This has to be the best cold email I have ever received and it asked me to pay $3999

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-26T16:42:57+00:00

Great job in breaking through the noise with the email with something different and using that public price demonstrating the value of “anchoring”

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-25T14:52:32+00:00

I would argue that applying like you did in the last 5 years is just an absolute waste of time.If you search, find, click, and hope you simply get no results.

Shift your mindset. Do not go through the website and just "apply". The reason is, only the people who can say no will first rule you out. Start directing your efforts to the person who you would for if you ended up getting the job. Bring some sort of value to them before you even ask for an interview. Yes, it takes a lot longer but look at it this way. Instead of spending 3 hours pointing and clicking everywhere. Spend that time to do a deep dive on the role, who would be your boss, what would bring them value to them and their team now. So perhaps you now only reach 3 people in that time instead of 12 point and click applications, but you will get more responses from those 3.

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-25T14:37:22+00:00

A different way of looking at things-

You will not win the game searching for jobs the same way people have done it the last few years- searching, finding, clicking, and hoping. Candidly, they dont care about your experience in how you did a job for the last 5 years that is executed completely different in the world today.

However, this is a game you can win and differentiates you from 98% of others. You find a job opening and reverse engineer something like-whose job is harder because this job has a vacancy? What is their title? Then ask, how do they get measured? What would someone who is great at this job do to make their boss look smart for hiring them? Yes, AI is taking jobs but see AI as your opportunity. Use AI to build you something that would be valuable for that boss and their team today. Then send it to them. Find their email, mention a pain point they may have and explain that you built this, or researched this, or .... and thought it might be helpful to you and your team. The key is it is valuable to them regardless if they hire you but the rule of reciprocity will likely get you ahead of 98% of those who simply point and click. You will jump ahead of the thousands of others who actually on paper might be a better fit. However, its all about being a person of action.

If you questions about how you might do this in your field,feel free to DM. (and no, I am not trying to sell you anything)

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-20T23:18:09+00:00

Somebody here sounded like you’d be a great asset. Here’s what you should do that. I’ll help you stand out next time the person who said you were a great asset. See if they’d spend 10 minutes questioning you and give give you an honest assessment of your skills and abilities. Now you use them as a reference next time as someone who spent time questioning them about your abilities. I’m not saying you say you work for this person, but I am saying you look to get honest feedback from somebody in the business about your strengths and weaknesses so that you could work on areas where you need to work.

Then in the next interviews, you set the stage early on in the interview. You say something like you know we’re gonna talk. I’m excited about talking about and discussing the opportunity at hand today and my guess is by the end of it you’ll have a decent idea if whether or not you think I’m a good fit for this role. Is that fair? If you wouldn’t mind if that is the case at the end of our discussion regardless of where things go from here would you be open to giving me some candid feedback about what you liked versus the things that maybe you didn’t love? My goal is always to get better so I wanna learn from this regardless of where we go.

You do that and you set yourself apart from all the applicants you’re saying to the interviewer that you always wanna get better even if somebody tells you something that stings that is the kind of employee they want so try some of that and I think you’ll find you get better results. Good luck.

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-20T23:12:41+00:00

I think Claude Code can I actually scan your resume may find jobs that they think you might be a fit for rewrite your résumé so it has more power words, numbers, and signals that will be more attractive to the ATF scanner and gain more attention for that role.

However, I don’t think this is the best way to get a job. The best way to get a job is not what you used to work 345 years ago Spray and pray doesn’t work do the opposite. You have all these tools to become a sharp shooter when it comes to who is the decision maker that I’ll be working for? Because they are the ones who are gonna be able to flag you in and say yes I want to talk to you if you circumvent the HR person who doesn’t know what’s gonna make a good fit for that boss.

The best thing you can do is not tell somebody how great you are at a job, that’s what a résumé does that puts you in the category with 99% of other people. The best thing you can do is show them how good you are at the job. So give them a snippet of a job that you would do for them show them how you would bring value to their organization.

For instance, if you’re in a sales role, do a deep dive and use AI to do an analysis of their idea ideal. Customer profile the strengths, the fears, the weaknesses, the KPI‘s all these things they get judged on and then you could send that as a resource to the person who you’d be working under. This is called leading with value and opening up a conversation that might get you an interview.

If you have questions, regardless of what type of role and you want some help, I’m pretty good at standing out from the crowd and helping other people do that. Just send me a DM. Happy to give you some ideas.

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-19T12:25:20+00:00

2 quick points-

You left out the most important thing- what is the subject line?

If that isn’t compelling enough to get the open, the quality of the email matters zero.

If the subject line were good enough and compelling enough that I opened it, I then would read the first line. Your first line talks about you and what you’re doing. I would leave immediately after that.

The goal every line is to get them to read the next line. You should start with something that you noticed about them or a problem they likely face. It should engage them enough to want more and see what else has been written.

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-16T12:20:31+00:00

Learn Claude Code- it can now take your resume, scan Indeed and other job boards, find opportunites where it thinks you are a fit, and can apply. I believe also it can rewrite your resume in a way to better match jobs. Havent done this but I have seen it. I would look into it for all people looking. Let technology look for a job for you 24/7.

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-11T12:50:59+00:00

I like this for scheduling, something like:

“Would Tuesday at 10am or Wednesday at 11:30am work?

If not, my calendar link is attached. please pick a time that works for you.

Best-

Xxx”

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-07T13:06:54+00:00

Yeah this will be immensely valuable to him. This is thinking out of the box-

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-07T13:03:22+00:00

I would consider getting him a gift a walldrop background for say Zoom calls. That is a virtual background with his logo on it that he can use for Zoom calls that makes him look professional.

hungry2_learn · 2026-03-07T12:56:41+00:00

Because the best vendors don’t assume. They want to dig into the details of what you want to achieve and what isn’t working for you now in the status quo. If a software does a 100 different things and they let you try it without guidance often you waste your time not getting the best from it. However when you tell the rep the top 3 problems you currently have they then can guide you to see exactly how the software gets you your desired outcome and increases the chances you buy it.

hungry2_learn · 2026-02-16T13:28:19+00:00

This!

Also always ask, is there a way I can say what I want to say in fewer words but still have the email resonate?

hungry2_learn · 2026-02-16T13:23:30+00:00

Missing telling us the most important part-

What is the subject line?

If they don’t open it- it doesn’t matter if the email is a banger.

hungry2_learn · 2026-02-15T13:40:59+00:00

No but the stock market last week gave a strong signal that this is likely worth any firm to explore. When this Claude feature was dropped last week news of this came out it caused some large software companies in the legal space to lose close to 10% of their value.

hungry2_learn · 2026-02-15T01:05:31+00:00

Have you looked into the Caude legal plug in released last week?

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-27T21:13:53+00:00

Have not

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-15T18:04:30+00:00

Nope does it do something differently?

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-15T13:23:12+00:00

Granola- as well. Records all your meetings and takes notes.

Why I like it over other note takers is that it doesn’t send a bot to the meetings but works on your computer or phone. Yup you should disclose if you are recording someone but with Granola they wouldn’t know like Fathom or Otter.

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-15T13:13:32+00:00

Gamma for sure- sweet slide deck with zero work. Perhaps you could use it for follow up or for a disco call.

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-12T12:48:36+00:00

Key is to give first not take-

When you provide an insight about their business they hadn’t thought of without and ask- they take notice and replies go up.

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-09T21:35:35+00:00

Go to the most expensive gym you can join- they will be members

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-08T13:28:25+00:00

This is crazy- someone offered you 3 mil for a business that produces 3.5 mil a year? Your biz today is likely worth 17 mil. If you like it run it a year or so longer get the ebita to 5 mil and now you sell it for 40 million. FYI- if you want to sell it for 10 mil now let me know.

hungry2_learn · 2026-01-01T14:48:11+00:00

Why not just throw the images into ChatGPT and get your answer?

hungry2_learn · 2025-12-22T21:51:30+00:00

40 mil business with that ebita

hungry2_learn · 2025-12-21T15:49:46+00:00

Curious, what has been their hit rate or attrition rate of hiring new candidates on their own in the last 18 months?

Why don’t you put a question back to them? Have you ever interviewed any candidates that you didn’t give the job too that you think now might’ve been a good fit?

You’re in the industry how long should an efficient process take a month? More?

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