Your resume and LinkedIn should say what your CoS archetype says. Most don't. Get a scored, archetype-specific read of yours — free when you join the Circle.
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Start with the free CoS Archetype Assessment. Three minutes. Then get a scored resume review tied to your archetype — free when you join the Circle (joining is free too). Want Michelle's personal read on top? That's an optional upgrade. Interview prep and a CEO briefing are there when you need them.
The Chief of Staff role is one of the least understood in organizational leadership. Which means most CoS resumes are either underselling the actual scope of the work, misaligned with how a target CEO reads impact, or written for a general operations role instead of the specific CoS archetype the candidate actually is.
Your experience is real. Your track record is strong. But your resume isn't surfacing the right signal — and you can't figure out why.
Every CoS archetype looks different on paper. What signals strength for an Operations CoS is noise for a Strategy CoS. Without archetype alignment, you're invisible to the CEOs you're actually suited to support.
You can rewrite the bullets, change the order, try a new format. But without a scored analysis tied to your actual archetype, you're guessing. And guessing in a CoS job search is expensive.
The CoS Archetype Assessment identifies how you operate, who you work best with, and what kind of executive environment suits you. It takes 3 minutes and it's the foundation of every review Michelle delivers. Start there — then decide if your resume is telling the same story.
Free · Instant results · 3–5 minutes
Fifteen questions about how you actually operate — not how you think you should operate. Results are instant. You'll know your archetype and your D.A.R.E. emphasis before you do anything else.
A short, structured interview about where you are in your career, what's not working in your search, and what success looks like for you. This replaces a discovery call and takes about 5–10 minutes. It's what makes the review specific to you instead of generic.
Paste your resume or upload it. If you have a target job description, include it — the feedback gets sharper and role-specific. Your read is built on the archetype and D.A.R.E. frameworks Michelle uses in the room, not a generic resume checker.
You'll get a private link and password to your report — archetype alignment score, D.A.R.E. evaluation, strengths, red flags, and the priority fixes, in order. Want Michelle's personal eyes on your materials and a strategy note for your search? Add that as an upgrade.
The scored resume review is free when you join the Circle. Want Michelle's personal read, or interview prep for a specific role? Those are the upgrades. You never pay a dollar until you've already seen what your archetype says.
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Michelle's review + a 15-minute call
Each add-on builds on your core review to prepare you for the full hiring process — from targeted rewrites to CEO research.
Your free review isn't a generic resume checker with a logo on it. It runs on the frameworks Michelle built across 20 years in the seat — the 4 CoS archetypes, the D.A.R.E. levers, the way a CEO actually reads impact. The same method she uses with Chiefs of Staff. Yours, scored, in your hands.
When you want Michelle's personal eyes — her read on your specific materials and a strategy note for your search — that's the upgrade. Either way, you don't pay a dollar until you've already seen what your archetype says about how you operate.
Michelle DeFouw is a 20-year Chief of Staff who built the methodology behind the Career Studio. She created the CoS Operating System, the 12 CEO Archetypes, the 4 CoS Archetypes, and the D.A.R.E. framework — the same tools used to score every resume and LinkedIn profile reviewed here. She also authored "Cracking the Code: A Chief of Staff's Journey to Partnership." The Career Studio exists because she has seen too many qualified CoS candidates lose opportunities to positioning problems, not performance problems.
The assessment takes three minutes. The resume review is free when you join the Circle. No card, no catch. If there's a gap worth fixing, you'll see it. If there isn't, you've lost nothing and learned something real.
When you close the gap, you stop being invisible to the CEOs you're actually built to support. You walk into the next interview knowing exactly how to position your archetype — not hoping it comes across on its own.
Every week you apply with a misaligned resume is a week a better-positioned candidate gets the call instead.