The Handbook Co.·For Job Seekers

A job search is a dozen decisions, not one.

Which roles to target. How to read a history that doesn't run straight. What to say in the room. Whether to jump or stay. We publish for each of those moments — a small, careful library for the work of finding the next thing.


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Which job-seeker are you right now?

One short route to the one book written for where you actually are. No sign-up, no score — just the next right read.

Find your book
Where are you, right now?
Pick the one that sounds like your actual situation — not the tidy version.
Or read the five in full

Five ways a job search actually starts.

Most advice treats job-seeking as one thing. It isn't. Each moment below is a different problem — and a different book. Find the one that sounds like yours.

01
"My first serious job — no track record yet."
The First-Role Handbook
For the first real job hunt, when the honest difficulty is arguing for experience you don't yet have. It turns a thin history into a credible case — where to look when "entry-level" keeps asking for two years, and how to write the application a recruiter takes seriously.
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02
"Changing direction — my history doesn't read straight."
The Career Pivot Handbook · the anchor of the series
The career-change book, for when your past doesn't point in a straight line to where you're going. It shows how to read what a hiring system actually does with your application, and how to make a non-linear history read as the reason to hire you, not the risk.
Available now

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03
"Out of work, or bouncing back from a setback."
The Rebound Handbook
For the restart you didn't choose — a redundancy, a role cut from under you. It meets the setback squarely, then gets practical: how to present a long tenure cleanly, steady the search, and make the case for what comes next.
Available now

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04
"Moving up or across inside where I already am."
The Internal Move Handbook
For moving up or across without leaving — the quiet work of being promoted by people who already know you. How to be seen, make the internal case, and navigate the conversations a public job ad never prepares you for.
Coming soon
05
"Coming back after time away."
The Return-to-Work Handbook
For coming back after time away — caring, health, study, or a break you needed. It treats the gap as a fact to frame, not a flaw to hide, and rebuilds both the confidence and the case to step back in.
Coming soon
Across all five
Whichever moment brought you here, it ends in a room.
Every search runs through the interview. The Interview Handbook is the shared spine of the series — the cross-cutting companion to all five, from the first wave of nerves to the offer on the table. It's built on what the research actually says predicts a good hire, and how to prepare for it without performing.
One journey, three depths of help

Read the thinking, do the task, or take the whole moment.

Four Handbooks, three Guides, nine résumé tools, and five bundles — twenty-one editions in all, built to fit together rather than pile up. Here is how they map to where you are.

Layer A · Read it
The thinking.
The Handbooks. The judgement layer — how to think the decision through before you touch a document. Start here.
The Career Pivot HandbookA$9.99
The Interview HandbookA$9.99
The First-Role HandbookA$9.99
The Rebound HandbookA$9.99
Layer B · Do the task
The tools.
The Guides and the résumé toolkit — the specific artefact in hand for the specific job in front of you.
The STAR Interview PlannerA$4.49
The ATS Keyword PackA$4.99
The 30-Day Job-Search PlanA$3.99
Résumé Templates · eight tiltsA$7.99
The Editor · résumé toolkitA$7.99
Layer C · The whole moment
The bundles.
Everything for one moment, in a single download — the book, the interview companion, the tools, a starter résumé. The complete kit, at roughly a third off the pieces apart.
Career Pivot Complete · save ~31%A$25.95
First-Role Complete · save ~31%A$25.95
Rebound Complete · save ~31%A$25.95
The Interview BundleA$13.95
The Resume Library · three templatesA$16.95
Start with the Handbookadd the tools you needor take the Complete Bundleand save roughly 31%
Why buy from us

A free template hands you a blank. We hand you the judgement.

i
Built for the decision, not just the document
Most job-search products hand you a template and leave. We publish the thinking first — how to position a history that doesn't run straight, how to decide what belongs in the room — and then the tools to execute it.
ii
One publishing house, one standard
Every Handbook is written to connect from the first sentence and designed with the same restraint. A reader who trusts one trusts the next — because they all come from the same desk.
iii
Research-backed, and we show our work
Every figure is traced to a named source before the book goes on sale. You don't have to take that on faith — see the evidence behind the books.

Anyone can hand you a résumé template. We publish the judgement that tells you what to put in it.