🐋 How to get into tech using club experience

How to make recruiters go, wow. + A summary of FB’s core values, an alternative to "follow your passion", and our curated list of new internship and job opportunities!

Tech Pod

Oct 14, 2021

Your club experience is an excellent source of resume material.

No matter what position you held or the club, you can leverage it to land a tech role.

But there’s a catch: Its potency entirely comes down to how you articulate it.

For example:

Two people held the same club position. Here’s how they each described it:

Joe: I hosted events for the club
Sarah: I created 10 workshops over six months for 100 members, and executed an end-of-the-year gala resulting in 80 new sign-ups.

Joe: I attended weekly meetings
Sarah: I maintained weekly communication with 10+ executive members to build community and strategize club operations

Joe: I posted on Instagram for the club
Sarah: I launched a month-long Instagram media campaign that increased follower count by 55%

Invest time in making your experience impactful and relevant with data and results.

(Psst, if you’re in a club role now—record all the metrics you can now, while you’re in it!)

🔑 FB’s 5 Core Values: explained by Zuckerberg & Sandberg

A gold mine for those preparing interview answers for a FB interview.

(Memorize these principles and incorporate them into all of your interview answers.)

A criticism of the “follow your passion” advice

4 bite-sized take-always from Cal Newport’s, So Good They Can’t Ignore You

“Follow your passion” isn’t the best advice for reaching occupational happiness.
The Craftsman Mindset: Instead of focusing on what value a job can give you, focus your energy on developing and mastering the skills you can bring to it.
The 10,000-Hour Rule: Researchers have found that obtaining expertise in a complex task requires 10,000 hours of practice.
Being “so good they can’t ignore you” will lead to obtaining the 3 ingredients of occupational happiness: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
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