FutureProof You is a team comprised of: Career Pivot Expert Dan Yu, Recruiting Master John Lovig, and AI Consultant Aaron Makelky. Listeners will hear discussions of job trends, career advice, and actionable tips for making sure their careers are future proof!
Recruiters Dan Yu and John Lovig share their tips for a layoff first-aid kit: the cheap, fast stuff you do in the first stretch when you find yourself out of a job. If you still have 30 minutes on the laptop, export contacts from Outlook or Google Takeout, file for unemployment on day one because it takes two or three weeks to kick in, and get your head right, because a layoff is usually a nameless sweep and negativity will taint every conversation after that. Dan's pro tip is an out-of-office on the work mailbox with your personal email. Then text five to ten force multipliers with a specific ask, post on LinkedIn without bitterness so people know the role and what you bring, grab an accountability buddy if someone else got cut, check the health and visa clocks, turn on the green Open to Work banner, and run two searches at once: posted jobs, and companies that have not posted yet.
Timestamps
[00:02:20] Export contacts while you still have login
[00:04:00] Get your head right before the spiral
[00:05:10] File for unemployment on day one
[00:08:50] Out-of-office with your personal email
[00:09:50] Text force multipliers, friends before family
[00:15:00] Dan's 330-person alumni happy hour
[00:16:40] LinkedIn post that tells people how to help
[00:20:30] Accountability buddy from the same round
[00:23:30] Benefits clock, visa clock, Open to Work
[00:25:20] Posted jobs vs companies with no posting yet
Co-hosts
Aaron Makelky — LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-makelky-m-a-ed-038b852a3/)
Dan Yu — LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danoyu/)
John Lovig — LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlovig/)
Links
FutureProof You (https://futureproof-you.com)
FutureProof You on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/futureproof-you)
We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.
IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:
Simplify and streamline technology
Save teachers’ time
Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
Improve student performance on state assessments
🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.
18 Aug 2026
Hiring When Everyone Looks Perfect
EP 31 - Hiring When Everyone Looks Perfect
Applicant agents are flooding every posting with applications that look perfect. Companies are tired of it. Aaron Makelky and Dan Yu start with a Claude outage and ugly token bills, then get into why the volume game still loses and why recruiters went back to LinkedIn.
A real photo. A headline that isn't your default title. Pinned posts that show how you think. LinkedIn's new Connected Apps section as proof of work. John was out this week.
Co-hosts:
Aaron Makelky - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-makelky-m-a-ed-038b852a3/
Dan Yu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danoyu/
Links:
FutureProof You - https://futureproof-you.com
FutureProof You on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/futureproof-you
(00:00) - Intro
(01:08) - When Claude goes down
(02:24) - The token bill
(07:06) - The human element
(08:54) - Thousands of perfect applications
(10:10) - The volume game
(12:50) - They're hunting on LinkedIn
(14:14) - Profile basics
(16:04) - Pinned posts
(21:36) - Connected Apps
We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.
IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:
Simplify and streamline technology
Save teachers’ time
Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
Improve student performance on state assessments
🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.
11 Jun 2026
Stop Spamming Applications: How to Actually Stand Out in Your Job Search
EP 30 - Stop Spamming Applications: How to Actually Stand Out in Your Job Search
AI has made it easy to write a polished resume and send hundreds of applications. That is also why the old volume strategy is breaking. In this episode, Aaron Makelky and Dan Yu talk about prompt injections in job postings, Aaron's test against four AI models, and why mass-applying can leave you buried in a pile of identical candidates.
They also talk about what works better: referrals, networking, and permissionless projects that show a hiring team what you can do before they hire you. Dan shares his "zero for 200" Wall Street story, where 200 mailed resumes got no response and one softball game led to an internship.
Timestamps:
00:00:43 - Everyone is using AI to apply
00:03:28 - Prompt injections in job postings
00:04:30 - Testing prompt injections on four AIs
00:06:33 - Should companies use AI traps?
00:07:55 - Colleges teaching students to spam
00:09:01 - Why the volume game is dead
00:10:11 - Standing out with permissionless projects
00:13:30 - Why custom work beats AI output
00:18:24 - The power of referrals
00:20:02 - Zero for 200: a networking story
00:23:53 - Connection beats volume
Co-hosts:
Aaron Makelky - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-makelky-m-a-ed-038b852a3/
Dan Yu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danoyu/
Links:
FutureProof You - https://futureproof-you.com
FutureProof You on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/futureproof-you
We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.
IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:
Simplify and streamline technology
Save teachers’ time
Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
Improve student performance on state assessments
🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.
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