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Resume · ATS · Career strategy

Your resume is being read by software before it reaches a human.

We rebuild resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles so they survive applicant tracking systems and still read like they were written by a person with something to say.

48-hour turnaround · No card required · You keep every file

ATS Parse Report

Sample
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Two-column layout detected

Right column dropped entirely on parse

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Contact info in header

Phone and email not captured

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Keyword coverage 41%

Against target job description

File type accepted

Text-based PDF, parses cleanly

Overall score

52/100

4,200+

Resumes rebuilt

Across 40+ industries since 2019

48 hrs

Diagnostic turnaround

Free ATS report, no card required

12

Point audit checklist

Every document scored the same way

94%

Client satisfaction

Post-delivery survey, last 12 months

The gap

Most rejections are not about your experience.

A designed resume that looks beautiful on screen frequently arrives at the recruiter as fragments. Columns collapse. Skills tucked into a sidebar vanish. Dates in a table become unreadable. The document that made it through is not the one you sent.

The fix is not a prettier template. It is a document engineered for two very different readers — a parser that needs clean structure, and a hiring manager who needs to understand in six seconds why you are worth a call.

That is the entire job we do.

What we do

Services

Book any piece on its own, or bundle them into a package below.

ATS Resume Rewrite

A ground-up rebuild of your resume in a parser-safe single-column format. We strip the tables, text boxes, headers and graphics that break applicant tracking systems, then rewrite every bullet into a metric-backed accomplishment statement.

From $249

ATS Compatibility Audit

Upload your current resume and receive a 12-point scored report covering file format, section headings, date formatting, keyword density against your target role, and parse-through simulation showing exactly what a recruiter's system sees.

From $89

Targeted Cover Letters

A reusable master cover letter plus two role-specific versions, each mapped to the language of the job description so your application reads as purpose-built rather than mass-mailed.

From $129

LinkedIn Profile Optimization

Headline, About section, experience blocks and skills reordered around recruiter search behavior. We optimize for the keywords hiring managers actually filter on in LinkedIn Recruiter.

From $179

Interview Coaching

Two live 60-minute mock interviews with recorded playback and written feedback. Covers behavioral STAR framing, technical storytelling, and salary negotiation positioning.

From $199

Career Transition Strategy

For career changers and re-entrants. We map your transferable skills to a target industry, identify the credential gaps worth closing, and build a 90-day application roadmap with a weekly outreach cadence.

From $349

How it works

Four steps, no guesswork

01

Free Resume Diagnostic

Send us your current resume and a job posting you want. Within 48 hours you get a scored ATS report showing where your document fails parsing and where your keywords fall short.

02

Strategy Call

A 30-minute call with your assigned career strategist to define target roles, salary band, and the two or three stories that will anchor your entire application narrative.

03

Build & Optimize

Your writer rebuilds the resume, cover letter and LinkedIn profile as one coherent package. You get two full revision rounds and keep the editable source files.

04

Apply With Confidence

We hand off an application playbook: your keyword bank, a tracking sheet, and outreach templates. Optional interview coaching picks up from here.

Who does the work

Recruiters and hiring managers, before they were writers

Everyone on the team has sat on the other side of the table. That is the whole hiring philosophy.

NK

Nad Kaur

Lead Career Strategist

Fifteen years in technical recruiting before switching sides. Nadia spent six of those inside applicant tracking systems as an admin, which is where the 12-point audit came from. She leads engineering, data and product rewrites.

MD

Marcus Delacroix

Interview & Transition Coach

Former hiring manager in healthcare operations who reviewed roughly four thousand applications. Marcus handles career changers and re-entrants, and runs most of the mock interview sessions.

PR

Priya Raghunathan

Senior Resume Writer

Writer first, recruiter second. Priya turns a thirty-minute strategy call into bullets that a hiring manager actually finishes reading. She owns cover letters and executive biographies.

TL

Tobias Lindgren

LinkedIn & Search Specialist

Spent four years in LinkedIn Recruiter running Boolean searches for staffing firms. Tobias knows which keywords surface a profile and which ones are wasted characters.

The free diagnostic

What is actually in the report

Five things, scored and written in plain language. It arrives within 48 hours and costs nothing, and you are free to act on it without ever hiring us.

Request the audit
01

Parse-through simulation

We run your file through a parser and show you the plain-text output. Most people have never seen what actually reaches the recruiter, and it is usually the moment the problem becomes obvious.

02

Structural failure points

Columns, tables, text boxes, sidebars and graphics are flagged individually with a note on what each one costs you. Contact details stranded in the header get called out first, because that failure is silent.

03

Keyword coverage score

Your resume is scored against a real job description you supply, not a generic template. You get the terms you are missing and, just as usefully, the ones you are overusing.

04

Formatting and consistency check

Section headings, date formats, file type and font are checked against what parsers reliably handle. These are small fixes with an outsized effect on whether your work history reads in the right order.

05

Two prioritized next actions

Every audit ends with the two changes that would move your score the most, ranked. You can act on them yourself without hiring us, and plenty of people do.

Packages

One-time pricing, no subscriptions

Every package includes the free diagnostic and your editable source files.

Essentials

$249one-time

  • ATS resume rewrite
  • Parser-safe formatting
  • Keyword mapping to one target role
  • Two revision rounds
  • Editable .docx and PDF files
Start with Essentials
Most chosen

Complete

$479one-time

  • Everything in Essentials
  • Master cover letter plus two tailored versions
  • LinkedIn profile optimization
  • Application tracking playbook
  • 30-minute strategy call
  • Three revision rounds
Start with Complete

Executive

$899one-time

  • Everything in Complete
  • Executive biography and one-page leadership brief
  • Two live mock interviews with recorded playback
  • Salary negotiation coaching
  • 90-day search roadmap
  • Unlimited revisions for 60 days
Start with Executive

Results

In their words

I had been sending the same resume out for four months with nothing back. The audit showed my two-column layout was getting shredded by every ATS I applied through. Rebuilt version went out on a Monday, three screening calls by Friday.

Marisol Reyes

Supply Chain Analyst

The strategy call was the part I did not expect to matter. Talking through which two projects to lead with changed how I described eleven years of work. My resume finally sounds like a person with a direction instead of a job history.

Devin Okafor

Senior Product Manager

Career changer from teaching into instructional design. They found transferable language I would never have thought to use and told me honestly which certificate was worth the money and which one was not.

Hannah Liu

Instructional Designer

The mock interviews were uncomfortable in exactly the right way. Watching the playback showed me I was burying the outcome at the end of every answer. Fixed that and negotiated eighteen thousand above the initial offer.

Terrence Balogun

Data Engineering Lead

Questions

Straight answers

What actually makes a resume "ATS-friendly"?+

Applicant tracking systems parse a document into structured fields before a human ever sees it. Multi-column layouts, tables, text boxes, graphics, icons and content placed in the header or footer are the most common causes of scrambled or dropped data. An ATS-friendly resume uses a single-column flow, standard section headings, a common font, consistent date formatting, and a .docx or text-based PDF file.

Will you just stuff my resume with keywords?+

No. Keyword stuffing gets flagged by recruiters and reads badly to humans, who are the ones making the actual decision. We map the vocabulary of your target job descriptions to work you genuinely did, then write accomplishment bullets that use that language naturally.

How long does the process take?+

The free diagnostic comes back within 48 hours. Once you book, the first full draft is typically ready in three to five business days, with each revision round turned around in two business days.

Do you guarantee I will get a job?+

No, and be cautious of anyone who does. Hiring outcomes depend on market conditions, timing, and your own interview performance. What we commit to is a document that parses cleanly, positions you accurately, and holds up in front of a recruiter.

Do I own the files afterward?+

Yes. You receive editable source files in .docx along with a PDF export, plus your keyword bank, so you can tailor future applications yourself without coming back to us.

Do you work with career changers and people returning after a gap?+

Frequently. Both situations call for a different structure than a straight chronological resume, and the framing of the gap or the pivot matters more than the format itself. Our Career Transition Strategy service is built specifically for this.

Talk to someone

Reserve a call with a career strategist

Thirty minutes, no charge, no pitch deck. Pick a time that works and we will talk through where your search is stalling and whether we are the right people to fix it.

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    Bring your resumeSend the link ahead or share your screen on the call.
  • 02
    Name a target roleEven a rough one. Specificity is what makes the advice useful.
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    Leave with two actionsYou get concrete next steps whether or not you become a client.

Mon–Fri · Central Time · 30-minute slots

Strategy call scheduling

30 min · Free · CT

Ascend Career Lab — Strategy Calls

Pick a day and time — requests are confirmed by the business.

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We confirm by email, usually within a few hours, and send a private link to check status, add the call to your calendar, or cancel.

Start here

Free resume diagnostic

Tell us the role you are chasing and share a link to your current resume. Within 48 hours you get a scored 12-point ATS report and a short note on the two changes that would move the needle most.

  • No payment, no card, no obligation
  • A real strategist reads it, not a template generator
  • You get the report whether or not you hire us

We reply within two business days. Your details are never sold or shared.