Job search guides
Job hunting is full of advice that works for anyone, which is why it works for nobody. These guides go the other way: each answers one specific moment of the process, with judgement, worked examples and the things that actually change the outcome.
They are ordered the way a search is actually lived. First the resume and the application, where it all starts and where the same mistake repeats: writing one document for the average of every job you want, and that average fits none of them.
Then the problems, because almost nobody gets to the end without stalling. Sending thirty applications and hearing nothing back is the most common outcome and the worst explained: silence does not tell you whether anything was your fault, and that is exactly the part you can settle before you send.
And last the interview, which is half of this site, because it is where preparation is possible and where it shows most. You will see one idea repeated there: do not memorise answers, have four or five cases of your own that you genuinely know.
None of these pages needs you to use BeSuix to be worth reading: they are written so you can do it by hand. That said, if you would rather see it working before reading anything, the demo walks you through the whole product with no signup and no email, on three fictional profiles and nine job ads. And if what you want is this same thing applied to your own job ads and your own experience, that is what BeSuix is for.
CV and applications
The ATS resume format, and what happens when a machine reads yours
One column, real text, ordinary headings. What actually happens inside an ATS, why two columns break a resume, and what to check before you send it.
A CV written by AI, and how to find what it made up
The signals that give away an AI-written CV, what a generic tool invents and why, and how to audit yours line by line before you send it.
The questions on the application form, where most people give up
The four kinds of open question a form asks, how a 20-word answer differs from a 200-word one, and what to do when there is a character limit.
Salary expectations: the number, the units, and where it does not go
Gross or net, annual or monthly, what to put in the box before you know anything about the job, and how to work out your own figure. Where it does not go.
When the search stalls
Why you are not getting interviews, and which part of it you can change
Four things actually rule you out of a job. Everything else only counts against you. How to tell which is which before you send another application.
Applying for an internal job, when the room already knows you
What to write when the person reading it sees you every day, how to handle your manager finding out, and why an internal interview needs more prep.
The interview
The phone screen is a filter, not a small interview
What a fifteen-minute screening call actually filters, why the salary question comes first, and the questions only the recruiter can answer.
How to prepare for an interview without memorising answers
Not by memorising fifty answers. Cover the four families of question with four or five cases of your own, and prepare the one aimed at your gap.
A competency-based interview is prepared from the job ad, not from a list of questions
What it measures, how it differs from a normal interview, and how to pull the competencies it will ask about out of the job ad itself.
The STAR method, and how to use it without sounding like a template
The STAR method structures an answer into situation, task, action and result. What it is, worked examples by competency, and the mistakes that sink one.
Beyond STAR: which answer framework fits which question
Four answer frameworks, what each one puts in the foreground, and the same story told three ways. Plus what to do when a company says «targeted selection».
Tell me about yourself: one minute, and it is not your life story
One minute is about 145 words. The three blocks, a timed 60-second example, and the mistakes that turn the answer into a four-minute monologue.
Why should we hire you, and what to say about the requirement you do not meet
How to pull the two requirements that matter out of a job ad, how to find your evidence for each, and what to say about the one you do not meet.
Interview weaknesses, and what to say when you do not want to lie
Eight weaknesses you can actually say in an interview, four that give you away, and the three-part answer that works. With a full worked example.
What to ask at the end of an interview, and what you are really there to find out
Twelve questions to ask at the end of an interview, which ones to avoid, and how to pull the sharpest one out of what the job ad does not say.
The second interview, where you stop competing against the market
You are no longer competing against the market, but against two or three finalists. What changes, who decides in each round, and what to say.
Interviewing in a second language, and why nobody is scoring your accent
What is actually assessed, the vocabulary worth preparing, the sentences that buy you time, and what to do with your CV when the ad is in another language.