Posts by Glenn Abcede
Career Maintenance Is a Regime, Not a Reaction
There are two ways to keep a career record badly: rebuild it in a weekend when the reorg lands, or tailor the résumé to posting after posting until it stops sounding like you. Glenn ran the second one for a decade. The Vol. III centerpiece names the alternative, and its three properties.
Read MoreAI Will Read Your Résumé Before a Human Does
Algorithm ghosting gets written up as an early-career problem. It isn’t. The screening layer reads senior applications the same way, and what it cannot index is exactly where senior value lives. On the evidence gap nobody has measured, and the one variable you still control.
Read MoreReconstruction Tax: When Career Records Come Due
Undocumented careers pay a reconstruction tax: weeks of deadline archaeology, decision context that never comes back, and an exchange rate that compounds every deferred year. Here’s the itemized invoice — and the ten-minute alternative.
Read MoreGrowth, Not Tenure — But Growth You Can Prove
Employers stopped counting years and started asking what changed while you were there. Long tenure isn’t the risk — undocumented tenure is. Here’s what a provable growth record contains, and the ten minutes it costs to keep one.
Read MoreWhat Your Performance Review Doesn’t Capture
Your last performance review is a decent record of what you delivered. It’s a terrible record of how you decided. Pull one up. A good one reads like an outcome ledger — shipped the platform migration, hit the numbers, came in under budget, kept the stakeholders aligned. All true, all worth having. But read it…
Read MoreThe Maintenance Habit Nobody Teaches You
There’s a skill nobody puts on a syllabus: keeping a usable record of your own work. Most senior professionals don’t have it. Here’s the 15-minute fix.
Read MoreWhat I wish I’d known at year one (and year twenty)
There are things you only understand after enough time has passed — after enough roles, enough reorgs, enough moments where you needed to represent your career and realized you weren’t as prepared as you thought. The gap between professionals who move well and those who scramble isn’t talent. It’s system.
Read MoreYour career is an asset. Most people treat it like a liability.
Most professionals are meticulous about the things they own — their finances, their home, their investments. Then they treat their career like a filing cabinet they only open when they’re moving. Your career is probably the most valuable asset you have. Here’s what managing it actually looks like.
Read MoreYou got the interview. Now what?
Getting the interview is the moment most job seekers are working toward. Then it arrives — and the pressure shifts. The professionals who interview well aren’t better on their feet. They’re better prepared before they sit down. Here’s what that actually looks like.
Read MoreThe Audit Trail Is the New Resume
For thirty years, the resume was the one consequential professional document trusted on its face. AI is closing that exemption. Here’s what regulated industries always knew.
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