HeyJaredLee Harding
For introverts working in corporate who want to win without becoming louder
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Stop Trying to Use STAR in Interviews (opens the original)
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STAR is probably the most common piece of interview advice in existence. If you have ever Googled how to answer a competency-based interview question, you will have been told to structure your answer using Situation, Task, Action and Result. It is not bad advice. The problem is that people become so focused on remembering STAR that they forget they are supposed to be having a conversation with another human being. You can almost see it happening. Someone starts answering a question reasonably na
The 20-Minute Call That Decides Whether You Ever Meet the Hiring Manager (opens the original)
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If a recruiter asks you to jump on a quick call about a job, it’s very easy to treat it as the bit before the real interview. It’s only 20 or 30 minutes. The recruiter is usually pretty friendly. They might tell you a bit about the company, ask what you’re looking for and run through a few things on your CV. It feels more like a conversation than an interview. But there’s something important happening during that call. The recruiter is deciding whether they’re prepared to put y
Introverts Can Be Terrible at Asking for Help (opens the original)
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I spent about 45 minutes trying to work something out the other day. I Googled it, asked both ChatGPT and Claude, tried a couple of different things, went back through something I’d done previously to see if I could figure out how I’d managed it last time, then Googled it again using slightly different words in the hope that the internet would finally understand what I was asking. Eventually, I messaged somebody who I knew would probably know the answer. They replied about 30 seconds later and t
Your Job Search Has a Conversion Problem (opens the original)
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If you tell me you’ve applied for 100 jobs and haven’t got one, I still don’t really know what your job-search problem is. I know you’ve applied for a lot of jobs. That’s about it. I don’t know whether you’ve had zero responses, 15 recruiter calls, eight first interviews or three final interviews. I don’t know whether employers are rejecting your CV or whether you’re regularly getting to the final two and somebody else keeps getting the offer. Those are completely different problems, and they ne
Why Work Can Feel More Exhausting When You’re an Introvert (opens the original)
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For years, there was something about the way I worked that I didn’t really understand. I could start the day feeling motivated, focused and ready to get loads done. Then I’d have a few meetings, a load of conversations, a couple of people needing things from me and suddenly the work I’d planned to do that afternoon felt ten times harder. I wasn’t physically tired. I hadn’t necessarily done anything particularly difficult. But mentally, I was done. Like a lot of introverts, I just assumed this wa
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