About

Your Jobs Digest publishes practical guidance for people looking for work, changing fields, or trying to get further in the job they already have. We cover seven areas: skills, interviews, resumes and applications, industry entry routes, job-search mechanics, the hiring market itself, and the turning points: a layoff, a career break, a career change, a first job, leaving the military.

We write for job seekers in the United States. That focus lets the guides be specific: resume conventions, how references are checked, what two weeks' notice does and does not commit you to, and how offers are negotiated are explained the way they work in the US, not hedged across several countries at once.

How the guides are written

Every guide has to be usable. The test is whether a reader could do something differently on Monday because of it. A piece that describes a problem without offering a route through it does not get published.

We do not invent numbers. Where a guide describes pay, response rates or hiring patterns, it gives ranges or practitioner judgment and says which it is. You will not find a fabricated statistic with a confident citation attached to it, because we would rather say "commonly somewhere between 1% and 3%" and be honest about the uncertainty.

We say where advice depends on your state. A good deal of what matters in a job search is set by states rather than by federal law. Pay transparency requirements, final paycheck deadlines and unemployment benefits all differ from state to state, and employers add their own policies on top. Where something depends on your state or your employer, we say so inside the guide rather than in a disclaimer at the bottom.

Guides are published under the masthead. They carry Your Jobs Digest as the author rather than an individual byline.

Corrections

If a guide is wrong, tell us through the contact form. Say which guide it is and what it got wrong, and we will fix the guide itself rather than quietly editing around it.

What we are not

We are not a recruiter. We do not place candidates, we do not pass reader details to employers, and we do not sell resume-writing or coaching services. Nothing here is legal, immigration, tax, medical or financial advice.