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Referral path building before applying for jobs

March 31, 2026Aakash Gupta

Aakash Gupta argues candidates should build referral paths before submitting applications, citing placements across major AI companies and claiming most job seekers skip this step.

I've placed people at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta AI, Databricks, and Stripe in the last year.
They all did the same thing that 90% of job searchers skip.
They built referral paths before submitting a single application.
Aakash Gupta
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