Four live roasts next week — I'll score your work the way a hiring manager would
Next week. Four roasts. Three tools. I'm going to pull up real portfolios, real resumes, and real LinkedIn profiles —…
Read issue →The timeline nobody talks about
Month 1: "I'm sure something will come up." Month 3: "Maybe I need to rethink my whole approach." Month 6: "Maybe the…
Read issue →Every hire is a bet. Here's how they calculate yours.
Every hire is a bet. The hiring manager is betting that you'll ramp fast enough to justify the headcount and the 3-6…
Read issue →He prepped for days. Answered the wrong question.
A designer I coach had a whiteboard challenge at a large tech company. He spent days preparing. Competitor analysis.…
Read issue →11-page resume. Zero impact.
Reviewed a resume this week from a designer with 20+ years of experience. 11 pages. Not a typo. Eleven. Every page…
Read issue →Your portfolio talks to designers. The hiring manager isn't one.
Your portfolio talks to designers. The hiring manager isn't a designer. This is the lens that trips up the most…
Read issue →18 years of experience. None of it visible.
18 years in the same organization. Led complex initiatives. Worked across teams, technologies, business units. Grew…
Read issue →The sentence that buried a $2.4M result
"Redesigned the onboarding experience to improve usability." That's what her portfolio said. What actually happened: she…
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