You got the job. Congratulations?

Now what?

Do you get out there and start making waves in your new gig, or sit back and take it in?

What you need...is a plan, and this week's episode gives you the exact plan you need to succeed in any new engagement...

Segment 01 – Get off of autopilot.

Win with four specific, and helpful skills.

Segment 02 – Your 4-step plan.

Listen. Win. Recommend. Execute.

Segment 03 – Network Better.

Make an Influence Map. Learn about great coffee. Go to all that social stuff you hate.

Segment 04 – Be known for something.

How are you MIRV? What can you recommend? What's your internal "cause?" Are you a "connector?"

Job interviews are harder than they should be.

And a big reason for that is that we don't step back and think about what it takes to succeed with a job interview. Instead...we hyper focus on individual questions, and try to think about what they mean.

There is a better way, one that starts with not getting into the cattle call challenge for a job interview...and instead, building relationships beforehand. TO learn more about that, check out Episode 125, "How to look for a job."

What can you do to ace a job interview? Try these...

Segment 01 – Build a "personally moving" business case.

You aren't a person applying for a job. You are a brand making a connection. Here's how to do that by driving outcomes for the business and influencing the individual.

Segment 02 - Deliver smarter answers.

To deliver a better answer, look to media and presentation training. It's about what triggers you'r audience, understanding what they're really asking and delivering a MIRV answer.

Segment 03 - Try four secrets.

How well are you using gathering time, asking questions, being genuinely curious and following up? These can set you apart.

Segment 04 - Think of it as a performance.

Bring your best self to the table and learn how to project confidence and break into the brain of the interviewer.

Resumes suck.

Not ALL of them, but way, way too many of them.

As someone who has worked as a professional CV writer in the past, I have a hunch as to why:

We don't actually THINK about our resume. We just sort of follow a template of telling people about us.

But here's the thing – many people don't care about us. They care about what we can do for them. And to that end, your resume isn't your story.

It's your print ad.

The "job" of a resume is to move a sales cycle forward, and get you an interview.

That's it.

And that's why you might want to re-think how you put that one pager together. On today's episode, I share The Playbook that once got a non-hockey executive interviews with actual NHL teams. Listen up...and make your resume (+ online presence) stand out.

Segment 01 – Get off of autopilot.
Do the same thing, get the same result – and in this case, that's not a good thing.

Segment 02 – Write a better resume.
Introducing the "matrix" approach to publishing your story.

Segment 03 – Write a better resume (continued).
An idea so big, it's going to take two segments to cover it all.

Segment 04 – Little things.
Cover letters. Humanity. And the importance of "asking for the business."