One resume for forty jobs is why you are not hearing back
Paste the posting. See the terms that requisition is indexed on, which ones you already carry, and which of your bullets is the right home for the rest.
Sending the same document to every opening is efficient for you and useless to the system reading it. Requisitions are indexed on the language of the posting, and two roles with the same title frequently share almost none of it. A resume that matches at 40% is competing against ones that match at 80%, and the difference is usually vocabulary rather than ability.
The work is genuinely small once you can see it: three or four bullets rewritten, one headline changed, two skills added that were always true and never written down. What takes the time is knowing which three bullets, which is the part this does for you.
In short
- Terms ranked core / preferred / nice-to-have
- Match rate recalculated as you edit
- Tailoring never claims experience you do not have
- Each application keeps its own version and score
How it works
- 01
Paste the job description
The whole thing, including the responsibilities nobody reads. Requirements and responsibilities are indexed differently and both matter.
- 02
See what it is indexed on
Terms are pulled out and ranked core, preferred or nice-to-have, then split into what your document already carries and what it is missing.
- 03
Tailor, or place them yourself
One click rewrites the most relevant bullets to carry the missing terms honestly, or you can see which bullet each term belongs in and write it yourself.
It will not put words in your mouth
Tailoring rewrites bullets you already have to use the posting's vocabulary where it genuinely applies. If a term describes something you have never done, it stays in the missing list with a note, rather than appearing in a bullet you cannot defend.
This is the line that matters. Keyword stuffing gets you into an interview you then fail, which is worse than not getting it. You have burned the company, the recruiter and a week.
One version per application
Every tailored resume is saved as its own document with its own score, its own keyword report and its own notes on where you sent it. When they call three weeks later, you can open the exact version they read.
That is the real argument for unlimited documents, and it is why the free plan's single resume is the limit people hit first.
Questions
Keyword targeting questions
How many keywords should I match?
Core terms are the ones that matter, so aim to carry all of them honestly. Preferred terms are worth adding where true. Nobody needs a perfect match, and a document stuffed to 100% reads as a document stuffed to 100%.
Where should keywords go?
Inside the bullet describing the work you used them on, plus the headline for the job title itself. A skills list at the bottom is the weakest possible placement, though it is better than nothing.
Does this work for non-English postings?
Yes. Extraction works on the language of the posting, and documents can be translated while keeping the structure intact.
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