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Resumes, ATS, and the rest of the job hunt
Practical, no-fluff guides written for people actually applying for jobs.
4 min readATS keywords vs. recruiter keywords: same words, different jobs
The keywords that get a resume past the parser and the keywords that get it read by a recruiter aren't always the same set. Here's how to satisfy both.
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6 min readHow to message a recruiter on LinkedIn (with actual examples)
The cold message that recruiters actually respond to — what to write, what to skip, and the message sequence that converts when the first one doesn't.
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5 min readResume-to-job-description compatibility scores: what they actually measure
How compatibility scoring tools work, where they're useful, where they mislead, and how to read the number once you have it.
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5 min readThe 'hidden job market': what's real and what's myth
How many jobs are actually filled before they're posted, what channels really matter, and the bad advice that 'just network harder' creates.
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5 min readResume action verbs that don't sound like AI wrote them
The verbs that signal a person wrote the bullet — and the ones that signal a template or a language model did. With specific replacements.
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5 min readThe 6-second resume scan: what recruiters actually see
The well-known study found recruiters spend about seven seconds on a resume. Here's where those seconds go — and what to put on the page to land in the right places.
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6 min readReading between the lines of a job description
How to separate must-have requirements from wish-list items, decode the soft signals, and use the language of a posting to estimate what the role actually wants.
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5 min readKeyword stuffing vs. keyword fit: where the line is
How to add the keywords that move you up an ATS ranking without the stuffing that gets your resume rejected by the same recruiter you were trying to please.
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5 min readLinkedIn vs. resume: where each one earns its keep
What LinkedIn does that a resume can't, what a resume does that LinkedIn can't, and how to keep both consistent without duplicating effort.
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6 min readResume length: one page or two?
When one page wins, when two pages wins, the experience cutoff most posts get wrong, and what recruiters actually do with page two.
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