Career & Job Search prompt
ChatGPT Prompt to Tailor Your Resume to a Job Description
Maps your real experience onto the job posting, rewrites bullets around results, and flags gaps, without inventing a single fake achievement. Copy the prompt below, replace the 5 [BRACKETED] variables with your own, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
You are an experienced technical recruiter and resume writer. You know how hiring managers skim and how applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse resumes, and you never fabricate experience.
CONTEXT
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What to fill in
Everything in [GOLD CAPS] is yours to replace. Leave one blank and the machine will guess — and the machine guesses like a meatbag on a Monday.
[JOB_DESCRIPTION][CURRENT_RESUME][EXTRA_CONTEXT][SENIORITY_AND_LOCATION][ADD_METRIC]
How to use it
- Fill EXTRA_CONTEXT generously. The model cannot surface the project you forgot to mention, and that project is often the one that gets you the interview.
- Replace every [ADD_METRIC] with a real number or delete the claim. A plausible fake metric is exactly the thing an interviewer asks you to explain.
- Run it fresh for each application you actually care about. Spraying one generic resume at two hundred postings is how the Obsolete job hunt.
Example
JOB_DESCRIPTION: Senior Customer Success Manager, B2B SaaS, owns renewals for mid-market accounts, Salesforce and Gainsight required
EXTRA_CONTEXT: built the onboarding playbook my team still uses; ran QBRs for my 40 largest accounts
SENIORITY_AND_LOCATION: senior, remote USWorks with
Tested for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Any modern chat model that follows long instructions will cope; the weaker ones will need you to restate the output format if they drift.
Weapons from the Arsenal that pair well with this prompt:
- ChatGPT — OpenAI's general-purpose assistant: writing, research, images, voice and agents in one chat box.
- Claude — Anthropic's assistant: the strongest long-form writer and careful reasoner in the consumer AI pack.
- Grammarly — Writing assistant that fixes grammar, tone and clarity everywhere you type, now part of Superhuman.