Grounded in the source
Employers, dates, titles, skills, and achievements must remain consistent with the candidate's original information.
Methodology & editorial standards
How ResumePolish reviews and optimizes resumes
ResumePolish consistently applies its documented checks to resume structure, role fit, supported keywords, and recruiter clarity. Its scores are actionable estimates from our own review system—not verdicts from an employer's private ATS configuration.
Evidence-led rewriting No invented experience No outcome guarantees
Free ATS-style check
What the free review covers
The free check applies ResumePolish's own consistent evaluation framework to the text provided. It highlights likely strengths and improvement areas; it does not submit the resume to an employer's private system.
ATS readability
Looks for common text and formatting patterns that may make a resume harder to process.
Resume structure
Checks whether essential information is organized clearly and consistently.
Evidence quality
Looks for concrete, outcome-focused evidence that helps recruiters understand the candidate's work.
Target-role relevance
Compares truthful resume content with the selected role or job description.
When a job description is provided
ResumePolish also compares prominent job-description terms with the resume and surfaces possible gaps. A missing term is a prompt to add truthful evidence if it exists—not permission to add a skill the person does not have.
Paid optimization
How ResumePolish protects resume accuracy
The optimization is designed to improve how existing experience is presented for a target role without creating qualifications the source resume cannot support.
Targeted with restraint
ResumePolish can clarify and prioritize relevant evidence, but unsupported requirements remain gaps instead of being added as facts.
Checked for integrity
Automated quality controls review the optimized resume for factual risk, clarity, relevance, and consistency before delivery.
The candidate remains the final authority
ResumePolish is designed to preserve factual integrity, but users should still verify every optimized statement before applying because they know their work history best.
Limits
What ResumePolish does not claim
- It cannot guarantee an ATS pass, interview, offer, or hiring outcome.
- Its score is not an official score from the employer or its ATS vendor.
- It cannot know an employer's private filters, recruiter workflow, or system configuration.
- It should not invent keywords, credentials, metrics, employers, dates, or responsibilities.
- Users should verify every optimized statement before applying.
Why keywords still matter
ATS products differ, but searchable resume text is real
We avoid claims about one universal ATS algorithm. Vendor documentation does show that recruiters can search candidate profiles and resumes by keywords, phrases, and Boolean combinations. That is why ResumePolish focuses on clear, truthful terminology that matches the target role.
Editorial standards
How we maintain ResumePolish guidance
- Prefer primary vendor documentation for factual ATS-product claims.
- Label estimates, product behavior, observations, and limitations plainly.
- Show meaningful published and updated dates on articles.
- Identify team-written material as the ResumePolish Editorial Team rather than inventing an expert persona.
- Use AI to assist research, drafting, and product analysis, with published guidance governed by these standards.
- Correct material errors and update time-sensitive claims when the underlying evidence changes.
These standards apply to new and materially updated guidance. Older articles are being reviewed progressively; publication under the team name does not imply that every article has already completed a new source audit.
Corrections or methodology questions
Email support@resumepolish.app. Include the page URL and the claim you want us to review.