@@Farah_Sharghi Hi Farah, thanks a lot for these tips. I really needed it. Anyway dont mind me asking, looking at the number of layoffs by tech companies, can one say that its pointless trying to enter the tech industry? I am actually upskilling myself in Python and AI related subjects but feel demotivated when I hear of these layoffs. Any advice would be highly appreciated. TIA
yeah keep on telling people they do mistakes - when in reality those hr people do not even read your cv, and ... what kind of skills they do they have residing making up things and bla bla?
Very good advice! One thing that everyone is suffering about is actually getting “quantifiable metric” or impact. Working to make an impact is one thing but getting quantifiable metric is whole another work. Usually this information is not available to the hands-on working person, but with the manager level, unless a manager actively shares.
I honestly wonder why this channel does not have at least 300k subs. I don't comment on videos, but you definitely deserve way more recognition for that level of detail in these videos. Keep up the awesome work!
Chill out. I’d rather this channel has a low subscriber count since TH-camrs tend to get complacent and cocky after gaining over 100k subs and you’ll notice the drastic drop in quality. So nope please stay low subs. I’ll just be watching but not subscribing.
@@ltk7309 hey lol! I mean I've been creating content for a while now, still trying to make time and figure out TH-cam. Will do my best to keep up the quality 🤗
Cheers, thanks! I had hired one of those coaches a decade ago and was beyond underwhelmed. In fact I was upset because she gave me worksheets to fill out and a pep talk. That’s why when I coach clients I give them actionable steps and advice to help get them a job or promoted
Everyone mentions to include HOW your job role moves the needle for the companies bottom line. For example, supported x-team to increase sales by 11%. If we do not have company figures results for our work, HOW ELSE can we "communicate OUR VALUE to the success of the company" so it sounds MORE than task driven accomplishments? Please share examples of DIFFERENT results so we can improve our linkedIn profiles. Appreciate your help 😊
The problem is..most people looking for jobs are currently employed and they don't want their current employer to know their looking. This is why people hide their profiles from a search
2:00 - yeah.. reducing the entire professional life to the collection of keywords: java, developer, c++., manager. Nobody really cares to read the full profile and think of a new job as a life changing event. It is all reduced to keyword match.
You are right, that’s how recruiters use LinkedIn Recruiter to initially find people. Just like when you use Google to do a keyword search. It’s the same process. Then when we find profiles we scan them and if the profile looks interesting then we will spend more time reading and reach out 😀
This is what the stilly-cooked unemployment rate of 4-5% is still missing - competition with "employed" current job hunting as well. It helps to ask "how many people absolutely love their job?" and "how many are not looking for other work at all?" - these numbers seem much higher than a mere few extra percentage points to add to that unemployment rate. Also there are estimates that at-least 1/4 of the working population isn't actually making ends meet right now and are only doing part-time or gigs. Ultimately, what percent of the entire working population is job hunting? Probably a large portion and I'd guess at-least 1/3...
Here's a question for you. In a lot of cases, a designer might know how they helped a team or project or whatever, and may even know their work made a positive impact, but may not have access to metrics like "raised by 15%." What should we include as an effective alternative to putting numbers into our achievements?
Tbh I think people just randomly put any number they want becuase AI is looking for these numbers...this is so frustrating. I have the same problem as you, so I totally relate
Hi Madam, I am Mihir Singh Thakur from India. I am working professional as a credit analyst(Loan Against property) in one of top NBFC. Today I watch your short video and subscribe your channel due to your guidance regarding LinkedIn profile and other things. Thank and regards Mihir Singh Thakur
Wish you would advise on level entry jobs with no experience. My graduate daughter is currently looking for a job with no luck at all. It appears that most junior roles require some kind of experience. She’s getting desperate.
I hope she could find a job already but just in case if she couldn’t yet , I wanted to write this: Best way to find a entry level job is to start with internship or just volunteering and then she can use the experience and reference to find a job, perhaps she can even get a job offer from the company she volunteers for. That’s what I did when I moved to my new country at my 40 and it worked.
I'm too private, so i do not have a linkedin. Yeah, people will say, "well that is y u cant find a job blah blah blah." But there are other better ways to contact employers imo
Haven't commented yet on your videos but I would like to say your positive go-getter energy is infectious and very motivating, and all your videos are filled with the perfect advice for people. Thank you so much for deciding to do this channel! I wish it maximum success!!
@@Farah_Sharghi I’m not sure I get that point. What you’re suggesting for us to do under our Experience section on LinkedIn is typically what goes under your résumé to highlight your experience. Not describing what you’ve done defeats the purpose of a résumé. I’m sure you can agree a lot of people can’t afford to reveal details of their achievements (IP reasons, NDA reasons) on a semi-public platform, as opposed to a private résumé. If you’re directly applying, are you saying that a résumé with all those details will be discarded in favor of a LinkedIn profile with those details instead?
So, linked in profile, replaces a resume ? Then, put it on facebook also , put it on social media huh.. people in fact put all their resume content on linkedin but at the end of the day only the interview process determines THE candidate to be hired and a RESUME is referred to 1-1 during interview and not linked it. So RESUME is still gold copy linked is not and tbh only few have gained from linked in same ads every now and then appear months after months.
do it funny way: there was a tv series the pretender. he was in each episode sb different (fireman, doctor, etc). present yourself as THE pretender who knows that thus did this and this, etc.
How do you approach the job market if you are making a comback from a disability and got your degree in finance 11 years ago... I have too much credit card debt now to invest in education again
And what was the reason a recruiter would post a job ad then ignore the people that showed interest and applied to it, and go hunting random people instead, again?
Watch my video on Tell Me About yourself. You’re likely giving too generic of answers that don’t have specific details of your accomplishments and/or your answers are unrelated to the job requirements. Make these shifts & it should help
People around me take me down. I can never be as good with knowledge-sharing as you. Because people climb on me and keep me down. I believe you've achieved so much in your life that now you only believe in goodness of this world and sharing. This video is also shared with sh*ty people who can leverage on it and pretend to act as told just for the sake of getting in the job.
I don't understand the importance of Linkedin or any similar social media site. I mean so what if you lie and say the same thing in 2 places does that make it more believable? Do recruiters think that you will send one so-called specific tailored resume to them and forget what you put on Linkedin or told somebody else? Are social media checks for recent 22 year old college grads? Does anybody expect someone middle aged applicant to act ridiculously where everyone can see it including the recruiter and then reject it early enough in the process so that it was always "somebody else" we selected instead of some illegal reason? And yes you got it, I am a homeowner, the better kind of homeowner, the one with the house paid off . . .
Not a fan of listing % improvements a candidate made in their last job. Most of the time these claims are never supported with real data and feel deceitful, not a great way to start the process.
About me I am 2021 cse grad in 2022 June I got my first Job actually the role was python developer but they put me into data analyst the company was good it was a product based but my manager wasn't played so many cards on 13 interns usually internship is max duration is 6 months in corporate but inspite of higher authority message to give everyone as an associate that didn't happen my manager was very toxic and office politics some even worked for 3 years as interns 😭 Due to this I resigned in 2023 June from then till now I am jobless I don't know what to do I tired frontend development but the current market and frontend is really saturated now I have a career gap It's 2025 start we have arrived still unemployed 😭😭😭😭
It definitely has evolved from when I first joined back when it began and personally I’m not a fan of it morphing into a social media platform. That being said I show my clients how to use LinkedIn, and not let LinkedIn use you. Ignore the feed and keep using it for its main purpose: networking and finding a new job
@@Farah_Sharghi And identity thieves are also on LinkedIn gathering personal details, employment details, photos, and location details for their new targets.
BRO THE LINKEDIN RECRUITERS AND HIRING MANAGERS ARE ASSS!!!! Like imagine being online and active and you are ignoring those who need a job. Meet all the qualifications to not even get a call back just a instant denial 😒 shits wack
Then go to the companies website and their careers page. Not a big deal. Companies pay linkedin to post their jobs because it’s an aggregated job board. If you don’t like it, just don’t use it
@@Farah_Sharghi I already do that, I go to the companies' website, but we have to have a LinkedIn profile nowadays to even be considered, which is crazy.
Hey Farah❤, my brother is looking for a graphic design job, but he has limited time on his OPT-just one month left-and he's not receiving any responses. We're feeling frustrated. He has everything ready, including a strong resume, cover letter, portfolio, and has reached out to HR. It's a critical time for his visa status. He's really talented, but he needs help with connections. I think you would be a great person to discuss this with. Let me know if you're available!😢
My advice is something you may not want to hear. He may need to go back to school to get a degree in something where he can get sponsored after graduation. Accounting & STEM. H1Bs are for people with a skillset not easily found in the current workforce and with the current labor market there are a lot more people than there are jobs and many of them don’t require sponsorship. Sponsorship costs companies time and money and I’m sure your brother is great but this is the current reality. I wish him luck
Hi Farah, thank you for your advice! I just wanted to clarify that my brother is currently on an F1 visa with OPT, so he's not looking for sponsorship right away. He has an associate degree in graphic design and is just hoping to secure a job to make use of his OPT time period. He has about a month left on his OPT, so we're trying to find opportunities within his field. If you have any further advice or know anyone who could help him connect with a job, we would really appreciate it! Thanks again for your support.
The most important thing is that you check all the right DEI boxes because skills, experience and ability no longer count. Its all about 'identity' and not merit. Being educated or a certain demographic automatically makes you "over quailfied" or some other euphamism for not fulfilling an employer's "social equity" crap. And thats why a lot of companies go bust. Can you say Boeing?
This channel is a gem for offering actual helpful advice to tech industry job searching!
Glad you are finding my videos helpful!
@@Farah_Sharghi Hi Farah, thanks a lot for these tips. I really needed it. Anyway dont mind me asking, looking at the number of layoffs by tech companies, can one say that its pointless trying to enter the tech industry? I am actually upskilling myself in Python and AI related subjects but feel demotivated when I hear of these layoffs. Any advice would be highly appreciated. TIA
yeah keep on telling people they do mistakes - when in reality those hr people do not even read your cv, and ... what kind of skills they do they have residing making up things and bla bla?
Very good advice! One thing that everyone is suffering about is actually getting “quantifiable metric” or impact. Working to make an impact is one thing but getting quantifiable metric is whole another work. Usually this information is not available to the hands-on working person, but with the manager level, unless a manager actively shares.
You can quantify things like time and how many people you worked with on a team or project
@@Farah_Sharghi would that be impactful enough to catch recruiter’s eyes? Just curious.
Make up the numbers they aren't gonna fact check
I honestly wonder why this channel does not have at least 300k subs. I don't comment on videos, but you definitely deserve way more recognition for that level of detail in these videos. Keep up the awesome work!
It'll come in time, providing rare gems to common demands seems key.
Agreed^^
Chill out. I’d rather this channel has a low subscriber count since TH-camrs tend to get complacent and cocky after gaining over 100k subs and you’ll notice the drastic drop in quality. So nope please stay low subs. I’ll just be watching but not subscribing.
Thank you for your lovely comment! Glad you appreciate the video 😀
@@ltk7309 hey lol! I mean I've been creating content for a while now, still trying to make time and figure out TH-cam. Will do my best to keep up the quality 🤗
Farah, I just found you today. You’ve given more information than executive coaches out there. I will be sharing your channel with everyone!!!
Cheers, thanks! I had hired one of those coaches a decade ago and was beyond underwhelmed. In fact I was upset because she gave me worksheets to fill out and a pep talk. That’s why when I coach clients I give them actionable steps and advice to help get them a job or promoted
Give us an example for someone who works in software development and not direct/indirect sales.
OMG, I didn’t have many of these settings open. You are a gem, thanks for passing on valuable information. I had no idea
Your welcome! Please share with someone who could use the help, too. Rising tides lift all boats
Everyone mentions to include HOW your job role moves the needle for the companies bottom line. For example, supported x-team to increase sales by 11%.
If we do not have company figures results for our work, HOW ELSE can we "communicate OUR VALUE to the success of the company" so it sounds MORE than task driven accomplishments?
Please share examples of DIFFERENT results so we can improve our linkedIn profiles.
Appreciate your help 😊
Just make up the numbers they aren't gonna fact check
This video is so helpful. I didn't realize how many simple mistakes I was making on LinkedIn. Time to update my profile.
Glad you’ve found it helpful! 🙏🏼
The problem is..most people looking for jobs are currently employed and they don't want their current employer to know their looking. This is why people hide their profiles from a search
These LinkedIn tips are a game changer. I’m definitely going to start building my network more strategically.
Glad you found the video helpful!
Such a great and useful video. Thanks for sharing it, Farah.
Your welcome! Glad you found it helpful
Great tips here. I always thought my LinkedIn was good enough, but now I see there's definitely room for improvement.
Your welcome! Go forth and conquer!
wow I really appreciate this advice thanks.
2:00 - yeah.. reducing the entire professional life to the collection of keywords: java, developer, c++., manager. Nobody really cares to read the full profile and think of a new job as a life changing event. It is all reduced to keyword match.
You are right, that’s how recruiters use LinkedIn Recruiter to initially find people. Just like when you use Google to do a keyword search. It’s the same process. Then when we find profiles we scan them and if the profile looks interesting then we will spend more time reading and reach out 😀
This is what the stilly-cooked unemployment rate of 4-5% is still missing - competition with "employed" current job hunting as well.
It helps to ask "how many people absolutely love their job?" and "how many are not looking for other work at all?" - these numbers seem much higher than a mere few extra percentage points to add to that unemployment rate. Also there are estimates that at-least 1/4 of the working population isn't actually making ends meet right now and are only doing part-time or gigs.
Ultimately, what percent of the entire working population is job hunting? Probably a large portion and I'd guess at-least 1/3...
Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing it.
Here's a question for you. In a lot of cases, a designer might know how they helped a team or project or whatever, and may even know their work made a positive impact, but may not have access to metrics like "raised by 15%." What should we include as an effective alternative to putting numbers into our achievements?
"Design decisions were approved by stakeholders that reduced pain points and increased the customer experience"
or "Implemented design iterations that resolved problems uncovered by user research"
Tbh I think people just randomly put any number they want becuase AI is looking for these numbers...this is so frustrating. I have the same problem as you, so I totally relate
It's truly Awesome. Keep rocking mam.....
Damn, this is good advice.
Great video content! Very valuable 🙌
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
I would love to buy a book or a sheet with: possibles questions to answer in an interview or how to prepare for an interview, something like that 😉
Thanks Farah... I will be using these linkedin tips
Your welcome!
Those examples of saved x % or whatever aren't quantifiable for most positions. It's the kind o good advice that has no practical benefit.
Interesting. 👍
Great advice. Thanks a lot
Your welcome!
thank you
I'm concerned about providing too much location information, photos, and personal details on LinkedIn due to identity theft.
Hi Madam,
I am Mihir Singh Thakur from India. I am working professional as a credit analyst(Loan Against property) in one of top NBFC. Today I watch your short video and subscribe your channel due to your guidance regarding LinkedIn profile and other things.
Thank and regards
Mihir Singh Thakur
The first mistake is having a LinkedIn profile
How do you find job openings without LinkedIn? There are so many companies.
90% of companies use LI 😂
@ yeah but serious ones will have job posts elsewhere besides LinkedIn
@@Ragnar452 Indeed, Stepstone, the company website and many more job boards. Only sham companies will post jobs exclusively in LinkedIn
While this is true, most recruiters like myself spend most of their time on LinkedIn when looking for professionals.
Wish you would advise on level entry jobs with no experience. My graduate daughter is currently looking for a job with no luck at all. It appears that most junior roles require some kind of experience. She’s getting desperate.
I hope she could find a job already but just in case if she couldn’t yet , I wanted to write this: Best way to find a entry level job is to start with internship or just volunteering and then she can use the experience and reference to find a job, perhaps she can even get a job offer from the company she volunteers for. That’s what I did when I moved to my new country at my 40 and it worked.
I'm too private, so i do not have a linkedin. Yeah, people will say, "well that is y u cant find a job blah blah blah." But there are other better ways to contact employers imo
Haven't commented yet on your videos but I would like to say your positive go-getter energy is infectious and very motivating, and all your videos are filled with the perfect advice for people. Thank you so much for deciding to do this channel! I wish it maximum success!!
Essentially, lie strategically quickly. What a circus.
Yeah lying with fake statistics is getting rewarded while honest workers are suffering
The whole jobhunting is a huge circus... and not even a funny one.
Genuine question: what’s the point of your résumé if you have to rewrite it in LinkedIn?
They’re different bc resumes are targeted and LinekdIn profiles are where you can describe more about what you’ve done
@@Farah_Sharghi I’m not sure I get that point. What you’re suggesting for us to do under our Experience section on LinkedIn is typically what goes under your résumé to highlight your experience. Not describing what you’ve done defeats the purpose of a résumé.
I’m sure you can agree a lot of people can’t afford to reveal details of their achievements (IP reasons, NDA reasons) on a semi-public platform, as opposed to a private résumé.
If you’re directly applying, are you saying that a résumé with all those details will be discarded in favor of a LinkedIn profile with those details instead?
So, linked in profile, replaces a resume ? Then, put it on facebook also , put it on social media huh.. people in fact put all their resume content on linkedin but at the end of the day only the interview process determines THE candidate to be hired and a RESUME is referred to 1-1 during interview and not linked it. So RESUME is still gold copy linked is not and tbh only few have gained from linked in same ads every now and then appear months after months.
Thanks
Any advice how to present your Linkedin profile if you have experiences from various fields? 😢
do it funny way: there was a tv series the pretender. he was in each episode sb different (fireman, doctor, etc). present yourself as THE pretender who knows that thus did this and this, etc.
How do you approach the job market if you are making a comback from a disability and got your degree in finance 11 years ago... I have too much credit card debt now to invest in education again
And what was the reason a recruiter would post a job ad then ignore the people that showed interest and applied to it, and go hunting random people instead, again?
You’re assuming the applicants were qualified
I would even take a shitty in my situation, been applying for ages, ghosted after 1st or 2nd interview 😢
Watch my video on Tell Me About yourself. You’re likely giving too generic of answers that don’t have specific details of your accomplishments and/or your answers are unrelated to the job requirements. Make these shifts & it should help
Should I upload multiple tailored resumes according to each job applications?
People around me take me down. I can never be as good with knowledge-sharing as you. Because people climb on me and keep me down. I believe you've achieved so much in your life that now you only believe in goodness of this world and sharing. This video is also shared with sh*ty people who can leverage on it and pretend to act as told just for the sake of getting in the job.
But how do you measured 15% of what so accurately?
I don't understand the importance of Linkedin or any similar social media site. I mean so what if you lie and say the same thing in 2 places does that make it more believable? Do recruiters think that you will send one so-called specific tailored resume to them and forget what you put on Linkedin or told somebody else? Are social media checks for recent 22 year old college grads? Does anybody expect someone middle aged applicant to act ridiculously where everyone can see it including the recruiter and then reject it early enough in the process so that it was always "somebody else" we selected instead of some illegal reason? And yes you got it, I am a homeowner, the better kind of homeowner, the one with the house paid off . . .
Not a fan of listing % improvements a candidate made in their last job. Most of the time these claims are never supported with real data and feel deceitful, not a great way to start the process.
About me I am 2021 cse grad in 2022 June I got my first Job actually the role was python developer but they put me into data analyst the company was good it was a product based but my manager wasn't played so many cards on 13 interns usually internship is max duration is 6 months in corporate but inspite of higher authority message to give everyone as an associate that didn't happen my manager was very toxic and office politics some even worked for 3 years as interns 😭
Due to this I resigned in 2023 June from then till now I am jobless I don't know what to do I tired frontend development but the current market and frontend is really saturated now I have a career gap
It's 2025 start we have arrived still unemployed 😭😭😭😭
Appreciate the content. Yes I'm a subscriber and I've made some adjustments on my LinkedIn profile. A lot of more videos are ahead of me.
People that say social media is toxic haven't been to LinkedIn 😂
It definitely has evolved from when I first joined back when it began and personally I’m not a fan of it morphing into a social media platform. That being said I show my clients how to use LinkedIn, and not let LinkedIn use you. Ignore the feed and keep using it for its main purpose: networking and finding a new job
@@Farah_Sharghi And identity thieves are also on LinkedIn gathering personal details, employment details, photos, and location details for their new targets.
Do you do consulting?
I do. Feel free to reach out to me via my website: www.farahsharghi.com/
BRO THE LINKEDIN RECRUITERS AND HIRING MANAGERS ARE ASSS!!!! Like imagine being online and active and you are ignoring those who need a job. Meet all the qualifications to not even get a call back just a instant denial 😒 shits wack
you get more spam when you enable this function
Why do we have to use LinkedIn to find a job nowadays? What a stupid world this is.
Then go to the companies website and their careers page. Not a big deal. Companies pay linkedin to post their jobs because it’s an aggregated job board. If you don’t like it, just don’t use it
@@Farah_Sharghi I already do that, I go to the companies' website, but we have to have a LinkedIn profile nowadays to even be considered, which is crazy.
Hey Farah❤, my brother is looking for a graphic design job, but he has limited time on his OPT-just one month left-and he's not receiving any responses. We're feeling frustrated. He has everything ready, including a strong resume, cover letter, portfolio, and has reached out to HR. It's a critical time for his visa status. He's really talented, but he needs help with connections. I think you would be a great person to discuss this with. Let me know if you're available!😢
My advice is something you may not want to hear. He may need to go back to school to get a degree in something where he can get sponsored after graduation. Accounting & STEM. H1Bs are for people with a skillset not easily found in the current workforce and with the current labor market there are a lot more people than there are jobs and many of them don’t require sponsorship. Sponsorship costs companies time and money and I’m sure your brother is great but this is the current reality. I wish him luck
Hi Farah, thank you for your advice! I just wanted to clarify that my brother is currently on an F1 visa with OPT, so he's not looking for sponsorship right away. He has an associate degree in graphic design and is just hoping to secure a job to make use of his OPT time period. He has about a month left on his OPT, so we're trying to find opportunities within his field. If you have any further advice or know anyone who could help him connect with a job, we would really appreciate it! Thanks again for your support.
The most important thing is that you check all the right DEI boxes because skills, experience and ability no longer count. Its all about 'identity' and not merit. Being educated or a certain demographic automatically makes you "over quailfied" or some other euphamism for not fulfilling an employer's "social equity" crap. And thats why a lot of companies go bust. Can you say Boeing?
Your are beautiful🤗