Know where you stand. Build the story. Target the right opportunities.
Career Locksmith turns a job search into an understandable process. Google Calendar handles scheduling; after the initial submission, your personalized questionnaire, reports, approved scope, private Stripe invoice, and deliverables are communicated directly by email. No client portal account is required.
Salary and market-position reports: initial and updated
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Résumé formats: ATS-focused and designed for human eyes
You
Choose the package, approve target roles, and submit every application
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Invented credentials, accomplishments, systems, or experience
Phase 01 Free evaluation
Start with what an employer can see today
The first evaluation is based only on the information currently visible in your résumé, LinkedIn profile, target direction, location, and work preferences. It is a starting point—not a verdict on your potential.
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Submit your current materials
Share your résumé and LinkedIn profile, then identify the roles, compensation direction, location, and work arrangement you want to explore.
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Receive your Initial Base Salary Report
Career Locksmith evaluates the scope and evidence your current materials communicate, compares them with your stated direction, and develops a reasonable initial target range.
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Review the starting position
We explain visible strengths, gaps, assumptions that require verification, and the reasoning behind the initial outlook. You may stop here with no purchase obligation.
Phase 02 Verify the fuller record
Move from the résumé version of you to the evidence-based version of you
If you choose to continue, you first review and approve the Baseline scope and applicable initial payment. Career Locksmith then prepares your client-specific fillable PDF questionnaire and sends it directly to you by email.
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Your evidence
Complete your personalized fillable PDF questionnaire
Career Locksmith creates the questionnaire specifically for you and emails the fillable PDF directly to your preferred address. It captures accomplishments, scope, systems, leadership, challenges, education, career preferences, and details the original résumé may have left out.
Complete the answers directly in the PDF
Answer with specific, truthful information
Use “N/A” when a question does not apply
Return the completed PDF by email within the agreed 48–72-hour window
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Our analysis
Verify, clarify, and reassess
We compare the returned questionnaire with your résumé and LinkedIn profile, flag inconsistencies, and resolve focused follow-up questions by email or a short Google Meet before strengthening only what your real experience supports.
No invented duties, credentials, or results
No keyword stuffing that misrepresents fit
Open questions are resolved before final writing
Why there are two reports
The second report measures what better evidence changes
Before the questionnaire
Initial Base Salary Report
Shows the opportunities and compensation direction supported by your current public-facing career story.
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After clarification
Updated Base Salary & Career Direction Report
Reassesses your position using the fuller, verified record and identifies realistic role families, compensation guardrails, strengths, gaps, and career options.
Phase 03 Approve the service direction
Use the adjusted outlook as your decision point
After your fuller record is verified and the Updated Base Salary & Career Direction Report is explained, you choose whether to complete the Baseline Package only, add a $20 three-position Search Guide, or select targeted résumé support. Your recommendation is based on your target roles, intended base salary, number of opportunities, preparation needs, and how much direct support you want.
Step 06Select and approve the scope that fits your next move. Career Locksmith confirms the deliverables, service window, published package price, applicable Baseline credit, and remaining balance by email. After approval, you receive a private, client-specific Stripe invoice—never a public checkout link.
BASELINE
Complete your baseline
Receive your new ATS and “Human Eyes” résumés, updated salary report, LinkedIn guidance, and Executive Career Summary after the approved payment is confirmed.
+$20 GUIDE
Three-Position Search Guide
Receive three active positions independently researched and scored against your new baseline résumé and updated career direction. No targeted résumé writing is included.
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Targeted + 3, + 6, or + 9
Receive everything in the Baseline Package plus truthful, posting-specific ATS résumés for three, six, or nine selected opportunities within the stated support window. Any prior Baseline payment is credited toward this complete package total.
INTERVIEW
Interview Intelligence
Add focused company, role, interviewer, likely-question, story, gap, and question-to-ask preparation when needed.
Your career foundation
One verified story—prepared for different readers
After the approved payment is confirmed, every Baseline Résumé Package uses the same verified evidence to produce these coordinated materials before any Search Guide or targeted campaign work begins.
ATS
ATS Résumé
A clean, readable structure developed for Applicant Tracking Systems and accurate keyword alignment.
HUMAN
“Human Eyes” Résumé
A professionally presented version designed to help recruiters and hiring leaders understand the same evidence quickly.
LINKEDIN
LinkedIn Profile Instruction Guide
Personalized, step-by-step recommendations so you can update your own profile with a consistent and defensible message.
SUMMARY
Executive Career Summary
A consolidated view of your professional narrative, strengths, compensation guardrails, realistic career options, gaps, and next steps.
REPORT
Updated Base Salary & Career Direction Report
A reassessment based on the fuller, verified career record and the new baseline résumés—not the original document alone.
Delivered directly: Career Locksmith sends completed reports and career materials to the client by email. The Executive Career Summary combines the career-option analysis, compensation guardrails, strengths, gaps, and next steps.
Choose the opportunities. Understand the fit. Apply prepared.
The new baseline tells your verified professional story. Search and targeted services compare that story with specific openings—without claiming experience you do not have.
Choose either path—or use both
Where do the target positions come from?
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Career Locksmith–researched options
We identify public, active opportunities using your new baseline résumé, updated report, preferences, compensation guardrails, and documented experience. Employers do not pay or sponsor Career Locksmith to include a position.
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Client-submitted positions
You provide the exact roles or saved job descriptions you want evaluated. We compare the new baseline and verified record against those specific requirements.
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Research
Preserve the exact posting
We independently research or receive the selected position, save the job description, and identify required qualifications, scope, and screening risks.
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Score
Compare the new baseline
We develop a comparative Fit Score with separate ATS and interview outlooks using the new baseline résumé, verified evidence, and exact posting—not the résumé originally submitted.
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Target
Render the posting-specific résumé
When a targeted package is selected, the résumé is aligned to that opportunity while remaining grounded in the verified baseline. The $20 Search Guide does not include this step.
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Apply & prepare
You control the application
You approve and submit every application. When separately selected, Interview Intelligence may cover company research, phone screens, likely questions, strongest stories, visible gaps, and questions to ask.
The method behind the work
Four rules keep every recommendation grounded
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Evidence before language
Wording follows verified experience. Keywords never create qualifications that do not exist.
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The exact posting matters
A résumé is targeted against a saved job description, not a generic title or assumed requirements.
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ATS and humans are different readers
Materials must communicate accurately to automated screening and remain persuasive and readable to people.
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Transparency before commitment
You see the reasoning, scope, price, responsibilities, and limits before approving paid work.
Begin with the evidence you have today
Your first evaluation is free—and it does not obligate you to purchase.
Submit your current résumé and direction. We will start by explaining what your existing materials communicate now.
