This free career toolkit gives you LinkedIn headline examples, LinkedIn About section examples, free resume templates, AI resume writing prompts, free cover letter templates, recruiter outreach templates, a job application tracker, and an interview preparation guide. Pick the file that matches your next task and start there.
Headline pack
1. LinkedIn headline rewrite pack
Fifteen fill-in patterns for employed seekers, career changers, and returners. Each pattern keeps your target job title up front for job title optimization, then adds two searchable skills. You also get a list of headlines to avoid, like vague phrases with no role title. Pick one, fill the brackets, paste into LinkedIn.
The pack follows LinkedIn headline guidance on searchable profile areas. Character counts keep your title from cutting off on mobile. Most people finish in about twenty minutes and learn how to get noticed by recruiters with a clear, searchable line.
About builder
2. About section builder
A three-paragraph frame that sounds steady and specific. Opening line with years and focus. Middle with two proof points. Close with the roles you want and your US location.
Includes About examples for ops, admin, analyst, support, and teaching-to-corporate moves, with first-person voice and line breaks for readability. You answer prompts in plain sentences and the builder shapes them.
Skills map
3. Searchable skills checklist
A checklist of skills to add, remove, and reorder. It explains searchable skills, keyword match, and where skills appear in recruiter filters.
Compare your list against five postings, keep the overlap, drop the rest. A transfer map helps career change resources land: customer support becomes client retention, lesson planning becomes training and onboarding.
Resume set
4. ATS-friendly resume templates
Three one-column free resume templates with standard headings: Summary, Skills, Experience, Education. No tables, text boxes, or icons, built for clean parsing and exact keyword matching.
Export to PDF from Google Docs without layout shifts. A tailoring row at the top ties each version to one role: target title, company, and three mirrored keywords for resume optimization for ATS.
Letters
5. Cover letter and tailoring frames
Short frames, not long letters. Three paragraphs: why this role, why you fit in two bullets, and a clear close with location and availability.
A tailoring worksheet shows how to mirror keywords naturally. Copy the frame, swap specifics, keep it under 200 words — useful when postings ask for a letter and time is short.
Outreach
6. Recruiter outreach templates
Ten templates for connection notes, post-apply notes, alumni outreach, and follow-ups, each under 300 characters where LinkedIn requires brevity.
Placeholders for name, role, and one specific detail keep notes human. Wait seven to ten days before a follow-up and log every message so you never double-send.
Tracker
7. Application tracker sheet
Columns for company, role, location, date applied, contact, status, and next step, with filters and a weekly review tab for any US state.
Prevents re-applying to the same role, missing follow-ups, and losing the version you sent. Duplicate the tab per month and archive as you go.
