Honest Resume Coach
Tell your real story in plain language you can back up. When a number's missing we ask; we never make one up. Single-column, ATS-safe · free export
Contact
Top of the body (never in header/footer) · no emoji icons
Professional Summary (optional)
Work Experience
No formal work experience? Open this → these all count
- Coursework projects (assignments, capstone, group work)
- Personal / open-source projects (GitHub, portfolio)
- Part-time / internships / on-campus jobs (TA, work-study)
- Clubs / student orgs / volunteering (volunteer hours count too)
- Competitions / hackathons / awards
- Self-taught skills (certs, online courses, side projects)
Drop any one of these below, then use the ✨ honest coach to turn it into a strong bullet.
Projects
Education
Skills
Comma-separated plain text (ATS-safe) · no bars/stars
ATS parsing + honesty score
Simulates how mainstream parsers (Workday/Greenhouse) extract plain text, and checks 3 bullets against XYZ / weak-verb / AI-tell rules. A rough preview, not an official ATS result.
Default .docx (most robust across ATS). For PDF use Print → Save as PDF; it passes only if you can select the text. Both free, no watermark.
“Responsible for managing the company's Instagram account” · Marketing Intern
“Built a React web app that helped 200+ students log surplus dining-hall food, cutting reported waste by 30%” · Campus Food-Waste Tracker
Job-keyword match (honest version)
Paste the target JD. We show which of its keywords you cover, but we won't stuff words: only what you really did goes in.
Work Experience
- Responsible for managing the company's Instagram account
- Grew follower base from 1,200 to 3,500 by launching a weekly content series
Projects
- Built a React web app that helped 200+ students log surplus dining-hall food, cutting reported waste by 30%
Education
Skills
Python, JavaScript, React, SQL, Figma, Google Analytics