Founder Letter / Version 3

A recruiter givesyour resume7 seconds.

What you say in those seconds is everything. The best ones always lead with:👋"here's what I actually built"🧐"here's what I figured out"💬"and here's why you should talk to me."

That used to be enough to get the call. Most recruiters only needed to see one of those three things clearly to decide you were worth talking to. The bar wasn't high. It was simple and straightforward.

But something went terribly wrong.

Resume builders arrived.

Then keyword tools. Then AI writers that scraped job descriptions and fed the language back into your bullets.

Each one promised to make your resume:10x BetterMore professionalMore ATS-friendly

What they actually did was criminal. All resume builders trained an entire generation of candidates to sound exactly the same.

Zety gave you a template.Resume.io let you build, then billed.LinkedIn told you to add skills.The AI tools gave you keywords.

None of them helped you figure out what was actually worth saying.

They just gave you better-looking ways to say nothing. And most candidates don't even know what belongs on a resume in the first place. You open a blank document and freeze.

You write what sounds safe, because you don't know what will actually land.

What sounds safe to you lands as forgettable to a recruiter. What feels too small to mention is usually the first thing they'd ask about in an intro call.

You leave out the things recruiters find most interesting. Like:workflow you worked on that cut two weeks off QA review cycles,hundred interviews you ran during your tenure to build the team from scratch,decision you owned end-to-end when nobody else would step up.

You leave out the things recruiters find most interesting. Like:

I owned a critical business decision end-to-end because someone had to when nobody else stepped up
I ran 100+ interviews which was technically not my job to build the entire team from scratch
I built an AI workflow while everyone said it wouldn't work that cut two weeks off QA review cycles
I joined as founding engineer at a lesser-known startup with $20M funding from Sequoia before anyone knew the name
I built a side project that nobody knows about whose GitHub repo is sitting at 400 stars used by devs around the world
I mentored about eight engineers which was never in my job description who outlasted me at the company
I fixed a 3am production incident that would have cost us a $150k client before anyone noticed it was down

Dusting off and polishing your resume for your next gig is always a little stressful project. It's ok to get a bit nervous. But that nervousness often leads to confusion.

And suddenly you don't know what's worth saying. So you end up saying nothing real.Nothing worth scroll-stopping to the recruiter or the founder.

That's a writing problem. But it's also a thinking problem.

And that can change. It must.

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Your work is in there. The decisions, the depth, the thing you built that nobody else would have. It's just buried under borrowed language and the habit of playing it safe. It's time to get it out.

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That's the resume you should have had all along.

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