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

@olhmr As someone who sees thousands of applications a year, one thing really stands out: Effort. People who really want the job make extra effort in presenting themselves. Has to be the right effort, not annoying effort, but when you see it, it quickly gets noticed.

best way to get hired: tweet side projects related to where you want to work want to join a design tool company? design a mini one. want to build agents? make a small one and tweet it. people will share your work in slack and need zero imagination to picture you at the company

companies just wanna make money, so all you need to do is show them how you can help them make money drop everything you have ever been told about getting a job and start over from that simple statement