Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job How to Automate Your Job Search And Focus on Strategy, with Danny Leonard
Feb 12, 2025
Danny Leonard, co-founder of Ramped, brings his expertise in job search automation to the conversation. He reveals how to streamline your job search and avoid wasting time on customizing resumes. Danny emphasizes the power of a targeted job search strategy—focusing on specific roles rather than broadly applying. He encourages leveraging LinkedIn for networking and promotes using AI tools like ChatGPT to improve applications. Most importantly, he underscores the balance between automation and meaningful human connection in the job search process.
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Reduce Customization
- Customize resumes and cover letters less, as they yield low returns.
- Data shows 77% of cover letters go unread, suggesting they're less impactful.
Strategic Automation and Diversification
- Diversify job search efforts like a portfolio of investments, including some "spray and pray".
- Automate the "spray and pray" part (easy apply) but limit time investment (5-10%).
Prioritize Strategic Tasks
- Focus 90-95% of job search time on strategic tasks, not grunt work.
- Strategic tasks yield higher results than repetitive, automatable actions.