Rirekisho Review — Japanese Resume Second Opinion

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What this looks like

You paste this:

【職務経歴】
令和3年4月 株式会社サンプル商事 入社 営業部配属
平成29年3月 〇〇大学 卒業
2019年4月 株式会社テスト工業 入社 製造部配属

【自己PR】
前職では売上を伸ばすことに全力を注ぎました！お客様第一で動くのが自分のスタイルだ。

You get back this:

Excerpt — 令和3年4月 … 平成29年3月 … 2019年4月
Category — Era-year consistency · Severity — High
Why — The same list uses 和暦 (令和3年, 平成29年) and 西暦 (2019年). Neither system is
wrong, but mixing them hides the order: converted, these lines run 2021 → 2017 → 2019, which
is neither oldest-first nor newest-first.
Suggested fix — pick one system for every date in the document, including the birth date
and the issue date, then re-read the order once converted.

Excerpt — 「…全力を注ぎました！お客様第一で動くのが自分のスタイルだ。」
Category — Keigo / register · Severity — Medium
Why — An exclamation mark and the plain-form ending 「だ」 sit inside otherwise です/ます
text. The shift happens across two adjacent sentences.
Suggested fix — 「前職では売上を伸ばすことに全力を注ぎました。お客様を第一に考えて行動することを心がけて
まいりました。」

Then: a separate ordering finding showing the conversion, what's already fine, and the advisory
note. (A note on the older JIS layout is added when you paste a 履歴書.)

What it checks

1. Era-year consistency — 和暦 and 西暦 across every date field, including contradictions
   that only appear once you convert.
2. Ordering — 履歴書 oldest-first; 職務経歴書 held in one direction, 編年体 or 逆編年体,
   all the way through.
3. Format currency — the JIS 履歴書 format was discontinued in July 2020 and no single
   mandatory format replaced it. Whether your sheet still carries fields specific to it.
4. Keigo and register — in 自己PR and 志望動機 only: plain form mixed into polite form,
   exclamation marks, stacked honorifics, fixed phrases that read as over-humble.
5. Job-posting gaps — paste the posting and it lists which of its stated requirements appear
   nowhere in your 自己PR or 志望動機. A gap list, not a rewrite.

What it will not do

• It will not write your rirekisho. It reviews a draft you already have. If you have not
  written one, it hands you a checklist and says so plainly.
• It will not score you. No percentage, no grade, no "this version is stronger than that
  one". Severity labels say how clear-cut an inconsistency is, not how good your application is.
• It will not tell you 和暦 or 西暦 is correct. Both are used. The finding is whether your
  own draft is consistent with itself.
• It will not predict screening outcomes. Nothing here raises or estimates your chance of an
  interview, and any tool that claims to is guessing.

Who this is for

People writing a Japanese application themselves — including non-native writers and people
returning to the format after years away — who want the inconsistencies found before a stranger
finds them.

Limits, stated plainly

• Advisory only. It does not certify a draft or approve it for submission.
• Conventions vary by source, company, region and generation. Where your target employer
  specifies a format, follow that instead.
• The review comes back in English, with your Japanese quoted exactly as written, so you can see
  which characters are being discussed.
• It reads what you paste. Paste it as text — it cannot review a photo of a
  sheet it cannot read, and it does not open links.
• Your draft contains personal information. It is quoted only as far as needed to mark a spot.