The job hunt

So I’ve just signed to start in mid-December as the manager of the AppSec team at a well-known platform. I’m REALLY excited for this for many reasons I’ll get into after I’ve actually started and it feels real. I’m really excited to be able to talk about this part of my life again.

I’ll do a separate post about how I structured my consulting because that’s it own fun setup, but I wanted to take a moment here to talk about how grueling the job hunt is right now and to offer some scaffolding, because being intentional about things is how I stay sane when in a chaotic situation.

This is long because I have a lot to say on keeping track, experiments in approach, and what actually worked this time.

Resources mentioned in here:

  1. Job hunt tracking spreadsheet
  2. Sankey HTML file and associated page/image
  3. Financial burn-down spreadsheet
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