Articles about Longbow, the career app by The Interview Guys.
There’s a specific moment every job seeker knows. The posting is open in one tab, your resume is open in another, and you’re toggling between them like a customs officer comparing a passport photo to a face. Some lines match beautifully. Some don’t match at all. And the question sitting on your chest is the…
You found it. The job that actually fits: right title, right stack, right city, even the salary range looks human. Then your eye catches the little gray text under the headline. Posted 34 days ago. And now you are doing the math every job seeker does. Is this thing still open? Did they already pick…
Every interview guide ever written, including a decade’s worth of ours, ends with the same advice: practice out loud. And almost nobody does it. Not because people are lazy. Because the available options are all quietly terrible. Practicing into a mirror feels absurd. Asking your spouse to play hiring manager gets you either giggles or…
You applied two weeks ago. Maybe you even interviewed. And this morning, there it is in your feed: the same job, same company, freshly posted like your application never happened. Few things in a job search feel worse. Your brain immediately fills in the blank with the most painful explanation: they saw your resume, they…
Here’s a secret that changes how interview prep feels once you truly believe it: interviews are not unpredictable. They only feel that way from your side of the table. From the other side, an interview is a tired, busy person trying to de-risk a decision. Your interviewer probably has a real job on top of hiring. They…
Here’s an evening that too many of you know by heart. You find the posting. It’s almost suspiciously right for you: the title fits, the requirements read like your resume, even the location works. So you do it properly, the way we’ve always taught you to. You tailor the resume. You write a real cover…
Some of you have been reading us since 2013. A lot of you found us last week, three days before an interview, at 11 p.m., searching “how to answer tell me about yourself.” Either way, you know our one move by now: we figure out what actually works in interviews and job searches, and we…
