What changed in hiring, why broad volume fails, and how focused search strategy works.
"Always be applying" is one of those pieces of career advice that sounds smart and ages badly.
Read article →Easy Apply is the slot machine of job searching. Free to play, almost impossible to win.
Read article →Five positioning mistakes I see weekly. Any one of them produces a zero-interview funnel:
Read article →How the job market actually changed by 2026, and how to beat the new version.
Read article →How to get more interviews from the same number of applications, by fixing the funnel, not the effort.
Read article →How to replace spray-and-pray with a targeted search, in three concrete moves.
Read article →"Just apply to more jobs" is the worst advice given to senior professionals in 2026.
Read article →"Just stay positive" is the worst version of job-search advice.
Read article →Narrow targeting beats broad, the focus dividend most people leave on the table.
Read article →"You should network more" is one of the most quietly punishing pieces of job search advice.
Read article →Positioning vs resume, and why most people fix the wrong one.
Read article →For a decade, the most common advice given to struggling job seekers has been some version of: apply to more jobs. The advice is wrong now in ways it wasn't before, and...
Read article →The hidden cost of spray-and-pray, beyond the wasted hours.
Read article →Why spray-and-pray fails at senior level, with the actual math.
Read article →For most of the last decade, the standard career advice was simple: apply to more jobs. The math was intuitive, more applications, more chances, more interviews. In 2026, that...
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