Notes from running the search.
Working notes on the parts of a job search nobody hands you a process for. How to read a posting, when to walk away from one, and what to do the week the paycheck stops. Every method here is one the app runs, written out so you can run it by hand.
Career pages beat job boards
Boards go stale, carry middlemen and are where everyone looks. Why the employer's own careers page is the better place to start, how to build the list, and where the boards still earn a look.
Read itApply to fewer jobs
The standard advice is to send more. Why volume is a cost and not a strategy, the seven questions to ask before you spend the hour, and what a week of fewer, better applications looks like.
Read itThe resume headings a scanner cannot read
Spaced out headings, tables, two columns and text boxes can erase whole sections of a resume without a word of warning. What goes missing, why there is no honest score out of a hundred, and a two minute test for your own file.
Read itHow to tell if a job posting is a ghost job
One check beats all eight signals. Then the eight Rolespect weights, what each is worth, the three conditions that stack on top, and what a high score should actually change about your evening.
Read itRun The Mission, the podcast beside these notes.
Each note has a companion episode, out every Thursday. Same ground, in Bradley's voice, for the commute or the walk. The rest of the show is nonprofit operations from Wendling Nonprofit Consulting, the fractional COO practice behind Rolespect.
- Episode 25: Why Rolespect Won't Write Your LinkedIn MessagesWhy the hard part is choosing who to contact, and what fits in a 200 character note.Listen
- Episode 24: What an AI Job Agent Can and Can't Tell YouFour things an agent can tell you, five it can't, and the calls that are still yours.Listen
- Episode 23: Ninety Applications and Two RepliesThe numbers behind the silence and a four field record that makes your search readable.Listen
- Episode 22: The Job Search Changed. The Strategy Didn't.What the openings to hires gap shows, and which listings earn real effort.Listen
- Bonus: The Ghost Job ProblemWhat the ghost job data shows, and why volume is not progress.Listen
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