Hiring in the Current Market: Tips & Tricks
A comprehensive free guide on navigating the current job market, optimizing your profiles on Instahyre, Naukri, and Wellfound, and securing the best offers.
Note: This guide is an educational blueprint. I do not guarantee specific job offers or salaries. Landing your dream job requires your own dedication, skill-building, and persistence along with these templates.
Hiring in the Current Market: The Ultimate Guide
- In the current market, the hiring landscape has significantly changed.
- Understanding these shifts is crucial to positioning yourself effectively and landing the right job.
- Most hiring is now outsourced to third-party recruiting companies.
- This means the first few rounds, including resume shortlisting, will be handled by these external firms, while the final few rounds will be conducted by the hiring startup or company itself.
To navigate this successfully, you need to optimize your profiles on the right platforms and craft a resume that stands out. Here are my top insights:
Top Platforms to Improve Your Profile
You must create and completely fill out your profiles on these three platforms: Instahyre, Naukri, and Wellfound (for remote roles).
1. Instahyre
- Works best out of any platform for Indian product startups with high pay (40+ LPA Base).
- Ensure your profile here is top-notch.
Shubham Instahyre profile screenshot
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2. Wellfound
- The best platform for remote roles or non-Indian startups.
- I got multiple remote role (50+ LPA) interview calls from here
Shubham Wellfound profile screenshot
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3. Naukri
- This where you need to daily login and check N-Vites (Comapanies send invites to user to apply) and opportunities .
- I got the recruiter call for Amazon, Flipkart , Tekion ,Navi from Naukri
4. Cutshort
Do not miss Cutshort! It is also very important for tech hiring. This is another platform for third party recruiters where they directly contact you based on you resume and data you fill in the form.
5. LinkedIn
- LinkedIn "Easy Apply" is mostly a scam—don't waste your time there.
- Instead, be active on LinkedIn and stay in the limelight of recruiters by posting technical content that shows your dominance in your stack.
- Check my LinkedIn profile (Shubham Chhimpa)
- Check how i wrote my headline, the about section, What i am posting. Optimise your profile similarly.
- Look for posts on LinkedIn where recruiters have mentioned their email.
- Send a cold email only once (no spamming).
Still have doubts?
If you need help, use "Ask Shubham" to ask for particular email content for your case. Send me your resume link and I will help build a generic cold email template based on my experience.
Ask Shubham →Your Resume: The Ultimate Selling Tool
Your resume is the most important thing you have. It is where you sell your skills, capabilities, and experience dominance. (Check out my Resume Guide for a bulletproof resume).
- Contact Information: The very first thing checked by HR is your resume. It MUST contain your contact number and email. This is very important—how will they reach out without these?
- Keep it Short & Impactful: It should be very short yet show your engineering superiority.
- Apply Strategically: Mostly only apply to roles or openings where your previous experience (specifically your tech stack) matches. This increases the chances of your resume getting shortlisted by 10x.
- Tech Stack: Make sure you mention the tech stack properly. (Check out my Resume Guide for a detailed explanation with video).
Need a Resume that Stands Out?
Check out my Product-Grade Resume Blueprint to 10x your interview callbacks.
View Resume Blueprint →Tricks and Tips (Ultra Pro Max Important)
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