215: I'm Begging You to Stop Applying to Data Analyst Jobs Until You Do This

All right, here's the thing that nobody applying to jobs ever stops to think about, and that is, how does the company see hiring from their point of view? And the truth is, hiring is absolutely terrible for the company and for the hiring manager.

I mean, think what they're about to do.

They're about to take a complete stranger, someone they randomly found on the internet, they talked to a few times, and then they're going to hand that stranger the car keys.

They're gonna give that stranger a salary, sometimes a big salary, six figures.

And they're going to give them access to sensitive company data, a seat in internal meetings, a spot on a team that has to actually work with this person every day, like you have to deal with this coworker.

And they have to make that call based off of a simple PDF and a few conversations.

That's literally it, you guys.

That is all they get.

And that's kind of a stressful job because here's the kicker: hiring managers will get blamed for bad hires.

It will hurt their reputation.

It will hurt their team.

It eats into their head count budget.

And honestly, a bad hire can take like six, eight, 12 months to undo.

And in the meantime, everyone around them is miserable and pissed off at them.

[laughs] Sometimes it can even cost the hiring manager their job.

It's that serious.

So when a hiring manager or a recruiter look at your resume, they're not really looking for reasons to say, "Oh, this is a good candidate." No.

They're looking for reasons to say, "No, this is not the right candidate," because no is safe, and saying yes is sticking their neck out on the line, and that is very dangerous for them to do.

Kinda like Hinge or Tinder or whatever dating app you've used, or maybe you're like me, and you've been married for 10-plus years now.

But regardless, you're playing this game, this dating game on this app to see who you're gonna spend the rest of your life with or at least you're gonna spend a lot of time with.

And when you're swiping, you're not rejecting people because they're bad people.

They're probably decent people.

But you're rejecting them because they're not the one for you.

Now, you're making that judgment off of six seconds, three photos, and a one-line bio to make that decision.

But the point here is, any red flag is enough to keep you swiping and scrolling on to the next person because there is always another profile to take a look at.