Hired: A Recruiter's Playbook to Land the Job
You're not getting rejected. You're getting filtered, and nobody told you the rules.
You've felt it. You spend an evening tailoring the perfect application, hit submit, and hear... nothing. No reply. No feedback. Just silence. So you apply to ten more. Then fifty more. And slowly you start to wonder if the problem is you.
It isn't.
Most resumes are screened by software before a human ever sees them, and most job-search advice online is written by people who have never actually hired anyone.
I have. For seven years I sat on the recruiter's side of the table. I've read thousands of resumes, run the searches that decide who surfaces and who disappears, and watched brilliant people get passed over for reasons they would never guess.
HIRED is everything I wish I could tell every candidate who asks me, "Why am I not getting calls back?"
No fluff. No buzzwords. Just what actually works, from someone who is still hiring people today.
Inside the 11 chapters:
✓ Build a LinkedIn profile recruiters can't scroll past
✓ Craft an ATS-proof resume that actually reaches a human
✓ Search so the right roles find you
✓ Use AI to apply at scale without sounding like a robot
✓ Decode any job description and say exactly what they want to hear
✓ Interview prep, the STAR method, and salary negotiation that doesn't cost you the offer
And then there's the Bonus Vault. This is where it gets unfair.
Most job-search books stop at advice. I'm handing you the actual tools I'd give a friend over coffee:
🔓 The Little Black Book of Recruiter Emails
This is the one that changes everything. A curated list of real, active recruiter contacts, the people who actually decide who gets interviewed. No more shouting your resume into a job-portal void and praying an algorithm notices. You get to go straight to the human.
And here's the part that makes grown job seekers grin: pair this list with the free Gmail + AppScript system inside the book, and you can send hundreds of personalized emails to real recruiters, each one addressed by name, referencing the exact role, for zero cost. What used to take a whole weekend of copy-pasting now runs while you sleep. That is the single biggest advantage in this entire book, and almost nobody is doing it.
📄 Plug-and-Play ATS Resume Templates
Recruiter-approved, ATS-safe, ready to fill. A clean resume in under an hour instead of an evening of formatting frustration.
✉️ Cover Letters That Open Doors
Field-tested templates you can adapt to any role in ten minutes, without sounding like every other applicant in the pile.
❓ The 71 Interview Questions You'll Actually Be Asked
Walk in already knowing the questions, and what each one is really testing for. Confidence isn't a personality trait here. It's preparation.
💰 The Offer Comparison & Negotiation Calculator
Compare offers side by side. Weigh fixed pay, variables, ESOPs, and joining bonus before you say yes, so you never leave money on the table again.
This is the unfair advantage the other applicants don't have: the recruiter's playbook, and the recruiter's contacts, in your hands.
You already have the skills. This gives you the system and the door. Grab it, apply even half of it, and stop waiting to be found.
Let's get you hired.