If someone handed you a recipe that would help you enjoy faster career transition success while requiring just two hours of effort up front, would you use it? If your answer is “yes”, you’d be joining the nearly 75,000 people that have bought and read the 2-Hour Job Search by Steve Dalton.
His book is the culmination of sixteen years of building and refining frameworks that help people network for the purpose of getting interviews. His follow-up book, The Job Closer, shares similar approaches for resumes, cover letters, interviewing, negotiating, and more. Dalton’s strategies inform readers specifically how to approach job searching efficiently using recipe-like instructions rather than tips.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dalton, and you will see many of his insights in the Q&A below.
The 2-Hour Job Search method is a timed system that helps set up and prioritize where you spend your time. What inspired you to write the book and then the update a decade later?