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Add your resume and the job description. You get the rejection tier, every reason this resume would be cut, and the specific fix for each one. No encouragement, no filler.
Example report · written from a sample resume — yours is generated from your own file and job description
Chance of rejection
You may be the right person, but this document loses you the read. The flaws below are what cost you the call.
The role asks for someone who owns reliability for a platform team. Your resume shows six years of backend work with almost no outcomes, no ownership, and none of the three terms the screening filter looks for first.
The six-second read
Six seconds in, the reader finds a two-line summary of adjectives, a job title and a wall of responsibilities. Kubernetes, on-call and mentoring never appear on page one, so the resume is gone before your actual work is read.
Why it was rejected
Improved API performance and reduced infrastructure cost.
Why it rejects
Every bullet describes activity, not result. A hiring manager cannot tell whether you moved a needle or maintained a status quo, so the strongest thing about you stays invisible.
Fix it like this
Rewrite your top three bullets as result plus number: “Cut p95 latency 480ms → 120ms across 4M daily requests.”
Kubernetes and Terraform appear nowhere in the resume.
Why it rejects
The posting lists both as required. A keyword screen drops this resume before a human ever opens it — no matter how good the person is.
Fix it like this
If you have real exposure to either, name it in a Skills block and back it with one bullet containing scale.
Responsible for maintaining the payments service.
Why it rejects
“Responsible for” tells the reader what you were assigned, not what you did or decided. On a senior requisition it reads as junior.
Fix it like this
Lead with the verb and the scope: “Owned the payments service end to end — 3 engineers, 99.98% uptime, zero P1s in 18 months.”
Page one covers 2016–2019 in fourteen bullets.
Why it rejects
Screeners rarely reach page two. Your current role — the only one they care about — is the second thing they get to.
Fix it like this
Cut early roles to one line each and give the current role the top half of page one.
Section by section
One line, email and link, no photo. Exactly what a parser wants.
Four adjectives and no evidence. Delete it or make it one concrete line.
Six years of activity with no numbers. This is where the resume is lost.
No skills section, so the screening software has nothing to match against.
Degree, institution, year. Nothing to fix here.
Against the job description
Five of ten screening terms are missing, and the two most important ones are listed as required in the posting.
Matched
Missing
Machine reading
Two-column header can scramble in older parsers — keep contact details in a single left-aligned block
No Skills section for keyword matching
Dates written as “Summer 2019” — use MM/YYYY everywhere
Section titled “Where I've Made an Impact” — parsers only recognise standard headings
Do this next
Add one number to each of your three strongest bullets
Add the missing required terms from the job description wherever they are true
Move your current role and its outcomes into the top third of page one
Rename your headings to Summary, Experience, Skills, Education