How do you actually know if your resume is good? We’re trying to make that answer measurable.

One of the weirdest parts of being a college student applying for internships is that you can spend 10+ hours perfecting a resume and still have absolutely no idea how it compares to everyone else applying for the same roles.

You can ask ChatGPT to review it.

You can send it to a career center.

You can ask a friend who landed a good internship.

You can download a template from someone on LinkedIn.

But none of those really answer the question I kept coming back to:

“If 500 other college students applied with their resumes, where would mine actually stand?”

That question is what led us to build Resumogg.

The idea is pretty simple: upload your resume and see where it ranks relative to other resumes in our dataset.

But the ranking itself turned out to be the hardest part.

We didn't want to create another generic resume grader that says:

“Great job! Add more action verbs!”

We wanted the score to actually mean something.

So we're building the product around three things:

1. A relative ranking

Instead of only saying “your resume is an 82/100,” we want to answer what that 82 actually means.

Is it better than 50% of students? 80%? 95%?

The goal is to give students context rather than an arbitrary number.

2. Specific signals

We're looking at things like experience, education, leadership, technical skills, measurable impact, formatting, and other characteristics that differentiate resumes.

The important part is that the score shouldn't just be a black box. If your ranking changes, you should understand why.

3. A benchmark you can actually improve

The interesting part to us isn't getting a score once.

It's uploading your resume again after changing three bullets and seeing whether those changes actually moved the needle.

We're still early, and honestly, figuring out how to make the ranking both useful and fair is probably the biggest product problem we're working on.

There are also some interesting questions we haven't completely solved:

• How should a freshman's resume be compared with a senior's?

• Should an accounting resume be evaluated differently from a software engineering resume?

• How much should school reputation matter?

• Should internships matter more than leadership?

• How do you prevent people from gaming the score?

• Most importantly, what should a percentile actually represent?

We've had students at IU Kelley start using Resumogg, and watching people immediately compare their rankings has been pretty interesting. The product almost becomes a benchmark for the whole group.

We're launching on Product Hunt because we'd love feedback from people who have hired, recruited, built resumes, or gone through the internship application process themselves.

If you were designing a system to answer “how good is my resume compared with everyone else?”, what would you actually measure?

That's the part we're most interested in hearing about.