
Identify your life priorities first—salary, daycare, flexibility, hours, proximity, and travel—to guide your job search and ensure you find a role that fits your life and boosts performance.
Learn why low cost exploration outperforms high cost commitment in job searches, with Susan at a day spa, a mechanical engineer using his network, and Cardan taking a short contract.
Explore the job lifecycle from overworked teams recognizing needs to posting on job boards, and learn proactive strategies like reaching into the immediate network and sourcing to improve hiring outcomes.
Use a daily spreadsheet to organize company leads, contacts, job details, resumes, and follow ups, tracking priorities to keep your network warm and focused on opportunities.
Create a resume that clearly delivers your strongest selling points within ten seconds. Recruiters will judge it in about ten seconds.
Address gaps in your job history by detailing sabbaticals, family leave, self-employment, and volunteer work, and showcase relevant skills using a functional resume.
Decode the job description to pull five key skills, then tailor and reword your resume to match them. Incorporate company insights and polish high-value resume areas before sending.
Audit your strengths and weaknesses with the swot framework, practice talking about quantified accomplishments, and align experiences with job descriptions and company values.
Craft thoughtful interview questions that show you're smart, curious, and prepared, using the SWAT analysis to focus on the job, the company, growth, and how feedback shapes product development.
practice extensively with real conversations, mock interviews, and industry-specific questions. identify three talking points for each question, craft stories with situation, actions, results, and learnings, and refine your 60-second pitch.
Learn to navigate group interviews by collaborating with candidates, introducing yourself early, and praising others' contributions to appear team-first rather than purely competitive.
Convert these lessons into action, challenge yourself, and showcase your skills to help employers find you and hire you.
Use this sheet to track your job hunt.
Combining years of experience in Google HR and professional job coaching, Ghan Patel presents the insights and proven methods of landing a great job faster and with less stress.
Getting hired in the digital age requires a new understanding of the way companies and recruiters use the Internet and technology to power their recruitment process. Ghan Patel reveals how companies are doing this and how you can use technology to your advantage.
Fusing 21st century insights and timeless best practices, this course transforms job-hunting from a waiting game to an organized and action driven process that makes you stand out to companies and recruiters as the best possible candidate.
From Course Instructor Ghan Patel: Working at Google for over 5 years in the Human Resources department during their high growth period taught me a tremendous amount about what tactics worked regarding people's resumes and Interviewing skills. Also during this time, many friends and family members asked for help in their own job searches and I began to see many recurring mistakes that were making this much harder for them.
I decided to leave Google to start my own Job search education company because I wanted to be on the other side-- that is, I wanted to help people get hired for great jobs, not only selecting the few that already had good resumes, connections, and interviewing skills. I developed a system that focuses attention in three areas: Job Search, Resume, Interview.
After the Job Search section, you’ll have concrete tools that will focus your time on the behaviors that will get you to a job the fastest.
With the Resume section, we’ll use insider expertise to create compelling application materials that will stand out from the crowd. (This includes best use practices of LinkedIn)
After the Interview section, you’ll know what to expect and be prepared to parry the most difficult questions and circumstances.
I hope you find this tremendously valuable and you land your dream job very soon.