RESUME CRAFT
The "Responsible for…" trap, and how to escape it
If your résumé reads like a job description, the recruiter assumes you didn't actually do anything. Rewrite every bullet with a verb in the first word.
Writing about résumés, hiring, and the work of work
The BeauCV journal.
Notes from inside a company that helps people get hired. Some long, most short, none generic.
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What a recruiter actually reads in the first three seconds.
We had 22 senior recruiters skim 100 résumés each with eye-tracking on. The results are unintuitive — and they should completely reshape how you build the top third of your page.
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CAREER ADVICE
Switching careers? Lead with the bridge, not the gap.
Most people start their résumé by apologising for their last job. Don't. Reframe what you did so the relevance is obvious before they finish your first line.
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RESEARCH
We sent the same résumé to 20 ATSs. Half of them lost the name.
A walkthrough of how modern applicant tracking systems actually parse documents, and why "ATS-friendly" is a verb, not a checkbox.
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BEHIND BeauCV
How we got tailoring 2× faster without making it sloppier
A look at the caching pipeline and section-level streaming that took our median tailoring time from 62 to 28 seconds.
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HIRING
What makes a hiring page feel honest.
A practical look at scope, location, compensation clarity, and why empty hiring pages are better than fake openings.
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RESUME CRAFT
Length: when to use one page, when to use two.
A heuristic the recruiters we interviewed agreed on, even when they disagreed on everything else. Plus when to ignore it entirely.
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CAREER ADVICE
The cover letter is back. Here's how to write a good one.
Cover letters were dead, then they weren't. Anchor every letter to one specific thing about the company — and skip the opening line everyone uses.
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BEHIND BeauCV
Why we'll never have a "Made by software" badge
An essay on why automated résumé writing misses the point. The product isn't generic; it's editorial. The tool is just a particularly fast editor.
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RESEARCH
Salary negotiation: a one-page script that works.
After analyzing 1,800 user-reported negotiations, here's the script that lifted offers by 8.4% on average, with verbatim language you can copy.