FD FutureDayThe first day in your next role

About

Someday isn't a plan. FutureDay is.

Your FutureDay is the first day in your next role.
Not where you are today. Where you want to be.

Why I’m building this

The method always worked. Keeping it together didn’t.

Grant Kratz, founder of FutureDay

I am Grant Kratz. I spent my career selling technology to large companies, leading teams across twenty countries. I have hired a lot of people, and let a lot of people go. Like most people in senior roles, I have been between jobs more than once.

Every job I’ve had but one came through someone I knew. It was never luck. I found work the way I found customers in sales: start with the people who already know you, pick the companies you want, find the person inside who can open a door, and get to them before the job is advertised. I’ve done it on LinkedIn for 20 years, almost as long as LinkedIn has existed, without ever calling it a system.

My contacts were in a spreadsheet, my drafts in ChatGPT and Claude, my follow-ups in another app, and my resume on yet another version. I lost track of who I had messaged. I spent hours asking AI for a better resume, when the resume was never the problem.

So I’m building what I wanted. First the research: what makes a resume bullet work, a headline, a key achievements section, a LinkedIn About and Featured section. That became our written guides, and everything FutureDay writes follows them. Then the system: every person, company and job in one place, and each morning a short list that tells you what to do next: who to contact, what to say and when.

I’m not an extrovert. FutureDay is written for people like me: good at the job, not natural at selling themselves, and tired of working out what to do next. You turn up, do today’s step, and come back tomorrow. It works across functions, from mid-career to the C-suite. And I’m building it with the people using it: what you tell us shapes what comes next.

Grant Kratz · Founder

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What we believe

Three things we will not change.

1

It is not you

The silence says nothing about what you are worth. The rules changed while you were busy doing your job. The way you were taught to look for work stopped working, and it can be replaced. That is the heart of the book, and of everything we build.

2

Better known beats better qualified

The people who get hired are not better than you. They are better known. So we help you get known by the people doing the hiring, before the job is advertised.

3

Honesty over hype

The Job Fit Check tells you the truth, even when it is not what you hoped. Everything FutureDay writes follows our own guides, built on best practice, and it never invents a number.

Stop Applying, Start Getting Hired by Grant Kratz

The book

Based on the book Stop Applying, Start Getting Hired.

Get hired through people, not job boards. The four moves, step by step, in 130 pages.

Buy the ebook, US$9.99

Or start with 14 days for $1, and the ebook comes with your plan.