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Roast my resume

Recruiters give a resume about seven seconds before deciding (a 2018 eye-tracking study clocked it at 7.4). Paste yours and get that read back, unfiltered: a 0 to 100 screen score, the exact line that costs you the most, and a rewrite of it.

We don’t store your file. It’s read, scored, and discarded.

Nobody actually reads your resume

Here is the part no one tells you. Before a real person ever sees it, software scans your resume and decides if it moves on. If it clears that, a recruiter skims what is left for about seven seconds. Neither one reads every word. They hunt for a few specific things, fast. If those things are not obvious, your resume gets dropped, and you never hear why.

The roast reads your resume the same way that skim does, then tells you exactly what is costing you.

What the roast looks for

  • Lines that could be anyone. “Responsible for managing accounts” describes the job, not you. Anyone in that seat could write it. The roast flags bullets that say nothing about what you actually did.
  • No numbers. “Grew sales” is a claim. “Grew sales 30%” is proof. When every bullet is a claim with no number behind it, a skimmer reads the whole thing as filler.
  • Filler phrases. “Results-driven team player with a proven track record” is on millions of resumes. It says nothing, so it gets skipped.
  • Your best line, buried. Your strongest point stuck halfway down the list under an old job might as well not be there. In seven seconds, nobody reads that far.

You get the score first, then the fix. The roast rewrites your weakest line right in front of you, so you can see what better actually looks like instead of just being told to do better.

The roast is free, no account and no card. Building the finished, tailored resume takes a free account. Reading and downloading it is the part you pay for, once: see pricing.

Why it is so blunt

Most resume advice is nice, and nice does not help. Rejection emails never give the real reason. Friends tell you it looks great. So you keep sending the same resume and keep getting ignored. An honest read can sting, but it is the only kind you can actually use. The roast will not make up problems to sound tough, and it will not hand out fake praise. If your resume is strong, it says so.

A clean resume gets you past the bots. A tailored one gets the interview.

Fixing your resume gets you through the first cut. Matching it to the exact job is what wins it. Got a specific job in mind? Score your resume against that job description and see the gaps before a screener does.

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