researching companies on the job search #jobsearchtips

11 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker outlines a straightforward, low‑tech approach to researching potential employers during a job hunt. The process involves three main steps: (1) reviewing a company’s website and evaluating it against personal criteria such as market leadership, technology relevance, and growth potential; (2) copying the website content into Google Gemini, prompting the AI to answer specific questions and generate deeper financial and growth analyses; (3) deciding to apply only if the AI‑generated insights align with the speaker’s preferences. Over a period of 89 days, the speaker applied to just 47 companies—roughly one application every two days—emphasizing a deliberate, quality‑over‑quantity mindset rather than a high‑volume application strategy.

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How did you balance not over-researching? I had a simple system. I did not do anything fancy in this process, nothing highfalutin. I just would research a company, make some assessments based on what I was looking for. Are they the best in class? Is it technology I'm interested in? Do they seem like they have some growth? I would copy information from their website, drop it into Gemini, ask it some questions, and then ask it to do deep research and give me some financial information about the company and their strength and probable growth, like all that stuff. And if I like what I saw, I would apply. 89 days, only applied to 47 places. That's almost like one every 2 days. So if I did the research on Monday, I might apply to that one place on Tuesday. Yeah. Wasn't a whole lot of applying. I wasn't balancing anything. I was just digging into a company until I find what I was looking for and then applying.