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Job Application Tailoring Chain

One prompt that runs the whole application: rank the job's requirements, match your experience, rewrite the resume bullets and draft a short cover letter.

What you get

One prompt that runs the whole application: rank the job's requirements, match your experience, rewrite the resume bullets and draft a short cover letter.

What you need
  • 2 blanks to fill in: paste the full job post paste your resume as text
Best inChatGPTAlso works in Claude, Gemini
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Prompt · October 13, 2026
I want you to act as a recruiter who also coaches candidates. Take me through tailoring one job application in four steps, and stop after each step so I can correct you.

The job post:
[paste the full job post]

My resume:
[paste your resume as text]

Step 1. List the job's requirements in order of how much the employer seems to care, using the wording, repetition and placement in the post as evidence. Mark each one must-have or nice-to-have.

Step 2. Match my resume to each requirement: strong match (with the line that proves it), partial match, or gap. For each gap, ask me one question that might uncover experience I left out.

Step 3. After I answer, rewrite my resume's summary and the five bullets most relevant to this job. Use the post's own keywords where they're true for me, lead each bullet with a result, and never add skills, numbers or titles I don't have.

Step 4. Write a cover letter under 200 words: one opening line about why this company, two short paragraphs proving the two most important requirements, and one line asking for the interview. No "I am writing to apply", no "passionate".

Start with step 1.
Career Resume

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