The job market has become strange, crowded, automated, and often brutally indifferent.

Candidates are told to be resilient, authentic, strategic, technically fluent, emotionally intelligent, and grateful — preferably while applying into systems that may never acknowledge they exist.

Get Hired in a Broken Job Market is a practical field manual for people who need work now. It does not promise magic, secret algorithms, or motivational wallpaper. It offers something more useful: a clear-eyed strategy for navigating the modern hiring mess without losing your nerve, your dignity, or your grip on reality.

The book covers résumés, AI, outreach, interviews, proof-first hiring, recruiters, networking, rejection, offers, and the daily discipline of staying visible in a market that often behaves as if applicants are disposable.

For recent graduates, career changers, laid-off professionals, and anyone staring into the fluorescent cave of online applications, this book offers practical guidance with a cranky edge.

The market may be broken. You do not have to be.

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What's hot, what's not, and what's quietly being replaced by a script. Pulled from BLS releases and cross-checked against what employers are actually doing.

>The Ghost Job Index

Somewhere between one in seven and one in three job postings right now will never result in a hire — and no, that's not a rejection of you; it's a rejection of nothing, because the job wasn't fully real to begin with. Some of that is bureaucratic residue. A lot of it is deliberate: companies signaling growth they don't have or reminding their own staff they're replaceable. Either way, your time is the thing being spent. This tool breaks down where the fakes actually cluster by sector, what the six warning signs look like on a real posting, and how to stop burning your best hours on listings that were decoration from the start

We are also working on a practical field guide for renters trying to survive listings, fees, applications, showings, landlord rules, scams, lease language, and the general carnival of the modern apartment hunt.

Like the job-search book, it will offer plain-English advice, checklists, and practical tools — not magic, not motivational fog, and not another cheerful article pretending the process is easier than it is.

The apartment guide is still in development, but early previews and tools will appear here as they are ready.

Coming later this year. 

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Cool is still out there. It is hiding behind sunglasses, status updates, overpriced lattes, and the pleasant professional expression people wear when they have absolutely had it.

Most of us are performing some version of cool every day — at work, online, in meetings, on Zoom, and anywhere else we are supposed to look as if we know exactly what we are doing.

Cool on the Outside, Screaming on the Inside is a satirical field guide to that performance.

Through Brand Mavrick — creative director at the fictional Panopticon Agency — the book follows the pressure to appear composed, capable, and slightly above it all, even when the machinery underneath is making terrible noises.

This is satire, sometimes uncomfortably close to nonfiction. Anyone who has ever looked at themselves in the tiny onscreen window during a Zoom meeting, in a poorly lit bathroom mirror, or in the reflection of an office window and wondered, “Am I composed, or just tired in a more presentable way?” is already in the right place.

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Here's a link to Charlie's conversation with WBZ 1030 News Radio's Dan Rea on Nightside, iHeart Radio (Starts at 24:58)

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 >How Cool Are You, Really?
A companion instrument to Cool on the Outside, Screaming on the Inside. The test already knows.

 >The Perception Gap Index 

A 13-question audit scored across five factors (Reliability, Ego Tax, Communication Debt, Political Exposure, Warmth), landing on one of eleven profiles: The Ghostwriter, The Reply-All Menace, The Credit Vulture, The Landmine, The Office Weathervane, The Human Fire Drill, The Undead Optimist, The Silent Auditor, The Feedback Sponge, The Actually Fine One (rare, and the instrument says so), and The Working Average as the floor.