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Before I helped people get hired, I helped them get famous.

I cast 250+ episodes of reality TV for:

Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max.

Now I help overlooked tech talent get hired.
And help hiring leaders build teams they’d fight to keep.

I run a staffing firm that focuses on ERP and enterprise IT.

But my content?

It’s about giving you the playbook no one’s handed you:

✅ Job Search Strategy
↳To get hired faster, without burning out

✅ Career Frameworks
↳To find roles that fit you, not just pay you

✅ Hiring Insights
↳To build teams that scale with purpose

✅ Dad-Level Real Talk
↳ To explain ‘the cloud’ isn’t where planes live

If you’ve ever felt stuck, ghosted or burnt out,
or if you’re just ready for better…

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Jonathan  Whipple

Most layoff advice skips day one. 

So here's what nobody sends you: 

Day one feels like the floor dropped out.
(It's supposed to)

But this is what moves the needle:

1. Practice interviews out loud today
↳ Not in your head. Out loud. It's different (trust me).

2. Message 3 people
↳ Not to ask, to reconnect. "Thinking of you" opens more doors than "I'm looking."

3. Rewrite your resume headline
↳ Show where you're going, not just where you've been.

4. Block a recharge ritual before noon
↳ Protect your energy like it's a meeting you can't miss.

5. Track every application and follow-up
↳ The job search IS your job. Treat it like one.

The silence after a layoff is the hardest part. 
These five moves break it. 

Which one do you wish someone had told you on day one of your job search?

👇 Share in the comments.

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♻️ Repost to send this to someone who needed it yesterday.

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Jonathan Whipple

Linkedin shows you old jobs on purpose

One URL tweak lets you fight back.

Every LinkedIn job URL has a secret timestamp.

It's called TPR.
(Time Posted Range)
It's measured in seconds.

→ r86400 = 24 hours
→ r21600 = 6 hours
→ r3600 = 1 hour

Here's how to use it:

1. Search your target role
2. Add your usual filters
3. Find 'r86400' in the URL
4. Change it to 'r3600'
5. Hit enter

Now you're seeing jobs posted minutes ago.

(Before most people even open the app)

Bonus move:
Bookmark your custom URL.
Make it the first thing you open Monday morning.

You're not gaming the system.
You're showing up earlier than everyone else.

How old was the last job you applied to?
Drop it below. 👇

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♻️ Repost to help someone still applying to 3-week-old jobs.

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Salary conversations aren't just awkward. 

They are rigged. 

Companies have a budget before you walk in. 

But they'll never say it first.

Instead, they rely on 6 lines that sound polite. 

And they use them to get you to negotiate against yourself.

Here's what they really mean: 

1. What are your expectations?
↳ Name a low number so we don't have to.

2. It depends on the candidate.
↳ We'll pay as little as you'll accept.

3. We offer competitive compensation. 
↳ We use buzzwords to deflect.

4. We don't want to limit ourselves.
↳ We'd rather limit you. 

5. We'll share comp later.
↳ Give us your time before we give you a number. 

6. We're still finalizing the budget. 
↳ We're waiting for your number to set ours. 

Most candidates answer first. 
And they leave money on the table.

Smart candidates use targeted responses.

Swipe through for the exact scripts: 

When's the last time you saw a company volunteer the top of their range? 

👉 Let me know in the comments.

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♻️ Repost to save someone from leaving money on the table.

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6 Salary Lies To Remember by Jonathan Whipple

Your resume describes your job. 

It doesn't prove you did it well. 

I spent years in TV casting before recruiting. 

Both jobs taught me the same thing: 

→ Nobody hires a description.
→ They hire a performance on paper.

The difference is Duty vs Proof.

Duty tells them what your job was.
Proof tells them how well you did it.

"Managed B2B" accounts is a duty.

"Grew revenue $1.2M to $2.1M" is proof.

One makes a hiring manager nod.
The other makes them call you.

The image shows 5 real rewrites across 5 roles. 

Save it before your next resume update. 

Which bullet on your resume is a duty disguised as an achievement?

👉 Drop it in the comments.

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♻️ Repost to help someone turn their resume into a reason to get called.

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Your LinkedIn Skills section works against you. 

Here's how: 

Most people add every skill they can think of. 
That's exactly the problem.

Here's what a Meta recruiter confirmed:

If you list 100 skills and match 5 a recruiter searches for?

Your relevance score is 5%.

A candidate with 20 skills matching 4 of 5?

Their score is 20%. 

That second candidate ranks much higher.
Despite matching fewer skills. 

Every irrelevant skill you've added is lowering your score. 

The fix is called the Relevance Ratio Trim.
And it takes 20 minutes. 

Swipe through to learn how 👉

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♻️ Repost to help your network stop hurting their own job search. 

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How LinkedIn Skills Hurt Your Search by Jonathan Whipple

I got hired for a job I wasn't qualified for.

It changed my entire career.

Most hiring managers won't do this.

They want guarantees. 
Proof. Safe picks.

But the best ones see something before the numbers confirm it. 

They say: 

"I don't know if this kid is ready. But I know he's hungry."

That kind of belief does something a job offer can't:

It rewires what you think you're capable of. 

15 years later, I still lead with her voice in my head.

Not my title. Not my metrics. 
Her belief.

That's how great careers start.

One person.
One decision.
One bet.

Who took a chance on you before you had the resume to back it up?

👉 Tell me in the comments.

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♻️ Repost to remind someone that one bet can change a career.

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I've seen candidates rejected after perfect interviews.

Because of how they treated the receptionist.

Most of them prepare for the interview room:

→ Their stories
→ The eye contact
→ The company research

But the first test starts in the lobby.

After 20 years of interviewing and being interviewed, I've learned this:

Your resume shows your work. 

How you treat people who can't do anything for you shows who you are.

And companies care about that more than they admit.

Receptionists meets clients first.
Coordinators keep projects moving. 
Security guards notice every detail.

They might not be in your interview.
But they influence it.

They are quiet decision makers.
And they're watching as they:

Fix calendar mix-ups.
Offering you water.
Print your badge.

Every interaction counts.
And kindness costs exactly $0. 

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What small moments do you pay attention to?
👇 Let me know what you've seen. 

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1,000 interviews.

3 people asked this. 

I've been the interviewer more times than I can count. 

And it's the same script every time. 
We hit the end, and I ask:

"Do you have any questions for me?"

Most people ask about benefits.
Remote work.
The timeline.

Three people ever asked:

"What's the hardest problem you're trying to solve right now that you haven't found the answer for?"

All three got callbacks.

Not because the question was perfect. 
Because it told me something the whole interview hadn't.

They weren't there for a job.

They were there for the problem I needed solved.

Problem solvers get hired. Period. 

What's the best question you've ever asked or been asked in an interview?

👇 Let me know below.

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We had 5-star reservations for Valentine's Day. 

But Olive Garden was even better.

Reservations months in advance.
The whole deal.

We walk in. Prix fixe menu. 
NOTHING our kid would eat. 
So we pivoted. Hard.

Drove to Olive Garden. 
Our son was thrilled. 
My wife was laughing. 
And honestly, it was perfect.

Careers work the same way.

You plan the perfect path. 
The 'right' company. The 'right' title.
Then life throws a prix fixe menu. 
(With zero chicken tenders)

Great careers don't avoid a pivot.
They pivot well. 

When's the last time your Plan B turned out better than your Plan A?

Drop it below. 👇

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♻️ Repost to remind someone that pivoting isn't failing. 

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Nobody reads your resume top to bottom.

They scan it for one thing: 

Proof. 

Most resumes don't have it. 

They have duties. History. Buzzwords with nothing behind them. 

That costs you: 

❌ Listing tasks isn't proof
❌ Dense text blocks are skipped
❌ Generic resumes scream low effort

The best resume isn't the prettiest one.
It's the one that answers:

"Can they do this?"

Here's the difference: 

❌ Old: 
↳ Responsible for managing X
✅ New: 
↳ Reduced X by 30% in 90 days.

❌ Old:
↳ Buzzwords without specifics
✅ New:
↳ Keywords pulled from job post

❌ Old:
↳ Education leads the page
✅ New:
↳ Impact leads. Degrees support.

Swipe through for all 6 swaps. 

Hiring managers only remember one thing from your resume. 

Make sure it's a win.

What outdated resume line do you see too often? 
👉 Let me know in the comments. 

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♻️ Repost to save someone from sending a 2010s resume to a 2026 hiring manager.

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Old vs New Resume by Jonathan Whipple

Verizon

Transforming the digital platform landscape by bringing business and technical agility through Generative AI driven Martech innovation, Enterprise Content Management platform modernization, Enterprise DAM asset consolidation and process improvement through automation.

Digital / AI Strategist and Architect

T. Rowe Price

Responsible for Digital Marketing technology strategy, governance, and architecture across digital, content, data, analytics and campaign automation. Focused on enabling digital transformation across the Organization leveraging platforms such as Adobe Experience Cloud, SalesForce etc.

Vice President, Digital Marketing & Platforms

SapientRazorfish

Responsible for client program success for strategic clients
•	Drive full client programs from pre-sales involvement through strategy, planning, implementation(s), and ongoing insight and operational services
•	Manage a portfolio of client programs in the $10-30M range (on average)
•	Ensure successful digital and platforms delivery initiatives with emphasis on Commerce
•	Digitize claims process for a health and life insurance company. GWL had a company mandate to automate their manual claims process as part of their digital transformation program. Managed a team of business analysts, technologists and developers to define business requirements, conduct sprint planning, design their future content website using Adobe Experience Management and eCommerce site using SAP hybris.
•	Reimagine the brand experience for a global retailer. Managed a team of UX designers, UI developers to create state of the art, unified experience for the consumer across the browsing, ordering and payment processes.
•	Increase competitiveness through eCommerce. As the Delivery Lead, developed the Sprint plan, captured the business requirements for order capture, product data model, payment and SAP integration for tax and shipping. Responsibility included drafting their integrated digital marketing plan across web, social, mobile, ecommerce.

Senior Director - Digital Marketing, e-Commerce 

HCL America

A key member of the digital leadership team for this multinational IT services company. Lead strategist and leader in newly formed digital practice that increased application need for digital innovation. Ensure resource utilization, reducing lead time, and developing digital SaaS/PaaS platform architectures, micro-services, and mobile apps. Digitize research process and lead process digitization and innovation playbook for clients.	
•	Manage and lead UX team, ensuring high resource utilization 
•	Develop digital SaaS/PaaS platform architecture consisting of prebuilt business services composed through microservices, mobile app, event based, multitenant framework, social analytics, predictive data analytics based recommendation engine and adaptive content engine
•	Help formulate market strategy for digital services, promoting value added, end-to-end service
•	Build innovative solutions for use cases for marketing, supplier and service management, employee productivity, as well as social, mobile and data analytics integration
•	Proactively managed risks at a toys retailer for ATG e-commerce re-platforming program, successfully integrating 40+ third party vendors
•	Improved user productivity and transformed digital customer experience of pricing, markdown and promotions processes for a specialty retail chain store in NY.
•	Overhaul digital experience of program scheduling and contract software from .NET to Java migration program for a major media company in NY
•	Lead process digitization and innovation playbook for clients, supporting digital transformation and business model innovation work

Digital Program Director / VP Digital Transformation 

Deloitte Digital

Directly led and oversaw wide range of web, portal, SAP, b2b/b2c e-Commerce, mobility and information management technology projects, working with clients to deliver on time and in budget.
•	Liaised closely with clients to adopt leading UX/UI practices including role based modeling, persona analysis, card sorting, usability workshops, sitemap design, low and high fidelity wireframes, visual style guides, heuristic analysis, ecommerce usability, information architecture
•	Rolled out ERP based solutions such as SAP Fiori, SAPUI5, SAP Web Dynpros, SAP portal, hybris, SAP based Java apps, and SAP-based Open text integration 
•	Acted as Global Alliance Project Manager for EMC Cloud /Deloitte Alliance, implementing global sales strategy around PaaS, IaaS, cloud security, SAP and converged infrastructure 
•	Led end-to-end proposal and delivery of a complex, global, large-scale program to improve HP’s sales quotas for the sales & marketing team, delivering $10M program with team of 20 onsite and 80 offshore staff
•	Project managed and architected $4M Sysco SAP b2b Consumer and Intranet Portal, supporting 500,000 users, with leadership of global team of 15 onsite and 75 offshore staff
•	Coordinated effectively with other C-level executives and business leads to define program level governance, project alignment, metrics, budget tracking and planning
•	Delivered a complex enterprise level transformation project with massive scope that included b2b ecommerce, employee self-service, manager self-service, CRM (customer relationship management), billing and accounts receivables, payment gateways, credit card processing, SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), MDM (Master Data Management), analytics, workflow, collaboration, and mobile web order management application 
•	Architected Asset Intelligence based IoT solution using Axeda Machine Cloud, turning machine data into useful information, build and run innovative M2M applications

Senior Manager, Technology

Provided hands-on client facing support, overseeing complex project architecture, on-time delivery, budgetary adherence and management of on- and off-shore teams of more than 100 personnel.
•	Integrated multiple SAP systems successfully. The company required automating sales floor planning process for multiple SAP systems. Led project team of 25 members to meet scope, schedule and cost parameters of critical $3M project. Assessed master data needs, enterprise data strategy, and analyzed available technology options. Delivered project as specified and improved stock availability, boosting sales revenue.
•	Implemented a B2B e-commerce website for managing licenses. Adobe needed a website to manage product licenses. Led team of eight SME’s. As an architect, gathered high-quality functional specification and user requirements including sitemap, wireframes, screen flows, and visual style guides. Enabled Adobe to successfully manage their licenses effectively using a robust technology platform.
•	Improved Lockheed Martin's portal performance. Selected as SME to improve poorly performing Lockheed Martin SAP supply portal. Defined project scope and led the team in solving all problems. Achieved desired performance levels by properly sizing systems, setting testing strategy, and ensuring high availability. Earned complete customer satisfaction by resolving the end-to-end system performance problem.
•	Developed portal strategy, HR portal vision and identified supporting technology for Avaya HR Website Strategy, developing work plan and estimation model for portal implementation project

Manager

Philips Lighting

eCommerce lead, CRM solution delivery and project management. Business relationships development.
•	Successfully led the TradeLink channel management portal implementation project by providing portal planning, design, integration and analysis expertise
•	Shaped e-commerce technology strategy, developed product roadmaps and captured business drivers, applications areas, process areas, information areas, functional scope, technical targets
•	Improved project performance by 20 % through project organization objectives, metrics and systems 
•	Improved ‘Independent Assurance’ process maturity by leading a team of 7 managers and 1 director of business excellence to implement controls based on COBIT (Control objectives for Information technology)
•	Established application architecture standards, programming standards, reusability and overall efficiency as a member of the Architecture Review Board

Web/eCommerce Lead

Fieldglass

Created a B2B extranet web application for Fieldglass Inc. for the procurement of professional services by customers from the vendors. Developed XML based web services and obtained certification from Accenture for integration with Ariba Network.

Lead Software Engineer

Maars Software International Ltd.

Developed an innovative Java-JSP-Documentum API web content management workflow solution, Developed business reports in SD, MM and SM modules, batch data transfer from legacy system into SAP.

SAP Consultant

INDIAN RAILWAYS

Member of the prestigious IRSEE (Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers). To get selected into IRSEE, more than 100,000s of engineers compete annually and the top 100 get selected into the IRSEE service. 
Managed a team of 25 technical engineers and 500 staff across 5 maintenance depots. Maintenance and Construction of Railway Rolling Stock and Electric Traction lines. Oversight of Information Systems such as SCADA. 
Responsibility included maintenance, inspection, and construction of Electric Traction lines spanning over 200 miles, managing maintenance, inspection, and production of Railway Rolling stock locomotives powered by large elextric machines. 
Also responsible for maintenance and high availability of power stations, HVAC lines, transformers, generators, curcuit breakers, electric control systems and other electrical equipment.

Divisional Executive Engineer

Rabi Jay is a visionary leader in digital transformation and Enterprise AI, with over 15 years of pioneering technology-led change within diverse industries. His expertise extends beyond AI-driven marketing technology innovations to include leading-edge developments in generative AI, platform modernization, and the enhancement of operational efficiency through automated and intelligent workflows. Rabi holds an impressive array of certifications from AWS, Azure, SAP, ITIL, TOGAF, to SAFe Agile, demonstrating a profound mastery over both the technical intricacies and strategic dimensions of digital and AI innovations.

In his tenure as a Global Alliance Manager at Deloitte, Rabi Jay has spearheaded transformative international projects in retail, aerospace, and software technology sectors, showcasing unparalleled leadership and a strategic mindset capable of navigating complex global challenges. As a Vice President of Digital Transformation, he was instrumental in devising an innovative integrated approach that synergizes human-centered design with cutting-edge AI platforms and change management, grounded in design thinking and process reengineering principles.

A distinguished author and speaker, Rabi Jay has contributed profoundly to the discourse on AI and cloud technology. His publications include a comprehensive guide on SAP NetWeaver Portal Technology by McGraw-Hill and a seminal work, "Enterprise AI in the Cloud" published by Wiley in 2024. He is currently a technical reviewer for Wiley’s forthcoming book on "Building Generative AI Applications using Large Language Models," highlighting his expertise in the forefront of AI technology. His LinkedIn newsletter, “Enterprise AI Transformation – Playbook for Professionals and Businesses to Implement AI,” is a testament to his dedication to advancing knowledge on generative AI and cloud technology adoption.

Beyond his professional accolades, Rabi Jay is an advocate for the ethical use of AI, frequently addressing the social implications of technology and promoting responsible AI practices in his writings and talks. His commitment to personal growth is evident through his interests in yoga and meditation, complementing his professional endeavors with a focus on mindfulness and well-being. He is also an avid traveler, golfer, and ping pong enthusiast.

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