The AI and jobs discourse has two modes, and both of them are getting in the way of useful thinking about your career. Mode one is the alarm: AI is…

A friend of mine spent years in recruiting before she realized she’d been conducting her own job search entirely wrong. She’d been searching LinkedIn for “Recruiter” and “Recruiting Manager.” Those…

I want to start with a number that most employed tech workers haven’t looked up: the market rate for their skills sold directly, outside an employer’s payroll. A mid-level software…

I want to start with the thing that salary negotiation advice almost never says clearly: the outcome of most compensation conversations is largely determined before anyone sits down to talk.…

I’ve reviewed somewhere in the range of several thousand resumes across my years in recruiting operations, and the most persistent misunderstanding I see is this: candidates think someone is going…

I spent some time a few years ago watching a recruiter work through LinkedIn Recruiter — not the consumer version most people use, but the paid platform with Boolean search,…

I want to start with something the skills-based hiring discourse consistently skirts around: the four-year degree requirement was never a reliable signal of competence. It was a filtering mechanism for…

There’s a principal engineer I know — I’ll call him Marcus because that’s what the JLL research calls his type — who works at a Fortune 500 tech company with…

In early 2024, directors of engineering at companies like BetterUp started posting their ChatGPT prompts for writing performance reviews on LinkedIn. Not anonymously. Not apologetically. Openly, as productivity tips, as…

I spent about three hours rewriting a resume last year based on advice I’d read about ATS compatibility — adjusting keywords, switching to a single-column format, removing a table I’d…