I worked really hard for it.Researched & Written by Carol Cochran on the FlexJobs Team The song carried me through, and I secured the bag. I listened to it before my final presentation, before getting into Spotify.

And I looked out at the Empire State Building thinking, 'I did it.' It felt like a movie, or maybe I just romanticized it in my head.īut throughout the whole process - from my resume going viral to getting my full-time job - the one song that I kept listening to was a song by Zhu called 'Working for it.' This was my theme song. I was in New York at the time to visit the Spotify office. But then he sent me a link to a Google presentation, and the only slide it had was a gif that said, 'YOU'RE HIRED!' He initially pretended to be very quiet and serious, as if I didn't get the role. I really convinced myself that I just wasn't going to get the role. When gave me the full-time offer, I was really shocked. The internet is free, and you can do whatever you want with it. That's advice I would give to someone who's young and feels like they don't have the experience that they might need for a job: Work on projects and share your progress online because people can see that you've improved. And I would just write about things that I did or things I learned or ideas that I had in my head. I would post articles to document projects that I worked on every month for a year. It really allows you to express your personality and your passion because those things can't be expressed on a resume. I made a personal website for myself, and I spent a lot of time designing it to have my own style. It's really important to make a personal brand for yourself and utilize the internet as much as you can, especially in the pandemic, which ties back with posting my resume on social media.īefore that, I posted a lot of other stuff too. The resume Emily Vu posted on social media that went viral in March 2021. I think one struggle that I had was being a perfectionist, like I want to be the best and I would never recognize what my accomplishments were in the past.īy tracking, it reminds me: Okay, I have accomplished a lot and I shouldn't put so much pressure on myself. It's important to see how much you've grown. And you want to write down things that you learn from projects that you did or just personally. is valuable for building your case when you're talking to stakeholders or referencing for interviews. So I started a thing called a weekly wrap, which I actually still do.Įvery week, I answer four questions: How are you feeling? What did you accomplish this week? What did you learn this week? What was hard for you this week? It's really worth it to document what you're learning in an internship because you're probably going to forget it if you leave or advance. I'm a Virgo, so I love organizing things. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. And as someone who graduated in the pandemic, she has a unique perspective about what it's like to enter the workforce now, which she's shared with Insider. She's continued to post advice on Twitter, including a thread about how she made the best of her fully remote internship. But she also has a slew of savvy ideas, resources, and productivity tips for early-career folks, which have helped her join and rise through a wildly competitive company right out of college. Vu knows her experience was unique and involved plenty of luck. By April, she had secured an internship, and by September, a full-time associate product manager role - her dream job. Her post quickly went viral, garnering almost 300,000 likes and even catching the eye of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.

In March 2021, Emily Vu - then a senior at UC Irvine studying computational physics - posted her Spotify-themed resume on Twitter as a hail mary to get a job at the audio streaming company.

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