Rezi: Year in Review 2025

2025 has been an interesting year. 

AI adoption continued to accelerate, the job market kept evolving, and many job seekers found themselves navigating uncertainty with resilience often in the face of layoffs and shifting expectations.

Throughout the year, we watched our community grow and take greater ownership of their careers. This article looks back on the key moments, milestones, and lessons that defined 2025 — from new product launches to team moments and wins that reminded us why we build in the first place.

Thank you for being part of the journey. Let’s rewind the year together! 

🎉 4,005,400 Total Rezi Users 🎉

By the end of 2025, we’ve grown to over 4 million users. Our community on social media has grown too, with an estimated total of 48,838+ across our core platforms. These include professionals across industries, experience levels, and countries. Just wow. It’s been nothing short of extraordinary, and more importantly, a signal that we’re building something genuinely helpful for modern job seekers navigating the job market. 

For those interested in how far we’ve come, you can also take a look back at the Rezi Year in Review for 2024.

More Highlights From 2025

As Rezi continued to grow, so did the ways job seekers used the platform throughout the year:

• 3.7M resumes built with Rezi
• 37,916 conversations with the Rezi AI Agent
• 318,029 cover letters created with Rezi

The most common experience level among Rezi users was 1 year and I.T. was the top industry. Top job titles and roles include:

• Project Manager (310,588 users)
• Software Developer (284,615 users)
• Software Engineer (222,771 users)
• Data Analyst (213,563 users)
• Customer Service Representative (170,797 users)

We Built the First Intelligent AI Agent for Resume and Career Advice

This year, we introduced Rezi AI Agent: the first intelligent AI agent built specifically for resume writing, ATS optimization, and career guidance, grounded in proven best practices.

Rezi AI Agent combines conversational AI with structured career and resume expertise. Every response is informed by top resume and hiring standards, shaped by insights from a team of resume professionals who have reviewed hundreds of job applications, and validated by our Chief Learning & Career Architect. This ensures that each output is not only personalized, but practical, accurate, and aligned with how hiring actually works.

The AI Agent helps job seekers analyze, write, improve, and tailor resumes for specific roles. You can also use it to prepare for interviews, manage job applications, and navigate through all Rezi features within a guided experience. 

This marked a major step forward in building innovative tools that can meaningfully support job seekers.

The Resume Metadata Standard Project That Exposed It All

In 2025, we conducted an experiment to better understand how resumes are parsed, interpreted, and evaluated across modern hiring systems.

We discovered a hard truth. 

Many job seekers aren’t failing because they’re not qualified, but because they’re being filtered by a system that just can’t reliably read their resume.

We took one strong resume, rebuilt multiple versions using different resume builders (including ours) and plain-text files, then uploaded them into a commonly used ATS. The results were blunt: missing contact details, broken date formats, incomplete education, and inconsistent parsing across the board. Even the best-performing version still lost a significant chunk of information. 

That’s what led us to launch the Resume Metadata Standard — an open-source attempt to make resumes machine-readable without sacrificing design — and to shine a light on how broken the status quo really is.

New Rezi Features in 2025

Here’s a look at the new features and key product updates throughout 2025 — all built to make resume writing, optimization, and job searching clearer, faster, and more effective.

Rezi AI Agent

This is an agentic editor designed to bring all of Rezi’s resume tools and career expertise into a single, guided experience. The AI Agent connects real-time content analysis, keyword targeting, resume scoring, bullet point optimization, and formatting into one intelligent workflow.

This marked a major shift in how users interact with Rezi. It represents the culmination of years of product iteration, user feedback, and technical investment — and sets the foundation for how we continue building smarter, more cohesive career tools moving forward.

New resume templates

This year’s additions of resume templates include:

• The Harvard resume. A clean, education-first format aligned with the Harvard standard, designed for students and recent graduates.
• Jake’s resume. A high-density, single-column layout adapted from our CEO’s resume, ideal for software engineers and developers who need to clarify technical skills and projects.
• The Highlight resume. A modern take for a professional template that uses subtle visual accents.

Rezi Job Search

Rezi Job Search helps you manage job applications. It’s a fully integrated job discovery and application experience built to reduce friction between finding a role and applying for it.

This tool sources over 1.3M real, open roles directly from company websites and applicant tracking systems, helping candidates avoid low-visibility listings and outdated postings. Once a role is found, users can instantly generate a targeted resume, apply with the right keywords, and track applications.

Throughout the year, we continued expanding the feature with deeper resume targeting, an integrated job application tracker, and improved search filters, laying the groundwork for upcoming enhancements like recommended jobs and smarter automation.

Rezi AI Interview v2

We continued evolving Rezi AI Interview with a major rebuild focused on making it more realistic and practical. 

Rezi AI Interview v2 uses the latest generation of language models to generate job-specific interview questions based on your resume and the role you’re applying for. The experience is more natural and adaptive. Users will receive detailed, data-driven feedback, including keyword gaps, response structure improvements, and guidance on behavioral questions.

Rezi Enterprise (vision)

We launched Rezi Enterprise last year, and throughout 2025 we focused on expanding and refining it as a core part of Rezi’s long-term vision.

We don’t believe access to high-quality resume and career tools should be gated by high subscription fees. As Rezi Enterprise grows, our goal is to reduce the cost burden on job seekers and shift more value to organizations that work with resumes at scale.

Rezi Enterprise is designed for universities, recruiters, and organizations that review resumes daily. Looking ahead, Enterprise will play a key role in closing the loop between job seekers and employers — from resume creation to job posting and hiring — all within Rezi’s ecosystem.

A more intelligent, fully integrated resume builder

We strengthened our core features: stronger AI resume writing, real-time feedback, job-specific tailoring with a single click, new smart company field that adds real-world context, and many more. 

Our resume builder does a better job understanding a user’s actual experience, offering smarter suggestions, clearer metrics, and more relevant role-specific tailoring. With improved features, Rezi has become more intuitive and effective for job seekers. 

Organic Visibility at a Glance

People continued to discover Rezi through search engines. As AI-powered search and instant answers become more common, users now get information directly on search results pages, which means fewer clicks across the web — not just for Rezi.

Despite this shift, Rezi continued to grow in users, product adoption, and revenue throughout 2025. That growth reflects sustained demand for tools that genuinely help job seekers, even as search behavior evolves.

Team Members Who Joined Us in 2025

Here are our newest team members who we’re excited to have on board:

• Sherwin joined as our Customer Success Lead. He works closely with users to ensure they get the most value from Rezi. He also plays a key role in turning feedback into action and helping shape a better experience for job seekers using the platform.
• Sandra joined as our Chief Learning & Career Architect, bringing deep experience in hiring, career development, and education. She plays a critical role in shaping resume and career guidance grounded in real-world hiring standards and proven best practices.
• Franco joined to lead Digital PR, helping expand Rezi’s reach through partnerships, earned media, and strategic storytelling. His work ensures that Rezi’s tools, research, and insights reach the job seekers who need them most.

Our team continued to grow in 2025 with the addition of two key roles that strengthen both Rezi’s visibility and the quality of guidance we provide to job seekers.

Key Moments and Milestones Throughout 2025

2025 was a year of steady progress, meaningful wins, and important lessons.

From major product launches to growth milestones and team moments, each step helped innovate and shape where Rezi is today. Let’s look back at some key moments in 2025 together! 

Q1 2025

We kicked off the year with a few AMAs hosted by our founder and CEO.

After a light-hearted exchange with our Reddit community, we did quite the unthinkable and launched Comic Sans as a resume font…

In February, we picked up our first organic Rezi Enterprise subscriber from Google — a great moment of early validation for a product that was still brand new.

We also took time to step away from our screens and spend time together as a team, heading out for a skiing trip.

We rolled out major UX upgrades to the resume builder, refining the experience based on real user behavior and feedback.

We shared an early glimpse of jobs inside Rezi, marking a step toward a more integrated job search experience.

A standout moment: 3,626 payments processed in a single week.

We shared progress on Rezi’s job search feature, including trackable application statuses to help users stay organized.

Another standout moment: showcasing the resume template that helped a candidate get into the Disney College Program.

The first quarter also brought in more encouraging feedback from our users, reminding us why we built Rezi in the first place.

We also sat down with one of our users, Luke, a Senior Visual Designer, to talk about his resume journey and experience using Rezi.

During a period of widespread layoffs, we partnered with a trusted voice to provide support and resources for job seekers facing uncertainty.

Around the end of Q1, we launched Rezi Job Search.

Q2 2025

In April, we updated the Rezi Job Search feature with deeper resume and targeting integration.

We did a few interesting experiments too, like releasing our first Rezi song.

In April, we introduced the Resume Metadata Standard, an open-source project created to improve resume parsing.

A bit of fun vibe coding — Studio Ghibli–style:

We asked our audience how they were feeling about the job market, and the results spoke for themselves.

We gathered internal data to better understand the roles most commonly represented among Rezi users.

Rezi Enterprise partners generated $37.6K in revenue in a single month.

In May, our CEO shared that we’ve given away over $1,036,295 worth of Rezi Lifetime access, upgrading 6,955 user accounts for free through our subreddit to support job seekers navigating today’s challenging market.

We got one of our resume experts to answer some of the most frequently asked questions asked about the resume.

We marked Rezi’s 10th anniversary with a team dinner — a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come.

Another highlight: helping a user land their very first role as a mobile developer with Rezi.

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Updated team photos gave us a fresh look at the people behind Rezi.

Moments like this are why Rezi exists — here’s another success story from our community.

Our CEO spoke in a webinar discussing the realities of building a startup in Korea as a foreigner.

Q3 2025

Adding a resume import feature to the homepage led to some interesting early results.

One small change led to a surprising jump in Pro subscription conversions—nearly 10x.

We also continued receiving positive feedback on our AI resume builder.

We’ve spoken directly with 42 users to better understand how Rezi impacted their job search experiences.

In July, we hosted an SEO AMA on Reddit, openly sharing what worked — and what didn’t — behind Rezi’s growth.

August saw the first version of Rezi AI Agent — an agentic editor so effective it outperformed our CEO’s own resume edits.

We published a YouTube video diving into the evolution of the modern resume.

September update: 93,000+ Rezi Lifetime accounts given away, representing over $13M in value.

Teamed up with Paul Healy to launch PharmaCV, a dedicated version of Rezi built specifically for professionals in the pharmaceutical industry.

Not long after, our CEO was interviewed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on building Rezi in Seoul over the past decade as a foreign founder.

Q4 2025

Rezi is officially recommended on LinkedIn’s AI Tools page.

Testing a new approach: every Rezi user can now request a free human formatting review for their resume.

Another positive user review we were excited to share:

We introduced Flappy Resume, a lighthearted game inspired by Flappy Bird, for a fun twist.

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A look inside our Rezi Hackathon and the engineers behind the product.

Our Chief Learning & Career Architect led Rezi’s first National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) webinar, sharing insights and practical solutions for today’s career landscape.

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Recommended jobs are coming soon, building on Rezi Job Search to make finding the right roles even more targeted and efficient.

A major upgrade to Rezi AI Interview is underway, leveraging the latest generation of LLMs to deliver more realistic, adaptive, and useful interview practice.

Rezi is now the officially recommended resume builder in r/careeradvice, a subreddit with over 700,000 members.

To help job seekers make the most use of Rezi AI Agent, we shared example prompts in our new cheat sheet.

We released a YouTube video exploring why the traditional resume is changing — and what that shift means for modern job seekers.

We revisited our data to see which job titles were the most popular among Rezi users.

Rezi 2025 Wrapped: a snapshot of some interesting stats from the year.

Closing Out 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re proud of how far Rezi has come in supporting job seekers navigating a challenging job market.

This year was about building smarter tools, challenging broken systems, and staying focused on what actually helps people move forward in their careers. From major product launches to quieter improvements behind the scenes, everything we worked on had one goal: making job searching feel more manageable, fair, and effective.

Thank you to everyone who trusted Rezi, shared feedback, and used our tools as part of their journey. And thank you to the team that continues to push the product forward with care, intention, and high standards.

We’re heading into the next year with clarity, momentum, and plenty more to build. If you’re already part of the Rezi community, we’re glad you’re here. 

And if you’re new, you can get started with Rezi AI resume builder for free.