Tailor your résumé
to the job you actually want.
One posting, one résumé that matches it — keyword coverage, ATS-safe formatting, and every rewritten bullet shown before and after, so you stay in control.
One posting, one résumé that matches it.
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Point Olive at a job
A job Olive found for you, or one you searched for. Tailoring works against the actual job description: its requirements, its skills, the exact words the employer uses.
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Olive rewrites against the posting
The posting's own terms wherever your history backs them up, the bullets that matter most leading each role, and ATS-safe formatting. Olive writes only from your profile, and the bullets and skills it adds show up as changes you can revert.
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Review the rewrites and export
Each rewritten bullet and summary is shown before and after: keep it, edit it, or revert it, so the résumé that goes out is still yours. Then export as DOCX or PDF, with a matching cover letter if you want one.
Tailoring beats volume
Every application is read twice, and both readers reward the same move. First the software: most mid-size and larger employers file applications in an applicant tracking system, a database recruiters search with the words from their own job description. If the posting says "inventory management" and your résumé says "kept track of stock," you did the work and still don't turn up. Then a person: a recruiter's first pass is a skim for relevance, a few seconds looking for the posting's requirements in your bullets.
Résumé tailoring wins both reads: the posting's own terms, attached to your real experience, with the work this job cares about where the eye lands first. Twenty copies of the same PDF lose both reads twenty times, which is why one tailored résumé outperforms twenty generic ones.
Tailoring doesn't touch your facts — it changes emphasis, ordering, keywords, and framing. When you tailor your résumé to the job description, the work that posting cares about leads each role, your bullets adopt its vocabulary for skills you genuinely have, and the filler gets cut. Same history, arranged for this reader.
The catch with doing it by AI: ask a general-purpose chatbot to "improve" a résumé and it will happily invent experience you don't have — and the invention surfaces in the interview, where it costs you the job. Olive's rule is built in: it writes only from your profile, drops any employer, school or credential that isn't in it, and puts each rewritten bullet next to your original for you to keep or revert. The résumé that goes out is still yours.
Tailoring assumes you have something to tailor. If you don't, start with the résumé builder and come back. And because Olive is a full job search with AI, the posting is already here — find a real opening, check your fit, tailor your résumé to the job description, and practice the interview — all in one place.
How to tailor your résumé to a job description
Six moves, by hand or with AI. Drafting is the mechanical part; reading the posting, mapping your history and approving every line stay yours.
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Read the posting like a grader
Pull out the three to six requirements it leads with, repeats, or files under Requirements. Those are the lines your résumé is graded against, and the words a recruiter will search with. A term the posting uses twice counts double.
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Map your real experience to each one
For every requirement, name the job, project, or course that answers it. One you can't map is a genuine gap: no rewrite closes it, so have an honest answer ready. If most come up empty, aim at a closer role instead.
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Draft the rewrite in the posting's words
The mechanical part, and the part AI is genuinely good at: your bullets rephrased in the posting's vocabulary for skills you actually have, the mapped experience brought forward, the filler cut. A translation job, your history into their language.
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Cover the keywords without stuffing them
Each must-have term belongs where it's true: inside a bullet about real work, and in your skills section so a search finds you. The same term five times reads as padding, and a keyword you can't back up moves the rejection into the interview.
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Reorder so relevance leads
Within each job, the bullet that matters most for this posting goes first; in your skills, the must-haves come before the nice-to-haves. Recruiters skim top-down, so make the top do the work.
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Review every change and verify every claim
Read each change against your original. The test for every line: could you talk about it for two minutes, out loud, with follow-up questions? If yes, keep it. If not, it comes out, however good it sounds.