Features You'll Love
Your résumé is read twice. The first reader is not a person.
Before a human sees your application, software parses it, scores it against the job description, and decides whether anyone will ever open it. Most people write one résumé, aimed at a hiring manager, and never find out it was filtered out before a hiring manager existed.
So you need two. One built for the system, one built for the person who reads it after the system passes it through. Almost nobody knows this, which is exactly why it works.
"The author mentions that you'll need two different resumes, one for the bot and another for the human. That's something I had never thought of but it makes perfect sense."
Denise S, review from Amazon
This is the job search explained by someone who ran the other side of it.
I spent a year as a recruiter reading the applications that got through and the ones that did not. Twelve years before that in HR, watching hiring decisions get made in rooms candidates never see. This book is what I wish every applicant knew walking in: how the screen actually works, what a referral does to your odds, what interviewers are listening for, and what to say when the salary question lands.
"I really liked the focus on strategy rather than just applying to more jobs. It's easy to think that firing off dozens of applications will eventually work, but this book makes a strong case for being more deliberate."
Byron Veasey, verified purchase, review from Amazon
It also starts somewhere most job search books don't.
Not with your résumé. With why you are leaving. Applying from "anywhere but here" is how people escape one bad job into a worse one. The goal is somewhere better, and that changes what you apply to before it changes how you apply.
"I really appreciated the shift in thinking from 'anywhere but here' to 'somewhere better,' because when you apply to just anywhere, you could end up in a worse position than where you started."
Dani, review from Amazon
What you will learn
How applicant tracking systems actually screen, and how to write for both readers
Why referrals skip most of the process, and how to ask for one
What to do when your applications get no response at all
How to prepare for the interview questions that decide it
What to say when they ask your salary expectations first
How to follow up without sounding desperate
What to do when you don't get the job you invested weeks in
"This book helped me understand why my resume might be being looked over. I'm not the best interviewer and I was especially grateful for specific ways I could prepare to explain myself better."
Shell Chapman, review from Amazon
Written for anyone job hunting now, and especially for experienced people returning to a market that changed while they were not looking. Also available in paperback.
You can find this book on Amazon. The tools that come with it, you can't.
What's included
Get Hired: Beat the Bots, Get the Offer · the complete book, EPUB and PDF
The Salary Negotiation Guide · scripts for the conversation most people improvise and lose
Follow-Up Email Templates · eight of them, for the points where most candidates go quiet
Follow-Up Emails: Read This First · when to send, and what each one is doing
The Job Application Tracker · a spreadsheet for what you applied to, when you followed up, and what came back
