The most common rejection I see in engineering job searches is not a weak resume. It is a single dropdown answer. A candidate with eight years of Laravel and Vue.js work answers "5" to "How many years of PHP experience do you have?" because they counted only their current job, the requisition's rule says "less than 6 = disqualify", and the application is moved to a rejected state before the parser even reads the PDF. Nobody looked at it. Nobody will.

While building Smart Resume Analyzer , I have walked a lot of engineers through their rejected applications line by line. In maybe a third of the cases, the resume was fine and the knock-out questionnaire did the damage.…