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How to prepare an application for a job

When a role is worth going after, Resumonk helps you build the application. It rewrites a copy of your resume in the role's language, shows you the honest gaps, and drafts a cover letter.

  1. Open a match from your Jobs page and click Prepare application.

  2. Wait while it works. It usually takes about a minute, and you can leave the page: the work keeps running and the result waits for you on Your resumes.

    The preparing screen, explaining that it rewrites a copy of your resume, finds the gaps and drafts a cover letter
    The screen says what it will do, and what it will not do, before it does it.
  3. Open the result and read it. The rewritten resume and the letter are yours to edit; the gaps and the trim suggestions are there to read.

What you get

  • A job version of your resume, written in the language of that posting. Your base resume is never touched.
  • The gaps: what the posting asks for that your resume does not show. These are gaps, not suggestions to fabricate. Add them only if you actually have them.
  • A draft cover letter, grounded in your resume and the posting. It is a draft, not your words yet, and the editor says so.

Good to know

  • Resumonk never sends anything. It prepares; you decide what to send and when.
  • Nothing is invented. Every line leans on something already in your resume or in the posting.
  • Read the letter before you use it. A drafted letter that you have not made your own reads like one.
  • Preparing applications is part of the Professional and Executive plans, with no counter to watch. There is a daily limit set high enough that ordinary use never meets it.