when you shouldn’t submit your resume…. #techjobs

24 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn explains why submitting your resume to job postings might be a waste. Instead, find the engineering manager on LinkedIn and message them directly about the role. HR writes most job descriptions, not the people who'll actually work with you.

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Do you submit your resume for the job like you're like trying to reach towards? If the job description is 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. Yep. Right? 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 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?