Job hunting is a numbers game. You need to apply to a lot of roles.
But here's the trap: applying to many jobs with the same generic resume tanks your response rate. ATS systems filter you out. Recruiters move on.
So the advice is always "tailor your resume for every job." Great advice. Also completely impractical when you're applying to 20-50 roles.
Tailoring one resume manually takes 30-60 minutes. At 50 jobs, that's an entire work week, just rewriting the same document over and over.
What I built
I got tired of this and built BulkResumes.
The idea is simple:
- Upload your master resume once
- Paste up to 50 job descriptions at once
- Get back a full pack for every single one
Each pack includes:
- A tailored resume: keywords matched, sections reordered to fit the role, ATS-friendly
- A cover letter: 3 paragraphs, role-specific, written in your voice
- A recruiter email: a short cold outreach message personalised to the position
All generated in minutes. Export as PDF or DOCX, ready to send.
Why bulk matters
The key insight isn't the AI tailoring, plenty of tools do that for one job at a time.
The key insight is batching.
When you're job hunting seriously, you don't apply to one job. You build a list, research companies, and send a wave of applications. The bottleneck is always the tailoring step.
BulkResumes removes that bottleneck entirely. You do the research, build your list of 20-50 jobs, paste all the descriptions in one shot, and come back to a full set of tailored applications.
The fit score
Each pack also comes with a fit score, a breakdown of how well your background matches the role across dimensions like hard skills, seniority, title match, and industry relevance.
This helps you prioritise: apply harder to the 80%+ matches, decide quickly on the 40% ones.
Demo
Here's a 2-minute walkthrough:
Try it
https://bulkresumes.com , 5 free packs, no credit card needed.
Built with Next.js, Firebase, and the Anthropic API. Still early, would genuinely love feedback, especially on output quality for different industries.
What's your current resume tailoring workflow? Curious if others have solved this differently.