Posts Tagged ‘Tenure’
They Went Quiet. What Did You Keep?
A 56-year-old executive sat six interviews for one role and never heard back. His answer was a mindset. This is the part it leaves out: a ghosted process still produced evidence, none of it belonged to the employer, and it is gone within a week unless you write it down.
Read MoreCareer 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 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.
Read MoreThe resume rebuild trap
Most professionals rebuild their resume the same way every time — starting from scratch, under pressure, working from memory. The resume isn’t the problem. The materials you’re building from are. Here’s what’s actually going wrong.
Read MoreEvery Job Is an AI Job — But Senior Professionals Need a Different Toolkit
Clara Shih’s New Work Foundation is doing real work for Gen Z entering the worst entry-level job market in nearly four decades. But the senior professional has a different problem — quieter, upstream of AI agents, and almost no one is naming it. Here’s what the AI-careers conversation misses for the audience with twenty years behind them.
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