Refolk / Job search
Writing for people who are actually looking for work right now: resumes, applications, interviews, and the parts of a job search nobody explains.
Federal postings are down 30.6% YoY and the next shutdown fight hits Dec. 11, 2026. Here is how to rewrite a federal contractor resume in six weeks.
DHS wants to kill the 60-day H-1B grace period. Here is the pre-layoff resume, LinkedIn, and cap-exempt strategy to be transfer-ready on day zero.
Mobley v. Workday is deep in discovery. Here is how to spot the sub-hour auto-reject, document it, and rewrite the date fields that trigger it.
Wells Fargo's 23rd 2026 WARN hits West Des Moines Nov. 28. Here is the 60-day resume playbook for ops workers facing AI-driven cuts.
After Microsoft's Ninja Theory sale attempts collapsed, here is how to write a game developer resume for Senua, an unreleased, possibly cancelled AAA title.
Disney cut 300 HR and tech staff on Sept 30, 2026. Here is the resume pivot ex-recruiters should actually run, with numbers from Refolk's index.
Greenhouse's 2026 report shows 38% of US candidates have walked over AI interviews. Here's how to spot one from the invite and decide fast.
Why a two-week resume date fudge now triggers HireRight's silent Complete Discrepancy flag, and the Equifax audit that catches it first.
Tech's vacancy-to-hire gap hit 47% in 2026. Here is why applying only to postings under 72 hours old is the cleanest counter-move.
LinkedIn's 2026 semantic search and Job Match Score punish keyword-stuffed profiles. Here is the rewrite that ranks under the new model.
Pin's 500K-rejection study shows "overqualified" kills 13% of junior applications. Here's how to defuse the signal when applying down after a layoff.
Oracle's 359 Washington layoffs land Nov. 13, 2026. How ex-OCI engineers should rewrite the resume for AWS, Azure, and AI-infra roles.
A USENIX 2026 study of 196,682 resumes found 90% of hidden content isn't prompt injection, and ATS vendors already catch it. Here's what to do instead.
Dawn Song, Bo Li, and Sanmi Koyejo got four months inside Meta Superintelligence Labs. Here is the acqui-hire resume that survives it.
Amazon cut ~14,000 corporate roles with a 90-day internal clock. Here is the two-track resume playbook for the internal portal and the external market.
Nike's Pace restructuring hits in 2027. Here's how Beaverton merchandisers, Jordan marketers, and digital PMs rework a resume now, before the glut.
Dartmouth Health cancelled 303 reqs on Sept 15, 2026. Here is how orphaned applicants rewrite the resume to land a surviving role at the same employer.
Kaiser cut 147 California admins the same week health added 55,000 jobs. Here is the resume rewrite that lands you back in-sector fast.
Conifer's Sept. 2 WARN cuts 1,037 remote RCM jobs by Nov. 2. Here is the resume pivot to insourcers, rival vendors, and payers.
Trinity Health's 557-person Livonia IT layoff needs two resumes: one for the vendor rebadge, one for the next regulated IT shop.
EA's $700M post-LBO cost cut hits game devs after 13,800 industry layoffs in 2026. Here's the resume that pivots Unreal and C++ out of gaming.
Korn Ferry says 61% of workers do more than one role. Here is how to put absorbed scope on a resume without sounding desperate or overemployed.
September 2026's 29,000-job print froze lateral hiring. Here is how a mid-career resume has to change when quits sit at 1.9% and you are stuck.
Amentum filed three WARN notices in six weeks. Here is how cleared workers rewrite the TS/SCI resume when the contract moves but the mission stays.
How a long-tenured UPS driver taking the $150K Driver Choice buyout should rewrite a one-employer resume for FedEx, DSPs, and LTL in 2026.
Amazon's May 2026 SPS cuts leave catalog and account-health PMs with one bad option (AWS transfer) and one good one. Here is the rewrite.
Target laid off 87 directors in one WARN filing. Here is how to rewrite a top-heavy leadership resume for a market deleting your layer.
AssistRx is cutting 86 at Sand Lake on Nov 30, with 137 more by May 2027. How CoAssist and hub-services workers should rewrite their resume now.
PayPal's WARN cut 251 senior roles in San Jose. Here is how directors and staff engineers rewrite the resume using PayPal's own AI language, not restructuring.
September 2026 hiring plans hit a 15-year low at 90,787. Here is where Q4 postings actually sit and how to retarget a resume this week.
September 2026 hiring plans hit a 15-year low at 90,787, with retail taking 65,150. Here is how to rewrite an office resume for the one sector still hiring.
Foghorn cut ~41 staff on Oct 1, 2026 after FHD-909 failed Phase 1 and Lilly exited. Here is the resume strategy for the Watertown cohort.
Uber cut 3,300 jobs and named the exact manager profile it no longer wants. Here is how to rewrite your resume so you do not match it.
TikTok's Oct 5 Nashville closure cuts 250 trust and safety jobs in a zero-T&S metro. The surgical resume pivot into GRC, fraud ops, and remote T&S.
Cluely and Final Round AI are hard to detect. You aren't. The four behavioral tells that out candidates on Zoom, and how to fix each one.
545 Crothall EVS workers face an Oct 31, 2026 cliff at VCU Health. Here is the resume that converts the HHS rebadge interview into an offer.
Disney cut 300 HR and corporate IT roles on Sept 30, 2026. Here is how laid-off HRBPs and sysadmins rewrite the resume AI just priced out.
October 2026 hit 153,074 US layoffs across nearly 450 companies. Here is how laid-off warehousing and UPS workers break out of the resume pile.
Workday cut 525 Pleasanton engineers on Sept 29, 2026. Here is the resume playbook for the people who built the parser now filtering them.
Truist's $5.5B RAC exit is the pilot cut. Here is how Charlotte and Raleigh bank tech workers should rewrite resumes before wholesale is next.
A Sept 28 CESifo paper shows AI did not cause new grad unemployment. Here is what your 2026 resume should say instead, backed by hiring data.
ServiceNow's Sept 28 WARN hits 287 workers this week. Where a Now Platform resume actually converts, backed by Refolk's index of 78,844 skilled pros.
Oracle's 10-K is the first to name AI as the cause of 21,000 layoffs. Here is how to write the resume and answer the interview question.
Laid off on H-1B? You have 30 to 45 days, not 60. Here is the resume and outreach that gets a cap-exempt transfer filed before the fee hits.
Porsche's Sept 2026 cuts hit Weissach R&D by up to 30%. Where Zuffenhausen engineers should target next, and how to rewrite the CV.
EO 14356's 4-to-1 ratio and Strategic Hiring Committees make DHA postings close in 48 hours. Here is the federal resume that lands inside that window.
Nike is cutting 1,400 tech roles and consolidating into Beaverton and Bengaluru. The resume moves that survive offshoring in 2026.
Workday now triangulates your resume against LinkedIn before a human reads it. Here is what actually triggers AI resume rejection, and the fix.
AI reference checks from SkillSurvey, HiPeople, and Glider now score response rate and flag scripted answers. Here is the 2026 prep sheet.
Julie Sweet publicly labeled exited Accenture staff "not reskillable" on AI. Here is the resume rewrite that neutralizes the stigma and lands in-house roles.
1.9M Americans are long-term unemployed as 2025 layoff benefits expire. Here is the resume, LinkedIn, and cover letter fix that moves callbacks.
If Hochul signs S8877, NY job postings must disclose fill dates and update candidates in 45 days. Here's how to triage listings and time follow-ups.
Novo Nordisk cut 13,000, not 9,000. Here is how ex-Novo staff outside Denmark rewrite resumes for Lilly, Roche, Structure, and Zealand in 2026.
Sunrise's Q4 2026 consultation targets network and IT roles, not stores. Here is the CV pivot to Zurich enterprise IT before syndicom talks close.
Microsoft moved Halo, Rare, and World's Edge under Activision on Sept 22, 2026. Here is the resume rewrite for laid-off Xbox studio devs.
Illinois HB 3773, NYC Local Law 144, and a leaked DeepMind form show what really happens when you opt out of AI resume screening.
Amazon cut 16,000 on January 28, 2026 with a 90-day internal transfer window. Here is the resume rewrite that beats "pending informational".
LinkedIn restricts 23% of bulk-automation users in 90 days and recruiters share a 461-tool blacklist. Here is what triggers both, and how to move fast safely.
Ghost-job rates hit 60% in government and 48% in IT. Here's how to route your next 100 tailored applications toward postings that actually hire.
Audi Neckarsulm's 2033 job guarantee protects your paycheck, not the product. Rewrite the CV before the June 2027 allocation decision.
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