You did not choose this timing
Laid off is a starting line, not a verdict.
The severance math is already running and the median search takes about 11 weeks. The way through is volume without going generic: a lot of applications, each one aimed.
Where you are
The first week is a fog. You update the resume, you make the list of boards, you tell yourself you will apply to ten jobs a day. Then the routine sets in: the same search typed into five sites, the same posting wearing three different titles, and by Friday you have applied to six jobs with the exact same resume.
Here is the trap nobody warns you about: firing the same resume at 200 postings feels like progress, but a recruiter spends about seven seconds deciding whether it matches. A generic resume matches nothing in particular. The people who land fast are not applying more, they are matching more.
That is a workload problem, not a talent problem. Tailoring by hand costs half an hour per application. Nobody laid off with rent due can afford that trade. So the real fix is making the tailoring cost nothing.
The other side of the table
Recruiters have software for this. Now you do.
Every company you apply to manages you with software. An ATS scores your resume against the posting before a human sees it. A CRM tracks you as a row in their hiring pipeline, with stages, notes, and follow-ups. That is why their side of the search feels organized and yours feels like fifteen tabs and a sticky note.
Virgil Resume is that same machinery, pointed the other way. One search feeding your pipeline instead of theirs. A resume rewritten to score against each posting instead of being scored by it. Every application tracked from Found to Applied to Interviewing, the way their recruiters track you. They have an ATS. This is yours: a job search system.
How to run it
Your playbook, step by step
Day one: drop your resume in
Paste it, upload it, whatever you have. That resume becomes the raw material for every version that follows. It never gets sent as-is again.
Save one search per target title
One search covers the major boards and thousands of company career pages at once. Save a search for each title you would take, and rerun them each morning like a route.
Tailor All, then apply in a batch
Hit Tailor All on a results page and every good posting gets its own version of your resume, downloadable as one zip. The morning's applications go out aimed, not sprayed.
Let the pipeline hold the details
Every job lands in Found, Applied, Interviewing. By week six the searches blur together. The board does not blur. You always know who has your resume and which version they have.
Built for this
The three features doing the heavy lifting
Tailor All
One click tailors your resume for a full page of results. Volume and match quality stop being a trade-off.
The pipeline board
Found, Applied, Interviewing. Drag cards as things move. The follow-up call never catches you flat.
Quick-paste answers
Why do you want this role, describe your experience with X: drafted per job, ready to paste into the form.
The search, the pipeline, and the application answers are always included. Credits meter one thing only: AI-tailored resumes. See pricing
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