Kind, honest, written resume reviews from your resume gardener 🌼. Pay what you can, from $10. And if $10 isn’t doable, we’ll find another way.
She provides the right conditions for it to happen, and guides the plant to the right place. That’s the whole job. No shouting at the seedlings.
I made the switch from government paper pusher to edtech and SaaS. Now I want a similar switcheroo for you. Not by rewriting you into someone else, but by giving what’s already there the light and the space to be seen.
Most resumes I read aren’t broken. They’re root-bound. Six years of good work crammed into a pot the size of a bullet point. Everything the hiring manager needs is in there, just tangled up and pointing the wrong way.
What if you don’t need fixing? What if you just need repotting? 🪴
I’ve reviewed hundreds of resumes, in hiring and in professional live streams, and I’ve been on both sides of the interview table. My feedback reflects how resumes are actually read, not how we wish they were.
Operations lead, developer, and problem solver at Scrimba, an online coding education platform. Reviewing and editing for clarity is a core part of what I do every day.
Languages degree from King’s College London, Linguistics MA with Merit from Goldsmiths, and CELTA qualified. Explaining what’s wrong and how to fix it is my trained skill, not a claim.
Anything from $10, by card. If $10 isn’t doable right now, take the swap option below instead, or join the mailing list for the free monthly one. Same review either way.
Send it as a PDF (in English, up to 3 pages; email me first if yours is longer) to hello@lrybintsev.com, with one line on the role and region you’re targeting.
A structured written review as a shareable Google Doc: structure, content, and framing, quoting specific lines from your resume, tailored to the region you’re applying in. No stopwatch. I’ll tell you when to expect it, and I’ll take the time it needs.
Yes, and you should. It’ll tidy your grammar, suggest stronger verbs, and tell you your resume is looking pretty good. That last part is the problem: AI is built to be encouraging.
I had an IT teacher at school called Mr Wakefield. I’ve never forgotten him, because he told us the same thing over and over (and over) again: “Garbage in, garbage out.”
And that’s the problem with AI. It will only do what you tell it to do. Worse, it’s a yes-man. It will agree with whatever you say unless you specifically tell it not to, and then it will disagree just because you told it to. We’ve all had “You’re absolutely right!” x1000. You can see where this is going...
I’m not a yes-man (just ask my husband). I’ll give it to you straight, but with kindness. Gardener, not lawnmower.
I will tell you where your resume describes your last job beautifully and your next one not at all. Where a hiring manager stops reading. Which two of your six bullet points are doing any work, with the specific lines quoted, for you to work on.
When everyone’s resume has been smoothed by the same tools, sounding like an actual person is an advantage. Are you ready?
From $10
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If $10 isn’t doable
One a month
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Payment is by card via Stripe, in US dollars; PayPal available on request. There’s no fixed turnaround. I’ll confirm when to expect your review once your resume lands. Questions before you pay, or a resume longer than 3 pages? Email me first.
Anyone applying for jobs with a resume or CV, up to 3 pages. Reviews are tailored to the region you’re applying in, because UK, US, and EU conventions differ on length, photos, and personal details.
Because a gardener doesn’t force plants to grow or flowers to bloom. She provides the right conditions for those things to happen, and guides the plant to the right place. That’s what a good review does. Your experience is already there. It just needs light, space, and pointing in the right direction.
Pay what you can, starting at $10. There’s no upper limit and no tiers. Someone paying $10 and someone paying $80 get the identical review; the people who can pay more are quietly funding the ones who can’t.
Then take the swap. I’ll do the review in exchange for an honest review of my work (which I may publish here and on LinkedIn) and three shoutouts wherever your people hang out. Email me and say you’d like the swap. I won’t ask you to justify it.
Join my mailing list. Every month I draw one subscriber at random and review their resume free, no strings. Being on the list is the whole entry mechanism.
There’s no fixed turnaround and no rush tier any more. When your resume arrives I’ll tell you realistically when to expect it, and then I’ll do it properly. If you’re up against an application deadline, say so in your email and I’ll tell you straight whether I can make it.
Yes, please do. Use whatever tools you like, then bring me what they produced. The gap between “no errors” and “makes a hiring manager look twice” is the part I’m for.
Your resume as a PDF, up to 3 pages (email me first if yours is longer), plus one line on the role and region you’re targeting. PDF is what recruiters actually see, so that’s what I review.
Six years at Scrimba as an operations lead, developer, and hiring manager. Before that, a languages degree from King’s College London and a Linguistics MA with Merit from Goldsmiths, University of London. I’m also CELTA qualified, so explaining things clearly is a trained skill, not a claim. And before all of that: government paper pusher, so I know exactly what a career switch feels like from the inside.
Reviews are personalised work, so I don’t offer refunds once delivered. If something in the review is unclear, email me and I’ll clarify at no charge.
Not sure what to pay, want the swap, or your resume runs past 3 pages? Email me and we’ll sort it out before you pay anything.
Email hello@lrybintsev.comOr join the mailing list. I made the switch from government paper pusher to edtech and SaaS, and now I want a similar switcheroo for you ✨. Expect career notes, work story times, and one free resume review drawn at random every month.