High-Leverage Career Insights & Playbooks.
Real, battle-tested frameworks from Cat Breet covering early career proof, search velocity, consulting retainers, boardroom evaluation, and layoff triage.
Experience Without Evidence: What Employers Actually Rank in Early-Career Talent
A deep dive into the 19-attribute employer survey: why behavioral evidence beats static portfolios, and how to turn coursework, shifts, and projects into undeniable proof.
The First 90 Days: How Early-Career Hires Build Irreplaceable Reputation
Navigating your first corporate role: setting realistic expectations, communicating progress with managers, and establishing high trust in the critical probation window.
Strategic Search Velocity: Moving Beyond the Spray-and-Pray Application Trap
Why applying to 500 online postings produces diminishing returns, and how experienced professionals build tiered company targets, referral loops, and ATS-proof resumes.
The STAR Story Blueprint: Framing High-Stakes Behavioral Interviews
A complete guide to constructing punchy, metric-backed STAR stories (Situation, Task, Action, Result) that dismantle skeptical interview loops and prove leadership under pressure.
Escaping Hourly Rates for $10,000/Month Advisory Retainers
How independent consultants and fractional leaders isolate their single sharpest superpower, ditch billing by the hour, and package high-leverage monthly advisory retainers.
Inbound Pipeline Architecture: Building a High-Converting Advisory Referral Engine
Stop cold-emailing startup founders. How to build an organic inbound consulting pipeline using technical teardowns, executive roundtables, and referral loops.
Executive Market Mapping & Board Alignment: Navigating C-Suite Search Committees
A strategic playbook for VP, SVP, and C-level candidates: audit your executive capital, manage executive search retainer firms, and defend your vision in multi-stakeholder board loops.
The Executive Term Sheet: Severance Protections, Acceleration & Equity Refreshers
Beyond base salary: how senior leaders structure double-trigger equity acceleration, change-of-control provisions, severance packages, and indemnification guardrails.
Laid Off, Now What? The 72-Hour Triage & Market Re-Entry Action Plan
The definitive survival guide for navigating an unexpected layoff: severance contract review, unemployment filings, emotional recalibration, and building rapid search velocity without shame.
Why Live Interview Copilots Get Candidates Banned (And What to Do Instead)
Enterprise employers are cracking down on covert real-time AI teleprompters. Here is why stealth copilots backfire, how interviewers spot them immediately, and why Socratic out-loud practice wins every time.
Practice, Don't Cheat: Why Spoken Socratic AI Coaching Beats AI Cheatsheets
The difference between AI that makes you dependent and AI that makes you formidable. Discover Career Cat's three-step Socratic practice methodology.
Can Recruiters Tell You're Reading an AI Teleprompter? 20+ Years of Hiring Truth
A candid look from the hiring side of the desk: the exact behavioral cues that reveal when a candidate is reading generated text, and how to project undeniable genuine authority instead.
Curated Framework Reads by Seniority
Battle-tested frameworks mapped to your career transition and target compensation goals.