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What the software on the other side of an application is actually doing, how to write for it without inventing anything, and the people worth listening to. No listicles.
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Ethan Evans on getting promoted, from someone who did the promoting
A retired Amazon VP who by his own count reviewed 10,000 resumes and ran 2,500 interviews, now explaining on YouTube how those decisions actually got made. The best free career content we know of.
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What an applicant tracking system actually does with your resume
An ATS stores and searches candidates. It very rarely auto-rejects on keywords, and the 75% figure everyone quotes has no source. Here is what the software really does, and the one place it genuinely loses people.
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STAR is an interview framework. It does not fit a resume bullet
Situation, Task, Action, Result works when you have ninety seconds to speak. A resume bullet gives you about fourteen words. Here is what survives the compression, with before-and-after examples.
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The Harvard resume format, and why it still parses cleanest
One column, one type size, no graphics, reverse chronological. The format Harvard's career office has taught for years is plain to the point of looking unfinished — which is exactly why parsers and hiring managers both get through it.
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