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The importance of tailoring your resume

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Summary

  • In a competitive market, tailored vs generic resumes are obvious. Always submit a tailored resume.

  • Prefer quality over quantity: fewer strong applications beat a scattergun approach.

  • Tailor three areas:

    1. Personal / profile summary: say what you want next, and make that next step match the role/industry
    2. Language: mirror the job spec’s words and phrases (companies name the same skills differently)
    3. Experience bullets: surface achievements most relevant to this specific role at the top

  • Use AI to pull keywords and phrasing from the job ad, then make sure your resume includes them.

  • Tailoring takes time, but fewer roles done properly beats many untailored applications that go nowhere.