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Generic resume builders fail technical candidates in STEM fields

Engineers, scientists, and technical students are poorly served by general-purpose resume builders that do not understand how to surface research, projects, or domain-specific skills in recruiter-readable formats. The mismatch between how STEM work is done and how resumes are conventionally structured is a real and persistent gap with no dominant solution.

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