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Roast my resume

Recruiters give a resume about seven seconds before deciding. 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.

What the roast checks

The roast runs the same checks a screener runs, not a grammar pass. It reads your bullets the way a recruiter skims them and calls out what actually loses reads:

  • Duty-listing. Bullets that describe the job instead of what you did with it. “Responsible for managing accounts” is the posting, not you.
  • No numbers where numbers are expected. A screener scans for scale: how many, how much, how fast. Bullets with zero measurable outcomes read as filler.
  • Cliche padding. “Results-driven team player with a proven track record” has appeared on several million resumes. It is skipped, not read.
  • Buried strengths. Your best line sitting fourth in a bullet list under your second job might as well not exist in a 7-second skim.

You get the verdict first, then the fix: the weakest line is rewritten in front of you so you can see the difference, not just get told about it.

Why it is blunt on purpose

Most resume feedback is polite, and polite feedback does not change behavior. Rejection emails do not tell you why. Friends say it looks great. The gap between those two signals is where job searches stall. An honest read, even when it stings, is the only version you can act on. The roast will not invent problems to seem tough, and it will not fabricate praise. If your resume screens well, it says so.

Roasting is step one. Tailoring is what gets interviews.

A clean resume clears the screen. A tailored one wins it. If you have a specific posting in mind, score your resume against the job description and see the gaps before the screener does.

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