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How to Reverse Engineer Job Posts

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This week’s career advice is based on some advice I gave someone who was looking to make a career move into their first IT role.

I’m calling it “Reverse Engineering Job Posts”

tl;dr read job posts for jobs you want and build the skills they want.

Let’s say you want to get your first role in DevOps but you’re not quite there yet.

Fire up Indeed or your job platform of choice.

Find 5-10 job requirements you think would be a fit

109-138k DevOps Engineer Position at Oddball, remote

97-124k Junior DevOps Engineer Position @ Ascending, remote

110-175k position in DevOps at Boomy Corporation, remote

Start to document the commonalities in technologies these companies are using.

What skills do companies want?

Let’s say for our DevOps Example our top skills are:

AWS
Linux
Terraform
CI/CD

Now, you’re going to build yourself a curriculum to learn these topics. Maybe for Linux you decide to use my book, Shell Samurai.

AWS has plenty of free learning materials available online and various certifications.

Same for the variety of CI/CD platforms out there like Gitlab, Github Actions, Travis, Jenkins, etc.

You don’t need to be an expert on these technologies, but you need to get some experience and fundamental understanding under your belt.

“Wait a minute, I can’t put this on my resume, can I??”

Yep! This is what the Skills or Personal Projects section is for.

Perhaps you could build a basic web app to track your favorite Zoo animal and deploy it with Terraform and CI/CD to AWS. (hosted on an AWS Linux ec2).

You now have experience to talk about!

Even better, can you use some of this tech in your current job? Once you’ve learnt it, you can use those pieces of tech in your current job to help solve business problems and then list that under your current role’s experience.

Maybe you learned python and saved hours a week processing boring reports. That’s real-world experience, slap it on the resume.

To be clear, I am NOT advocating lying. If you are asked about a piece of technology in an interview that you haven’t used in the real-world, mention what you did and how you built a personal learning curriculum to build skills.

Your interviewer will be thrilled you went above and beyond!

Ok, that’s it. Reverse engineer job postings, learn skills and go and conquer the world.

Need some resume help?

Are you blasting your resume off into the abyss and never getting a reply?

You apply for a position, wait a week and…

“We’re sorry but we regret to inform you that we’ve decided to move forward with another candidate….”

Sound familiar?

And ZERO feedback.

What gives?

It can be hard to know what to improve if you don’t get any feedback on WHY you were rejected for a role.

Your resume is a huge piece of that first contact applying for a job.

I’ve worked at small 100-person startups and massive public companies interviewing engineers.

I know what employers are looking for in IT candidates and what puts them off.

If you need help with your resume, I’m offering resume reviews by video.

Here’s my offer:

For $20, I’ll screen record a review of your resume.

I’ll find any typos, weird grammatical phrases and issues.

I’ll make recommendations to modify your resume to be the best representation of your skills it can be.

Interested?

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Email me at [email protected] with the subject: “Resume Roast” and attach your resume. Mention what types of roles you’re applying for with it.

I’ll get back to you within the next few days, depending on demand.

What if you think my review sucks?

No hard feelings, just let me know and I’ll be happy to offer a refund within 7 days.

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