Tailoring is not rewriting your CV from scratch for every job. It is four moves, applied to the CV you already have.
1. Read the posting for weight, not just content
A requirement mentioned once in a bullet list matters far less than a phrase repeated in the summary, the responsibilities and the requirements. Pull out the terms the posting leans on hardest — the Keyword pull tool ranks them for you — and treat the top five as the things your CV has to answer.
2. Map requirements to evidence
Split the ranked terms into three buckets:
- Can strongly evidence — you have a bullet with a tool, an action and a number. This drives the rewrite.
- Can weakly evidence — it is implied by your experience but never stated. Make it explicit where it is honest to.
- Cannot claim — you have no real basis for it. This tells you whether the role is a genuine fit. Do not pad the CV to hide it.
3. Reorder before you rewrite
A partial match in your first two bullets beats a perfect match buried in your third role. Move the bullets that answer the posting to the top of each job. Reorder your skills around the must-haves. This alone lifts most CVs before you have changed a single word.
4. Rewrite bullets as verb, action, number
Lead with a strong past-tense verb. Name the specific action. Attach the measurable result. “Led migration of the ledger service to event sourcing on Kafka, cutting p99 settlement latency from 4s to 400ms.” Mirror the posting’s exact terminology where your evidence genuinely supports it.
The rule underneath all of it
Never invent an employer, a title, a date or a metric. A CV stuffed with terms you cannot defend scores well and interviews badly. Roleweave enforces this in code — the hard facts on a tailored CV are pinned to your master profile and the model cannot overwrite them.