Email the Hiring Manager
Quit applying and waiting to hear back.
Just pitch the hiring manager, in an email.
Video pitch. Custom project. A picture of you bench pressing 300 pounds.
Something.
Email the hiring manager.
Do a Blogging Challenge
We’ve helped thousands of people land jobs without resumes or degrees. One of the best tools we’ve seen to jumpstart a creative mindset is the 30-day blogging challenge.
Publish a blog post every day for 30 days. It’ll change your life, really. You’ll build consistency, perseverance, writing skills, and learn to put yourself out there. Not to mention building a portfolio to show companies.
Here are posts and podcasts all about this:
- It All Started With Daily Blogging (7 min. podcast)
- Joe Pas on How Daily Blogging and Personal Projects Help You Win Opportunities (29 min. podcast)
- 34 Daily Blogging Challenge Ideas (Pinterest board)
- How Daily Blogging Changed My Life (18 min. podcast)
- Try something new for 30 days (3 min. TED Talk)
Meme of the Day
The Career Hackers Revolution
- Career hacking is about the relentless pursuit of discovering and doing what makes you come alive. Here are the core principles in the Career Hackers Manifesto.
- See two of our top posts: How to Make a Video Pitch and 100 Ways to Work Out Loud, so you can skip the resume and degree and be your own credential.
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