Your skills were forged. Your resume should be too.
You spent years honing your skills. Don't let an AI score your resume in three seconds and bury it at the bottom of the pile. Applicant tracking systems screen for keywords before a human reads a word — Forged makes sure yours are there.
Generic resume tools weren't built for you.
They don't know what NCCER certifications are. They think "lockout/tagout" is a typo. You need a tool that speaks your language — built by someone who's been on the shop floor and in the classroom.
Beats the ATS
We match your resume to the exact keywords hiring managers and applicant tracking systems look for in trades and manufacturing.
Knows Your Certs
OSHA 10/30, NCCER, AWS D1.1, CompTIA, ASE, EPA 608 — we know your certifications and how to position them so employers notice.
Real Talk, Not Fluff
No generic AI nonsense. We rewrite your bullets with quantified achievements that prove you can do the job — because we've actually hired for these roles.
Forged for people who work with their hands — and the people who train them.
Three steps. Five minutes. Resume that works as hard as you do.
Paste your resume and the job posting
Drop in your current resume and the job you're going after. That's all we need.
AI analyzes the match
Our AI — built for trades and manufacturing — scores your resume, finds what's missing, and rewrites weak bullets with real details you can verify.
Download and go get the job
Get your full report: ATS score, rewritten bullets, cover letter opener, and exactly what to change. Download it and apply with confidence.
Here's what Forged actually produces.
An example report for a welding job application. Your report shows ATS score, missing keywords by category, and rewritten bullets with numbers.
ATS Score
Up from 52
Missing keywords — add these
Already matched
Bullet rewrite
Before
Welded parts for trucks.
After
Fabricated and MIG-welded 40+ structural components daily to AWS D1.1 spec, passing 100% of QA inspections across a 6-month production run.
Your report also includes a cover letter opener, quick wins, and a full downloadable PDF.
We come to you.
Your students can weld a perfect bead, wire a panel, or rebuild an engine — but most of them have never written a resume. We fix that. In person, at your school, working directly with your students.
Resume Workshops
Hands-on sessions where every student leaves with a polished, ATS-ready resume tailored to their trade. We don't lecture — we build resumes together.
Mock Interviews
Real interview practice with real feedback. We run mock interviews based on actual job postings in your students' fields — so they walk in ready, not nervous.
Career Readiness Classes
Full career prep curriculum — from resume writing and interview skills to workplace communication, professional conduct, and navigating the hiring process.
Michael Graham
Director of Adult Education & Secondary Career Center
Runs the programs at ANC that get high school students and adult learners into trades and manufacturing careers. Published author. Keynote speaker at ISTE and SREB. Knows what employers actually want to see on a resume — because he works with them every day.
Meghan Brown
16 Years in Education — Teacher, Leader, Coach
Classroom teacher. Instructional facilitator. Teacher leader and coach. Assistant Director of a secondary career center. Meghan has spent 16 years helping students find their path — from the classroom to the career center to the job site. She knows how to prepare students for what comes after graduation.
Book Forged for your school.
We work with high schools, community colleges, trade schools, adult ed programs, and career centers. Half-day workshops, full-day intensives, or embedded semester support — we build it around what your students need.
Bring Forged to Your CampusWe built this because the people we work with deserve better tools.
I'm Michael Graham. I run Adult Education and the Secondary Career Center at Arkansas Northeastern College. We get high school students and adult learners into real careers — welding, industrial maintenance, manufacturing. Our completers go straight to places like Nucor and Big River Steel.
Every day I watch people who are great at what they do get filtered out by software that doesn't speak their language. The ATS doesn't know what NCCER means. It doesn't care that you can run a MIG welder blindfolded. It just looks for keywords — and if yours aren't right, you're invisible.
The big resume tools weren't built for this world. They've never helped a welder rewrite a bullet that actually gets seen. They've never sat across from a hiring manager at a steel mill and asked what they look for. We have. So we built something that actually works for the people doing the work.
We're not an AI company. We're educators who put AI to work. The trades have every reason to be skeptical of it — so we built Forged to be human-first: trained by people who've been on the shop floor and in the classroom, pointed at one job, and never trusted to make things up. It speaks NCCER, OSHA, and AWS, gets you past the keyword filter, and keeps every line true to what you've actually done.