✨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 are landing people in jobs despite brutal odds.
👋 Hey, it’s 📣 Coach Erika! Welcome to a surprise ✨ FREE BONUS POST ✨ of The Career Whispers. Each week, I tackle reader questions about tech careers: how to get one, how to navigate them, and how to grow and thrive in your role.
Last week, I taught a super quick Lightning Lesson on Maven where I (rapidly) covered:
How the tech job market got this bad (spoiler: ZIRP ended)
Current job market conditions (spoiler: it ain't' pretty)
5 candidate strategies that my clients, friends, and self (!) used to overcome the most brutal tech job market in a decade and LAND A JOB 🚀
If you’ve found your way over by some miracle but are not yet subscribed, here, let me help you with that:
Now, access to the recording!
Watch the full 30+ minute Lightning Lesson recording on Maven here.
You will have to fork over your email address (not my rules), which means you may get emails from me in the future as I open up new cohorts of my extremely tactical and transformative Job Search Design Workshop (image below).
If you're job searching anytime in the next 12 months, this is probably something you'd want in your inbox anyway. Applications are open for the first 2025 cohort (January 4th-5th), and spots are always extremely limited. If you’re job searching now or planning to in 2025, apply soon 😉.
I invite you to use the comments to ask me a question about anything in the Lightning Lesson!
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