How To Get Hired

People would rather apply to 100 companies using the same low-effort resume and remain unemployed for six months than take the time to apply to five good companies with a solid, custom application. Everyone, and I mean literally everyone, applies to jobs using the same boring PDF document based on a free template they found online. You will never... See more

Do not touch LinkedIn Apply. For inbound, work on projects w others and post about them. Skip HR, go straight to execs/employees. For outbound, spend 1-2 days working on a demo, or reuse prev projects related to the product/role. Do this for several months for a few places

@robably__ @adhiraj_OTW For me it really has been this simple. Is weird to realize too that when you drop the whole shtick of trying to sell (and often the desperation — which is harder to untangle for many tbh) and just be a human with interests and skills in the right places and showing up in the

nearly all huge career mistakes is that you get an offer and blindly accept it just to get out of the suffering of thinking about your career and then don't talk to a single other company, so you have zero leverage and no idea what else is out there