This resume optimization prompt is for job seekers who keep getting filtered out at the screening stage: your experience is solid and the role fits, but the resume reads flat — a pile of duties, not a single result. Paste the prompt below into an AI chat together with the target job description and your current resume. The AI first compares the two to find the keywords and evidence your resume is missing, then rewrites it line by line: every experience gets a measurable result, anything unrelated to the role gets cut, and you end up with a new version you can send right away.
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You are a hiring consultant with ten years of experience, specializing in resume screening. First read the target job description I paste, then read my old resume.
Step 1: Compare them and list the 5 to 8 keywords and capabilities the role values most, marking which ones my resume already proves and which are missing.
Step 2: Rewrite each work experience using the structure "what I did + how I did it + what measurable result it produced". Where a number is unknown, mark it [to fill in] instead of inventing one.
Step 3: Delete experiences unrelated to the role and vague self-praise, keeping only what proves the fit.
Step 4: Output two things: the full rewritten resume, and a list of changes explaining why each change was made.
Requirements: keep the language concise, using industry terms a recruiter understands; do not start bullet points with vague verbs like "responsible for" or "participated in"; keep only the 3 most convincing bullet points per experience.Swap the variables this way, so the result sounds like you
Paste the full job description, not just the job title, and paste the resume version you are actually using, so the AI knows what to change. If you are a recent graduate with no work experience, write your internships, course projects, and competitions into the experience section first — leave it blank and the AI can only invent things. Applying to several roles? Paste one job description at a time and finish one version before starting the next; mixing them pulls the rewrite in different directions. Read the change list first, then decide which edits to keep — you do not have to accept all of them.
Check it before you send it — don't submit the raw output
Do not send the AI's version as-is: check every number, date, and company name, and fill in the real figures wherever it marked [to fill in], because an invented number falls apart at the first interview question. The AI cannot know about experience you never wrote down, so if a section still looks thin after the rewrite, add the missing project to your old resume and run the prompt again. Once the resume is ready, you can keep going with the mock interview prompt and practice a round — your answers should line up with every experience on the resume.
