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The ATS Masterclass
The complete method behind our paid service, taught: six sequenced chapters from how the screening machine actually reads you through to a weekly application strategy — with the worksheets and checklists to apply every step to your own resume.
Exactly what's inside — all 6 chapters, ~102 minutes of reading
No mystery box: this is the complete outline, including every worksheet and checklist by name.
- 1
How the Machine Reads You: Inside ATS Screening
The five-stage pipeline between Submit and an interview — and where applications actually die · 14 min · 7 sections
After this chapter: Trace any application through the five-stage screening pipeline and diagnose, from your own application history, where yours are failing and why.
- Worksheet: Diagnose your last 10 applications
- ✓ Checklist: The 60-second pre-submit machine check
- 2
Resume Architecture: The Format That Survives
The structural layer beneath keywords — what parses, what scrambles, and why · 15 min · 7 sections
After this chapter: Rebuild your resume on a parse-safe, four-section architecture — right format, right sections, right length for your stage — and verify it survives parsing before you tune a single keyword.
- Worksheet: Rebuild your resume skeleton
- ✓ Checklist: The full formatting pass
- 3
The Keyword System: Matching Without Stuffing
Build a keyword map from real postings — and earn every term on the page. · 18 min · 6 sections
After this chapter: Build a prioritized keyword map from three to five real postings, place each keyword where it works hardest, and verify every term is backed by real experience.
- Worksheet: The keyword map builder
- ✓ Checklist: The keyword integrity pass
- 4
Tailoring in 20 Minutes: The Per-Application Workflow
A timeboxed, repeatable run sheet that turns your master resume into a posting-matched application — without rewriting a word of your history. · 17 min · 7 sections
After this chapter: Run a repeatable 20-minute tailoring workflow for any posting — deconstruct it, retune your summary, competencies, and top bullets to its exact language, and know when a posting isn't worth applying to at all.
- Worksheet: The posting deconstruction grid
- ✓ Checklist: The 20-minute tailoring run sheet
- 5
LinkedIn: The Second Resume Recruiters Search First
Recruiters search LinkedIn the way they search an ATS — this chapter makes you the result they find. · 18 min · 7 sections
After this chapter: Rebuild the four profile sections recruiter searches run against, set every visibility-affecting setting deliberately, and align your LinkedIn with your resume point for point.
- Worksheet: The profile audit scorecard
- ✓ Checklist: The resume–LinkedIn alignment pass
- 6
Applying Strategically: Volume, Channels, and the Long Game
Ten tailored applications, run as a system, beat a hundred blasts — here is the system. · 20 min · 7 sections
After this chapter: Run your job search as a weekly operating system — a deliberate channel mix, a one-spreadsheet pipeline, professional follow-up, and a triage rule for what to change when applications go unanswered.
- Worksheet: Your weekly job-search operating system
- ✓ Checklist: The application quality bar
Our free guides are good. This is different.
The 12 free guides each cover one topic and always will, free. The Masterclass is a program: one method, in the right order, where chapter 3's keyword map feeds chapter 4's tailoring workflow, and every chapter ends with work you complete against your own materials — 12 worksheets and checklists in total, plus a printable companion PDF. If you only ever read one thing from us, read the free guides. If you're rebuilding your resume this month, this is the tool for the job.
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ATS Masterclass FAQ
The overlap is the subject, not the content. The free guides are standalone articles; the Masterclass is one continuous method — each chapter builds on the previous one, everything ends in a worksheet or checklist you complete against your own resume, and the tailoring workflow, keyword-map system, weekly operating cadence, and diagnosis worksheets don't exist anywhere in the free material.