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.
The problem isn't that your CV isn't good. It is that it looks exactly like everyone else's.
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.
If someone's been very active on GitHub and their repos have been forked or starred, they must highlight it in their CV. It makes it a really good signal and really helps differentiate an ordinary engineer from a non-ordinary one.
You leave out the things recruiters find most interesting. Like:
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.
Meet reallygood.cv
Meet
reallygood.cv
The creative software recruiters
wish candidates used.
I collected every frustration, every "they should have written this" moment, every time a recruiter got on an intro call and discovered someone far more interesting than their resume suggested.
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.
reallygood.cv doesn't start with templates. It starts with questions. The ones a recruiter would ask if they had the time. It finds what's missing, surfaces what you didn't know was worth saying, and helps you say it clearly. In your words, not a machine's.
A resume is a pitch. Its job is to make the recruiter want to call you for an interview — nothing more, nothing less.
That's the resume you should have had all along.
Let's go find it.
reallygood.cv is being built for
people who care about their resume.
When you pre-order, you'll get:
- Q&A based workflow to help you figure out what to say
- Hand-crafted templates backed by recruiter insights.
- 50 AI credits to help you craft your resume (enough to get your first CV done)If you need more credits, you can always top up later at early adopter discounted rate
- Well designed PDF exports (ATS compatible)
- Personalized short URL (only available to early adopters)
- Unlimited manual revisions / edits to your resume (Only available to early adopters)
What more recruiters have to say
Everyone obsesses over the template, but content is what gets people placed. A single line up top — '10 years building education tools,' '5 years of deep AI modeling' — makes a resume far more engaging. Almost no one does it.
LLMs write beautiful resumes now, so polished text means nothing. The real question is whether the work exists — show me proof: your GitHub, your Figma, the thing you actually shipped.
Everyone is 'working on AI' now, so just writing it on a resume has become meaningless. I'd rather read a bit what you actually built with it and that's exactly what I ask in resumes too.
The right way to think about a resume is simple: what do I need to know about this person before I get on a call with them? Answer that — nothing else matters.
A resume is a product, and the recruiter is the user. Design it for the few seconds they have and their cognitive load, or it won't matter how much you cram in.
