Top of the Stack was built by a recruiter with 24 years of hiring-side experience. We help senior professionals get seen, get considered, and get hired with honest, strategic candidate optimization services that most career coaches can't give you.

LinkedIn is where recruiters find you, but Easy Apply has a 3% response rate. Learn the best job search platforms and LinkedIn strategies to get noticed and land interviews as a senior professional.

You're qualified, you're applying, and you're hearing nothing. If that's where you are right now, the first thing worth saying is that you're not imagining it and it's likely not about your experience. Ghosting rates have hit a three-year high, with 53% of job seekers reporting being ignored by employers after applying, up from 38% just two years ago. The silence is real and understanding why it's happening can help you change the tides.

If you haven't revisited your LinkedIn profile in depth in the last year or two, there's a good chance it's not working as hard for you as it should be. Recruiters are searching for your LinkedIn, filtering by it, and forming first impressions before they ever open your resume. A recent Wall Street Journal piece by Callum Borchers dove into exactly this, profiling real job seekers who made targeted changes to their LinkedIn presence and landed roles because of it. The pattern

Your resume has one job: get you in the room. Learn how to write a resume that gets interviews with tips on leading with impact, tailoring for each role, and getting past AI screening tools.