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Industry Guides Index, Updated May 2026

Industry Resume Guides for the 2026 US Job Market

Each guide is anchored on a specific US labor-market shock with primary-sourced data, an ATS translation table built for the industry, and a tactical playbook keyed to the transition. One guide per active transition, not a generic page per sector.

2 industry guide live, 4 sister playbooks under /proof.

By the numbers (sourced): DOGE / FEDERAL TRANSITION

  • 386,826

    Federal workers who departed January 2025 through January 2026, the largest single-year federal exodus on record.

    Source: Fortune (Nov 2025)
  • 96%

    Share of all 2025 job losses in the DC metro area attributable to federal layoffs.

    Source: Brookings Institution
  • Sept 27, 2025

    Date the OPM 2-page resume cap took effect on USAJOBS, ending the multi-page federal resume era.

    Source: OPM / USAJOBS

Definition

What counts as an industry resume guide here

An industry resume guide on ResumeAdapter is a long-form playbook anchored on a single US labor-market transition. Each guide ships with four deliverables: primary-sourced macro data, an ATS translation table for the receiving sector, a terminology crosswalk (GS-grades to corporate titles, federal acronyms to private-sector terms), and a 30-day tactical plan.

We publish one guide per active transition. Sector-specific transitions whose hook is a single employer event or an ATS rather than the industry label live under /proof. The shared hook (clearance, ATS vendor, severance window) is more useful than the sector label.

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