Building a Tailored Resume in Huntr allows you to customize your base resume for specific job applications, incorporating targeted keywords, industry specific formatting, and personalized content that aligns with the job description. Your tailored resume receives a match score that shows how well your customized resume aligns with your target position. You can create unique tailored resumes for each job saved within Huntr while maintaining your base resume for general applications.

This guide offers a comprehensive walkthrough of creating tailored resumes within the Huntr Tailored Resume Builder tool.

There are two ways to build a Tailored Resume. You are able to create the resume directly from the Resume Builder Section or from the Job Card.

Once your tailored resume is created, you will land in the Huntr Tailored Resume Builder. There are 4 sections that you will use to customize your resume: Editor, Layout & Style, Templates, and Job Match Score.

The Editor section will allow you to customize the content within your tailored resume to better match the specific job requirements.
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This sits at the top of your resume. It should precisely match the title in the job posting you're applying for to optimize for ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems).
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Displays name, contact info, and location.
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Tailor this section to highlight experiences and skills specifically mentioned in the job description. Use the AI Generator to optimize your summary based on the job requirements, or enter your own manually. Focus on creating alignment between your experience and the position's needs.
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Highlighted achievements should be customized to showcase relevant skills and accomplishments that match the job requirements. Use the AI generator to rewrite your existing achievements with job-specific keywords or create new targeted bullet points.
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Customize volunteer achievements to emphasize transferable skills relevant to the target position.
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This section allows you to highlight relevant coursework or academic achievements that align with the job requirements.
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Emphasize certifications that are most relevant to the position you're applying for, potentially reordering them based on importance to the role.
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The Skills section for your tailored resume should prioritize keywords from the job description. The system will highlight missing skills based on the job requirements, and you can use AI Suggestions to add job-specific skills to your resume.
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Highlight projects that demonstrate your experience with skills or technologies mentioned in the job description.
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Prioritize professional profiles and portfolios most relevant to the specific industry or role.
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The undo button will reverse changes made to the tailored resume. This affects AI generations made within the Work Experience, Template changes, dragging and dropping of sections, etc. Clicking the Undo button will reverse the most recent change to your resume.
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Tailoring a Resume to a job may create a great resume for a specific job type. Clicking the Save as Base Resume will keep your Tailored Resume but will also duplicate it to create a Base Resume.

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There are three types of adjustments that can be made within the Editor Section. The Experience Editor, Details Editor, and AI Suggestions include different functionalities to support the changes made to your tailored resume.
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The Experience Editor uses AI suggestions to help customize your experiences to better match the job description. This also includes quick actions to edit within text boxes, delete content and sort content.
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When clicking Edit Experience the Work Experience will open into another editing window. The quick icons will still be accessible, you will be able to adjust the date or date formatting, change the Job Title, Employer, and Location. When making changes in this window, be sure to click the Update button to save all changes.
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The AI generator for tailored resumes is job-description aware and will use keywords from the job posting to produce multiple possible achievements that can be added to your resume. The AI will scan both your resume and the job description to provide suggested keywords that can be used to generate these new achievements, or you can enter a specific keyword in the Context Keyword section to create your own. Select a suggestion to then add to your tailored resume.
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Personalizing your tailored resume to match industry expectations.

Style & Layout focuses on adjusting titles, font sizes, date formats, and the organization of your resume to align with industry standards for your target role. Depending on the template, you are able to rename and move any of the 8 sections that appear on each resume.
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Huntr provides 7 professionally designed templates in a variety of colors and styles. Each template is ATS-friendly and carefully configured to make adding your resume content seamless, eliminating the need to worry about design or formatting adjustments.

You are able to view and adjust each template by clicking each template preview and colour block located in the Templates section.

Consider choosing templates that align with industry expectations for your target role. More conservative fields may prefer traditional layouts, while creative industries might appreciate modern designs.
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The Job Match Score helps you understand how well your resume aligns with a specific job posting. The score is generated by analyzing your resume against the job description, job title, and company name you’ve saved in Huntr. A higher score means your resume is a stronger match, which increases your chances of being noticed by recruiters and hiring managers.
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It evaluates four key elements from the job posting:

Qualifications: The required skills and experience for the role.

Responsibilities: The primary and secondary duties of the job.

Keywords: Important terms, technologies, and soft skills mentioned in the posting.

Job Title Match: The essence of the role (e.g., “Product Design Lead” from “Product Placement Design Lead for the Marketing Team”).

Not all items are equal. Our system assigns importance levels Must-Have vs. Nice-to-Have and scores accordingly:

Qualifications: Make up the largest share of your score (roughly one-third to one-half). Must-Have qualifications are weighted most heavily.

Responsibilities: Core responsibilities carry more weight than secondary ones.

Keywords: Usually account for less than 20% of the final score. Must-Have keywords (e.g., required technologies) count more than Nice-to-Haves (e.g., many soft skills). This prevents “keyword stuffing.” Even if you match every keyword, your score will remain low without the right qualifications or responsibilities.
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Instead of only a 0–100 numeric scale, scores now appear in five categories: Poor, Weak, Fair, Good, Great

A Good or Great score means your resume is highly competitive for the role. Fair suggests you’re about average among applicants. Weak or Poor may indicate either a low fit for the role or that your resume needs more tailoring.
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The Job Match Score is interactive, you can see exactly what’s covered by your resume and what’s missing.

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If you want a head start, the AI Tailor feature can automatically generate a tailored version of your resume for a job description in just a few minutes. It provides suggested edits for your summary, skills, and experiences, which you can review and refine before finalizing.
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Keyword extraction and matching is a powerful way to optimize your resume by identifying and incorporating key terms from job descriptions. Huntr's AI powered tool makes this process simple by automatically highlighting important keywords (both hard and soft skills) that recruiters and applicant tracking systems (ATS) look for. The keywords will be collected, saved to Huntr, and can be added to your Tailored Resume.
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You can add these keywords to your resume, improving your chances of getting noticed and landing interviews. This guide will walk you through how to use Huntr's keyword extraction and matching tool to streamline your job search and tailor your resume for every application.

You are able to find these keywords by importing the desired job description in Huntr's Job Tracker. You are able to add jobs via our Extension or adding the job to Huntr Manually. Using the extension is the best way to ensure all keywords are added correctly.
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When you choose to save a job to Huntr, the extension is picking up all essential information from the job description to help build your tailored resume.

The keywords will be saved within the Job Card under Insights. The keywords are outlined by type. Some keywords may be considered Soft or Hard Skills, Knowledge, Education, or Industry.
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