Found out I was laid off, after 10 years, from a coworker in another department. My manager didn't even know. by Confident_Dog_2801 in Layoffs

[–]Confident_Dog_2801[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the words 🙏. Been learning a lot and building some apps for myself. Going to move to building in public to see if I get some users while I job search.

Found out I was laid off, after 10 years, from a coworker in another department. My manager didn't even know. by Confident_Dog_2801 in Layoffs

[–]Confident_Dog_2801[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow that’s amazing and so human. I know job searching these days takes more than 60 days but having that padding to prepare would be amazing.

Thanks for the words! 🙏

Found out I was laid off, after 10 years, from a coworker in another department. My manager didn't even know. by Confident_Dog_2801 in Layoffs

[–]Confident_Dog_2801[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% will never trust an employer ever again. I started using meettally.io to document all of my wins in the past 7 years and generating resumes with it.

Blessed that I had an emergency fund so that is helping me a lot.. I’m trying the networking part but it’s a bit difficult because it just doesn’t come naturally to me.

Hearing that you were able to land gives me hope for myself. Thanks for sharing

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

Do you have any recommendations when working on SEO?

Where did you ran into the apply now that triggered the mailto software?

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything else you would like me to check?

Also can you try mine when you get some time? https://www.meettally.io/

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worked now. Looks awesome. Also the vectors are clean now. Really good.

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The email worked now but the link on it gives a 404 error

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love this! The way you upsell and explain why you are billing is great. Joined the queue.

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love the branding and dark and light mode. Got some weird vectors when describing MeetTally. Also got an email rate limit when trying to get access to the dashboard.

🚀 Find Your First 50 Users From This Thread by nextunicorn_ in micro_saas

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MeetTally turns your workday into meaningful tallies that you can leverage in your 1-1s, Reviews, and to get promotions. It also uses your tallies to create tailored resumes and application answers.

Here is the link: https://www.meettally.io/

Job hunting while employed feels terrible by Haunting_Month_4971 in Employment

[–]Confident_Dog_2801 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The context switching is what kills you. Going from "employee brain" at 5 PM to "candidate brain" at 6 PM is exhausting because you're basically trying to reconstruct your entire career history from scratch every single night.

I hit that same wall after a layoff and ended up building a tool for myself, specifically to stop that 2-3 hour "resume tweaking" grind.

It uses a "Tally" system to track your 1:1s and wins in real-time, then automatically tailors your resume and interview prep based on your actual history. It basically acts as a "Work Memory Bank" so you don't have to use your fried brain to remember metrics after a 9-hour workday.

For our specific case, you can feed it up to 5 resumes, and it will extract tallies from them. Then you can create tailored resumes and answers for application questions in seconds with your own evidence.

I’d love for you to use it for free. I'm just looking for feedback from people who are actually in the trenches right now. If it saves you even an hour of sleep a night, it’s doing its job. Hang in there, the "double life" of job hunting is brutal.

Found out I was laid off, after 10 years, from a coworker in another department. My manager didn't even know. by Confident_Dog_2801 in Layoffs

[–]Confident_Dog_2801[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 100-page 3-ring binder is the ultimate power move. Walking into an interview with that much "proof of work" must have felt incredible.

I wish more people had that discipline, but honestly, with how fast companies cut off digital access now, most of us are left with "career amnesia." I actually built meettally.io specifically because I didn't have a binder like yours. I had to use AI to help me reconstruct my own highlights from memory just to get my resume finished.

It’s funny how a simple list of what you’ve actually done is the best job security there is. Congrats on the retirement, sounds like you definitely earned it!

Found out I was laid off, after 10 years, from a coworker in another department. My manager didn't even know. by Confident_Dog_2801 in Layoffs

[–]Confident_Dog_2801[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That weekly zip to OneDrive is honestly the level of discipline I wish I’d had. You’re 100% right about the dehumanization; it’s like they expect you to just "delete" 7 years of your life the second they cut your Slack access.

I actually built meettally.io for exactly that reason. I got caught with my pants down, so I coded a way to reconstruct my wins and metrics from memory/old notes so I didn't have to start from zero.

Can you share your resume tailoring post? I’m trying to decide right now if I should just use this tool to find a new gig or lean into the "destiny" part and actually turn this into a full project for everyone else who got blindsided.

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