Should you work with a recruiter to find your next job? Here's the honest picture highlighting what recruiters can and can't do for you, where they add real value, and how to use them strategically alongside your own job search.

Most senior professionals spend very little time thinking about how they come across as a candidate. They’re busy doing the work and delivering at a high level, which makes total sense. But when it’s time to make a move, or when something unexpected happens, there’s a reckoning that happens. How are you showing up on paper, on LinkedIn, and in hiring conversations? And is that representative of who you are and what you bring to the table? For most people, the honest answer is

The job market is genuinely harder right now. Hiring rates are down, applications are up, and AI is filtering resumes before humans ever see them. Here's why it's so hard to get a job right now and how to break through.

Here’s something most job seekers don’t think about until it’s too late: Hiring managers almost always look at both your resume and your LinkedIn profile, often within minutes of each other. The problem with that is that most people treat their resume and LinkedIn as two separate documents. When those two candidate assets don’t tell the same story, it creates doubt. It’s not necessarily an immediate dealbreaker, but it invites doubt. And in a competitive candidate pool, doubt

A lot of accomplished operators are invisible on paper because their resume reads like a “doer”, not a leader. There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes with being deeply capable and getting things done, being relied upon, and quietly driving a lot of value, while still not getting the senior roles you’re going after. More often than not, the disconnect isn’t your track record. It’s that your resume is still telling an operator’s story when the room is looking for a s