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Present your real experience

Prepare a truthful, role-focused application

Use a job description and your actual experience to prepare resume bullets, a cover note, and interview practice.

A fictional example was checked by the author against the acceptance criteria. No model was run.

Your three-step path

Start here, then build on it

Open each official resource when you are ready.

  1. 01Free resource

    Match your resume to the role

    Compare your supplied resume with the role and keep every claim grounded in your experience.

    Official resource · Improve a resume for a job · English

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  2. 02Free resource

    Practise an interview

    Answer role-specific practice questions and refine structure using your own examples.

    Official resource · Practise a job interview · English

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  3. 03Free resource

    Research with evidence

    Organise supplied company or role information and separate evidence from assumptions.

    Official resource · Research with evidence · English

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The result

What you will prepare

Leave with targeted application drafts and a list of evidence to gather before applying.

  • Five resume bullet rewrites based on actual experience
  • A concise cover note
  • Interview practice with one question at a time

Before you begin

Have these details ready

  • Resume with contact details removed
  • The specific job description and its date or source
  • Examples of work, results, and skills you can substantiate

Share only information needed for the task. Remove passwords, secrets, and personal details that are not required.

Illustration

A fictional worked example

Example checked. A fictional example was checked against the path checklist. No model was run.

A fictional applicant for a junior support role provides a resume showing six months of campus help-desk volunteering and a dated job notice. Drafts reuse only those details and flag a requested ticket-volume metric as missing. Each resume claim stays inside that supplied example. The role requirements are copied from the dated job notice. Dates and the help-desk qualification are only what the resume states. Contact details were removed before the example was written.

Your final pass

Review before you use it

  • Can you support each resume claim with a real example?
  • Are role requirements copied accurately from the job notice?
  • Are dates, tools, and qualifications correct?
  • Have you removed personal contact details from material shared with an assistant?

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