How it works

How ResumeGroomer tailors your résumé

Four steps, and a minute or two each time: upload your résumé, paste the posting, choose the keywords and how far to go, then read every change before you download.

The steps

From posting to tailored résumé

  1. Upload your résumé

    A Word (.docx) file, up to 16 MB, as you already have it. It stays in your library, so the next posting starts from it — and the file you upload is never edited.

  2. Paste the job posting

    Straight off the careers page. ResumeGroomer reads it and pulls out the skills and phrases it asks for.

  3. Choose the keywords, and how far to go

    Untick any keyword you don’t want used — it never goes in. Then pick a mode: Safe, Aggressive or Transform.

  4. Read every change, then download

    Each edited line sits beside the one you wrote, and a keyword match score shows what is covered. Download a DOCX in your own layout, or a PDF — as often as you like.

Step three, in detail

Three ways to tailor your résumé

All three rewrite your résumé against the job posting — its keywords and skills. They differ in how far they may go, from rewording a few bullets to repositioning you for a new role.

Safelight touch

Refine what you wrote

  • Rewords up to 5 bullets per job, working in 1–2 of the posting’s keywords each
  • Adds no new bullets
  • Leaves your other bullets as you wrote them

Choose it when your résumé already fits the job and just needs to speak the posting’s language.

Aggressivedefault

Rewrite and extend

  • Rewords up to 8 bullets per job, 2–3 keywords each
  • Adds new bullets — up to 3 per job, 12 in all — for keywords your résumé doesn’t cover yet
  • Keywords you leave selected go in even where your experience doesn’t mention them
  • Keeps you in the role you have — it tailors, it doesn’t reposition

Choose it when you fit the job but your résumé undersells it, or it needs the posting’s exact words to get past an ATS.

Transformwhole résumé

Reposition for a new role

  • Still grooms against the job posting like Aggressive — its keywords and skills decide what goes in, new bullets included
  • Uses the role you name for direction: the title under your name (if your résumé has one — none is added) and the start of your summary
  • Rewrites every bullet, keeping their number and order
  • Swaps your tech stack for the new role’s — say Java for Python — in bullets, projects and skills
  • Your past job titles stay as they were, unless you tick a job and check its new title yourself
  • A role close to your current one gets a normal groom instead

Choose it when you are changing direction — QA to DevOps, Java to Python — and need your past work read as the new role.

Whichever you pick

What every mode does, and what none of them touch

Every mode also

  • Adds the posting’s technical skills you don’t list yet to your Skills section
  • Works its keywords into your summary — and writes a short one if you have none
  • Orders the bullets in each job by relevance and drops near-duplicates

No mode changes

  • Your employers and dates — or a past job title, unless you change it yourself in Transform
  • Your education and contact details
  • Your numbers — a rewritten bullet that loses one is put back
Several applications

One résumé, several postings at once

Applying to more than one job? Start a batch: one résumé, several postings. Each posting is groomed separately against its own job, and each result opens, reads and downloads on its own. A batch takes one credit per posting, up front when it starts — and any posting that fails gets its credit back.

Your files

What happens to your résumé

The file you upload is never edited; every groom writes into a copy. Your files are encrypted in transit and at rest, and you can delete a résumé — or your whole account — at any time, and the files go with it. A groom you have already run can be opened and downloaded again at no cost.

Want the method behind it? Read how to tailor a résumé to a job description.

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