using ai in your job search - dms & cover letters

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Good morning y'all. Happy Tuesday. We are live. Excited to bring week five of this AI job search to you all. If you are, I know I know it's got to take a few minutes to hit the interwebs, but if you tune in early, say hey. Would love to hear from you. just to know I'm not here alrighty, excited, excited for this. We are week five of eight [snorts] going through this job search series. Um, you know, one thing, uh, that, um, has really become evident, uh, through this job search series is really me not necessarily doing the activities, but more of just the prompts. Um, and so, uh, I will, um, if you have missed the first four weeks, uh, jump into the Um, and, uh, where is that?

right here. And if you jump into that and then go to I just posted it yesterday. Yes, the Yes, the Claude job search prompts. Um uh check that out. But I have that in there for the whole series. Um and excited to have this back to you all this week. Excited to hang with you all. Um hopefully you're doing well. Uh just a little yap session before we get started. The Torque community team is about to go on an absolute tear. It's been relatively quiet. I know our dear friend um Roxy is at Laracon [clears throat] um right now. Um so uh you know Torque is represented at Laracon.

Also just saw the announcement. Uh shout out to Aaron Francis. Um Aaron Francis is now heading up the VP of marketing and community for Laravel. I could not think of a better hire. I just texted him this morning, so I want to give Aaron his flowers. Um, uh, so super pumped about that. I'm sure he's going to make an announcement. Um, but, uh, so yeah, so anyways, August about to be crazy. So, let me give you kind of a rundown of what's going on. What's going on, y'all? Good morning, Chris, Robert, Richie, uh, Elucha. It's great to see y'all this morning. Hopefully I said your name right, Elucha.

Um, but, uh, so yeah, so August to be crazy. So next week, it's crazy. videos next week. I haven't even booked my flight yet. I booked my flight yesterday. Um, and I want to go ahead and announce it, too. We're about to put it out on social, but I'm super excited. The Torque community um has partnered, we are we are going into a partnership um with Todd Lewis and All Things Open. Um this is something I'm extremely excited about. Um Todd Lewis uh is is a dear friend of mine. He went to the University of South Carolina. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, actually about 20 minutes from my home, uh, from from my like where I grew up.

Um, and so Todd and I have been talking um, and you know, one of the things that we're really focused on, uh, for torque community building is the great state of North Carolina. Um, and so I was like, you know what, who do I know in North Carolina? Um, and obviously I was like, oh, Todd. So really excited. Uh we are going to be hosting three uh meetups that are Torque sponsored. Um and the first meetup is next week in Raleigh. Uh it's it's at Bandwidth August 5th. Um your boy's going to be speaking. I'm going to give a little state of the union um on the on the tech industry and then we [clears throat] are hosting a panel.

We're kind of going to um uh kind of label it as uh uh kind of this kind of a job fair situation. People are going to come with jobs. they're going to be posting jobs. So, it's a huge partnership. So, basically, we're getting newsletter placements um in in his newsletter. Um and then we're going to be hosting three uh torque um Ronad digital meetups. And the first one is going to be um in Raleigh August 5th. It's going to be a job fair situation. People are going to bring in jobs. We're going to have a huge whiteboard. We're going to be writing jobs. Um I'm going to be bringing jobs.

It's going to be great. Um, so if you are in the Raleigh Durham area, you know, friends in the Raleigh Durham area, please tag them. Um, it's going to be great. So, extremely excited for this partnership and more partnerships to come. I mean, this is kind of a huge thing of what we do. We want to line with people um and conferences and companies that really kind of embody uh this community first approach and Todd and what he's built is great. Um, also uh another thing too, I announced it on X this morning, going to announce it on LinkedIn today. Uh, your boy is hosting um for the fourth year in a row at Render ATL.

Um, so I'm I'm I'm I'm invited back. The Render ATL team thinks I'm funny enough to host for four years in a row. So really excited about that. I'm going to be hosting. Um, also we're giving away free tickets in the Torque community. I'm going to have that information this afternoon um for you to go and claim your ticket for free. Um, it's going to be great. So please uh keep an eye out for that. We're going be blasting it across all socials as well. But really excited to be back at Render ATL um for the fourth year. Actually, it's the fifth year really. Um but the fourth year as a host.

Um so again, shout out to Justin and the team um for inviting me back. Uh and then we're about to go on kind of another run. So we got Raleigh next week, August 5th. Um, and then uh a week off and then I'm gonna be actually not a week off and I'm gonna go right into render ATL and then we have a week off and then we are going to be uh doing some activations um for the Ronstead digital team um in Bentonville and Sunnyale. Um me saying Bentonville, Arkansas, you can probably figure out the client. Um but we are going to be throwing some activations.

It's actually a little bit of a tour if we're being honest. Uh it's going to be an entire week on the road. We're going to fly out. We're going to start our tour uh in Sunnyvale. Two nights in Sunnyale, two nights. So, if you have friends out in Sunnyale, we'd love to see them. Um and then one night we're flying back to Bentonville. Um and it's going to be a heck of a time. Um we're super excited. It's it's a really big endeavor we're throwing within the community team. So excited about that. Um so yeah, so that's what's going on. And then we're off for like two weeks in September and then we're going down to Bueno Arez Argentina for Nerdella.

Um that is the largest conference of the Nerdella ecosystem. Um for those of you probably Taylor, that name sounds familiar. Yes, we were at Nerdella in Santiago, Chile. Um and so uh we are going to their Argentina location. There's 20,000 people are going to be at that conference. It's going to be a massive undertaking for our team. We're going to be getting a lot of our folks um on the torque team um from LAM coming out. It's going to be crazy. So, basically August, September, October, and then October, I'm speaking at all things open. I'm giving a three-hour workshop to be honest with you on a lot of this stuff.

Um so, I mean, we're just going to be it's it is going to be absolutely insane. So, super excited. But everybody tuned in. It's great to see you, Cindy, Amelia, Melanie, um LinkedIn user, it's great to see y'all this morning. Uh a few quick announcements. So again, as I was kind of gapping before all y'all tuned in, I do have the one pager, David, you're not late. You are right on time, big dog. I'm about to get into it. Um, so if you have missed the previous four weeks, um, you know, I would say the biggest thing is the prompts, right? I mean, I'm going to walk through this stuff.

I'm going to share my screen again, but the reality of the situation, um, is the prompts are the most important part. Um, and so if you have missed those prompts, um, they are in the Torque Discord. feel free to uh jump in. Um they are under the job search content section. Um and somebody's asking for a PDF, so I'll upload as a PDF after this live. So um definitely uh check that out. Um if you are not a part uh of the platform, please sign up. Um I will link it, but essentially um platform.trque.dev. Um you get our newsletter, uh you get access to events, job opportunities, etc.

Um so please definitely do that. Uh, what else we got going on? Also, kind of the unofficial sponsor of the show, um, Seek to Live. My buddy runs a organic non not non-mold-free, no mold-free, mold-free coffee company in Nashville. His name's Caleb. He's great. I love his mission. Um, if you use the code Tesin, you get 15% off. Um, and uh, I would highly recommend it. I'm drinking it now. It's great. I mean, just came out with canned iced espresso as well. I need to try that out. So, all right. So, let's go ahead and get into it today. Hey again, this is week five of using AI to uh navigate your job search.

I'm probably going to extend the series. The feedback on this series has been pretty tremendous. I've had a lot of great DMs saying this is great. This is exactly what I need. Um so probably going to um expound on this a little bit more. Probably ride this out a little bit. I'm starting to get a little bit more guests back on the show as well just around the AI uh ecosystem. Um so uh so yeah. All right. Um let's do uh let's go ahead and get into it. So I'm going to open up my project on Claude. Again, you can use whatever AI of choice, chat, GPT, Claude, Gemini, whatever you use, you can use.

I think it's all very very uh similar. Um, so let me find this project here. Hold on real quick. Claude series. All right, so I'm going to go and uh I'm going to go and share my screen here. Um, if you have any questions, let me know. Um, all right. See, Ritu, good morning. It's great to see you this morning. All right. So, I'm going share my screen. Um, I [laughter] got to figure out how I'm going to do All right. Hold on, y'all. I'm I'm trying to figure out how best way to do this here. Um, all right. So, I'm going to pull up my claw.

So, again, I have this all under a project um for you guys to obviously kind of see and keep up with. Um, and we've kind of walked through the prompts in these. So, the first thing I'm going to go over today is I'm going to pick a real company, find a real recruiter, write Outreach with Claude, and hit send on a stream. Well, I'm not really looking for a job, so I'm not going to send the message, but um I want to go So, I actually want to find my hit list. So, hey Claude, um uh can you pull uh up the company hit list I created for my job search?

So, again, we created a company hit list. I don't know if it was in this project or not. It may not find it. Um but let's see. Uh let's see if it pulls up. So again, week two, I believe probably the most monumental part was it it basically built uh a company hit list uh based off my background and who's hiring, right? So let's see here. I'm going to see I'm going to see if it created here. I don't think I created in a project. I was kind of late to doing it in project. So let's see if it pulls it up. If it doesn't pull up, we can just, you know, we can kind of just find a company that um would be similar to what I'm doing.

All right. So, this is it right here. Job search tracker. I'm going to open it. So, we're going to share another screen. Actually, you know what I'm going to do, y'all? I'm gonna Let's see here. Does this is this like live coding? Live. This is terrifying. Doing this live coding is like terrifying. All right. So, all right. So, it didn't pull up exactly what I wanted. Hold on. Let me let me go to my chat here. Let me see. Hold on. Um, can you find the Google sheet of company hit list I need to call for my job search? Let me see. Let me let me see if it finds it because the one it pulled up only had two companies on it.

Um, there was another one it created with like all these companies and tiered it out. Yeah. Yeah. If you've missed the series, again, they're all on the torque.dev YouTube. Um, are these prompts possible with Grock? Yeah. I mean, yeah, absolutely. I mean, there I they're they're all they're all they're all you can use it across everything. So, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. If you've missed it, go to the Torque YouTube. I have it broken down. It's also on my podcast, guidance counselor 2.0 on the app store. Um, and again, the prompts are in the torque.dev discord under the job search content channel. Um, hold on real quick, y'all.

I'm I'm trying to find this hit list so No, it's still only pulling up the one yeah. All right. So, let's do this here. So, this is actually really good. So, we're going to go back to sharing my screen here. Um, all right. So, [snorts] live coding with TS Swift. Yeah, absolutely. All right. So, right here. So, it's pulling up my job search tracker that isn't fully on. So, but one thing I did here, I like this. If you want, I can build out a list. Give me your target profile. So I am looking um again I'm not looking for all Torque Ronstead people watching.

So I'm looking for um a head of community or VP of community role ideally at community first companies either uh as their business. So like a circle or um a talent platform or uh what are some other company profiles or a SAS company uh that wants to build um a community. All right. So let's see let's see what it comes up with right here. And again I I I kind of want to walk through this stuff just to show you um just how good this is. Right. So again I said, "Hey, can you build me a hit list?" They go or I said, "Hey, can you find the company hit list?" They're like, "I can't find it.

I don't know where it went to." Um, so they were like, "I I'll build it out for you." So, basically, I just said, "Hey, I'm looking for head of community, VP of community role." Um, ideally a community first company either uh as their business like a circle or talent platform or a SAS company that wants to build community, right? So, let's see what it comes up with here. It's kind of pulling everything. [snorts] And again, what we're going to do is And this is why it's crazy. Like I mean I mean it's literally just pulling the internet right now. I think this is what the craziest thing uh about using AI is is just literally going through and just scrawling the internet about companies and and looking for uh community, right?

And I mean the same can be applied if you're a data engineer and you want to go work at an AI company leveraging these technologies. Plug that stuff in there and see what a what AI spits out to you. Um and then let's see let's see what it spits out here. All right, here we go. Taylor script. Yeah. All right, so talent platforms closest analogy to Brain Trust, Mircore. Never heard of them. Uh A Team, Contra, Arc.dev, and Dela Turin. Know about all that. Tier 2 SAS Wick Studio posted a VP uh community in New York City before appointing it late in 2025. Proves a title and band exists there.

Worth a check. I love that. uh postman verscell all run real developer communities community is the product and it's obviously coming here two places uh to work rather than guest community club da da biggest gapa d all right cool all right so let's do this so it gave me some good good place start from so I'm going to go let's go to brain trust right and again I'm I'm not going to message them but but but I do want to to give you a workflow here so I'm going to pull up my LinkedIn I'm going to share I'm actually gonna sh I'm actually going Share.

I'm gonna share my window here. Um, let's see here. Share screen. Um, I'm g share my window. Um, [snorts] let's see here. All right. So, we're going to go to Chrome tab. LinkedIn. All right. So, we're going to go All right. So, y'all can see this. All right. Cool. So, we're going to go to we're going to go to brain trust, right? That's not that is not how you spell brain trust. Uh spelling is not my strong suit. All right. So, brain trust right here. Right. So, again, what I did is [clears throat] is I said, "Hey, come up with a hit list for me." Brain trust came up with it.

Right? So, what I'm going to do is is then I'm going to go into uh people, right? And again, if you've if you've seen my job search content, right, before I had my third baby, I did not have the baby. my wife had the baby. But before I went on a fraternity break, uh I went through a job search series on how to use LinkedIn to find a job. I went over specifically how to do this. So this is again kind of cut, copy, and paste, right? So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to look through here and see like who maybe maybe I would, you know, want to talk to, right?

So I'm going to go Let's see here. Usually head of community sits under marketing, CEO, etc. Go to market. All right. So, I'm going to go I'm going to go let's see here. Global account executive. GTM. You know what I'm doing is kind of GTM right now. Uh I'm I'm trying to see. Here you go. Chief brand officer, right? Is he still there? He is not there anymore. All right. That's a problem. How do I There's a way to to see if I think they went away with that. All right. So, let's do let's do let's do GTM just because I know he's there. Um old Nick.

I don't know Nick. I don't know Nick at all. Right. So, here here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go and pull up I'm gonna go and pull up my claw again. Um, and I'm going to run through this with you real quick. All right. So, share screen window claude. All right. So, we're back. We're back at my search here. All right. So, okay. Um, uh, I I want to reach out to to Nick Bradley who is GTM leader at Brain Trust. Um, can you uh uh based off I always say based off what you know about me because again Claude has I mean you know I work in Claude a lot.

Based off what you know about me, how should I frame my DM to Nick? Let me know if you can read his LinkedIn profile of commonalities uh for for the DM. All right. So, let's see what it does here. And this is probably what I'll what I'd do if I was active on the job search. I would literally go like person by person. Again, I know it's tedious, but this is the type of stuff that really cuts through the noise. Um, all right. So, it said it failed to fetch. Oh, Lindsay here. You go to my network connections, search with filters, input current company. All right, awesome.

Let me do that right now while this is All right. Couldn't All right. So, it says couldn't uh couldn't read the directly LinkedIn blocks access. So he's a go to market leader blah blah blah the real common analogy staffing origin story that's great maxim is a healthcare staffing company you came through Veco you're both agency people who went platform side that's the warmest door almost nobody opens with love that love that it's massive crossber talent velocity global is er and global management ron digital is the same pro uh problem in the different angle he knows why distributing is hard the number brain trust says 2 million torque is 2 million um AI plus talent acquisition.

Here's how to frame it. Uh Nick is a is enterprise uh AE. He's not the person who hires head of community. So do not send him a job DM. Send him a peer DM. Love that. All right. So so so here's here's what I said. Nick connecting uh because we've been running at the same problem from opposite ends. You came through Maxim. I came through Veco. We both left agency side. The thing I keep coming up with 80% of platform not sourcing change blah blah blah would generally enjoy comparing some notes on time. No agenda, right? I don't I I don't mind it. Lead with the gap.

Hey, Nick. So, I like this. Saw your screening. 10,000 contributors a month through air. That's a serious intake number. Here's a question I'd have if I were you. How many come back for a second project? I've spent the last few years on the supply side of talent platform. I love this. Right. Um, short connect note. Uh, Nick, both of us went from staffing on platform side. You at Max and Velocity Global, me at Beco, then Torque. I build the supply side, tech talent, you're selling. Would like to compare notes on the marketplace problem. I actually like C the best to be totally honest with you.

Um just because it's short to the point. It doesn't seem salesy. At the end of the day, people don't read. They just they they they just don't, right? Um go to market. Do we need to claw in a special way to get integrations for this job strategy? No, Judy. Um you know, I'm I'm working through some prompts. The prompts are in the Torque Discord. Torque.deviscord. Um, we can get in. I'm probably after this 8week series comes to a close, I'm probably going to add a few more weeks on how to use projects, how to use skills, you know, what can you do there. Um, but no, I don't think you need to configure Claude uh in a special way for this, but that's just me.

Uh, search with filters is next to the search bar. Um, I love it. Lindsay coming in clutch um right now on this live stream. Can Claude fetch details from LinkedIn? Nope. It does not look like it, but it does pull from the internet, which is good. All right. So, I like that. Um, let's let's find let's find like a let's find a here. I'm going to go So, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to close my screen here. Um, let's see here. I'm going to I'm going to share my LinkedIn again, and we're going to kind of go about a different route here, right?

So, I'm going to plug in again. So, what I'm looking for VP of community, I'm actually just going to do head of community. Um, all right. see all results. Remember again like the search bar in LinkedIn is your friend and a lot of people just don't use that, right? So like I plug that in. I I can find groups. I can find people posting about and then I can find more groups. All right. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go to jobs, right? Uh let's see here. Head of community. Gradial. Gradial is looking Um, all right. So, so I'm going to actually, so I'm going to do I'm going to kind of run through Gradial real quick as an exercise.

So, this kind of goes back to week one, week two here. Um, so I'm what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to go to their website. Hold on. Let me uh I wonder what Apply does. All right. So, apply took me to their greenhouse job. Okay. So, um what I'm going to do here is I'm going to go um I'm going to go back to my I'm going to go back to Claude here. So, what I did y'all is I went to the head of community job and then I did apply and it took me to the greenhouse job. Right? So, what I'm going to do is I'm All right.

And then I'm going to plug in um Hey, so I just found this job with this company. Based on what you know about me, do you think it's a good fit? Right. So, let's So, again, this kind of I I I'm kind of going back to week two, week three here with this type of stuff, but I think it's important to like learn the workflows and ingrain it um kind of into your system. [snorts] So, um you know, again, pasted this role from Greenhouse into Claude and I said, "Hey, based off what you know about me," and again, right, we've talked about this. Upload your resume to a project, upload your notes to a project, upload all your thoughts to a project.

I mean, one thing I did yesterday, which is really cool, kind of a sidebar, is to create my content for today for X. Um, I went on voice mode with Claude and I asked it to interview me about community and then to create uh post for X and it did that. So, one thing you could do is literally just brain dump like turn on the voice channel include or chat GPT or whatever and just start talking to it. Talk about your background, talk brain dump in it. So, it saves all this information. So then you can have all this information uh for you when you're on your job search.

Honest read the company is great. The role is not a great fit for you. I'd put it around 55%. Love this. Uh what generally matches pure zero to one three grap Seattle 5 days a week in office. That ain't going to work. Wrong audience markers creative marketing technology CMOS. Your entire mode is tech talent. I could push back on that. I mean you know I I have done you know we do some marketing creative stuff at Torque. Um uh and obviously I've been um you know pretty pretty hands-on there. Scope downgrade hands-on role. Manage day-to-day operations, no team mention. I'm I'm not really concerned about that.

Most people are scaling zero to one. Um what I do pass. All right. So here so here's the deal. So what what I'm going to say is um okay. So I get that, but I want to reach out to someone at Gradial to get more information. Can you find me um any recruiters that work there and their emails? I'm gonna try this out. This is not a part of the script, by the way. Um this is not part of the script. Um I'm just kind of like I'm literally just kind of working through this with you guys right now. Um yes, uh Alola, yes, if you go to the torque.dev YouTube.

Yep. Um Amelia just put it. Could also use Granola to brain dump. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I use granola as well. Um, a lot of my one-off calls I do to help people in the job search um uh um I I I I help them with that. Um is is what I do is when I when I talk to people who are actively looking for a job um uh I take my granola notes and turn in content. All right. So I'm not going to dig into personal email addresses. Okay, that's fine. What I found Gradel is hiring senior recruiter for themselves. Better doors a hiring manager.

All right. So, it's basically saying here that they're not going to give away information. So, that's fine. So, let's So, let's do this. Let's go back to Gradial here. I'm going to go back to sharing my screen on LinkedIn. Um, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of work through the prompt, kind of work through here. So, All right. Then I'm going to go to people. All right, let's scroll down here. All right, so co-founder. All right, let's go to co-founder here. Head of strategy and business development. That could also be another guy, too. Eric, um, head of marketing. So, I'm gonna message Chelsea.

I'm not gonna actually message Chelsea. [clears throat] Um, but what I'm going to do is be like, "All right." Oh, she came from Versel. That's funny. Um, so, so if I'm reading between the lines here, people, uh, she came from Versel, right? So, chat, I mean, Claude told me I'm probably not a fit, but Chelsea came from came from Versel. So, kind of interesting. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to take um I'm going to take Chelsea's profile. Um, and so I'm back in Claude. I'm not going to share it real quick. So, I'm just going to say, "Hey, um, hey, I want to, uh, create a targeted message to Chelsea, um, who is Gradial's head of marketing.

Can you help me craft a DM?" Here is her LinkedIn profile. Again, I know Claude can't scrape LinkedIn profiles, um, but at the end of the day, I'm still going to put it up here, um, and and see what it says. All right, so I'm I'm going to go back while this is loading. Um, I feel like I'm doing a workout here. Just like all this back and forth. Hopefully it's not making you too dizzy. Um, All right. So, I'm asking Claude, Did I break it? I think I broke it. Here we go. All right. So, it obviously failed to fetch the LinkedIn like we've already went over.

That's okay. Um, but let's because because it pulls from other backgrounds, right? I still want to paste the LinkedIn handle because it's still going to find her on uh other places, right? So, let's see here. Red public information LinkedIn blocks me. Head of marketing blah blah blah the community matters. Verscell and MongoDB. She spent two years most community-led tech companies at tech that yeah absolutely second hook it's better than the first one thing to be honest about you're in Tennessee the role is five days in Seattle um your own advice yes that's actually great Amelia yeah I love that idea just download the profile as a PDF 100% love that all right so here so so came up with some messages right the burcell bridge name the gap Chelsea still the head of community role want to reach out uh directly rather than just apply you spent years in burcell I'm not going to explain community like growth to you.

Love that. You already know what it looks like and when it works. I've spent the last few years running that playbook on the supply side of tech talent. 80% of our platform hires came through community rather than sourcing. The difference is the audience you're building from marketers, minor engineers. I'd be curious how much we're sell motion. I don't it's a little wordy, right? Even just reading out loud, I'd probably just want to do short connect. Chelse, we both build the same thing for audiences. You did developer adoption of versell. I've been running community leg growth on the supply side tech platform. Saw ahead of I like this better.

I I just like the short, right? I mean, at the end of the day, like like these are super super long. Do I think they can get a response? Absolutely. I just like the short. I think people are more uh open to send a short message. So, all right. So, we went over All right. So, we went over recruiter DM. Um, you know, uh we went over uh so we haven't gone over a cold email, but essentially it's the same thing. Um and then so cover letter. All right. So, let's talk cover letter real fast um here before we get into it. Um so, I'm So, I'm going to do I'm going to do write a cover letter for this role.

All right. So, um okay, I want to write a cover letter for this role. Um make it three short paragraphs. um one, why this company, um specifically, two, why I'm the right fit for this role. Three, what I'd bring in the first 90 day, first 90 days plus call to action. Um do not start with I am writing to express my interest. I love that. and chess. Uh, make it sound like me, not a form letter. Love that. Right. Again, I think that's incredibly important. Um, I think the problem with AI and and I've I I've definitely created some writing skills to make it sound like me.

Um, but again, and and and I think this is a great kind of segue to maybe another session I'll do is like you can create a cover letter skill. So, you can say, "Hey, here's the job description. Um, use my cover letter skill and create a cover letter." and you can make it like like sound like you um and and and and craft it. Um all right, so let's see here. Let's see what it does and then we'll end here, y'all. We'll end here. We're already a little All right, Chelsea. All right, so here it is. Chelsea Gradle is asking for entire profession to change how it works.

You can't do that with ads. Professions change when practitioners teach each other in public on their own time. So community is in channel for you is the adoption. blah blah blah ba I've built this three times from zero most recently at torque where the community now sits at 2 million tech professionals and 80% of our platform hires blah blah blah I've run the unglamorous half 94,000 newsletter subs regional meetups and inerson activations first 30 days I talked to 40 practitioners and 10 council prospects find the people are evangelized great deal without being asked by 60 yah all right so love this right before you send it the application ask what excites you most by AI explicitly warns AI generated answers get you is qualified.

Write that one yourself. No assist. Same goes for a passover for this letter. It doesn't mention relocation your resume. So, again, I love this, right? Again, I I've talked about this a lot. Using AI, I think gets you 80% of the way there. Um, and then what I would do if I was actually looking for a job, I would go in and kind of edit some of this to make it sound like me and then press send. So, all right. So, that's everything today, y'all. Um, we kind of went off the rails a little bit today. Um, but I think it was good. Hopefully, you got some value out of this.

We went over recruiter DM. We essentially went over a cold email, too. We went over cover letter. Um, and then we also talked about how to find people. Um, how to upload their profile. Um, how to get uh Amelia had a great call out here. Download their profile on LinkedIn as a PDF. Upload it. Ask it to build uh commonalities, similarities in your DM and send it off. Again, you're probably, if you watch this now in the future, you listen to this on the podcast, probably Taylor, this is just going to take a lot of time. This is the type of stuff that customs the noise, y'all.

Um, I I think using AI in your job search like this, if if you were to do this without AI, it would take forever. Um, but I I AI will allow you, in my opinion, I think without AI, if you're trying to do this one by one, I think you maybe send 30 messages an hour. I think you're using AI, you're probably will be able to send 20 messages in an hour, right? So again, you'll be able to cut through a lot more noise. Um, question from Chris. What sort of LinkedIn roles, contacts would you look for if you're a software engineer looking for a job?

So, this is a great question. I mean, this kind of gets into some general job search advice here. Um, you know, I would say you're going to have to do some digging on your own. I would also just ask AI like, "Hey, I'm a So, Chris, uh, can can you tell me like what type of engineer you are? Data engineer, front-end engineer, can can you just give me some context and I'll keep yapping once you until you respond?" But to me, I would say, "Hey, like for me, I would be like,"All right, here's a deal. Like AI, I'm currently a backend engineer doing Java Spring.

Um, and I'm looking to get into full stack, full stack, mostly web dev." Yeah. So, I I would just ask, hey, what are the most common titles I need to look out for? Um, what are the most common skill sets that need to be searched? Um, that's what I would do if if I was a if I was a full stack engineer, mostly webdev, using whatever, I would plug that into AI like, can you give me some titles, the most common titles that I need to look for? And then what I would do, uh, Chris, I would go back to week two, I think it's week two, building a company hit list, and go through that exercise, and it will build out companies that use your technologies and skill sets, and then you can start going through that.

Um, I probably will revisit that um after this series is done because it's so impactful. So, go back to week two, Chris. Um, and go through that exercise. That would be tremendous. Um, uh, yeah, Jason, we went over cold DMs, finding people on LinkedIn, and crafting an email or DM about their background. Now, for sending these, are you doing emails, LinkedIn connection requests, or LinkedIn mails? It's a great question. Lindsay asking some killer questions today. I appreciate you. Um, I think for me, I I think the LinkedIn mail feature, I don't know what it is, but it just feels yucky. And I've talked to hiring managers and other people in the industry, and they all agree with me.

It just is a it just doesn't feel right. I would try to send as many LinkedIn um uh connection requests with a note as you can. One of the prompts I would do on AI is try to keep this under 300 characters because I'm sending a LinkedIn note in a connection request. Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but if like you're allowed to send as many connection requests, I think as you can with a note, um, it's the emails that cost more money. Um, but I think at the end of the day, uh, I would still try to find emails. Um, I I I I think most people don't manage I mean, I I manage all of my DMs in one place.

Shout out Beeper. I use Beeper for all of my, you know, DM management. Most people aren't pretty on top of their LinkedIn DMs. Um, so I would try to find their emails, but if you can't find it quickly, just send a just send a DM on LinkedIn. Connection request notes require LinkedIn Premium. So I don't have LinkedIn premium for some reason. Um, they don't, but you're only allowed a certain amount. Um, I think you're allowed 15 a week up to three to four months. Three to four per month. No, that seems a little low, Chris. I think it's a little bit more than that. They cap on to five connection requests with a note.

Can't remember how much for premium. Yeah. So, again, for me, like, you know, people like, is premium worth it? I think so. I think if you're actively on the job search, spend that 70 bucks a month or whatever it is. Um, I think one of the hacks I saw like sign up for it and then cancel it and say it's too expensive and then they give you like another month or two discounted. Um, but uh I I would recommend it. If I was actively on a job search and I did not have a job, I would get LinkedIn Premium just for the notes and for being able to see people who look at your profile.

I think that's incredibly important. Uh I can also send two months free. There you go. Awesome. I love that. I love that, Lindsay. I would love two months free. That would be great. I would love that. Um anyways, yeah, Lindsay, hit up Lindsay for for two months free. I love that. Um all right, y'all. Uh any other questions? This is good. I feel like this is really really good. A lot of questions today. Um hopefully you got something out of it. Next week we're going to go over uh mock interviews on stream. So I'm going to see if I can't go full voice mode. Um and just have have people walk through interviews.

I've actually done this just for torque um and like just drilling me on what we're doing. It's almost like my second boss. And I literally have Claude go I literally tell Claude, "Hey, I need you to poke holes in everything I'm doing like you're a CMO." And then it just like runs through everything. So that's next week. Claude interviews you live. I think that's going to be a lot of fun. Um, so I can't wait to do that. I'm going to try to test out see if voice works because in my opinion, I think the voice is going to be the biggest uh value ad to that.

All right, cool. All right, y'all. Uh, share this if you like this and found value out of it. Share it with your community. Um, otherwise jump in the torque.dev discord um and uh get these prompts. Otherwise, shoot me an email if you need me. Shoot me a DM if you need me. Lindsay is just LeBron James in this joint this morning just giving out LinkedIn Premium and asking some great questions. So, Lindsay, I appreciate you. You guys have a great one. Uh, and we'll see y'all. Oh, oh, oh. Real quick, real quick. I actually have another one of these, believe it or not. Real quick, pause.

Pause. Uh, tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. Central. Um, another thing, Torque has partnered with the Technology Association of Georgia, um, to do a bunch of like seminars and webinars. So, I'm actually going to be kind of going over a lot of this stuff tomorrow, um, as well. So, um, it's going to be a little bit more focused on your resume and LinkedIn, which was like last week and the week before. So, I'm going to be live on the Torque LinkedIn tomorrow. So, um, 11:30 a.m. Central. So, anyways, see youall tomorrow. Uh, yall have a good one. Have a great Tuesday and, uh, we'll see you tomorrow.

Peace.