You’re not the problem.Your resume is.
Nobody tells you why you got rejected. Not the recruiter, not the portal, not the auto-reply that arrived four weeks later. I read your resume the way the machine does and show you the exact lines that got you filtered out.
Source: Greenhouse, AI in Hiring Report, November 2025 — survey of 4,136 job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers across the US, UK, Ireland and Germany.
Here’s what’s actually happening.
You apply. And apply.
Tab after tab, the same eight fields, a fresh cover letter at 1am. It feels like effort because it is.
Six things break resumes. Yours has some of them.
Not vibes, not a “strength score.” Named fields, real counts, and the specific reason each one gets you filtered.
Parse integrity
Whether your name, email and phone survive the upload at all. Columns, headers and text boxes routinely delete them.
Voids the fileField structure
Every role needs a title, a company, and dates in a shape the parser recognises. Prose paragraphs don't count.
Roles vanishQuantification
How many of your bullets contain a number. Below 30% you read as a list of duties instead of a record of outcomes.
Reads juniorKeyword coverage
The exact terms in the posting versus the terms on your page. Synonyms don't score. Neither does implying it.
Ranks lastRecency weighting
Your current role is read first and hardest. An empty or thin one outweighs a decade of strong history below it.
Wastes your bestLength & density
One page for a fifteen-year career isn't discipline, it's compression. I'll tell you what to cut and what to expand.
Buries the pointYou’ll know exactly where you stand.
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