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Episode 298

Master Your Career with Deepali Vyas | Win the Day
August 25, 2026
Deepali Vyas is founder of Vyas Media, and a career strategist known as The Elite Recruiter. She advises Fortune 500 companies on executive hiring and leadership strategy.
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In this episode of Win the Day:

“Success is not to be pursued. It is to be attracted by the person you become.” — Jim Rohn

Success in your career is not determined by performance alone. It is also shaped by visibility, influence, positioning, relationships, and your ability to communicate your value before someone else defines it for you.

Today’s guest has dedicated her career to mastering that exact process.

Deepali Vyas is an executive recruiter, career strategist, and keynote speaker. Known as The Elite Recruiter, she has spent more than 25 years advising Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, and high-growth technology organizations on executive hiring and leadership strategy.

Deepali has reviewed more than one million résumés, conducted over 50,000 interviews, and helped thousands of professionals secure senior positions and negotiate life-changing opportunities.

She is also the host of Corporate Confessions and the founder and CEO of Vyas Media, where she helps ambitious professionals and aspiring creators build their authority, articulate their value, and create opportunities on their own terms.

In this episode:
• How to command a higher salary
• What separates those who are promoted from those who remain stuck
• The skills you need to stay valuable in the age of AI
• How to communicate your value so the right relationships and opportunities find their way to you

Let’s WIN THE DAY with Deepali Vyas!

 

Timestamps

00:00 Meet Deepali Vyas: how to command a higher salary and get promoted
2:20 Who first believed in you — and why it shapes your career
2:53 Success it to be attracted by the person you become
4:22 Why being good at your job isn't enough to get promoted
8:44 Why your work won't speak for itself (and what to do instead)
11:46 How to promote yourself at work without looking arrogant (“You are the CEO of your own career”)
14:49 How to write a resume that gets noticed by recruiters
16:59 How to optimize your LinkedIn profile to attract recruiters
19:19 How to network to find a job (without feeling salesy)
22:20 Why you should never keep quiet about what you need
23:53 How to be more likable in conversations: stop talking about yourself
26:55 What top companies really look for in a CEO: intellectual curiosity
29:02 How to play office politics the right way
31:24 Do introverts need to change their personality to succeed at work?
33:22 How to tell if you're being overlooked at work
35:38 How to know what salary you should be earning
37:27 Burnout or time to quit? How to tell the difference
40:04 Why you have to change jobs to get paid what you're worth
43:41 What to say to your manager to get promoted
46:44 Salary negotiation mistakes that cost you money
49:06 How to answer "tell me about yourself" in a job interview
54:45 The best question to ask at the end of a job interview
56:41 How to build a personal brand online
59:16 Win the Day Rocket Round: Deepali Vyas

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Inspiring quotes in this episode:
  • "You have to feel that you are successful in whatever you're pursuing." — Deepali Vyas
  • "My message is to empower the individual to be the CEO of their own career." — Deepali Vyas
  • "If you are ambitious, you need to be able to articulate your value and show up in the rooms that can see your work." — Deepali Vyas
  • "I never waited for permission. I never waited my turn. I was just full speed ahead." — Deepali Vyas
  • "Know that, 'I'm at work. This is a peer. We are in a competitive environment.' It may not be a zero-sum game, depending on the culture and environment that you're in, but at the end of the day, you are the CEO of your own career." — Deepali Vyas
  • "You cannot worry about someone else thinking differently of you. If you are rising to the top, you're putting in the work, then you should have no shame about highlighting it and moving ahead. Someone else’s ambitions might not be your ambitions." — Deepali Vyas
  • "Most people want all of those things. They just don't have the confidence to pursue them." — Deepali Vyas
  • "People obsess over resumes. When you are not clear about who you are, what you do, and what value you have or what impact you've made—and you put your life story on a resume and now you've sent it to me—you have now transferred the burden of finding clarity through that noise on me." — Deepali Vyas
  • "Find the clarity, the signal through the noise. What do people really come to you for? What problems do you solve? What is the one thing that the entire company stops and says, 'You're the person that does this. This is what you do really well'? That's what needs to appear on the resume." — Deepali Vyas
  • "A lot of people think I just need to put so much on there to build my credibility. The best resumes have so much white space, it's unbelievable. My own resume, I have over 25 years of experience. My resume's 1.5 pages. I know exactly what I do and I know exactly what I'm good at." — Deepali Vyas
  • "Every board member is looking you up on LinkedIn and seeing if that story corroborates. So LinkedIn is absolutely imperative. But when your headline reads 'Project manager,' what does that mean? What are you managing and what project? Just tell me what you do. And what industry you do it for and what makes you good." — Deepali Vyas
  • "The LinkedIn 'About' section is your open love letter to recruiters and hiring managers. Don't repeat everything that I'm going to see when I go down your profile. I'm going to see it anyway. That's evidence. Tell me where you're going." — Deepali Vyas
  • "The number one trait that clients ask me when I'm doing a CEO search, the number one trait they want is intellectual curiosity. What does that boil down to? It boils down to someone asking very smart questions and not talking about themselves." — Deepali Vyas
  • "The difference between the winners and staying mediocre in your own excellence is the will to do just a little bit more. The consistency. The delusion. The, 'I'm going to win at this because...'" — Deepali Vyas
  • "On office politics, I literally tell them, 'You're on the chess board. You're on the board whether you like it or not. So whether you want to play or not, you are there, so you might as well play.'" — Deepali Vyas
  • "When you tie yourself to one employer, you lose a lot of leverage. You should always be having active conversations in the market: networking, talking to recruiters, just to see what's happening in the market. What's my value? What am I worth? It gives you confidence inside your organization and it also gives you optionality outside the organization." — Deepali Vyas
  • "There's a checklist that I have of: 'I don't really like my work anymore. I'm not learning anything new. I don't see growth potential. My peers, I've outgrown them. I'm not learning anything from them.' Learning and challenge are the key. If you're not getting those and you're burnt out, it's time to leave." — Deepali Vyas
  • "The best time to go in and have these conversations about being promoted is after a big win, because the momentum is there." — Deepali Vyas
  • "Everybody has their own agenda and everybody has their own day job. The minute you start burdening someone with your agenda, it's really difficult." — Deepali Vyas
  • "You're either making money for the firm or you're saving money for the firm. Which one is it? Because that's what matters at the end of the day. Follow the dollar and tie yourself to it." — Deepali Vyas
  • "You have to think about salary negotiation holistically and not just about your base salary." — Deepali Vyas
  • "The number one question that a candidate should ask is, 'What does success look like in this role in the next year? How would I be successful here? And what targets do I need to meet in the next year to say that I was a really good hire?'" — Deepali Vyas
  • "I wake up every day thinking I'm going to do something amazing today. What is the highest leverage thing that I can do? Tackle the biggest, hairiest thing that's on my calendar or in my email or whatever. If I get through that, I've won the day." — Deepali Vyas
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