Resume guides

The advice behind every roast, written out. Each guide has before-and-after lines you can steal the pattern from.

• How to Tailor Your Resume to a Job Description

  How to tailor your resume to a job description without lying: read the posting like a screener, mirror its words, reorder your bullets and rewrite your summary.

• Resume Summary Examples (and How to Write Your Own)

  Resume summary examples for new grads, career changers, specialists and managers, with before and after rewrites and a simple formula to write your own today.

• How to Write Resume Bullet Points That Get Read

  How to write resume bullet points that show results, not duties: a simple formula, strong verbs, before and after examples, and how many bullets to use per job.

• ATS Resume Keywords: How Applicant Tracking Systems Really Work

  ATS resume keywords explained honestly: how applicant tracking systems work, which myths to ignore, how to find the right keywords and where to put them.

• Resume Action Verbs: A Grouped List and the Weak Verbs to Replace

  Resume action verbs grouped by type of work, plus the weak verbs to replace (helped, handled, responsible for) and how to use them without sounding fake.

• How to Quantify Resume Achievements (Even Without Numbers)

  How to quantify resume achievements: what to count, where to find your real numbers, how to estimate honestly, and what to write when you have no numbers.

• Common Resume Mistakes (and How to Fix Each One)

  The most common resume mistakes, roasted and fixed: duty lists, buzzword summaries, typos, bloated length, broken layouts, and sending one resume to every job.

• Roast My Resume: What a Resume Roast Is and Why It Works

  Roast my resume, but make it useful: what a resume roast is, what Resume Roast checks, sample roast lines with the fixes, and why blunt feedback actually helps.

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