The Search Strategy Foundation
The recommended starting point. You work out how a search is sequenced, how to read a posting for what the employer actually needs, what standards you want to hold yourself to, and which of your beliefs about timing are worth testing before you act on them. It covers the groundwork the other courses assume is already in place.
- Lessons
- 9
- Reading time
- 25 min
- Downloads
- 3
- Cost
- Free
About 25 minutes to read end to end, and the work is yours to pace. The last section is a sprint guide that lays it out day by day if you want a schedule.
What you walk away able to do
- Sequence a search so each step feeds the next
- Read a posting for the problem behind the requirements
- Write your standards down before you need them
- Track qualified conversations instead of applications sent
- Test a timing belief against evidence rather than mood
What is inside
4 sections, 9 lessons. Lessons that have a worksheet or checklist say so.
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00
Process Fundamentals
Structural work before volume, decoding a posting, writing your standards down, and tracing a stall to its real cause.
4 lessons
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01
Timing and Market Myths
Testing what you believe about timing, tracking the metric that matters, and widening precision rather than volume.
3 lessons
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02
AI Coach
A prompt you paste into the AI assistant you already use, so the course becomes a conversation instead of a read.
1 lesson
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03
Your Sprint
A dated, day by day plan for putting the foundation in place.
1 lesson
What you download
Yours to keep, and usable outside the course.
- Search Foundation Sprint Guide (PDF and Markdown)
- Search Sequencing Checklist (DOCX)
- Search Structure Mapping Worksheet (DOCX)
Questions about this course
No, but it is the recommended on-ramp. It covers the sequencing the other courses assume you already have.
It is written as a starting point, and it is also where a stalled search often turns out to have a gap. The lessons on timing beliefs and on what to measure are the ones longer searches use most.
A prompt you copy into ChatGPT, Claude, or whichever assistant you already use. It turns the course material into a working session instead of a read.
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