Guides to resumes, the job search, and getting callbacks.
Practical, no-fluff guides on resumes, job search, and getting callbacks. From the team building Resume Blox.
- · 9 min read · career-change
A resume for teachers leaving teaching for corporate jobs
You already run planning, stakeholder meetings, training and data review every week. The resume problem is vocabulary, so start with a phrase-by-phrase translation, then fix the parts a dictionary cannot.
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Your software engineer resume after a layoff gap
You were laid off, the search is running long, and the end date on your last role feels like a warning light. It is not. Make the calls one at a time, then keep a short, true answer ready for when a recruiter asks.
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The resume for a nurse moving into informatics is already in your shifts
Super-user badges, go-live weekends, the order set you got fixed, the huddle board you built. Bedside nurses do informatics work and bury it under the med pass. Inventory it, sort it, and move the best of it to the top of the page.
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Resume for a graphic designer moving into product design
You already do research, iteration and design under constraints. Your resume just hides it behind the polish. One designer, rewritten section by section, so the page shows the user and the process.
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How to list class projects on a new grad resume
Class projects count as experience when you write them as work: a name, what you built, your part on the team, the tools, and a result. Here is one entry, taken apart line by line.
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Can ATS read a two-column resume?
Sometimes. It depends on how the columns are built, not on the columns themselves. Learn what a parser does with your PDF, what scrambles it, and a quick paste test that shows your own file the way the software sees it.
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How to counter a job offer without flinching
The offer call is not the finish line. It is a short, normal negotiation the employer already expects. Here is the counter script, what is actually negotiable, and how to anchor on a real number.
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Cover letters worth sending, and how to open one
Most cover letters get a glance or get skipped. A few decide the hire. Here is a clear-eyed test for which kind you are about to write, and how to open one so the reader wants sentence two.
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Turn a resume bullet into a tight interview story
A resume bullet is the headline. The interview answer is the article. Here is how to expand one bullet into a short STAR story that actually lands.
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The top third of your resume does most of the work
Recruiters skim a resume for an average of 7.4 seconds before deciding whether to keep reading. That decision happens above your first job, every time. Here is how to design the part of the page they actually read, with a 6-second scan game so you can feel it for yourself.
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How to write resume bullets that actually get callbacks
Most resume bullets describe what you did. The ones that get callbacks describe what changed because you did it. Here is how to write the second kind.
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