Volume I · Edition No. 05Issued — October 2026
A toolkit built from the ground up on AI — designed to even the odds in your job search.

Get the
callback
you deserve.

ResumeCallBack was built by someone who went through the same job search you are facing. It helps you target the right roles, understand your fit, strengthen your resume, get in front of recruiters, and prepare for what comes next. Built to help you know you have done everything possible before you hit Apply.

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Screens scored — ATS, recruiter, hiring manager
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Key Achievements graded for every job
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Code checks on what the AI writes
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To start — no card needed
Certified Veteran-Owned BusinessVeteran-Owned
From the founder

Built from real career reinvention.

After a successful 30-year career in IT leadership, I was laid off.

I had the experience. I had the certifications — CISSP, PMP, Azure Solutions Architect, and others. But after applying to more than 700 jobs, I received zero callbacks.

That experience forced me to study the modern hiring process differently: how resumes are screened, how job descriptions are structured, where qualified candidates get filtered out, and how each application needs to be positioned.

I developed a multi-stage approach that helped me move from no responses to a 40% callback rate — and gave me options again. ResumeCallBack was built from that process.

It is frustrating — and honestly scary — when you have the skills to do the job, but your resume never gets seen. ResumeCallBack helps job seekers understand the gap, improve their positioning, and approach each application with more strategy.

700+
Applications
0
Callbacks at first
40%
After the method
Shannon Kelley, founder of ResumeCallBack
Shannon Kelley, Founder
Built on AI. All the way down.

I didn’t add AI.
I built on it.

Most tools bolt AI onto a template engine and call it a feature. I made it the engine.

AI reads the posting. AI scores you the way you will be screened. AI turns what you tell it into answers and grades the Key Achievements a hiring manager reads first. AI writes the resume, live, while you watch. AI researches the employer and rehearses the interview with you. Then ordinary code checks its work against your record before any of it reaches a document with your name on it.

Every stage. Not one prompt and a template.

I’m deliberate about it, and I’m not shy about it. I spent thirty years in IT leadership, and I built this for people who are being screened by machines — so it takes the machines seriously.

Under the hood

77 parts.
273 connections.

Your Vault feeds the score. The score feeds the tailoring wizard. The answers you give and the bullets you approve feed the Vault again — so the next job starts from more than this one did.

And 13 separate checks, written in ordinary code, verify what the AI hands back before any of it reaches a document with your name on it.

Explore the map
Dependency map of the ResumeCallBack system77 components connected by 273 dependencies, across Vault data, shared context, AI actions, code checks, spend controls and finished documents.buildTodayBlockScore resumeTailored resumeBoost ATSMaster resumeRequest lockReserve before callUsage log
The process

One vault. Every application, sharpened.

Most job seekers either spray the same resume everywhere or burn a Saturday tailoring three. We give you the third option: build your Vault once, let it grow with every job, and sharpen it for every posting.

  1. [ STEP 01 ]

    Build a Vault that grows with you

    Upload a PDF or type it in, once. Then it keeps growing: every posting you work through adds the answers you gave, the bullets you approved and the Key Achievements you set, so each new resume starts from more than the last. A free health check keeps it clean as it grows.

  2. [ STEP 02 ]

    Get to new postings early

    Job Alerts turns your target roles, location and work mode into LinkedIn and Indeed searches, so new postings reach you in their first hours instead of their second week.

  3. [ STEP 03 ]

    Drop in a posting

    Paste it. A free check flags agency reposts, job-board copies and old listings before you spend anything. Score several at once, and Best fit shows which saved jobs are worth your time.

  4. [ STEP 04 ]

    Score it, then tailor with the wizard

    Your Match Score is the weakest of three screens — ATS, recruiter, hiring manager — with Hard Stops flagged. The Tailoring Wizard walks you through the rest: talk it through, set your Key Achievements, answer the questions, approve the keywords, tailor and re-score. Then apply direct on the employer’s site.

  5. [ STEP 05 ]

    Get in front of recruiters

    Register with recruiting and staffing firms from one directory, track every sign-up, and send them a competency-based recruiter resume. Your LinkedIn Profile review makes sure the profile they check next says the same thing.

  6. [ STEP 06 ]

    Walk in prepared

    Interview Prep writes role-specific questions and answers across recruiter, technical, behavioral and gap-risk rounds — and a prompt for a spoken mock interview in ChatGPT voice.

The toolkit

Twelve tools.
One unfair advantage.

Each tool covers a specific moment in the hunt — find the posting early, score before you apply, tailor before you send, prep before you interview. All twelve are included. The tag on each card says what it needs: Free works on a free account.

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A Vault that grows with you

Your career in one place, and it keeps growing. Every job you work through adds to it — the answers you give, the bullets you approve, the Key Achievements you set — and a free health check keeps it free of repeats as it grows. Vault Coach and bullet cleanup strengthen it with AI.

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Job Alerts

LinkedIn and Indeed searches built from your target roles, location and work mode, so new postings reach you in their first hours. You set the alert on their site; we never touch your accounts.

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Job Pipeline & Best Fit

Save every posting, track where each one stands, star the ones you want most. Score several at once, then Best fit ranks which jobs can realistically reach a strong score and the steps to get there. Agency reposts and old listings are flagged before you apply.

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Match Score: three screens

Scored the way you are screened — ATS, recruiter, hiring manager. Your Match Score is the weakest of the three, with Hard Stops and estimated screening risk flagged and the reason shown under every category that falls short.

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The Tailoring Wizard

Talk it through (dictation works), answer the questions the score raised, approve the keywords and role titles, then tailor and re-score — one guided flow. Every resume opens with Summary, Core Competencies and Key Achievements, and code checks it against your record before you download.

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Key Achievements, graded

The five bullets a hiring manager reads first, picked from your whole Vault and graded against what this posting needs to see. Stronger versions are offered; nothing changes until you approve it.

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Company Research

Live web search pulls recent news, financial signals, culture themes and interview notes — every claim cited — and tells you when the poster is a staffing agency. Feeds your cover letter and Interview Prep.

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Cover Letter

Built from your Vault, your answers for this job and the company research — short, standard, or written to the posting’s own application questions.

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Interview Prep

Role-specific questions across recruiter, technical, behavioral and gap-risk rounds, with suggested answers — plus a ready-to-paste prompt for a spoken mock interview in ChatGPT voice that presses on your weak spots.

Free + AI10

Career Analytics

Reads every posting you have saved together — what they keep asking for in certifications, frameworks, education and experience, and what you already clear. Once postings are scored, it shows how well your Vault backs each target role. A ranked career plan and certification advice are AI extras.

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Recruiter Directory

One place to register with recruiting and staffing firms, track every sign-up, and see how each firm is ranked — by named outside sources and by other members. The recruiter resume is an AI extra.

AI credits12

LinkedIn Profile & Posts

A section-by-section readiness review with paste-ready rewrites for Headline, About, Experience and Skills, steered to your target roles — plus post drafts you review and publish yourself.

Recruiter networks
Free with an account

One place to get your resume into recruiter networks.

Recruiting and staffing firms search their own candidate databases when a client role opens — to be found, you have to be in them. Getting there usually means a dozen separate sign-up forms and no record of which ones you finished. ResumeCallBack puts the firms, their rankings and your progress on one page.

A checked directory

Only firms you can actually join.

A firm is listed only when we confirmed it has a page where candidates can submit a resume. Each is labelled by how it places people, and firms with offices near you come first.

  • Recruiting, staffing, or both — and executive search, kept separate
  • Filtered by your field, your level and your region
  • Nationwide and remote firms for everyone
Rankings you can check

Ranked by named sources and by members.

Each badge comes from a published list, links to it, and says what it measures. We never blend them into one score.

  • Forbes 2026Reputation — surveys of recruiters, HR managers and candidates
  • SIA 2026Size — the largest U.S. staffing firms by revenue, not quality
  • ClearlyRated 2026Candidate satisfaction — surveys of people the firm placed
  • Member ratings — stars and whether the firm got back to them, shown once 3 members have rated a firm.
Track every sign-up

Know where your resume is.

Mark each firm in progress or done, keep private notes, and see which version of your resume each firm has — so you know who needs the new one after you rebuild it.

  • “N done · N in progress” at a glance
  • Rate a firm once you have registered
  • With AI credits: a competency-based recruiter resume, up to three pages, built from your Vault
Browse the directory free

You register on each firm’s own site; ResumeCallBack never contacts a firm for you and does not place candidates. Rankings belong to their publishers. We are not affiliated with them or with the firms listed.

The LinkedIn edge
AI credits

When the recruiter clicks your LinkedIn, be ready.

Recruiters check your profile before they call. ResumeCallBack scores it against the roles you’re actually targeting, then hands you the rewrites.

ResumeCallBack does not currently connect to, publish to, or schedule content on LinkedIn. Any social-media content generated by the Service is a draft for your review. You decide whether, when, and where to publish it and are responsible for reviewing it for accuracy, confidentiality, intellectual-property rights, and compliance with platform rules. Drafts are written to avoid signalling an active job search, but you should read each one before posting it.

LinkedIn Profile

Score first, rewrite second.

Upload your LinkedIn PDF. Get an Overall Callback Readiness score plus paste-ready rewrites for Headline, About, Experience, Skills, and Certifications — steered to your Target Roles.

  • A score for each section, not one number for the whole profile
  • Told which sections are costing you, and why
  • Upload a new PDF after you make the changes, and re-run it
Post Drafting

Look engaged. Without becoming a poster.

Generate 5 drafts at a time in your voice — with length variety so five recent posts don't read formulaic. Get a recruiter-verdict check, then copy the text and post it yourself.

  • Recruiter-verdict check before you post
  • You publish — we never post for you
  • Written to avoid signalling a job search
Engagement Coaches

Say something worth reading.

Comment Coach gives you 3 substantive options on someone else's post. Reply Coach gives you 2 ways to respond to comments on your own — polished, on-brand, human.

  • Comments that add signal, not noise
  • Replies that sound like you wrote them
  • “Humanize” button on every draft
Pricing

Start free. Pay only for intelligence.

A free account organizes the whole search. Every AI feature runs on credits: try all of them once for $5, or get Full Access — 100 credits every month.

Free

Organize the search — no AI credits

$0no card needed
  • Resume Vault — enter and edit your career, with a strength score and a free health check
  • Save and track every job, with caution flags on agency reposts and old listings
  • Job Alerts for LinkedIn and Indeed, built from your target roles
  • Recruiter directory — register with firms, track it, read the rankings, rate them
  • Career Analytics — what your saved postings ask for in certifications, frameworks, education and experience
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Try It

Every feature, for a week

$5one time
  • 20 AI credits, good for 7 days
  • Spend them on anything — every AI feature in the app, nothing held back
  • Score 10 postings and see in Career Analytics what they keep asking for — or work about 2 jobs end to end
  • Not a subscription — nothing renews. One per account.
Try It for $5
Everything included

Full Access

Everything, with nothing held back

$34.95/mo
  • 100 AI credits every month — unused credits carry over one month
  • Everything in Free, and every AI feature, every month
  • Match Score, the Tailoring Wizard and graded Key Achievements
  • Cover letters, Interview Prep with a voice mock-interview prompt, Company Research
  • Recruiter resume for firms, LinkedIn and Indeed
  • LinkedIn Profile review and post drafting
  • AI target-role suggestions, weighted by your saved postings
  • Extra credits any time, from $0.25 each
Start Full Access
What credits buy

Each AI action spends a set number of credits, shown before you run it. Working one job from score to tailored resume takes about 8.

AI featureCredits
Match Score2
Read my notes for a job1
Key Achievements1
Tailored resume4
Cover letter3
Interview Prep3
Company Research4
Upload and parse a resume2
Recruiter resume3
LinkedIn readiness review3
Career plan3
Certification advice4

Need more in a busy month? Full Access members can add 50 credits for $15 or 100 credits for $25 — packs last 6 months and stay yours if you cancel.

No more silence

Your next role is one
callback away.

Stop spraying. Start tailoring. Start free, try the AI for $5, or get Full Access for $34.95 a month — cancel anytime.