Résumé tailoring questions, answered

An AI résumé tailoring tool. You bring the résumé you already have and a job posting; it rewrites the lines that already cover what the posting asks for into the posting’s own words and gives the résumé back as a DOCX in your layout. It is not a résumé builder — it does not start you over in a template — and it is not just a scanner that hands you a score.

You give it two things — your résumé and the job posting. It pulls the skills and phrases the posting actually asks for, finds the lines in your résumé that already cover them, and rewrites those lines in the posting’s language. You choose how far it goes, and every change is shown next to your original before you download anything.

How it works, step by step →

Usually a minute or two from the moment you start it. The next posting takes another minute or two — which is the point: a tailored résumé for each application stops being an evening’s work.

Yes. Start a batch and add the postings; each one is groomed separately against its own job, and each result opens and downloads on its own. A batch takes one credit per posting, up front when it starts.

No. It works on the one you already have — that is the whole idea. Upload it as a Word (.docx) file and it keeps your layout.

No, and that is the part it is built around. Employers, dates and qualifications are copied through untouched, and so are your job titles unless you change one yourself. A number you never wrote is never added. If a phrase from the posting has nowhere honest to go, it tells you it could not place it rather than wedging it in.

It adds the posting’s technical skills you don’t list yet to your Skills section, in every mode, and in Aggressive and Transform the keywords you leave selected are worked in even where your experience doesn’t mention them. That is why you choose the keywords before it runs: untick anything you could not talk about in an interview and it never goes in. Then read the changes before you download.

How far it goes. Safe rewords up to five bullets per job and adds none. Aggressive rewords up to eight and adds new bullets for keywords your résumé does not cover yet. Transform still grooms against the posting but repositions the whole résumé toward a role you name — your headline, summary, every bullet and your tech stack.

The three modes side by side →

Not unless you ask. No mode changes your employers or dates, or your education and contact details. Transform rewrites the title under your name toward the role you are aiming for, if your résumé has one; it never adds a title line that is not there. It changes the title of a job you held only if you tick that job and check the new title yourself, and never to a more senior one; every other title stays as it was.

No tool can promise that — every employer sets up its own applicant tracking system and its own filters. What ResumeGroomer does is put the skills and phrases the posting asks for into your résumé in the posting’s own words, and show you a keyword match score so you can see what is covered before you apply.

A Word (.docx) file, up to 16 MB — that is the only format that works at the moment. If your résumé is a PDF, save it as .docx first. The file you upload is never edited.

A DOCX, in your original layout — same fonts, same spacing, nothing to tidy up. A PDF is available too. Grooming never edits the file you uploaded; the original stays exactly as it was.

No. The groomed résumé comes back in your own layout — same fonts, same spacing, same sections. If you would rather, you can switch it to one of six clean designs instead.

Your files are encrypted in transit and at rest, and they are never shared, sold, or used to train a model. You can delete a résumé — or your whole account — at any time, and the files go with it.

You buy credits in packs and spend one per groom, so you only ever pay for the runs you actually make — there is no subscription and nothing recurring. Card payments are handled by Stripe.

Pricing and credit packs →

Yes — a new account gets 5 free grooms when it signs up, with no card. After that it is one credit a groom.

No. Credits have no expiry date — use them whenever you are applying.

Its credit comes back on its own. A credit is taken when a groom starts and kept only once your tailored résumé is ready; if the groom fails or times out, the credit returns to your balance.

Downloading — DOCX or PDF, as often as you like — costs nothing, and neither does switching designs or opening an earlier version. Running a new groom, including grooming the same posting again, uses a credit.

Yes. On the Changes tab, point at a bullet or your summary and click the wand that appears, or click the line and choose Rewrite with AI. Say what to change — shorter, stronger, fix the grammar, or your own words — and you see the line before and after. Accepting saves it as a new version; the one you had stays in the history. It costs nothing, within a fair daily limit.

Credits are not refundable once bought, spent or not — so buy the pack that fits what you plan to do. A credit is taken when a groom starts, one for each job, so a batch of three takes three up front. If a job fails, its credit goes straight back to your balance: start with ten, groom, and you have nine; if that groom fails you are back to ten. You only ever pay for a file you actually got.