how to navigate job postings

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Thank you again for tuning into Guyne's Council 2.0. I am back, I'm back in my house. I do so, so you guys can hear me, you can see me better. But it was a wonderful, wonderful travel to Roanoke, Virginia, went to go take my newborn to see her great-grandmother, which was pretty cool. And so we did that trip, and then we shot down to Raleigh, North Carolina for a week for three to four weeks, three to four days. And then we're back. And so we got back, so again, I was spending a few days. Just a few shout-outs and people coming in, what's going on, Malia?

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So job postings is kind of this thing where not many people know how to navigate it. They don't know what to do. Should I submit my resume? Should I not submit my resume? So first off, if you have questions, please throw it up at me. I'll share it. We can discuss it. If you have any questions around job postings, but my big thing with job postings is you really need to stay away from submitting your resume to job postings. So one of the hacks that I came up with in my head recently that I want to share is if you see a job posting and you have recruiter friends, BCC the recruiters, take the job posting you find and send it to the recruiter, send it to the recruiters, BCC and ask, hey, do you have any connections here or are you working on the role?

I think that can drastically transform your job search. And the thing is, is you have to stay away from submitting your resume without any human contact. If that makes sense. So the big thing is, is if you get anything out of this next few minutes, don't submit your resume to job postings. Now, I say that it's all gray in the staffing industry. If you don't have any, if you don't have the recruiters, if you don't have the recruiters connections, you don't have any contacts at a company. Yes, go ahead and submit your resume. What I would still do though is I would still go to obviously find the connections of either HR managers or recruiters at that company and say, hey, Mr.

Mrs. recruiter, hey, Mr. Mrs. HR manager, I just submitted my resume for this position would love to know what next steps are. Most of the time they're gonna tell you, hey, do you, hey, girl, chill? But at least you reached out, at least you get on the radar. Also, a job posting is too. Companies don't know us to or damn, I've been doing all wrong. Yeah, most people do do it. That's why I share this information. What I wanna say is right now, companies aren't flux. When it comes to remote policy. So if you see a job posting that you really, really are jacked up about, but it's in a city that you don't live in, go ahead and they don't not take remote work, I would go ahead and submit your resume.

Because here is why. We still have companies in Nashville that want people on site this year, but they also said they want people on site beginning of this year. And now those same companies are pushing to mid this year. So again, I mean, the whole remote things would be ever evolving. I will say this is if you have a city you've always wanted to live in, but you wanted a way to get there slowly, AKA, get a job, start researching the area, that long lead time. Now is the time to do it, right? I right now, if you are watching this, I have a Python data engineer spot for very senior, right?

And they are fine if you move here at the end of the contract contracts around six months. Right? And so now is the time, so let's say you live in Orlando and really wanted to move to Nashville. Or you could take this Python data engineer role, fully remote, you can learn about the company, see if you like the company, start researching the area, asking your coworkers where to live, where to eat, et cetera, and then slowly get your family yourself up here. So that's the benefit of obviously job postings right now and kind of the world we live in. I will say this with job postings too.

Job postings like to have word vomit everywhere, right? Word vomit, let's list all the tech, all the things, all the responsibilities, right? You at everything, because here's the deal, HR generates for the most part job descriptions. So what does HR do? HR includes these massive job descriptions with a bunch of keywords in it to attract most of the applicants, right? But as an applicant probably who cares about what you're gonna work on day and day out, it doesn't help you with that. And so my for you is if you're submitting your resume to job postings, I would at least keep it within the years of experience, right?

So if you're junior, I submit your resume to only junior. If you go on LinkedIn, there's like an associate, that's the same thing kind of, right? Especially it's like one to three years, right? So junior associate, if you're a mid, maybe submit your resume to mid, but maybe you submit your resume to seniors with the salary band, you know, kind of in that range. You know, if you're a junior, don't be submit your resume to architect level roles, right? Cause that's just ridiculous. You know, mid's probably the same, right? Like let's face it, know yourself, the individuals who deploy empathy on the job search, knowing who they are, knowing what they can do, find a job faster because they're not wasting their time submitting their resume blindly everywhere to architect level positions and whatnot.

So you need to be conscious about who you're submitting to, what what positions you're submitting to. So be aware of that, but go ahead and submit your resume to the postings and obviously within your skill set and within your salary band and or skill skill set, that type of thing. Also, what I want to talk about, yes, Julio, great question entry level versus junior. Yeah, still submit, right? That's still in the same area, right? You know, again, entry versus mid, probably not. Entry junior associate, yes, absolutely. They're kind of all in the same area. Also, job descriptions, going back to how they're written, that's why I include very short job descriptions.

If you see any postings of mine out there and national with three or four bullet points, that's mine. So just be aware that because there's a job description that has all the things in it, doesn't mean you have to have it, right? If it is a job role, make sure you have Java then submit your resume, right? Make sure you have Java, make sure you're within the years of experience and submit your resume, all right? So please be mindful of that. Don't be overwhelmed, but again, at the end of the day, don't submit your resume, right? Find the people, find the managers, find the HR individuals who controls those job postings.

They're probably saying, Taylor, that's going to take so much dang time. Yes, it takes time. But it's so much more effective than just submitting your resume around town. I say this all the time. If you take an hour, dedicated hour of submitting your resume all around your town but take that time. But instead, do the hour of DMing people at companies that have open job orders, you are going to have a better success of contacting and giving a job with that hour, connecting with people, and submitting your resume all around town. Please, at me, comment if you have any questions about job postings, again, who you had a good one entry level versus junior?

Yes, absolutely. Stuart, entry level to get my foot in the door, and who you owe. So here's again, for junior entry, like you need to intern, right? Like you need to offer a pre-services for free. This is another conversation I'm probably going to get into tomorrow or the next day. But again, you need to get experience, put it on your resume, write your resume, write your resume with the projects that you're interning, projects you're volunteering on like real-world experience. Alex Pooler, my design guy, is volunteering his time for me to get experience on his resume. So please do that as one tip, but we'll get to that later.

I don't want to go too far off the beat path right there. So let's do this. That's all I have right now with job postings. Again, to recap, don't submit your resume job posting. BCC, your recruiters, see if they have any leads, or connect with people with a company, ask for leads there. But if you have to submit your resume, submit your resume, make sure it's in the skill set, right? The same skill set, the same years of experience, but at the end of the day, try to not submit your resume all around town. Again, thank you for tuning to guys, Coach, you're too close.

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He is local. His name is Jack Langston. It's going to be a good one. We're going to talk about compensation and negotiations and offers a route and how a job seeker should negotiate with money. So tune in tomorrow. Jack Langston, VP of engineering here locally in Nashville. We're going to be hanging out, talking about how to negotiate from a salary perspective. The all of a good one. Have a great Tuesday, and I will see you on Wednesday in Andrew requests. We'll have to address through site, Beco.com, backslash Taylor on the screen. Appreciate y'all. Y'all have a good one.