Two devs. Same stack. Same years in. One gets three on-sites a week; the other gets ghosted. The difference isn’t talent—it’s process. We audit your job hunt like production: inputs & controls, bottlenecks, scripts that actually get replies, and the one KPI (MC/W) that predicts interviews.
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Danny Thompson
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/DThompsonDev
www.DThompsonDev.com
Leon Noel
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonnoel/
https://100devs.org/
📧 Have ideas or questions for the show? Or are you a business that wants to talk business?
Email us at dannyandleonspodcast@gmail.com!
What you’ll learn:
- Build a targeted, local-first company list (even if there’s no open req)
- Warm outreach that prints: one-to-many LinkedIn, comments → DMs, “6-minute call” & 11:02 invites
- Remove bottlenecks: Resume → Recruiter, Phone screen → Behavioral (STAR/CAR), Recruiter → Manager
- The THRIVE framework to turn interrogations into conversations
- Why proof vs promises (and why you shouldn’t sign exclusive recruiter agreements)
- The audit loop: track MC/W, notes, weekly reviews, tiny improvements
- If this helped, drop MC/W in the comments so others find it. 👇
Chapters
00:00 Two devs, same stack—process beats talent
02:13 Act I: Inputs & Control (ideal companies, local-first, research, coffee chat prep)
05:15 Activity vs quality (don’t just click apply)
08:00 Burnout fix: focus on controllables
09:35 Don’t sign exclusive recruiter agreements
10:48 Warm vs cold outreach; break the pattern
14:02 One-to-many on LinkedIn (comments that warm leads)
15:54 DM makeovers that get replies
17:58 Pattern breakers: 6-minute call, 11:02 invite
21:03 Comment → DM handoff without bait-and-switch
22:41 Great question → instant referral story
24:54 Anti-DMs to avoid (“pick your brain?”, resume dump)
27:34 Act II: Bottlenecks in your pipeline
28:44 Resume → Recruiter (lead with outcomes, not fluff)
33:03 Cut jargon the recruiter can’t repeat
34:22 Phone screen → Behavioral (STAR/CAR)
37:28 Recruiter → Manager (narrative + “tell me about yourself”)
40:32 Act III: The Metric—MC/W (meaningful conversations per week)
43:32 Networking beats blind applying
45:10 Act IV: Playbook & Audit (THRIVE recap)
47:26 Practice w/ AI voice role-play (recruiter, EM, meetup)
50:27 Small improvements compound
51:04 Tracking system: spreadsheet, notes, weekly reviews
53:02 Systems vs motivation (James Clear callback)
55:38 Listener Q: “The Chosen One” progress explained
1:02:01 Technical skills ≠ job-getting skills
1:04:13 Wrap
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