How to Tailor Your Resume to a Job Description (With Examples)
Generic resumes lose to tailored ones every time. Here's a repeatable 15-minute process for tailoring — with real before-and-after bullet examples.
Step 1 — Extract the signal
Copy the full job description into a doc. Highlight every hard skill, tool, methodology, and outcome-language phrase.
Step 2 — Rewrite your Summary
Your Summary is the first thing both ATS and humans read. Rewrite it in 3 lines using the top 4–5 phrases you extracted.
Step 3 — Bullet-level edits
Before: 'Worked on analytics dashboards for the product team.'
After: 'Owned product analytics infrastructure powering 4 squads; shipped 12 self-serve Looker dashboards that cut ad-hoc requests 63%.'