Tailored Résumé Review
by Devin R.
Mar 4, 2025
Hi Sam, this complimentary review gives you honest, specific feedback you can act on this week. I read a few hundred résumés a month as a writer across finance, audit, and operations, and I use that vantage point to show you how you read next to the other candidates applying for the same postings.
Structure
Your use of bullet points is working well. Résumés should lean on bullets rather than paragraphs — they break up the page and let a recruiter register your achievements in the eight or nine seconds they spend on a first pass.
Before I move to the next section, a final note on your template. It highlights your work history clearly, but it can be tuned further to clear applicant tracking systems (ATS). If the term is new to you: ATS software is what employers use to auto-screen résumés that don't match a posting. It is a fairly recent addition to hiring, and roughly 94% of large enterprise employers now screen with one.
If a system can't parse your file cleanly, you never reach a human reviewer. I'd avoid drag-and-drop résumé builders for that reason — their exports often read as scrambled text to a parser, and the visual flourishes tend to land as amateurish anyway.
Every writing package we offer includes a professionally set résumé that parses correctly in all major tracking systems, leads with your strongest results, and still looks familiar to a hiring manager, so your first impression is a confident one.