How a Woman Landed a Job at TikTok by…TikToking
TikTok is helping (and hurting) people’s careers
TikTok isn’t just for dancing, it’s a great place to talk about your job qualifications too? Although it wouldn’t be the first place I would go to try to get a job, it has proven to work.
A while ago I was scrolling through TikTok, as one does during quarantine, and stumbled across a video about a woman who had just applied to a job at TikTok.
The video featured Jenna Palek, a 22-year-old who just graduated from Kent State. She explained that when she applied for the TikTok position, she noticed over 2000 people had already applied and wanted to make herself stand out.
She thought that a viral TikTok might help her chances. She was right.
The video showed off her resume, which she designed to make it match TikTok’s logo and then went into her work experience. She explained why she would be the perfect person for the job while doing popular TikTok dance moves. Jenna showed pictures of her internship and job experiences that include Sherri Hill and University Tees, while giving statistics about how much revenue she generated for each company.
That TikTok now has over 1.6 million views.
Although it wasn't her first video on the platform, Jenna was not an established…
