
Joe built a 25-year career at Dell — then got laid off. He’d hired people for a decade. He still couldn’t get past the screening round. Here’s what actually changed.

Joe built a 25-year career at Dell — then got laid off. He’d hired people for a decade. He still couldn’t get past the screening round. Here’s what actually changed.

August payrolls rebounded. But food service and local education drove the gain — not tech. What delivery pros need to know about the jobs report.

Most people treat “remote” as one category. It’s not. Here’s what the filter actually captures — and what to look for before you go deep in a process.

August’s jobs report surprised to the upside — 162,000 new payroll jobs. But gross hiring fell. Experienced professionals are still reporting a tough search. This weekly brief connects the official employment signals to one question: where should an experienced professional invest job-search effort right now? Issue 9 covers role demand rankings, Austin employer signals, the remote market, Texas momentum, and the national picture.

Career assessments apply group statistics to individual decisions — a formal error called the ecological fallacy. Here is why they fail, and what actually produces real career clarity.

That question about your current salary isn’t small talk. It’s price discovery — and the recruiter has a lot more data than you do.

Design your career instead of accepting the next job that finds you. After being passed over four times in three years, I rebuilt everything around one page: an Objective, three Key Results, and a short list of actions. Here’s the method, the traps that keep smart people stuck, and the proof it works.

An Emmy-nominated video editor came in wanting a stable corporate job. The marketing system we built for his job hunt made his freelance business so strong he stopped needing one.

Jacob had the resume, the experience, the credentials. He applied to jobs held by people he’d previously managed. Got nothing. The silence broke him. Here’s what actually changed — and why the job that found him never required a single resume submission.

Most people use AI like a search engine. Here’s why your own job search — not your day job — is the best place to build real AI judgment, and why that skill is what’s actually getting people hired right now.