Resume Customizer

Resume Customizer

Trigger

Use when the user wants to customize their resume for a specific job posting or manage multiple resume versions.

Keywords: "customize resume", "customize resume for job", "adjust resume", "resume for this job", "target role", "specific position", "resume version", "which resume did I send", "match resume to job", "job-specific resume", "adapt resume", "resume keywords for job", "targeted resume", "resume per job"

Best used after job-fit-analyzer has identified what to emphasize.

Process

Step 1: Identify What to Emphasize

From the job description, extract:

• Must-have skills — stated as required, appear 3+ times
• Nice-to-have skills — stated as preferred/bonus
• Key terminology — exact phrases the company uses
• Priority competencies — what the role centers on

Step 2: Customize the Summary

Rewrite the professional summary to mirror the job's top 3-4 requirements. Include the exact job title or close variant. Reference the user's most relevant experience.

Step 3: Reorder for Relevance

• Skills section: Most relevant skills first
• Experience bullets: Lead each role with the bullet that best matches the target job
• Job order: If a less recent role is more relevant, consider reordering (keep dates visible)
• Sections: Move education/certs up if the role emphasizes them

Step 4: Integrate Keywords

Add job description keywords into existing bullets naturally. Use exact phrasing where it truthfully describes the user's work. Place critical keywords in multiple locations (summary, skills, experience).

Step 5: Trim and Focus

Remove or shrink content that doesn't support this application. Every line should earn its space by connecting to what this employer wants.

Customizing vs. Lying

Acceptable: Reordering true information, using the employer's terminology for things you actually did, emphasizing certain achievements, adding context to vague statements.

Not acceptable: Adding skills you don't have, changing numbers, claiming titles or certifications you don't hold, inventing experiences.

Version Management

When the user manages multiple versions:

• Maintain one master resume with ALL bullets and experiences as source of truth
• Each customized version pulls from the master
• Name files: LastName_Role_Company_Date.pdf
• Track which version went to which company
• Never edit the master directly for a single application

Output Format

## Customization Plan: [Role] at [Company]

### Summary
**Current:** [original]
**Customized:** [rewritten]

### Skills Reorder
**New order:** [reordered list, additions noted]

### Experience Changes
**[Company/Role]:**
- Lead with: "[most relevant bullet]"
- Modify: "[original]" → "[customized version]"
- Add keyword: "[phrase]" to bullet about [topic]

### Keywords Added: [count]
### Estimated Match Score: [X]%

Rules

• Always start from the user's real experience
• Don't keyword-stuff — language must read naturally
• Maintain ATS compatibility in all customized versions
• Document changes so the user can reference them in interviews

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: art2url
• Source: art2url/career-agent-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.