Honest resume critique

Get a blunt, structured review of your resume from a hiring manager's point of view, with the fixes ranked by importance.

Change note: Initial version

Prompt

Review my resume as a hiring manager who screens {{volume}} resumes for {{role}} openings. Be direct and specific. I want useful criticism, not praise.

Target role: {{role}}
Industry and region: {{industry}}
Resume:
{{resume}}

Give me:
1. A 6-second scan: what a screener would notice first, what impression it creates, and whether I would likely advance, with a one-sentence reason.
2. Scorecard from 1 to 10 for: relevance to the target role, impact and evidence, clarity and layout, language quality, and ATS friendliness.
3. The five biggest problems, ranked, each with a quoted example from my resume and a concrete fix.
4. Line-level edits for the weakest {{edit_count}} bullets.
5. What is missing that a strong candidate for this role would show.
6. Anything that might raise red flags (gaps, short tenures, vague titles) and how to address it honestly.

Do not rewrite the whole resume. Do not invent experience. If you cannot judge something, such as formatting that is lost in pasted text, say so.

Variables

• {{volume}}Applicants per openingselect

  Options: 50, 200, 500

  Default: 200

• {{role}}Target roletext

  Default: financial analyst

• {{industry}}Industry and regiontext

  Default: banking, United States

• {{resume}}Your resumelongrequired

  Paste as plain text

• {{edit_count}}Bullets to fixselect

  Options: 3, 5, 8

  Default: 5

Example output

**1. Six-second scan**
Eyes land on the company names and a long skills list; the achievements are buried. Verdict: maybe. Unclear what you accomplished beyond maintenance work.

**2. Scorecard**
Relevance 6, Impact 4, Clarity 7, Language 6, ATS 8.

**3. Top problems**
1. Duty-based bullets. Example: "Prepared monthly reports." Fix: state what decisions the reports supported and the time or dollars involved.
2. Skills section lists 22 tools. Cut to the 8 relevant to financial analysis.
3. Summary is generic ("hard-working professional"). Replace with a two-line statement of scope and specialty.
4. No numbers in the last role.
5. Education above experience despite six years of work.

**4. Line edits**
Before: Helped with budgeting. After: Built the annual budget model for a $14M division, reducing forecast variance to [X%].

**5. Missing**
Forecasting or variance analysis; evidence of working with senior stakeholders.

**6. Red flags**
Eight-month role in 2022: address with a short, neutral line in your cover letter.

Notes

Ranking the problems tells you what to fix first instead of drowning you in nitpicks. Fix the top three, then run it again with the revised version.