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Career insights, product updates, and stories about showing the world more than a one-page PDF.

A job seeker holds a printed resume in one hand while exploring a career profile on a laptop
10 min read

Should You Make a Personal Website for Your Job Search — or Use an Interactive Career Profile?

Should you build a personal website for your job search — or use an interactive career profile? An honest look at effort, upkeep, and recruiter questions.

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Where to Put Your Career Profile Link (and How to Share It With Recruiters)

Where should you put your career profile link? The best placements — LinkedIn, job applications, your resume, and recruiter DMs — plus how to tailor it to a specific job.

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A wire wastebasket overflowing with crumpled resumes on a dark desk, one flat resume still standing upright among the discarded pages
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The Resume Is a Format Problem

The resume isn't failing because people write it badly — it's a compression format in a world that can finally do better. Why hiring is becoming a conversation.

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What Recruiters Actually Want to Know (That Your Resume Doesn't Tell Them)

Recruiters screen with a short mental checklist — role fit, scale, ownership, trajectory, risk. What they're actually trying to figure out, and how to answer it.

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A desk showing a career pivot — a printed resume marked up and reframed beside a laptop displaying an interactive candidate profile
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Career Change Resume: How to Reframe Your Experience When You're Switching Fields

Switching fields? How to write a career change resume that leads with transferable skills, reframes your experience in the new field's language, and explains the pivot.

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A grid of identical dark resumes spread across a desk with one brighter resume standing out in the foreground, beside a laptop showing a candidate profile
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How to Stand Out to Recruiters When Everyone Has the Same Resume

Everyone tries to make their resume stand out, which is why most don't. Here's how to stand out to recruiters with proof, relevance, and depth.

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Resume Alternatives: Ways to Present Yourself Beyond a PDF

Looking beyond the one-page PDF? An honest guide to resume alternatives — LinkedIn, portfolios, personal sites, video, and interactive profiles — with the tradeoffs of each.

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Why Your Resume Isn't Getting Interviews (and What Actually Works Now)

Sending out resumes and hearing nothing back? The real reasons your resume isn't getting interviews — ATS filters, six-second skims, sameness — and what works now.

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9 min read

What to Send a Recruiter Besides Your Resume

What should you send a recruiter besides your resume? A direct rundown — LinkedIn, portfolios, personal sites, and interactive profiles — and what actually works.

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