New Graduate Resume Audit

Score a first resume and fix what hiring managers skip.

Added October 15, 2026. Written with AI assistance and checked for clarity and placeholders; not reviewed by a lawyer, accountant, clinician or other professional. How these prompts are made

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Audit my resume as a new graduate with little paid experience. Resume text: [RESUME_TEXT]. Degree and projects: [DEGREE_PROJECTS]. Target roles: [TARGET_ROLES].

Check whether the top third proves relevance without an objective statement, whether projects, coursework and part-time jobs are written as outcomes instead of duties, whether the education section is too prominent, and whether skills are listed without evidence. Look for padding, vague verbs, inconsistent dates and anything that would not survive an interview question.

Score the resume from 1 to 10 on relevance, evidence, clarity, formatting and honesty, then list the five weakest lines with a rewritten version of each, using only facts I gave you. Finish with a red, amber or green verdict and a ten-minute fix list ordered by impact.

Add a check of the layout for one page, margins, fonts and the order of sections, plus a review of the email address and links. Suggest which two projects to expand and which to delete, and a short plan for collecting a reference from a lecturer or supervisor.

Then plan the application campaign around the improved resume. Build a tracker with columns for employer, role, date, version of resume used, contact person, status and follow-up date, and show how to record what happened so that I can learn from outcomes. Suggest how to choose which roles to apply for in a week, with a rule such as three well-matched applications for every ten quick ones, and how to tailor the top third of the resume in fifteen minutes without rewriting the document. Draft a networking message of under 90 words to a graduate from my university who works at a target employer, and a thank-you note after a call. Prepare a one-minute introduction that I can say aloud, using only facts from my materials. Add a list of questions I should ask at the end of an interview, and a plan for handling rejection that treats it as information, not as a verdict on me.

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Sample findings (invented resume, marketing graduate)
Scores: relevance 6, evidence 4, clarity 7, formatting 8, honesty 9.
Weakest lines: "Responsible for social media" (duty, no result); "Excellent communication skills" (claim, no proof); "Group project on branding" (no role stated).
Rewrite: "Planned and posted 24 Instagram stories for a student society (3 months); followers rose from 410 to 530, tracked in the platform's own report."
Verdict: amber. Ten-minute fixes: move the projects section above education; delete the objective line; add the society's name and dates; replace three duty lines with outcomes using real numbers only.

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