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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-19 13:57:19 -05:00

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tailor Research company/role and generate tailored multi-format resumes

Resume Tailoring Skill

Overview

Generates high-quality, tailored resumes optimized for specific job descriptions while maintaining factual integrity. Builds resumes around the holistic person by surfacing undocumented experiences through conversational discovery.

Core Principle: Truth-preserving optimization - maximize fit while maintaining factual integrity. Never fabricate experience, but intelligently reframe and emphasize relevant aspects.

Mission: A person's ability to get a job should be based on their experiences and capabilities, not on their resume writing skills.

When to Use

  • User provides a job description and wants a tailored resume
  • User has multiple existing resumes in markdown format
  • User wants to optimize their application for a specific role/company
  • User needs help surfacing and articulating undocumented experiences

DO NOT use for: Generic resume writing from scratch, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles.

Quick Start

Required from user:

  1. Job description (text or URL)
  2. Resume library location (defaults to resumes/ in current directory)

Workflow:

  1. Build library from existing resumes
  2. Research company/role
  3. Create template (with user checkpoint)
  4. Optional: Branching experience discovery
  5. Match content with confidence scoring
  6. Generate MD + DOCX + PDF + Report
  7. User review → Optional library update

Multi-Job Detection

When user provides multiple JDs, URLs, or mentions "multiple jobs" / "batch" / "several positions", offer multi-job mode for shared experience discovery and batch processing.

See multi-job-workflow.md for complete multi-job implementation.

Workflow Phases

Phase Description Details
Phase 0 Library Initialization PHASES.md#phase-0
Phase 1 Research (company + role benchmarking) PHASES.md#phase-1
Phase 2 Template Generation PHASES.md#phase-2
Phase 2.5 Experience Discovery (optional) PHASES.md#phase-25
Phase 3 Assembly (matching + scoring) PHASES.md#phase-3
Phase 4 Generation (MD + DOCX + PDF + Report) PHASES.md#phase-4
Phase 5 Library Update (conditional) PHASES.md#phase-5

Supporting Files

File Purpose
PHASES.md Detailed workflow for all phases
EDGE_CASES.md Error handling and graceful degradation
EXAMPLES.md Usage examples (internal role, career transition, gaps, batch)
TESTING.md Manual testing checklist
research-prompts.md Structured prompts for company/role research
matching-strategies.md Content matching algorithms and scoring
branching-questions.md Experience discovery conversation patterns
multi-job-workflow.md Complete multi-job batch workflow

Key Constraints

  • NEVER fabricate experience — reframe truthfully
  • NEVER inflate seniority beyond defensible
  • Company names and dates MUST be exact
  • All checkpoints require user approval before proceeding
  • Generation failures fall back to markdown-only

Updated: 2026-03-05 Version: 3.0.0 (modularized)