The One-Page Resume That Gets Through an ATS and Past a Human
Applicant tracking systems are less mysterious than the folklore suggests. The real filter is a person, giving you about eight seconds.
Resumes
Formatting, applicant tracking systems, gaps, and the three lines a recruiter actually reads.
Writing a CV When You Are Changing Field
A career-change CV fails not because your experience is irrelevant but because you left the reader to work out why it is relevant, and they will not.
Do Cover Letters Still Matter? Yes, In Three Situations
Most cover letters are never read. The three cases where they decide the outcome are worth knowing, because the effort is wasted everywhere else.
Nine CV Details That Get an Application Rejected
Applications are rarely rejected for weak experience. They are rejected for small, fixable details that give a screener a reason to stop reading.
How to Explain an Employment Gap on Your CV
Recruiters do not assume the worst about a gap. They assume the worst about a hole you have tried to hide, and they notice the hiding first.
How to Put Numbers on Work That Has No Numbers
Most jobs produce no revenue figure and no conversion rate. That does not mean they produce no numbers — it means you are looking for the wrong ones.
Chronological, Functional or Hybrid: Which CV Format to Use
The functional CV is the format most recommended to career changers and the most reliably binned. Here is what each does and which to actually use.
Elsewhere on the Desk
Skills
15 Skills Employers Are Actually Paying For in 2026
Skills lists are usually written to sell courses. This one is organised by what a hiring manager can verify in a 30-minute conversation.
Interviews
The 12 Questions Hiring Decisions Actually Turn On
Interviewers ask thirty questions and decide on about four of them. These are the ones that carry the weight.
Turning Points
Laid Off: What to Do in the First Two Weeks
An ordered fourteen-day plan, from what to get in writing before your access is cut to the rhythm your search should settle into.