use claude to figure out what job you actually want

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All righty. Good morning. Good morning. What's going on, everybody? Happy Tuesday. We are back. We are back with a vengeance. Excited for this. It's going to be good. I am pumped. Let me alert the troops. It is going to be Fantastic. Good morning. Good morning. Please say hey, we'd love to hear from you. Sorry, a little bit early. Good morning. Today's going to be a good one. It's going to be a little different. It's going to be a little different. I'm nervous. This is probably the closest I've ever gotten to live coding. I've never done this before. So we are going to get into it here in a minute.

But if you are tuning in, say hey. We'd love to hear from you. Let me know where you're tuning in from. But your boys back we're gonna start going live once a week Make sure to use your works cloud account too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Good news is is we're on Gemini at work, but I'm using Claude here. So But anyways, it's good to see Emmett good to see you. Please say hey, we'd love to hear from you Sorry a little bit early this morning Hope everyone's doing well is so humid. I Here in Nashville, that are... Sorry, I'm getting slight messages. That our ceiling is sweating.

It is so humid in Nashville that the ceiling is sweating. So that's cool. What's going on? Hello from Raleigh. Raleigh, we got some plans. We got some plans. The Ronside Digital Torque community is going to be out there very, very soon. Keep an eye out, but it's going to be a good little time. A lot of good stuff heading your way. So, all right. All that being said. um let's go ahead and dive in so again good morning y'all um welcome to guidance counselor two point oh if you are tuning in for the first time i've been doing this live stream for six years now um and uh over the course of the six years it's changed right um i started this uh you know um live stream just talking yapping how to find a job six years ago and it's kind of progressed over the last few years bringing people on highlighting their job search, how they found jobs.

And while that is still absolutely a focus of mine, over the last little bit, I've just been insanely busy to be totally frank. And so I haven't done as many live streams. We've been executing within the community in a very high clip. And so I've taken a little time off from doing these streams, but I've thought about it. And again, the whole point of these streams is to add value. I wanna add value to you, to your job search, to your lives, whatever you say. Also, I realized my shirt's dirty for my kids. so disregard that um so uh so i did some thinking and i've done a lot of talking with people and the conversations keep going back to hey have you used ai like have you plugged in basic information to AI to help you.

And a lot of people are like, no, I haven't thought about that. So I've had enough of these conversations to the point where I'm just like, you know what? I'm just going to go live. We're going to break this down. We're going to share my screen. And we're going to get into it. We're going to work through this together. I'm a little nervous. Partially because I'm really bad at kind of following a certain program. So guess what? I use Claude to write this program to make sure I stay on task. Of course, knowing me, I probably will go outside of the program. But this is the eight week series.

So I'm doing these once a week, every Tuesday for the next eight weeks. And my whole goal is just to unpack how to use Claude or AI or whatever. I'm going to use Claude. But again, I think this could be pretty applicable to whatever tool you want to use. And so, so yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. So again, it's good to see all this morning. Yes, hey, from Atlanta, we had to buy humidifier for the living room. Yeah, I think we're gonna have to buy humidifier because it is nuts. I've never seen my ceiling sweat before. That was absolutely crazy. So, all right, let's go ahead.

Let's go ahead and get into it. Real quick, just some shout outs here. Again, if you want to check out what we do, kind of who we are, check out tort.dev backslash community. We'd love to have you check it out. Join the platform. Again, quick overview about the tort platform. basically allows you to get into the ecosystem of the Ronstadt Digital job opportunities. Ronstadt Digital gets hundreds of jobs a week in the US. And so that's why I tell people like hop in, sign in, and definitely join the community. You'll get updated once you sign up with all of our community stuff. Also, too, listen, if you want to know when I go live with these type of programs, text me.

This is my number. Text live, six, one, five, two, three, five, five, six, five, zero. It's actually me. If you have not jumped into the Discord, our Discord is hopping. Jeff Jesse is kind of one of our unofficial community managers, to be totally honest with you. Um, so definitely hop in. It's a great little time. Um, yeah. All right, cool. So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen. Um, it's great to see y'all this morning. It's great to see y'all. All right. So again, this is my first time doing this. So this is going to be interesting. Um, so let's go in to, let's see here.

Window. Let's do this. All right. coffee and claude time i love it i love it all right so we're gonna dive in today and again i have my prompt up here and today what we're gonna do is use claude to figure out the job you actually want now for me We're going to go through this exercise from my lens, right? I think this is going to be the easiest thing. So again, for my managers or people watching this, I'm not looking for a job, but we're going to go through the exercise as if I was looking for a job to kind of walk through how we would do this and how you would do this.

So first off, let's start up And let's talk about, explain what you're doing and why Claude is different from Googling career advice, right? So I think one of the things that's crazy here is, I've used it a ton for my work and trying to, I've used AI a ton for my work and really trying to find the blind spots for me. but but let's just say I don't know what I want to do next right and really my job too is kind of all over the place right so I'm gonna plug this in be like hey Claude I am looking for a new job and I need your help on what I should look for next can you ask me some questions All right, so again, very, very simple here, right?

Very simple. Now, what I will do, so let's see here, want more scope, bigger title, comp isn't where it should be, unhappy at Torque, want out, explore and just see what's out there. So let's just see, let's just say I'm exploring to see what's out there, right? What kind of role are you looking for? right um similar community marketing leadership step up cmo uh something founder not sure yet let's just say not sure yet open to ideas how time sensitive is this let's just say uh casually looking within the next few months right um so so let's go through this now uh i am not going to go into how to set up claude i am not a cloud expert i have messed around with it um i do uh i think there are ways for you to set all this up again i'm not an expert at that I would highly recommend to go check out on how to set up your cloud, your skill files.

I'm not getting into that. All I'm focusing on is just prompting and walking through this stuff. Okay, got it. Low pressure mode. A few things for reduction. What's the actual, what's actually working in your current role? and you'd want to keep finding. So the parts of tort job that you'd be sad to lose versus what's missing and making you look at all. So let's just say this, let's say things I enjoy, right? So I really enjoy helping manage and lead content and branding, right? It's something I love doing. Love building in public. Um, uh, let's, um, you know, uh, love, uh, managing our email marketing, which is one of the things I do.

Um, uh, love leading a team, um, of people, big people manager guy. Um, let's, let's dive into see what else, uh, you know, love, um, building in public, which is kind of what we talked about. Love speaking and again, brand awareness. Love helping people in their careers. So that's good. Things I don't enjoy. There's honestly not a lot of things I don't enjoy, but let's just say travel is a lot. which is not, again, I have to preface everything. I'm just going through the exercise here. I would say, you know, maybe looking to go back into a smaller company, even though I love the perks of a big company, things that don't enjoy, let's just say, you know, would love a bigger budget, right?

So let's just do that, right? Love this approach. Narendra, thank you so much. So again, we're kind of walking through this here and I'm gonna go check my script, make sure I'm not going super off base here. Um, all right so we we are heading down the right path here all right so uh this is a clear pattern you're describing i want a different job you're describing i want uh maps uh type of head of marketing vp chief brand officer to earlier stage company series b-ish where you don't bring content in a team with your personal platform a few things stand out building in public showed up twice unprompted that's your strongest differentiator smaller company Plus bigger budgets, the real tension to solve for smaller companies means smaller budgets, not bigger ones.

So the move isn't a smaller company, it's early stage, but well-funded or small team. So again, it gives you some really, really good insight here. So what title are you optimizing for, right? So let's do VP or head of community. and head of marketing. But I need, let's see here. Yeah, I think that's good here. VP, head of marketing. So, again, we're kind of walking through this thing and we're prompting it. Right. I think one of the things that most people just don't understand is like this, like AI is really like your guidance counselor. Right. Anything you anything that you're maybe misunderstanding or your or their gaps or you need explanation on.

um all right so good that's a workable range uh last piece what's a team budget that you bigger to you let's just say let's just say uh let's just say i'm just throwing out a number here let's just say two million uh budget um uh so let's do this here all right So it says, once I have this put together, a heavy lifting, and I think one of the things that's really cool here is, so want me to build that positioning doc? Yeah, I'd be curious on a positioning doc. Um, so, so again, we're kind of walking through this thing here. Right. And again, if you have any questions or anything, again, this is, this is like trying to figure out the job you actually want.

Right. And I'm trying to not skip ahead because, uh, next week is build your target company hit list with Claude. So I really want to make sure I stay on. Cause there's a lot of things that are popping in my brain and I want to stay really consistent. Um, All right, let's see. It's building the doc for me right now. I don't code, but I feel like this is the closest thing to coding in public, which is really interesting to me. Also, if you told me six years ago I'd be using AI on a live stream, I would have absolutely laughed at you. All right, so it's building the positioning doc.

Let's see what it does here. Let's see what it does. All right, Taylor Dessen. What I bring, community that drives business, built and led community function at Torque, scaling towards a goal of two million tech professionals in the community, built a community metric framework. So what it does, now, I do have to say, I think one of the things that I do want to emphasize here, I think I do want to go into customize here, and I want to go into, is it skills? No, it's not skills. Does anybody know the one where it's like a summary about you? Let's see here. Settings. There's general instructions for Claude.

Accounts. There's one of these where like you can update like your... um uh you're about because because what what's happening right now is it's pulling from my history so one of the things that i would do so so let's let's let's backtrack a little bit um and let's let's do this let's go to assume you know nothing about me i know you do what would you want to know and how to build out a background about me for my job search? We should have gone back a little bit more. And so again, Claude, one of the cool things about AI is that it has a saved memory about you, right?

So a lot of the stuff it's pulling from all of the data I put into Claude for my work. So I want to start from zero, right? So again, roles, titles, companies, dates, the resume skeleton, what you actually did day to day, not just the job title. skills expertise so again like what i would do like before you start your job search i think this is i think this is great information the reason why i think this is great information is because so many people start the job search and they don't even have an idea of why they're looking or their background and what claude can do or ai in general can do is you can answer all these questions and go through it right so skills expertise what technical skills are you good at all right target direction differentiators constraint story So this is really, really good information.

I'm not going to go through this with you right now because all this is saved. but again if you're starting from scratch and you have not used ai for your job search i would absolutely get ai to know who you are it's incredibly incredibly important all right so let's so so let's let's go back to the script i gotta stay on script so so what one of the things is is this prompt i like this values and priorities Josh Triplett- Right, so it says um I really like this let's go and plug this in here says, I want to act, I want to figure out what I actually want my next role, not just what i'm qualified for.

Josh Triplett- asked me five to seven questions that be clear my values priorities and non negotiables question one. When you think back to the best stretch your work career, the time you felt most alive, what were you doing day by day? For me, I think it's building from zero. That's one thing I'm passionate about. For example, at Vaco, I built a talent platform off of Trello. um uh and scaled a team from zero to seven people um and grew that uh team to two million in revenue uh in the first year You know, when I was at Gun.io, they were small and helped scale their community from zero.

And then with Torque, Ronstadt Digital hired as head of community where there was no one in place before and built that myself. all right so again right we're asking this is when you go back to stretch your work and we're asking this for people to tune in i want to figure out what i actually want my next role ask me five or seven questions question two on the flip side think about a stretch where you felt drained or stuck um uh you know uh for me not having the autonomy to work and execute with my ideas, right? Another great one, right? Again, the emphasis I wanted, I would literally spend time.

Do you have to use Claude? No, you do not have to use Claude. You could use any of these. The big things that I want you to get across today is the prompts I'm using. to go through any AI tool you use, right? And again, we're gonna put this in a blog format and share it out within the community team, but the big thing is prompts, right? So again, to recap, David, so I think to start, again, Claude has all my information, but if you were to start from zero, here's what I'd want to know. So I ask, assume you know nothing about me, what would you want to know and how to build out my background for my job search?

That's where I would start, first and foremost. Then what we've done so far is, hey, Claude, I'm looking for my next job. I need your help on what I should look Um, for my next job, can you ask me some questions? Right? Then we went into this. Then the next prompt I use is right here. I want to figure out what I actually want my next role, not just what I'm qualified for. And now it's asked me. So again, I'm not concerned about the tool, right? We use Gemini, um, you know, internally. You know, I use Claude kind of on my own. But again, like I'm focused on the prompts, not the tool.

Right. Question three. When you when you picture reporting to someone, what does that look like? I typically work best the closest. to the founder slash CEO, right? A lot of my roles have had high visibility next to the founder, next to the CEO, right? Question four, let's talk money and risk. Think about comp structure, right? Let's just say, let's just throw out a number here. Let's just say I'm looking at, you know, let's just say How do you feel about a mix? Not really interested in equity. Really focus on the take home monthly. Right. So again, now that may be different for you. You know, I have three kids.

I'm specifically looking for monthly take home more than everything else. Right. Question five. Think about team size structure. Do you want to be hands-on building, managing small team like zero to seven build, or you pass that? I mean, I think for me, I'd be open to both. But if it's a larger team where I can't necessarily build as much as I want, be able to hire my own people and not inherit a team. You can use what you're familiar with. Find easier to use, I think. Yeah. All right. Question six. What does a smaller company actually mean? I've worked at companies with hundreds of people and companies of thirty people.

So open. Again, we're walking through this thing. Again, one of the things you have to realize is AI is your guidance counselor. This is really good information. I use AI all the time for work to prompt me and try to make me think differently. Last one, what would you say no immediately? I would say lower than my salary target and not the ability to build something. all right so again right we're so we're going through here right so it's building all this out for you to really get a good idea right all right so let's go so this is interesting want to turn this into a second positioning doc basically a personal hiring rubric you can hold up against any opportunity that comes your way something like a one page what i'm screening for doc so so so let's do this yes um let's let's do this Um, so I actually want, so I'm going to go find on the internet and what we're going to do is I'm going to show you how to cross reference this stuff, right?

So we're building out a personal rubric to grade this stuff, to grade jobs that come my way. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go find a random job somewhere. Uh, let's just say head of community job descriptions. All right. Uh, duh, duh, duh. Wait, hold on. Let me see here. I need, let's see here. VP of community job description. VP of community roles. All right. All right. So they built the doc here, right? So I'm going to go on Google real fast and just find a... I'm finding a VP... All right. So this is obviously not in my wheelhouse whatsoever, but I want, I want to, all right.

So I found a job. I'm going to see, can you see this job and a screen against my personal rubric? I found a job. I don't know if it can scan this or not. We'll see. Why is that glitching? That's annoying me. All right. So I found a VP of workforce development role. So here's the deal, right? Again, we're doing this live here. I posted a job in here. against the personal rubric that we just came up with going through the steps they based on my values and what i'm looking for next and now it's reading this to see if it's a fit all right comp passes the range right even though the low end of the range um immediately knows this is where it gets taken the job asks for a master's degree which you don't have thanks claude And the role is built around grant funding, accreditation, academic pathway alignment, and higher ed compliance, not the kind of zero to one brand community building you're doing.

Also explicitly a community college operations role workforce, adult education, not the audience. The autonomy, proximity is mixed. You'd report to the president, which checks the proximity box, but it isn't a builder from nothing right so again honest this one pass the title rhymes with what you want but the actual work does not match right so again i think this is a great thing throwing it throwing in job descriptions to see if you're a fit see where the weaknesses are right uh before prompting do we set or train the agent as a job counselor that's what i would do right so what i would do is is i would create so so here's where we get into projects right um i know i i know uh google gemini calls them gems um but what i would do is and i know chat gpt has projects what i would do for your job search Depending on how you use Claude is I would go into projects and I would do new projects and I would do job search.

Guide me on my job search in a place to hold all information. right so so if you did not know about projects so projects projects keeps everything in one spot right and so for me what you do is you can upload your resume and everything is contextual to this information so what i would do here is i and we probably should have started working out of a project but what i would say is hey hey claude i'm looking to find my Next job, I need you to act as a job hunt counselor, counselor and or recruiter. Okay. And then it's going to go ahead and prompt you in here, right?

So that's what I would do, Amelia. I would open up a project so you can keep everything, right? And then it'll basically go through things. So realistically, I probably should have started this as a project for the exercise. I'm actually going to probably work out of this project just in general, just as we move along here. Let's just do that. That answers Amelia's question. Stephanie, it's good to see you, girl. It's good to see you. Glad you're here. Let's go to the next prompt here. We've gone skills audit. We've gone through skills audit. Here's my background. You tell them of your background, your values and priorities.

Let's talk about define the target role. Now, I didn't do this in the project, so I'm going to go back to this one. Define the target role. Based off everything we talked through, write me a one-page target role profile. There you go. Right. So one of the, one of the ways this could help you from this prompt is a lot of people have a hard time framing what they want, right? So this is great. I'm looking for a VP head of community or head of marketing role at a company small enough that I have real ownership and visibility with the founder CEO, but fun enough to pay X amount of cash.

with a real budget behind community brand somewhere between thirty to a few hundred person range industry agnostic where the function is being built right this is really good information now i'm not saying you have to memorize this word for word but i think this is great clarity to get your brain and mind headed in the right direction when it comes to this stuff all right um so then the next thing uh Josh Triplett- All right, we already did i'm following this here alright so job job alright so so let's do this job jd fit check right so i'm going to plug in another job description that i'm going to find.

And I'm actually gonna go to LinkedIn and try to find an actual job that's like closer because I want to show, I wanna show something that's more of a closer fit. Let's see here, VP of community. Let's see here, jobs. all right let's do let's do this one simple practice i'm gonna let's see here how can i save this i wonder if i can copy link okay all right i found a job it's a vp of president and community brand for a company very kind of similar to what i do and i'm gonna do the last prompt which is a jd fit check all right based off the job description Based off my target role profile, does this role fit?

Looks like actually paste in. Okay. All right. So LinkedIn blocks it. So we're going to have to just copy and paste it here. All right. Hold on real quick. I got to see here. Go to company site. All right. I'm going to do this and do this, do this. All right. There we go. All right. So I just went to the company site and I just pasted the job description in here. And again, the prompt we use is based on my target role profile. Does this role fit what I'm looking for? Score it one to ten and tell me why. Flag anything that's a yellow flag.

Score, four to ten. Not great. Comp is well above your floor. Red flags. Reports to the CMO, not the founder. This is an inherited team, not a build. The clinical mental health credential requirement is a real mismatch. Yellow flags. Hiring control is unclear. Bottom line, strong comp and right function, but it falls short.

but it fails your two most personal non-negotiables proximity to the top and the ability to build rather than inherit all right cool the last thing that i want to do before i wrap up here and again we're going to keep these thirty minutes let me know if you have any questions hopefully you've enjoyed this first week um one of the things and i don't know if it's gonna get into this but but this is like the one thing that people i keep talking to people and i'm like have you used ai to ask what job boards to look into right so i'm gonna say okay

so next question um and i i'm going off the script here of course i'm going off script okay so next question um uh what type of job boards or niche communities should i look at being involved or checking out based on my background right i think a lot of people in the job search don't know where to start and i think this is a great way to start you know be like hey i'm a salesforce developer i'm looking for communities to get involved i'm looking for salesforce job boards where should i go right based off your profile zero to one here we go well found

got that mkt one never heard of that it's a curated job board and newsletter community by about two former marketing executives I've never heard of that that's great exit five never heard of this is a strongest niche fit most b-to-b sass it's focused on community for marketers that's great AMA job board never heard of that one it's a solid secondary channel less of a search volume more of a positioning marketing hire and growth hacker jobs round things out as searchable boards rather than community plays beyond boards here's the part that actually matters more some of your profile and again it goes into here so again

Most people don't know where to start.

Most people don't know what job boards to start at. Most people don't know where to apply or get involved when this is a great way to go about doing it. All right. So to recap, so to recap, Again, don't be caught up in the tool, be caught up in the prompts. If you are starting your job search, I would ask one, do a skills audit. Here's my background. Post your resume or do a quick summary. I want you to act as a career coach based on what I've shared. Tell me what are my strongest transferable skills, types of roles do I see naturally suited for, what industries value this background.

Be honest, no flattering, give me the real read. That's incredibly important. from a prompt perspective. Prompt two, values and priorities. I want to figure out what I actually want in my next role, not just what I'm qualified for. Ask me five to seven questions that will help me get clear on my values, priorities, and non-negotiables.

Ask them one at a time and wait for my answer before moving to the next one prompt three define the target role based off everything we've talked about write me a one paragraph target role profile this type of the type of role company size industry environment that fits what i'm looking for make it specific enough that i could use it and evaluate job postings and then prompt four jd fit check here's a job description based off my profile does this role fit with what i'm looking for score it one to ten flag anything that's a yellow flag that is a prompt and finally i added

one more based off based off all the prompts that we have done where should i start my job search what job board should i look at what communities should i be involved with and then it went in and shared this here so that concludes week one uh week two we're gonna go build into your target company hit list so i have some prompts we're gonna walk through there week three is a live resume rewrite that's going to be a fun one take a real resume and rebuild it um and then week four we're gonna do live linkedin makeovers uh week five we're gonna do write

cold dms and cover letters live and actually send them uh and then week six we're gonna do claude interviews you live mock interview on a stream um and then we're going to go into building your personal claw job search system um turn everything from weeks one to seven in a repeatable workflow prompts etc hindsight I probably need to do all this in a project so it can save all this stuff so very helpful gonna try this yeah yeah we're gonna we're gonna get into more too this can definitely be a Claude skill a hundred percent we'll go into skills too I didn't want to get

into the nuts and bolts of Claude maybe we do that next week maybe we make this a nine-week series TBD but again we can go over skills uh all right thanks for tuning in y'all appreciate if this meant something to you and you feel like your network could uh benefit from this please share it it would mean a lot to me um we are going to create uh one pagers within the torque ronstadt community so you can use this stuff moving forward um but again thanks for tuning in today hopefully you enjoy this a little bit different um let me know if you liked it

shoot me a dm if you hated it let me know how i can improve i'm always looking to improve again this is very different for me And again, y'all have a great Tuesday.

We'll see y'all next week for week two. Have a good one. Peace.