Reviewing AI suggestions

Nothing an AI tool suggests is written to your resume until you accept it, and reviewing costs no extra credits, so you can take as long over it as the suggestions deserve.

This is how Keyword Boost, Full Rewrite, and Improve Resume Quality all finish. The classic Auto Optimize Resume and the Bullet Point Generator work differently and are covered in their own articles.

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One change at a time

You are shown one suggestion at a time rather than a list, which keeps the decision small: Current on one side, AI Suggestion on the other, with the differences marked word by word, removals struck through in red and additions in green.

Move between them with Previous and Next, and the counter reads "{n} of {total}" so you always know how much is left. Optimization Progress at the top tracks the same thing in more detail, with a "{reviewed}/{total} reviewed" badge and running counts of accepted, rejected, and pending items.

Accept, reject, edit

Approve this suggestion applies the change to your resume immediately. Deny this suggestion changes nothing at all and only marks the item as reviewed, which is what moves you on to the next one.

The middle option is the useful one. Use the pencil, Edit suggestion, to type over the AI's wording, then save it with the check icon, Save changes. What gets applied is your edited version, so a suggestion that has the right idea and the wrong details is worth fixing rather than rejecting.

New bullets look different

A suggested new bullet has no Current side to compare against, because there was nothing there before it. It is labeled New Bullet on a blue background rather than AI Suggestion on green, so you can tell an addition from a rewrite at a glance.

Full Rewrite is the tool that adds bullets routinely. Improve Resume Quality adds one only when your resume score flagged an entry for having too few, and Keyword Boost never adds any.

Undo

Every decision has an Undo, with the tooltip "Undo this decision", and it works in both directions, so nothing you click in this panel is final.

Undo an accepted change and your original wording comes back. Undo a rejection and the item returns to pending, ready to accept after all. Undo an accepted new bullet and the bullet is removed again.

How long undo lasts

Undo covers you for as long as the review panel is open, which is where the comparison between your wording and the AI's still exists. Closing the panel or starting a new run ends that session, and your accepted changes become part of the resume like any other edit.

So if a suggestion is sitting uneasily with you, settle it before you leave the panel rather than after.

When you finish

The panel saves your changes, rescores your resume, and rescans it against the job, so the numbers you see next already reflect what you accepted.

You get a before and after for both, Resume Score and Job Match Score, with the difference shown as a pill, which is the quickest read on whether the pass was worth the credits. Changes accepted and Changes rejected are listed underneath, and Export PDF and Export DOCX are there when you are finished. DOCX export is Premium.

Back to AI Tools returns you to the tool cards if you want another pass, for example running Keyword Boost after a quality cleanup.

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Did I waste my credits if there were no suggestions

No. If the AI comes back with nothing worth changing, your credits are returned automatically and you see a success state rather than an error: Resume Looks Great! with either "No quality improvements were identified." or "No additional job-specific improvements were found."

That is an intended outcome, not a dead end. It means your resume already covers what the tool was looking for, which is useful to know before you spend credits on another pass.

When a run fails

The panel shows Optimization Failed with the reason and a Go Back button. Your credits are restored automatically, and the balance in the panel updates straight away, so a failed run leaves you exactly where you started.

Running several optimizations in quick succession can also trip a short cooldown. You are told to wait a moment and try again, and a request that was turned away is never charged for.

If a run failed outright and you are not sure whether it cost you anything, see Why did my AI optimization fail, and did it use my credits?.