[{"id":18,"name":"Pick One Thing","slug":"pick-one-thing","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-03-20T17:13:48.997Z","content":"Pick one thing.\r\n\r\nAfter years of talking with folks looking for work and hiring managers one issue has become really apparent.\r\n\r\nPick one thing.\r\n\r\nI see so many folks who list multiple roles on HireClub. Marketing, Ops. Shoe Gazing.\r\n\r\nThis makes it impossible for hiring managers to place you.\r\n\r\nPick one thing.\r\n\r\nWhat is the one thing you love doing?\r\n\r\nWhat is the thing you want to learn and be the main focus for your next job?\r\n\r\nAnd I can hear the buts and the what ifs revving your engines. Stop.\r\n\r\nIf you are looking for job, it's your priority to craft a singular tale that describes your value.\r\n\r\nYou may have many passions. I'm no stranger to that. I'm a designer and developer.\r\n\r\nBut when looking for a job I always put one thing. I tailor for best results.\r\n\r\nI understand sometimes you are trying to cover your bases. Hedging your bets. Would YOU do that when hiring someone?\r\n\r\nPeople hire others to help them solve a specific problem that requires a specific skill.\r\n\r\nI see this all the time. If you don't know what you are good at, how will a hiring manager?\r\n\r\nPick one thing.","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":16,"name":"Career Coaching with HireClub","slug":"career-coaching-with-hireclub","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-03-07T17:50:58.852Z","content":"HireClub offers career coaching for members starting at very affordable prices.\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/coaching\r\n\r\nIf you are needing help on your resume or  want to talk to an experienced coach about how to succeed in your job search or career, you can book a session in just a few clicks.\r\n\r\nWe have over 30 amazing, empathetic career coaches who are there to help and **prices start at just $30** for 15 minutes.\r\n\r\nHaving done over 100 coaching sessions myself, I strongly believe that in order to get ahead, everyone should have a coach.\r\n\r\nLook at someone like Michael Jordan. He was an amazing basketball player. Did he also have amazing coaches who supported and worked him? You bet!\r\n\r\nThe hiring market is more difficult than ever. Standing out, defining your career path and getting unstuck is super helpful in achieving your goals and you don't have to do it alone.\r\n\r\nAnd don't just take our word for it, **we have 95% 5 star reviews** on coaching!\r\n\r\nWhat can you use coaching for?\r\n\r\n* Improving your resume\r\n* Mock Interviews (this is huge, it's a skill we don't often get to practice)\r\n* Salary Negotiation\r\n* Executive Leadership - Become a better leader\r\n* \r\nAnd much much more\r\n\r\nAll our coaching sessions are completely private and confidential.\r\n\r\nYou get a private discussion area to talk about your goals and upload files.\r\n\r\nCoaching is usually done by phone but we are actually working on an optional video coaching feature for a more human experience.\r\n\r\nCoaching is also how HireClub primarily makes revenue. We exist to help job seekers and we have chosen this route because we love helping others.\r\n\r\nThere are many hiring companies that make money by charging companies and while that makes a lot of sense, I want to build something that helps job seekers.\r\n\r\nWe see a strong future in being everyone's coach from high school to retirement. Think about it, you leave college and that's usually the last time you talk to a career counselor even though you have 40+ years of work ahead of you.\r\n\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/coaching","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":15,"name":"Introducing Job Alerts!","slug":"introducing-job-alerts-15","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-03-01T18:39:44.144Z","content":"You can now subscribe to job alerts at https://hireclub.com/job_alerts.\r\n\r\nEnter your keywords, job type (Full time, Part Time etc), role or city and we’ll email you when anyone posts a job that matches.\r\n\r\nYou can also turn off the emails and still get notifications on the site.\r\n\r\nYou can also create a job alert based on filters you apply at https://hireclub.com/jobs.\r\n\r\nJust click Create Alert once you’ve made your selections.\r\n\r\nYou can also create a job alert based on other jobs!\r\nGo to any job page and look for the job alert plus button at the bottom.\r\n\r\nJust click that and any time a similar job is posted, you’ll get an email as well.\r\n\r\nI think the best thing is to use the keywords field which does a text search vs other fields which might exclude jobs.\r\n\r\nFor example if you are looking for Remote Rails jobs, use Rails as the keyword and remote as the type.\r\n\r\nThis has been a oft requested feature and I want to talk through what it takes to develop a feature like this.\r\n\r\n1. I had to update our job search code to handle custom filtering (happened with v2 redesign)\r\n2. I created the basic job alert functionality but ran into a few gotchas.\r\n3. We don’t want to alert you of older jobs, so we have to make sure you only get notified once about a job that’s recently posted.\r\n4. Since you can have multiple job alerts that match the same job, we also have to make sure that you don’t get duplicate job alerts for the same job.\r\n5. In general just deciding what the filters are based on is a product challenge. Is it an “AND” search which is narrow and well defined so it gets you really fine results or an OR search which is broader? We choose AND so all your terms have to match.\r\n6. What’s the UI? How do we make it easy to create alerts and show you which jobs which match alerts? \r\n7. Performance. Each job alert has to do a search against **every** single job. Multiply that by the number of users that create job alerts. We’ve done some initial work to make sure it’s not too slow.\r\n8. What if the job is changed? Someones makes the job remote when it wasn’t before. Any matching job alerts should trigger then as well.\r\n9. Uniqueness. We can’t have you create 2 job alerts that are the exact same, you’d get multiple emails and that would be annoying.\r\n10. Privacy. All job alerts and settings are always private. There’s no way for other users to know what alerts you have.\r\n11. We probably missed a few things too! Product design is hard.\r\n\r\nAs always feedback is very welcome.\r\n\r\nPlease kick the tires and let me know how it works.\r\n\r\nIn this instance once you’ve created your job alerts, you might need to wait until someone posts a matching job.\r\n\r\nPS\r\nJob Posters!\r\nThis is all the more reason to create your job on https://hireclub.com/jobs before posting the job link in the group.\r\n\r\nJob Alerts and all our upcoming features around jobs will help you manage the pipeline much easier than hundreds of DMs in your inbox.","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":14,"name":"How To Write a Great Resume","slug":"how-to-write-a-great-resume","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-02-28T18:36:47.655Z","content":"So after 200+ career coaching sessions there are some gotchas I see on resumes consistently. Here's my top 5 tips on how to write a great resume.\r\n\r\n### 1. One single purpose.\r\n\r\nToo often I see resumes where it's unclear what job you want. People will state they  do marketing, design, dev ops AND fly fishing.\r\n\r\nWhen you hire a painter and he tells you he is also a chef, does that increase your trust in his skills or decrease it?\r\n\r\nPick the one thing you want this resume to focus on. Create multiple resumes if you want to focus on different roles.\r\n\r\n### 2. Your resume is the answer to the job post\r\n\r\nFor every resume, the best way to get noticed is to look at the job posts you are interested in. What words do they use? What skills do they ask for?\r\nYour resume should be a line by line match.\r\n\r\nYou don't have to be a perfect match but by using the same language as job posts you can make it clear you understand the job requirements.\r\n\r\n### 3. Talk about your wins, not your responsibilities.\r\n\r\nThis is probably the number one problem with 99% of resumes.\r\nTalk about your impact to the business.\r\n\r\nTypically this is stated as metric + time.\r\n\r\n**Bad Example**\r\nI designed layouts, screens and user interfaces.\r\n\r\n**Good Example**\r\nI increased customer signups by 42% in 6 months by redesigning the sign up flow to be simpler.\r\n\r\nPeople hire you for your potential impact to the business. Make it clear you can and have made positive impacts to business before. Use numbers and percentages with time to show your awesome wins.\r\n\r\n### 4. Stop using corporate speak.\r\n\r\nFor some reason we all think we need to use impersonal, corporate buzzwordy lingo in our resumes. Sometimes I'll read a resume and have no idea what I just read.\r\n\r\nTimes are changing, use a professional but personable voice. It's not the 1980s anymore.\r\n\r\n**Bad Example**\r\nSeeking to employ my skills in an organization that values designing thinking and incorporate user centered design in strategic partnerships.\r\n\r\n**Good Example**\r\nI love designing beautiful consumer products that make people smile.\r\n\r\n### 5. Typos\r\n\r\nNo tipos ever.\r\nHave a friend or multiple friends proofread.\r\nRead it backwards to catch errors.\r\nPrint it out to catch errors.\r\nDouble check all your links/email/phone numbers are correct.\r\nI have found resumes where the phone was listed incorrectly.\r\n\r\nI hope these tips help, what other resume writing tips have you learned?","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":10,"name":"Protect the Mental Health of Your Workplace","slug":"protect-the-mental-health-of-your-workplace","cover_uid":"t89u8ys9hgmogmdk3z7l","published_on":"2018-02-21T20:02:52.344Z","content":"My fascination with workplace culture began after a very personal experience. I still remember coming into work on what seemed like a typical day at the office, to find everyone standing up at their desks. Our VP had taken away our chairs. He had done this because no one had set up a demo for a new product. It wasn’t a surprise that everyone was standing because we were never given any resources or training to help us succeed. He didn’t even show up that day, instead had my manager do the dirty work. As you might imagine, the morale in the office was at an all-time low, everyone standing around miserable, complaining of lower back pain. His plan, to “motivate” us in this way failed terribly. And, I told him. He did not like it. \r\n\r\nEight years later, I ended up landing a contract at Google X, ranked the “Greatest Place to Work,” after spending years researching the connection between company culture and happiness. At that time, I was convinced that inspiration was the driving force and the key to happy culture and success in the workplace.\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t until I experienced a severe depressive episode while working for Google, that I realized that I had been missing a key piece of the puzzle: the mental health piece.\r\n\r\n According to the World Health Organization, **Depression is the number one cause of illness** and disability worldwide. Affecting more than 300 million people, this is an 18% increase, from 2005 to 2015. We are living through a mental health epidemic, and it’s time to start taking it seriously. It’s time to start paying attention to warning signs before individuals are in full-blown crisis mode, at which point it’s much more difficult to take action. Mostly, it’s time to start dropping the stigma and realize that everyone deals with this, at varying levels. In all my years of research, I have never met a person who wasn’t affected by it.\r\n\r\nAnd if it affects people, it affects companies, and workplace culture.\r\n\r\n### We Need to Pay Attention\r\n\r\n\r\nAbout one in four Americans, named their places of work as a source of anxiety. After having worked as a business development executive, consultant, and coach at dozens of workplaces, I’ve compiled a list of warning signs to look out for. In places where the following signs existed, the workplace culture suffered. People became unhappy, their work suffered, and so did their health. \r\n\r\nIf you’re in the Bay Area, I also invite you to attend my \"How to Create Mental Wealth” Workshop at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. I’ll be guiding us through coaching principles that will helped save my life, gain confidence and enrich my mental wealth daily.\r\n\r\n### The Four Warning Signs: \r\n\r\n\r\n1) Hyper Competitiveness - There are certain environments, like sales environments that are designed to be hyper-competitive. For some, this works great. For others, it creates stress every single day, week, and month. It’s very important to make sure to have the right people in these kinds of environments. A person who isn’t motivated by competition will eventually sink from the stress of burnout.\r\n \r\n2) Fear as Inspiration - What my VP tried to do, by threatening to take away our chairs, was fear- based inspiration. And it failed miserably because, at the end of the day, we are more drawn to love than fear. While negative reinforcement might work for some, all of my research suggests that offering to receive something upon success is a much greater motivator. A great example if this is, if a team hits a goal, they have a team bonding outing. If you're not sure what type of management style you fall under, read a bit on how to have self-awareness as a leader. \r\n\r\n3) Stagnant Work- An issue we had on my team at Google was that we had an extremely bright group of people, but we did not have enough work to do. It’s essential that when hiring talent, you provide them with an opportunity to actually contribute. While it might seem fun for a few days to relax in the office, at the end of the day, smart, motivated people want to make a contribution. When people can express their full potential at work, happiness and fulfillment grow.\r\n\r\n4) Childlike Treatment- I once had a workplace that required I clock in by 7:30AM. If I was even a minute late four times a month, I lost my commission for the month. So I found myself literally running to work, sweating. I hated it. And despite the fact that I was the #1 producer, I quit in six months because I could not stand being treated like a child. Forcing everyone to work in the exact same way, could be a recipe for disaster. As children we are closely monitored, often for our own safety, but as self-actualized adults, it’s critical to work within a system that allows for flexibility. One of the best managers I’ve ever had always said, “flexibility is opportunity” and I agree.\r\n\r\nI could have focused this piece on what to do, but I wanted to highlight what to look out for, because in my experience, knowing what not to do, is just as useful. Let’s all remember that when we feel better, we show up as our best selves. Whether you’re working for the greatest place to work or for a fear-based CEO doesn’t matter - it’s up to all of us to contribute to our mental health and look out for these warnings signs.\r\n\r\n*[This post was originally published on the Delivering Happiness Blog on 2/7/18.](http://blog.deliveringhappiness.com/know-the-warning-signs-protect-the-mental-health-of-your-workplace-company)*","user":{"id":3240,"username":"svetlana","name":"Svetlana Saitsky","avatar_url":"https://res-2.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/extd7g8wrxeonxlgqg1n"}},{"id":9,"name":"HireClub Version 2!","slug":"hireclub-version-2","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-02-21T17:48:04.282Z","content":"Say hello to HireClub Version 2!\r\n\r\nFor the last month the team has been working hard to revamp and redesign almost every pixel of the website.\r\n\r\nWe’ve upgraded to Rails 5, Bootstrap 4 under the hood to give us a great platform to innovate on.\r\n\r\n[We’ve added job filters](https://hireclub.com/jobs) so you can find jobs easier. (Custom job alerts coming soon)\r\n\r\nWe’ve redesigned the job page so you can refer friends!\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/jobs/marketing-coordinator-bingham-osborn-scarborough-llc\r\n\r\nWe’ve redesigned the project page so it shows off your work so much nicer. \r\nhttps://hireclub.com/projects/up-all-night-5\r\n\r\nWe’ve redesigned the user profile page to be simpler and faster. Now all the key elements come first and you can show off your profile pic with your fabulous headshot.\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/kidbombay\r\n\r\nWe’ve redesigned the stories section to share all the great content we’ve been creating for you about jobs.\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/stories\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/stories/so-you-applied-for-a-job\r\n\r\nWe’ve added a entirely new coaching section that goes in to detail about coaching and it’s benefits.\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/coaching\r\n\r\nEach coaching session has more details and it’s own link for easy booking. Now all coaches and sessions have reviews as well.\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/coaching/sessions/resume-review\r\n\r\nWe’ve added Executive Coaching for managers and leaders to level up with our certified and experienced coaches.\r\nhttps://hireclub.com/coaching/sessions/executive-coaching\r\n\r\nWhen you review a coaching appointment, you can share the review with HireClub so it keeps our quality high.\r\nBut you can keep the review private if you want to because we care about your privacy.\r\n\r\nAnd we’ve redesigned the appointment page as well, you’ll have to book a session to see it’s beauty!\r\n\r\nIn short, HireClub V2 presents a massive leap forward for us! \r\nIt gives us a great platform to improve HireClub for you as well coaching.\r\n\r\nNow like any launch, there may be bugs.\r\nPlease sit tight as we get through them this week, but feel free to let us know about issues at help@hireclub.com\r\n\r\nPlease thank your HireClub team Lisa Maria, Mia Cêlyse Legaspi, Vicente Del Rosario Escalante, Shruti Desai, Omar Jamal, and our newest Rails intern Sergey Lukyanenko who's already pushed code as part of this.","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":8,"name":"So You Applied For a Job","slug":"so-you-applied-for-a-job","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-02-20T17:12:24.258Z","content":"So you applied for a job or sent out your resume but didn't hear back.\r\n\r\nWhat should you do?\r\n\r\nWell typically like most people ( including myself in the past), you start asking yourself, wait did I make a mistake? Was my resume good enough? Oh I should have talked about this project, oh did I have enough experience....\r\n\r\nYou start spiraling. You start questioning your worth. You go down this rabbit hole of all the ways it might not work and it's honestly not healthy and you know that but you keep doing it because you really want this job.\r\n\r\nLet me lay out a different plan of attack.\r\n\r\n1. Before you submit anything, ask someone to look it over. Either a job search buddy or a coach or a friend. Another pair of eyes doesn't hurt and your first/initial messages can be really helped with some great editing.\r\n\r\n2. After you submit, immediately move on the next job. Why?\r\nWell a watched pot never boils and also all that hand wringing and second guessing doesn't actually help you land a job. Focus on your goals and increasing your chances by finding more opportunities. There are no perfect jobs, it's what you add to it that matters.\r\n\r\n3. People don't get back to you for a variety of reasons. They may most likely be busy, they may have lost the budget for this job or they may be juggling multiple candidates.\r\n\r\nAnd one of the most likely is they think you aren't a good fit but due to American cultural norms, we aren't good with saying outright no immediately.\r\n\r\nAlso because declining a candidate can have legal ramifications they have to make sure they are saying the right thing in declining.\r\n\r\nBasically the people who are hiring, guess what, are human just like you.\r\n\r\nI wish everyone got back to everyone immediately, I wish we were all capable of honest direct conversation but barring that, your best path forward is focusing on what keeps you healthy.\r\n\r\nWhen you don't hear back, the best thing you can do is move on.\r\n\r\nDon't get stuck on a single potential job. You find way more opportunities with your head out of daydreams.\r\n\r\nDo things that make you feel happy, like walks, talking to friends and improving your skills. Don't let the waiting time be filled with angst. Use our limited time on this earth to enjoy what it has to offer.\r\n\r\nAnd lastly, share your struggles with us. I got choo HireClub.","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":11,"name":"Age is not a barrier","slug":"age-is-not-a-barrier","cover_uid":null,"published_on":"2018-02-07T15:21:33.064Z","content":"John Mahoney from the show \"Frasier\", who sadly recently passed away, was 37 when he started acting. Thirty seven.\r\n\r\nWhatsApp's founder was 37 when it launched. And was rejected from both Twitter and Facebook for jobs.\r\n\r\nReid Hoffman was 35 when he started LinkedIn.\r\n\r\nI'm 40 years old and I don't believe the snake oil that you have to be certain age to succeed or learn a new skill.\r\n\r\nI know the media and Silicon Valley like to portray every brilliant founder is under 25 but that's far from the truth. The most successful companies have an average age of founding at 47.\r\n\r\nI don't think it's any generation's fault for this misbelief. Humans love new and shiny. Every generation has something to offer.\r\n\r\nAgeism is something that many industries struggle with but I think the tide will turn. Because many digital skills don't require previous education to learn, you can level up at anytime.\r\n\r\nBut in order to stay relevant, you have to learn fast. And learn new things. You have to be open to new ideas. An elastic brain is a open minded brain.\r\n\r\nGo do that thing you are thinking about.\r\n\r\nGo learn that new skill.\r\n\r\nLive your dreams. You have nothing to lose.","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}},{"id":7,"name":"Taking a Break","slug":"taking-a-break","cover_uid":"qojwm5vsjyvnyt1wm5mj","published_on":"2017-09-16T15:02:10.226Z","content":"I’ve been working two jobs the last 6 months. Doing everything I can to grow HireClub and being CTO at Up All Night. It’s two things I love to do. And it’s paid off, we’ve almost doubled in 6 months to 17,000 members and Up All Night just launched in Los Angeles with new plans.\r\n\r\nBut it’s taken a toll. I haven’t had a vacation in over a year and a half. I’m working 70 hour weeks and it’s stressing me out. And while I love to coach, I can only best provide for all of you if I’m taking care of myself.\r\n\r\nSo I’m taking a short vacation to Iceland from September 17th to September 28th. It’s been a dream of mine to go Iceland for years. I’m renting a car, getting away from the city and just exploring. I’ll primarily be camping and getting back to nature where we all belong.\r\n\r\nPeople love to glamorize the founder life but it has it’s share of ups and downs. By turning HireClub in a real business the pressure is on more than ever. I know many big beautiful things are happening for us. I’ve always valued transparency, too many people live under the Instagram perfect life and I think in order to lead, you have to be honest.\r\n\r\nI’ll be back, energy revitalized, fired up and ready to go. HireClub, you’ll be in good hands as our moderators Annie Jalota and Lisa Marie will be minding things while I’m away. Please give them the same warm, inviting welcome you give to me.\r\n\r\nWe have our[ HireClub helpers](https://hireclub.com/helpers) ready to help you in your career, we’ve built a system that ultimately lets me focus on growth while our helpers can take care of you. A company isn’t defined by leadership, it’s defined by teamwork. I don’t want to just help all of you find jobs, I want to make HireClub as a company stand strong in it’s beliefs of treating employees well and helping each other. We are not slowing down at all but we’re going to take care of ourselves along the way.\r\n\r\nKnowing me I’ll probably send a video or two while I’m away. I love to stay connected but I’m also doing my best to disconnect for a while. \r\n\r\nMuch much love HireClub, I’ll see you in the land of ice and snow.","user":{"id":2,"username":"kidbombay","name":"Ketan Anjaria","avatar_url":"https://res-5.cloudinary.com/hireclub/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_north,h_200,q_auto,w_200/h5zk2mzyb3e45b428l0f"}}]