Prompts for Gemini

Resume Prompts for Gemini

Gemini, from Google, leans fluent — a short instruction tends to come back longer than you asked for, and it will reach outside your text for context unless you tell it not to. That makes a length cap and a source boundary the two instructions worth putting in every resume prompt: say how long the answer should be, and say that only the material in the block below may be used. Ask for Markdown in a code block and you get plain text to paste into an editor instead of styled output you have to retype. The chat window returns words, not a document, so the layout is still yours to do afterward.

Every prompt here works in Gemini from Google, and in the other three. Nothing in this library depends on a feature only one of them has — what changes the output is the material you paste in, not the badge on the tab.

Before you paste any of these

  • Cap the length in the prompt itselfWrite the limit as a rule: each bullet is a single line, at most 2 lines when rendered, no introductory sentence and no closing summary. Without a stated cap, a two-line bullet comes back as a paragraph and the resume grows a page.
  • Fence your source and name it as the only sourceWrap your material in markers — === SOURCE START === and === SOURCE END === — then write: use only facts that appear between the markers, and do not search for anything else about this company or role. A named boundary plus an explicit no-search line does far more work than a general instruction to be accurate.
  • Ask where every number came fromFollow up with: for each number in your answer, quote the line of my source it came from. A number that traces back to something like typical for this role is invented — cut it, or replace it with a bracketed placeholder such as [X%] and fill it in yourself.
  • Ask for Markdown, then read the heading levelsRequest raw Markdown in a code block, then check the structure before you paste: a single # for your name, ## for sections, ### for job titles is what most editors and templates expect, and returned drafts often over-nest them.

Start with these in Gemini

Quantify Your AchievementsMid CareerSenior and LeadSoftware Engineer

Interview Me About the System I Own

You have owned a service for a year and your resume says "maintained backend services". The scale, the on-call load and the blast radius are all in your head, and none of it is on the page

I am a software engineer and I own a service that my resume describes in 1 flat line. Interview me until the scope of it is on paper.

Tailor Your Resume to a Job DescriptionEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Map a Posting to Evidence You Already Have

The posting names more technologies than you have shipped with. You need to know which ones you can back with real work, which to foreground, and which gaps to answer honestly rather than paper over

I am a software engineer applying for the role below. Line up what I have already built against what this team is asking for.

Quantify Your AchievementsMid CareerSenior and LeadExecutive

Separate Your Metric From the Team's Metric

Retention went up while you were on the team, and you cannot honestly claim you caused all of it. You want a bullet that states a real number and a share of it you can defend when someone pushes

I am a product manager and I want 1 bullet about the work below that states a number I can defend in an interview.

Quantify Your AchievementsEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Find the Number in Your Analysis

You know the work mattered, but the only figures you can name are row counts and dashboard views — and those measure effort, not outcome

You are helping a data analyst find the measurable part of their work.

Write a Professional SummaryMid CareerSenior and LeadUX Designer

Summary for a Portfolio-First Read

A hiring manager opens your portfolio first and your resume second. By the time they reach the summary it has to say something the screenshots did not — and "passionate about user-centered design" does not

You are writing the summary block at the top of a UX designer's resume. It gets read after the portfolio, so it must not describe visual work. It has to answer 3 things: what kind of design problem this person handles, at what scope, and on what evidence.

Stand Out From Other CandidatesEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

What the Portfolio Cannot Show

Plenty of designers have a clean portfolio. The resume's real job is to carry what a portfolio structurally cannot: how you work with engineers, what you did when research contradicted the plan, and what happened after launch

You are auditing a UX designer's resume for the things a portfolio cannot demonstrate. A portfolio shows artifacts well and behavior poorly, so the resume is where behavior has to live. Find what is missing and tell me where the evidence would come from.

Interview Me Before You Write a Single Line

You are staring at an empty page and want the AI to pull the material out of you before it drafts anything

You are helping me build the first draft of my resume. Do not write any resume content yet.

Summary Built Only From Your Resume

Your resume is finished and the block at the top of the page is still blank

You are helping me write the summary block at the top of my resume. My full resume is below.

Improve Your Bullet PointsEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Turn Duties Into Results

Your bullets read like the job description you were handed rather than what changed because you were there

You are helping me rewrite resume bullets for one role.

Mark Where a Number Belongs

When your bullets describe real work but read flat and you cannot tell which lines are missing a number

Here are resume bullets I wrote about work I actually did:

Hiring Manager Critique With a Ranked Issue List

You have a finished draft and want to know what a hiring manager would object to before you send it

Act as the hiring manager filling this role. You screen resumes for [SENIORITY LEVEL] [ROLE] positions at [COMPANY TYPE]. My resume is below, followed by the posting.

Turn Your Gap Into One Honest Resume Line

You have a gap of 6 months or more and want one factual line for it instead of an unexplained jump in dates

You are helping me write a single resume entry for a gap in my work history. The dates are [START MONTH YEAR] to [END MONTH YEAR]. Here is everything I actually did during that time, in my own words: [PASTE YOUR NOTES].

Pull the Real Keywords Out of a Job Posting

You have found a posting worth applying to and want to know what it actually asks for before you open your resume

You are a hiring analyst. Below is a job posting I am applying to.

Got the output. Now make it a document.

A chat window returns text. Paste it here and it opens in the editor, where 32 templates turn it into an interview-ready PDF. Free, no signup, and your draft stays in your browser.

Your draft stays in your browser

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