Hi, I'm the co-founder of BeamJobs, where we help job seekers create better resumes to help them land more interviews.
Rejection is hard. Spending hours scrolling through hundreds of job posts on job boards just to submit my resume into an abyss I rarely heard back from prepared me quite well for the online dating world. Now that I get to spend some of my time writing articles on topics
Note: This is an article I wrote 2 years ago when we first launched BeamJobs. We've come a long way since then but still make plenty of mistakes. I know what you’re thinking. “That title has to be a typo. No one could grow that fast!”. I’
WARNING: This one is math-heavy. Summary: It costs, on average, $1,800 and 1.7 vacation days to land a new engineering job. This analysis is focused on engineers but it holds true for nearly every other profession as well. For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to
Stop me if you've heard something like this before: "The 3 tricks hiring managers don't want you to know about that GUARANTEE an interview". Most articles on the topic of resumes and job searching are riddled with anecdotes from self-proclaimed experts. This makes sense.
We've all had those moments when we dreamed of storming into our boss' office, jumping on their desk, yelling, "Frank, I quit!!!! And your jokes are no not even a little funny. No one wants to wait 6 minutes for the 3 out of 10 punchlines&
Last week I wrote about red flags in job descriptions [https://www.twoweeknotice.beamjobs.com/the-biggest-red-flags-in-a-job-description/] . Once you've avoided those, you're not out of the woods yet. Now you actually have to talk to humans in interviews and I don't think I need to
I read a lot of job descriptions. I mean a LOT of job descriptions. Nothing quite like a little bedtime reading of a good JD. (Note to self: Audiobooks for job descriptions. Trillion dollar idea?) Why do I do this? Pure love of the game. It has nothing to do
It looks so promising. The company is exciting, the job responsibilities are in your wheelhouse, and you feel like the peanut butter to their jelly. But then, you read the “requirements” section. You cross off 60% of the boxes they’re looking to check. Then, the doubt creeps in. They
My favorite part of my first job search after college was pretending I was applying to work at an insurance company for the love of the game. As if I would neeeever find happiness if I couldn’t work in insurance. Money? Money had nothing to do with it. Again:
Since my last company update [https://www.beamjobs.com/startups/4-mistakes-going-from-10-to-1100-in-revenue], we’ve become a real business! We have people working for us, and more importantly, we have company t-shirts (okay, technically, they’re still being shipped, but I’m counting it). We launched our resume product in June 2020,
We hired two great employees recently here at BeamJobs; a senior software engineer and a designer. As a company aiming to build tools for job seekers, it was an opportunity for us to get a peek behind the curtain of what actually matters to employers. But in this case, we’
It’s the dream of any job seeker: two companies declaring their professional love for you and offering you a job. Not only does this feel good, but it can also lead to more money in your pocket. In my last job search before Beamjobs my salary went from $62K