Job search guides: resumes, fit and interviews | Relaunch

Assessing Fit

How to Tell If You're Actually Qualified for a Job

Most people check job descriptions for keywords they recognize. Recognizing the vocabulary is not the same as having the evidence to back up the claims the role requires.

What to Do When You Don't Meet All the Job Requirements

Most job postings list more requirements than any single candidate will meet. The question is which ones you are missing and what you are going to do about it.

Interview Readiness

How to Use a Job Description to Prepare for an Interview

A job description is a list of interview questions in disguise. Here is how to read it for preparation, not just for application.

Resume

Why Your Resume Isn't Getting Responses

Resume silence is almost never about keywords. It is about specific document problems that cause a recruiter to stop reading.

What Hiring Managers Actually Look for in a Resume

Not keywords. Not formatting. Evidence that the claims you are making are defensible. Here is what experienced hiring managers are actually evaluating.

Interview Preparation

Interview Readiness

How to Prepare for Resume-Based Interview Questions

Interviewers use your resume as a script. Every bullet you wrote is a question waiting to be asked. Most people find this out mid-interview instead of preparing for it.

Interview Readiness

How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions Using Your Resume

Behavioral interview questions are asking for receipts. Specific, named, dated evidence of things you have actually done. Your resume already has them.

Interview Readiness

How to Explain a Career Transition in an Interview

The story is not "why I am leaving." It is "why this next thing makes sense given everything before it." Those are different stories, and only one of them works.

Comparisons

Relaunch vs Jobscan: a verdict in words, not a match rate

Both read your resume against a job posting. One gives you a percentage. The other tells you whether the problem is your experience or the way your resume describes it.

Relaunch vs Teal: your own words, and a pass that ends

Both help you build a resume and keep track of a search. They differ on who writes the words and on how you pay for a search that should end.

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