Top 100 Undergraduate Majors 2026
We ranked the top undergraduate majors using 1.17 million real resumes. The headline isn't the ranking. It's that the share of Computer Science majors nearly tripled, then stopped cold.
We grade resumes for a living — over 13 million since 2014. Here’s what the data says about work, hiring, and getting the job.
Twin Bear Markets: Why Laid-Off Coders Are Quietly Looking at Crypto
Tech's job market and crypto's price chart are both in the dirt at the same time. That coincidence is doing something interesting to where talent goes.
What Happened When 100 People Rewrote Their Resumes With AI
Not all AI is created equal. Here's what we learned from grading millions of resumes.
Why Your 2025 Resume Won't Cut It in 2026
The hiring stack changed. Your resume probably didn't.
The 2026 Job Market: What the Data Actually Shows
We analyzed real job postings. The results contradict almost everything you've heard.
The AI Revolution in Career Tech: Where We've Been, Where We're Going
Where career tech has been, and where AI is taking it.
Crafting a Professional Headline
Replace the objective with a clear professional headline.
Responsibilities vs. Achievements
Move from listing responsibilities to showcasing achievements.
The Red Balloon Holiday Special
A holiday follow-up to the Red Balloon Experiment on networking your job search.
Success Hack #7: Make Work the Epicenter of Your Social Life
A contrarian case that work-life balance is dead, so you should make work the center of your social life to gain influence and friends.
Top 100 College Majors, Ranked (2019, Now Updated for 2026)
Our original ranking of the top 100 college majors by popularity and median salary. See how it has changed: we re-ran the whole analysis on 1.17 million resumes for 2026.
Success Hack #6: Get a Free Lunch
Negotiate the price of your lunch every day and you will quietly turn into a far better salesperson within a year.
Success Hack #5: First is Worst, Second is Best
Improve every part of your job hunt by shifting your writing from the first person to the second person, your reader.
Resume Roast: Business/Technology Masters Internship
A resume roast for a master's-level internship candidate straddling the technology and business divide.
Success Hack #4: The Two Minute Rule
If a task takes under two minutes, do it now. We grade the popular Two Minute Rule against our framework for quality success hacks.
MIT Professor Edward B. Roberts Interview
MIT's Edward B. Roberts on the traits that make a founder worth investing in: intelligence, motivation, and a decade-long view of trust.
Success Hack #3: Replacing "I Don't Know" with "I'll Find Out"
Swap three words at work to turn yourself from an informational dead end into your team's most valuable player.
Resume Roast: Randall Gilliland
How we turned a five-page nonprofit and corporate management resume into a two-page piece of resume art.
Success Hack #2: Busy Work at Bedtime
Why matching busy work to your least productive hours can win you both more sleep and more output.
A Framework for Success Hacking
Introducing the CDE framework for evaluating whether a success hack is worth your time.
In-Depth Video Demo of Using Word2Vec for Your Job Hunt
A walkthrough of using Word2Vec to align your resume with a job description.
How to Escape a Black Hole
Why submitting your resume online so often feels like throwing it into a black hole, and how RezScore Jobs solves the job-search black hole.
A Crash Course in Natural Language Processing to Beat the ATS
How Applicant Tracking Systems really parse your resume, and the data-science principles you can use to get past them.
The Red Balloon Experiment
What a DARPA balloon-hunt contest teaches about networking your job search.
Resume Makeover: Aditya Pratap
How RezScore experts lifted a talented software intern's resume out of the average C range.
Salary Forth
How RezScore built the first crowdsourced salary estimator, and what 25,000 user salary reports revealed about pay, geography, grades, and education.
It's a Psychographic Freakout
RezScore's four-dimensional personality model for resumes, a more workplace-relevant alternative to Myers-Briggs.