A written review, not just a number.
A resume review is a diagnosis in words. This one returns three to five genuine strengths, then five to seven critical issues ordered most damaging first, a score out of 10 with a note for each of five sections, the keywords your target role expects and which you already have, and the three things to do next. It takes about a minute and costs nothing.
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What a reviewer looks at, in order.
Each of these comes back with a score out of 10 and one line saying why. The line is the useful part, and it has to name something in your file rather than describe resumes in general.
Summary
out of 10Whether the opening says anything a recruiter could not have guessed from your job title, or whether it is four lines of adjectives.
Experience
out of 10Whether your roles describe results or duties, whether the scope of what you ran is visible, and whether the most impressive thing you did is buried.
Skills
out of 10Whether the list is doing work or padding, and whether it matches the vocabulary the roles you want are written in.
Education
out of 10Whether it is placed and weighted correctly for how far into your career you are.
Formatting
out of 10Whether the document holds together for a person reading it quickly, which is a different question from whether software can parse it.
Ordered by what they cost you, not by where they appear.
A list of twenty small problems is a way of avoiding the big one. The review is required to find between five and seven, and to put the most damaging first.
Each issue arrives as two things: what is wrong, and why it costs you interviews, with a concrete piece of your resume attached. An exact employer, a section, the bullet it is reacting to. An observation that would be true of any resume is treated as a failed observation, not as advice.
That constraint is the whole difference between a review and a checklist. “Some bullets are vague” is something you already knew. Naming the bullet, the role it sits under, and what a reader concludes from it is the thing you can act on this afternoon.
Alongside them you get the count of bullets that need real numbers and one of the weakest quoted back to you, the hard keywords your target role expects that the resume is missing, and a short verdict on how the document reads to a recruiter in the market it is aimed at.
What this review will not do.
Published because these are the four things people assume, and being wrong about any of them wastes a week.
It will not write your fixes for you
The free review is diagnosis. It names the problem and the damage precisely, and stops there. Rewriting the lines is what the builder and Vale do afterwards, from the same reading.
It will not invent anything
No skill you did not list, no metric you did not state, no employer you did not name. Where a claim could be fabricated, it is computed instead: dates, missing links, contact fields and the parse score are arithmetic.
It will not flatter you
The scoring is calibrated to be strict on purpose, and the strengths section is capped at five so it cannot become a way of avoiding the issues.
It is not a human reading your resume
It is software, and it says so. What that buys you is that it reads the whole document rather than the first half of the first page, it comes back in a minute, and it costs nothing.
Common questions.
Is the resume review free?
How long does a review take?
Who is reviewing my resume?
What do I do with the review afterwards?
Can I review more than one resume?
Whichever question you came with.
These pages all run the review you just used. They differ in what they explain, so pick the one that matches what you actually want to know.
It all works from one Career Story.
Every tool reads the same memory, so nothing is ever retyped and nothing contradicts.
Have it read properly.
Strengths, the issues in order of damage, and the three things to do next. In about a minute.
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