Why we built LinkedResume — and the rejection that started it all

Hey everyone 👋

I'm Yuri, co-founder of LinkedResume. Before we launch, I wanted to share the honest story of why this exists.

A while back I was applying for jobs. I had solid experience, an updated LinkedIn, and genuine motivation. What I didn't have was a resume that actually worked.

I was sending the same document to every application. No tailoring. No keyword optimization. Just copy-pasting my LinkedIn into a Word doc and hoping for the best.

The callbacks never came.

It took me way too long to realize the problem wasn't my experience — it was that 75% of resumes are rejected by ATS software before a human ever reads them. Mine was one of them, and I had no idea.

The frustrating part: everything a strong resume needed was already on my LinkedIn. I was just manually rewriting it every single time.

So we built LinkedResume.

I'd love to hear — has anyone else been through this? Did you ever figure out why you weren't getting callbacks?