Career guides

Practical career guides

Written for people with real careers behind them — decades of experience, a recent layoff, or a transition out of the military. No filler, no jargon.

• How to write a résumé for a 30-year career (and ten employers)

  A long career is an asset, not a liability. How to fit decades of experience onto a résumé a recruiter will actually read — what to cut, what to keep, and how to show a career that went somewhere.

• What to do after a layoff in your 50s: a practical first-two-weeks plan

  Laid off later in your career? A calm, concrete plan for the first two weeks — the money, the paperwork, the story, and the search — written for people with decades of experience, not new grads.

• How to write STAR interview answers (with examples that aren't robotic)

  The STAR method — Situation, Task, Action, Result — done well: how to structure a behavioral interview answer that shows what YOU did and lands the outcome, without sounding like you memorized a script.

• Translating your MOS to a civilian résumé (without losing what you did)

  A practical guide for veterans turning military experience into a civilian résumé: how to translate your MOS and rate, capture your career at each command, and write bullets a civilian recruiter — and an ATS — will actually understand.

• Why the ATS rejects your résumé (and how to get past it honestly)

  Applicant tracking systems filter most résumés before a human sees them. What an ATS actually does, the formatting that quietly breaks it, and how to get parsed cleanly without keyword-stuffing.