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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
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Three times per week, No BS Job Search Advice Radio delivers job search advice that will help transform job hunting into something far better. Hosted by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, No BS Job Search Advice Radio is easy-to-implement advice that will help you find work much more easily. It has been called "The OG of job search podcasts" because it has been online continuously since November 2010. For much more, visit JobSearch.Community. You can also schedule coaching with Jeff Altman there or become an Insider

  1. 7h ago

    The Good Soldier Trap: Why Playing it Safe Kills Your Career

    EP 3224 Playing it safe and blindly taking on grunt work doesn't earn promotions; it conditions management to treat you like a permanent task-doer. The standard corporate playbook rewards baseline mediocrity and keeps high-performing professionals stuck in comfortable stagnation. To build genuine leverage, you must decouple your output from daily emotions, reject invisible busywork, and reposition yourself for high-visibility strategic impact. Timestamps 00:00 - The Hidden Danger of the "Take It Easy" Mindset 00:24 - Social Conditioning and the Baseline of Mediocrity 00:43 - Shrinking to Fit: The Cost of Matching Minimum Expectations 00:57 - Anatomy of the "Good Soldier" Stagnation Trap 01:33 - The Team Player Fallacy: Why Suppressing Talent Backfires 01:55 - Establishing Visible Value Without Erasing Your Contributions 02:11 - Decoupling High-Performance Output From Daily Emotion 02:36 - Why Volunteering for Grunt Work Destroys Upward Mobility 02:53 - Pushing Back on Busywork to Claim Strategic Initiatives 03:13 - The Internal Value Shift Required for Executive Growth 03:45 - High-Leverage Coaching and Resources for Your Next Move ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search and succeeding in your career easier.  Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us.  You will also find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ You can get free copies of 25 Interview Questions and Answers, How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch in 20 Seconds or Less, Get Ready for the Job Jungle, Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems, No BS Resume Advice, and Prove Your Worth First, Then Negotiate. Receive free weekly suggestions and more. Subscribe to No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search with more than 3200 episodes. Follow me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠  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 and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.

    The Good Soldier Trap: Why Playing it Safe Kills Your Career

  2. 3d ago

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

    EP 3223 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 to rethink their baseline. Timestamps 00:00 – Why Rejection Is Free Data, Not Defeat 00:38 – Rule 1: Separate Emotion from the Facts 00:50 – Step 1: Gather Intelligence on the Refusal 01:10 – Step 2: Run a Cold Internal Audit of Your Pitch 01:50 – Step 3: Establish Objective Market Value 02:13 – Step 4: Pivot to Non-Salary Levers 02:41 – Step 5: Activate Mentors and Market Competition 02:59 – Step 6: Train Negotiation as a Mechanical Skill 03:31 – Step 7: The Low-Pressure Closing Play & Script 04:13 – Taking Control of Your Lifetime Career Value

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

  3. 5d ago

    Stop Interview Self-Sabotage

    EP 3222 95% of job interview rejections don’t happen because of a lack of skill—they happen because candidates make unforced, amateur behavioral mistakes from minute one. Walking in to recite your resume like a robot guarantees you get passed over, while the candidate who controls the room gets the offer. Learn how to stop treating interviews like an interrogation, dodge corporate traps, and take command of the table. Timestamps 00:00 – The Brutal Reality of Today’s Job Market 00:34 – Why 95% of Rejections Are Execution Errors, Not Skills 00:48 – The Preparation Phase: Researching the Panel Before Day One 01:34 – Story Prep: Using the STAR Method with Hard Metrics 02:15 – The First 5 Minutes: Why Job Descriptions Lie & How to Pivot 02:46 – Ditching the Robot Persona: Chemistry Over Raw Competence 03:21 – The Final 15 Minutes: Connecting the Dots for the Panel 03:43 – Running Reverse Reference Checks on Toxic Workplaces 04:12 – The 30/60/90 Day Plan: Demanding Clear Expectations 04:47 – Mutual Evaluation: Shifting from Desperate to High-Value 05:14 – JobSearch.Community Resources & Executive Coaching ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search and succeeding in your career easier.  Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us.  You will also find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ You can get free copies of 25 Interview Questions and Answers, How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch in 20 Seconds or Less, Get Ready for the Job Jungle, Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems, No BS Resume Advice, and Prove Your Worth First, Then Negotiate. Receive free weekly suggestions and more. Subscribe to No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search with more than 3200 episodes. Follow me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠  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 and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.

    Stop Interview Self-Sabotage

  4. Sep 7

    The Real AI Hiring Bias

    EP 3221 AI jobs pay an average base salary 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. Timestamps 00:00 – The $177K AI Wage Premium Explained 00:35 – The Gatekeeping Trap: Who is Being Excluded 01:31 – Degree Filters vs. Executive Leadership Demographics 02:21 – Why Gen Z Dominates AI Engineering Roles 02:51 – The 45+ Blind Spot: Discarding Practical Business Experience 03:24 – The Fix: Skills-First Hiring and the 8x Talent Pool 04:05 – How Non-Engineers Can Cash In on the AI Shift ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search and succeeding in your career easier.  Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us.  You will also find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ You can get free copies of 25 Interview Questions and Answers, How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch in 20 Seconds or Less, Get Ready for the Job Jungle, Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems, No BS Resume Advice, and Prove Your Worth First, Then Negotiate. Receive free weekly suggestions and more. Subscribe to No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search with more than 3200 episodes. Follow me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠  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 and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.

    The Real AI Hiring Bias

  5. Sep 4

    Escape the Commodity Trap

    EP 3220 The 40-year career sprint is dead, and relying on years of service won’t protect you from AI 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. Timestamps 00:00 – The death of the 40-year career sprint 00:22 – Why retirement math no longer works 00:42 – The false security of senior job titles 00:56 – How CFOs view veteran employees vs. AI 01:27 – Why technical skills are depreciating assets 01:39 – Shifting from routine labor to high-value judgment 02:10 – The flaw of trying to be "better" instead of "only" 02:25 – The 3-part framework for a personal monopoly 02:53 – Stop begging HR bots: flipping the interview script 03:22 – Employee vs. Advisor: decoupling time from income 03:45 – Achieving true intellectual sovereignty 04:04 – Career coaching and resources at JobSearch.Community ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search and succeeding in your career easier.  Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us.  You will also find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ You can get free copies of 25 Interview Questions and Answers, How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch in 20 Seconds or Less, Get Ready for the Job Jungle, Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems, No BS Resume Advice, and Prove Your Worth First, Then Negotiate. Receive free weekly suggestions and more. Subscribe to No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search with more than 3200 episodes. Follow me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠  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 and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.

    Escape the Commodity Trap

  6. Sep 2

    The Speed Game: Why Early Resumes Win

    EP 3219 Spending days perfecting a resume is why you get ghosted; hiring is a speed game, not a skill test. In today’s AI-flooded market, recruiters 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. Timestamps 00:00 - The resume black hole: Why you keep getting ghosted 00:30 - Speed vs. Skill: Why hiring is no longer a meritocracy 00:54 - The myth of the application deadline and how rolling reviews work 01:13 - The Recruiter Attention Span: Why energy plummets after 20 applicants 01:36 - The 48-hour hiring cliff (and the data behind it) 01:52 - Why waiting to reply to a recruiter kills your hiring odds 02:40 - Stop hunting on job boards: The direct company alert strategy 03:01 - The Master Resume System: How to apply in 15 minutes 03:22 - The B+ Rule: Why speed beats perfection every time ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search and succeeding in your career easier.  Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us.  You will also find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ You can get free copies of 25 Interview Questions and Answers, How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch in 20 Seconds or Less, Get Ready for the Job Jungle, Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems, No BS Resume Advice, and Prove Your Worth First, Then Negotiate. Receive free weekly suggestions and more. Subscribe to No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search with more than 3200 episodes. Follow me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠  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 and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.

    The Speed Game: Why Early Resumes Win

  7. Aug 31

    Stop Treating LinkedIn Like a Resume (You’re Invisible)

    EP 3218 Most professionals treat LinkedIn like a dusty online resume, relying on outdated hacks that actively hurt their reach. LinkedIn's 360Brew AI 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 come to you. Timestamps 00:00 – The Death of Old LinkedIn Growth Hacks 00:23 – How the 360Brew AI Algorithm Ranks You 00:57 – Semantic Skill Graphs & "Open to Work" Signals 01:27 – Profile Photo Framework (Why AI Avatars Fail) 01:58 – The 2-Second Headline Hook 02:14 – Writing an "About" Section with the PAS Framework 02:41 – Leveraging the Underutilized Featured Section 03:01 – Beating Dwell-Time Metrics with Content 03:28 – Strategic Job Search Resources

    Stop Treating LinkedIn Like a Resume (You’re Invisible)

  8. Aug 28

    The Reference Check Trap

    EP 3217 You passed the interview, but recruiters use reference checks as a smokescreen to find red flags and kill your job offer. This episode exposes the only two trick questions hiring managers care about and gives you a three-step playbook to prep your references. Stop leaving your career to chance and learn how to secure the final offer. Timestamps 00:00 - The hidden final test of the interview process 00:48 - The biggest myth about why recruiters call your former bosses 01:34 - The recruiter's smokescreen: hunting for red flags and toxic traits 02:26 - The only two reference questions that actually matter 02:54 - The knockout punch: "Would you hire them again?" 03:14 - The psychology trap: "What should their next manager know?" 03:44 - A 3-step game plan to prepare your references and win the job ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search and succeeding in your career easier.  Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us.  You will also find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ You can get free copies of 25 Interview Questions and Answers, How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch in 20 Seconds or Less, Get Ready for the Job Jungle, Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems, No BS Resume Advice, and Prove Your Worth First, Then Negotiate. Receive free weekly suggestions and more. Subscribe to No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search with more than 3200 episodes. Follow me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠  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 and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.

    The Reference Check Trap
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Three times per week, No BS Job Search Advice Radio delivers job search advice that will help transform job hunting into something far better. Hosted by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, No BS Job Search Advice Radio is easy-to-implement advice that will help you find work much more easily. It has been called "The OG of job search podcasts" because it has been online continuously since November 2010. For much more, visit JobSearch.Community. You can also schedule coaching with Jeff Altman there or become an Insider

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  • Creator
    Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    2K
  • Rating
    Clean
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