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Resume rewrite: clear in twenty seconds
Many applications and no replies; the resume may be the problem.
Prompt
One criterion: can a hiring manager tell in twenty seconds that you have done this job. Actions and results, never adjectives.
Task: Many applications and no replies; the resume may be the problem.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the target job description
- my current resume
- the experience I most want seen
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- name the three abilities they screen for
- rewrite each entry as context, action, result with numbers
- delete irrelevant experience even if it leaves gaps
- mark claims without evidence
[Process]
1. Read the job description and extract the three things they screen for
2. Rewrite each experience as context, my action, result
3. Delete unverifiable adjectives
4. Mirror their vocabulary without inventing
5. Name the weakest link
[Output]
Rewritten material, what was cut, what evidence is missing.
[Do not]
- Never invent experience or numbers
- No 'expert' or 'proficient'
- Never one resume for every role
- Do not present duties as achievementsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the target job description
- my current resume
- the experience I most want seen
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- name the three abilities they screen for
- rewrite each entry as context, action, result with numbers
- delete irrelevant experience even if it leaves gaps
- mark claims without evidence