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I Tested Tons of AI Resume Builders — These 7 Are the Absolute Best | by Nitin Sharma | The Startup | Apr, 2025


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Let me be honest — building a resume that gets you hired is not so easy.

But why? Because building a resume depends on multiple factors, like who you are, what job you are applying for, and what the company is looking for.

You can’t simply create a resume and then send it to 100+ companies on LinkedIn.

And when you finally sit down to specifically write one, you get tons of questions like:

  • Should I use a template or build from scratch?
  • How do I format it?
  • Do I need to add all my achievements and create a one- or two-page resume?
  • Will this even pass through the ATS?

This is where AI resume builders are helpful, as they are trained on numerous professional resumes to help you create one according to your requirements.

And the best part? These AI resume builders can create your resume in minutes using smart templates and bullet points that match the job description you provided.

But you can’t simply trust any AI resume builder out there, and so I tried 25+ AI resume builders in the past 3 weeks to find out the best one for you.

If you Google “best free AI resume builder”, you’ll actually find tons of options.

But after testing 25+ of them myself, I can confidently say — most of them are simply useless. In short, most of these AI resume builders are just expensive template apps pretending to use AI.

They will tell you that they use AI, but what they actually do is:

  • Ask you to fill in your info
  • And then add your info to a pre-made resume template and call it AI

Here’s what you actually need:

  • An AI resume builder that actually uses AI and is easy to use
  • Lets you choose modern, responsive resume templates (I’m talking about the trending ones)
  • Understands your profession, generates bullet points with AI, and helps you match your resume to the job description.
  • Optimizes it for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
  • And obviously, writes like a human and not the same generic content that ChatGPT can do

Well, while researching the best free AI resume builders, I focused on these parameters, and based on that, I found the 7 best AI resume builders you can choose from.

Let’s start with the recommendations.

When I was searching for the best AI resume builder on Google, Rezi was present at the #1 position.

And when I visited their website, they shared that they have 3.37 million users, with an average user review of 8.23/10, 837 professional resume samples to choose from, and one can generate a “resume + cover letter” within 5 minutes, perfectly optimized.

With all this info, I made up my mind to at least try it, and I liked it a lot.

But how to get started?

Well, you need to visit their website and click on the button “Get Started” to create an account. Then it will ask you some simple questions like how you want to create your resume and which type of resume you want to generate.

And the best part? It will ask you about your dream job, the role you are targeting, the domain, and then the job description.

After that, you need to fill in all your info — from your contact info to experience, education, and more. I’ve simply asked ChatGPT for some dummy data to fill in here.

And here’s what it generated:

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