Guides

Practical guides on applicant tracking systems, behavioral interviews, offer negotiation, and learning languages from video, written by the developer building the tools.

• Build a Resume That Applicant Tracking Systems Can Actually Read

  What ATS software does with your PDF before a human sees it, the formatting that breaks parsing, and how Ravina's 13-point check catches it.

• Practise Behavioral Interviews With the STAR Method

  What interviewers are scoring when they ask "tell me about a time…", how to structure an answer, and how Ravina's mock interview scores each part.

• Learn a Language From Video Subtitles, Not Flashcard Drills

  Why comprehensible input from real media works, how to use subtitles without becoming dependent on them, and how Nativra turns a video into a lesson.

• Turn Subtitle Files Into Anki Decks

  Why sentence cards beat word cards, what a good subtitle-derived card contains, and how Nativra exports a ready-to-import TSV.

• Why Your Resume Disappears Inside an Applicant Tracking System

  The three different things people mean by "rejected by the ATS", which ones are formatting problems, and what to change.

• STAR Method Examples for the Questions You Will Actually Get

  Full worked answers for conflict, failure, ambiguity, and influence questions, with the weak version and the fixed version side by side.

• Negotiating a Tech Offer: Benchmarks, Levers, and Scripts

  Where to find credible compensation data, how to model total compensation across offers, and the negotiation moves that actually work.

• What a Resume Rewrite or a Subtitle Lookup Really Costs in Tokens

  How token pricing works, how to estimate the cost of a typical task, and why bring-your-own-key tools can be cheaper than a subscription.

• From a YouTube Video to an Anki Deck in One Sitting

  How YouTube captions work, how to pick videos worth mining, and the exact steps to export sentence cards with timestamps.

• The Difference Between B2 and C1, and How to Cross It

  What the CEFR descriptors actually say about B2 and C1, why the plateau happens, and a media-based plan for building C1 range.

• What Duolingo Is Good For, Where It Stops, and What to Do Next

  A fair look at gamified drill apps: the habit they build, the ceiling they hit, and how to move to native input without losing the streak.

• Training Your Ear With Video and Synchronized Transcripts

  Why listening lags reading, what the research on captions says, and a two-pass method that turns subtitled video into listening practice.