About r/resumes
In its own words:
Get help with your resume! Checkout the wiki and/or sidebar for resources and info!
Community guide
r/resumes (#803, about 1.3 million subscribers) is oriented around: Get help with your resume! Checkout the wiki and/or sidebar for resources and info! Recent activity samples show 43 posts/day in recent samples (~47% image, ~42% text, ~11% gallery). Public rules we collected include: Keep your criticism constructive!; No advertising; No soliciting other users through direct messages.; Don't discuss moderator actions. If you have a problem, message the mods.; No NSFW, unrelated, or inappropriate content.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Match posts to: Keep your criticism constructive!; No advertising; No soliciting other users through direct messages.; Don't discuss moderator actions. If you have a problem, message the mods..
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Technology/Software/IT, I Have a Question, Finance/Banking, Discussion.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jun 14, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,239 subscribers (+0.09%). It sits just behind r/Bundesliga (#802) and ahead of r/cringe (#804) in our ranking.
What sets r/resumes apart
r/resumes is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 47% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 21% across the Top 100. People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 3.9 comments per post, against 13.1 for a typical large subreddit. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (18:00 UTC) sees about 12.5× as many posts as the quietest (09:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/resumes went up from 1,319,198 to 1,326,094 subscribers (+6.9K, +0.52%). That is about 157 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/resumes talks about
We read the titles of 231 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “yoe”, “resume”, “engineer”, “united” and “states”. Other frequent themes are software, unemployed, analyst, entry, level and manager. Recurring phrases include “united states”, “yoe unemployed”, “software engineer” and “entry level”. By format, 47% are images, 42% are text posts and 11% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Technology/Software/IT (107), I Have a Question (26), Finance/Banking (14), Discussion (14), Engineering (11), General/Other Industries (10).
Activity and best time to post
r/resumes gets about 43 new posts a day. The public archive holds 280,733 posts and 1,081,130 comments in total, about 3.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (47 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (30). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/resumes
The moderators of r/resumes list 10 rules. In short:
- Keep your criticism constructive!
- No advertising
- No soliciting other users through direct messages.
- Don't discuss moderator actions. If you have a problem, message the mods.
- No NSFW, unrelated, or inappropriate content
- Anonymize your documents before posting.
- Don't post low quality content
- No karma farming
- Do not use AI generated content
- Use proper post formatting
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/resumes and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/resumes?
r/resumes has 1,326,094 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #803 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,896 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/resumes?
r/resumes was created on Jun 14, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 16, 2010.
How active is r/resumes?
Very active: r/resumes gets about 43 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 280,733 posts and 1,081,130 comments. In a sample of 231 recent posts we counted 138 different authors.
When is r/resumes most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/resumes about?
The community describes itself as: “Get help with your resume! Checkout the wiki and/or sidebar for resources and info!” Recent post titles often mention yoe, resume, engineer, united and states. Most posts are images (47%).
Is r/resumes safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/resumes as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/resumes?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/resumes accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Keep your criticism constructive!”; “No advertising”; “No soliciting other users through direct messages.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/resumes?
Communities with similar topics include r/recruitinghell (1.5M), r/AskHR (1.9M), r/chemistry (3.9M), r/Fitness (12.6M) and r/Screenwriting (1.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/resumes.