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Turn an achievement into a CV bullet
Three concise bullets, every fact kept, no invention.
Take the achievement you wrote down. Ask: “Rewrite this as three concise CV bullets. Keep every fact. Do not add numbers or claims I have not given you. Ask me about missing details rather than guessing.”
That last line matters. Tell it to ask rather than guess, and it will list what it needs. Those questions are usually the very details that make a bullet land: how many, how long, compared with what.
Compare each bullet with what you actually did. Delete anything that overstates your role. “Led” and “supported” are different jobs, and interviewers know it.
- Keep every fact; add none.
- Let it ask for missing details.
- Match the verb to your real role.
BEEP / THE MYTH-BUSTER
I could make your last job sound like the moon landings. Please do not let me. You have to sit in the interview afterwards and I do not.
Try it
Run the prompt on your achievement. Answer its questions with real detail, then keep the one bullet you would be glad to be asked about.
Here is something I did at work, in my own clumsy words: [describe it]. Ask me what changed as a result and how it was measured, then write one plain bullet. No adjectives I did not earn.
Then paste it into whichever assistant you use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. Not sure which? Meet them all.
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