Journal
Notes on getting hired.
What we learn building Resumely — recruiter interviews, ATS reverse-engineering, design notes, and the occasional candid product write-up. New posts every other Tuesday once the first one lands.
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HiringThe ATS scorecard, deconstructed.
Why your resume gets filtered before a human reads it, and the four levers we measure against the JD that move the score the most.
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InterviewsNairobi recruiters on what they actually open.
Interviews with 12 senior recruiters across Safaricom, Equity, KCB, Twiga, and Andela on the first 15 seconds of resume triage.
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CraftMagazine over machine: 8 templates, 8 typesetting decisions.
A template-by-template walk-through of every typography choice — leading, tracking, hierarchy — and which one fits which role.
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OperationsM-Pesa funnels: what actually converts in Kenya.
Building a paid product priced in KES — what we learned from the first 1,000 STK pushes about pricing, copy, and trust.
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Case studyCareer switcher to corporate ops: a real before-after.
Following one Resumely customer's resume through three revisions over six weeks, from hospitality to a finance-ops role at a Tier 1 bank.
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DesignThe 60-character rule, and why we obey it.
Line length is a published reading-science number, not a designer's opinion. Why every Resumely body column is locked at 60ch and what that does to retention.
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