Notes on tailoring CVs, reading fit before you send, and treating a career like a living document. Direct, technical, occasionally blunt — no template recycling, no filler.
A job posts at 2pm and your CV hasn't moved in 18 months. The fix isn't a nicer template — it's a different document for every role, scored before you send. Here's the whole loop.
You apply, you wait, you get ghosted — and nobody tells you why. A fit score names the gap before you hit send.
Your work history as a living document — projects, scope, decisions, results. The CV is just downstream of it.
Paste a JD, get three variations, each emphasizing different parts of your history. Pick one, edit, ship.
The scan is real and it's brutal. Here's where their eyes go, and how to put the right signal in the path.
Fork a CV, tweak it for one company, roll back later. Every bullet editable, every version preserved.
Generic openers get skipped. Anchor the letter to what the role actually asked for — and to what you actually did.
Personality, salary, location, domain — what goes into a 0–100 score, and why we'd rather tell you it's a no.
Walking in without a range is walking in blind. Benchmarks per role and region, so the first number isn't theirs.