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01Career resources

The desk writes up what the desk knows.

A career-resources hub for creative, marketing, design, advertising, and IT / technology professionals — interview prep, salary negotiation, portfolio storytelling, and technical-interview storytelling, written by the recruiters who run the searches.

  • Candidates hiring creative verticals
  • Candidates hiring tech verticals
  • Mid-career switchers
  • Exec-track candidates
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02Article categories

Four pillars of work the desk writes up.

Articles land alongside the live brief list and the salary data — a candidate reading any one pillar has the other three a click away. Browse first, subscribe when the first issue ships.

Editorial
Interview prep
Case-style rehearsal.
Case-style prep for creative and tech interviews — portfolio review checklists, panel rehearsal, and the "talk through your decisions" rehearsal plan the day before.
Guides
Salary negotiation
Band-by-discipline framing.
Band-by-discipline framing for the conversation a real offer requires — drawn from the live Halftone compensation data, with equity vs base and counter-offer scripts alongside.
Case studies
Portfolio storytelling
Narrative arc for the work.
The narrative arc for a creative portfolio — NDA-safe redaction, the "show your decisions" rule, and how to write up the work the way a hiring manager can actually read it.
How-to
Technical-interview storytelling
System design as explanation.
System design as explanation rather than performance — whiteboarding the right level of detail, the "what would you change" close, and the takeaways a panel remembers.

Salary figures sit alongside the live Salary 2025: where the bands sit data — the negotiation pillar links there for the live numbers, with the framing the conversation usually needs. Creative portfolios in the storytelling pillar draw from the same desk the resume service runs end-to-end.

02.5Latest article

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For candidates hiring creative verticals, candidates hiring tech verticals, mid-career switchers, and exec-track candidates — browse free, subscribe when you're ready.

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Career-resources desk — read every weekday by the recruiters who write the pillars and run the searches. Two-business-day response, weekday reading only.