I built a resume the bots would actually parse

The ATS score is a guess, but the structure fixes are real. Here is what I changed.

My standard test is a messy stack of PDFs and one real question.

The ATS score is a guess, but the structure fixes are real. Here is what I changed.

Drop the two-column layout; parsers eat the second column and lose half your history.

Mirror three keywords from the posting in your bullets, not buzzwords from a generator.

Export plain text and read it; if a section vanishes there, it vanishes for the recruiter too.

The detail is the result was a thing I actually use, not a screenshot I forget.

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The AI draft is the starting point, not the send button. Here is the three-pass routine that keeps it human.

A research paper I'd been avoiding became a 25-minute walk. The workflow is dumb, and that's why it worked.

Not zero-inbox. A loop that decides what is real so I only touch email twice a day.