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Tailor your CV to the job posting (not the job title)
Recruiters read for fit in seconds. ATS systems score overlap with the role text. Both punish generic résumés — even “polished” ones.
Updated May 2026 · Editorial guide
Start from the posting, not your memory
Paste the job description or URL and read it like a spec: required skills, responsibilities, outcomes, and language the hiring team already chose. Your CV should answer the same questions — in the same vocabulary — without inventing experience you do not have.
Mirror language, do not stuff keywords
Reuse nouns and verbs that appear in the posting when they truthfully describe your work. If a skill is listed as “must have” and you have it, surface it early with proof (metric, scope, timeframe). If you do not have it, do not bury the reader in synonyms — address gaps honestly or show adjacent strengths.
Evidence beats adjectives
Replace “strong communicator” with what you shipped cross-functionally. Replace “fast learner” with what you mastered under deadline. One concrete line beats three buzzwords — for humans and for models that score relevance.
Concrete example (posting → bullet)
Suppose the posting says you will “own onboarding experiments” and “partner with Sales on activation”. Your CV should show the same verbs and outcomes where they are true — not a generic “customer success” line copied from a template.
Posting snippet (verbatim theme)
“Design and analyze onboarding experiments; collaborate with GTM on activation metrics.”
Before
“Strong communicator. Fast learner. Passionate about customers.”
After (CV-true)
“Ran 6 onboarding A/B tests with Product; +18% activation in Q2; weekly readouts with Sales on funnel drop-offs.”
The “after” line borrows the posting’s job language only to describe work you can defend in an interview — not to imply experiments you did not run.
How JobsOptimizer encodes this workflow
JobsOptimizer pairs your résumé text with that posting, scores alignment, and rewrites bullets toward the role while keeping you in control of what is true. After a successful run, Interview Lab can use the same CV + job context for prep — so your interview story matches what you submitted.