Week 2 of my job hunt is in the books — but first, an inaugural application bites the dust.
I’m going to begin tracking Applications and Rejections as I begin outbound 🥂 in the midst of prospecting I did shoot off 1 application for a role at a company with a) strong founders, b) an important solution and c) in sustainability.
I was rejected because they were hiring for more “specific candidates…” which seems to have precluded my “yes and” experience. Role requirements or predetermined role fit bias? It was a junior role, no fancy title, first sales hire.
Facebook had Harvard PhD’s on customer service, or something to that effect. Early and capable > set of predetermined, fixed needs. Get the best people you can whatever role, etc. My 6 years in sales wasn’t enough, ok.
#whenindoubthustle
Here’s looking to you, Week 2 numbers 👀 📈
At the top this week was a long weekend with family before heading to San Francisco! 🌁
Hiring funnel
- Intros made - 2 (+0 WoW)
- Meetings booked - 5 (+4 WoW)
- Applications - 1 (+1 WoW)
- Conversations - 1 (+1 WoW)
- Interviews - 0 (—)
- Rejections - 1 (+1 WoW)
- Offers made - 0 (—)
LinkedIn (using Shield)
- Posts - 7 (10 last week)
- Impressions - 10,343 (-44% WoW)
- Reactions - 120 (-54% WoW)
- Comments - 20 (-74% WoW)
- Reposts - 0 (-100% WoW)
GA-4 and website (only abso)
- Active users - 100
- New users - 100
- Events - 429
- Form submissions - 1
Dub short links (using Dub)
- Weekly clicks - 214 (+60 WoW)
- Affiliate product links - 37 (+27 WoW)
- Non-affiliate products - 12 (+10 WoW)
- Website-associated - 139 (+59 WoW)
Things I’ve stacked 🥞 over the past week:
- Clay flow that scrapes portfolios from VC firms, enriches VC teams to contact partners, enriches portfolio companies for open roles, discover and enrich specific profiles to reach out to → Airtable.
- I spent half of the week in the mountains. Because of the early systems around content, I’ve kept presence!
- Expanded my thoughts around when to stay high touch and why to do so…
Things I plan to stack next week:
- Begin drafting snippets towards Clay ICPs from data sent to a CRM built in Airtable
- Stop to reflect on my own process and plan adjustments to the next 2 weeks
- Enjoy 5 days in San Francisco where I’m thrilled to see old friends and visit SHACK15 and Wordware HQ
- Return to Norway and jump immediately in to Oslo Innovation Week
For those interested, the photo is of a glacial moraine leading up to the Eliot glacier at Mount Hood in Oregon 🏔️
Just tuning in? 👀
I’m on the hunt for an ambitious, cross-functional ops role at a Seed / Series A+ startup, one both kind and ambitious. To learn more about how I’m using no-code ops tools to build systems around my job search, visit the #huntatscale project page: https://yum.butterystack.com/hunt/
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