Weekly Audit: Does Your Resume Pass the 6-Second Test?
Recruiters spend 6 seconds on your resume. Learn the exact scan pattern they follow and audit your resume for maximum impact.
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Project-Based Experience: How to Format Side Projects on Your Resume
Side projects count as real experience—if you format them correctly. Learn how to position freelance work, open source, and personal projects.
16 min read
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Chronological vs Functional Resume: The 2026 Verdict
Functional resumes fail ATS and recruiters. Here's why chronological format wins in 2026—and what to do if you have gaps or career changes.
10 min read
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The "Results vs Responsibilities" Resume Audit
Duty-based resumes don't get interviews. Learn the results vs responsibilities audit to transform your resume from job description to proof of impact.
12 min read
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Build a "Metrics Inventory" (So You Never Say "No Metrics")
Stop saying 'I don't have metrics.' Learn the systematic inventory approach to extract proof from calendars, tickets, dashboards, logs, and retros.
12 min read
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Action Verbs by Function: Engineering, Sales, Ops
Stop using generic 'managed' and 'achieved.' Learn the exact action verbs that signal expertise in engineering, sales, and operations roles.
12 min read
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Career Transitions: Translating "Irrelevant" Experience
Teacher to PM? Lawyer to Sales? Your past experience isn't irrelevant—it's just mistranslated. Learn how to reframe career transitions as logical progressions.
10 min read
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Dealing with Employment Gaps (The Strategic Way)
Employment gaps don't kill resumes. Bad packaging does. Learn how to reframe gaps strategically without lying or hiding.
8 min read
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Leadership Without the Title: How to Quantify IC Influence on Your Resume
Prove IC leadership without direct reports. RFC adoption, mentorship outcomes, tool creation. Influence metrics, not title.
11 min read
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Quantifying the Unquantifiable: How to Turn Soft Skills Into Resume Metrics
Turn soft skills into metrics. Show stakeholder count, meeting cadence, mentorship outcomes. Prove communication and leadership with numbers.
12 min read
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Stakeholder Management Metrics: Turn "Great Communicator" Into Proof
Prove communication with metrics. Show stakeholder count, meeting cadence, alignment outcomes. Turn "excellent communicator" into proof.
11 min read
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The Professional Summary That Isn't Cringe
Replacing "Passionate professional" with an actual value proposition. Three formulas that work.
9 min read
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Resume Structure: What Goes Where (And Why)
Your resume structure signals seniority. Here's the exact order that gets you past screening—based on 50,000 resumes reviewed.
14 min read
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Skills Section: Grouping vs Listing
Stop dumping 30 skills in a comma-separated list. Here's how to group them so recruiters actually read them.
9 min read
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Context is King: "Managed Team" vs "Led 5 Devs"
Generic bullets kill resumes. Context transforms vague claims into proof of scale, complexity, and value. Here is how to add constraints that matter.
11 min read
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