Notes on resumes, applications, interviews, and the systems that decide which ones get read. From students sending forty a week.
Built, shipped, debugged, scaled. The verbs that work on an engineering resume, the ones that backfire, and worked examples for each stage of the job.
Built, shipped, debugged, scaled. The verbs that work on an engineering resume, the ones that backfire, and worked examples for each stage of the job.
'Managed' appears on almost every resume, often three times. Here are 11 more precise alternatives, sorted by what kind of managing you actually did.
'Responsible for' describes your job posting, not your work. Here are 12 stronger replacements, matched to what you were actually responsible for.
Half the 'power words' lists online will make your resume worse. What power words actually are, the ones that earn their place, and the hype words to skip.
You can't write 'managed' if you've never had the job. Here are the verbs that work for class projects, campus jobs, and volunteering, with honest examples.
Helped, assisted, utilized, hard-working. These words are quietly sinking your resume. Here's the cut list, with stronger swaps for each one.
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1000 applications, two responses, and no idea what to fix. A clear-eyed look at why entry-level hiring is genuinely worse, and what to do about it without burning out.
Tailoring beats volume, and the math isn't close. Here's why generic applications used to work, why they don't now, and what a real 30-app-a-month system looks like.
Roughly a third of postings on major job boards aren't real openings. Here's how to tell which ones are ghosts, and how to find the third that's worth applying to.
Before you send a 201st application, run this 30-minute diagnostic. Most students fix the wrong thing first. Here's how to figure out what's actually breaking your funnel.
AI is quietly reshaping who gets hired out of college and who doesn't. A clear-eyed look at what's actually happening, what the fear gets right and wrong, and five things you can do this week to get an edge.
You have more to put on your resume than you think. Here's how to turn class projects, campus jobs, and side hustles into a resume that actually works.
Your resume gets read by software before any human sees it. Here's how ATS systems actually work, what trips them up, and how to get past the filter.
A categorized list of resume action verbs, plus 10 worked before-and-after examples and the weak verbs to retire. Find the right word for what you actually did.