How to tailor your resume to a job description in 15 minutes
A short routine to tailor one resume to one job posting: summary, top bullets, skills and a final keyword check.
Keep one master resume
Write one long master resume with every role and every result you can prove. Tailoring is then choosing and reordering, not rewriting from zero.
The 15-minute routine
- Minutes 1-3: read the posting, mark the job title and the five requirements that repeat or come first.
- Minutes 4-6: rewrite your 3-sentence summary around that title and those requirements.
- Minutes 7-11: in your latest two roles, move the bullets that prove those requirements to the top; use the posting's words where they are true.
- Minutes 12-13: trim the skills section to what the posting asks for, with exact tool names.
- Minutes 14-15: run the free keyword check and fix any requirement word you can honestly add.
Let the AI do the first draft
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Fix the gaps in two minutes
Open the AI resume builder, paste the same posting, and it rewrites your bullets around the missing words. Writing and checking are free; download the finished PDF for $9 once, or $19 a month for unlimited resumes.
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