EverMore Edit: Dancing on the Resume's Grave
- Apr 9
- 3 min read
Dear Readers,
When we started EverMore, we didn’t have a product roadmap—we had a collection of problems.
The career landscape was bleak. Getting a job was only the first issue; there was also the keeping it, doing it well, and growing in it.
Any realities or fantasies of workplace loyalty had disintegrated, and anyone seeking to succeed really only had a few resources at hand—their manager, the career ladder, and the resume. But the latter two were decomposing before our eyes. Whether you’re mourning or dancing on their grave, there’s no sense in clinging to either.
After decades as recruiters, hiring managers, and founders, what we’ve seen is a flattening of a person—first shoehorning into a career ladder, and then into a resume of homogenized tales and jargon-riddled bullet points. Time and time again, the folks who stood out told a disarming story; one that could only belong to them.
The kind of story that makes you want to hire someone, or the one that de-risks saying yes to a raise or promotion. We learned what made a good story, and after helping folks ad hoc for years, we wanted to do more.
We knew personal storytelling led to professional opportunities. But we didn’t want to be another LinkedIn. (In fact we’d like to kill LinkedIn.) Instead, we mapped out the interconnected structure that would become EverMore, the career companion.
It’s now a living career system. Something that gets to know you, grows with you, and helps you grow. And not in a cheesy, “take this course,” or a platitude of, “here’s a certification,” but in a deep, unearthing of your soul to find when, where, how you could give your natural and honed talents. There’s a career story still to be written that only you can tell.
And everything we build still comes back to the questions we heard in early user interviews:
Is this how my career is supposed to feel?
Will I always be scared of losing my job?
Could I have a dream job and what even is my dream job?
For us, the answers are…your career doesn’t have to feel this way, you may always be a little scared but not unprepared, and finding the ideal environment for your talents is not only the dream, it’s the point of EverMore.
xoxo,
EverMore
p.s. To get the most out of EverMore’s living career system, join the beta (if you haven't already) and check out the Getting Started Guide.
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