I have suddenly, vastly overcomplicated my job search.
And a job search can draw liberally upon Seed or Series A context for analogous objectives and strategy:
- Go-to-market or outbound sales — who do I want to work with and how do I engage?
- Content, marketing and inbound — what am I communicating, to whom, which channels
- Operations and systems building — by which processes, using which tools, and how
- Design, collaboration, strategy — a catch all for filling in the gaps (do you like pancakes?)
- Company or employer branding — educating, positioning yourself against the market
For the full story and links to my other posts, go here: https://yum.butterystack.com/hunt
Having only a week ago decided to go down this path, I’ve got a lot of systems building to do. And it’s only using these systems I’ll reach a larger audience.
Here is some of what I’ve already done:
✅ Launched a directory in a day using Notion + Super to talk about ops tools and Wordware flows
✅ Expanded the directory, Buttery Stack, to serve as my job hunt portal and blog with all LinkedIn and other (upcoming) content
✅ Set up traffic analytics, link tracking and automated cookies compliance
✅ Set up Clay enrichment for inbound tracking and outbound prospecting
✅ Built the content engine for LinkedIn + whatever using Scheduled in Notion
✅ Built Wordware apps to generate content for multiple coming use cases
And here’s some of what I’m doing now:
- Build out the entire Clay funnel to target dozens (or more) companies in the VC funds and with the ICPs most relevant for my job search
- Preparing a mid-week report that is a project summary + analytics overview
- Decide on my final prospecting / CRM database setup (it’s difficult to choose when on such a limited budget… Stay in Clay + Airtable?
Just tuning in? 👀
I’m looking for an ambitious, cross-functional ops role at a Seed / Series A startup that is both kind and ambitious. To get to know me and learn more about how I’m using a no-code ops stack to build systems around my job search in real time, surf my project site 🏂 — https://yum.butterystack.com/hunt
If you haven’t already, check out the directory of great startup software that I launched in a day, Buttery Stack 🥞 —https://yum.butterystack.com/home
