Reviewing a draft before you send it

A finished draft is a proposal, not a verdict. Beside every tailored resume, Jobably now shows you what the posting asks for that the draft doesn’t say — sorted by whether your own record can honestly support it — and lets you act on each item in place, without starting over.

The three groups

• In your record. The posting wants a phrase, your record genuinely carries the substance, and the draft just doesn’t say it yet. Each item shows the evidence — a quote from your own material — and a suggested wording. These start selected.
• Judgement calls. Your record comes close, but whether the claim is fair is your call, not ours. The evidence is shown; these start unselected. Select the ones you stand behind, and reword them if the suggestion overreaches. When there is a real limit on how far a phrase may go, a caution names what must not be claimed — and the revision is held to it, not just you.
• Not in your record. The posting wants something your record simply doesn’t contain. There is no checkbox here on purpose: Jobably never adds a claim it cannot source. This list is still useful — it’s what to go gather evidence for, or to address in the interview instead.

Applying your decisions

Choose your items, optionally type your own wording for any of them, and apply. Only what you approved changes, and only where it belongs — every line you didn’t touch comes back exactly as it was. The result is a new version of the draft (your earlier version is kept, as always).

Two honest outcomes to know about:

• Declined changes. If an approved change can’t be made truthfully — the wording would claim more than your record states — it is declined and you’re told why. A declined change is the system working, not failing.
• Reverted edits. If the rewrite touched anything you didn’t ask it to, those lines are put back automatically and the draft tells you it happened.

The provenance rules hold in full during a revision: figures, dates, employers and titles are never altered, and nothing is added that your record can’t back.

What else the draft tells you

Beside every draft you’ll also see, when they apply:

• Sections kept in your own words — where tailoring left your text untouched, it says so and says why for each one: there was nothing to tailor (a contact line, a one-line banner), the time budget ran out before that section’s turn, or every rewrite failed the no-fabrication guards. A section skipped on purpose and one that ran out of time are different facts, and they are never shown as the same one.
• Style notes — advisory observations (a repeated opening verb, a phrase hiring managers see everywhere). Notes, not corrections: nothing was changed or blocked because of them.
• Orientation — what the posting reads as (a leader’s seat, a doer’s, an analyst’s) and what the draft reads as by the same measure, with a flag when they differ. Tailoring orders the bullets within each role to lead with the posting’s orientation — order and emphasis only; the same bullet sits in a different place on different applications, and no bullet changes what it claims to fit. A mismatch is something to consider, not a defect: leading with scope on a doer posting may be exactly your intent.
• The scorecard — a mechanical summary of how the draft measures up (contact details present, every employer accounted for, the posting’s language echoed), so you can compare versions on more than a feeling.