On the Job Hunt? You’re Wasting Your Time With These 3 Things

Erik Andersen
3 min readOct 18, 2022
Photo by Meghan Hessler on Unsplash

Your job search can quickly become the world’s worst full-time job 😭

No pay
Poor feedback
And constant rejection

Unless you find joy in the madness, here are some tips to avoid, and their counter-behaviors that will move you along your journey faster

1. Don’t Build Your Resume From Scratch

98% of Fortune 500 companies use some sort Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help organize and track candidates during the recruitment process. This is the pesky site where you upload your resume just to be asked you to manually enter in all the details in their web form anyway 🤦‍♂️

Not only is this annoying, it is also time consuming! It easily doubles the amount of time it takes to fill out a job application.

Time you could have used to fill out another application
Time you could have used to get in front of another employer
Time you could have used to get another job

What to do instead?

Don’t use your own custom resume

And definitely don’t use any resume template that favors aesthetics over practicality (I’m…

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Erik Andersen

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. Also an independent coach, teacher, and public speaker. My opinions are my own