Career Guides
20 roles that are genuinely hiring. What the job involves, what employers screen for, and how to write a resume that survives the first pass.
Engineering and data
- Software EngineerWhat hiring managers actually screen for, and how to write a resume that survives it.
- Data AnalystThe most common switch into tech. What the role really involves and what employers ask for.
- Data ScientistWhere the title means research, where it means analytics, and how to tell before you apply.
- DevOps EngineerA shortage role with an unusually specific screen. What to put on the page and what to leave off.
- Cybersecurity AnalystThe route in from IT support, and how to reframe experience you already have.
- UI/UX DesignerHow the portfolio and the resume divide the work, and what each one has to prove.
Product and delivery
- Product ManagerA role with no standard definition. How to read a posting and answer what it is really asking.
- Project ManagerCertifications, methodologies, and which of them a hiring manager actually cares about.
- Business AnalystThe bridge role between business and engineering, and the bridge into both from elsewhere.
Go to market
- Marketing ManagerShowing results when the results were a team effort, without overclaiming.
- Digital Marketing ManagerChannels, tools, and the numbers that make a resume credible instead of generic.
- Account ExecutiveQuota, attainment, and deal size. The sales resume is its own genre with its own rules.
- Sales ManagerMoving from carrying a number to owning a team number, and proving you can do both.
Operations
- Customer Success ManagerHow to show impact when you do not carry a quota. The hardest resume problem in go to market.
- Operations ManagerA title that means something different in every industry. How to write for the one you want.
- Supply Chain ManagerWhat changed after 2021, what employers now screen for, and how to speak to it.
Finance, HR and admin
- Financial AnalystCorporate finance, FP&A, and investment analysis are different jobs. Applying to the right one.
- Certified Public AccountantWhat the credential opens, what it does not, and how to position the years around it.
- Human Resources SpecialistWriting a resume for the people who read resumes all day.
- Executive AssistantA senior role that gets written like a junior one. How to show judgment, not just tasks.