What a tailored resume contains

Tailoring starts with your resume: your sections stay under your headings and in their original order unless you reorder them in the studio.

For supported Word masters, Jobably edits text inside the original document, keeping its fonts, alignment, tables, lists, and headers and footers. Longer wording can still change line breaks or page count. If an edit cannot safely retain the original layout, the download uses a standard layout and the app tells you. PDF and plain-text masters also use that standard Word layout.

The place to do it is the tailoring studio, where every change is proposed to you line by line and applied only when you say so. Everything below describes what a tailored draft contains and never changes, whichever way it was produced.

What stays exactly as you wrote it

• Your name, email and phone. Taken straight from your master resume and preserved in the draft. These are facts about you, so nothing is ever asked to reproduce them.
• Your section headings, and their order. If your resume runs Summary, Experience, Projects, Education, so does the draft unless you reorder it yourself in the studio.
• Every figure. Dollar amounts, percentages, headcounts and dates appear exactly as they do in your record, or they do not appear at all. See provenance rules.
• Employers, titles and dates. Tailoring reorders and rewords what sits under them; it never changes the record itself.

What changes

• Emphasis. The results most relevant to this posting move up.
• Wording. Bullets are rewritten toward the posting’s own language — the same accomplishment, said the way this employer talks about it.
• Your headline. Angled at the role, while staying true.
• Core competencies. Reordered for this posting, and filtered: a competency appears only if it is already in your master resume. A skill your record cannot back is a claim you would have to defend cold in an interview, so it is dropped rather than included.

Sections with nothing to tailor — a contact line, an availability note — are passed through untouched.

The gap list

Beside a finished draft you get what this posting asks for that your record does not evidence — and, for items your record CAN support, a review step that lets you approve, decline, or reword each suggested addition before it touches the draft.

This is deliberately not hidden. A tailored resume that quietly papers over a missing requirement is the one that gets found out in the interview. Each gap is one of three things:

1. Something you do have that is simply not written down — add it to your accomplishment bank and tailor again.
2. Something you could address in a cover letter or conversation.
3. A real mismatch, and a reason not to spend an afternoon on this application.

The third case is a feature. Knowing a role is not for you before you apply is worth more than a well-worded draft for it.

If a draft comes back partly untailored

Long resumes are tailored section by section. If a section could not be rewritten within the time budget, the draft ships your original wording for that section rather than something rushed or invented, and says which sections those were — with the reason beside each name, so a section that had nothing to tailor is never mistaken for one that ran out of time.

If no section could be tailored, there is no draft to show: the run fails with a “try again” rather than handing you your own resume back as if it were tailored.

The usual cause is running on the included model. Connecting your own API key under BYOK is markedly faster and degrades far fewer sections.