{"podcast":{"title":"How to Be Awesome at Your Job","slug":"how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232","podcast_index_feed_id":956232,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/ba/16/98/a4/ba1698a4-45a9-4a5b-9947-89008be0e11f/635c0b30335454cc84814394c5dd04a1c5a7b91c61f1c43b3d877b6ec7e6c1e66fc90a0380b9ff1e4966e68aa73cc4d88eb76d6ae2f6b4733709e3cba6c33e3b.jpeg","author":"How to be Awesome at Your Job","episode_count":1193,"summary":"Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in The New York Times , Forbes , and Linkedin Learning. This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating. Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier. Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) 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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. • Book:  The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster • Book: The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More • Website:  2HourJobSearch.com • Twitter:  @Dalton_Steve • LinkedIn Group:  The 2-Hour Job Search - Q&A Forum — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Tool: Hunter.io • Platform: Crunchbase • System: NAICS Code • Database: OneSource Business Browser • 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: The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferris • Book: Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely • Book: Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and…","meta_description":"Steve Dalton details his systematic process for securing dream interviews. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) How to generate 40 target employers in 40 minutes 2)…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2915,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/5th-year-626-mastering-the-2-hour-job-search-that-generates-dream-interviews-with-steve-dalton/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/5th-year-626-mastering-the-2-hour-job-search-that-generates-dream-interviews-with-steve-dalton.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}