Pete Newsome - Top 5 Actions for Job Seekers & How To Stand Out from the Competition

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Connect with Pete and Zengig! https://www.linkedin.com/in/petenewsome/ https://zengig.com/https:// www.4cornerresources.com/ Pete Newsome is the president of Four Corner Resources, a staffing firm founded in 2005 and winner of Ford's best recruiting firms in America, the Seminole 100 and the Golden 100. Pete is nationally recognized as a thought leader in hiring and recruiting with two decades of experience and placing over 15,000 candidates. Pete shares his top five things that you should ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Job Interview Experience. I'm a former executive recruiter,
0:03.7	search from owner, director of talent acquisition, and today, your host of the Job Interview Experience.
0:10.0	Joining us today is Pete Newsom. Pete is the president of Four Corner Resources,
0:14.8	a staffing firm founded in 2005 and winner of numerous awards, most recently on Ford Ford's Best Recruiting Firmes in America,
0:23.9	the Seminole 100, and the Golden 100. Pete and his team also launched Zingig in 2022.
0:31.0	We'll get to that more later in the episode.
0:34.2	Pete is nationally recognized as a thought leader in hiring and recruiting with two decades of experience and placing over 15,000 candidates.
0:43.9	I wanted to bring Pete on so that you can use his insight for your job search.
0:49.3	He's also here to share his top five things that you should start doing today as a job seeker,
0:55.2	his unique way to stand out from the competition. And I'm going to ask Pete what hiring looks like in 2023 and some
1:01.2	predictions for the future. Pete, thanks for being here. Matthew, it's an absolute pleasure.
1:05.4	Thanks for having me. Before we dig in, can you tell us a little bit about yourself outside of work,
1:10.7	what you like to do for fun, how you like to spend your time?
1:12.6	Sure. Well, I spend most of my free time with my kids. I'm fortunate to have four wonderful children and two are still at home.
1:20.6	So I'm on the clock there with my youngest two in high school, so really trying to maximize as much time as I can with them.
1:28.6	But I work at home now and have been since COVID. We decided not to go back to the office
1:33.5	since launching Zendig about a year ago. I find that I spend most of my free time working these
1:38.7	days, which is just fine with me. Can you provide a brief career overview and what led you to what you're doing today?
1:46.3	Sure. I happy to. Well, you can say I was destined for sales. I came out of college with a two
1:51.5	point something GPA. Hopefully my kids aren't listening to hear that. PolySci degree. And like I said,
1:57.6	I was destined for sales. And I went to work for Aerotech right out of college
2:01.0	at the time they were much, much smaller organization than the behemoth that they are now as
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