GHDC: You MUST Prepare for Interviews
GHDC: Ask Your Friends to Help You Get a Job!
If you aren’t asking your friends for referrals at their companies, you are being STUPID. Who you know is a HUGE part of getting hired. Work that network! Here’s how to do so — and build a network if you don’t have one.
GHDC: “Requirements” Aren’t Requirements
Repeat after me: Job requirements are NOT ACTUAL REQUIREMENTS. Even a recruiter agrees! Find out how much alignment she says companies are ACTUALLY looking for.
GHDC: You CAN Play With the Truth!
Willing to play with the truth on your resume and job application? Here’s how to do so in the least dishonest way possible.
GHDC: Other Candidates are LYING!
GHDC: Your Interviews are NOT explaining your experience
Do you make up your interview answers on the fly? Do your answers come together as a story, or are they just … random? You MUST know how to give a compelling interview if you want to stand out from other candidates and get hired.
GHDC: Hiring Managers Don’t Always Know What They’re Doing
Most managers are not good at management, and they usually don’t know what their teams are actually doing. This can mean they’re not that good at hiring either. Yikes!
GHDC: Your Résumé MAY NOT Get Read!
Real talk: It’s luck of the draw whether someone will actually read your resume, and hiring managers play to their biases. We share some advice from a recruiter, and the sad truth about the state of resume affairs.
GHDC: Job Descriptions Don’t Describe Jobs
This misconception one is one of my favorites in the course. While I have written nearly every job description for every position I’ve hired, most every other hiring manager I know has copy-pasted job descriptions from competing companies or from other similar job listings.
GHDC: Your Work Won’t Speak for Itself
You might think you’re the cock of the walk because you made the big dingus work at your last company. It’s right at the top of your resume. First bullet under the most current job. “Took ownership and saw Project Dingus to completion, on time and on budget.” Oh yeah, that’s the stuff.
GHDC: You Can Explain What You’ve Done
Picture this: you’re in a job interview with a hiring manager and they say, “I saw on your resume that you were the project lead for Project Dingus. Can you tell me more about that?”
You look the hiring manager right in the eyes and say, “Uh… Yeah, I was the lead on Project Dingus. We got it done on time. It was pretty cool.”
Ouch.
GHDC: The Job is for YOU
If your cover letter looks like this: “Dear Hiring Manager, This is the perfect job for me and here’s why,” all showing is that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
GHDC: Unemployment is not your fault
You may have heard of concepts like “body shaming,” and hustle culture is the equivalent of employment shaming. It’s just plain wrong.dea.
GHDC: Your Resume Should Represent Your Work History
As a hiring manager, I care about one thing: “Is this person qualified to do the job I need done?” I have read through thousands of resumes. Most of them are awful. The only time I call someone with an awful resume is when I literally have no choice because every applicant has a crappy resume. It’s a “lesser of two evils” situation for me.
GHDC: Internal Recruiters Don’t Know Who They’re Looking For
Internal recruiters are rarely experts for the positions being hired. They generally have a Human Resources background and rarely have expertise outside of their domain (HR is complicated and a universe unto itself!), so if you’re a technology person, the recruiter is probably flying blind trying to figure out how to be helpful.