Every strong PM bullet follows the same three-part shape: action verb + what you managed + quantifiable result. "Delivered a $4.2M migration across 14 engineers, 3 weeks ahead of an 11-month plan" carries verb (delivered), task (the migration, with scope), and result (early, with margin). "Responsible for managing projects and coordinating teams" carries none of the three and is the single most common line on rejected PM resumes.

Results don't have to be schedule wins. Budget variance, scope-change counts kept under control, meetings eliminated, escalations caught early — all count. The rule is that the bullet must end in something a stakeholder could have measured, not something you would describe about yourself.

PM postings are screened on literal methodology terms: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall (and increasingly "hybrid"). If you've run Scrum ceremonies, the word Scrum has to appear — "iterative delivery" won't match it. Same for tools: Jira, MS Project, Asana, Smartsheet and Confluence are matched by name, so list the ones you've genuinely used in a dedicated skills group AND show at least one inside an experience bullet where it did work ("rebuilt the Jira intake workflow"), because parsers read the skills list and humans only believe the bullets.

Don't keyword-stuff methodologies you can't defend. A screener who sees Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, SAFe, PRINCE2 and Lean on a 4-year resume will probe exactly there in the first interview. Two or three methodologies with evidence beats six without.

Scope numbers are how a screener sizes you in five seconds: budget managed, team headcount, project duration, stakeholder count, number of vendors. Every experience entry should carry at least two of these. A PM who "managed a project" is unranked; a PM who "ran a $900K budget across 8 people and 12 sites" is instantly placed on the seniority ladder — even when the outcome bullets are similar.

PMP and CAPM belong in three places: appended to your name in the header ("Marcus Delgado, PMP" — recruiters ctrl-F for it), in a dedicated Certifications section with issuer and year, and in the skills area if a posting lists it as required. Never bury it inside education. If you're mid-exam, "PMP (exam scheduled Q4 2026)" is honest and still matches the keyword; leaving it off entirely fails the filter at the many companies that hard-require it.