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The Missing Manual Show
The Missing Manual: Documentation for the Doers
In the world of work, there are the skills that get you the job, and then there’s the tradecraft required to actually build. Hosted by Julia Levy (Fortune 500 Talent Acquisition Executive) and Jenny Cotie Kangas (Future of Work Disruptor), this is an unscripted deep-dive into the high-stakes execution that doesn't come with an instruction book.
We go beyond "career hacks" to provide a forensic look at organizational navigation and institutional…
Episodes
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AI Conference Prep: I Built It, Then Gave It Away
The fastest way to get more out of a conference is to build an AI game plan before you go. Julia Levy, co-host of The Missing Manual, built an app for the HR…
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The LinkedIn Button That Lies to You
Halfway into a conversation about LinkedIn visibility, Jenny Cotie Kangas realized a month of posts had never reached her profile. Julia Levy had been tagging…
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AI Agents are not Set it and Forget it.
AI agents and scheduled automations are not set it and forget it. The requirements you start with are an educated guess, and you often discover what you need…
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AI in Recruiting is Solving the Wrong Problems
AI in recruiting fails most often because companies apply it to the wrong problem. In this episode of The Missing Manual, Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas…
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AI Needs the How
Talent acquisition teams do not need more convincing to use AI. At RecFest 2026 in Nashville, most of the leaders in the room already had leadership buy-in and…
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How to Use AI to Plan Any Conference
To get the most out of attending a conference with AI, have it interview you first. Define your goals, the problems you need solved and the tools you already…
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Can Your ATS Be Gamed
Can your applicant tracking system be gamed? Yes, and this episode of The Missing Manual shows you exactly how to check. Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas…
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How to Use AI Agents to Stop the Noise
Cognitive load—the amount of information your brain can track at once—is a real limiting factor in how much you can actually accomplish. When that load gets…
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Expose the Shadow Processes
The fastest way to make AI agents useful in your organization is to map the work that never made it into a system in the first place. On this episode of The…
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The HR Conferences Worth the Budget and Which to Skip
Conference season arrives with more invitations than budget, and the decision most practitioners make by default is the one that costs them the most. Julia…
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The Missing Manual for AI Job Search Automation (built around your fit)
Most people run their job search the same way, opening a job board, typing in a title, and scrolling through hundreds of roles that almost fit. In this episode…
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Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE's) start as great recruiters
The forward deployed engineer is the new and hot role in AI, and most job descriptions ask for eight to twelve years of software experience. Julia Levy and…
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Your Job Posting Errors and the AI Agent that Finds Them
Job posting errors cost employers more than embarrassment. Missing salary data in transparency states, template instructions published by accident, and dropped…
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The Missing Manual: How to Write Better AI Prompts
How to write better AI prompts is less about memorizing a framework and more about learning to have a real conversation. Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas…
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Your Network Read: What Happens When You Use It on Yourself
Your Network Read is a tool Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas built to help people show up correctly on LinkedIn — whether they're actively job searching…
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When Life Hands You Lemons: The Missing Manual to Help You Pivot Under Pressure
When life moves fast and nothing goes according to plan, most people don't need another framework. They need a map for the moment the frameworks don't cover…
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How to Resume an AI Project Without Starting Over
What happens when you build something useful in AI and then life gets in the way for two weeks? Most people lose everything they built and start over. In this…
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Operationalizing AI: Building Systems, Prompt Instructions, and Handoff Docs
Welcome back to The Missing Manual with your hosts, Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas (JCK). In this episode, we are right in the middle of a multi-part series…
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Documenting the mess before you automate with AI
Documenting the Mess Before You Automate "Automating a broken process just breaks things faster." In this episode of The Missing Manual, JCK and Julia take you…
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Two Brand Voices, One Show: How We Train AI to Speak for Both of Us
Two Brand Voices, One Show: How We Train AI to Speak for Both of Us When two distinct creators collaborate, how do you ensure the content speaks with a unified…
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How to Build an AI Workflow for Any Repetitive Task
In this episode of The Missing Manual, Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas teach you how to build an AI workflow for any repetitive task by working through a…
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Mowing the Digital Grass: Taming Your Downloads Folder with Claude Co-work
"Hope is not a strategy." If your desktop is a sea of icons and your Downloads folder is a graveyard of unnamed PDFs, this episode is for you. Julia and JCK…
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Stop Building Better Bad Processes: The Missing Manual for AI Troubleshooting
In this episode of The Missing Manual, JCK and Julia Levy go "under the hood" of their own AI experiments to discuss what happens when the tech fails to meet…
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Stop AI Hallucinations: The Handoff Secret for Claude & ChatGPT
Tired of your AI losing the plot mid-conversation? Learn why Agentic AI requires Handoff Documents to prevent hallucinations and maximize your token usage in…
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How to Bake Your Voice into AI (Part 2 of 3)
In Part 2 of our Agentic AI series, we get tactical. Julia and JCK discuss the Brand Voice Artifact—a project designed to ensure AI never misses your tone…
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Agentic AI 101: Stop Prompting and Start Building (Part 1 of 3)
Are you just putting AI on top of a broken process? In the premiere of our 3-part Agentic AI series, Julia and JCK pull back the curtain on Agentic AI—the move…
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Is The Resume Dead?
The Resume Infrastructure is Cracking. Can Talent Ops Save It? We all know the secret: the resume was never a perfect tool, but now it’s becoming a liability…
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Hell Yes Energy
The conversation introduces the 'Hell Yes' mantra and explores its application in decision-making, reframing negative experiences, and identifying content…
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What Do You Do When You Don’t Have a Budget?
The $0 Strategy: How to execute when the "Tools" don't exist. "Fix it, but don't spend anything." It’s the most common directive in the corporate machine, yet…
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Good Friction and Bad Friction at Work
The conversation delves into the concept of friction in talent acquisition processes, exploring the distinction between good and bad friction. It also…
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How Design Thinking Can Help Save Your Work From Failure.
Doing the work is only half the battle. Knowing how to navigate the machine is the rest. In this session of The Missing Manual, Jenny Cotie Kangas and Julia…
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Why We’re Writing the Work Manual You Never Got!
Ever feel like there’s a secret playbook for corporate success that everyone else received but you? In this debut episode, Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas…