Decisions, by the life they belong to.

The first thing to notice about a job search is that it is not one decision. It is a handful of them, and they are not the same decision wearing different clothes. Entering the workforce for the first time is a different problem from changing fields mid-career, which is different again from recovering after a layoff you did not choose, from moving up inside the company that already employs you, or from returning after years spent caring, recovering, serving, or studying. Each is its own moment, with its own structure and its own quiet logic — and each, we think, deserves its own book rather than a chapter in a general one. So the Job Seeker series is built that way: a Handbook for each of the five, plus the cross-cutting one for the interview that any of them might lead to. Underneath all of them runs a single method — the work of translating what you have done into what a reader in the room can recognise — calibrated freshly to the situation each book is written for.