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.
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The AI Skills Worth Having in a Non-Technical Job
Prompting tricks have a short shelf life. The durable skill is knowing when the output is wrong, and being able to say how you checked.
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.
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.
Leaving the Military: Translating Service Into a Civilian CV
The experience transfers almost entirely. The vocabulary does not. Most of the work is translation, and it is learnable in a fortnight.
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.