Now what?

Reverse engineer your job description

One of the best things I did during my recent job search was to collect key bullet points from my favorite job descriptions (see: http://jobs.37signals.com/categories/3/jobs.rss). Subscribing to the job feeds was an easy way to see what was out there, and it made my procrasting with RSS reading somewhat productive :)

Even better, if you’re lucky you’ll get asked what key things you’d like to work on at your new job, and you’ll already have a list waiting. And you can also use that same list to keep yourself honest and make sure you’re working on what mattes to you.