Every package below is a single purchase. There is no membership, no auto-renewal, and no upsell partway through. If you are not sure which one fits, email us and describe your situation and we will tell you honestly which is the smallest thing that would help.

Resume Reset, $149

Who it suits: you are applying steadily and hearing almost nothing back. Your materials are probably the bottleneck.

• A full rewrite of your resume, delivered in an editable file in your existing format
• A rewritten LinkedIn headline and About section
• One live 45 minute session to walk through the changes and the reasoning
• Two rounds of written revisions after the session

Timeline: about two weeks from intake to final files.

Full Search Support, $389

Who it suits: you are actively searching, you have time to put in, and the search has no shape to it.

• Everything in Resume Reset
• Four live 45 minute coaching sessions, scheduled at your pace
• A target list of companies and roles built with you, not handed to you
• Two mock interviews with written feedback after each
• Six weeks of email follow-up between sessions

Timeline: most people use this over six to eight weeks.

Career Change Plan, $549

Who it suits: you are moving into a different field or function and your experience does not speak for itself on paper.

• Everything in Full Search Support
• A transferable skills audit that maps what you have done onto what the new field asks for
• Positioning work for a field you have not formally worked in
• Two additional coaching sessions, six total
• Twelve weeks of email follow-up

Timeline: most people use this over three months.

How sessions work

Sessions are held by video call and scheduled directly with your coach. You send your materials ahead of time and the coach reviews them before you meet, so the session is spent on the work rather than on reading. Sessions are not recorded unless you ask.

What we do not do

We are not a recruiting agency and we do not place candidates. We do not apply to jobs on your behalf, and we do not have a back channel to employers. What we sell is preparation and judgment, not access.

Each guide is a PDF and a set of worksheets, written by our coaches from the material they use in sessions. Buy one, keep it, no subscription.

Bundles

Refunds

Digital guides can be refunded within 14 days of purchase if they are not what you expected. Email support@careerjobsearch.com and we will process it. We do not ask you to justify it.

These articles cover the questions that come up most often in sessions. They are free and always will be.

Applications  |  About a 6 minute read

Silence after an application is the single most common thing people bring to a first session. It is also the least informative signal in the whole process, because it can mean six completely different things and none of them come with an explanation.

1. The role was filled internally before it was posted

Many postings go up after a preferred candidate is already identified, because policy requires an open posting. Nothing in your application was ever going to change the outcome. You cannot detect this from the outside and you should not try.

2. The posting is old or the search was paused

Headcount gets frozen. Postings stay up. A req that has been live for two months with no activity is often not a live search at all. Check the posting date before you spend an hour on a cover letter.

3. You did not clear the screen

This is one you control. Screening, whether automated or a recruiter spending seconds per resume, looks for specific evidence. If the posting names a tool, a certification, or a years-of-experience threshold and your resume does not state it plainly, you can be screened out while being perfectly qualified.

The fix is unglamorous: read the posting, find the three or four things it actually requires, and make sure each one appears in plain language on your resume if it is true of you.

4. Your materials do not answer the obvious question

The other one you control. A reader is asking one thing: has this person done something close to what we need? If your resume is a list of duties rather than a record of what you produced, you are making them do work they will not do.

5. The volume is genuinely crushing

A single posting at a known company can draw hundreds of applications within days. Some are never read by anyone. This is not a statement about your candidacy.

6. The process broke

The recruiter left. The hiring manager changed. The req got reassigned and your application sat in a queue nobody owns. This happens constantly and is invisible from the outside.

Where to put your effort

Four of the six have nothing to do with you. Two of them, clearing the screen and answering the obvious question, are entirely about your materials. That is the whole argument for spending an afternoon fixing your resume instead of sending twenty more applications with the same one.

General career guidance from Career Job Search. Every hiring process differs, and nothing here guarantees an interview or an offer.

Resumes  |  About a 5 minute read

Most resume bullets describe a duty. Duties are forgettable because everyone in your role had the same ones. What a reader remembers is what changed because you were there.

The structure

A bullet that works usually has three parts: what you did, how you did it, and what resulted. The order matters less than making sure the third part exists at all.

Weak

This tells the reader your job title in different words. Any person who held this role could write it.

Stronger

Same job. Now it says what you specifically did, the approach, and the result.

On numbers

You do not need a number in every bullet and forcing one into all of them reads as padding. Aim for roughly half. If you genuinely do not have metrics, scale works as a substitute: how many people, how many accounts, how large a budget, how often.

What to cut

• Anything that was true of every person with your title
• Soft skill claims with nothing behind them, such as "excellent communicator"
• Tools you touched once and could not discuss in an interview
• Bullets about responsibilities you held but did not do anything notable with

How many per role

Three to five for your most recent role, two to three for older ones, and often a single line for anything more than ten years back. A reader spends most of their attention on your current and previous job. Weight the document accordingly.

The honesty line

Describe what you actually did. Claiming results you did not produce is the sort of thing that falls apart in an interview when someone asks a follow-up question, and it is not worth the risk. If the real version is modest, write the real version well.

General career guidance from Career Job Search. Every hiring process differs, and nothing here guarantees an interview or an offer.

Offers  |  About a 5 minute read

The question usually lands in the first screening call, before you know much about the role. Answer too low and you have set a ceiling. Refuse outright and some recruiters will simply move on.

Know your numbers before the call

Three figures, written down in advance. Your walk-away, the number below which you would decline. Your target, what you actually want. And your stretch, what you would ask for if the role is bigger than advertised. Only the target range ever gets said out loud.

Try asking first

A reasonable opener: "I want to make sure we are in the same range before I give you a number. What has been budgeted for this role?" Many recruiters will tell you, and in several US states and cities they are required to disclose a range on request or in the posting.

Ask once. If they decline, give your range rather than pushing again, because pushing twice reads as difficult.

If they insist

Give a range, not a point. Something like: "Based on what I have seen for similar roles in this market, I have been targeting the low to mid nineties, though I am open depending on the full scope and the rest of the package."

Two things that matter here. Your stated range should start at your target, not your walk-away, since the bottom of a range is where negotiation begins. And "the rest of the package" signals that you are evaluating more than base salary, which is true and gives both sides room.

Where the number comes from

Research it rather than guessing. Public salary ranges in postings for comparable roles in your metro are the best source, followed by industry salary surveys and people in your network doing similar work. A number you can explain is a number you can hold.

What not to do

• Do not name your current salary. In many US jurisdictions employers are prohibited from asking, and it anchors the conversation to your past rather than the role's value
• Do not give a single number this early
• Do not apologize for the number or undercut it in the same sentence

General career guidance from Career Job Search. This is not legal advice. Salary disclosure rules vary by state and city, and you should check the rules where you are.

Resumes  |  About a 4 minute read

People spend more anxiety on employment gaps than hiring managers spend attention on them. That said, an unexplained gap does invite a question, and it is better to decide your answer in advance than to improvise it.

On the resume

If the gap is under a year, listing dates by year instead of month often closes it entirely without hiding anything. If it is longer, a single line entry is cleaner than a hole: a sabbatical, caregiving, a return to study, contract work, or a health period described in exactly those general terms.

In the conversation

Two sentences, then forward. "I took eighteen months out for family caregiving. I started looking again in March and I have been focused on roles like this one." That is a complete answer. The instinct to keep explaining is what makes an interviewer think there is more to it.

What you do not have to say

You are not obliged to disclose a medical condition, a disability, a family situation, or anything else private. "Personal reasons, now resolved" is a legitimate answer. In the US, there are legal limits on what employers may ask about health and disability, and an interviewer pressing past a general answer is doing something they probably should not.

If you kept your hand in

Anything that kept you current is worth a line: freelance or contract work, a course, a certification, volunteering with real responsibility. Not to fill space, but because it answers the question the gap actually raises, which is whether you are current.

The thing to avoid

Do not stretch dates to paper over a gap. It surfaces during reference or background checks and turns a non-issue into a credibility problem.

General career guidance from Career Job Search. This is not legal advice. Employment law varies by jurisdiction.

Interviews  |  About a 4 minute read

A follow-up rarely wins you a job on its own. A bad one can cost you a close decision. The goal is to be remembered accurately, not to make a second case.

Timing

Same day or next morning. Later than that and it reads as an afterthought.

What goes in it

Four short parts. Thanks for the time. One specific thing from the conversation that stuck with you, which proves you were present rather than running a script. One sentence connecting your experience to something they said they need. A short close.

If you met several people

Write to each of them separately, and vary the specific detail. Identical emails get noticed when people compare, and comparing is exactly what a hiring panel does.

Chasing a decision

If they gave you a timeline, wait until it has passed by a couple of days, then send one short note. If they gave you no timeline, a week is reasonable. Ask once. If there is no reply after that, let it sit. A second and third chase does not speed anything up and does change how you are remembered.

What not to send

• A long restatement of your qualifications
• Anything that reads as negotiating before an offer exists
• A connection request in place of an email
• An apology for something you felt went badly, which draws attention to it

General career guidance from Career Job Search. Every hiring process differs, and nothing here guarantees an interview or an offer.

Strategy  |  About a 5 minute read

When nothing is working, the instinct is to send more. It feels like effort, it is measurable, and it is usually the wrong lever.

The arithmetic

If a hundred applications produced no responses, the problem is not that you did not send a hundred and fifty. Something upstream is failing: the materials, the targeting, or the level you are aiming at. Sending more of the same just produces more silence more quickly.

Diagnose before you scale

A rough read on where it is breaking:

• No responses at all points at materials or targeting
• Screening calls but no first rounds points at how you talk about your experience
• First rounds but no finals points at depth on specifics, or fit questions
• Finals but no offers is often close competition rather than a defect

Each of those needs a different fix. Volume helps with none of them.

Three tiers

Sort what you find into three groups and spend your time deliberately.

1. Tier one, two or three per week. Roles you genuinely want. Tailored resume, a real cover letter, and a person at the company you have tried to reach.
2. Tier two, five to ten per week. Good fits. Light tailoring of the resume summary and top bullets.
3. Tier three, whatever you like. Plausible but uninspiring. Standard resume, quick apply, no further thought.

Most interviews come out of tiers one and two. Tier three is for keeping the pipeline from going empty and should cost you almost nothing.

The part people skip

Referrals convert at a much higher rate than cold applications, and most people skip them because asking is uncomfortable. One message to someone who worked at the company, even loosely connected, is worth more than another ten cold submissions.

General career guidance from Career Job Search. Every hiring process differs, and nothing here guarantees an interview or an offer.

Why this exists

Most job search advice is either free and generic or expensive and vague. Career Job Search was started in 2026 to sit in between: specific, paid at a price people can actually justify, and honest about what it can and cannot do for you.

We work with people in the middle of a search who have tried the obvious things. The most common session we run is not a reinvention. It is someone reading your materials properly and telling you what is going wrong.

What we offer

• Coaching packages from $149 to $549, each a one-time purchase with live sessions and written feedback
• Digital guides from $39, written by our coaches, yours to keep
• Free articles covering the questions that come up most often, open to everyone

How we work

• One-time purchases. No membership, no auto-renewal, no subscription you have to remember to cancel.
• We will talk you down. If a $39 guide would solve your problem, we will say so rather than selling you a package.
• We are not recruiters. We do not place candidates, do not apply on your behalf, and have no back channel to employers.
• Your information is yours. We do not sell client data. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates.

What we cannot promise

Nobody can guarantee you a job, and anyone who does is selling something else. Hiring depends on timing, competition, and decisions made in rooms you are not in. What preparation changes is how you show up to the chances you get, which is the part that is actually yours.

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