Job Seeking with AI - The 30-Day Referral Plan
You have sent a hundred applications and heard back from a handful. The instinct is to fix the resume. Usually that is not where the problem is.
A referral skips the filter that is rejecting you. It comes from a conversation, and the conversation comes from a system you can actually run. That is what this session is.
30 minutes. 15 on the method, 15 on your specific situation.
Part 1 — Getting the referral
When to start, and how to tell if you are already late
The four-part cold message, and the one line that kills it
What a 15-minute coffee chat should actually sound like
The follow-up rhythm that turns "we talked once" into "he will refer me"
How to volunteer your way from contact to advocate
Part 2 — Being ready for the interview it gets you
What to prepare for a recruiter screen vs a hiring manager vs an onsite
Why one mock out loud beats three hours of reading
The two habits interviewers notice, and how to fix them this week
Throughout, we will show how Moss runs this over WhatsApp, so the tracking is not one more thing you have to remember.
Q&A — 15 minutes
Bring something specific. "I messaged 12 people and nobody replied" is a question we can fix live. "How do I network" is not.
Who this is for
Students and new grads starting a search in the next six months
Anyone who has been applying for a while and getting nothing back
Career center staff and club organizers who want to see the system before pointing students at it
What you leave with
Everyone who attends gets the outreach tracker template and the networking guide we use with our own students. Both are yours to keep, no strings.
Host
Leyuan Yu is the founder of Moss, an AI career coach that runs over WhatsApp. He has spent about a decade in software engineering and AI, at Coursera, Manulife, Deloitte, Jobber and LoginRadius, and now runs an AI engineer residency where he watches students run this exact playbook every week. Based in Toronto.