Career stage — 0-1 years

Resume Prompts for Students and New Grads

Your first resume is built from material most people do not count as work experience — course projects, a part-time job, a club you actually ran, a summer internship. The prompts here take that material as input and shape it; they do not conjure a history you have not had. Watch for one specific failure: ask a model to write bullets for a new computer science graduate with nothing else pasted, and what comes back is fluent, generic, and invented. Paste the project brief, the repo README, or the shift you worked, and you get something you can defend in an interview.

Before you paste any of these

  • Paste the brief, not the course code"CS 340" tells a model nothing, so it fills the space with invented work. Paste the assignment spec, your repo README, or the grading rubric, and ask for 3 bullets that use only what is in that document.
  • Ask it to interview you for the numbersYou have figures you never wrote down — how many people came to the event, how many tickets you handled on a shift, how large the class was. Ask the model to mark every place a number would strengthen a bullet with a bracket, then fill the brackets yourself.
  • Retail, campus, and service jobs earn their spaceDescribe the shift as you worked it — opening alone, training 2 new hires, running the register count — and ask for a rewrite of that. Asking instead for the duties of a typical barista returns a job description, not yours.
  • Ask which projects to cut, against one posting6 projects compete with each other for the same short read. Paste all 6 plus the job posting, ask which 2 you would keep and why, then argue with the answer.

12 prompts that suit this stage

Write a Resume From ScratchStudent and New Graduate

First Resume From Coursework and Part-Time Work

You are applying for your first internship or graduate role and your material is coursework, projects and part-time jobs

I am a student with no full-time professional experience. Build my first resume from the material below, and only from that material.

Write a Professional SummaryStudent and New GraduateEarly CareerReturning to Work

Summary When You Have Little History

You have coursework, projects, or a first internship rather than years of jobs

I do not have much work history yet and I need a summary that is honest and still worth reading.

Explain an Employment GapStudent and New GraduateEarly CareerMid Career

Place the Course You Took During the Break

You studied or earned a certification while out of work and are not sure where it belongs on the page

During a break from work from [START DATE] to [END DATE] I did this study: [PASTE PROGRAM NAME, PROVIDER, DATES, AND WHAT YOU FINISHED]. Here is my current resume: [PASTE RESUME].

Organize Your Skills SectionStudent and New GraduateEarly CareerMid Career

Nursing credentials block, exactly as held

When your license, certifications and charting systems are scattered through the resume and a nurse recruiter has to hunt for them

You are helping me organize the credentials section of my nursing resume. Work only from what I paste.

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.

Verb and Specificity Pass

Your bullets are accurate but vague — the verbs are generic and a stranger cannot picture the work

Act as a line editor for my resume. Here are my bullets:

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:

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.

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.

Cover Letter From Your Resume and the Posting

You have a resume and a specific posting and need a full one-page letter that draws only on what your resume already says

You are helping me write a cover letter for a specific role. Here is my resume:

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].

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