Job search guides

Résumé advice is full of confident numbers with no source. These guides trace claims back to the research and link every source, so you can check them yourself.

• Does ATS really reject 75% of résumés?

  The number is everywhere in résumé advice. It traces back to a single 2012 sales pitch from a company that no longer exists, and the best available research says it's wrong.

  Updated 29 July 2026

• How to tailor your résumé to a job description (without inventing anything)

  Tailoring is not rewriting your life story for every posting. It is choosing which true things to lead with and describing them in the language the job uses.

  Updated 23 October 2026

• What an ATS résumé checker can and can't tell you

  A checker score feels like a verdict. It is closer to a spell-check for keywords: useful for finding gaps, misleading if you treat it as a pass or fail.

  Updated 23 October 2026