A resume written for everyone persuades no one in particular. Tailoring doesn't mean rewriting; it means making the evidence that matters for this job the first thing a reader sees.
In ten minutes
- Read the post twice. Mark the skills and results it asks for, and the words it uses for them.
- Change the summary's last line to say you want this kind of role.
- Reorder bullets so the most relevant result comes first in each job.
- Use their words where they're true: if they say "stakeholder management", don't make the reader translate "worked with other teams".
- Move a relevant project up if it proves something the job needs.
- Cut what's irrelevant to make room.
Never stretch the truth
Tailoring is choosing and wording what's true. Interviews test every line.
Keep your master resume
On jsonresume.org, open any job on the job board and choose Make a version for this job: you get a copy of your resume with its own link to tailor, and your main resume doesn't change. An AI assistant connected through MCP can draft the tailoring for you to review, as a suggestion you accept or reject.