Rubric v1 · 9 criteria · nothing is scored

Your resume was rejected.This is the line where they stopped reading.

You sent 80 applications and heard nothing back. Silence is not feedback, so you changed things at random.

Drawn Box screens your resume against the one job you are applying to. It returns a decision, the line a screener stopped at, and 3 reasons tied to a published criterion.

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Specimen 001 — rejected. The mark is the line a screener stopped at, 6 seconds in.
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01 — The silence

Rejection arrives with no reason attached.

A free scanner hands you a percentage. A friend tells you it looks good. A model you paste it into tells you it is strong.

None of them will say the sentence you need: I stopped reading here, and this is why.

SentPosting
  • 4 May 2026Senior product manager, Series B fintechno reply
  • 6 May 2026Group product manager, marketplacerejected, 31 days later
  • 9 May 2026Director of product, healthno reply
  • 11 May 2026Senior product manager, paymentsno reply
  • 14 May 2026Lead product manager, logisticsrejected, no reason given
  • 18 May 2026Senior product manager, developer toolsno reply
  • 21 May 2026Principal product manager, fintechno reply

and 71 more. None of them said why.

An example log, not our data. Yours is longer.

02 — What comes back

A decision, the line, and 3 reasons that cite your own text.

Below is a real specimen, run against one posting. Nothing here is a score.

Verdict · specimen 001 · Rubric v1Screened against: senior product manager, Series B fintech
REJECTA screener stopped here. 6 seconds in.
The stop line
Results-driven product leader with a proven track record of driving impact across cross-functional teams.

Quoted verbatim from the resume. Never edited, never trimmed silently.

3 reasons
  1. Criterion 2 — Opening claim

    Your first line describes a category of person, not a result. A screener reads it as filler and moves on.

    Results-driven product leader with a proven track record of driving impact across cross-functional teams.

  2. Criterion 3 — Requirement match

    The posting names pricing ownership twice. Page 1 of your resume never mentions pricing.

    Owned the roadmap for the core experience across 4 squads.

  3. Criterion 5 — Bullet density

    11 bullets of near-identical length and weight. Nothing is ranked, so nothing is read.

    Partnered with engineering to deliver features on time and to spec.

What to change, worst first
  1. 1Replace line 1 with the outcome you were hired to produce, in numbers.
  2. 2Move the pricing work you buried on page 2 into the first 3 bullets.
  3. 3Cut the experience section to 6 bullets, ranked by what the posting asks for.
No score. No percentage. No human read this resume — our screen did, against the rubric.
03 — How it runs

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Your resume

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No settings, no confirmation. The wait shows which criterion is being applied, so it reads as work.

04 — The rubric

Every reason names a criterion. The criteria are public.

A judgment you cannot inspect is just an opinion. So the standard we screen against is written down, numbered and versioned.

When a criterion loses an argument often enough, it changes, and we publish the change with its date.

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Not enough outcomes yet. The first report publishes when 200 verdicts have a reported outcome.

That sentence stays here until it is false.

Rubric v1 — the 9 criteria
  1. 01Identity and target
  2. 02Opening claim
  3. 03Requirement match
  4. 04Evidence and specificity
  5. 05Bullet density
  6. 06Chronology and gaps
  7. 07Seniority signal
  8. 08Scope and ownership
  9. 09Readability in 7 seconds

Read Rubric v1 in full, with what each criterion rejects on.

05 — What it refuses to do

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