Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:12:13 +0000
<p><strong>Topics:</strong></p><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><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><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><p><strong>Supporting the show:</strong><br />I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.</p><p>If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:</p><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>