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Short, opinionated, useful. Resumes, cover letters, job search, interviews, and the long arc of your career — written for people who'd rather skim a real expert than wade through filler.
Most summaries are generic, defensive, or both. Here's the three-line formula that earns the second look — and the four phrases to delete on sight.
Fifty real cover letters across engineering, product, design, marketing, finance, healthcare, education, and career-change scenarios — with notes on what each one got right and the patterns that show up again and again.
Everything you need to write a resume that gets past the ATS, earns a real read from a recruiter, and turns into interview callbacks. No filler — just the structure, the rules, and the worked examples.
If a cover letter sounds like a cover letter, it's already failing. Here's the four-paragraph structure that reads like a real person making a real argument.
The job-board funnel is brutal. The LinkedIn back door isn't. Here's the playbook for getting referrals from people who don't know you yet.
Every common interview question is really asking something else underneath. Knowing what's actually being assessed lets you answer it once and well.
Most raise conversations fail in the prep, not the meeting. Here's the four-week playbook that gets you a yes — even in a tight comp environment.
ATS isn't the gatekeeper most people think it is. Here's what actually matters for getting parsed cleanly, and what's a myth.
Switching careers in your mid-thirties is harder than at 25 — but the formula is also more reliable. Here's the four-step path that actually works.
Not every job comes with neat percentages. Here's how to write resume bullets that read as impactful even when you don't have a single number to point to.