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AM Creative Coach Does this sound familiar? You’ve applied for hundreds of jobs and never hear from a recruiter. The reality is that someone has to get the job eventually.

AM Creative Coach is ready to support your life and career journeys by sharing valuable insights and coaching services focused on personal development, professional development, resume writing, portfolio design, interviewing skills, and more. Or you’ll interview with the hiring manager who loves your work – only to find out they hired someone else. Maybe a former colleague you never felt had a great work ethic just got your dream job. They’ve only been in your current position for six months — you’ve been doing the job for five years! Let’s do this together! I’ll help you change your mindset around the job search and career development, provide you with applicable industry-based feedback from my experience as a Fortune 500 Creative Director, guide you through elevating the content in your resume, give you hiring manager insight to curate your portfolio, and prepare you for behavior-based interview formats used at the most successful companies in the world.

10/17/2026

When people describe this to me, it's almost never the rejection.

It's the nothing.

You send it. You tailored it. You followed up like you were supposed to. And what comes back is just absence.

Your brain can't leave a blank alone, so it fills it in. And it reaches for the worst thing available, which is usually some version of maybe it's me.

Here's what I can tell you from the other side.

That silence isn't feedback.

It feels like feedback. It shows up exactly where feedback should be. But it's what happens when a small team gets hundreds of applications and has an afternoon to sort them.

There's nothing coded in it. Nothing to decode. It's just a system at capacity not making a sound.

So please stop grading yourself on it.

You can't get better against a blank. You can only get better against something real, and this isn't real information about you.

P.S. What have you been telling yourself about the silence?

10/14/2026

Nobody's honestly described the person reading your resume, so let me try.

Their team got cut. They're doing their job plus most of somebody else's. There's a stack of applications and no room left in the day.

They're giving you six, maybe seven seconds. Often after software already tossed you for keywords.

And here's the part almost nobody mentions.

They're scared.

A bad hire costs real money, and in a company watching every dollar, it lands on them. If their own company's been reviewing headcount every quarter, the last thing they want is to be the person who brought in the mistake.

So they're not sitting there hoping to be impressed.

They're looking for something they can defend to their boss.

Which changes what you're actually writing for. You're not trying to dazzle someone with time to admire your work. You're trying to make a fast call easy for a tired person who's worried about getting it wrong.

That's not a lower bar. It's just a different one.

And almost nobody writes for it, which honestly works in your favor.

P.S. Does that change how you'd rewrite your top third?

10/10/2026

Somebody asked me recently how many people they were actually competing with.

I don't think they wanted the real answer.

About 250 apply to a corporate posting now. Roughly ten get a screening call. Three or four get a real interview. One gets the offer.

So on any single application you're looking at under a five percent shot at a phone call. And most of that has nothing to do with whether you could do the job.

But that's not the part I want you to sit with.

Of those 250, most of them could do it.

Most of them are qualified. Most of them have done something close to this before. Most of them would be fine.

Which means qualified isn't the thing that separates you anymore. It's just the cover charge.

I know how that lands if you've spent twenty years getting good at something. But I'd rather you have that than the story most people end up with, which is that they're somehow not enough.

You're enough. So are 249 other people.

The actual question is what makes you easy to recognize in six seconds.

P.S. How many applications in are you right now?

10/07/2026

I keep having the same conversation.

Someone tells me how many applications they've sent, and then there's this pause, and then some version of "I think maybe I'm just not good enough anymore."

You're good enough. Something else happened.

Around 2022 the money changed. Investors stopped rewarding growth and started demanding margin, which just means the same revenue for less money. And the biggest expense at most companies is people.

So everybody cut.

That did two things at once. It put a lot of genuinely good people into the market all at the same moment, and it shrank the teams whose whole job is reading applications.

Applications per opening roughly doubled in three years. Recruiting teams got cut by more than half.

Twice as much coming in. Half the people to read it.

That's it. That's why this feels so different from the last time you looked for a job.

And it's why the advice isn't working. Network more. Tailor your resume. Stay positive. None of it's bad, it's just built for a market that's gone.

You didn't do anything wrong. Nobody told you the rules had changed.

P.S. When did you first notice something was off?

09/30/2026

If you were an individual contributor for most of your career, you never had to think about process.

But those are the wins to highlight right now. The broken handoff you fixed. The review cycle you cut down. The thing you built once so nobody had to rebuild it every quarter.

Most people leave those off, because at the time it did not feel like their job.

Pull one back in. And if you are searching after a layoff, you can apply for the Layoff Intensive.

Searching after a layof? Apply for my 1:1 program the Layoff Intensive. Link is in the first comment.

09/29/2026

The role was posted because someone has a problem they cannot solve with the team they have.

That is who you are writing for. Not a panel with time to admire your past work.

When a resume lands with me, I am reading for one thing: if I add you, is my team better and are we more efficient. From top to bottom, that is what this market is about.

Say what got better because you were there. My book walks through how.

See the comments on getting your plan to stand out in this market.

09/29/2026

You miss every shot you don't take was never advice for a market like this one.

You are not shooting a puck at one goal with one goalie. Two hundred and fifty other people are shooting at that same goal at the same time you are.

Applying to everything that loosely matches your last title is not persistence in that picture. It is expensive, and you are the one paying for it.

You do not need more shots. You need better angles.

How many roles are on your list only because they were open?

Need a system for sorting and rating opportunities? Check out the comments.

09/23/2026

Twice the applications per posting. Half the recruiting team.

When I post a job now, I get two times more applications than I used to, and a lot of recruiting teams have been cut by 50 percent since 2020. Everyone is doing more with less, so the market answers with auto rejections and ghosting.

You are not getting feedback because nobody has the minutes to give it, not because there is nothing good to say.

So who is actually telling you the truth about your resume?

Looking for feedback this week? Check the comments for my webinar schedule.

09/23/2026

What the market took from job seekers is feedback.

You cannot get it from the recruiter. You never get it from the hiring manager. So the rejection lands with no reason attached, and you go find one yourself. Usually it is you.

It might have nothing to do with you.

Every other stage of your career came with notes, reviews, someone telling you what worked. This is the first time you are being judged constantly and told nothing.

How long have you been grading yourself on a test with no answer key?

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