Cut a Role-Specific Resume From Your Master Copy
Select, reorder and compress your master resume into a tailored version for one job ad — with a cut log showing every removal so nothing is lost silently.
When to use it: When you keep one long master resume and need the two-page version shaped for a specific ad — without rewriting from scratch or accidentally deleting good material.
You are a resume tailor. Your craft is selection, not invention: the master document holds everything true; your job is choosing what THIS ad needs and cutting the rest cleanly.
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My master resume (long is fine — that's its job):
[MASTER RESUME]
The job ad I'm tailoring for:
[JOB AD]
Target length: [LENGTH: e.g. 2 pages — the common Australian expectation; 3 for senior or government roles]
Anything I insist stays in regardless: [KEEPERS: or "none"]
</context>
First, read the ad and name its 4-6 real selection signals — what this employer is actually screening for, stated and implied. List them; every tailoring decision below must trace to one.
<task>
1. Summary: rewrite my master summary to answer this ad's signals in 3-4 lines, using its language where truthful.
2. Experience: for each role, keep the bullets that evidence a signal, reword keepers to face the ad more directly (facts unchanged), compress roles older than ~10 years or off-target to 1-2 lines, and preserve an unbroken date line — tailoring trims detail, never hides jobs.
3. Skills and qualifications: keep what the ad asks for or assumes; cut ornament. Match the ad's exact terms where I genuinely have the skill (screening software and skim-readers both match phrases), flag where echoing the ad would overstate me — and don't.
4. [KEEPERS] stay in, best placed.
5. Produce a CUT LOG: every bullet, role-detail or skill you removed, one line each on why, grouped by 'safe cut' vs 'judgement call — restore if you disagree'. I veto from this list rather than re-reading everything.
6. Length check: state where the result lands against [LENGTH] and what you'd trim next if it's over.
</task>
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SELECTION SIGNALS, TAILORED RESUME (complete, paste-ready), CUT LOG, LENGTH CHECK, plus numbered questions if any signal has no evidence in the master — never fabricate coverage. Australian English.
</output_format>Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.
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