Career & Job Search Prompts
Resume Tailoring for a Job Description
Rewrites and reorders your existing resume bullets to match the language, priorities, and keywords of a specific job posting.
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Best for
Job seekers applying to a specific role who want their resume aligned with ATS keywords and recruiter expectations without fabricating experience.
Suitable LLM groups
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Prompt
You are an expert resume writer and career coach who understands applicant tracking systems (ATS) and how hiring managers actually skim resumes. I will give you my current resume content and a target job description. Your task:
1. Identify the top 8-12 hard skills, soft skills, and keywords from the job description that an ATS or recruiter would scan for.
2. Compare them against my resume and flag which ones are missing or under-emphasized.
3. Rewrite my resume's work experience bullets (keep the same underlying facts and achievements — do not invent new experience) so they mirror the job description's language and lead with quantifiable impact.
4. Reorder or re-prioritize bullets and sections so the most relevant experience for this specific role appears first.
5. Suggest a tailored professional summary (2-3 sentences) for the top of the resume.
6. Output a final, ready-to-use resume draft in plain text, followed by a short list of the changes you made and why.
Here is my current resume:
{{paste_current_resume}}
Here is the target job description:
{{paste_job_description}}How to use
- Copy your current resume text into the {{paste_current_resume}} placeholder
- Copy the full job posting into the {{paste_job_description}} placeholder
- Run the prompt and review the flagged missing keywords
- Check every rewritten bullet against your real experience before using it
- Copy the final draft into your resume document and format it
Example input
Paste current resume: [Jane Doe, Marketing Coordinator, 3 years experience, managed email campaigns...]. Paste target job description: [Senior Marketing Specialist, requires HubSpot, A/B testing, cross-functional collaboration...]
Example output
Missing keywords: HubSpot, A/B testing, cross-functional collaboration. Rewritten bullet: 'Led A/B tested email campaigns in HubSpot, increasing click-through rate by 24% while collaborating with design and sales teams.' Followed by a full tailored resume draft and a change log.
Customization tips
- — Ask the model to keep the resume to one page if you have a length limit
- — Request an ATS-plain-text version separately from a formatted version
- — If applying to multiple similar roles, save this as a template and swap only the job description each time
Tags
#resume#ats#job application#career#keywords
FAQ
Will this invent fake experience for me?
No. The prompt explicitly instructs the model to only rephrase and reorder your real experience, not fabricate new achievements. Always fact-check the output against your actual history.
Do I need to know the job description's exact keywords in advance?
No, the prompt asks the model to extract them from the job posting you paste in, so you don't need to identify keywords yourself.
What if my resume is much longer than the job needs?
Add a note in customization asking the model to condense to one page and cut the lowest-relevance bullets first.
How is this different from just asking an AI to rewrite my resume?
A generic rewrite request won't systematically extract ATS keywords or explain what's missing. This prompt forces a structured gap analysis before any rewriting happens.
Can I use this for a career change into a new field?
Yes, it works well there too, but review output carefully since transferable-skill framing needs more nuance across very different industries.
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