Leland+ Content Library

October Series Session 7: Negotiating Confidently

This session teaches you to treat salary negotiation as a normal business conversation about your value.

AI Job Market Noise, Networking Strategies & Referrals

Examines challenges posed by imprecise AI job listings and teaches targeted networking practices, referral system insights, and rapport-building with insiders, plus an assignment to initiate connections and refine messaging.

Mastering AI Networking & Referrals

Guide to building meaningful relationships in the AI ecosystem, overcoming hiring noise, and securing referrals through thoughtful engagement and value-add interactions.

Building Your AI Portfolio & Outside-In Projects

Detailed strategies for engineers, designers, marketers, and data scientists to craft projects showing value aligned with target companies. Includes best practices for packaging and sharing work and an action-oriented assignment.

Finding Career Clarity - Deck

This guide provides a framework to identify what drives you, determine what makes you unique, and articulate what you do best.

Introduction to the AI Company Landscape & Assignment

This will introduce the AI jobs landscape and also share reading to help you dive deeper to understand the entire AI market. There is an assignment to research three companies of interest to better understand what companies in this space do.

Which AI job is the right fit for me?

Reading to understand roles and impact on things like work-life balance, focus time vs. meetings, and more. Includes a research assignment and table laying out different aspects of each job.

Want an edge? Network where others don’t

Go beyond the obvious networking paths. Learn how to use LinkedIn effectively, reach unexpected contacts, and get noticed by senior consultants.

Creating A Career Plan - Deck

This guide outlines how to build a career plan around 6 key elements, including target roles, companies, and weekly goals.

Walk through of AI Company Landscape with Live Examples

In this live guided walkthrough, we'll walk through Bessemer's AI market map to understand the entire landscape of how these AI companies operate together, and talk about different considerations in taking jobs in different parts of the AI stack.

Introduction to Roles in AI — How It Differs from Traditional Tech

This reading introduces you to key roles like research engineer, forward deployed engineers, and different GTM jobs at AI companies. It includes an assignment designed to teach you how to better understand these roles.

Why does one referral change everything?

See what happens behind the scenes after someone refers you. Learn how to communicate with your referrer to help push your application forward.

Negotiating Confidently - Deck

This guide provides a 4-step plan and proven scripts for stating your salary target, receiving an offer, and making a counter-offer.

Managing A Job Search - Deck

This guide shows you how to organize your search with targeted lists and track the status of every application, contact, and task.

Reaching Your Network - Deck

This guide details a 3-step system for effective outreach and explains exactly how and when to request a referral.

Using Al to Job Search - Deck

This guide shows how AI can tailor your resume, generate interview scripts, and draft networking follow-ups.

The Career Accelerator: A Playbook for Your Job Search

This playbook is for job seekers looking to replace scattered applications with a structured, step-by-step system to find their next role. Students will learn to define their career direction, create a strategic search plan, organize their applications, and negotiate a higher salary to secure the offer they deserve.

Crafting Your Brand - Deck

This guide details a 6-part framework for your professional story, including your background, strengths, and vision.

Don’t ask "Can you refer me?" - Ask this instead

Earn referrals naturally by building trust first. Learn what questions to ask and how to make consultants actually want to help you.

Not sure who to network with? Start here

Learn who to contact first, how to use your existing connections, and when to reach out for the best results.