What does Resumco actually do?
It reads the job posting and your resume, scores how well the two match today, and — if you decide the job is worth it — rewrites your real experience so it survives automated screening and still reads like a person wrote it. It also writes a resume from scratch through a short chat, and a matching cover letter for the same job.
Does it invent anything to make me look better?
No, and this is the one rule the whole product is built around. Employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, metrics, team sizes — none of it is ever added. Resumco reorders, rephrases and surfaces what is already in your resume. Where the job asks for something you do not have, it says so under “Still worth adding” rather than writing it in. A resume with an invented fact on it can lose you the job after you have taken it.
Will an applicant tracking system be able to read the PDF?
That is the design constraint behind every template: a single column, standard section headings, standard fonts, parseable dates, and your contact details in the body of the page rather than in a header. No tables, no text boxes, no icons where a parser expects words. We read our own generated PDFs back the way a screener’s parser does, in an automated test, and fail the build if any of that stops being true.
Will it read as AI-written?
That is a real risk and we treat it as one — around half of hiring managers say they discard a resume they suspect was machine-written, and detectors flag surface style, not facts. So Resumco keeps your own wording wherever it already works, edits minimally, varies the rhythm of your bullets, and refuses a list of buzzwords (“spearheaded”, “leveraged”, “results-driven”, “passionate about”) that mark text as generated. Staying close to how you actually wrote is both the honest answer and the effective one.
How is this different from asking a chatbot?
A general chat can rewrite text, and does it well. What it will not do unprompted is hold itself to your facts, score the job honestly before it starts, write to a recognised resume standard, or hand you a document a screener can parse — you would have to ask for each of those, and then check every line it gives back. Resumco does all of it by default, on one screen, and the rule against inventing anything is built into every step rather than left to a prompt you remember to write.
Do I need an account, and what happens to my resume?
No account, no sign-up. Your resume and the job posting are held in memory only for as long as it takes to produce your result, then discarded — nothing is written to a disk or a database. A photo, if you add one, never leaves your browser at all: it is cropped locally and drawn straight into the PDF.
What does it cost?
Nothing to check your match — that stays open, because seeing the honest number is what the product is for. Generating documents will move to a paid plan as Resumco grows; you will always be able to see your score, and what a tailored resume looks like, before any of that is asked of you.
Why do you show a match score before writing anything?
Because scoring is fast and rewriting is slow, and nobody should find out an application was hopeless after they have already invested in it. You see the honest number every time, pass or fail. Below 51% we say plainly that we would aim elsewhere — and then leave the decision with you, because you may know something we cannot see: a referral, a conversation, a move already under way.
Can the tailored version score worse than what I started with?
No. Tailoring reorders and rewords experience you already have and removes nothing relevant, so the tailored resume can never match the job worse than the original did. If the rewrite genuinely gained you nothing, the two numbers come out equal and we show no improvement rather than inventing one.
What is a “standard”, and why does it change my resume?
There is no global resume format. A photo and a date of birth are expected on a German Lebenslauf and get an application discarded in the United States; a Languages section with CEFR levels is standard across Europe and noise in Boston; one page is right in France and reads as thin experience in Sydney. Resumco writes to one of 5 recognised standards — pre-filled from your location, changeable in one click — and that choice sets paper size, section set, length, spelling and whether personal details belong on the page at all.
Does where I live affect my score?
Never. Your city, country, address, time zone and right to work are excluded from scoring, along with nationality, age, gender, marital status and your name. People relocate, commute and work remotely; where you live is not evidence about whether you can do the job, and several of those are unlawful for an employer to screen on in the first place.
Which language will it write in?
Whichever you choose. Resumco detects the language of the posting and of your resume; if they differ, it asks once and then keeps the whole application — resume and cover letter — in that single language. Applying in the language of the posting is the usual advice, so that is the default.
Can I change what it wrote?
Every line. Click any text in the preview to edit it directly, or ask for a change in your own words — “add my AWS certification, passed in 2024” — and it will apply it, or ask you for the missing detail rather than making one up. There is one step of undo, and your edits download exactly as shown.