Resume Career Toolkit — 20 Career Workflows

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What's included (21 skills in this plugin)

• resume-career-toolkit

  Build evidence-based resumes, tailored applications, interview practice, and offer comparisons. Use when a job seeker asks to check ATS readability, rewrite resume bullets, tailor a resume or cover letter, improve LinkedIn, prepare for interviews, negotiate an offer, or plan a career pivot. Includes 20 focused career workflows; use only the workflows needed for the request.

• academic-cv-guide

  Build or review academic CVs for faculty, postdoc, research, teaching, fellowship, or academic leadership applications. Use for organizing scholarly appointments, publications, funding, teaching, mentoring, and service with accurate contribution and status.

• ats-resume-checker

  Review a resume for text extraction, parsing risks, and evidence-backed alignment with a supplied job posting. Use for ATS checks, missing resume fields, keyword coverage, or application file-format questions.

• bullet-point-rewriter

  Rewrite resume duties and vague bullets into specific, truthful achievement statements. Use for stronger action language, clearer individual contributions, relevant outcomes, or defensible metrics in existing resume bullets.

• career-pivot-guide

  Translate real experience for a career or industry change. Use to identify transferable evidence, rewrite resume content for a new role, develop an honest transition narrative, and prioritize gaps or bridge projects.

• case-study-builder

  Turn a real project or resume achievement into a portfolio case study for product, design, engineering, marketing, or related roles. Use for project deep dives, work samples, and interview narratives that explain decisions, individual contribution, and supported outcomes.

• cover-letter-writer

  Draft or revise a role-specific cover letter using a candidate's actual experience and the employer's stated needs. Use for application letters, letters of interest, and tailored application introductions.

• creative-resume-guide

  Review or plan resumes for design, marketing, writing, photography, and other creative roles. Use when balancing visual presentation, accessibility, portfolio evidence, and an application's document or parsing requirements.

• executive-resume

  Write or review resumes for senior leadership, VP, C-suite, and board opportunities. Use when leadership scope, organizational results, P&L responsibility, transformation, or governance experience needs clear evidence-based positioning.

• interview-coach

  Prepare evidence-based interview stories, introductions, role-specific practice questions, and mock-interview feedback. Use for interview preparation, behavioral answers, STAR stories, or an interactive mock interview.

• job-posting-evaluator

  Compare a resume with a job posting using evidence, identify qualification gaps and questions, and recommend an application strategy. Use when assessing whether to apply, reviewing job requirements, or checking a posting for concerns.

• linkedin-optimizer

  Review and draft LinkedIn headlines, About sections, experience, skills, and profile positioning for a target career direction. Use for LinkedIn profile rewrites or aligning a profile with an accurate resume; not for unrelated social-media tasks.

• metrics-finder

  Discover defensible measures of work scope and outcomes for resume bullets. Use when a candidate has no obvious metrics, needs help recalling evidence, or wants to quantify experience without inventing numbers.

• offer-evaluator

  Evaluate one or more job offers using explicit compensation assumptions, user priorities, and uncertainty-aware comparisons. Use when comparing offers, weighing a new role against staying, or reviewing the tradeoffs in an offer.

• reference-manager

  Select suitable professional references and draft a consent-aware reference list, permission request, and factual briefing notes. Use for reference checks, choosing referees, or preparing reference materials.

• resume-customizer

  Tailor an existing resume to a specific job posting through evidence-backed selection, wording, and ordering. Use for a role-specific resume version, a requirement-to-experience map, or targeted edits without inventing qualifications.

• resume-layout-guide

  Review or specify resume layout, typography, section hierarchy, and application file formats. Use for formatting, margins, spacing, templates, readable design, or parsing-conscious layout changes.

• resume-section-guide

  Draft or improve specific resume sections using the candidate's evidence and target role. Use for summaries, skills, experience, education, projects, certifications, or deciding what sections to include and how to order them.

• resume-tracker

  Organize a master resume, preserve tailored versions, and track which file was actually sent to each job application. Use for resume version control, application records, or reconstructing submission history from supplied evidence.

• salary-negotiator

  Prepare a compensation negotiation using verified offer terms, relevant market evidence, a candidate-selected target, and truthful counteroffer drafts. Use for salary expectations, counteroffers, pay research, or negotiating benefits and equity.

• tech-role-resume

  Tailor a resume for software engineering, product management, data, ML, DevOps, or SRE roles. Use when technical depth, project evidence, system scale, or role-specific achievements need clearer presentation.