A transparent, evidence-first methodology
Career Locksmith turns a job search into an understandable process. You see the starting evidence, help complete the record, review the adjusted outlook, and choose your level of support before campaign work begins.
Phase 01 Free evaluation
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.
Share your résumé and LinkedIn profile, then identify the roles, compensation direction, location, and work arrangement you want to explore.
Career Locksmith evaluates the scope and evidence your current materials communicate, compares them with your stated direction, and develops a reasonable initial target range.
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 Build the record
If you choose to continue, Career Locksmith provides the Foundation Résumé Rebuild scope and flat-rate fee in writing. Paid work begins only after you approve it.
Your evidence
The questionnaire captures accomplishments, scope, systems, leadership, challenges, education, career preferences, and details the original résumé may have left out.
Our analysis
We compare the questionnaire with your résumé and LinkedIn profile, flag inconsistencies, ask focused follow-up questions, and strengthen only what your real experience supports.
Why there are two reports
Before the questionnaire
Shows the opportunities and compensation direction supported by your current public-facing career story.
After clarification
Reassesses your position using the fuller, verified record and identifies realistic role families, compensation guardrails, strengths, gaps, and career options.
Phase 03 Choose your support
Only after the adjusted review do you choose what happens next. The recommendation is based on your target roles, intended base salary, number of opportunities, preparation needs, and how much direct support you want.
Step 06Select the scope that fits your next move. You receive the price and included deliverables before approving the work.
Complete the defined résumé-development engagement without entering a targeted application campaign.
Clarify role families, compensation guardrails, verified opportunities, fit and risk, and a prioritized action plan.
Select three, six, or nine opportunities for truthful, posting-specific ATS résumé alignment within the stated support window.
Add focused company, role, interviewer, likely-question, story, gap, and question-to-ask preparation when needed.
Your career foundation
Your written scope identifies the deliverables included in your engagement. When the Foundation Résumé Rebuild is selected, the same truthful evidence supports these coordinated materials.
A clean, readable structure developed for Applicant Tracking Systems and accurate keyword alignment.
A professionally presented version designed to help recruiters and hiring leaders understand the same evidence quickly.
Personalized, step-by-step recommendations so you can update your own profile with a consistent and defensible message.
A consolidated view of your professional narrative, strengths, compensation guardrails, realistic career options, gaps, and next steps.
One practical reference document: the Executive Career Summary combines the career-option analysis, compensation guardrails, strengths, gaps, and next steps.
Phase 04 Target & prepare
The foundation tells your professional story. The campaign connects that story to specific openings—without claiming experience you do not have.
Choose either path—or use both
We identify and explain realistic career opportunities using your adjusted report, preferences, compensation guardrails, and documented experience.
You provide the exact roles or saved job descriptions you want evaluated. We analyze the same evidence against those specific requirements.
Compare
We preserve the job description, identify required qualifications and screening risks, and develop a comparative Fit Score with separate ATS and interview outlooks.
Target
The selected résumé is aligned to the language and priorities of that opportunity while staying grounded in the verified career foundation.
Apply
You review and approve the final materials, then submit the application directly. Career Locksmith does not represent employers or apply on your behalf.
Prepare
When included or separately selected, preparation may cover company research, phone screens, likely interview questions, strongest stories, visible gaps, and questions to ask.
The method behind the work
Wording follows verified experience. Keywords never create qualifications that do not exist.
A résumé is targeted against a saved job description, not a generic title or assumed requirements.
Materials must communicate accurately to automated screening and remain persuasive and readable to people.
You see the reasoning, scope, price, responsibilities, and limits before approving paid work.
Begin with the evidence you have today
Submit your current résumé and direction. We will start by explaining what your existing materials communicate now.