The Job Engine
You are in the market and drowning. Job boards, referrals, recruiter DMs, and a spreadsheet you stopped updating. Everything looks like a maybe, so everything gets the same effort, and the role that was actually worth it gets the same twenty minutes as the two that were never going to work.
DIRECTIONS
- 1Define Your Icp
Write the ICP for employers. What you want, and just as importantly what you will pass on.
COOK WITH AN ICP DEFINITION · OURS: define-your-icp · OR YOUR OWN
MEDIA · STEP 1 SCREENSHOTWhat this step's output looks like - 2Run the icp scoring
Score every role on momentum, seat, and timing. Go, look closer, or pass.
COOK WITH AN ICP SCORING · OURS: icp-scoring · OR YOUR OWN
MEDIA · STEP 2 SCREENSHOTWhat this step's output looks like - 3Run the enrichment analyst
Find the humans behind the posting. The hiring manager first, then the people you would actually work with.
COOK WITH AN ENRICHMENT ANALYST · OURS: enrichment-analyst · OR YOUR OWN
MEDIA · STEP 3 SCREENSHOTWhat this step's output looks like - 4Run the account brief prompt
One page per company before you say a word. Their problem, not your resume.
COOK WITH AN ACCOUNT BRIEF PROMPT · OURS: account-brief-prompt · OR YOUR OWN
MEDIA · STEP 4 SCREENSHOTWhat this step's output looks like - 5Run the linkedin outreach
Run the cadence. This part is still yours, and it should be.
COOK WITH A SOCIAL TOUCH, LINKEDIN OR ANY · OURS: linkedin-outreach · OR YOUR OWN
MEDIA · STEP 5 SCREENSHOTWhat this step's output looks like - 6Run the negotiation prep
When you reach the offer, prep the comp conversation itself: your target, your walk-away, and the concession ladder, so the final round is not the one you winged.
COOK WITH A NEGOTIATION PREP · OURS: negotiation-prep · OR YOUR OWN
MEDIA · STEP 6 SCREENSHOTWhat this step's output looks like
THE FINISHED DISH · WHAT YOU SERVE
One ranked list of roles worth your time, the humans behind each one, a cadence you actually run, and a target-and-concession plan ready for the offer conversation when you get there. The noise gets deleted before it reaches you.
GO DEEPER · The full playbook page carries the guide, the proof build, and the receipts. Read it.