A headline made the rounds recently: the resume is dead. Hiring managers are overwhelmed by AI-polished CVs, fake applicants, and candidates who can ace a screening but can't actually do the job. So companies are shifting toward warm referrals, toward skills-based hiring, toward the "why us?" question that no chatbot can convincingly answer for you. I read it and thought: finally. "I wasn't just learning how to pitch. I was remembering exactly what it felt like to be pitched