How To Get A Job At Google...

 

Article: How to "Land a Job with Google."

My apologies in advance if this sounds like a journal entry out of Bridget Jones’ Diary and for those of you who loved the movie, I’m actually high-fiving you right now…

Anyway, so I’m looking to diversify my current job prospects (Google Translate – Currently Unemployed) and like any conscientious, enthusiastic, thirty-something individual, I do my research. Yes, Google seems like a good place to start and an even better place to work from the looks of it. However, what it also reveals, is that there are two ways to get a job at Google (okay, maybe three, but we’ll save that for another publication).

Well you know that old adage, ‘It’s not what you know, but who you know’ – well it turns out that’s pretty true in the world of recruitment. So number 1 – you know somebody “on the inside” -  Hint, hint, nudge, nudge, , wink , wink, OR  2 – you are like the six billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine of us out there who have to do it the good old fashioned way and apply.

As I began wading through the ‘oodles’ of information, I realized that what most innovative, cutting-edge Multinationals and Conglomerates really wanted, especially an organization like Google – is people who (for the lack of better phrases), are “different”, can think outside the proverbial box, who are dynamic, innovative, on a different intellectual plain – people who can grab ones attention - in a good way.

So, I start asking myself and the other voices in my head – what do people like? What would grab the reader’s attention? What would make my application stand out from the thousands, if not tens of thousands of job applications? What would make that recruitment manager stop skimming through the content and actually stop, pause and read the whole way through… What would bring a smile to their face where they actually put a nice big tick on my application and say, “I would actually like to meet this person.”

Well this is what I came up with and ‘How I got into Google?”

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2 hours and seventeen minutes later I receive a reply ... I click to open the email response…    {Further prolonged (albeit unnecessary) dramatic pause}…

 

Sorry, but due to confidentiality issues, I cannot disclose the contents of the reply; suffice to say, I am no longer looking to ' diversify my current job prospects '.

 

 

Happy Job Hunting !

 

By the way, this is NOT me "loving" myself, but an effort to try and prevent plagiarism and the infamous "copy & paste" paradigm - well that and it is copy written :)

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