The Job SuitUp blog
Practical guides on tailoring, applicant tracking systems, and running your job search like a pipeline — without inventing a word.
Most cover letters restate the resume in paragraph form. The useful ones answer three questions the job description is already asking — in under 250 words.
Read articleFifty generic applications or ten tailored ones — which produces more interviews? The arithmetic, the three-tier targeting method, and a weekly cadence that doesn't burn you out.
Read articleA 90-second structure for the most common interview opener — built from your resume and the job description, so it sounds prepared without sounding memorized.
Read articleA resume summary formula that survives the six-second skim, with before/after examples for engineering, product, marketing, nursing, finance, and career changers.
Read articlePast ten applications, memory fails and good opportunities rot. The pipeline method: six stages, a 30-minute weekly review, and the numbers that tell you what to fix.
Read articleWhat really happens to your resume inside an ATS — what gets parsed, what gets ranked, what gets a human's attention, and a 10-point self-check that beats most paid scanners.
Read articleWhich words in a job description are actual resume keywords, which are noise, and how to work the real ones into your resume without keyword stuffing.
Read articleA practical, step-by-step method for tailoring your resume to any job description — what to change, what to leave alone, and how to get past ATS filters honestly.
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