Is Cornelius Adeyemi-Blackwood a real person

No. He is invented for this page, and so are Deichvogel Manufacturing and Lindenwald Advisory. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's career.

Is it acceptable to mention tribunal cases

In the form used here, yes: a count and an outcome, with no detail about any individual. Fifty-five cases with two reaching tribunal and both settled is a statement about your casework, and it names nobody.

What is the most persuasive HR number

Turnover, if you can attach a plan to it. The example moves voluntary turnover from 19% to 12% over three years, which is the one figure a managing director will recognise without translation.

What did the checker score it

97 out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The document has 247 readable words and the volume rule's top band opens at 250, so it misses the band by three words.

Should the HR adviser role stay

Yes, at two lines. Early advisory casework is where employee relations judgement is built, and a reader wants to see that you have done the work as well as owned the function.

Which design is this rendered in

Imprint, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. It sets a senior page formally without a sidebar, which is the layout feature most likely to be lost in extraction.

Example · People

A human resources manager résumé example, and the casework on it

One complete HR manager résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13

— headcount, turnover, casework. the rest is policy.

The hr manager example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Imprint design: name, summary, the roles with their bullet lines, education and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Imprint design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

HR is the function most often written up as a list of policies it has owned. This example is written out in full so you can read what the evidence version looks like, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser and a scorer take from it. The candidate is invented. Cornelius Adeyemi-Blackwood does not exist, neither employer exists, and every figure was chosen to demonstrate a shape.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Cornelius Adeyemi-Blackwood
Human Resources Manager
Hamburg, Germany · [email protected] · +49 40 5550 0129

Summary
HR manager with eleven years in manufacturing and professional services. Works on casework, retention and the policies people can actually follow.

Experience

Human Resources Manager · Deichvogel Manufacturing, Hamburg · 2020 to present

Led HR for 640 employees across 3 sites with a team of 4.
Reduced voluntary turnover from 19% to 12% over 3 years with a retention plan the board signed off.
Ran 55 disciplinary and grievance cases with 2 reaching tribunal and both settled.
Rebuilt onboarding for 120 hires a year and raised 90-day retention from 81% to 94%.
Negotiated 2 works council agreements covering shift patterns for 380 employees.

HR Business Partner · Lindenwald Advisory, Bremen · 2016 to 2020

Partnered 3 departments totalling 210 staff on resourcing and performance.
Delivered a job architecture of 6 levels across 40 roles.
Cut time to hire from 62 days to 38 by rewriting the interview process.
Ran 24 manager training sessions on the new performance process, reaching 96% of line managers.

HR Adviser · Lindenwald Advisory, Bremen · 2014 to 2016

Advised managers on 90 employee relations cases a year.
Administered contracts and changes for 400 staff.
Cut contract errors by 35% after rebuilding the offer letter templates.

Education
MA Human Resource Management · Elbufer University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg · 2011 to 2014

Skills
employee relations, TVöD and works council consultation, restructuring, resourcing, performance management, job architecture, HR analytics, policy writing, coaching managers, Personio

Languages
German · native · English · C1

Headcount, turnover, casework

Six hundred and forty employees across three sites with a team of four. Voluntary turnover from 19% to 12% over three years. Fifty-five disciplinary and grievance cases, two of which reached tribunal and both settled. Those three lines place the candidate more precisely than a page of competencies, and each of them is a fact that can be discussed.

The onboarding line is the fourth: 120 hires a year, and 90-day retention from 81% to 94%. It shows the function joined up, because a retention problem fixed at day ninety is usually a hiring problem fixed at day one.

Casework can be written without naming anybody

A count and an outcome is all a reader needs, and all a candidate may safely give. The example never describes a case, an employee or a dispute, and it still tells a director exactly how much employee relations work this person has carried.

The works council line does the same for a German context: two agreements covering shift patterns for 380 employees. Consultation experience is the part of an HR manager's record a European employer reads first, and it is a countable thing rather than a claim about collaboration.

What the reading found

The door below hands the document to the résumé builder as plain text, through the same import an uploaded file goes through, and the review shows each field beside the line it came from. Here the completeness pass found four readable sections, 172 words of experience evidence and ten distinct skills.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Cornelius Adeyemi-Blackwood's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — The real import review, opened by this page's own door. It names Cornelius Adeyemi-Blackwood as invented before anything is saved, and it shows every field beside the line it came from.

No language model is involved. Every string a reader emits is checked in code to be a span of the document it read, and where the rules are unsure they ask a question with nothing applied until it is answered. On a document about other people's employment records, that is the only acceptable behaviour.

What the checker scored it

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — The same door on a phone. Nothing is withheld on the small screen: the notice, the reading and the accept button are all there.

Ninety-seven out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% + 100 × 30% + 92 × 40% = 97, explained in the article on the score. Twelve action-led lines, ten of them measurable, twelve lines of depth, and 247 readable words.

Two hundred and forty-seven is three words under the band that opens at 250, and this page is left exactly there on purpose. It is what the rule does: a hard edge, printed honestly, with the eight points named rather than hidden inside a colour. The ATS checker shows you the same count on your own document, which is the only way to know whether you are three words short or a role short.

What this example leaves off

No case details, no employee names, no settlement figures and no description of any dispute. A director reading an HR application is watching how much the candidate is willing to say, and restraint on the page is the first evidence of judgement in the role.

Lists of policies owned are left off too. Every HR manager has owned a handbook. What separates them is what changed while they owned it, which is what the turnover, retention and time to hire lines are for.

What to change for your own

Change the sector and the jurisdiction. Works councils, unions, TUPE, awards and at-will employment all change the vocabulary and none of them change the shape. Then put in your own headcount, turnover figures, case volumes and hiring numbers.

Keep the system you administer in the skills row. Keep one line about training managers, because that is the difference between an HR manager and an administrator. The guide on experience bullets covers the verb-first construction, the design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the project manager example, the electrician example and the warehouse example show it in other work.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Cornelius's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Imprint design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Cornelius Adeyemi-Blackwood a real person: No. He is invented for this page, and so are Deichvogel Manufacturing and Lindenwald Advisory. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's career.
Is it acceptable to mention tribunal cases: In the form used here, yes: a count and an outcome, with no detail about any individual. Fifty-five cases with two reaching tribunal and both settled is a statement about your casework, and it names nobody.
What is the most persuasive HR number: Turnover, if you can attach a plan to it. The example moves voluntary turnover from 19% to 12% over three years, which is the one figure a managing director will recognise without translation.
What did the checker score it: 97 out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The document has 247 readable words and the volume rule's top band opens at 250, so it misses the band by three words.
Should the HR adviser role stay: Yes, at two lines. Early advisory casework is where employee relations judgement is built, and a reader wants to see that you have done the work as well as owned the function.
Which design is this rendered in: Imprint, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. It sets a senior page formally without a sidebar, which is the layout feature most likely to be lost in extraction.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 20 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.