Written for how we actually read it.
Every section below maps to a field the reader extracts or a dimension you are scored on. Nothing is here because a generic CV has it.
Seven sections that carry weight.
The percentages are measured over fifty real resumes, not guessed.
Headline
One line: role plus specialty. It is the largest single input to matching, and its words are compared against every brief. “Dental billing specialist for US practices” carries three matchable terms; “Hardworking professional” carries none. Measured: 76% of resumes have no headline at all, in which case your most recent job title is used instead.
Rate in USD per hour
State one. Not one of fifty real resumes we read stated a rate — it is the single most common gap, and briefs are matched to a budget band. A profile with no rate scores below anyone whose number lands inside the band.
Timezone availability
How many hours a day you can overlap, and whether you will work a night shift. Missing from 100% of the resumes we read, and it is scored directly. Say “4 hours overlap with US Central, open to night shift”.
Equipment
Internet speed, backup internet, backup power, headset, monitors. This is what a remote hire fails on when it fails — not skills — and employers ask about it first. Missing from 98% of resumes.
Skills
Software, systems and concrete procedures — Dentrix, Xero, insurance verification, CDT coding. Up to 20 are kept. Soft-skill filler is discarded on sight, because no employer writes “team player” in a job description.
Years of experience
Write the number. It is scored against what the brief asks for and stops there: twenty years does not beat five on a role that wanted three.
Roles with dates
Job title, employer, start year and end year. Titles are matched the same way skills are, so a real title earns credit that “various clients” does not.
Do this
- One column, top to bottom. The reader takes text in the order it sits in the file.
- Skills one per line, or comma separated. A skill buried in a paragraph is easy to miss.
- The bare tool name: “Xero”. Words like experience, strong and proven are stripped as noise.
- Two skills, two entries. A slash joins them into one term that matches nothing.
- Start and end years on every role. “Present” reads as undated a year from now.
- PDF, DOCX or TXT, under 5MB.
Not this
- Tables and two-column layouts. Extraction reads line by line, so dates interleave with titles.
- Text inside images, or a resume scanned from paper. Nothing comes out and the upload is refused.
- Icons standing in for words — a phone glyph is not a phone number to a parser.
- Headers and footers carrying real content. They come out of order, or not at all.
- Twelve pages. Only the first stretch is read, so anything essential belongs near the top.
- Forty skills. The first 20 are kept, and padding wastes the slots that count.
The blank template.
Fill it in and upload it as-is. Anything you leave out, we will ask for.
[Your Full Name] [City, Province] [email] | [mobile] HEADLINE [One line: your role plus your specialty. No adjectives.] SUMMARY [Two or three sentences. What you do, for whom, with what tools.] RATE [USD per hour, e.g. USD 9 per hour] TIMEZONE AVAILABILITY [e.g. 4 hours overlap with US Central. Open to night shift: yes/no] [Hours per week you want, e.g. 40] EQUIPMENT [Internet speed, e.g. 50 Mbps fiber] [Backup internet: yes/no] [Backup power / UPS: yes/no] [Headset, webcam, monitors] YEARS OF EXPERIENCE [A number, e.g. 6] SKILLS [Skill] [Skill] [Skill] EXPERIENCE [Job Title] - [Employer] ([Start year] - [End year]) [What you were responsible for, in one line.] [An outcome with a number in it, if you have one.] EDUCATION [Degree or course] - [School] ([Year]) CERTIFICATIONS [Certification] - [Issuer] ([Year])
Your file is never stored
The upload is converted to text, read once to fill in your profile, and the file itself is discarded. There is nowhere in the system that keeps it.
Upload it and see what is missing.
The reader fills in what it can and tells you exactly what it could not find. Most resumes are missing three things, and all three take a minute to answer.