Career adviceGetting hired, explained
Short, practical pieces about the parts of a job hunt people actually get stuck on — written against how hiring really works on this platform.
Match scoresHow the match score reads your profile
A match score is not a verdict on you — it is a comparison between two documents. Six factors are scored separately: skills, experience, location, education, salary and industry. Each is weighted differently per job, which is why the same profile can score 91% against one role and 64% against another that looks similar from the outside.
The practical consequence is that vague profiles score badly even when the person is a strong fit. “Worked on cloud infrastructure” matches almost nothing; listing AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform as distinct skills matches precisely. The score always ships with its factor breakdown — read the low factor, not the headline number, because that is the one telling you what to change.
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RésumésA résumé that survives the first eight seconds
The first pass over a résumé is a scan, not a read. A recruiter is looking for three things: what you currently do, how long you have done it, and whether the specific skill in the job description appears anywhere. Everything else is read only if those three land.
So put your current role and its dates at the top, write each role as one line of scope plus one measurable outcome, and name tools explicitly rather than describing them. Two pages is fine if the second page earns it. Design matters less than people claim — but a résumé generated from a structured profile parses cleanly, which matters a great deal when the first reader is software.
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InterviewsInterviewing on camera without the awkwardness
Video interviews fail for boring reasons far more often than for interesting ones. Join early and let the pre-call check confirm your microphone, camera and network before anyone is watching. If the connection is weak, say so and switch to audio — a clear voice beats a frozen face, and no interviewer holds bandwidth against you.
On camera, silence feels twice as long as it is. Take the pause you need before answering; it reads as considered rather than slow. Keep a short note of the two or three things you want the interviewer to remember, and make sure you have actually said them before the call ends.
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