Resume Review That Actually Tells You What's Wrong

Why most resume reviews don't work

Generic resume feedback focuses on formatting and word choice. It tells you to "use action verbs" and "quantify your achievements." This is the wrong level of analysis — because recruiters do not reject resumes for weak verbs. They reject resumes that fail to communicate seniority, scope, and fit within 6 seconds of scanning.

Askia's resume review comes from the hiring side. Steve Ngoumnai built and led engineering teams, screened thousands of resumes, and made hundreds of hiring decisions across technical and cross-functional roles. The review reflects how hiring managers actually evaluate candidates — not how resume coaches guess they do.

What makes a resume get interviews

• Level signal is clear in the first 3 seconds — title, scope, and company tier communicate seniority before anyone reads a bullet
• Each bullet proves value, not activity — outcomes, metrics, and business impact rather than responsibilities
• Keywords match the target role's language — ATS systems filter before any human sees the resume
• The narrative is consistent — career progression tells a single, coherent story across all roles
• The design does not fight the content — formatting should be invisible, not the focus

Free resume review vs. paid review

Free ATS checkers and resume review tools are useful for catching formatting errors and basic keyword gaps. They are not useful for evaluating whether your resume communicates the right level of seniority, whether your positioning matches your target roles, or whether a recruiter at your target company would move you forward.

Askia's resume review is a structured coaching conversation — not an automated scan. It is built for professionals targeting roles between $100K and $350K who need to understand not just what is wrong, but what it will take to fix it and move forward.

What a review reveals that you cannot see yourself

• Whether your resume is being read as the level you actually are — or a level below
• Which bullets a recruiter skips because they communicate activity instead of value
• Whether your job titles and company names are helping or hurting your positioning
• Which keywords are missing for the specific roles you are targeting
• Whether your career narrative has visible gaps or logical breaks that create doubt
• How your resume compares to what hiring managers at your target level expect to see

Resume review for senior and executive roles

Executive resume review is a distinct process from standard resume review. At the Director, VP, and C-suite level, the resume must communicate not just what you did but how you changed the organization. Revenue impact, team scope, cross-functional ownership, board-level visibility, and the scale of decisions you made — these are the signals hiring managers at the executive level look for first.

Askia's executive resume review covers positioning, signal clarity, and narrative coherence for professionals targeting $150K–$350K+ roles.

Resume review for tech professionals

Technical resumes have specific requirements that generalist resume coaches miss. The language of impact in a software engineering, data, or product management role is different from the language of impact in business or finance. IC-to-Staff and Staff-to-Manager transitions require repositioning that most resume reviewers do not know how to execute because they have never been on the hiring side of a technical team.