How To Stand Out In A Competitive Tech Job Market | Dr Kyle Elliott
About this episode
Dr. Kyle Elliott coaches Ben Pearce on how to stand out in a competitive tech job market by identifying unique personal traits and experiences.
A tough job market rewards the people who can say, in one sentence, why they, and not the other thousand applicants, should get the role. This episode turns into a live coaching session. Dr. Kyle Elliott, a tech career and executive coach, walks Ben through the exercise he uses with senior leaders across Silicon Valley: gathering feedback from people who knew you as a child and people who know you now, then finding the overlap. That overlap, in Kyle's language, is your fabulousness, the specific and provable things that set you apart from everyone else with a similar background. The episode moves from theory into practice quickly. Kyle coaches Ben live, drawing out how Ben's own friends describe him, then pressing for the proof behind each trait: not just positive, but the specific week a deal fell through and Ben kept going anyway. That gap between a personality trait and a concrete story is where resumes and LinkedIn profiles usually fall flat, a problem Sales Engineers, Technical Consultants, and Customer Success leaders run into constantly once a market tightens. The conversation also covers the part of hiring nobody agrees on right now: how much AI is…
People in this episode
Host: Ben Pearce
Guest: Dr Kyle Elliott
Topics covered
- job market
- career coaching
- personal branding
- AI in hiring
- resume building
Keywords
- competitive job market
- career coaching
- personal branding
- AI in hiring
- resume tips
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, Amazon
Places: Silicon Valley
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