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About Novorésumé Research

Who leads Novorésumé's research, where it has been featured, how every study is made and the company behind it.

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Contents
  1. Meet Andrei Kurtuy
  2. Latest features
  3. Our research methods
  4. How every study is made
  5. About Novorésumé

Meet Andrei Kurtuy

Andrei Kurtuy

Andrei Kurtuy

Co-Founder and Career Expert, Novorésumé

  • CPRW, PARWCC
  • MSc, Aalborg University
  • Copenhagen

Andrei co-founded Novorésumé in 2014 and leads our research. He's a Certified Professional Résumé Writer and has been helping people write better resumes for over ten years.

He writes for our Career Blog, wrote our Job Search Masterclass and Job Interview Masterclass eBooks, and works with resume-parsing companies to make sure our templates read correctly in applicant tracking systems. Forbes, Business Insider and Bloomberg have quoted him on resumes and remote work.

Latest Features

All 17 articles in the press

Our Research Methods

Novorésumé studies are built on four kinds of data. Most use one; some combine two, such as Google searches and government job projections.

Surveys

We survey US adults, full-time workers and job seekers on the Pollfish survey platform, and survey Novorésumé users and HR professionals. Each survey study gives its sample size, its field dates and how the sample was balanced or weighted.

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Official data

We work from government sources, in their latest release: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (job projections, wages and job counts by county), O*NET and the UK Government's Gender Pay Gap Service.

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Search data

Monthly Google search counts from Google Ads data, by phrase and by US state, show how many people look something up. We use counts of searches, not Google Trends' 0 to 100 index.

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Platform data

Public listings on job and freelance platforms, drawn at random and sorted by what each listing asks for.

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How Every Study Is Made

Each study goes through the same five steps before it is published.

  1. Pick a question and test it

    Each study starts from a question about resumes, job search or work. A small pilot checks that the data exists and can answer it before the study is built.

  2. Go to the original source

    Figures come from the survey, agency or platform that produced them, in its latest release.

  3. Compare like with like

    Rankings divide by size: searches per opening, jobs per 1,000 private jobs, share of all projects. Places and jobs below a minimum size are left out of rankings.

  4. Check each finding a second way

    Data studies are tested against another period, definition or source before they are published. Survey studies report their sample sizes, and national samples their margin of error.

  5. Publish the method with the results

    Each study states its source, period, sample and calculation. Studies in this section also carry their full tables, as CSV downloads, and their charts.

About Novorésumé

We're an online resume builder based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Andrei, Cristian Letai and Stefan Polexe started Novorésumé as a university project, after seeing people with strong experience struggle to show it on a resume.

Today job seekers use our resume builder, resume and cover letter templates and free tools like the ATS Resume Checker to put their applications together.

  • 2014founded
  • 2016resume builder launched
  • 18M+job seekers have used it
  • 4.5/5on Trustpilot, from 1.5K reviews
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