I hate writing cover letters. It feels like shouting into a void. I used to copy-paste the same generic template to 50 companies, changing only the company name. I never got a reply. One day, I really wanted a specific job at a startup, so I scrapped the template and wrote a real letter to […]
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I used to think ‘Soft Skills’ was just a buzzword for people who didn’t know how to code. I focused 100% on my technical grades. Then I got an internship, and I realized I was the hardest person to work with. I interrupted people in meetings. I didn’t listen. I almost got fired—not because I
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For three years, my LinkedIn headline just said ‘Student at [University Name].’ I thought LinkedIn was just a digital resume that nobody looked at. Then, I changed one thing: I added my top three skills to my headline. Three days later, a recruiter messaged me. I realized I had been invisible simply because I wasn’t
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My first networking event was a disaster. I walked into the hotel ballroom, saw 100 people in suits talking loudly, and immediately walked into the bathroom to hide. I spent 20 minutes looking at my phone before leaving. I thought I wasn’t cut out for business. But then I realized that networking doesn’t have to
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It sounds too good to be true. I remember staring at the checkout screen for the Google Data Analytics certificate. $39 a month. For a broke student, that was a lot of pizza money. I wondered, ‘Is this actually going to get me a job, or am I just buying a PDF to make myself
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I froze. The interviewer asked, ‘Tell me about a time you failed,’ and my mind went blank. I sat there for ten seconds of awkward silence before stammering something about being a perfectionist. I didn’t get the job. I walked out of that room promising myself I would never be blindsided again. That’s when I
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When I applied for my first job in the US, I made a huge mistake. I sent a 4-page document listing every single class I took since high school. I called it a ‘CV’ because that’s what we called it back home. I didn’t get a single interview. It took a mentor sitting me down
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When I graduated in [2018], I applied to 50 jobs and didn’t hear back from a single one. It was terrifying. I still have the screenshot of my email inbox from my sophomore year. It was a sea of ‘Thank you for applying, unfortunately…’ emails. I applied to 40 internships and got rejected by all
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