The 4-Week Career Reset is a live, four-part series with Andrew Seaman, Editor at Large for Job Search and Careers at LinkedIn, designed to help you rebuild your job search piece by piece. In the fourth and final entry in this series, Andrew sits down with recruiter and career coach Farah Sharghi—who has hired for Google, Uber, Lyft, and TikTok—to break down what actually gets candidates hired.
Andrew and Farah unpack what recruiters are actually listening for (and why so many prepared candidates still don’t stand out). They cover how to reverse-engineer the job description into a prep plan, two frameworks for structuring answers (the classic STAR method and Farah’s own HERO method for more senior roles), a present-past-future approach to “tell me about yourself,” and how to shift your strategy between a recruiter screen and a hiring manager conversation. Farah also weighs in on nerves, thank-you notes, and the right (and wrong) way to use AI in your prep. The session closes with an unscripted, live hot-seat mock interview and real-time recruiter feedback. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what to prepare, how to structure your answers, and how to sound like yourself under pressure.
This is a recording of a live event and features audience participation and an unscripted Q&A. For more conversations featuring prominent leaders visit linkedin.com/events.
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