Guides

Stop rewriting the whole resume. Swap four zones per job and keep every bullet defensible in an interview.

You have the skills for the new field. The resume still reads like your old job title, so the screener assumes you are a tourist.

Your profile photo is fine and your banner is on-brand. Recruiters still scroll past because the searchable parts are blank.

Your resume reads fine to you. The ATS extracted garbage, and the recruiter never got past line one.

Your case studies look great in Figma. Recruiters still reject you in Greenhouse because the resume never mentions the metrics you designed for.

The Canva resume looks stunning in PDF and falls apart the second an ATS parses it.

Every posting wants two years of experience. You have a capstone, a club repo, and a internship that lasted ten weeks.

Everyone talks about referrals you do not have. You can still run a search with tight targets, proof projects, and a tracker that beats panic applying.

200 applications, three ghost replies, zero interviews. The grind was real. The strategy was not.

"Just network more" sounds wise and gives you nothing to do on Tuesday afternoon. Myths like that eat months.

Day one after a layoff is paperwork, panic, and group chat noise. This checklist cuts the chaos into order.

Recruiters have seen fifty todo apps this week. Projects that get replies look like small slices of real product work, not tutorials.