Tailor your resume to any job description, in about a minute
Paste the posting. CVJet finds the keywords it is built on, matches them to what you have actually done, and rewrites your headline, summary and strongest bullets in the posting's own words. You approve every change.
A link is enough: we open the posting and read it for you. Pasting the description works too. Your resume goes in right here next.
Experience · one bullet
Handled closing the books for three entities and reconciled about 40 accounts each month.
Led month-end close for 3 entities in NetSuite, completing 40+ account reconciliations each month.
Headline
Finance professional
Senior Accountant
Skills, reordered
Same facts, the posting's words. Nothing invented.
How it works
From job posting to tailored resume, in four steps
Recruiters search their applicants for the terms in their own posting. Tailoring means your resume answers that search, with experience you already have.
Step 1
We read the posting
Senior Accountant
Harborview Foods · Tacoma, WA
Lead month-end close in NetSuite and deliver statements by day five. Prepare account reconciliations, explain variances to budget, and apply US GAAP. Support the external audit and SOX controls.
Paste the text or a link to the posting.
Step 2
Pull out what it asks for
Must-have · 5
Nice-to-have · 2
Step 3
Find it in your experience
Step 4
Rewrite only what matters
Headline mirrors the job title
Summary leads with close and GAAP
4 bullets in the posting's terms
Skills reordered, 2 surfaced
This is not keyword stuffing. A term goes into your resume only where your own experience already proves it, and what the job asks for that you do not have is left out.
What the tailor does
Three jobs you would otherwise do by hand
Tailoring by hand means reading the posting twice, hunting through your own resume, and rewriting line by line. Here is each part, done for you.
01 / 03Reads the posting
Finds the keywords the job is built on
Most postings bury five or six real requirements in a page of boilerplate. CVJet pulls them out, separates the must-haves from the nice-to-haves, and keeps the posting's exact wording, because that is what a recruiter types into the search box.
- •Must-haves and nice-to-haves, told apart
- •Exact terms, not loose synonyms
- •The job title itself, for your headline
Senior Accountant
Harborview Foods · Tacoma, WA
What you will do
- Lead month-end close in NetSuite and deliver statements by business day five
- Prepare and review balance sheet account reconciliations
- Book accruals and explain variances to budget
- Support the annual external audit and maintain SOX controls
What we are looking for
- 5+ years of accounting experience
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP
Job title
Mirrored in your headline
Must-have
5 terms the role is built on
Nice-to-have
2 terms that break ties
Exact wording kept
“NetSuite”, not “ERP software”. Recruiters search the term the posting uses.
02 / 03Matches your experience
Connects each keyword to something you have done
A keyword only helps when your experience backs it up. For every requirement, CVJet looks through your roles, bullets and skills and shows where the proof is: already clear, there under different wording, buried in an older role, or not there at all.
- •Proof found in your own resume, role by role
- •Different wording and buried lines flagged
- •Missing requirements left out, never written in
→ Kept, moved to first skill
→ Reworded to the posting's term
→ Surfaced in the summary
→ Left out
You decide what goes in. Untick anything you cannot back up.
03 / 03Rewrites the right lines
Picks the best replacements in your summary and experience
Then it makes the smallest set of edits that closes the gap. The headline mirrors the job title, the summary leads with the must-haves, your most relevant bullets take on the posting's terms, and the skills are reordered. The rest of the resume is left alone.
- •Headline, summary, bullets and skills
- •Your numbers and facts carried over as they are
- •You choose which sections and roles it may touch
Finance professional→Senior Accountant
Senior Accountant with six years owning month-end close under US GAAP. Closes three entities in NetSuite by day five.
was: Detail-oriented accountant with six years of experience across closing…
Supported the annual external audit, preparing 60+ requested schedules with no adjustments proposed.
was: Helped auditors during the yearly audit and pulled 60+ schedules…
The result
A resume written for this job, open in the editor
Same person, same history, same numbers. Every change is highlighted on the page, so you can see what moved, then keep editing: by hand, by asking, or by switching the design.
Job Fit · this posting
Strong match
up from 54% as uploaded
5 of 5 must-haves shown
Woven in
Month-end close. Replaced “closing the books”
Variance analysis. Her own work, in the posting's term
External audit. A buried bullet, rewritten
Left out: SOX controls. It is not in her experience.
Ask for an edit
Make the summary two lines and keep NetSuite in it.
Done. Four lines down to two, shown for your review.
Template and design
Changes you can see
The posting's terms are highlighted where they were written in. Keep them, put a line back, or reword it.
Ask for edits
“Make the summary two lines.” “Shorten the second role.” Each edit is shown for your review.
Templates and design
Swap between ATS-friendly templates and adjust colors, fonts and spacing. Your content stays put.
PDF and Word
Export the file employers ask for, with a pass or a plan. One base resume, a tailored version per job.
Browse the resume templates or see the resume editor.
Template library
34 ATS-friendly resume templates
Pick one to see the tailored resume in it. Switch anytime: your content stays exactly as it is.
How to tailor a resume to a job description
Whether you do it by hand or with a tool, tailoring a resume is the same five moves. The tool above does them in about a minute. By hand, they take most of an evening per application.
- 01
Mark what the posting really asks for.
Skip the company boilerplate. Find the five or six skills, tools and responsibilities the role is built on, and note which are required and which are preferred.
- 02
Find your proof for each one.
Go through your roles and bullets. For each requirement, where have you done it? If the answer is nowhere, it does not go on the resume.
- 03
Use the posting's exact words.
If the job says “month-end close” and you wrote “closing the books”, change it. Recruiters search for the term in their posting.
- 04
Rewrite the top of the page first.
The headline and summary are read first, so they should name the job title and the main requirements. Then adapt the bullets of your most relevant role.
- 05
Leave the rest alone.
A tailored resume is still your resume. Dates, employers and results stay exactly as they were.
Tailoring works best on top of a solid base resume. If you have not checked yours yet, run it through the free ATS resume checker first, then tailor the improved version to each job. For the full method with worked examples, read how to tailor your resume for every job.
Keep going
More help with your resume
Guide
How to Tailor Your Resume
The step-by-step method, with examples, if you want to do it by hand.
Free tool
ATS Resume Checker
Get your base resume in shape first: how it parses and how it reads.
Templates
ATS-Friendly Resume Templates
Layouts that parse cleanly, ready for your tailored content.
Examples
Resume Examples by Role
What postings for your role ask for, with a sample to compare against.
FAQ
Questions about tailoring a resume
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