8-week curriculum
Goal: Narrow down to 1 or 2 serious career paths.
Work: Clarify interests, strengths, constraints, and what tradeoffs make sense.
Support: Pressure-test options and decide what is actually worth pursuing.
Output: A clear direction to build the rest of the search around.
Goal: Understand the industry, role, and pathway well enough to act intelligently.
Work: Research what the role is, how teams work, and what strong candidates signal.
Support: Turn raw research into a sharper point of view on what to target.
Output: A role and industry brief.
Goal: Build a top-10 list of companies worth real effort.
Work: Evaluate fit, role relevance, recruiting timing, and upside.
Support: Rank the list and decide where energy should go first.
Output: A prioritized target company map.
Goal: Make the student easier to understand and easier to take seriously.
Work: Refine resume bullets, key stories, and overall positioning.
Support: Resume editing and sharper framing for applications and conversations.
Output: A better resume and clearer personal story.
Goal: Turn networking into a weekly system.
Work: Build a list of people, target outreach volume, and follow-up structure.
Support: Custom messaging and targeted contact discovery and outreach systems.
Output: A weekly networking plan with real targets.
Goal: Build an application process that is organized and consistent.
Work: Track applications, follow-ups, and active opportunities.
Support: Prioritize where to apply and how to manage the pipeline.
Output: A live job pipeline the student can run every week.
Goal: Get better at interviews before and during live processes.
Work: Practice role-specific questions, tighten stories, and improve delivery.
Support: Interview prep, story refinement, and live-process decision support.
Output: A stronger interview story bank and process strategy.
Goal: Handle offers well and start the job with better judgment.
Work: Evaluate offers, prepare for negotiations, and understand how to operate well early on.
Support: Negotiation strategy and first-90-days best practices.
Output: An offer plan, negotiation plan, and early-career operating framework.
Core support
Resume editing, stronger story framing, and tighter positioning for outreach and interviews.
Custom LinkedIn and email messaging, weekly networking targets, and a repeatable outreach process.
Prep before interviews and active guidance while the student is in real processes.
Relevant relationships may be activated where appropriate across companies like Google, JPMorgan, Coinbase, Anthropic, OpenAI, and BlackRock.
Offer evaluation and negotiation strategy to help students improve outcomes thoughtfully.
How to build momentum, judgment, and professionalism once the job is secured.
Network support
This course is not built around promises of introductions. It is built around helping the student become a stronger candidate. When relevant, Jonah may help activate parts of his network, but the student still needs a real target list, strong outreach, and solid execution.
Playbook FAQ
No. This page is a public curriculum preview that explains what the program covers and how the 8-week structure works.
No. The program includes strategy, preparation, network support where appropriate, and negotiation guidance, but it does not guarantee specific outcomes.
Students who are coachable, ambitious, and serious enough to execute a weekly system rather than just collect advice.
Next step
That is the fastest way to figure out whether the Playbook fits the student's goals, timeline, and target path.