📢TL;DR Are you looking for a job? I just contributed to fund 1,500 full scholarships for OctoPrep.ai. Join for free today and learn everything you need to find a job! Please help me share this to everyone for maximum impact! 🙏 OctoPrep has built one of the most professional and complete programs I’ve ever seen to help people, young or not so young, prepare to find a job. I have contributed for the previous cohort, and today I am doubling down because I’ve seen, firsthand, the impact this program has had on my students all around the world: it actually leads to jobs. Warning: This program does not hand you a job. Instead, it teaches you all the necessary tools and skills and prepares your mindset to find jobs, indirectly giving you many jobs, for the rest of your life. Beyond all the BS you hear all the time from marketing campaigns trying to get your $: 1. Finding a job in tech right now is brutally hard. Between wars, high interest rates, economic uncertainty, and the rise of AI, many companies have slowed down or frozen hiring. Everyone is waiting to “see what happens next.” 2. And yet… most universities and training programs still teach only technical skills. Important? Yes. Sufficient? Absolutely not. Because job searching itself is a skill. It's a skill you can learn, practice, and master, just like coding or anything else. I’ve watched countless students, from @alx_africa, @holbertonschool, and everywhere else, who clearly have the talent, but no one ever taught them how to tell their story, write a strong resume, prepare for interviews, or navigate the hiring process with strategy and confidence. That’s exactly why OctoPrep.ai exists. My wife @Sophie_RB42 and my former ALX student @_MariemEhab built OctoPrep from scratch. I’ve seen the curriculum, tested the flow, followed the learners… and the results have honestly blown me away. This thing works. Across previous cohorts, I saw learners transform, not just their resumes, but their confidence and clarity. I saw fresh CS grads from all over the world finally understand how to approach the job market like pros. And I saw many of my own students finally get traction after months of struggling alone. This is why I’m doing this again. Until recently, OctoPrep was a paid program. But Sophie made a bold decision: “If people don’t have a job, they shouldn’t have to pay to learn how to get one.” So once again, I’m proud and humbled to announce to join an incredible group of people that came together to fund 1,500 full scholarships: - Pegah Ebrahimi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of FPV Ventures. Former COO at @Cisco and @Morganstanl. Advisor at @canva 🇺🇸 - @HororeBELL at @AfricanWITS 🇨🇲 - Neila Benzina, CEO at @HolbertonTUN 🇹🇳 - Bruno Leveque, co-founder at @Meowtel 🇫🇷 We’re putting our money where our mouth is. We all say we want to help. Today, we’re doing it. Again. To all my students, past and present, please don’t take this lightly. Opportunities like this don’t come often, and I cannot promise we’ll be able to fund another round. This is your moment to take one last step, do hard things, and change your life. What you’ll get: - 8 weeks of real work - Resume, profile, and storytelling mastery - Strategic application systems - Mock interviews with AI, live sessions, and accountability - Confidence, clarity, and momentum You’ll come out ready for the next chapter. Register ASAP: OctoPrep.ai These 1,500 seats will go fast. Please share this with friends, classmates, and anyone struggling to find a job. Someone out there needs to hear this today. And if, like me, you believe in creating real impact, if you want to help even more learners join for free, you can contribute here: octoprep.ai/scholarship-cont… Hats off to the OctoPrep team. Sophie, Mariem: you built something extraordinary. I’m so proud of you. Let’s do hard things. Let’s get you the job you deserve. Happy Christmas everybody.