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You Can’t Be the Right Fit If You Have No Shape
The more experience you have, the harder it is to talk about yourself… and the more it hurts to fix it. I just got off a call with a client I’ve been working with for a few weeks now, trying to nail his unique value proposition. We keep hitting the same wall. He wants to…
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Finding a Job in Germany as a Skilled Immigrant: A Map of Every Type of Support Available
You’re already job searching. You’re not getting results. And somehow, despite spending hours on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Reddit… You still don’t have a clear picture of what support actually exists, or who to trust. This post is for you. It’s for skilled immigrants — engineers, product managers, designers, finance professionals, operations leaders — who are…
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Will Brave New Job Work for You? An Honest Answer.
When people ask me about success rates, or which roles and countries I’ve worked with, this is usually the question behind the question: Will this program actually work for me? So let me be upfront and honest: this program is not for everyone. My goal is for this to be the best decision you ever…
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Applying for a Chancenkarte? Start Your Job Search Before You Move to Germany
B is a Marketing Manager from the Philippines. He’s applying for a Chancenkarte and expects to get it in December (it’s September as I write this). B’s Question: I’m not even getting interviews. Maybe it’s my A2 German, or maybe because I’m not yet in Germany and it will take 60–90 days for me to…
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How I landed a job in Germany in just 8 weeks without connections, without German, and against all odds, using a radical strategy called Project 100
It was the 4th of March in 2019. I wanted to move to Germany, but I didn’t know anyone in Europe. By the 25th of April 2019, I had a job offer from a German company. How? Through “Project 100”. Project 100 is a relationships-first strategy for job searching. It combines thoughtful engagement with high-volume…
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How to transform your CV and bring out the results from your responsibilities
My client A and I were transforming her CV from responsibilities to results. I get asked to review a lot of CVs, and almost all of them are merely a list of responsibilities. The main problem with this is that anyone – even someone who has not done the job, much less done it well…
