Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Ramit Sethi titled "Don’t Be the Seal — Be the Orca" (uploaded Dec 19, 2025). Two speakers use an orca-vs-seal metaphor to motivate proactive networking: identify five relationships (preferably former employees), reach out for coffee or Zoom, gather candid information, and tailor job-search materials accordingly. The tone is motivational and tactical.
I want you to start hunting, circling.
Like you're an orca. Have you seen those videos where the orcas go around? A cute little seal is on a.
Little thing of snow. They go, oh, we're going to get this seal.
That's you. You are the orca. I know the seal is cute, but you're not the seal today. You're the orca. Be the orca. Start circling.
What's my strategy? How am I going to identify five relationships there? How am I going to take them out to coffee, get on a zoom call? How am I going to identify people.
Who used to work there.
But don't work there anymore? So they'll be even more honest with me? And then I'm going to tailor all of my job search material to what I have learned.
