Numbers make a bullet checkable, which is exactly why a model should never supply them. Every prompt here works the same way — it reads what you wrote, marks which claims are measurable, and hands the line back with a bracketed placeholder such as [X%] or [$X], plus a question telling you where to look. You fill the brackets from a dashboard, an old status report, or your own records. A number you cannot source is a number to cut, not to estimate.
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Ask for the source, not the number — The useful output is "this line needs a percentage — check your Q3 dashboard", not a figure. Prompt for the question and the placeholder together and you get a short research list instead of a draft you have to fact-check.
Count things other than money — Revenue is the obvious metric and often the one you cannot see. Team size, ticket volume, release frequency, caseload, class size, and turnaround time are all countable from your own records and just as concrete on the page.
Say what you can defend, or cut it — If the exact figure is gone, ask for a form you can explain out loud — a count you remember, a range you can point at a record for. If neither exists, tell the model to drop the number and keep the line. An unsourced figure is the one an interviewer asks about.
Sweep for stray digits before you export — Search the finished draft for "[" and for any number you did not type yourself. Placeholders left in a submitted resume look careless, and figures you never verified are the ones you cannot walk through in a conversation.
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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.
When your bullets describe real work but read flat and you cannot tell which lines are missing a number
What to have ready
•5 to 10 resume bullets you already wrote
•the figures you can source, supplied after the first reply
Here are resume bullets I wrote about work I actually did:
[PASTE 5 TO 10 BULLETS YOU WROTE]
For each bullet, do one of two things:
1. If it already carries a figure I supplied, return it unchanged and mark it "has a number".
2. If it does not, insert a placeholder exactly where a number would make the line land harder — [X%], [$X], [X PEOPLE], [X PER WEEK] — and leave the bracket empty.
Under every bullet you bracketed, write one short question asking me for that exact figure, and say what makes it worth asking for.
Do not fill a bracket yourself. Do not offer a range, a typical value, or an average to start me off — a suggested number becomes the number I remember. If it did not come from me, the bracket stays empty.
Return the bullets as a Markdown list I can paste straight into my editor.
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 [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Here are the figures, in bracket order: [LIST THEM]. Fill them in exactly as given, change nothing else, and return the finished Markdown list.
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When you know the work mattered but cannot recall a single figure to prove it
What to have ready
•your role and dates
•3 to 5 sentences about what you actually did day to day
•any old status updates, review comments, or handover docs you still have
Act as an interviewer helping me recall numbers I already know but have never written down.
The job: [ROLE AND DATES]
What I did day to day: [3 TO 5 SENTENCES]
Notes I still have: [PASTE OLD STATUS UPDATES, REVIEW COMMENTS, OR HANDOVER DOCS, OR WRITE "NONE"]
Ask me 8 numbered questions, one per line. Cover how many people were involved, how often the work happened, over what period, how large the thing I handled was, what the situation was before I arrived, and who outside my team noticed.
Rules for this reply:
- Questions only. No bullets and no resume text yet.
- Never put a likely answer beside a question, and never tell me what a figure usually is. A hint from you contaminates the number I give back.
- If something does not apply I will say so, and you move on.
Wait for my answers before you write anything.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$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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Here are my answers: [PASTE]. Write one bullet per answer in Markdown using only the figures I just gave you, and leave a bracket wherever I gave you nothing.
ChatGPT: ChatGPT tends to run ahead and answer its own questions in the same reply; if it does, send "questions only, do not answer them" and ask it again.
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When you have one solid number and want the strongest honest way to say it
What to have ready
•one figure you can point to
•the baseline or total it came from, if you have it
•the timeframe it covers
•what you did to produce it
I have one real figure and I want the strongest honest way to state it.
- What I did: [WHAT YOU DID]
- The figure: [YOUR NUMBER]
- The baseline or total it came from: [BASELINE OR TOTAL, OR "I DO NOT HAVE THIS"]
- Timeframe: [PERIOD]
Write the same fact 4 ways: as an absolute count, as a percentage, as a rate over time, and as a per-unit figure. Where a version needs a number I did not give you above, write "not available from what you gave me" instead of producing one — do not reach for a plausible denominator.
Then say in 2 sentences which version is strongest on a resume and what it makes visible that the others do not.
Finish with that bullet in Markdown. You are changing the framing only — the value stays exactly what I gave you.
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 [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Now write that same bullet at 2 lengths, 1 line and 2 lines, with the figure and its framing identical in both.
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When the work had no measurable outcome but did have a real size — a team, a budget, a queue, a caseload
What to have ready
•a description of the work you did
•scope facts you can confirm — team size, budget, caseload, ticket volume, number of sites
Some of my work produced no outcome metric, but it had real scope. Help me state the scope accurately instead of reaching for a result.
The work:
[WHAT YOU DID]
Scope facts I can confirm:
[TEAM SIZE / BUDGET / CASELOAD / TICKET VOLUME / NUMBER OF SITES / ANYTHING ELSE YOU KNOW]
For each piece of work:
1. Write a bullet that leads with the action and carries a scope figure I gave you.
2. If a second scope fact would sharpen the line and I did not give it, name the gap in a bracket like [NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS] and ask me for it.
3. Do not turn scope into an outcome. Owning a budget is not saving money, and leading a team is not raising its output, unless I told you it was.
No approximations, no "roughly", no typical department sizes. Return a Markdown list, then tell me which bullets still rest on scope alone.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$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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Here are the scope facts you asked for: [PASTE]. Rewrite the affected bullets, then flag any line that claims credit for something I did not say I did.
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Before you send a resume carrying numbers you have not checked in a while
What to have ready
•your full current resume
•your answer for where each figure came from
Audit the numbers in my resume for honesty before I send it. Here it is:
[PASTE YOUR FULL RESUME]
Do this and nothing else:
1. List every numeric claim, quoting the line it sits in.
2. Beside each one, ask me a single question: where did this number come from, and could I point to it if an interviewer pushed.
3. Flag any figure that reads as suspiciously round, out of scale with the rest of the document, or impossible for me to check.
4. Flag vague quantity words — several, many, significant, substantial — as places where I either have a real number or should drop the claim.
Do not rewrite the resume, and do not add a number anywhere. Do not tell me a figure looks plausible for my industry — plausible and true are different things, and only one of them survives an interview.
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 [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Here is where each number came from: [ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN ORDER]. Rewrite only the lines I could not source, dropping the figure and keeping the substance.
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When your field counts patients, students, cases, or tickets rather than revenue
What to have ready
•your role
•the counts you tracked or handled — rosters, shift loads, ticket queues, caseloads, events run
My field measures care and service rather than dollars, but I did track things. Turn what I tracked into countable resume lines.
My role: [ROLE]
What I handled or tracked, with figures where I have them:
[E.G. PATIENTS PER SHIFT, CLASS ROSTERS, TICKETS PER DAY, CASES CARRIED, EVENTS RUN, STUDENTS SUPPORTED]
First return a table with 3 columns: what I handled, the count I gave you, and the unit that count is in. Leave the count cell blank where I gave you none.
Then write one bullet per row in Markdown, following these rules:
- Keep my unit exactly. A per-shift figure stays per shift, a range stays a range. Do not annualize it, average it, or round it upward.
- Where a count would clearly strengthen a row and I left it blank, put a bracket in the bullet and ask me for it.
- Never supply a figure on my behalf, and never treat a typical caseload for this profession as though it were mine.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$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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Here are the counts you asked for: [PASTE]. Add them, then tell me which lines would still read as vague to someone outside my field.
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When you moved something from one number to another and can cite both
What to have ready
•the starting figure and what it measured
•the ending figure
•the timeframe
•what you personally did
•anything else that also affected the result
Write a before-and-after bullet from 2 figures I can source.
- What I started with: [STARTING FIGURE AND WHAT IT MEASURED]
- What it was afterward: [ENDING FIGURE]
- How long it took: [TIMEFRAME]
- What I personally did to move it: [YOUR ACTIONS]
- What else was going on that also affected it: [OTHER CAUSES, OR "NONE THAT I KNOW OF"]
Then:
1. Write 3 versions in Markdown — one leading with the change, one leading with the action, one stating both raw figures plainly.
2. Work out the percentage change from my 2 numbers and show the arithmetic so I can check it.
3. If I named other causes, phrase my part so it does not claim sole credit.
Use only the 2 figures above. Add no third number, and do not project the trend past the period I gave you.
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 strongest of the 3 and say in one sentence what a hiring manager learns from it that the other 2 hide.
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