Special Offer Until Saturday

Special Offer Until Saturday

From No B.S. Job Search Advice Radio by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

April 20, 2026 · 1 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of thorough due diligence in executive job offers to avoid common pitfalls.

Executive Job Offer Forensics: Deep Dive Due Diligence Available until Saturday for $2.99 for Kindle or PDF on Amazon. Also available on Audible for $14.99 Don't spend your reputation on a bad bet. Every year, thousands of brilliant executives—armed with Ivy League MBAs and decades of scaling experience—walk into a professional buzzsaw. Data suggests that up to 50% of external executive hires fail within the first 18 months. These failures are rarely about competence; they are almost always about undisclosed environmental issues: fractured governance, unsustainable debt, or toxic cultures designed to reject outsiders. In Executive Job Offer Forensics: Deep Dive Due Diligence , Jeff Altman, "The Big Game Hunter," provides a rigorous, six-phase framework to strip away interview polish and find the ground truth of any organization. You will learn to stop being a "candidate" hoping for an offer and start acting as an "investigative partner" auditing a high-stakes investment. The Recruiter Audit: Learn to treat brokers as "hostile witnesses" and decode the hidden signals in job specifications. The Artifact Autopsy (SEDDR): Move beyond anecdotes…

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Altman

Topics covered

  • executive job offers
  • due diligence
  • career advice
  • job search
  • organizational culture

Keywords

  • executive hiring
  • job search strategies
  • due diligence
  • career success
  • organizational issues

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon

Products: Executive Job Offer Forensics: Deep Dive Due Diligence, Audible

Places: Ivy League

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