Category: Job Search Strategy

Layoffs & Severance Why was I laid off? The darker side of the list Most layoff lists are built from cost, role codes, and org charts, not from anyone reading your reviews, which is how people on leave and people who were just promoted end up on them. If you're asking why you were laid… Continue reading Why was I laid off? The darker side of the list

Job Search Strategy The hidden job market is just your old coworkers The hidden job market is not a private board you were never given the password to. It is the list of names a hiring manager says out loud before the job is posted, and the only way onto that list is a person… Continue reading The hidden job market is just your old coworkers

Job Search Strategy How to run a job search like an actual full-time job Forty hours a week is the right number. Applying is not what most of those hours should go to, and interview study is the block almost nobody puts on the calendar. Listen to this one Full episode transcript Pip: It is… Continue reading How to run a job search like an actual full-time job

A job search extending beyond six months transforms from a project into a burden, impacting candidate performance during screening calls. Angela Malagon argues that the real issue is often a loss of structure rather than resume gaps. To combat this, she suggests implementing a focused schedule and limiting applications to enhance specificity and effectiveness in interviews.

Every stage of a hiring process ends with one person describing you to another person in a hurry, and you are not in the room for any of it. Here is what gets written at each stage, and how to hand them the sentence instead of hoping they find one.

There is no correct number of applications per day, because volume is not the thing deciding whether your phone rings. Here is what actually decides it, and why sending twenty next week will make the same week worse.