Auto Optimize Resume

Auto Optimize Resume costs 5 credits and rewrites your whole resume in one pass, working the job's keywords into your existing bullets. It takes under a minute.

It lives in the classic scan editor, next to your resume text, and it is a separate tool from Keyword Boost and Full Rewrite in the resume builder. One difference between them is worth knowing before you run it.

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There is no per-change review

Keyword Boost, Full Rewrite, and Improve Resume Quality hand you one suggested change at a time and wait for you to accept or reject each one. Auto Optimize Resume takes a single step instead, replacing the resume in the editor with the rewritten version, which is what makes it the quickest way through a tailoring pass and the one to be deliberate about before you spend the credits.

What you get in place of a review queue is visibility. The keywords the AI adds come back in bold, so you can read down the finished resume and see exactly what was inserted and where.

If you would rather sign off on changes one by one, the resume builder's tools work that way.

Choosing the keywords first

Choose which keywords to use opens the keyword picker before the run starts. The dialog is headed Choose keywords to include and explains what it is for: "These are the keywords the AI will work into the resume. Uncheck anything the resume has no real experience to back up and it will leave them out."

Every keyword your resume is missing is listed there, grouped into Hard, Soft and Other and ranked with the most-requested first, so the terms the posting leans on hardest sit at the top. Up to 25 come ticked for you, which means a scan that found fewer than that starts with all of them selected. Select all and Clear all reset the list either way, and the count on the right tells you where you stand.

Cutting the list back is worth doing, because a shorter, honest set of keywords reads better than a long one the AI has to force in. It costs you nothing to narrow it, as the picker points out: "Uses 5 AI credits, whichever keywords you pick."

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Bold changes

The Bold changes checkbox is ticked by default, and its tooltip says why: "Wrap AI modifications in bold so you can easily see what changed."

Untick it if you want clean text to copy straight out. With no review step in this tool, though, the bolding is the fastest way to check the AI's work, so leaving it on until you have read the result is usually the better call.

What it will not do

• It does not change job titles, company names, dates, education entries, or certifications.
• It does not stuff keywords into your key strengths, skills lists, or certifications.
• It does not append a summary line, a keyword list, or an extra section at the end of your resume.

If something goes wrong

Two messages are worth recognizing on sight.

"Resume data is not loaded yet. Please wait and try again." means the editor was still loading your resume when you pressed the button, so give it a moment and run it again. Nothing was charged.

"The AI returned an unusable result, so nothing was changed and your credits have been restored." means the rewrite came back malformed. The run is retried once before you ever see that message, your resume is left exactly as it was, and your credits go back automatically.

Read it before you rely on it

Since the rewrite lands in the editor without a review step, read the whole resume through before you export it or send it anywhere. The bolded keywords show you where the AI worked, so start there and check that every claim it made is one you can stand behind in an interview.

More on AI optimization

The optimize your resume with AI page covers what the AI changes and what it deliberately leaves alone.