Clear answers before you start.
ResumeShortList is designed to make the evidence standards, technology, privacy boundaries, pricing, and optional expert support understandable before you share career information or purchase anything.
Is the free resume score really free?
Yes. The first resume diagnostic is complimentary. Paid support is optional and depends on whether you want deeper job-specific comparison, an active-search workspace, human review, rewriting, LinkedIn support, interview preparation, or broader positioning help.
What is the paid Target Role Match?
Target Role Match is a focused evidence-backed comparison between one resume and one target job description. It identifies visible alignment, requirements clearly demonstrated, requirements not clearly evidenced, recruiter considerations, priority actions, and interview themes. The current launch scope includes one comparison and seven days of saved access.
What is included in the 30-Day Positioning Workspace?
The current launch scope includes ten Target Role Matches, a private dashboard, saved results, a guided evidence-to-positioning workflow, the ability to link one qualifying original diagnostic, and direct paths into resume re-scoring, the LinkedIn diagnostic, the Career Positioning Brief, and the Positioning Advisor.
Why are there ten role matches in the active-search workspace?
An active search usually involves several serious opportunities. The ten-match allowance lets you compare roles and iterate without turning every few job descriptions into a new purchasing decision.
What makes ResumeShortList different from a generic AI resume tool?
Confirmed career evidence stays separate from recommendations. ResumeShortList is designed to strengthen the way real experience is communicated without inventing achievements, metrics, titles, responsibilities, or career outcomes.
Are the self-service products the same as personalized support?
No. Target Role Match and the 30-Day Positioning Workspace are self-service products. Personalized packages add direct human judgment, collaboration, rewriting, cross-channel alignment, and coaching preparation. Human services are purchased separately.
How is personalized support delivered?
Personalized engagements are delivered through ResumeShortList Expert Career Services rather than an anonymous writer marketplace. The public product experience remains centred on the ResumeShortList technology, methodology, evidence standards, and customer-controlled career information.
How do I access a purchased workspace?
After successful payment verification, ResumeShortList provides private workspace access. Keep access details private. The site may save access details in your browser so you can return more easily during the access period.
Does a workspace subscription renew every month?
No. The current launch offers are intended as one-time purchases with a defined seven-day or thirty-day access period. They do not automatically renew unless a future checkout page expressly states otherwise.
What happens when workspace access expires?
Normal workspace access ends when the stated period expires. Unused comparisons do not roll over. Expiry is not the same as immediate deletion of all underlying service records, so review the Privacy Policy or request deletion when you no longer want your information retained.
Is the LinkedIn Positioning Diagnostic complimentary?
Yes. ResumeShortList currently provides one complimentary LinkedIn diagnostic. Paste your visible profile content or upload a text-based LinkedIn PDF or DOCX export. You may also add a resume and target job description for deeper context.
Does the LinkedIn diagnostic know how LinkedIn ranks my profile?
No. It does not access LinkedIn's private search algorithm, recruiter activity, profile views, search impressions, or ranking data. It evaluates only the profile content and career context you provide, so search-language guidance is directional rather than a ranking prediction.
Will this guarantee interviews?
No. No credible service can guarantee ATS passage, recruiter discovery, recruiter responses, interviews, job offers, or employment. The goal is to improve clarity, credibility, relevance, evidence, consistency, and the quality of decisions you control.
Is this only an ATS checker?
No. The diagnostic is an entry point into an evidence-backed career intelligence workflow that can connect verified achievements, role decisions, documents, applications, relationships, interviews, and observed outcomes.
Do you help senior or executive candidates?
Yes. Senior candidates often need stronger mandate, scope, transformation, commercial impact, decision influence, governance, and leadership evidence across both the resume and LinkedIn profile.
Can the product track what happens after I apply?
Yes. The Career OS can record application activity and customer-entered outcomes such as recruiter responses, interviews, and offers. Outcome analytics are descriptive only: they report what you recorded and do not claim that a score or resume caused an employer decision.
What makes this feel more premium than a template service?
The platform combines verified career evidence, seniority-aware positioning, connected application workflows, transparent limitations, observed outcome learning, and optional human judgment. It is not just swapping words into a template or producing generic AI copy.
Choose the entry point that matches the decision you need to make.
Start free, explore the evidence-backed workflow, use a focused self-service product when you need more depth, then decide whether personalized expert support would add value.