Tailoring, fit scores, and cover letters
One posting in, four things out: a version of your resume angled at that job, a cover letter written for that company, a 0 to 100 fit score, and a short honest note about the gap. Costs 5 credits, priced as one action because it is one button.
What tailoring changes
- The order of your bullets, so the relevant work is what gets read first.
- Which skills lead, reordered against what the posting asks for.
- The summary, rewritten to make the argument this specific job needs.
- Vocabulary, but only where you genuinely have the thing. A posting asking for one technology and a history showing a different one is a gap, not a synonym.
What it never changes
Tailoring reweights what is already true. It never adds experience you do not have. If a posting asks for something you have never done, that shows up as a gap in the notes, not as a new line on your resume.
The fit score
A 0 to 100 read on how well your history matches one specific posting, produced against the full job description and your whole profile. It is deliberately blunt, because an inflated score costs you a wasted application.
- Under 40 usually means your time is better spent elsewhere.
- 40 to 70 means it is a real application with a real gap. The notes say what the gap is and what to do about it.
- Over 70 means the posting is describing something close to what you have already done.
The cover letter
Under 200 words, in your voice, opening with the specific reason you fit this role at this company and citing one concrete thing from your history. Anything that would read the same for another company is cut. It is a draft: edit it before you send it.
Improving a tailoring pass
The single biggest factor is whether the posting text was available. Some boards block automated readers, and in that case I work from the company and role alone and say so in the notes. Paste the job description in yourself and re-run the tailoring, and the output gets sharply better.