Career advice, CV tips, and job search strategy.
Most advice on LinkedIn profile optimization reads like a checklist: 30 items, no order, no explanation of which ones matter. If you're actively job hunting, you don't have time to rewrite every secti...
You open a job board, see a listing with an "87% match" label next to it, and have no idea what produced that number or whether you should trust it. Apply anyway? Skip it because 87% feels i...
Sending the same cover letter to every employer rarely gets a response, but rewriting one from scratch for every job takes more time than most job seekers can spare when they are applying to a dozen r...
Sending more applications is not the same thing as running a more effective job search. Many job seekers spend hours every day submitting the same resume to dozens of postings, then wonder why intervi...
Your resume can match a job on paper and still get filtered out before anyone reads it. Most mid-size and large employers run applicant tracking systems that scan resumes for specific terms before a h...
Applying to twenty or thirty roles across different job boards creates a specific kind of confusion. You forget which version of your resume went to which company. A recruiter calls about a role you c...
A job posting is written by a hiring manager or recruiter describing an open role in a few hundred words, usually under time pressure, and often recycled from an old template. That means the posting i...
You open a job board, see a listing with an "87% match" label next to it, and have no idea what produced that number or whether you should trust it. Apply anyway? Skip it because 87% feels i...
You found a job you actually want. The posting lists ten qualifications, and your resume, as it stands, speaks to maybe six of them, often in different words than the ones the employer used. That mism...