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Resume Battle
Upload two resumes. AI roasts both. Only one survives. Free. Instant. Brutal.
How Battle Mode Works
Three steps. Thirty seconds. One winner.
Upload Both
Paste, upload, or snap a photo of two resumes side by side
Watch the Fight
AI roasts both resumes and compares them round by round across 5 categories
See the Winner
One resume is crowned the champion. Share the results and challenge friends
The most useful way to use this isn't against a friend
Battle is built as a game, and it works as one. But the version that actually changes your job search is running your resume against your own rewritten resume — because “I think this draft is better” is a hunch, and a scored, category-by-category comparison is an answer.
A/B your own drafts
Every piece of resume advice you follow is a bet. You cut the summary, added metrics to four bullets, dropped the skills everyone lists — did any of it help? Normally you find out through the slowest feedback loop in existence: applying, and waiting for silence.
Running the old version against the new one collapses that loop to about a minute, and tells you which of the five categories actually moved rather than just handing you a verdict.
The five rounds
First Impression, Buzzword Abuse, Experience, Skills Section, and Formatting & Presentation — the same five the standard roast scores, so a battle result lines up with an individual roast rather than living in its own scale. Each round is scored separately, which is where the useful signal is: a resume can lose overall and still win decisively on the one dimension you were trying to fix.
Battle like against like
The scoring rewards specificity, quantified achievements, and clean structure, which are universal — but a new grad against a director mostly measures career stage, not resume quality. Two versions of one resume, or two people at a similar level, give you a result that means something.
What to change between rounds
If you’re looking for the edits that reliably move scores: fixing weak bullet points moves Experience, cutting the eight dead skills moves Skills Section, and deleting the 27 buzzwords moves Buzzword Abuse and usually First Impression with it.
Questions people ask
What is the resume battle?
Two resumes go in, our AI roasts both across the same five categories, scores each round, and declares a winner with reasoning. It's free, takes about a minute, and needs no signup.
Can I battle two versions of my own resume?
Yes, and it's the most useful way to use it. Tailoring advice is easy to give and hard to verify — running your current resume against a rewritten one turns "I think this is better" into a scored, category-by-category answer.
What are the five rounds?
First Impression, Buzzword Abuse, Experience, Skills Section, and Formatting & Presentation — the same five categories the standard roast scores, so a battle result lines up with an individual roast.
Is it fair if the two resumes are for different jobs?
It'll still pick a winner, but the result means less. The scoring rewards specificity, quantified achievements, and clean structure, which are universal — but comparing a new grad against a director mostly measures career stage. Battle like against like.
Do I need permission to battle someone else's resume?
Yes. Only upload a resume you wrote or have permission to use — that's the confirmation checkbox on the upload form, and it's there for a reason.
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