Basically yes, for the first pass. But it is triage, not reading, and in 2026 the first reader is often an AI screener that reads every word. A recruiter explains how to survive both passes.
Yes while you're still in high school, no once college gives you a record of your own. A recruiter's stage-by-stage rule, with example education sections and the 3.1% of college resumes on Simplify that haven't made the cut yet.
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Ten to fifteen, grouped under category labels. We counted the skills on 75,308 real resumes: the median is 15, the mean is 19.4, and one resume in ten lists 44 or more.
Three to five for most jobs, and more on the one that matters. We counted bullet points across 11,819 real jobs on Simplify to show where you should sit and which tail you are probably in.
Past tense, for every job on the page, including your current one. We pulled 26,981 real resume bullet points from Simplify to show why the present-tense rule almost nobody follows, and the cases where it still earns its place.
No. Drop the pronouns and use implied first person. We pulled 23,191 real resume summaries from Simplify to show why, with before/after examples for every career stage.
