Everyone starts at zero experience
Your first resume is the hardest one. Start there.
Every posting wants two years of experience for an entry-level job, and your resume has a degree, a couple of projects, and a summer of something. The fix is translation, not exaggeration.
Where you are
The new grad search has a specific cruelty: you are competing against people who have done the job before, filtered by software that counts keyword matches. Your group project genuinely covered half the skills in the posting, but your resume calls it "group project" and the posting calls it "cross-functional collaboration on a delivered product." Same thing. Zero match.
Nobody teaches this. Career services hands you a template, the internet hands you contradictory advice, and every application portal makes you retype your education history anyway.
You do not need to invent experience. You need every real thing you have done stated in the language each posting uses, and you need to apply in enough volume that the numbers work. Both of those are exactly the tedious parts software should be doing.
The other side of the table
Recruiters have software for this. Now you do.
Every company you apply to manages you with software. An ATS scores your resume against the posting before a human sees it. A CRM tracks you as a row in their hiring pipeline, with stages, notes, and follow-ups. That is why their side of the search feels organized and yours feels like fifteen tabs and a sticky note.
Virgil Resume is that same machinery, pointed the other way. One search feeding your pipeline instead of theirs. A resume rewritten to score against each posting instead of being scored by it. Every application tracked from Found to Applied to Interviewing, the way their recruiters track you. They have an ATS. This is yours: a job search system.
How to run it
Your playbook, step by step
Build the first resume in the app
No resume yet? Answer plain questions about what you studied, built, and worked on, and get a clean, real resume out. No template shopping, no blank page.
Search wide, at your level
One search covers the boards and thousands of company career pages. Entry-level roles hide under a dozen titles: associate, coordinator, analyst, junior. Save a search for each.
Tailor every single application
This is where you beat the experience gap. Each tailored version restates your coursework, projects, and part-time work in the posting's own vocabulary. Nothing invented, everything aimed.
Use the quick-paste answers on the forms
The hundredth "why do you want to work here" box is where searches go to die. Drafted answers per job, ready to paste and personalize.
Built for this
The three features doing the heavy lifting
Resume from scratch
A guided build that turns your degree, projects, and jobs into a resume that reads like you have done this before.
Tailored per posting
Your real experience, restated in each posting's language. That is how a thin resume passes a keyword screen honestly.
Quick-paste answers
Application form answers drafted per job. The part of applying that burns new grads out, handled.
The search, the pipeline, and the application answers are always included. Credits meter one thing only: AI-tailored resumes. See pricing
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