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6 Practical Tips That Helped Me Get a Tech Job!

Unique tips to help you with getting an interview and acing the interview

Terence Shin, MSc, MBA
5 min readJan 24, 2020
Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash

To be successful in life, you have to get a little lucky. That’s not to say however that life is a coin toss. My friend Tim told me that life is all about maximizing your odds at winning.

You maximize your chances of acing an exam by studying.

You maximize your chances of winning a sports competition by training.

Similarly, you can maximize your chances of getting a job interview by applying a couple of tips that I will be sharing. I personally believe that these tips significantly helped me at getting various tech internships and full-time positions over the past few years.

To be successful, you have to maximize your odds of winning.

Here are 6 practical and applicable tips that you can use to significantly increase your chances of getting a tech interview. I’m going to split the tips into Getting an Interview and Acing an Interview:

Tips for Getting an Interview

1. Reach out to the talent coordinator/recruiter as well as the hiring manager of the given

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Terence Shin, MSc, MBA
Terence Shin, MSc, MBA

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