Leadership coach, design executive, and founder of Happy Path Sally Carson. Sally shares her hiring insights and job search advice based on 20+ years in tech, including her time as a hiring manager and leader of design teams at LinkedIn and Cisco. We talk about:
- Using a "jobs to be done" framework to craft your resume, portfolio, and other materials according to the needs and goals of your audience
- Insights into how recruiters use LinkedIn search and filters to find qualified candidates (Sally's team worked on variety of features for finding talent)
- Tips for optimizing your LinkedIn profile that go beyond the basics (like adding skills tags to your jobs so you come up in search)
- One Weird (Smart) Trick for figuring out how to talk about the business impact of your work
- How managing up *might* help you avoid a layoff
- Why design and tech professionals need to learn AI now
- Something about bras for dogs?
Links
Keep your job in 2024 by managing up
Adding business results to LinkedIn profile
Importance of adding skills to LinkedIn profile
The AI Dilemma - from the Center for Humane Technology (vimeo)
Free LinkedIn Learning AI course
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05/28/24 • 41 min
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