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David Heinemeier Hansson · 8.5K views · 524 likes Short
Analysis Summary
Worth Noting
Positive elements
- This video provides a blunt, employer-side perspective on how personalized cover letters and targeted applications can significantly differentiate a candidate in a crowded field.
Be Aware
Cautionary elements
- The use of 'tough love' rhetoric and the David Goggins reference may lead viewers to internalize job rejection as a personal moral failure rather than a market reality.
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Transcript
One of the guys I personally enjoy is David Gogggins. He has this great pickme up speech where like he's running and he's probably run 40 km that day or something. He looks like someone who's run 40 km and he goes, "It's so easy to be great. No one wants to show up to do even the bare minimum." And I see this whenever we have a job opening. We'll get like, I don't know, a thousand people applying for some positions. We get 2,000 people applying and they all think like, "Well, I'm going to like why not me? I'll put in my shot." And then they do the bare minimum. Their cover letter is generic. Their CV is whatever that is. There's just nothing in it that stands out. And then a handful of people just go above. They make something targeted just for us. They speak in a way where we can tell that they paid attention, that this isn't just about any job, it's about this job. And I just go like, wow. Out of a thousand candidates, maybe five. really put in the effort and what did it take them I don't know maybe they prepared quite a lot maybe it took them an hour maybe it took two hours and someone will then say well how does that scale I get rejected all the time I got to make it up on volume so I'll send [ __ ] out to 10 times as many employers you think that's how this works you think that's how anything works that like if you're not getting what you want just do lower quality but more quantity you're delusional you should be going the other direction if you're not having a good time applying to positions, you're probably not putting in another enough enough effort. And if you are putting in enough effort, it's because you're not qualified enough. Like up your qualifications, do some stuff, learn more, become more competent. That to me is sort of the David Gogggins approach to
Video description
Dare to put in some effort! Most people mistakenly think it's all just one big lottery. That they don't even have to try. Every time we hire, I see how sorely mistaken they are. Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkzmlqnkrxM