Help / Tailoring and approval

Read the before and after diff

Every change is shown next to the line it replaces, with a reason that names two words. How to read it, and when to reject one.

Every tool on the market renders its edits as "improved wording" or "optimised for ATS". Neither can be checked, so people keep all of them, including the wrong ones.

Here each change names the employer's word and your word.

What a change looks like

The posting asks for "stakeholder management"; your bullet said "worked with clients".

Under it sit the two versions of the line: what you wrote, and what it would become. You keep it or you drop it.

That sentence is checkable in four seconds against two documents you already have. It is also an admission: it says the product changed your words, names both, and invites you to reverse it. A rewording you can see and undo is a suggestion you accepted. A silent one is a claim made on your behalf.

The headline number

The count at the top is literal: how many of the posting's keywords appear on the page word for word, before and after.

Both are honest and they answer different things. The literal one is used in the headline because it is the only one that moves when the rewrite does its job, and because you can verify it by opening the document and searching for the word.

How to read the list

1. Read the reason first. If it does not name a word from the posting and a word from your line, something is wrong and you should say so.
2. Check the change is still true. You are the only person who knows whether "led" is fair for what you did.
3. Watch your numbers. A rewrite that removed a measurement you wrote is refused before you see it, but a reorder can still move one down the page. If your best figure is now on page two, promote that bullet back.
4. Reject freely. A rejected change costs nothing. A kept change you cannot defend costs an interview.

The kinds of change you will see

• Reordered. Same words, different position.
• Reworded. Your work in the posting's vocabulary.
• Restored. A bullet from your own CV that a page fit had removed, swapped back in place of a lower-relevance line.
• Offered. Evidence from an answer you typed before, with the date you wrote it, waiting for a yes.
• Unchanged. Nothing to say to this employer, so nothing was said.

After the diff

The ATS compliance screen reads the generated document the way a parser will. Findings there are usually about the document we built rather than about your history, and they are fixable without touching your words: see what the checkers do.

Then the last read-through, and only then a file. Nothing downloads on its own, which is the subject of why nothing finalises without you.