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Career coaching · Madison, WI

First draft is fine. It's the second one that sounds like you.

Resumes, LinkedIn profiles and interview answers all start as drafts. We sit down with the version you have, mark it up in front of you, and revise until it sounds like you on a good day.

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An overhead view of a single printed resume sheet on a bright drafting table, marked with pencil arcs and margin notes
opening line — rewrite
the bullet that buries it
cut this adjective
Services

Every service is a revision.

Five services, one method: read the draft, find the line that is doing the damage, revise it. Start wherever your material is weakest.

RefServiceWhat it fixes
A Resume writing Structure first, then the sentences that are actually carrying weight. Book → B Interview preparation The answers you already have, rehearsed out loud until the story stops wobbling. Book → C Career transition coaching For the move that does not look obvious on paper yet. Book → D LinkedIn optimization The profile as a working drawing, not a poster. Book → E Online courses The same method, on your own time, one sheet at a time. Enroll →
What we fix

Bring the draft. We'll find the line that's doing the damage.

A printed resume page on a drafting table with numbered callout markers and a compass arc drawn across it 01 02 03 04 05
  1. 01

    The opening line

    Most drafts open with what you want. The revision opens with what you are for.

  2. 02

    The bullet list

    Responsibilities read as a list. Redline turns them into results, in the order that matters.

  3. 03

    The gap

    The stretch of time that does not fit the story gets explained in one plain sentence, not hidden.

  4. 04

    The title

    Job titles are the company's words. We add the plain-English version next to them.

  5. 05

    The last line

    Ask for the conversation in a sentence that does not apologize for asking.

Courses

Take the method with you.

Three courses, worked through sheet by sheet. Take them on your own, or bring what you write to a session and we will revise it together.

Three folded instruction sheets stacked at an angle on a desk beside a pencil and a compass
Course sheets 01–03
Course 01

Resume Writing

Structure the page, write an opening line that lands the first time, and cut the bullets that carry no weight.

Online course Resume writing
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Course 02

Interview Preparation

Answer out loud, on the record, until the story holds — with the questions worth rehearsing and the ones worth declining.

Online course Interview preparation
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Course 03

LinkedIn Optimization

A working drawing of your profile: headline, summary and the sections most people leave blank out of habit.

Online course LinkedIn optimization
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Courses are online. If you would rather work through the material with someone, start with a coaching session.

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Start with the draft you already have.

Send the version you would never show anyone. That is the one we start from.

  1. 01

    Send it

    A resume, a profile, or the interview answer you keep fumbling. Anything counts as a draft.

  2. 02

    Redline it

    We mark the sheet up together and decide what stays, what moves and what goes.

  3. 03

    Revise and rehearse

    You make the edits. Then we run the answers out loud until they hold under pressure.

Two people working through a printed page together at a table in natural light, one pointing at a line on the sheet
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No obligation. Send the draft as it is.