How to tailor your resume to any job description with AI
Match your resume to the job you want in minutes. Find the keywords, rewrite your bullets, and fill the gaps, without inventing anything.
Sending the same resume to every job is the most common reason good candidates don’t hear back. Many companies screen with applicant tracking systems that look for the skills and phrases in the job description, and recruiters skim for the same thing in seconds. A tailored resume says “I’m what you asked for” before anyone reads closely.
Tailoring by hand takes an hour per application. With these Shortcuts, Muse reads the job description straight from the page and does the first pass, while you keep the final say.
1. Find the keywords the job is screening for
Start on the job listing and run Find resume keywords. Muse pulls out the hard skills, tools, certifications, and phrases most likely to be screened for, puts the most important first, marks which are required and which are nice to have, and suggests where each could honestly appear on your resume.
2. Tailor the whole resume in one pass
Then run Tailor my resume to this job on the same listing. If Muse doesn’t have your resume yet, it asks you to paste it. It rewrites your summary and bullets in the listing’s language, shows you what changed, and lists anything the job wants that your resume doesn’t show yet.
It’s told never to invent jobs, titles, numbers, or skills. A resume that matches the listing but can’t hold up in an interview doesn’t help you.
3. Make every bullet stronger
Weak bullets describe duties (“Responsible for social media”). Strong ones show results (“Grew Instagram followers 40% in six months”). Open your resume in Google Docs or anywhere else in your browser, select a bullet, and run Improve this resume bullet for three stronger versions. Where a number would help, it leaves a [number] for you to fill in instead of making one up.
4. Finish with a matching cover letter
With the listing still open, Write a cover letter connects the same experience to the same job in under 300 words, so your resume and letter tell one story.
A quick checklist before you hit apply
- Your title and summary echo the job title and its top two or three requirements.
- The required skills from step 1 appear where they’re true, in plain words.
- Every bullet starts with a verb and, where possible, ends with a result.
- Nothing on the page is something you couldn’t explain in an interview.
Ready for the rest of the search? Here’s how to use AI for your job search, from deciding what to apply for to prepping for the interview.