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The tools you need
after the course.
Three utilities for the part nobody teaches: getting read, getting shortlisted and getting a reply. They work whatever your branch, and they run entirely in your browser — nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere.
01/ATS résumé scanner
ATS résumé scanner
Most applications are read by software before a person. This scores the text of a résumé against the posting and shows every deduction with the fix.
02/CV checklist
CV checklist
Nineteen checks across evidence, structure, contact details and tailoring. Work through it before you send, not after.
Evidence
Every claim should be checkable by someone who was not there.
Structure
Parsers and tired reviewers both read structure before content.
Contact and links
The one part of a CV that must never fail.
Tailoring
The difference between a good CV and a good application.
Where this is stored. Ticks are kept in this browser only — nothing is sent anywhere, and Reset clears them. It is a checklist for a human reader: no automated check can tell you whether a claim is true.
03/Cold outreach builder
Cold outreach builder
The email that gets a reply is specific, short and about the person receiving it. This builds that message from facts you supply.
Hi there, Would you be open to a 15-minute conversation about how your team approaches this work? Thanks for your time — no pressure if this is not a fit.
What makes this work
- The hook is the whole email. “I read your paper on batch-effect correction” is the difference between a message about them and a message about you.
- One ask, small and specific. A 15-minute conversation, or one piece of advice. Never a job, never two things.
- One sentence of evidence. Something you built or measured, with a number if there is one.
- Short. Under 170 words, five short paragraphs. Anyone reading on a phone should see the ask without scrolling.
- No pressure and no follow-up guilt. Send one reminder after about a week, then stop. Two messages is polite; five is a reputation.
Before you send. Check the facts you typed — the paper title, the person’s current role, the spelling of the organisation. A cold email that gets a detail wrong is worse than no email, and this builder cannot verify any of it for you.
Tools help. Reviewed work helps more.
A portfolio of milestones that somebody has actually reviewed is what turns a résumé into an interview. Every track ends in one.