Archive - The Career Whispers

🤫 Whisper #25: Meta Superintelligence. Scale AI. Human Data.

Things seem irrational in AI land with $100M job offers that people are actually turning down, $14B investments, and CEO grabbing. Is it a bubble? What…

Jun 22 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

December 2024

2024 Year-end AMA

2024 was another brutal tech job market, and 2025 is looking like more of the same. Check these questions from active job seekers and answers from Coach…

Dec 23, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

November 2024

Avoid the sunk cost fallacy and make a career pivot (even in the current tech job downturn)

It's never too late to pivot your career, but in this market you need a robust plan. And that plan probably shouldn't solely rely on bootcamps…

Nov 25, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

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A winning formula for your next performance review

Start with the metric (that you drove up and to the right). Put numbers. Then, show how you did it (with artifacts, ideally)

Nov 15, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

October 2024

✨BONUS POST✨ Staying Sane while Job Searching in the Tech Downturn

A FREE 30-minute Lightning Lesson taught by yours truly. How we got here, what the market looks like right now, and the top 5 candidate adaptations that…

Oct 15, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

September 2024

How to answer the failure question in interviews

The context is the failure. The context is the failure. The context is the failure. Adopt this new mantra and you're starting on the right foot.

Sep 29, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

August 2024

Job Search Diaries No.8―Principal Product Manager (Consumer Media)

Lessons learned after 5 final round interviews and 154 applications over 8+ months job searching in media and tech for senior roles.

Aug 16, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

Land a job faster by job searching in your Zone of Genius

The counterintuitive job search approach wherein you narrow your opportunities to a select few. More wood behind fewer arrows. Kill shots, not shots in…

Aug 12, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

July 2024

If I pivoted my career, how many years of experience should I say I have?

Professional experience vs relevant experience, some general heuristics, and where to put the unrelated experience in your resume.

Jul 21, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

🤫 Whisper #24: Candor == Kindness

Direct feedback is the love language of growth. Sparing someone the truth robs them of the ability to adapt. No parenting. No shielding. Just direct…

Jul 12, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

✨BONUS POST✨ The Relentless March of Days: A Job Seeker's Odyssey

The absurd ballet of courting love, crafting digital Golems to defy obsolescence, and foraging for economic morsels in a desert. A raw testament to…

Jul 8, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

Job Search Diaries No.7―Senior PM

Dating while unemployed, building prototypes to sharpen your PM skills during a job search, and scouting temporary income sources.

Jul 7, 2024 •

Coach Erika Gemzer

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