Resumes and versions

How it is written#

You give a target role and, optionally, what to emphasise. I write the resume from your profile: outcome-first bullets, plain structure, no columns or graphics for a parser to choke on. Costs 5 credits. Nothing appears that your history does not support, so if a bullet looks wrong it came out of your source text and you can edit it directly.

Versions and the primary resume#

• Duplicate any resume to fork it, then edit the copy. Useful when you are applying for two different kinds of job off one history.
• Rename versions so you can tell them apart.
• The primary resume is the one tailoring starts from when you queue a job. Set whichever version fits the run you are doing.

The screener checks#

Every resume is graded alongside the editor on the checks a recruiter or an applicant tracking system applies in the first twenty seconds:

• Length. Roughly 400 to 600 words is one dense page. Much under that reads as underwritten; much over it does not get read.
• Achievements carry numbers. A figure is what turns a claim into evidence, so the share of bullets containing one is counted.
• Bullets lead with the outcome rather than describing a duty.
• No filler phrases and no first-person pronouns, which is the convention a resume is read against.
• Reachable. There is an email address on the page.
• Parses cleanly. No tables or images, which resume parsers mangle.
• Your skills appear in the text. Keyword filters read the words on the page, not the skills list on your profile.

These are computed, not generated, so the same resume always scores the same. Editing toward a green check is a real change rather than rerolling a model until it flatters you.

Getting it out#

• PDF through your browser’s print dialog, using a stylesheet built for it.
• Markdown, which is how the resume is stored, for anywhere that takes formatted text.
• Plain text, for the bare textareas application forms are fond of.