Job Resources for 2024

The top resources I have found with advice, tools, resume review, and content resources.

Some of these have affiliate links in them but I would still recommend them. I can’t be bought.

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Advice

  • Stand Out: 438 tech companies have laid off 137,500 people in 2024 (via Layoffs.fyi). The amount of people who are applying to jobs is insane. You have to stand out in some way: a referral, a video, a campaign, showing up to events, being a super user. You are competing against people with 10 years more experience and another 500 people just like you. Why is a recruiter going to single you out for the job? In other words, Skip The Line.

  • Show Your Work: You do not need someones permission to be useful. If a company is hiring for sales, go make them some sales. Then apply. If a company is hiring for product marketing, go make 300 product marketing videos showing your skills. The side effect, even if they don't hire you, is that you are building your public profile in the space you want to get hired in. Or you can become a creator. Companies just want to know if you can do the job on day 1. They want to know what you would do on day 30 and 90. If you can show them that you are already capable, then you don't have to rely on finding the magic set of keywords to stuff into your resume.

  • Make Your Own Way: With the amount of tools there are out there, you can build your own brand in 30 minutes, start up an app in a day, make money doing a million things. Waiting around for these companies to hire you can be frustrating so you have to find ways to do things on your own to hustle. Especially if you have and audience or email list, hit me up and I'll help you make a merch store for free (just give me 20% of the profits when money starts rolling in). Fill the form out at INKAHQ.com.

  • Swallow Your Pride: Social media makes people hide and pretend everything is great when it isn't. Ask for help, let people around you know what the hell is going on. We cannot live these fake lives with each other. If you gotta go drive uber, just do it (I did). Optimize for learning and openness, its all a part of the process.

Application Tools

  • ApplyAll (Paid) Put in your job title and exclusion list and this tool will go apply to tons of jobs for you. When I did it they applied to over 600 and the majority of the interviews I got were from this (about 20 interviews to date). It can be good for finding more obscure companies that are a good fit for you, I interviewed with a few I never would have found otherwise. They also do resume reviews so follow them on LinkedIn or message the team.

  • WarmerJobs (Paid) You export your LinkedIn connections and it goes and finds jobs that your network can refer you to. This is what you really should be doing manually anyway, it just takes way longer to find the right intros. Hopefully in the future they add in gmail to really see who you talk to and find the right connection

Places To Apply

  • WorkAtAStartup.com (Free) This is Y-Combinator's app for finding a job at a startup in their network. It is formatted more like a chat inbox so you essentially have a cover letter chat with the recruiter. Some early stage companies that don't have a lot of notoriety but have lot of potential are here (even DoorDash still has a profile and recruits here though)

  • HN Hiring (Free) Hacker News is a forum for developers that typically has news and discussions about innovations in technology. The first of every month there are 2 threads (here) posted: 1) Who's Hiring, where companies list the jobs they are hiring for (typically technical but not always) and 2) Who Wants To be Hired, where applicants post about their skills. People do get hired from this.

  • Hiring Cafe (Free) Randomly found this on reddit, its a tool that aggregates jobs from all over and gives you a meta search.

  • WellFound (Free I think) Haven't used this much but its from Angellist and is their talent product. I do know folks who have gotten offers through this but I cant really vouch for it personally.

Resume Help

  • Jonaed Iqbal (Paid) I spent 4 hours talking through my entire life to get a resume that totally explained what I do. Jonaed is really knowledgeable and its worth the cost to get the feedback. If he does your resume and you get a job, kick something back to him to subsidize a resume review for the next person.

  • Frank's Resume Review (Free) I will do a video pass through of how I would read your resume if I was recruiting for a job. Just fill out the form.

Content Resources:

  • Opus Clip(short form from long form video) 

  • Real Nice (fastest website builder for simple pages)

  • Ecamm Live (all in one live editing video at broadcast quality)

  • Ideogram (the best ai photos / design / artwork app with API)

  • ConvertKit (email marketing automation)

  • Choppity (more flexible short form editing with scene saving)

  • Recast Studio (editing video for mid form youtube and podcasting)

  • Creatify (AI content video creation) 

  • ElevenLabs (text to speech in a voice of your choice)

  • Distribute.so (video sales collateral & sales content)

  • Superphone (automated sms conversations)

  • Fourthwall (merch stores at no cost)

  • Fathom (notes on your calls for free)