Hey Little Pineapple, A few years into my consultancy, I worked with a tattoo artist. Let's call her Alice. She'd been doing it for years. Good at it. Busy enough. But the market was getting crowded, the joy had left, and one day she just decided: no more ink on anyone's skin. Done. So we started working together. And very quickly one thing became obvious. Alice had no idea what she actually wanted. She just knew what she didn't. That's more common than people admit. You're not lost because...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, A few years back I was working as a recruiter at a large corporate agency. Not a bad gig, honestly. Good people, real energy, the kind of controlled chaos that keeps you sharp. It taught me everything I know about recruitment and I’ll be grateful for that forever. I could deal with the stress. I could deal with the politics. I could deal with a lot. Then one afternoon I wrote a LinkedIn post promoting one of the roles I was working on. Nothing crazy, just my words, my...
28 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, I was really surprised by the number of people reaching out after my last week newsletter with their CVs.(and if you missed it you can read it here: https://patryksuchy.kit.com/posts/your-cv-is-costing-you-interviews) There were a lot of common things for people, so I decided to put a small, actionable guide mixed with a recruiter view. So today you'll learn couple of valuable information that will help you write every resume ever in the rest of your life. Let's dive in....
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, Last week I had a call with a candidate. He send me his CV before our chat and what I saw immediately raised my eyebrow: 6 roles in the past 2.5 years, 4-6 months each. Six short gigs. No context. No explanation. Just a list of 4-6 month roles that screamed "red flag" to anyone who glanced at it. So, we hopped on the call and here's what actually happened: Five of those were contract roles. One ended because the company lost funding and had to let everyone go. But I...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot holds the current marathon world record: 2 hours, 0 minutes, and 35 seconds. He is also dead. Kelvin was 25 years old. According to people who know something about running (not me), he had a great future ahead of himself. Heck, he was ranked #1 among the world's men's marathon runners. So you don't need a specialized knowledge to understand he was going places.When you're number one in the world at anything, that usually means there's a future for...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, My friend is a prison guard and within a year, the job nearly destroyed him. From the outside, it doesn't look like work that takes a heavy psychological toll. But the stories he shared painted a different picture entirely. "I feel like I teleport to a different reality when I start my shift," he told me. No phone. No contact with the outside world unless absolutely necessary. Just him and the inmates for hours on end. The isolation ate him. The constant stress. The...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Little Pineapple,My first recruitment job was at a big recruitment corporation. I liked it. It taught me a lot about recruitment and working with businesses. And a lot of people are bashing on corporate world, but truth is I was pretty good at corporate.The vibe, the chase, celebrating wins, the energy. I genuinely enjoyed it. But it wasn't my place. Not my world. So I started looking for something new in gamedev. Sent out CVs, went to interviews, and landed on one gig I actually liked....
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, I had this conversation with a friend recently. At some point we started talking about work because of course we were. We were talking about me living in Bali, doing the whole digital nomad thing and him sitting in Poland, running a customer service team. He told me he really likes the job. Feels good at it. Like he's making a difference. All the things you want to feel about work, right? Here's the kicker: he used to be a business owner. He had his own thing. Spent...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Little Pineapple, Raise your hand if you've ever received a reply similar to this after interview: “Thank you for your time, but we’re moving forward with another candidate.” Or its cousin: “We went with someone more aligned.” Polite.Safe.Completely useless. I had a client who brought this exact frustration to one of our conversations. He told me about an interview he still remembers to this day. He walked out convinced he nailed it.Answered every question.No awkward moments.No gaps. The...
3 months ago • 2 min read