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152: Ben Orenstein - How to Stand Out When Applying for a Job at a Small Company

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A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.

Topics:<ul>
<li>Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your application</li>
<li>Crafting a high quality application tailored to a specific position</li>
<li>Standing out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extra</li>
<li>Showcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for it</li>
<li>Having good questions for the person interviewing you</li>
<li>Sharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused on</li>
<li>Creating a job for yourself that doesn’t even exist</li>
<li>Proving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourself</li>
<li>Showing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the job</li>
</ul>Links:<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/r00k">Ben on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tuple.app">Tuple</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jobs.tailwindui.com">Tailwind Labs job postings</a></li>
</ul>Supporting the show: I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://tailwindui.com/">Tailwind UI</a>, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://refactoringui.com/book">Refactoring UI</a>, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://adamwathan.me/advanced-vue-component-design">Advanced Vue Component Design</a>, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com/">Test-Driven Laravel</a>, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections">Refactoring to Collections</a>, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.</li>
</ul>

Topics:<ul><li>Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your application</li><li>Crafting a high quality application tailored to a specific position</li><li>Standing out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extra</li><li>Showcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for it</li><li>Having good questions for the person interviewing you</li><li>Sharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused on</li><li>Creating a job for yourself that doesn’t even exist</li><li>Proving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourself</li><li>Showing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the job</li></ul>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/r00k">Ben on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://tuple.app">Tuple</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.tailwindui.com">Tailwind Labs job postings</a></li></ul>Supporting the show: I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:<ul><li><a href="https://tailwindui.com/">Tailwind UI</a>, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.</li><li><a href="https://refactoringui.com/book">Refactoring UI</a>, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.</li><li><a href="https://adamwathan.me/advanced-vue-component-design">Advanced Vue Component Design</a>, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.</li><li><a href="https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com/">Test-Driven Laravel</a>, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.</li><li><a href="https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections">Refactoring to Collections</a>, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.</li></ul>

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