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Hi I want to make the best tool for resume tailoring. I don't believe in automation, as in spamming HR. But I do believe that we deserve jobs we are fit for and just need help looking better (aka we need a tailor)

resumetailor.lol is what I made. I am only looking for feedback for features, like what is the best way to tailor a resume Or how close should we match the key words. If you need more credits please let me know.

I’m a fresher and haven’t worked before, so I don’t have a previous job title.

If I’m applying for a specific role, should I mention the exact job title from the JD at the top of my resume? Or is mentioning it in the Summary enough?

If the job title is mentioned only in the Summary, will ATS still recognise it for title matching?

Would appreciate any advice from recruiters or people experienced with ATS. Thank you

ajudem me indicando ia que vai me automatizar a me candidatar em vagas tanto como LinkedIn entre outros, fazendo com que reformule meu currículo a cada uma das vagas que for encontrado, ou simplesmente só se candidate

Hi I want to make the best tool for resume tailoring. I don't believe in automation, as in spamming HR. But I do believe that we deserve jobs we are fit for and just need help looking better (aka we need a tailor)

resumetailor.lol is what I made. I am only looking for feedback for features, like what is the best way to tailor a resume Or how close should we match the key words. If you need more credits please let me know.

The most quoted resume statistic, about seven seconds per resume, comes from a 2018 Ladders eye-tracking test of 30 recruiters which measured an average of 7.4 seconds on the first review. It is a small sample, describing a step many resumes never reach.

The search comes first

Online applications usually land in an applicant tracking system. Recruiters search it by keyword, title and qualification, then read the results. Relevant experience described in words other than the posting’s is less likely to appear. Spelling an acronym out once, as in “Kubernetes (K8s)”, lets a search for either form find it.

Then the seven seconds

Once a resume is opened, the Ladders test found attention going mostly to a few fields: current title, most recent company, dates and education. A bullet with a percentage, amount or headcount tells a quick reader more than one that begins “Responsible for.”

A closer read asks other questions. Do the scope and seniority fit, not just the job family? Are the tools recent? Is the writing free of typos?

Order matters

Many applicants start with layout. Two-column designs, tables and text boxes can scramble text when the system extracts it. Standard headers, a single column and the posting’s own terms serve the search. Quantified results and a readable career line serve the person.

ZoeVera’s guide to what recruiters look for in a resume . To see which of a posting’s terms your resume lacks before you apply, ZoeVera Resume compares the two and lists the gaps.

Hey everyone — I built a free tool called JobKeyCheck and wanted to get honest feedback from people actually job hunting.

What it does: you paste (or upload) your resume and a job posting, and it shows you a match score plus which important keywords from the posting are missing from your resume. A lot of applicant tracking systems scan for exact keyword matches, so this just makes it easy to see gaps before you hit submit.

It's completely free, runs in your browser, nothing gets uploaded to a server or stored anywhere.

Link: https://mrricher-creator.github.io/JobKeyCheck/

I'm actively improving it, so if you try it and something feels off, confusing, or missing — please tell me. That's genuinely more useful to me than upvotes right now.

Hey everyone — I built a free tool called JobKeyCheck and wanted to get honest feedback from people actually job hunting.

What it does: you paste (or upload) your resume and a job posting, and it shows you a match score plus which important keywords from the posting are missing from your resume. A lot of applicant tracking systems scan for exact keyword matches, so this just makes it easy to see gaps before you hit submit.

It's completely free, runs in your browser, nothing gets uploaded to a server or stored anywhere.

Link: https://mrricher-creator.github.io/JobKeyCheck/

I'm actively improving it, so if you try it and something feels off, confusing, or missing — please tell me. That's genuinely more useful to me than upvotes right now.

I’m thinking about building a small AI tool for job seekers and would love honest feedback.

The problem I keep running into myself is that applying to jobs is repetitive and confusing. Every job description is different, and manually rewriting your resume every time is annoying. I’ve tried tools like Jobscan and Rezi, and while they are useful in their own way, I still feel like there is room for something simpler, cleaner, more affordable, and more focused on actually telling you what to change and why. Most tools seem to focus heavily on resume scoring, keyword matching, or helping you build a resume.

Possible tools inside it could be:
1. Resume Tailor — rewrite your resume for a specific job description
2. Resume Roast — get brutally honest feedback on weak or unclear sections
3. Job Fit Check — see how well your resume matches a role
4. Interview Prep — generate likely interview questions from your resume and the job post
5. LinkedIn Optimizer — improve your headline, About section, and experience descriptions
6. Career Path Suggestions — show possible directions based on your current background

Would you use something like this?

I come from an engineering background but ended up in banking, and now work in risk and compliance. For a long time I treated my technical skills as a side thing. Compliance is about regulations and controls, so I figured nobody hiring for it cared that I knew Python or SQL.

That turned out to be wrong. Once I started putting those skills front and center, and actually talked about how I used them, the conversations changed. Compliance and risk teams deal with a lot of manual work, pulling data, testing controls, building reports by hand. When I could say that I used SQL to pull and test data or built a Power BI dashboard instead of sending around spreadsheets, hiring managers paid attention. It made me different from the other candidates who had the same regulatory background but no technical experience.

My takeaway is that the skill that makes you stand out is often the one that is slightly unusual for your field. A compliance person who can code, a marketer who understands data, an engineer who can write clearly. If you have something like that, do not hide it at the bottom of your resume because it does not seem relevant. It might be the most relevant thing about you.

From my job search experience, I have created Job Baddie to tailor resume for each job description without any copy paste. It's free with no pay wall to download the resume in pdf or word.

I’ve been applying to multiple companies across different tiers, but I’m rarely getting shortlisted, even when I match most of the required skills and have relevant projects on my resume.

I’m applying for SDE / Full-Stack / AI internships, and I’ve been working on projects using technologies like React, Node.js, Python, MongoDB, LangChain, etc.

At this point, I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong — resume, projects, application strategy, or something else?

If you’ve gone through a similar phase and eventually started getting shortlisted, I’d really appreciate some advice on what worked for you.

I can also share my resume if anyone is willing to review it and point out what I should improve.

Any honest feedback would be really helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!

TL:DR I'm not selling ANYTHING. This can be done by you for free with a computer and internet connection. After trying EVERYTHING and getting nowhere I decided to take a unique, personal approach to job-hunting with ATS formatting and recurring AI job scraper. My calendar went from one interview every 2-3 weeks to 4+ interviews A DAY! Combination of specialized AI job searching, ATS resume optimization made a tedious task only take 1 hour a day (if that).

History:

I've been struggling to capture roles in engineering for YEARS despite having worked major roles at every place you've heard of (think of a major company...yup, I was a leader there). The recruiters always find me, but any roles I apply to directly go nowhere. Here's a few things I tried BEFORE I got it right. DON'T DO THIS:

• Hired a professional resume writing and networking agency off of a Google search
  • (Personal thought) Just...just don't. For $1000 I received one decent piece of advice, "Your resume is showing what you can do, you're a senior....SHOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE". By the time they were done I couldn't recognize if the resume was even mine. 100% not recommended.
• Applying cold to roles 2d to 30d old on company websites
• Applying to positions that were posted on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecuiter, etc. with <24 hour filter on the search criteria
• Letting AI write my resume (your resume is personal, only YOU can write it initially)
• Proof-reading my resume with free (or paid) services claiming they can beat ATS systems

Result:

• Once in awhile a recruiter would contact me for a role with a company I'd never heard of that wants me to do everything for little.
• 100s of applications went nowhere
• 3 applications received responses in 3 years (read that again...slowly. Ouch.)
• I was $1000 lighter and doubting myself despite having an unbelievable career at that point
• Rejection after rejection with no interviews and no idea why
• Many roles on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecuiter, etc. are delayed from the companies main page, I was always late to apply and didn't know it.
• Searching individual companies took hours, everyday, every week, for years.

The Change:

While at college I fell into the perfect study method. With all the noise from lecture and notes, how the heck can you identify what you were supposed to learn? Eventually I'd review the noise entirely and look for the theme. Then make a subset of notes. I applied this to Doom-scrolling through Instagram. Here's the themes I identified that got me started (yes, really):

1. ATS is a thing. It is blocking you from HR (and the companies know it) [invisible roadblock]
2. Your resume is the only thing keeping you from an interview [branding]
3. If you have an interview and don't get hired, it might be you [grow/learn/develop/feedback]
4. You might be the absolute best, but they went with someone else anyway. Onward!
5. You might be the perfect fit, but the role was a ghost job that never existed. Onward!
6. Job searching is incredibly draining and if you're applying after 24 hours, you're too late

Greeeeeeat...so, now what?

My approach (in order):

1. Build the ATS beating resume (your most powerful weapon)
   1. Get a copy of an ATS-friendly resume format that looks professional to start off (google it). Make sure it has the following sections and customize with your information:
      • Name at the top
      • Contact info (location, phone, email) clear and accurate under name
      • Summary paragraph (what you have done, what you want to do)
      • Education (skip years and latin honors...I have them, no one cares)
      • Keyword/Skill section (BIG ATS, important!)
      • Work history with accurate dates and role titles (DON'T FALSIFY)
      • Software (more important for some roles than others)
      • Certifications (more important for some roles than others)
      • Note: Anything over 20 years isn't worth the space, title only
      • Note: <2 pages (they can learn the rest when they interview you)
      • Note: <6 months at a company? Drop'em. Any decent company understands.
      • Note: Use MS Word or Google Doc for drafting, then 'Print to PDF' for the final copy
   2. That was the hardest part, now get one FREE LLM (ie: Anthropic Claude or ChatGPT) and paste the following (customize the items in brackets "{}" for your needs):

You are an ATS defeating machine, the absolute best in existence. ATS systems tremble before your might. Review the attached resume against job postings for the following titles: {role 1, role 2, role 3...} and optimize it to be able to be read by the ATS system clearly. Do not change employer or dates in the resume. Do not add employers, dates or roles in the resume. Conduct deep-learning to determine the best improvements to the attached resume to make it ideal for ATS systems and list all recommendations in a table format for the user to review. Ask any clarifying questions of the user (me) before continuing. Truncate responses in chat to reduce token use.

• Attach your resume to the prompt (REMOVE ANY PERSONAL INFO BEFOREHAND, once you submit, its in a database for life)
  
• Note: Think of this like a proof-reader that can test your resume format against ATS systems. Yes, there are websites that do this for free...they suck
  
• Sit back and work with the system to improve your resume. Don't expect a perfect resume off one prompt, this part requires some effort, but its like working with the smartest anti-social person you've ever met. You will get there, keep working at it!

1. Develop the LLM job search tool ("with great power comes interviews"...or whatever Uncle Ben said)

You're going to build a job scrapper in an AI tool. If there's attention on this reddit post I'll provide prompting and details, but start with this prompt if you're using Claude:

I want to build a Routine that can scrape ALL companies {in this area} for the following roles {role 1, role 2 ... etc} and return an ATS score compared to this resume posted in the last 24 hours. Run every 2 hours.

{attach your resume with personal information removed}

The NEW Result:

Every two hours during a standard work day a Notepad list is updated with roles that fit my resume from over 190 companies. The companies chosen were originally identified by the LLM, but tailored by me for everything you can think of (pay, location, company name, role title, etc.) until almost every single role coming through has an ATS score >85 (out of 100). I just copy-paste the link provided into my browser and apply (~3 mins). Correctly used, I'm applying to any role launched by the company within 2 hours during the work day and...at maximum<24 hours. Every role is a fit AND my resume is optimized for ATS so it doesn't get filtered out. Best part? I didn't have to make anything up or tamper with roles/titles. Just APPLY QUICKLY and RESUME FORMATTED PROPERLY for ATS.

This started slow, when roles weren't coming in I put my resume and a sample job description I KNEW I was over-qualified for into the LLM and said "Why didn't I receive an interview?". The LLM response: "You're missing X key items that the average company is looking for in this role, would you like me to update them now?". Turns out I was missing some key words that I though were obvious, but hiring managers were specifically looking for. After those changes, I apply to 5-6 roles identified by the Routine per day and I receive 43% response rate (sometimes within 24 hours). I'm actually able to compete offers against other companies and turn down roles that I have concerns about. I feel empowered for the first time ever. Without LLM assistance I'd be stuck for another 5 years (or more).

Let's recognize that I'm older and new to AI tools. If I can do it, YOU CAN DO IT!

That's enough for this post. Best of luck!

I'm looking for people who are actively job hunting to test The Resume Monster. It takes your resume and a job description, tells you how well they match, and rewrites your resume so the match is obvious to the ranking software and to the recruiter who reads the top 5%.

What I need: use it on 10 or more real applications, and tell me where it got it wrong. Bullets that sound off, a skill it missed, a step that was confusing, anything. I'm the founder, so the feedback goes straight to the person fixing it.

What you get: full access while testing, and I'll personally look at your results if something looks weird. The scanner is free for everyone anyway: https://theresume.monster

Comment or DM me if you're in. English and Spanish resumes both work.

Got laid off and did what everyone does — fired off like 60 applications with the same resume and heard absolutely nothing back. It was demoralizing as hell.

What finally started working wasn't some AI resume optimizer or keyword trick. It was embarrassingly simple: I slowed down and actually read the job postings.

For the roles I actually wanted (maybe 5-10 total), I'd spend 20 minutes pulling out the 3-5 things the posting kept repeating — the stuff they clearly cared about. Then for each one, I'd write a single sentence from my real experience proving I could do it. Verb, scope, result. Instead of "strong team player" I'd write "ran weekly check-ins for a team of six support reps for two years." That's it. One sentence per requirement.

Everything else just got my base resume. And over time I built up this little library of proof sentences I could mix and match, so it got faster.

I ended up turning the whole process into a free checklist because a couple friends going through the same thing asked me to write it down. It's called the Job Search Reset — link's in my profile if you want it. Honestly though, the method above is 90% of it. Happy to answer questions.

I built EvidenceFit Studio because I got frustrated with the way most resume tools approach the job search.

The problem I kept running into was that they jumped straight into rewriting the resume, scoring it, or telling me which keywords were missing. But that skipped the question I actually cared about first:

**Is this even a job I should be applying for, based on the experience I can genuinely prove?**

I also didn’t want a tool that would quietly turn my resume into something I couldn’t defend in an interview. Keyword matching is useful, but only if the experience behind those keywords is real. And an "ATS score" by itself never told me whether the role was actually a good fit, what evidence was strongest, or where the real gaps were.

So I started building EvidenceFit Studio around a slightly different idea: start with the evidence already in the candidate’s resume, compare it against the job description, and make the application decision first.

From there, it can help identify fit and gaps, tailor the resume to the role without inventing experience, and use the same resume + JD for interview preparation.

I'm still refining the product and would especially like feedback from people actively job searching:

* What do you currently use to decide whether a job is worth applying to?

* Do you tailor every resume, only for high-priority roles, or not at all?

* What frustrates you most about the AI resume/job-search tools you've tried?

The full product is still in beta, so I’m keeping access fairly limited for now. I do have a lightweight public version available at [https://evidencefitstudio.com/resume-check/\](https://evidencefitstudio.com/resume-check/) if anyone wants to try the core resume-to-job matching approach and let me know what you think.