [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) by gaining the skills and the credentials that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are actively looking for. So one of the coolest features on [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One Stop is how it helps you find the right certifications. And what you’re going to want to look for is this little chili pepper icon right next to a certification.

That little chili pepper. It’s like a secret weapon. It means [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are mentioning that specific credential more than any other in their job postings.

So for a cook, that ServeSafe food handler cert is a hot one. In just a couple of clicks, you know exactly what credential is going to make your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) jump to the top of the pile. The site also points you to two really powerful [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) paths.

You’ve got apprenticeships where you literally earn a full-time wage while you learn a skilled trade, and you’ve got short-term certificate programs that can get you qualified for a better job in less than 12 weeks. So having a great [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is one thing, but actually getting through the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is a whole other beast. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One Stop has specific tools to help you build real [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) for this make or break stage of the process.

Just listen to how one person described the feeling of being asked about their criminal record. That [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), it just says it all. It’s a moment that can totally throw you off your game in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

So to get you ready, the site gives you this clear, actionable advice. Prepare a simple, honest statement. Don’t overshare.

Instead, you learn how to pivot the conversation to focus on your growth, your work ethic, and the skills you bring to the table today. And this tool, this is just brilliant. The practice job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) lets you walk through a real [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) in a totally stress-free zone.

It even gives you tips for those super tricky questions about [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) history or your conviction, so you are fully [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) when it actually counts. You see how this all connects? By following this path, you start with your basic needs. You explore [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) you’d actually like, get the right [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), and then you master the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

That whole initial feeling of uncertainty starts to transform into this genuine sense of empowerment. [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One-Stop really does provide the map. So the big takeaway here is that a structured, supported, and totally free path to a new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) is out there, available to you right now.

The real question isn’t just about [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/), is it? It’s about building the future you truly want. And with tools like these, that future is absolutely within your reach.

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### [Should I Trust Recruiters?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-trust-recruiters/)

**Published:** February 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It seems like this is a junior person asking the question. Should you trust recruiters? Do you trust your doctor, accountant, insurance agent completely or do you seek confirmation?

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# Should I Trust Recruiters?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

It seems like this is a junior person asking the question. Should you trust [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? Do you trust your doctor, accountant, insurance agent completely or do you seek confirmation?

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people. I try and help people be more effective in work, whether that’s with a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), with [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), managing, leading, the overall process of the workplace.

Should I trust [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? Do you trust architects or would you shop for an architect? Do you trust insurance people, car salesmen, accountants or would you shop for an accountant, service person, any other profession? Of course, you’d shop. You do comparison shopping. You try and see that what you’re being told is accurate or whether there’s conflict.

In foreign policy, there’s a former US president who said, trust but verify. They may tell you something but your job in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is to verify what you’re being told. If they talk with you about [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement opportunities, you ask about [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement opportunities.

If they talk with you about the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range for the role, you ask about the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range for the role. Everything they say, you have to substantiate because people get weird when money’s involved. That’s true of all those other professions and the same is true of [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), especially as you get closer to the deal, especially as you get closer to the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

They’re going to say a whole bunch of stuff because part of it is they’re being told things by the employer and the employer is who they really work for. Up until that point, they are your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend. That’s how they present themselves to you.

They are friendly. They are cordial. They tell you all sorts of good stuff that helps you do well on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

It’s great. But get close to the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). The company is telling them what price they’re [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to pay.

They’re starting to talk you down. They’re talking with you about [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement opportunities but you need to verify that with the employer. They’re talking with you about a whole bunch of stuff and you need to verify.

Should you be trusting to the point that you surrender your brain to the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? Absolutely not. Just like you shouldn’t with any other service professional. But should you listen, substantiate what you’re being told and, as you hear things, lower your guard until you get to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) phase? That’s okay.

And then when you get to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) phase, do not, I repeat, do not completely trust what you’re being told. The fact of the matter is, for the contingency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), they’ve got a large commission that they’re counting on with you. And they will . . . many of them will say and do anything in order to get the job.

You always want to be verifying with the employer what you’re being told. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you found this helpful.

My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. I’ll simply say what you ought to be doing is visiting my website. Sorry, something distracted me. Visiting my website, going to the blog.

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### [The Digital Handshake: Using AI for Executive Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-digital-handshake-using-ai-for-executive-networking/)

**Published:** February 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** To actually get a response from a C-suite peer or a high-level recruiter, you have to stop using AI to automate your outreach and start using it to inform it.

**Content:**

# The Digital Handshake: Using AI for Executive Networking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is drowning in noise. Everyone is using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to blast out generic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) invites, which means the “I see we went to the same school” message is now officially a waste of characters. To actually get a response from a C-suite peer or a high-level [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), you have to stop using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to automate your outreach and start using it to **inform** it.

High-level [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t about volume; it’s about precision. Here’s how to use the tech to get past the filters and connect with a real human.

### 1. Ditch Personalization for High-Level Context

Standard personalization is table stakes. If your message looks like a template, it’s going in the trash. The goal is “hyper-contextualization”—showing you’ve actually done the work to understand their current headaches.

- **The Move:** Don’t ask an LLM to “write a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) email.” Instead, feed it the target’s last three [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) articles or a transcript from their recent industry panel.
- **The Prompt:** *“Analyze these posts. What is the one specific, non-obvious problem this executive is trying to solve right now? Draft a two-sentence reflection connecting that problem to my experience in \[X\].”*
- **The Reality:** Data from 2026 shows that messages referencing a specific, unique data point or an “insider” thought have a **300% higher response rate**. It proves you aren’t a bot.

### 2. Map the “Hidden” Referral via Semantic Search

In a tight market, the front door is usually locked. You need an internal [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), but not just any [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/). You need someone who speaks your language.

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools can now map your network by **semantic overlap**. This means finding people who have navigated the exact fiscal or cultural shifts your target company is facing today.

- **Tactical [Application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/):** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the target company’s latest 10-K or news cycle. Ask: *“Who in my network has handled a merger or a scaling event similar to what \[Company X\] is doing right now?”* \* **The Outreach:** You’re no longer asking for a job. You’re saying: *“I saw your firm is hitting \[specific transition\]; I navigated that exact move at \[Company Z\]. Let’s talk shop.”* That is a value-add, not a favor.

### 3. The “Anti-Bot” Rule: Draft with AI, Edit with Blood

Since nearly all 2026 digital content is synthetic, “humanity” is the new premium. If your message sounds too perfect, it feels fake.

- **The 80/20 Split:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for the 80%—the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), the data aggregation, and the rough drafting. Spend your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on the 20%—the “human-in-the-loop” polish.
- **The Fix:** Manually add a reference to a live event, a shared local news item, or a bit of industry-specific sarcasm that a bot wouldn’t catch.
- **The Logic:** [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is a researcher; you are the closer. If you don’t touch the final draft, you’re just another notification they’ll ignore.
- [***Do What Recruiters Do***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2sa)

### 4. Don’t Be a Data Liability

As an executive, your judgment is your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Using “scraped” private data or feeding sensitive info from your current employer into a public [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model is a massive red flag in 2026.

- **Stick to Signals:** Only use publicly available info like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) posts, blogs, and SEC filings.
- **Security First:** If you’re analyzing sensitive industry data to build your pitch, ensure you’re using an enterprise-grade [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) with zero-retention policies. A data leak is a quick way to kill a job prospect before the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

### The Bottom Line

The “Digital Handshake” is a hybrid. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) solves the **relevance** problem so you can solve the **relationship** problem. Stop asking what people can do for you and start using data to show them exactly what you can do for them.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Here’s One Way to Spot a Ghost Job #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/heres-one-way-to-spot-a-ghost-job-shorts/)

**Published:** February 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here’s one way to spot a ghost job, one that they will never respond to you for.

**Content:**

# Here’s One Way to Spot a Ghost Job #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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Here’s one way to spot a ghost job, one that they will never respond to you for.

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### [How to Negotiate (for Recent Grads)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-negotiate-for-recent-grads/)

**Published:** February 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 2208 You can't sound like you're begging AND you can negotiate. even though you're a beginner and even though you've never done it before.

**Content:**

# How to Negotiate (for Recent Grads)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

**You can’t sound like you’re begging AND you can [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). even though you’re a beginner and even though you’ve never done it before.**

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### [Job Fairs: Avoid the Cattle Call](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-fairs-avoid-the-cattle-call/)

**Published:** February 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It seems like every week, an ad appears for a job fair offering hope to unemployed people that they will get a job.

**Content:**

# Job Fairs: Avoid the Cattle Call

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

It seems like every week, an ad appears for a job fair offering hope to unemployed people that they will get a job. Sometimes, TV news camera crews show the lines outside of people who want a job and hope it lies within the walls of that ballroom or convention center.

Yet the truth is that no one will be hired that day. You will be asked to hand your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to someone who will put it in a pile with several hundred or several thousand others. You will try to get a few seconds with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who will try to get away because 20 other people are trying to get a few seconds of their time too . . . and that isn’t the worst part. That can happen months later.

A few months later, a third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) hears about a new job at a firm that attended the fair so they email your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or try to immediately engage their client to talk about you and persuade them to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you..

The firm looks your name up in their handy dandy [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), sees it, and says, “We know that person,” but because they are too busy, never call you.

The employer knew about the job and did not search their [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) for leads. They did not call you or blast out an email. The third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) heard about the job, tried to submit you, was declined the [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) and the employer still did not call you because of being too busy and unmotivated (most corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do not receive any bonus per [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) so they are not going to go the extra mile to call you at night).

You are left in limbo without an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) all because cost-conscious [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) to lower the expense of agency fees without doing the [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) work of contacting potential employees.

And this is not unusual. It happens every day.

So don’t make your [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) more difficult than it already is.

DON’T TAKE THE BAIT! DON’T GO TO JOB FAIRS!

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### [You Have to Look Out for #1 #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-have-to-look-out-for-1-shorts/)

**Published:** February 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When you look at your job and your career, it is important to remember this.

**Content:**

# You Have to Look Out for #1 #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/HnhpDzGFQ3Q)

When you look at your job and [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), it is important to remember this.

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### [My Manager Threatened to Give Me a Bad Reference If I Quit My Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/my-manager-has-threatened-to-give-me-a-bad-reference-if-i-quit-my-job/)

**Published:** February 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I am planning to quit my job for a new job and my manager got upset and said he'll bad mouth me to my new employer. Is this legal?

**Content:**

# My Manager Threatened to Give Me a Bad Reference If I Quit My Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I am planning to quit my job for a new job and my manager got upset and said he’ll bad mouth me to my new employer. Is this legal?

WOW! What a charming manager!

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people and organizations around [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, a better performance in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), managing and leading more effectively, a whole host of different things related to being effective in the workplace. Get this situation.

I’m planning to quit my job for a new one and my manager got upset and said he’ll badmouth me to my new employer. Is this legal? Wow! You’re working for a real special person there, aren’t you? Here’s my thinking. When you give notice to your boss and you do that in writing, you look across at them and I want to start off with an assumption.

The assumption is there’s no reason for them to give a bad reference and that you’re smart enough that if it were true what they were threatening, you would go to someone else to provide the reference. So, with that as an assumption, we want to, shall we say, challenge your boss one time and just simply say, I have a friend who’s an attorney and I just want to be clear. If you act on that threat, I will own your house.

It will take time but if you cost me a job because you want to keep me there, I will own your house and more and your firm will fire you because the fact is you’ve exposed them to litigation. So, it’s your choice. I don’t want to do this but when you threaten me in my livelihood in this way, I have to respond to that and move from there.

So, tell me what do you plan on doing? Now, you can’t be more direct than that and it’s true what you’re saying. You will sue them and sue him personally because he made that threat in advance. So, that’s one way of approaching it.

Another way is when it comes time to give notice, you walk into the HR office and not into his or her office. We don’t know the gender and you say to HR, I’m giving notice today. I’m going to be leaving on such and such date.

I want to be clear. I would have done this with my manager but he made a threat and the threat was he would give a bad reference. He did it in order to ensure that I wouldn’t take this job.

I also want to be clear that if he acts on that, I’m going to take legal action. I would appreciate it if you had a conversation with him in order to ensure that we don’t have to meet in court. That should put an end to the nonsense.

People like this try to get away with bullying less expensive people, less experienced people and you don’t want to be bullied. You want to get as far away from this person as you possibly can. Great choice to leave because if this is their way of conducting themselves when they believe you’re leaving, I can only imagine what it’s like while you’re working there.

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### [The AI Career Playbook: 5 Strategies to Thrive](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-ai-career-playbook-5-strategies-to-thrive/)

**Published:** March 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3112 This video provides a strategic guide for professionals to navigate and thrive in a job market increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence.

**Content:**

# The AI Career Playbook: 5 Strategies to Thrive

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [We're Interviewing Other People and We'll Get Back Back to You #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/were-interviewing-other-people-and-well-get-back-back-to-you-shorts/)

**Published:** February 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What is the significance of an interviewer saying they are still interviewing other candidates and will get back to you soon?

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# We’re Interviewing Other People and We’ll Get Back Back to You #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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What is the significance of an interviewer saying they are still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) other candidates and will get back to you soon?

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### [No BS Career Advice: February 22, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-22-2026/)

**Published:** February 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# No BS Career Advice: February 22, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

“A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.”

– David McGee

Snow turning to mud signals the end of winter is approaching and spring will soon follow. That’s what its like where I live; I hope if you are still snowbound, you experience it soon, too.

## Executive Search: From Keyword Matching to Agentic Strategy

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

**[Executive Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/): From Keyword Matching to Agentic Strategy**

The executive job market is no longer a game of who you know or what is on your static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It is an ecosystem governed by **[Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)** and **Skills-Based Sourcing**. For [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) professionals, the “old” rules —polishing a headline and summary and waiting for a headhunter—are officially obsolete.

Today, 99% of Fortune 500 firms and nearly 90% of mid-market companies have integrated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) into their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) stacks. As an executive, you aren’t just competing against other leaders; you are navigating a gauntlet of autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents designed to filter for impact over credentials. To win, you must transition from a passive candidate to an **AI-augmented strategist.**

**1. The Shift to “Skills-First” Architecture**

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- **The Strategy:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to perform a “Gap Analysis” between your profile and target roles. However, go deeper to map your past “task-based” achievements into “skill-based” outcomes.
- **The Adjustment:** Don’t just list “Managed a $50M budget.” Frame it for 2026: *“Optimized fiscal throughput using predictive analytics, resulting in a 15% reduction in operational volatility.”* [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) look for these specific “outcome-skill” correlations.

**2. Navigating the Rise of Autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Agents**

By mid-2026, the initial screening for 95% of professional roles will be fully automated. Many companies now use **Autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Agents** like those from *Metaview* or *Findem* that don’t just wait for you to apply. They “hunt” for you in the background.

- **Be Discoverable:** Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is now a data source for vector searches. This means **the *context*** of your posts and comments matters as much as your “About” section.
- **The Insight:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze the sentiment and authority of your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Are you commenting on industry shifts? Are you seen as a thought leader in Federated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) or Sustainable Governance? [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents aggregate these signals to build a “Candidate Quality Score” before a human even sees your name.

**3. Mastering the “Human-AI” Hybrid [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)**

The “One-Way Video Interview” has gone mainstream, but with a 2026 twist: **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Intelligence.** While you speak to a camera, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is transcribing, summarizing, and flagging your “soft skills” like empathy, critical thinking, and decisiveness.

- **The Prep:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) simulators to practice **Scenario Planning.** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model the company’s recent earnings call or a news report about their latest merger. Ask it: *“Act as a skeptical Board Member. Based on this data, what are the three most difficult questions you would ask a prospective COO?”*
- **The Delivery:** Remember that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is looking for structure. Use the **SHARE** (Situation, Hindrance, Action, Result, Evaluation) framework. The “Evaluation” is now most critical; it allows you to reflect on and learn from the AI-driven data you managed.

**4. Reclaiming the “Relational Edge.”**

As AI-generated [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) flood recruiters’ inboxes, **authenticity has become the ultimate premium.** If your outreach looks like a bot wrote it, it will be deleted by a bot.

- **Agentic [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/):** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify the *right* people—those with shared alumni connections or similar [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) trajectories—but perform the final outreach yourself.
- **Today’s Rule:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for the **80% of “work about work”** (scheduling, tracking, researching) so you can spend your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on the **20% of high-value human interaction.** The most successful [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) today are those who use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to clear their calendars for deep, one-on-one strategic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

**The Verdict: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Fluency as a Leadership Trait**

The most valuable skill today isn’t “knowing [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).” It’s **Critical Thinking applied to [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) aren’t looking for a leader who can write a [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) prompt; they are looking for a leader who knows *when* to trust the algorithm and *when* to override it with human judgment.

By treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) as a lab for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) implementation, you aren’t just [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/); you are proving you have the digital agility required to lead a modern enterprise.

 Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

Last week, I released new content including:

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Assessments** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkm**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lkm)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Premium: Is It Worth It?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMQ)

**Why Is It More Difficult to Search for a Job Than Do a Job?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aKq**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aKq)

**Giving an Elevator Pitch? Say It Like You Mean It .** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mif**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mif)

**Take It Easy and More** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-isH**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-isH)

**The “Too Experienced” Card is BS** [**https://youtu.be/gX1C8Ko-6CM**](https://youtu.be/gX1C8Ko-6CM)

**Your Job on an [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mdT**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mdT)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): February 15, 2025** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNl**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNl)

**If You’re Just Clicking Apply Buttons** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oN3**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oN3)

**How You May Be Sabotaging Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ksi**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ksi)

**15 Ways to Become Irresistible to [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMe**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMe)

**What Do I Do? I’m Starting on Monday & [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) Within the Same Firm for a Different Position?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNf**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNf)

**[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Not Taking Charge of [Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) I know this is true.** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNM**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNM)

**The [Over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/free-professional-courses-for-older-pros-shorts/) Pivot: Stop [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/). Start Targeting** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNH**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNH)

**[Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc)

**Taking the Awkwardness Out of [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-qJ**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-qJ)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Era** [**https://youtu.be/6FrNbem7Ln0**](https://youtu.be/6FrNbem7Ln0)

**[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Don’t Browse Profiles** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNs**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNs)

**Navigating the Long Haul: Staying Motivated During Executive [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Processes** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNo**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNo)

**Tools to Help You Get Back to Work** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oO6**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oO6)

**Stupid [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Believing It Is in the Bag** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5DT**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-5DT)

**6 Life and [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Lessons I Learned from Watching Sports on TV** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-Iu**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-Iu)

**Is It Rude to Ask How Many Other People They’re Considering?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-meR**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-meR)

**How to Become an Irresistible [Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOl**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOl)

**If They Reject You Because You Used [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to Write Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOg**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOg)

**Things They Don’t Teach You in School About [Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6Id**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6Id)

**The Algorithmic Executive: Leveraging [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to Command Your Next [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) Move** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNU**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oNU)

**How to Get More [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): Think Like an Employer** 

**Navigating the New Era: No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Strategies for Launching Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOF**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOF)

**Job Hopping and Gaps** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOB**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oOB)

**24 Hours: The Tiny Change That Quadruples Your [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Rate** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozE**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozE)

**Taking Their BS** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2eb**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2eb)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on the Rise for 2026** [**https://youtu.be/R7Iy4zMctic**](https://youtu.be/R7Iy4zMctic)

You may want to order books from my Executive Edge series on Amazon. All are available for Kindle, as PDFs and audiobooks.

**Covert [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) for Leaders: The Executive Edge** 

**No BS [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Advice for Senior Leaders: How to Write a [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) That Commands Respect, Opens Doors and Reflects Your Value https:**[**/**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN4BM5N)[**www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN4BM5N**](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN4BM5N)

**The Executive Edge: The Business Dean’s Playbook for [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Prep to Secure Your Chair and Set Your Agenda** [**https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5LWT942**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5LWT942)

**The Executive Edge: Strategic [Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for the C-Suite Final** [**https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2K6BJWQ**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2K6BJWQ)

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### Jeff Altman, MSW, CCTC

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### [Executive Search: From Keyword Matching to Agentic Strategy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-search-from-keyword-matching-to-agentic-strategy/)

**Published:** February 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The executive job market is no longer a game of who you know or what is on your static resume

**Content:**

## Executive Search: From Keyword Matching to Agentic Strategy

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://jobsearch.community/)

The executive job market is no longer a game of who you know or what is on your static [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It is an ecosystem governed by **[Agentic AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-growth-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/)** and **Skills-Based Sourcing**. For [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) professionals, the “old” rules —polishing a headline and summary and waiting for a headhunter—are officially obsolete.

Today, 99% of Fortune 500 firms and nearly 90% of mid-market companies have integrated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) into their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) stacks. As an executive, you aren’t just competing against other leaders; you are navigating a gauntlet of autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents designed to filter for impact over credentials. To win, you must transition from a passive candidate to an **AI-augmented strategist.**

**1. The Shift to “Skills-First” Architecture**

In 2026, the weight of your Ivy League degree or your “C-level” title has shifted. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) now prioritize **demonstrated leadership impact** and specific skill clusters over traditional credentials.

- **The Strategy:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to perform a “Gap Analysis” between your profile and target roles. However, go deeper to map your past “task-based” achievements into “skill-based” outcomes.
- **The Adjustment:** Don’t just list “Managed a $50M budget.” Frame it for 2026: *“Optimized fiscal throughput using predictive analytics, resulting in a 15% reduction in operational volatility.”* [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) look for these specific “outcome-skill” correlations.
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN4BM5N

**2. Navigating the Rise of Autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Agents**

By mid-2026, the initial screening for 95% of professional roles will be fully automated. Many companies now use **Autonomous [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Agents** like those from *Metaview* or *Findem* that don’t just wait for you to apply. They “hunt” for you in the background.

- **Be Discoverable:** Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is now a data source for vector searches. This means **the *context*** of your posts and comments matters as much as your “About” section.
- **The Insight:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to analyze the sentiment and authority of your digital [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Are you commenting on industry shifts? Are you seen as a thought leader in Federated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) or Sustainable Governance? [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) agents aggregate these signals to build a “Candidate Quality Score” before a human even sees your name.

**3. Mastering the “Human-AI” Hybrid [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)**

The “One-Way Video Interview” has gone mainstream, but with a 2026 twist: **[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Intelligence.** While you speak to a camera, [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is transcribing, summarizing, and flagging your “soft skills” like empathy, critical thinking, and decisiveness.

- **The Prep:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) simulators to practice **Scenario Planning.** Feed an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) model the company’s recent earnings call or a news report about their latest merger. Ask it: *“Act as a skeptical Board Member. Based on this data, what are the three most difficult questions you would ask a prospective COO?”*
- **The Delivery:** Remember that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is looking for structure. Use the **SHARE** (Situation, Hindrance, Action, Result, Evaluation) framework. The “Evaluation” is now most critical; it allows you to reflect on and learn from the AI-driven data you managed.

**4. Reclaiming the “Relational Edge.”**

As AI-generated [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) flood recruiters’ inboxes, **authenticity has become the ultimate premium.** If your outreach looks like a bot wrote it, it will be deleted by a bot.

- **Agentic [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/):** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify the *right* people—those with shared alumni connections or similar [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) trajectories—but perform the final outreach yourself.
- **Today’s Rule:** Use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) for the **80% of “work about work”** (scheduling, tracking, researching) so you can spend your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) on the **20% of high-value human interaction.** The most successful [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) today are those who use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to clear their calendars for deep, one-on-one strategic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

**The Verdict: [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Fluency as a Leadership Trait**

The most valuable skill today isn’t “knowing [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).” It’s **Critical Thinking applied to [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).** [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) aren’t looking for a leader who can write a [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) prompt; they are looking for a leader who knows *when* to trust the algorithm and *when* to override it with human judgment.

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### [What is the Best Thing to Do When You First Start Networking? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-the-best-thing-to-do-when-you-first-start-networking-shorts/)

**Published:** February 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What is the significance of an interviewer saying they are still interviewing other candidates and will get back to you soon?

**Content:**

# What is the Best Thing to Do When You First Start Networking?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/9BO6xVaK1oU)

What is the significance of an interviewer saying they are still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) other candidates and will get back to you soon?

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### [The Private Equity Interview #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-private-equity-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** February 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A man named Greg Head with whom I’m a first level connection on LinkedIn shared the post about private equity interviewing that I thought was worth sharing with you. 


**Content:**

# The Private Equity Interview #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/OTL34ILSp78)

A man named Greg Head with whom I’m a first level connection on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) shared the post about private [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) that I thought was worth sharing with you.

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### [How to Get an Interview at Your Target Company #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-an-interview-at-your-target-company-shorts/)

**Published:** February 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In response to a post someone made about their difficulty connecting with people at their target company, Curt Hammett offered his ideas about how to do it.

**Content:**

# How to Get an Interview at Your Target Company

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

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In response to a post someone made about their difficulty connecting with people at their target company, Curt Hammett offered his ideas about how to do it.

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### [Is It OK to Remove an Employer From My Resume? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-remove-an-employer-from-my-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** February 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Someone left their own business to join a large firm, wants to leave it and is wondering if they can bury the large firm on their resume.

**Content:**

Is It OK to Remove an Employer From My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/DfvSNkU3f2M)

Someone left their own business to join a large firm, wants to leave it and is wondering if they can bury the large firm on their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [How to Get More Interviews: Think Like an Employer #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-interviews-think-like-an-employer-shorts/)

**Published:** February 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** So many of you make the mistake of not thinking like your audience and not communicating with them as they want.

**Content:**

# How to Get More Interviews: Think Like an Employer

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/vV7jn0PeYsI)

So many of you make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of not thinking like your audience and not communicating with them as they want.

[***How to Get More Interviews: Be Different***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jrj)

If you want more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), think like an employer. How does your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) match up with what they say they want? Is it obvious? If they were a six-year-old looking at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), could they see the fit or are you making them think?

They are busy, you know that! And they expect you to do the work to let them know how your background fits. And the earlier in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), the better off you are.

So if you want to get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), don’t just simply spam the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) over and over again to every job that you see online. It doesn’t work quite obviously.

There’s a lot more in the blog at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us)

***[How to Get More Interviews: Submit a Video with Your Resume](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jpb)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Taking Their BS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/taking-their-bs-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** February 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I discuss this mistake people make WAY too often.

**Content:**

# Taking Their BS

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

I discuss this [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make WAY too often.

You know, this is a video, where, frankly, I want to encourage you. If you’re in a job that just isn’t working now, I want you to engage in a couple of actions.

Action number one is talking with others and getting some opinions from them before leaping. Now, I know my career was as a headhunter (I NO LONGER DO RECRUITING). I was dealing with people who’ve made the decision to change and a lot of agents when they are contacted by a job hunter their basic response is to go, “Oh, that’s horrible. You’ve been treated terribly. Get out, get out, get out.” But that really doesn’t serve you.

What serves you is to do a post-mortem before you make the decision to move on, before you’re set in your ways about this. Do a review of what the failures were. Is it you’re doing that is you just haven’t performed? Is it the nature of the work that you’re doing? It’s just something that you don’t like. Is it your boss? Is there something you know that you can take from your relationship with your boss that you can learn from? You get the idea of where I’m going with this.

Don’t just simply leap from frying pan to another frying pan. Take a little bit of time to review your circumstances. Also, I’ll speak for myself, there are times I’ve tolerated terrible working conditions and made the choice to put up with them because, financially, it would be hard to leave and start from scratch again. You know, as a search professional every time you change organizations, people find it to hard to find you right away. You’re old firm attempts to capture leads helping as a non compete, he can walk out with files.

But, you know, I made decisions to put up with stuff for a long time, because I was concerned that my income would be adversely affect. I made a conscious decision to put up with it. You need to review that for yourself, as well, because there are circumstances where it does make sense to stay a while longer. But also look at an exit strategy. You see where I’m going here? You have to be cautious and look at your decisions with care and maturity and not just simply, “I’ve had it I’m out of here.”

So, think before you take action. Review your circumstances What can you take away of a learning experience? Can you speak with someone there and basically go, “Okay, what am I missing? Why is this happening? Why am I getting this kind of [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/)? Can you translate my manager’s criticism of me? Are they off base?”

Again, your friends or family are going to be able to help you here or a co-worker, a coach like me can help you. But, at the end of the day, sort it out before you take action, because maybe it is you’re doing. Maybe you can fix some things there. And if you can’t, get the hell out. Life is too short to put up with,abusive circumstances.

Really get the heck out.

[***Seven Steps To Branding Yourself As An Expert***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-edP)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid/)

**Published:** March 8, 2024
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One day, I woke up, looked in the mirror, and saw something I’d never seen before.

**Content:**

# 10 Career Mistakes Boomers Made That Gen X Should Avoid

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***From Paycheck to Purpose***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gys)

One day, I woke up, looked in the mirror, and saw something I’d never seen before. There were things on my face that were in slightly different places. There was a little bit of grey in my beard and a closet full of clothing that had seen better days. At least my nonexistent hairline wasn’t sprouting!

As time went by, I came to realize these “rites of passage” were relatively inconsequential by comparison to the “hard knocks” some of my friends and I were taking that were decimating our [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). In this two-part series, I will share the top 10 lessons my friends and I have learned the hard way:

1\. Be cautious of reporting to someone from a younger demographic.![career development | Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/career-development-300x132.jpg)

This can be a signal that your advancement opportunities have disappeared. Jerry, a Boomer, accepted an assignment reporting to someone from [Gen X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/) and never regained his leadership status within his organization. He heard many good reasons for why this happened:

“You are much more capable than the assignments that we have available.”

“We have something coming up with the new budget in January, so this is just to tide you over until then.”

“Would you consider [relocating](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-relocating-2/) to another part of the country? We don’t have the right kind of opportunities for you here.”

That last one was a favorite of mine, given that Jerry had two teenagers in high school who would have poisoned his coffee had he agreed to a move.

In my experience — and in Jerry’s — there is a signal that a firm gives when they have someone report to someone from a younger demographic and it’s designed to send a message that you and your leadership or your abilities aren’t valued anymore. If that happens to you, it’s time to move on — not hang on.

2\. Don’t provide your employer with “lazy loyalty.”

Freely giving away loyalty to your employer rarely leads to a good outcome. The person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or hardest worker. Those are great qualities to have but they are no guarantee for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). People get ahead by being alert to opportunities that generally arrive from outside of their organization.

Juanita turned down calls from [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for years, not noticing that her colleague was getting most of the face time with their boss and opportunities for special projects that provided her with greater institutional visibility and impact. As a result, Juanita became “old reliable,” not fast-track. When cuts were being made to the headcount, Juanita didn’t make it past the second round. “Lazy loyalty” is unthinking fealty to your current employer even though their commitment to you does not exist.

[***What Do You Look For When You Hire People?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hR3)

3\. Be conscious of actions, not words.

Sunil received great reviews from his boss and was told he was doing a good job and had a future with the company. Sunil took the praise and interpreted it as something more than what it really was — a throwaway pat on the back.

A manager may be telling you how important you are to the organization and what a wonderful job you do, but these can be placebos, designed to stroke your ego. Managers can exaggerate and flatter because it costs them nothing. What you can do is ask [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions — even when you receive praise — so you have a more comprehensive understanding and are less likely to be blindsided down the road. Ask for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) in writing so you have documentation to [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to if there’s ever a discrepancy. More importantly, reflect on whether your employer’s praise matches the opportunities you’re given.

4\. Don’t abdicate responsibility for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

Hakim’s inner voice had become quiet years before he stopped going to school to learn. He stopped thinking about his own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), where he wanted to get to, the deficiencies in his background and what he needed to do to overcome them.

You are the CEO of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), with your wife, husband, partner and/or children as the board of directors. If you step aside and allow your company to be in charge of your life like many [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) have, you may have to learn the hard way that “being nice,” being a “team player” and “going along” is an abdication of your power and can be viewed as permission to pass you over. In my experience, your employer won’t look out for you when things get tough. You need to be looking out for yourself.

So, ask yourself, if you were the CEO of your organization, would you give you that promotion? If you wouldn’t, what are the skills and/or experiences that you need to overcome? Start pushing yourself, your environment and your boss to eliminate that gap.![Recruiter | Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Recruiter-on-the-phone1-300x200.jpg)

5\. Don’t forget about your network and how you can cultivate it.

Almost every day, I field calls from out-of-work [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) wanting to know how to reactivate their network. “I was busy and stopped staying in touch,” Mike told me. “Why should they try to help me now?” Cultivate the “staying-in-touch gene” to avoid making things harder on yourself when, ultimately, that layoff occurs, that reorganization puts you into an unsatisfactory role or some other professional disaster happens.

Depending upon the statistics you look at, somewhere between 70% and 85% of people find work as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). If you let your network become dormant, it will take time to re-activate it. A quick call, text or email every six months will help the relationship stay alive, particularly when you’re not looking for work and not asking for anything.

Recently, a subscriber to my YouTube channel commented, “What the [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) did — don’t do it!” Next month, I’ll share five more [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) made that you in [Gen X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/) should avoid so that you don’t have to learn your lessons the hard way, like the [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) did.

6\. Recognize that there is no safety in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), nor job security.

When [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) started their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), we were taught to believe that we could climb the ladder to professional [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), one rung at a time. As a result, many [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) became extremely dedicated professionally, learning to invest countless hours into their work with the expectation of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) advancement only to learn through the heartbreak of “The Great Recession” and now, during the era of the pandemic, that job security is a myth and that companies will ultimately look out for their own interests and not those of their employees.

Playing it safe when managing their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) resulted in becoming risk-averse professionally, taking few workplace risks and generally believing that homogenous work and behavior were the right way to conduct yourself. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In my experience, the workplace of Lean, Six Sigma, transformation and other methodologies of industrial operation brought to corporations created a repeatable process and disposable employees.

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7\. Don’t forget to stretch yourself.

I’m someone who has spent a lot of time in the pursuit of perfection. It takes constant effort to remind myself that perfection is impossible; excellence is possible. As Grammarly just reminded me, “To err is human. To edit is divine.”

That may be tongue-in-cheek software but it’s true: everyone makes [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Not making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) means you’re not pushing the envelope to new possibilities. You always need to be pushing the envelope. Every time the envelope is pushed, we stretch ourselves and learn more about ourselves and our abilities than if we stay within rigid limits.

As in yoga, small stretches over time can help increase your flexibility a lot. Learn to stretch and concentrate on the stretch while doing it.

8\. Know that you won’t be doing the same work 10 years from now, let alone do it in the same way.

Looking back 10 years ago, smartphones were just starting to become integral to our work. Ten years from now, you will be working in different ways than you are today — that’s just a fact of life — but we act as though there’s a finite amount of evolution that occurs even though change is seemingly infinite.

For the most part, [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) have inherently been skeptics of anything new, instead preferring standardization. You, [Gen X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-one/), still have time to be thinking ahead and be on the cutting edge of trends. Your Millennial and Gen Z employees can teach you a lot about trends if you take the time to stay connected with them and not just talk to your generational peers.

Most of you have at least another 10 years in the workforce. You don’t want to wind up like the [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) kicking and screaming as they are pushed out the door. One of the ways to avoid that is by being slightly ahead of every curve, keeping yourself trained, experienced and fluent with new trends and capabilities in your field. That is something few [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) did as they aged.

9\. Don’t allow yourself to become “invisible.”

It seems funny but becoming indispensable in a role can result in someone being taken for granted. There are many ways to promote yourself professionally within an organization and outside of it. You can write from [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), Medium, and countless other platforms. You can be interviewed for podcasts or someone’s YouTube channel. You can become active in a professional association or group.

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Being a member is like being a lurker — you are watching and not participating. Too many older workers take the easy approach and never develop their “celebrity status.” They never reveal their [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and ideas outside of a small circle of individuals. They hide. They hide because they are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) that they have nothing to say when, in fact, they know much more than they think they do.

Sound familiar? Now is the time to challenge yourself, step up and [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) for who you really are, because the more invisible you allow yourself to be, the more you are perceived as a cog. Cogs turn to rust. Cogs are replaced. Many [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) allowed themselves to become cogs. Don’t make the same [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

10\. Don’t get comfortable with never meeting new people and never learning anything new.

There is a famous book titled, Eat, Pray, Love. Most of you could probably write the book, Commute, Work, Eat. In pandemic times, it might be called Work, Work, Eat. In other words, every day is repetitive. No one new enters your life because you never put yourself in the position of meeting anyone new to have a conversation with.

New people and new circumstances are part of your growth and evolution. Especially as you look ahead where the nature of work will continue to evolve, the importance of your professional and personal relationships will dictate the ease with which you age in the workplace and whether you have quality work in the workplace or outside of it if you choose. There are ways to place yourself in new situations where you can learn and meet others. Don’t waste time. Start experimenting and see what works for you.

As evidenced here, [Boomers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-career-mistakes-boomers-made-that-gen-x-should-avoid-part-2/) often made [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) when managing their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). There is no reason for you to duplicate those [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

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### [Things They Don’t Teach You in School About Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/things-they-dont-teach-you-in-school-about-job-hunting-jobsearchradio-com/)

**Published:** February 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most colleges don’t offer courses in how to find a job after graduation, even though they should. Here I offer a few pointers to help you avoid missing some points that you may not know.

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# Things They Don’t Teach You in School About Job Hunting

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

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### [The Algorithmic Executive: Leveraging AI to Command Your Next Career Move](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-algorithmic-executive-leveraging-ai-to-command-your-next-career-move/)

**Published:** February 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** For the college-educated executive, the challenge is no longer a lack of information, but an abundance of noise.

**Content:**

# The Algorithmic Executive: Leveraging AI to Command Your Next Career Move

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

Executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) has undergone a quiet but profound transformation. For the college-educated professional, the challenge is no longer a lack of information, but an abundance of noise. As [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and internal talent acquisition teams increasingly lean on automated systems to filter high-level talent, [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) must pivot from being a passive subject of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to an active practitioner of it.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in an [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) isn’t about letting a bot write your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); it’s about using data-driven insights to sharpen your value proposition, optimize your digital footprint, and reclaim your most valuable asset: **time.**

### 1. Architectural Integrity: AI-Enhanced Resume Optimization

At the executive level, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is a strategic document, not a chronological list of duties and responsibilities. However, even the most impressive C-suite [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or CV can fall victim to an [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)) if it lacks the proper semantic structure.

- **Beyond Keyword Stuffing:** Use LLMs (Large Language Models) to perform a gap analysis between your current [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the specific requirements of a target JD (Job Description).
- **The “Context” Prompt:** Instead of asking [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to “write my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/),” ask it to: *“Analyze this job description for a VP of Operations and identify the five most critical pain points this role is intended to solve. Then, highlight which of my attached achievements [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) address those pain points.”*
- **The Result:** You move from a generic list of accomplishments to a targeted “solution” document that speaks the language of both the algorithm and the human [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

### 2. Digital Presence as a Data Point

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is no longer just a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) site; it is a database that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) query using specific parameters. For the college-educated leader, your profile must satisfy the “Vector Search” logic that modern platforms use.

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools can help you analyze your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) “Social Selling Index” or similar metrics to see how you rank against peers. More importantly, you can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to maintain a consistent executive voice. By feeding [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) examples of your past writing (speeches, memos, or articles), you can generate high-level commentary on industry trends that sounds like *you*, ensuring your profile remains active and favored by the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) algorithm without requiring hours of manual content creation.

### 3. Market Intelligence and Competitive Mapping

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### [If They Reject You Because You Used AI to Write Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-they-reject-you-because-you-used-ai-to-write-your-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** February 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here’s what to do if your résumé is rejected because an employer claims you use AI to write it.

**Content:**

# If They Reject You Because You Used AI to Write Your Resume

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### [LinkedIn in the AI Era](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedin-in-the-ai-era/)

**Published:** February 24, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3111 LinkedIn's recent changes make the old way of writing a profile worthless.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn in the AI Era

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3111 LinkedIn’s recent changes make the old way of writing a profile worthless.

Alright, let’s get right into it. Have you felt like you’re just shouting into the void on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) lately? Well, I’m here to tell you, you are not imagining things. The game has totally, completely changed.

In this explainer, we’re going to break down exactly what’s going on and give you the playbook you need to win in 2025. So let’s just start with the hard truth, the really stark number. Organic reach, the number of people who see your stuff for free, has basically collapsed.

Some data shows it’s down by as much as 50% year over year. And look, that’s not just some tiny dip, it’s a massive shift in who sees your content and more importantly, your profile. So, what does this actually mean for you? It really begs the question, are you becoming invisible? I mean, if you’re still using the same old tactics from a couple of years ago, the answer is, probably yes.

But hey, don’t panic, we’re about to show you how to get visible again, not just to the right people, but to the right algorithms too. This right here gets to the absolute heart of the change. The old game, it was all about volume and virality, right? Just throwing stuff out there and hoping something would catch fire.

The new game is completely different. It’s all about showing real expertise and, this is crucial, maximizing a metric called dwell time. So, what is actually going on behind the scenes? Well, you can think of it like this, you’re fighting a war on two fronts now.

On one side, you’ve got LinkedIn’s [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new content algorithm and it’s looking for totally different stuff than it used to. And on the other side, a completely new audience you have to impress. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are now using to find talent.

Okay, so let’s dig into that first front, the new algorithm. And you have to understand this one term, dwell time. This is the new gold standard.

The algorithm doesn’t really care about a quick like or a simple share anymore. What it really wants to know is, how long did someone actually stop scrolling and spend time with your post? The longer they stay, the more your content gets pushed out. And check this out, it’s all about timing now.

It’s not just what you post, but when the engagement happens. Your post literally goes through stages of judgment. That first hour is a critical quality check.

If you can get good, meaningful comments and engagement in what’s called the golden window, the first two hours, the algorithm rewards you. You miss it and your post is basically dead in the water. So, want to know a pro tip for nailing that golden window? It’s actually pretty simple, but it makes a huge difference.

The data is super clear on this. If you just respond to the comments on your post within that first hour, you can get a, get this, a 35% boost in visibility. That’s huge.

It’s the algorithm literally rewarding you for having a real conversation. Okay, so that’s the human facing algorithm. But remember that second front I mentioned? Your audience has changed a lot.

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It’s not just people reading your profile anymore. An insane 87% of [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) use [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as their main tool. And more and more, they’re letting [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) do the heavy lifting, parsing your entire profile for context.

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It’s all about structuring your information so these new tools can find you and immediately understand your value. And it all starts with your headline. Seriously, this is the most important piece of real estate on your entire profile.

The old way of just putting your job title there, that’s over. The new AI-optimized way is this simple formula. Your target job title, plus a key skill [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are searching for, plus a unique value prop that shows your impact.

All right, let’s talk about the about section, because so many people get this wrong. You have to kill the vague, fluffy buzzwords. Phrases like dynamic leader or results-oriented, they are absolute poison for your profile.

Not only do humans just roll their eyes at them, but the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) parsers can’t verify them. They’re just empty claims, not facts. So here’s the fix.

You replace every single one of those claims with quantified proof, with hard numbers. Don’t say you’re a leader, show it. This after example is perfect.

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This is your keyword goldmine, a little insider tip from actual [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Literally just copy and paste the detailed content from your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) right into this section. Yep, all of it.

Then structure each bullet point with that how plus result formula. And here’s a huge one. Add your top five skills to every single job you’ve listed.

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But now you need a content strategy that’s built for humans. One that wins that all-important dwell time game we talked about earlier. When it comes to the type of content you should be making, there is a clear, undisputed king, carousels.

You know, the ones you upload as a [PDF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/they-asked-for-pdfs-about-work-that-wont-launch-for-2-weeks/) or a document post. And the reason is simple. They force people to actively stop and swipe through them.

That skyrockets your dwell time. And the stats back it up. They’re two and a half times more likely to get reshared.

Now, if you’re really serious about being seen as an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in your field, you should definitely turn on creator mode. It kind of rejiggers your whole profile to put your content front and center. It lets you add these topic hashtags that basically scream to the algorithm what you’re an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in.

And it changes that connect button to follow, which is way better for building a true audience. Okay, we’ve covered a ton of ground here, right? We’ve talked about the new algorithm, the rise of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the whole shebang. So let’s pull all this together into a simple, actionable playbook that you can start using today for 2025.

So here’s the bottom line. Your strategy needs two parts, and they have to work together perfectly. On one side, you have your [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) architecture.

That’s all about optimizing your profile with the right formulas, the hard data, those how plus result bullets, so the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can find you. On the other side, you have expertise validation. That’s your content strategy, creating stuff that proves your value to humans and wins that dwell time game.

And that’s really the main takeaway from all of this. You can’t just do one and ignore the other. You absolutely need a profile that’s architected for a machine, and you need a content strategy that’s designed to captivate a person.

Getting both of those right, that’s the new non-negotiable key to [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). So I’ll leave you with this one last question. After hearing all this, go pull up your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile right now.

Take a really honest look at it. Is it a relic of the old game packed with vague claims and just hoping for virality? Or is it a precisely engineered asset ready to win in 2025? The choice is yours.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, carer transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Tools to Help You Get Back to Work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tools-to-help-you-get-back-to-work/)

**Published:** February 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** CareerOneStop.org created a webinar that this is based on about The Top 10 Tools to help people return to work. This is a brief representation

**Content:**

# Tools to Help You Get Back to Work

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[CareerOneStop.org](http://CareerOneStop.org) created a webinar that this is based on about The Top 10 Tools to help people return to work. This is a brief representation

So, are you thinking about a new job or maybe even a totally different [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)? I know, it can feel like a huge, overwhelming task. But what if I told you there’s a free toolkit backed by the U.S. government that can guide you through the whole thing? Well, today we’re going to dive into CareerOneStop.org and break down exactly how you can use its [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) tools to find and, you know, land your next great opportunity. You know, this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) really hits the nail on the head, doesn’t it? It comes from the U.S. Department of Labor, who actually sponsor the site.

We’re all feeling this great reshuffle. The world of work has changed and millions of people are looking for something more. More flexibility, better pay, or just work that feels more meaningful.

And that really brings the question back to you, right? Are you part of this reshuffle? Are you feeling that itch for something new, something better? It doesn’t matter if you’re just getting back into the workforce, aiming for a promotion, or thinking about a complete 180 on [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) path. You are definitely not alone in this. And that’s exactly where CareerOneStop.org comes into the picture.

Seriously, think of it as your personal guide, your [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) navigator through this whole new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) landscape. It’s built from the ground up to give you the real data and the powerful tools you need to make choices you can feel good about. And here’s what’s so great about it.

Trust and access. Because it’s sponsored by the Department of Labor, you know the information is top-notch and reliable. It’s not just a job board.

It’s a huge resource for everything from exploring new [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) to getting [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) tips. And honestly, the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) part? It is completely 100% free. No subscriptions, no hidden fees, nothing.

So to keep things simple, we’re going to look at the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) as a three-stage journey. First up, exploring your options. Then stage two, finding the actual job openings.

And finally, stage three, sealing the deal. For each stage, we’ll check out a really key tool that can help. All right, let’s kick things off with stage one, exploring options.

This is for anyone who’s just kind of looking out at the horizon thinking, okay, what’s my next move? You might have that feeling that you want to change, but you’re just not sure what that change should be. And here’s the thing you’ve got to remember. You are not starting from zero.

Not at all. Every job you’ve ever had has armed you with valuable skills. The real trick is learning how to see how those skills can plug into a totally new field.

This is where [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One Stop has this awesome tool called My Skills, My Future. It’s so simple. You just type in a job you’ve had in the past and boom, it spits out a list of new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) ideas that are a great match for the skills you already have and helps you see your own experience in a completely new light.

Okay, check this out. This is a perfect example of how it works. Let’s imagine your old job was a medical assistant, and the tool suggests you could be a speech pathologist assistant.

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On the left, it shows you all the skills that transfer right over, things like critical thinking and customer service. But just as important, look at the right side. It points out the specific skills you’d need to pick up, like some knowledge of psychology.

It just makes a huge [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) change, feels so much more doable. All right, on to stage two, finding the openings. So you’ve done your exploring, you’ve got a target [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) in mind, and now it’s time to find the actual [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

Let’s do it. So the Job Finder tool is going to be your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend here. It’s this powerful search engine that pulls in listings from all over the place.

Super simple. Just pop in a keyword, a location, and you’re off. But here’s a little pro tip.

Make sure you use the filters. That remote work only filter is a game changer if you’re looking for a work from home gig. But hey, what if you want to be more proactive about it? Well, that’s what the Business Finder is for.

It lets you do what’s called a targeted [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). So instead of just waiting for ads to pop up, you can find the companies you really want to work for and reach out to them directly. This thing has a database of over 12 million [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), so it really puts you in the driver’s seat.

And that brings us to the final stage, stage three, sealing the deal. You found the perfect role, you crushed the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you’re at the finish line. This is where a little bit of data can give you a serious competitive edge.

Let’s talk money. Knowing what you’re worth is absolutely critical when it’s time to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/). The site’s [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Finder tool gives you that hard data, like the median pay for a job across the whole country, but that’s just the start.

And here’s where it gets really powerful. A graphic designer in, say, Minneapolis-St. Paul probably isn’t making the same as one just a few hours away in Duluth or Green Bay.

The [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) Finder lets you compare wages in different cities and states. This is priceless information, whether you’re negotiating an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) or even thinking about [relocating](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-relocating-2/) for a job. Want another way to make your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) pop? Check out the Certification Finder.

It helps you pinpoint credentials that can give you a real boost. And get this, see that little chili pepper icon? That’s their little signal for certifications that are super in demand with [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) right now, based on real job postings. How cool is that? It’s a great shortcut to know what’s hot.

So when you put it all together, [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) One Stop is so much more than just a job board. It’s a complete toolkit designed to empower you at every single stage of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) journey. It gives you the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) that comes from having solid [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) info right at your fingertips.

And if you’re looking for even more hands-on support, you can find a lot more to help you at [JobSearch,Community](http://JobSearch.Community). There are video courses, [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), you might know him as [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), plus books, guides, [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile critiques, and even custom [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) prep. There is so much more to discover.

Again, that’s [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community).

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### [Is It Rude to Ask How Many Other People They're Considering?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-rude-to-ask-how-many-other-people-theyre-considering/)

**Published:** February 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** And if they tell you the truth (which is dubious) what does that mean for you?

**Content:**

# Is It Rude to Ask an Interviewer How Many Other People They’re Considering?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/QWkVbmJxdB0)

And if they tell you the truth (which is dubious) what does that mean for you?

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

### **[*FEELING DEPRESSED About Your Search? Struggling? Feeling Fatigued?*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eAm)**

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Stupid Job Search Mistakes: Believing It Is in the Bag](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-job-search-mistakes-believing-it-is-in-the-bag-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** February 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Job hunters make all sorts of stupid mistakes when they interview.

**Content:**

# Stupid Job Search Mistakes: Believing It Is in the Bag

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Job hunters make all sorts of stupid [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) when they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

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### [Evaluating for F.I.T.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/evaluating-for-f-i-t-jobsearchradio-com/)

**Published:** February 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I interview Paul Ratcliffe, a career coach and we talk about a methodology for evaluating for your fit with an organization.

**Content:**

# Evaluating for F.I.T.

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

We all know that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) evaluate for fit as part of their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process (and do a pretty bad job of it, if you ask me). Often, job hunters don’t evaluate for fit either and, when they do, don’t have a useful approach to it other than using their “gut.”

On this show, I interviewed Paul Ratcliffe, a career coach and we talk about a methodology for evaluating for your fit with an organization.

[***Stupid Interview Mistakes: Not Knowing When to Shut Up***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4Cs)

So my guest this time is Paul Ratcliffe. Paul is a certified professional business coach, and he also works with high potential individuals and coaches them through change into senior leadership roles. Paul, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio. Great to have you on board.

Hi, Jeff. How are you today?

Fabulous now that I know you are here.

Thanks for arranging this. Been looking forward to it My pleasure.

So let me just start by saying that [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) like to think they evaluate for fit, and they do a miserable job of it. After all, their version of evaluating for fit is Paul. That guy kind of reminds me of Henry up on four, you know, and that’s as much as they really do. They compare you with someone that they know Think, think that you’re just like that. In the therapy business, we call that [projection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rejection-is-part-of-the-job-search-process-shorts/). It doesn’t work. And then they get shocked when you join the firm and you’re nothing like Henry. So they make that [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) on their side. But from a job Hunter perspective, I think a lot of people do much the same sort of thing too. They look at their future boss and say, Wow, I really like this person. They are fabulous. So we know there’s got to be a better way for job hunters to evaluate for fit. Am I wrong?

Yeah, absolutely on the nail.

I would hope so, because we know that this was the show idea we’re going to do. So where should a job Hunter start off in trying to figure out whether they really fit the organization they’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with.

That’s a great question, Jeff, and that there’s lots of different ways that people can start but the model that I prefer to use with people is what’s called a career master fit. And I it, and that’s broken into two basic section, sections that help job hunters figure out what they’re good at, what they’re going to like, where their interests lie. And then they also ask them about how they’re going to feel fulfilled, what things are, maths to them, etc, etc. So, so the model breaks down into the basically into two columns, if you can imagine them. And on the on the left hand side, you’ve got external fit, which I’ll explain in a second, and then the internal fit. So starting with the external fit, what persons first needs to ask themselves is the F stands for function. So what do I like to do? What do I want to do? What strengths, skills, passions do I have? And a good a good question I like to ask people is, have you excelled at anything in the past? Always gives me a really good indication of where people’s true motivations lie, because, if they can remember something that they may excel, that They’re usually driven by motivating and quite passionate about it.

On Knicks, absolutely

yes on the nail, yeah, yeah. So this is all driven by what what they where they exceed in a professional environment. That That means, if people talk about sports, there’s a lot that you can get from asking the right questions and probing and challenging people on that, you know for sure, because it drives the passion so you know. So what is it about the game, or what is about the team that they like, so it definitely fits in there. It’s just unfortunate we can’t to get everybody to play for the next with the chair and make our lives a lot easier. So after we talked through the function, we then move on to the I of the fit model, which is interest in industry. So now that we figured out what we want to do and why we want it and that and what we’d like. Then we figure out where we’re going to apply those skills. We ask, you know, when you take those skills, what you’re going to do with those skills, and who you’re going to work with. And one of the one of the great questions I like to ask in this particular section is, what do you want to avoid? So you might think, you know, I’m really good at x, and I want to go and apply it to y, and then I’m going to get z as a result. And that’s some a lot of the times is not the case. So I do ask that question. It really makes people think about, okay, maybe I was on the wrong path, or, you know, maybe I can apply it in a different sort of way. So I challenge people in that. Environment.

They also work The opposite that you that, the opposite,

that’s a great question, you know, is conversely, what would you like to avoid? You know, it’s always it stops people dead in the tracks, and they think, oh, that’s, you know, it’s really interesting. I haven’t thought of it from that respect, but exactly what you just said, you can find the true passion there. So then we move on to the to the T, which is things that matter. So this is another really important question, because, and I’ll give you a, probably a bad example, but it’s very simple to follow function skill set. You know, I want to be a CEO, and you’ve worked the way through. I want to be the boss of my own business. And then you get to things that match. And I ask about, tell me about what lifestyle that you want to achieve. Tell me where your values lie. Tell me about the geography. Tell me about your workouts, what, what things matter to you. And I’ve had people say I want to be the CEO of a company, but I only want to work 25 hours a week because I’ve got to pick my kids up from school, you know, yeah, let’s find out what, what things really matter to you, and things like ethical values of companies that are going to work for, you know, all of those things that matter. And there’s some spiritual things that matter to people, you know, if people are particularly religious and they’re going into a company that that maybe isn’t that, you know, that way inclined, or has a lot of people not that way inclined, or vice versa. So all of those questions really matter, and that’s another big area that I probe on. So that’s the outline of the external fit, the career fit model. Now we flip into the internal, which is really looking at the individual themselves and really focusing on them. And this can be very challenging for people, because, as we all know, the hardest thing to sell in the world is ourselves, but it really, truly makes them look at themselves. So, so the F in the internal fit is fulfillment. So, so why do you go to work? What purpose or cause or legacy Do you want to create? What difference do you want to make? And when they start answering those questions, I ask them, Why? Why in that? Why is that particularly rewarding for you? So that really challenges them to think about who they are as an individual and watch so they’ve just come out of the things that match on the external fit. Now they’re looking at how they’re going to feel fulfilled in that particular role.

Just

simple word, absolutely, yeah. And one thing I was going to mention is probably a good, good moment to mention this. Jeff is one of the reasons I got into career [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and exec [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) is 70% of the American workforce is disengaged, and that’s, that’s according to a 20 year ongoing survey by gallup.com I was reading on their website this morning. I do that once a month, and it’s very consistent. And I think fulfillment is one of the big key areas that people don’t, you know, I don’t think they think it through all the way they go for the money, they get the job, and they end up bouncing around from job to job because they’re not fulfilled, or they find themselves stuck in a particular area. So they might like the company, but they’re not going anywhere. They’re not getting promoted. They’re getting overseen for [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) increases, etc, etc. [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) That is from the fact that most people still have an industrial mindset where they think that if they do a good job, they will work their way up. And they act that way intellectually they know the firm, basically, we appreciate your service. Thank you so much. The economy is how we. Organization,

first. Okay, we’re back. Thank you. Struggle with giving voice. What their needs are in this equation,

## ***[Standing Out on an Interview](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hoC)***

what inspires the deep core level on the internal fit. So the I is identity. So that’s some question about what we ask is, who are you now and who are you becoming, or who do you want to become? And a lot of the times, I let silence do the heavy lifting for me there, because it’s important that people really think about who they are now and where they want to be. Can be one. And if you ask, in a way, who do you want to be in one year’s time, everybody says, CEO. You know that that’s not the question is. It’s Who are you becoming as a person? What’s your identity going to be when you when you find this role that you’re looking for? What you know, where are you going to take it, and what you’re going to do with it? So it’s, it’s kind of tipping back into the passion and the purpose and driving the value behind it. So a good question would be to ask, give me some single adjectives that [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) describe you, so you know and how other people perceive you. Give me one word answers of how you think other people’s but and see if those two things align, and, you know, run some comparisons in there. So it’s really tapping into the person’s identity.

What know whether or not you get that shock expression, because, as we know, ultimately, we have to change in order to get

this Yeah. Very challenging question, yeah, yeah. So another question to throw in there as well is to ask them who their role models are. The answer that you know to say, Well, why? Why is that person your role model? What is it in particular? And a lot of people think that they like you. Touched on it earlier. Think that they like someone, but they don’t really understand why, you know. So we’re really tapping and challenge them on that level as well.

So so now we’re talking about the type of person which stands for time. So typical questions would be, how do you re energize your batteries when you feeling down? What do you do? How do you go about making decisions in life? Are you kind of a knee jerk type person? Are you very logical in your approach? Do you need to know everything? Does everything need to be in order before you you know you move forward. So what type of decisions you make? How do you orient your environment? You walk into a new environment. What’s the first thing that you do? You know, you’re looking for the fire exit doors. Are you looking for the bathrooms? Are you looking for the person to shake the hand? You know what time? So it’s finding out how the person really thinks and how they operate as an individual, and that really helps us to kind of put the icing on the cake

in terms of this, obviously [follow Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) to this as well, to pull this out further, question.

To be honest with you, Jeff, a lot of the time people can’t answer that question, because it’s something you know, you jump in your in your car and you drive you guys to work. You don’t think about, I need to press the pedal and hold the wheel, and you just do it. And people do a lot of things like that, very, very naturally, and they don’t even think that. They do not even realize what they’re doing, just things like I talked to somebody recently about [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) when they go in for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), because I picked up on the fact that they were not looking at me when I was [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) them. And I said, you know, you need to have a lot more [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/). And they honestly thought they did. They felt they were staring. But there was a lot of kind of, you know, this business going on. So people don’t really understand what they’re doing until they really think about it. So if they can’t come up with something, I’ll say, let’s put you in an environment and Okay, now tell me what you see, and just think through an environment that you’ve been. In recently. So it’s amazing how people think a lot of the times, you know, they’re asking that they’re looking for the exits before they’re looking for the entrance. You know, they always remember how they come in and they always remember how they go out, but everything in between kind of gets fuzzy.

One of the to change the environment in order to be person that you want to become. Person that you want, yeah, yeah, yeah. How important is when you walk into a reception area, there’s usually a lot to learn about a company when you walk in there, there’s usually historical landmarks on there or awards that they want to know. Those are, those are interesting things you can bring up in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that show that you’ve actually done some [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), you know, so just tiny little things like that, about being aware of making the most of your time while you’re there, you know, that’s that’s Something that you know, really, really push on people

have, well can take away that often, they forget all this wonderful data.

I They’re on site and being interviewed. Yeah.

So I think once you’ve got an awareness of who you are and where your passion lies, and you’re obviously targeting, hopefully, by then, you’re going to be targeting a company or a role for a particular reason, and you know why you’re going in there. And for me, what I’ve seen in people is, firstly, is that their passion is just elevated because it means so much of them, they’re going for something they really want. You know, they’re not just going to find a job or put a warm body on a warm seat. They’re going for something that they they’re connected with. So that. So when, if you can think of something that you’re passionate about, it doesn’t matter what it is you’re into it. If it’s basketball, you know all the scores, you know all the competitors. You know who the good team and the bad team. But if you’re not into basketball, it’s like, you know. So if you’re into something that you’re going for, and you’re really, really keen on the company, and you’re really keen on the role, you’re much more likely to do a lot of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), because you want to look good, you want to sound good, you want to be knowledgeable, because you actually care about where you go. Like I said, it’s not just a job. Now you’re going for that. You’re going for that role that you’ve been kind of building yourself up to. So, you know that that’s what I really emphasize on this. It seems like a kind of, kind of a boring exercise at times, but, but the end result is it’s just so much different when they when people go through this, because they find a lot more about themselves, not just about what their interests are, what they want to do, but you know, they find how passionate, how passionate they are about certain things in life that maybe they didn’t realize Before,

which bit ahead

of the game the government.

Focus on yourself and

I’m sorry. I was just saying, you have to stand out. You have to I was doing another blood talk a couple of days ago, and I said the same thing. You know, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers nowadays are very, very distant from us. They’re behind portals, behind job boards, so you only got that one opportunity to walk through the door and blow them away. You know, you should walk out knowing that no matter who comes. Was in the door behind you, you’ve you’ve got the job, and by going through this exercise, it will absolutely get you there. Yes,

### [***38 Deadly Interview Mistakes to Avoid***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-k9Z)

I gotta put that bluntly,

because and I got to put that bluntly, because so many people wind up in [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) so soon, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)

managers. Within one year of the [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) report, having made that decision, part of

that is them and their

assessment process that’s completely sincere and coming. It’s

important that people go through this and if nothing else, I mean, there’s, there’s probably 10 or 12 Steps you could talk about before going out to look for a job, as you probably, you know, probably agree on, but with me on that. But this, this is, I think, is one of the key critical steps that people because if you don’t understand yourself, then what you cannot possibly understand why you’re chasing down the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that you are. You get to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions for us,

the one just focused on them.

What would I have accomplished during that year?

Like this, but there are questions,

what sort of questions you might recommend to ask in order Yeah,

yeah, a really great question. Jeff, and I think I was in staffing and recruiting for just over [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) myself, so we’re similar backgrounds and and I think being a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager myself and bringing you know, [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) after [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) you know, through through the ranks, the one thing that I always hoped that they would ask me, but never seemed to ask me, was, how many hours per week am I going to really have to work to be effective in this role?

I think, to clarify that one in this role, yeah yeah. And nobody ever asked me that. And I think for me, my point was, if you want to be successful in any job, but particularly in where there’s a lot of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), and in recruitment, as you well know, there’s a lot of [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) that needs to be done, as well as talking to people, as well as sales and development, marketing, etc, you have to put the extra time in. And I don’t mean sit there till 10 o’clock at night at the desk and kind of scratch around on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and hope for the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) and talking about, you know, go home and get your work life balance, but be committed, you know. So look out for news articles. Read about the industry, the what the latest trends are in the industries. All of those things show that you are really caring and passionate, and you’ve done your [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), and you bring your stuff to the table. You bring your value to the table. So my team, when I had a team previously, was about 70 deep at its absolute peak. And I used to say to people, you know, for everybody who’s certainly based in Houston, everybody knows someone that’s based in oil and gas, everybody so find out who they are. You know, we don’t have to market them. We don’t have to sell to them, but let’s find out who they are and what they do. And, you know, have an interest in the oil and gas cycle, and find out where they where they fit into that, into that cycle. You. So just showing a level of interest like that. When you come in and talk back to your employer, my neighbor works for x, and he does this, it shows them you really caring, and you you’re really getting into the role now. And that’s that’s something I think people can, can really it doesn’t take a lot to go a lot further than the average person, just by putting a little bit more effort.

That’s such a wonderful statement, it doesn’t

take a lot more time. Question is what someone might ask in order to find that someone might

ask, I mean, that that’s that’s a difficult one to kind of broad stroke across every person. Because it really depends, you know, some people, when you ask them about function, they get really [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) up, and then they don’t particularly have things that matter to them. So I really focus in, and I can feel that, you know, where the passion lies, that it kind of lights up when they talk about it. But you know, if they’ve got particular strengths and skills and passion, for example, that they ask, ask the employer. I’m really passionate about this. How do you think that I could bring that to the table and that would benefit you as the employer? And I talk a lot to people about everything in this day and age, as you are well aware, Jeff is what’s in it for me, and the employer is thinking like that as well. So think like the employer sat on the opposite side of the desk from you and say, if they bring me in, what’s their return on investment for paying me the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and the benefits, etc, whatever you decide to come up with, what’s the return on investment? So if you’ve got a particular strength or a skill or a passion that you think you you can that can add benefit to that, to that employer, you’re touching on that return on investment. So ask them that, ask them a question like that. It’s something that they’re not expecting whatsoever. But I am really skilled, or I am strong in this particular area, or I’m passionate about, how do you think if I brought that to the table. How do you think that will get a return on investment for you guys?

I think, I think the overall thing for me in this fit model, and what I tried to emphasize with people, is there’s another part of the Career [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) exercise that we go through that looks at what people are authentically. And what I mean by that is people put on a costume to go to work in probably 90% of the time. You know, they’re not really them. How many people have said, you know, if anybody knew what you were really like, you know, it’s that type of approach. So I say to people, if you were your true, authentic self, no holds barred. You know what? What’s that going to look like? And why can’t you take that into the workforce? Because so many people have this facade that they build themselves around, so that this whole career master fit is driven towards being your authentic self, being the true to yourself, and taking that into the workplace. Because if you do that, that there’s no costume to put on, there’s nothing to hide. You can be yourself. You can be passionate, and be purposeful about why you’re going to work, and you know everything else will be in your rear view mirror. You’ll be onwards and upwards.

I so agree. It’s part of what people taking [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), the wonder

satisfied? Yes,

sure. So you can find me unusual social media platforms, but my website is www dot inspired [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/).com, where you can find out some more information about me. It’s very it’s a very personal site about me and my and the [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) that I do. And there’s some sessions on there that are completely free of charge, if people want to to come and talk to me and find out more about what [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) is about, so you can find me on there on the contact page, and my, you know, my direct cell phone is on there, so it really is me that’s picking up the phone, and it really is me that’s answering the email. So feel free to reach out to me. There’s.

Designed to help you succeed. I also want to encourage you [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). There’s so much information that’s available to help you find work so that you don’t have to thrash around figuring it out. Have curious great content available, have curious videos, podcasts. You can ask me questions. Look forward

to helping you next time, take care you.

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### [6 Life and Career Lessons I Learned from Watching Sports on TV](https://thebiggamehunter.us/six-life-and-career-lessons-i-learned-from-watching-sports-on-tv/)

**Published:** February 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Sports is a way to learn life lessons. Even watching sports can offer life lessons.

**Content:**

# 6 Life and Career Lessons I Learned from Watching Sports on TV

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

**1. We are what we repeatedly do.**
I interviewed Chance Taureau for [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Radio (the show went live in February 2015. Among his [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) clients are professional athletes paid amounts equal to small government programs to execute. Do you think they are not practicing their skills until they become second nature in every circumstance? Whether it is [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) or performing your job, are you practicing to make your ability to perform second nature?

**2. Winners find a way to win. Losers have excuses.**
Have you ever noticed how often a bad team leads early in a game only to lose in the end? Have you ever seen an unknown tennis player win the first set only![tennis](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/tennis-photo-1520605521852-66104ab1ec27-unsplash-300x225.jpg) to get trounced and lose. Winners know how to summon up the muscle memory to win. One of the ways they do that is that they know that losers will summon up a similar muscle memory to lose at the end. It takes time to turn around a losing culture. It is often better to get rid of mediocre performers and rebuild. Mediocre performers work to lower the standards of new people to their level because they are threatened. Cut them rather than let them contaminate others.

**3. You are what your record says you are.**
This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from Bill Parcels, former head coach of several great pro teams, is one of the most important things people need to accept. It doesn’t matter how close you get to [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). You lost and the number in “the ‘L’ column” has increased by one. In life and in business, you are judged by results far more often than not. Companies may tell you they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) team players but they are lying. Ask any CEO whether he or she would like to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a nice mediocre performer or the next Steve [Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Ellison and I suspect you know the answer. Start aiming higher in your aspirations.

**4. There is a price to pay to excel.**

The corollary to this is that it is the things we do when no one is looking that make an enormous difference. Ask any pro athlete about the work they do to get ready. Do you think Derek Jeter just decided to do that cutoff play that cost the Oakland A’s a game the series to the Yankees? No, it was something practiced out of site. How about that incredible stamina that Jerry Rice had? No, he did work on a 2 and a half mile hill as part of his [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) that became the admiration and model for other pros.

**5. We are in control of our choices.**
You say you want to be successful but will probably go home tonight and watch tv and do nothing to implement any changes to your life or routines. Pick one thing. Change your diet for tomorrow. Ask a friend to support you with making a change. [Research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) online courses. Maybe the change you need to make is to recognize that you are a workaholic and spend time with your wife, husband, partner, boyfriend, girlfriend or kids a little more often. Do something different. Again, pick one thing and make a change. Do it repeatedly until it becomes a habit.

**6. [Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach.**
Most people think they can make changes by themselves. They take off 10 pounds and put on 12. They learn to play an instrument and put it down and never pick it up. They aspire to promotions but do little or nothing to earn them and complain when their nominal effort is not instantly rewarded. Falling off the wagon and going back to an old habit is not the path to [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Successful athletes all have coaches. What do they know you don’t? Act like a pro and not like an amateur. Commit yourself and [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a coach to help you improve.

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### [Networking Like a Leader](https://thebiggamehunter.us/networking-like-a-leader/)

**Published:** February 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Networking Like a Leader

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

EP 3129 Leaders are great networkers. Learn from how they do it.

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- **00:00 – Intro:** Shifting the focus from just [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) to intentionally building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).
- **00:19 – The [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Divide:** Exploring the different rulebooks used by average performers versus true leaders.
- **01:08 – Fear vs. Visibility:** Moving past the “Stone Age” fear of being caught looking and embracing professional visibility.
- **02:16 – Inside vs. Outside:** Why leaders prioritize external industry connections over just internal office politics.
- **03:22 – Strategy: Short vs. Long:** Building a “professional Rolodex” as a long-term asset rather than a last-minute tactic.
- **04:10 – Leaders Network Up:** The importance of connecting with business heads and industry influencers.
- **04:30 – The Winner’s Playbook:** A breakdown of the repeatable mindset that separates those who thrive from those who just get by.
- **05:33 – Bonus Tip:** How becoming a “winner” makes [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) an effortless, natural process.
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Okay, let’s talk about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). We all know we’re supposed to do it, right? But what if I told you that most of us are playing the game completely wrong? Today, we’re going to break down how the real leaders approach [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), and more importantly, how you can shift your own strategy from just desperately [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) to actually building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). See, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) isn’t just one thing.

It’s really two totally different games, each with its own rulebook. You’ve got the way most people do it, and then you’ve got the way leaders do it. And honestly, the mindsets behind them are just worlds apart.

And it all starts with this one really fundamental question. What’s the actual difference between a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)? I mean, really think about it. If you can grasp this distinction, you unlock the entire strategy.

Well, here it is. A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is reactive. It’s short term.

It’s you responding to an immediate need, scrolling through job boards, [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for whatever’s out there. But building a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/), that’s a whole different ballgame. It’s proactive.

It’s long term. And the goal to build such a strong reputation that opportunities start coming to you. So how do we even get to that point? Well, it all starts up here in the mindset.

For a lot of folks, the biggest thing holding them back is just plain old fear. But for top performers, the goal is the complete opposite. It’s all about visibility.

Does this sound familiar? My manager will find out. It’s that little voice in your head that paralyzes you, right? So many of us have been taught to think that even just looking at other opportunities is some kind of betrayal, that we’re going to get caught and be in big trouble. But here’s the thing.

That is pure Stone Age thinking. Seriously. That fear comes from a time before we all had cell phones in our pockets.

A time when your boss might have actually been able to listen in on your office landline. Today, that risk is basically zero. It’s an outdated fear that’s keeping you stuck.

And you can really see the difference in how people act. The average performer hides. They’re conditioned by that fear.

So they keep their head down and stay in their lane. But a leader, they actively work to become visible. They’re out there writing, speaking, and getting involved.

They make it their mission to become known in their field. Now, this shift in mindset has a huge impact on what people actually do. It completely changes who they connect with and how they build their professional relationships.

For example, a lot of people just network inside their own company’s walls, but leaders, they get it. They know the real power is in external visibility. They’re talking to people everywhere, making sure their wins are known throughout the whole industry, not just by their boss.

And hey, think about what happens when you leave a job. The normal thing is to just cut ties and move on, right? But top performers know that a former boss can be an incredibly powerful lifelong connection. They keep those relationships going, building this amazing network of mentors and advocates.

Ghosting them is just a massive missed opportunity. Okay, this next one is so, so important. How do you treat [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? You know, it’s easy to get annoyed and just brush them off, but that’s like slamming a door in your own face.

A strategic professional, on the other hand, listens. They investigate the opportunity. They see every single call as a chance to learn something about the market, even if they’re not interested.

So we’ve got mindset and we’ve got relationships. Now let’s pull the camera back and look at how these pieces fit into the bigger, long-term strategy that really sets the most successful people apart. When things get tough, the reactive move is to run to the job boards and start from scratch.

[***When Following Up Backfires***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oL4)

A proactive leader though, they pull out their professional Rolodex, that powerful list of contacts they’ve been building for years. See the difference? It’s a strategic asset, not a last minute tactic. This also shows a huge difference in how people think.

A lot of people feel like they need to have all the answers themselves, so they never ask for help. But leaders, they know they don’t know everything. They get help.

They [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) coaches. They understand that the smartest investment they can ever make is in themselves. And a really key part of this strategy is [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) up.

Top performers make it a point to connect with people running businesses, with the heads of major departments. But, and this is crucial, they’re smart about it. They know you don’t waste your asks.

You build a real connection first. So when you actually do need a big favor, it lands with some serious weight. Okay, so let’s put it all together.

What’s the ultimate playbook that winners are following? Because it’s not about luck, and it’s not just about talent. It is absolutely about a repeatable mindset and a very specific approach to their whole [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). This all brings us to what we could call the big lesson.

This is the core idea. The thing that really separates the people who thrive from those who just, you know, get by. And here it is.

Winners find the way to win, and losers find the way to lose. It sounds so simple, right? But it’s also incredibly profound. It means [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) is not an accident.

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### [What Should I Do If My Resume Isn't Generating Interviews? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-should-you-do-if-my-resume-isnt-generating-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** March 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What should you do if your resume isn't generating any interviews?

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# What Should You Do If My Resume Isn’t Generating Interviews? #shorts

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### [From Fear to Friendly. Becoming a Networking All-Star](https://thebiggamehunter.us/from-fear-to-friendly-becoming-a-networking-all-star/)

**Published:** March 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My guest, Tom Broxham, is someone who faced down a huge justifiable fear to become a networking all-star. Listen to his journey and apply it for yourself.

**Content:**

# From Fear to Friendly. Becoming a Networking All-Star

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

## From Fear to Friendly. Becoming a Networking All-Star

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is a bogeyman for so many people. They diligently avoid it based upon discomfort and fear. My guest, Tom Broxham, is someone who faced down a huge justifiable fear to become a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) all-star. Listen to his journey and apply it for yourself.

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This is an automated transcript that contains errors.

so my guest today is

tom broxham tom has over 14 years of

experience working in different types of

office environments

across canada and now new zealand my

first new zealander on the show

he’s got a great personality and built

strong

and positive networks of people

and this all despite having had

some really justifiable reasons for

some lifelong fears in his life that

i’m sure was going to translate very

well into our talking about

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and fear of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) tom

damn how are you today oh i’m absolutely

horrible it’s just

don’t want to do this no thanks very

much for inviting me on the show it’s

it’s great really appreciate the time to

be able to talk about

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and it’s a it’s a beautiful

saturday morning here

and it’s a friday late afternoon here

and uh i see you’re on your morning

coffee good for you

tom what happened what what happened to

you

that brought this fear so dramatically

into your life well one of the worst

fears that i had was

a fear of water when i was three years

old i drowned

my dad had to jump into the water and as

soon as he got into the water

i was already dead and thankfully he had

cpr [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/)

because he was an x-ray tech he started

restating me

when i was in the water still brought me

back

into the shore and finished it off and i

was able to come back

but from there when i was eight years

old

people who didn’t like me very much

pushed me into the deep end of the pool

and i nearly drowned that should have

been traumatic enough as it is

one of them should have been bad enough

then when i was 13 years old

people came from behind me they pushed

me

into the water and i nearly drowned

again

after that i didn’t go into the water

very much and when you have experiences

like that as it as a kid

your [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) just is shot

you become very insecure and you become

a lot more

introverted that and you definitely

don’t want to go into the water after

that

it wasn’t until i was in my 30s that i

said enough’s enough and i learned how

to swim but it took a lot

to be able to get to that point

and when i was a kid alone i was just

picked on a lot

how did that fear wind up ruling you and

inhibiting you

in your relationships with others

trust you know like when

i couldn’t even go into the water more

than waist deep and just always [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/)

not just drowning but like in general i

don’t like people being behind me now

and i know at times if i’m walking down

the street i might be walking very fast

and i just don’t like having people too

close to me

which can be quite hard with [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

because someone’s always

around and you have to be closer to

people but at times

i might be in a restaurant i might be

just that’s usually just because i’m

really hungry

\[Laughter\]

thank you and thank you for opening up

about that

um you know i had my own episode with

almost drowning

my father and my

uh and uncle they decided to teach me

how to swim

so there was the classic uncle taking me

out

and going save yourself

and i couldn’t i didn’t know what to do

and that became the freeze moment now

uh obviously my version of it is

different than yours but fears like this

are

i know for me it was very paralyzing for

a long time

and caused me to be pretty quiet around

other people

because i too had a trust issue folks if

you’ve been with me for any length of

time

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i know this is new information for you

and it’s not normally the way i present

there are ways to overcome this and this

is really what we’re talking about today

is we’ve each talked in times to me is

he has multiple episodes of this

of you know bullying intimidation an

accident being the first one where

he’s in the water and almost drowns and

thus

how do you begin this process of

overcoming the fear

and this fear permeates the rest of your

life and

we’re talking about how do you do this

and start

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with people especially when

you know you know you it’s hard for you

to trust folks because

they’ve hurt you so badly over time

well i’ll talk about just how i learned

how to swim

in general i started traveling around

and i realized i was missing out on

opportunities when i was in places like

cuba

dominican republic jamaica i couldn’t

really go in the water and

i missed out on so many opportunities

and if someone came back from a

snorkeling chair

telling me about all the different

things they saw i’m like oh

well i can’t do that then i saw a

picture of someone snorkeling with a

whale shark

i thought that’s an experience that i

want it’s still an experience i want

but if i can’t even get into the water

how am i going to get into the water

with something

of that size and i decided enough’s

enough

i’m going to learn how to do this small

steps

that was the key for it like i decided

that’s it i want to do it i’m going to

do it and then i signed up for lessons

that’s how i started everything the

lessons that i learned that night

i take with me for so many other aspects

and this is why it’s really important

for me to talk about the drowning

and how it relates to the [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) for

me so

when i went into the pool that night and

it was three feet deep

i thought i’m gonna drown i can’t even

do this

and one of the things we had to do was

submerge ourselves completely

i sat there for a minute just breathing

and trying to catch the right breath and

anything that was negative in my head i

had to

put that to the side and then i just had

to

sit there and catch that one right

breath once i caught it

i submerged myself i came up and thought

this isn’t so bad

those same skills i take into me when i

go to a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event

and no there’s no chances of of me dying

at the [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event

but it’s it’s fear and it’s the same

aspects it’s the same steps that happen

so

before i go into the [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event

catch that one right breath

start small if you go into [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

event to 300 people

and you walk right back out maybe you

want to start smaller and go to a

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event where there’s

10 or 15 people and try that out first

one right breath in the 300 event

uh moment you know hi it’s my first time

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) i’m terrified of being with

people

i’m going to the 300 person event first

of all

don’t but but let’s say you decide

you’re

it you know like stopping smoking you’re

going to go in and

dive in and try it

with ice you know focusing in on one

person

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be a way that someone could manage that

that is and one of the important things

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is if you just talk to one person you

still are [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

and what people won’t realize is what

we’re doing right now

we actually are [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and some

people think that you just have to go to

those big events

you don’t have to there’s nothing wrong

with going to them

but if you’re going to go to them and

walk right back out we need to look at

it a little bit differently for you

and there is nothing wrong with just

having coffee one-on-one with somebody

and what i like to do is go to events

that i know are going to be [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) for me

so i like to spend time in the outdoors

go to an outdoor club

go to one of their events something i’m

passionate about too is public speaking

so i go to toastmasters there’s 10 15

people in the room

that’s the way to do it and

my background’s in accounting so i might

not want to go to a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event

that’s full of

lawyers it’s just not going to go over

very well

and sometimes you need to think about

that like

where are you going and like why are you

going to that event

don’t just go there because it’s a

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event go there because it’s

the right event for you

and these days and we’re recording this

while kovit is still rampant around the

world

i think in terms of okay we’re now in

zoom calls and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) that way

and one suggestion i might make to folks

is okay you’ve got the tic-tac-toe board

up on your screen

with all those faces pick one

message them through private chat

yeah yeah you know he said something

interesting

i was wondering if we might talk

afterwards at what number can i reach

you or could we set up something at a

different time

for us to have that conversation so that

this way

you can take those 90 people on the

screen

and break it down to one or two people

that you

reach out to and judging by those head

nods

you like that idea it is

i remember being on a zoom call not too

long ago

and then all of a sudden i had a message

pop up and like oh

all right and so we were chatting off to

the side

because the person heard i was from new

zealand and she wanted to come over here

i’m like oh this is perfect and we

didn’t want to cut across everybody else

that was chatting so we just

had the little conversation to the side

but

if you do like it’s it’s interesting

some of the aspects that i’ve found out

about [introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/) in the last little

while

and i’m actually introverted myself

some different aspects how they’re even

coming on to [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and they’re coming

into here

and some people they might be in that

group of

10 15 people on a zoom call and they sit

there quiet because they don’t know how

to do it

but if you can focus on that one person

that could help

that could really help and if you decide

that i don’t know how to cut in here

being able to go and do it into that

chat

might be your way in and that might be

the

[best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way for you because then at least

you don’t have to talk you’re only

typing it instead

and that might make all the difference

bingo

and it’s i’m so glad we’re having this

conversation because i hadn’t really

thought about this

in the context of what we’re all dealing

with during the pandemic

and how do you network at a time where

you can’t just simply say let’s meet for

coffee

or let’s meet for 20 minutes

[***I Keep Sending Out Resumes, Following Up and Getting No Results***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-bXY)

how do you do that and meet new people

when everyone’s kind of

walled off so

it it can be a little bit more of a

challenge

but this is a prime example right here

no you can’t meet for coffee but i’ve

got my coffee right here anyways

and all you do is just

you set up a call with somebody instead

and it doesn’t have to be a zoom call

like

it can be an actual phone call what is

that

that’s like an antique zoom i know it’s

it’s really i love what people actually

call me and i’m like oh

i’m excited i’m getting a call and

because quite often we just text now and

it’s it’s rare that we actually talk on

the phone but

you can do these calls and one really

important aspect

of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and this is

actually how we connected

on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and sometimes it’s as you’re

engaging with other people’s posts

as you’re posting as you’re commenting

that’s [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) it’s a different kind

of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) but there’s nothing wrong

with it

at the end of the day you’re still

building relationships up

and that’s what we’re going to always

need it doesn’t matter how the medium

is we’re always going to need to connect

in one way or another

now [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) i was number 7653 on

[linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

of the almost 700 million people on the

platform

and i’ve got a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) name the big game

hunter

it’s like contact this person contact

you

yeah yeah it’s a very profound [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/)

and you know i have 26 000 first level

connections which isn’t the big deal

until you realize i rarely accept

connection requests

i didn’t do it for the longest time i

never accepted connection requests from

[recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)

until recently because i saw them as my

competition for my time doing head

hunting

uh so 26 000 at this point i think is

you know i could easily be you know 50

or 60 if i accepted

[recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) requests because they all go

after my network globally

but you know on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) how do people

start to make that

contact that allows them to start

building relationships what would you

recommend

one thing that i find interesting is the

[introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/)

now i thought a lot of [introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-network-successfully-as-an-introvert-without-faking-it/) were

doing quite well on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

but some of them have just told me well

i don’t even know how to

okay well jeff made a great post but i i

i don’t want to engage with it i thought

why not

really because i’m i’m introverted i

thought

i thought that just had to do more with

just talking not actually hey

jeff that’s a great post i think you

made some uh valuable comments on there

but they don’t know how to do that so

one thing

you can do if one of your friends is an

introvert or one of your connections

tag them in a post especially if

let’s say one of your friends is a

[recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) but they’re a little on the

introverted side

and you happen to have a post that has

some

valuable information that could really

help them

tag them in them and ask them a question

about it or comment about it

what do you think about this see if that

will help them

some people that are on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and

like this is something you you

just mentioned that you didn’t add very

many people before and a lot of people

that are on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) they’re like

have i met you no then i’m not going to

add you

or why would i talk to this person oh me

[***Tough Interview Questions for Managers: What Qualities Are Most Important When Managing a Team***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iuR)

i’ve got a lot of different connections

that some of them i’ve never met before

and some of them it was

i met them through this person through

this person through this person

and so on and so forth and those are

some of my [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) opportunities that came

up

if the only people you talk to are the

people that you have met

on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) there’s so many

other opportunities that you’re missing

out on and

something that i’ve seen recently

it was jim rohns who said this you

become the average

of the five people you spend the most

time with

now if you think you better than you’re

a job seeker

and you’re hanging out with five other

job seekers

it’s going to be that much more

difficult to get ahead now think about

it

if you are that job seeker now if i

start talking to

a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) somebody who works in the

field that i want to

somebody who works in [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) another

person in marketing

another person in hr now also you have

some

different people you’ve been talking to

different points of view

they can give you different tips that

you didn’t think about before

compared to those five people before

that are all

just looking for work too they just have

the same

information they might be able to give

you a little bit more details

but unlike the other five where they’re

not in your network

and they might be able to say to you hey

jeff there’s something

on your [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that let’s change this

or hey i noticed that this would be

great for you or

here’s a small tip recently i had a

videographer

send me a message and said your message

is good

but i couldn’t really hear you and your

lighting

it needs a lot of work oh

well okay and that was a huge help for

me

it was problems i didn’t even know i had

what you want to do is just start to

reach out to people that

that could help you whether it’s

someone in recruitment or it’s in a

company that you want to work for

or in uh just a different company and if

you’re

unsure of how to approach some of these

people

see if one of your connections is

connected to them

so for example if if i want to work for

let’s say some if i want to reach up to

somebody recruiting and i didn’t know

them

but jeff knows them i might send jeff a

message and say hey

can you introduce me to this person

he’ll send the message

introduce me and that just made it that

much easier

[***Tough Interview Questions for Managers: How Do You Approach an Employee About a Performance Issue?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iyl)

you know the person who gets ahead isn’t

always the smartest

they don’t always work the hardest those

are great qualities to have

people get ahead by being alert to

opportunities

sometimes they’re internals of their

organization more often than not they’re

external

now with the external ones

folks you could be [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to things

that were blue in the face but the

statistics i

see are pretty damning about

the number of positions that get filled

through

job postings or by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)

and the old statistics which i still

[quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) are no more than 30 percent of

positions get filled that way

[linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) claims it’s now down to 15.

they’ve got a vested interest in talking

about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

so i don’t know if their data is

accurate or not

i’ll just simply say if you believe it’s

30 7 out of 10 positions are filled

as a result of the introductions uh to

the people

they’re filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

by the way

of the 70 percent 70

of them or 49 come as a result of

introductions to people that your

network knows

who you don’t so this notion that we’re

talking about of overcoming your fear

by taking small steps not big

sweeping things unless you want to

excuse the metaphor dive into the pool

yep which most of us don’t want to do

because we’re [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) if we

if it was easy we would have done it by

now so

overcoming our fear with small steps

goes a long way toward moving ourselves

forward

so we get what we said we want in life

i’ll give you two examples of when i was

looking for work

one of them i sent out over 120 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

i received three calls that was it

so hours of redoing their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)

going to another company page filling

out all the information again that’s

already on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and doing this

again

setting up another username and password

three calls out of over 120 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)

when i came to new zealand at first i i

didn’t even have a working visa so i

couldn’t work

and i spent all my time going for coffee

doing [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

talking to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) three months later

on i got a call

from a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) saying hey do you want

to go do an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

but i i don’t have a visa yet he said

well just just go for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

and see what happens did the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

and the company’s like we want him for a

short-term contract

and i called the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and he goes

well when’s your visa come in

i’ve got i

went turned around called my uh

immigration advisor oh it was approved

today

call the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) back i’ll take the

contract

day one of having my visa i had an

[interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) secured

and i was able to get a short-term

contract

that’s because of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and that’s

the power of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

now one other example i can think of i

was looking to get out of accounting

and i was talking to some of the

different managers and she said

why don’t you go talk to lorraine one of

the other internal managers

and just see what’s going on because she

had difficulties getting internal

candidates

so i i met up with her and then she’s

like oh you want you want to

you want to talk about yeah okay great

she told me about three [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) that were

coming up in her department

and then one of the [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) i looked at i

said that sounds perfect

but i don’t have this particular aspect

she went to the

job description deleted that part don’t

worry about it

it’s not even there now and then she

said hey

do you want to do some cross [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/)

and i talked to some other people within

the company

so by the time the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) came around

i was already cross-trained

on that particular desk i had a working

relationship

with the manager and her team lead and

the person that i was going to be taking

over from was like yeah we want tom to

do that job

so anybody else external that’s what you

had to compete against

so when you see those job postings

chances are they already have someone

in mind for those [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)

it’s interesting you know when i coach

people about [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)

you know everyone tends to see a job

description or a job ad

that has this enormous list of skills

required and

preferred skills and

you know let’s work with the assumption

that this 15 item

list of requirements they really don’t

need all 15.

unless it’s a depression in which case

they go well

settle for someone with 14

***[Don’t Have Your Resume Rejected by The Applicant Tracking System](https://youtu.be/eif33_goTwU)***

yeah but once you get to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)

as you discovered with this manager

they’re willing to overlook certain

things

if they like the person if they connect

with you

and i always talk in terms of when firms

[hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)

competence is only one variable they

look for [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/)

character chemistry maybe a little bit

of [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/) because ultimately they want

to trust the person that they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)

and i want to work with the person i

want to like them yeah

usually some of them don’t care that

much

but i want to bring us back to

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) yeah because

there’s just so many wonderful tangents

that you’re very capable of taking me

off on

so how did your personality open up was

on the basis of having some of the

successes

doing these small steps how did you

pivot that part

in your journey some of it was the small

steps and just

doing one-on-one coffee or just meeting

people with one-on-one

and that made all the difference in the

world it just

it builds your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and then some

of it as i met people that were

more extroverted and i started taking on

some of their personalities

or also i’m sitting with one of them and

there’s 15 of them

but because i’m comfortable and i’m

knowing them on a one-on-one basis

i’m now comfortable with talking with

all 15

at that table and just recently i was at

a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event

it was very it was a different

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event that i’m used to

but not only that i thought about it

differently

and one of the things that i learned

when you go into formal [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

events

is looking for gaps in the room and what

i mean by that is

if you see two people that are face to

face

there’s no gap there like you you you

just can’t squeeze in

now let’s say we had opened up a bit and

we weren’t

face to face we were more like this

there’s now a gap there

and when i’ve been at these [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

events and i’ve talked to people about

this gap i’m like hey let’s try it out

also we’ll go from a tight group of

three open it up

almost on cue someone will come in and

now we’ve had

someone else come in they’re like oh

that really does work

so when i go to [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events the

first thing i do is i look for gaps if i

can’t find one

is there an individual person by

themselves so

i’ll we’ll go and find those individual

people

and body language can make all the

difference

if you go into one of these events and

the person’s by themselves but

that’s not a person you want to go talk

to or if they just have this

i do not want to go talk to them and

what i’ve seen some people is

that nice big beautiful smile

oh i’m gonna go talk to them or

sometimes they just happen to look over

and they’re like

yes come talk to me come talk to me and

and that can make all the difference in

it in the world too is

sometimes it’s finding these small

little tips that help but it’s about

knowing yourself and being comfortable

and and knowing what’s going to work for

you [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/)

and by the way folks the first pause

that you heard tom do

he was staring at his phone and this

and that’s for when we do this as a

podcast and the second one

um i don’t know what that was but

there was a pause in there as well i’ll

go back and listen to it and

put it on the show notes but it’s

interesting because from toastmasters

that you mentioned earlier

which i’m a huge fan of i’ve i had

someone from toastmasters on earlier

this year who was a terrific guest

and you know you talk about the face to

face

and for the experienced person you know

that’s still two gaps in there

because although they may be talking if

you do the

walk over and occupy one of the two gaps

of the face to face

eventually they open up a little bit and

if they do that’s really rude

[***Preparing for the Next One*** ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/preparing-for-the-next-one-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/)

but yeah yeah well your clothing has a

room about it

but normally they’ll open up to you but

what she’s talked about in

in the dyad where it’s open and they’re

waiting for the other person to fill out

the triangle

that one’s the easy one you kind of

angle your way in there

and just listen to the conversation flow

and then ask a question along the way

and you know take the small steps in the

conversation

to kind of get yourself ingrained in

there

and when you end that conversation

this is the the tricky part for a lot of

folks how do you

end it in a way that opens up the

possibility of continuing it

outside the room

so you don’t see it as often now but a

lot of people still do have business

cards

but one thing that i i just learned

recently on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

when you’re on the app there’s a small

part like in

the search corner and you can scan

somebody else’s [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

and so what it’ll do is it’ll act like

you can add the person from there that

way you don’t have the awkwardness of

how do you spell your name again for the

fourth or fifth time that i’ve asked

today

but like what’s really important is is

getting a business card or getting the

[linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) connection in

and saying look let’s connect over

coffee or

let’s have a zoom call let’s do

something

but actually [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with them too

don’t just

collect the business card yeah i’ll give

you a call or i’ll

i’ll send you a message and then don’t

do it because that’ll be a missed

opportunity if you have a great

connection with them

over that small [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) aspect there

wait until you can actually

have that proper conversation but do

[follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with them

because a lot of people will get that

card never [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with it

and it’s a wasted opportunity horrible

and one thing i do

these days i’m not face to face with

anyone but when i was doing face to face

i would hand them my phone and have them

input

their [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/) so that in

this way

i’m not going through the awkwardness of

tom could you spell your last name for

me

yeah and was that uh what area code was

that or

country code um we’re not going through

that nonsense

it just makes it easy you know your

information

i think you can fill it out and if you

fill it out incorrectly there’s a

message in that

that you ought to know about but um

no matter the idea is small steps

help you overcome the fear and

those steps build on one another

yes and help help you make progress by

the way

what happened i asked you about so far

that we really should talk about

geez that is a good question because

sometimes you end up

talking about so many different aspects

and you’re like i know there’s something

else in there

but i i don’t know what it is now one

thing that is important to talk about is

when it comes to [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) it’s not a

transaction

and if you go into a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event

think well i just got to get clients or

i i need to get a job

it’s one of the worst things to do so

when someone sends me a message on

[linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

and the first thing they do is say oh

this is my background and uh do you have

any [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)

no now the whole entire conversation is

just done

and it just and if you’re at the

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) event like in person and

someone asked that

now this is just awkward and i don’t

even know if i want to talk to you

because it it just

it just feels awkward and the important

thing with [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is

it’s about building relationships now

think about one of your really close

friends you may

have not even talked to them for a few

weeks maybe a few months

but if you talk to them tomorrow it’ll

be like nothing ever changed

one of my close friends it’s probably

been a couple years since i’ve seen him

but i can guarantee you if i called him

tomorrow

and it would be like nothing ever

changed that’s what you want with

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)

building relationships up like that what

happens quite often is people like

okay i’ve got to find a job so i’m gonna

network network network

you’re spending all your time doing this

and then all of a sudden you get that

job

and you completely stop with everything

if you do that to people again and again

they will remember that

and it’ll be oh i don’t know if i want

to connect with you anymore

or help you out and the truth is folks

that’s the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) every job hunter

makes you know it’s

i need i want give me

and the problem is you know we all have

that behavior and we’re sending very

clear messages to folks

when at the end of the search we don’t

tell them folks that we found the job

we don’t tell and we don’t stay in touch

with people

and help them you know they send a

message to you

and your reaction is what do they want

so i i hate to be that grotesque about

it but this is behavior now that’s too

well

ingrained in the [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) system now one

thing i’ll mention about [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

because it’s dirty little secret is

most people are only on the platform

when they’re looking for work

so of those almost 700 million people on

the platform

if you send them a message to connect or

that you want to

have an informational conversation they

may not respond so quickly

so you have to demonstrate persistence

which i know for someone who’s feeling

fearful may be hard to do

but it’s not personal they don’t know

you to reject you

it’s you know it’s they just don’t check

in on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

all that often to get your message

so don’t sweat it just keep doing

and the thing i also want to mention

is it takes courage to take that first

step

and most things that are new start with

courage

and if you if you act in a transactional

kind of way that’s not courageous that’s

just spamming

\[Laughter\]

and people get that message you know a

quick story with me

at this point i only have my [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

set up to

follow rather than connect because i was

just getting too much garbage

and there’s still people who will follow

me and they’ll message

and these days every coach i know is

getting bombarded by people who want to

coach coaches

and often the first message is

hey have you thought about writing a

book

yeah i’ve got nine i’m working

i’m working on my tenth i i see how much

that you spam people do

something personalized for the

you’ve looked at my

profile but this is all transactional

for you

individual that you reach out to

rather than commoditize the connection

request

to monetize the first conversation

remember it’s about building a

relationship

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not hey i’ve got 26 000 people in my

network you know

and most of these people don’t really

know me even though they reached out to

me

it’s an amazing thing what i’ve found

can be really helpful

instead of sending the first message

let’s say they have a post and you can

add value to that post

comment on that post now you’ve got a

warm introduction

and i don’t know how many times i

haven’t sent a message to somebody

saw their post engaged with it or they

engage with one of my posts

and then we started chatting from there

and that made it

just that much easier to be able to go

and do and sometimes it wasn’t even

about

um work or clients or anything i’d seen

somebody

post a message about country music and

then i said to them have you ever been

to calgary for the calgary stampede

like no but that sounds awesome and

that’s how we started our conversation

it

it had nothing to do with clients or or

customers or

anything like that it was just actually

being personal

fabulous from fear to friendly that’s

what we’re talking about today

tom how can people find out more about

you and the work that you do

there’s a few different ways you can go

on to my facebook page

which is the brockton network so that

for them please

x h a m dash

n-e-t-w-o-r-k you could also find me

on [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) tom brockson

t-o-m-b-r-o-x-h-a-n

and then i also do have a [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)

facebook

a [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) page as well too i don’t use

that as often

then i do have a webpage and it is the

broxah network

so

r www.broxham-n-e-t-w-o-r-k dot com

fabulous tom thanks for making time

today and folks

we’ll be back soon with more i’m jeff

open [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) i hope you

enjoyed today’s show

if you did and you’re watching on

youtube click the like button

subscribe to the channel do something

that lets people know it was helpful

and i also want to mention visit my

website thebiggame100.us

there’s a lot there that can help you in

the blog if you’re interested in

one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) or have a question

for me

there are ways that you can schedule

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or if you just have a question i [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)

two options for how to get

the question answered and last thing

i’ll mention is

i’ve got a great class on udemy called

the ultimate job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) framework

and you can get to that and order it

very inexpensively like

i listed at 25 but udemy discounts it

for first time users on the platform to

like 12

so i’ll just simply say to get to the

class most easily

go to [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) dot u s

forward slash

[interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and it’ll take you directly

to the class

which by the way that same title is also

available

as an amazon book or for kindle

hope you have a great day and [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) of

all and most importantly

be great take care

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### [Taking the Awkwardness Out of Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/taking-the-awkwardness-out-of-networking/)

**Published:** February 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I answer a question about how to reconnect with someone and avoid the awkwardness that often happens when you network with someone from your past.

**Content:**

# Taking the Awkwardness Out of Networking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

**In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) answers a viewer’s question about how to reconnect with someone and avoid the awkwardness that often happens when you network with someone from your past.**

[***Do What Recruiters Do***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2sa)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [Recruiters Don’t Browse Profiles #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recruiters-dont-browse-profiles-shorts/)

**Published:** February 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Recruiters don’t have a lot of time so they don’t browse profiles.

**Content:**

# Recruiters Don’t Browse Profiles #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/1k2Zm5IYIUQ)

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) don’t have a lot of time so they don’t browse profiles.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, carer transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Giving an Elevator Pitch? Say It Like You Mean It #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/giving-an-elevator-pitch-say-it-like-you-mean-it-shorts/)

**Published:** February 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I have listened to too many pitches that are awful.

**Content:**

# Giving an Elevator Pitch? Say It Like You Mean It #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/7UYL87r8MZQ)

I have listened to too many pitches that are awful.

***[Winning Interviews: Match Their Needs with Your Skills](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kb1)***

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### [The "Too Experienced" Card is BS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-too-experienced-card-is-bs/)

**Published:** February 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3110 "You're too experienced for the job." That phrase is a load of manipulative garbage used to shut down the conversation.

**Content:**

# The “Too Experienced” Card is BS

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3110 **“You’re too experienced for the job.” That phrase is a load of manipulative garbage used to shut down the conversation.**

If you’ve heard this excuse, you know how insulting and frustrating it is. It’s a smokescreen.

Have you ever found yourself looking at a job post and thinking, I’m perfect for this, but am I too perfect? It’s a real fear for so many seasoned professionals that all your years of [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) might actually [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as a negative. But what if the problem isn’t your experience, but how you’re packaging it? Let’s get into it. Right? Let’s just ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind.

You see that role, you know you could absolutely kill it, but then that little voice creeps in. Are they just going to look at my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and think, nope, too overqualified, too senior, maybe just too old. It’s a nagging feeling for sure.

So we’re going to get to the bottom of what’s really happening behind the scenes. Okay. So the very first thing we have to do is figure out what we’re actually dealing with here.

Is it flat out [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) or is it something else? And you know, this distinction is absolutely crucial because how you solve the problem completely depends on what the problem actually is. So let’s really break this down over here. You’ve got [ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/neutralize-ageism-shift-leverage-to-strategic-value/) and that’s about ugly stereotypes, right? Assumptions about skills or culture fit.

But a lot of the time, what you’re actually running into is this too experienced column. It’s a practical problem. A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) sees you were an SVP and you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a director job.

Their brain doesn’t go to age. It immediately goes to money. They think this person is going to cost way too much for this role.

It’s all about a perceived mismatch. All right. So if the issue is often just about perception, about a mismatch, then the solution is pretty clear.

You have to take control of your own story. You get to be the one who frames the narrative. So when a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) looks at your profile, they don’t see too experienced.

They see the perfect fit. Now, this first piece of advice might sound a little intense, but trust me, it’s so powerful. You do not need to list every single job you’ve ever had since the beginning of time, especially anything from before the year 2000.

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It is time to become a ruthless, but smart, editor of your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). And the process is actually pretty simple. You just look at your entire work history, find those really early roles from way back when, and then you just get rid of them.

Seriously, delete them. Not just, you know, shrink the font, remove them completely. The whole point is to get rid of the clutter so their eyes go straight to what’s most relevant and recent.

Okay, let’s talk about a core idea that will honestly change how you build your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) from now on. We’re going to call it the 10-year rule, and it’s all about making sure that recruiter’s attention is focused squarely on what matters for the job they need to fill right now. This.

This is the magic number. 10. Just commit that to memory.

10 years. This is going to be your new North Star for what gets top billing on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). So here’s the rule in a nutshell.

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), for the most part, really only care about what you’ve been doing lately. Your accomplishments from the last decade. That’s the stuff that proves you’re ready for the job today.

Everything before that, it’s just ancient history to them. I mean, just think about it for a second. The world of work was completely different before 9-11, for example.

The tech was different. The strategies were different. The chance that your experience from back then is directly applicable to a role today is, well, it’s pretty slim.

So you’ve got to put all your focus on your recent, most impactful work. All right. Now, for this to really sink in, we need to get inside the head of a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) just for a minute, because when you understand their world and what they’re up against, you’ll see exactly why trimming and curating your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is so non-negotiable.

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Okay. Here’s the tough love part. That [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is probably drowning in [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

They’re not going to spend five minutes trying to figure out [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) path. They’re not going to connect the dots for you. If they see a 25-year work history for a director role, they’re just going to assume you’re too expensive and move on.

They are looking for a quick, easy yes. And that means the burden is on you, not them. It is your job to read that job description, figure out what their biggest pain point is, and then handcraft your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to scream, I am the solution to your problem.

You can’t make them do the work. So, after all that, what is the one single thing you need to walk away with? It really all comes down to one simple, incredibly powerful idea. That’s it.

That is the entire game. Every single edit you make, every job you delete, every bullet point you rewrite, it should all be done for one reason and one reason only, to make it ridiculously, blindingly obvious to a busy [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that you are the right person for this job. So, I’ll leave you with a little challenge.

Go ahead, open up your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) or your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile right now. Take a good, hard look at it, and ask yourself this, what’s one old, not-so-relevant thing you can delete today to make it that much easier for someone to say yes to you tomorrow?

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### [Navigating the Long Haul: Staying Motivated During Executive Hiring Processes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/navigating-the-long-haul-staying-motivated-during-executive-hiring-processes/)

**Published:** February 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Extended timelines are more than just a logistical nuisance; they are a significant test of mental fortitude and professional resilience.

**Content:**

# Navigating the Long Haul: Staying Motivated During Executive Hiring Processes

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](http://JobSearch.Community)

The “quick hire” has become a relic of the past, particularly for senior leaders. What used to be a four-to-six-week sprint has evolved into a grueling marathon that can stretch from three to six months–or longer. For [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) and specialized professionals, these extended timelines are more than just a logistical nuisance; they are a significant test of mental fortitude and professional [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/).

When you are navigating high-stakes transitions, whether due to corporate restructuring, redundancy, or a proactive leap toward a new challenge, the silence between [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) rounds can feel deafening. However, staying motivated isn’t about blind optimism; it’s about understanding the new mechanics of recruitment and treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with the same strategic rigor you apply to your professional life.

### Understanding the Modern Hiring Landscape

The [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) in maintaining your composure is recognizing that delays are rarely a reflection of your individual value. Today’s protracted timelines are driven by systemic shifts in how organizations de-risk their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions. Several key factors contribute to this slowing pace:

- **Multi-Stage Consensus:** Panel [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and “cultural fit” screenings ensure buy-in from multiple stakeholders, which can add weeks to the calendar as schedules are aligned.
- **Deep-Rooted Risk Aversion:** At the executive level, a “bad hire” is incredibly expensive. Organizations now require extra layers of budget approval and headcount scrutiny before a final contract is issued.
- **The “Hidden” Hurdles:** Internal shifts, such as a sudden change in departmental strategy or an unannounced [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) freeze, often pause a role without immediate notice to the candidate.
- **Technological Layers:** While [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) streamlines initial screening, it can create a “black hole” effect where candidates feel disconnected from human decision-makers, leading to [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) during the wait.

By viewing these delays as structural rather than personal, you can shift from a reactive emotional state to a proactive, strategic one.

### Safeguarding Your Executive Wellbeing

A drawn-out search is mentally taxing. High-achieving professionals are used to “closing the deal” and seeing immediate results. When that [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) loop is broken, it can erode the very [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) you need to project during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). To sustain your **executive [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/)**, you must protect your mental bandwidth through disciplined habits.

Establish a **“Search Schedule”** and treat your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) like a consulting assignment. Dedicate specific hours to [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), then physically and mentally “clock out.” Constant refreshing of your inbox only leads to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) and a sense of powerlessness.

Furthermore, prioritize your **physical recovery**. [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is physiological; regular exercise, adequate sleep, and “unplugged” time are not luxuries. They are the fuel that allows you to remain sharp during a grueling fifth-round [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Finally, build a **support ecosystem**. The executive journey can be lonely, so engage with a mentor, an executive coach, or a trusted peer group to keep your perspective grounded.

### Activating the Hidden Job Market

While you wait for a formal process to move forward, do not remain stagnant. The “Hidden Job Market,” where an estimated **70% of executive placements** occur, is your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) hedge against a slow formal process.

Strategic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) serves a dual purpose: it uncovers unadvertised roles and provides the social validation that keeps motivation high. Focus on **quality over quantity**. One deep conversation with a former colleague or a strategic connection in your target industry is worth more than fifty cold [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) invites. Use this time to optimize your digital footprint, ensuring your profile tells the story of your **impact** rather than just your duties.

### Reframing Rejection and Building Resilience

In a long process, the sting of a “no” after four rounds of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) can be devastating. However, at the senior level, [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) is often a matter of **alignment**, not **ability**. Perhaps the board shifted its three-year strategy, or an internal candidate unexpectedly became available.

To stay motivated, treat every interaction as a data point. Use the gaps in communication to refine your approach. Ask yourself what you learned about the industry’s current pain points and which of your leadership stories resonated most with the panel. Even without an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), reaching the final stages is a confirmation that your skills are highly competitive in the current market.

### Practical Momentum: Small Wins, Big Impact

Motivation thrives on progress. When the “Big Win” of a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is months away, you must manufacture “small wins” to keep your momentum steady. Set weekly, achievable goals that you can control entirely:

- **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Milestones:** Aim to secure two “coffee chats” or informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) per week.
- **Continuous Learning:** Spend three hours a week on a new certification or researching emerging industry trends, such as [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) integration in your specific sector.
- **High-Quality Output:** Focus on tailoring three exceptional [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) rather than sending out dozens of generic ones.

By focusing on these controllable inputs, you decouple your self-worth from the uncontrollable outputs of a company’s internal HR department.

### The Final Word

The modern executive [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process is a test of endurance as much as it is a test of skill. By managing your expectations, diversifying your efforts through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), and rigorously protecting your well-being, you transform a period of uncertainty into a period of professional preparation.

The right [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is rarely the fastest one to arrive. It is the one that aligns with your long-term trajectory and your [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) during the wait is exactly what will make you a formidable leader once you step into the role.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [No BS Career Advice: February 15, 2025](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-15-2025/)

**Published:** February 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more. 

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# **No BS Career Advice: February 15, 2025**

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

**“It is better to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) no excuse than a bad one.” ~ George Washington**

**“The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to predict your future is to create it.” ~Abraham Lincoln**

For Presidents’ Day tomorrow, I’m offering two [quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from the Presidents we used to celebrate individually, but we decided were not worth celebrating that way. We combined their birthdays into a single holiday. I thought it would be better than a Valentine’s Day [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) that would seem cheesy.

I have been having fun with adapting my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) practice to different types of services and products. Last week, I announced a new service called “[**The Interview Intel Snapshot**](https://www.jobsearch.community/the-interview-intel-snapshot)” where we **generate a custom Intelligence Brief for your upcoming [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** based specifically on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the job description. This week, I released, “[**The Strategic Dossier**](https://www.jobsearch.community/the-strategic-interview-dossier),” a Strategic Battle Plan tailored to *you*. I analyze your experience against the role’s requirements to identify your unique value proposition and, crucially, your hidden risks. It will prepare you for important [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

## Navigating the Long Haul: Staying Motivated During Executive Hiring Processes

The “quick hire” has become a relic of the past, particularly for senior leaders. What used to be a four-to-six-week sprint has evolved into a grueling marathon that can stretch from three to six months–or longer. For [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) and specialized professionals, these extended timelines are more than just a logistical nuisance; they are a significant test of mental fortitude and professional [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/).

When you are navigating high-stakes transitions, whether due to corporate restructuring, redundancy, or a proactive leap toward a new challenge, the silence between [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) rounds can feel deafening. However, staying motivated isn’t about blind optimism; it’s about understanding the new mechanics of recruitment and treating your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with the same strategic rigor you apply to your professional life.

### Understanding the Modern Hiring Landscape

The [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) in maintaining your composure is recognizing that delays are rarely a reflection of your individual value. Today’s protracted timelines are driven by systemic shifts in how organizations de-risk their [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions. Several key factors contribute to this slowing pace:

- **Multi-Stage Consensus:** Panel [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and “cultural fit” screenings ensure buy-in from multiple stakeholders, which can add weeks to the calendar as schedules are aligned.
- **Deep-Rooted Risk Aversion:** At the executive level, a “bad hire” is incredibly expensive. Organizations now require extra layers of budget approval and headcount scrutiny before a final contract is issued.
- **The “Hidden” Hurdles:** Internal shifts, such as a sudden change in departmental strategy or an unannounced [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) freeze, often pause a role without immediate notice to the candidate.
- **Technological Layers:** While [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) streamlines initial screening, it can create a “black hole” effect where candidates feel disconnected from human decision-makers, leading to [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) during the wait.

By viewing these delays as structural rather than personal, you can shift from a reactive emotional state to a proactive, strategic one.

### Safeguarding Your Executive Wellbeing

A drawn-out search is mentally taxing. High-achieving professionals are used to “closing the deal” and seeing immediate results. When that [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) loop is broken, it can erode the very [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) you need to project during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). To sustain your **executive [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/)**, you must protect your mental bandwidth through disciplined habits.

Establish a **“Search Schedule”** and treat your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) like a consulting assignment. Dedicate specific hours to [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), then physically and mentally “clock out.” Constant refreshing of your inbox only leads to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) and a sense of powerlessness.

Furthermore, prioritize your **physical recovery**. [Resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) is physiological; regular exercise, adequate sleep, and “unplugged” time are not luxuries. They are the fuel that allows you to remain sharp during a grueling fifth-round [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Finally, build a **support ecosystem**. The executive journey can be lonely, so engage with a mentor, an executive coach, or a trusted peer group to keep your perspective grounded.

### Activating the Hidden Job Market

While you wait for a formal process to move forward, do not remain stagnant. The “Hidden Job Market,” where an estimated **70% of executive placements** occur, is your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) hedge against a slow formal process.

Strategic [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) serves a dual purpose: it uncovers unadvertised roles and provides the social validation that keeps motivation high. Focus on **quality over quantity**. One deep conversation with a former colleague or a strategic connection in your target industry is worth more than fifty cold [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) invites. Use this time to optimize your digital footprint, ensuring your profile tells the story of your **impact** rather than just your duties.

### Reframing Rejection and Building Resilience

In a long process, the sting of a “no” after four rounds of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) can be devastating. However, at the senior level, [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) is often a matter of **alignment**, not **ability**. Perhaps the board shifted its three-year strategy, or an internal candidate unexpectedly became available.

To stay motivated, treat every interaction as a data point. Use the gaps in communication to refine your approach. Ask yourself what you learned about the industry’s current pain points and which of your leadership stories resonated most with the panel. Even without an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), reaching the final stages is a confirmation that your skills are highly competitive in the current market.

### Practical Momentum: Small Wins, Big Impact

Motivation thrives on progress. When the “Big Win” of a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is months away, you must manufacture “small wins” to keep your momentum steady. Set weekly, achievable goals that you can control entirely:

- **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Milestones:** Aim to secure two “coffee chats” or informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) per week.
- **Continuous Learning:** Spend three hours a week on a new certification or researching emerging industry trends, such as [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) integration in your specific sector.
- **High-Quality Output:** Focus on tailoring three exceptional [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) rather than sending out dozens of generic ones.

By focusing on these controllable inputs, you decouple your self-worth from the uncontrollable outputs of a company’s internal HR department.

### The Final Word

The modern executive [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process is a test of endurance as much as it is a test of skill. By managing your expectations, diversifying your efforts through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), and rigorously protecting your well-being, you transform a period of uncertainty into a period of professional preparation.

The right [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) is rarely the fastest one to arrive. It is the one that aligns with your long-term trajectory and your [resilience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/resilience-not-worry/) during the wait is exactly what will make you a formidable leader once you step into the role.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): February 8, 2026** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oLH**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oLH)

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**The Cost of a Long [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oM3**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oM3)

**How to Get Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Through More [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) Systems** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oLZ**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oLZ)

**Why Your Skills May Not Matter as Much As You Think** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oxh**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oxh)

**Now That Google Downplays SAT Scores When [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), What Matters More to Them?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cK**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cK)

**[Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?** [**https://youtu.be/4nWaC6M7hz4**](https://youtu.be/4nWaC6M7hz4)

**How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been [Fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jM0**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jM0)

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**4 Things Corporate [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Look for in [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jKC**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jKC)

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**The “Start Date” [Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/): Why Your Answer Matters More Than the Calendar** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMD**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oMD)

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### [Understanding the Mindset of a Retained Search Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/understanding-the-mindset-of-a-retained-search-recruiter-job-search-radio/)

**Published:** February 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** eff speaks with Mark Jaffe, a veteran executive recruiter as he speaks about how he evaluates and assesses particular contenders.

**Content:**

# Understanding the Mindset of a Retained Search Recruiter

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

 [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), Can’t live with them. Shouldn’t live without them.

Retained search [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are often perceived of as the creme de la creme of the search world. What is the job of the retained search professional when their target is all so well rehearsed and generally extremely capable?

On this show, Jeff speaks with Mark Jaffe, a veteran executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) as he speaks about how he evaluates and assesses particular contenders and helps his clients [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) exceptional talent.

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Hi. This is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and you’re going to be listening to the first part of a two part series I’m doing on [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). And my thought was, most people who are hunting for work, shall we say, don’t really understand their adversary when they’re contacted by a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Now, whether a retained [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) like my guest on this show, Mark Jaffe, or primarily a contingency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) as my next guest will be on the next show, I want to open you up to the idea of understanding who’s on the other side of the phone call, who they’re what they’re really looking for, what they’re really like. So on this show, we have Mark Jaffe, who represents the retained search market. And I think you’re going to find it very interesting. So here we go.

Are you looking for a new job, or interested in leveling up [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)? Radio is your go to resource for insider tips on [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and growing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). Here’s your host, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

My guest on this show is Mark Jaffe, who is a veteran executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and owner of Wyatt and Jaffe, an [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm. And he’s also the author of a terrific book called Let me give it to you straight, an outspoken guide to working with head hunters advancing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and reaching enlightenment without the sugar coating. Hey, Mark, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio. Great to have you. Thank you, Jeff, for inviting me. It’s good to be here.

Thank you. So could you tell my listeners a little bit about your firm and what it does? Sure we’re a traditional, retained [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) firm. We’re a boutique we work primarily in four areas, technology,

financial services, consumer and retail.

Gotcha. And how did you get into executive recruiting?

Well, you know, almost nobody as a seven or eight year old says, I want to be either a fireman or an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Mommy, mommy, I want to be a head hunter.

I didn’t even know the position existed until I was well into my 20s, and I was working for my dad, who was a CPA, and he was trying to encourage me to go back to college and get an accounting degree and take over his business. But as luck would have it, there was a [search firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-search-firm-asks-you-to-recommend-someone-does-that-mean-they-want-you/) down the hall, and I got to know these guys, and they

spun their magical web and pulled me right in.

That’s fabulous.

No disrespect is intended. Your background isn’t the poster trial for what people in the [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/) business

present themselves as being, is it?

Well, it’s not the traditional New York aristocracy of lunch at the Four Seasons golf at the Larchmont golf club, boating at the Wingfoot Yacht Club. No, it’s not

absolutely I saw that in your background, and I loved it.

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No disrespect to those folks, but you’re someone who came in under the radar and has built a great career. So I want to give my listeners a glimpse into what how an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) thinks, and how they operate so they’re under no illusions. So first of all, let’s work with something I read in your

book, The cardinal rules of recruiting. So when you’re when you’re talking about [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), what are the basic rules? What is the basic rule, the cardinal rule of recruiting?

Well, the cardinal rule, or I should say, the first rule that I learned when I started in this business was that a players [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a players, but B players [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) C players,

people who have chinks in their armor, people who are insecure, people who are not performing at The top of their game always make sure that they [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people who are less talented than they are, whereas people who are really they have all their lights out and they are shining brightly. They’re not threatened by [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) who are smarter than them, even.

If they’re even if they’re on their own team.

Stories about certain American presidents who are a players, and certainly some who conducted themselves like B’s and C’s

without naming names. Without naming name, could mean you could you could argue that Nixon surrounded himself with a group of people who were less than stellar performers, as evidenced by the, you know, the comedy of the Watergate burglary and everything that happened afterwards and and I think he’s a classic case of somebody who was very bright, very capable, but ruled by his insecurity,

very true. So let’s start diving into what a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) looks for, what an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) looks for when they’re trying to find someone for a search.

Well,

first, let me preface my comments by saying that at the level that we recruit, which is generally people who are making

400 $500,000

and more.

Everybody looks good, everybody sounds good. Everybody has crisp, compelling, credible answers to all the toughest [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions. In other words, they’re all well rehearsed.

So the first thing I want to do they’re scribble off their script. I want to blow past their rehearsed material

and their standard presentation and all their performance art, and I want to find out who’s that little person inside,

like the Wizard of Oz, who’s operating all the machinery. So the short answer is separating the [projection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/rejection-is-part-of-the-job-search-process-shorts/) from the reality. So when you talk about getting them off the script, give me an example of the script.

Well, the script is, everybody comes to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to talk about

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what you had in mind for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) when you went to college, why you made this change, why you made that choice, how you achieve this result, whether it’s a skill based [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or a traditional evaluation [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/),

where the interviewer is looking for your motivations.

Senior [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) are all good at [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), and you know what? At that level, mostly they’re all good in general, but my job is to find out who the real person is inside. So there’s a constant process of separating substance from form, and the way I do it is I say hey, tell me about your family of origin. Tell me what your father did, tell me what your mother did. Your siblings, what we like in high school? Did you? Did you prefer one on one social activities? Or did you prefer groups?

And I’m not looking for anything Jeff in particular. It doesn’t matter whether somebody was the president of National Honor Society or, you know, was selling pot in the parking lot after school.

What I care about is getting them off their script, talking about stuff that’s close to their heart,

and

that gives me a glimpse of, you know, who the person really is,

and how do you kind of mesh that up with what the client is looking for? I know that’s the secret sauce, but how do you kind of put that together to figure out whether this could be a good [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) or not? Well, typically, clients have a very two dimensional sense of what they’re looking for. They know what their business goals are in most cases, and they sometimes think they have an idea of what type of experience is going to lend itself ideally

to satisfying those goals. But I also have some impressions talking to the clients, you know, Jeff, when we’re talking about retained [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-a-job-as-an-executive-or-leader-shorts/). It’s really a form of management consulting with a sub specialty in executive recruitment,

not unlike what they do at McKinsey or Bain or somewhere else. So I really need to understand not just what my clients are telling me to go shop for. I have to understand what they really need, and that advises what I’m looking for when I [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

I know that’s true of me, too on the contingency side, because folks, unlike mark, most of my work is contingency recruiting. I hear a lot of words from my clients, and they say they need a lot of stuff.

But I really dissect it, not just simply in terms of the skill base, but to really understand the personality of the individual who’s [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). Because ultimately, it’s not just flipping one skill against the other and say, hey, this person has such and such. They say they want that. It’s perfect. Firms [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) human beings and the human beings have to mesh too, and that’s what I’m kind of taking away from what you’re saying. You’re trying to understand your client beyond simply the two dimensions, and try to match them up with the human being that could be the potential [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), if I interpret that correctly. Jeff, you got it right. You know, there’s an old saying in the business that clients will always send you on the wrong search.

It’s not because they’re diabolical or because they want to make it more difficult for you. It’s it’s because the patient generally can’t do the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) job SELF diagnosing, and so clients are always thinking in terms of, well, how many years of experience doing what, and coming from watching which environment, those kinds of things, rather than the stuff that I’m focused on, which is, you know, who’s going to work in this environment, who’s going to [Raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) the talent bar for this organization. But still be integrated. So that, you know, it’s almost like doing transplant surgery. You want to make sure that the host body can handle it, but you want to also make sure that it’s a healthier organ than the one that you’re replacing

that’s so well put. And I’m going to pause here for a moment mark and say we’re going to be back with more from Mark in just a moment. But first my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) insider tip for this show. I hate doing the pause there, but it just seems like a good bright spot.

You know, folks, there is a story I want to tell you about a guy who used to own a gas station in the south and as a side business at the gas station, he used to make food for people,

and one day, he decided he was tired of selling gas and people had told him his food was really good, so he decided to try marketing the food he was selling, particularly the chicken product. So he started knocking on doors to try and find someone who might be interested in his product, and he knocked on over 1000 doors, each time getting turned down. But he had an undying faith in what he was originally told. It wasn’t anyone said his product was bad. He was just being told they didn’t want to buy it from him, but eventually he got the one person who believed that they could sell what he had,

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and out of that, we have that legendary American business leader, the colonel, Colonel Sanders, and a lesson in perseverance and persistence that comes From absolute faith that what you’re doing is right. For many of you, you give up way too early. This man knocked on more than 1000 doors in order to eventually find that one believer in what he had to say that made all the difference in his life and the life of so many others.

My encouragement, be persistent. Don’t give up so easily. If you face a crossroads, you just got to keep trying and not give up before you cross the goal line. So that’s my tip for this show. Let’s come back to Mark and pick up where we left off. So we were talking about a whole bunch of stuff related to getting underneath the Vernier

and trying to mesh properly. And the last thing you were talking about I just love, which is, it’s not that clients try to give Xinjiang a wild goose chase, but they don’t really know what they’re looking for or what’s good for them.

The lawyer who’s representing themselves, as you will. So how do you fix them in all of this? Well, you know, when I started the business in 1984

Cindy Crawford was the most famous supermodel. So clients would always say, I want, I want you to bring me this Cindy Crawford of marketing, or, I want you to bring me this Cindy Crawford of digital servo design. Or I want you to bring you know, it was always the Cindy Crawford of something or another. And you look at the client and he’s saying Cindy Crawford, but you think maybe March setter match, better match for him, right?

So I always figured it was a, it was like, it was like

a triangle diagram. You got Sidney Crawford at one point, you’ve got Marge Simpson in the other that’s, that’s who he deserves. But then I’m going to form the third point. And the third point is, what

does he really need? And can I find it in.

A form

that he will at least marginally recognize as close enough to his original description. Can I find him a Cindy Crawford with tall blue hair? Right that

some somehow approximates what he asked for, but at the same time, slips in all the vitamins and minerals he needs in order to be successful as a business.

It’s so funny. We do the same thing in my line of work. We try to understand what they say. We nod agreement. We take a look or listen to this client,

shrug our shoulders, like I did a conference call this past week with a firm that told me that they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone with this obscure technology,

maybe 75 people in the country, with this background that they wanted at their particular price point. And then they said, and we want 10 years of experience with us.

I just shrugged my shoulders ago. Could you settle for four?

Because you’re not going to get them for 10 with that amount of experience. Well, we like as much as we can get. Great. Okay, okay,

you know it’s kind of like, it’s kind of like the art of getting little kids to eat their vegetables. I think Jerry Seinfeld’s wife Jessica wrote a book about how to disguise healthy foods in foods that taste good so that kids will eat them. And I see my role recruiting as being a little bit like that

cool. So what else do you do in order to find this right person or identify the right person?

Well, you know, when I started in the business,

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the challenge used to be around having a very broad network and deep expertise in specific industries and specific functions. You know there’ll be the guy who knew every HR executive or do you know everybody in the airline industry? And back in the days when we used the word Rolodex, it was your Rolodex and your access to people that made you a powerful executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). Nowadays, it’s different. You can see everybody, can’t you? Everybody is

the emperor has no clothes. Everybody is visible,

whether it’s on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or Alexis next, whatever [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) or tools you use now with the whole world as your oyster,

what is the value of an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? What do you think, Jeff? It’s in the event, the ability to evaluate, assess and understand what it is the client wants and needs, and package the candidate in a way that they’ll eat their vegetables. To use that example from Jerry Simpson’s Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, right? So I agree. I think it’s three things. Essentially. Number one, it’s

how you understand the client need

how you understand it beyond what they’ve told you, beyond what’s written in the job description.

The next thing is how you identify and handicap the players. Right? You have to be the reducing valve, valve we

you know, we’re much more exclusive than we are inclusive in our thinking. So what we want to do is

prioritize or put these people in some kind of ranking so that we see reasonably who would be interested enough in this job to want to talk to the client, and who is maybe not good,

not going to be a change agent, not going to be a powerful force. I mean putting them in a rank, handicapping them like race horses, very important. And then how you present,

how you frame the opportunity to the candidate, and how you manage the process, those are the things I think that are essential. And what’s interesting is knowing that you’re not looking for the active job applicant. It’s not like you’re running an ad in a newspaper or online, saying, great opportunity for such and such contact me. You’re aggressively pursuing people who are probably working, who are probably exceptional at what they do,

[networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) to find them so you.

A degree of a fashion show going on. So you’re looking for the Cindy Crawford to use that example from earlier, the one that stands whose up shoulders above all the others, so that they can be noticed. And that’s probably one of the ways you find them

exactly right. Perception is everything. And if the perception is this is somebody who is gainfully employed, not under appreciated, not underpaid, at the top of their game, really crushing it for somebody else, for another company, that’s the person that you instinctively want. It’s just like women Jeff, you want the ones that you can’t have?

Well, we now have to clean that one up, because same sex marriage, it’s legal in this country, so it’s like,

exactly right. And kidding you is taking away the kidding here for a second, there is a degree where, because you’re looking for only that individual who’s by the way, I have to pause for a second and back up on something you said, someone who’s not under valued or underpaid. Why did, why did the work that into the measure?

Because, why is it important?

You know, the first thing I say when I call a prospect about a job opportunity is

I introduce myself. I say, I want to let you know that there’s no implication whatsoever by my call that you’re looking or on the market, just the opposite. Okay, and it’s true, I’m calling them based on their credentials, not based on the fact that I think I might be able to get them out of there, or they’re in a troubled environment, or I heard that their boss is a world class jerk or something of that kind. I’m not trying to use some pretext or some rationale to extract them from the environment. I’m giving them the reassurance that I know that they’re at the top of their game, and that’s why I’m calling once somebody has an actual reason to lead the company. Now their motives become suspect.

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Interesting,

and what do you think makes it suspect because they’re desperate at that point or some other reason? Well, look, if I don’t like my boss or I don’t look forward to going to work every day,

for one thing, it’s going to cloud my judgment. When I look at a new opportunity, I might jump at something impulsively just because it looks like a ticket out of Dodge, and that’s not the person I want. I want the person who’s making a choice and a decision to look at another opportunity, and potentially to make a move based on its merits, not based on the pain of staying where they are.

Gotcha, it’s a great point, folks. Now let’s go one extra layer, and that’s in the process of finding them. We’re going to tie in something that’s been said on other of my shows before. Really well here now, since you’re not advertising to find people, you’re going out to locate them. How do you find them? Yes, you’re using certain data tools to start off with, but I presume the power is in your network.

The power is not in our network, and we never, I mean, we have a database, obviously, with 10s of 1000s of people in it, we almost never go there. I mean, it’s just a giant warehouse that we hardly ever visit, like a, you know, like a storage locker.

We see each search as being a de novo project, and we do our [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) in real time. My [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) has been with me for 12 years. We work very closely together, like Batman and Robin, sort of, or maybe more like the FBI, you know, we talk to the client, we hear what the client says, and I take those ideas that we come away from the meeting with, and I put them in an order for her, for Eva, and I say, Okay, we want somebody who’s been doing brain surgery.

We think that this person is coming from where, where in Eastern Europe. Let’s focus for right now on Armenia right and let’s use a real search here, for example, rather than this hypothetical the left handed Armenian brain surgeon. I

don’t think you’ve done that search recently. Correct me if I’m missing we’ve done it a few times, but it’s always in a different form.

Yeah, sometimes we’re looking for people who have very, very, very specialized

knowledge in technology. Sometimes we’re looking for people who have achieved certain very lofty numbers in terms of ultra high net worth wealth management. Sometimes we have to look in certain organizations, but in general, we

go down the list of boxes that we want to check. We want somebody to have a combination of, let’s say, big company and small company experience. We want somebody who’s been in a turnaround situation. We want somebody who has strong relationships on Wall Street. All of these were true when I did a search for a CFO, for gateway, for Ted wait at Gateway computer about a decade ago, and

the sign of the stock had tumbled public [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/). So again, we have a checklist. We want somebody who has consumer experience. We want somebody who maybe has some retail experience, but is very familiar with technology. So we have all those things on our laundry list, in addition to the fact that they have to be a world class CFO,

now I say to Eva, okay, you’ve got the algorithms. Go run them and find me people who check as many of those boxes, many of those categories, as possible.

And she starts to generate names. And I look at those names and the ones that really speak to me from the page. I call them, and I talk to them. I listen, and I listen to the quality of the questions they ask, and I can hear in the first five minutes whether I’ve got the right stuff or not.

This is terrific.

And we don’t really have a lot of time left for today. I think I’ll try having you back at some point in the not too distant future. But

let me just ask one question that I suspect my listeners aren’t going to be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) with the answer to,

how does a candidate get noticed by you?

Well,

you know, there’s been a lot of discussion in recent years Jeff about whether accomplishments are, are even mobile or even transferable from one company to a next, somebody who who shined at American Airlines, is he going to be able to go make the move to delta and perform the same miracles?

It’s not clear. Michael Dell used to fire his management team every time he achieved a new plateau or goal, because he felt like he had seen all the tricks from that group, and now he needed a new batch of people to come in and perform new material.

Basically, though we’re stuck with that as a crucible, so we look at who has done what, where, who has knocked the cover off the ball over here, who has turned this company around, who has been a major force for change or transformation in another organization.

We go by reputation. To a large degree, we go by an environment. To some degree, we look at what kinds of tools and resources someone had available to them. And we looked at where the where the company did and he started, and

where they were after two years. And you know, aside from all self promotion and you know, chest thumping and

reputation, keeping your head down, doing a great job, sometimes being under the radar. Those are some of the things that are important to us. Interesting. I just want to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) on one thing so far. What I heard you talk about was what I call primary source data,

Robin, and you wind up

searching for individuals who fit a particular profile using whatever tools that you have. I didn’t really hear a lot about secondary sourcing, which I would have thought I would have heard about in the course of your answer, because I would think that sometimes the first person you’ll reach to isn’t right, but they may know the right person.

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Sometimes, sometimes that’s the case. And you know, that’s [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) ago. That’s how I did most of my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/). It was all word of mouth. It was all based on my trusted network.

But now I you know, we just have a

much more dynamic source of data as as Eva runs these algorithms and shows me people I very rarely Jeff place someone in a job who I knew before I had that.

Search. Every search begins with us asking, what do we need here? As opposed to, who do we know, or who, or who do we think we know that might be able to do the job? So we never go back to the stacks. We never go back to inventory and say, well, but what can I brush the dust off of here and present to the client that might be a fit? We want to get the sharpest point on this thing that we can based on our understanding of the client’s needs.

But yes, if somebody says big for this, I’m perfect for this job, but there’s no way I’m moving. I’d be [giving up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-almost-gave-up/) $60 million worth of stock if I, if I took off at this point, I would say, okay, great. Tell me, who do you know that could do this job brilliantly? Don’t think in terms of who’s looking just think in terms of who could kill it.

That’s one of the big [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Whether you’re at the level you’re recruiting at four or $500,000

or the one that I’m recruiting at which is a lesser price point, people always respond with, oh, I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) where I am right now, instead of thinking in terms of exploring opportunities. Because, Hey, folks, people get ahead rarely by being the smartest for working the hardest, although those are great qualities to have. People get ahead by being alert to opportunities. Rarely agrees internal to your organization. Most of the time they’re external. So you have to respond well when the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) calls, and instead of dismissing them with that, I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/). Wouldn’t you be happier with another 25,000 if you’re at this level, or another 75,000

if you’re working at Mark’s level?

People don’t generally move just for the increase in [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). And in fact, if someone puts that up front and foremost, I take a few steps back. That’s off putting to me when people tell me that they’re motivated by the culture and the values of an organization, by the degree of autonomy that they would have within a company, with the prestige of the of the organization, or or where they would be in the hierarchy, and, you know, in the pecking order, those are much more reasonable criteria in my mind. But Jeff, when someone says to me, I am totally [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) where I am,

the only thing to say is that’s terrific. I wouldn’t be calling you if I didn’t think that was the case. And in fact, I believe that that’s the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) perspective from which to evaluate any new opportunity.

One final question for you, Mark, so you run into this applicant who you’re not sure about.

What do you

do? You might even judge them so far as to go bad applicant or bad potential applicant.

My language from contingency,

we don’t have applicants here, I’m sorry to say

we only have people that we have personally cherry picked. So if somebody sends me a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and and they, they they look like Einstein on paper, unless someone is paying me right now to find a dead German nuclear physicist,

I’m like, Okay, nice [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

I’ll call you when I need you.

Your question is, when I [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) somebody and I’m not overwhelmed, yep,

you know,

aside from some aside from what I believe a client needs in any given situation, there’s always the perception. And as you know, perception Trumps every other consideration. Right? While I was doing the CFO search for gateway, I went to the airport to pick up a CFO of a very famous consumer company, and as soon as I saw him standing on the curb, my first impulse was to put my foot on the gas and just zoom by him, because I knew soon as I looked at him that he was not a guy that my client would like. He didn’t have the cool gene. He didn’t have the cool factor, and that was an important ingredient in what I needed.

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So, you know, you get those from time to time, I had somebody in my conference room once who was laying out an org chart. And.

And I knew he had fluffed some of the data because I had a better org chart of his organization already, and instead of sending him on to the client for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I sent him back home. Oh, I’m so sorry. Something came up. We’ll have to do it another time.

Beautifully put folks this is really a great insight into how an executive [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) thinks and how they conduct themselves. If you need to listen to this one again and again, there’s been a lot of different pearls here. Hey, Mark, how can people find out about your book? Or where could they order it? It’s really hard.

Go to amazon.com,

if you can

find it and put in Mark Jaffe. Let me give it to you straight or just put in Mark Jaffe. The only other Mark Jaffe is a

writer for The Denver Post who’s published a few books about dinosaurs. But if you put in Mark Jaffe, you’ll see it right away.

J A, F, F, as in Frank E, Mark Jaffe, and the book is called, let me give it to you straight. You’ll know you’ve come to the right place when you see a book cover that has a 1234, diagram on how to tie in news.

Hysterical. Hey, Mark, thank you for making time today.

It’s been my pleasure, Jeff.

You’re welcome, folks. We’ll be back soon with another SME subject matter [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you enjoyed today’s show. Subscribe to me. Subscribe to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio and iTunes.

Give people a great review of the show, if you liked it, and I hope to have you back next time, and hope I’m able to help you again.

Have a great day. Take care.

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### [What Do I Do? I'm Starting on Monday & Interviewing Within the Same Firm for a Different Position?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-i-do-im-starting-on-monday-interviewing-within-the-same-firm-for-a-different-position/)

**Published:** February 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I'm starting with a company on Monday and interviewing within the same organization for a different position coming up. What do I do?

**Content:**

# What Do I Do? I’m Starting on Monday & Interviewing Within the Same Firm for a Different Position?

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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I’m starting with a company on Monday and [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) within the same organization for a different position coming up. What do I do?

Starting with a company on Monday, and now [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with the same organization for a different position. What do I do? And, you know, what it is, it’s the difference between working for a local affiliate, and the national company. It’s the same company, but one’s local and one’s at headquarters.

So, instead of getting passed over by national, they’re still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), and they really prefer working for national. So, they’ve been offered a position. But now, they have to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with the national company.

So, what do they do? Now, unless this is a franchise, and let’s say it’s McDonald’s local, and McDonald’s corporate, and I have no reason to think it is, but I’m just using an example. If this is a franchise operation, you’re working for a local franchisee, no issue whatsoever, and you don’t have to [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/) the subject. But let’s say it’s a bank, just for the sake of argument, and you’re working at a branch versus working at headquarters, it’s different.

So, what I would say is, with your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) coming up, you know, I would first try and accelerate this thing and simply say, you know, I’ve got another [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), and I’ve accepted it from your organization, working at the branch level, working at the local affiliate. But I really prefer working at corporate. So, I want to continue [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) and not get closed off.

But I want to give you the courtesy of letting you know. Now, they may say we have to let the local affiliate know. And that brings up another problem for you, whether or not you’re [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to lose the job locally, to get to have the chance to get the job at headquarters.

Talk it through with them. Do not hesitate to do that, especially since you’re talking about starting the following Monday. You know, lay the cards open and listen to what they have to say.

And then make your choice. Because for now, there’s a risk, a consequence. And if you pretend that you don’t have this other [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), they’re going to find that anyway, because you’re in the database, you’re in the HR system.

You know, they have you starting on Monday. They’ve got, you know, paperwork for on

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### [How You May Be Sabotaging Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-you-may-be-sabotaging-your-job-search/)

**Published:** February 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I was pitched to contribute to an article about how people sabotage their job search. This is what I submitted to the journalist.

**Content:**

# How You May Be Sabotaging Your Job Search

**[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](http://JobSearch.Community)**

I was pitched to contribute to an article about how people [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

This is what I submitted to the journalist who chose to use my remark about job descriptions:

1\. You only apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/): Available statistics have shown that most [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled as a result or [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). That leads to
2\. You don’t preserve your network of relationships. It feels awkward to rekindle those former friends, colleagues and managers. You don’t want to seem like “one of those people.”
3\. You never take time for self-promotion. “Who knows about you,” is one of the questions I ask people because usually, it is a small circle of ![Thumbs down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/thumbs-down-free-range-stock-300x229.jpg)people they’ve worked with. Writing and commenting regularly online, public speaking, and being interviewed on podcasts and YouTube channels will help more people know about you so you are seen as an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) and can be located through Google when [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are trying to find someone.
4\. You use a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) rather than tailoring it. The broken watch may be right twice a day but generic [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) don’t result in as many [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) as you could have.
5\. You think the ad or job description you’ve seen is accurate and what they’re looking for. Job descriptions are at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) 80% accurate. They are, typically, an institutional document used to fill previous positions like this and are rarely updated. You need to find out about the position early in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or screening call so you understand what they are really trying to find.

[***Sabotaging Your Job Search: Lukewarm References***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oj)
6\. You paralyze your personality. In the desire to seem “professional,” you turn yourself into a “me, too” candidate–someone just like everyone else without personality. If you’re just like everyone else, how can they come to a decision to choose you except by accident? After all, usually, your competition is as qualified as you.
7\. You don’t display [self-confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) in your abilities. When managers [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), they want to feel confident that you are the solution they need. Your lack of [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) makes them distrust in your abilities.
8\. You don’t prepare for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Firms ask predictable questions on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). Practice your answers to these questions and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to talk about what you’ve done and how you went about doing it. Don’t just think your answers in advance. Say them out loud.
9\. You think they start negotiating when they make a job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). In fact, they start negotiating from the first time they ask any question about compensation. Defer and deflect your answer to the question about what you are looking for until after you meet real decision-makers and not just with the screener.
10\. There’s always another way to get the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Alex Banayan wrote a fun book called “The Third Door” where he uses the metaphor of a nightclub. There are the people who wait on line to be admitted, there is the back door where someone escorts you in. [The third door](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is the one down an alley, where you need to bang on it for 10 minutes before someone comes to open it. People are much too nice when they try to get [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2024

[***Job Search Mistakes– Only Relying on Recruiters***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-rD)

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

![JeffAltman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg)JeffAltman, [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), all as well as executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), job [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 2000 episodes, and is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

*Are you interested in 1:1 [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), advice about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) more effectively, how to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) your [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) or leadership [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/)? [S](https://go.oncehub.com/TheBigGameHunter)*[chedule a free Discovery call.](https://go.oncehub.com/TheBigGameHunter)

If you want to learn how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like a pro, order “[The Ultimate Job Interview Framework](https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-job-interview-framework/)” from udemy.com www.TheBigGameHunter.us/interviews The Kindle and print versions are available on Amazon.

[Connect with me on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter).

You can order a copy of “[Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HMFMKLC)” for Kindle on Amazon and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Advice” and “Interview Preparation.” If you are starting your search, order, “[Get Ready for the Job Jungle](http://amzn.to/2r3iXZs).”

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### [Your Job on an Interview #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-job-on-an-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** February 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is exactly what you need to deliver on an interview to be hired.

**Content:**

# Your Job on an Interview #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/K41sdWme65o)

This is exactly what you need to deliver on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to be hired.

***[How Recruiters Steal Your Best People: They Get Fed Up with Being Lied to](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jqE)***

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

![JeffAltman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg)JeffAltman, [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), all as well as executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), job [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 2000 episodes, and is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

*Are you interested in 1:1 [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), advice about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) more effectively, how to [negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/negotiating-salary-through-a-recruiter/) your [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) or leadership [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/)? [S](https://go.oncehub.com/TheBigGameHunter)*[chedule a free Discovery call.](https://go.oncehub.com/TheBigGameHunter)

If you want to learn how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like a pro, order “[The Ultimate Job Interview Framework](https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-job-interview-framework/)” from udemy.com www.TheBigGameHunter.us/interviews The Kindle and print versions are available on Amazon.

[Connect with me on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter). [Like me on Facebook](http://blog.thebiggamehunter.us/NoBSCoachingAdvice).

You can order a copy of “[Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HMFMKLC)” for Kindle on Amazon and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Advice” and “Interview Preparation.” If you are starting your search, order, “[Get Ready for the Job Jungle](http://amzn.to/2r3iXZs).”

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### [Why Is It More Difficult to Search for a Job Than Do a Job?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-it-more-difficult-to-search-for-a-job-than-do-a-job/)

**Published:** February 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I've been telling people that the skills needed to find the job are different than those needed to do a job. Let me explain why it's harder to search for work than do work.

**Content:**

# Why Is It More Difficult to Search for a Job Than Do a Job?

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Since launching my podcast, “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” in November 2010, I’ve been telling people that the skills needed to find the job are different than those needed to do a job. Let me explain why it’s harder to search for work than do work.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) coach who helps people with their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading, doing a variety of things related to workforce [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Why is it more difficult to search for a job than do a job is the question I was asked.

It sounds like right out of my introduction to my podcast, No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio, the number one podcast on Apple Podcasts for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve said this for years. I started that podcast in November 2010. As I record this, it is October 2019.

I’ve been saying the same thing over and over again and I can tell you exactly why. And the answer is, how often do you [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)? Every year? Every few years? If you’re a contractor doing temp work, every month? Every few months? And the different elements of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) writing, [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), negotiating, second [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), third [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) yourself. How often do you do those? Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea of the 10,000 hour rule and the concept is that 10,000 hours of dedicated effort focused in on a task under the tutelage of an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) allows you to become one yourself.

And Gladwell points to the example of the Beatles in Hamburg as being an incubator for their [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). They spent weeks and months performing together as a way of trying to develop their expertise. And for those of you who job hunt and you’ve done how many hours of practice and how much oversight has anyone ever given you about your [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), for example, and even if you’re a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager and you think you know how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) because you’ve been [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) people for yourself for years, as you’ll discover at some point or have already discovered, when you’re on the other side of the desk, it’s a completely different experience.

You know what you look for. You don’t know what other people look for. I’ll simply say that you don’t have a lot of experience with [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and in the course of doing your work, you’ve gained a lot of expertise in your profession.

That’s the real difference. The skills needed to find the job are different than those needed to do a job and, as such, you don’t have a lot of experience. You need [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

You need advice. I’m not here to sell myself. That’s what I happen to do professionally.

I’ll just simply say you need help because this is not your strength. Hope you found this helpful. I’m Jeff off [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s much more there that you can watch, listen to or read to help you find work more quickly.

And I’ll also say that if you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), if you visit that website, there’s a button on the home page. You can schedule a free discovery call with me. And if you’re watching on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and want to connect with me, you can actually . . . let me do it differently.

You know, if you’re watching . . . if you’re seeing this on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and you want to connect with me, send a connection request to me at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com forward slash i n forward slash TheBigGameHunter and on YouTube, click the button in the lower right hand corner. You’ll get notified whenever I release new content. Have a great day and take care

***[An Agency Called Me About a Job I Was Previously Rejected For](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGy)***

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

![JeffAltman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg)JeffAltman, [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), all as well as executive [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), job [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with more than 2000 episodes, and is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

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### [If You’re Just Clicking Apply Buttons #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-youre-just-clicking-apply-buttons-shorts/)

**Published:** February 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I know this is true.

**Content:**

# If You’re Just Clicking Apply Buttons #shorts

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### [And The Offer Goes To . . .](https://thebiggamehunter.us/and-the-offer-goes-to/)

**Published:** March 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In case you haven't noticed (I know I hadn’t), Hollywood is in the midst of awards season.

**Content:**

# And The Offer Goes To . . .

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

In case you haven’t noticed (I know I hadn’t), Hollywood is in the midst of awards season. Numerous award shows recognize the film and television industry’s top performers. Shows can receive an award, and multiple actors and performances are “nominated.”

Compared to the job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process, there is only one position available, and multiple candidates are being considered – or nominated.

![](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/actor-alberto-bigoni-kvinEq5Utfw-unsplash-199x300.jpg)You’ll notice how inconsistent or subjective some of these shows can be if you watch them. On one show, a particular actor might be nominated and win. On another show, the same actor might not be nominated at all, and an entirely different actor will win the award in that category. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, as we have no idea what goes on behind the scenes.)

So how does this relate to your job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process specifically?

First, decisions made (behind the scenes) in the job process and these award shows will always be somewhat subjective. A candidate will be deemed “the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) fit” for a particular company. While employed by another company, the candidate will be considered neither a contender nor a winner.

This is not to say that the candidate is incompetent or the wrong person. This indicates that he or she was not a good fit for the position or that another candidate brought something more to the table.

There could be a variety of possible explanations for the decision made behind the scenes. Reasons for preference will vary, and whether we like it or not, overt prejudice will sometimes occur. It is unjust, but who said life was fair?

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The company with which your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is with may discover that you are their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) choice. Not only do they believe you can do the job, but they also believe you are a good fit for the position.

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While you may be disappointed to learn that they did not choose you, do not despair. While you may have missed out on the job this time, keep in mind that each job has a single winner or job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) made. For whatever reason, someone else possessed something that you lacked. What is the reason?

Don’t try to ascertain why. Rather than feeling trapped and abandoned, reclaim your power by remaining proactive. Reward yourself for being a nominee and anticipate the day when you will receive the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

A Buddhist proverb says, “Keep in mind that sometimes not getting what you want is a marvelous stroke of luck.”zblo

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### [Job Interview Call: Missing It - Big Deal or Not? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-interview-call-missing-it-big-deal-or-not-shorts/)

**Published:** February 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is missing a call from an interviewer a big deal?

**Content:**

# Job Interview Call: Missing It – Big Deal or Not? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Is missing a call from an interviewer a big deal?

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**Content:**

# **Employment Situation Summary: February 11, 2026**

[**By US Bureau of Labor Statistics**](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf)

```
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 130,000 in January, and the unemployment rate changed
little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred
in health care, social assistance, and construction, while federal government and financial
activities lost jobs.     

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures
labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment
survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information
about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical
Note.

```

```
Household Survey Data

Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.4
million, changed little in January. These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the
jobless rate was 4.0 percent, and the number of unemployed people was 6.9 million. (See table
A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for teenagers declined to 13.6 percent in
January. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (4.0 percent), and people
who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.2 percent), Asian (4.1 percent), or Hispanic (4.7
percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little in
January at 1.8 million but is up by 386,000 from a year earlier. The long-term unemployed
accounted for 25.0 percent of all unemployed people in January. (See table A-12.)

Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.5 percent, and the employment-population ratio,
at 59.8 percent, changed little in January. These measures have shown little change over the
year. (See table A-1.)

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by 453,000 to 4.9
million in January but is up by 410,000 over the year. These individuals would have preferred
full-time employment but were working part time because their hours had been reduced or they
were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-8.)

In January, the number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job decreased by
399,000 to 5.8 million. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not
actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take
a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached
to the labor force changed little at 1.7 million in January. These individuals wanted and were
available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of
the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, also changed little
at 475,000 in January. (See Summary table A.)

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 130,000 in January. Job gains occurred in health
care, social assistance, and construction, while federal government and financial activities
lost jobs. Payroll employment changed little in 2025 (+15,000 per month on average). (See
table B-1. See the note at the end of this news release and table A for more information about
the annual benchmark process.) 

Health care added 82,000 jobs in January, with gains in ambulatory health care services
(+50,000), hospitals (+18,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+13,000). Job
growth in health care averaged 33,000 per month in 2025. 

Employment in social assistance increased by 42,000 in January, primarily in individual and
family services (+38,000).

Construction added 33,000 jobs in January, reflecting an employment gain in nonresidential
specialty trade contractors (+25,000). Employment in construction was essentially flat in 2025.

In January, federal government employment continued to decline (-34,000) as some federal
employees who accepted a deferred resignation offer in 2025 came off federal payrolls. Since
reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 327,000, or 10.9
percent.

Financial activities employment declined by 22,000 in January and is down by 49,000 since
reaching a recent peak in May 2025. Within the industry, insurance carriers and related
activities lost 11,000 jobs over the month.

Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
transportation and warehousing; information; professional and business services; leisure and
hospitality; and other services.

In January, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 15
cents, or 0.4 percent, to $37.17. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have
increased by 3.7 percent. In January, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and
nonsupervisory employees rose by 12 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $31.95. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to
34.3 hours in January. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.1
hours, and overtime was unchanged at 2.9 hours. The average workweek for production and
nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.1 hour to 33.8 hours. (See
tables B-2 and B-7.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for November was revised down by 15,000, from
+56,000 to +41,000, and the change for December was revised down by 2,000, from +50,000 to
+48,000. With these revisions, employment in November and December combined is 17,000 lower
than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from
businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the
recalculation of seasonal factors. The annual benchmark process also contributed to the
November and December revisions.)

_____________
The Employment Situation for February is scheduled to be released on Friday, March 6, 2026,
at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

                           Revisions to Establishment Survey Data

In accordance with annual practice, the establishment survey data released today have been
benchmarked to reflect comprehensive counts of payroll jobs for March 2025. These counts are
derived principally from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), which counts
jobs covered by the Unemployment Insurance (UI) tax system. The benchmark process results in
revisions to not seasonally adjusted data from April 2024 forward. Seasonally adjusted data
from January 2021 forward are subject to revision. In addition, data for some series prior to
2021, both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted, incorporate other revisions.
                                                                
The seasonally adjusted total nonfarm employment level for March 2025 was revised downward by
898,000. On a not seasonally adjusted basis, the total nonfarm employment level for March 2025
was revised downward by 862,000, or -0.5 percent. Not seasonally adjusted, the absolute
average benchmark revision over the prior 10 years is 0.2 percent. 

The change in total nonfarm employment for 2025 was revised from +584,000 to +181,000
(seasonally adjusted). Table A presents revised total nonfarm employment data on a
seasonally adjusted basis from January to December 2025.

All revised historical establishment survey data are available on the BLS website at
www.bls.gov/ces/data/home.htm. In addition, an article that discusses the benchmark and
post-benchmark revisions and other technical issues is available at 
www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm. 

Also effective with this news release, the establishment survey changed the birth-death model
to incorporate current sample information each month. The change follows the same methodology
applied to the April through October 2024 forecasts during the 2024 post-benchmark period
(see question 9 in the CES Birth-Death Model Frequently Asked Questions page at 
www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbdqa.htm).

Table A. Revisions to total nonfarm employment, January to December 2025, seasonally
adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 |                                   |                                
                 |                Level              |      Over-the-month change     
                 |---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Year and month  |           |    As     |           |           |    As    |           
                 |    As     |previously | Difference|    As     |previously| Difference
                 |  revised  |published  |           |  revised  |published |           
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 |           |           |           |           |          |           
       2025      |           |           |           |           |          |           
                 |           |           |           |           |          |           
January......... |  158,268  |  159,053  |    -785   |    -48    |    111   |  -159
February........ |  158,310  |  159,155  |    -845   |     42    |    102   |   -60
March........... |  158,377  |  159,275  |    -898   |     67    |    120   |   -53
April........... |  158,485  |  159,433  |    -948   |    108    |    158   |   -50
May............. |  158,498  |  159,452  |    -954   |     13    |     19   |    -6
June............ |  158,478  |  159,439  |    -961   |    -20    |    -13   |    -7
July............ |  158,542  |  159,511  |    -969   |     64    |     72   |    -8
August.......... |  158,472  |  159,485  |  -1,013   |    -70    |    -26   |   -44
September....... |  158,548  |  159,593  |  -1,045   |     76    |    108   |   -32
October......... |  158,408  |  159,420  |  -1,012   |   -140    |   -173   |    33
November........ |  158,449  |  159,476  |  -1,027   |     41    |     56   |   -15
December(p)..... |  158,497  |  159,526  |  -1,029   |     48    |     50   |    -2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   (p) = preliminary.

 ____________________________________________________________________________________________
|											     |
|                    Population Control Adjustments to the Household Survey		     |
|											     |
| The annual population control adjustments that are usually incorporated with the release   |
| of January estimates in February will instead be introduced with the release of February   |
| 2026 estimates in March. Consequently, the initial January 2026 household survey estimates |
| in this news release continue to use short-term projections of monthly population estimates| 
| derived from population adjustments introduced in January 2025 (based on Vintage 2024	     |
| population estimates provided by the U.S. Census Bureau). As soon as practicable, BLS	     |
| plans to revise January 2026 estimates to incorporate the updated population controls.     |
| Additional information will be announced at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm#pop.	     |
|____________________________________________________________________________________________|

 ____________________________________________________________________________________________
|											     |
|                    Effect of Severe Winter Storms on Employment Estimates		     |
|                                                                                            |
| Major winter storms and severe cold weather affected large parts of the country in January |
| 2025, primarily after the reference periods for the establishment and household surveys.   |
| These events had no discernible effect on national payroll employment, hours, and earnings |
| from the establishment survey, nor on the national unemployment rate from the household    |
| survey. (For information on how weather can affect data on employment and hours estimates, |
| see the Frequently Asked Questions section of this news release.) 			     |
|											     |
| The severe weather did impact the collection of household survey data, and the January     |
| response rate of 64.3 percent was below average. The collection of establishment survey    |
| data was not impacted by severe weather, and the collection rate was within its normal     |
| range.										     |
|____________________________________________________________________________________________|

```

```
```

 [Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm)

 [Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm)

 [Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm)

 [Employment Situation Technical Note](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)

 [Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm)

 [Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm)

 [Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm)

 [Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm)

 [Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm)

 [Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm)

 [Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm)

 [Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm)

 [Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)

 [Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)

 [Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t11.htm)

 [Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm)

 [Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm)

 [Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)

 [Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)

 [Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)

 [Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm)

 [Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm)

 [Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm)

 [Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t20.htm)

 [Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm)

 [Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t22.htm)

 [Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm)

 [Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm)

 [Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t25.htm)

```
```

 [Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm)

 [Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release](https://www.bls.gov/ces/data/employment-situation-table-download.htm)

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### **[*FEELING DEPRESSED About Your Search? Struggling? Feeling Fatigued?*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eAm)**

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### [The "Start Date" Trap: Why Your Answer Matters More Than the Calendar](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-start-date-trap-why-your-answer-matters-more-than-the-calendar/)

**Published:** February 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In his head, he was being easygoing and accommodating. In Sarah’s head, a red flag went up.

**Content:**

# The “Start Date” Trap: Why Your Answer Matters More Than the Calendar

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Sarah sat across from yet another “perfect” person for a role on her team. His [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) was impeccable, his technical skills were top-tier, and the cultural fit seemed seamless. Then, she asked the standard closing question: “So, if we move forward, how soon can you start?”

The candidate shrugged, offering a breezy, “Honestly? I’m flexible. Whenever you need me!”

In his head, he was being easygoing and accommodating. In Sarah’s head, a red flag went up. To a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, “I’m flexible” doesn’t sound like helpfulness; it sounds like **indecision**. It suggests he hasn’t thought about his transition, doesn’t have a plan for his current responsibilities, and lacks the professional boundaries she needs in a lead role.

### It’s Not a Timing Question—It’s a Maturity Test

When a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) asks about your availability, they aren’t just looking for a coordinate on a calendar. They are evaluating your **reliability, planning, and professional maturity.** The way you handle your exit is the clearest indicator of how you will eventually handle your entrance. If you’re willing to drop everything “ASAP” without a backward glance at your current team, you’re signaling that you’ll likely do the same to your new employer. Conversely, being too vague makes you look like a passenger in your own [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) rather than the driver.

To help you navigate this high-stakes moment, here is how to frame your answer based on your specific situation.

### The Professional Playbook: What to Say

The goal is always to signal **control**. Use these scripts to show you’ve thought through the logistics of your life and work.

#### 1. If You’re Currently Employed

You want to show loyalty to your current team while showing excitement for the new one.

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#### 2. If You’re Currently Unemployed or Laid Off

Avoid sounding desperate. You want to sound ready and organized.

> **The Script:** “I’m available to start as early as **\[DATE\]**. I’m also flexible if you’d like me to align with your onboarding schedule.”

#### 3. If You Have Pre-Planned Travel

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#### 4. If You’re Finishing a Major Project

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> **The Script:** “I’m wrapping up a deliverable by **\[DATE\]**, so I can start **\[NEXT DATE\]** fully focused.”

#### 5. If You’re Relocating

Show them you’ve already done the math on the move.

> **The Script:** “I can start remotely on **\[DATE\]** and be onsite by **\[DATE\]** once relocation is finalized.”

### Why “ASAP” is a Hidden Red Flag

Many candidates think “ASAP” shows enthusiasm. In reality, it often reads as **needy and desperate, not readiness.** A high-value professional usually has loose ends to tie up–a project to hand off, a desk to clean, or even just a week to reset their mind so they can hit the ground running. By giving a specific date, you prove that you are moving *toward* a new opportunity, not just running *away* from a void.

### The Golden Rule: One Date, One Option

The most effective way to signal maturity is to provide **one clear date and one reasonable alternative.** For example: *“I can start on Monday the 12th, or if it’s better for the cohort onboarding, the 19th also works for me.”*

This approach tells the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager that you are organized enough to have a “Day One” in mind, but collaborative enough to care about their internal processes.

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### [Starting New Job as a Manager, Director, VP or Senior Leader?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/starting-new-job-as-a-manager-director-vp-or-senior-leader/)

**Published:** May 20, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are starting a new job where you are going to manage or lead people, you are often told the worst about them. Your job is to change that behavior. Here's how.

**Content:**

# Starting New Job as a Manager, Director, VP or Senior Leader? #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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If you are starting a new job where you are going to manage or lead people, you are often told the worst about them. Your job is to change that behavior. Here’s how.

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### [Include AI Experience in Your Resume #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/include-ai-experience-in-your-resume-shorts/)

**Published:** February 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** AI experience makes a difference in people’s resumes.

**Content:**

# Include AI Experience in Your Resume #shorts

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### [How to Get Your Resume Through More ATS Systems #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-your-resume-through-more-ats-systems-shorts/)

**Published:** February 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Did you know you could use AI to help you get through a particular applicant tracking system? Let me explain how.

**Content:**

# How to Get Your Resume Through More ATS Systems #shorts

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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Did you know you could use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to help you get through a particular [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)? Let me explain how.

[***AI Resume Screening: How Employers Use It***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oCc)

You know that you can use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to evaluate your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) as a particular [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) might.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier.

Even if you don’t know what it is, I’ll tell you how to do it. So, if you know the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), you can simply say, “Act as if you were the \[fill-in-the-blank\] [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). Evaluate this [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for this position based upon my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).”

And if it’ll grade your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), then from there say, “What can I do to optimize it for you?” And it will give you some suggestions for things that you can improve.

If you don’t know what it is—and I just experimented using Perplexity on this one; it was a job description for a position and it didn’t mention which [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) it was—so I asked Perplexity with the job description on the screen, “Look at my screen and tell me which [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) this firm uses.” It told me. Fabulous, right?

So now you could tell it the specific [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) to act like and then evaluate your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for a particular position vis-a-vis this [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

I have a lot more that can help you at JobSearch.Community. Come over to the site, go exploring. There’s a lot there that’ll help you. Become an Insider where I can coach you or you can purchase individual products, services, guides, whatever, and I can help you that way.

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### [Case Study Reminders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/case-study-reminders/)

**Published:** February 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People forget a few things when they're presented with case study scenarios.

**Content:**

# Case Study Reminders

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I was [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) someone recently and, it’s funny how this pattern reoccurs. They’ve got a case study [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and they want me to go through a couple of cases with them in a mock [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and I will tell you that this pattern repeats itself so consistently! It doesn’t matter whether you are a junior individual or senior. I see this happen all the time.

So, you are presented with a case with a couple of scenarios to it and some questions be specific in answering the questions. You got that part right. But, people forget a couple of things. The number 1 thing they tend to forget is that there is missing information that needs to be gleaned from the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

So, in a recent example, they didn’t have a sense of what the team was going to be like that they were going to be leading. How experienced were they or whether they junior or senior? Have they ever worked with one another to know whether or not these are a group of renegades that have been tossed into a bucket or whether this person will have to pull them together or whether they are an existing cohesive team?

Some things were not in the case study that they should have asked about. In another scenario, there was missing information that should have been explored for.

When you’re in the case [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), part of the way they are evaluating you is to see whether you just go right to diving into the answer. That is the wrong approach, particularly if, you are in leadership. That’s because you are demonstrating that you function in the weeds. If you’re just graduating and you’re going for a junior role, there’s an expectation you are going to see things at a certain level.

However, if you’re more senior at a higher level, there is a different perspective that you have to have from your experience and an expectation that you can address. For example, how large is your budget to do this project, right? There is a difference as to what you could accomplish with a budget and certain timelines.

Again, some questions need to be followed up with before you launch into your answer that, if you just dive indirectly, you are going to miss the boat.

And, even if you guess the answer, they are going to the point that that you were missing information. It can prove costly to you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2020

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Why Are You Connecting on LinkedIn?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-are-you-connecting-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** February 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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# Why Are You Connecting on LinkedIn?

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

It is bizarre to me what people do on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

[***Should I Apply to One Job at a Time and Go Through The Process or Multiple Jobs?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b6d)

This is a show where I want to do dealing with the goofy things that people do on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) that are absolutely bizarre to me. I got requested to connect on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/); most of the time, I’m not reaching out to connect. I’m doing sourcing and recruiting (as you can tell, this was previously recorded when I still did search) and I’m not really going out aggressively and say, “hey! Connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)!” But people do that with me. After all, I am a very recognized figure it and people want to connect with me.

There are two things that are absolute bizarre to me. The first one is the person who has a first name and last initial. Like if my profile read, “Jeff A.” Why? Are you embarrassed by your last name? Are you ashamed of your last name? Or are you trying to hide something from me?

I don’t know which of the above it is but I would assume there is a fear of racism orientation. So, if you’ve got a long foreign name, your concerned that native US people are going to discriminate on the basis of your name. Okay. So, you think if there’s a connection request and you try to build out the relationship, we’re not going to find out about your name? Like in the first phone call or first conversation.

***[What Employers Look for When They Read Your Resume](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3o)***

“Jeff A? Hey Jeff, what is your last name?”

That is really my first question because I want to know who I’m talking with. I have gotten to the point where I don’t accept those requests. For me, that’s not my concern. My concern is getting to know someone. I don’t want them holding out on me during my first interaction with them. So, I I delete those immediately.

The other thing that is absolutely bizarre to me is no [contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-put-contact-info-on-your-resume-2/). I connect with you and there is no way to reach you. You want me to talk to through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) by [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) you? That isn’t a relationship to me. It’s nothing to me. So, someone reaches out to connect with me today on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and they seem like they’re a normal human being. I connect with them and there is no email address, no phone number, no way that I can reach out to them except through the system.

In case you haven’t noticed, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is pretty clumsy and, in addition, or you on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) every day you? Probably not, but you expected me to sit there waiting while I’m trying to do some [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), I’m trying to ask some questions, I’m trying to get an opinion, do some informational reach out and why did you reach out to me? Was this supposed to be a one-way street where I’m the one who supposed to give and you are the one who supposed to take period I’m not allowed to ask you anything?

So, right off the bat, I have a trepidation and recognize that if I do, and I’m a very open networker, what are you doing with other people? The answer is you or annoying them. There is no value to your connection if it’s a one-way street.

So, I just pause for a second and say, “don’t be foolish.” You are on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), trying to connect with people in order to get some help. Don’t be a mooch. Reach out. Connect. That’s fine.

Be generous. Be gracious. Be helpful to people. Don’t start hiding at the very beginning. After all, if you’re looking for job, you want to make it easy for people reach out to you, right? Right?

So, be open with your information. Email address. Phone number. State your preference as to how you want to be contacted. People will respect that.

In terms of your name, put your damn name there. Don’t hide it. People will find out . Pat anyway and what have you accomplished? It’s goofy and racism will occur if you have a 47 letter last name with no vowels in it that people can’t pronounce or they’re going to wind up seeing a letter, “L” because you have your picture there, right?

Don’t be foolish about these things. Be generous, be gracious and recognize that, obviously, bigotry exists. I know I’m the target of bigotry at times and you’re going to experience the same thing. There’s no hiding it’s. I wish it were different but putting the first initial of your last name there, doesn’t do anything.

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### [What Do I Put in the Subject of an Email When I Apply for a Job?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-i-put-in-the-subject-of-an-email-when-i-apply-for-a-job-video/)

**Published:** February 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# What Do I Put in the Subject of an Email When I Apply for a Job?

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

 Wh[***The Best Way to Discuss Metrics in Your Resume***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kY)at should I put in the subject of an email when I applied for a job? There are so many possibilities!

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). And the question for today is, what should I put in the subject of an email while [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/)? Now, for most of you . . . actually, there are two answers. We’ll start with the one that is for most of you, you’re seeing something online, you’re seeing an ad of some sort, you’re seeing something that the company or recruiting firm has cast a net for, and you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for a position that way.

So, the subject line might read with the title of the position so that this way it’s clear to the reader what it is you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for. If the company is asking you to include a job code or some other indicator that specifies what kind of . . . which job this is in particular that you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for, include that as well. So, as an example, it might say, job 2714 accountant and mention a line of business.

And, thus, what you’re doing is making it clear to the reader why it is that you’re sending the email. Because, after all, you have to remember their inbox. You’re thinking of one email that you’re sending.

They’re receiving a lot of them in the course of the day. So, you’re helping them do triage on their inbox and they can go, oh, a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for that job and act from that. However, there’s the second condition that people have when they’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/).

And that is you’re referred by someone. Now, in that instance, what you say is, I’m referred by so and so. And, thus, they know that you’re just not a stranger who’s submitting a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) for a position.

You’re someone who has an introduction to them. And then you use the body of the email in both cases to stake out why it is that you’re qualified to do this job. So, it isn’t a hard letter.

But what it is, is one where you’re trying to make it clear to the reader why it is that you’re there and why it is that you’re emailing them. I hope you found this helpful. And visit and join [JobSearch.Community.](http://JobSearch.Community) Have a great day.

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### [How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired-shorts/)

**Published:** February 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article with this name, This is a #shorts summary of the article. 

**Content:**

# How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/E_1dpHwEIkg)

Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article with this name, This is a #shorts summary of the article. You can read the full one at .

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Harvard Business Review publishing article “How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been [Fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/). I’m going to summarize it. There’ll be a link to the article in the show notes.

The article advises you to take ownership of your [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and be honest about the reasons for leaving your previous job during [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). It also suggested [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with industry contacts, making a strong online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) and highlighting your transferable skills and positive attributes. It emphasizes the importance of you learning from the experience you had and moving forward with a positive attitude.

It’s a good piece, read the full article at hbr.org. Again, I’ll have a link in the show notes. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), there’ll be more in the blog at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us)

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### [15 Ways to Become Irresistible to Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/15-ways-to-become-irresistible-to-employers/)

**Published:** February 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you want to be chased instead of ignored, stop acting like an applicant and start operating like a business that solves specific problems.

**Content:**

# **15 Ways to Become Irresistible to Employers**

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

If you want to be chased instead of ignored, stop acting like an applicant and start operating like a business that solves specific problems.

## 1–5: Become a Clear, Obvious Solution

1. **Pick a painful, expensive problem—and own it.**
    Vague candidates get ghosted. Decide what problem you solve (churn, low pipeline, messy ops, high turnover, weak onboarding) and build your entire professional story around that one thing.
2. **Rewrite your profile as a sales page, not a bio.**
    Your headline and About should read like: “I help B2B SaaS companies cut onboarding time by 40%” or “I turn chaotic HR into compliant, people-first systems.” Make it instantly obvious why someone would pay you.
3. **Design a “problem → action → proof” [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).**
    Every bullet should show the business problem, what you did, and the measurable result: “Missed SLAs by 25% → redesigned queue and playbooks → 94% on-time delivery within 6 months.” No fluff, no tasks, just business impact.
4. **Build a 1-page impact [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), not a vanity website.**
    One link, one page: 3–7 short case studies that each show the problem, your approach, the result, and a screenshot or artifact. This is what [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers forward internally when they say, “We should talk to this person.”
5. **Specialize your online [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) to one lane.**
    If your profile looks like you could do 12 different [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), you’ll be contacted for none of them. Commit: one core title, one industry (or two related ones), one level. Depth beats breadth for inbound interest.
    
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## 6–10: Show How You Think, Not Just What You’ve Done

6. **Ship one “thinking artifact” weekly.**
    Post something that proves your brain works at the level they need: a teardown of a company’s funnel, a rewritten job posting, a better onboarding flow, a risk checklist, a systems map. Smart people recognize smart work.
7. **Reverse-engineer job descriptions into mini playbooks.**
    Take a posting you want and draft a 30–60–90 day outline that directly addresses their metrics and headaches. Keep it tight, one page. This becomes a powerful attachment or talking point when you reach out.
8. **Turn your experience into named frameworks.**
    Instead of “I improved onboarding,” talk about your “3-Step Onboarding Compression Method” or “Weekly Revenue Health Review.” Naming your process signals that you think in systems, not random tasks.
9. **Practice “live problem solving” in public.**
    Comment on leaders’ and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers’ posts with real micro-solutions: “If I owned this, I’d test A/B on X, then watch Y metric for 2 weeks.” You’re auditioning in the open; decision-makers are always watching.
10. **Write for decision-makers, not peers.**
    When you post or comment, speak to the VP/Founder/Director’s concerns: risk, cost, time, growth, compliance, [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Translate your work into those levers. That’s when senior people start DM’ing you.

## 11–15: Lower the Risk and Friction to Saying “Yes”

11. **Build a “proof file” you can drop instantly.**
    Have 3–5 ready-to-send assets: a before/after case study, a short loom explaining a dashboard, a rewritten process, a one-pager of testimonials, a short [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) outline. When someone shows interest, you respond with proof, not promises.
12. **Pre-handle the top three objections to [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you.**
    [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) pivoter? Address it head-on: “Here’s how my sales background makes me dangerous in CS.” Gap? “Here’s what I built/learned during that time.” New field? “Here’s the specific work I’ve already done to close the gap.” You remove mental friction.
13. **Treat every interaction like a working session.**
    When you get time with a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager or leader, don’t just talk about your past. Use part of the call to clarify their current challenges and sketch options live. People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) the person who already feels like part of the team.
14. **Engineer warm proximity to people who make decisions.**
    Engage consistently with 20–30 targeted leaders and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers over time. Thoughtful comments, occasional DMs, sharing something useful that clearly helps them. You want to be familiar *before* they post the role.
15. **Make your ask specific, time-bound, and easy to grant.**
    Instead of “Let me know if you hear of anything,” try: “If you post or hear of remote senior CS roles in B2B SaaS, would you be open to tagging me or sending it my way? I’ll keep it short and make this easy on you.” Specificity respects their time and increases action.

You become desirable when you look like a focused, low-risk, high-leverage solution to a real business problem—not another generic applicant hoping to be picked. Build everything around that, and [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) start coming to you.

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### [Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interviewing-is-a-performance-are-you-failing-the-script/)

**Published:** February 17, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** We pull back the curtain on the hiring process to reveal the true psychological triggers and critical mistakes that cause interviewers to mentally reject you within the first five minutes

**Content:**

# Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3108 You think you’re [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/), but you keep losing to weaker candidates. The typical [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) advice is setting you up for failure. We pull back the curtain on the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process to reveal the true psychological triggers and critical [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that cause interviewers to mentally reject you within the first five minutes. Stop guessing what they want. Listen now to get the no-BS script for dominating any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and getting the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) every single time.

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All right, let’s get right into it. If you want to absolutely crush your next [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and really stand out, no matter your age, this is for you. We’re going to walk through a simple, no BS guide to making you their number one choice.

You know, this is the question, isn’t it? It’s the one that keeps so many experienced pros up at night. There’s this little nagging fear that all your years of [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) might somehow [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) as a negative. But what if we could just flip that script completely? What if that experience is actually your greatest weapon? And boom, here it is.

This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) just nails the core idea we’re unpacking. The game isn’t about counting the years on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It’s about one thing and one thing only, proving you are the direct solution to their problem.

That right there, that’s the mindset that changes everything. So our first stop is probably the most important one. It’s all about shifting your perspective.

You’ve got to move your focus from your past accomplishments to your passion for the future. See, winning the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) starts way before you answer the first question. It starts right up here, in your head, with how you frame your own value.

I mean, think about it, right? Companies are made of people. And people are drawn to enthusiasm. They’re kind of seduced by it.

They’re not just looking for someone who can do the job. They’re looking for someone who is genuinely [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-apply-for-a-new-job-after-youve-been-fired/) up to do it. Your passion is this incredibly powerful, persuasive force.

Okay, so if passion is the secret sauce, how do you actually serve it up in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Well, that brings us to our second point. You have to project that passion, not your seniority. Let’s break down how to turn that feeling into real, concrete action.

It really boils down to these three things. First off, you’ve got to carry yourself with the [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) of someone who’s at their peak, not someone who’s winding down. Second, let your excitement for the actual role and its challenges just shine through.

And third, your questions should be all about what’s next, about the future. That shows you’re invested in their future, not just your own past. I love this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

It just crystallizes the whole idea, doesn’t it? It’s a simple, but really profound shift in your posture and your [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). You’re not looking for a final chapter. You’re looking for the next big challenge.

That is the vibe you want to project. Now for a super crucial, tactical shift in how you talk about your value. It’s not enough to just feel passionate.

You have to speak the language of impact. This section is all about talking outcomes, not years. And honestly, it might be the most important change you make.

Just look at the power of this contrast. It’s night and day. I have 25 years of experience.

Okay, so what? It’s abstract. It’s passive. But I increased revenue by 20% last quarter.

That is a concrete result. It’s active. And it’s what the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager actually cares about.

What you can do for them. This single number tells a story. It speaks of impact, benefit, and value.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Don’t Fill That Many Positions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-otq)

Think of it this way. Your years of experience are kind of like the backstory. But the number itself, that’s the headline.

And you always, always lead with the headline. You know another major thing [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers worry about? Whether a candidate is stuck in the past. And that’s why our fourth point is so critical.

***[Your Digital First Impression May Be Getting You Rejected](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-owo)***

You have to show that you’re adaptable. Your job is to proactively prove you’re built for the future, not just resting on your past. This is huge.

Don’t just claim you’re adaptable. You have to prove it. Every single answer you give is a golden opportunity to embed a short story that shows your flexibility.

Think of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) as a collection of many case studies where you are the hero who just thrives on change. And here are some really powerful examples. Did you have to master some new, tricky software? Talk about it.

Did you successfully report to a manager younger than you without any friction? Share that story. These examples directly fight any of those unstated biases about age and prove you’re a huge asset in any modern workplace. So let’s bring all this together into one clear, sharp focus.

After you’ve shifted your mindset and you’ve refined your language, what is your ultimate mission when you walk into that room? What is your one single-minded objective? This is it. This is your new identity. You are not a candidate with X years of experience.

You are the solution. Everything you say, every story you tell, every question you ask, it should all be aimed at reinforcing this one single idea. You are the answer to their problem.

And that’s the question I want to leave you with, because it reframes the entire process. It’s not about them judging you. It’s about you demonstrating how you are the solution they’ve been searching for.

Go in with that mindset and trust me, you’ve already won half the battle.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, carer transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Job Search Momentum in 15 Minutes or Less](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-momentum-in-15-minutes-or-less/)

**Published:** February 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are things you can do to create momentum in your job search in 15 minutes or less.

**Content:**

# Job Search Momentum in 15 Minutes or Less

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

There are things you can do to create momentum in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) in 15 minutes or less.

[***How Far Can You Go?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fLB)

All right, let’s cut the nonsense. Your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), it’s a [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/), a total soul crusher. And all that old advice you’re getting, it’s garbage.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and I’m about to show you a system that actually works. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) part, it only takes 15 minutes a day. Yeah, let’s just be real for a second.

This probably hits a little too close to home, right? Job searching feels like a marathon you never even signed up for. It’s just endless. You’re sitting there hitting refresh on your inbox over and over again, waiting for something, anything.

It’s exhausting. It’s designed to break you down. And you know what the worst part is? The experts telling you to just [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) it out for eight hours a day, that is a one-way ticket to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) city, my friend.

And you’re the only resident. It’s awful advice, it’s old, it doesn’t work, period. So right now, we’re taking that whole playbook and we’re tossing it straight in the trash.

So this is the problem, the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/). This is where most people are stuck, but we’re not just gonna sit here and complain about it. No, we’re gonna tear it apart piece by piece.

And I’m gonna show you exactly how to fix this mess. Okay, here’s the plan, simple. We’ll look at the [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/).

I’ll show you the 15-minute [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) and then give you real, actionable steps for your profile, your network, and your plan. Let’s do this. All right, so how do we fix this? What’s the secret? It’s not about working harder.

I’m telling you, it’s about working smarter. This is what I call the 15-minute [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). And trust me, it’s gonna completely change the game for you.

Look at this. This is it right here. The old way is all about intensity.

You know, those eight-hour days of just clicking and clicking until your eyes glaze over. It’s a guaranteed path to [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/). The new way, our way, it’s all about consistency, small, focused, 15-minute chunks of real action.

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This is how you build momentum that actually lasts. Intensity burns you out. Consistency, that’s what gets you the job.

It really is that simple. All right, mission number one, it’s time to sharpen your profile. Think about it.

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), that’s your digital handshake. Right now, is it a firm one or is it kind of limp? Let’s fix that. Listen, do not try to rewrite your entire [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile.

That’s a huge waste of time and you’ll just get bogged down. Instead, take 15 minutes, just 15, and do this. Pick one skill or achievement and add a number to it.

Increase sales by 20%, manage a team of eight, boosted efficiency by 15%, whatever it is. Numbers pop, they get noticed by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). It’s a tiny change that makes a massive impact.

Okay, this next one is a great little trick. I want you to find a job description for a role you actually want. Copy the whole thing.

Now, go to any free word cloud generator online and paste it in. See those words that pop out, the really big ones? Those are the keywords. That’s what the computer systems, the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), are looking for.

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Go do it. Okay, mission two. Let’s talk about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/).

And I know, I know, most people hate that word, but we’re gonna do it the right way. No begging, no desperate, can you help me find a job messages. None of that stuff that makes you feel gross and makes them feel awkward.

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Hope all is well. That’s it. You’re not asking for a thing, but here’s the magic.

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Think about the ripple effect. First, they get that notification and it makes their day. Second, they’re almost certainly gonna think about returning the favor.

And third, it shows everyone in your network that you’re a contributor, not just some person out there with their handout. It’s a game changer. Okay, final mission.

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I guarantee it. The problem is by next Monday, you’ve forgotten all about it. So every Friday, take 15 minutes.

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### [Is Your Job Search in a Groove or a Rut?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-your-job-search-in-a-groove-or-a-rut-2/)

**Published:** February 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses how to get your job search energized

**Content:**

## Is Your Job Search in a Groove or a Rut?

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

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I was trying to encourage people with the idea that everything works in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/); we don’t know what the one thing is that is going to wind up getting you the job. We just know that everything will work. If you don’t believe me, talk to 20 people about how they found their job and your fear lots of different stories About the things that they did.

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Here’s the point I want to make with you. For those of you member records (I’m not talking about CDs or DVDs. I’m talking about the old-fashioned things), they had bruises on them remembering restored and helped people remember. There is a fine line between a groove and a rut.

Often, would job hunters do is get into the rut and they keep driving and repeating that groove over and over and over again until it digs really deep and they can’t get out of it. For most of you, the game plan is to get out of the rut and get into something new. Do something different.

It may not lead to immediate obvious returns. But what you’re doing isn’t either. Even though answering all those ads and whatever else are doing seems to be worthwhile activities you’re getting a few responses. The idea is to do things differently.

Clean up the desk. Start [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with people. Go out to lunch. Go to a meetup. Go to a cocktail party. Start serving the people who are different than the ones you used to talking with. Surround yourself with people who have great [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) and are successful at what they do.

 Get different inputs into your mind. Ask different questions than you always do. Do things differently. You’ll find if you start asking different questions, you will get different answers and probably different results that will have an impact on the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [Now That Google Downplays SAT Scores When Hiring, What Matters More to Them?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/now-that-google-downplays-sat-scores-when-hiring-what-matters-more-to-them/)

**Published:** February 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Google changed its criteria for hiring people.

**Content:**

# Now That Google Downplays SAT Scores When Hiring, What Matters More to Them?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I read [an interesting article on BusinessInsider.com](http://www.businessinsider.com/data-in-the-workplace-2013-4) that said that Google changed its criteria for [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people recently.

For years, they made an organizational commitment to use SAT scores as a major criterion for selecting staff. They decided to devalue SAT scores as a criterion because they found no correlation between them and [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) at their firm.

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### [Why Would A Recruiter Reveal the Number of Finalists? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-would-a-recruiter-reveal-the-number-of-finalists-shorts/)

**Published:** February 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A recruiter told me that they have 3 finalists and asked for more details to decide the final one. Why would any recruiter reveal the number of finalists? They could have just asked me the details, right?

**Content:**

# Why Would A Recruiter Reveal the Number of Finalists? #shorts

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A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) told me that they have 3 finalists and asked for more details to decide the final one. Why would any [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) reveal the number of finalists? They could have just asked me the details, right?

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A [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) told me they have three finalists and asked for more details to decide the final one. Why would any [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) reveal the number of finalists? They could just ask me for the details, right? Well, the reason is pretty simple. And from their standpoint, what they were trying to do was exert pressure.

And by the way, Kevin Wilson, good morning. I’ll get to that in just a second. Okay.

So they want to exert a certain amount of pressure to indicate a desire for compliance. And the simple thing is they wanted to see whether or not that pressure could cause you to be nice, play well with others, things along those lines, and not give them a rough time. Because when someone thinks that they’re the finalists, they’re the only ones.

Now, there’s a degree of arrogance that sometimes shows up. So they wanted you to behave and they wanted you to worry, am I going to get this job or am I going to blow it now? So that’s very simple. It’s a simple answer for it.

Pressure. Put pressure.

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### [Should You Answer Personal Questions a Recruiter Asks? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-you-answer-personal-questions-a-recruiter-asks-shorts/)

**Published:** February 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Should You Answer Personal Questions a Recruiter Asks? #shorts

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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Should you reply to personal questions asked by a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) you just met? I bet you’re a woman asking this question because this is the nonsense that a lot of women deal with. “So, you married? And yeah, got any kids?”

Now, in the US, these are illegal questions. But I would politely respond to this person, this [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), by saying, “How does this relate to my qualifications for the role? I’ve been on too many [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) where after someone asked me similar questions to this, I got hit on. I’m sure that’s not your intention, but understand I want to keep this on a purely professional level right now so that there’s no risk of that occurring.”

So in three sentences, you explained why it is you’re not going to respond to personal questions. “I’m sure that’s not your intention, but in the past, I’ve been hit on,” causes them to back away. Don’t answer personal questions.

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### [No BS Career Advice: February 8, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-8-2026/)

**Published:** February 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: February 8, 2026

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

“There is no passion to be found playing small…” ~Nelson Mandela

As we enter February and winter doldrums affect people in the Northern Hemisphere, it is a common phenomenon to start to feel a little depressed. Get out of the house and be in contact with people, even if that means going shopping or taking a walk. For those of you fortunate enough to live in climates more pleasant than dreary, take [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) of what that affords you. . . . and smile at someone you pass by. You’ll feel good and you might support them to, as well.

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## Are Career Assessments Worth Your Time? Only If You Test the Results.

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) assessments have been around for decades, promising to unlock the secrets of what work we’re “meant” to do. They’re popular because they bring some structure to what can feel like an overwhelming process–figuring out what [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path fits your personality, values, or natural strengths. But while these tools can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) valuable insights, they’re only one piece of the puzzle. The real test comes when you take those insights into the real world and talk with people doing the work.

### Why Career Assessments Still Matter

When used correctly, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) assessments help you name what you already sense about yourself. They identify patterns in your preferences, communication style, problem-solving approach, and work motivators. That reflection can be useful, especially if you’re in transition — considering a new field, preparing for a mid-career pivot, or returning to work after time away.

The most common types of assessments include:

- **Interest inventories** (like the Strong Interest Inventory or Holland Codes) that match your likes and dislikes to fields where people with similar profiles are satisfied.
- **Personality assessments** (e.g., Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Big Five) that describe how you interact with others and absorb information.
- **Strengths-based tools** (such as CliftonStrengths) that identify your natural talents and suggest where you might excel.
- **Values or motivator assessments**, which point to what drives you– autonomy, stability, recognition, service, or innovation.

What these tools can’t do is *decide* for you. They can’t see your financial goals, family responsibilities, or the realities of your local labor market. They’re starting points, and conversation starters for exploring what fits, not final answers.

### The Problem With Taking Results at Face Value

One [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) job hunters often make is treating assessment results as definitive. For example, someone who scores high on “artistic” interests might worry they’ll only succeed in creative industries, while a “realistic” type might assume they belong in hands-on technical roles. But work satisfaction rarely maps neatly to categories. People thrive in many environments for reasons that reach beyond personality: a great team, a supportive manager, or meaningful impact.

Assessments also reflect how you *see yourself* in a particular moment. Your answers change when your circumstances do. For example, a recent layoff, family change, or health issue can shift what feels fulfilling or practical. That’s why it’s dangerous to assume an online quiz or personality chart can hand you your next [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. It’s more accurate to think of these results as hypotheses you need to test.

### How to Test Your Career Assessment Results

Informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to pressure-test what your assessment suggests. If your results highlight “strategic problem-solving” and “independent work,” don’t just assume you belong in consulting. Talk to two or three people who actually *do* that kind of work. Ask them what a typical day looks like, what skills they use most, what they enjoy, and what frustrates them.

These conversations help you see:

- Whether the day-to-day feels energizing or draining.
- Which skills the role truly relies on versus what looks impressive on paper.
- How people entered the field and whether your background aligns.
- What [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) progression and earning potential look like in real terms.

Think of it as running a “field test” on your assessment data. You’re validating whether the supposed fit holds up under actual job conditions. You’ll almost always learn something useful—sometimes confirming the direction, sometimes refining or rejecting it.

### How to Approach These Conversations

Approach informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with curiosity, not an agenda. You’re not asking for a job; you’re gathering intelligence about work life in a field or role you’re considering.

A simple five-question framework works well:

1. How did you get started in this [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)?
2. What keeps you motivated or engaged in your work?
3. What does [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) look like in this field?
4. What traits or skills make someone stand out?
5. If you were starting over, what would you do differently?

Schedule 20–30 minutes by video or phone, thank them for their time, and [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with a concise note. These small actions build relationships and clarity at the same time — something no online tool can replicate.

### Blending Self-Insight With Real-World Exploration

The goal isn’t to dismiss assessments; it’s to use them wisely. They can give you useful ideas and self-awareness. But the real genius happens when you combine those insights with firsthand conversations.

For example, you might find that while your top result suggests “data analysis,” what excites you most is *explaining insights to others*, pointing you toward analytics communication or customer education roles. Or a recommendation for “counseling” could translate into HR, [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), or [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) once you explore the full range of what those paths involve.

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) satisfaction grows at the intersection of your strengths, interests, and real-world opportunities. Assessments help you identify the first two. Talking to people helps you find the third.

The smartest job hunters, regardless of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) stage, approach assessments not as answers, but as prompts for exploration. Use them to develop questions, not conclusions. Then, go talk to the professionals living out the scenarios those tools describe. That’s how you turn personality profiles into actionable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) decisions.

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### [Are Career Assessments Worth Your Time? Only If You Test the Results.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/are-career-assessments-worth-your-time-only-if-you-test-the-results/)

**Published:** February 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Career assessments can offer valuable insights, they’re only one piece of the puzzle.

**Content:**

# Are Career Assessments Worth Your Time? Only If You Test the Results.

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) assessments have been around for decades, promising to unlock the secrets of what work we’re “meant” to do. They’re popular because they bring some structure to what can feel like an overwhelming process–figuring out what [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path fits your personality, values, or natural strengths. But while these tools can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) valuable insights, they’re only one piece of the puzzle. The real test comes when you take those insights into the real world and talk with people doing the work.

### Why Career Assessments Still Matter

When used correctly, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) assessments help you name what you already sense about yourself. They identify patterns in your preferences, communication style, problem-solving approach, and work motivators. That reflection can be useful, especially if you’re in transition — considering a new field, preparing for a mid-career pivot, or returning to work after time away.

The most common types of assessments include:

- **Interest inventories** (like the Strong Interest Inventory or Holland Codes) that match your likes and dislikes to fields where people with similar profiles are satisfied.
- **Personality assessments** (e.g., Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Big Five) that describe how you interact with others and absorb information.
- **Strengths-based tools** (such as CliftonStrengths) that identify your natural talents and suggest where you might excel.
- **Values or motivator assessments**, which point to what drives you– autonomy, stability, recognition, service, or innovation.

What these tools can’t do is *decide* for you. They can’t see your financial goals, family responsibilities, or the realities of your local labor market. They’re starting points, and conversation starters for exploring what fits, not final answers.

### The Problem With Taking Results at Face Value

One [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) job hunters often make is treating assessment results as definitive. For example, someone who scores high on “artistic” interests might worry they’ll only succeed in creative industries, while a “realistic” type might assume they belong in hands-on technical roles. But work satisfaction rarely maps neatly to categories. People thrive in many environments for reasons that reach beyond personality: a great team, a supportive manager, or meaningful impact.

Assessments also reflect how you *see yourself* in a particular moment. Your answers change when your circumstances do. For example, a recent layoff, family change, or health issue can shift what feels fulfilling or practical. That’s why it’s dangerous to assume an online quiz or personality chart can hand you your next [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. It’s more accurate to think of these results as hypotheses you need to test.

### How to Test Your Career Assessment Results

Informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to pressure-test what your assessment suggests. If your results highlight “strategic problem-solving” and “independent work,” don’t just assume you belong in consulting. Talk to two or three people who actually *do* that kind of work. Ask them what a typical day looks like, what skills they use most, what they enjoy, and what frustrates them.

These conversations help you see:

- Whether the day-to-day feels energizing or draining.
- Which skills the role truly relies on versus what looks impressive on paper.
- How people entered the field and whether your background aligns.
- What [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) progression and earning potential look like in real terms.

Think of it as running a “field test” on your assessment data. You’re validating whether the supposed fit holds up under actual job conditions. You’ll almost always learn something useful—sometimes confirming the direction, sometimes refining or rejecting it.

### How to Approach These Conversations

Approach informational [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with curiosity, not an agenda. You’re not asking for a job; you’re gathering intelligence about work life in a field or role you’re considering.

A simple five-question framework works well:

1. How did you get started in this [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)?
2. What keeps you motivated or engaged in your work?
3. What does [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) look like in this field?
4. What traits or skills make someone stand out?
5. If you were starting over, what would you do differently?

Schedule 20–30 minutes by video or phone, thank them for their time, and [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) with a concise note. These small actions build relationships and clarity at the same time — something no online tool can replicate.

### Blending Self-Insight With Real-World Exploration

The goal isn’t to dismiss assessments; it’s to use them wisely. They can give you useful ideas and self-awareness. But the real genius happens when you combine those insights with firsthand conversations.

For example, you might find that while your top result suggests “data analysis,” what excites you most is *explaining insights to others*, pointing you toward analytics communication or customer education roles. Or a recommendation for “counseling” could translate into HR, [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), or [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) once you explore the full range of what those paths involve.

[Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) satisfaction grows at the intersection of your strengths, interests, and real-world opportunities. Assessments help you identify the first two. Talking to people helps you find the third.

The smartest job hunters, regardless of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) stage, approach assessments not as answers, but as prompts for exploration. Use them to develop questions, not conclusions. Then, go talk to the professionals living out the scenarios those tools describe. That’s how you turn personality profiles into actionable [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) decisions.

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### [Career Assessments](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-assessments/)

**Published:** February 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Many people know what they don't want to do but are unsure of what they want to do next

**Content:**

# Career Assessments

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Many people know what they don’t want to do but are unsure of what they want to do next or are [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to say it out loud for fear that others might judge them and their ideas badly.

 A good [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) assessment offers an objective measure that gives someone ideas for [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) options they may never have considered. An assessment can provide a beginning for exploring alternatives.

I know it did for me when I was considering a change from recruiting!

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### [How Can I Get in Touch With the Recruiter?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-the-recruiter/)

**Published:** February 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do I email the recruiter? I attended an interview starting of last week and got selected but I couldn't pick their calls nor respond to their email as my grandma passed away

**Content:**

# How Can I Get in Touch With the Recruiter?

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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How do I email the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? I attended an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) starting of last week and got selected but I couldn’t pick their calls nor respond to their email as my grandma passed away later last week and I got busier with the funeral.

Question: How do I email the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)? I attended an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) starting the beginning of last week and got selected, but I couldn’t take their calls or respond to the email because my grandmother passed away last week and I got busier with the funeral. So how do you get in touch with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) now?

I’m going to politely say you got a phone. You noticed the emails came in. A quick response that would have said, “My grandmother passed away. I’ll be in touch next week,” would have been a smart thing to do. But you didn’t do it.

Here’s what you do. You got an email; respond to the email. You can call them and tell them, “I’m sorry I was unavailable. My grandmother passed away. I was traveling and I’m back now. And if you’re still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), I’d appreciate if we could schedule a time for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).” You make it that simple.

I personally would encourage a phone call, but most people don’t get through on the phone these days. Leaving a voicemail where they can hear your voice and hear your sincerity is better than an email. You can [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) the next day with an email if they don’t get in touch. And the email then would read… the subject line would say something effective: “I left a voicemail for you yesterday.” And the body would read, “I left a voicemail for you saying the reason I didn’t respond last week was my grandmother passed away. We were dealing with the funeral and frankly, you know, it was upsetting to my family and to me. So if you’re still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), I’d like to be considered. Could we make arrangements for the next step?” That’s sort of the message people will get if they are still [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/).

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### [Final Interviews: Two Tactics They Are Going to Use to Trap You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/final-interviews-two-tactics-they-are-going-to-use-to-trap-you/)

**Published:** February 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No matter how experienced or inexperienced you are, final interviews are nerve-racking.  There are 2 basic tactics employers use.  I reviewed both here.

**Content:**

# Final Interviews: Two Tactics They Are Going to Use to Trap You

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

No matter how experienced or inexperienced you are, final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) are nerve-racking. There are 2 basic tactics [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use. I reviewed both here.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for JobSearch.Community. That’s a site where I have curated information that you can watch, listen to or read. It’s going to help you find work more quickly.

So, I thought I would do a show today that talks about final [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and explains to you the two basic tactics [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use to kind of [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) you, trick you, fool you into opening up and causing yourself to be rejected. So, what are the two basic tactics [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) use to [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) you? How would this person approach him in order to figure out whether or not he can play with the big boys and big girls in their organizations? Two basic approaches I could see them taking. Number one, friendly guy.

Oh, easygoing guy. I’m your pal. I’m your bud.

We are good friends. Number two, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well, where they are friendly. You can tell me the truth.

It’s kind of like good mom kind of role. Number three, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well, where they are friendly. You can tell me the truth.

It’s kind of like good mom kind of role. Number four, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well.

Number five, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well.

Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well. Number six, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well. Number seven, a woman executive.

Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well.

Number eight, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well.

Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well. Number nine, a woman executive. Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well. Number ten, a woman executive.

Now, this happens to be a he who’s doing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). But I can see a woman executive doing this very easily, as well. Although the examples I gave were male-oriented, there’s a female version of this, as well.

So, recognize the two approaches they’re most likely to have, particularly if you’re a senior professional. I’m going to repeat that, particularly if you’re a senior professional. Now, I know for many folks, this happens when you’re at a more junior level.

But certainly, as I was talking about with this person, if he’s going for a C-level position, they’re going to do one of these two things with him. Just be alert to it and recognize the possibility. So, that’s my video for today.

I hope you found it helpful. And if you did, I just want to encourage you, connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter](http://linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter). Mention that you saw this.

I’d love to know that I’ve been helpful to people enough to reach out and connect with me. So, again, that’s [linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter](http://linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter). I do [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) professionally.

I don’t do recruiting any longer. So, if you’re interested in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), visit my website, which is TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s information in the tabs on the top about how to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). So, again, that’s [linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter](http://linkedin.com/IN/TheBigGameHunter).

Hope you found this helpful. And hope you have a great day. Take care

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Interviews: Shift the Focus #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interviews-shift-the-focus-shorts/)

**Published:** February 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Interviews: Shift the Focus #shorts 

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly.***](https://youtube.com/shorts/2uF55QizmKA)

It’s important to shift the focus in your #interviews

Shift the focus of your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) from a history lesson, a trip in a time machine back in time, and switch the focus to showing how what you’ve done, the skills that you have, and the accomplishments that you’ve achieved can be used in their environment to benefit them.

***[An Agency Called Me About a Job I Was Previously Rejected For](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGy)***

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Learning to Network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/learning-to-network/)

**Published:** February 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Learning to Network

**By [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

Jeff Altman, [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) explains how to start [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) especially if you don’t think you’re good at it.

[***Admit It. Your Networking Isn’t Working***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-vt)

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). And excuse me, I’m dressed to head out the door. I have to take my son to school tonight.

My wife isn’t feeling well. But I still want to have a moment to talk with you about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Now, for those of you who think of yourself as shy or introverted, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) doesn’t have to mean stepping up in front of a room and presenting some sort of important topic.

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) can be as simple as politely asking questions and being a great listener, starting to build a relationship with someone through just listening to what they have to say. You don’t really know me except the persona you assume that I have from seeing me in these videos. I can’t say I’m an introvert.

I’m not. But there was a time that I had no relationships with people professionally. I had to just learn to reach out to folks, not by being big and bold and brash, but by just learning and listening and connecting with people one on one.

I can do it in larger groups now. I can do it in front of an auditorium. I can certainly present to larger organizations now and have.

But for you who may be starting out, the ability to just connect one on one is the form of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) I want to encourage you to get involved with. You’re going to find that those relationships that you start building through those one on one connections will be extremely valuable to you. Plus, they will give you practice in working with larger groups of people.

Don’t rush yourself. People have this ridiculous notion that they haven’t done something for 30, 40 or 50 years before and within two days, they’re supposed to be an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/). You’re not going to be an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/).

But what you can do is just start the process. It’s kind of like my doing videos. Two years ago, two plus years ago, I started doing videos for YouTube.

I did one a day. That was it. I now have more than 9000 videos on YouTube.

Some days, I do more. Some days, I do one. Some days, I do podcasts and I then video the podcast or me doing the podcast and put it up on YouTube.

However you start your practice, start with one person. Go to an event. Take some time.

Just look at someone who’s in a corner or someone who’s in the middle of a room. My favorite question for someone who’s in the middle of the room working it actively is to start off by saying, hey, I’m new to all of this. How did you get so good at [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/)? I see you being the center of this group.

How did you get that way? Because I’m just starting out. I need to learn from someone like you. And they’ll be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to tell you their story and you can be very [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to sit there nodding and listening and agreeing.

So, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I hope you find this helpful. If you did, come over to my website, which is [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://TheBigGameHunter.us) and go exploring because I have a lot more information there that you can watch, listen to or read that will help you find work more quickly.

Also, I wanted to mention, if you’re not already connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send a connection request to me at [LinkedIn.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](http://LinkedIn.com/in/TheBigGameHunter). I accept connection requests from people worldwide, except if you’re a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or look like a scammer or spammer to me. Also, follow my firm, which is TheBigGameHunter, Inc., on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and you’ll get notices of new [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) I’m recruiting for and new videos and some of my old ones when I think it’s appropriate to share them.

And, in addition, if you’d like me to look at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and or [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, I do charge for it. It’s very inexpensive. But, again, you can order that at my website, TheBigGameHunter.us. Be [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to help you.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) here. Have a great day. Take care!

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### [Interviewing? Risk Everything](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interviewing-risk-everything/)

**Published:** February 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you keep acting like everyone else, they'll never pick you.

**Content:**

# Interviewing? Risk Everything

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/aBusNTRSwNQ)

If you keep acting like everyone else, they’ll never pick you.

[***5 Things You Can (and Should) Lie About on Interviews***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jxF)

If you’re going to be successful on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), you’ve got to risk everything. You’ve got to go in there and not do a half-assed job.

You have to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). You have to sell yourself. You have to let your personality out so this way you don’t join a company that isn’t going to like you anyway.

If you’re like everyone else when you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), they don’t know that there’s any difference. So you’ve got to show them what you got. That’s great work, effort, care, personality, let it out of the box, because otherwise you’re gonna look like those other people that you make fun of.

There’s a lot more at my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://www.thebiggamehunter.us/) Go to the blog and go exploring.

***[All Work . . .](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Sx)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [How to Get More Interviews: Follow Up and Make Your Case #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-interviews-follow-up-and-make-your-case/)

**Published:** February 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I know you know you should follow up but too many people do a stupid follow up.

**Content:**

# How to Get More Interviews: Follow Up and Make Your Case #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [I Have Marketable Skills But Not Getting Hired. What Is Going Wrong? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-have-marketable-skills-but-not-getting-hired-what-is-going-wrong-shorts/)

**Published:** February 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I keep getting turned down for jobs I am qualified for! What is wrong?

**Content:**

# I Have Marketable Skills But Not Getting Hired. What Is Going Wrong? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/g25pVnkHHhc)

I keep getting turned down for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) I am qualified for! What is wrong?

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### [Is It Common to Feel Buyer's Remorse After You Start a New Job?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-common-to-feel-buyers-remorse-after-you-start-a-new-job-video/)

**Published:** February 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I have started to have 2nd thoughts about my new job. Is this a common occurrence?

**Content:**

**Is It Common to Feel Buyer’s Remorse After You Start a New Job?**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I have started to have 2nd [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about my new job. Is this a common occurrence?

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### [Applying for a Job? Why Your Job Applications Are Ignored #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/applying-for-a-job-why-your-job-applications-are-ignored-shorts/)

**Published:** February 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why am I not getting called/emailed when I apply for a job online?

**Content:**

# Applying for a Job? Why Your Job Applications Are Ignored #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/rnbBTsupHIE)

Why am I not getting called/emailed when I apply for a job online?

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [#NEWLinkedInFeature(s) Captured [in] the Wild 2026!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/newlinkedinfeatures-captured-in-the-wild-2026/)

**Published:** February 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** the 7th Annual edition of the NEW LinkedIn Features Captured [in] the Wild for 2026. Updated 02.02.2026 Captured [in] the Wild = 10+

**Content:**

# \#NEWLinkedInFeature(s) Captured \[in\] the Wild 2026!

By [**Kevin D. Turner**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/president?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAAeF-oB0P-QQDZ8qa1q6h-qm8KShdplK-o) **Managing Partner @** [**TNT Brand Strategist LLC**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tnt-brand-strategist/)

February 3, 2026

Welcome to the 7th Annual edition of the **NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Features Captured \[in\] the Wild** for **2026. Updated 02.02.2026 Captured \[in\] the Wild = 10+**

**Thank You to all the Eagle-Eyed and Sharing-Hearts who help make this the ultimate list of NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Features and changes, without you, this resource could not be possible.**

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**CAPTURED \[IN\] THE WILD KEY:**

**✰** = **4 NEW,**

▲ = **6 Updates,**

**💀** = **0 RIP Removed** (Rest \[in\] Peace),

⛔ = **0 Deprecated** (available but not recommended or supported)

🧨 **= 0 Glitch(es)** (temporary issues big enough to mention)

**As of 1.02.2026 Captured \[in\] the Wild = 10+**

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**BACKGROUND RESOURCES:**

**Prior Editions of #NEWLinkedInFeature(s) Captured in the Wild:**

🔘 **[156+ NEW LinkedIn Features & Updates Sept-Dec 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/newlinkedinfeatures-captured-wild-2025-kevin-d-turner-66ccc/)** (PART II & Links to I)

🔘 [**251+ NEW LinkedIn Features & Updates for 2024**](https://lnkd.in/gxHe2jCv) (PART III & Links to I & II)

🔘 [**200+ NEW LinkedIn Features & Updates for 2023**](https://lnkd.in/gXiA4aCF) (PART III & Links to I & II)

🔘 [**100+ NEW LinkedIn Features 2022**](https://lnkd.in/eYhzjFjE)

🔘 [**40+ NEW LinkedIn Features 2021**](https://lnkd.in/dsW-Zan)

🔘 [**50+ NEW LinkedIn Features 2020**](https://lnkd.in/gP5xGb6)

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**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Rollouts (5 🌊 ⤨ ⏳ ↑)**

NEW [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Feature Rollouts usually follow a standard 5 🌊 Waves: ⤨ Randomized, ⏳Timed, & ↑ Increasing in Size, so that [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) can evaluate, adjust, sometimes eliminate, and ultimately to reduce any negative impact, unpredicted loads or code collisions that might blow up the platform.

Historically, a clean rollout takes ~30 to 90 Days to complete but over the last few of years we have had rollouts that have taken over a year to complete, some never complete, and the feature is removed.

**Product [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/):**

If you would like to be part of making [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) a better platform, miss an old feature, would like to suggest new feature, see improvements to an existing one, or nominate a Top Voice, then fill out the [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) methods that make things happen on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/):

🔘 \[NEW\] LinkedIn’s little known [**‘Suggest an improvement’**](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/pcreate) directly to the Product Team: (Captured in the Wild 9.1.2024)

🔘 Microsoft’s hidden online [**LinkedIn Product Group Feedback**](https://lnkd.in/gNzpwuR9)

🔘 Job Seeker [Feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) email [**jobseeker-feedback@linkedin.com**](mailto:jobseeker-feedback@linkedin.com)

🔘 Nominate a Top Voice [**LinkedIn Top Voice Nomination Form**](https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR9-q8zOx4WxJlhqUJKN4vgpUMVJHVzBOQUg4QTVJTjJTTlcyUzNXSzBSVi4u)

**Other Helpful and Constantly Updated \[in\] Resources:**

🔘 [**90+ Videos on on Youtube about \[in\]**](https://lnkd.in/g6xV4CEN)

🔘 [**The LinkedIn Timeline**](https://lnkd.in/e2_PdMSw)

🔘 [**30+ HIDDEN LINKEDIN RESOURCES**](https://lnkd.in/dyKk6_j)

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### Let’s Dive \[In\]:

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✰ \[**Download event recording\]** allows [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Live Event Hosts to download the video natively from [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). This feature is found after clicking on the event and within the Live Event Overview tab top center nav box.

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**Captured \[in\] the Wild by** [Gillian Whitney](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianwhitney/)

02.02.2026

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▲ **Post Search** by **(From member)** has been restricted to **up to 6 Members** only. When 7+ Members are added within the **(From member)** filter the search results are not correlated to the filters.

Not sure why \[in\] doesn’t just stop people from adding more than 6 Members in the **(From member)** filter.

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The issues of the (From members) not producing the consistent results was identified by [Tony Restell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyrestell/) early this month and at that tiem it had not affected my account yet. Last week that caught up to me, so I did some [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) into the code, then some proof testing, and what I found \[in\] did was limit the filter functionality up to 6 Members. At 7+ Members the process keeps the other facets (Post / Latest / Past 24 hours) but **silently drops or fails the ‘**fromMember’ facet, so you see posts from everyone.

You can still first 24 hours Post search by 1st Degree or by Who you follow without limitations.

01.28.2026

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▲ **Search (Filters)** reordered.

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01.27.2026

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✰ **\[Job tracker\],** based on **\[Save job\]**, expands this feature with the ability to

- add (Notes) up to 500 spaces,
- see & click through to 1st level (Connections) at the Company,
- expand filtered categories with ([Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)),
- sort all by (Starred) & or (Date posted)

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01.26.2025

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✰ \[Verified [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) partner certification\] allows Members to add verified proficiency in specific [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) tools of an approved [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Certification partners within the \[Licenses & certifications\] section of their profile, with a clickable pop up box that may provide additional info about the certification.

These partners assess users’ skills based on actual usage patterns, product outcomes, or demonstrated performance within their platforms.

Partners currently include [**Descript**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/descript/), [**Lovable**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovable-dev/), [**Relay.app**](http://relay.app/), & [**Replit**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/repl-it/).

[**Gamma**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gamma-app/), [**GitHub**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/github/) & [**Zapier**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zapier/)will be available in the coming months.

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01.26.2025

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✰ **\[[Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) guide\]** will help Job Seekers navigate and track the their journey step by step with current and timely resources continuously added.

To locate this tool just add /jobsearchguide/ to the end of [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) .com

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01.26.2025

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▲ **\[Natural language [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)\]** which began rolling out in 03.25.2025 here in the US, enables members to search for roles using conversational language, is now expanding Globally in English, Spanish, French, German & Portuguese.

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01.26.2025

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▲ **\[Open To Work\]** **adds a third option** beyond (Only [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) & (Everyone on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)) with **(Only for you)**, where your preferences are not shared and are only used to help tailor your job recommendations.

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01.14.2026

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▲ **\[Take care when connecting\]** pop-up on on ✦AI-detected suspect invites to provide Members a moment to reconcide before accepting an invite

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▲ \[Live dashboard\] was updated\[Live dashboard\] was updatedLinkedIn LIVE dashboard update 01.13.2025LinkedIn LIVE to provide Hosts more functionality and stats from their past and future events.

When you click the event, instead of taking you to the public event page, you go to the admin area of the event page. It now offers:

- **ANALYTICS** similar to profile and post analytics, and additional details (registrations, event page visits, engagement rate)
- **REGISTRATIONS** (total, paid, organic)
- **DISCOVERY**(total impressions, members reached)
- **PROFILE ACTIVITY**(profile viewers from this post, followers gained from this post) and premium members can click to SHOW Recent Profile Viewers
- **ENGAGEMENT** as its own section (same as with post: reactions, comments, reposts, saves, sends)
- **DEMOGRAPHICS** (all, job title, location, seniority, company, industry, company size) for people who have viewed your event post

**Left side nav now includes:**

- **MANAGE EVENT** Manage attendees, Edit event, Cancel event, Delete event- SHARE in the left navigation to copy link, invite, repost to feed, send in message, X (formerly twitter), or Facebook
- **VIEW AS MEMBER** (similar to company page)
- **MANAGE EVENT** in the left navigation to Manage attendees, Edit event, Cancel event, Delete event
- **SHARE** in the left navigation to copy link, invite, repost to feed, send in message, X (formerly twitter), or Facebook

**Upcoming events:**

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[Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) LIVE dashboard update 01.13.2026

**Past events:**

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[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) LIVE dashboard update 01.13.2025

Co-Captured \[in\] the Wild by [Gillian Whitney](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianwhitney/) & [Brenda Meller🥧](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendameller/)

01.13.2026

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### [4 Signs They Are Interested in Hiring You #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-signs-they-are-interested-in-hiring-you-shorts/)

**Published:** February 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Hiring managers have signs that they might be interested in hiring you. These don't guarantee it however they signal interest.

**Content:**

# 4 Signs They Are Interested in Hiring You #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/JXyCjEm2BLc)

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers have signs that they might be interested in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. These don’t guarantee it however they signal interest.

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Here are four ways to know that they’re interested in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. The first is, you get an impromptu introduction to some senior person or leader or executive in the firm, just out of the blue. Next, they start doing all the talking. The more they talk, the more they like you, and they’re talking because they’re selling to you.

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### [Don’t Get Scammed By Fake Recruiters on LinkedIn #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-get-scammed-by-fake-recruiters-on-linkedin-shorts/)

**Published:** February 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are way too many fake recruiters on LinkedIn. Don’t put yourself in the position of being scammed.

**Content:**

# **Don’t Get Scammed By Fake Recruiters on LinkedIn #shorts** 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/1Ekajq0FkAE)

There are way too many fake [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Don’t put yourself in the position of being scammed.

Accurately transcribe this video using correct spelling, punctuation and paragraphs. Don’t make up anything. Then [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) hashtags in a series in lower case using the hashtag symbol. Separate them with a single space. Also deliver YouTube tags in a series separated by commas. Do not tell me this is a transcription. I know it is. Do not make anything up. My name is spelled [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). [the Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is spelled [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)

The website is [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community) Do not add citations. Don’t ask [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) questions.

***[An Agency Called Me About a Job I Was Previously Rejected For](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGy)***

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Why Your Skills May Not Matter as Much As You Think](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-skills-may-not-matter-as-much-as-you-think/)

**Published:** February 10, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this direct, no-BS episode, we share the one critical shift you must make to get the results you want.

**Content:**

# Why Your Skills May Not Matter as Much As You Think

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3105 **Stop trying to sell yourself with a laundry list of skills.** That strategy is failing you. In this direct, no-BS episode, we share the one critical shift you must make to get the results you want.

***[Your Digital First Impression May Be Getting You Rejected](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-owo)***

Hey, welcome to our explainer. Today, we’re going to talk about a huge [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) so many people make in job [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). It’s a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) that can totally change how an interviewer sees you.

We’re talking about a complete mindset shift that honestly could be the difference between getting the job and well, not. So let’s start with a really simple question. So picture this, you’re sitting in that chair across from the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager.

What are you actually selling them? Really take a second and think about that because your answer to that one question pretty much decides your entire strategy for the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/). Now, if you’re like most of us, your gut reaction is probably my experience or my skills, you know, my qualifications and look, that feels like the right answer, but it’s actually the number one [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) people make it completely misses what the interviewer is really looking for. And this is the big difference right here.

See, most candidates get stuck on the left side of the screen, just listing their qualifications. But the people who get the offers they’re on the right, they are selling their results. Getting this one little pivot is the whole key.

So let’s break down what that really means. Okay. Let’s talk about something I like to call the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) recital [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/).

You know what I’m talking about, right? It’s when the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) just becomes a live reading of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). You list off your skills, you walk through your job history, and you’re probably boring the interviewer to tears. It just feels so natural to want to sell your qualifications, doesn’t it? I mean, you worked hard for that degree.

You put in the time for that certification. You have a decade of experience, but here’s the thing. The interviewer already knows all that.

[***Why So Many Interviews?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ouh)

They’ve read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). Just repeating it back to them. Doesn’t add any new value at all.

All right, let’s flip this around and look at it from the other side of the desk for a minute. Why does just listing your credentials fall so flat from their perspective? What’s going through their head while you’re doing it? Oof, this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) just says it all. Doesn’t it? When you only talk about how qualified you are, it can really come across as just bragging.

Without any real substance, the interviewer just tunes out because you’re not answering their real unspoken question, which is always, what can you actually do for me and my team? And that brings us to the big solution here. Instead of selling who you are on paper, you need to start selling what you’ve actually done. This is that powerful shift we’re talking about.

From just listing qualifications to showing real tangible impact. So what do we even mean when we say results? It’s actually pretty simple. A result is the measurable, tangible outcome of your work.

It’s not saying I managed a team. It’s saying I increased my team’s productivity by 15%. It’s not, I worked on a marketing campaign.

It’s I helped generate a 20% lift in sales leads. See the difference? It’s the effect you had. Think about it.

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) hire people to solve their problems and to create value. So when you talk about your past results, you’re giving them cold, hard evidence that you’re someone who can do exactly that for them. You’re speaking their language, the language of impact.

Now let’s get into the psychology of why this works so well. It’s not just about giving them proof. It’s about helping the interviewer’s brain connect the dots and actually start to picture you succeeding at their company.

This is where the real magic happens. When you say something like, at my last job, I streamlined a process that saved the team 10 hours of manual work every week. The [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager hears that, and they aren’t just thinking about your old job.

Nope. In their mind, they’re already imagining you saving their team 10 hours a week. You just made your value real, and that’s incredibly powerful.

***[LinkedIn’s #opentowork Post](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ouL)***

So how do you actually do this? It’s easy. Just use this simple three-step formula. First, state the achievement.

I increased customer retention. Next, detail your actions by creating a new [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/did-i-ruin-my-chances-by-trying-too-hard-to-get-feedback-nobsjobsearchadvice-com/) system. And finally, highlight the impact, which cut customer churn by 5% in just six months.

Achievement, action, impact. That’s your game plan right there. All right, let’s wrap this up with the most important things to remember.

First, your goal is to sell outcomes, period. You are not just a list of skills. You are a collection of accomplishments.

So focus on those achievements and be super clear about the impact your work had. When you do that, you’re literally helping the interviewer see you winning in the role before you’ve even gotten the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-tell-them-that-im-going-to-use-their-offer-to-negotiate-with-my-current-job/). At the end of the day, every [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) is a chance to tell a story.

You can tell the boring story, the one about your qualifications, which let’s be honest, they’ve already right on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), or you can tell the exciting story of your results, a story about impact, about achievement and about the value you’re going to bring. The choice is yours. So what story are you going to tell?

[***A Critical Blind Spot in an Executive Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-okd)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, carer transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [3 Branding Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/3-branding-mistakes/)

**Published:** February 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It is stunning to see the mistakes people make when establishing and maintaining a personal brand.

**Content:**

# 3 Branding Mistakes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

It is stunning to see the [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) people make when establishing and maintaining a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/).

All right, let’s jump right in. If you’re an experienced professional, listen up. There’s a good chance you’re playing by a set of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) rules that are, well, completely out of date.

The very strategies that got you to this point in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), they’re not just ineffective now, they might actually be killing your future opportunities. Let’s just be real for a second. That old social contract, you know the one, work hard, climb the corporate ladder, get your gold watch and retire at 65.

It’s over. It’s an antique. We’re not in a 40-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) sprint anymore.

This is a 60-year marathon, and you absolutely cannot win this race with a map from the 1990s. So you really have to ask yourself, are you playing a game that’s already over? Because clinging to those old ways of thinking isn’t just a little bit behind the times, it’s a massive, massive risk to [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and your infom. So let’s break down the three big [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) you might be making right now without even realizing it.

Okay, [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) number one, and it is by far the most common, is still playing the employee game. And this usually shows up as an addiction to what Jeff Feltman calls job board porn. You know exactly what I’m talking about.

Endless scrolling on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), Indeed, [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It feels productive, but honestly, it gets you absolutely nowhere. Here’s the tough love, that whole spray and pray approach of just blasting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out there.

It’s a suicide mission for your morale. Look, it might’ve worked when you were 22 in a cheap [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/), but you’re not cheap anymore. At your level, those online [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) systems are literally designed to filter you out.

Companies aren’t looking to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) an applicant, they are hunting for a solution to a really expensive, painful problem. So what this all comes down to is a massive mindset shift. You have to stop thinking like an employee who waits for a boss to give them tasks.

[***The Warning Sign of a Problem or That They Aren’t Sure***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ic2)

You have to start thinking like a proactive advisor who is managed by results. It’s a huge leap from focusing on your to-do list to focusing on your strategic impact on the business. And just look at the difference here.

The old mindset, that’s the beggar. You’re passively asking, are you [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/)? You’re submitting a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) into the black hole of HR. You’re just waiting for them to ask you questions.

The new mindset is the peer. A peer doesn’t ask if you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), a peer asks, what is this problem costing you? They don’t send a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), they send a diagnostic, a point of view directly to the person who feels the pain. They don’t wait for questions, they lead the entire conversation.

Alright, [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) number two is building your entire [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) around your skills. In this age of [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/), where a machine can do incredibly complex tasks, your technical skills, the software you know, the frameworks you’ve mastered, these are all depreciating assets. They’re losing value every single day.

For pros like you, the real gold is your wisdom. Let’s really get this distinction clear. Skills are tactical, they tell someone how to do a thing.

Wisdom, that’s strategic. It tells them whether they should even do that thing in the first place. See the difference? Skills can be automated, they can be outsourced to someone cheaper, but wisdom, the kind that only comes from years of pattern recognition and seeing things go wrong, that actually appreciates with time.

I mean, this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) just says it all, right? The younger engineers on the team, they had the skills. They could show you the data, run the numbers, and prove that a cheaper foundation would work on paper. But the senior lead, he had the wisdom.

He had the experience to see a multi-million dollar disaster that no spreadsheet could ever predict. That is the kind of value that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can’t touch. Now for the third major [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), trying to be better instead of being different.

You know, when you [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) yourself as the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) project manager or the most experienced marketer, you’re basically jumping into a race to the bottom. It’s a total [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) because it forces you to compete on price against an ocean of other people who also claim to be better. And here’s the problem with that.

If you try to speak to everyone, you end up speaking to no one. A broad [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is a blurred [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). A generic title like senior finance director makes you completely invisible.

It literally invites people to compare you with younger, cheaper talent who, on paper, look just as qualified. When you’re an option for everybody, you’re the first choice for nobody. So what’s the fix? How do you get out of this [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/)? Well, the solution is to stop competing altogether and start creating a category of one.

You need to build a [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) that is so specific, so dialed in, that for the right kind of problem, you are the only logical choice. This is the whole idea behind what [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) calls [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). And here is the simple three-part formula to figure out your [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/).

First, you’re vertical. What’s the specific industry or even subsector that you absolutely dominate? Second, the situation. What is the specific, high stakes, expensive mess that you are a world-class [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at cleaning up? And third, your mechanism.

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What’s your unique wisdom-based process for fixing that exact problem? You answer these three questions and you’ve just built yourself a competitive moat. Let’s look at how this plays out in the real world. Check out these transformations.

Experienced HRVP, that’s a [commodity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-commodity-trap/), but culture architect for post-acquisition tech firms, wow, that’s an authority. Senior finance director becomes a [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) CFO for scaling green tech startups. You see, you’re no longer just a generic job title.

You are a high value specialist who solves a very specific and very expensive problem. So how can you put this into action like right now? Start by weaponizing your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Seriously.

First, change your headline from your old job title to your new [onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) statement. Next, go delete your graduation year. Don’t give [age bias](https://thebiggamehunter.us/overcoming-age-bias-in-job-search/) a chance to screen you out.

Then use the 15-year rule. Focus all the juicy details on your last 10, 15 years of high-impact work. Anything older than that, just condense it down to the title and company.

No bullet points. Your profile isn’t a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) anymore. It’s a sales page for your unique genius.

So as we wrap up, I want to leave you with this one question to think about. Take a hard look at your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) right now. Does it position you as a cost to be managed, just another line item on a spreadsheet? Or does it present you as a high return investment that needs to be protected at all costs? All these ideas are based on Jeff Altman’s fantastic book, [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), the no BS playbook for the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) age.

You can grab a copy on Amazon, on [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Community, and other places online. It’s really worth the read.

***[Don’t Kid Yourself. Self-Promotion Is Critical.](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-j4)***

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Don't Kid Yourself. Self-Promotion Is Critical.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-kid-yourself-promoting-yourself-is-critical/)

**Published:** July 2, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the importance of branding and building a reputation for your career.

**Content:**

# Don’t Kid Yourself. Self-Promotion Is Critical.

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

***[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the importance of [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and building a reputation for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).***

[***The Warning Sign of a Problem or That They Aren’t Sure***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ic2)

[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). I know you don’t like that term. You roll your eyes up. “What am I talking about [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) for? What even care about this kind of stuff?”

The fact of the matter is no one I know has been raised to believe that [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is important. The idea that you need to promote yourself, just like you are a box of detergent or a cereal has any meeting to you.

Yet, when you stop and think about it, for career management purposes, [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is the most important thing that you will be doing over the next 5 years if you are my age, 25 or 40 years if you are younger.

Let me give you different word to think of. Reputation. Reputation is based upon your past. How you delivered when the chips were down. How many people knew about it and what they knew about your contribution to this when the chips were down. Let me [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a few examples.

If you’re not is the person who did such and such, and everyone in your organization, every last person you corporation knows, how many people is that really? If you’re the major American corporation, that can be 1/4 of a million people. But the likelihood of all of those [people knowing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/knowing-people-out-of-sequence-career-angles/) about your contribution is next to nonexistent.

Let’s say it is all the people your department and it is a large firm. Abby [people do you think](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-do-you-think-people-are-lazy-and-need-to-be-pushed-jobsearchtv-com/) that might be? 50? 100? 500? 1000? And again, the likelihood of all those people knowing about your specific accomplishments is very very small. If you’re the small firm, and everyone at the firm knows about you, 50, 75 people, 100 people! 300 people know about you and what you have done. And who else?

Part of the notion of [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) requires self-promotion. People outside your organization know what you have done and open what you think about. [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is now a great tool for that in a variety of different ways. You are not restricted to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) as a venue for self-promotion. Think in terms of press releases, articles that you write, a blog, a whole host of avenues where the notion that your ideas and your contributions have meaning becomes incredibly important.

I do a want to promote myself, whether it’s with videos, podcasts, e-zines, a blog, a whole host of ways where I do [things so that people know](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-things-most-people-dont-know-who-are-looking-for-work/) about me. I know I know a lot do. But, even then, it is not enough. I am working on new venues to promote myself.

You need to think creatively for yourself and what you can do to speak at the conference, for example, on your contribution to something or your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) about something. If you are a beginner or a to your person, that might be a club related to or a trade group related to your industry or your area of specialty.

No matter, it is important that you get out there and create an image for yourself a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for yourself, an expectation for yourself that others will know about. Otherwise, you may just get stuck in a rut and be another wage slave for the rest of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Making Your Dreams Come True](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-radio-making-your-dreams-come-true-with-deborah-oronzio/)

**Published:** February 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How do you make your dreams come true? How do you find your dream job?

**Content:**

# Making Your Dreams Come True

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

How do you make your dreams come true? How do you find your dream job?

This doesn’t need to be a pitch from an offshore [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to get you to take a new job but a real question that you ask yourself.

My guest, Deborah Oronzio and I discuss how to find your dream job, the one that satisfies YOUR aspirations, and not just another job with all the dreariness associated with [finding a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/).

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### [Job Search Mistakes: What’s Wrong With This Picture? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-mistakes-whats-wrong-with-this-picture-shorts/)

**Published:** February 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Can you state the mistake that many of you make when you're job searching? 

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# Job Search Mistakes: What’s Wrong With This Picture? #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Can you state the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that many of you make when you’re job searching?

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What this does is it starts to lay a base for you so if you need to talk to other individuals at different organizations, you’re able to carry your weight. And I mean that. So often, when people work at one organization for any period of time, they get rusty on the secondary and tertiary things that are important to organizations, because they’re asked to focus on certain elements of their expertise. Now you have to make sure the basics are all ready and you’re aware of the trends and knowledgeable about them in detail, even if that means taking an online course.

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### [How Do You Spot a Bad Environment, Culture, Etc  When You Interview?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-spot-a-bad-environment-culture-etc-when-you-interview/)

**Published:** February 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is not an easy thing to do because, like you, employers and the people who report to them are always on good behavior. But there is a way to do it.

**Content:**

# How Do You Spot a Bad Environment, Culture, Etc When You Interview?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This is not an easy thing to do because, like you, [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and the people who report to them are always on good behavior. But there is a way to do it.

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Hi! I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people around [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/), managing and leading, more effective in the workplace in general. Someone asked me a great question.

It’s how do you spot a bad company culture, environment, bad job scope before accepting an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)? What a great question and it requires some effort on your part and it starts off with the effort of noticing. So, for example, when you walk in on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), what are the people like? What’s the [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) like in the room? How do they conduct themselves with you so that you feel as though . . . well, you notice how they feel. Are they energized or not? Do they seem run down, worn out? What’s going on? Now, one person, that’s not enough to judge by.

The entire office, two, three people, that’s something to notice and inquire about because it’s not just as simple as noticing. It’s perhaps something along the lines of, is there anything else you want to ask? Yeah, I’m curious about the culture around here. Like, for example, you seem pretty worn out today or you seem kind of tired.

I don’t know if that’s a normal condition for you. What’s it like working here? So, I just want to check what the environment’s like. You notice your future boss.

Do they seem irritable, cranky, annoyed? Hey, anything else? You know, I noticed that you you seem like you’re under a lot of [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/). What’s going on? I’m curious what it’s like for the staff. Are they under a lot of pressure? It can be as simple as the questions that you ask.

Now, if you don’t want to do it at the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), another way is to look for people who work for this firm and in this group on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Again, it requires some effort and may require that you send a connection request or join a group that they’re a part of so you can message them or you can, of course, pick up the phone and call. So, for example, what you might do in looking on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is see someone who’s doing similar work to that which you’re going to be asked to do.

Do you have a job description? Pull out some phrases from the job description. Do a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) search. Narrow it down by company, as well.

And, lo and behold, by the way, you can also narrow it down by former employees, not necessarily current ones and thus be able to contact former employees and say, hey, you know, I’ve just interviewed at so-and-so and did you work for such and such there? No? Okay. I’m sorry. Is there someone that you know who did because I just picked up something about the environment there.

I just want to check it out because I don’t know if it’s true or not but I just want to get a sense of what it’s like working in that group. Oh, I could tell you about that. And they may share some stories.

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It may be a group that interacts with the one that you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with. No matter, the idea is always to investigate. To start by noticing what’s said and not said, the behavior and the personalities of the people that you’re speaking with.

Are they high strung and irritable, seemingly down and depressed? What’s the noise like in the room? Is it kind of energized or dead, you know, or some gradient in the middle? However it is, it’s always worth investigating. And, again, back to the notion of what it’d be like to work for that particular manager, I always remind people everyone’s on good behavior when they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You’re on good behavior and so are they.

So, understand they are not always going to be that nice pleasant individual that you’re talking with today. There are going to be days that they’re grumpy, grouchy or what have you and you recognize that. But the question is, what’s the overall trend with this person? I was talking with someone recently who joined the new firm who wound up with a manager from hell and he had turned over 60 people in the last year.

Now, even if that’s an exaggeration, it was 40 in the last year. That’s a hell of a lot of people to be turning over and you recognize that. You hear that story and you head for the hills because there’s no way you’re going to be the one person out of all of those who’s going to make it through.

You’re right to always investigate culture but like you, I remind you, they are always on good behavior and everyone’s going to tell you all sorts of [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) stuff but unless you investigate and inquire both directly or indirectly about what it’s like working in that team, you’re operating on clairvoyance. And I know I’m not particularly clairvoyant. I suspect the same is true of you, too.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. If you’re interested in one-on-one [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), on the home page, you can sign up for a free discovery call or sign up for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), as well.

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### [10 Ways to Advance Your Job Search in 15 Minutes or Less](https://thebiggamehunter.us/10-ways-to-advance-your-job-search-in-15-minutes-or-less/)

**Published:** February 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# 10 Ways to Advance Your Job Search in 15 Minutes or Less

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

A [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) often feels like a marathon you didn’t sign up for, where the finish line keeps moving and the “refresh” button on your email is your only friend. But here’s the truth: you don’t need to spend eight hours a day staring at a flickering screen to make progress. In fact, that’s usually a one-way ticket to [Burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-a-job-not-burnout/) City.

Consistency beats intensity every single time. If you have 15 minutes between meetings, while the coffee is brewing, or right before you dive into Netflix, you have enough time to move the needle.

Here are 10 high-impact things you can do in 15 minutes or less to keep your momentum alive.

### 1. The “Ghost of Jobs Past” Check-In

Reach out to one former colleague or boss just to say hello. No “I need a job” desperation—just a genuine, “Saw this article/project and thought of you. Hope you’re doing well.”

**Why it works:** It keeps you top-of-mind. When a role opens up in their department next week, your name is the one that’s fresh.

### 2. Optimize One Specific Skill on LinkedIn

Don’t try to rewrite your whole profile. Instead, pick **one** skill or achievement and polish it. Add a specific metric (e.g., “Boosted team efficiency by 15%”) or update your “About” section with a punchy opening line that actually sounds like a human wrote it.

### 3. Set Up (or Refine) Three Highly Specific Job Alerts

If your [alerts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-alerts-3/) are for “Marketing Manager,” you’re getting too much noise. Spend 15 minutes tightening the filters. Add keywords like “Remote,” specific software (e.g., “HubSpot”), or seniority levels. Let the robots do the heavy lifting of finding the right roles while you sleep.

### 4. Give an Unsolicited Recommendation

Go to the profile of someone you genuinely respect and write them a glowing, 3-sentence recommendation.

**The ripple effect:** They’ll get a notification, feel great, and likely [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) to return the favor. Plus, it shows you’re a contributor, not just a seeker.

### 5. The “Keyword Scan” Audit

Find a job description you love. Copy and paste it into a word cloud generator. See which words are the biggest? Now, look at your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). If those words aren’t there, spend your remaining 10 minutes weaving them into your bullet points.

### 6. Curate Your “Target 10” List

[Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) is easier when you stop aiming at the whole world. Spend 15 minutes identifying 10 companies you actually admire. Follow them on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) and set an alert for when *anyone* at that company posts an update. This turns a “blind search” into a “targeted mission.”

### 7. Clean Up Your Digital “First Impression”

Google yourself in an incognito window. What’s the first thing an HR manager sees? If it’s an old Twitter account from 2012 or a blurry photo, spend 15 minutes updating your privacy settings or swapping in a professional headshot.

### 8. Draft a “Value-First” Connection Request

Stop sending the default [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) invitation. Spend 15 minutes drafting a template that you can customize. Something like: *“Hi \[Name\], I’ve been following your work on \[Project\] and loved your insight on \[Topic\]. I’d love to connect and keep up with your updates.”* It’s low pressure and high class.

### 9. Map Out Your Week (The “Pomodoro” Plan)

Decision fatigue is real. Spend 15 minutes on Sunday night or Monday morning deciding exactly *when* your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) blocks will happen.

> **Pro Tip:** Don’t just write “Job Search.” Write “Tuesday, 8:00 AM: Apply to 2 roles at Target Company X.” Specificity is the antidote to overwhelm.

### 10. Document Your “Win of the Week”

We often forget our own brilliance. Spend 15 minutes writing down one thing you did well this week—at your current job, in a freelance project, or even in your personal life. Quantify it. Save it in a “Brag Sheet” file.

**The payoff:** When you finally sit down to write a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/), you won’t be staring at a blank page.

The [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) isn’t won in a single 40-hour week of frantic clicking. It’s won in the small, disciplined gaps of your day.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Recession-Proofing Your Career: Get Back Up to Speed #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recession-proofing-your-career-get-back-up-to-speed/)

**Published:** February 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** One of the most critical ways to recession-proof your career is to get your expertise back up to speed.

**Content:**

# Recession-Proofing Your Career: Get Back Up to Speed

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/oPQg_EvB5rE)***

One of the most critical ways to recession-proof [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) is to get your expertise back up to speed.

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Recession-proofing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) requires that the basics of what you’re supposed to know are up to speed and, AND you’re aware of all the trends and knowledgeable about them too.

What this does is it starts to lay a base for you so if you need to talk to other individuals at different organizations, you’re able to carry your weight. And I mean that. So often, when people work at one organization for any period of time, they get rusty on the secondary and tertiary things that are important to organizations, because they’re asked to focus on certain elements of their expertise. Now you have to make sure the basics are all ready and you’re aware of the trends and knowledgeable about them in detail, even if that means taking an online course.

There’s a lot more of my website, [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community)

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### [How to Sabotage Your Job Search Part 1](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-sabotage-your-job-search-part-1-jsr/)

**Published:** February 3, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter tells you one of the most effective ways to sabotage your job search.

**Content:**

# How to Sabotage Your Job Search Part 1

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) tells you one of the most effective ways to [sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/8-ways-job-hunters-their-own-search/) your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

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## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

[![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JeffAltman-79-212x300.jpg)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JeffAltman-79.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a career and leadership coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS [Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. “No BS JobSearch Advice Radio” was recently named a Top 10 podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). JobSearchTV.com was also recently named a Top 10 YouTube channel for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

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### [Finding a Purposeful Career by Finding the Intersection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-radio-finding-a-purposeful-career-by-finding-the-intersection/)

**Published:** February 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Whether someone is an adult or a recent graduate, I think it is safe to say people don’t like the idea of doing tedious boring work that fails to serve their soul.

**Content:**

Whether someone is an adult or a recent graduate, I think it is safe to say people don’t like the idea of doing tedious boring work that fails to serve their soul. My guest, Rev. Dr. Brian Ammons, formerly of Warren Wilson College and I discuss how to find that special place that helps identify your gifts, passions, and the world at large.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)

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### [If I Was Stranded on a Desert Island #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-i-was-stranded-on-a-desert-island-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/)

**Published:** February 4, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Steven Wright has a wonderfully dry sense of humor.

**Content:**

# If I Was Stranded on a Desert Island #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/g2ilVf-9hds)

Steven Wright has a wonderfully dry sense of humor.

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[***Overcoming Ageism in Your Job Search as an Experienced Professional***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-lt6)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) coaching and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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### [Is This Why Your Resume Keeps Getting Tossed? (The Cold Hard Truth)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-this-why-your-resume-keeps-getting-tossed-the-cold-hard-truth/)

**Published:** February 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3104 You’re applying, but you're not getting interviews—the problem is your resume.

**Content:**

# Is This Why Your Resume Keeps Getting Tossed? (The Cold Hard Truth)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3104 You’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), but you’re not getting interviews—the problem is your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). Most job hunters make critical, fatal [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) that cause [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to reject them in seconds. We cut the fluff and expose the one core reason your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is consistently failing the screening process. Listen to learn the no BS fix you need to stop wasting your time and start landing calls.

[***Don’t Act Desperate!***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-osJ)

Okay, so let’s jump right into this. We’re going to tackle a mystery that, let’s be honest, drives so many job seekers absolutely crazy. You spend hours, maybe even days, crafting what you think is the perfect [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/).

You send it out, and then, silence. So let’s figure out why that’s happening. I mean, it’s a super frustrating feeling, right? You’ve checked all the boxes.

You’ve got the experience, you’ve got the skills, the layout looks amazing, and yet your [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) just seem to vanish into a black hole. What is going on here? Well, it turns out there might be a hidden obstacle in your way. A secret enemy that’s sabotaging all your [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) before a single human being even lays eyes on your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

And here’s the big question we need to tackle. All that time you spent on that beautiful design, choosing that perfect font, creating those slick-looking columns, what if that’s the very thing that’s holding you back? It’s a totally counterintuitive idea, I know, but it is absolutely crucial. So it’s time to put a name to this secret enemy.

Let’s meet the gatekeeper that’s standing between you and your dream job. Say hello to the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/), or just [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). Now, the key thing you’ve got to understand here is that the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is not trying to appreciate your design skills.

It’s a machine. It’s one and only job is to scan your document, pull out the key info, like your name and your skills, and file it all the way nice and neat. And this is the critical part.

You’re not really writing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) for a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) manager. Well, not at first anyway. You’re writing it for a piece of software.

And if you can’t get past this digital bouncer, a real person will never even know you applied. Which brings us to the central problem. You see, all those design choices you thought were helping you stand out? Yeah, they might actually be doing the exact opposite.

Okay, so here’s the deal in a nutshell. We’re often told to make our [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) pop, you know, use multiple columns, fancy fonts, creative layouts. But to a machine, all of that is just confusing noise.

The [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) is looking for the exact opposite, a simple, single-column layout with a standard font. It needs flat, predictable data that it can easily digest. So what happens when that [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) gets confused by a weird font or a two-column layout? Well, one [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) put it perfectly.

The system is literally going to choke on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/). It just can’t process the file. And this is so important.

When the software chokes, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is just discarded. It doesn’t get flagged for a human to review. It doesn’t get put in a maybe pile.

It never even enters the system. It’s an instant automated [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). Game over.

[***The 24-Hour Rule***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-orP)

You know, this all leads to a really surprising conclusion. To win this game, you have to completely rethink your strategy. It’s time to embrace the boring [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/).

And this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) just gets right to the heart of it. For an online [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), forget about making it beautiful. Just make it effective.

As the source says, flat, dull, boring, that’s what really works. That’s what the machine wants. And that’s what gets you through the gate to the next round.

So what does one of these ATS-friendly [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) actually look like? Well, it really just comes down to three simple rules. First, use a single column, top to bottom. That’s it.

Second, stick to standard, simple fonts. Nothing crazy. And third, get rid of any fancy formatting.

That means no graphics, no charts, nothing that could confuse the system. Here’s a great way to think about it. Your ATS-friendly [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) should pretty much look like a simple document you just typed up in a basic text editor.

Its purpose isn’t to be pretty. Its purpose is pure, clear, unadulterated information delivery. That’s all.

Now, hold on. This does not mean your beautifully designed [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is useless. Not at all.

It absolutely has a purpose. You just need to know when and where to use it. So yeah, don’t throw that one away.

All that [hard work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hard-work-no-results-the-hard-truth-shorts/) was not for nothing. That version of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) is a really powerful tool, but only in the right context. The winning strategy here is to have two [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) ready to go.

[***The Disengaged Interviewer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oqV)

The boring version, that’s your digital key. You use that one only for uploading to online systems to get past the [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). But the beautiful version, that’s for the humans.

You bring that to in-person [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), you hand it out at [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) events. That’s where a great design can actually make a huge impact. So after all this, the question to ask yourself is pretty simple.

If you’ve been hitting a wall of silence in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), maybe the key isn’t to add more to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), but to take things away. Maybe it’s time to give your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) a boring makeover to finally get it past that digital gatekeeper.

[***The Executive Job Search Goldmine***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oth)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

***[Executive Job Search: The Invisible Market](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HqvttXWslzWyeTLRZD6kU)***

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### [No BS Career Advice: February 1 2025](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-february-1-2025/)

**Published:** February 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: February 1 2025

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

We were fortunate last weekend to have avoided all the snow, ice, and power outages many of you experienced. My wife is on a silent retreat north and west of New York and forwarded pictures of all the snow. My son in Vermont is experiencing subzero temperatures before windchill. We caught up yesterday, getting a few inches of snow while experiencing unusually cold weather (single digits). My wife has the 4 wheel drive vehicle we own so I am staying in until roads are cleared.

I have been having fun with adapting my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) practice to different types of services and products. For example, I introduced a new service called “[The Interview Intel Snapshot](https://www.jobsearch.community/the-interview-intel-snapshot)” where we **generate a custom Intelligence Brief for your upcoming [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** based specifically on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and the job description. I also released a new ebook on Amazon, [No BS Resume Advice for Senior Leaders: How to Write a Resume That Commands Respect, Opens Doors and Reflects Your Value](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN4BM5N). The book will be available shortly on [JobSearch.Community](http://jobsearch.community/) as part of any Insider program you join as well as for individual purchase.

The skills required to find a job are entirely different from the skills required to do a job. Most people are experts at the latter but struggle with the former. Over my years of [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), I’ve seen thousands of candidates [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) simply because they didn’t understand the “No BS” rules of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) game.

Here is the breakdown of the nine most common ways you’re hurting your chances—and how to fix them.

## 9 Ways You’re Shooting Yourself in the Foot in Interviews

The skills required to find a job are entirely different from the skills required to do a job. Most people are experts at the latter but struggle with the former. Over my years of recruiting and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), I’ve seen thousands of candidates [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) simply because they didn’t understand the “No BS” rules of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) game.

Here is the breakdown of the nine most common ways you’re hurting your chances—and how to fix them.

### 1. Destroying Your Negotiating Position Early

The [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) question often hits during the initial phone screen. If you commit to a number too early, you’ve lost your leverage.

- **The Fix:** Put it back on them. Ask, *“Can you tell me the range budgeted for this position?”* \* **The “Ballpark” Move:** If they press, provide a researched range based on market data, then tie it to fit: *“Based on my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) for this level of responsibility, I’m seeing $X to $Y. I’m sure once we decide this is a fit, we can agree on a fair package.”*

### 2. Giving “Canned” Answers

If you found an answer on a generic “Top 10” list, don’t use it. Interviewers smell a script instantly.

- **The Fix:** Aim for **Authenticity + Strategy**. Use the “Best Friend” test: practice your answer as if you were talking to a friend. That’s your authentic core. Now, polish it for a professional setting without losing that sincerity.

### 3. Fumbling Negative Questions

When asked about a bad boss, a layoff, or a gap in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), don’t vent. Use the **ABC Tool**:

- **A – Analyze:** Why are they asking? (Usually to check your emotional intelligence).
- **B – Brevity:** Keep the negative part under 40 seconds.
- **C – Circle with Positives:** Surround the “bad” news with what you learned or what you are doing now to improve.

### 4. Being the “Rambling Man”

In our ADHD culture, you have about 60 to 75 seconds before an interviewer tunes out.

- **The Fix:** Signal the end of your answer. Use a “downward note” in your voice to show you’re finished, or [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to the question: *“…and that is why I believe that project was my most significant [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) to date.”*

### 5. Being Reactive, Not Proactive

Don’t just wait for them to ask the “right” questions. You must walk in knowing your key selling points.

- **The Fix:** In your “Tell me about yourself” intro, bridge your history to their needs. Use the phrase: *“What’s probably most relevant to this role is my experience with \[X\].”* It makes an interviewer’s ears perk up instantly.

### 6. Waiting Until the End to Ask Questions

An [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) shouldn’t be an interrogation; it should be a conversation. The more the interviewer talks, the more they generally like the candidate.

- **The Fix:** Ask questions early. If they ask something vague, clarify: *“I’d love to answer that—are you more interested in the technical execution or how I managed the team through the transition?”* ### 7. Speaking in Generalities “I’m a hard worker” is a meaningless phrase.
- **The Fix:** Use **Quantities and Stories**. If you can’t use dollar amounts, use percentages, volume, or anecdotal [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Specificity creates memory; generalities are forgotten.

### 8. Forgetting the “Soft” Proof

Everyone claims to be a “team player.” Don’t tell them; show them through your behavior.

- **The Fix:** Treat everyone—from the receptionist to the junior staff—with genuine respect. Use the **SOAR** framework for your stories: **S**ituation, **O**bjectives, **A**ctions, and **R**esults. Focus heavily on the **R**. What was the actual impact?

### 9. Failing to Practice “Live”

Thinking the answer is not the same as *saying* the answer.

- **The Fix:** Practice out loud. Record yourself on video to catch distracting mannerisms or a lack of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). You wouldn’t go into a championship game without a scrimmage; don’t go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without a mock run.

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### Final Thought: The Interviewer is Scared, Too

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers are often “institutionally scared.” They know a bad [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) can cost the company a third of a year’s [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and make them look bad to their own boss. Your job is to provide the “No BS” evidence that makes them feel safe choosing you.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [9 Ways You’re Shooting Yourself in the Foot in Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/9-ways-youre-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-in-interviews/)

**Published:** February 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# 9 Ways You’re Shooting Yourself in the Foot in Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

The skills required to find a job are entirely different from the skills required to do a job. Most people are experts at the latter but struggle with the former. Over my years of recruiting and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), I’ve seen thousands of candidates [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/sabotaging-yourself-during-a-presentation-or-job-interview-nobsjobsearchadvice-com-2/) simply because they didn’t understand the “No BS” rules of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) game.

Here is the breakdown of the nine most common ways you’re hurting your chances—and how to fix them.

### 1. Destroying Your Negotiating Position Early

The [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) question often hits during the initial phone screen. If you commit to a number too early, you’ve lost your leverage.

- **The Fix:** Put it back on them. Ask, *“Can you tell me the range budgeted for this position?”* \* **The “Ballpark” Move:** If they press, provide a researched range based on market data, then tie it to fit: *“Based on my [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) for this level of responsibility, I’m seeing $X to $Y. I’m sure once we decide this is a fit, we can agree on a fair package.”*

### 2. Giving “Canned” Answers

If you found an answer on a generic “Top 10” list, don’t use it. Interviewers smell a script instantly.

- **The Fix:** Aim for **Authenticity + Strategy**. Use the “Best Friend” test: practice your answer as if you were talking to a friend. That’s your authentic core. Now, polish it for a professional setting without losing that sincerity.

### 3. Fumbling Negative Questions

When asked about a bad boss, a layoff, or a gap in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), don’t vent. Use the **ABC Tool**:

- **A – Analyze:** Why are they asking? (Usually to check your emotional intelligence).
- **B – Brevity:** Keep the negative part under 40 seconds.
- **C – Circle with Positives:** Surround the “bad” news with what you learned or what you are doing now to improve.

### 4. Being the “Rambling Man”

In our ADHD culture, you have about 60 to 75 seconds before an interviewer tunes out.

- **The Fix:** Signal the end of your answer. Use a “downward note” in your voice to show you’re finished, or [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) back to the question: *“…and that is why I believe that project was my most significant [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) to date.”*

### 5. Being Reactive, Not Proactive

Don’t just wait for them to ask the “right” questions. You must walk in knowing your key selling points.

- **The Fix:** In your “Tell me about yourself” intro, bridge your history to their needs. Use the phrase: *“What’s probably most relevant to this role is my experience with \[X\].”* It makes an interviewer’s ears perk up instantly.

### 6. Waiting Until the End to Ask Questions

An [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) shouldn’t be an interrogation; it should be a conversation. The more the interviewer talks, the more they generally like the candidate.

- **The Fix:** Ask questions early. If they ask something vague, clarify: *“I’d love to answer that—are you more interested in the technical execution or how I managed the team through the transition?”* ### 7. Speaking in Generalities “I’m a hard worker” is a meaningless phrase.
- **The Fix:** Use **Quantities and Stories**. If you can’t use dollar amounts, use percentages, volume, or anecdotal [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Specificity creates memory; generalities are forgotten.

### 8. Forgetting the “Soft” Proof

Everyone claims to be a “team player.” Don’t tell them; show them through your behavior.

- **The Fix:** Treat everyone—from the receptionist to the junior staff—with genuine respect. Use the **SOAR** framework for your stories: **S**ituation, **O**bjectives, **A**ctions, and **R**esults. Focus heavily on the **R**. What was the actual impact?

### 9. Failing to Practice “Live”

Thinking the answer is not the same as *saying* the answer.

- **The Fix:** Practice out loud. Record yourself on video to catch distracting mannerisms or a lack of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/). You wouldn’t go into a championship game without a scrimmage; don’t go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without a mock run.

### Final Thought: The Interviewer is Scared, Too

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### [Never Follow Someone Else’s Path](https://thebiggamehunter.us/never-follow-someone-elses-path-shorts/)

**Published:** February 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Ellen DeGeneres is the source of today's quote.

**Content:**

# Never Follow Someone Else’s Path | #shorts

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### [Stupid Interview Mistakes: Having Disorganized Answers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-interview-mistakes-having-disorganized-answers/)

**Published:** January 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** It is very easy to avoid this interview mistake. Just use STAR.

**Content:**

# Stupid Interview Mistakes: Having Disorganized Answers

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

It is very easy to avoid this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). Just use STAR.

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There are 2 things I want to encourage people to do. The 1st is to remember some sort of anchoring device that brings you back home. As I was doing with someone yesterday, in their case, I suggested that if they had a ring, when they needed to get centered to just press on that spot on your finger as a reminder, whether they wore the ring or not.

Another thing that is more concrete for a lot of folks is organize your answer using a particular acronym called STAR. That stands for SITUATION that you stepped into, the TASK you are asked to perform or were assigned or chose to do, the ACTION that you performed, and the RESULTS that you obtained. In referencing results, you want to use financial terms that reflect the money that your work helped your firm make or save. If your work helped your firm generate a certain amount of money, you indicate the number of dollars or the percentage difference between you and another person in your firm doing similar work. You can stated in terms of pure dollars or in percentages. It makes no difference.

The STAR approach to answering questions engages people because you are telling a story and people love stories! The format, again, is SITUATION, TASK, ACTION and RESULTS

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### [How Can I Get an Employer to Accelerate a Hiring Process? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-get-an-employer-to-accelerate-a-hiring-process-shorts/)

**Published:** February 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** How can I most effectively get a potential employer to accelerate the hiring process?

**Content:**

# How Can I Get an Employer to Accelerate a Hiring Process? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [How to Get More Interviews: Are There Multiple Positions Open Like This?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-interviews-are-there-multiple-positions-open-like-this/)

**Published:** February 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here's what to do if you find similar positions open at one company.

**Content:**

## How to Get More Interviews: Are There Multiple Positions Open Like This?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/CD5fagHhk0U)

I’m not a big fan of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) online and if you found a company [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people with similar backgrounds, you may not want to apply to one and risk cutting yourself out of the others. Here’s what to do.

[***How to Get More Interviews: Submit a Video with Your Resume***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jpb)

One way to get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) is, instead of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), look to see if that same firm has more than one position open just like the one that you’re interested in. Instead of [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to that one job, which may knock you out for all the others, contact the head of the department or the head of the function that this job exists in. Say you noticed that they’re looking for more than one type of person like this and who’s coordinating the recruiting for this? Or is there one person in the organization who you might contact about these roles? And you can go on, if they [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-i-follow-up-its-been-4-weeks-of-interviewing-for-a-job-i-really-want-shorts/) and say, ‘why don’t you just apply for a job?’ You’ve got four different ones, you’ve got three different ones, six different ones and my concern is that if I apply to one I won’t be considered for the others. So that’s why I’m looking to cut the line like this.

There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://www.TheBigGameHunter.us). Go to the blog. There’s a lot there to help you.

***[Recession-Proofing Your Career: Develop a Niche Expertise or Specialty](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jo3)***

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

[***Recession Proofing Your Career: Audit Your Skills***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iQJ)

I do a livestream on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and YouTube (on the JobSearchTV.com account) Tuesdays at noon Eastern. You can send your questions about [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) better, management, leadership or to get advice about a workplace issue to me via messaging on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or in chat during the approximately 30-minute show.

Website: [w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session or free discovery call)

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### [Have You Ever Thought of Turning the Tables on Them in an Interview? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/have-you-ever-thought-of-turning-the-tables-on-them-in-an-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** February 2, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** They always ask why you left your last job. It’s important for you to turn the tables on them, too.

**Content:**

# Have You Ever Thought of Turning the Tables on Them in an Interview? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/sFhp9FakkPg)

They always ask why you left your last job. It’s important for you to turn the tables on them, too.

You know how they always ask you why you left your last job? Have you ever thought of turning the tables on them? I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier.

For years, I have joked about how everyone lies on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You lie, they lie, everyone is positioning themselves for major [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). Okay, I’ll call it posturing. You posture for [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/), they posture for [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/), and they always ask, “Why did you leave your last job?” And they make you feel guilty.

Now here’s a fun scenario: why don’t you ask them? I’m not talking about the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, I’m certainly not talking about HR, but when you meet with members of the team, why don’t you ask them when they ask, “So do you have any questions for us?” “Was there anyone in this role previously? Yeah? Why did they leave? What went on that prompted them to leave?” “Well, they left for a better opportunity.” “What made it a better opportunity?”

And even if they don’t answer, their non-answer is going to tell you a lot because they’re hiding something if it’s embarrassing. “Oh, they left for more money.” Okay, you can accept that, right? But sometimes their body language will tell you something about the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager that’s going to be useful to you. Maybe when they give you the looks to the side like they’re trying to get advice from someone, that’s telling you something. And you know, that’s worth a million dollars to you to avoid making a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

I have a lot more available to help you with JobSearch.Community. Come over to the site, [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me to coach you, get access to all my content for free as part of the program. I charge individually for all this stuff on Amazon. And by the way, if you don’t want me to coach you, if you don’t want to become an Insider member there, well, you can purchase products individually from me as well. Whatever works for you, I’m here to help.

[***Recession Proofing Your Career: Audit Your Skills***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iQJ)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

Website: [w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session or free discovery call)

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Courses: [www.TheBigGameHunter.us/courses](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us/courses)

Main YouTube: [www.JobSearchTV.com](https://www.JobSearchTV.com)

Video Podcast: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/43hgl56QWiJQY0kEQODSrK)

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### [Recession-Proofing Your Career: Help to Accomplish Your Company’s Goals and Self-Promote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/recession-proofing-your-career-help-to-accomplish-your-companys-goals-and-self-promote/)

**Published:** January 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Getting seen as instrumental, and promoting yourself as important will help.

**Content:**

# Recession-Proofing Your Career: Help to Accomplish Your Company’s Goals and Self-Promote

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/GTXX_rnFqvQ)

Getting seen as instrumental, and promoting yourself as important will help.

[***The Best Way to Recession-Proof Your Career***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-i8F)

Recession-proofing [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) also involves understanding what’s important to your manager, your boss, to senior leadership, get those points across to them by accomplishing those goals. And using your relationships or cultivating relationships with people within the organization. Make sure that the leadership, the management, everyone at a higher level that you knows that you’ve done this.

I remember a client of mine kidding me about being a self-promoter. Well, you need to be a self-promoter, too and at the same time, do the work. Accomplish the goals and make sure that people know about it.

There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](http://TheBigGameHunter.us); go to the blog. It will help you a lot.

[***Recession Proofing Your Career: Audit Your Skills***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iQJ)

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-14-280x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is a coach who worked as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally. That can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) staff, management, leadership, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. *Schedule a discovery call at my website, [www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://dashboard.blaze.today/snippet/www.TheBigGameHunter.us)*

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

I do a livestream on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), and YouTube (on the JobSearchTV.com account) Tuesdays at noon Eastern. You can send your questions about [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) better, management, leadership or to get advice about a workplace issue to me via messaging on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or in chat during the approximately 30-minute show.

Website: [w](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)[ww.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) (schedule a paid [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) session or free discovery call)

[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/): [https://www.linkedin.com/in/T](https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter)[heBigGameHunter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter)

Courses: [www.TheBigGameHunter.us/courses](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us/courses)

Main YouTube: [www.JobSearchTV.com](https://www.JobSearchTV.com)

Video Podcast: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/43hgl56QWiJQY0kEQODSrK)

[Resume & LinkedIn Profile critiques](https://jeffaltman.gumroad.com/l/Critique2) [www.TheBigGameHunter.us/critiques](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us/critiques)

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### [Why So Many Interviews?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-so-many-interviews/)

**Published:** January 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3100 One of the most frustrating things about job hunting today is the number of interviews.

**Content:**

# Why So Many Interviews?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3100 One of the most frustrating things about [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) today is the number of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

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Okay, so if you’ve ever been on the job hunt, you absolutely know this feeling. You spend hours polishing your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), you totally nail the first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), then you get through a second, and just when you’re thinking, okay, this is it, you get that email, you know the one, asking for another round. Ah, it’s gotta be one of the most frustrating parts of looking for a job today.

And this is the thought, right? It just pops into your head, you’re staring at the screen thinking, are you kidding me? Really? Really? After all the hours we’ve already talked? It feels like you’re just being strung along, and honestly, it’s completely understandable to feel that way. And just like that, you find yourself trapped in what feels like an endless [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) loop. It’s this exhausting cycle where you just keep investing more of your time, more of your energy, and frankly, more of your hope with every single new conversation.

So that brings us to the big question here. Why on earth do companies do this? Is it just, you know, total disorganization? Are they trying to drive candidates crazy? What is actually going on behind the curtain that leads to these [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) marathons? Well, to really get to the bottom of this, we’ve got to look at it from a totally different angle. And that angle comes from a pretty provocative question our [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) once asked.

And there it is. Do you propose marriage on the first date? Just let that sink in for a second. That one question, it completely flips the script, doesn’t it? All of a sudden, this isn’t just some frustrating process.

You realize, oh, this is a really high stakes decision for them. See, that one question just unpacks the whole thing. It reveals this core idea that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) live by.

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) is a lot like dating. Because from the company’s point of view, a [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/) isn’t just a simple transaction. It’s a huge commitment.

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So let’s really walk through this comparison, because it’s pretty powerful. That first phone screen or initial [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), that’s the first date. It’s all about making a good [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/), checking for those basic sparks of compatibility.

Then you have all those [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) rounds. Well, that’s when things are getting serious. It’s like going on more dates, maybe meeting each other’s friends, or in this case, the team lead and your potential coworkers.

And the [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/) itself, that’s the proposal. That is the big commitment. And here’s the kicker.

The thing you have to remember, the company is almost never dating just one person. They’re usually in a situation where they have multiple good choices. They could be talking to you and two other absolutely fantastic candidates.

And the honest truth is, they just aren’t sure who’s going to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) long-term fit. Okay, so why all the hesitation? Why drag things out with all this dating? It all boils down to one single powerful emotion. The fear of a bad hire.

When you get right down to it, it’s about these three little words. [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-dumb-mistakes-job-hunters-make-way-too-often-and-how-to-correct-them-job-search-radio/) are expensive. From a business standpoint, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) the wrong person isn’t just a minor oops.

It has real tangible costs that can wrinkle through the entire company. So a bad hire is so much more than just someone who isn’t a perfect fit. We’re talking about a costly [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/) that can seriously drain a company’s bank account, completely tank team morale, and bring productivity to a grinding halt.

When you start thinking about it in those terms, their caution starts to make a whole lot more sense, right? And that fear, that’s what creates this whole logic of taking their time. It’s the why behind their cautious approach before they’re willing to commit to anyone. So let’s get inside their head for a second.

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Here’s their logic. Step 1. They aren’t 100% sure which candidate is the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) choice. Step 2. They’re terrified of making a really expensive [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-make-the-mistake-i-made-career-angles-shorts/).

So that leads to step 3. They keep dating. They add another [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) round to gather more information and feel more confident in their decision. And it’s only then, at step 4, that they’re ready to commit.

They only propose when they feel absolutely certain. So what does this all mean for you? Well, understanding this perspective kind of changes the whole game. If you start seeing the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/) process as a series of dates, and the [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/) as a marriage proposal, it completely reframes your goal.

And that leaves us with one final big question to think about. If all of this is true, how do you use every single one of those dates to prove to that company that you are without a shadow of a doubt, the one?

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### [How Do Recruiters Find You to Fill a Position? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-recruiters-find-you-to-fill-a-position-shorts/)

**Published:** January 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I'm not talking about you sending them a resume. How else do they do it?

**Content:**

# How Do Recruiters Find You to Fill a Position?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/5quYQM_EQIA)

I’m not talking about you sending them a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). How else do they do it?

[***Interview Mistakes: Vomiting on People***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jBL)

How do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) find you to fill their positions? Well, let’s put it aside, you applied for the job. That’s not really all that great. But they’re also talking to a network of people that they’ve built relationships with who may [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) you. They’re also looking at industry experts. They’re also doing technology like [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), of course, and Google. They’re trying to find someone who will recommend you for the role.

And the easiest way to become recommended is to [be visible](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/). The more people know about you, the more likely it is they’ll recommend you. You’ll be top of mind as an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), and that will make you attractive to them. After all, if you’re invisible, you’re basically [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). And that basically means you’re a lucky [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

There’s a lot more at [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us). Go to the blog. There’s a lot there to help you.

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### [Individual Contributor vs. Executive Resume: What Changes and Why](https://thebiggamehunter.us/individual-contributor-vs-executive-resume-what-changes-and-why/)

**Published:** January 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You can tell within a few seconds whether a resume belongs to a leader or a doer. The difference isn’t formatting, design, or length—it’s strategy

**Content:**

# Individual Contributor vs. Executive Resume: What Changes and Why

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

You can tell within a few seconds whether a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) belongs to a leader or a doer. The difference isn’t formatting, design, or length—it’s strategy. Most people who make it to the senior level never update how they *think* about [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They still write like they’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), not leading a company.

If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads like a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) chronology instead of a business case, it’s holding you back. Here’s how an executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) differs radically from one written for an individual contributor—and why those distinctions matter more than ever at the VP and C-suite level.

### 1. Focus: From Tasks to Transformation

Individual contributor [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) focus on what the person *did*—projects completed, metrics achieved, systems managed. The employer is [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for skills and execution.

An executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), by contrast, focuses on *why it mattered*. It highlights strategic influence: how decisions shaped outcomes, how leadership drove growth, or how the executive guided teams through major change.

For instance, an individual contributor might write:

> “Implemented new CRM system and trained 20 team members.”

An executive version reframes that accomplishment:

> “Championed enterprise CRM adoption, improving pipeline visibility and boosting forecasting accuracy by 30%, enabling the organization’s $50M growth plan.”

[Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) show *impact at the enterprise level*—not merely the departmental level.

### 2. Audience: Recruiters vs. Boards and Decision Makers

At the individual level, [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are screened by [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) software or junior [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) comparing keywords. It’s about matching skills to job specs.

An executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has a very different audience. It’s read by decision makers—CEOs, board members, investors—who care about vision, growth potential, and leadership style. They want to see how you think, influence, and deliver results through others—not which tools you’ve mastered.

That’s why a strong executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads more like a business narrative than a job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

### 3. Structure: Simplicity and Strength Over Detail

Individual contributor [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) often rely on bullet-heavy job entries. [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) must do the opposite. Dense detail buries your message.

A well-built executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is sharply structured: a compelling leadership summary, key achievement highlights, and concise [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) descriptions. Every section earns its space and reinforces authority. Brevity signals [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

### 4. Metrics: From “How Much” to “How Big”

Individual contributors use metrics to prove performance—meetings booked, clients managed, budgets saved.

[Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) use scale to demonstrate enterprise impact—revenue influenced, geographic expansions led, workforce managed, or shareholder value created. It’s not *how busy* you were; it’s *how big* your results were.

### 5. Voice: Tactical Performer vs. Strategic Leader

At the contribution level, verbs like “developed” or “supported” show achievement. [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) must level up their language with verbs like “led,” “orchestrated,” “transformed,” and “drove.”

The voice of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) should match your altitude. You’re no longer the person *doing* the work—you’re the one *making it possible.*

### 6. Personal Brand: From Capability to Credibility

For an individual contributor, a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) proves capability. For an executive, it must establish *credibility*. It reflects influence, decision-making, and the ability to shape direction.

An executive summary or leadership [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) statement distills your value proposition—what the organization gains by [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. Think of it as positioning, not just introduction.

### Final Thought

When you move into executive territory, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) stops being a project list—it becomes a strategic marketing tool.

If it doesn’t reflect your leadership altitude, it’s not just incomplete; it’s misaligned. Senior-level [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions hinge not on *what you’ve done*, but on *how you think*.

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) should tell that story—clearly, confidently, and without the fluff.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [What Should I Do If They Want Me to Write a Proposal for a Client? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-should-i-do-if-they-want-me-to-write-a-proposal-for-a-client-shorts/)

**Published:** January 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A firm I was an interviewing with asked me to draft a proposal for one of their clients that they were bidding for business. I was pretty sure I was being scammed, but there was that nagging down in the back of my mind,  so I did it. Was I wrong?

**Content:**

# What Should I Do If They Want Me to Write a Proposal for a Client? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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A firm I was an [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with asked me to draft a proposal for one of their clients that they were bidding for business. I was pretty sure I was being scammed, but there was that nagging down in the back of my mind, so I did it. Was I wrong?

You’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a firm for a senior consulting role. You’re going to be a partner with them, and they say to you, “Before we bring you on board, we want you to write a proposal for this organization for these conditions.” Should you do it? I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally. I make the process of finding work and succeeding much easier.

Now, that’s the theme of a post someone shared on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). And he said, “I had the feeling about 90% sure I was being scammed, but that 10% was enough of a chance that he was real, that might be real.” And it got to him, so he did it. And like most people in this situation, you’re doing free consulting. Never do free consulting for a firm.

Now, if they said, “We’ll pay you to do this,” fine, no problem at all. If they say, “You know, we want you to do this as a hypothetical at the whiteboard and do this as a concept thing,” as long as it’s not recorded and they’re not taking notes down, do it. But I’ll simply say if someone’s asking you to really do a proposal, to put all that sort of work into it, don’t do it. It’s free consulting, and it gives them a chance to sell the business and you get nothing from it.

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### [Branding. Brandjacking. Build Your Reputation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/branding-for-students-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** January 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A great technique for students to deploy in order to create a brand for themselves by the time you graduate.

**Content:**

# Branding. Brandjacking. Build Your Reputation

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

I interviewed a [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), Quentin Langley, the author of a book called “[BrandJack](https://amzn.to/39GtGfj)” and in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), he mentioned a great technique for students to deploy in order to create a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for themselves by the time they graduate. Put it into practice. It will help.

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
So my guest today is Quentin Langley, who teaches at the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business at the Fashion Institute of Technology and at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. He’s taught at business in media schools in the US and the UK. His latest book, business and the culture of ethics was published in September 2020, he’s also the author of [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Jack, how your reputation is at risk from [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) pirates and what to do about it. Quentin, thanks for making time today.

Speaker 1 
Great to Great to see you again. Good to see you again too. Jeff, thanks. So are you a guy

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
who’s just been teaching, or did you actually work in industry? Did you read three books and suddenly call yourself a professor?

Quentin Langley 
No, I actually did work in industry, mostly in journalism and in public relations consultancy. I did some in house work in PR as well. I was at the Global Media Relations team through shell international for a while, and I was global head of PR for Knight Frank real estate agency, which trades as Newmark Knight Frank in the US. Gotcha.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
So let’s talk about [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) today. Folks, if you were [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) we were going to do an ethics conversation not going to happen. We’re talking [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) tonight. And and for those of you who roll your eyes up when you think about [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and go, oh god, why do I need to know about that? It’s the most important things you need to know. And why is that? Why is [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) important for a person in their [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/)?

Quentin Langley 
Well, [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is the word that marketing people use for what everyone else calls reputation. So when an organization says, Oh, we’re going to get a new [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), everybody thinks, oh, that means a new logo. But actually it’s much bigger than that, or ought to be, if they’re doing it properly. Now, if someone says to you, I’m going to get a new reputation, the first thing he says, ooh, really. How are you going to do that? Are you going to change the way you treat people and then start talking about it, or you just going to start telling people different things about yourself? Because if you’re if it’s all about what you say and not about what you do, then it’s not going to be very successful,

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
and it’s so interesting you talk about say versus do. I interviewed someone recently who used the metaphor of show don’t tell as part of how someone should talk about themselves. And you’re right. You can’t just announce one day. Ta, da, I have a new logo, a new label on me. I am different. Yeah, it tends to follow you around, right?

Quentin Langley 
I explained that to my students to think in terms of the dating market that I believe it’s been known on Tinder for some people to exaggerate about themselves, really or even completely fabricate stuff. And I say to my students, let’s say most my students are women, young women. Let’s say you’re dating a guy called Dave, and you dump him because you don’t like him. And he comes back a week later and says, It’s okay. I’ve changed my name to Charles. Now, will you go out with me? You’re gonna say no, because that wasn’t the point. There’s a whole range of other things that go into your reputation. It’s not just your name. So yeah, the do versus say is is very important.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
I think, in terms of how one develops reputation, and with that, how someone becomes known for their reputation. Because I think people operate within a small universe most of the time for who knows about them, and thus how they become known, is a big part of the [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), reputation building and all that sort of stuff. But let’s start with the baby steps. And we’re going to start with your students who are whatever age they are you’re teaching at graduate school, so let’s assume they’re in their 20s and they have the returnees who are coming back to try and get the degree. So let’s think in terms of the people in their 20s first, and how they start building a reputation. Okay, well,

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Quentin Langley 
it has changed dramatically since the days when you and I were at that age. Used to be the case that most people got [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) through sending off [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). And indeed, you know, when my father was a young man, you applied to one organization, and you probably stuck with that same organization for the rest of your life. You moved up. My father did. He was. In the civil service, he got to a very senior level, but he was with the same organization his whole [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). That world has gone and now it is about building a reputation and starting when you’re I actually teach at fit. I teach with students who are freshmen. So I’m saying, well, you’re going to spend four years writing a blog, and I set them an assignment. In their first semester, I set an assignment they write one blog entry for me that I grade, but I say, I want you to write a blog entry every week. I’m not going to grade them all, but spend the next four years writing a blog. Take the most interesting thing you learned at school that week. Write about and think, how would that apply in the sort of job that I did? I said, you know, my teacher the fashion school, I used to work at Shell so maybe I give them a case study about crisis that shell faced in Nigeria in the 1990s and I, my challenge to them is go away and think about how would that something similar affect a fashion business? Because fashion businesses often manufacture in developing countries. They come under fire for their environmental record, or for the way in which people are treated in the factories. How would you handle that issue for a fashion business? Write about that, and then when you’re looking for a job, then people are going to find on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) or on your blog or various other social media platforms that you’re using, they’ll find that you’ve been thinking about these issues for four years. I said, Well, on that basis, you’re never going to apply for a job. People will be [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to you. People will be saying, Yeah, this is the person I want to recruit into my business. I tell them, think about it. In marketing, you always supposed to think about your target audience. If you’re looking for a job, your target audience is people who have got problems and want someone to solve the problems. So if you’ve spent four years writing about those sort of problems and how you would solve them, then you’re the sort of person that the business is going to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). And one of the things

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
I’m going to interrupt and say, folks, understand what he’s talking about here, is having firms reach out to you instead of you always being the supplicant who’s reaching out hat in hand begging that they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you. And I saw a statistic today, or I was reminder of a statistic today from 2018 that said, when firms [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) it takes 128 [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/) for them to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) one person, versus when a person’s referred or they source them themselves. It’s eight, yeah, eight. You want to be the ones that they know about in advance, that they want to reach to, that they can find easily, so that in this way, you’re cutting the line. It’s like one of the metaphor that I use is there’s a pond, and there’s a lot of fish, and there’s a hook thrown into the water, and there’s 128 fish trying to leap onto the hook once you rather be in the pond where they throw the hook out, and there’s only eight of you competing.

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Quentin Langley 
Yep, that’s the point. I mean, it’s actually the same in all business relationships. It’s not just about [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). I read some fascinating stats on insurance industry defaults, and they did a sort of big data analysis of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) for what was it? It was for loan repayments, actually not insurance industry for loan repayment, who defaults on their loan repayment, and the words that turn up in an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) for loan that predict default are please, thank you and God, people who [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) To those things in their loan [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are very likely to default, because those are people certainly the please and the Thank you. Are people who think they’re asking for a favor, as opposed to entering a business relationship, which is good for both sides and God, I’m not entirely sure, but I suspect this is when somebody, you know, they’re asked, what’s your plan for repaying? And they say, Well, God, will find a way. And you think, Well, yeah, that’s, that’s not, I’m sure you’re very sincere about wanting to repay, but that’s not a plan, and I’m not going to lend you any money if that’s, if that’s your plan for repaying. Um. And you know, and it’s the same when you’re you’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), and I love that word supplicant that you use when you’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), two people are negotiating a business relationship that should work for both sides. It’s not one person who’s asking for a favor from someone else, and that is that this is where everybody goes wrong. When you apply for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), so many people will send off an [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) letter, 12 sentences, nine of them beginning with i, and I’m getting this when I was recruiting a team at night, Frank, I’m getting these letters. Why are you telling me your life story? I don’t care about this. I’ve got a problem. Tell me how you’re going to solve my problem. That’s what it’s about. Focus on what your target audience is interested in hearing. And if you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in the fashion industry, then show people that you have been thinking about what the problems in the fashion industry are and how they can be solved. And that’s, that’s the whole deal. That’s, that’s why someone will [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you, because you can solve their problem.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
For the 20 something, you know, the freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, they’re in an early stage developmentally, but I think of the person who’s a couple of years in and beyond, they have the temptation to also say, Yes, I I can do this for you, because I’ve done it over here. And they also want to say, let me tell you are my credentials, which is all about themselves,

Quentin Langley 
yep, and that’s Yeah, I think it’s all about storytelling. Show that you can solve problems, but by the time you get to an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), it’s no longer about can you do the job? Because I’m not an idiot. If I’m [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) all the people I’m [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), can do the job, it’s whether or not you’re going to fit in. The three questions when you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) that you’re asking yourself about potential hires, it’s can she do the job? Will she do the job? Will she fit in? By the time you get to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) has eliminated all the people who don’t know how to do the job. They’re thinking, is this person going to fit in? By that point, it’s about connecting, and this is where I think [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and connecting has been changing. Within the past few months, I used to give people workshops on how to shake hands, and now people don’t shake hands anymore because of the pandemic, but we’ve all been there with the person who you think you shake hands with them, and you think they’ve handed you a wet fish, and then the other people that crush your hand, you think, why are you doing this? What did I do to you? And you’ve got to find that the thing that works and frankly, the thing that works for one person is not the thing that works for someone else. If you’re shaking hands with a 95 pound woman, it’s not the same handshake as you should do for a 250 pound guy, so you know, but that you know, that’s handshake that’s all gone. What are we doing instead? How are we going to address things like [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/), smile when I use your name, Jeff, that’s how I make a connection.

***[A Well-Respected Man/Woman–Branding Yourself to Stand Out](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-fyn)***

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
To be clear, we don’t do the repeated mention of the name in every sentence or every third sentence, because suddenly, as I was listening to a podcast with Reid Hoffman, who’s the founder of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), so that was an old Dale Carnegie trick that people were taught the sweetest word that a person can hear is the sound of their own name. And unfortunately, people take that too literally, so it becomes every sentence becomes, well, Quentin, I really believe that. And Quentin, you know what? I think,

Quentin Langley 
yes, you’ve got to be that was the second time I’ve used your name in this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). I think I’m getting the balance about right. It’s every 10 minutes. Yeah, that seems reasonable. And then you can there’s a wonderful strip cartoon that runs in The Daily Telegraph in the UK called Alex, about a guy who works in the financial markets, and they it’s always the same joke that they seem to be saying one thing, and then the final panel, you reveal what they’re actually saying, something else they were talking about body language one day, and said, did you notice that person stands in the middle of the room? Very firm? Handshake always makes [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/). And the final panel is it, yeah, obviously the sort of wimp who’s been on a body language course. Let’s ignore him. And people can go over the top, where they’re using your name all the time, and every sentence, they say, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, beginning to sound like a small dog?

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
Yes, and I want to leap in and say, we’ve been talking so far. You use the example with the students of a weekly blog post where someone talks or writes about something relevant to the [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) that they want to do, and that’s the perfect student. Answer is, build up a body of work where people can discover you. Now, you can do this on your own website. You can do this on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), of course, whatever makes it easily discoverable for someone. What else can people do? And we can stick with students. We can go to more experienced professionals to start cultivating a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for themselves so that they’re discoverable and they’re able to and this is one of my favorite scenarios in talking about [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), cut the line and move to the front instead of always being Hi. See me in the back. Why don’t you pick me?

Quentin Langley 
I think it’s about [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). As you get more senior, I know this is a topic you’ve talked about a lot [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/), particularly through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), where you can obviously target people by the sort of job that they’re presently doing. So again, remember, you’re not asking for a favor. You are not the supplicant when you write to people and say, I want to connect with you, you’re offering them something because you’re offering them the chance to connect with you as well. So again, it should be a more equal conversation. But I do find that if you approach people and say, I’d like to ask your advice about something, most people are flattered, and most people agree to a conversation. It may be only a five or 15 minute conversation, but most people, about three quarters, agree to a conversation. Another thing you can do is become involved in professional societies. I’m presently the chair of the Global Affairs Committee of the Public Relations Society of America. I did a similar job within the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in London beforehand, and I found, once I had that title, that the number of people who agreed to a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) meeting with me rose from about three quarters of the people that I approached to about 90 or 95% because once you’ve got, you’ve Got that sign off line and say, I would like a meeting with you to pick your brains. People think, Oh, this is, this is a knowledgeable and senior person who respects me enough to ask for my advice. They feel flattered and they agree. And of course, they recognize there’s something in it for them to the you know, I I may be looking for some work at the moment, but in the couple of years time, maybe I’ll be in a position to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) and they’ll be the one who’s looking for work. So, you know, people will agree to the meetings on that basis.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
I had one person I coached who worked in a specific area of risk, and he had been consulting for some time, and wasn’t sure if he wanted to continue in consulting or go into industry. And there were a couple of other challenges with his background as well. So we adopted the strategy of, I’m writing the book, and I’d like to talk with you and [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) you for the book. And thus people were flattered to be approached, and he was able to get an introduction to someone who is overseas, runs a professional trade group did the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). They, in turn, interviewed him with someone else who, with whom he’s collaborating on another book, and that person has a phenomenal [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) in that sector. It’s going to be his reputational calling card going forward. So the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for you folks, it can be about what you write, where you’re interviewed. So for example, Quentin is being interviewed for YouTube and for the podcast, and he’s going to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) in association with the number one podcast in Apple podcast for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and a YouTube channel. I don’t think we’ve had a ranking in a couple of years. Years, but fundamentally a visible place where people can discover more about him and how he thinks. So, if they’re looking for someone, they find him the and then do a Google search. He’s going to come up in multiple places.

Quentin Langley 
Yeah, especially, I’ve got an unusual name, so I I believe there was one other Quentin Langley in the United States, but if you do a Google on my name, I get everything on the front page. So I definitely win on that name. Yeah. I mean, somebody once told me that I was the only person that ever Googled other than Barack Obama, where absolutely everything they found was actually about me and not about someone else who got the same name. So yeah, so an unusual name helps, but I agree, asking people about a book or a blog or a podcast you want to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) them for for those again, people are flattered. People want to connect, and it’s something that works for both sides. And everyone recognizes that. Again, there’s no supplication involved. This is two people doing something that is interesting and is useful for both of them, and same as any business deal,

[***You Are a Brand***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oFU)

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
what else can someone do to create the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) for themselves, other than a unique name writing podcast, podcast now my name [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), there’s a comedian by The same name, who’s appeared on TV in the US many, many times. So I’ve got one or two listings on page. One, he’s got most, most of the rest.

Quentin Langley 
What is always the problem with names when, when we were young, nobody gave us names, taking into account how Google able they would be. I mean, I’ve got a friend called Tony Brown. He’s finished. There’s no way he makes page one of good. Maybe that’s an [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). I mean, if you want to remain anonymous, but if you if you want to be found, then then that that name is never going to work. So an unusual name or associating yourself with an unusual word, like [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Jack, I didn’t invent that word. I heard someone use it at a conference. I thought, [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Jack, that’s a great idea. I should write a book on that. I should become the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Jack guy. So I did. So if you, if your name is not very googleable, associate yourself with a word that is very googleable and tells people about what it is that you’re doing. So that’s that’s one way of being discovered.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
So it becomes the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) around the term, yeah. So I’m going to go into [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) jack in just a moment. Let’s just do it right now. So for someone who is fearful of their [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) being being [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) [jacked](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-managers-are-undecided-do-they-lean-toward-rejecting-someone/), how do you avoid that? Well, actually, let me first define Have you define it?

Quentin Langley 
Well, it’s when you lose control of the particularly the social media conversation around your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). And that can happen for a whole range of reasons. About 75% of crises start internally to the organization. About a quarter of them are a member of staff makes an error, and about 50% of them are management, corporate leadership makes an error. But some of them come from the outside, and that can be very if you become if you come under fire from an organization like Greenpeace, well, they’ve got a huge following on social media, and they start sharing stuff that’s negative about you. It’s going to go all over the place, and there’s not much you can do to prevent that. You need to engage with your various publics. You need it does tie in with the ethics. It is about establishing a reputation for doing the right thing. You have to be believable when you’re talking about the things that you’re doing. So there are a rate. I mean, when I was at Shell we were starting to rethink what we wanted, various groups, various publics, to think about the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), and we knew we were never going to get Greenpeace, Sierra Club or Friends of the Earth to say, Yay, shell. Great, great organization that the target that we had. With environmentalists was to say, well, if someone’s going to do it, I suppose it’s better that it would be shell that’s about as far as you can reasonably hope to get with an organization that is inherently critical of your entire business model.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
And I’ll go an extra step from an episode when I was still doing search, your employer carries a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) that can infect you. That’s absolutely right, yes. And thus I think of again from when I was in search, the story of Bernie Madoff, which was an executive suite issue. But if you were a technology guy working for that firm, you were unemployable, tainted by that even though you had nothing to do with it.

Quentin Langley 
Oddly enough, my background working in crisis and working in public relations, sometimes the PR people can emerge from a crisis with an enhanced reputation, if you were the PR person working at Enron towards the end, then people want to hear from you. What did you learn from that? How did that work out? What were you doing to deal with that? That that issue, but you’re absolutely right. Even if you say you’re the IT person, it rubs off on you, and unless you’ve got some insight, you can [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a conference or write a book that shows something about what went wrong and how it went wrong, you’re probably going to be damaged, and that’s why organizations target having a good relationship with potential hires as well. I mean, the your staff are an important public for you as an organization, but some of the people who might work for you, one of the reasons to be in trade and professional publications is often not that your clients read the these magazines. It’s that the people who work for your competitors and who might be tempted to come over and work for you read these publications. So if you if you have a reputation, and this night Frank in the real estate agency market, we were trying to build a reputation with the trade publications as being the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place to work, because then we could attract the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) talent. If all the people who work for your competitors think, you know, I really like to work there, then that’s a very powerful reputation to have and enables you to have the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) people. So yeah, you have different targets in terms of [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) to your various publics and people who are viewing this podcast who are looking for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), they are absolutely the the [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are their target audience, but they are also a target audience for the [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). The [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) want to attract the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) people to come and work for them. So it’s always that, that two way deal, never supplication, always negotiation, amen.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
I’ll just simply say one of the coolest ways to get someone’s attention is engaging with the channel on YouTube or the channel on Instagram, and [messaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/maximize-your-messaging-on-linkedin/) the community sponsor for it, and just simply saying, I am so impressed by some of the stuff that you’re doing. This is what I do. And he introduced me to someone. And flattery can work. It doesn’t work all the time, but nothing works all the time.

Quentin Langley 
Yeah, absolutely. And it’s when you get these meetings for the [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). I always say your target is to come out of that meeting with two new names, because the next person you approach is then doubly flatter. I may approach you and say, you know, Jeff, I’d like to ask your advice. And then the next person I approach, I said, Well, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) suggested I ask your advice, so now they’re doubly flattered, because I’m interested, and you said they were interesting. So that’s two people who think highly of them. So yeah, that’s that’s how [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) goes on.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
So What haven’t we covered yet related to [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) that we really should in order to make our audience go, wow, that Quentin guy. He’s got some good advice.

[***Branding Yourself Is Important and Easy***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h6H)

Quentin Langley 
I think we, I think we do need to focus on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). I know it’s a particular area of interest of yours. Because that is where you target people by the sort of role that they’re presently in. So you build your network there, and you produce content there that is interesting to the sort of people that might be offering you your next job. So always have it in mind, what is the next stage in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) that what do you want to be doing, and what sort of organization do you want to be working in, if you’re obviously in the core business of the organization, that might be quite a narrow field. But if you’re a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), or you’re a PR person, you could be working in any different sector, lawyer, any of these professions, you could be working in any different sector. So one of the questions you ask yourself is, what sort of sector do I want to work in? How do I establish a reputation [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) with those people? So I would say [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is the place where you are building that network and producing the content marketing, producing the content that people in your network want to be sharing their content as you say, you know, passing it on and saying, Hey, this is great stuff coming out of such and such an organization. Yeah, there’s, there’s, there’s a lot you can do to build your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), your reputation, among your target audience. I prefer the word reputation to [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). In some ways, I would like to have called the book reputation Jack. It just didn’t have quite as much ring to it as [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Jack, because it’s although they mean largely the same thing. PR, people use reputation, marketing. People use [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) they mean largely the same thing. The difference is, reputation is a perfectly ordinary word that everyone uses and everyone understands, whereas most people who are not in the profession, if you talk about [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), they think you mean your logo. What I’m saying is it’s it’s way deeper than that, it’s all of those associations that people have with your name and with you and with all of the things that you do. So yeah, I’m

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
going to share the story that I love to do about [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and its power, and it starts off with when you go to the store and you buy detergent. I’ve never, ever seen someone pick up two possible purchases, look at the list of ingredients and go, Oh, the interrelationship of the chemicals in this product is probably going to do a better job of making my wash wider than the relationship of the chemicals in this one. No, they buy the price, the name their wife, husband, partner, mother, father, whomever it is, told them to buy that one a coupon, anything incidental to the actual

Quentin Langley 
packaging that says whitening, or, yeah, or preserves the color or something like that. Yeah. It’s all of those, all of those things. And increasingly, of course, as people increasingly buy online, it’s whatever you bought last time. It’s just so much easier to buy the same thing again than it is to go out and look for a different [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). So there’s a massive amount of momentum about it. You catch people for the first sale, and then they stick with you, unless you let them down another I mean, taxis, of course, changed as the markets in zuba and lift came in, but I think there were, there were two stages before that. There was the stage when they all had names that were the beginning of the alphabet, abco or four A’s or something like that, so that you’d find them on the alphabetical listing. And then there was the stage where it all became about the number that you had in your cell phone. At some point, you loaded a taxi telephone number into your cell phone, and you kept using the same taxi firm unless they let you down. And because what’s the point of changing it? It’s right there, I could easily call that number. And so, you know, getting that first relationship is a massively important part of [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), because for a lot of markets, people will just stick with you ongoing basis.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
It’s convenient, it’s habit, it’s comfortable. Bull. It’s effortless. And us folks, you want to be the person who they don’t have to think about anymore. As I point out, when firms [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) ultimately want, what they want to do is trust the person that they choose. They don’t want to have to worry about you. And thus you want to be the trusted individual, which comes in a variety of different packages, of course, but ultimately, you want to be generating Trust, which is a big part of your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Hey, we can go on for hours. I know this already. How can people find out more about you and the work that you do.

Quentin Langley 
Gwen, well, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is a good place to start that. In fact, I would say that that’s the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/). But the [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) Jack blog, I’ve not been keeping up to date lately, so I would

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
say Bad boy. Bad boy.

Quentin Langley 
Well, I’m moving on. The latest book was about ethics, and the next one is about risk. So I’m establishing different sorts of credentials as I move along, but I would say probably [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place to track me down, and you therefore see the different pathways and the different areas of expertise that I have. And as I said, I’m very Google.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
And do you recall the URL for your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile?

Quentin Langley 
I think it’s [linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com/in/quentin, Langley, something like that.

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
Okay, he doesn’t think there are any other Quentin langleys in the world.

Quentin Langley 
So there is one guy in Ohio who likes trains. But you know, if you Google my name, the whole of the first page of Google is me, and

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) 
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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2700 episodes.

### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [The Imposter Syndrome Reality Check #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-imposter-syndrome-reality-check-shorts/)

**Published:** January 29, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This short gives you a no BS reality check to help you reframe your mindset and own your professional wins with confidence

**Content:**

# **The Imposter Syndrome Reality Check #shorts**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/j9R-8hDCOqM)

This short gives you a no BS reality check to help you reframe your mindset and own your professional wins with [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/)

[***3 Effective Ways to Handle Rejection During An Executive Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mEl)

Quick question: Do you ever feel like you’re accidentally tricking people into thinking you’re good at your job? I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work much easier.

You know what that is? That’s imposter syndrome. And during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), it’s like a loudmouth roommate telling you that you’re unqualified for every role you actually want. But here’s the No BS truth about it: feelings aren’t facts. And your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has numbers on it because you achieved them. You didn’t get lucky. You worked, and you probably worked hard to achieve those numbers.

So next time doubt creeps in: Stop. Look at your win list. Remember the problems you’ve solved and apply for that stretch job anyway. Because if you don’t believe in you, why should an employer, right?

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeffAltman-57-242x300.jpg) and succeeding in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) easier.

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**Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) during your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at [⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us](https://⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us).**

[***Should I Connect With People on LinkedIn Who Rejected Me for a Job?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-27b)

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### [What Makes Networking Effective #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-networking-effective-shorts/)

**Published:** January 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Here are the steps that make networking effective during a job search.

**Content:**

# What Makes Networking Effective #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/PH7GF0b6a5o)***

Here are the steps that make [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) effective during a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

[***The Warning Sign of a Problem or That They Aren’t Sure***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ic2)

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/),![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

### **[*FEELING DEPRESSED About Your Search? Struggling? Feeling Fatigued?*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-eAm)**

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [Should You Tell Your Boss Where You're Going?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/should-you-tell-your-boss-where-youre-going/)

**Published:** January 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Why does your boss wants to know where you're going?

**Content:**

# Should You Tell Your Boss Where You’re Going?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Why does your boss wants to know where you’re going?

[***When Is It OK To Quit Without Giving Notice?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6gp)

All right, let’s set the scene. You’ve done it. You landed a new job, you signed the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), and you are ready to hand in your two weeks’ notice.

You’re about to make your next big [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. But there’s still one last kind of tricky conversation you have to get through. And there it is.

The question. You’re sitting in your boss’s office, you’ve just broken the news, and they hit you with it. So where are you heading? It seems innocent enough, right? Just a friendly question.

But believe it or not, how you answer this can make a really big difference. So what’s the right move? Well, according to our source material, the answer couldn’t be clearer. Telling them is just a bad idea.

Full stop. And there are some really, really good reasons why. You’ve got to ask yourself, why do they want to know so badly? Is it really just them being nice and curious about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? Well, not always.

Let’s get into the real motivations that might be behind that seemingly simple question. This is where things get interesting, because there’s this huge gap between what we hope they’re thinking and what might actually be going on. You know, you hope they’ll think, wow, we’re losing a great person.

Maybe we should make a counteroffer. But the reality? It can be a whole different ball game. They might be trying to gather data, use it against you, or, and this is the big one, try to talk you out of leaving.

And this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) just nails it. This is one of the ugliest tactics they might pull. Your manager or someone from HR might start bad mouthing your new company, basically trying to make you feel like you’ve made a terrible [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).

Look, it’s not about helping you. It’s a defensive play to make you second guess yourself and maybe just maybe get you to stay. So when you boil it all down, sharing this info just doesn’t benefit you.

It pretty much never leads to a better counteroffer. What it does do is create a super awkward situation where you’re suddenly defending your life choices. And on top of all that, you’ve just handed your old company free valuable intel on their competition.

Nothing good comes out of it for you. Okay, so we’ve spent a lot of time on what not to do. Let’s flip the script.

How do you actually handle this question? There’s a really simple, totally professional way to navigate this without burning any bridges. And here it is. It’s a simple two-step process.

First, be gracious. Be polite. Thank them for the opportunity, for everything you learned.

Then, step two, when the question comes, you just politely decline to answer. Something simple like, I’d rather keep that to myself for now, but thank you for asking, works perfectly. It’s professional and it’s firm.

And this is why it’s so important. This isn’t about being secretive just for the sake of it. This is about protection.

You’re protecting your decision from getting criticized and you’re protecting your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) new opportunity from any last minute drama or politics. You stay in control. At the end of the day, it really just comes down to this one question.

[Your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) path is your business and your business alone. You’re leaving, so you have absolutely no obligation to share the details. So the next time you find yourself in that hot seat, just ask yourself, why would you give your old boss free Intel?

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### [Employer Branding: Attracting Talent #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-attracting-talent/)

**Published:** January 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Much of the talent you are trying to attract aren't on job boards or applying through LinkedIn.

**Content:**

# Employer Branding: Attracting Talent #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/T4zeUL1sly8)

Much of the talent you are trying to attract aren’t on job boards or [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

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### **[*Employer Branding: Do You Know Why They Contact You?*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jcE)**

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### [Hack The Case Study Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hack-the-case-study-interview/)

**Published:** January 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** r
Whether you're a recent graduate or a veteran professional, this video will provide you with insights into the case interview process and how to dissect it

**Content:**

# Hack The Case Study Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

## [***The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition: A Student’s Guide***](https://amzn.to/4sIOWsS)

There is a small hiccup in the outro. It just means that there is an extra half second of silence in the outro.

00:00 Intro
00:52 The 1st thing to do
01:13 The Second thing to do
01:45 Examples of questions to consider asking
02:35 The 3rd thing to do
03:08 MECE
03:48 4Ps
04:20 SWOT
05:08 The 4th
05:26 The 5th
05:41 The 6th
06:04 Summary
06:19 Outro

***[Cracking The Case Study Interview ](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-cLU)***

I’m going to share advice today on how to ace a case [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and land the job at a top consulting firm. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make things easier for people related to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, dealing with workplace issues or a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition. I help to make it easier so that you don’t have to![recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/in-case-you-were-wondering-what-recruiters-really-think-about-you_thumbnail.jpg) learn through trial and error.

So whether you’re a recent grad or a seasoned professional, I’m going to provide you with some reminders or observations about the case [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process from how to prepare for it, as well as how to impress an interviewer with your problem solving skills.

So the first thing is really understand the case. Fully understand the case you’ve been given really carefully. Take notes, make sure you fully comprehend the situation and the problem that needs to be solved. Ask questions to clarify. Got that? Ask questions to clarify.

Number two to structure the problem. Once you’ve got a good grasp of the case, start structuring the problem, which means breaking it down into smaller manageable pieces that you can work on. Think about the different categories of information you need to gather. So again, ask clarifying questions, because it will help you be sure that you fully understand the problem. You’ll get more information, clarify any ambiguous or unclear points and confirm your understanding of the problem.

For example, what’s the main objective of the company of the organization in this case? Can you explain the key challenges or issues facing the company or organization? What are the potential solutions that have already been considered or implemented? Can you clarify any industry-specific terms or jargon used in the case? Are there any financial metrics or data points that are particularly relevant to this case? Can you provide more detail about the company’s target market or customer base? How does the company’s current strategy fit into the overall business model? Are there any regulatory or legal factors that are impacting the company’s situation? What are the company’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to this case? Can you explain the timeline or deadlines that this company is facing?

These questions are designed to help you get a better understanding of the case and identify any gaps or areas where you need more information. By asking these questions, or these types of questions, you can demonstrate your ability to think critically and to approach problems in a structured method methodical way.

***[Case Study Reminders](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-djY)***

Next, excuse me, analyze the information. With a clear understanding of the problem, begin analyzing the information you’ve gathered. Use frameworks and models to organize your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and insights.

One popular framework used in case [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) is MECE, or as Barbara Minton who created it pronounces it meece but you know, pick the way that you’re more comfortable with. Mutually Exclusive Collective Exhaustive framework. It ensures that all potential solutions or options are covered and that there’s no overlap between them. For example, when analyzing a market, you might use Meese or MECE to break down the market into different segments based on demographics, psychographics, and behavior and showing that each segment is distinct and that there is no overlap.

Another model is the four P’s– product price promotion place framework, which is often used in marketing cases. This framework allows people to ![Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/recruiter-interview-4835116_1920-pixabay-1024x683.jpg)analyze the different elements of a marketing strategy and how they work together to achieve a desired outcome.

For example, if asked to analyze a new product launch, you might use the four P’s framework to analyze the product’s features, its price point, the promotional strategy, and how it would be distributed to different markets.

A third useful framework is SWOT strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats analysis, which is used to evaluate a company or organization’s internal and external factors. This framework allows someone to identify areas where the company can improve and potential opportunities or threats that might affect its [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). For example, when analyzing a company’s financial performance, you might use SWOT analysis to identify areas where the company can improve its profitability, such as reducing costs or increase in revenue, as well as potential threats to its financial stability such as changes in the regulatory environment. or increased competition. Consider different solutions to the problem and their potential impact. communicate your findings.

And obviously, once you’ve analyzed the information, it’s important to communicate your findings clearly and concisely using charts, graphs, and other visual aids to help convey your ideas. Make sure you explain your thought process and reasoning. Develop a recommendation.

***[The Thing You’re Forgetting When Answering Questions in the Case Study Interview?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6Ke)***

After analyzing the information and communicating your findings, it’s time to develop a recommendation. Consider the pros and cons of different solutions and make a recommendation based upon your analysis. Explain why.

Summarize your conclusion. It’s very simple. Summarize your conclusions and make sure you’ve addressed the original problem. Be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to answer any [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions and defend your recommendation. Remember, the key to [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) in a case [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is to stay calm, focused, and analytical. It’s that’s simple.

Use these steps as a framework but be flexible and adaptable to the specific case you’re given. Practice, prepare. In doing that you can master case [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and land the job that you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for.

I hope you found this helpful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Go to my website and go exploring. The website is [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us). There’s a ton in the blog, too, that can help you. Plus, if you’re interested in my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), you can schedule time for a free discovery call to evaluate me to coach you, you can schedule time for actual [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), ask me questions through Trusted Advisor Services. Go to the blog. Again a lot there to help and at the site.

You can find out about my video courses, books, and guides. Again, there’s a lot there to help. Also, connect with me on [Linkedin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) at [linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter](linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter).

Have a terrific day and most importantly, be great!

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [Executive Networking: Attract Opportunities](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-networking-attract-opportunities/)

**Published:** February 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3102 This episode breaks down how senior professionals can attract the right opportunities through intentional, value-driven networking. 

**Content:**

# Executive Networking: Attract Opportunities

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3102 This episode breaks down how senior professionals can attract the right opportunities through intentional, value-driven [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). I get into the practical habits that make you visible, credible, and memorable in the executive marketplace. If you’re ready to move beyond random conversations and start generating real momentum in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), this will point you in the right direction.

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All right, let’s get right into it. Today, we’re going to talk about a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) hack that completely flips the old rules of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) on their head. Seriously, we’re talking about a way, a much smarter way to get ahead by making amazing opportunities come directly to you.

I mean, does this sound familiar? You’re just so tired of the whole [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/). You’re sending out cold emails that just vanish into the void, or you’re dragging yourself to these awkward [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) events, making small talk, and it just leads absolutely nowhere. It’s frustrating, right? Well, there’s a much better way to play the game.

So it all comes down to this one crucial shift in your mindset. You’ve got the old way, chasing opportunities. That’s the push strategy.

It’s exhausting. But then there’s the new way, attracting opportunities. This is a pull strategy where all of a sudden, warm leads and incredible offers start landing in your lap.

So let’s give this a name, right? We’re going to call it the attraction strategy. And look, this isn’t just some little trick. It’s a completely different way of thinking about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) and your professional visibility.

It’s about turning yourself into a magnet for the exact opportunities you want. Just take a second and actually picture this. What if instead of you hunting down contacts, you woke up in the morning, opened your laptop and saw amazing opportunities, just sitting in your inbox, in your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/) DMs, people with really cool projects and reaching out to you, that’s the goal here.

[***Why So Many Interviews?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ouh)

That’s the reality we’re aiming for. The official term for this whole approach, it’s called thought leadership [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). And the idea is actually super simple, but it’s incredibly powerful.

You just stop telling people you’re an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) and you start showing them in public. And when you do that, the right opportunities just naturally find their way to you. Okay.

So you’re probably thinking this sounds great, but how in the world do I actually do it? Well, it’s all about finding your stage. You need to find platforms, you know, places where you can put your knowledge and your skills on display for the right people to see. And look, you have options.

You don’t have to be some kind of celebrity to find a stage. Think about speaking on an industry panel, or what about being a guest on a podcast in your niche? Companies are always looking for experts to lead webinars. And Hey, even your own alumni network is a fantastic place to start sharing what you know.

And maybe the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) part of all this, you don’t have to aim for the biggest stage right out of the gate. The advice is super clear. Start small, start local, find a local meetup group, maybe an internal webinar, your own company, or a smaller podcast that’s just getting started.

Build your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), hone your message, and then you can branch out to the bigger stuff. So what starts to happen once you actually put yourself out there? Well, this is where the magic kicks in. The rewards start showing up and they build on each other over time.

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This is where all that effort really begins to pay off big time. The ultimate goal, the whole point of this is to get to a place where you are seen as THE go-to person in your field. So when someone in your industry has a question or an opportunity, your name is one of the very first that pops into their head, and here is the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) part of this whole strategy.

You build this incredible reputation without ever having to pitch yourself. Your talk, your appearance on that panel or podcast, that is the pitch. It demonstrates your value.

It doesn’t just talk about it. The [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) benefits that come from this are just insane. First off, it gives you a totally natural, authentic reason to connect with everyone involved.

The organizers, the other panelists, even people in the audience. No more of those awkward, hey, let’s connect messages. And second, and this is huge, people start to know your name.

They recognize your voice. You’re basically building a warm relationship before you’ve even sent a single email. Okay, now let’s zoom out for a second and look at the long game here.

Cause this isn’t just about finding your next gig. This is about building a powerful, sustainable engine for your entire [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). It’s something called the visibility flywheel.

So here’s how this flywheel gets spinning. Every time you share your expertise in public, you get more visible. That visibility attracts new, even better opportunities, maybe a speaking gig and a bigger conference.

And when you take that opportunity, your visibility goes up again, which then attracts even bigger and better opportunities, it’s this powerful, self-reinforcing cycle of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). And you can really see how this just compounds over time. The effort you put in during year one, that doesn’t just fade away.

No, it builds the foundation for year two, which then launches you into year three. [Your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) momentum can literally grow exponentially. And if you’re thinking about the future, get this, this strategy is basically future-proof.

As [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) and search tools get smarter, they’re going to get even better at finding and recommending the real experts. So the more visible you are, the more technology itself will actually help amplify your voice. It’s an investment that will pay off for years and years.

So all of this brings us to one final, really important question. This isn’t just some interesting theory. It’s a real, actionable plan.

The only thing left to figure out is where are you going to find your first stage?

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Stupid Interview Mistakes: Criticizing The Past](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-interview-mistakes-criticizing-the-past-video/)

**Published:** January 28, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, I talk about another 1 of those dumb things that people do on interviews – – criticizing the past.

**Content:**

## Stupid Interview Mistakes: Criticizing The Past

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**
 In this video, I talk about another 1 of those dumb things that people do on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) – – criticizing the past.

[***From Paycheck to Purpose***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gys)

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the head coach of [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community) And I want to give you one of those stupid [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that people make so often. It’s frustrating. I just want to shake them.

And the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), as is in the title, is criticizing the past. It could be the lengthy rant about a co-worker who would eat your lunch, take it out of the refrigerator and eat it. It could be the rant about, you know, I’ve been at this firm for five years, passed over for one promotion after another and I’ve had it.

Or, my boss is an imbecile. You can do it in a more mild manner of way. But, you know, it ultimately translates into that.

We are super critical of one thing or another to the point where you just sound as though you’re a complainer. And if someone is sitting opposite you during the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you know what’s going through their mind, they’re saying to themselves, okay, I wonder how long that’s going to happen before it happens to me. Well, I could have brought cancer into our midst, but I’m going to nod my head for a little while and smile and bring this one to an end.

So, here’s what you need to do in order to be effective in communicating why it is you want to change [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). So, an example of feeling passed over. You don’t want to focus on the passed over part.

Here’s how you do it. You basically say, hey, look, I’m real good at my role. And my firm likes me in this role.

But I don’t want to spend the next 25 years of my life doing the same thing over and over again. I understand I might have to join this firm, improve myself here in order to demonstrate my abilities. But what I’m looking for is an organization where I can learn and grow and get ahead.

And my firm is content to basically let me do the same job for the rest of my life. That really isn’t for me. So, again, I’m willing to demonstrate to you that I’m capable and competent and pay my dues here.

But I also want to know that there’s an upside. They know right away that you’re looking for promotional opportunities in the future. Not a bad thing, right? So, that’s one way to do it.

The co-worker who eats my lunch or the problem co-worker. I work with a problem co-worker who would steal stuff from his colleagues. So, if I was in a situation where I was on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), I might just simply say, you know, I’ve worked in this organization for a long time.

But, you know, after a while, there’s some personalities that show up where people don’t necessarily behave properly. And, you know, I don’t want to come across as though I’m a complainer or a whiner. I’m not.

But, you know, when people go to the refrigerator and take my lunch out or, in my particular case, they steal [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and present them to other recruiting firms, there’s a problem in the office. And when management doesn’t want to address it, because this person’s writing business, eventually, I have to ask myself, who’s looking out for me? And that’s why I’m saying, you can come up with your own version of that. My boss is an imbecile.

Never go down that road. Never, ever in a million years, go down the road of criticizing your boss. It’s just a losing proposition.

You’re better off doing the speech about wanting to join an organization where you can learn and grow and get ahead. I started this with rather than being critical of your boss. So, you know, again, don’t want to criticize the past.

You want to be focusing on what you’re looking for going forward. And even the example of the problem colleague, if I were in that situation, I would conclude by saying, I’m sure in this organization, such things, hey, stuff happens. People are people.

But, you know, if someone were stealing from the firm, it would be something that wouldn’t be tolerated. That’s why I trust that you’ll handle things in a professional way and look out for the people. Very graceful way to wrap that one up.

I hope you found this video helpful and hope you have a great day. Take care.

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/)

![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/JeffAltman-79-212x300.jpg)[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [When A Company Wants to Give You a Written Test](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-a-company-wants-to-give-you-a-written-test/)

**Published:** January 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the mistake many experienced job hunters make when interviewing with a company that gives a pre-employment test.

**Content:**

# When A Company Wants to Give You a Written Test

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) many experienced job hunters make when [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with a company that gives a pre-employment test.

Hi! I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and today I’m going to talk with you about firms that do written testing. Often, with experienced candidates, you know, you’ve been out of school for five years or more, three years or more, and a firm wants you to take a written test as part of their search process, you’re willing to do it. But here’s the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that often is made.

You do it at about 70 or 75 percent of your capabilities. And on questions, you give good superficial answers, but you don’t get to the real texture, the meat of your knowledge, with the result being, if you give 70 or 75 percent of an answer, you’re a 70 or 75 percent of a candidate to the employer. And they see people who are a little hungrier, who put in more effort to answer questions and they go with them and not you.

*So, my reminder to you is don’t sell yourself short.* Don’t sell them short. Give them 100 percent effort on your tests and don’t give them these halfway answers.

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### [Self-Promoting Yourself Into a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/self-promoting-yourself-into-a-job/)

**Published:** January 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you're like most people, you've never written a press release to call attention to a success you've had.

**Content:**

# Self-Promoting Yourself Into a Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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The periodic note

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**Published:** January 26, 2026
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### [If Your Resume Doesn’t Include Numbers #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-your-resume-doesnt-include-numbers-shorts/)

**Published:** January 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a basic resume mistake people make.

**Content:**

# If Your Resume Doesn’t Include Numbers #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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### [Beyond Keywords: How LinkedIn's AI is Redefining Your Professional Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beyond-keywords-how-linkedins-ai-is-redefining-your-professional-brand/)

**Published:** January 30, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** LinkedIn's sophisticated AI is no longer just scanning for keywords; it's actively understanding expertise.

**Content:**

# Beyond Keywords: How LinkedIn’s AI is Redefining Your Professional Brand

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

For years, the gospel of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) optimization revolved around keywords. We meticulously sprinkled them throughout our profiles, convinced that a high density of industry buzzwords was our ticket to being discovered by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and potential clients. But the game has fundamentally changed. LinkedIn’s sophisticated [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is no longer just scanning for keywords; it’s actively understanding **expertise**.

This isn’t a subtle shift; it’s a seismic one. LinkedIn’s [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is now analyzing the holistic picture of your professional activity to identify and recommend individuals based on their demonstrated and perceived expertise. This means the era of merely listing skills is over. We’re now in the age of proving them, showcasing them, and strategically positioning ourselves as the go-to authority in our chosen fields.

So, what does this mean for your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) strategy? It demands a reorientation, a move away from passive keyword stuffing towards active, intentional expertise building. Let’s break down the key areas where you need to focus:

[***How to Spot a Legitimate Corporate Recruiter on LinkedIn***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGG)

### The Power of the Pithy Comment

Gone are the days when a simple “Great post!” sufficed. LinkedIn’s [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is intelligent enough to discern meaningful engagement. Your comments are now a powerful vehicle for demonstrating your expertise. Think beyond superficial praise and instead, [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) genuine insights, pose thought-provoking questions, or elaborate on the original post with your own unique perspective.

For example, if you’re a marketing professional, don’t just agree with a post about content strategy. Instead, add value by sharing a specific, successful content campaign you’ve executed, or [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a nuanced perspective on a particular content distribution channel. “Excellent point about the need for evergreen content,” you might comment, “and in my experience, integrating a robust internal linking strategy significantly amplifies its long-term SEO impact, especially for niche industries.”

These types of comments, rich with specific knowledge and actionable insights, signal to the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) that you possess genuine understanding and experience. They move you beyond a mere “follower” to an active contributor and [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/).

In addition, it exposes you to people who may not be in your network who may want to remember you for your [Onlyness](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSFRYB7)

### Craft a Headline That Commands Attention (and AI Recognition)

Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline has always been prime real estate, but its importance has skyrocketed. It’s no longer just a job title; it’s your primary declaration of expertise. Instead of simply stating “Marketing Manager,” consider what specific problems you solve or what unique value you bring.

Think in terms of impact and specialization. Are you a “SaaS Growth Strategist helping B2B companies scale revenue by 30%+”? Or perhaps a “Fractional CMO specializing in [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) revitalization for D2C startups”? These headlines are not just keyword-rich; they are expertise-rich. They clearly articulate your niche, your value proposition, and the specific domain in which you excel. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is looking for these signals of specialized knowledge, using them to connect you with relevant opportunities and conversations.

### Content is Your Expertise Showcase

This is where the rubber truly meets the road. Your original content – articles, posts, and even well-crafted replies – is your most potent tool for establishing expertise. This doesn’t mean you need to write a white paper every week. Consistency and quality are far more important than volume.

Share your unique insights, lessons learned from [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) journey, predictions for your industry, or practical tips that demonstrate your deep understanding. If you’re in cybersecurity, share a breakdown of a recent threat landscape. If you’re a financial advisor, [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a simplified explanation of complex investment strategies.

The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is meticulously analyzing the substance of your content – the topics you consistently cover, the depth of your analysis, and the engagement it generates – to build a robust profile of your expertise. When others interact with your content, agreeing with your points, asking [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) questions, or even respectfully disagreeing, it further solidifies your standing as a thought leader in the eyes of the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/).

In this new [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) landscape, authenticity and intentionality are paramount. Stop chasing keywords and start cultivating your expertise. Engage thoughtfully, articulate your value proposition clearly in your headline, and consistently share valuable insights through your content. By doing so, you won’t just be found; you’ll be recommended as the [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) you truly are.

In the new [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) landscape everything you post unrelated to your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) or expertise focus distracts the systems from recommending you as an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/). Stay away from posting comments or content unrelated to what you wnt to be known for,

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [How to Spot a Legitimate Corporate Recruiter on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-spot-a-legitimate-corporate-recruiter-on-linkedin/)

**Published:** January 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Distinguishing between a legitimate recruiter offering a career-defining role and a bad actor seeking personal information or money is more crucial than ever.

**Content:**

# How to Spot a Legitimate Corporate Recruiter on LinkedIn

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are often the gatekeepers to incredible opportunities. For college-educated professionals, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) serves as a primary hub for these connections. However, as the digital landscape evolves, so too do the tactics of scammers aiming to exploit eager job hunters. Distinguishing between a legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) offering a career-defining role and a bad actor seeking personal information or money is more crucial than ever.

This guide, designed for the discerning [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) user, will provide 7-10 actionable strategies to vet [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and ensure your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) remains safe and productive.

### 1. Scrutinize Their LinkedIn Profile: The Digital Business Card

A legitimate recruiter’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is their professional storefront. It should be fully developed and reflect a consistent [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path in recruitment or human resources.

- **Professional Photo:** A clear, professional headshot is standard. Beware of profiles with no photo, generic stock images, or overly casual pictures.
- **Detailed Experience:** Look for a comprehensive work history that clearly shows their current role at a recognized company (staffing agency or in-house HR department). Gaps in [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) without explanation, vague job titles, or a history of very short stints at multiple, obscure companies can be [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/).
- **Connections and Endorsements:** While not foolproof, a legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will typically have hundreds, if not thousands, of connections, many of whom are other professionals in their field or industry. Look for endorsements and recommendations that speak to their recruiting expertise.
- **Activity:** Do they share industry insights, comment on posts, or engage in meaningful discussions? A static profile with no recent activity can be suspicious.

### 2. Verify Their Company: Due Diligence is Key

The company a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) claims to represent is the bedrock of their legitimacy. Never take this at face value.

- **Official Website:** Search for the company independently. Does it have a professional website? Does the recruiter’s name appear on the “Our Team” or “Contact Us” page (for smaller firms)?
- **Online [Presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) & Reviews:** Check for news articles, press releases, and reviews on sites like Glassdoor or Google. A complete lack of online footprint for a supposed recruiting firm is a major warning. Be wary of newly established companies with generic names.
- **Matching Information:** Ensure the company name, logo, and contact details on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile precisely match the official company website. Discrepancies are a red flag.

### 3. Examine the Job Description: Specificity vs. Vagueness

Legitimate job postings are detailed and transparent. Scammers often use generic language to cast a wide net.

- **Specific Role & Responsibilities:** A real job description will clearly outline the role’s duties, required skills, qualifications, and reporting structure.
- **Company & Location:** It should explicitly state the company [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) (or the type of company if the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is discreet) and the job’s location (remote, hybrid, or in-office). Vague mentions like “a leading tech company” or “opportunity in your area” without further detail are suspicious.
- **Realistic Expectations:** Be wary of roles promising incredibly high salaries for minimal experience, or positions that sound too good to be true.

### 4. Observe Their Communication Style: Professionalism Matters

The way a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) communicates can reveal a lot about their authenticity.

- **Professional Language:** Expect clear, grammatically correct, and professional communication. Typos, poor grammar, and overly casual or urgent language can indicate a [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/).
- **Personalization:** While some initial outreach might be templated, subsequent messages should be personalized, referencing your profile and specific skills.
- **Pressure Tactics:** Legitimate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) understand the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) process takes time. Be suspicious of anyone pressuring you to make immediate decisions, sign documents without review, or provide sensitive information on the spot.

### 5. Never Pay for a Job: The Golden Rule

This is perhaps the most critical red flag: **Legitimate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do not charge job seekers for their services.** Their fees are paid by the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) companies.

- **No Upfront Fees:** If a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) asks you for money for [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), background checks, [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reviews, or any other “service” to secure a job, it’s a [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/).
- **“Placement Fees”:** This is a classic [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) tactic. Real [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are compensated by the employer when you are successfully placed.

### 6. Protect Your Personal Information: Only Share What’s Necessary, When Necessary

Be extremely cautious about what personal information you share, especially early in the process.

- **Early Stage:** A legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will typically only need your resume/CV and perhaps a brief overview of your experience in the initial stages.
- **Sensitive Data:** Never share your bank account details, social security number (SSN), credit card information, or date of birth with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) until you have a confirmed job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and are completing official onboarding documents directly with the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) company.
- **Unusual Requests:** Be suspicious of requests for photos of your identification or requests to install specific software on your computer.

### 7. Cross-Reference Information: Double-Check Everything

If anything feels off, take a moment to cross-reference the information provided.

- **Google Search:** Search the recruiter’s name, their company, and the job title. Look for consistent information across multiple reputable sources.
- **[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Search:** Search for other employees at the supposed company on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Do they have similar profiles? Does the recruiter’s connection network align with the company’s industry?
- **Contact Independently:** If you’re highly suspicious, you can try to find a general contact email or phone number for the company (not the one provided by the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) and inquire if the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is indeed an employee.

### 8. Trust Your Gut: Intuition is a Powerful Tool

Sometimes, the most reliable indicator is your own intuition. If a recruiter’s [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) sounds too good to be true, if their story changes, or if something simply doesn’t feel right, listen to that internal alarm. It’s always better to err on the side of caution.

By diligently [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) these strategies, you can confidently navigate the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) landscape on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), identifying genuine opportunities while safeguarding your personal information and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) aspirations. Your proactive approach will not only protect you but also enhance your ability to connect with the legitimate professionals who can truly advance [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [How to Get Seen on LinkedIn #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-seen-on-linkedin-shorts/)

**Published:** February 3, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Richard van der Blom shared advice about how to get seen on LinkedIn given the algorithm changes made

**Content:**

**How to Get Seen on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) #shorts**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/gTzS4mR6jlw)

Richard van der Blom shared advice about how to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) given the algorithm changes made

Richard van der Blom is someone I follow on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) because of his expertise about the platform, and with LinkedIn’s recent changes, he posted something that I think is really useful. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally. I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier.

He writes, “Your headline isn’t magic. Your content volume doesn’t matter if it’s off-topic, and your engagement, it’s useless if it’s vague or generic. What works now is alignment: a profile that clearly communicates your value, content that reinforces your expertise, comments that show thought leadership inside your niche. If you’ve already been focused and strategic, good news: the new model will now reward you for it. And if you haven’t, then fixing your profile without fixing your positioning is like putting a Ferrari badge on a bicycle.”

There’s a lot more to help you at JobSearch.Community. Come over to the site, go exploring. I’ve got content galore that will help you.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [LinkedIn's #opentowork Post](https://thebiggamehunter.us/linkedins-opentowork-post/)

**Published:** February 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3101 How can you tell the world you are looking for work without seeming desperate.

**Content:**

# LinkedIn’s #opentowork Post

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3101 How can you tell the world you are looking for work without seeming desperate.

[***What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Don’t Fill That Many Positions***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-otq)

Alright, let’s talk about [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reorder-your-skills-on-linkedin-shorts/). Specifically, that open-to-work post. You know, the one that can feel like a total minefield if you’re looking for a new job.

Today, we’re going to break down exactly how to write one that just screams [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and skill, not desperation. So, let’s dive right in. Okay, so the very first hurdle we have to get over is what I call the desperation trap.

We’ve all seen them, right? Those posts that come across less like a showcase of talent and more like a plea for help. And honestly, that’s just a massive missed opportunity. And that really brings us to the million-dollar question.

How do you tell the world you’re looking for a job without sending the wrong vibe? How do you project value and [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) and make [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) want to call you? It seems tricky, but the solution is actually all about one simple, powerful shift in how you think about it. And here’s that shift. You have to stop thinking about your open-to-work post as a little help-wanted ad for yourself.

Instead, start seeing it for what it really is. It’s your personal, professional billboard. It is prime advertising space for [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) you.

This [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) right here gets to the absolute heart of it. The posts that actually get results, the ones that land [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), they work because they are, first and foremost, marketing documents. They’re not just a status update.

They are a piece of content that’s been carefully crafted to hook exactly the right people. We’re talking [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) managers. So, that all sounds great in theory, but how do you actually pull it off? Well, let’s do this.

Let’s take apart a really fantastic open-to-work post, piece by piece, and see exactly how that marketing mindset turns into a message that grabs attention. First things first, the headline. I’m telling you, the first two lines of your post are absolutely everything.

[***The Executive Job Search Goldmine***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oth)

This is your hook. It’s one and only job is to stop that endless scroll and immediately tell a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) who you are and what you do. So, here’s the perfect formula.

You start with OPEN TO WORK, bold, all caps. You can’t miss it. Then, you use that little pipe symbol to separate your ideas and list your key functions.

Think of these as your SEO keywords. After that, pop in your location and your work preference, like hybrid or remote. This whole format is just so clean, so easy to scan, and it’s packed with the exact info a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) is plugging into their search bar.

Okay, so you’ve hooked them with that killer headline. Now the body of your post has to deliver the goods. And you know the most powerful way to do that? Lead with your impact.

I’m talking about using hard numbers. Don’t just say you improved efficiency. No, no.

Say you increased efficiency by 35%. See the difference? Concrete, measurable achievements are just undeniable proof of the value you bring. It turns your post from a boring list of old job duties into a [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) of actual, tangible results.

But of course, it’s not all about the numbers. A really great post gives the complete picture. You want to briefly summarize your background, be super clear about what you’re looking for in your next company, and even mention what drives you.

And you know what? Don’t be [afraid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-youre-afraid-career-angles-shorts/) to add a little personal, human touch. The post we analyzed mentioned a service dog. It’s a small detail, but it makes the person so much more memorable and relatable.

Alright, you’ve done the work. You’ve hooked them, you’ve impressed them with your results, and you’ve even shown them you’re a real human being. Now, for the final step.

You have to make it incredibly, ridiculously easy for them to take the next step. And that is your call to action. Your CTA.

[***The Executive Playbook: Navigating a C Suite Transition***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-orx)

The secret here is to make it frictionless. That’s the key word. Don’t make your [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) have to hunt around your profile for your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), or even worse, have to send you a message asking for it.

Just include a direct link to your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) right there in the post. You’re removing a step, you’re making it effortless for someone who’s interested. It’s such a simple move, but it signals that you’re organized, professional, and ready to go.

So, we’ve broken it all down. We’ve looked at the headline, the body, the closing. Now, let’s put it all back together and boil it down to the secret sauce.

The simple formula that really makes these posts work. It really just comes down to these four key things. One, you grab them with a clear headline.

Two, you prove your value with real numbers. Three, you connect with them with a little human touch. And four, you make it easy for them to act with a direct link.

That’s it. This formula hits that perfect sweet spot. It’s professional, it’s personal, and it’s just so powerfully effective.

But you know, there’s one last thing that underpins all of this. And honestly, it might be the most important piece of the puzzle. It’s your tone.

Getting the structure right is half the battle, but getting the feeling right is what’s really going to make you stand out. Just look at the difference here. On the left, you’ve got that passive kind of vague language, hoping to find my next role.

On the right, it’s active, it’s specific, it’s confident. You’re not hoping, you’re seeking a challenge. You’re not begging for shares, you’re stating, I bring expertise in.

This isn’t just about picking different words. It’s a total reflection of how you see your own professional value. So let’s remember, you’re open to work post is not a plea for help.

It is a professional headline. It’s an announcement that a top tier talent is officially on the market. So take these tools, craft that message with the [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) you deserve, and go show the world what you’re made of.

So what’s your headline going to be?

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3100 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

**[*The 24-Hour Rule*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-orP)**

**You will find great info to help with your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) at my new site,** [⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**[JobSearch.Community⁠⁠](https://www.JobSearch.Community) Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). Leave [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

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### [No BS Career Advice: January 25 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-january-25-2026/)

**Published:** January 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more. 

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# No BS Career Advice: January 25 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” —Booker T. Washington

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I am putting this together instead of my usual early Sunday morning so as not to take the risk that the impending snow and ice storm knocks out power. Issues usually are not in my immediate are but south of us that cause power to be out. My wife is on retreat so I have hunkered down waiting to see what happens.

## Stop Applying for Jobs. Start Providing Solutions.

The “40-year sprint” to retirement is dead. In its place is a 60-year [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) marathon where skills are commoditized, and a “Senior” title is a target, not a shield. If you are a mid-career professional relying on “Job Board Porn”—the dopamine hit of clicking “Easy Apply” only to be ghosted by an [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) bot—you are on a suicide mission for your morale. Even at the senior level, the belief that your degree or title acts as a suit of armor is a dangerous myth; in the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) age, the CFO is constantly weighing your “Fully Burdened Labor Cost” against younger, cheaper, AI-powered alternatives.

In [ONLYNESS: The No BS Playbook for the AI Age](https://www.amazon.com/ONLYNESS-Playbook-Age-Job-Search-ebook/dp/B0GHSFRYB7), I reveal why the most successful professionals in the age of automation have stopped acting like employees and started operating as a “Company of One”.

This isn’t a book about [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/); it’s a liberation strategy for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). You will learn how to:

- Audit Your “Economic Delta”: Convert decades of “showing up” into a ledger of hard ROI that makes it mathematically impossible to fire you.
- Weaponize Your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/): Move from a digital filing cabinet to an authority distribution channel that attracts “Buyers” while you sleep.
- Flip the Script on [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): Stop begging for permission and start conducting “Intelligence Briefings” that position you as a peer and [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/).
- Build a “Trust Web”: Stop transactional [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and create a community of “Nodes” professionally invested in your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/).
- Monetize Your Wisdom: Pivot to [fractional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) and advisory models where you are paid for your judgment, not your hours.

The market doesn’t pay for effort; it pays for [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/). Whether you’re looking to land a C-suite role or your next high-margin consulting assignment, this book is your roadmap to total professional sovereignty.

The marathon has begun. Are you running with a 20th-century roadmap, or are you ready to claim your [Onlyness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/)?

[The link with the title takes you to Amazon where it is available for Kindle and as an audiobook.](https://www.amazon.com/ONLYNESS-Playbook-Age-Job-Search-ebook/dp/B0GHSFRYB7)

[It is also available as a PDF](https://jeffaltman.gumroad.com/l/onlyness)

## Individual Contributor vs. Executive Resume: What Changes and Why

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://www.jobsearch.community/)

You can tell within a few seconds whether a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) belongs to a leader or a doer. The difference isn’t formatting, design, or length—it’s strategy. Most people who make it to the senior level never update how they *think* about [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They still write like they’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), not leading a company.

If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads like a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) chronology instead of a business case, it’s holding you back. Here’s how an executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) differs radically from one written for an individual contributor—and why those distinctions matter more than ever at the VP and C-suite level.

### 1. Focus: From Tasks to Transformation

Individual contributor [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) focus on what the person *did*—projects completed, metrics achieved, systems managed. The employer is [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) for skills and execution.

An executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), by contrast, focuses on *why it mattered*. It highlights strategic influence: how decisions shaped outcomes, how leadership drove growth, or how the executive guided teams through major change.

For instance, an individual contributor might write:

> “Implemented new CRM system and trained 20 team members.”

An executive version reframes that accomplishment:

> “Championed enterprise CRM adoption, improving pipeline visibility and boosting forecasting accuracy by 30%, enabling the organization’s $50M growth plan.”

[Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) show *impact at the enterprise level*—not merely the departmental level.

### 2. Audience: Recruiters vs. Boards and Decision Makers

At the individual level, [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) are screened by [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) software or junior [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) comparing keywords. It’s about matching skills to job specs.

An executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has a very different audience. It’s read by decision makers—CEOs, board members, investors—who care about vision, growth potential, and leadership style. They want to see how you think, influence, and deliver results through others—not which tools you’ve mastered.

That’s why a strong executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reads more like a business narrative than a job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/).

### 3. Structure: Simplicity and Strength Over Detail

Individual contributor [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) often rely on bullet-heavy job entries. [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) must do the opposite. Dense detail buries your message.

A well-built executive [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is sharply structured: a compelling leadership summary, key achievement highlights, and concise [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) descriptions. Every section earns its space and reinforces authority. Brevity signals [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

### 4. Metrics: From “How Much” to “How Big”

Individual contributors use metrics to prove performance—meetings booked, clients managed, budgets saved.

[Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) use scale to demonstrate enterprise impact—revenue influenced, geographic expansions led, workforce managed, or shareholder value created. It’s not *how busy* you were; it’s *how big* your results were.

### 5. Voice: Tactical Performer vs. Strategic Leader

At the contribution level, verbs like “developed” or “supported” show achievement. [Executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) must level up their language with verbs like “led,” “orchestrated,” “transformed,” and “drove.”

The voice of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) should match your altitude. You’re no longer the person *doing* the work—you’re the one *making it possible.*

### 6. Personal Brand: From Capability to Credibility

For an individual contributor, a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) proves capability. For an executive, it must establish *credibility*. It reflects influence, decision-making, and the ability to shape direction.

An executive summary or leadership [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) statement distills your value proposition—what the organization gains by [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. Think of it as positioning, not just introduction.

### Final Thought

When you move into executive territory, your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) stops being a project list—it becomes a strategic marketing tool.

If it doesn’t reflect your leadership altitude, it’s not just incomplete; it’s misaligned. Senior-level [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decisions hinge not on *what you’ve done*, but on *how you think*.

Your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) should tell that story—clearly, confidently, and without the fluff.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

This past week, I released new content including:

**You Only Lack Experience** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hiV**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hiV)

**Connecting with the Interviewer** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3AK**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3AK)

**A Warning and Strategy for [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Displacement** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oFv**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oFv)

**The 24-Hour Rule** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-orP**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-orP)

**Stupid [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/): Not Knowing When to Shut Up** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4Cs**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-4Cs)

**What [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Know That You Don’t: They Don’t Fill That Many Positions** [**https://youtu.be/UNORDxEfWNo**](https://youtu.be/UNORDxEfWNo)

**An Agency Called Me About a Job I Was Previously Rejected For** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGy**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGy)

**No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/): January 18 2025** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGK**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGK)

**Keywords Have Stopped Working on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGp**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGp)

**Beyond the [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/): Building Your Irresistible Professional [Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oG5**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oG5)

**Why Is a [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Contacting Me About a Position I Was Already Rejected For?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2w7**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2w7)

**What [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Know That You Don’t: They Don’t Fill That Many Positions** [**https://youtu.be/UNORDxEfWNo**](https://youtu.be/UNORDxEfWNo)

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**[Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) on the Rise According to [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in 2026** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGX**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGX)

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**Tough [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Questions: What is The One Thing You Would Change About Our Company?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aKR**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aKR)

**How Long Does It Take to Screen [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)?** [**https://youtu.be/7tCzTUl4X6U**](https://youtu.be/7tCzTUl4X6U)

**How to Deal With A [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [Rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6OP**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6OP)

**[Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). Brandjacking. Build Your Reputation** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-dXt**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-dXt)

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**The Executive [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Goldmine** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oth**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oth)

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**Employer [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/): Start with Students** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jXG**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jXG)

**The Modern [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oHs**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oHs)

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**How to Spot a Legitimate Corporate [Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGG**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oGG)

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**[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h7I**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-h7I)

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### [The Basic Principles of Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-basic-principles-of-networking-video/)

**Published:** February 1, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses two basic principles of networking that you must follow.

**Content:**

# The Basic Principles of Networking

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

 In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses two basic principles of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) that you must follow.

[***The First Question to Ask When You Are Contacted About a Job?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-emc)

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) and I have advice for you today about the importance of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and for many of you, you’re doing it all wrong. To you, [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) is being online. You’re on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).

You’re making connections with people. You’re doing a whole bunch of stuff and you’re not really talking to anyone. Yes, it’s important to influence people with how you communicate.

You’re absolutely right but there’s a difference between talking with someone for real with meeting with someone for real and doing real [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) or doing online [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) I should say so I want to encourage you get out of the house get out of your office start scheduling regular sessions where you meet with people you know there was a suggestion made some years ago to have lunch with someone every day and that was a [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) strategy I want to encourage you talk to someone every day it might be about some professional circumstance where you’re creating an influence where you’re creating your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) and image in people’s minds help them just chat with them see where they could use advice and counsel doing things like that where you’re actually sitting and talking with someone as opposed to emailing or texting will go a long way toward creating this sort of influence that’s going to help you with getting an introduction at a time that you need it again as I said in a recent video the next recession is coming I don’t know when it’s coming but there’s another recession that’s going to be coming I have my opinions about when that’s going to be but it’s irrelevant if I’m right or wrong ultimately another recession is going to come and you want to be in a position where people know you, like you, trust you and want to help you they understand what you do they know you like you, trust you, want to help you. So get out. Talk to people.

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### [Is It Illegal to Keep Someone Waiting for an Hour? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-illegal-to-keep-someone-waiting-for-an-hour-shorts/)

**Published:** January 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My boss purposely makes all interview candidates wait 1 hour past the scheduled interview time.  Is this legal?

**Content:**

# Is It Illegal to Keep Someone Waiting for an Hour? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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**My boss purposely makes all [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) candidates wait 1 hour past the scheduled [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) time. This is their “filtering” method, as they refuse to consider anyone who leaves during the 1+ hour wait. Is this legal?**

*Yeah, it’s legal, it’s stupid, and it’s not illegal. And I say this because there’s no law that prevents people from being kept waiting, but it’s stupidity. Like, what person sits for one hour and allows themselves to be treated disrespectfully?*

*You know, I do remember a time where I was still doing search, and someone had taken over in a function with my client, and the replacement person asked me to come out and meet with him. So I drove two hours to his office, was kept waiting for an hour, and I sat there and I sat there. And 20 minutes into the wait, I walked over to reception and I asked, “I’m curious: Number one, is this typical? I’m hoping not. And number two, how long do you think he’ll be?” And I got my answer, and it wound up being 35 minutes. I received a lot of apologies, yada yada yada.*

*I wonder what it would be like for that [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager if an applicant kept them waiting for one hour. I also wonder what kind of job this is that he or she wants to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) a sheep—someone who’s willing to sit for one hour’s time without any sort of explanation for a delay—that this is a good thing to do. So, you know, it’s not illegal; it’s just stupid.*

*And I would say to you, well, I hope that people who are kept waiting post reviews on Glassdoor or anywhere else indicating that this person does that. And you know, it should get exposed for what it is: stupidity.*

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### [Informational Interviews: A Short Script for a Networking Email Asking for One](https://thebiggamehunter.us/informational-interviews-a-short-script-for-a-networking-email-asking-for-one/)

**Published:** January 26, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Tom Madera had terrific advice to how to reach out to someone at a firm you are interested in interviewing with or working for.

**Content:**

# Informational Interviews: A Short Script for a Networking Email Asking for One #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I was listening to a podcast [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) with Tom Madera about cold [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) that works on the LHH podcast, “Yeah, It Happened. What’s Next.” I thought it had terrific advice to how to reach out to someone at a firm you are interested in [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with or working for.

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“I’m really interested in \[fill in the blank name of the company\], but before I do anything formal, I have some questions I would love to ask you. Would you be kind enough to give me 15 minutes to answer them? Thanks, I hope to speak with you soon.”

You’re not asking for a job. You’re not asking for an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You’re asking for some time. And what that allows them to do is to give you 15 stinking minutes that often winds up lasting longer. And will this work every time? Of course not. Will it work more often than, “Hi, can I get some time with you? I’ve got some questions”? It’s a more polite way of doing exactly that.

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### [Employer Branding: Have You Tried Video Job Descriptions? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-have-you-tried-video-job-descriptions/)

**Published:** January 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There is a great opportunity to become an employer of choice with video job descriptions

**Content:**

# Employer Branding: Have You Tried Video Job Descriptions? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

There is a great opportunity to become an employer of choice with video job descriptions

[***Employer Branding: Do You Know Why They Contact You?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jcE)

Have you tried video job descriptions yet? It’s a great way to [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) your organization. Bring your HR business partner, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, a member of the team, an overall VP or leader onto a video. Have the manager talk about the job moderated by the HR person. Have the team member talk about what it’s like working in the group. Have the overall area manager or VP speak about whatever they want to talk about so that they get some face time.

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### [Is An Electrician a Good Job for Someone Who Did Not Go to College? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-an-electrician-a-good-job-for-someone-who-did-not-go-to-college-shorts/)

**Published:** January 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Today, I answered a question from someone about whether becoming an electrician is a good job for someone who didn't go to college.

**Content:**

# Is An Electrician a Good Job for Someone Who Did Not Go to College? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/TyCDIYg6w1k)

Today, I answered a question from someone about whether becoming an electrician is a good job for someone who didn’t go to college.

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### [How to Proofread Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/proofread-your-resume/)

**Published:** January 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** You know you have to proofread your resume. What is the best way?

**Content:**

How to Proofread Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

You know you have to proofread your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). What is the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way? In this video, [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way to proofread your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

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[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for 40 plus years. I want to give you some advice about proofreading your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

Everyone thinks they do it. Everyone thinks their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) has no spelling or grammatical [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), no punctuation errors, no misused words. That I know is true because they wouldn’t be sending me [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) if they didn’t think their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) was right but I’m read so many [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that have [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in them, words that are incorrectly used, you know, there and there, you know, T-H-E-I-R, T-H-E-R-E and I know most people could catch the difference but sometimes the software jumps the word.

No one notices it gets through. Here’s my advice for proofreading. I know it’s a little quirky but I know it’ll be effective.

I want you to read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) from the end to the beginning. Start with the last sentence. Read it.

Is it correct? Is it grammatically correct? Is it spelling wise correct? Good. Go to the next sentence up from there. Start at the end.

Work your way up to the beginning. Why I suggest that is for a couple of reasons. Number one is it’s the exact opposite of what you expect so you’re going to see things freshly instead of in the way that it was constructed.

Habit also tells us that we start to skim when we see things in the familiar way. This is not a familiar way of doing things. And third because, frankly, I see more errors at the back end of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) than I do at the beginning.

It seems as though the later we get into the job history, the more likely it is that you’ll make a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) as you start rushing a little bit. So start at the end. Work your way up.

Last sentence to first sentence of every section of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Make sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors. Make sure there’s no misused terms or misused words and look for specific words that might be in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that, if misspelled, would also be correct.

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Now, I’ll give you an example. And, again, this is old technology but so often the word Novell, which was an IT term, N-O-V-E-L-L, will get misspelled as N-O-V-E-L or the word novel. Maybe someone’s keyboard stuck and only one L came out.

Whatever the reason was, that was a common misspelling. The software wouldn’t recognize it because novel is a word. Look for terms like that that might exist within your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that, if misspelled, might get through the spell checker and your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) won’t have those dumb errors that cause people like me and [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers to go, huh? What was she thinking? What was he thinking? So this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

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### [Dropping Acid](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dropping-acid/)

**Published:** January 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most of us have excess acid in our system that eats us up from the inside.

**Content:**

# Dropping Acid

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

When I was in high school in New York, I was required to take a chemistry class as part of the curriculum. There was this one class where we were asked to take a few drops of acid from a beaker and deposit it on something. I remember all the bubbling and foaming where I had placed the drops until the acid accomplished its goal of eating through the item.

Most of us have excess acid in our system that eats us up from the inside.

Maybe you drop the acid of not being good enough or worthy and don’t believe in yourself on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You may adopt the strategy of trying to “fake it until you make it” but, when you think about it, it may have slowed the drip for a little while but hasn’t made it go stop.

Maybe you drop the acid of being “nice” or “people should recognize me for what I do for them,” or “they are all idiots who can’t hold a candle to me.”

Maybe your acid is [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who send your day down in flames every time they reach out to you about a job.

All of these are corrosive attitudes that invariable cause others to fail to meet our expectations and turn us against them or ourselves.

I remember working at an agency some years ago where the acid of envy was eating me up, causing me to speak ill of colleagues to myself and outside the firm, poisoning my attitude. All they are doing is flipping unscreened [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to clients or getting everyone to work on their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) so they are filled and management dismisses and replaces many of the people who failed to fill the job. He’s the hero but there was a lot of collateral damage that cost a lot of people their [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and management large expenses.

Many of you know the story of the young Siddhartha sitting under the bodhi tree while the Maras, the depictions of evil that might tempt (for example, doubt, lust, greed, etc) tried hard to adversely affect his meditation. No matter how hard they tried, Siddhartha was able to maintain equanimity in the face of such temptations.

The Maras left but would return periodically. Siddhartha, now Buddha, would calmly say, “I see you.”

Naming our acid or poison goes a long way toward defusing its effects upon us. He would then invite them for tea and sit treating the Maras as honored guests rather than someone to fight with.

I am reminded of a process I’ve facilitated a number of times through an international men’s group called The ManKind Project. In this process, we have someone walk along with someone walking immediately behind them representing their shadow, that part of them they hide, repress and deny. The shadow mimics their every movement but, because, the shadow is like the Maras from Buddhism, it trips up the lead person and they fall to the ground.

They pick themselves up again and start walking along until, again, their shadow trips them up. In the process as in life, it is only when we can stare right at the shadow and say, “I see you,” that we begin to defuse its power.

As you proceed on your “acid trip” what do you need to see clearly, what shadow do you need to bring into the light that has been corrosive to your [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) and ultimate happiness.

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### [Can I Reapply for a Job I Was Turned Down For?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/can-i-reapply-for-a-job-i-was-turned-down-for/)

**Published:** January 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** A person saw that the job that they were turned down for was still being advertised four months later and wants to know if they should reapply. Here are my thoughts.

**Content:**

# Can I Reapply for a Job I Was Turned Down For?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This is a very common scenario for people. In this case, a person saw that the job that they were turned down for was still being advertised four months later and wants to know if they should reapply. Here are my [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/).

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I coach people. I do [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) and leadership [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). And basically, what I do is I help people with finding work, managing and leading, [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, a host of different things that translate into being more effective in the workplace. Here’s a situation that someone presented to me. A job has been advertised for four months.

They were rejected a while back and they believe they’re qualified for it. Would you reapply? Now, the mystery in all of this is what’s changed? What’s changed from the time of the original [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) until now? Were they rejected at the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) stage, in which case, an improved [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and explanation for the changes in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) can work? Were they rejected on the basis of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? And, again, the question is, between, let’s say, four months before and now, what’s different? How would someone be more qualified than four months ago to justify why a firm would invest time? That’s the mystery here that I don’t know the answer to. I would say, if it was on the basis of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), a rewritten [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to demonstrate the fit, an explanation for the rewrite, and perhaps changes to the [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, makes sense.

If it’s on the basis of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), probably not. Now, I want to be clear. If this is two years from now, and that position happens to pop up, there probably have been some changes.

Even a year from now, there are some changes. But four months? Probably not. So, your choice, depending upon what the circumstance is, figure out what’s right and take action.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. Go over to the blog there.

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I’d love to help. Hope you have a great day and take care!

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### [How to Get More Interviews: Join Professional Groups #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-get-more-interviews-join-professional-groups-shorts/)

**Published:** January 23, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# How to Get More Interviews: Join Professional Groups #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/qkqHm7ECU5s)***

Here is another way that a job hunter can get more [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

[***How to Get More Interviews: Ditch the Objective***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jMT)

One of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ways to get more [job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is by joining professional associations or trade groups within your existing field or desired field. And I want to be clear: I don’t think you should freeload in there. You should be doing stuff to get active and get known. Volunteer for the group. Yes, that’s time and effort, right? You’re absolutely right about that.

But what happens is as people get to know, like, trust, and respect you, things start landing in your lap. Opportunities land in your lap, and the result winds up being it’s a lot easier to get [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), to be contacted about opportunities. And I have to say, this isn’t just about your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) now; this is about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) overall. By getting involved with these organizations, you’ll find that people get to know, like, trust, and respect you, and they’ll reach out to you for opportunities.

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### [Employer Branding: Start with Students #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-start-with-students-shorts/)

**Published:** January 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When you think of employer branding, the best place to start is with students.

**Content:**

# Employer Branding: Start with Students

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

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When you think of employer [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/), the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) place to start is with students.

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If you want to build your employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/), start with the person who’s still in school. I don’t care if you’re a business that’s trying to attract people to work in your manufacturing plant, and you’re trying to deal with high school grads, or you’re trying to attract people in college to join after they graduate. Start working them over while they’re in school. Start doing things to send people into the schools to teach them about you and the business. Make donations to the school– computer equipment, whatever! But start working on them and creating that impression while they’re in school. There’s a lot more on my website, [TheBigGameHunter.us](TheBigGameHunter.us).Go to the blog; you’ll find a lot there.

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### [The End of Pay Secrecy: 2026 Pay Transparency Mandates](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-end-of-pay-secrecy-2026-pay-transparency-mandates/)

**Published:** January 22, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Pay secrecy is no longer a corporate choice but a significant legal liability.

**Content:**

# The End of Pay Secrecy: 2026 Pay Transparency Mandates

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In 2026, the professional landscape has reached a definitive turning point: pay secrecy is no longer a corporate choice but a significant legal liability. For the college-educated [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) professional, this year marks the transition from “negotiating in the dark” to a market defined by data and verification. From the sweeping implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive to a patchwork of aggressive state-level mandates in the United States, the “hidden” [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) has officially become a relic of the past. As of January 2026, approximately 17 U.S. jurisdictions, including 15 states and major municipalities like New York City and Washington, D.C., have active pay transparency laws in effect, covering more than half of the American workforce.

The primary engine of this change in the United States is a set of “proactive disclosure” laws. Unlike earlier legislation that only required [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to provide [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) information upon a candidate’s request, the 2026 standard in benchmark states like California, New York, Washington, and Illinois requires that [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) ranges be included in every job posting, both internal and external. California’s refined Labor Code (enhanced by SB 642) now demands that these ranges reflect a “good faith” estimate of what the employer reasonably expects to pay. This has effectively killed the “infinite range”—the practice of posting nonsensical spreads like $50,000 to $250,000 to circumvent the law. In 2026, regulators and job hunters alike view such broad ranges as a lack of compliance, and in states like California, violations can result in civil penalties of up to $10,000 per non-compliant posting.

Washington and Illinois have further raised the bar by mandating that job postings include not just the [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), but a general description of all benefits and other compensation. This includes bonuses, commissions, stock options, and even travel expenses. For a professional evaluating a new role in 2026, the law ensures that the “Total Rewards” package is visible before the first [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) call. Furthermore, Illinois and Colorado now require [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to notify all current employees of any promotional opportunities within 14 days of an external posting. This “internal transparency” is designed to ensure that advancement is not a hidden process but an accessible one, allowing internal talent to see the same [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) data as external applicants.

In the Northeast, 2026 brings new layers of complexity and protection. Massachusetts implemented its pay transparency requirements in late 2025, and as of February 2026, larger [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) (those with over 100 employees) are now facing their first major annual reporting deadlines for federal EEO-1 data. Maryland’s law, which took full effect in late 2024, has now matured, strictly prohibiting [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) from asking for a candidate’s [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) history—a move aimed at stopping the “inherited” pay gap that often haunts underrepresented groups throughout their [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/). New York State continues to lead with a low compliance threshold, requiring any employer with just four or more employees to adhere to transparency mandates, ensuring that even small boutique firms and startups are part of the open-pay ecosystem.

The definition of “wages” has also undergone a radical transformation in 2026. In jurisdictions like California, “wages” for the purpose of equal pay claims now explicitly include total compensation: [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), hourly wages, overtime, profit sharing, and vacation pay. This expansion allows employees to challenge inequities not just in their base check, but in how bonuses and [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) are distributed. To support this, many states have extended the statute of limitations for pay discrimination claims. In some regions, a professional can now obtain relief for up to six years of back-pay discrepancies, and the legal principle of “each paycheck creates a new violation” has become a standard enforcement tool.

For the modern job hunter, this transparency is a powerful vetting tool. A legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) or employer in 2026 will provide a specific, realistic range and a clear link to a benefits summary. If an employer is based in a state like Colorado or New York but attempts to omit [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) information for a remote role, they are likely in violation of the “Remote Coverage” principle. This rule dictates that if a job can be performed from a state with transparency laws, the employer must comply with those laws regardless of where the headquarters are located. Professionals are now trained to recognize these omissions as [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/) for corporate culture and legal compliance.

Beyond the United States, the global standard is being set by the EU Pay Transparency Directive. By June 7, 2026, all EU Member States must have finalized their national versions of this directive. It represents the most aggressive pay [equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) legislation in the world, granting every employee the right to request the average pay level of their peer group, broken down by gender, for categories of workers performing “work of equal value.” This “Right to Know” extends into the recruitment phase, where candidates must be given pay data before their first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). If a company’s gender pay gap exceeds 5% and cannot be justified by objective factors, they are legally required to conduct a “Joint Pay Assessment” to fix the disparity.

As we move through 2026, the impact of these laws is clear: they have shifted the burden of proof from the employee to the employer. If a pay disparity exists, it is now the employer’s responsibility to prove that the difference is based on legitimate, bona fide factors like seniority, merit, or quantity of production. The era of “salary by intuition” or “negotiation skill” has been replaced by a market of data. For college-educated professionals, this means a more equitable playing field where their value is determined by their skills and the objective requirements of the role, rather than how well they can navigate a shroud of corporate secrecy.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [The Boldness Advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-boldness-advantage/)

**Published:** January 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Being bold can be a huge advantage professionally

**Content:**

# The Boldness Advantage

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Being bold can be a huge [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) professionally

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Today, we are going to break down how you can completely transform your professional [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). We’re going to dive into the power of boldness, but I’m talking about the kind that gets you noticed for all the right reasons. You know the feeling, right? We’ve all been there.

You’re in a meeting or maybe a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and you have the perfect insight, the absolute perfect question, but you just hesitate. And by the time you finally work up the nerve, the conversation has moved on. The moment’s gone.

And look, in a competitive job market, that single moment can be everything. We’re not just talking about missing a beat in a conversation. We’re talking about missed opportunities, a connection that you didn’t make, a point you didn’t score, maybe even a job you didn’t win.

It’s a tiny moment that can have huge consequences. So let’s get into it. Why do we freeze up like that? And what is it really costing us in the long run? This right here is the heart of the problem.

You know, the people who really succeed, the ones getting the promotions or starting their own thing, they don’t stop themselves. They act. They take the shot.

They put themselves out there. While so many of us, well, we become our own biggest roadblock. And here’s the crazy part.

That hesitation feels natural for a reason. Think about it. From the time we’re kids, the whole system is kind of designed to reward conformity.

In school, you’re often told to be quiet, do what you’re told. Your first job, you succeed by being obedient and just following instructions. We are literally programmed to fit in, not to stand out.

OK, so if hesitation is the enemy, then boldness has to be the answer. But, and this is absolutely crucial, we have to understand that being bold is not about being the loudest person in the room. It’s not about being obnoxious.

Let’s get this definition straight. See, [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) is just a feeling. It’s internal.

But boldness, that’s what you do with that feeling. It’s about taking that chance, asking for the [raise](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-5-raise-may-still-have-you-losing-money-shorts/), introducing yourself to that person across the room. It is an active skill, not just some passive trait you’re born with.

And this is where it gets really interesting. This is the critical difference. Arrogance is all about competition.

An arrogant person hears your story and their first instinct is, how can I top that? Boldness, on the other hand, it’s collaborative. A bold person asks questions. They make you feel important.

And that, right there, is what makes them so memorable. Right, so before you can actually act bold, you’ve got to do some work on that inner voice. You know, the one that’s been programmed for years to just conform.

This is all about making a conscious, internal mindset shift. This is your new mantra. Seriously, you have to make a conscious choice to feel like you belong.

It doesn’t matter if you’re in a room with billionaires or you’re the most underdressed person at some fancy event. You’re a human being just like them. Feeling like you don’t belong? That’s a choice.

So just choose the opposite. And check out this story. It just brilliantly illustrates the power of that mindset.

As a teenager, Steven Spielberg put on a suit, walked onto a studio lot, and just started working. For a whole month, nobody questioned him. Why? Because his actions screamed [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/).

He was there. So he must belong there. Simple as that.

Now, if you’re worried about what other people are going to think of you, let me give you a liberating truth. People are not thinking about you. Or at least not nearly as much as you think they are.

They might spare you a thought for, I don’t know, three to eight seconds, and then boom, they go right back to their all-time favorite subject, themselves. Knowing this frees you up to act without that paralyzing fear of being judged. Okay, let’s get practical.

How do we actually build this up? Well, just like any muscle, boldness gets stronger the more you exercise it. And the good news is you can start with some really simple, low-stakes reps. So here are your first steps, things you can do today.

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First, smile at people until someone doesn’t smile back. And then just notice that nothing bad happens. Second, give someone a compliment with zero agenda.

Like, hey, that’s a great hat, and just walk away. And third, in a conversation, instead of trying to top their story, just ask, tell me more about that. These are tiny acts of generosity that build your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) like crazy.

So are you ready to level up? Here’s an exercise that’s a little crazier, yeah, but it’s incredibly effective at just demolishing your self-consciousness. I want you to try this. Put a Band-Aid on your forehead or your cheek and just go about your day.

You’re going to feel like everyone is staring at you, but you’ll also have a breakthrough realization. So what if they are? The whole experience teaches you that self-consciousness is something we do to ourselves, and if we create it, we can also defeat it. Okay, so this is the crucial part.

How does all this mindset work and these funny exercises, how does it actually translate into the high-stakes world of a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? How do you use boldness to really stand out and get hired? This, my friends, is the ultimate bold skill. People famously said this about Bill Clinton, that when he spoke to you, he had this incredible way of locking in that made you feel like you were the only person on earth for those 30 seconds. That kind of focused attention is absolutely magnetic, and it’s a skill anyone can learn.

So here’s the playbook. One of the great secrets of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is this, the more they talk, the more they like you. Your job is not to deliver some long monologue about all your skills.

No, your job is to be curious, to ask intelligent questions about the interviewer’s own challenges, their successes, make them the hero of the story. I promise you, they will leave that room thinking you are brilliant and fascinating, even if they actually know very little about you. And that really just leaves us with one final thought.

So many people worry about being too much, but what’s the real alternative? Being not enough? Being forgettable? The real risk in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) isn’t [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-makes-you-a-standout-shorts/). The real risk is blending in so perfectly that you are never even seen at all.

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### [How Long Does It Take to Screen Resumes?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-long-does-it-take-to-screen-resumes-video/)

**Published:** January 27, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Someone from a smaller firm asks how long it takes to screen resumes because they think they are spending too much money for an external recruiter.

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## How Long Does It Take to Screen Resumes?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Someone from a smaller firm asks how long it takes to screen [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) because they think they are spending too much money for an external [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

‘m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). And the question for today is, how long does it take to screen [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)? And this is asked from the perspective of an employer who’s using a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that they’re finding expensive to get good but not great candidates. As they write, for each position, we get three to five candidates who go to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager.

And they’re thinking of bringing the process in-house and using the tools like ZipRecruiter and Workable and want to think . . . and they’re recruiting for IT positions. How long is it going to take to narrow things down to get those same three to five options? Now, the real question I want to start off by pointing out is most people undervalue a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) in what they do because you’re seeing the result of their efforts. So, for example, you’re looking at the three to five and thinking to yourself, yeah, I can get three to five [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) if I use those tools.

What’s the problem? And the problem starts off with, okay, let’s look at who’s going to screen those [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that come in and do the pre-interview with them. Who’s going to evaluate them? I know when I was doing recruiting, what I would receive is hundreds of pieces of garbage that were little more than spam that, you know, some systems will have a data dictionary that will allow you to evaluate and have the system screen but, you know, sometimes these systems miss things. So, if you’re okay with that, let’s move on.

And let’s assume that your system is delivering . . . I’ll just give myself as an example. Again, Monday morning, it’s typical for me to walk into 200 . . . well, it was typical for me to walk into 200 to 250 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) and then have to start going through them. In the usual three to five seconds that normally is used, you do the math.

And if I operated like a machine and, you know, I was actually able to do this in five seconds with five seconds to open up the next one and to delete the previous one. You know, it’s six per minute, 250 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). It’s six into 240 is 40 minutes to go through it.

But I get interrupted. I get distracted. I’m not a machine.

[***3 Effective Ways to Handle Rejection During An Executive Job Search***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mEl)

I’m a human being. It’s boring to read a little more than spam. And you have to at least look at it for a few seconds to figure out what are they saying they did before you delete it.

And as I said on an early podcast for [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Radio, I think it was actually the first show, typically, out of those 250, you know how many I’m going to wind up actually [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/)? The answer is two. Two out of 250. So, just working your own math here.

If you’re stuck in this position of getting 250 [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) for which two are going to be qualified, it’ll probably take about two hours of labor time. Now, I must tell you, there are days that go by where I’m not seeing two [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that are worth my [following up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) on. It’s awful, but it’s true.

And the result winds up being, in terms of finding those three to five people that you actually want to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), it may take several days. And that’s before you start actually pre-interviewing people before deciding to forward them to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. Now, that’s a dedicated effort.

And the probability is, in a firm like what’s being described here, you’re not going to have a dedicated resource doing it. It’s going to be an ancillary to their job. Because if you had a dedicated resource, you wouldn’t be asking the question.

You’d already know this person would be doing the pre-screening for you. You wouldn’t be using the external [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). So, my guess is, it’s a small firm.

It’s an add-on function for someone’s day. And it’s going to take more time than you think. If you’re okay with that, fine.

But that’s what you’re paying the external [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to do is to do that screening to get it down to the three to five. I would say easily, easily, it could take a week to a week and a half to get three to five, while this person is doing something else, as well. So, you know, I’ll just simply say, if that’s worth it to you, if that expenditure of time that may wind up being pointless, because the people that they identify may not fit either, go ahead, bring it in house, do it.

But if you’re not sure, I’d simply say, if you want to cut your costs, reduce the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) fee, take it down by two points. So, if you’re paying 25%, bring it to 23%. If you’re paying 20%, bring it to 18%.

Simply say, I want to continue giving you an exclusive, but we’re evaluating internal resources. And I want to consider you because you’ve been very helpful to us. And this might be a way we get around it.

Have a great day. [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community). I can’t believe this spammer. Phone spam.

Phone spam. Have a great day.

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### [How to Deal With A Job Search Rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-deal-with-a-job-rejection-jobsearchtv-com/)

**Published:** January 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Job hunting is like dating. You go on dates and get rejection from people you care about. You try to get jobs and you get rejected, too.

**Content:**

# How to Deal With A Job Search Rejection

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is like dating. You go on dates and get [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) from people you care about. You try to get [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) and you get rejected, too.

***[3 Effective Ways to Handle Rejection During An Executive Job Search](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-mEl)***

in the times that we’re living in now, it is going to be much more prevalent. After all, millions are looking for work. There could be a limited number of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/).

Let’s be smart. Let’s be proactive in preparing yourself for dealing what will be inevitable. You’re going to get turned down at certain places.

I hope you find this show helpful. I hope you don’t need this show. But you’re always better to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) rather than unprepared.

And with that, let’s get going. I wanted to talk with you about dealing with [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). And I’ve said many [times that interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-do-you-find-the-time-to-stay-inspired-jobsearchtv-com/ "How Do You Find The Time to Stay Inspired?"), looking for work is very much like going on blind dates.

You talk to people, you engage in conversation, your heart opens up, and at times, you’re going to get squashed. Unfortunately, the same thing is true in [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), whether that’s your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) doesn’t get a response from an employer, whether you’re dealing with someone who, shall we say, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who doesn’t submit your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), whether you go on an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you think you’ve nailed it, and nothing comes back, or, you know, you get the [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/), too late. Whatever it is, it’s very much like a dating situation where you’ve opened up, you really, really care.

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And now, [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/). How do you deal with Now, the first thing is to remember that, like life in general, there’s going to be [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) in the process. Not everyone likes you, right? And I’ll simply say that if you’re in a situation where, you know, you suddenly get a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) where you think you’ve done great, and suddenly, you’re getting the turndown, the first thing to remember is to do a quick mental review.

Were there any signals that you received in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Were there any signals from the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to suggest that you didn’t do well, or that there was some deficiency? So with that mental scan, because that’s really going to be your learning starts off with that. Then from there, I would suggest reaching out to the organization, could be a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), which is the ideal situation. You contact the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and say, hey, look, you’ve made the decision not to submit me.

You’ve made the decision that I’m not right for this job. Any [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) that you can give me, I want to be clear, I’m not here to get into an argument with you. I want to learn how you evaluate.

I want to learn what you looked at that made you say no. And then you listen casually. You don’t get into arguments.

You listen. And you learn from that. Because what it tells you tells me is that if you got turned down and you had the actual experience, maybe it didn’t really make a strong case that you didn’t present your knowledge around that subject well.

And that you really need to practice your [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), because if you legitimately had the expertise, then you could have sold it better. So I’m putting the onus back on you, again, to learn from this. Now, this may hurt to hear.

But it’s really part of your growth, professionally, is to learn how others are receiving the information that you’re sharing. Got it? Then from there, if you have to lick your wounds, go lick your wounds. And one of the things that you can do in doing that is reach out to people.

Review situations where you have people who love and support you, who really care about you and say, you know, I’m hurting today. I got turned down for a job I really wanted to get. Matter of fact, they wouldn’t even submit me.

Or I got turned down for a job today. I interviewed with them four times, and they chose someone else. Help and take in the support.

Let them buy you lunch. Let them take you for coffee. Let them listen and give you some some words of support.

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Next thing I’ll suggest is put yourself in the situation of reviewing your successes. Because you got to get out there and you got to do it fast. Being in the cave, being in your home or apartment, you know, going, oh, woe is me, isn’t going to help you get to the next role.

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### [Tough Interview Questions: What is The One Thing You Would Change About Our Company?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tough-interview-questions-what-is-the-one-thing-you-would-change-about-our-company/)

**Published:** January 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** This is a classic question that is asked job hunters, usually at a director level and above, particularly in the C suite that can be asked of staff at a lower level.

**Content:**

# Tough Interview Questions: What is The One Thing You Would Change About Our Company?

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

This is a classic question that is asked job hunters, usually at a director level and above, particularly in the C suite that can be asked of staff at a lower level.

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And this is a question that is geared toward people in a manager level and above. If you’re a staffer, you might get asked this, but the likelihood is really small. The question is, what is the one thing you would change about our firm if you could? Now, the reason for asking this question is, number one, to test to see whether you’ve done any homework about the firm, what their challenges are.

And number two, to see if you can think on your feet. So, the idea is not to be rude. You can’t simply say, you know, you guys are screwed up around whatever it is.

But instead, you have to preface it with a nice setup line. And the setup for this is to say, hey, look, everything I know about your firm comes from press. Not that press is wrong.

I don’t have the texture necessarily to go beyond that. I’ve done a little bit of sourcing. I’ve spoken to some friends of mine who have a perspective.

And at the same time, there’s nothing like being inside an organization, having the deep knowing that comes from that. Isn’t that a nice setup? It’s going to cushion the punch in the mouth that you’re going to give them. And the idea behind the answer is, remember, leaders have to make decisions.

You can’t necessarily be tender once you start going into the answers. But they’re going to want to get a sense of how you think, how you analyze, how you critique, how you come up with solutions. And in terms of the solutions, again, a setup is in order.

Because, hey, look, I don’t know the capabilities of the team I’m inheriting. So, again, execution and delivery can be a problem with this. But assuming I’ve got an excellent team of individuals, what I see us doing is . . . and then you start going into detail.

Again, you have to set up the introduction and you have to set up the transition to the proposed solutions and do it in a way that’s respectful, but at the same time, gives everyone the idea you’re a no BS kind of person. Hope you found this helpful. Visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us, where I have a lot more there to help you.

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### [Beyond the Resume: Building Your Irresistible Professional Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beyond-the-resume-building-your-irresistible-professional-brand/)

**Published:** January 19, 2026
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**Excerpt:** We're no longer just applying for jobs. We're offering a unique solution, a specific value proposition

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# Beyond the Resume: Building *Your* Irresistible Professional Brand

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### [I Just Received an Offer for a Better Fitting Job #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/i-just-received-an-offer-for-a-better-fitting-job-shorts/)

**Published:** January 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What do I do NOW?

**Content:**

# I Just Received an Offer for a Better Fitting Job \#shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***Click here if the video does not play properly***

What do I do NOW?

After a long [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), I finally received an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that I accepted. It wasn’t a great position, but I need to get back to work. Now I have another position that was proposed to me. I have an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from them, and I’m not sure whether I should take it. It’s a much better fit for what I do than the job I took.

I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier. You know, the firm that let you go that prompted you to have the long job search—well, they made a business decision. They weren’t doing it personally because they hated you, at least from what I can tell. They made a business decision.

You need to make a business decision too. What serves you as the CEO of [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/)? Is it staying where you are or going to something that fits you better, that suits you better? I’m pretty sure you know it’s the latter. It’s taking a position that suits you better so that this way you feel great about going to work and not just doing a job, you know, a job.

So I’ll just conclude by saying don’t fall for the idea of company loyalty. Companies don’t have loyalty to you. They [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you to do a job; they don’t [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you to be their [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) friend. You’re not working for a company; you’re working for a manager who works for a company. That manager can do next to nothing to save your butt if there are going to be staff reductions. All it’s going to be is math. You are math to them. You are not an employee who means so much to them.

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [What Do I Make of the Statement, "Job interviews are like flipping a coin?" #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-i-make-of-the-statement-job-interviews-are-like-flipping-a-coin-shorts/)

**Published:** January 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Job interviews are like flipping a coin. — Unknown. What do you make of this statement?

**Content:**

# What Do I Make of the Statement, “Job interviews are like flipping a coin?” #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/EmU1e4RPUs0)

[Job interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) are like flipping a coin. — Unknown.

What do you make of this statement?

What do I make of this statement? I make of this statement that someone doesn’t know how to… how to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and thus they’ve been rejected a bunch of times. So they want to feel better about themselves, so they’re making it seem like [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) is arbitrary when most of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) isn’t.

Now, there’s a point where a firm decides, “I’ve got three people I have to choose between,” and I don’t want to even make it seem like that’s like flipping a coin because they’ve narrowed it down to three from, let’s say, 10 or 15 or 30. And now, what are the differences between the three? That’s not about flipping a coin; that’s about discrete differences. So, I really don’t buy this “interviews are like flipping a coin” nonsense.

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[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [What Recruiters Know That You Don't: They Don't Fill That Many Positions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-recruiters-know-that-you-dont-they-dont-fill-that-many-positions/)

**Published:** January 25, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Today's show is about one of the things recruiters know that you don't

**Content:**

# What Recruiters Know That You Don’t: They Don’t Fill That Many Positions

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3099 Today’s show is about one of the things [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) know that you don’t

***[The Executive Job Search Goldmine](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nwbOcw3D72hbrfmgOCuaY)***

If you’re on the job hunt right now, you know the [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/). I mean, you’re endlessly scrolling job boards, tweaking your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/) for the hundredth time, and just firing off [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) into what feels like a total black hole. It is so frustrating. But what if there was one key piece of insider info, something [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) know that could completely change how you approach this and more importantly, change your results? Well, let’s pull back the curtain on what that is.

Sound familiar? The data is pretty clear on this one. Most of us job hunters spend a whopping 60% of our time doing that one thing, [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) online, it’s just become the default. You know, it’s what we think we’re supposed to be doing. But let’s be honest, for all that time, for all that effort, is it actually paying off? For so many people, the answer is just a flat no. They’re not getting callbacks. They’re not landing [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). It’s an incredibly common story. And if that’s you, you are not alone. The reason why might really surprise you.

Okay, here’s the number that changes the entire game. 30%. That’s it. At most, only 30% of all [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) out there are filled through online ads and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) put together. Just let that sink in for a second. It feels like that number should be way, way higher, right? So, let’s actually break that down. When we look at the data, online job ads, the things we spend all our time on, they only account for about 22% of actual hires, and [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), a tiny 8%. You add those up and you’re left with this massive 70% of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) being filled through, well, other methods. That giant slice of the pie. That’s where the real opportunity is hiding. And when you put it side by side like this, the problem becomes crystal clear. We are pouring a huge amount of effort, 60% of our precious time into a strategy that fills at [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) less than 30% of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). It’s a massive mismatch between where our energy is going and where the results are actually coming from.

So, if spending all day every day on job boards isn’t the magic bullet we thought it was, then what is? What’s going on in that other 70%? Where are those [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/)? Here it is. This is the secret. It’s the one thing [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) know that can feel like a blind spot for so many of us. **[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) works.** And no, it’s not just some corporate buzzword. It is the single most effective way to find your next job. And hey, let’s demystify this whole [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) thing because it does not have to be this big, scary, intimidating monster. At its core, it’s actually super simple. It’s just talking to people you already know to find out about the people that they know that you don’t know yet. That’s all it is. It’s just starting a conversation.

So, what all this really points to is the need for a strategic shift. It’s about consciously moving your energy away from what is clearly a low yield activity, blasting out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) online, and refocusing it on a high yield activity, simply talking to people. So, what does this actually look like in practice? Well, it’s a pretty simple three-step path forward. First, consciously decide to shift some of your time away from those mass [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/). Second, focus that newfound time on just talking to people you already know. And third, this is the key, ask them who they know that might be able to help you out. Look, knowing all this is one thing, but it doesn’t change anything until you actually act on it. So, the real question, the one that can get you started, is this. Who is the very first person you could have a conversation with today?

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [No BS Career Advice: January 18 2025](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-january-18-2025/)

**Published:** January 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more.

**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: January 18 2025

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”***

 **~Dr. Martin Luther King**

---

Monday is a US holiday to commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, who died at the hands of assassin. The image is the crowd at his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, DC in 1963.

**New signups for my [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) programs at** [**JobSearch.Community**](http://jobsearch.community/) **have increased. What gratifies me is that I listened to requests from people to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/)** [**individual products for purchase**](https://www.jobsearch.community/b312a915-6f72-404c-aedc-1f82c25764bf) **for people who don’t want to commit to a monthly recurring fee for [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and content. I don’t want to put a full list of products here; it will take up too much space.**

**I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) a number of free products on the homepage of** [**JobSearch.Community**](http://jobsearch.community/)**. One of the paid services I [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) at the site are $99 [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) critiques and [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile critiques. If you aren’t getting the results you want, let me correct some of the issues you may be experiencing.**

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## How to Spot a Legitimate Corporate Recruiter on LinkedIn

[**By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter**](https://www.jobsearch.community/)

[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are often the gatekeepers to incredible opportunities. For college-educated professionals, [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) serves as a primary hub for these connections. However, as the digital landscape evolves, so too do the tactics of scammers aiming to exploit eager job hunters. Distinguishing between a legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) offering a career-defining role and a bad actor seeking personal information or money is more crucial than ever.

This guide, designed for the discerning [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) user, will provide 7-10 actionable strategies to vet [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and ensure your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) remains safe and productive.

### 1. Scrutinize Their LinkedIn Profile: The Digital Business Card

A legitimate recruiter’s [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile is their professional storefront. It should be fully developed and reflect a consistent [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path in recruitment or human resources.

- **Professional Photo:** A clear, professional headshot is standard. Beware of profiles with no photo, generic stock images, or overly casual pictures.
- **Detailed Experience:** Look for a comprehensive work history that clearly shows their current role at a recognized company (staffing agency or in-house HR department). Gaps in [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) without explanation, vague job titles, or a history of very short stints at multiple, obscure companies can be [red flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-red-flags-resistance-to-change/).
- **Connections and Endorsements:** While not foolproof, a legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will typically have hundreds, if not thousands, of connections, many of whom are other professionals in their field or industry. Look for endorsements and recommendations that speak to their recruiting expertise.
- **Activity:** Do they share industry insights, comment on posts, or engage in meaningful discussions? A static profile with no recent activity can be suspicious.

### 2. Verify Their Company: Due Diligence is Key

The company a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) claims to represent is the bedrock of their legitimacy. Never take this at face value.

- **Official Website:** Search for the company independently. Does it have a professional website? Does the recruiter’s name appear on the “Our Team” or “Contact Us” page (for smaller firms)?
- **Online [Presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/) & Reviews:** Check for news articles, press releases, and reviews on sites like Glassdoor or Google. A complete lack of online footprint for a supposed recruiting firm is a major warning. Be wary of newly established companies with generic names.
- **Matching Information:** Ensure the company name, logo, and contact details on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile precisely match the official company website. Discrepancies are a red flag.

### 3. Examine the Job Description: Specificity vs. Vagueness

Legitimate job postings are detailed and transparent. Scammers often use generic language to cast a wide net.

- **Specific Role & Responsibilities:** A real job description will clearly outline the role’s duties, required skills, qualifications, and reporting structure.
- **Company & Location:** It should explicitly state the company [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) (or the type of company if the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is discreet) and the job’s location (remote, hybrid, or in-office). Vague mentions like “a leading tech company” or “opportunity in your area” without further detail are suspicious.
- **Realistic Expectations:** Be wary of roles promising incredibly high salaries for minimal experience, or positions that sound too good to be true.

### 4. Observe Their Communication Style: Professionalism Matters

The way a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) communicates can reveal a lot about their authenticity.

- **Professional Language:** Expect clear, grammatically correct, and professional communication. Typos, poor grammar, and overly casual or urgent language can indicate a [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/).
- **Personalization:** While some initial outreach might be templated, subsequent messages should be personalized, referencing your profile and specific skills.
- **Pressure Tactics:** Legitimate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) understand the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) process takes time. Be suspicious of anyone pressuring you to make immediate decisions, sign documents without review, or provide sensitive information on the spot.

### 5. Never Pay for a Job: The Golden Rule

This is perhaps the most critical red flag: **Legitimate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do not charge job seekers for their services.** Their fees are paid by the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) companies.

- **No Upfront Fees:** If a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) asks you for money for [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/), background checks, [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) reviews, or any other “service” to secure a job, it’s a [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/).
- **“Placement Fees”:** This is a classic [scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-how-to-spot-ai-job-scams/) tactic. Real [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are compensated by the employer when you are successfully placed.

### 6. Protect Your Personal Information: Only Share What’s Necessary, When Necessary

Be extremely cautious about what personal information you share, especially early in the process.

- **Early Stage:** A legitimate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) will typically only need your resume/CV and perhaps a brief overview of your experience in the initial stages.
- **Sensitive Data:** Never share your bank account details, social security number (SSN), credit card information, or date of birth with a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) until you have a confirmed job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and are completing official onboarding documents directly with the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) company.
- **Unusual Requests:** Be suspicious of requests for photos of your identification or requests to install specific software on your computer.

### 7. Cross-Reference Information: Double-Check Everything

If anything feels off, take a moment to cross-reference the information provided.

- **Google Search:** Search the recruiter’s name, their company, and the job title. Look for consistent information across multiple reputable sources.
- **[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Search:** Search for other employees at the supposed company on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/). Do they have similar profiles? Does the recruiter’s connection network align with the company’s industry?
- **Contact Independently:** If you’re highly suspicious, you can try to find a general contact email or phone number for the company (not the one provided by the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)) and inquire if the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is indeed an employee.

### 8. Trust Your Gut: Intuition is a Powerful Tool

Sometimes, the most reliable indicator is your own intuition. If a recruiter’s [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) sounds too good to be true, if their story changes, or if something simply doesn’t feel right, listen to that internal alarm. It’s always better to err on the side of caution.

By diligently [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) these strategies, you can confidently navigate the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) landscape on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), identifying genuine opportunities while safeguarding your personal information and [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) aspirations. Your proactive approach will not only protect you but also enhance your ability to connect with the legitimate professionals who can truly advance [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [What Corporate Recruiters Look for When They Recruit Staff](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-radio-​what-corporate-recruiters-look-for-when-they-recruit-staff/)

**Published:** January 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Corporate recruiters are often a mystery in the recruiting process. Who are they? What are they looking for when they screen talent?

**Content:**

# What Corporate Recruiters Look for When They Recruit Staff

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Corporate [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are often a mystery in the recruiting process. Who are they? What are they looking for when they screen talent? On this show, I speak with corporate and former agency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Lucas Schoolfield about what he looks for when he is recruiting people.

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Episode 1564,of no BS, [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), advice Radio, I’m your host. [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), and welcome to Sunday, yay. We’ve got some house guests in from the New York area who are visiting with us, and it’s been a fun weekend so far. And I’ll just simply say, folks, you know, if you aren’t celebrating a little bit, if you aren’t having a little bit of fun in your life, you’re making a [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/), because a lifetime is not a long time. I digress. Today’s show is another one from my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio archives. It was an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that I did with a corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who spoke about what it was like from his seat to be doing recruiting. It’s good information. Now, again, at this time, I was not using digital ways of recording. We were recording over phone lines. Ooh, so audio quality is imperfect, completely understandable, but not as clean as the rest of my shows. Hope you find it helpful and give it a great review, and it’s about 30 ish minutes. And with that, let’s get going.

So my guest is Lucas schoolfield, a healthcare [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) with organizations in the mid Atlantic area. Lucas, welcome to [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) radio. Great to have you on board. Yeah. Jeff, thanks. I’m [happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-you-arent-happy-doing-what-youre-doing-shorts/) to be

here. Terrific. So experience tells me, when little boys and little girls are growing up, no one says to their parents, Mommy, I want to be a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). You know, there are other things that they’re thinking of doing. How did you wind up entering the field?

Well, it’s kind of what I think most [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) you talk to, especially with those of us that come from staffing, would sell into it, fell into it. Nobody like you’re saying, nobody really studies recruitment in college, or grows up thinking they’re going to be a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) someday for an organization, for a staffing company. I kind of just came by it by [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/), which ironic being a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). But I got in to recruitment through a staffing agency. Was there for about two years, and then kind of after that, I realized I want to make the transition into corporate recruitment, which I’ve been doing for the last almost four years now, three to four years,

terrific. And when you were working for the staffing agency, what kind of positions were you trying to fill?

Originally, I was more in the steel trades, in the construction industry, so that meant working with local general contractors, you know, whether it be plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters, carpenters. Then that briefly transitioned over into more of an engineering recruit. So I’d work with a lot of civil engineers or design engineers for small or large commercial contract. I did that for probably nine months to a year, between the two steel trades and the engineer recruitment, it was a good way to, kind of cut my teeth into recruitment, and then also to the construction industry, to the skill trades, because they are higher volume lower level recruits. You know more about reading [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), matching skill sets, and then kind of plug and play, getting them to the right spots where then that trains you for the people skills and kind of the analytical skills needed to evaluate higher level talent positions, like people have master’s degrees or engineering degrees that you don’t really know much about, because obviously, I’m not an engineer, but I still need to, still need to be able to talk to people and evaluate if they can do what their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) says, which is a skill actually it’s harder to find than you Think. I tell people all the time as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I can never do the positions I’m recruiting for, but I need to be able to evaluate if somebody can or not, so I need to know a little bit about them. But absolutely, I’m the same way. I’m not an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) in it accounting and finance or Wall Street operations, but I’ve learned over the years because my clients have taught me how to evaluate people for specific [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), so that when I [refer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/find-an-employee-to-refer-you-shorts/) someone to them, there’s a reasonable probability that there’s a good match. Yep, I’m sure the same you can probably attest to one of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ways to do that is just talking to people. But if that’s a linking about getting to that further in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) if needed, so You betcha. And from working for the staffing firm, you transitioned into corporate. And what kind of positions have you worked on since moving into corporate?

Well, I’ve been fortunate. I’ve worked for two different health systems now in the area. The first one I was with, I was focused mainly on administrative skills within some high level sourcing. So when I say administrative, we really ranges from anything. It could be customer service reps in a call center all the way up to, you know, public accountants or directors of strategic business development. It was just pretty much.

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Anything that wasn’t direct patient care or environmental services I was recruiting for in that hospital. So it was a

the it was the team of us in my scope, I had the fewest repeat positions, if that makes sense. Well, I like my time, but I had the most one off position, you know, because every secretary is different, or every customer service tech is different, depending on the unit or department they’re in. So it was kind of difficult to build a pipeline, but that’s that was my focus for that right now, I’m kind of the opposite. I now recruit mainly for dietary aids unit secretaries, which are nursing support staff, and then also some environmental service positions and sterile processing. I don’t know if anybody’s familiar with that, but that’s also a big thing. I’m recruiting now throughout our system, so I’ve covered a decent amount, I would say, still a lot to learn when it comes to direct patient care and health care, but that’s something you got to if you don’t come from a clinical background as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), it’s a good way to work your way up to it, just because the tech the terminology is much more advanced, and you really need to know the lingo before you start talking to people, just like when you recruit

for anything you bet. And as we talk going forward, I’m going to invite you to focus in on your time in corporate recruiting,

and a point later on, I may ask you to go back to your staffing services days, but you’ll see how I pose the questions as we go along. Right as I get off track, feel free to interrupt me so, oh, have no fear, it’s my job.

So as you’re looking for people now, are you reaching out to folks, or folks coming to you or your organization, I should say, I would say, on the average, just with the size of the organization I work for. Currently,

we don’t really necessarily have to look for people, unless it’s more of a specialty position. We are fortunate with a set of board in that we have a lot of people who desire to get into our system. So we, I don’t know the exact numbers of applicants. We get a year, but I would imagine substantial that we have a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) database on top of that. So the need to find, you know, my average day to day position, I don’t really struggle to find [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). They usually are the system waiting for me from the night before.

Super. So that suggests that you have one of those legendary black holes,

those [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) that people look down on. So askance. Now, I’ve got to work with the assumption you’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) lots of people over the course of a year. It’s not like you can you can read every [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that’s coming in, you’re using the systems in order to discern differences between candidates. Am I correct about that? Yeah, absolutely, and you would assume that the candidates are sorry. I’ll let you answer your next question. I probably might tie into my next answer.

So if I heard correctly, the system is implementing some judgments about the quality of the [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that it’s seeing.

How long ago was it programmed? How is it programmed to do that? Do you have any idea? Well, I don’t know if it specifically

renders judgment on the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) quality itself. There has to be at least some text entered into the system when you are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), otherwise it won’t really

evaluate it. However, it is very easy for the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) when you do apply, it’s probably the first thing you see in a candidate’s [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). So it’ll it’ll two things really pop up, you see what [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) they’ve applied to, and then you see their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and you can also search in the system to see if there’s other previous [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) and how they changed them or tweaked them, or vice versa. But the quality of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), it can’t really be evaluated by the system itself, but it’s very, very easy to assess as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), what it looks like, what they’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for, and just kind of be a good fit, right? You know, usually you can make pretty quickly, quick snap judgments on it.

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Sure is your system putting up the job and the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) next to one another, so you can see it quickly,

close enough. Yes. Thankfully, a lot of my positions right now are more repetitive. Like, for instance, you know, any nursing support position, you generally, for the most part, will have the same job description. So you kind of learn the job description first, which is housed internally and then posted online for the positions. But you can, you can evaluate pretty easily. It’s just a matter of one, you know, moving your mouth slightly in a different click,

gotcha, and I’m laughing, because in the work that I do where every job is unique and different, I have to put the job up and look at a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and make the comparison, because my system isn’t doing any sort of analytics.

Six to determine proper fit based upon numbers of usages of particular keywords or the keywords exist in the document. Things along those lines, my system doesn’t do I know. Well, yeah, systems that do that, yeah, we do have the functionality to run like searches based on that. You know you can run boiling searches or just [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) searches throughout the system. For instance, I did that for a sterile processing tech. We need some of those right now, so, but then I wasn’t generating generating applicants at the facility. I needed them, so I ran a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) search through a database and just to kind of just different terminology I was looking for. So we do have the capability to search that. But I would say just one general applicants apply. You can apply to any job you want. It’s just a matter of if you’re going to be even bother to be considered for it. You could not have a college education apply for the CEO job. It’s not going to stop you, not gonna turn you away. But you know, realistically, what are your chances here?

Less Than Zero? Yeah, I would say. So hopefully that answers your question

perfectly, and folks, we’ll be back with more from Lucas in just a moment. But first, my [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) insider tip for this show, which I think you’ll find is a quirky but useful tip. And this one is, I don’t know about you, but there are times where I’m not aware that there might be something in my teeth that might be embarrassing when I meet someone, and someone made a suggestion to me recently that I thought was absolutely wonderful, how to make sure that I’m not in one of those awkward moments where I’m talking to someone and they’re watching lunch go by in my mouth, and the simplest thing to do is

take out your phone, take a selfie. Focus in on your mouth. Take a look at the image. This way, you don’t have one of those embarrassing conversations with someone where they’re staring at your mouth and you’re noticing that they’re staring at your mouth, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So that’s my insider tip for this show. Let’s come back to Lucas and pick up where we left off. So

I also heard you say, and previous guest has made mention of this to me as well, that you’re looking for or identifying multiple instances of the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) in the system to see how someone might have tweaked it. Did I catch that correctly? Yeah, absolutely.

So folks, you can’t BS the system because they’re checking for that

with both [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) I’ve used, it’s been pretty easy to see how many [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) a candidate has applied to, and then what you know, what kind of trend those [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) are going in. So that’s, I mean, that’s just another evaluation piece I’ll use for positions that get a high volume of applicants.

Sure, and I believe my my previous guest, who is Steve Levy, who raised that as a subject about serial [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) appliers, made mention that with certain numbers of

people are [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to too many [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/),

he automatically rejects them. Do you tend to do that as well?

I would say not automatically. But I mean, if you it also depends on the, like I said, the range of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) you’ve applied to. If somebody has applied to 30 unit Secretary [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) over the last 10 years, at least, they’ve supplied the same job. So I know they really, really want a unit secretary job. Now, if somebody has applied to a registrar, a patient care tech unit secretary, a patient transport aide. All the last week, I’m going to be like, All right, what are you really looking for here? Is it even worth my time to consider you? So it is. It depends on kind of the scope of their [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/), but it’s definitely something I will consider, because ultimately, you want somebody who’s going to want the job. You don’t want somebody who just wants a job. We all want a job. So, but why? What are you doing to set yourself apart for this job? If there’s, you know, you know, there’s competition, so I really want somebody who’s going to be very focused in their [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) and really have a purpose for getting that one

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super so now you have the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and they somewhat appear to fit the role that’s involved. How do you figure out whether or not they’re a fit? What do you kind of look for in their background? What are your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers to look for when they [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or when you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? And again, we’re sticking with your current work as a corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), right? Well, it definitely is job dependent. But for instance, administrative [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are going to require high level detail, or high attention to detail, you know, because it’s pretty tactical [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), but it still requires you to be very focused and very, very precise on what you’re doing, because you’re talking about patient care here. So you can’t, you can’t make a screw up by typing in the wrong.

A letter. It could be, it could have serious implications. So some way for that, I’m going to look for backgrounds that have similar work, even if that’s not necessarily health care related, if they’re coming from another hospital that obviously puts them, you know, a cut above, because they have very similar experience. But you know, somebody may be from a legal background, or from the banking industry, where you have to be extremely precise, that’s heavily regulated, heavily regulated industries, I would say, have [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), you know, kind of across the board and other heavily regulated industries, if you have skill sets that transfer well, when it comes to, maybe, like, you know, more of a dietary position, you’re going to look for somebody who has a food service background. So once again, it’s not being more focused in what you’re trying to change into. And if you’re, if you realize in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), and until the question of your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to something that you’re kind of switching industries here, try to figure out a way to communicate that in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that, you know, yeah, I know, I come from an administrative background, but I really want to switch over to food service for this reason, you know, try to highlight or emphasize in the [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). Try to emphasize other skills in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that maybe would just apply directly to the opening you’re trying to consider for.

So in your system, just working with that one example for someone who doesn’t quite have the right background but wants to enter into it, your system allows them to upload a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) or type in information to communicate that desire. Did I catch that correctly? Yeah, I think the [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) would be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way. I mean, personally, as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), I don’t think [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/) are absolutely necessary, but at this point, it’s still a formal part of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process, so you have to take it seriously, but it’s also about, you know, it goes back to when you’re [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/). You want to be specifically [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for that job. You don’t want to just spam your [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) out there. You want to cater each [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to the job you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for. And I know that may sound tedious at times, but honestly, if you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) in mass quantities to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), you’re not taking your time and you’re probably don’t deserve to be considered if you can’t put it the necessary time and effort fill out the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/), why should we consider you for the job? That’s my opinion,

and mine is the broken watch is right twice a day, and to expect that your generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is going to fit every position that someone’s [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for, even though all of those positions are different, is ridiculous. [Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) need to be tailored to communicate the fit. And the way I normally express it is pretend the reader is six years old with ADHD and how quickly and how easily for that hyperactive individual see that your background fits

on you, just like I do, especially the higher level position you get, Jeff, I would say that’s even more important to be very, very specific and intentional in your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) than your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). You’re not doing yourself any favors if you just said

the same thing out there all the time, you know, I mean [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) that still [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) market out there despite what the job.

We agree. We agree. So now that you have someone that you’re interested in, how do you figure out whether or not they’re worth pursuing? What is the assessment process like? How are you trying to figure out whether they might fit? How are your [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers trying to do it? And I know it’s different for every type of position, but I’m sure there’s some common threads. Yeah, for me,

my previous employer had a behavioral assessment, which we would send them prior to even any phone screen, which that’s complete pass, but we don’t necessarily that’s not across the board. So first and foremost, people need to make sure they’re checking their spam mail. Because I can’t tell you how many applicants I’ve reached out to, and I said, Hey, I emailed you a month ago. Why are you just getting back to me now? And they said, well, it was in my spam folder. I didn’t see it. So I mean that, you know it’s like, okay, you’re not paying attention your email and your personal life when you’re [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) to [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). What is that going to tell me about your email at work? You know that those trends tend to carry over. So first thing I prefer. I prefer to set all of my email, my [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), off the email. Now I understand that’s not always the case. It’s just my preference, because what it shows some competency with technology, people’s ability to manage their inbox and manage their email and then also commute, their ability to communicate professionally. The emails I would send them would be professional, and I’d expect that return.

And I know I prefer by email as well, because most of the time I’m playing phone tag with people, right? And you can get locked all these a message call back. You might be away from your desk, it goes to voicemail. You know? If I can send an email with my availability, it’s just a lot easier, and you don’t have to play tag quite as much. At most, it’s three transactions.

Questions versus what could be a lot more. So I agree with you. Like email, you can talk to any corporate [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and they’ll tell you, think about how many calls you big a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) gets in a day, and triple it. That’s probably the realistic number. So you can see why email, I mean, the technology is great. It’s there for a reason. So utilize it. You know, take it to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) as a candidate, if somebody is emailing you, they really there’s some interest there. It’s the way to set yourself apart. You’ve got to do the first part, the [first step](https://thebiggamehunter.us/youre-going-to-have-to-take-the-first-step-video/) in the process of just getting your [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/) noticed.

Cool. So next thing that you do to figure out whether or not you’re interested in how does it progress from how they respond to your messages,

like I said, definitely the professional, professionalism and their and their response in email. I understand some people may be writing from their phones, and it’s not as easy, so I take it into account, depending on the type of position it is. That’s kind of what it is, what they what the response is, but it’s really expressing a specific time that you can meet, and then expressing your interest right away helps things too. You know, making sure the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) knows, as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), making sure I know that you’re interested, that always helps.

And in terms of the actual assessment, when you’re actually [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) someone. What do you actually look for when you’re talking to

well, I’ll usually first clarify that the job they apply for is definitely the one they want, you know. You’ll go over the responsibilities, the hours, the shift, you know, everything that you really would expect somebody who has applied for a job that they’re definitely interested in it after that, you know, I’ll dig into their [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). And usually you have standard [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions. You have to ask what you’re looking for. But I would say the biggest thing is, when somebody is really interviewed for position, you know, they went well, they’re providing you examples to all of their answers. They’re not just saying the generic, like, one of the one of the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) ones you get generic answers to is, why should I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you? Everybody says I’m a good team player. You know, I’m dedicated. I show up on time. It’s like, okay, but tell me you’re a good team player. By your goodbye. You’re a good team player, you know, talk about what you had you see more to your [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) in a professional situation. Or talk about a time where you showed up on time, even in a snowstorm, or, you know, something like that. Don’t just say, Hey, I’m a really nice person, you should [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me, which hopefully everybody’s a nice person. You’re getting the benefit of the doubt, but come up with something original to you.

I agree. I did a YouTube video a while back called stories are not just for bedtime,

as a way of encouraging people to tell stories to demonstrate their successes, how they overcame adversity, a whole bunch of other things to demonstrate how they would perform within affirmative and their culture.

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Any [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) should be asking questions that prevent the yes or no answers. They should be asking questions that require you to get an explanation. That’s what we’re looking for. So take that as a hint that, hey, give me some context the background here. This is Bob. Asked me,

cool. Now, so far I heard you talk about standardized questions that you ask, so let’s assist the basic name, rank and serial number questions,

confirming name, where they live,

talking with them about the position, what the requirements of it are, how to invite them to talk about how their background fits, which of those now you mentioned the team

player question, I believe, what sort of

more difficult [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) questions Do you tend to use in your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)?

Well, I really like behavioral ones. I would say I try to save the more difficult questions for the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) when the candidates get past me and get to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager, because it’s really the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers opinion that you’re going to have to influence or express that you can do the job. But I mean, there you can choose from a lot of different questions that really want to cater those specific to the department, so it’s hard to narrow down to something specifically. I think the teamwork question you referenced was more of an answer that candidates usually give me when I asked them. You know, in your work, why should we [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for this position? That’s kind of how I like the phone. Like phone calls, just to get a sense for the person, because, you know, by the end, they’re usually a little relaxed, a little bit more open with their answers. So I like to hear what really comes out when you know things that settle down in their mind that they’re not as nervous,

great. So from you, they go on to a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager who does the skills assessment.

Do you get the types of [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) for why someone is rejected and or why they’re turned on by someone?

A lot of times you got the culture of the department they’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager. [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers want people who are going to click with them and then click with their team. Any Well, anyways, any good manager wants that. So you know, that’s definitely one of those positive [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). People think they will fit right in. They’ll take a shot on just because, personality wise, no fashion. They figure they can teach them the other thing.

But, yeah, I mean, it’s really the [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) also can be negative on the other side, where it’s just like, there’s no way this person, without fail, to handle this job. Well, find somebody else, you know kind of they can flip both ways just as strongly.

Gotcha. So

they’re interested in [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) them. How do you guys construct the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) in a way that is good for the applicant and good for the organization?

Well, I think that process can vary pretty greatly.

I mean, all all offers should be done with a conversation. I think it’s better to give candidates life a think about it. But some organizations will probably have you send the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter first and then call them, or send, you know, call them

then don’t send an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) letter until they accept. There’s really a variety. I think you can go there, but either way, I think the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) way is to go about it is definitely a conversation from the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to the candidate, and it should always, always come from HR, because HR expresses things that you know the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers in the organization may not know because they’re running departments they’re not actually working in HR, handling stuff on a day to day basis.

Gotcha. So person accepts an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) and they go through an onboarding process. It’s easy. Now, I’m curious,

comparing what you do now in corporate with what you did working for a staffing firm, do you notice differences in how you assess for talent when you were a staffing services person, versus now?

Yeah,

I would say

what I wasn’t staffing. It’s a very sales oriented industry. I’m sure as you as you know, you’ve been in, you know, a head hunting role or, you know, recruiting role for a long time. I mean recruitment sales, no matter what. But when you’re in staffing, I say it’s more hard sales, because you’re really selling the candidate on you, especially passive candidates, people who aren’t actively looking for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), but they may be open to switching if the right opportunity comes up, that’s when you’re really selling the trust telling you know what, you bring it to the table. Where on the flip side of corporate recruiting. I expect candidates to be selling me. I don’t you know, my job is to evaluate talent for the organization. I’m not trying to sell you into a role, like I said earlier, like I’m looking for people who are really interested in coming to the organization I work for. That’s really going to be the biggest thing. If you communicate your passion for the job you apply for and why you want to be there, I think that will give you a better shot.

Super Lucas, we’re coming up on the end of our time with one another today. Is there any particular advice you’d like to share with job hunters that will help them with the process of [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) any aspects of the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) process from their vantage point? Yeah, it’s probably, it’s a multi step process, in my opinion. I know I’ve done it. I’ve switched [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) several times in my career, and it’s never easy to get your foot out the door on it. I get to get there, get started on it, but you really have to start internally by assessing what you’re qualified for and what you want to do, because if you don’t know what you’re qualified for or what you want to do, you’re going to have no idea what to apply for. It’s just going to overwhelm you, because there are, there are lots of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) out there, but there are also lots of people looking for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/). So

that’s why it started. Then build your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) from there. You know, even if it requires you to look at [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), see if you have an idea, just look at the job description. There’s some postings, but don’t apply to a job until you really are 100% sure you want it, because what if you get an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) for it? Are you going to turn it down or you can take it? You know, don’t. Don’t put yourself in that position unless you’re committed

to it. And not only that, if you haven’t figured out what you want to be doing and you’re just [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) willy nilly, you’re wasting a lot of people’s time, if at the end of the day, you wouldn’t wind up taking the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you just your time

two or three people within a department [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) someone that becomes an expensive proposition at the end of the day, [turn down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-were-turned-down-you-put-too-much-pressure-on-yourself-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/) an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) that you never would have accepted anyway. It’s crazy. That’s a great point, and I can tell you, there’s nothing more frustrating as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), when you talk to people and they you ask them, Hey, why’d you apply this to?

Up. Well, you know, I just want to get my foot the door. I actually opened the parts full time. So it’s like, okay, you know, this fall the waste, it can be very frustrating.

We agree. Hey, Lucas, thank you so much for making time today. So that’s today’s show. I hope you found it helpful, and if you did, here were a few more ways to get more from me. First of all, visit my website, which is [the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).us.

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### [Why Do Recruiters Ask About Things They Can Find Out in Your Resume?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-do-recruiters-ask/)

**Published:** October 9, 2025
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are 2 reasons why recruiters ask questions about things that they can already find out in your resume.  Here, I lay them out simply for you. 

**Content:**

**Why Do [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Ask About Things They Can Find Out in Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)?**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

There are 2 reasons why [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ask questions about things that they can already find out in your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Here, I lay them out simply for you.

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(0:02 – 1:17)
I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m the head coach for JobSearch.Community, a site with curated information that I’ve developed and others have as well that will help you find work more quickly. The question I received was, why do [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) ask about things they can already find out in my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)? Now, this may be a shock to you.

If it is, I apologize if I’m the one who is shocking you, but I have to always answer with no BS and that is there are a couple of different reasons. Number one is people lie. They don’t tell the truth.

So, when you put them on the spot during an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), sometimes they tell you different things that are in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). That’s one. Now, assuming that you’re a truth teller and your reaction was to go, oh, stupid, you know, who would lie? Well, there’s another thing that we’re trying to do.

And I speak in the present tense, even though I stopped doing recruiting a while back. But, you know, I did it for more than 40 years. So, using my thought process, I want to see, I want to hear how you tell the story of what you did and how you went about doing it, so that I get a sense of how you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

(1:17 – 3:14)
You see, for me, if I stumble into someone who’s trying to con me, that’s a bonus point. I’m assuming that everyone’s telling me the truth in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). And in telling me the truth, I’m moving on to the next thing, which is, if I’m going to invest my time and [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) in representing someone, how are they going to perform on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? Do I have a chance of earning a fee? If not, delete because it’s a waste of my time, no matter how good you are.

My client will wind up [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you. That makes sense. You see, we don’t just do things to find you a job because you’re paying nothing.

What we do, what [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) do, is fill a position with a client and that client pays us. So, you are the person who will allow us to earn the fee or not. So, in telling us what you’ve done and how you went about doing it, you’re helping us to discern between different people because we can’t submit everyone.

We’re not paid to flip [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) like it’s a burger at a fast food restaurant. What we’re paid to do, what [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are paid to do, is to deliver someone who the client has determined that they need because they have a particular background and a particular personality type who will do the job and has the required skills that they have specified. So, if you can’t [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) well, if you can’t [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) well with the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), they’re going to hit the delete key because there’s no chance of earning a fee.

So, take it seriously. Don’t just simply say, why are they wasting my time? Because they’re not. You’re wasting their time if you don’t deliver well, if you don’t act professionally enough on the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and show that you have the required skills and can present your story well.

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### [An Agency Called Me About a Job I Was Previously Rejected For](https://thebiggamehunter.us/an-agency-called-me-about-a-job-i-was-previously-rejected-for/)

**Published:** January 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If a company rejected me when I directly applied but after a few months an employment agency calls me for the same role, should I go ahead and apply again or tell them that I applied with the company before but was rejected immediately?

**Content:**

# An Agency Called Me About a Job I Was Previously Rejected For

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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If a company rejected me when I directly applied but after a few months an [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) agency calls me for the same role, should I go ahead and apply again or tell them that I applied with the company before but was rejected immediately?

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“If a company rejected me when I directly applied, but after a few months an agency calls me for the same role, should I go ahead and apply again or tell them that I applied with the company before but was rejected immediately?” I like this question because, number one, I have the opportunity to say to someone: don’t cheat the agency out of their fee. And that’s what you’d be doing by going directly to the employer at that point. You didn’t know the job had reopened because that’s probably what’s happened after a few months. You didn’t know that job was there without them. And the person who contacted you is someone who’s got a wife, husband, or partner, may have kids, a mortgage; they got, minimally, got to pay the rent, right? They’ve got bills, and you’re taking food out of their mouth. You’ve taken money out of their bank account by [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) directly, having taken their information and used it to your own [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/).

I know people don’t like [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), but you know, they have a reason not to like a lot of you folks too. What do you mean? Because a lot of you think this way—like you’re going to save the company money and they’re going to want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you because of that. No, doesn’t work that way. Maybe in the 1970s it did when I first got into search, but not anymore. So let them do their job and tell them you had applied directly a few months before and got rejected and you want to give them the courtesy of letting them know.

“Why were you rejected?” “I don’t know, I got a [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/) letter.” At some companies, you know, because the system is automated, they may have to apply through the [applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) on your behalf and they may say, “Do you have a different email address than the one that you used to apply for this role?” And the reason they’re doing that is to get around the block the company may have about accepting a [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) from them. You see, one of the simple ways that these systems track a previous [referral](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/) of a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is by your email address. So what you want to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to do is to give them an alternate email address that may forward to your real one and thus allow them to resubmit you. So don’t go directly; don’t do that kind of stuff. It’s not the right thing to.

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### [Why Is a Recruiter Contacting Me About a Position I Was Already Rejected For?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-is-a-recruiter-contacting-me-about-a-position-i-was-already-rejected-for/)

**Published:** January 19, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are 1 million reasons why this could be occurring. I wore for two that are most likely and then make a suggestion.

**Content:**

# Why Is a Recruiter Contacting Me About a Position I Was Already Rejected For?

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

 *There are 1 million reasons why this could be occurring. I wore for two that are most likely and then make a suggestion.*

[***Finding The Career That Fits You***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-8ae)

The question for today is, “what is a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) contacted me a month later for the same position I was rejected for?”

There is more!

This person applied for position with the company, interviewed and was passed on for another role with the same department. They did not get the job. Now, about a month later, a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) from the furry contacted them about a new opening for the same position and says they are still![recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/what-happens-if-you-don-t-return-recruiter-phone-calls-jobsearchtv-com3_thumbnail-300x225.jpg) considering me, asking if I am interested.

Here are a few possibilities, including the one where they extend the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), it was accepted (that’s why you were rejected for the role), and the person decided not to start. They may have taken a counter [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) from their current employer or position with another company and they are not starting. Now, they are going back to the number 2 candidate – – you.

That’s a very likely scenario because they don’t really want to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) from scratch again. They just want to get this position filled altogether so that they don’t have to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) 15 or 20 people. That is a huge time waster for them. So they are back to number 2.

There is another possibility. Another position opened up within the department, you didn’t do a bad job on your [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and they are trying to see if you are still available. In this way, they can begin a new [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) process with you for this role.

These are the 2 most likely ones but there are a million other possibilities and they are not forthcoming.

You could always ask them, “Hey, I got turned down for something pretty similar to this before and now you are circling back. Tell me what is going on.”

That’s not a bad approach to take because it invites them to be forthright with you, and you don’t have to speculate. Speculation makes our minds go crazy and we start to fantasize all sorts of possibilities that may not be accurate.

Although I think it is one of the 2 that I mentioned, and they won’t tell you about the 1st (a [turn down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-you-were-turned-down-you-put-too-much-pressure-on-yourself-no-bs-job-search-advice-radio/) after an [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) was accepted. Firms don’t like to admit. A person bailed on the job [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).), Even though it is most likely the 1st to there are other possibilities as to why it is that they are circling back to you.

***[The Two Best Questions to Ask at The End of an Interview](https://youtu.be/0p6_1EhiKts)***

## **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### [The Executive Job Search Goldmine](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-executive-job-search-goldmine/)

**Published:** January 21, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3098 An overlooked strategy for senior leaders.

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# The Executive Job Search Goldmine

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3098 An overlooked strategy for senior leaders.

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So you’re a senior executive and your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), it just feels like you’ve hit a wall, right? Well, what if I told you there’s this powerful, kind of overlooked strategy to find that next big role? In this explainer, we are going to unlock what is basically a C-suite goldmine, and trust me, it’s going to completely change how you think about your next [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) move. Okay, let me ask you this. Does this sound familiar? You’re this season leader, right? You’ve got a killer track record of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/), but your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is just stuck.

It’s in neutral. You’re scrolling through the same old job boards, having the same conversations with [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/), and you’re left wondering, where are the real opportunities hiding? Believe me, it’s a super common [frustration](https://thebiggamehunter.us/beat-job-search-frustration-5-expert-tips/) at the top. And here’s the secret.

The big reason why you’re feeling that way, the absolute [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/), most game-changing C-suite [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), they are never posted online. Seriously. They exist in this sort of [hidden job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) that you just can’t get to the old-fashioned way.

So let’s be real. If you’re only looking at what’s publicly posted, you are missing out on the biggest and [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) opportunities, period. So let’s break this down.

What’s the big difference between the standard way of doing things and this new approach? Well, it’s all about a massive shift from being reactive to being super, super proactive. I mean, look at the difference here. It’s night and day.

![Executive](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/executive-portrait-of-smiling-executive-B737QVP-envato-300x200.jpg)The old way, that’s just a numbers game, right? You’re basically throwing your hat in the ring with hundreds of other people, just reacting to a job that’s already out there, but this hidden market, that’s a totally different ball game. It’s not about [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resume-submissions/) at all. It’s about positioning yourself to be the person they call before they even write the job description.

It’s about getting in on the ground floor, building those relationships where the opportunities are actually created. Okay. So where is this magical hidden market? Where do you even find it? Well, this brings us to what the source material calls the executive’s goldmine.

All right, here it is. The goldmine is private equity, you know, PE and venture capital or VC firms. Now think about it.

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These firms aren’t just writing checks. No way. They are actively building and transforming businesses.

And to pull that off, what do they need? They are in constant need of top tier executive talent for all the companies in their [portfolio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/). So what makes them such a goldmine? A few key reasons. First off, they manage these massive portfolios of companies.

And they are always looking to bring in new leaders or upgrade the existing teams. It’s just part of their business model. And second, and this is the big one, they almost never use public job boards.

They just don’t have time for that noise. They work on trust. They hire people they already know or people who get referred by someone they trust.

It’s basically a closed loop system and you want to be on the inside. Okay, so we’ve got the what and the why. Now for the fun part.

Let’s get into the how. I’m talking a clear three-step action plan you can actually use to start tapping into this goldmine. It’s actually a really simple process when you break it down.

Just three steps. Step one, identify. You got to find the PE or VC firms whose investment thesis.

That’s just a fancy way of saying the kinds of companies they invest in lines up with your experience. Step two, reach out. You’re going to contact their talent partners or operating partners directly.

Forget HR. And finally, step three, communicate. This is where you share your value and get on what they call their trusted talent bench.

The whole idea is to be on their radar before they even have a job for you. So when you reach out, what do you actually say? This part is absolutely critical. Do not just send a generic [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), please.

You have to be specific. We’re talking hard metrics, your actual [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) impact. You need to tell them exactly what kind of companies get you excited and pinpoint the situations where you do your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) work.

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Are you a startup person, a turnaround specialist, a high growth leader? This is the info they need to know where you fit. And that brings us to the final piece of the puzzle. And honestly, it might be the most important part.

This whole strategy, it’s not just a tactic you try once. It’s a total mindset shift. The source material just nails it with this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/).

It’s all about the relationship. That’s it. That’s the whole game.

This isn’t about one job [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/). It’s about becoming a known, trusted person in their world. You want to be their go-to leader when the right kind of opportunity pops up.

And that’s really the key takeaway here. Look, this is a long-term play. It might not pay off this week or even this month.

And you know what? That’s totally okay. The real goal is to build these relationships now before you actually need them. You’re planting seeds for your future.

Think of it less like a job hunt and more like strategic [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) management for the long haul. So I’m going to leave you with a question to chew on. Take a hard look at your network.

Is it just an asset that got you your last job? Or is it a living, breathing thing that you are actively building to create opportunities for your next move and the one after that? The gold mine is definitely out there. Now you know where to look.

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### [A Job Search Lesson from Justin Trudeau #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-job-search-lesson-from-justin-trudeau-shorts/)

**Published:** January 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Someone shared a post on LinkedIn about Justin Trudeau and his career that incorrectly pointed to a lesson from his career. Let me correct it for you.

**Content:**

# **A Job Search Lesson from Justin Trudeau #shorts**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Someone shared a post on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) about Justin Trudeau and his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) that incorrectly pointed to a lesson from his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). Let me correct it for you.

There was a fun post that someone shared on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) about Justin Trudeau and his [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path. It sent the wrong message; I’m going to correct it. I’m **[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**. People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for No BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) and [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier.

Justin Trudeau’s [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path: 1994 to 1998: snowboarding instructor. 1998 to 2002: French and math teacher. 2002 to 2008: CBC radio host. 2013 to 2025: Prime Minister of Canada. 2025: Katy Perry’s boyfriend.

And the message this person wrote is, “If you’re bored, change your profession. [Careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) aren’t linear. Let this be a reminder: you’re allowed to outgrow who you were.” I don’t think he exactly outgrew it; I think he was, shall we say, groomed for this throughout his entire life.

But the key part of all of this is how he made some of these transitions was through his network of relationships. Not from snowboarding to French math teacher, but from French math teacher to a radio host, and from a radio host to Prime Minister of Canada. His last name had a lot to do with it; I’m sure he banked on his father’s relationships and his mother’s relationships with officials in Canada.

And that’s a message for all of you. Often we only

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focus on professional relationships, and he had personal ones that he was able to leverage. And particularly for those of you who are starting out in your career—I know I didn’t want to ask my parents for help. You know, I went to people who eventually hired me, but I didn’t have any relationship with them. I made it harder on myself, and that’s one of the messages I want to give all of you: you don’t have to make it as hard on yourself as you may have been doing up until this point. Your network of relationships can help you land that next role.

I have a lot more to help you with at **JobSearch.Community**. Go to the site; there’s a lot there that will help you, and you can become an insider, get [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from me, or purchase products from me individually. I want to help.

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### [5 Proven Tips to Supercharge Your LinkedIn Profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/5-proven-tips-to-supercharge-your-linkedin-profile/)

**Published:** January 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The biggest issue with LinkedIn advice from the internet is that it's often subjective and what works for one person may not work for another.

**Content:**

# 5 Proven Tips to Supercharge Your LinkedIn Profile

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

The biggest issue with [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) advice from the internet is that it’s often subjective and what works for one person may not work for another. However, a recent study of 4000+ studies provides data that takes the guesswork out of what makes a strong [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. This data-driven approach is crucial in providing actionable insights for optimizing your profile.

## 5 Key Takeaways

### Relevant Keywords Are Essential

To rank higher in search results, it’s crucial for relevant keywords to appear 9 to 10 times throughout your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. This emphasizes the importance of strategically incorporating keywords to increase visibility and attract the right opportunities.

### Optimize Your Headline

The headline is the most important section for 46% of respondents, yet only 20% of [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) users update it. This highlights the significant impact of a well-crafted headline in capturing attention and making a strong [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/).

### Craft a Compelling About Section

With 84% of people reading at least the first sentence of a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) about section, and 32% always reading the whole thing, it’s evident that an effective about section can significantly influence engagement and leave a lasting impression on visitors.

### Utilize Your Skills Section

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### Engage with New Connections

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## Master the Art of Keywords on LinkedIn

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### Find Relevant Keywords

Start by bookmarking five job openings that interest you and then copy and paste the job descriptions into a document. Utilize tools like [ChatGPT](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/), Gemini, Claude or Perplexity [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to identify the top 10 keywords that appear most frequently across the job descriptions. This process will help you uncover relevant keywords that you may not have initially considered, enhancing the effectiveness of your profile.

### Strategic Placement of Keywords

Once you have identified the relevant keywords, strategically place them throughout your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. According to recommendations, include the keywords in your headline, about section, experience section, and skill section. Aim for the keywords to appear 9 to 10 times in total within your profile, emphasizing their significance in optimizing your visibility.

## Write Keyword-Driven Headlines

Your headline on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) plays a crucial role in the platform’s search algorithm, making it essential to craft a keyword-driven headline. A well-crafted headline can significantly impact your visibility and make a strong [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/) on visitors to your profile.

### Mistakes to Avoid

- Avoid using abbreviations unless widely recognized in your industry.
- Avoid using your current job title, as this is common among users.
- Avoid generic phrases like “seeking opportunities” or “open to work,” as these are not actively searched for by [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/).

### Effective Headline Formula

Utilize a two-part headline formula, comprising a keyword-filled overview followed by a value illustration with results. This approach instantly adds credibility and sets your profile apart from the majority. Incorporating quantifiable metrics in the second part of your headline can further enhance its impact.

## Steal with Pride

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## Get Your Skills Endorsed on LinkedIn

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### Identify Relevant Skills

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### Ask for Endorsements

- Identify professionals in your network who can provide endorsements for the identified skills.
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### [Crafting Your LinkedIn Mission Statement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/crafting-your-linkedin-mission-statement/)

**Published:** January 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Crafting Your LinkedIn Mission Statement

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3116 There is a [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) opportunity most people miss.

All right, let’s talk about one of the most powerful and honestly most overlooked pieces of real estate you have online. I’m talking about your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile. Today, we’re going to flip the script and turn it from just a history lesson into a powerful vision for your future.

So let me just ask you this straight up. When you look at your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile right now, is it just a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), you know, a list of all the things you’ve done? Or is it a vision, a roadmap for where you’re going next? Because believe me, that one little shift in perspective changes everything. And you know where this vision is supposed to live? It’s right there in that about section.

Seriously, this is the biggest missed opportunity on 99% of profiles out there. So many people treat it like this dusty old summary of past job duties. And that just completely fails to capture who you are and the value you bring to the table.

I mean, just look at the difference here. The old way is all about looking in the rearview mirror, right? It’s a passive list of stuff you did. But the new way, it’s a mission statement that looks forward.

It’s active. It’s you planting a flag and declaring, this is the value I create. And here’s where I’m going.

It’s not a history report. It’s a statement of intent. And this really gets to the heart of it.

Once you reach a certain point in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/), the whole conversation has to change. People aren’t just [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you for what you’ve already done. They’re investing in the impact you’re going to make.

The focus has to pivot from your past accomplishments to your future contributions. Think about it like this. Skills are your foundation.

You absolutely need them. They get you in the game. But they aren’t what makes you stand out anymore.

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Your real differentiator, it’s your wisdom. It’s your strategic insight, your gut feeling for how things really work. And that about section, that is the perfect place to show off that wisdom, not just list your skills.

Okay, so we get the why now, right? It’s about looking forward. So let’s get to the good stuff, the how. I’m going to walk you through a super simple formula you can use like today to rewrite your about section and turn it into that forward-looking story we’ve been talking about.

So here it is, a simple three-step formula. First, you define the need. What’s a big, juicy problem in your industry that you are genuinely passionate about solving? Start there.

Second, you position your value. This is where you connect the dots and show exactly how your unique background makes you the perfect person to tackle that problem. And third, you state your mission.

You just come right out and declare your vision, your commitment. You show them you’re all in. And when you do this, oh man, this is where the magic really happens.

You completely change the game. You stop being just one more person [applying for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-you-applied-to-opens-a-new-posting-on-the-same-site-shorts/), and you become an in-demand [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) that attracts the right kind of opportunities, the kind that actually line up with your mission. And the benefits are just huge.

I mean, you’re not just listing tasks anymore. You’re putting your strategic mind on display. This mission-driven approach works like a magnet.

It connects you with leaders and companies that are on your wavelength. You start attracting opportunities that feel like they were made for you. And maybe most importantly, it just completely elevates the conversation way beyond what’s on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/).

So I’ll just leave you with this one last question. After all this, what story is your profile going to tell tomorrow? Is it going to be one that’s stuck looking in the past or one that’s busy building the future? The choice is all yours. And the really cool part is you can start rewriting that story right now.

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### [You Are a Brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-are-a-brand/)

**Published:** January 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In a world of ordinary, what makes you different?

**Content:**

# You Are a Brand

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In a world of ordinary, what makes you different?

[***5 Tips For Career Branding That Will Take You Far***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iYD)

Are you feeling totally invisible in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)? You know, like your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is just one in a thousand. Yeah, it’s a huge problem in today’s crowded market, but listen, there’s a really powerful way to make sure you’re the one who gets noticed. So let’s break it down.

All right. To really get this, we’ve got to go back in time. Let’s dive into a story from the world of 1960s advertising.

Picture this, a smoke-filled boardroom, a bunch of tobacco [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), and they’ve got this massive problem. See, every single cigarette is basically the same. And to make things worse, they can’t make any health claims anymore.

They are totally, completely stuck. So a creative director is in the room and he’s just listening to them talk about their process. And then he hears one little word, toasted, and bam, a light bulb just goes off over his head.

He points out, Hey, wait a minute. Everybody toasts their tobacco, right? But Lucky Strike could be the only one talking about it. It’s the story you tell.

That’s the one thing that can make you different. And right there, that’s the connection to the modern [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Think about it.

You might have the same degree, similar years of experience, and pretty much the same skills as dozens, maybe even hundreds of other people [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for the same job. So what makes you different? How do you become the one they actually remember? Here’s the hard truth. If your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile just list your job title and your duties, you’re basically invisible.

You’re just another senior financial analyst in a sea of them. To a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who’s scrolling through literally hundreds of profiles, you look identical to everyone else. And let me tell you, that is a failing strategy.

Okay. So what’s the solution? You’ve got to find your own toasted quality. It’s all about figuring out and defining what makes you uniquely valuable.

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In other words, it’s about building your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/). Just look at this transformation right here. Senior financial analyst.

Okay. That’s a job title. It’s what you are, but eliminating inefficiencies, improving quality, growing revenues.

Now that’s what you do. See the difference? That simple little shift turns a totally passive label into an active promise of the value you’re going to deliver. And here’s a perfect example of just how simple, but incredibly powerful a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) can be.

Imagine your entire company network goes down. It’s chaos. Who are you going to call? Some generic systems administrator or the one person who confidently says, I solve problems.

Come on. The choice is totally obvious, right? So what this all boils down to is that your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) is your unique promise of value. It’s your answer to that one critical question.

Why should I [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) you over everybody else? And to find yours, you got to ask yourself some tough questions. Like what problems do I seem to solve for people over and over again? What’s the common thread that runs through all my biggest wins. That’s where you’re going to find the gold.

That’s your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). Okay. I get it.

This might all sound good in theory, but you’re probably wondering, does this stuff actually work in the real world? Well, let’s look at a fantastic case study that shows just how powerful rebranding yourself can be. This story is, it’s just incredible. So this woman was out of work for more than two years, two years.

And as you can imagine, she had pretty much convinced herself. She had nothing of value to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/), but here’s the thing. She had this massive accomplishment.

She wasn’t even talking about, she was part of a team that won a regional Emmy. The second she started [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) herself as an Emmy award winner, everything changed, she got a job almost immediately. The lesson here is huge.

You have to claim your accomplishments. Even if they were part of a team effort, they’re part of what makes you, you. All right.

So let’s say you’ve done the work. You’ve defined your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/). You know, what makes you toasted? Awesome.

But now what? Well, the next step is to make sure the whole world knows it. So where exactly do you put this new message to work? The magic word here is consistency. Your [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) has to show up everywhere to create one single unified message about who you are.

We’re talking a powerful [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) headline that makes people stop scrolling, a value proposition deck that tells your story, even something as simple as your business card or your email signature, every single one of these little touch points reinforces your professional image. And when you start doing this, something amazing happens. You stop being just another applicant.

You become a strategic marketer for the most important product you’ll ever have yourself. And trust me, that sends a really powerful signal to [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/). It tells them you’re a pro who gets how to communicate value.

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But hold on. This goes so much deeper than just coming up with a catchy marketing slogan for a [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) to have real power. It’s got to be authentic.

It has to be rooted in who you actually are. It has to be rooted in your character. Just imagine you’re in a final [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) and you say something like this.

You say, look, at this point, I’m sure we’re all qualified to do the job. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, I’m very proud of my reputation and my character. Wow.

When all the candidates are technically qualified, what’s left? It’s character. It’s integrity. It’s your reputation.

And that, that is the ultimate differentiator. You can’t fake it and you can’t copy it. It’s the foundation of trust.

And that’s what every employer is really looking for. There’s this idea. Sometimes it’s called the law of the harvest, and it really shows how character is built step by step.

It’s not something that happens overnight, right? It all starts with a single thought. That thought leads you to take an action. You repeat that action enough.

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### [Stupid Interview Mistakes: Not Knowing When to Shut Up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-interview-mistakes-not-knowing-when-to-shut-up-video/)

**Published:** January 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When I did recruiting, this mistake drove me crazy! It cost too many people way too many opportunities.

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# Stupid Interview Mistakes: Not Knowing When to Shut Up

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### [A Warning and Strategy for AI Displacement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-warning-and-strategy-for-ai-displacement/)

**Published:** January 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you’re a college-educated office professional, the "white-collar" safety net is gone.. AI is coming for your job, and every task you perform is effectively training the machine to replace you.

**Content:**

# Warning and Strategy for AI Displacement

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

![A Warning and Strategy for AI Displacement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/A-Warning-and-Strategy-for-AI-Displacement-scaled.png)

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### [Reinventing Your Career: Expert Advice for a Successful Transition](https://thebiggamehunter.us/reinventing-your-career-expert-advice-for-a-successful-transition/)

**Published:** January 16, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In today's  job market, the notion of job security has become a myth.

**Content:**

# Reinventing Your Career: Expert Advice for a Successful Transition

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In today’s rapidly changing job market, the notion of job security has become a myth. Long gone are the days of lifelong [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) with a single company. It’s essential to embrace the need for self-reliance and adaptability in [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/).

## Developing Self-Awareness and Focusing on Your Unique Value

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## The Power of Journaling for Self-Reflection and Uncovering Limiting Beliefs

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### [Three Principles to Apply When Considering a Career Change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/three-principles-to-apply-when-considering-a-career-change/)

**Published:** January 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** There are three underlying considerations for most people.

**Content:**

# Three Principles to Apply When Considering a Career Change

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

When I considered changing [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) and transitioning from recruiting to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), I was scared. If the role, I spent a lifetime in one field and now is considering something that I thought would be completely different. I was insecure and decided to rule out options rather than focus on what to do next.

I did formal coach [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) which I discovered was geared more toward life [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/), something I discovered for most was pretty low-paying and extremely insecure. I also learned from coach [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) that schools focus on the craft of being a coach and do little to teach the business of [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/).

Fortunately, from all the years I spent in recruiting, I had a good sense of how to promote myself to stand out from others.

What I started to think about my transition and apply it to others, I realized that there were three underlying considerations for most people.

1. **Is there a market for what you do where you want to do it?** Can you find work doing what you want to do where you want to do it? That could be either as an employee or freelancer. A member with marketplaces existing that allow you to do remote work with clients globally when you do the transition can you pick up work freelancing to get your initial experience? If not, do [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people with the skills that you want to use? If there is no work for what you want to do, what you will be having as a hobby, not a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). That’s okay. Some people make money from their hobbies. Just not many.
2. **Do you have a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) strategy?** Most people spend their time flinging [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) at job ads like burgers at a fast-food restaurant. Constant action. Constant motion. However, unlike the fast-food restaurant, they don’t get results ([interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and hires). Quality job searches are heavily laden with [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). After all, statistics show that between 70 and 80% of positions are filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). That includes introductions to people that your network knows who you don’t. You will also need a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), a quality [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile for your new role, introductions to [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), many of whom won’t be able to help you, finding specialty and mass job boards that might have positions available for someone like you (a minor miracle but it does happen), as well as [branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) and building [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) awareness.
3. I can’t [stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-stress-2/) support enough. You will go through [tough times](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-in-a-troubled-economy/) as well as times where your head will swell to the size of a huge melon. Emotional support is a big need for people and you won’t know that you need it until you’re in the middle of it. In addition, there is concrete support about the search process that you will need, enough you have been successful [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) before. You will be playing in a different sandbox with different rules to it. You can learn those rules through trial and error but that is inefficient. Find people who can advise you, even if you have to pay for the service.

There will be times where you will feel the urge to quit because you’re not getting the results that you want as soon as you want them. Your lack of knowledge and experience may feel painful to you. After all, if you are competent or even an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/) at your current role and are taking a step sideways to something completely different, it can feel frustrating to not get the response, let alone the respect used to.

Your grit and perseverance will be tested. However, if you go into this transition knowing that there’s a market for what you want to be doing, have a clear and proven strategy for getting there as well as tactics and support, with time and patience you will find yourself in a new [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/).

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### [Employer Branding: Pay Attention to Candidate Experience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-pay-attention-to-candidate-experience/)

**Published:** January 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Whether you are a new manager or an old hand, this is one of the first things you need to learn to ask so that you manage effectively.

**Content:**

# Employer Branding: Pay Attention to Candidate Experience

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

Whether you are a new manager or an old hand, this is one of the first things you need to learn to ask so that you manage effectively.

***[Employer Branding: Do You Know Why They Contact You?](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jcE)***

One of the ways to build an employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) is to pay attention to what a job applicant’s experience is. How did they find you, for example? Where and when did they apply? And in [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) how long does it take for you to respond to their [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/)?

Measuring a variety of pieces of data is very helpful, including, do you ghost people at the end when they’re being rejected or do you send them a courteous letter that basically says something to the effect of ‘One of the most difficult things we have to do is to let someone know that they’ve been rejected. Unfortunately, that’s the case with you.’

Sending a letter like that shows a degree of empathy and compassion. What sort of communication did people have with this person?

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### [What Employers Look for When They Read Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-employers-look-for-when-they-read-your-resume/)

**Published:** January 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I think it is extremely simple to figure out how to construct a resume.

**Content:**

# What Employers Look for When They Read Your Resume

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

I think it is extremely simple to figure out how to construct a resume– find out what a company is looking for and tell them that you have done the exact same thing before.

As I tell people, “Pretend a hyperactive 6-year-old is going to read your resume– make the fit obvious to them.”

But doing that seems to be too hard for most job hunter to do because they keep flipping the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) over and over again to every job ad they see as though that will get them lots of [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) . . . which it won’t.

Why do I say that? Because the broken watch is right twice a day and sending the same [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to every job ad is like the broken watch–it will get you some results but you can do better.

How?

Firms only care about relevant work that you have done within the past few years that fits what they are looking for. Copy and paste the requirements of the job into the body of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) where you have performed the task they’ve specified. Then, detail what you have done in that chronological section of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that explains the experience you have that relates to the specification even if you use the same or similar language to what is in the job description.

Next, remove extraneous information that isn’t relevant to the position you want to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) for.

Doing this will make the employer feel confident that [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) you will not waste their time.

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 2900 episodes. ![Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/career-coach-office-hours-june-18-2021-jobsearchtv-com0_thumbnail-300x169.jpg)

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### [A Prompt to Help Prepare for a Consulting Case Interview #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-prompt-to-help-prepare-for-a-consulting-case-interview-shorts/)

**Published:** January 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** AI can help prepare you for case interviews. This prompt will do a great job.

**Content:**

#  A Prompt to Help Prepare for a Consulting Case Interview #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/tU_vXI1eDlE)***

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can help prepare you for case [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/). This prompt will do a great job.

## [***The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition: A Student’s Guide***](https://amzn.to/4sIOWsS)

I subscribe to a newsletter called [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) News Roundup. It comes out daily. It’s free.

Subscribe if you like. Now, I caught something in a weekend edition of it that I thought I’d share with you. No credit to me.

All credit to [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) News Roundup. And what it is is a prompt to help you prepare for a case study [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). The prompt goes, I’m practicing for consulting [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/).

Set up this practice scenario for me using the case I’ve uploaded. Extract the data into a spreadsheet model with formulas and frameworks. Then, tell me what questions I should focus on.

After I finish my analysis and write my recommendation, I’ll share it for [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/). Review it like a senior partner would. Check my numbers.

Evaluate my logic and tell me specifically what needs improvement. Now, this is originally presented as though you’re going to use Claude. I don’t know what they did was use the different models and decide Claude gave the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) solution for it.

But I want to share this with you. Experiment. Again, they recommended Claude and hope you found this helpful.

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### [Don't Act Desperate!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-act-desperate-2/)

**Published:** January 20, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3097 It is painful to see people acting desperate during their job search.

**Content:**

# Don’t Act Desperate!

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3097 It is painful to see people acting desperate during their [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/).

[***The Executive Playbook: Navigating a C Suite Transition***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-orx)

All right, let’s get right into it. We’ve all been there, right? You send out the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/4-steps-to-getting-better-resume-results-lose-25-pounds-grow-hair-and-lose-3-inches-of-belly-fat/), you absolutely crush the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/going-on-an-interview-in-a-bad-mood-shorts/), and then nothing, just waiting. And that waiting period can be brutal.

Every minute feels like an hour. The urge to [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/), to just check in one more time, is so strong. But what if I told you that could actually be hurting your chances? Today, we’re gonna break down a totally different way to think about the [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/).

I know, it sounds a little weird, but hear me out. Have you ever thought about it this way? The whole dynamic of waiting for a [job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/oops-the-1-costly-mistake-people-make-when-accepting-job-offers/), it has a lot in common with a courtship. You know, there are these unwritten rules, certain expectations, and this really delicate dance you have to do.

So, check this out. A recruiting veteran, someone with over 40 years in the game, shared this pretty surprising insight. He said that, just like in dating, being a little bit hard to get can actually make a candidate seem more appealing.

Now, that kinda goes against everything we think we know, right? So let’s really dig into what that actually means. Okay, so let’s explore this courtship ritual. The goal here isn’t to be cold or to act like you don’t care, not at all.

It’s about finding that sweet spot where you’re showing you’re enthusiastic and interested, but without coming across as way too aggressive or, even worse, desperate. And this, right here, is where it can all go wrong. When you push too hard, too fast, it can create this really negative vibe.

The source material uses some pretty strong words. Comparing an overly aggressive job seeker to a creep or a stalker. Look, nobody wants to [be seen](https://thebiggamehunter.us/be-seen-be-known-shorts/) that way, but it just shows how easily our good intentions can get completely misinterpreted.

And that brings us right to our next point, the desperation turnoff. Here, we’re gonna look at the real-world consequences of being too eager and see why your [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) strategy might actually be blowing up in your face. This really gets to the heart of the problem, doesn’t it? It’s this huge disconnect.

In your head, you’re thinking, hey, I’m being proactive. I’m showing them I really want this. But from their side of the desk, that exact same behavior can just look desperate and, frankly, annoying.

It’s a classic case of your intent versus their perception. Yeah, I mean, when you [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-follow-up-if-the-employer-said-no-calls-or-emails/) again and again and again, it stops feeling like professional interest. It starts to feel like you’re begging.

And that right there is a massive turnoff for any employer. They wanna hire a confident pro, not someone who seems like they’re pleading for a shot. And here’s the real kicker, the reason this whole approach just doesn’t work.

A lot of the time, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) team simply isn’t ready to make a decision. They’ve got their own process, their own internal timelines. Your constant check-ins don’t magically speed things up.

All they do is add pressure. And what’s the natural human reaction to that? They get uncomfortable, and they start to pull back to push you away. And if you think this is all just a bit of an exaggeration, get this, the source mentions that some candidates will call their [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) up to three times in a single day, three.

I mean, wow, that’s a perfect example of how this can go way, way over the top. And here’s how a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) thinks about that. They just start ignoring those calls.

[***The Disengaged Interviewer***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oqV)

Why? Well, for one, they’re not gonna reward what they see as bad behavior. But more importantly, think about it. Every single minute they spend on the phone with you is a minute they are not spending doing the very thing you want them to do, finding you a job.

It literally works against you. Okay, okay, so we’ve talked a lot about what not to do. Let’s flip this around and talk about the solution.

This section is all about a smarter, way more effective strategy that respects the employer’s timeline and keeps you looking professional and confident. And you know what? The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) strategy is actually really, really simple. It’s all about just changing your mindset.

First things first, just slow down, take a breath. The whole key is to get off your timeline and onto theirs, work at their pace. And that means you swap out all those constant calls for just an occasional simple note.

That’s it, it’s really that straightforward. So what does a good note even look like? Well, the source provides a perfect example. See how simple that is? Hi, hadn’t heard from you.

Has there been any movement on this role? It’s polite, it’s to the point, and there’s zero pressure. It just says, hey, I’m still interested without demanding anything. This is what professional persistence looks like.

So here’s a little mental checklist for you. Before you hit send on that next [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/), just run through this real quick in your head. Is it occasional? Is it simple? Am I respecting their timeline? And the big one, am I avoiding putting pressure on them? If you can say yes to all of these, you’re golden.

This brings us to our final and honestly most important section, because everything we’ve talked about, all these strategies, all this advice, it all boils down to one single super powerful principle, a simple empathy test. So before you do anything else, before you pick up that phone or you start typing that email, the advice is to just pause just for a second. And in that pause, do this one simple thing.

Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. I mean, really imagine it. You’re the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-to-tell-the-agency-recruiter-to-work-for-you-jobsearchtv-com/) with dozens of candidates, a packed schedule, and your own deadlines.

How would your [follow-up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-time-your-interview-follow-up-shorts/) feel to them? Ultimately, it all just comes down to this one question. Considering everything from their perspective, is this the way you would want to be treated? The answer to that question will guide you to the right decision every single time.

***[I’m Interviewing For a Job and Saw That It Has Been Re-Posted](https://youtu.be/QLRNqHXb65M)***

### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

People hire [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the producer and former host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) with over 3000 episodes. ![Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JeffAltman-1-249x300.jpg)

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### [Next Level Interview Stories](https://thebiggamehunter.us/next-level-interview-stories/)

**Published:** January 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** EP 3115 Next-Level Interview Stories shows you how to ditch boring STAR answers and turn your experience into unforgettable, high-impact stories that actually get you hired.

**Content:**

# Next Level Interview Stories

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

EP 3115 Next-Level [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Stories shows you how to ditch boring STAR answers and turn your experience into unforgettable, high-impact stories that actually get you hired. In just a few minutes, you learn three powerful frameworks—the Impact Formula, classic narrative plots, and the Hollywood approach—to prove your value in any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). Perfect for anyone tired of sounding like every other and ready to become the **standout** story in the room.

- **01:06** – Why the STAR method isn’t enough.
- **01:47** – The critical mindset shift: selling results.
- **02:51** – The Impact Formula for data-driven stories.
- **03:45** – Using classic narrative plots to show character.
- **04:47** – The Hollywood Approach: building an emotional bond.
- **05:42** – Choosing the right framework for your specific role.

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Welcome to The Explainer. Look, we’re gonna get right into it today. We’re talking about [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) stories, but not the basic stuff you’ve heard a million times.

We’re talking about the stories that actually get you hired. So, let’s kick things off with a question I bet you’ve thought about. You’re in a tough job market, the competition is stiff, how do you make sure your story is the one they’re still talking about at the end of the day? Especially when it feels like everyone’s telling the same old story.

I love this [quote](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) from Steve Robbins. It’s a little harsh, but he’s got a point. He says you’re basically a hamburger wearing nicer clothes.

You’ve got to show them why you’re the premium gourmet burger, not the one from the dollar menu. And your story? That’s your secret sauce. It’s how you prove you’re that top-shelf choice.

So, to help you do that, here’s what we’re gonna cover. First, we’ll talk about the problem with the STAR method. Then, a quick mindset shift.

After that, we’ll dive into three awesome frameworks. The impact formula, classic narrative plots, and the Hollywood approach. And finally, we’ll figure out how you can choose the perfect story for any situation.

Alright, let’s jump right in. We’re gonna start with what everyone calls the gold standard for [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) and, well, poke a few holes in it. Okay, so you’ve definitely heard of the STAR method, right? Situation, task, action, result.

And yeah, it’s fine. It’s a solid way to structure your [thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), especially for more junior roles. And then there’s it’s slightly more sophisticated cousin, SOAR, which throws in objective or obstacles, usually better for manager roles.

They’re good starting blocks, for sure. But here is the massive problem. Because everyone is coached on this, it’s become a [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/).

It can completely suck the life and personality out of your story. You end up sounding like a robot, just ticking off boxes. And when you sound exactly like the last five people they interviewed, you’re just blending into the background.

[***Interviewing is a Performance: Are You Failing the Script?***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozc)

And that’s the last thing you want to do. But you know what’s really interesting? The problem isn’t just the formula itself. It’s something deeper.

It’s a fundamental [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) in what most of us are taught to focus on. It’s all about mindset. So many of us fall into this [trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/).

I call it the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) recital. You’re basically just reading your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) out loud, you know, listing your skills and qualifications. But here’s the thing.

They’ve already read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Doing a live performance of it, it adds absolutely zero new value. And let’s be honest, it can be super boring for the interviewer.

And that brings us to the most important mindset shift you can make. Stop selling what you have. Your experience, your skills.

Instead, start selling what you can do. Your impact, your results. You need to prove the value you’re gonna create for them.

Because this is the secret, right? This is what it all comes down to. Underneath all their questions, the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager is really just asking one thing over and over. What can you actually do for me and my team? They have a problem and they’re [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) someone to solve it.

Your entire job in that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is to provide the proof, the cold hard evidence that you are that solution. Okay, so with that in mind, let’s get into our first alternative framework. This one is super simple, really direct and it’s an absolute powerhouse for roles where data is king.

It’s called the impact formula and it’s just three easy steps. One, start with your achievement. What did you accomplish? Two, explain your action.

How, specifically, did you do it? And then three, the most important part, the knockout punch, the impact. What was the measurable, quantifiable outcome? That last piece is everything. It takes what you did in the past and turns it into a promise of what you’ll do for them.

And that’s why this is so perfect for any kind of analytical, technical or finance role. It cuts right through the fluff. You’re not just saying, oh, I’m good with data.

You’re giving them a tiny case study that proves it. I did this which resulted in that. It’s just undeniable data-backed proof that you solve problems.

Alright, framework number two. Now we’re gonna move away from pure data and into something a little more human. We’re gonna tap into the power of classic storytelling to show things like character and leadership.

So cultural anthropologist Dr. Adrian McIntyre points out that our brains are literally hardwired to love certain types of stories. Think about it. Conquering the underdog story, the quest.

You can use these same plots to frame your work experiences. So did you fix a huge, messy, systemic problem? Boom, that’s your conquering the monster story. Did you [grind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/gym-grind-is-like-job-search-grind-shorts/) for months on a long-term project? That’s the quest.

You’re not being overly dramatic. You’re just giving them a familiar, compelling narrative that sticks in their brain. Let’s take the underdog plot.

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I mean, who doesn’t love a good underdog story? When you tell a story about how your tiny team took on a huge competitor and won, you’re not just giving a project update. No way. You’re telling a story about grit, about being scrappy, about inspiring a team to do the impossible.

That stuff, it reveals way more about you than any bullet point on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) ever could. Okay, on to our final framework. And this one, this one is my favorite.

We’re taking a page directly out of the Hollywood playbook to create a real emotional connection. Hollywood writer Justin Sternberg said something that just hits the nail on the head. A writer has to only write what they feel.

And that’s the key. The [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) stories are built on emotion, not just facts. In an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), that means you’re not just listing steps.

You’re making them feel the pressure you were under, the challenge you faced, and then the satisfaction of that big win. You’re bringing them along for the ride. Neuroscientists talk about the downstairs brain.

That’s the emotional, gut-feeling part of us. This Hollywood approach is designed to speak directly to that part of the interviewer. When you tell a story that makes them feel your passion and competence, you’re creating a bond that logic just can’t break.

They won’t just remember what you did, they’ll remember how you made them feel. And trust me, that’s what gets you the job. Okay, so we’ve got three amazing new frameworks in our toolkit.

So the big question is, which one do you use and when? And here’s a super simple guide to help you decide. If you’re in a data-driven or technical role, go with the IMPACT formula. Clear, quantifiable proof.

Perfect. For leadership or team-based roles, use those classic narrative plots to really show your character. And for any high-stakes sales or mission-driven company, that’s where you pull out the Hollywood approach to build that unforgettable emotional connection.

It’s all about matching the framework to the role. So at the end of the day, every single [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is an opportunity. It’s a chance to tell the story of the value you’re going to bring to the table.

The only question is, what story are you going to tell?

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### **ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER**

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### ***[The “Too Experienced” Card is BS](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ozZ)***

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### [Employer Branding: Do You Know Why They Contact You? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/employer-branding-do-you-know-why-they-contact-you/)

**Published:** January 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Building an employer brand starts with collecting basic data.

**Content:**

# Employer Branding: Do You Know Why They Contact You? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/0nHB0_MVEf4)

Building an employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) starts with collecting basic data.

00:00

Developing an employer [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-may-not-think-of-yourself-as-having-a-brand-shorts/) can be as easy as having an online questionnaire for people who approach your firm. I’m not talking about the [application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-applications-2/); I’m talking about a questionnaire for them during the process or after the process that asks a few questions.

00:17

What was it that attracted you to our organization? Why was it that you were interested in contacting us to work for us? Now, if it was as simple as ‘I heard you had a job open,’ that’s not really what you’re going for. What you’re going for is texture.

00:33

People who actually communicate real reasons for why they want to join your firm. What was your experience like? Did they affirm those impressions, or did they distort those impressions? You’re going for data that’s going to help you with others.

00:49

[There’s a lot more at my website, TheBigGameHunter.us](http://www.TheBigGameHunter.us) go to the site, go to the blog, go explore

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He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

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### [Stupid Career Mistakes: You Never Meet New People](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-career-mistakes-you-never-meet-new-people/)

**Published:** January 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Is it any wonder that you don't have a network when you need one!!!

**Content:**

# **Stupid Career Mistakes: You Never Meet New People**

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Is it any wonder that you don’t have a network when you need one!!!

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I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the head coach for JobSearch.Community. And this is one of those stupid career [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that I want to point out to you whether you’re [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) or not. Hopefully, you’re in the not category not because I don’t think you can get a job but I want you to start thinking ahead to when you are looking for a job. This [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is a classic one that people make professionally and it’s a notion of never meeting anyone new, never developing relationships with anyone new.

They do the same thing repetitively every day of their life and then they wonder, hey, I’m looking for a job. Who’s gonna help me? And the answer is no one because you know the same four people at work. You look at the same three faces on your commute and if you’re driving, you don’t even have that.

You go to the same place for lunch every day, give people a head nod and that’s as much engagement as you have. Then you commute home to your wife, husband, partner, kids and you never go meet anyone new and the statistics are very clear that 70 percent of positions are filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and 70 percent of them or 49 percent come as a result of introductions to people that your network knows you don’t. Now, I’m not saying that it’s as simple as meeting new people.

I’m saying that that’s the launch point and then from there, you have to connect with them from time to time. A quick email, a quick text, a quick message, a note in the mail. You remember what the mail is, right? Whatever form you take, you stay in contact with folks.

Christmas, the holidays, they’re a great time of the year to do it for everyone because you just drop a quick note to someone and you update them at that time. Holidays are a wonderful time of the year to reconnect. I saw your name.

I just wanted to reach out to you and see how you were. What a wonderful time just to spend a little bit of time when things are a little slower or in the aftermath of the holidays to do that. It’s really very simple.

If you don’t start connecting with people, there’s no one there to help you when you need it and in connecting with people, you have to be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to help others. Duh! You think anyone’s going to help you if they know jack shit about you or you do nothing to help them when they need you? So, be a gracious human being. Start connecting with more people.

Start helping more people. It will go a long way toward helping you when you need help. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

I hope you found this helpful. Notice all the help that’s going on here. Help, help, helpful.

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Follow me on YouTube. Just click that little icon in the lower left hand corner.

Follow me there every time I upload a video which is certainly about . . . well, I generally do one or two a day.

Enjoy it. It’ll be fun. You can say, hey, I know that guy.

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Have a great day and take care

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### [A Warning for Information Workers #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-warning-for-information-workers-shorts/)

**Published:** January 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** The economy is changing. You need a plan.

**Content:**

# A Warning for Information Workers #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/JofaGqRsFGc)

The economy is changing. You need a plan.

[***Stupid Resume Mistakes– Objectives***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9lM)

If you’re an information worker, if you’re the classic [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), college-educated office professional—you know, what they used to call a white-collar worker—yes, it’s important to find a job. But I also want you to think of this as a subsidized period for looking for a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, looking for an exit ramp for the work that you’re doing.

Why? Because [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is coming for your job. They’re going to replace you at some point. It’s getting smarter, and everything you’re doing is [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/hire-for-attitude-train-for-skills-is-bs-shorts/) it to replace you. So yes, get a job; don’t waste a lot of time with it. But focus on landing somewhere so that, this way, you can start paying attention to developing an exit ramp from doing things that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can do far better than you.

I have a lot more to help you land that job at **JobSearch.Community**. You can become an insider, get access to [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) from me—all my information products are available to you there, or you can purchase them individually. Because I’m trying to help more people land before the tsunami takes over.

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### [Stop Kidding Yourself: AI Is Coming for Your White-Collar Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-kidding-yourself-ai-is-coming-for-your-white-collar-job/)

**Published:** January 15, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you are an information worker under 50 with a college degree, you’ve likely spent your career believing your "intellectual capital" was your armor.

**Content:**

# Stop Kidding Yourself: AI Is Coming for Your White-Collar Job

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

If you are an information worker under 50 with a college degree, you’ve likely spent [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) believing your “intellectual capital” was your armor. You thought automation was a problem for the factory floor, not the corner office or the Zoom call.

**You were wrong.**

As we move through 2026, the data is no longer theoretical. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isn’t just “augmenting” work; it’s eating the tasks that used to justify your [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). We are seeing a white-collar bloodbath where entry-level roles are vanishing and mid-tier management is being compressed. If your job involves “processing,” “analyzing,” or “summarizing,” you are standing on a melting ice cube.

### The Myth of Professional Immunity

For years, the “Big Game” was about climbing the ladder. But the ladder is being replaced by models that doesn’t need a 401(k) or a lunch break. If you’re under 50, you have at least 15 to [20 years](https://thebiggamehunter.us/20-years-from-now-nobscoachingadvice-com-shorts/) of “work” left. Do you honestly think your current role—in its current form—will exist in 2035?

The “No B.S.” reality is that many of you are currently the help for a system that is learning how to help itself. Companies are already using [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) to do heavy lifting in [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/), legal discovery, accounting, and even software development. They aren’t just looking to make you more productive; they are looking to see how many of you they actually need to keep the lights on.

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### Step 1: Get In While the Getting is Good

If you are currently unemployed or feeling the “vibe shift” at your current firm, your first priority is to **find a seat before the music stops.** Don’t wait for the perfect role. In a contracting market, “perfect” is the enemy of “paid.” You need a base of operations.

- **Target the “Human” Gaps:** Focus on roles that require high-stakes negotiation, complex empathy, or “tacit knowledge”—the kind of judgment that comes from years of seeing things go wrong. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is great at “book learning,” but it’s terrible at office politics and navigating human ego.
- **Fix Your Narrative:** Stop talking about your ability to “manage data.” Talk about your ability to solve problems that the data can’t account for.

### Step 2: Build Your Exit Ramp

Once you’ve secured the bag, do not get comfortable. Complacency in 2026 is a [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) death sentence. You need to treat your current job as a subsidized transition period.

While you are collecting that paycheck, you must be looking for your **exit ramp.** This isn’t just about another job; it’s about shifting to a model of work that [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can’t easily replicate.

1. **[Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) over [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/):** Look for opportunities where you own a piece of the output, not just get paid for the hours you put in.
2. **The “Physical” Pivot:** It sounds counterintuitive for the college-educated elite, but roles tethered to the physical world—specialized trades, high-end hospitality, complex logistics, or onsite healthcare—have a much longer shelf life than “Digital Content Strategist.”
3. **The Solopreneur Shift:** Use your current corporate access to build a network that will support you as a specialized [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/). When the big firms finish their “AI-driven restructuring,” they will still need humans to fix the messes the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) makes. Be that human.

### The Bottom Line

The “Big Game Hunter” perspective is simple: **[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) because they have a problem.** Right now, many [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) see “expensive human labor” as their biggest problem.

If you are under 50, you cannot afford to play defense for the next two decades. Get a job now to stabilize your finances, but keep your eyes on the door. The goal isn’t to retire from your current company; it’s to exit on your own terms before the algorithm decides you’re an “unnecessary overhead.”

Be the hunter, not the prey.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Stop Kidding Yourself](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-kidding-yourself/)

**Published:** January 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** If you’re a college-educated information worker under 50, the intellectual capital you’ve spent decades building is no longer the armor you think it is.

**Content:**

# Stop Kidding Yourself

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

Stop kidding yourself.

If you’re a college-educated information worker under 50, the intellectual capital you’ve spent decades building is no longer the armor you think it is.

The No B.S. reality?

[AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) isn’t just “augmenting” your work anymore. It’s eating the tasks that justify your high [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). If your job involves processing, analyzing, or summarizing, you are standing on a melting ice cube.

In my years as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and coach, I’ve seen market shifts, but nothing like this. This isn’t just about automation on a factory floor; it’s a white-collar bloodbath. Entry-level roles are vanishing, and mid-tier management is being compressed into models that doesn’t need a 401(k) or a lunch break.

If you’ve got 15+ years of [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) left, you need a strategy that isn’t based on hope. Here is the game plan:

**1. Find a Seat Before the Music Stops** If you’re currently looking, stop waiting for the “perfect” role. “Perfect” is the enemy of “paid” whether you are a contractor or an employee. Secure a base of operations now. Target roles that require high-stakes negotiation, complex empathy, or the kind of tacit knowledge [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) can’t replicate. [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) is great at book learning; it’s terrible at navigating human ego and office politics.

**2. Don’t Get Comfortable** Once you’re in, don’t [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) a paycheck for permanent safety. Tr (ou never should but now, it is urgent you not make that [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/)). Treat your current job as a subsidized transition period. While they’re paying you, you should be scouting your **Exit Ramp.**

**3. Build Your Own “Off-Road” Strategy** What does a viable exit ramp look like?

- **[Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) over [Salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/):** Shift toward owning the output, not just trading hours for dollars.
- **The “Human” Pivot:** Focus on specialized roles tethered to the physical world or high-level consulting where you fix the messes the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) inevitably makes.
- **Judgment over Data:** Stop being a “data manager” and start being a “problem solver.”

The game has changed. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) increasingly view expensive human labor as a problem to be solved by technology.

Be the hunter, not the prey. Get the job, stabilize your finances, and keep your eyes on the door. You want to exit on your own terms before a line of code decides you’re “unnecessary overhead.”

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [The Big Lesson from Television for Executive Job Hunters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-big-lesson-from-television-for-job-hunters/)

**Published:** January 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I take a lesson from tv and apply it to job search tailored to executives. 

**Content:**

# The Big Lesson from Television for Executive Job Hunters

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

**I take a lesson from tv and apply it to [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) tailored to [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/). (from the archives)**

Hi, I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m called [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I coach people to play their game big. And this is a lesson that I want to [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) you that I think comes right out of television.

And the lesson really is about . . . well, let me just go through the story. How many crime shows have you seen where weeks are compressed into one hour and, at the end, the good guy wins? That’s pretty much the plot of every show I’ve ever seen. Probably is the same for you, too.

And here’s what unfortunately happens. Job hunters have an unrealistic expectation of what’s going to occur. Now, first of all, this one lesson is valid.

And that lesson is people have missed something along the way. And, as a job hunter, one of the things you have to do is figure out where your misses are. And that’s not necessarily about deficiencies in your background, but it can be about your execution.

So, for you as an executive, for you as a senior professional, I want to remind you that, although you can do the job, you may not be able to have the skills yet. You may not have learned what’s necessary to find the job. Even though you’ve hired hundreds of people in your past, it’s different being on the other side of the desk.

I can’t tell you the number of [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/) I’ve worked with who’ve hired so many people, you put them in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) seat, and suddenly, they’re stammering idiots. And you don’t want to necessarily be that. And most of you wouldn’t be, but you could be amateurs from there, making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and confessing things about your background that are completely unnecessary.

Now, I want to be clear. I hate people who are sanitized on the other side when I [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) them. I love people with personality.

But they’re focused. They’re targeted. They have a clear idea of what they’re trying to accomplish.

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And I want to make sure that, from the standpoint of you [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), you don’t make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of thinking that this is a sprint that you’re going through. You’re not going to make the [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) of believing that you can just walk into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) without any preparation whatsoever. And like a meeting which you walked into unprepared, be able to ace it.

It doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t work that way on TV. Eventually, they find what the miss was, and they solve the crime in the course of the investigation.

Life isn’t a TV show. And people make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/). They make tons of them in [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

And for you, as an executive, I’m simply going to say, you have to do your homework. You can’t behave like an amateur. You have to go out there and sell yourself and be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) to talk about your experiences in ways that are useful for the audience to understand . . . the audience being the people that you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) with . . . to understand how you can deliver the goods for them.

And that’s going to involve some preparation on your part and understanding of the role. So, I’ve got some great videos. Watch the one called the single [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) question you should ask on any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

There are a series of them in the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) playlist that I think you’ll find helpful. But, at the end of the day, I can’t make you prepare. But you know how important preparation is.

After all, you haven’t been winging it throughout your entire career. You’ve been well [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/). That’s how you’ve gotten to the seat that you’re in.

Don’t take the shortcuts here. Don’t make the rookie [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that cost you. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/).

I hope you found this helpful. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot there that you can watch, listen to or read that’s going to help you find work more quickly. And, if we are connected on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), send a connection request at [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/).com forward slash I am forward slash TheBigGameHunter.

And, lastly, get a coach. I do [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/). I’d love to help you, but you can find out about that on my website.

But, at the end of the day, get someone to coach you and help you deliver so that you don’t spend unnecessary months thrashing around, making [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that are completely unnecessary if you had someone to guide you. Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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### [Is It OK to Say the Job Was Misrepresented to Me? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-ok-to-say-the-job-was-misrepresented-to-me-shorts/)

**Published:** January 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** When employers ask why you are on the job market is it okay to say that the role you are currently in was one you were not hired for

**Content:**

# Is It OK to Say the Job Was Misrepresented to Me? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/bTx6NoVejE0)

When [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) ask why you are on [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) is it okay to say that the role you are currently in was one you were not hired for (because of COVID) and not presented to you in the correct way and therefore you want to do something else more aligned with your skill set and/or what you thought you would be doing. Or should the focus be on wanting a new challenge, growth, etc.?

Originally asked when Covid was winding down but the concept is the same for any situation.

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I think we can simplify that one, too. And the way to simplify it is to say something along the lines of, because I’m a believer that fewer words are better. Fewer words are more powerful.

And thus, you can answer the question by saying something to the effect of, by the way, I am answering your questions. I’ve done the first two already. I’m on the third.

So, you can say something along the lines of, you know, I joined this firm. And I had an expectation I’d be doing such and such. And COVID was what it was, you know, firms became desperate, and they start to scramble to survive.

And, you know, everyone had to [adapt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-b-s-job-search-advice-adapt/) to what the situation is. Now, as things are, well, they’re ramping up, but think of it in terms of talking about it during COVID times and peak COVID times. Now that things are winding down, you might just simply pause and say to them, you know, I want to do the kind of work that I was, I thought I was hired to do and where my skill set is, and thus, focus on the kind of work you want to do.

Another way, since we’re in the middle of a COVID outbreak, is to talk about, you know, the only reason I’m looking is to find something more in line with my skill set. I was hired to do such and such. And this firm responded by changing my role, changing my responsibilities, things along those lines, so that they could survive.

Makes perfect sense to me. But, you know, we’re in a situation now where we all have to tough it out. And this is going to probably go on for a while.

And I don’t want to do the wrong kind of work forever. I want to do the right kind of work with another firm of good quality, like the one I’m in now, but doing the right kind of work that will use my skills. So that might be a way that you answer during another outbreak.

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### [You Only Lack Experience #shorts #quotes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/you-only-lack-experience-career-angles-shorts-quotes/)

**Published:** January 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Robert Brault is an opera singer who offers a wise perspective on experience.

**Content:**

# You Only Lack Experience #shorts #quotes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Robert Brault is an opera singer who offers a wise perspective on experience.

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### [No BS Career Advice: January 11, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-january-11-2026/)

**Published:** January 12, 2026
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**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more. 

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# No BS Career Advice: January 11, 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***“The average person puts only 25% of his [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/) into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”***  —Andrew Carnegie

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## The Silent Language: Master Your Interview Body Language

In a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), your words are only one part of the equation. Nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that conveys your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), professionalism, and fit for a company’s culture. Some experts suggest that body language accounts for more than half of how a person is perceived, with one study indicating it may influence up to 93% of communication. Whether you are meeting in person or through a screen, mastering your nonverbal cues is essential for making a lasting impression.

### The Power of Posture and Presence

Your posture is often the first thing an interviewer notices. **Maintaining an upright posture**—sitting up straight with your shoulders back and your head up—signals that you are confident, professional, and mentally alert. Conversely, slouching or slumping can inadvertently communicate a lack of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), disinterest, or even insecurity.

For in-person [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), the way you enter the building matters. You should be aware of your body language from the moment you arrive in the parking lot, as anyone you encounter could provide [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) panel. If you are waiting in a lobby, avoid the temptation to slouch over your phone; instead, sit tall and observe your surroundings to appear engaged and observant.

For virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), posture remains just as critical. Sitting at eye level with the screen helps establish a sense of [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Some experts even recommend standing during a video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) if you are physically capable, as it naturally keeps your shoulders back and exudes a larger, more confident [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/).

### Mastering Eye Contact and Facial Expressions

[Eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) is a primary measure of [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/) and engagement. In a face-to-face setting, you should aim for **natural [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/)**, typically lasting between two and four seconds. Staring too long can make an interviewer uncomfortable, while too little [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) might make you seem distracted or untrustworthy.

Virtual environments introduce a unique challenge: “digital [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/).” To simulate a personal connection, you must **look directly into the camera lens** rather than at the interviewer’s image on the screen or your own video feed. This creates the illusion of direct [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) and helps build rapport.

Facial expressions also tell a story. A **sincere, natural smile** conveys warmth and enthusiasm. A genuine smile often involves the muscles around the eyes, creating small “crinkles.” In contrast, a “poker face” can make it difficult for an interviewer to gauge your interest. However, be mindful of overdoing it; a slight tilt of the head or a gentle nod is often enough to show empathy and intent listening.

### Managing Hands and Gestures

How you use your hands can either enhance your message or serve as a major distraction. **Using open and relaxed hand gestures** can help you emphasize points and express your personality. Open arms generally signal that you are relaxed and receptive to new ideas.

Ineffective body language often manifests as **fidgeting**. Unnecessary movements—such as tapping your fingers, bouncing your leg, playing with your hair, or messing with jewelry and accessories—can be interpreted as signs of nervousness, boredom, or a lack of truthfulness. If you tend to talk with your hands, do so naturally, as forcing them to stay still can sometimes lead to even more noticeable fidgeting. To keep your hands under control, you might try placing one hand on top of the other in your lap or on the table in front of you.

One major “don’t” is folding your arms across your chest. This is frequently perceived as a defensive or rigid posture that creates a barrier between you and the interviewer.

### Mirroring and Active Listening

A high-level technique for building rapport is **subtle mirroring**. This involves emulating the interviewer’s posture, tempo, and mannerisms. If they lean in, you might subtly lean in as well. This creates a subconscious sense of connection and alignment.

Active listening is equally important. You can demonstrate that you are fully present by **nodding occasionally** and using brief verbal cues like “yes” or “uh-huh.” Leaning slightly toward the interviewer when they speak signals that you are interested in what they are saying.

### Preparing for Success

Beyond your movements, your preparation influences your body language. **Dressing professionally**—ideally one level above the company’s daily dress code—ensures you make a positive [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Carrying only one bag, such as a briefcase or a single purse, helps you appear organized rather than flustered.

Before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) begins, you can boost your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) by practicing a **“power pose”** for a minute or two in private. If nerves kick in during the session, taking deep, slow breaths can help you maintain composure and keep your voice steady. By practicing these nonverbal skills until they become second nature, you can focus entirely on the conversation and let your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self shine through naturally.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [The Silent Language: Master Your Interview Body Language](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-silent-language-master-your-interview-body-language/)

**Published:** January 14, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that conveys your confidence, professionalism, and fit for a company’s culture.

**Content:**

# The Silent Language: Master Your Interview Body Language

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In a job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), your words are only one part of the equation. Nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that conveys your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/), professionalism, and fit for a company’s culture. Some experts suggest that body language accounts for more than half of how a person is perceived, with one study indicating it may influence up to 93% of communication. Whether you are meeting in person or through a screen, mastering your nonverbal cues is essential for making a lasting impression.

### The Power of Posture and Presence

Your posture is often the first thing an interviewer notices. **Maintaining an upright posture**—sitting up straight with your shoulders back and your head up—signals that you are confident, professional, and mentally alert. Conversely, slouching or slumping can inadvertently communicate a lack of [energy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/get-your-energy-up-shorts/), disinterest, or even insecurity.

For in-person [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), the way you enter the building matters. You should be aware of your body language from the moment you arrive in the parking lot, as anyone you encounter could provide [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) to the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) panel. If you are waiting in a lobby, avoid the temptation to slouch over your phone; instead, sit tall and observe your surroundings to appear engaged and observant.

For virtual [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), posture remains just as critical. Sitting at eye level with the screen helps establish a sense of [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/). Some experts even recommend standing during a video [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) if you are physically capable, as it naturally keeps your shoulders back and exudes a larger, more confident [presence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-online-presence/).

### Mastering Eye Contact and Facial Expressions

[Eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) is a primary measure of [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/) and engagement. In a face-to-face setting, you should aim for **natural [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/)**, typically lasting between two and four seconds. Staring too long can make an interviewer uncomfortable, while too little [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) might make you seem distracted or untrustworthy.

Virtual environments introduce a unique challenge: “digital [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/).” To simulate a personal connection, you must **look directly into the camera lens** rather than at the interviewer’s image on the screen or your own video feed. This creates the illusion of direct [eye contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/making-eye-contact-on-camera/) and helps build rapport.

Facial expressions also tell a story. A **sincere, natural smile** conveys warmth and enthusiasm. A genuine smile often involves the muscles around the eyes, creating small “crinkles.” In contrast, a “poker face” can make it difficult for an interviewer to gauge your interest. However, be mindful of overdoing it; a slight tilt of the head or a gentle nod is often enough to show empathy and intent listening.

### Managing Hands and Gestures

How you use your hands can either enhance your message or serve as a major distraction. **Using open and relaxed hand gestures** can help you emphasize points and express your personality. Open arms generally signal that you are relaxed and receptive to new ideas.

Ineffective body language often manifests as **fidgeting**. Unnecessary movements—such as tapping your fingers, bouncing your leg, playing with your hair, or messing with jewelry and accessories—can be interpreted as signs of nervousness, boredom, or a lack of truthfulness. If you tend to talk with your hands, do so naturally, as forcing them to stay still can sometimes lead to even more noticeable fidgeting. To keep your hands under control, you might try placing one hand on top of the other in your lap or on the table in front of you.

One major “don’t” is folding your arms across your chest. This is frequently perceived as a defensive or rigid posture that creates a barrier between you and the interviewer.

**[*Mirroring on Interviews: The Tricks That Work*](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-owR)**

### Mirroring and Active Listening

A high-level technique for building rapport is **subtle mirroring**. This involves emulating the interviewer’s posture, tempo, and mannerisms. If they lean in, you might subtly lean in as well. This creates a subconscious sense of connection and alignment.

Active listening is equally important. You can demonstrate that you are fully present by **nodding occasionally** and using brief verbal cues like “yes” or “uh-huh.” Leaning slightly toward the interviewer when they speak signals that you are interested in what they are saying.

### Preparing for Success

Beyond your movements, your preparation influences your body language. **Dressing professionally**—ideally one level above the company’s daily dress code—ensures you make a positive [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). Carrying only one bag, such as a briefcase or a single purse, helps you appear organized rather than flustered.

Before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) begins, you can boost your [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) by practicing a **“power pose”** for a minute or two in private. If nerves kick in during the session, taking deep, slow breaths can help you maintain composure and keep your voice steady. By practicing these nonverbal skills until they become second nature, you can focus entirely on the conversation and let your [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) self shine through naturally.

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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### [Connecting with the Interviewer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/connecting-with-the-interviewer-nobs/)

**Published:** January 18, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Ep 653 Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses connecting with an interviewer.

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# Connecting with the Interviewer

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) discusses connecting with an interviewer.

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Hi! I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). I’m referred to as [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff organizations for more than 40 years. Now, one of the classic pieces of [job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice is to make a connection with the interviewer.

That doesn’t mean you talk about your respective tennis games. Even if that’s something on their [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile, that’s something you can file away the name to drop in the course of the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) if it comes up. But what it really means is how do you interact with this person? How do you talk with them as an equal not as though they’re superior and you’re an inferior? So, that’s your whole game plan is to be relaxed and calm with this individual as a peer would be, as a friend would be.

I’m not saying crack jokes throughout but, again, the idea of talking with them as an equal is pivotal for you demonstrating that way of connecting with them. Now, at the end of the day, you may not get hired because you just don’t have the skills that they’re looking for. That’s fine.

But when there’s a tiebreaker, they are looking for that connection. So, when looking for that tiebreaker, they want to see someone who they’ll like being with and who they can trust and that’s really what the connection allows them to do is to feel comfortable with you so that they have a choice between you and the shy one. With equal skills, they’re going to pick you each time.

So, this is [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). Hope you found this helpful. Come over to TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s more you can watch, listen to or read to help you find work more quickly.

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### [What is a Good Answer to "Why do you want this job?" #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-is-a-good-answer-to-why-do-you-want-this-job-shorts/)

**Published:** January 13, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What is the general answer to "Why do you want this job?"

**Content:**

# What is a Good Answer to “Why do you want this job?” #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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What is the general answer to “Why do you want this job?”

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What is the general answer to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) question, “Why do you want this job?” Now, there are two ways to answer that. My personal favorite stems from my time in search where I had a couple of clients who asked that. My personal favorite was The New York Times, who would always, in the first HR interview—the very first [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), about 20 minutes in—have someone there who would ask that question. I would have candidates prep by explaining, “Why would I want to work at the Times? Why wouldn’t I want to work at the Times? This is a great organization, huge reputation, having an impact on the world.”

It’s not just what you say, but the enthusiasm with which you deliver the answer that makes all the difference in the world. So, give them some juice. Do a performance for them. It doesn’t commit you to anything. A little bit before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you do a little [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/) for some of the strong points about the firm and you basically ham it up for them.

The other way of answering the question is less effective, but I think it basically deals with the arrogant employer. If you’re dealing with someone who is, shall we say, difficult and they’re just putting a pressure [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) on, and toward the end, they say, “So, why do you want to work for us?” the response is to say, “I’m still learning about your organization. I’m not ready to commit that I want to work here. I’m hearing a lot of great things, but I need to know a lot more in order to feel like I really want to work for you.”

And they’ll say, “What do you need to know?” and you should be [prepared](https://thebiggamehunter.us/being-prepared-jobsearchagram/) with some questions for them, like, “What are expectations going to be like?” I’ve got some questions that you ask at the end of an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) in my video course called “The Ultimate Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Framework.” It’s available on Udemy, but the easiest way to find it is by going to JobSearch.Community. You can also order it on Skillshare if you happen to be a member there. It’s also on Learndesk, and you can order it as a paperback or a Kindle book on Amazon. So, that’s the way I would address it.

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### [Struggling to Relocate? Why Can't Recruiters Help? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/struggling-to-relocate-why-cant-recruiters-help-shorts/)

**Published:** January 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** I can only find agencies just looking to fill a hole. Any advice?

**Content:**

# Struggling to Relocate? Why Can’t Recruiters Help? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/OVnDBi7ARoU)***

My last job was moved to the northwest US and I was unwilling to travel. It has only been 40 days, but I am going stir-crazy. Ideally, I want to end up in the Northeast, but I can only find agencies just looking to fill a hole. Any advice?

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[Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are hired by a corporation. I’m going to start with contingency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). It really makes no difference whether it’s contingency or retained, but retained I think people understand; contingency most people don’t.

The [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) many job hunters make with contingency firms is that they think that because they talk with them, they work for them—that the contingency [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) works for the job hunter. Nothing could be further from the truth. Contingency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) are paid a fee contingent upon them completing an assignment and filling a job with someone who meets a requirement that their client has, for which the client has agreed to pay them a fee.

Now, that’s the structured answer. The short version is: they’re hired by companies to fill [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/), and unless they’re filling a job, they’re not making any money. Their job is not to place you. After all, what are you paying them? Right? You’re paying them nothing. The result winds up being most people have the expectation that [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) work for them, and they don’t. You work for the people who are paying you, and that’s not the case here.

So, what can you do if you’re in a situation where you want to move? The answer, very frankly, is you start contacting [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) who seem to have [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in your area—in the specific geographic area that you’re looking for. You may notice that they have two or three ads—I’ll just use a generic one, let’s say in technology, accounting and finance, operations, whatever it is—and you contact the firms in that area knowing that they may not have a job open.

Just very simply message them—it could be through [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/), it could be through email—and say, “I notice you happen to have a couple of positions open for such and such. I’m not seeing anything that fits my background. Would you please accept my [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), add it to your database, and when something opens up, reach out to me?”

That’s really what you can do. And then you start [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) with companies that [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people with your skillset. Now, the reality is [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) and job ads fill maybe 30% of positions. The rest are filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). Depending upon the statistics that you see, I’m seeing as little as 50% of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) are filled through [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) and as much as 70% filled as a result of [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/). So, where do you think you should be spending your time? The answer is [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) into firms and to decision-makers who [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people like you.

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### [If a Job Listing on LinkedIn Isn’t Set Up for EasyApply #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/if-a-job-listing-on-linkedin-isnt-set-up-for-easyapply-shorts/)

**Published:** January 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Don't waste your time applying by doing this one simple thing.

**Content:**

# If a Job Listing on LinkedIn Isn’t Set Up for EasyApply #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Don’t waste your time [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) by doing this one simple thing.

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[hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3000 episodes.

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### [A Few Points About Your Interview Goals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/a-few-points-about-your-interview-goals/)

**Published:** January 11, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers reminders to you about your goals and objectives when you interview.

**Content:**

## A Few Points About Your Interview Goals

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) offers reminders to you about your goals and [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) when you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

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You know, people need to have goals when they go into an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) just like you do in the rest of your life. And on this show, I try to talk with you about some of the goals you should be setting for yourself in the course of your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

It doesn’t mean you have to be perfect but extensively, what are you trying to accomplish? Hope you find this show helpful and let’s get going. When you [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), whether it’s a first or 14th [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you get to number 14, you can tell the employer has trouble making a decision. They’ll talk about consensus but they can’t make a decision.

But that’s a different video. I’ll get to that another time. So, when you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for a position, whether the first or 14th [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), there’s one basic goal that you have and that is to demonstrate you’re fit for what they’re looking for and how you can deliver what they want from you.

But you need to extract information from them, too. And you need to take some time in advance preparing questions other than, tell me about the job, okay? You can’t go into so much depth as you’re going to make them feel like they’re going through an inquisition. But there are some things that you can ask along the way that’s going to probe a little bit and it’s not designed to create an impression.

So, for example, if you understand my philosophy of [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/), I have what I call the single [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) question you should ask on any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) that you ask before the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) starts. I’ve got a video about that. Hang out with [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), the single [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) question to ask on any [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/).

So, that’s on YouTube. Pull it down. Watch that video.

Give it a thumbs up, by the way, and watch that. And I have another one because since that’s answering the question about the job, you can’t ask about the job later on. So, I have another video talking about the questions to replace at the end.

But I want you to go a little bit further. What’s your background? What brought you here? What was your experience before coming on board? What’s the [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/) look like to you, for me? Now, that’s a variation on the two previous questions I would have asked beforehand. I just don’t remember the name of the video.

So, I apologize. But I cover some of those questions to ask. You want to have a good list, just three or four questions to cover points and none of them should be about benefits.

You know, they’ll cover benefits at the time that you get the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). So, at that point, you can say you can ask them about their insurance coverage. We’ve got insurance and understand all insurance these days has to meet the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

So, it’s not a big complicated thing. On benefits, what you really care about is the ancillaries like whether they pay a bonus, whether they have a 401k, what the matches are, things along those lines that can differ from firm to firm. But ultimately, your game plan at the time of this [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is to create a great impression.

Leave them with the ideas about you that are consistent with what your [objectives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-resumes-2/) are. Just to be clear, when you go into that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you’re thinking about what message do I want to communicate to them about myself that’s going to allow them to know that I’m qualified for this role and I’d be a great fit. And conversely, you have to extract certain things from them that are going to allow them to know that you’re evaluating them, too, and your questions have to be reasonable.

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### [Don’t Forget This Part of Ikigai #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/dont-forget-this-part-of-ikigai-shorts/)

**Published:** January 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** People focus on a particular part of the idea of ikigai when they embrace the concept and miss thus

**Content:**

# Don’t Forget This Part of Ikigai #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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People focus on a particular part of the idea of ikigai when they embrace the concept and miss thus

[***Mastering the Pivot: Your Career Reinvention Guide***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oDZ)

When people hear the term Ikigai, they may know the definition, which, if you don’t, it’s the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for. It’s gorgeous, but people misuse the term and they focus on the beginning—what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, maybe—and they lose sight of the “what you can get paid for” part of it. And thus, the focus on what you love and what you’re good at will swamp you if you pay too much attention to it.

What you really need to do is think in terms of product market fit—how what you’re offering fits what the world needs so that in this way you can make a living. If you’re transitioning [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), it’s one thing to do work that you love; it’s another thing to do work that you love that you can get paid for. So don’t lose sight of that.

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### [Prepare for Interviews #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/prepare-for-interviews-shorts/)

**Published:** January 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Mock interviews with a coach make a difference.

**Content:**

# Prepare for Interviews #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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Mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with a coach make a difference.

### [***What Companies Look for When Choosing a Board Member***](https://youtu.be/TUxzqmj7SKw)

Most people will [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) to their level of preparation. That’s why it’s important to do mock [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) with a coach like me, who’s going to be able to put you through your paces so that you don’t make [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) on [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) that prove costly.

**ABOUT [JEFF ALTMAN](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [THE BIG GAME HUNTER](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**

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### ***[The Interview Mistake Too Many Executives Make (And How To Correct It)](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6vD)***

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### [Master the Art of High-Value Job Interview Stories](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-art-of-high-value-job-interview-stories/)

**Published:** January 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** In the job market, the traditional "resume recital"—simply listing your skills and qualifications—is a strategy for failure.

**Content:**

# Master the Art of High-Value Job Interview Stories

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

In [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/), the traditional “resume recital”—simply listing your skills and qualifications—is a strategy for failure. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have already read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); they do not need a live reading of it. Instead, the key to winning the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) lies in a complete mindset shift: you must sell results and impact through high-value job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) stories. When you tell a story, you move from being just another applicant to being a memorable, premium choice.

Storytelling is a fundamental human communication tool that, when used correctly, activates the same brain chemistry in an interviewer that a child feels when listening to a fairy tale. By utilizing specific narrative structures, you can bypass the logical filters of a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager and connect with them on an emotional level that justifies a higher [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and a faster [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decision.

Here are ten key strategies for mastering storytelling in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) to ensure you stand out and get hired.

**1. Sell Results, Not Just Qualifications**

The most common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) candidates make is selling their qualifications rather than their results. Qualifications can often come across as bragging without substance, leading interviewers to tune out. To capture attention, you must sell the tangible, measurable outcomes of your work. Instead of saying, “I managed a team,” which is a flat fact, you should say, “I increased my team’s productivity by 15% by implementing a new [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) system.” By selling results, you allow the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to picture you winning in the role before you have even received the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people to solve problems; results are the proof that you can solve theirs.

**2. Understand the “Upstairs” and “Downstairs” Brain**

Effective communication requires understanding how the human brain processes information. The “downstairs brain” is survival-oriented and handles the fight-or-flight response, while the “upstairs brain” handles rational, abstract thinking. In an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you are essentially trying to get past the “football team” of the downstairs brain to reach the “computer science nerds” upstairs. Stories are the key to bypassing survival instincts and engaging the rational mind because they grab attention through unique, vivid, and compelling narratives. When you tell a story, the listener’s brain tunes in and becomes “wrapped” in your words, much like a child hearing “once upon a time.”

**3. Use Strategic Frameworks: STAR and SOAR and others**

To ensure your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) stories are concise and impactful, you should follow established frameworks. For staff-level positions, the STAR (Situation or Task, Action, Result) method is highly effective. For managers and [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), the SOAR (Situation, Objective, Action, Result) framework is often preferred. Both structures require you to define the problem you stepped into, the obstacles you faced, the specific actions you took, and the ultimate results achieved. These frameworks prevent meandering and keep the focus on your professional competence while ensuring the “hero” of the story (you) arrives to save the day.

**4. Create “High-Value” Premium Stories**

Think of your professional value through the lens of a “premium burger” versus a “fast-food burger.” While both satisfy hunger, the premium version justifies a higher price because of its presentation and the story surrounding it. You need to be the “Kobe beef” candidate. This involves providing context and “flavor” to your facts so the reader knows how to interpret them. For example, instead of just stating you wrote code, explain that you wrote 5,000 lines of code in under three weeks with zero bugs. By adding that context, you have told the interviewer that you are fast, efficient, and high-quality, rather than just another coder.

**5. Master the “Origin Story”**

The dreaded question “Tell me about yourself” is the perfect opportunity to use an Origin Story. Much like a superhero origin story—think of Spider-Man’s radioactive spider bite—your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path should have a narrative arc. It should articulate your moments of change, inspiration, and the transferable skills you have gathered along the journey. This approach is far more dynamic than a chronological walk-through of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It establishes your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) from the start and explains why you are sitting in that chair today, especially if you are transitioning into a new field or industry.

**6. The “Olympic Story” and the Four Beats of Narrative**

Every powerful job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) story should follow a specific four-beat rhythm to build an emotional connection. This is often called the “Olympic Story,” modeled after the way sports broadcasters introduce athletes. The beats are:

1\. **Who you were:** Establish the initial context of your journey.

2\. **What happened:** Identify a pivotal moment or challenge that was “done to you” rather than chosen.

3\. **The struggle:** Describe your “path to success” and the rock bottom you hit.

4\. **The hero’s rise:** Show who you are now—stronger, faster, and perfectly aligned with the organization’s needs. This structure makes the interviewer “root for you” and see your [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) as the natural “happily ever after” of your story.

**7. Quantify Impact with Metrics**

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**9. Use Failure to Signal [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)**

Counterintuitively, telling a story about failure can be a major [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). A person who can confidently discuss their lowest points or moments of despair leaves the interviewer with an implicit understanding that they are, in fact, a [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). These stories show transformation, growth, and emotional [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/). They prove that you can handle adversity and learn from mistakes—qualities that are highly prized in any organization. When you show how you handled a “tough choice” or a “reckoning,” you demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence that flat facts can never convey.

**10. Storytelling for Personal [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)**

Your storytelling should not be confined to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) room. Use STAR stories on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to showcase your unique achievements and personality. Instead of listing generic duties like “managed a team,” write a brief story about leading that team to exceed a specific target through a new implementation. Furthermore, you can distinguish yourself as a thought leader by writing articles about your professional philosophy. This shows that you are not just a “worker,” but a professional who thinks deeply about their craft and the value they provide to the world.

Ultimately, the goal of using stories in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) is to create an emotional connection that justifies your value. If you show up only with raw skills, you are presenting a list of ingredients; if you show up with high-value stories, you are presenting a five-star meal. By focusing on results, structure, and emotional [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), you can transform your candidacy and ensure that when the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) ends, you are the only candidate they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

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### [Your Guide to Not Sucking on Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-guide-to-not-sucking-on-interviews/)

**Published:** January 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No one thinks they s*ck at #interviewing but my experience in search tells me way too many people at all levels commit these professional #jobinterview sins

**Content:**

# Your Guide to Not Sucking on Interviews

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

No one thinks they s\*ck at **\#interviewing** but my experience in search tells me way too many people at all levels commit these professional **\#jobinterview** sins and then wonder why they aren’t getting hired

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No one thinks they s\*ck at [\#interviewing](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23interviewing&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) but my experience in search tells me way too many people at all levels commit these professional [\#jobinterview](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23jobinterview&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) sins and then wonder why they aren’t invited back for another [\#interview](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23interview&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED), let alone [\#hired](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23hired&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED).[\#infographics](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23infographics&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) [\#interviews](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23interviews&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED)

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### [Here's How to Be Invited onto a Corporate Board](https://thebiggamehunter.us/heres-how-to-be-invited-onto-a-corporate-board/)

**Published:** January 12, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Finding opportunities to join a Board of Directors requires a proactive approach and networking within the business community.

**Content:**

# Here’s How to Be Invited onto a Corporate Board

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.TheBigGameHunter.us)**

Finding opportunities to join a Board of Directors requires a proactive approach and [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) within the business community.

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Caveat
00:52 Leverage your network
01:22 Engaging with [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/)
02:14 Board-focused events
02:40 Expanding your network
03:06 Summary
03:27 Outro

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Securing a board seat requires patience and persistence. You’ll need to keep enhancing your skills, expand your network, and stay up to date with industry trends to increase your chances of being invited onto a board of directors. I’m [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/). People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) me for no BS [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) advice and [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) globally, because I make things so much easier for people.

![C level interview | Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/C-level-interview.jpg)And I want to be clear, we’re not talking about you being invited onto a Google board, or a Facebook board or Apple, or any major American corporation. We’re talking about you getting onto a board of directors locally. And here’s a couple of things you’ll need to do.

The first thing is of course, leverage your network. Start by reaching out to your existing professional network, including mentors and colleagues and industry leaders, letting them know about your interest in joining the board, and asking if they have any insights or connections that can help you in your search.

[Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) events, conferences, and industry associations are also great places to meet individuals who may be connected to board positions. Remember, part of what you’re doing is expanding your network and developing relationships with people who could be influential on the selection.

Second is involves engaging with executive [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) that fill such roles. These [search firms](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) often assist companies to identify potential board members. Reaching out to reputable firms in your industry, and submitting your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) highlighting your relevant expertise. We’re not talking about you being a business analyst, of course. But we’re talking about you highlighting your expertise as would be fit a board, your accomplishments, and your interest in board roles. Establishing relationships with these firms will help open doors to different opportunities.

Third is attend board-focused events.

Many organizations host events centered around board governance and leadership. Thus, attending will provide you with insights into board recruitment processes, and allow you to connect with individuals already serving on boards or those seeking new members.

Expand your network. Join relevant organizations is going to be my fourth point. Consider joining professional associations or industry associations related to the sector you’re interested in serving on a board for. These platforms [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) [networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) opportunities, educational resources, and access to individuals who may be aware of board openings.

Remember, and I’ll repeat what I said at the beginning. Securing a board position requires patience, time, and persistence. Keep enhancing your skills, expanding your network, and staying up to date with industry trends to increase your chances of being invited onto a board of directors.

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### [Ace Your Executive Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ace-your-executive-interview/)

**Published:** January 9, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

# Ace Your Executive Interview

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

You can’t coast into your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), can you. Here’s how to ace it.

[***The 1 Question Every C-Level Candidate Should Be Asked***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3B0)

All right, let’s get right into it. We’re not talking about the basics today. This is a strategic playbook for senior level [interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/), and it’s all about flipping the script on how you approach the entire process from the moment you start preparing to the moment you sign the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/).

So here’s the big question we need to ask ourselves, because an executive [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), well, it’s not a test. It’s a business meeting, and you are the product. The real goal isn’t just to give the right answers.

It’s to completely shift the dynamic. So you’re not just another candidate. You’re an indispensable asset.

Okay, so here’s our game plan. We’re gonna break this down into five key parts. First, the prep work.

Then, that all-important [first impression](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-digital-first-impression-may-be-getting-you-rejected/). From there, we’ll dive into how you take control of the conversation, how to handle those really tough questions, and finally, how to close the deal and get paid what you’re actually worth. Let’s kick things off with what you need to do before you even think about walking into that [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) room.

See, winning the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), that starts way earlier, with a very specific kind of prep that basically makes you bulletproof against pressure. You know the feeling, right? It’s that classic fear. You’ve done all the [research](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-powered-research-meets-low-friction-outreach/).

You know your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) inside and out, but then the pressure hits, and poof, that perfect story or that killer statistic just vanishes. Your mind goes completely blank, and it can derail even the most qualified person. So how do we fix this with a simple one-page cheat sheet? Now, this is not a script.

Think of it like this. The top two-thirds of the page are just short prompts for your greatest hits, your key achievement stories, along with the hard numbers, the quantifiable results. The bottom third, that’s for the strategic questions you’re gonna ask them.

This page is your anchor when the pressure’s on. And get this. You might be thinking, won’t this look like I’m cheating? Absolutely not.

In fact, it’s the opposite. Senior leaders don’t see this as a crutch. They see it as a sign that you are organized, you’re serious about this, and you’ve got your act together.

It makes you look like a pro right from the start. Okay, so you’re prepped. Now it’s game time.

You walk in the door. The clock is ticking on what might be the single most important part of the entire meeting, seven seconds. No, I’m not kidding.

Studies show that people judge your credibility, your [charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-project-authority-and-charm-in-an-interview/), even your intelligence in the first seven seconds. It’s almost entirely based on nonverbal cues. So before you’ve even really said hello, they’ve already formed an impression.

So when they hit you with that classic, so tell me about yourself. The absolute worst thing you can do is launch into a 20-minute monologue about [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/) history. They don’t want your life story.

What they really wanna know is, what can you do for us? You need a tight, powerful 60-second commercial. And here’s the formula. You start with a quick 15-second overview.

Then briefly detail the scope of your last role. Think P&L, team size, budget. Next, you hit them with three core strengths that are directly relevant to the job you’re [interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-21-2026/) for.

And here’s the magic trick. You end by pivoting with a question that puts you in the driver’s seat. And that little question, that’s your secret weapon.

It’s how you transition into the most powerful phase of the entire [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). The part where you stop acting like a candidate and start acting like something much, much more valuable. This is where you completely change the game.

You have to shift your mindset. You’re not there to just passively answer a list of questions. You are a [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/), an [expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/when-you-have-a-problem-you-go-to-an-expert-shorts/), brought in for a discovery session.

Your job is to diagnose their problems before you ever prescribe a solution. So what are you listening for? You’re basically hunting for clues in these four key areas. What are their biggest pain points? Where do they want to be in the future? Their aspirations.

What fires need to be put out right now? And what are their big long-term growth goals? Every question you ask should be aimed at uncovering one of these things. And this is the absolute golden rule of this phase. This is not an interrogation.

It’s more like a game of tennis. You ask a question, they hit the ball back with a challenge or a goal, and you immediately return it with a story. That’s fascinating.

I ran into a similar problem back when. You have to connect their need directly to your proof of [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). Of course, it’s not all gonna be you asking the questions.

They’re gonna have some tough ones for you. So let’s break down how to handle one of the most common and most dangerous. So why did you leave your last job? The psychology here is everything.

The wrong way to answer is to frame it as you running away from something bad, a terrible boss, a toxic culture. Even if it’s true, it just sounds negative. The right way is to always frame it as you running toward a bigger, better opportunity, which, of course, is their company.

To pull this off, just use this simple three-part formula. First, say something genuinely positive about your last company. Second, frame your exit as a search for growth that just wasn’t available there.

And finally, pivot right back to them with a positive, forward-looking question about their future. It shifts the focus right off your past. All right, let’s move to the end game.

You’ve nailed the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/). You’ve demonstrated your immense value. Now comes the critical part, making sure your compensation actually reflects that value.

So to win at negotiation, you have to understand this little psychological trick our brains play on us called anchoring bias. It’s simple. Whatever number gets mentioned first in a negotiation, our brains latch onto it and use it as the reference point for everything that follows.

And that leads to the golden rule of [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) negotiation. Whoever says the first number loses. If they ask for your current [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and you say 150K, you have just anchored this entire negotiation around that number, even if they were secretly willing to pay 225K.

Your job is to get them to say the first number, period. But here’s the real pro move, the higher-level strategy. By using that [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) mindset and proving you’re the solution to their biggest problems, you become more than a candidate.

You become a high-return investment. And when they see you that way, their initial [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) range, it starts to become irrelevant because the value you bring to the table completely eclipses it. So let’s bring it all together.

This whole process is built around one single, powerful shift in thinking. The goal isn’t just to be the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) candidate for the job. It’s to prove that you are the most valuable investment they could possibly make.

An investment they simply can’t afford to lose. So, are you ready?

[***15 Questions to Prepare for On Your Next C Level Interview***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-71P)

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### [Your Resume Is Just the Credits. This is the Main Event #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-resume-is-just-the-credits-this-is-the-main-event-shorts/)

**Published:** January 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Most people treat an interview like a legal deposition.


**Content:**

# Your Resume Is Just the Credits. This is the Main Event #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/TUrD_nAh5u8)

Most people treat an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) like a legal deposition.

Telling stories in an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) is like a movie trailer for [your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/your-career-doesnt-have-to-end-shorts/). While the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) acts as the credits list at the end of the film, the story provides the action, the stakes, and the hero’s journey that makes the audience—meaning the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager—eager to see the full feature.

[***The Final Stretch: Getting TOP Dollar in Your Final Interview***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-kfh)

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People [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) [Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to provide No BS [Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/) globally because he makes many things in peoples’ [careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/high-leverage-careers-2026-how-to-capitalize-on-labor-shortages/) easier. Those things can involve [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) more effectively, managing and leading better, [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.

He is the host of “No BS [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) with over 3100 episodes.

[***One Thing to Get Before Your Second or Final Interview***](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-yc)

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### [Stupid Resume Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stupid-resume-mistakes-2/)

**Published:** January 8, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** These are the basic dumb things people do the prove so costly.

**Content:**

# Stupid Resume Mistakes

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

These are the basic dumb things people do the prove so costly.

***[Another Stupid Resume Mistake](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-3fH)***

I’m **[Jeff Altman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)**. I’m the head coach for [JobSearch.Community](http://JobSearch.Community) and welcome to **“Stupid [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/).”** God, I’m sorry we have to do this, but people still forward [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) to me—even though I do almost exclusively coaching—and I’m stunned at how bad they are. So, let me start off by talking about a few of the basic [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) that so many job hunters make that are so painful to read.

First of all, your **[resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) makes no case for your candidacy**. There was nothing in the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that demonstrates that you fit the requirements of the job. Why do you think you’d get an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) unless you’ve made that case? Number two is you actually **applied for a job instead of trying to network your way into an organization**. There are lots of tools out there that will help you identify [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers so you don’t have to go through the **[Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) ([ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/))**.

Number three: when your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) is submitted, you **haven’t tailored it**. So, if you do have the skills, you haven’t really done a good enough job to highlight how your background matches up with the employer. Next, people still submit [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/). Now, if you really want to be clever, what you do is **make your [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) page one of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)** and you use a format that’s nicknamed the **“T-Square.”** I developed it years ago, and other people picked up on it. It’s the notion that in one column (the left column) you put the requirement of the position, and in the second column you put how long and how recently you have used that particular skill. You make that page one of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Why? Because the [Applicant Tracking System](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-stacking-principle-why-average-skills-in-oversupplied-markets-are-invisible/) will treat all the keywords on page one as being only in the document and [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) you in the submission.

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Number five is you **take a lot of time to apply**. Some firms stop really paying attention to [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) submissions if they happen too far after the hand went up. Why do they do that? Real simple: they’re getting hundreds of [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/). Do you expect they’re going to sit there and read all of them before deciding who to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)? No, they don’t do that. They start taking action immediately and eventually they stop paying attention altogether because they have people in flight. Their job is to fill the job and they want to do it as quickly as possible. They don’t want to [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) forever. There are tools that will help you with [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) quickly, but they won’t tailor your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/), which makes them less than ideal.

[Resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) need to be tailored quickly. Also, about [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/writing-resumes-and-cover-letters-with-chatgpt-shorts/): people send attachments of a [cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/whats-keeping-my-boss-from-seeing-my-cover-letter-resume-and-work-samples-online/) and **no one really opens those attachments**. Another thing people do is make the **font of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) much too small** for a reader. Now, look at my face—do I look like I’m 24? Most people in HR are not 24. For those of you who are veteran individuals trying to cram more details into your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) and making the font smaller and smaller, the human being who’s going to look at the resume—and the system—may have trouble with that. Keep it to **at least 10-point, preferably 11 or 12**.

Another [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) is **embedding your address as a header** at the top of the [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). Some systems have trouble with that, so don’t embed a header. The same goes for saying “page 2 of 2.” We’re not reading pages; we’re reading screens. People read screens. They’re not printing out a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) to know that this is the second page. If anything, they really **only care about the first page**—the page and a quarter, which is two “page downs.” That’s as far as people read. You don’t have to number the pages.

One huge thing people don’t do: I understand why your full addresses aren’t put there because identity theft is an issue, but you **must put city, state, and zip code on your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/)**. When the system parses it, it knows where you are located. Some systems will **screen out [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that don’t include a zip code** because they don’t know where you are located. Let’s say they’re trying to fill a position in Savannah, Georgia, and they get a [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) with a phone number from anywhere in the country and no location. How do they know if you’re local? You’re not telling them. So, put city, state, and zip code. If you think you’re going to fool people by not including it, they’re just going to screen you out.

Those are a few of the stupid [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) I see. If there are more, enter them as a comment; it’ll help other people. Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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### [Do You Have to Tell People Where You're Going to Work? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/do-you-have-to-tell-people-where-youre-going-shorts/)

**Published:** January 8, 2026
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**Excerpt:** When you give your notice, do you tell your current supervisor or co-workers the name of the new company you will be going to if they ask?

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# Do You Have to Tell People Where You’re Going to Work? #shorts

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When you give your notice, do you tell your current supervisor or co-workers the name of the new company you will be going to if they ask? Or do you tell them you’re keeping that information private for the time being? It seems like if you’re vague and say, “I’ll be working for a healthcare company” or “a consulting firm”, they still pry and want to know the company’s name.

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When you give your notice, have you or do you tell your current supervisor or co-workers the name of the new company you’ll be going to if they ask, or do you tell them you’re keeping that information private for the time being? It seems like if you’re being vague and say, “I’ll be working for a healthcare company or consulting firm,” they’ll still pry and want to know the name of the company.

[Thoughts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-dangerous-thought-that-will-sabotage-your-job-search-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/)? Yeah, it really involves your relationship. Now, your boss is not going to go call that firm and say, “Are you kidding me? This person’s an imbecile. Why did you ever [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) them? They’re a moron.” If they did, you sue them. It’s really that simple. But I’ll just say that it’s not necessary. It’s your life, and you can say and describe it as the healthcare firm or the [consultant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/98688-2/) firm or whatever it is. “I’m joining a healthcare firm.”

Now, if you want to boast, by all means, go boast. You list the name of the firm if it’s a name that they would recognize and, you know, be impressed by. After all, you’ve earned it, and it helps them want to reach out to you once you’re there and maybe join. Now, if these are imbeciles that you don’t want to be there, you definitely don’t tell them. But you can; you don’t have to. There’s no requirement that you do so.

In the exit [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), HR will probably say, “So, where are you going to work?” “I’m joining a healthcare firm.” “Any particular reason you don’t want to tell me?” “Yeah.” I just leave it at that. It makes them feel—what’s the reason? “I prefer not to.” You can go through that circle all the time with them and just laugh to yourself about their behavior and what they try to do. Okay?

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### [AI Resume Screening: How Employers Use It](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-resume-screening-how-employers-use-it/)

**Published:** January 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Systems rely on techniques like keyword analysis, natural language processing, and statistical models to decide which applicants move forward and which are filtered out.

**Content:**

# AI Resume Screening: How Employers Use It

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through large volumes of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) by parsing [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/), scoring candidates against job criteria, and producing shortlists for human [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). These systems rely on techniques like keyword analysis, natural language processing, and statistical models to decide which applicants move forward and which are filtered out.

## Parsing and structuring resume data

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Some platforms specialize in this parsing layer and integrate directly with [applicant tracking systems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/decoding-taleo-how-to-beat-the-enterprise-filter/) so every [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) that arrives is automatically broken into standardized fields. This lets [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) search and filter candidates by criteria like years of experience, specific tools, or degree types without opening the original file.

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More recent systems use natural language processing to understand context, so they can recognize that a “Software Engineer II” at one company might be comparable to a “Backend Developer” at another, even when titles differ. They typically assign each applicant a fit score (such as “85% match”) or a rank so [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) can focus on the highest‑scoring [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) first.

## Automated filtering and shortlisting at scale

[Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) often use [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) screening to handle very high‑volume roles where thousands of people apply. In a common setup, the system automatically rejects candidates who do not meet basic requirements such as required certifications, minimum years of experience, or legal work authorization.

In a typical scenario, a company might receive thousands of [applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-weird-to-ask-about-previous-salary-on-an-application/) for a single job. The [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) screens out those who fail baseline criteria, ranks the remaining candidates by how closely their skills and experience match the job, and produces a shortlist of the strongest applicants for [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to review manually, often with notes about why those candidates scored highly.

## Types of AI screening logic

Guidance for [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) often breaks [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) screening into three broad types: keyword‑based, grammar‑based, and statistical approaches.

- Keyword‑based systems prioritize [resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/why-your-resume-doesnt-get-results-jobsearchtv-com-shorts/) that contain specific phrases or skill terms from the job description.
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- Statistical systems rely on numeric data such as [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) timelines, word frequency, and other quantitative patterns to identify candidates who appear most qualified.

## Candidate ranking, analytics, and recruiter feedback

Many tools include candidate ranking dashboards that show [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) which applicants the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) believes are strongest and why. These tools can highlight which skills, degrees, or experience patterns drove the high score and allow [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to adjust criteria over time.

Some systems update their models based on [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) behavior—for example, learning from which candidates [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) teams ultimately [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) or [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/). Over time, this [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) loop can change how heavily certain qualifications are weighted in the ranking process.

## Examples of how employers use AI tools

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## Beyond resumes: AI in broader screening

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### [AI Prompt to Prepare for an Interview with the Hiring Manager #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/ai-prompt-to-prepare-for-an-interview-with-the-hiring-manager-shorts/)

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### [Mastering the Pivot: Your Career Reinvention Guide](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-the-pivot-your-career-reinvention-guide/)

**Published:** January 7, 2026
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**Excerpt:** In an economy defined by rapid technological change and shifting corporate loyalties, career reinvention has transitioned from a desperate fallback to a necessity..

**Content:**

# **Mastering the Pivot: Your Career Reinvention Guide**

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### [Career Reinvention](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-reinvention/)

**Published:** May 10, 2024
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** John Tarnoff and I speak about reinventing yourself professionally so that you don't wind up "stuck" or cast aside.

**Content:**

# Career Reinvention

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

John Tarnoff and I speak about reinventing yourself professionally so that you don’t wind up “stuck” or cast aside.

This is a link to [his Tedx talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj\_1FwLw4Uw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj_1FwLw4Uw). His book, “[Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career](https://amzn.to/2C6pqbW)” is available on (surprise) 

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### [They Are All Lying (In a Job Search)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/in/)

**Published:** January 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** My trainer, Tom, said something that I never forgot–“Let me tell you the three jokes of the recruiting business.”

**Content:**

# They Are All Lying (In a Job Search)

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

On April 3, 1972, I walked into the offices of an [employment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) agency in midtown Manhattan to start my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) as a [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/). The offices were messy and people worked in small teams with 3 desk clusters representing teams of people. I was the youngest of the three new hires having graduated college the previous June; the other two were a former insurance agent and someone who I never knew what he did.

After being put to sleep by the owner who tried to explain how the technology worked circa 1972, our trainer, Tom, said something that I never forgot–“Let me tell you the three jokes of the recruiting business.”

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“Okay,” I thought to myself.

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Then he told me the three “truths” of [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/)

“How do you know an applicant is lying to you?”

“I dunno know,” I muttered.

“His lips are moving.”

“Oh.”

Tom then continued, “How can you tell 1 of our clients is lying to you?”

“I dunno.”

“His lips are moving.”

Finally, he asked, “How can you tell [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) is lying to you?”

“His lips are moving?”

“Yes, you are not as dumb as I thought you were.”

I hated Tom’s cynicism and spent a lot of time thinking about this “training” I received. This conversation would pop into mind at odd moments and leave me angry and frustrated. I didn’t want to spend 40 years of my life thinking that I was a liar and everyone else I was talking with was lying.

One day, I realize that wasn’t lying, but posturing. Everyone is posturing for their own [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/) in a [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-june-7-2026/). You, the [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/), the client, They are all trying to get our way and get the [best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) deal that we can, even if there’s a little bit of exaggeration in there (okay. Maybe a lot of exaggeration there for some). It’s probably the biggest reason why we are disappointed–Everyone is posturing and no one is completely forthright.

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Here is a radical thought. How about you as a job hunter take the lead by providing radical [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/) and encouraging [employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) to be completely forthright, too. Let’s all stop being quite so disingenuous with one another and just do what we were told to do what we were little… Tell the truth.

Someone has to start being courageous and step out of their comfort zone. Knowing that it will be hard for contingency [recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) to do that, how about You as a job hunter and you as an employer, be the catalyst for change.

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### [How Can I Be Honest About Why I Quit Without Bashing the Company? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-can-i-be-honest-about-why-i-quit-without-bashing-the-company-shorts-2/)

**Published:** January 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Can you give some examples of how to be honest about why you quit a job without bashing the company? 

**Content:**

# How Can I Be Honest About Why I Quit Without Bashing the Company? #shorts

****[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)****

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I quit my last job because 1) I felt it was misrepresented to me 2) the job AND the culture were not good fits for me. I am [applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/) for the same types of [jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-employment-situation-june-2026/) in my field, but how do I represent my last company in good light and still be honest about why I left? I recently had a phone [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), and while I tried to represent the company in a positive and still be honest, I’m not sure if it came across that way. Can you give some examples of how to be honest about why you quit a job without bashing the company?

How to be honest about why you quit a job without bashing the company? I’m not going to do the specifics of that because, frankly, I don’t know what the specifics are. I’ll just simply say, “You know, when I interviewed for this position, they described what I’d be doing as such and such and such and such. They told me that the culture was this or that or this or that, and unfortunately, now that I’m there, it’s nothing like that. The work isn’t what I was told it would be. The people aren’t what I was told they were like. The office is a dungeon.”

You know, it’s—I’m pulling stuff out that’s not in the—it’s in a basement somewhere and it’s awful. And this isn’t what I was told it was going to be. Even when I visited, the people presented themselves very nicely. They told me about the work, and that’s not the work that I’m doing. And when I asked my boss about why the disconnect, what she tells me is, “This is what’s available right now.”

You kind of describe the scenario to them and say, “You know, I could sit here forever, but this isn’t what I signed up for. You know, it’s an oppressive environment. It’s ugly as sin. I never see the light of day, and the work is awful. I don’t know about you, but I’m not really motivated by that kind of stuff.”

So you kind of put them in the position of understanding your circumstances and then conclude by saying, “If you look at my job history, my background has been relatively stable throughout my [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/). This is abnormal, just like this job.” So you kind of put them in that position of understanding, inject a degree of humor—”This is abnormal”—and just be playful with it. So that’s how I would do it.

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### [Use Google Gemini to Practice Salary Negotiation #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/use-google-gemini-to-practice-salary-negotiation-shorts/)

**Published:** January 6, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** Gemini can help you practice negotiating.

**Content:**

#  Use Google Gemini to Practice Salary Negotiation #shorts 

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

***[Click here if the video does not play properly](https://youtube.com/shorts/5IsMiuIYPrc)***

Gemini can help you practice negotiating.

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What I did is indicate to Gemini that they were undervaluing me by about $15,000 and that I was looking for at least $10,000 more. I mentioned that I didn’t have a lot of time, and it indicated back to me that it would be back in 24 hours after speaking with the team. We went back and forth a few times, and that would just give me a sense of what it’s like to have this kind of a negotiation so I could get any butterflies out that I might feel. I think that would help a lot of you as well. So again, with Gemini in the app—not online on a laptop, but using the app—in the lower right-hand corner is the soundwave. Press that.

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### [What Are Warning Signs Interviewers Look for? #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-are-warning-signs-interviewers-look-for-shorts/)

**Published:** January 7, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** What do interviewers look for as warning signs and/or automatic dismissals when meeting with potential employees?

**Content:**

# What Are Warning Signs Interviewers Look for? #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

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What do interviewers look for as warning signs and/or automatic dismissals when meeting with potential employees?

One thing I know that interviewers develop is a **well-honed BS detector** because you’re not the only person they’ve spoken with. Let’s say you’re talking to a corporate HR person, for example, or even a third-party [recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/); they’ve talked to people from your company at some point, so they have a sense of the environment and thus they can smell the BS.

[Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) managers can do it as well because they’ve certainly interviewed people who work for your firm too, so they can spot **incongruity** between what you’ve said you’ve done and what you’ve actually done because, like I said, they can smell BS.

Let’s go further here. There are things in your background that you’re not going to explain all that well. You’re not going to appear comfortable. You’re going to signal nervousness in your answer, and they’ll pick up on that. So understand **it’s not just what you say that matters; it’s going to be how you say it** that’s going to be important. They’ll be able to detect the BS that’s going to cause you to be rejected, and you’ll sense it too because they’re going to dig in deep on something that’s going to cause you to feel uncomfortable and squirm because they believe they know that you’re not telling them the truth. So **lies** are really the big thing.

I’ll go to a different level on different types of positions where there are appearance issues. That is, they want someone who looks—well, I’m not talking about white or black or Asian-looking—I’m talking about **how well you dress, how well you speak, and how cogent your ideas are**. They’re going to listen to what you say and how you explain yourself in order to make decisions.

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### [No BS Career Advice: January 4, 2026](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-january-4-2026/)

**Published:** January 5, 2026
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Excerpt:** No BS Career Advice to help with #jobsearch #jobhunting #careeradvice #interviewing #interviews #jobinterviews #opentowork #salarynegotiation #resumes #nobscareeradvice and more. #share 


**Content:**

# No BS Career Advice: January 4 2026

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

**I’m back and welcome to a new year. It is an opportunity to put aside any thought you have of feeling defeated and energizing yourself for a victory.**

**Over the holidays, I made a few changes and finished a few books I started over the years. I also decided to listen to those of you who were telling me that you didn’t want to join a site with a recurring payment. You still have that option or [coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-all-successful-athletes-and-pros-have-in-common/) plus access to my content. However,** [**I added a page where you can purchase**](https://www.jobsearch.community/b312a915-6f72-404c-aedc-1f82c25764bf) **ebooks, video courses and PDFs individually. I will be adding more very soon.**

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### Master the Art of High-Value Job Interview Stories

In the modern job market, the traditional “resume recital”—simply listing your skills and qualifications—is a strategy for failure. [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) have already read your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/); they do not need a live reading of it. Instead, the key to winning the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/) lies in a complete mindset shift: you must sell results and impact through high-value job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) stories. When you tell a story, you move from being just another applicant to being a memorable, premium choice.

Storytelling is a fundamental human communication tool that, when used correctly, activates the same brain chemistry in an interviewer that a child feels when listening to a fairy tale. By utilizing specific narrative structures, you can bypass the logical filters of a [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager and connect with them on an emotional level that justifies a higher [salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) and a faster [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) decision.

Here are ten key strategies for mastering storytelling in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) to ensure you stand out and get hired.

**1. Sell Results, Not Just Qualifications**

The most common [mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-1-salary-negotiation-mistake-shorts/) candidates make is selling their qualifications rather than their results. Qualifications can often come across as bragging without substance, leading interviewers to tune out. To capture attention, you must sell the tangible, measurable outcomes of your work. Instead of saying, “I managed a team,” which is a flat fact, you should say, “I increased my team’s productivity by 15% by implementing a new [feedback](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-it-a-bad-sign-that-i-havent-gotten-feedback-when-promised-shorts/) system.” By selling results, you allow the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager to picture you winning in the role before you have even received the [offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-truth-about-your-equity-offer-may-be-very-disheartening/). [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/what-do-employers-look-for-in-a-resume-shorts/) [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) people to solve problems; results are the proof that you can solve theirs.

**2. Understand the “Upstairs” and “Downstairs” Brain**

Effective communication requires understanding how the human brain processes information. The “downstairs brain” is survival-oriented and handles the fight-or-flight response, while the “upstairs brain” handles rational, abstract thinking. In an [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/), you are essentially trying to get past the “football team” of the downstairs brain to reach the “computer science nerds” upstairs. Stories are the key to bypassing survival instincts and engaging the rational mind because they grab attention through unique, vivid, and compelling narratives. When you tell a story, the listener’s brain tunes in and becomes “wrapped” in your words, much like a child hearing “once upon a time.”

**3. Use Strategic Frameworks: STAR and SOAR**

To ensure your [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) stories are concise and impactful, you should follow established frameworks. For staff-level positions, the STAR (Situation or Task, Action, Result) method is highly effective. For managers and [executives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/facing-executive-obsolescence-vs-the-ai-powered-executive/), the SOAR (Situation, Objective, Action, Result) framework is often preferred. Both structures require you to define the problem you stepped into, the obstacles you faced, the specific actions you took, and the ultimate results achieved. These frameworks prevent meandering and keep the focus on your professional competence while ensuring the “hero” of the story (you) arrives to save the day.

**4. Create “High-Value” Premium Stories**

Think of your professional value through the lens of a “premium burger” versus a “fast-food burger.” While both satisfy hunger, the premium version justifies a higher price because of its presentation and the story surrounding it. You need to be the “Kobe beef” candidate. This involves providing context and “flavor” to your facts so the reader knows how to interpret them. For example, instead of just stating you wrote code, explain that you wrote 5,000 lines of code in under three weeks with zero bugs. By adding that context, you have told the interviewer that you are fast, efficient, and high-quality, rather than just another coder.

**5. Master the “Origin Story”**

The dreaded question “Tell me about yourself” is the perfect opportunity to use an Origin Story. Much like a superhero origin story—think of Spider-Man’s radioactive spider bite—your [career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) path should have a narrative arc. It should articulate your moments of change, inspiration, and the transferable skills you have gathered along the journey. This approach is far more dynamic than a chronological walk-through of your [resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/). It establishes your [personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) from the start and explains why you are sitting in that chair today, especially if you are transitioning into a new field or industry.

**6. The “Olympic Story” and the Four Beats of Narrative**

Every powerful job [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) story should follow a specific four-beat rhythm to build an emotional connection. This is often called the “Olympic Story,” modeled after the way sports broadcasters introduce athletes. The beats are:

1\. **Who you were:** Establish the initial context of your journey.

2\. **What happened:** Identify a pivotal moment or challenge that was “done to you” rather than chosen.

3\. **The struggle:** Describe your “path to success” and the rock bottom you hit.

4\. **The hero’s rise:** Show who you are now—stronger, faster, and perfectly aligned with the organization’s needs. This structure makes the interviewer “root for you” and see your [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) as the natural “happily ever after” of your story.

**7. Quantify Impact with Metrics**

A story without numbers is just a tale. To stand out from the competition, your results must be quantified by metrics. Whenever possible, frame your achievements in terms of money earned, money saved, or percentage improvements over a previous baseline. Using numbers provides “cold, hard evidence” of your value and speaks the language of business. If you helped generate a 20% lift in sales leads, that metric is what the [hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) manager will remember most. If your competition isn’t using metrics, your use of them immediately elevates you to the top tier of candidates.

**8. Delivery: The Carrier Wave of Emotion**

[Confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-build-unshakeable-career-confidence-through-action/) is just as important as competence when delivering [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) stories. In communication, emotions are the “carrier waves,” and your verbal story is the actual message. If you are nervous, the emotional message of “you can trust me” will be lost. To project influence and authority, practice your stories until you can deliver them with a slower speech cadence and a lower vocal register. This signals that you are relaxed and comfortable, which in turn makes the interviewer feel comfortable trusting you with their company’s problems.

**9. Use Failure to Signal [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/)**

Counterintuitively, telling a story about failure can be a major [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-advantage-you/). A person who can confidently discuss their lowest points or moments of despair leaves the interviewer with an implicit understanding that they are, in fact, a [success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/). These stories show transformation, growth, and emotional [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/). They prove that you can handle adversity and learn from mistakes—qualities that are highly prized in any organization. When you show how you handled a “tough choice” or a “reckoning,” you demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence that flat facts can never convey.

**10. Storytelling for Personal [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) on [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/)**

Your storytelling should not be confined to the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) room. Use STAR stories on your [LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) profile to showcase your unique achievements and personality. Instead of listing generic duties like “managed a team,” write a brief story about leading that team to exceed a specific target through a new implementation. Furthermore, you can distinguish yourself as a thought leader by writing articles about your professional philosophy. This shows that you are not just a “worker,” but a professional who thinks deeply about their craft and the value they provide to the world.

Ultimately, the goal of using stories in your [job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) is to create an emotional connection that justifies your value. If you show up only with raw skills, you are presenting a list of ingredients; if you show up with high-value stories, you are presenting a five-star meal. By focusing on results, structure, and emotional [honesty](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-honest-should-you-be-jobsearchtv-com/), you can transform your candidacy and ensure that when the [interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) ends, you are the only candidate they want to [hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/).

Ⓒ [The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/), Inc., Asheville, NC 2026

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**61 [Hidden Job Market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/finding-where-the-hidden-job-market-is-hiding-job-search-radio/) Secrets Without Using Social Media** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-m4i**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-m4i)

**The 10x10x10 Cube Brainteaser** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-8D**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-8D)

**Handling [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/) [Rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-onh**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-onh)

**Deciphering The Pattern** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9r**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-9r)

**After The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Kx**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Kx)

**Stop Asking to Meet for Coffee: How to Build Trust and Get [Referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-closed-loop-referral-forcing-human-review/)** [**https://youtu.be/eR8XcryWEaU**](https://youtu.be/eR8XcryWEaU)

**What They’re Really Saying** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAq**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAq)

**Admit It. Your [Networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-use-ai-for-networking-arbitrage/) Isn’t Working** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-vt**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-vt)

**Two Difference Makers in Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAh**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAh)

**After The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Kx**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2Kx)

**Tell Me Something You’ve Learned from Non-Work Related Experiences** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jf**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jf)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) in the [AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/master-the-ai-skills-that-cant-be-automated/) Era** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAW**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAW)

**The First Question to Ask When You Are Contacted About a Job?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-emc**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-emc)

**A Simple [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Preparation Prompt** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oB3**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oB3)

**I Have the Skills & Experience for the Job But Not Getting The [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-38l**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-38l)

**You’re Fighting Over What?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2HD**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2HD)

**Should I Send a Thank You Letter Before The Weekend?** [**https://youtu.be/xEi48EKJiCA**](https://youtu.be/xEi48EKJiCA)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) Changed. You Need to Change Your Profile** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAF**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oAF)

**Finding Talent in Aisle 4** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ad**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-ad)

**What Can I Do to Present Better on Video [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBu**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBu)

**Why Your [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Isn’t Getting You Noticed (Plus 5 Tips For [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-hunting-is-hard-quitting-is-easy-success-is-earned/))** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBf**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBf)

**You’re Fighting Over What?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2HD**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2HD)

**A Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Framework** [**https://youtu.be/te4I\_nKwgVM**](https://youtu.be/te4I_nKwgVM)

**What You Don’t Do That Sets You Up For [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) [Rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/jobsearchagram-rejection-2/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-m3M**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-m3M)

**[LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/is-linkedin-premium-worth-it-shorts/) vs Indeed: Are You on the Wrong Site?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBi**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBi)

**My [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Makes Me Look Like a Job Hopper. How Do I Address This?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBE**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oBE)

**Stop [Applying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/stop-applying-cold-target-high-growth-companies-direct/), Start Planting: The Executive Job Paradox** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-onR**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-onR)

**7 Steps to Take If You Are Out of Work** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-f24**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-f24)

**A Job [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/) Framework** [**https://youtu.be/te4I\_nKwgVM**](https://youtu.be/te4I_nKwgVM)

**Toxic Workplaces | No BS [Hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/how-to-hire-and-retain-great-people-2/) Advice** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hkH**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hkH)

**How To Avoid [Age Bias](https://thebiggamehunter.us/overcoming-age-bias-in-job-search/) In Your [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hEc**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hEc)

**How [Recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/the-strategic-response-to-recruiters-and-search-firms/) Steal Your [Best](https://thebiggamehunter.us/always-do-your-best-shorts/) People: Overloading Them** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iYG**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iYG)

**How To Create An Employer [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) Strategy That Attracts Top Talent** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jo0**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-jo0)

**5 Tips For [Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/career-immortality-career-angles/) [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/developing-your-brand/) That Will Take You Far** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iYD**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-iYD)

**Why $200K+ Job Seekers FAIL (The Hidden Strategy That Works)** [**https://youtu.be/0gZmxqixkvw**](https://youtu.be/0gZmxqixkvw)

**Never Follow Someone Else’s Path** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gYX**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gYX)

**A Critical Blindspot in an Executive [Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/no-bs-career-advice-july-19-2026/)** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-okd**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-okd)

**If I Was Stranded on a Desert** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gX1**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-gX1)

**When Is It OK To Quit Without Giving Notice?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6gp**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-6gp)

**Why Do Companies Want to Do Phone [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/) or Zoom [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/)?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aOo**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-aOo)

**What Should You Do If You Face “The Long Pause” During An [Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/mastering-interview-anxiety-the-psychology-of-unflappable-interview/)** [**https://youtu.be/3zgptK6CFKA**](https://youtu.be/3zgptK6CFKA)

**What Does a Manager Do?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hfI**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-hfI)

**Final [Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/6-second-job-search-tips-interviews-3/): Two Tactics They Are Going to Use to [Trap](https://thebiggamehunter.us/escape-the-linkedin-commodity-trap/) You** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b0B**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-b0B)

**Hedge Fund Brainteaser: The Number of “T’s”** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2zN**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-2zN)

**New Federal Government [Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/essential-job-search-tools/) Requirements!** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oCh**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-oCh)

**Should I Send a Thank You Letter Before The Weekend?** [**https://wp.me/p4aIk1-23J**](https://wp.me/p4aIk1-23J)

**Don’t Waste Peoples’ Time** [**https://youtu.be/EJ-ldMLx0KU**](https://youtu.be/EJ-ldMLx0KU)

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### [Before and After You Are a Leader #shorts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/before-and-after-you-are-a-leader-no-bs-leadership-advice-shorts/)

**Published:** January 6, 2026
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**Excerpt:** Jack Welch was an American business leader for many years. 

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# Before and After You Are a Leader #shorts

**[By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://www.JobSearch.Community)**

[***Click here if the video does not play properly***](https://youtube.com/shorts/J0w79saFwe4)

Jack Welch was an American business leader for many years.

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### [Salary Negotiation Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/salary-negotiation-help/)

**Published:** April 23, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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### [Trusted Advisor Services](https://thebiggamehunter.us/trusted-advisor-services/)

**Published:** April 17, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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### [Coaching Services](https://thebiggamehunter.us/our-services/)

**Published:** November 27, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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### [Job Search Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/job-search-coaching/)

**Published:** August 18, 2015
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---

### [Short Guides for Job Hunters by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/short-guides-for-job-hunters-by-jeff-altman-the-big-game-hunter/)

**Published:** August 18, 2015
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

**Short Guides**

**[“Interview Preparation”](https://gumroad.com/l/JOKTN)**

**[“Survive a Layoff Like a Pro”](https://gumroad.com/l/NoCAJ)**

[**“The Job Search Network Group Guide”**](https://gumroad.com/l/TheBigGameHunter2)

**[“No B. S. Questions You Should Ask on Any Interview”](https://gum.co/TheBigGameHunter3)**

**[“Be Nice to The Recruiter”](https://gum.co/TheBigGameHunter4)**

**Great Resumes**

**[“Great Resumes If You Are Over 50”](https://gum.co/TheBigGameHunter7)**

**[“Great Resumes for IT Management Jobs”](https://gum.co/TheBigGameHunter12)**

**[“Great Resumes for Paralegal Jobs”](https://gum.co/TheBigGameHunter13)**

**[“Great Resumes for Nursing Jobs”](https://gum.co/TheBigGameHunter14)**

**[“Great Resumes for IT Staff Jobs”](https://gumroad.com/l/TheBigGameHunter15)**

**[“Great Resumes for Medical Billing Jobs”](https://gumroad.com/l/TheBigGameHunter16)**

---

### [Contact Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/contact-jeff/)

**Published:** June 10, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---

### [Interview Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/interview-coaching/)

**Published:** April 12, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---

### [Do You Have a Second, Third or Final Interview Scheduled?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/have-a-second-third-or-final-interview-scheduled/)

**Published:** April 17, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---

### [1 on 1 Leadership Coaching and Executive Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/executive-coaching/)

**Published:** February 8, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

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### [1 on 1 Career Coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/1-on-1-career-coaching/)

**Published:** March 1, 2019
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---

### [Testimonial](https://thebiggamehunter.us/testimonial/)

**Published:** May 8, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---

### [Social Shares](https://thebiggamehunter.us/social-shares/)

**Published:** May 7, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

---


## Portfolio

### [Bakery Packaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/bakery-packaging/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Branding, Packaging

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### [Black Molded Shell Chair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/black-molded-shell-chair/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Branding, Furniture

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### [White Bottle Design](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/white-bottle-design/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Minimal

---

### [The Pencil Box](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/the-pencil-box/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Stationary

---

### [Custom MacBook Pro](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/custom-macbook-pro/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Photography

**Portfolio Tag:** Branding

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### [Wooden Lamp](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/wooden-lamp/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Branding, Minimal

---

### [Minimal Brand Identity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/minimal-brand-identity/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Minimal

**Portfolio Tag:** Branding, Minimal

---

### [The Little Plant](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/the-little-plant/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Minimal

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### [GoodLayers Car](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/goodlayers-car/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Automotive, Car

---

### [Blue Modern Pillow](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/blue-modern-pillow/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Photography

**Portfolio Tag:** Furniture, Minimal

---

### [White Molded Shell Chair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/white-molded-shell-chair/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Chair, Minimal

---

### [Typography Project](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/typography-project/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Minimal

**Portfolio Tag:** Minimal, Typography

---

### [Business Cards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/business-cards/)

**Published:** November 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Cards

---

### [Yellow & Green Sofa](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/yellow-green-sofa/)

**Published:** November 2, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

**Portfolio Category:** Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Furniture, Sofa

---

### [The Wooden Clock](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/the-wooden-clock/)

**Published:** October 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Clock, Minimal

---

### [Typography Frame](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/typography-frame/)

**Published:** October 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Minimal

**Portfolio Tag:** Fonts, Typography

---

### [Black & White Photo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/black-white-photo/)

**Published:** October 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Photography

**Portfolio Tag:** Photography

---

### [Minimal Notebook Design](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/minimal-notebook-design/)

**Published:** September 30, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Minimal, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Minimal, Stationary

---

### [Moled Shell Chair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/moled-shell-chair/)

**Published:** August 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Chair, Minimal

---

### [The Coffee Bag](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/the-coffee-bag/)

**Published:** August 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Branding, Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Bag, Coffee

---

### [Small Desk Lamp](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/small-desk-lamp/)

**Published:** August 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Photography

**Portfolio Tag:** Furniture, Lamp

---

### [Minimal White Clock](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/minimal-white-clock/)

**Published:** August 31, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Branding

**Portfolio Tag:** Clock

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### [Headphone Presentation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/headphone-presentation/)

**Published:** July 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Photography

**Portfolio Tag:** Photography

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### [Kleanity's Sofa Pink Scene](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/kleanitys-sofa-pink-scene/)

**Published:** July 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Product

**Portfolio Tag:** Furniture, Sofa

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### [Modern Flip Clock](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio/modern-flip-clock/)

**Published:** July 24, 2016
**Author:** tbgh-jeff

**Content:**

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**Portfolio Category:** Photography

**Portfolio Tag:** Clock

---


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### [No BS HIring Advice Radio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/no-bs-hiring-advice-radio/)

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### [No BS Coaching Advice Podcast](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/no-bs-coaching-advice-podcast/)

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### [Fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/fired/)

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### [Careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/careers/)

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### [The Economy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/the-economy/)

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### [Procrastination](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/procrastination/)

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### [Google Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/google-interviews/)

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### [Becoming Charismatic](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/becoming-charismatic/)

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### [GenZ](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/genz/)

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### [No BS Career Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/no-bs-career-advice/)

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### [Startups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/startups/)

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### [Recession-Proofing Your Career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/recession-proofing-your-career/)

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### [How to Get More Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/how-to-get-more-interviews/)

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### [Volunteering](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/volunteering/)

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### [Become Desirable to Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/become-desirable-to-employers/)

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### [Executive Summaries](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/executive-summaries/)

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### [ChatGPT/AI](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/chatgpt-ai/)

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### [Reentering the Workforce](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/reentering-the-workforce/)

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### [Job Hunting During Troubled Times](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/job-hunting-during-troubled-times/)

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### [Trends](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/trends/)

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### [Lessons from a Successful Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/lessons-from-a-successful-job-search/)

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### [Outplacement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/outplacement/)

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### [Text](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/text/)

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### [Red Flags](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/interview-red-flags/)

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### [ELEVATOR PITCH](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/elevator-pitch/)

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### [Termp Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/termp-jobs/)

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### [Scam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/scam/)

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### [Infographics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/infographics/)

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### [Private Equity](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/private-equity/)

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### [Fractional Work/Consulting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/category/fractional-work-consulting/)

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### [Writing a resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/writing-a-resume/)

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### [No B. S. Hiring Advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/no-b-s-hiring-advice/)

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### [recruiting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recruiting/)

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### [staffing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/staffing/)

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### [career advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-advice/)

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### [salary negotiations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/salary-negotiations/)

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### [salary questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/salary-questions/)

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### [upping the offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/upping-the-offer/)

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### [find a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/find-a-job/)

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### [tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/tips/)

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### [Recruiting tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recruiting-tips/)

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### [staffing advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/staffing-advice/)

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### [staffing tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/staffing-tips/)

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### [standing out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/standing-out/)

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### [accepting an offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/accepting-an-offer/)

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### [Evaluating an offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/evaluating-an-offer/)

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### [job offer tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-offer-tips/)

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### [College grad](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/college-grad/)

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### [Sending your resume to an ad](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sending-your-resume-to-an-ad/)

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### [Submitting Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/submitting-your-resume/)

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### [work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/work/)

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### [interview questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-questions/)

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### [interview skills](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-skills/)

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### [Job interview Q&A](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-interview-qa/)

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### [prepare](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/prepare/)

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### [questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/questions/)

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### [Google Helpouts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/google-helpouts/)

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### [LivePerson](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/liveperson/)

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### [The Big Game Hunter TV](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-big-game-hunter-tv/)

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### [job offer advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-offer-advice/)

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### [confidence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/confidence/)

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### [How to get ahead](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-get-ahead/)

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### [the job market](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-job-market/)

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### [establishing your value](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/establishing-your-value/)

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### [negotiation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/negotiation/)

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### [salary negotiation tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/salary-negotiation-tips/)

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### [Finding work. Finding clients.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-work-finding-clients/)

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### [Charisma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/charisma/)

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### [personality](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/personality/)

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### [TheBigGameHunterTV](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/thebiggamehuntertv/)

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### [Business development](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/business-development/)

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### [finding clients](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-clients/)

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### [Motivation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/motivation/)

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### [procrastination](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/procrastination/)

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### [one of a kind](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/one-of-a-kind/)

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### [how to write a resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-write-a-resume/)

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### [improving your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/improving-your-resume/)

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### [money](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/money/)

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### [interview Q&A](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-qa/)

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### [deciding on a job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-on-a-job-offer/)

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### [bankruptcy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/bankruptcy/)

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### [describe your ideal employer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/describe-your-ideal-employer/)

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### [describe your ideal job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/describe-your-ideal-job/)

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### [ideal job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/ideal-job/)

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### [job interview questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-interview-questions/)

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### [advantage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/advantage/)

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### [branding yourself](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/branding-yourself/)

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### [job search branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-branding/)

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### [Office](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/office/)

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### [Personal branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/personal-branding/)

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### [Working](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/working/)

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### [Earn more money](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/earn-more-money/)

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### [Higher salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/higher-salary/)

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### [interviewing applicants](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interviewing-applicants/)

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### [interviewing candidates](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interviewing-candidates/)

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### [Interviewing people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interviewing-people/)

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### [preparing for an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-for-an-interview/)

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### [If You Had A Lot of Money What Would You Do With It?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/if-you-had-a-lot-of-money-what-would-you-do-with-it/)

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### [interview questions and answers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-questions-and-answers/)

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### [what would you do with a lot of money](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-would-you-do-with-a-lot-of-money/)

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### [Behavioral interview questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/behavioral-interview-questions/)

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### [behavioral interview questions and answers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/behavioral-interview-questions-and-answers/)

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### [Ask the big game hunter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/ask-the-big-game-hunter/)

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### [asking for too much money](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/asking-for-too-much-money/)

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### [salary negotiation advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/salary-negotiation-advice/)

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### [Career branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-branding/)

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### [Developing a personal brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/developing-a-personal-brand/)

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### [reputation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/reputation/)

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### [how to negotiate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-negotiate/)

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### [how to negotiate starting salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-negotiate-starting-salary/)

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### [how to negotiating salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-negotiating-salary/)

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### [Employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employers/)

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### [leadership](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/leadership/)

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### [job interview questions and answers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-interview-questions-and-answers/)

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### [Deciding on a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-on-a-job/)

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### [Work for a Big Company?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/work-for-a-big-company/)

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### [Interviewing for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interviewing-for-a-job/)

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### [dealing with problems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/dealing-with-problems/)

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### [interview body language](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-body-language/)

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### [Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/offer/)

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### [salary discussion](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/salary-discussion/)

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### [would you consider a lower salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/would-you-consider-a-lower-salary/)

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### [would you consider less money](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/would-you-consider-less-money/)

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### [how to answer sales interview questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-answer-sales-interview-questions/)

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### [interviews for sales jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interviews-for-sales-jobs/)

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### [sales interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sales-interviews/)

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### [LinkedIn advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-advice/)

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### [LinkedIn tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-tips/)

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### [job board tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-board-tips/)

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### [Using job boards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-job-boards/)

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### [hiring someone](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-someone/)

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### [North Carolina (US State)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/north-carolina-us-state/)

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### [Sending a LinkedIn connection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sending-a-linkedin-connection/)

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### [Sending a LinkedIn Connection Request to The Hiring Manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sending-a-linkedin-connection-request-to-the-hiring-manager/)

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### [Job change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-change/)

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### [Layoff](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/layoff/)

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### [magical thinking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/magical-thinking/)

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### [tough interview questions and answers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/tough-interview-questions-and-answers/)

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### [interviewing someone](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interviewing-someone/)

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### [questions to ask at an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/questions-to-ask-at-an-interview/)

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### [Asking for Recommendations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/asking-for-recommendations/)

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### [job search networking advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-networking-advice/)

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### [job search networking tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-networking-tips/)

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### [LinkedIn recommendations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-recommendations/)

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### [networking advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-advice/)

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### [networking tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-tips/)

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### [Counteroffers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/counteroffers/)

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### [Evaluating the counteroffer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/evaluating-the-counteroffer/)

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### [Quitting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/quitting/)

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### [resignation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resignation/)

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### [Resigning your job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resigning-your-job/)

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### [#hangoutsonair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hangoutsonair/)

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### [#hoa](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hoa/)

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### [career planning](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-planning/)

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### [career planning mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-planning-mistakes/)

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### [Hangouts On Air](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hangouts-on-air/)

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### [cocah](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/cocah/)

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### [Finding out information about](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-out-information-about/)

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### [gathering intelligence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/gathering-intelligence/)

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### [gathering intelligence about a company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/gathering-intelligence-about-a-company/)

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### [Looking for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/looking-for-a-job/)

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### [researching a company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/researching-a-company/)

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### [starting your job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/starting-your-job-search/)

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### [Headhunter tricks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/headhunter-tricks/)

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### [Hiring Company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-company/)

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### [looking for work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/looking-for-work/)

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### [the name of the hiring firm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-name-of-the-hiring-firm/)

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### [What is the name of the compan](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-is-the-name-of-the-compan/)

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### [What Employers Look for When They Hire](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-employers-look-for-when-they-hire/)

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### [Mentoring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mentoring/)

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### [Mentors](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mentors/)

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### [networking groups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-groups/)

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### [LinkedIn job search networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-job-search-networking/)

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### [LinkedIn networking advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-networking-advice/)

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### [giving notice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/giving-notice/)

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### [quitting your job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/quitting-your-job/)

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### [resigning](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resigning/)

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### [After The Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/after-the-interview/)

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### [candidate debrief](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/candidate-debrief/)

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### [contacting a recruiter after an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/contacting-a-recruiter-after-an-interview/)

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### [Employment agents](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employment-agents/)

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### [Are You a Team Player?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/are-you-a-team-player/)

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### [team player](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/team-player/)

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### [Interview Preparation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-preparation/)

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### [Start up company interview tip](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/start-up-company-interview-tip/)

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### [startup company interview preparation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/startup-company-interview-preparation/)

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### [startup company job interview tip](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/startup-company-job-interview-tip/)

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### [mobile phone interview tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mobile-phone-interview-tips/)

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### [Phone Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/phone-interviews/)

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### [Taking time for fun](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/taking-time-for-fun/)

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### [Taking time to relax](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/taking-time-to-relax/)

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### [fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fired/)

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### [Fired from your job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fired-from-your-job/)

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### [laid off](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/laid-off/)

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### [Laid off from your job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/laid-off-from-your-job/)

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### [RIF](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rif/)

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### [RIFd](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rifd/)

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### [headshot on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/headshot-on-linkedin/)

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### [Photo on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/photo-on-linkedin/)

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### [picture on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/picture-on-linkedin/)

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### [Using a professional headshot](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-a-professional-headshot/)

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### [Showing you fit the job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/showing-you-fit-the-job/)

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### [Lying](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lying/)

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### [Lying on a job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lying-on-a-job-interview/)

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### [Lying on an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lying-on-an-interview/)

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### [Job description](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-description/)

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### [Job requirements](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-requirements/)

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### [Setting realistic expectations](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/setting-realistic-expectations/)

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### [Networking with clients](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-with-clients/)

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### [Networking with consultants](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-with-consultants/)

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### [Networking with vendors](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-with-vendors/)

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### [Break the Rules](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/break-the-rules/)

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### [contacting a manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/contacting-a-manager/)

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### [value proposition letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/value-proposition-letters/)

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### [LinkedIn contacts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-contacts/)

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### [indirect networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/indirect-networking/)

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### [Unusual ways to network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/unusual-ways-to-network/)

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### [cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/cover-letters/)

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### [value proposition letter advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/value-proposition-letter-advice/)

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### [value proposition letter tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/value-proposition-letter-tips/)

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### [VPL](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/vpl/)

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### [Twitter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/twitter/)

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### [Twitter job search tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/twitter-job-search-tips/)

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### [confronting fear](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/confronting-fear/)

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### [facing fear](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facing-fear/)

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### [The Lion and The Gazelle](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-lion-and-the-gazelle/)

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### [job search organization](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-organization/)

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### [Organizing your job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/organizing-your-job-search/)

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### [employment agencies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employment-agencies/)

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### [Headhunters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/headhunters/)

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### [working with a recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/working-with-a-recruiter/)

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### [the key to networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-key-to-networking/)

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### [how to seo your LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-seo-your-linkedin-profile/)

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### [How to SEO your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-seo-your-resume/)

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### [Indeed](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/indeed/)

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### [SEO your LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/seo-your-linkedin-profile/)

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### [SEO your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/seo-your-resume/)

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### [Resume Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resume-mistakes/)

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### [Stupid Résumé Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stupid-resume-mistakes/)

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### [Curriculum vitae](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/curriculum-vitae/)

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### [Situation action results](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/situation-action-results/)

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### [job hunting mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-hunting-mistakes/)

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### [Job Search Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-mistakes/)

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### [Targeting employers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/targeting-employers/)

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### [Job search networking mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-networking-mistakes/)

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### [networking mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-mistakes/)

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### [Sourcing Candidates](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sourcing-candidates/)

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### [easy networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/easy-networking/)

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### [Chronological resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/chronological-resume/)

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### [Functional resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/functional-resume/)

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### [job search strategies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-strategies/)

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### [Getting interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-interviews/)

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### [how to overcome phone fear when job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-overcome-phone-fear-when-job-hunting/)

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### [Overcoming Phone Fear](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/overcoming-phone-fear/)

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### [overcoming phone fear when job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/overcoming-phone-fear-when-job-hunting/)

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### [Phone Fear](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/phone-fear/)

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### [phone fear when job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/phone-fear-when-job-hunting/)

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### [elevator pitch](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/elevator-pitch/)

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### [Replacing the elevator pitch](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/replacing-the-elevator-pitch/)

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### [Checking references](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/checking-references/)

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### [lying on an application](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lying-on-an-application/)

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### [Reference checks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/reference-checks/)

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### [Resigning your job before you](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resigning-your-job-before-you/)

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### [Marketing yourself for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/marketing-yourself-for-a-job/)

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### [cover letter advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/cover-letter-advice/)

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### [PrestoExperts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/prestoexperts/)

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### [Using cover letters as a tease](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-cover-letters-as-a-tease/)

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### [Interview brainteasers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-brainteasers/)

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### [Best LinkedIn tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/best-linkedin-tips/)

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### [LinkedIn profile advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-profile-advice/)

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### [LinkedIn profile tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-profile-tips/)

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### [LinkedIn Profiles](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-profiles/)

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### [The Best LinkedIn tip](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-best-linkedin-tip/)

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### [Am I doing the right thing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/am-i-doing-the-right-thing/)

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### [reference check](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/reference-check/)

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### [references](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/references/)

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### [Establishing a drop dead price](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/establishing-a-drop-dead-price/)

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### [Establishing a walkaway](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/establishing-a-walkaway/)

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### [walk away price](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/walk-away-price/)

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### [Considering whether to change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/considering-whether-to-change/)

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### [Deciding whether to change job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-whether-to-change-job/)

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### [the pillow test](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-pillow-test/)

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### [Peter Conlon](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/peter-conlon/)

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### [in-person interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/in-person-interview/)

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### [reputation management](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/reputation-management/)

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### [Expanding your network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/expanding-your-network/)

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### [Facebook](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facebook/)

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### [Making connections](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/making-connections/)

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### [using Facebook for networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-facebook-for-networking/)

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### [alumni](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/alumni/)

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### [finding alumni](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-alumni/)

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### [Finding Alumni on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-alumni-on-linkedin/)

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### [LinkedIn job search tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-job-search-tips/)

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### [Facebook and job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facebook-and-job-hunting/)

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### [Facebook Privacy Settings](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facebook-privacy-settings/)

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### ["Cats"](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/cats/)

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### [Contact information](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/contact-information/)

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### [Putting contact information on](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/putting-contact-information-on/)

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### [The importance of putting cont](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-importance-of-putting-cont/)

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### [agency](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/agency/)

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### [Employment agency](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employment-agency/)

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### [receiving a call from a recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/receiving-a-call-from-a-recruiter/)

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### [what to do when a recruiter calls](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-to-do-when-a-recruiter-calls/)

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### [Getting connection request acc](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-connection-request-acc/)

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### [How to get your connection req](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-get-your-connection-req/)

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### [LinkedIn connection requests](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-connection-requests/)

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### [introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/introverts/)

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### [networking for introverts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-for-introverts/)

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### [Toastmasters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/toastmasters/)

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### [Negotiating a job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/negotiating-a-job-offer/)

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### [Negotiating tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/negotiating-tips/)

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### [Resumes for sales jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resumes-for-sales-jobs/)

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### [Sales resume mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sales-resume-mistakes/)

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### [Sales resumes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sales-resumes/)

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### [job interview body language mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-interview-body-language-mistakes/)

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### [Applying for a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/applying-for-a-job/)

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### [Drinking and job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/drinking-and-job-hunting/)

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### [Drugs and Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/drugs-and-job-search/)

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### [using Facebook for job hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-facebook-for-job-hunting/)

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### [the perfect cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-perfect-cover-letter/)

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### [QR codes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/qr-codes/)

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### [Start at the Top](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/start-at-the-top/)

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### [Work your way down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/work-your-way-down/)

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### [spam](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/spam/)

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### [spamming your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/spamming-your-resume/)

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### [Finding people on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-people-on-linkedin/)

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### [Networking on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-on-linkedin/)

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### [Searching on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/searching-on-linkedin/)

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### [Finding the Hiring Manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-the-hiring-manager/)

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### [hiring manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-manager/)

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### [finding job leads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-job-leads/)

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### [Working With Recruiters?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/working-with-recruiters/)

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### [LinkedIn Job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-job-search/)

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### [LinkedIn job search app](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-job-search-app/)

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### [Getting More LinkedIn Connections](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-more-linkedin-connections/)

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### [How to get more people contact](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-get-more-people-contact/)

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### [How to get more recruiters con](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-get-more-recruiters-con/)

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### [LinkedIn connctions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-connctions/)

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### [Deciding to accept a job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-to-accept-a-job-offer/)

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### [deciding to accept an offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-to-accept-an-offer/)

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### [turning down a job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/turning-down-a-job-offer/)

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### [Turning Down an Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/turning-down-an-offer/)

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### [Why Are You Making So Much Money?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-are-you-making-so-much-money/)

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### [interview stories](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-stories/)

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### [Job Interview Preparation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-interview-preparation/)

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### [Drug Testing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/drug-testing/)

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### [employment agent](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employment-agent/)

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### [responding to a recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/responding-to-a-recruiter/)

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### [Improving your job search skil](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/improving-your-job-search-skil/)

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### [Job Search Radio](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-radio/)

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### [Listening to podcasts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/listening-to-podcasts/)

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### [Telemarketing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/telemarketing/)

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### [telemarketing for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/telemarketing-for-a-job/)

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### [Boolean Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/boolean-search/)

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### [Finding hiring managers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-hiring-managers/)

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### [Persistence](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/persistence/)

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### [rejection](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rejection/)

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### [Turn down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/turn-down/)

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### [Career pages](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-pages/)

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### [Recruitment (Industry)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recruitment-industry/)

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### [Updating your career page](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/updating-your-career-page/)

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### [A Review of Glassdoor.com](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/a-review-of-glassdoor-com/)

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### [Glassdoor.com](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/glassdoor-com/)

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### [Job search websites](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-websites/)

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### [LinkedIn Profile mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-profile-mistakes/)

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### [Give endorsements on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/give-endorsements-on-linkedin/)

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### [LinkedIn endorsements](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-endorsements/)

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### [convicted of a crime](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/convicted-of-a-crime/)

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### [Disclosing you have been convi](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/disclosing-you-have-been-convi/)

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### [Employment applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employment-applications/)

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### [agents](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/agents/)

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### [Working harder](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/working-harder/)

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### [How Do You Handle Office Politics?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-do-you-handle-office-politics/)

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### [office politics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/office-politics/)

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### [Twitter profile basics](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/twitter-profile-basics/)

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### [twitter profiles](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/twitter-profiles/)

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### [LinkedIn Connected](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-connected/)

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### [TheLadders](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/theladders/)

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### [Deciding to Change Jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-to-change-jobs/)

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### [SEO you LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/seo-you-linkedin-profile/)

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### [karma](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/karma/)

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### [Looking for a stable job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/looking-for-a-stable-job/)

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### [Stability](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stability/)

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### [Stable jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stable-jobs/)

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### [LinkedIn Publishing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-publishing/)

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### [Looking like an expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/looking-like-an-expert/)

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### [beginning a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/beginning-a-job/)

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### [Joining a company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/joining-a-company/)

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### [new employer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/new-employer/)

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### [starting a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/starting-a-job/)

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### [The end of the honeymoon](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-end-of-the-honeymoon/)

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### [Linkup](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkup/)

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### [Job Search Preparation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-preparation/)

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### [preparing for a recession](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-for-a-recession/)

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### [recession](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recession/)

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### [The emotional part of job hunt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-emotional-part-of-job-hunt/)

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### [The emotional side of job hunt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-emotional-side-of-job-hunt/)

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### [Derek Jeter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/derek-jeter/)

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### [Mariano Rivera](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mariano-rivera/)

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### [Using an objective on your res](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-an-objective-on-your-res/)

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### [3rd party recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/3rd-party-recruiters/)

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### [Applicant tracking system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/applicant-tracking-system/)

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### [ATS](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/ats/)

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### [the black hole](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-black-hole/)

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### [video interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/video-interviews/)

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### [Jobs in your LinkedIn network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/jobs-in-your-linkedin-network/)

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### [Changing careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/changing-careers/)

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### [Ageism](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/ageism/)

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### [interview mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-mistakes/)

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### [Job Interview Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-interview-mistakes/)

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### [rejected for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rejected-for-a-job/)

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### [turned down](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/turned-down/)

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### [turned down for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/turned-down-for-a-job/)

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### [Clarity.fm](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/clarity-fm/)

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### [Get Trained!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/get-trained/)

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### [training](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/training/)

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### [Career mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-mistakes/)

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### [career myths](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-myths/)

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### [LinkedIn inmail](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-inmail/)

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### [recruiting on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recruiting-on-linkedin/)

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### [Bruised ego](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/bruised-ego/)

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### [executive job hunting advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-job-hunting-advice/)

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### [Executive job search tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-job-search-tips/)

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### [Managing a Bruised Ego](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/managing-a-bruised-ego/)

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### [Salary Negotiation Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/salary-negotiation-mistakes/)

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### [Adding links to your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/adding-links-to-your-resume/)

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### [Adding URLs to resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/adding-urls-to-resume/)

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### [links](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/links/)

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### [Using links in your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-links-in-your-resume/)

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### [Researching Your Value](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/researching-your-value/)

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### [Pre-Employment Tests](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/pre-employment-tests/)

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### [Preemployment testing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preemployment-testing/)

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### [Taking a written test while in](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/taking-a-written-test-while-in/)

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### [Marshall Goldsmith (Author)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/marshall-goldsmith-author/)

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### [What's at Risk?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/whats-at-risk/)

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### [how to get a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-get-a-job/)

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### [Unemployment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/unemployment/)

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### [how to look for work when you have job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-look-for-work-when-you-have-job/)

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### [Looking for Work When You Have a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/looking-for-work-when-you-have-a-job/)

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### [brainteasers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/brainteasers/)

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### [Hedge Fund Brainteasers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hedge-fund-brainteasers/)

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### [business cards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/business-cards/)

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### [Fear of interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fear-of-interviewing/)

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### [brand](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/brand/)

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### [Personal](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/personal/)

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### [professional](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/professional/)

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### [body language advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/body-language-advice/)

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### [body language tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/body-language-tips/)

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### [Forbes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/forbes/)

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### [agencies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/agencies/)

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### [Contingency recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/contingency-recruiters/)

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### [executive recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-recruiters/)

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### [preparing for a reference check](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-for-a-reference-check/)

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### [Preparing your references](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-your-references/)

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### [LinkedIn features](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-features/)

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### [how to do an informational interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-do-an-informational-interview/)

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### [Informational interview advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/informational-interview-advice/)

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### [Informational interview tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/informational-interview-tips/)

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### [Informational Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/informational-interviews/)

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### [What to look for in an informa](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-to-look-for-in-an-informa/)

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### [Facetime](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facetime/)

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### [Facetime interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facetime-interviews/)

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### [Skype Interview tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/skype-interview-tips/)

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### [Skype interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/skype-interview/)

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### [Video interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/video-interview/)

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### [Facebook groups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/facebook-groups/)

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### [How Much Are You Looking For?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-much-are-you-looking-for/)

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### [How to negotiate salary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-negotiate-salary/)

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### [Rejected by A company](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rejected-by-a-company/)

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### [mass mailing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mass-mailing/)

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### [Mass mailing your resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mass-mailing-your-resume/)

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### [mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mistakes/)

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### [mistakes job hunters make](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mistakes-job-hunters-make/)

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### [how to negotiate your job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-negotiate-your-job-offer/)

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### [Barack Obama](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/barack-obama/)

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### [Cutting the Line](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/cutting-the-line/)

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### [Hacking of the system](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hacking-of-the-system/)

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### [Pres. Obama](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/pres-obama/)

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### [job search,job search strategies,job search tips,Job Search Advice,job searching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-searchjob-search-strategiesjob-search-tipsjob-search-advicejob-searching/)

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### [job search tips,job hunting,job search,jobs,job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-tipsjob-huntingjob-searchjobsjob/)

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### [Creating job search goals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/creating-job-search-goals/)

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### [Goal Setting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/goal-setting/)

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### [Goals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/goals/)

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### [New Year's resolutions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/new-years-resolutions/)

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### [Setting job search goals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/setting-job-search-goals/)

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### [habits](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/habits/)

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### [Deciding Between Job Offers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-between-job-offers/)

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### [Deciding which job to except](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/deciding-which-job-to-except/)

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### [Your Company's Products Are Selling Poorly. What Do You Do?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/your-companys-products-are-selling-poorly-what-do-you-do/)

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### [avoid being susceptible to a counteroffer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/avoid-being-susceptible-to-a-counteroffer/)

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### [Counteroffer advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/counteroffer-advice/)

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### [Counteroffer tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/counteroffer-tips/)

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### [attending a job fair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/attending-a-job-fair/)

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### [going to a job fair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/going-to-a-job-fair/)

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### [Job Fairs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-fairs/)

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### [why not to go to a job fair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-not-to-go-to-a-job-fair/)

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### [Adding LinkedIn connections](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/adding-linkedin-connections/)

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### [Adding more LinkedIn connections](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/adding-more-linkedin-connections/)

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### [job search secrets](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-secrets/)

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### [job seeker](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-seeker/)

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### [Skype coach](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/skype-coach/)

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### [Skype coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/skype-coaching/)

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### [changing jobs quickly](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/changing-jobs-quickly/)

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### [First job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/first-job/)

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### [Quora (Business Operation)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/quora-business-operation/)

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### [The Super Bowl](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-super-bowl/)

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### [business coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/business-coaching/)

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### [Growing your business](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/growing-your-business/)

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### [Google](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/google/)

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### [Careers)?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/careers/)

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### [Go for broke](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/go-for-broke/)

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### [Going for broke](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/going-for-broke/)

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### [Rocky](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rocky/)

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### [Sylvester Stallone](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sylvester-stallone/)

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### [taking chances](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/taking-chances/)

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### [taking risks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/taking-risks/)

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### [agent](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/agent/)

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### [College Grads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/college-grads/)

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### [finding a job after college](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-a-job-after-college/)

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### [Finding work after graduation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-work-after-graduation/)

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### [YouTube Capture](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/youtube-capture/)

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### [non-compete agreements](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/non-compete-agreements/)

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### [Noncompete agreements](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/noncompete-agreements/)

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### [dinner interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/dinner-interview/)

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### [Interview over dinner](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-over-dinner/)

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### [Interview over lunch](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-over-lunch/)

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### [lunch interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lunch-interview/)

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### [career management](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-management/)

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### [Managing your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/managing-your-career/)

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### [who''s in charge of your career?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/whos-in-charge-of-your-career/)

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### [Perry Newman](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/perry-newman/)

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### [Resumes vs LinkedIn profiles](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resumes-vs-linkedin-profiles/)

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### [The difference between using a](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-difference-between-using-a/)

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### [why people hate agencies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-people-hate-agencies/)

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### [why people hate headhunters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-people-hate-headhunters/)

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### [why people hate recruiters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-people-hate-recruiters/)

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### [Email mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/email-mistakes/)

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### [properly addressing emails](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/properly-addressing-emails/)

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### [business coach](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/business-coach/)

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### [comparing yourself to others](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/comparing-yourself-to-others/)

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### [feeling like a failure](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/feeling-like-a-failure/)

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### [Background check](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/background-check/)

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### [Checking you out](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/checking-you-out/)

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### [Stretching in your job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stretching-in-your-job-search/)

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### [the yoga of job hunting.](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-yoga-of-job-hunting/)

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### [Yoga](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/yoga/)

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### [Lowball job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lowball-job-offer/)

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### [indeed.com](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/indeed-com/)

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### [How to do well on interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-do-well-on-interviews/)

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### [Job hunting advice for older w](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-hunting-advice-for-older-w/)

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### [Job search advice for older wo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-advice-for-older-wo/)

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### [older workers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/older-workers/)

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### [how to network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-network/)

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### [Introvert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/introvert/)

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### [6 second job search tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/6-second-job-search-tips/)

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### [Finding a recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-a-recruiter/)

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### [LinkedIn changes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-changes/)

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### [How The World Sees You](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-the-world-sees-you/)

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### [Questions to ask yourself](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/questions-to-ask-yourself/)

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### [Reference Checks at Your Current Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/reference-checks-at-your-current-job/)

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### [burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/burnout/)

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### [Coping With Burnout](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/coping-with-burnout/)

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### [offer letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/offer-letters/)

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### [Employment gaps](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employment-gaps/)

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### [Being recruited](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/being-recruited/)

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### [Hitting on a Recruiter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hitting-on-a-recruiter/)

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### [LinkedIn inMails](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-inmails/)

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### [Counteroffer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/counteroffer/)

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### [executive job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-job-search/)

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### [executive search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-search/)

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### [resume websites](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resume-websites/)

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### [10X](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/10x/)

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### [effort](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/effort/)

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### [More effort](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/more-effort/)

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### [Plus It!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/plus-it/)

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### [Trying harder](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/trying-harder/)

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### [Walt Disney](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/walt-disney/)

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### [Work harder](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/work-harder/)

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### [LinkedIn profile](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-profile/)

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### [Richard Branson (Organization Leader)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/richard-branson-organization-leader/)

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### [Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/search/)

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### [ex-military](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/ex-military/)

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### [Veterans](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/veterans/)

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### [H-1b](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/h-1b/)

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### [H-1B visa](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/h-1b-visa/)

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### [H1B visa](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/h1b-visa/)

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### [having fun at work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/having-fun-at-work/)

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### [How I feel at work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-i-feel-at-work/)

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### [easy salary negotiation techniques](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/easy-salary-negotiation-techniques/)

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### [Any given Sunday](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/any-given-sunday/)

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### [practice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/practice/)

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### [preparation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparation/)

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### [What Do You Hate Most in Life?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-do-you-hate-most-in-life/)

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### [Blogging on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/blogging-on-linkedin/)

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### [Getting Known on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-known-on-linkedin/)

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### [Staff Retention](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/staff-retention/)

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### [Change](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/change/)

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### [LinkedIn mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-mistakes/)

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### [College degree](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/college-degree/)

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### [Job Ads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-ads/)

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### [No Results](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/no-results/)

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### [Accepted a job offer from a former employer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/accepted-a-job-offer-from-a-former-employer/)

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### [Accepting a job with a former employer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/accepting-a-job-with-a-former-employer/)

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### [Returning to a Former Employer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/returning-to-a-former-employer/)

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### [Asking for referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/asking-for-referrals/)

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### [referrals](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/referrals/)

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### [getting coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-coaching/)

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### [Hiring a coach](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-a-coach/)

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### [Final interview preparation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/final-interview-preparation/)

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### [Final Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/final-interviews/)

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### [Preparing for a final interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-for-a-final-interview/)

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### [Burning bridges](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/burning-bridges/)

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### [quitting a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/quitting-a-job/)

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### [resigning a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resigning-a-job/)

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### [happiness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/happiness/)

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### [Improving the quality of your life](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/improving-the-quality-of-your-life/)

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### [life coaching](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/life-coaching/)

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### [Success](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/success/)

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### [how to write a cover letter](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-write-a-cover-letter/)

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### [Fly In Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fly-in-interviews/)

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### [job applications](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-applications/)

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### [managing stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/managing-stress/)

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### [Stress](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stress/)

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### [Final interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/final-interview/)

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### [Final Interview Reminder](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/final-interview-reminder/)

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### [final interview tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/final-interview-tips/)

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### [likability](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/likability/)

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### [winning interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/winning-interviews/)

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### [Resume Submissions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/resume-submissions/)

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### [How to brand yourself](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-brand-yourself/)

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### [Fun](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fun/)

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### [How Do You Keep Your Staff Motivated?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-do-you-keep-your-staff-motivated/)

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### [Contacting the manager](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/contacting-the-manager/)

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### [getting hired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-hired/)

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### [Sales jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sales-jobs/)

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### [Explaining why you were fired](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/explaining-why-you-were-fired/)

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### [let go](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/let-go/)

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### [terminated](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/terminated/)

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### [Why were you fired?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-were-you-fired/)

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### [Career advancement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-advancement/)

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### [No BS coaching advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/no-bs-coaching-advice/)

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### [Why am I not advancing?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/why-am-i-not-advancing/)

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### [college](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/college/)

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### [interview questions and answers for recent grads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-questions-and-answers-for-recent-grads/)

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### [interview questions and answers for students](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-questions-and-answers-for-students/)

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### [Interview questions for grads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-questions-for-grads/)

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### [questions for job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/questions-for-job-interview/)

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### [students](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/students/)

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### [success in job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/success-in-job-interview/)

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### [Tough interview questions for college grads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/tough-interview-questions-for-college-grads/)

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### [college students](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/college-students/)

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### [Finding a job when you get out of school](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-a-job-when-you-get-out-of-school/)

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### [what to do after college](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/what-to-do-after-college/)

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### [How to enjoy your work](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-enjoy-your-work/)

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### [Leave where you fear to live](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/leave-where-you-fear-to-live/)

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### [planning your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/planning-your-career/)

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### [Rumi](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/rumi/)

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### [Cover letter formats](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/cover-letter-formats/)

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### [coverletter tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/coverletter-tips/)

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### [Two styles of cover letters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/two-styles-of-cover-letters/)

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### [career planning for Millenials](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-planning-for-millenials/)

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### [economy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/economy/)

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### [graduation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/graduation/)

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### [joblessness](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/joblessness/)

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### [Millenials](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/millenials/)

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### [researching careers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/researching-careers/)

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### [Eliminating](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/eliminating/)

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### [Eliminating tasks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/eliminating-tasks/)

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### [Offloading tasks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/offloading-tasks/)

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### [IT jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/it-jobs/)

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### [Keeping your skills up to date](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/keeping-your-skills-up-to-date/)

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### [Knowledge](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/knowledge/)

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### [The Biggest Job Search Mistake](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-biggest-job-search-mistake/)

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### [Solopreneur](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/solopreneur/)

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### [anxiety](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/anxiety/)

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### [impatience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/impatience/)

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### [asking for help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/asking-for-help/)

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### [asking for support](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/asking-for-support/)

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### [Dealing with a pebble in your shoe](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/dealing-with-a-pebble-in-your-shoe/)

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### [life coach](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/life-coach/)

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### [Pebble in your shoe](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/pebble-in-your-shoe/)

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### [Emailing Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/emailing-your-resume/)

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### [recent college graduate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recent-college-graduate/)

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### [How to Find a Job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-find-a-job/)

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### [How to look for a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-look-for-a-job/)

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### [How to Sabotage Your Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-sabotage-your-job-search/)

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### [self-sabotage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/self-sabotage/)

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### [applying for jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/applying-for-jobs/)

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### [Hiring Creative People](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-creative-people/)

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### [hiring creatives](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-creatives/)

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### [job seekers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-seekers/)

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### [getting an offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-an-offer/)

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### [freelancing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/freelancing/)

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### [starting a business on the side](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/starting-a-business-on-the-side/)

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### [the economy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-economy/)

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### [Ivan nova](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/ivan-nova/)

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### [James Altucher](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/james-altucher/)

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### [Lessons from sports](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/lessons-from-sports/)

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### [Sports](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sports/)

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### [Tommy John surgery](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/tommy-john-surgery/)

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### [Being a subject matter expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/being-a-subject-matter-expert/)

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### [Being an expert](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/being-an-expert/)

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### [Running a webinar](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/running-a-webinar/)

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### [Running a webinar to find a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/running-a-webinar-to-find-a-job/)

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### [SME](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sme/)

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### [using webinars to find a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-webinars-to-find-a-job/)

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### [You Make Me Crazy!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/you-make-me-crazy/)

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### [Being Proactive](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/being-proactive/)

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### [LinkedIn Connections](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-connections/)

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### [Things to consider when deciding on a job offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/things-to-consider-when-deciding-on-a-job-offer/)

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### [Being a specialist](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/being-a-specialist/)

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### [Job Search Lessons from The Movies](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-lessons-from-the-movies/)

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### [Building Your LinkedIn Network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/building-your-linkedin-network/)

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### [LinkedIn networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-networking/)

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### [Who Should I Connect With on LinkedIn](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/who-should-i-connect-with-on-linkedin/)

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### [Beating yourself up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/beating-yourself-up/)

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### [screwing up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/screwing-up/)

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### [employer interview mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employer-interview-mistakes/)

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### [Hiring Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-mistakes/)

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### [Second interview advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/second-interview-advice/)

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### [Second Interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/second-interviews/)

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### [questions to ask a candidate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/questions-to-ask-a-candidate/)

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### [questions to ask someone you interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/questions-to-ask-someone-you-interview/)

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### [creating a job search plan](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/creating-a-job-search-plan/)

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### [job search plan](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-plan/)

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### [Job Search Planning](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-planning/)

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### [finding an internship](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-an-internship/)

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### [internships](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/internships/)

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### [energizing your job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/energizing-your-job-search/)

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### [invigorating your job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/invigorating-your-job-search/)

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### [Jim Kwik](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/jim-kwik/)

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### [Getting an internship](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-an-internship/)

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### [The Briefcase Technique](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/the-briefcase-technique/)

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### [Long Distance Job Hunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/long-distance-job-hunting/)

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### [long distance job hunting advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/long-distance-job-hunting-advice/)

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### [long distance job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/long-distance-job-search/)

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### [long distance job search tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/long-distance-job-search-tips/)

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### [Separating from the Armed Forces](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/separating-from-the-armed-forces/)

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### [Separating from the military](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/separating-from-the-military/)

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### [recruiting mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recruiting-mistakes/)

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### [staffing mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/staffing-mistakes/)

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### [Employee retention](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employee-retention/)

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### [Tim Ferris](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/tim-ferris/)

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### [Gatekeeper](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/gatekeeper/)

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### [Getting past the gatekeeper](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-past-the-gatekeeper/)

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### [How to Get Past the Gatekeeper](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-get-past-the-gatekeeper/)

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### [Sourcing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sourcing/)

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### [Led Zeppelin](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/led-zeppelin/)

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### [Led Zeppelin tribute](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/led-zeppelin-tribute/)

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### [Led Zeppelin tribute at Kennedy Center](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/led-zeppelin-tribute-at-kennedy-center/)

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### [Do I need a LinkedIn profile?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/do-i-need-a-linkedin-profile/)

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### [Jobhunting mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/jobhunting-mistakes/)

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### [Mapping Your Experience](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/mapping-your-experience/)

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### [Exploratory interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/exploratory-interview/)

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### [happy in a job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/happy-in-a-job/)

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### [Should I take exploratory interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/should-i-take-exploratory-interview/)

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### [executive networking](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-networking/)

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### [executive networking mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/executive-networking-mistakes/)

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### [job hunting when you are over 60](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-hunting-when-you-are-over-60/)

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### [job search when you are over 50](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-when-you-are-over-50/)

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### [job search when you are over 60](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/job-search-when-you-are-over-60/)

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### [over 50 job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/over-50-job-search/)

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### [Over 60 Job Search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/over-60-job-search/)

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### [how to prepare for a job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-prepare-for-a-job-interview/)

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### [how to prepare for an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-prepare-for-an-interview/)

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### [Preparing for a job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-for-a-job-interview/)

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### [Networking after graduation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-after-graduation/)

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### [Networking with alumni](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-with-alumni/)

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### [Networking with alumni after graduation](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/networking-with-alumni-after-graduation/)

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### [Live Q&A](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/live-qa/)

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### [Finding a job when you leave the military](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-a-job-when-you-leave-the-military/)

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### [High paying jobs for veterans](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/high-paying-jobs-for-veterans/)

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### [how to find a job as a veteran](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-find-a-job-as-a-veteran/)

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### [military](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/military/)

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### [IT resume advice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/it-resume-advice/)

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### [IT Resume Tips](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/it-resume-tips/)

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### [References on Your Resume](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/references-on-your-resume/)

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### [coping with disappointment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/coping-with-disappointment/)

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### [Disappointment](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/disappointment/)

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### [moving ahead](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/moving-ahead/)

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### [moving forward](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/moving-forward/)

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### [after an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/after-an-interview/)

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### [follow up](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/follow-up/)

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### [Following up after a job interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/following-up-after-a-job-interview/)

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### [Following up after an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/following-up-after-an-interview/)

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### [How to Follow Up After An Interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-follow-up-after-an-interview/)

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### [hiringa great team](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiringa-great-team/)

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### [middle aged job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/middle-aged-job-search/)

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### [over 40 job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/over-40-job-search/)

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### [hiring people who are over 60](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-people-who-are-over-60/)

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### [recruiting people who are over 60](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/recruiting-people-who-are-over-60/)

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### [Being marketable](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/being-marketable/)

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### [fear](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fear/)

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### [Fearbuster](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fearbuster/)

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### [fearbusters](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/fearbusters/)

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### [Stupid Interview Mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stupid-interview-mistakes/)

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### [stupid job interview mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/stupid-job-interview-mistakes/)

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### [post interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/post-interview/)

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### [things to do after an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/things-to-do-after-an-interview/)

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### [LinkedIn for Beginners](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-for-beginners/)

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### [Responding to a Contingency Job Offer](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/responding-to-a-contingency-job-offer/)

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### [Buddha](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/buddha/)

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### [Buddhism (Religion)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/buddhism-religion/)

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### [Career Advice from Buddha](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/career-advice-from-buddha/)

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### [LI-USA.info](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/li-usa-info/)

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### [small LinkedIn network](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/small-linkedin-network/)

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### [marketing your business](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/marketing-your-business/)

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### [Carl Jung](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/carl-jung/)

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### [Shadow](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/shadow/)

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### [changing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/changing/)

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### [Getting help](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/getting-help/)

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### [Help!](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/help/)

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### [making change easier](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/making-change-easier/)

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### [One of Many?](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/one-of-many/)

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### [how not to schedule an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-not-to-schedule-an-interview/)

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### [Scheduling an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/scheduling-an-interview/)

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### [using email to schedule an interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-email-to-schedule-an-interview/)

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### [company culture](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/company-culture/)

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### [Corporate Culture](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/corporate-culture/)

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### [hiring for cultural fit](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-for-cultural-fit/)

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### [hiring to fit a company's culture](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-to-fit-a-companys-culture/)

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### [hiting a great team](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiting-a-great-team/)

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### [indigenous people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/indigenous-people/)

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### [using indigenous principle whern hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/using-indigenous-principle-whern-hiring/)

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### [configuring your resume properly](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/configuring-your-resume-properly/)

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### [one way video interviews](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/one-way-video-interviews/)

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### [Video Interviewing](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/video-interviewing/)

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### [I'm Concerned That You Don't Have as Much Experience as We Would Like With . . .](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/im-concerned-that-you-dont-have-as-much-experience-as-we-would-like-with/)

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### [campus recruiting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/campus-recruiting/)

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### [hiring college grads](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-college-grads/)

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### [hiring college graduates](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-college-graduates/)

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### [hiring graduates](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-graduates/)

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### ['bringing your A game](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/bringing-your-a-game/)

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### [evaluating your inner circle](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/evaluating-your-inner-circle/)

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### [inner circle](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/inner-circle/)

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### [self-employed](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/self-employed/)

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### [succeeding as a solopreneur](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/succeeding-as-a-solopreneur/)

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### [Dealing With Your Parents](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/dealing-with-your-parents/)

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### [hiring a great team](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hiring-a-great-team/)

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### [reducing turnover](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/reducing-turnover/)

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### [friends](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/friends/)

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### [creating content to attract people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/creating-content-to-attract-people/)

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### [podcasts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/podcasts/)

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### [Preparing to job hunt](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-to-job-hunt/)

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### [transferable skills](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/transferable-skills/)

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### [management mistakes](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/management-mistakes/)

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### [management problems](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/management-problems/)

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### [racism in hiring](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/racism-in-hiring/)

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### [candidate](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/candidate/)

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### [Courage](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/courage/)

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### [How to be happy](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-be-happy/)

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### [Numb](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/numb/)

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### [Sh*t Recruiters Say](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/sht-recruiters-say/)

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### [background checks](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/background-checks/)

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### [solopreneurs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/solopreneurs/)

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### [Succeeding Solo](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/succeeding-solo/)

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### [hating your job](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/hating-your-job/)

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### [LinkedIn groups](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/linkedin-groups/)

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### [interview practice](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/interview-practice/)

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### [preparing to interview](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-to-interview/)

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### [Employee engagement](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/employee-engagement/)

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### [keeping your people](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/keeping-your-people/)

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### [retaining staff](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/retaining-staff/)

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### [Federal Government Of The United States (Organization Founder)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/federal-government-of-the-united-states-organization-founder/)

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### [Federal jobs requiring clearance](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/federal-jobs-requiring-clearance/)

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### [Finding a job with the federal government](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/finding-a-job-with-the-federal-government/)

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### [government jobs](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/government-jobs/)

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### [Government jobs requiring clearance](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/government-jobs-requiring-clearance/)

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### [How to find a job with the federal government](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/how-to-find-a-job-with-the-federal-government/)

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### [Second Interview Questions](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/second-interview-questions/)

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### [Second interview questions and answers](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/second-interview-questions-and-answers/)

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### [Changing your career](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/changing-your-career/)

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### [Social media and job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/social-media-and-job-search/)

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### [Social media and jobhunting](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/social-media-and-jobhunting/)

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### [beginning a job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/beginning-a-job-search/)

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### [preparing for a job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/preparing-for-a-job-search/)

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### [starting a job search](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/starting-a-job-search/)

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### [Apple Inc. (Publisher)](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/apple-inc-publisher/)

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### [playing big](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/playing-big/)

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### [Samsung](https://thebiggamehunter.us/tag/samsung/)

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## Portfolio Category

### [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_category/branding/)

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### [Minimal](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_category/minimal/)

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### [Photography](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_category/photography/)

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### [Product](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_category/product/)

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## Portfolio Tag

### [Automotive](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/automotive/)

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### [Bag](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/bag/)

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### [Branding](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/branding/)

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### [Car](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/car/)

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### [Cards](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/cards/)

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### [Chair](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/chair/)

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### [Clock](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/clock/)

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### [Coffee](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/coffee/)

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### [Fonts](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/fonts/)

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### [Furniture](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/furniture/)

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### [Lamp](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/lamp/)

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### [Minimal](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/minimal/)

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### [Packaging](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/packaging/)

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### [Photography](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/photography/)

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### [Sofa](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/sofa/)

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### [Stationary](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/stationary/)

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### [Typography](https://thebiggamehunter.us/portfolio_tag/typography/)

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