Age bias is real. ATS systems filter you out before anyone reads your name. Relaunch diagnoses what's blocking you — and shows you exactly how to fix it.
These aren't theories. They're the specific mechanisms that filter you out — before your qualifications are ever evaluated.
Most large employers — banks, telecom, government, healthcare — use software to screen resumes before a human sees them. Tables, columns, headers, and formatting choices that look professional to a human eye fail ATS parsing entirely. Your resume may never reach a recruiter regardless of how strong your experience is.
Relaunch checks 15+ ATS failure patternsGraduation years. Employment dates going back to 1995. "Seasoned professional." "20+ years of experience." These phrases tell a hiring manager your age before they've read a single accomplishment. The bias is often unconscious — but the outcome is the same: your resume gets deprioritized in the first six seconds.
Relaunch detects 40+ age signal patternsA career history spanning 20+ years, heavy emphasis on executive titles, and a summary that leads with scope and seniority can trigger overqualification assumptions — even when you're the strongest candidate. The result: no call, no email, no explanation.
Relaunch identifies and reframes positioning issuesBold leadership statements, vague impact claims, and unquantified results are exactly what interviewers probe hardest. One weak answer raises doubt about everything else on your resume. Relaunch identifies which claims need strengthening before you apply.
Relaunch flags 8 categories of authenticity riskFive steps from "why am I not getting callbacks" to "I have an offer."
Upload your resume or paste the text. In under 60 seconds: your ATS compatibility score, every age bias signal detected with the exact phrase flagged, a Career Brief summarizing how your background reads to a recruiter, and a ranked list of what to fix first.
If you haven't needed a resume in years, the guided builder walks you through in four steps. Takes about 10 minutes. If you have a resume, the fix tools address every issue the scan found in the order that matters most — ATS first, then age signals, then positioning.
Paste a job description. Get a match score, missing keywords, gap analysis, and a tailored version of your resume and cover letter — grounded entirely in facts already in your resume. Nothing invented. Every rewrite defensible in an interview.
Relaunch identifies who to contact at each company — specific titles inferred from the job description — and generates outreach messages calibrated to your bias profile. High age bias risk? The message adjusts automatically: no tenure language, no career-length emphasis, emphasis on current contribution.
Practice questions generated from the actual job description and your specific resume. Salary intelligence gives you market data for your role and location. Negotiation scripts help you hold the number you deserve.
Most tools tell you what keywords are missing. Relaunch tells you why you're being filtered out — the mechanism, the consequence, and what to do about it. That's a fundamentally different product.
Generic resume advice is written for someone 28 years old. Positioning a 25-year career requires completely different strategy — what to show, what to compress, how to frame seniority without triggering bias.
Improvements are grounded in facts already in your resume. Nothing invented. You should be able to defend every line in an interview — Relaunch makes sure you can.
Canadian banks, government, and telecom — and US tech, finance, and healthcare. The ATS systems, formatting expectations, and keyword norms differ by market. Relaunch understands both.
Your scan results inform every tool downstream. Your Get Noticed message adjusts for your bias risk. Your interview prep references your specific claims. Nothing starts from scratch.
You'll know more about what's blocking your interviews after one free scan than from hours of reading generic advice. No account, no credit card, nothing required to test it.
I had no idea how many age signals were in my resume. The scan flagged my graduation year, my "20 years of experience" line, and three phrases I'd used for years without thinking. First interview booked within two weeks of fixing them.
I'd been at the same company for 14 years and had never needed a resume. The builder walked me through everything in about 10 minutes. Something I'd been dreading for months — done before lunch.
The salary intelligence section changed how I approached the conversation. I went in knowing my number, had the data to back it, and had the scripts ready. Ended up $18k above their opening offer.
The ATS check caught that my two-column resume format would fail parsing at most Canadian banks. I'd been applying for three months and getting nothing. That single fix changed everything.
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Run the free scan first. No account, no credit card. You'll know in 60 seconds what's blocking your interviews — and whether Relaunch can fix it.
Free Resume Risk Scan →There are three specific mechanisms. First, ATS software automatically rejects resumes with formatting issues — this filters roughly 75% of applications at large employers before a human sees them. Second, age signals in your resume — graduation years, dates going back 20+ years, phrases like "seasoned professional" — trigger unconscious bias in the first six seconds. Third, overqualification signals in your summary and titles cause hiring managers to assume you're too expensive or a poor fit, even when you're the strongest candidate. Relaunch detects all three and shows you exactly what to fix.
The scan runs 40+ deterministic rules covering: age bias signals (graduation years, career length phrases, outdated language), ATS compatibility (formatting failures, missing contact fields, section header issues), first impression analysis (how your resume reads in the first 6 seconds), career timeline (how much history is visible and how it's compressed), and authenticity risks (claims that will be challenged in interviews). It shows exactly what was found, why it's a problem, and what to do about it. Free, no account, under 60 seconds.
Most resume tools are built for early-career job seekers and focus on keyword matching against a specific job description. Relaunch is built specifically for experienced professionals 40+ and focuses on why you're being filtered out — the mechanism, the consequence, and the fix. Jobscan tells you what keywords are missing. Relaunch tells you why the phone isn't ringing, and walks you from that diagnosis to an offer.
No. If you haven't needed a resume in years, the guided builder walks you through in four steps — summary, experience, skills, education. About 10 minutes. Produces an ATS-ready document that's immediately scanned for age bias and formatting issues. You can also upload a Word document or paste text from an existing resume.
An ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is software used by most large employers to screen resumes automatically before human review. For experienced professionals specifically: resumes built over years often use tables, columns, and formatting that fail parsing. Career histories spanning 20+ years contain titles and terminology that have evolved — your title may not match the ATS keyword even though the work is identical. Relaunch's ATS check identifies these specific failure points.
No. Relaunch is built for both Canadian and US markets. The age bias detection, ATS check, interview prep, and application optimization work for any North American job search. Canadian hiring norms — particularly for banks, government, and telecom — are specifically understood, which most American tools don't account for.
90-day access to the complete Relaunch system: unlimited Resume Risk Scans, all age bias and ATS fixes, Optimize Application for unlimited roles, Get Noticed outreach system, Interview and Offer Coach, Salary Intelligence and negotiation scripts, Cover Letter Builder, LinkedIn profile refresh, and Job Tracker. One payment. No subscription. No auto-renewal. Nothing to cancel.
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