The Wide Net
You're doing the work. It's landing in the wrong places.
Your type
The Wide Net
You're doing the work. It's landing in the wrong places.
What's actually happening
This isn't a motivation problem — you're out-working most people who take this. It's that near-identical applications spread across several job titles can't be strong for any one of them. A resume written for everything reads, to a screener, as written for nothing. Volume has already told you what it can: the rate is the thing to change, not the count.
This week
- 1
Cut your titles to two
The one you'd take tomorrow, and the one you'd take with a small raise. Everything else is off the list until one of them works.
- 2
Rewrite the top third of your resume for the first title
Only the top third — the summary and your most recent role. That is what a screener reads before deciding.
- 3
Send ten, and only where you can name the requirement you'd fail
If you can't find one, you're applying below your level. If you can name three, you're reaching too far. This forces the targeting that volume has been standing in for.
Where to start
Your problem is which titles — it reads your resume and tells you which ones you'd be screened in for.
Is this you?
Eleven questions, about two minutes. You get your own score out of 100 alongside your type — and we'll show you how it compares to this one. No account, and your answers stay in your browser.
Find your typeThe other seven types
- The RewriterYou're doing more work per application than almost anyone. It's going into the thing that moves least.
- The PerfectionistYour applications are good. There aren't enough of them to find out.
- The DrifterThe applications aren't the problem. Keeping hold of them is.
- The ResearcherYou've thought about this more than you've acted on it.
- The CampaignerYou're running a real campaign. The channel is what's capping it.
- The CloserIt's working. The risk now is what happens when these ones end.
- The Steady HandNothing here is broken. There just isn't enough of it yet.