244 people
applied for the
job you wanted.
Eighteen got called back. The other 226 have no idea why the recruiter passed.
Greenhouse, The Hire Standard, March 2026: 244 applications per role in 2025, 7.6% past the first screen.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a recruiter has finished reading your resume.
Move forwardReject
Nobody tells you why.We do, before you apply for the next one.
Here’s the note Jordan never saw.
Introducing the reviews is useful to know. A recruiter still can't see what you examined or what you did with the findings.
The line: Introduced monthly renewal-risk reviews across the portfolio
Fictional example
What we look for, line by line.
“Results-driven professional”is on every resume.- Show the result instead. We point to the line that already has one, and ask for the detail you left out.
- Your best example stops right before the good part.
- We show you where. The lines a recruiter would stop on, in the order they’d read them.
- Nobody can score you against an ATS or tell you your interview odds.
- So we don’t pretend to. We tell you which lines are clear, and rewrite yours only from your facts.
Fix it. Then check it again.
The line: Introduced monthly renewal-risk reviews across the portfolio
Changed. Up 6.
The line: Ran quarterly business reviews with customer leadership teams
- First report
- Revision 1Up 6
- Revision 2Up 5
Fictional example
I’ve passed on more people than I can count. A few seconds a resume, fifteen years, at companies you’ve heard of and small ones around the world. The reasons were almost always the same, and nobody told you. I wrote them down.