
Jacob Jacquet
About this author
Jacob Jacquet started Rezi in 2015 to help fellow students create resumes that pass applicant tracking systems (ATS).
Since then, Rezi has transformed into the leading AI resume software used by millions around the world. As the CEO and founder of Rezi, Jacob’s purpose is to solve the resume forever and help job seekers land gainful employment by providing all the best resources you need to advance in your career, starting with the perfect ATS resume.
Jacob brings his unique understanding of resumes to create samples that users can reference in their own Rezi experience.
Key achievements
- Built Rezi
Skills & Interests
Coffee
Orange Juice
Pancakes
Recent blog posts

Company News
Introducing Rezi Map: explore 3M+ jobs on an interactive map
Discover over 3 million jobs instantly on an interactive world map. Filter by role, skill, and location using natural language, powered by microsecond-fast Roaring Bitmaps. Perfect for relocation and career planning.

Company News
Rezi MCP Toolkit: Tailor Your Resume to Any Job Description Using AI
Connect your Rezi account to AI tools like Claude, Codex, and Gemini using MCP. Tailor resumes to job descriptions, create new ones from scratch, and manage everything in plain English, without leaving your workflow.

Resume
Introducing Dev and Dev Compact: two new resume templates for developers
We’ve introduced two new resume templates in Rezi—Dev and Dev Compact. Built specifically for developers who need to showcase technical experience clearly and efficiently. Dev uses a structured two-column format for easy readability, while Dev compact offers a clean, single-column layout with maximum content width.

Resume
Best AI Resume Builder for Entry Level Jobs in 2026
Most entry-level resumes fail ATS before a human sees them. Here are the best AI resume builders to fix that, with honest pros, cons, and scores.

Resume
The ATS-Friendly Template Is a Marketing Label: Here’s What Actually Gets Your Resume Read
“ATS screening” and myths (or just plain lies) about it are a fearmongering tactic used by some online resume builders. At Rezi, we offer templates that indeed are compatible with most ATS. But it’s not what makes them so good. This is.

Resume
How to write an entry-level resume (and get past ATS)
No experience? Here's how to write an entry-level resume that clears ATS and gets read. Step-by-step guide with examples and a pre-submit checklist.

Career Advice
Are Return-to-Office Mandates Just Backdoor Layoffs?
Corporate leaders claim Return-to-Office mandates are about saving company culture. The reality? They are covert "stealth layoffs" designed to dodge severance—and they are accidentally gutting companies of their top talent.

Career Advice
Everyone Has a Keyword-Matched Resume Now. Here’s What Actually Gets You the Interview.
The best AI resume builder is the one that forces you to prove what you’re claiming—so you don’t end up with a “90% ATS match” resume that reads like a cloned job description and collapses the second a recruiter skims it.

Career Advice
“AI-Washing” in Job Titles: How to Tell if That AI Role is Just Marketing
A rigorous look at the latest labor data reveals a massive corporate bait-and-switch: how the booming "AI job market" is actually just decades-old roles repackaged to trick investors and cheapen the hunt for talent.

Career Advice
When “AI” Means “Goodbye:” The New Universal Layoff Justification
Tech giants are ruthlessly trading human payroll for AI infrastructure. Data reveals that companies frequently hyping AI on earnings calls are slashing workforces by 15% to fund the transition, marking a violent structural reset of the digital economy.

Career Advice
AI vs. AI: How the Job Market Became a Dead Internet Battleground
In this meta-analysis, we talk about today’s reality of hiring where applications are up 182% and 21% of firms auto-reject without human oversight. In this weird AI vs. AI battleground, time-to-hire has slowed for 60% of companies despite automation. And no one seems to emerge as a true winner.

Career Advice
The Crisis of Entry-Level Labor in the Age of AI (2024–2026)
The traditional “deal” of entry-level work—trading rote labor for mentorship—is dead. And if not quite dead yet, it really is dying (unlike all those other things that were supposed to die years ago). Our analysis of 2024–2025 data shows that the “learning curve” is being automated, leaving early-career professionals stranded between AI agents and senior workers.

The Work Number: What It Is & How It Works
The Work Number is an automated database owned by Equifax that stores detailed employment and income records for millions of workers. It allows authorized verifiers to instantly complete employment verification and check salary history without needing to contact a company's HR department directly.

Cover Letter
How to Add a Human Touch to an AI-Generated Cover Letter?
Short answer: To add a human touch to an AI-generated cover letter, treat the AI output as a draft, not a final. Then rewrite it with your real voice, plug in specific details only you would know (your motivations, stories, context), and cut anything that sounds generic or overly formal. Aim for “authentically you,” not “perfectly AI.”

Resume
How to Tailor Your Resume to a Job Description With AI
Tailoring your resume to every job description is one of the highest-leverage things you can do in a job search. AI makes it fast enough to actually do for every application.

Company News
Rezi Welcomes Sandra Buatti-Ramos as Chief Learning & Career Architect
We’re excited to announce that Sandra Buatti-Ramos is joining Rezi as our new Chief Learning & Career Architect. Sandra will lead the development of intelligent career education infrastructures to transform how candidates and institutions prepare for the future of work

Resume
What Are The 2 Ways to Use AI to Write a Resume
There are 2 popular ways to use AI to write your resume. Firstly, you can write a resume from scratch using an AI resume builder or a general-purpose AI software such as ChatGPT. Alternatively, you can start with a rough draft you create yourself, and have the AI of your choice polish and target your resume to match a specific job ad. Option 1 is quicker but option 2 will likely be more effective.

Company News
Practice with Rezi AI Interview
Harness the power of artificial intelligence to help improve your interview skills and get more job offers with Rezi AI Interview.

Company News
Our Journey to 1,000,000 users
We’ve hit the milestone we didn’t even dream about when starting Rezi: 1,000,000 people have signed up for Rezi as of today.