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The How to Get Interviews System: Step-by-Step
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The How to Get Interviews System: Step-by-Step

Here's the step-by-step process I've used to help 100s land interviews

Aakash Gupta
Jul 30, 2025
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The #1 thing that people come to me for coaching about is:

  • “I’ve been on the market for months, and I can’t get any interviews.”

  • “I’ve just gotten back on the job market, and what I’m doing isn’t working.”

  • “I want to target US-based employers but can’t get interviews. How can I?”

Consistently, the interview stage is where people struggle with getting a job.

After coaching 100s of candidates through the processes, I’ve just about perfected the systematic steps you need to take. And that’s what I get the best feedback about:

“Your step-by-step guidance was the most helpful in landing an offer. It helped me know what to do next at any point in time.”

So, I’m putting it all together in today’s newsletter: The How to Get Interviews System.

(This includes exactly how to build an AI agent to assist you with the process.)


P.S. I’m working on an exclusive group coaching offer for a small group of job searching PMs. If you are interested, apply here.


Should You Even Job Search Now? A Quick Check on the Job Market

Before we get there, let’s check if it even makes sense to pop your head up right now and search for a job.

Supply of Job Seekers: Decreasing

So far this year, US-based tech companies have announced 744K job cuts. That’s the highest year to date since 2020 (when 1.6M job cuts had been announced). You might think that means: don’t job search! But, the last three months have seen a pleasant drop in intensity of cuts:

Source: The Challenger Report

So, it’s an overall improving picture, but didn’t start from a great base given Q1’s layoff bloodbath.

Demand for Tech Workers: Increasing

Meanwhile, overall tech jobs are up 45% from their lows. There were two particular periods of quick growth at the starts of 2024 and 2025 that helped increase demand:

Source: Trueup

So, demand is also an overall improving picture as well.

Overall Economics of Job Searching: Stronger Than In Recent Memory

This has led to a different dynamic from the past few years. The past few years have been horrible for job seekers, because supply was up but demand was down.

Finally, now, supply is decreasing and demand is increasing. As a result:

It’s as good a time as any in the past few years to pop your head up for a job.

You just have to target the right companies.

Who is Hiring

Where should you target? At the winning companies (like Databricks and Coinbase). There, tech and PM jobs are seeing healthy growth year over year:

Source: Live Data

In organizations with rolling layoffs like Meta, Google, and Amazon, the growth is slower. But, it’s still growth (2.7-5.5%). PM roles are being eliminated in money losing products but added in profitable and AI products.

So, overall, there hasn’t been a better time in years to apply to the top companies.


The How to Get Interviews System: Step-by-Step

How do you capture this timing that is better than ever?

This is where my proven step-by-step process comes in.

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