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We measure how your CV is actually read.

You have been told to tailor your CV a hundred times, and never once told to what. This is the tool that answers that.

Section 01 / 05

You sent the applications and heard nothing back.

The problem

Not one of them told you why. A few automated acknowledgements, one rejection with no reason attached, and then silence. So you moved a bullet, rewrote the summary, changed the font, and sent it again into the same silence.

That is not a talent problem. It is a feedback problem. Every other part of your working life gives you some signal back; the one document your career runs on gives you none.

Section 02 / 05

Your CV is being read in a specific order, and you were never allowed to see it.

The reveal

A recruiter opens your CV and reads it a particular way. Some parts hold them. Some are skimmed. Some are never reached at all. That happens on every send, whether or not anyone writes it down, and until now nobody wrote it down for you.

Resumetricx builds the CV and measures the reading of it. Because we drew the document, we know the block someone held for thirty-eight seconds was your current role — not “page one”, not “block three”. Other tools tell you your CV was opened. This one tells you which parts were read.

That pairing is the whole argument. A one-page CV has one page and ten measurable sections, and everyone else measures the page. On a single-page document, page-level dwell is the length of the session wearing a different name — which is why the document trackers, including the free ones, have nothing useful to say about a CV.

Section 03 / 05

Eighty-three applications, and the product they turned into.

The founder's story

The birth of Resumetricx

Nobody could tell me what happened after I pressed Send.

Gideon founded Resumetricx after three months of applying into silence. This is his own account, condensed — the problem in the first half is the reason everything in the second half exists.

The black hole. I pressed Submit and watched the bar fill to a hundred per cent. Application number eighty-three since the layoff, at 11:47 at night, the laptop the only light in the room. Then nothing. No light escapes, no signal returns.

My CV was good. Clean template, action verbs, quantified results — increased team efficiency by 30%, managed a $500K budget. I ran it through a free ATS checker and it scored 88. Good, the tool said. So why did every send feel like shouting into a cave?

So I started guessing. Was it the six-month gap after university? The title — Senior Marketing Coordinator rather than Specialist? The font? I mined each posting for keywords and sprinkled them in, saving version after version. Gideon_Resume_Marketing_Manager_V12_ATS.pdf. Send. Wait. Silence. Twelve versions, and every one of them a theory I had no way to test.

The silence is not a technical failure so much as a psychological one. It does not reject your application, it rejects your narrative — the late nights, the crises solved, the skills earned — and returns no edit, no critique, not even a polite no. Silence breeds monsters. Maybe I am not good enough. Maybe everyone else is simply better.

Then the question changed. Not what is wrong with this document, which nobody could answer, but what actually happens to it after I press Send. Every tool I could find scored the file — formatting, keywords, a number out of a hundred. Not one of them watched it being read. A CV is not a file. It is a reading.

So I built the instrument. A link instead of an attachment, a page that recorded where attention landed, a crude heat strip down the side. It was ugly and held together with tape. Two days after I sent it: your CV has been viewed. Experience had held the reader for forty-two seconds, read to the bottom. Skills was scrolled straight past. The summary I had laboured over was barely touched.

It was not magic. The next link got a twelve-second look and a shallow scroll. The hole was still dark — but now I could see the darkness, and measure it. So I used it. I moved the paragraphs that had held attention higher. I cut the summary nobody read. I made the skills scannable. The next reading lasted fifty-eight seconds, and the reader came back to it twice.

I did not get that job. But the call came from the hiring manager rather than an alias, and she mentioned the project data on the Delacroix campaign specifically — clear, she said, and impactful. They read it. They actually read it. The rejection, when it came, was written by a person.

Resumetricx is that prototype, built properly. It will not tell you whether you will get the job; nothing can. What it removes is the part I could not stand — not knowing whether the silence meant no, or meant nobody had looked.

Section 04 / 05

Instruments, not decoration.

What you get

Seconds per section, while it was on screen

Ten named sections, timed as they were actually in view. Your current role holding thirty-eight seconds while Education is never reached is an instruction: move it up, cut what sits below it.

Re-reads, which no other product reports

Someone scrolling back to a paragraph is a stronger signal than someone dwelling on it once: something there mattered enough to check twice. We count those returns per section. We looked at around seventy competing products and found none that do.

One link per application, so the reading is attributed

Send a link instead of a file and the attention comes back attached to the company you sent it to. You find out which application was read, and how far, without asking anyone for anything.

Templates that label their own sections

Every template marks what each block means as it renders, so the measurement is told the structure rather than guessing at it. Export the same document as a PDF, a DOCX or plain text when a file is what is asked for.

Section 05 / 05

The obvious worry is that this is surveillance. We had it too.

The objection

No recruiter is identified without being asked. Nothing fingerprints them, looks them up or matches them against a profile; attention is stored against your document, never against a person. The one way a name reaches you is a card on the CV that asks the reader whether they want you to know — optional, dismissible, and not shown at all to anyone who has objected. If a browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track we honour it before anyone arrives, and we gave ourselves no way to override that. Every tracked CV carries a visible notice, and objecting takes one click, with no account and no form. The rest of the answers are here.

Each shared link carries an identifier, so when the document is opened we can record which of its ten sections were on screen and for how long, in what order, and what was returned to. Every tracked CV says so on the page. You can see which company a reading came from when you gave the link a name before you sent it — that is your label, not something worked out about the reader. Nothing here tries to identify who is reading.

Every application you send untracked is evidence you can never get back.

You cannot go back and find out how the CV you sent last Tuesday was read. The reading only exists if something was measuring it at the time. You will rewrite this CV anyway — the only question is whether you rewrite it from what happened or from a hunch. Building is free and needs no card; measurement starts on Professional.

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