Career guidance built from recruiting experience.

I’m Gary Smith. After 30+ years leading operations and hiring at FedEx, Home Depot, and XPO, I now run Transparent Search Group, an executive search firm.

I kept seeing capable candidates whose strengths were buried or aimed at the wrong role. They rarely received useful feedback, so they revised the same resume again.

CareerStanding helps people assess their positioning, see potential issues, and choose practical next steps. The free check is a starting point; a fuller diagnosis adds role and search context.

What we believe

• Diagnosis before prescription. Rewriting a resume before you know the real blocker is painting over a crack. The diagnosis is free, for everyone, forever.
• Transparency over magic. Every AI change to your resume comes with the reason for it. You approve; nothing is invented — the AI improves your language, never your facts.
• You apply, not us. CareerStanding never auto-applies to jobs on your behalf. It finds and ranks the right ones; the application is yours.
• Your data is yours. Individual resume data is never shared or sold. Read exactly how it’s handled on the security page.

The company

CareerStanding is independent and founder-run, launched in March 2026. It is the product side of a working recruiting practice — the intelligence in the platform is the same lens applied on live searches at Transparent Search Group every week. For employers running workforce transitions, that same platform powers our outplacement program.