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Job hunting
Resume, applying, interviews, salary. Turning 'I was involved' into what you did and what changed.
30 entries here · one process per category, checkpoints written per job
- Resume rewrite: clear in twenty secondsMany applications and no replies; the resume may be the problem.
- Cover letter: why you in three sentencesA cover letter that is not a template.
- Role fit: is it worth applyingA posting and uncertainty about whether I qualify.
- Career-change resume: translating old experienceMoving industries where past experience looks irrelevant.
- New graduate resume: no work experienceA fresh graduate with only school and clubs on the page.
- Application order: which to try firstA dozen targets and no idea about order.
- Referral request: asking without awkwardnessWanting a referral from a former colleague and feeling awkward.
- Portfolio: three pieces are enoughA portfolio with too much material and no idea what to include.
- Self-introduction: sixty secondsThe opening question and my answer becomes a chronology.
- Reason for leaving: without burning bridgesThe interviewer asks why I left and the honest answer costs points.
- Salary negotiation: ranges before numbersAt the offer stage and unsure how to raise the number.
- Comparing offers: beyond monthly payTwo offers with close pay and no clear choice.
- Background check: what they will askA background check where my account may differ from my former employer's.
- First two weeks: what to doAn offer accepted and preparation time before day one.
- Cutting a resume to one pageA two-page resume and advice to keep it to one.
- Behavioural interview: STAR without the paddingAsked about a conflict and my answer rambles.
- Technical interview: when you do not knowA technical question I cannot answer and inventing an answer would be worse.
- Case interview: ask before answeringA case question demanding an answer and a fear that asking looks weak.
- Group interview: neither dominating nor silentA group exercise where dominating and disappearing are both bad.
- Stress interview: holding steadyThe interviewer challenges my experience and I rush to defend.
- Questions to ask: showing judgementThe closing questions are always about team culture.
- Interview retro: one fix per roundSeveral rejections with no idea what is wrong.
- Project story: three minutesTold to present a project and the background runs too long.
- Failure story: which one to tellThe mandatory failure question and a fear of damage.
- Career plan: specific but not rigidAsked about a five-year plan when I have not thought that far.
- English interview: three stories firstAn English interview with mediocre speaking and a fear of freezing.
- Final round: talking to an executiveThe last round with an executive and no idea what to discuss.
- Follow-up email: what it can doUnsure whether a thank-you note does anything.
- Mock interview: having holes foundA mock interview with no idea what to ask the interviewer to probe.
- System design: constraints firstIn system design I start drawing architecture immediately.
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