Writing
Notes from building jobhunt
Occasional writing about honest job searching, useful documents, interviews, and the systems around them.
When résumé and career coaching becomes a scam
Career coaching is sold to anxious buyers with weak feedback loops. Here is how to tell scoped help from dependence.
What actually changed in job searching
Online applications got cheaper, noisier, and colder. Referrals, live conversation, and keeping track of the pipeline gained value.
Preparing for a virtual interview
A practical virtual-interview setup: test the room, prepare real stories, and keep live AI out of the call.
The LinkedIn résumé scammers
The canned résumé review, the invented ATS diagnosis, and the warning signs that someone is pricing your anxiety.
What the scanner sees, what the human sees
Applicant tracking systems parse structure. Recruiters skim for relevance. A résumé has to work for both readers.
Fake jobs, fake candidates
Ghost postings and generated applications are making both sides distrust the surface. Here is the part a job seeker can control.
How to keep AI-written job applications grounded in your real experience
A practical look at profiles, red lines, fit analysis, and an advisory claim check that keep generated résumés tied to real experience.