🛠️ Career Strategy + 🤖 AI Tactic

Networking Better and Faster with AI

Find the Hiring Manager & Their Work

When you’re considering applying to a company, the first thing to do is identify the hiring manager. Often, the title is listed on the job description (e.g. “this role reports to…”). Figure out who that person is; LinkedIn searching for the company name and title name often works.

Find something they’ve done that you genuinely admire and want to learn more about, whether a podcast appearance, a blog post, or a talk at a conference.

If you can’t find anything OR do not genuinely admire them, NONE of the following advice will work. This is because humans are really good at telling when someone is blowing smoke up their ass. So you must have some foundation of admiration to come across as authentic.

To find their work, you can try this AI prompt (with web search enabled):

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⚡️ Execution Insight

Free Contract Templates from Cooley and Orrick

Sometimes in your professional career, you need contracts. And more often than not, a lawyer will gleefully charge you the equivalent of private school tuition to write those contracts (or more accurately, grab a template from their cloud storage, then Ctrl+F and Replace liberally).

It turns out that Cooley and Orrick, both Top 50 law firms, have free contract templates that you can just use. So instead of some associate right out of law school doing Ctrl+F and Replace on a form agreement, you can just do it yourself for 10,000x cheaper!

I’ve had multiple companies actually use Cooley’s employment agreement to employ me! It’s rock solid.

And if you really need to make edits, you can do a one-two punch of:

1. Get AI to amend the contract to your desires

2. Then send it to a real lawyer for a final once-over

Using templates + AI to do the heavy lifting has saved me inordinate amounts of money (and yes, a lawyer once did charge me the equivalent of private school tuition 😭 but never again!)

🧠 Curiosity Corner

Why I wrote The Invisible Advantage

Since 2020, I’ve gotten messages from increasingly nervous job seekers asking for guidance. Often, they had just paid $600 for a resume review or hired a coach for hours of ineffectual advice.

These stories made me really upset. This type of grift strikes me as particularly unethical: “coaches” and “advisors” preying on hopeful job seekers, extracting an exorbitant amount from people who can’t afford it. Offering false hope while knowing you can’t or won’t help someone is repugnant. It makes me viscerally angry.

So I started offering aid where I could. Eventually, a trickle built into a flood. At The Chief of Staff Network, I did ~5-10 resume reviews weekly for 2 years. I guided people to make their job search data-driven. And helping hundreds of people land great jobs, negotiate raises, and secure much-deserved promotions was the most gratifying thing I’ve ever done.

All of this led me to write The Invisible Advantage. I wanted to help even more people achieve the career of their dreams.

With all that said, here’s the trailer for my book; it discusses more about why I wrote the book and what you can expect from the final version.

💼 Job Board

People People Getting Paid ($336K!)

Here are the 3 most interesting remote job openings I’ve seen this week, specifically in the HR and People function:

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That’s it for this week.

-Rahul from The DesAI Digest

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