If it already happened
You did not get to prepare. Start from what still exists.
Rebuilding a career record under time pressure is a different job than maintaining one. This is the order that recovers the most, fastest.
A layoff removes your access before it removes your need for the evidence. The dashboards are gone, the project folders are gone, the colleague who remembers the number has a new email address. What is left is your own memory, which is already compressing, and whatever you happened to keep.
The temptation is to open your old resume and start rewriting it. That is the most expensive possible starting point, because your old resume is already the compressed copy. Rewriting it just recompresses what survived and permanently loses the rest.
The faster path is to spend the first session recovering evidence rather than writing sentences, because evidence recovery gets harder every week and writing does not.
What to actually do
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Recover before you write
Go through the sources people forget: old calendars, sent mail, performance reviews you saved, anything you exported before losing access. Capture what you find as experiences with scale, stakes, and outcome attached, not as resume lines. Do this first while the recall is warmest.
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Reach for numbers while people still answer
Former colleagues answer a specific question far more readily than a general one, and their willingness fades over months. Ask for the one number you cannot reconstruct, not for a favor.
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Then work one posting properly
One well-analysed application, traced requirement by requirement, beats fifteen lightly-tailored ones. Volume feels productive under stress. It is the thing that produces fifteen versions of a document you cannot defend.
What this will not do
This will not make an application go faster today. It front-loads an hour of evidence work to make every application after the first one much faster, and much more defensible.
Start recovering what you still have.
The free plan runs the whole method, by hand, with room for thirty experiences. No card required.