Writing
How applicant tracking systems actually work, what a resume score does and doesn't measure, and how to run a job search without losing your evenings to it.
- 6 min readJob searchWorkflow
Tailoring your resume for every application without spending hours
Everyone tells you to tailor your resume for every job. Nobody explains how to do it in ten minutes instead of two hours. Here's a workflow that holds up over forty applications.
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Why your resume score isn't 100 (and why that's useful)
Your Jiffy CV score shows how well one resume matches one job. Here's how to read it, what a rewrite can honestly improve, and why 100 is rare.
Read → - 6 min readATSResume formatting
How ATS systems actually read your resume
What an applicant tracking system does with your PDF between you pressing apply and a recruiter seeing anything — and which formatting choices quietly destroy it.
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