Career-tools journal, est. 2024

Write the resume that earns the conversation.

Purzue is a small editorial outlet for practical career-search craft. We publish considered guides on resume formatting, multimedia applications, and the data behind a job that lands.

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In the journal

Three pieces, written for the people doing the actual job search.

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Issue 01 / ATS Optimization

How to optimize your resume for ATS and actually get interviews

Most resumes are filtered out by software before a human ever reads them. The silence is rarely about qualifications, it is about format. A practical look at the parsing rules and keyword strategy that move a resume to the top of the queue.

Most job seekers spend hours crafting a resume, hit submit, and hear nothing back. Before a hiring manager reads a single word, an applicant tracking system has already scored, ranked, and often eliminated the application. The first practical step is to stop guessing and start removing every barrier between your content and the parser. That work pairs naturally with the kind of evidence you build when you start supplementing the resume with multimedia.

Read the full piece, 8 min
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Issue 02 / Multimedia Applications

When to add video and audio to your job application, and when not to.

A multimedia resume can differentiate the right candidate for the right role, and look like a misread of the hiring culture in the wrong one. A field guide to where the format earns its space and where it costs you the conversation.

The one-page PDF resume has not disappeared, but it now competes with candidates who arrive in a hiring manager's inbox with a video introduction, a portfolio link, and an audio sample attached. For some roles this is a competitive advantage. For others it reads as a misread of the hiring culture. Smart career strategy means knowing which is which, and pairing the format with the same kind of format hygiene the ATS demands.

Read the full piece, 7 min
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Issue 03 / Imports and Data

A step-by-step guide to importing LinkedIn data into your resume.

A LinkedIn profile is a useful raw material source, not a finished resume. The process for turning years of stored career data into a targeted, ATS-ready document, broken down step by step.

Retyping your full work history into a resume builder is one of the most avoidable time sinks in the job search. Most professionals already have years of career data sitting in a LinkedIn profile. Importing that data into a resume builder eliminates the blank-page problem and gets you to a working first draft in minutes. The catch is that imported data rarely arrives in finished form, and that final shaping is the same kind of work covered in the ATS optimization piece.

Read the full piece, 8 min
A note from the editors

A resume is not a record of your career. It is an argument for one specific job.

Treat each application as a one-time piece of writing with a job to do, not a static file you reuse. The pieces in this journal are written from that view.