Module 3 · Get the job: resume, applications, interviews Lesson 9 of 15
Tailor one resume to one job post
Paste the job description and your resume and ask for two lists: the words the posting repeats, and what it wants that your resume is missing and you can honestly claim. Then change only what is true. Keyword matching is what decides whether a human ever sees your application, so the posting's own words are not decoration.
The concept
Paste the job description and your resume, and ask for two lists: the words the posting repeats, and what it wants that your resume is missing and you can honestly claim. Then change only what is true. Keyword matching is what decides whether a human ever sees your application, so the posting's own words are not decoration — they are the first filter.
The mistake is stuffing the resume with every phrase whether it is true. That clears the software filter and fails the human one, and a stretched claim follows you into every interview. Add a phrase only when the work behind it exists.
Here is a job post: [paste]
And here is my resume: [paste]
Task:
1. List the 10 skills/phrases the post repeats, most repeated first.
2. List the 5 my resume SHOULD contain but does not.
3. For each of those 5, mark whether I can honestly claim it, based only
on what is in my resume. Do not assume anything.Worked example
Here is a job post [paste] and my resume [paste]. List the 10 phrases the post repeats, then the 5 my resume should contain but does not, and mark which of those I cannot honestly claim.
Your practice task
Tailor your resume to one real listing and count how many of the posting's repeated phrases it now contains.
Do this before moving on. Reading a solution teaches the shape of it; typing it teaches you.
Key takeaway
Paste the job description and your resume, and ask for two lists: the words the posting repeats, and what it wants that your resume is missing and you can honestly claim.
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