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Is LinkedIn Premium Worth It for Job Hunters?

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LinkedIn Premium has been around long enough that the pitch is almost muscle memory at this point. You’re deep in a job search, firing off applications, refreshing your inbox, and then LinkedIn slides a banner across your screen: Get hired 2.6× faster. Tempting. Especially when the market feels brutal and you’d pay good money for any edge at all.

But “get hired faster” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. LinkedIn Premium can be useful, but mostly for a narrow kind of search: active outbound, targeted recruiter outreach, and squeezing more signal out of LinkedIn itself.

Job boards are broken. Here's what different looks like.

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Updated jobs, simple search, nothing else. Why that’s harder to find than it should be.

At some point every job board stops being a job board. It becomes a platform. It needs an account. It wants your resume. It starts showing you ads. It nudges you to upgrade. It emails you daily. It recommends a resume writing service. It sells your data to recruiters who then message you on the same platform to complete the loop.

How to job search without losing your mind.

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The process is hard enough. Don’t let the search itself grind you down before you get to the finish line. Mental Game 5 min read · May 2026

Job searching is one of the few things adults do where rejection is the default outcome and progress is nearly invisible. You can do everything right for weeks and have nothing concrete to show for it. That’s not a sign you’re failing. That’s just how the process works.

How to Import Gmail Filters to Forward Email to Another Account

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There are plenty of reasons to forward email from one Gmail account to another.

Maybe you want to keep newsletters out of your main inbox. Maybe you still receive important alerts at an older address. Maybe you want a dedicated inbox for job-search activity, receipts, or notifications so your primary account stays cleaner.

That is the general use case.

One very practical version of it is Fitcheck.

If you do not want to connect your primary mailbox, you can forward only your job-alert emails into a separate Gmail account and connect that account to Fitcheck instead. That gives you a cleaner boundary: your main inbox stays separate, while Fitcheck only needs read-only access to the dedicated inbox that receives approved job-alert messages.

Stop Applying Blind: Use AI to Do Your Due Diligence Before You Hit Submit

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s something most job seekers never do: research a company before applying the same way a company researches you before hiring.

Think about that for a second. They’ve got your resume, your LinkedIn, maybe your GitHub. They’ll run you through multiple rounds of interviews. They’ll call your references. They’ll Google your name.

And you? You read a job description and hit Apply.

That’s insane.

The good news: you can fix this in about 20 minutes of setup and about 5 minutes per company after that. Here’s how.