THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE INTERVIEW
Somewhere in America, a hiring manager is sitting in a conference room explaining that the company desperately needs someone with 20 years of leadership experience,…
Richard King and the ATS Godfather Or: How a LinkedIn Comment Accidentally Became the Most Honest Recruiting Testimonial of the Year
There is something deeply magical about LinkedIn when it stops pretending to be a professional networking platform and finally reveals its true identity, which is…
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The Interview Wasn’t Wild. It Was Just Tuesday.
A Corporate Safari Through the Modern Hiring Process There are questions people ask casually that should, in truth, require waivers, emotional preparation, and at least…
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Thirty Minutes Late, Somehow Still the Professional One
There is a very specific kind of insult that arrives wearing business casual and pretending to be normal, and one of its favorite disguises is…
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Time Management, Spiritually
There is a very specific kind of comedy that cannot be written, only witnessed, and it usually appears in professional settings where people have spent…
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The Human Shock Absorber
Or, How Competence Became a Group Project Nobody Else Knew They Were Assigned To There is a very particular kind of employee suffering that does…
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Seven Rounds to Nowhere
Or, How a Phone Screen Became a Prestige Drama There is a very specific kind of optimism that enters a room when a recruiter reaches…
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The Day My LinkedIn Post Became a Legal Thriller
There is a very specific kind of corporate panic that only appears when an employee says something true in public with complete sentences, and it…
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The Professional Crime of Not Smiling While the Building Burns
There is a very specific kind of public discomfort that appears the moment an unemployed person becomes too articulate about what unemployment actually feels like,…
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Fully Remote, Spiritually On-Site
There is a very specific kind of interview that begins long before anyone asks a question, and it usually starts the moment a company writes…
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If They Can Question Your Soul, You Can Question PTO
There is something almost majestic about the modern interview, and I mean majestic in the same way a falcon is majestic right before it steals…
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I Had to Un-Like an Executive: A Digital Excavation of Corporate Delusion
There are very few moments in adult life more humbling than discovering that your own public enthusiasm has aged into evidence, and yet somehow one…
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Fired, Fractured, and Weirdly Available at 10:14 A.M.
A Funny Article About Losing a Job, Losing Your Mind, and Finding Out Your Badge Had More Job Security Than You Did There is a…
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