Above a certain level a resume stops listing what you did and starts describing what changed while you were responsible — scope, budget, headcount, the state of the org before and after. These prompts push your material into that register: they ask for the size of what you owned, strip hands-on detail that reads as junior, and cut the number of bullets per role. They ask for figures rather than supply them, so keep your board decks and budget numbers nearby. A second page is fine here — the discipline is in what each line is doing, not in reaching one page.
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State your scope in the prompt — Give headcount, budget, revenue responsibility, and geography for each role up front. A leadership rewrite without scope produces confident sentences about strategy that could describe a director or a chief executive.
Cut to 4 bullets per role — Ask for the 4 highest-scope lines from each position and move the rest into a short selected-results block, or drop them. A senior resume carrying 9 bullets per role reads more like a job description than a track record.
Shape lines as before and after — Prompt for state, action, new state — "inherited [X]% attrition, rebuilt the hiring loop, [Y]% after [N] months". The transition is what a board or hiring committee reads for, and the brackets stay until you have checked each figure.
Keep one concrete detail per role — Ask it to preserve a single specific — a system, a market, a regulation — that proves you were close to the work. Fully abstracted leadership language leaves an interviewer wondering how much of it you touched.
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Every prompt ends with the same rules: use only what you give it, and mark a missing number with a placeholder instead of guessing one.
Your resume still reads like the hands-on operator you were three promotions ago
What to have ready
•6 to 10 bullets from your current resume
•notes on what you personally decided, funded, or owned on each one
•the team size or budget involved, where you know it
You are an executive resume editor. Below are bullets from my resume, written when I was closer to the work, plus my notes on what I actually owned.
BULLETS:
[PASTE 6 TO 10 BULLETS]
MY NOTES:
[WHO REPORTED TO YOU, WHAT YOU DECIDED, WHAT YOU FUNDED, WHO YOU HAD TO CONVINCE]
For each bullet:
1. Say whether it currently reads as execution, direction, or both.
2. Rewrite it so the first 6 words state the decision, remit, or organizational change — not the task.
3. Keep every fact from my notes and nothing beyond them. Where a line needs a number I did not give you, write [X] and collect it at the end as a question for me.
4. Where a bullet only describes doing the work yourself, say so plainly instead of rewriting it, and ask me what I directed.
Return the rewritten bullets as a Markdown list, then your questions.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Now rank the rewritten bullets by what a hiring committee for a [TARGET TITLE] role would care about, and tell me which two to cut.
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The top of your resume needs to state your scope before anyone reaches the first role
What to have ready
•your current summary or profile paragraph, if you have one
•your last 2 roles with team size, budget, and remit
•the 3 outcomes you are best known for
•the target title and level
Act as a search consultant who writes candidate profiles for director and above. I want a 4-line summary for the top of my resume.
Target role: [TARGET TITLE], [SECTOR]
Last 2 roles, with team size, budget, and remit: [PASTE]
The 3 outcomes I am known for: [PASTE]
My current summary, if any: [PASTE]
Before you write anything, ask me up to 5 questions about whatever is vague in the material above.
Then give me 3 versions in Markdown, each 4 lines or fewer:
- one that leads with scope: people, budget, geography
- one that leads with the change I was brought in to make
- one that leads with the domain I am known for
Rules: use only claims supported by what I gave you, drop any phrase that would be true of every candidate at this level, and make each version survive being read aloud in 15 seconds. If one of those angles has nothing in my material to stand on, give me two versions and name the angle you had to skip.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Pick the version you would put in front of a search committee and tell me the one sentence in it you are least confident I can defend.
Claude: Claude tends to run the question round before drafting rather than skipping ahead. If yours starts writing immediately, reply with: ask your 5 questions first, then wait for my answers.
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A recruiter has to guess how big your job was because the numbers are buried in prose
What to have ready
•your last 3 roles with titles, companies, and dates
•direct and total headcount you owned, where you know it
•the budget or P&L figure and what it covered
•the functions and regions in your remit
You are formatting a scope block for the top of a director-level resume.
Here is what I can state for each of my last 3 roles. Where I write unknown, I mean I do not have the figure.
[ROLE, COMPANY, DATES]
- Direct reports: [NUMBER OR unknown]
- Total org: [NUMBER OR unknown]
- Budget or P&L: [AMOUNT AND WHAT IT COVERED, OR unknown]
- Functions owned: [LIST]
- Regions or markets: [LIST]
- Reported to: [TITLE]
Repeat for roles 2 and 3.
Build a compact Markdown table, one row per role. Leave any cell I marked unknown empty and list those gaps under the table as questions for me. Keep every cell under 8 words. Then tell me which 2 columns carry the most signal for a [TARGET TITLE] search, and which to drop.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Now write the same scope as 3 lines of prose, for a version of my resume that has no room for a table.
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Your resume is going to a board, a search committee, or an investor and every line has to earn its place
What to have ready
•the full write-up of one role, however long and messy
•the mandate you were given when you took it
•what was different by the time you left
You are preparing one resume entry for a board packet. Board members read fast and care about mandate, judgment, and result.
THE ROLE, IN FULL:
[PASTE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE FOR THIS ROLE]
THE MANDATE I WAS GIVEN: [PASTE]
WHAT WAS DIFFERENT WHEN I LEFT: [PASTE]
Condense it to 4 Markdown bullets, 20 words each at most. Each bullet answers exactly one of: what I was asked to do, what I decided, what changed, what it cost or returned. If my material does not answer one of those four, drop that bullet and name the missing question instead of filling it in.
Then, below the bullets:
- list every fact you dropped, so I can check nothing important went with it
- flag any bullet that states a result without the mechanism, and ask me the one question that would fix it
- write [X] for any figure I did not give you rather than carrying one in from elsewhere
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Now cut it to 2 bullets and tell me what a board member would ask next.
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You have 20 years of scope and someone has asked for one page
What to have ready
•your full resume text
•the target role and what the posting says it is accountable for
•which older roles you are willing to compress to a single line
You are cutting a senior resume from 2 pages to 1. Nothing gets reworded in this pass — you cut, and you compress old roles to a title line. Everything that survives keeps its exact words.
FULL RESUME:
[PASTE]
Target role: [TITLE] — accountable for [WHAT THE POSTING SAYS IT OWNS]
Roles I will compress to one line: [LIST, OR: you decide]
Work in this order and show me each step:
1. Score every bullet 1-3 for how directly it speaks to that accountability.
2. Give me the cut list — everything scoring 1 — with a one-line reason each.
3. Compress roles older than 12 years to a single Markdown line: title, company, dates.
4. Show the 1-page version in Markdown.
5. Name the strongest thing that had to go, so I can decide whether to trade something else back for it.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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I want to keep the bullet you named in step 5. Show me the two cheapest lines to lose to make room.
ChatGPT: ChatGPT tends to jump straight to the finished 1-page version. If it skips the scoring, reply with: show me steps 1 and 2 before you cut anything.
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You are moving from VP or head-of to your first C-level title and the gap is in how you are read, not in what you have done
What to have ready
•the CxO job description
•your current resume
•the 2 or 3 pieces of company-level work you have led
•the board or executive-team exposure you have actually had
You are advising a candidate stepping from [CURRENT TITLE] to a first [TARGET CXO TITLE] role.
THE POSTING: [PASTE]
MY RESUME: [PASTE]
COMPANY-LEVEL WORK I HAVE LED, not function-level: [PASTE]
MY ACTUAL BOARD OR EXEC-TEAM EXPOSURE — meetings attended, papers written, what I presented: [PASTE]
Give me four things:
1. Every accountability in that posting my material already covers, up to 3, quoting the exact line from my resume that covers each. If fewer are genuinely covered, list fewer.
2. The accountabilities my material does not cover, stated plainly, each with the question you would need answered to know whether I have it.
3. Every place my resume reads as a function head rather than a company officer, naming the sentence that causes it.
4. A rewritten first 5 lines of my resume, leading with company-level work, in Markdown.
Every claim you write must be traceable to something I pasted.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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For the gaps in item 2, tell me which are fixable by rewriting and which need work I have not done yet.
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Your best outcomes were delivered by your team and you are unsure how much of it is yours to write down
What to have ready
•3 to 5 outcomes your team delivered
•what you personally did on each one — hired, funded, decided, unblocked, negotiated
•who else could reasonably claim the same result
Act as an editor who is careful about attribution. I lead a team. I need bullets that state real outcomes without claiming the work my people did.
For each outcome I have written the result, then my own part in it:
[OUTCOME 1] — my part: [HIRED / FUNDED / DECIDED / UNBLOCKED / SET THE TARGET / NEGOTIATED, described in a sentence]
[OUTCOME 2] — my part: [...]
[OUTCOME 3] — my part: [...]
Others who could claim the same result: [LIST]
For each outcome give me:
- a bullet that puts my verb first and the team's result second
- a second, more conservative version of the same bullet, so I can compare the two
- a note on whether this is honestly mine to lead with, or belongs under a team-delivered framing
Return the bullets in Markdown. Where my described part is too thin to support a bullet, say so instead of writing one.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Now write one sentence per outcome that I could say out loud in an interview if asked exactly what I did.
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