How Resume Roundtable works

🗳 Voting

You have 100 vote points to spend across the whole resume. Each item gets a net vote from you — anywhere from −100 (strong thumbs-down) to +100 (strong thumbs-up). Most reviewers spread small votes across many items rather than putting everything on one line.

• Voting back toward zero refunds those points. Changed your mind? Dial a vote back and you get the points back to spend elsewhere.
• Only the resume owner sees vote totals. Other reviewers never see how many points an item received, or how any individual voted.

The budget exists to encourage honest prioritisation — you can't give everything the maximum. If you run low, nudge some earlier votes toward zero to reclaim points.

🕶 Your identity

The sticky bar at the top of every review page shows who you're currently "responding as." You can flip between named and anonymous at any time — but flipping never changes feedback you've already left.

Each vote, label, and comment snapshots your identity at the moment you post it. If you voted as "Jordan" earlier and switch to anonymous now, Jordan's votes stay attributed to Jordan.

Comment-level anonymity (finer control)

When writing a comment you get three options for how your name appears:

Votes and labels use a simpler named/anonymous toggle (the mode pill in the sticky bar) — there's no middle option for those.

💬 Comments & discussions

Every resume item has a threaded discussion you can join after voting. There are also two resume-wide threads at the bottom of the page: Overall feedback (thoughts on the resume as a whole) and Site feedback (bugs or ideas for Resume Roundtable itself — only the site admin reads those).

Visibility

Each comment has a visibility setting:

• Everyone — all reviewers with access to this resume can see it.
• Owner only — only the resume owner sees it. Useful for direct, candid notes you don't want other reviewers to see.

Write-in suggestions

Check the Write-in suggestion box when your comment contains text the owner might actually paste into the resume. These get a special badge so the owner can find them quickly.

Replies and reactions

Any comment can be replied to, creating a threaded conversation. You can also react with a small emoji set (👏 💡 ✅ ⭐ 🤔 ✍️ 👎) without writing anything. You can soft-delete your own comments at any time — deleted comments appear as [deleted] if they have replies, so threads stay coherent.

🏷 Labels

After voting on an item you can attach short descriptive tags — things like Quantified impact, Leadership, or Technical depth. Labels are a quick way to highlight what an item does well or what it's missing, without writing a full comment.

Labels are visible to the owner and carry your name (or "anon" if you're in anonymous mode). You can add or remove your own labels at any time.

🔒 Access & privacy

Resumes are never publicly accessible. Every review URL contains two parts that both need to be correct:

1. The resume's unique ID (a long random code in the URL)
2. An invite key — a separate random code specific to the invite link you were sent

Both must match for the link to work. If the owner revokes an invite, that link stops working immediately and that reviewer loses access. The resume owner can issue multiple separate invite links and revoke them individually.

Guests (no account needed) get a temporary rr-xxxxxxxx username tied to their browser session. Guests are tied to a single browser — if you clear cookies or switch devices the session ends, and the owner can re-send you an invite link to reconnect.

Registered users can log in on any device and their reviewer record follows them, keeping all their feedback history intact.