10 Ways to Lose a Job Offer, Part 1 (Before You Even Walk In)

Send us Fan MailYou didn't lose the offer in the interview. You lost it at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday, when you fired the same tired résumé at your fortieth job posting and called it "applying."This month, Lauren's teaching you how to lose a job offer in ten ways, so you can go do the exact opposite. And we're starting at the very beginning, with the two own-goals you can score before a single person has even met you.In Part 1: the Lazy Application (and the one little line on your résumé you need to delete tonight), the seven seconds your résumé actually gets on the first pass, and the Ghost Researcher who walks in not knowing what the company even does. Plus a new framework, the Three Sentence Test, that gets you interview-ready in about fifteen minutes.This week's mailbag: what to actually do when you're applying to thirty jobs a week and hearing nothing back.Got a career horror story? Send it in. Lauren reads every one, and yours might end up on the show.Ready for real help instead of guessing? Book a free thirty-minute consult at careerbloomsolutions.com/free-consultations. Résumés, career, or interviews. You bring the mess, we'll sort it out together.New episodes every Thursday. Find Lauren at @lonestarflower. Support the show@lonestarflower