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Overview
What you’ll be able to do
Build an American-style résumé, understand hiring norms, run a structured search, and negotiate the offer.
- Level
- Beginner
- Lessons
- 4
- Estimated time
- 51 min
- Topic
- Jobs & Careers
- A résumé that matches American screening conventions
- A tracked, prioritised application pipeline
- A negotiation script grounded in market ranges
Recommended order
Your reading plan
Work through the lessons in order — progress is saved on your device and will move to your account when member features launch.
- 01
Rewrite your résumé for American readers
Formatting, length, and the details American recruiters expect.
12 min
- 02
Understand remote and hybrid norms
How remote work, state taxes, and employment classification interact.
11 min
- 03
- 04
Translate salary into take-home pay
Deductions, state tax, and benefit costs that change the real number.
15 min
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