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Sorry for the unexpected hiatus but here's what's ahead!

March 19, 2025

Well y’all, I was pretty consistent with this newsletter and then things started picking up at work and suddenly, I wasn’t! Between being spread thin at work and the world being on fire, this newsletter and lots of other pieces of content creation got put on the backburner.

By the way, Zapier is hiring aggressively in a number of areas and I’m always happy to offer my community referrals (this is a referral link). 🙂 

But after 3 months off, I’m back and ready to start writing again. I will probably change things up a bit - more career development and such that goes beyond job search. I know people are increasingly worried about what the future holds for them with uncertainty in the economy and such. So I hope for this newsletter to expand to talk about those areas as well.

Career Resources

  • LinkedIn shared a list of top skills on the rise. No surprise that technical skills around AI literacy and LLM development, and soft skills like adaptability, stakeholder management, and navigating conflict made the list.

  • Speaking of AI, I shared a post on some of the ways I use agents. I build on Zapier (I get access for free!) but use whatever platform makes sense to you. This is a wildly marketable skill and if you build a really great agent, this is something you can also sell!

  • The team at Teal is offering free resume reviews.

In the News

  • Did you all hear about the corporate espionage case between Rippling and Deel? This will 100% be turned into a Netflix mini-series, but in the mean time, I would read up on this. Two take aways for us as people who are (hopefully) not engaged in corporate espionage?
    1. Your employer can see every single thing you do on every platform on your work computer. Anything you put in writing should be something you’d be comfortable with anyone on the planet reading.
    2. This stuff is real, and companies may do even more due diligence in their hiring processes as a result.

  • I loooove HR Brew (and highly recommend y’all subscribe!)and was featured last month as an HR leader! You can read more of what I shared with them here.

P.S. No shade to either company, we don’t know the full details. I have done brand partnerships with Rippling, my company uses Deel, I have friends and even a relative working at these two companies so I’m just sharing this as “hot news” vs any judgement of the situation!

🙋Answering Your Questions🙋

Each week, I’ll answer one (or more!) of your questions in this section. You can submit your questions here.

I am a Recruiter and also a proud immigrant, but my name is not the “typical” American name. I am a Green Card holder so I do not need additional sponsorship. I have a couple of friends with the same background and they asked me if they should put “Green Card Holder” on their resume under their name so they do not get disqualified by a Hiring Manager/Recruiter who would assume the person needs a sponsorship. I know some applications have the knock-out question “Are you authorized to work in the US and/or Do you need visa sponsorhip now or in the future”. I would like to get your input on this. Thank you so much!

As a fellow immigrant, I spent my first few years in the workforce on a green card. Personally, I think most recruiters recognize the diversity in the US and do not assume someone needs sponsorship based on names; we’ve always used the question about needing sponsorship on the application to eliminate those who are ineligible.

If they’ve worked in the US, then I don’t think there’d be any questions there - it’s not something I see super commonly but I don’t think it would hurt anything!

That said, if their education and most recent roles were based abroad, then I explicitly noting this could help.


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