Building a profile a reviewer can read in ninety seconds

A reviewer opening your application is trying to answer three questions quickly: does this person do roughly this kind of work, have they done it long enough for this level, and is there evidence rather than assertion. Everything else — layout, fonts, clever summaries — is secondary to those three.

Use titles the market recognises

Internal job titles are a private language. If your company called you a Client Happiness Lead, write the recognisable title and keep the internal one in brackets. A reviewer who cannot place your level in two seconds is a reviewer who is now working harder than they need to.

Write results, not responsibilities

'Responsible for onboarding' describes a job description. 'Rebuilt onboarding for a team of eleven; new hires now take their first support shift in week two instead of week five' describes a person. Use the numbers you genuinely have: headcount, volume, timeframe, budget, before and after. Do not manufacture numbers you cannot substantiate in an interview.

Every line on your profile is an invitation to a question. Only include the invitations you would be glad to accept.

Make skills provable

A long list of tools with no context reads as unclear, not as strong. Prefer fewer skills, each attached to a role where you used it. If a tool matters to the roles you want, make sure it appears inside a bullet about work you actually did, not only in a skills row.

Keep the shape predictable

• Most recent role first, with dates that make sense at a glance.
• Two to five bullets per role, weighted toward the last three years.
• Older roles compressed to a line or two; nobody needs six bullets from 2013.
• Gaps stated plainly rather than hidden by vague year ranges.

Write the summary last, or not at all

A summary is worth including only when it says something the rest of the document cannot: a deliberate pivot, an unusual combination of domains, or a specific kind of role you are targeting. Three sentences maximum. A generic summary costs you the most valuable space on the page.

How Rice & Bean uses your profile

When you upload a résumé, Rice & Bean reads it and proposes structured profile fields — roles, dates, education, skills — for you to review and correct before anything is saved. Nothing is published from that parse without you confirming it, and employers see the profile you approved. Accuracy at this step pays for itself in every application afterwards.

Keep one canonical profile up to date rather than maintaining several near-identical résumés. Tailor the application, not the history.