Editorial process

Our guides, resume and cover letter examples, and blog posts are credited to Nazir Elmurodov, Founder, LaunchCV. LaunchCV is a small team at Elmun Technologies LLC.

We write for people applying to jobs in the US: plain words, short sentences and advice you can act on.

• Every person on a resume example is made up, and so are the employers they worked for.
• Each cover letter example is written by the same fictional person as the matching resume, and only uses facts and numbers from that resume, so the pair reads as one application.
• Role photos are stock photos that illustrate the job. They don't show the people named in the examples.

When an example names a license, certification or regulation — for example an EPA Section 608 certification, an OSHA Outreach card, a CDL endorsement or ServSafe — we write it the way the issuing body writes it and check it against that body's own site.

Our long guides, such as the resume format guide, resume length guide and the ATS guides, list their sources at the end and say when the links were last checked. LaunchCV isn't affiliated with any ATS vendor we write about.

• We don't publish salary figures.
• We don't quote a statistic unless we can link to where it comes from. When we found unsourced claims in older posts, we removed them.
• We don't show score jumps or results we can't back up, such as “your score will go from 54 to 89”.
• Numbers inside example resumes belong to the fictional person and are there to show the format.

AI writing tools are only useful if they don't make things up. Here is what ours do:

• Bullet rewrites and job description match rewrites are told to use only facts from your resume. If a rewrite contains a number that isn't in your resume, we replace it with [number] so you fill in the real figure.
• The free bullet point and summary generators drop any result that contains a number you didn't type, including spelled-out numbers like “dozens”.
• Nothing changes in your resume until you accept it.
• AI can still be wrong. Read every line before you send it — it's your resume.

The free ATS check starts with signals counted by plain rules, without AI:

• word count, and whether an email, phone number and links are present;
• whether the experience, education, skills and summary sections are there;
• how many bullets there are and how many include a number;
• which date formats are used, and whether they're mixed;
• signs of columns or tables, and heavy use of ALL CAPS.

The AI that writes the score and fixes gets these signals as facts it may not contradict. The “what the software read” part of the report — name, contact details, job titles, dates, skills and education — is parsed by rules alone. The score is an estimate of how common ATS software reads a resume; each employer's settings differ.

Our guides, examples and blog posts show an Updated date. We change it when the content of the page changes in a way a reader would notice, and never just to make a page look fresh. Our sitemap uses the same dates.

Stock photos on LaunchCV come from Unsplash and are used under the Unsplash License. We resize them, and some portraits have the background removed. Resume previews on our pages are drawn from the example text, not screenshots of real resumes.

Found a mistake, an outdated rule or a broken source link? Email support@launch-cv.com with the page address. A person reads every email. When we fix a factual error, we update the page and its Updated date. You can see what changed in the product on our changelog.