Job Search Strategists | Early Career Experts | Former Recruiter/Headhunters
3 weeks. 3 months. 6 months.
Give yourself time to learn before deciding how you feel.
You’ve already proven you can get the job.
Now trust yourself enough to learn it. 🤍
If you’re 70–80% qualified, apply.
Don’t reject yourself before the company has a chance to.
The goal isn’t checking every box. The goal is making sure your resume clearly shows the qualifications you already have. 🤍
Ready is a moving target.
Stop waiting to feel ready and start getting prepared.
Update the resume. Refresh LinkedIn. Take one small step. 🤍
Your resume is not a diary.
One of the biggest mistakes we see? Organizing your resume by what’s most recent instead of what’s most relevant.
The best resumes do two things:
✔️ Get past the system
✔️ Make a human want to hire you
Need help? Check the Stan Store link in bio for our resume cheat sheet and LinkedIn guide. Or reach out!
5 things making your resume look dated — and what to do instead. Save this before you send out your next application.
Want your fairy job mothers to take a look at yours? Resume upgrade at the link in bio. 🤍
“Tell me about yourself” sounds simple, but it’s where people either:
❌ Recite their resume
❌ Tell their entire life story
❌ Freeze and forget everything they’ve ever done
The goal isn’t to tell them everything. The goal is to give them a reason to keep listening.
And please…make it sound like a human being. A little personality goes a long way.
The best answers feel prepared, not rehearsed. Save this for the next time your brain goes blank in an interview. 🎤
Another one from the top 10 questions we get every week — and probably the most personal one. The nose ring, the tattoos, the hair. There’s a strategic answer, and we’ll help you figure out where your specific line is.
Using AI in your job search is fine. Sounding like AI in your job search is not.
If you want to make sure your resume and LinkedIn still sound like YOU and not the ChatGPT version of you, your fairy job mothers have two low-lift audits in the Stan Store:
🔗 How to Audit Your Resume
🔗 How to Audit Your LinkedIn
Both walk you through exactly what to check, what to cut, and what to rewrite in your own voice. No starting from scratch.
Link in bio
If a job is on LinkedIn, it’s already been moving inside that company for weeks. Sometimes a month or more. By the time you see it, people inside have been recommending names, doing back-channel conversations, and sometimes already interviewing.
That’s why networking isn’t optional. It’s how you stop competing for what’s left.
And step one of networking is having a LinkedIn profile that actually looks like someone worth referring.
Your fairy job mothers have a low-lift LinkedIn audit in the Stan Store that walks you through exactly what to fix, what to cut, and how to show up like the candidate recruiters remember.
🔗 How to Audit Your LinkedIn - link in bio.
Hey graduating seniors (rising college freshmen) 🎓
The biggest mistake we see? Thinking your high school experience doesn’t “count” yet.
It does. The summer job, the babysitting, the club you ran, the volunteer hours — that’s your resume. That’s what goes on LinkedIn. That’s what you build everything else on top of.
Three things to do before move-in day:
→ Draft your resume (yes, even if it feels empty)
→ Set up your LinkedIn
→ Start a running list on your phone of everything you do this year — jobs, internships, shadowing, volunteer work. You will not remember it by junior year.
And if you want help actually doing all of this? We have tools in our Stan store to walk you through every step — link in bio. 🔗
Save this for the senior (soon to be a freshman) in your life!