Rebuild. Rewrite. Rise.
Your career transformation starts here. We diagnose what's holding you back, position you for the roles you want, and coach you through targeted mock interviews, so you walk in ready for the offer you deserve.
Career Evaluation ♦ Resume Writing ♦ LinkedIn Optimization ♦ Interview Coaching ♦ Mock Interviews ♦ ISB Application
The Reforge Studio
End-to-end career guidance for ambitious professionals: career evaluation and gap diagnosis, resume and cover letter writing, LinkedIn optimization, and interview coaching
Resume Optimization
Built to clear the ATS and earn a recruiter's read: every bullet drawn from your evaluation and mapped to your target role
- Career evaluation and gap diagnosis
- Role-mapped content and positioning
- Quantified results and impact-led phrasing
- ATS keyword optimization and clean formatting
Cover Letter Writing
Built to answer what your resume can't: why you, and why now. Written in your own voice, mapped to your target role
- Shaped around the role's requirements
- Tone matched to your target company
- Concise, one-page format
- Reusable framework for future roles
LinkedIn Optimization
Built to surface where recruiters search: your profile tuned to the keywords for your target roles, so the right recruiters find you
- Keyword-rich headline
- Story-led About section
- Results-focused experience entries
- Complete, searchable skills section
Interview Coaching
Built to help you prove it under pressure: the structure, the stories, and the targeted mock interviews
- A tailored answer playbook
- Sharpened impact stories
- Two targeted mock interviews (60 mins each)
- Clear feedback on what to emphasize and how to say it
The Reforge Process
A structured five-step process: we understand your story, map your industry, design your positioning, craft every line, then refine and deliver
Career Evaluation
Your 1:1 session to map your background, goals, and gaps
We take stock of where you've been and what you've achieved, then define the roles, industries, and companies worth aiming for. Most of all, we surface what's working, what's missing, and what's holding you back, the things hardest to see clearly on your own.
Role and Industry Alignment
Map your profile to real hiring expectations
We analyze live job descriptions and hiring patterns across your target roles, industries, and companies to decode what recruiters screen for: the skills, signals, keywords, and proof points that matter. Then we benchmark your profile against those expectations, so you know exactly where you stand and what to close.
Gap Diagnosis and Strategic Positioning
Design the blueprint before writing a single line of your resume
We identify the skill gaps, proof gaps, and story gaps between your current profile and your target roles. Then we architect a positioning blueprint to close them: what to emphasize, what to de-emphasize, how to sequence your experience, and where to anchor impact.
Precision Crafting
Sharpened line by line, for impact and relevance
We rewrite your resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letter to the blueprint. Every bullet leads with a result, every number has context, and every section earns its place. No templates. No filler. Just precise, role-targeted positioning built to get you shortlisted.
Refine, Validate and Deliver
Final ATS checks, a polished edit, and interview coaching for the Elite plan
You review. We refine. Your final resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile go through ATS compatibility, clean formatting, and a thorough editorial pass. For the Elite plan, we close with structured interview coaching and two 1:1 mock interviews that prepare you for the room.
The Reforge Stories
The applicants who trusted us with their story. In their own voice.
"I had no idea how to present my founder journey to recruiters. Reforge Me was warm but rigorous, and they reframed my experience as clear leadership that fit the roles I wanted. I walked into interviews with a confidence I hadn't had before."
"Working with Reforge Me was a great experience, and the strategy behind it is what stuck with me. They reworked my resume to show the scope of what I led and the decisions I made, not just what I delivered. Knowing what to emphasize, and what to leave out, made all the difference."
"Reforge Me wasn't just resume editing. It was a 1:1 rethink of my entire career. Sudhanshu spent hours understanding my work and rewrote my story around real impact, not tasks. I started getting calls for the roles I wanted, and landed my next one."
"I knew I had the leadership experience; I just couldn't get it onto the page. Reforge Me drew out the judgment, scope, and outcomes in my work and shaped it around the roles I wanted. Recruiters started responding in a way they never had before."
"I worked with Sudhanshu while I was switching into product leadership. The way he reshaped my story stood out, tight, relevant, and built around how hiring panels think. By the end, I was going into interviews with a structure I'd never had before."
"What I appreciated most about Sudhanshu was how honest and no-fluff he was. He reframed my past career with real empathy but made it fit the new role I was going for. For the first time, my story made sense to hiring managers."
The Reforge Plans
Your transformation, your pace. Three ways to work with us.
From current resume to application-ready
You're just starting out. Your resume shouldn't read like it.
- Career Evaluation (90 mins)
- Core Resume Rewrite
- Cover Letter Rewrite
- Role-Aligned Keywords
- Impact Framing and Metrics
- Resume Structure and Design Polish
- Review Iterations x 1
- 72-Hour Turnaround
- LinkedIn Headline + Summary Refresh
- Interview Prep (Story and Signal)
- Two Mock Interviews (60 mins each)
From current profile to shortlist-ready
You've outgrown your role. The next one should catch up.
- Career Evaluation (90 mins)
- Core Resume Rewrite
- Cover Letter Rewrite
- Role-Aligned Keywords
- Impact Framing and Metrics
- Resume Structure and Design Polish
- Review Iterations x 2
- 48-Hour Priority Turnaround
- LinkedIn Headline + Summary Refresh
- Interview Prep (Story and Signal)
- Two Mock Interviews (60 mins each)
From current career to offer-ready
This isn't your next job. It's the move that defines your next decade.
- Career Evaluation (90 mins)
- Core Resume Rewrite
- Cover Letter Rewrite
- Role-Aligned Keywords
- Impact Framing and Metrics
- Resume Structure and Design Polish
- Review Iterations x 3
- 24-Hour Priority Turnaround
- LinkedIn Headline + Summary Refresh
- Interview Prep (Story and Signal)
- Two Mock Interviews (60 mins each)
Meet Your Mentor
Sudhanshu started Reforge Me on a simple idea: most people are far stronger than they look on paper.
An IIT graduate and ISB alum, he's worked across analytics, finance, and consumer tech, sitting alongside hiring managers, founders, and leadership teams on the other side of the table.
That dual vantage point shapes everything: he knows what recruiters look for, and he understands how hard it can be for candidates to show it.
It's that perspective he brings to every engagement. He reads your profile the way a recruiter would, then helps you shape your story so it lands with the people who matter.
If you're ready for your next move, start with a career evaluation.
Reforge Me FAQs
Reforge Me is a career transformation studio for ambitious students and professionals whose work is sharper than their resume reads.
We're not a resume factory. We diagnose where your story leaks, sharpen your positioning for the roles you're actually chasing, and rebuild every surface a recruiter sees, from your resume and cover letter to your LinkedIn and interview answers. We don't stop until the version on paper matches the candidate you already are.
You bring the experience. We build the case for it.
Sudhanshu Shekhar built Reforge Me after a decade of experience across analytics, finance, and consumer tech. An IIT engineer with an MBA from ISB, he made each transition while also building and scaling products inside high-growth teams. He's seen the other side of the table too, working with founders and hiring managers as they decided who got the call.
That vantage point made the pattern impossible to miss. Candidates were optimizing for resumes. Hiring managers were scanning for signals of impact, judgment, and fit. The space between the two was where strong careers quietly stalled.
Reforge Me is his response. Every engagement runs one-on-one, built on the same diagnostic rigor he used to land his own transitions. The approach is direct, unsentimental, and built around one belief. The candidate on paper should read exactly like the candidate in the room.
Most people are far stronger than they look on paper.
That's the problem Reforge Me exists to solve. Other career services reformat the resume. We work upstream, diagnosing why qualified candidates get filtered out before the conversation even starts.
Hiring managers aren't reading for skills. They're scanning for signals of impact, judgment, and fit. We translate your work into the language they read for, so the candidate on paper finally matches the one in the room.
Three kinds of people, mostly.
1. The student stepping into their first serious role, refusing to look like a beginner on paper.
2. The mid-career professional whose work has outpaced their title.
3. The senior leader making the move that defines their next decade.
Most resume services start with a template. We start with a conversation.
Before we write a word, we diagnose. What roles are you actually chasing? Where is your story leaking signals of impact and judgment?
Only then do we write. We translate your real work into the language hiring managers screen for, and rebuild every surface they evaluate, from your resume and cover letter to your LinkedIn and interview answers.
No templates. No keyword stuffing. No version that could belong to anyone else.
Not even close. The resume is one of four surfaces a recruiter sees. We rebuild all four.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. We diagnose where your story is leaking, which roles you're chasing, and where the gap between the two is costing you. Then we rewrite your resume, cover letter, LinkedIn, and interview answers, with each one calibrated to the others.
The candidate who walks out of Reforge Me isn't just better written. They walk into every next room consistently sharp.
Yes. The interview is where the candidate on paper finally meets the candidate in the room. We treat it like the most consequential surface of all.
In the Elite plan, you get a full interview workup. We build the answer playbook for the role you're chasing, shape the stories that signal impact, judgment, and fit, and run two 60-mins mocks that put every answer under pressure before the real one does.
A great resume gets you the call. The interview is where you turn it into the offer.
We follow a structured five-step career guidance process:
- Career Evaluation: your 1:1 session to map your background, goals, and gaps
- Role and Industry Alignment: benchmarking your profile against real hiring expectations
- Gap Diagnosis and Strategic Positioning: identifying skill, story, and proof gaps
- Precision Crafting: rewriting your resume, LinkedIn, and cover letter with intent
- Refine, Validate and Deliver: ATS checks, final polish, and interview coaching for the Elite plan
Each step is designed to take you from profile gaps to offer-ready confidence.
Turnaround depends on your plan. The Elite plan includes 24-hour priority turnaround. For Starter and Pro plans, you can expect delivery within 48 to 72 hours after the first evaluation call.
Absolutely. You can start with the Career Evaluation Plan and upgrade anytime to Starter, Pro, or Elite plans as your needs evolve. We'll seamlessly expand the scope and deliverables, and you only pay the incremental difference.
100%. Your career details, personal information, and all documents are treated with strict confidentiality. We never share your data with third parties.
Full refund if you cancel within 48 hours of payment and before your evaluation call has taken place. Once the evaluation call has happened, or once 48 hours have passed since payment, refunds are not issued. The diagnostic call is free and happens before payment, so it doesn't affect refund eligibility. Full details in our Terms of Service.
Start Your Reforge
Your next role starts with knowing exactly what's holding you back. Let's find it, rebuild your story around it, and coach you until you're hired.
Free 20-mins diagnostic call with any plan. Talk first, decide later.