Julia Levy

Everybody tells you to work your network. Nobody tells you how to know if your network is worth working. It comes down to five things: Decision-Maker Access, Relationship Recency, Industry Coverage, Level Match, and Advocacy. You can check every one of them yourself, today, and I'll show you how. First, why this matters more than your resume right now. Hiring runs on trust before it runs on applications. Internal candidates get read first, referred candidates get read next, and a referred...

A friend shared the iconic "Pivot" meme on Facebook the other morning, and honestly, I haven't stopped thinking about it since. If you are Gen X like me (or you just appreciate quality TV), you can hear this image. Ross Geller. A narrow NYC stairwell. A massive beige sofa. And one word being screamed over and over again until it lost all meaning: "PIVOT!" In the show, the result was a complete disaster. The couch got stuck, Ross lost his mind, and the furniture ended up cut in half. But after...

If your job search feels busy but isn’t moving forward, this might sting a little. Most job seekers tell me the same thing: "I don’t have time to job search." So they do what feels efficient. They use AI to mass apply to hundreds of roles at once, hitting the "easy button" on every job board they find. They stay in constant motion, sending resumes late into the night. And they stay stuck. This is not because they are unqualified. It is because they are trapped on what I call the job search...