3. Obvious Solutions
● Ask interviwer for feeback
● Ask friends for help
● Ask parents to help with job search
● Prepare on a weekly basis
● Ask professors or former bosses to help and give
honest feedback
● Assess skillset based upon previous employment
● Read over standard interview questions
● Research who you are interviewing with before
hand
● Attend relevant workshops and networking events
● Evaluate linkedin profile
● Go to toastmasters
● Consider the audience
● Market the extracurricular projects that you do
● Define voice & sle fin writing -> marketing skills
● Read books relevant to field of interest applying
to
● Read blogs relevant to field of interest applying to
4. Descriptive obvious solutions
● Ask an interviewer for specific feedback on what
aprt of interview process
● Ask previous employers why they hired you and
what they think your strengths are.
● Previous questions but with professors or
parents/peers
● Positive reinforcement ->
● Have an accountability buddy that you trust to
meet with to go over stuff with interviews
● Practice the extremes of interviewing
(Interviewing with an Angry, Apathetic, Super
Casual, or Super Technical interviewer)
● List your ideal skillset for your dreamjob and think
about what it would take to hire someone for that
position if you were a boss.
● Take mentors/people you look up to out to coffee
informally
● Practice interviewing your dog/cat/animal of
choice to get more comfortable.
● Create an accessible portfolio based resume that
shows projects, your involvement in them, and
your thought process.
● Job shadow for a day a person in your career of
choice, keep in contact with them
● Get matched with a
job search partner
in the same field
but different
geography and
share successes
●
5. No Budget
● Work for free on a
trial basis, live with
parents.
● Library.
● Scholarships.
● Volunteer
networks.
● Do pro-bono work.
6. Unlimited Budget
● Go to an intensive learning camp that helps with
learning a relevant skill (ie, web development)
● Go to private college.
● Pay an extremely qualified tutor to help with
weakspots in skills.
● Travel and document, solve problems
internationally. Market yourself!
● Start your own business
● Buyout a company and try and run it.
● Pay most successful people you can think of ask
them how they got there.
● Buy all the books.
● Hire an objective evaluation board for self
● Fix global employment levels (hah)
● Have a national PR campaign to make talking
about job hunting not taboo (address current
problems)
● “Master” transferrable skills (math, writing, etc)
● Pay to observe successful people
○ Qualify successful
○
7. No Rules
● Time travel to the future and see what type of
jobs there are.
● Mentor with super geniuses.
● Robot mentor/teacher companion
● Matrix knowledge absorption
● School exclusively for holistic learning (academic
rigor, hard fun, learn by doing, etc etc)
● Eliminate need for “jobs” (ya right)
● Make it normal to discuss normality of sucking at
jobs.
● Redefine what “unemployment” means.
● Address reality between school and work sooner
● Government/funding to pay for gap year (or
similar range of time)
