Find out in 30 seconds. Paste your resume — we'll show you the 3 reasons recruiters skipped past you and exactly how to fix each one.
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The most common reasons recruiters skip past a resume: no top-of-page positioning line so they cannot tell what you do in the first six seconds; responsibilities described instead of quantified outcomes; passive language ("responsible for", "helped with") that hides ownership; no clear, scannable skills block; document is too thin or too dense to compare against other candidates. The diagnostic isolates the top 3 that apply to your resume specifically.
You paste your resume text. We analyze it for the signals recruiters use in the six-second skim — positioning, quantified outcomes, action verbs, scannable structure, and skill clarity. We then surface the top 3 reasons your resume is getting passed over and tell you exactly how to fix each one. Everything runs in your browser. Your text is never uploaded or stored.
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The callback score is our internal proxy for how likely your resume is to get past the recruiter's first scan. 80+ means strong; 60-79 means decent with room to improve; below 60 signals issues that are actively costing you interviews.
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If you're submitting applications and hearing nothing back, the failure point is almost never your skills, your background, or your fit. The failure point is the six-second window your resume gets when a recruiter first looks at it. Most resumes don't lose because the candidate is unqualified. They lose because the recruiter could not figure out the candidate fast enough — and the next resume in the pile was easier to read.
The diagnostic evaluates the same signals a recruiter uses in their first scan and a sourcer uses when keyword-searching their inbox:
Each diagnostic returns three reasons specific to your resume — but across thousands of evaluations, three patterns dominate:
Unlike most resume checkers that upload your document to their servers, the Interview Diagnostic runs entirely in your browser. Your resume text is analyzed using client-side JavaScript — it is never transmitted, never stored in a database, never seen by anyone but you. When you close the page, the data is gone. This makes it safe to use even with confidential resumes or proprietary company information.
We do compute a numerical callback score, but it's shown as a small sub-badge on purpose. A single number doesn't change behavior. The three concrete reasons — and the specific fix for each — do. Use the score to track progress over time as you iterate. Use the cards to decide what to actually edit today.
A clean resume gets you to the interview. It does not tell you whether you're targeting the right roles, whether your skills match market demand, or whether your salary expectations are calibrated to reality. That is where career intelligence comes in.
Resume Annex goes beyond the diagnostic. It tracks which skills are in demand, helps you calculate your market value, discovers matching jobs from 9+ boards, and prepares you for interviews with AI coaching and company-specific intelligence. The diagnostic is the starting point. Career intelligence is the full picture.
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