About the Author
Steve Dalton is a senior career consultant and program director for Duke University’s full-time MBA program. He holds his own MBA from the same institution and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western Reserve. Prior to entering career services, Dalton was an associate marketing manager at General Mills and a strategy consultant at A.T. Kearney.
In 2012, Penguin Random House published Dalton’s debut book, The 2-Hour Job Search, followed by a fully-revised edition in 2020 and his follow-up book, The Job Closer, in 2021. His concepts are now taught at over a hundred universities worldwide, and Dalton regularly presents workshops and keynotes outlining his methods. Dalton is a regular contributor at The Huffington Post and is regularly quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News, Fast Company, and Financial Times, among others.
Dalton can be found on Twitter (@Dalton_Steve), this website, and The 2-Hour Job Search book’s LinkedIn Group, where he shares updates and answers questions from job seekers and career coaches alike.
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Steve is also the founder of Contact2Colleague, a corporate training firm that helps organizations increase retention, drive sales, and develop internal expertise by teaching their employees to proactively and systematically build better professional relationships.