r/ResumeTips rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who take their resume seriously. The description says it exists for templates, real examples, and tips that go beyond the generic advice you find everywhere else. People post their own resumes for honest feedback, browse examples that helped others land jobs, and ask the small questions that nobody else covers. The rules widen the door a bit, because posts and comments can cover resumes, cover letters, job searching, interviews, or closely related career topics. So the room is job seekers first, and the people who help them second.

The rule that decides most things here is “No Spam or Excessive Self-Promotion”, which says not to use the community mainly to promote your own product, service, website, newsletter, or affiliate links. The word mainly matters, because it means promotion is conditional rather than banned outright. “Keep It Resume & Career Related” sets the topic fence, so anything outside resumes, cover letters, job searching, interviews, or closely related career topics is off the table. “Resume Review Posts Must Include Context” is the rule that trips up the most newcomers, because a resume posted without a target job title, experience level, and a clear ask can be removed as low effort. “Use the Correct Post Flair” means every post needs the right label, and misleading flair can get it changed or removed. “Protect Personal Information” requires stripping phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and other sensitive details before posting a resume. Finally, “Be Helpful and Respectful” governs how you talk, so constructive feedback is the only acceptable tone.

A good post here looks like help first and product never, or product almost never. If you have real experience hiring, screening resumes, or getting people interviews, share a specific lesson with an example, like what you changed on a resume that actually got callbacks. Answer the small questions the description mentions, the ones nobody covers, because those threads are where trust gets built. If you post a resume as an example, strip every piece of personal information from it first and add context, meaning the target job title, the experience level, and what you want people to look at. Pick the flair that honestly matches what you posted. If your product genuinely helps with resumes or job searching, the safe pattern is to participate as a member, answer questions with substance, and only mention what you built when someone asks or when it directly solves the problem in front of you. Never lead with the link.

The fastest way to get removed is to treat this place as a distribution channel. If your account mostly exists to push your own product, service, website, newsletter, or affiliate links, the spam rule catches you. Affiliate links specifically are not allowed. Off topic posts get removed, so a marketing thread with no resume or career angle does not survive. Resume review posts without context get removed, so a bare resume with no target job title, experience level, or stated problem is a wasted post. Wrong or misleading flair can get your post changed or removed. Leaving personal information on a resume you upload is a privacy problem the rules call out directly. And any comment that is an insult, a personal attack, or deliberately unhelpful breaks the respect rule, which matters if you are replying to job seekers while promoting yourself elsewhere.

What stands out to me here is rule six, because it demands context before anyone will even look at your resume. That tells me this room rewards specificity, and a lazy post dies fast. If you build anything for job seekers, the respectful move is to answer small questions well and let people find you. I also like that the description promises honest feedback, so thin promotion gets called out by members, not just moderators.