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The Insider Job Kit

You're not unqualified. You're invisible to the system.

Most applications are filtered, skimmed and discarded before a human ever forms an opinion. This kit shows you what happens in that gap — and how to write for it.

One-time payment · Instant download · No subscription

25Years designing hiring processes
12Chapters in the Insider Playbook
7Seconds a CV typically gets on first pass
What's inside

Six components. One system.

Not a template pack. A method for understanding how your application is actually read — by software first, then by a person in a hurry.

01

The Insider Playbook

Twelve chapters on how screening really works: what the software extracts, what a recruiter scans for, and where most applications quietly fail.

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02

Three CV Templates

Deliberately plain, structured for clean parsing. Plus a cover letter template. Designed to survive the software, not to win design awards.

DOCX · ATS-safe
03

AI Tailoring Prompt Pack

Prompts that turn a job advert into a targeted application in minutes — without producing the generic output recruiters recognise instantly.

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04

Interview Cheat Sheet

The questions behind the questions, and how to structure answers that hold up under follow-up.

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05

Application Tracker

A working spreadsheet for managing a real search — versions, dates, contacts, follow-ups — so nothing is lost.

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06

Start Here Guide

The order to work through it in, depending on whether you're early-career, senior, or changing direction.

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Why this, and not the other thing

Written from the other side of the table.

  • 25 years designing hiring processes at scale — RPO/MSP and large global organisations
  • Designed and led hiring functions, including CHRO-level advisory
  • Strategy-led rather than template-led — the reasoning, not just the format
  • Published anonymously, so the advice stays candid

Most job-search advice is written by people who have never had to reject four hundred applications in an afternoon.The premise of this kit

Free — no payment required

Start with the free guide.

A short introduction to how screening works and the fastest fixes to make first. If it's useful, the full kit goes considerably deeper.

Get the free guide

A note on what this is and isn't: no product can guarantee a job offer, and this one doesn't try to. Hiring depends on timing, competition and budget — factors outside anyone's control. What a better application can do is improve your chances of getting past the screen and being read properly. That's the part this kit is designed to help with.

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