The six-second scan
Which of your strongest facts are inside the part of page one a recruiter reads first - a position, not a grade, and why it refuses on a two-column layout.
A first pass over a resume is short. This shows you exactly what is inside that window on yours - and which of your strongest facts are not, so you can move them up.
1 credit, at the six-second scan.
What it actually checks#
It takes the part of page one a reader reaches first in your document's own reading order, and reports which of four specific signals are not in it:
- How long you have been doing this - stated as a number, rather than left to be added up from your dates.
- Your core stack.
- Your strongest measurable result.
- Your seniority.
Each one that is missing comes with a short explanation of why it matters there specifically.
Position beats content#
Almost every resume has the good material on it somewhere. The problem is rarely that you have nothing to say - it is that your best fact is in the third bullet of the second role, while the top of page one is a title, a generic summary and a list of skills. Which is also what everybody else's top of page one is.
There is no score#
The finding is a position, not a quality. Your years of experience are either inside the first pass or they are not; there is no meaningful way to be 63% inside it.
Rolling four binary observations into a number out of a hundred would look more rigorous and tell you less. If you want a scored, weighted view of the whole document, that is the readiness score.
Where "six seconds" comes from#
Published recruiter eye-tracking research by The Ladders. It is not something Revquix has measured, and we cite it as the industry's rule of thumb rather than as a fact about your applications.
It refuses on a two-column resume#
Reading order across two columns interleaves them, so the "first twelve lines" of a two-column document would be alternating fragments from both sides of the page. Every finding derived from that would be wrong, so the tool declines and says why rather than producing a confident answer from a broken premise.
Nothing is charged for that run.
The refusal is useful on its own: a two-column layout is also the one most applicant tracking systems mis-read. The ATS check is free and will tell you what else that layout is doing.
What it will not do#
It will not rewrite anything. It tells you which facts to move up and which line is doing the least work - moving them is a five-minute edit, and it is yours to make.
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