Writing about hiring,
without the theater.
Field notes from building Profiled — research, product updates, and craft pieces on how to make a career legible to AI without lying to it.
Stop Botoxing Your Résumé: Why Experience Is the Context Companies Need In The AI-Era
Experienced candidates are being told to shorten their résumé and hide their age to beat ATS screening. Here's why this advice treats the wrong problem and what you can actually do about it.
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Getting HiredHow to Write a Career Narrative With Profiled’s Profile Builder
A step-by-step guide to drafting your career narrative in Profile Builder, including how Voice Interview can help you get your first draft down.
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Getting Hired
The Hiring System Is Broken. Here’s Why… and What We Built Instead
Why the résumé was never designed for the job hiring now gives it, why more polish and more keywords don't fix that, and the platform we built so your experience can be investigated, not scanned.
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Getting Hired
What Recruiters See When They Visit Your Profiled Page
A complete walkthrough of a live Profiled candidate page, covering every component, all six tools, and a full section-by-section breakdown of the Honest Fit Assessment, including what each of the three verdicts means for candidates and recruiters.
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Getting Hired
See Profiled in Action: A Guided Profile Walkthrough with 3 Demo Profiles
Walk through three live demo profiles on Profiled to learn what candidates build, what recruiters see, and how the honest fit assessment actually works.
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Getting Hired
Why You Got Filtered Out: How Résumé Screening Actually Works
Most job applications never reach a person because keyword screening filters them out first. Here's what that process actually does, who it discards, and what an honest fit assessment offers instead.
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Getting Hired
Honest Fit Assessment for Senior Candidates
Fit assessment works differently once you are ten or more years into your career. Learn why senior candidates get filtered out, what "overqualified" actually means, and how to assess your own fit honestly, including when the honest answer is no...
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Getting Hired
Career Identity Beyond the Résumé: Show Your Real Fit
Your résumé is a compressed, backward-looking document that leaves out the judgment, narrative, and direction that make up your actual professional identity. Here's what gets lost and how to show your genuine fit instead of just claiming it...
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Getting Hired
Honest Fit Assessment vs. Keyword Matching for Job Seekers
Most job-search tools score you against a keyword list. An honest fit assessment tells you where you actually fit, including where you don't, so you can act on the truth instead of guessing.
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Platform
Introducing Profiled: Let Recruiters Explore Your Experience, Not Skim It
Profiled lets you build an AI-powered profile that recruiters can use to explore your career in depth, get an honest fit assessment of your experience, and better understand the value you bring to a role.
