The Michaud Method is the evaluation framework behind every Michaud Advisory service. It scores the match between you and a specific role across five weighted dimensions, producing a single Career Fit Score from 0 to 100 — grounded in evidence from the job posting, your resume, and a structured conversation about what you actually want. No score is assigned without a reason you can point to.
The framework draws on the disciplines behind good hiring decisions — psychology, human resources practice, and business strategy — and applies them in your interest instead of the employer's.
The Five Dimensions
1. Skills Match — 25%
Can you do the work? How the role's required and preferred skills align with what you can actually do — including which gaps are learnable and which are structural.
2. Experience Signal — 20%
Will a recruiter believe you can? Not whether the experience exists — whether your record reads as qualified in a seven-second scan and parses correctly through applicant tracking software. Capability and presentation are different problems, and we score them separately on purpose.
3. Behavioral & Culture Fit — 20%
Will you thrive there? How the role's daily demands and the organization's culture match the way you actually work best — autonomy, pace, collaboration load, management style. Work-style preferences are measurable, not vibes.
4. Trajectory Alignment — 25%
Does it move your career forward — and energize you? Whether the role advances your stated direction, has a visible growth path, and is built from work that gives you energy rather than draining it.
5. Practical Reality — 10%
Does the logistics math work? Location, compensation against your floor, and schedule. Hard deal-breakers act as gates: no weighted average can talk you into a role that requires a relocation you've ruled out.
The Verdict
Your weighted score lands in one of five bands, each with clear guidance:
- Strong Fit (75+): pursue with full effort — tailor everything.
- Good Fit (60–74): pursue, and address the named gaps head-on.
- Moderate Fit (45–59): pursue only with a specific strategic reason.
- Weak Fit (30–44): usually a skip — your effort is better spent elsewhere.
- Poor Fit (under 30): skip, and redirect the energy.
The Signal Gap
The most valuable finding the Method produces is the gap between what you can do and what your paper says. When your Skills Match score runs well ahead of your Experience Signal score, the problem isn't you — it's your resume. That's a presentation problem, and presentation problems are fixable.
The Honesty Rule
A gap you genuinely have is named, never buried. We will not stuff keywords you can't back up or coach you to claim experience you don't have — a score you can't trust is worth nothing. The Method's credibility is the product.