just submitting your resume doesn’t cut it #techjobs #jobsearch

4 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn explains why submitting your resume alone won't work for tech jobs. Most job descriptions are written by HR, not engineers, so they don't match what the role actually needs. Instead, find the engineering manager on LinkedIn, message them about skill mismatches, and ask for a conversation.

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Do you submit your resume for the job that you're trying to reach towards? If the job description's not written with your experience, should you still submit? Listen, you gotta understand something. I'm throwing this stat out here. I would say 90% of job descriptions are written by HR who have no fucking idea what React is. Right? Yeah. I mean, so my thing is, is that if you're trying to level up, go level up, but don't submit your resume. Whoever that— let's just say Fanduel has got a job posting up, right? Fanduel's got a job posting up. What you need to do is you You need to go to FanDuel's LinkedIn page, go to their people on LinkedIn, and then go find an engineering manager and shoot the engineering manager a yo, so-and-so. Maybe not lead with yo, but like, hey, right? I saw you have a job posting. It's requiring this much skills. I have this, don't have this. Do you want to talk?