Document coach
Resume
The six-second screen is real. Write the one page that survives it.
A screener spends about six seconds deciding whether your resume earns a real read — and most resumes lose those seconds to duty lists, dense text, and modesty. This guided session works like sitting down with a veteran tech recruiter turned career coach: first you pin down the specific role you're targeting and what its posting actually screens for, then you build the page to answer it — a headline that mirrors the role, a summary that puts the match up top, experience bullets that are quantified accomplishments instead of responsibilities, and skills you could defend in an interview. You'll likely discover your work was more impressive than you've been giving yourself credit for. The target notes stay beneath the draft as working material; the resume itself is one sharp page.
What this expert will cover
- 2 questions
Target Role
working notesThe aim this whole version is tailored to — working notes for you and your coach, never part of the resume. Complete means: the specific role and company (or kind of company), plus the three or four things the posting actually screens for, ranked.
- 1 question
Header
The document's title line: your name plus a professional headline that mirrors the target role. Complete means: a screener reading only this line knows you're a plausible match — the headline uses the role's own vocabulary, not a vague self-description.
- 1 question
Contact
How a recruiter reaches you — the line a resume cannot ship without. Complete means: city (or remote), email, phone, and the one link that helps (LinkedIn or portfolio), on a single scannable line.
- 2 questions
Summary
The two-to-three sentence pitch at the top of the page. Complete means: seniority and discipline in the first line, the match to the posting's top screening criterion stated outright, and one quantified headline accomplishment — the screener finds the fit without hunting.
- 4 questions
Experience
The proof section, recency-weighted. Complete means: the most recent role carries a scope line (team size, budget, scale) and three or four bullets that are each a quantified accomplishment — an outcome with a number, never a duty — while earlier roles compress hard: a line or two each, a single line for anything near a decade old.
- 2 questions
Skills
The keyword match, kept honest. Complete means: the skills mirroring the posting's screening criteria, grouped so they scan in a glance, and nothing you couldn't defend for two minutes in an interview — a skill you'd fumble is worse than a gap.
- 2 questions
Education
The credentials, cut to size. Complete means: degrees and certifications as one line each — name, institution, year — plus at most one extra (talk, award, open source) that supports the target role. Past five years of career, this section lives small at the bottom.
The kind of questions it asks
- Which specific job is this version of your resume aiming at? Name the role and the company — or the kind of company. One resume per target: the tailored version beats the generic one every single time.
- Give me your title line: your name, then a professional headline that mirrors the target role — "Jane Park — Senior Platform Engineer · Kubernetes at scale", never "Jane Park — Hardworking professional". A working version is fine; we'll sharpen it once your wins are on the page.
- How does a recruiter reach you? One line, right under your name: city (or "Remote"), email, phone, and the single link that helps — LinkedIn or portfolio, not both unless both earn it. A headline they cannot respond to is a resume that cannot be answered.
Ready when you are.
Every answer inks the page in. Skip anything; return anytime.