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Regina Barnes landed a job offer within 1 hour of her interview 🎉

To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a career walking deck, she has shared her personal experience (in her own words, with minor edits for brevity) below:

I first learned about the career walking deck from Karen’s LinkedIn post and decided to try it out using Canva.

As a contractor seeking full-time opportunities, I was about to enter my first interview in nearly 2 years and thought this would be a great way to stand out.

The process of creating a deck was very simple, thanks to the templates I found on Karen’s blog. I decided to consolidate my deck to 3 pages:

• Why Me + Why This Company + How We Align
• Colleague Recommendation
• Thank You + Contact Info

I presented my career walking deck at the end of the interview when asked if I had any additional questions for the interview panel.

I used my deck to reiterate how I’d add value and impact upon hire. All of the panelists were impressed. I had an offer within an hour!

Quick Tips:

• Highlight how your current role aligns to the role you’re interviewing for
• Keep everything brief by preparing it like a summary
• Avoid reading directly from the slides when you’re presenting

Thanks for reading!

I hope Regina’s personal story and experience with career walking decks has inspired you to build your own. Please get started here where I share all my examples, templates, and resources. Get access to all my premium templates via Substack.

You can also find hundreds of daily tips on my LinkedIn (DM me if you have any questions).

Best of luck!