Teeing up your Tech Job Search in 2025
4.8 (25)
3 Days
·Cohort-based Course
🔥Guest on Lenny's Newsletter🔥 Design a targeted job search with a Top 1% job search coach. Get niche. Uplevel your pitch. Convert more.
Teeing up your Tech Job Search in 2025
4.8 (25)
3 Days
·Cohort-based Course
🔥Guest on Lenny's Newsletter🔥 Design a targeted job search with a Top 1% job search coach. Get niche. Uplevel your pitch. Convert more.
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Course overview
Get application ready and screener ready. With confidence and community.
Read my post on passing first-round interviews in Lenny's newsletter here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-pass-any-first-round-interview
This workshop is designed as the prequel to that article: helping you design a targeted job search, network artfully to build a job pipeline, and convert opportunities into interviews.
Workshop content
Designing your job search
Strategies for the post-ZIRP tech job market
How to design a 'niche of one'
How to shortlist companies (and tailor your efforts by tier)
How to write a stand-out resume (ATS and human-optimized)
How (and when) to have multiple resumes and/or role-tailored resumes
How to craft your LinkedIn profile to attract more interest
Conducting your search
How to run a 4-hour job search
How to build a pipeline from zero
How to job search in the open
Networking
How to activate your network (colleagues, friends and family, hiring managers you know)
How/why to get referred, even by randos
How to write a powerful professional blurb
How to write winning warm intro emails
How to cold connect with hiring managers or employees at target companies
How to leverage online communities to accelerate your job search
Converting
How to throw green flags (and avoid red flags) in screener interviews
How to answer common and tricky recruiter screening questions
How to use the recruiter screen to tee up a better offer
Plus: a resume glow-up mini-workshop
Plus: a LinkedIn polish mini-workshop
Plus: a professional blurb writing workshop
Plus: a cold connection request writing workshop
Plus: two in-depth Q&A sessions with Erika
Bonus: Speeding up your job search (levers and when to use them)
Bonus: Debugging your job search (with benchmarks)
(all sessions are live, taught by Erika)
Includes:
Tools and tactics to drive your job search (niche of one mad lib, company tiering strategies, referral guide, the 4-hour job search daily agenda, LinkedIn content roadmap, and more), leaving you with concrete next steps for your job search.
Frameworks for presenting yourself with effortless confidence (multiple resumes, tailored resumes, intro blurbs, cold outreach messages, etc).
Case studies from Coach Erika's 200+ successful job seeker clients to understand real-world scenarios you may encounter in your search (and what to do).
Resume glow-up, LinkedIn polishing, and blurb writing workshops during the seminar. You'll walk out with an updated set of tools and a punch list of follow-on tasks to kickstart or reboot your job search.
Discord Community Invite to stay connected to your cohort through this job search and beyond. Co-source opportunities, review resumes, do mock interviews, and more.
Who is this course for
01
Senior IC, Manager, and Director+ level tech workers who are starting a job search in the next 1-2 months or with in-flight job searches.
02
Job seekers keen to move from quantity to quality: design a more targeted job search, network artfully, and convert more of their funnel.
03
This workshop is not for students, aspiring tech workers, or early career professionals.
What you’ll get out of this course
Refresh your digital presence
We'll discuss the strategies and approaches you can use to glow up your resume, LinkedIn, and professional blurb. I'll share specific tactics, and you will workshop during the seminar so you can walk away with refreshed, public-facing, professional artifacts.
How to handle the tech jobs downturn & search in an employer's market
We will dive into:
- Job market data & the realities of a soft market
- Designing a 'niche of one'
- How to shortlist companies (and ladder interviews)
- How to author and format a strong resume (ATS + human optimized)
- Branding your LinkedIn presence
- Multiple resumes & tailored resumes
Smart networking in the digital & distracted era
We'll cover:
- how to leverage friends, hiring managers, online communities, and recruiters to get intel, first-look roles, and a human connection.
- how to find & connect with hiring managers (with winning notes)
- how + why to get stranger referrals
Converting interest into screeners & interviews
We'll review:
- employer + interviewer goals
- how to throw green flags (and avoid red flags) in screens
- how to use a recruiter screen to tee up a stronger offer
Debugging your job search
Learn the benchmarks, signs, and signals that will tell you if you need to make adjustments in your job search now and long after the course.
Tailor-made and optimized for busy tech job seekers
This is an intensive course; we cut to the chase and help you get set up for a more successful, focused job search. Sessions are recorded to watch again in the future, and you will get access to many tools and templates you can use for weeks & months after we wrap
Case studies from Coach Erika's 200+ successful job seeker clients
We'll walk through real resumes, real blurbs, real email exchanges with recruiters, and more ― to assess real-world scenarios that you may encounter in your search (and what you can do).
You'll be in great company (even after the workshop ends)
Roles of fellow cohort mates will range from product & engineering to sales & marketing, operations, customer-facing, and more. Titles of students range from Senior/Group/Principal/Staff to Director/Sr. Director/VP/CxO. After the course, you'll get access to our Discord community
Walk away with a clear, tangible job search plan
You'll leave with an actual job search plan (a document) featuring concrete next steps to activate your targeted 'Niche of One' job search. Plus, you'll have an overhauled LinkedIn profile, resume, and Blurb for warm intros.
This course includes
5 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
2 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Teeing up your Tech Job Search in 2025
4.8 (25 ratings)
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Jan
3
Optional: Pre-workshop Mixer
Jan
4
Workshop Day 1: Designing a 'Niche of One' job search (+resume, +LinkedIn)
Jan
4
Optional: Day 1 Q&A
Jan
5
Workshop Day 2: The 4-hour Job Search, Networking, and Converting recruiter screens
Jan
5
Optional: Day 2 Q&A
Post-course
Join The Career Whispers community on Discord!
Additional resources for interview prep and more
Bonus
BONUS: Debugging your Job Search
What people are saying
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Meet your instructor
Coach Erika
I spent the last decade building and scaling unicorn startups (Samsara, Castlight, Verily) and building at scale at Google. I've helped raise over $3B in venture capital―taking 2 startups public, and growing product organizations from < 30 to 2000+ employees.
In the last 13 years, I've switched jobs within and across companies and roles ten times. I've held many roles, from engineer (hardware and software) to EM, TPM, PM, Chief of Staff, Engineering Operations, Founder, and Chief Product Officer.
Since 2020, I've coached 250+ job seekers to get organized, tell powerful stories, and land their dream jobs. My goal is to make the same tools and frameworks I teach in my 1:1 coaching available more broadly, building community along the way.
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Teeing up your Tech Job Search in 2025
Cohort 4
$1,200
Dates
Application Deadline
Course schedule
10 hours of live class + bonus materials
Thursday (before the cohort)
5:00pm Pacific
Optional pre-workshop mixer (Zoom)
Saturday
9:00am - 1:00pm Pacific
4pm - 8 pm GMT
12pm - 4pm Eastern
11am - 3pm Central
10am - 2pm Mountain
There will be 60-75 minutes of live Q&A with Coach Erika after this slot.
Recording will be available, in case you need to drop off earlier.
Sunday
9:00am - 1:00pm Pacific
4pm - 8 pm GMT
12pm - 4pm Eastern
11am - 3pm Central
10am - 2pm Mountain
This will be followed by 60-75 minutes of live Q&A, which will also be recorded.
The Q&As on both days are very in-depth. Many students say that they feel like they are getting 1:1 coaching from Erika.
Learning is way better with live cohorts
Active hands-on learning
Every aspect of this workshop is live. Coach Erika will spend 10+ hours with you over the weekend, sharing in-depth case studies, hands-on exercises, tools, and tactics to design a more targeted job search custom-made for who you are and what you want to do with your limited time and energy.
Interactive and project-based
Every moment during the workshop is thoughtfully crafted to help you make tremendous progress in your job search. You will literally leave with a job search document featuring concrete next steps to activate your niche of one job search. Plus, you'll leave with an overhauled LinkedIn profile, Resume, and Intro Blurb.
Learn with a cohort of peers
You will meet and interact with an exceptional cohort of peers in Discord, on Zoom chat, and in breakout groups. Plus, you'll leave with a pod of cohort mates to lean on through the rest of your job search and career journey.
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Teeing up your Tech Job Search in 2025
Cohort 4
$1,200
Dates
Application Deadline
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