DEV Community: Emily Giddings

Laid Off Toolkit: best free tools to get hired

Emily Giddings — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:15:02 +0000

My team created The Laid Off Toolkit to be a roundup of the best free tools/apps/sites to help job-seekers ahead of the holidays.

Let me know if there are additional free resources I should include!

If you find it helpful, consider sharing it with friends, and upvoting it on Product Hunt to help more people find it.

Thanks y'all!

You know tech, but can you interview...?

Emily Giddings — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:47:23 +0000

Landing the job and salary you want at the company you want takes a more than acing the technical interviews.

It might seem unintuitive that anyone would need to practice talking about themselves, their abilities, and their wins in previous roles, but it's not something we ever have to do or practice until we're looking!

When I was first transitioning into marketing tech after a stint as a touring indie pop musician, I didn't know WTF to say in interviews.

Going to free Roadmap workshops to practice interviewing while I worked on my growth, product, and tech skills is what helped me.

Definitely recommend checking out the upcoming free Roadmap workshops here: Roadmap Workshops

P.S. We're also building a job matching board where we hype you up to hiring leaders and connect with you before any interviews you book with our partners! Ya, it's free! Sign up to be an early user here!

Feel free to connect on LinkedIn and say hi, especially if you're in SF. I'm new here! https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyrosegiddings

4 Steps to Better Jobs - It's not just technical ability.

Emily Giddings — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 02:15:17 +0000

Below are 4 important puzzle pieces to help you get hired faster, based on over a year of building a startup that helps job seekers land better jobs, even if they're pivoting from another industry.

But first: You're awesome, you're smart, and the right company will see that (but you might have to help them see it). All job seekers experience rejection, not just you. And you can learn things that reduce your rejection and increase your offers.

Applying is kiiind of like kissing a lot of frogs to find a partner or a friend. You'll get slimed a lot.

UNTIL THE ONE.

And now, based on hundreds of job-seekers going through our programs and sharing strategies in our TalentList community, here are the Top 4 actions that stack the odds in your favor to land a better job, pivot, or career upgrade, faster:

1. Dust up your career assets.

Give your resume and your LinkedIn profile a reboot. Search LinkedIn for other people holding the titles you want for verbiage inspiration.
Show Key Results instead of busy work in your job description bullet points.

2. Put out the bat signal.

Get your resume out there by listing yourself on sites like Elpha and Roadmap's TalentList (we match you to open jobs, hype you up to hiring leaders, and help you prep before interviews for free).

3. Practice interviewing.

You know you can do the job, but you have to literally practice articulating that in response to interview questions. - It's extremely common to feel nervous during interviews, fumble responses, and forget that you actually do know how to count to 5.
Practice makes perfect. You can practice with Roadmap in our free LIVE mock interview sessions. :-)

4. Mingle:

Network like your new job depends on it, because something like ~80% of job offers come from professional or personal referrals.
No network? No problem! You can build one. I had to too. Check our Roadmap resources to learn how to get started with a Networking blurb on sites like Dev (obvi), FB groups, Slack groups, Reddit, Twitter, or Discord, or even Roadmap's Slack community.
Put 15 minute coffee chats on your calendar with people who've made the moves you want to make, or are employed where you want to work, or are hiring for roles you want. If you make a great impression, these calls will lead to referrals which lead to interviews and offers.

*What other strategies have helped you? *