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Build a resume that passes the ATS, step by step (plus the cover letter)

Most resumes are rejected by software before a human ever sees them. The fix is not tricks — it is a clean format, the posting's own words used honestly, and proof in every line. This course builds your resume from your real experience only. Rule one, now and throughout: if you did not do it, it does not go in.

What you need: one real job posting you want, and your work history — an old resume, or a plain list of jobs, dates, duties, and anything you improved, fixed, sold, built, or were thanked for, with numbers where you have them.

The steps

1. Gather your raw material. Spend ten minutes listing your history before touching any AI: each job, its dates, your main duties, and your wins — with numbers wherever they exist (people trained, money handled, time saved, problems fixed). Numbers you cannot back up do not count; numbers you can are gold.
   Checkpoint

   You should now have: a plain list of your jobs, dates, duties, and wins — every line of it true.

2. Read the posting like a checklist. Job postings tell you exactly what the screening software is looking for. Make the AI extract it instead of guessing:
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   Here is a job posting: [paste it]. List the 12 most important skills, tools, and phrases it repeats, in order. Then give me the exact job title and the top five responsibilities.

3. Rebuild your bullets with proof. Weak bullets describe duties (“responsible for stock”). Strong bullets show results. Have the AI rewrite yours — from your list only:
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   Rewrite my experience bullets for the role of [exact job title]. Pattern for each bullet: Accomplished [result] by [action], measured by [number or clear outcome]. Use ONLY facts from my list below — add nothing I did not do. My list: [paste]

   Checkpoint

   You should now have: a set of bullets where every claim traces back to your own list — nothing invented, nothing inflated.

4. Assemble the ATS-friendly structure. Screening software wants boring: one column, standard headings, no tables, no graphics, no headers or footers. Ask the AI to build exactly that:
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   Turn this into a clean one-page resume in plain text: my name and contact line, a 3-line professional summary using the posting's exact job title, a Skills section using the posting's exact phrases where they are true for me, then Experience with my bullets, then Education. No tables or columns.

5. Run the mirror check. This is the step most people skip — compare the resume against the posting and let the AI find the gaps before the employer's software does:
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   Compare my resume against the job posting. List: (1) required phrases my resume is missing, (2) claims in my resume the posting never asked for, (3) anything in my resume you cannot trace to my facts list.

6. Write the cover letter from the same facts. Same material, human shape. Short beats grand:
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   Write a cover letter under 250 words: paragraph 1 — the exact role and one matching strength; paragraph 2 — two proof points from my facts, with numbers; paragraph 3 — why this company, using one specific detail from the posting; closing — a polite invitation to talk. Plain human tone, no clichés without proof.

7. The final human pass. Read every line and ask: could I defend this sentence in an interview? Fix anything shaky. Save the plain document, export a PDF named Firstname-Lastname-Resume.pdf, and keep the posting and your facts list — you will reuse them for the interview course.
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   You should now have: a one-page, plain-format resume, a matched cover letter, and the certainty that every line is provable.

Common mistakes (skip these)

• Letting the AI invent experience. It will, cheerfully, if your facts are thin. An invented line survives screening and dies in the interview — or worse, on the job.
• One generic resume for every job. The mirror check takes five minutes per posting and is the whole point of the system.
• Fancy templates. Two columns, icons, and skill bars look sharp to humans and read as garbage to screening software.
• Keyword stuffing. Repeating phrases you cannot demonstrate. Screeners pass it; interviewers expose it.