Resume & LinkedIn

You spent hours getting your resume right. The bullet points are tight, the dates line up, the formatting is clean.

You’ve never had a “real” job, and now a resume is standing between you and one. It feels backwards —

You spend hours getting every bullet point right, hit send, and then nothing happens. No call, no email, not even

If you optimized your LinkedIn profile a couple of years ago, stuffed your headline with keywords, repeated your job title

A bad cover letter doesn’t usually get you rejected outright. It just fails to do the one job it actually

Applicant tracking systems reject a huge share of resumes before a human ever sees them. Here’s how to get through the filter without writing like a keyword list.

Most LinkedIn profiles read like a copy-pasted resume. A few specific changes make a much bigger difference than a full rewrite.