Monday, March 10 - "What Should I Be Learning?"

Happy Monday!

Here’s what’s on the job description for today:

1. New roles from a company aiming to transform hospitality through AI.

2. Today’s Question: “I’ve seen you say that certifications aren’t always the way forward. What should I be spending my time learning instead?”

IN HIRING

Harrison.ai

• With a focus on patient care, the company is revamping an aging healthcare industry.

• With a number of open roles, the company is hiring mostly in senior roles at the moment.

• Here are a few of the most interesting roles available

  • Senior Account Executive - Click here for full details

  • Project Manager - Click here for full details

  • Senior Clinical Data Scientist - Click here for full details

Click here for the company’s career page

TODAY’S QUESTION

Today’s Question: “I’ve seen you say that certifications aren’t always the way forward. What should I be spending my time learning instead?”

Recommendation: Yes, I am biased towards the idea that more education is a good answer to your problems. Instead, here is what I’ve seen work:

• First, for specific roles, there are technical aspects to the interview. This is most common for product roles, certain finance jobs, consulting or data science.

  • If you already know what’s going to be tested in advance, the best option is to find or create a small community building similar skills and work together to improve.

  • Alternatively, find videos online that walk you through these challenging questions and pause before they answer to provide your own best guess. Focus on structure as much as possible, creating a process you do each time you come across an aspect of the interview.

• Second, if your applying for roles that don’t have these types of interviews and are instead behaviorally focused, find the technical skills that are most relevant and work on them.

  • Rather than studying theory through a class or YouTube video, taking notes, and adding it under a “skills” section on your resume, reach out to local businesses that are smaller and offer the services to them for really low offers or free food if it’s a restaurant.

  • Add this to a section titled “Entrepreneurial Experience”. Don't title yourself as founder but instead use the title of the jobs you’re applying to. If things go well, you may just have started your own venture.

• Finally, depending on your location, a great thing to learn are languages. Basically no company will be upset if you understand the languages of the countries they operate in.

  • There are tons of free online options including using LLMs to build stories in your target language at a level you can understand some of.

Conclusion:

The real goal is to work on learning something that adds value to your job search and the role if you were successful.