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Career Advice
How Long Do Job Postings Stay Up? We Checked 67,435 of Them
One job posting in our data went live on 16 March 2015. Its title is “Name Your Job.” On 9 October 2026, when we…
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Why a Good Resume Still Scores Badly Against a Job Description
On 6 September 2026 I ran a real data engineer’s resume against a matching job description through LastRound AI’s resume checker to see how…
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What a Job Posting Is Actually Trying to Tell You
Knowing how to read a job description properly saves you the hour you’d otherwise spend tailoring a resume for a role that was never…
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The Math Behind the Date on Your Relieving Letter
Type a resignation date into LastRound AI’s notice period calculator and set the notice to 30 days, and on 6 September 2026 it returned…
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The Document That Actually Governs Your Job, and When It Kicks In
An offer letter and an appointment letter get treated as the same piece of paper in most hallway conversations about a new job, and…
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The Fine Print That Costs More Than a Bad Salary Number
Say a candidate gets a written offer on a Tuesday and signs it that same afternoon, before reading past the CTC number printed in…
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Is an MBA worth it if you’re already a software engineer? A real cost breakdown
On 6 September 2026 I pulled ISB’s own fees and scholarships page for the flagship PGP, the one-year full-time MBA at its Hyderabad and…
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Getting your notice period down from 90 days
Our Search Console numbers, pulled 6 September 2026 across a 45-day window, show “1 month notice period calculator” pulling 158 impressions at an average…
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Three job titles, three different jobs: sorting out PM, PjM and PgM
On 6 September 2026 I opened the BLS occupational page for project management specialists and it defines the job in one sentence: “Project management…
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Tech layoffs in 2026, and the first 30 days after one
Tech layoffs 2026 already read worse than 2025 by any tracker’s count, and our own Search Console data, pulled on 6 September 2026, shows…