Get Hired in a Day.

Rewrite your resume in 60 minutes so it doesn't get skipped by the Hiring Manager after 15 seconds of reading. Prep with the interview scripts in an evening so you'll know exactly what the hiring manager is looking for.

Software Engineers apply to 100 jobs and hear back from 3. They fail often right before the offer stage. You can blame the market, the ATS, the recruiters. Meanwhile as hiring manager I would read your profile between 2 meetings and scan it for about 15 seconds (if I get that far at all). All rejected profiles look the same: a list of tech, tasks, and responsibilities.

I won't kid you: the market is bad. But the market is not why you keep getting rejected. It's not because of AI either.

I've read 1000s of applications and done 100s of interviews as hiring Director of Engineering in well known tech companies. This guide is everything I look.

Inside, I'll show you:

  • The ONE question I'm trying to answer in those 15 seconds, and why "Built microservices in Go" gives me zero material to answer it
  • Why hiring is risk management, not talent scouting and what that changes about every line you write
  • The 3 failure patterns in almost every rejected profile. Check yourself against pattern 2, it's the one modest engineers fall into hardest
  • The rewrite formula that turns "I built X" into a line I can defend in front of a CTO, with 6 before-and-after examples you can copy
  • What to do when you don't know your numbers (3 answers, and the 3rd one retires "my work wasn't measurable" for good)
  • The retell test: why your profile isn't read by your fellow engineers. It's retold by managers who need it to be simple
  • Your LinkedIn and Resume, line by line: headline, about, experience, skills, featured. This is where the 60 minutes go. One rewrite, done once, properly
  • Word-for-word interview scripts for the 3 questions that decide offers, including the salary answer, and why naming a range anchors you to the bottom of it
  • The probe I use in every interview to separate drivers from passengers, and how to hold up under it

Written by Roman Velic, the engineer from the other side of the table:

  • 20+ years in Software Engineering, 10+ years leading Engineers and their managers as a Director of Engineering & Product
  • Has read 1000s of applications and sat in 100s of hiring and calibration meetings where careers get decided
  • Recently took a Senior Software Engineer from 21 straight rejections, all at the same stage, to a passed hiring manager interview.

Everything in this guide is what I wish the 5 people in my last shortlist had known. Read it before you send another application or before your next interview.

- Roman