How to aim your resume at a specific job — what to change for every application, what to change per role type, and how to do it in 10 minutes instead of an hour.
Tailoring your resume is the single highest-leverage thing you can do to get more interviews — and the advice most people abandon by their fifth application, because they were told to rewrite the whole thing every time. These guides cover a system that actually survives a real job search: build a small set of archetype resumes for the kinds of roles you target, then spend about 10 minutes per application adjusting the layer that matters. Start with the pillar guide below, then find the guide for your job type.
Archetype-specific guides — how to aim your resume at the particular kind of role you're targeting.
"Software Engineer" isn't one job — it's five or six, and they want different evidence. Here's how to read a posting to find which archetype it really is, and adapt your resume in 10 minutes.
Every PM resume lists Jira, SQL, and roadmaps — which is why the stack tells a recruiter nothing. The signal that identifies a PM archetype is the metric you owned. Here's how to read it and aim your resume.
Tailoring by hand works, but a few tools automate the keyword comparison. Here's how the ones we tested actually perform.
Use JobScoutly's free tools to create an ATS-friendly resume and check how well it matches your target job.