A career guide you fill in
Job searching without your employer finding out
A fillable 26-page guide: you check your contract for non-compete and non-solicitation clauses, work through 18 ways a quiet move gets noticed, and write down a countermeasure for each one. Not legal advice.
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Where you are
What's holding you up
You are looking while still employed and your employer must not find out.
For you if you are still employed and the move should stay invisible.
The build
How you work through it.
Not a loose pile of pages to skim. The order is built on purpose, each part sits on the one before it, and you end up with a finished result instead of a list of good advice.
Check your contract
You read your employment contract for non-compete and non-solicitation clauses as they work under German law. That tells you upfront what is actually at stake for you.
Leak list and your own risk score
18 ways a quiet move gets noticed, each with how likely it is and what to do about it. Your answers add up to a score that puts you in one of three zones, plus three immediate steps with a deadline.
Trust map
You place every person by how close they are to your employer professionally and to your manager privately. That shows you who can be told and who cannot.
New employer, scheduling, resignation
You decide how to ask for confidentiality in the first conversation, how to schedule interviews without conspicuous absences, and where your references come from. Plus a plan for the case where it comes out anyway and the right order once you resign.
What is inside
The Confidential Job Search
13 €- A leak list with 18 routes and a countermeasure each
- A risk score for your own situation
- References without your current manager
- A plan for the case where it comes out anyway
One-off, no subscriptionInstant downloadInvoice incl. 19% VAT
A look inside
Real pages, not mockups.
Three pages from the guide, exactly as they reach you after the purchase.
The download
One purchase, two languages, two ways to work.
Both versions
The download holds two folders, one English, one German. You pay once and decide yourself which language you work in.
Real form fields
You type straight into the PDF on your computer and save as you go. Printing works too, it just is not necessary.
Worksheets included
If you would rather write in Word, use the worksheets that come with it.
What the price is measured against
A move that comes out too early can cost you both positions.
Who is behind it
Written from the hiring manager's side.
I am Nick, over 7 years in HR teams from start-up to corporate, most recently as Head of People. Everything in this guide is something I have used, asked or decided myself.
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What buyers want to know first.
I do not really need to be that secretive.
Most people think that, right up until a colleague comments on a profile change. The leak list shows you 18 routes a move gets noticed, each with how likely it is. You then decide yourself which ones to close and which you do not care about.
Is this in English or in German?
Both. The download holds two folders, one with the English and one with the German version. You pay once and decide yourself which language you work in, which helps when a German employer asks for documents in German.
Do I have to print this out?
No. The PDF has real form fields, you type straight into it on your computer and save as you go. If you prefer Word, use the worksheets that come with it. Printing works too, it is just not necessary.
How does buying work, and is it safe?
Payment runs through Stripe, the same payment provider Amazon and Zalando use. I never see your card details. Right after payment you get the download link on the confirmation page and by email, plus an invoice showing German VAT. Checkout, download and confirmation email are all in English.
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The Confidential Job Search
18 ways a quiet move gets noticed, and a countermeasure for every one of them.
One-off, incl. 19% German VAT.English and German version in the same downloadRight of withdrawal