The One-Page Resume That Gets Through an ATS and Past a Human
Applicant tracking systems are less mysterious than the folklore suggests. The real filter is a person, giving you about eight seconds.
Resumes
Formatting, applicant tracking systems, gaps, and the three lines a recruiter actually reads.
Do Cover Letters Still Matter? Yes, In Three Situations
Most cover letters are never read. The three cases where they decide the outcome are worth knowing, because the effort is wasted everywhere else.
Writing a Resume When You Are Changing Fields
A career-change resume fails not because your experience is irrelevant but because you left the reader to figure out why it is relevant, and they will not.
How to Explain an Employment Gap on Your Resume
Recruiters do not assume the worst about a gap. They assume the worst about a hole you have tried to hide, and they notice the hiding first.
Nine Resume Details That Get an Application Rejected
Applications are rarely rejected for weak experience. They are rejected for small, fixable details that give a screener a reason to stop reading.
Chronological, Functional or Hybrid: Which Resume Format to Use
The functional resume is the format most recommended to career changers and the most reliably tossed aside. Here is what each does and which to actually use.
How to Put Numbers on Work That Has No Numbers
Most jobs produce no revenue figure and no conversion rate. That does not mean they produce no numbers. It means you are looking for the wrong ones.
Elsewhere on the Desk
Interviews
The 12 Questions Hiring Decisions Actually Turn On
Interviewers ask thirty questions and decide on about four of them. These are the ones that carry the weight.
Job Search
Ten Good Applications Beat a Hundred Rushed Ones
The math of response rates explains why volume applying feels productive and almost never is.
Interviews
Panel Interviews: How to Read the Room
A panel is not one interview with more people. It is three or four separate scorecards, and each panelist is grading something different.