A short spoken excerpt from a Ramit Sethi YouTube video where he criticizes the common job-search behavior of mass-applying (hundreds of resumes) and receiving no offers. Sethi suggests that if someone applied to over ~250 jobs with zero offers, the problem is likely their strategy, not luck; the tone is direct, conversational, and mildly comic/self-aware.
Do you know how many people I talk to? They're like, I've sent out hundreds of resumes. And I go, stop right there. You sent out hundreds of resumes? How many job offers have you gotten? They're like, none. In my head. I go, why the f. But out loud, I go, ramit, be nice. Be nice. Your parents taught you to be respectful. I go, if you've applied to over 250 jobs and you have gotten zero job offers, is it possible maybe your strategy is the wrong one? And they're like, this is why I need to be given the Nobel Prize for how I'm still sane in this world. How. How do I talk to this many people doing it wrong? And I have to force myself to be nice. Some of us were born nice. My wife was born nice. I was not. So every day I wake up, I'm fighting a demon inside that says, ramit, just tell them what the they're doing wrong. But I go, no, no. You're in your 40s now. It's time to be nice.
