The hiring market has shifted faster than the advice meant to help you navigate it. Signal overload, AI-screened résumés, trust collapse, and recruiter scans measured in seconds. These resources are built around what actually works now — not generic career advice.
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Average recruiter scan on first résumé pass.
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Time to form a trust judgment from a profile.
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More profile views with a real, professional photo.
Decks, frameworks, trackers, and walkthroughs built from inside the search process — not pulled from the internet.
Real resources Dave uses with clients, candidates, and students. New material gets added as it's built. Nothing here is generic.
Practical frameworks, walkthroughs, and tools designed to reduce noise, create direction, and improve traction in a difficult market. Request access for any of the below.
How recruiters actually interpret LinkedIn profiles in a signal-overloaded market.
Profile fundamentals, the 100-millisecond first impression, banner-as-billboard, recruiter scan timing, feed farming, and the small adjustments that improve traction.
Inside
The complete framework for running a deliberate job search in a noisy, AI-filtered market.
Positioning, market reality, recruiter behavior, interview strategy, and the search rhythm that builds momentum instead of burnout.
Covers
A working spreadsheet for organizing high-value LinkedIn targets and favor relationships.
Tracks priority, target type, status, and activity dates — the operating system behind a structured search rhythm instead of an anxious one.
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Resources are organized by what's actually useful — not by buzzwords. Each lane fills out as new material is built.
The market shifted from scarcity to signal overload. Hiring managers already distrusted résumés. Now AI is filtering them faster than humans ever did. The result: a proof economy where brand, activity, and reputation matter more than claims on paper.
These resources exist to help candidates, students, and clients navigate that shift with structured tools instead of generic advice.
More decks, written articles, walkthroughs, video commentary, and downloadable templates built from the same lens: how the market actually works, not how it's supposed to.
If there's something specific you'd find useful, ask. The roadmap is shaped by what people actually request.
If a topic isn't covered yet, request it. Resources here are built around what's actually being asked for, not what fills a content calendar.
