HR, recruiting & people ops
You read résumés for a living. Nobody reads yours that way.
Climbr pulls postings whose title contains one of eighteen HR words — recruiter, HR generalist, HRBP, people operations, employee relations, compensation, benefits, HRIS and the rest — and scores each one 0–100 against the résumé you actually have, with one sentence saying what decided it. A req that hard-requires a licence, a degree or work authorization you don’t have can’t come back a strong fit, however good the rest looks. Nothing gets invented, and nothing gets applied to on your behalf.
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The 18 title words the HR feed filters on
A posting reaches your HR feed if its title contains one of these.
And what the title filter misses
Climbr selects your feed by job title, so some real HR lanes fall outside it. The list above has HR Manager but no HR Director — a req spelled that way misses unless it’s written “Human Resources Director”. L&D, talent development and DEI have no title word yet. The shortest executive spellings — “Chief People Officer”, “CHRO”, “VP, People” — miss too, though “VP, People Operations” and “Chief Human Resources Officer” both land, because they contain a word from the list. Payroll titles aren’t in the HR feed; they match the Accounting list instead. And because compensation is a title word, a few workers’-comp claims roles arrive from the insurance side. We’d rather say it here than let you find it on page three.
Example · HR Generalist
Pro · with a résumé on file“Full-cycle recruiting and Workday administration line up, but the req leads with benefits administration and FMLA leave casework your résumé doesn’t show.”
Worth proving for this role
Terms this posting emphasizes that aren’t in your résumé yet. A term appears only if it literally appears in the posting, and it’s absent only if your résumé’s text doesn’t contain it or a known variant. It is a text comparison against a hand-built vocabulary — not a simulation of any employer’s ATS, and not a model’s opinion about you. Tailoring can surface the ones you’ve genuinely done; it will not add a certification or a system you haven’t touched.
Scored against what the req asks for, not just its title
The feed is chosen by title; the score is not. Climbr reads the posting itself — the seniority it asks for, the systems and certs it names, what it calls required — and returns 0–100 against your résumé with one sentence on the pivotal factor. 75 and up is a strong fit, 50–74 is worth a look, below 50 is a stretch. Anything the req hard-requires and you don’t have caps the ceiling, which is what makes a strong score mean something. A free account gets a first batch scored and the strongest few shown; scoring across your feed starts at Basic.
The terms this req names, checked literally — Pro
On a posting, Climbr lists the terms it asks for that your résumé doesn’t say yet. It’s a text comparison, not a judgment call: a term appears only if the posting literally uses it, and counts as covered only if your résumé says it or a known variant. No model gets to decide you’re covered when you aren’t. Needs a résumé on file.
Tailoring that surfaces the HR work you already did — Pro
Tailoring rewrites your bullets so the real-but-buried match gets read: the HRIS you administered, the open-enrollment cycle you ran, the ER cases you closed. It then re-scores and lists which of the posting’s terms your résumé now surfaces. When there’s nothing left to surface it says so, instead of padding. Every free account gets one tailoring run, ever.
Pay Floor — only the number they printed
You’ve built the bands. You know how few reqs print one. Set your floor and Climbr filters to postings whose stated pay clears it — stated only, never an estimate, never a market guess. A row whose pay period contradicts its magnitude gets dropped rather than published under either reading. Turning the floor on will shrink your feed. That’s the honest cost of not making numbers up.
Skill-gap analysis — Pro, with a free version anyone can run
When the same gap keeps costing you the score — a cert, an HRIS platform, comp benchmarking — Climbr names three to five, drawn from the actual reasons your matches came back short, and points to one concrete free or low-cost course for each. It omits the link rather than guess at one. No account needed for the standalone check: two runs a day signed out, ten signed in.
It never applies for you, and never invents
You’ve watched what a spray-and-pray pipeline does to a req from the inside. Climbr won’t put you in one. The browser extension shows your score on a posting, saves it to your tracker, and assists the forms you’re already filling — it does not press submit, and the résumé it hands you contains only what’s genuinely yours.
The rest of the HR job hunt
Start free, upgrade only when it earns it.
What HR roles pay, by city
Salary Explorer has pages for HR Manager and Recruiter across 30 cities, built only from pay employers actually disclosed. When a listing’s numbers and its stated pay period contradict each other, Climbr drops the row instead of publishing a figure it can’t stand behind.
Explore salaries — free →A roadmap to the HR title you’re actually after
Pick a target — HR Coordinator, Generalist, Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Specialist, HR Business Partner, Benefits Administrator, HR Manager, People Operations Specialist, or type your own — and get four to eight monthly milestones with the certs, projects and reading that close the distance from where your résumé is today. Real resources, or none: it omits a link rather than invent one.
Start free →Interview prep, and the comp conversation
A mock-interview coach that adapts to the role you’re targeting and scores each answer — plus a four-round salary roleplay where it plays the hiring manager: anchor, pushback, non-salary levers, close. Every point it argues has to come from your own résumé and the job description; it is explicitly barred from inventing market data or a competing offer. You’ve sat in that chair. This is the other one.
Start free →Watch the teams you want to join
HR openings are often filled from a company’s own careers page before they travel. Pick three companies on any tier and Climbr tells you when they post — once a day, in a digest, not the instant it happens. Pro raises that to a tracked board of up to ten, each with a live openings view.
Start free →HR & recruiting job search questions
Which HR titles actually land in the feed?
Climbr matches on the posting’s job title. The HR list is: Human Resources, Recruiter, Talent Acquisition, HR Manager, HR Generalist, HR Business Partner, HR Coordinator, People Operations, Benefits Administrator, HR Specialist, Employee Relations, Recruiting, Talent Sourcer, Compensation, Benefits Specialist, HRIS, People Partner, People Business Partner. A title containing none of those isn’t in the HR feed — including L&D, talent development and DEI, which have no match yet, and “HR Director”, which misses unless it’s spelled “Human Resources Director”. Payroll titles match the Accounting list instead.
Is federal HR covered?
Not deliberately. Climbr runs a rotating set of USAJOBS queries and none of them is HR — they’re cyber, IT, software, nursing, finance, government, education, social work and the Pathways student and recent-graduate paths. Federal HR Specialist openings aren’t something Climbr goes looking for. A few may still arrive through the general job feed; don’t treat this page as federal coverage.
What does a free account actually get?
The full HR job board — free accounts browse every in-field listing, not a trimmed sample. A first batch of your feed scored for real, with the strongest few shown. One résumé-tailoring run, ever. Three company watches. A daily email with the count of new HR jobs in your area — a count, not the listings. Plus the free tools at two runs a day signed out, ten signed in. Match scores across your feed start at Basic. Tailoring, the keyword check, skill-gap analysis and the roadmap are Pro. Interview prep and the salary coach are Elite.
Does tailoring add a certification I don’t have?
No. It rewrites bullets you already wrote so the experience behind them gets read, then re-scores and lists which of the posting’s terms your résumé now surfaces. It won’t write SHRM-CP or Workday onto a résumé that never earned or touched them. You’ve caught that in a screen; so will the panel.
I run an ATS. Why would mine miss my own résumé?
Same reason it misses good candidates every week: the req says “benefits administration” and your résumé says “ran open enrollment for 400 employees.” Both true, neither matched. On Pro, Climbr lists the posting’s own terms your résumé doesn’t say — a literal text comparison against a hand-built vocabulary. It is not a guess at what any particular ATS scored you, and Climbr doesn’t claim to reproduce one.
Does Climbr apply to HR jobs for me?
No, and it never will. There’s no auto-apply, no Easy-Apply blast, no queue that submits while you sleep. Climbr scores reqs against your real résumé, tailors honestly when you ask, and saves roles to your tracker — you read and submit every application yourself. You’ve seen from the requisition side what volume-submitted applications do to a pipeline; building the machine that produces them isn’t a product Climbr is willing to ship.
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