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r/resumes

r/resumes is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #803 on SubMouse with 1,327,159 subscribers and about 43 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#803
Subscribers1.3M
Growth since Nov 2+1.1K
Posts per day43
Posts all time280.7K
CreatedJun 2009
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About r/resumes

In its own words:

Get help with your resume! Checkout the wiki and/or sidebar for resources and info!

Community guide

r/resumes (#803, about 1.3 million subscribers) — Get help with your resume! Checkout the wiki and/or sidebar for resources and info! A recent sample averaged 43 posts a day (~47% image, ~42% text, ~11% gallery). Its public rules include: Keep your criticism constructive!; No advertising; No soliciting other users through direct messages.; Don't discuss moderator actions. If you have a problem, message the mods.; No NSFW, unrelated, or inappropriate content.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Match posts to: Keep your criticism constructive!; No advertising; No soliciting other users through direct messages.; Don't discuss moderator actions. If you have a problem, message the mods.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Technology/Software/IT, I Have a Question, Finance/Banking, Discussion.

The community was created on Jun 14, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,065 subscribers (+0.08%). It sits just behind r/Funnymemes (#802) and ahead of r/Bundesliga (#804) in our ranking.

What sets r/resumes apart

r/resumes is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 47% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 22% across the Top 100. People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 3.9 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (18:00 UTC) sees about 12.5× as many posts as the quietest (09:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

1.33M1.32MSep 19Nov 9, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/resumes went up from 1,319,198 to 1,327,159 subscribers (+8K, +0.60%). That is about 156 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/resumes this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. Passing ATS is actually the easy part...u/FinalDraftResumes · Nov 3 · text post
  2. How do I tailor my resume for specific job descriptions, without spending 2hrs per application?u/Teelaikhumbi · Nov 3 · text post
  3. How much lying can you actually do?u/Plastic_Special9957 · Nov 1 · text post
  4. [8 YOE, Unemployed, Project Management, USA]u/Occupy_Mars · Nov 1 · image
  5. [0 YoE, Student, Software Engineering Intern, United States]u/Slight-Daikon-9823 · Nov 6 · image
  6. I'm 25 and have no job experience. I have no idea what to put on my resume. Please help!u/Big-Stay2709 · Nov 4 · text post
  7. Laid off and haven’t made a resume in years, would appreciate some help with content/formattingu/trynabemoredecisive · Nov 3 · text post
  8. [5 YoE, Unemployed, Endpoint Engineer, United Kingdom]u/saradata · Nov 2 · image
  9. Chronic illness + no real work experience. Need tips.u/Valuable_Plankton_96 · Nov 4 · text post
  10. [1 YoE, EM Meteorology Intern, Nuclear Incident Modeler, Operational Forecaster, Dispersion Modeler, Hazards Analyst, United States]u/squirerodrick · Nov 2 · gallery

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/resumes, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. When you lied on your resume...but the company's doing a background checku/FinalDraftResumes · Dec 5, 2024 · image
  2. Always be networkingu/FinalDraftResumes · Apr 10, 2025 · image
  3. Small mistakes = big consequencesu/FinalDraftResumes · Sep 6, 2024 · image
  4. If you’re applying online, use a single column resume.u/FinalDraftResumes · Jan 12, 2022 · 1,254 points · 110 comments · image
  5. My man used Amazon themed CV to get the attention at Amazon Lmaou/seeeeeeeeeeeeeeed · Nov 16, 2022 · 1,820 points · 72 comments · image
  6. Please stop saving your resumes as “resume.pdf”u/tenemu · Jan 13, 2021 · text post
  7. Gotta love the resumes that are flat out lies [Venting]u/ThroughHimWithHim · Mar 6, 2025 · text post
  8. I lied on my resume, got the job, and now the background check ratted me out – freaking out before my start date, what should I do?u/Academic_Edge_4670 · Aug 20, 2024 · text post
  9. The perfect CV?u/escapedfugitive · Apr 20, 2024 · image
  10. I lied about still being employed and background check came back that I left the company 6 months.u/tclate · May 2, 2025 · text post

What r/resumes talks about

We read the titles of 231 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “yoe”, “resume”, “engineer”, “united” and “states”. Other frequent themes are software, unemployed, analyst, entry, level and manager. Recurring phrases include “united states”, “yoe unemployed”, “software engineer” and “entry level”. By format, 47% are images, 42% are text posts and 11% are galleries.

  • yoe 103
  • resume 82
  • engineer 33
  • united 30
  • states 28
  • software 28
  • unemployed 22
  • analyst 21
  • entry 18
  • level 15
  • manager 15
  • data 15
  • usa 14
  • swe 13
  • job 12
  • customer 12
  • grad 12
  • student 12

Popular post flairs: Technology/Software/IT (107), I Have a Question (26), Finance/Banking (14), Discussion (14), Engineering (11), General/Other Industries (10).

Activity and best time to post

r/resumes gets about 43 new posts a day. The public archive holds 280,733 posts and 1,081,130 comments in total, about 3.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (47 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (30). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.

00: 70001: 1102: 2003: 40304: 605: 1006: 80607: 1008: 909: 20910: 1011: 712: 91213: 1714: 1115: 201516: 1817: 1218: 251819: 820: 1521: 152122: 1623: 10
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Images 47%Text posts 42%Galleries 11%

Rules of r/resumes

The moderators of r/resumes list 10 rules. In short:

  1. Keep your criticism constructive!
  2. No advertising
  3. No soliciting other users through direct messages.
  4. Don't discuss moderator actions. If you have a problem, message the mods.
  5. No NSFW, unrelated, or inappropriate content
  6. Anonymize your documents before posting.
  7. Don't post low quality content
  8. No karma farming
  9. Do not use AI generated content
  10. Use proper post formatting

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/resumes and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How big is r/resumes?

r/resumes has 1,327,159 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #803 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,961 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/resumes?

r/resumes was created on Jun 14, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 16, 2010.

How active is r/resumes?

Very active: r/resumes gets about 43 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 280,733 posts and 1,081,130 comments. In a sample of 231 recent posts we counted 138 different authors.

When is r/resumes most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/resumes about?

The community describes itself as: “Get help with your resume! Checkout the wiki and/or sidebar for resources and info!” Recent post titles often mention yoe, resume, engineer, united and states. Most posts are images (47%).

Is r/resumes safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/resumes as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/resumes?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/resumes accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Keep your criticism constructive!”; “No advertising”; “No soliciting other users through direct messages.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Which communities are like r/resumes?

Communities with similar topics include r/KDRAMA (1.1M), r/SpyxFamily (1.2M), r/developersIndia (1.6M) and r/CreditCards (1.6M).

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/resumes.

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