It’s a numbers game
Never trust with what recruiters say. They will tell you they will follow up but will often ghost. So just keep applying

Long post but I’ve quit 4 jobs from 2020-2025, and currently make over 100k. The longest I’ve had to look for a job before my first one was a month. This is what I did to get all of that.

Applications:

From 7am to 9am and from 11am - 2pm you need to apply to jobs with a resume that BOTH matches on keywords and shows that you add measurable value to companies if a person reads it.

I used to make the resumes and applications the day/night before, save them, and wake up and start sending them.

You resume bullet point needs to start with a verb, state what you did, how you did it, and then the result, a example bullet point is:

Launched a social media campaign that was seen by 1 million users, leading to 100k in sales

The verb is launched
The social media campaign is what you did
And 100k in sales is the result

That shows that you bring in money, you understand what the job is about, and shows your good at it. That’s a great candidate for any job. And, it gives you something to talk about in the interview, there gonna want to know what the plan was and how you measured sales. That’s when you can sell yourself best!

Why 7am to 9am? Because the hr person in charge of looking at resumes starts working between 8am-9am, so your application will be the first thing in the inbox when they start the day.

Why 11am -2pm? Lunch breaks. Hr person comes back from lunch and sees your fire resume. People usually feel better after lunch, if the hr person sees a good resume AND they feel good the chances they’ll reach out to you go up.

No one reads cover letters but if theirs a really competitive job you want then a cover might help you stand apart, but I’ve never used a cover letter and I had many hr people say they never look at it.

Repeat this everyday until you start getting interviews.

Interviews:

Please understand that company wants the interview to work out more than you! They don’t want to have to keep doing awkward ass interviews everyday. Interviews suck for everyone involved!!!

The best way to handle interviews is prep.
You will have phone screen, you will have behavioral questions, and they will ask if you have any questions.

Self made millennial has great interview prep.

Phone screen video:

Behavioral interview:

I owe this woman money from all the help I got from her videos.

If you have a technical interview they’re gonna ask you something that tests your problem solving skills, they’re going to ask you something you don’t know and the basics.

Make sure you get the basics right, for problem solving have an example of problem you solved that relates to the question asked. If they ask something you don’t know say you’ll find an answer either through asking colleagues or industry resources (ex Salesforce has trailhead, so if they ask something you don’t know just say you’ll find a trailhead that’ll help you)

Send a thank you email to every person you interviewed with, if you don’t have their contact info, tell them you want to send them a thank you email and ask for their contact info. They love it when you do that!

Negotiations:

If you get an offer and want more money ASK THEM FOR MORE!!!! At this point the hr team’s metrics are on the line. Companies don’t pay hr to interview and send offers they pay hr to HIRE GOOD TALENT. And, they determined that you are GOOD TALENT. So the ball is your court. If the salary range was 80k -100k and they offered 90k, ask for 100k. They have the money and by this point in the process they’d rather lose 10k of the budget than miss out on their yearly goals.

Anyway, If they send an offer they really want you, and you’re not cheap.

Starting the job:

Don’t do too much at first! Do your trainings, talk to your colleagues and ask if people need help with anything. Your first 3-6 months are for learning the people you work with and the day to day functions of the jobs. Once you get tapped for a bigger project than it’s go time.

Once your on the job:

Do your work and when there’s a lull in work post on ktt2.

Honestly the hardest part about getting a job is dealing the part of the job hunt that feels like a humiliation ritual and the sting from getting rejected with no explanation.

You just gotta have a solid process and an on to the next one mentality and you’ll get what you need.

S*** is truly a numbers game. One company will reject for one thing and that same thing will be the reason another company hires you.

if you're already doing all the basic stuff it's just luck imo

Couples thoughts

• LinkedIn is the only job site I've had success with / worth ur time
• only do a cover letter if you're applying directly to a recruiter thru LinkedIn
• it's a numbers game for submitting resumes
• don't be discouraged by LinkedIn saying "300 people have applied for this" maybe only 20 of them are actually qualified.
• to quickly make custom resumes, feed job descriptions to AI, then ask it to interview you for the role, then use ur responses to generate resume chunks
• use the STAR method for job questions. Have like 2-3 stories and then tweak them depending on the question. AI is also good for this.
• try to find a local meet up or events for ur role. a solid networking event is better use of ur time than a week of spamming job applications.
• if ur college has job fairs go to them and network hard
• a companies recruiter is extra worth time and effort compared to a recruiter from a recruiting company
• a lot of smaller companies are jus now getting comfortable with the idea of ai. If u can leverage it into ur work / talking points / ideas then that would be beneficial. Jus don't come across as obsessed

  • example: u said ur in marketing. U could say something like during a client meeting u listen to their wants and use AI to get mock ups going before the meeting is over. I do this during client meetings for frontend and they go nuts over it.

job application form

Have you niggas never heard of LinkedIn or Meetup.com?
F*** applying,
stalk the hiring manager's page and "randomly" run into them at a social event.

Lying

"to quickly make custom resumes, feed job descriptions to AI, then ask it to interview you for the role, then use ur responses to generate resume chunks"

ok, dis hard

I hit your profile to follow you cause u said sum thurl s***,
then realized I already do.

This post ⛽

^^ this

My last like 4 jobs came from recruiters finding me. Applying to places straight up is cooked

Human beings are not reviewing these resumes and cover letters.

Unless you are dealing one on one with a recruiters I will tell you that you are largely wasting your time making a CV

They’re running your s*** through ChatGPT for bullet points or asking it to compare you to the job description and then making a decision

I literally had a Meta recruiter tell me this a couple weeks ago too and it was for an A.I. role

“You need to do this to get shortlisted, they won’t even read the resume if the chat bot doesn’t tell them you’re a high match”