Writing on Hiring
Articles on Hiring from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
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Fourteen Questions Worth Answering Before You Change Jobs
The typical job change starts with one specific bad month, and within a fortnight the applications are out. Sometimes that is right, and often it produces a lateral move into a different set of problems discovered around month four. Fourteen heuristics for the whole arc: deciding, choosing, not being talked into or out of it, and leaving well.
A Job Search Is a Pipeline, Not a Performance
Most people run a job search as a series of hopeful individual events, which fails for a structural reason: the response rate on cold applications is low enough that any single one is close to noise. The people who find work reliably are running a pipeline instead. Thirteen heuristics for the mechanics, which are the part you actually control.
How to Apply for Software Engineering Jobs
A job search is often a hundred applications, and knowing that before you start changes how you run it. How to write a resume where every line says what changed, why referrals outperform everything else, how many applications to keep live, what to track so you know whether the problem is the resume or the interview, and what to do in the ten minutes after an offer arrives.
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