The 30-Second Resume Check

In the first 30 seconds, a hiring manager isn't reading your resume. They're scanning it to answer one question: can this person solve real problems, and explain them clearly?

Most resumes don't answer it. They list responsibilities instead of results, bury the good part halfway down the page, and, more and more, read like everyone else's AI-polished resume.

This kit helps you see yours the way a hiring manager does, and fix it.

What's in it

• The 30-second test: where a reader's eyes actually go, eight checks to tick, and space to write your top third in two lines.
• Rewrite your bullets: the "so what?" test with a worked example, a worksheet for three bullets from your latest role, "instead of, try" rewrites, and where to find a number when you think you don't have one.
• Before you send it: what makes a reader pause, how to use AI to polish without sounding like everyone else, the four questions a hiring manager is really asking, and a last check before you hit send.

Who it's for

Anyone applying for a technology role, from your first job to your next leadership position, and anyone who has sent a lot of resumes and heard very little back.

It builds on What I Look for in the First 30 Seconds of a Resume.

It's a 3-page PDF, made to print and write on.