674: Nailing your Interview, Resume, and Negotiation FAST with Steve Dalton

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Steve Dalton breaks down the most efficient path to landing your dream career.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to answer the dreaded “Tell me about yourself” question

2) Just how much time and effort you should put into your resume

3) The simple trick to negotiating a better job offer

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— ABOUT STEVE —

Steve Dalton is a senior career consultant and program director for Duke University’s full-time MBA program. He holds his own MBA from the same institution and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western Reserve.

Steve is also the founder of Contact2Colleague, a corporate training firm that helps organizations increase retention, drive sales, and develop internal expertise by teaching their employees to proactively and systematically build better professional relationships.

• Steve’s book: The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster

• Steve’s book: The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More

• Steve’s website: TheJobCloser.com

• Steve’s LinkedIn Group: The 2-Hour Job Search – Q&A Forum

• Steve’s Twitter: @Dalton_Steve

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “You have 7.4 seconds to make an impression: How recruiters see your resume”

• Study: How quickly do interviewers reach decisions? An examination of interviewers' decision-making time across applicants by Rachel Frieder, Chad Van Iddekinge, and Patrick Raymark

• Study: Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System by Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren, and Giorgio Topa

• Book: "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" by Roger Fisher

• Book: "Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind" by Judson Brewer

• Past episode: 626: Mastering the 2-Hour Job Search That Generates Dream Interviews with Steve Dalton

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.1	With your host, Pete McHydus.
0:16.6	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 674.
0:22.9	We got Steve Dalton back in this time he's talking about how to make your interview,
0:27.9	your resume, your negotiation, when you are on the job hunt, quick and effective, so
0:33.9	you'll learn one, how to answer that dreaded, tell me about yourself, question two, just
0:38.6	how much time and effort to put into your resume, and three, the simple trick to negotiating
0:43.7	a better job offer.
0:45.2	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to out-of-the-wee
0:47.6	reference, I recommend you drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP674.
0:53.9	And while you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out the gold nugget
0:57.8	email list, which provides a summary right up of the wisdom Steve shares, and an email
1:02.8	you can read in about three minutes.
1:04.8	You get those the day, the episode's release, as well as unlock the vault of all of these
1:08.8	summaries.
1:09.8	That's called the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.
1:12.0	Now here's Steve Dalton's story.
1:13.6	Steve Dalton is a senior career consultant and program director for Duke University's
1:17.5	full-time NBA program.
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