Tailor to the job
A resume aimed at one specific posting beats a generic one every time. Mirror the language the employer used and lead with what they asked for.
Mirror the posting’s language
Use the same terms the job description uses for skills and tools, provided they honestly apply to you. This helps both keyword-matching software and the human comparing you against the requirements.
Do
- Reuse the exact skill and technology names from the posting where they fit your experience.
- Bring the most job-relevant experience to the top.
- Address the core requirements explicitly somewhere on the page.
Avoid
- Don't keyword-stuff or claim tools you haven't used.
- Don't send the same untailored resume to every role.
Built web services in a modern backend stack.
Built REST APIs in Node.js and PostgreSQL — the exact stack named in the posting.
Matches the employer’s wording without fabricating anything.
How our AI applies this
- Strategy coachgives prioritized, whole-resume recommendations
- ATS checkscores how well your resume parses and how closely it matches the posting
- Bullet writerrewrites your experience to match the job, staying 100% factual
- Summary writerdrafts a tailored professional summary
- Skills matcherselects the skills that best match the posting
Curate down to your strongest few bullets per application
Record everything you did — then send only the part that answers the posting in front of you. When tailoring a resume to one job, rank every bullet you have against that job's requirements, keep the handful that answer it, and leave the rest in your history for the applications where they land better.
Do
- Keep your full history recorded; curate at application time, not while writing it down.
- Rank bullets by the requirement each one proves, and keep the top few per role.
- Merge two bullets that describe the same body of work into one stronger line.
- When two bullets prove the same requirement, keep the better one and spend the space on a requirement nothing else covers.
- Lead each role with the bullet most relevant to the posting you are answering.
Avoid
- Don't send every bullet you have just because you wrote it down.
- Don't delete a bullet from your history because it missed one application — the next posting may ask for exactly that.
- Don't pad a role to match the length of the others.
- Don't merge unrelated achievements — a combined bullet must describe one real effort.
Nine bullets under one role, covering standups, documentation, onboarding, and three unrelated features.
Four bullets under that role, each proving a different requirement named in the posting.
Same role, curated to what this employer asked about. The other five stay on file.
How our AI applies this
- Bullet writerrewrites your experience to match the job, staying 100% factual