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06/05/2026

A lot of senior-level job seekers can't let go of the past...

The old tactics that worked before but don't anymore.
The trauma of getting ousted out of nowhere.
The fear that nothing will ever feel as good as the job they lost.

All of it makes them stall. Stuck. Unable to move forward.

And for some, over time, that exact fear comes true.

Why?

The baggage.

It shows up as:

👜 Clinging to tactics that no longer work
👝 Bringing up the layoff in interviews
🎒 Carrying hurt they never gave themselves room to process
🧳 Measuring every new opportunity against the job they lost

Over time it hardens into a belief that the best job is already behind them.

I see it often enough. Not everyone, thankfully.

Some people accept that things are different and commit to learning a new way.

Showing up differently. Communicating in a way that resonates with the people sitting in the hiring seats.

They get support working through the past while they build what comes next. They don't try to figure it out alone while hauling old baggage into new opportunities.

Your best job is still ahead of you.

It's waiting for you to show up ready for it.

06/02/2026

Everyone keeps telling you the job market is dead, right?

The Wall Street Journal has been saying otherwise.

SpaceX filed to go public, with reports of a Nasdaq debut as soon as June 12. OpenAI is expected to list later this year. Anthropic too. Some of the biggest public offerings in history are lining up over the coming months.

You are not applying to SpaceX, so why should you care?

Because companies heading toward a public listing typically staff up. Finance, legal, compliance, investor relations, operations... those teams grow as a company gets ready for public markets.

And the effect spreads past the three names in the headlines. A busy offering market means capital is moving, companies are scaling, and roles are opening.

Most of those roles never hit a job board.

You find them the way good news finds you: by paying attention.

If you have been waiting for the market to come back before you make your move, you may be reading the wrong headlines.

➡️ You have to know how to find good news. And then follow the opportunity.

If you can read past the doom and know which industries are heating up, which companies are scaling, and where your experience lands hardest, you're on the right track.

Want to find those roles before they reach a job board?

Book a call with me and let's talk through where your experience fits the companies that are growing (link in comments)

05/31/2026

You know your brand is working when people two or three connections away are talking about you.

That came up on David Suson's podcast, Inside the Leader's Mind. The topic: why a leader's brand matters even when you're not job hunting.

A brand is what people come to you for. Your wins, strengths, impact… clear enough that the people who know your work can speak to it when you're not in the room.

That's how a brand reaches two or three connections out. Other people carry it for you.

As you rise, you're competing against other A-level players who already know how to communicate their value. A new layer of brand-building has to kick in.

It can't be contrived. Can't be self-congratulatory. It has to be what people come to know you for, in a way that travels two or three connections out.

You get there by promoting your wins and outcomes factually. Tastefully. With proof.

You need the proof to get the traction.

If you want help building the kind of brand that brings opportunity to you, that's the conversation we can have on our call.

Link in comments to book a chat.

05/29/2026

I recently passed 20 years on LinkedIn. It's been a formidable influence on my recruiting career and, more so, on the work I do now guiding executives through their job search.

The connections I made here helped me:

Get found by a recruiter who placed me in a recruiting role

Find the right talent to shepherd Chameleon clients through their executive job search

Lead executives through proactive job searches successfully, something most had never had to do before, having been recruited, sought after, and promoted their entire careers.

That's the trifecta most people know about.

The fourth one?

Telling that trifecta story to a LinkedIn product manager landed me a paid consulting gig with LinkedIn itself.

For 8 years (2012 to 2020), I moderated their Premium Career Group. We grew it from 99,000 members the year I started to 2,000,000 members the year I left.

I answered thousands of jobseeker questions and shared content on the smartest ways to land fulfilling roles using LinkedIn and the other tactics I teach executives every day.

It was one of the most fun gigs of my career.

And it happened because three LinkedIn success categories collided into a fourth one I never planned for.

So yes 😉🙌 quadfecta.

What's a career win you never saw coming? I'd love to hear it.

05/26/2026

Free advice can do real damage. Even mine.

That's why I don't do free resume critiques. I've been in this industry 13+ years, and I've watched what happens when someone scrapes together a piece of advice from one place, another piece from somewhere else, and applies it without any strategy behind it.

Damage. Real, measurable damage to their candidacy.

A tip that works perfectly for one person can torpedo another, depending on their level, industry, target companies, and the story they're trying to tell. Without context, a "best practice" turns into a liability.

And I'll be the first to say it: I'm humble enough to know that my own free advice could do damage if I don't know your situation. A two-minute tip on LinkedIn or in a comment thread is just a fragment.

Fragments cobbled together without a plan don't get senior leaders hired.

That's why everything we offer is built around context.

Our Ultimate Job Search Plan starts with a personalized critique of your resume and LinkedIn, then a 60-minute coaching call where we build a strategy specific to where you are and where you're going.

After that, you get 30 days of unlimited email access to our team of ex-recruiters so when something comes up, you have somewhere to take it.

No fragments. No guesswork. No advice floating around without a path.

Through Tuesday, May 26 at midnight ET, use code 300off at checkout and you pay $997 instead of $1,297.

Link in bio/comments.

05/25/2026

Today, we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

We’re deeply grateful to them.

And we’re thinking of those who lost heroes and she-roes they love.

I wish you a meaningful and memorable day.

05/24/2026

The interview question that ends most executive job searches isn't a trick question. It's the simplest one in the room.

"Why are you the right person for this role?"

I've seen senior leaders with thirty years of accomplishments freeze on this one. Because nobody ever made them say their value out loud before.

You've spent your career evaluating other people's answers. You've been the decision-maker. The one running the interview, not sitting in the chair.

So when the chair finally swings around and the question lands on you, your accomplishments don't come out the way they read on the page. They come out as "uhhhhh."

This is the gap that costs executives offers.

Your resume gets you in the room. Your ability to articulate your value out loud is what gets you hired.
The Ultimate Job Search Plan was built for this. It's normally $1,297, but with code 300off at checkout, you pay $997. Offer expires Tuesday, May 26 at midnight ET.

It includes a personalized critique of your resume and LinkedIn, a 60-minute coaching call with a senior strategist on our team, 30 days of email access for follow-up, our full eBook and training library, and a salary negotiation bonus.

By the time you're across the table from a hiring leader, the messaging is already worked out. You're not improvising your own value proposition in real time.

Link in comments.

05/22/2026

I got an email this week from Richard Van Der Blom that made me genuinely sad. And it has nothing to do with him.

I love Richard's work. He does a great job explaining how LinkedIn works with every algo shift and change. He and his work are top notch.

But his last email announcing his next study results just made me sad.

He said that 70% of your posts need to be categorized in an identifiable topic for LinkedIn to "see" that you have an expertise and want to predestine your posts to get traction.

That's soooo boring and sad.

I don't know about you, but I'm much more interesting than 70% of any topic, including what I do for a living.

And LinkedIn assumes (wrongly) that I only want to be served posts and people that reflect my "expertise" listed in my tagline, about section, and employment entries.

Yawn 🥱

🔸 I want to see content from executives at conferences sharing what topics are being showcased.
🔸 I want to see posters share their wins at work, along with their triumphs.
🔸 I want to see content that makes me laugh and is a bit irreverent, poking fun at the weirdness that corporate life has become.
🔸 I want to see stories from fractional execs, entrepreneurs, and others doing the daily work similar to what I do in running a business.
🔸 I want to see what my friends are doing, many of whom I found and made here on LinkedIn, even though they may not be interested in job searching (now or ever) or I may never need what they do either.
🔸 I also want to see discovery posts to find my people, no matter what your profession is.

❌ I don't want to write about job searching or read about job searching for 70% of my day.

And I'm sure you don't either.

This is what makes me sad. Life doesn't work this way.

Please, LinkedIn, life is not a compartmentalized algo. People don't talk this way. Don't make us find each other this way, too.

If you want to play the LinkedIn game as Richard describes it, he is one of the best at it. Follow him and even get his book if you want to know how best to master this LinkedIn algo game.

Me? Sorry Richard, but I'm gonna pass this time. I'm going to keep doubling down on reaching out to actual people.

My "reach" may be compromised, but my impact will expand, for sure.

05/19/2026

🎂It's Lisa Rangel's birthday today.

And she is off today. Not looking at socials or emails…so this is her team “hijacking” her account. 😉

And since she'd never say this about herself, we will.

For 17 years, Lisa has been the steady voice in the noisiest, most stressful moment of an executive's life: the job search. When clients come to her panicked, she's the one who keeps her head and helps them keep theirs.

She's also the reason a lot of us look forward to opening LinkedIn. Sharp insights one day. A photo from a concert the next. Seeing the joy in her face from daytime disco. Sometimes all of it in the same post.

She shows up as herself, every single day, and somehow makes the work of executive marketing feel a little less heavy.

So from everyone behind the scenes:

Happy birthday, Lisa. Thank you for being a top-notch human.

Thank you for the wisdom, the warmth, and the willingness to share both with anyone who needs it.

If Lisa's content, coaching, or community has made a difference in your career, leave her a birthday note in the comments below. She will see them all when she is back in the office…how cool will that be for her to see!?

[From the Chameleon Resumes team.]

05/17/2026

My YouTube channel has 17 years of executive job search strategy on it. Free to watch, with hours of golden advice to binge-watch.

Every video is built for VPs and C-suite executives running real job searches. The kind where you're managing a current role, sitting on a board, and trying to land your next $300K+ position without your network finding out.

What you'll find on the channel:

→ Executive Career Chats: full conversations with the retained search partners who actually place senior leaders
→ Recruiter insights on what gets your resume read in the first 15 seconds
→ LinkedIn strategy for executives who can't be in active job-search mode publicly
→ Interview answers for the questions senior leaders get tripped up by
→ The same advice I give clients on consultations, recorded so you can watch it for free

Some videos are around 90 seconds. Others go deeper.

If you've been following my content here and finding it useful, the YouTube channel is the next layer. You get to see me walk through examples and answer the questions executives ask me on consultations.

Hit the bell icon and select "All" while you're at it. YouTube's algorithm is finicky, and the bell is how you make sure you don't miss new videos.

Link in comments.

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