Career stage — 15+ years

Resume Prompts for Executives

An executive resume is read as an ownership record — what you ran, how large it was, what changed while you ran it, and which of your decisions caused the change. Two things break it: language that sounds senior and says nothing, which survives every draft because nobody can argue with it, and company results with no visible decision of yours attached. The prompts here work from documents you already have — board updates, operating reviews, your own performance review — and mark a missing figure as a placeholder instead of guessing at it.

Before you paste any of these

  • Build the summary from a document you already wrotePaste a board update, an operating review, or your last performance review and ask for a 4-line opening summary using only figures present in that document, with a bracket wherever one is missing.
  • Put the org chart into wordsReports, functions owned, geographies, headcount, budget, P&L responsibility. Ask the model to list what a reader cannot determine from your current draft — the gaps are usually the most senior facts about you.
  • Separate the company's result from your decisionAsk it to flag every line that states a company outcome with no decision, hire, structural change, or bet of yours attached. Those lines read as borrowed credit even when the credit is yours.
  • Ask what earns page 1If the document runs to 2 pages, decide deliberately what the first one holds. Ask for a ranked list of what belongs on page 1 and the reasoning behind each placement, then move the rest rather than deleting it.

12 prompts that suit this stage

Write a Resume From ScratchEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Convert Your LinkedIn Profile Into a Resume

Your LinkedIn profile is current but you have no resume file to send

I am converting my LinkedIn profile into a resume. LinkedIn writing is first person and promotional. A resume is neither.

Write a Resume From ScratchEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Build Experience Bullets From a Performance Review

You have a performance review or self-assessment and it is the best surviving record of what you actually did

I am building the Experience entry for one job out of my own performance review. A review is written for my manager, who already knows the context. A resume is written for a stranger who does not.

Write a Resume From ScratchEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Use an Old Job Description as a Memory Jog

You cannot remember the detail of an older role but you still have the job description you worked under

I am rebuilding the Experience entry for one role using the job description I worked under. That document says what the job was meant to be. Only I know what the job turned out to be.

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.

Improve Your Bullet PointsEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Fix Tense and Parallel Structure

You have edited the same resume for years and the lines no longer match each other in tense, shape, or punctuation

Proofread my resume bullets for internal consistency. Here they are, grouped by role:

Improve Your Bullet PointsEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Rewrite for a Non-Specialist Reader

The first person to read your resume works outside your discipline and your bullets are full of internal names and acronyms

Read the following bullets as someone who does not work in my field.

Quantify Your AchievementsEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

State Scope When There Is No Metric

When the work had no measurable outcome but did have a real size — a team, a budget, a queue, a caseload

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.

Quantify Your AchievementsEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Before and After, With Both Numbers

When you moved something from one number to another and can cite both

Write a before-and-after bullet from 2 figures I can source.

Write a Professional SummarySenior and LeadExecutive

Executive Profile Paragraph

You are applying at a level where the reader wants scope and outcomes in the first 4 lines

Write the profile paragraph at the top of an executive resume. My material is below.

Tailor Your Resume to a Job DescriptionEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Decide What to Cut for This Application

When tailoring has pushed your resume onto an extra page and something has to leave

I need this resume down to [1 OR 2] pages for the posting below. Help me choose what goes.

Change CareersEarly CareerMid CareerSenior and Lead

Translate Your Accomplishments Into the Target Field's Language

Your accomplishments are real but they are described in the vocabulary of the field you are leaving

You are a hiring manager in [TARGET FIELD]. I am moving into it from [CURRENT FIELD].

Change CareersMid CareerSenior and LeadExecutive

Decide What to Cut From Your Old Career

Your resume runs long because most of the page is still written for the field you are leaving

You are editing my resume down for a move into [TARGET ROLE]. The problem is length: most of the page is [CURRENT FIELD] detail that a [TARGET FIELD] reader will not use.

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