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Job-Search Guides

Process, not encouragement. Each guide is built around a finished outcome and is honest about what it costs to get there.

Publication status

No guides are published yet.

A guide is a larger commitment than an answer: it recommends that someone spend hours of a stressful, time-constrained search doing a specific thing. That recommendation should be worth the hours.

The nine families below are the map. They will be filled in deliberately, starting with the parts of a search where the reader has the most control and the advice available elsewhere is the most contradictory.

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Guide families

Nine outcomes, organised by the part of the search they change.

  1. Job-search strategy

    Decide where to concentrate a search, how much volume it needs, and how to tell whether it is working.

  2. Applications

    Build a repeatable application process that stays fast without becoming indiscriminate.

  3. Resumes

    Produce a resume that survives screening and reads clearly to the person making the decision.

  4. LinkedIn

    Set up a profile and activity pattern that makes inbound contact more likely.

  5. Networking and outreach

    Reach the people who can act on your application, and write messages they answer.

  6. Interviews

    Prepare for each round on its own terms and diagnose why an interview did not convert.

  7. Salary and negotiation

    Establish a defensible number and negotiate it without risking the offer.

  8. Offers

    Compare competing offers on the terms that actually differ, including the ones that are not salary.

  9. Career transitions

    Move between functions, industries, or seniority levels with a credible narrative and a realistic timeline.

Standard

What separates a guide from a listicle.

  • Built around an outcome

    A guide exists to get a reader from where they are to a finished piece of work — a rewritten resume, a shortlist, a negotiation position. Not to survey a topic.

  • Specific enough to follow

    Steps with real examples, including the awkward cases. “Tailor your resume” is not a step; a worked example of what to change and what to leave alone is.

  • Honest about the cost

    Most job-search advice ignores time. A guide that recommends an hour per application says so, and says what to drop to afford it.

  • Evidence marked where it exists

    Guides mix established practice with genuine evidence. Where a step rests on a study, it is cited. Where it rests on convention, the guide says that instead of implying research.

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