Hiring managers spend an average of 7.4 seconds scanning a resume before deciding whether it advances. Seven seconds. That's not enough time to read your responsibilities. It's barely enough time to register a name and a few bullet points. So most resume advice (generic, recycled, formatted like a PDF from 2007) fails at exactly the moment it needs to work.
AI changes this, but not in the way most people think. The goal isn't to let AI write your resume so it sounds like every other AI-written resume. The goal is to use it as a coach: something that pushes back, asks the right questions, and helps you articulate what you actually did and why it matters.
The 24 prompts below cover the full arc of your career, from the first resume you've ever touched to the salary negotiation you've been dreading. They're organized by situation, not by category, because that's how real career problems actually arrive.
Resume Writing: Documents That Get Past the First Seven Seconds
75% of resumes are filtered out by ATS before a human ever reads them. These prompts fix the most common reasons why.
Your Bullet Points Are Job Descriptions, Not Accomplishments
"Responsible for managing client accounts" describes a task, not a result. The Resume Bullet Point Writer takes your raw responsibilities and turns them into impact statements with action verbs and numbers. It asks follow-up questions ("Did you manage a budget? A team? A deadline?"), which is what a good career coach would do, except it takes thirty seconds.
The First Sentence Nobody Gets Right
The professional summary at the top of your resume is the most-read, least-thought-about section. Most sound like horoscopes: "Results-driven professional seeking a challenging role." The Professional Summary Generator builds yours around what you actually bring to a specific role. Two or three sentences that tell a recruiter exactly who you are.
When the Summary Isn't Enough: Career Objectives for Specific Contexts
If you're early in your career, re-entering the workforce, or switching industries, a summary alone won't explain the gap. The Career Objectives Generator creates a targeted objective statement for the top of your resume. It's not a replacement for a summary; it's a different tool for a different moment.
The Cover Letter Nobody Skips Anymore
When two candidates have similar experience, the one who addressed the actual job description gets the call. The Cover Letter Writer builds a personalized letter from your background and the role's requirements. The output reads like someone who thought about the job, not someone who delegated to a template.
Letters of Interest for Jobs That Aren't Posted
Some of the best jobs get filled through cold outreach before they're ever posted. The Letter of Interest Generator writes one that's specific enough to be worth reading, positioned so your name's already in someone's inbox when a role opens. Different from a cover letter: no listing, no job requirements, just a case for why you belong there.
Job Search and Applications: Before You Hit Send
250 applications is the average number candidates submit before landing a job. These prompts cut the wasted effort.
Tailoring Takes Time You Don't Have
Seventy-five percent of resumes are filtered by ATS before a human sees them. The fix is tailoring, but doing it for every application takes hours. The Skills Assessment gives you a full inventory of your professional skills (hard, soft, transferable, gaps) so you can match specific job requirements with precision instead of guesswork.
When You Need to Change Direction Entirely
Career changes are hard to explain on paper. You've got relevant experience, but it doesn't map to the new title, and recruiters see the gap and move on. The Career Change Planner identifies which skills transfer, which you need to build, and how to frame your history so the gap reads as intentional. It also gives you a realistic timeline, which is more useful than optimism.
SMART Goals for the Long Game
Most people treat their career as a series of jobs rather than a path. The Career Goals Generator builds SMART goals with quarterly milestones. Not a motivational poster. A plan with actual checkpoints, so six months from now you know whether you're on track.
Interview Preparation: What You Say When the Stakes Are High
33% of hiring managers decide within the first 90 seconds of an interview whether they'll extend an offer. Preparation is the only variable you control.
Behavioral Questions Catch People Off Guard for a Reason
"Tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult coworker." Most candidates either give a generic answer or freeze. The Interview Answer Coach preps you for exactly these moments using the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result). It pushes back when your answers are too vague and highlights what's working when your answer is specific enough to be credible.
The Salary Conversation Most People Lose Before It Starts
The moment an interviewer asks "What are your salary expectations?" most people give away their position. Too early, too low, no anchor. The Salary Negotiation Coach prepares you with scripts for lowball offers, "name a number first" traps, and "the offer is firm" conversations. Also covers non-salary compensation (vacation, remote, signing bonuses), where a lot of value gets left on the table.
LinkedIn and Professional Presence: What Recruiters See Before You Apply
87% of recruiters use LinkedIn to vet candidates, and profiles with optimized headlines get 2x more search appearances.
Your LinkedIn Profile Is a Passive Job Application
Recruiters search LinkedIn constantly, and your profile either shows up or it doesn't. The LinkedIn Profile Optimizer rewrites your headline, About section, and experience bullets for both search visibility and recruiter appeal. The two goals occasionally conflict: keyword-heavy headlines rank well but read like spam. This prompt finds the balance.
Performance and Career Development: Documents for Where You Already Are
80% of employees say they'd rather get continuous feedback than sit through an annual review. These prompts make both sides of that conversation more useful.
Self-Evaluations That Don't Sound Like a Confession
Most self-evaluations go one of two ways: underselling everything out of modesty, or overclaiming on projects that were team efforts. The Self Evaluation generates a self-assessment built around what you actually accomplished, with language calibrated for a performance review. Says what you did without the false modesty or the resume inflation.
Performance Reviews That Don't Put People to Sleep
"She's a team player" tells the person being reviewed exactly nothing. The Performance Review Template generates structured reviews by role and contribution level with specific, evidence-based language. Useful whether you're a manager writing them or an employee reading yours and wondering what it actually means.
One-on-Ones Are Only Useful If They're Structured
Without structure, the weekly 1:1 becomes a status update. The One on One Meeting Template generates a customized agenda covering goals, blockers, development topics, and feedback in a format both parties can prepare for in advance. The difference between a useful 1:1 and a wasted one is usually just an agenda.
Meeting Notes That Actually Capture Decisions
Raw meeting notes are half context, a quarter attribution, and mostly useless two weeks later. The Meeting Notes Template transforms rough notes into structured summaries with clear action items, owners, and deadlines. It removes the archaeology from "figuring out what we decided."
Leaving Well: Documents for Exits Done Professionally
Nearly 40% of professionals say they've burned a bridge during a job exit they later regretted. These prompts keep the departure clean.
Two Weeks Is a Courtesy. Make It Count.
The way you leave a job is part of your professional record. The Two Weeks Notice Letter generates a professional resignation letter that's direct, warm enough to maintain the relationship, and free of the passive aggression most people are tempted to include. For more formal contexts, pair it with the Resignation Letter Template.
What Exit Interviews Are Actually For
Most employees treat exit interviews as a chance to finally say everything they held back. That's rarely useful and sometimes harmful. The Exit Interview Questions generates thoughtful, constructive questions from the HR perspective, useful for HR teams designing the process and for departing employees who want to give feedback that actually lands.
HR and Workplace Documents: Things Organizations Need Built
20% of new hires leave within the first 45 days, and poor onboarding is the most-cited reason. These prompts build the documents that prevent it.
Job Descriptions That Attract the Right People
Most job descriptions are requirement lists written by people who've never done the job. The Job Description Template generates postings with inclusive language, clear expectations, and prioritized requirements that distinguish "must have" from "nice to have." The result is a description that attracts the right candidates instead of filtering out qualified ones.
Onboarding Checklists That Don't Leave People Hanging
The first two weeks at a new job are when people decide whether they made the right choice. The Onboarding Checklist Generator builds new hire checklists by role and department: systems access, introductions, documentation, initial goals, and the smaller things (laptop setup, where to find the kitchen) that get forgotten because they seem obvious.
Training Plans That Actually Stick
Training without structure is just exposure. The Training Plan Template creates a learning plan with timelines, objectives, and milestones. Works for managers building onboarding, L&D teams designing skill tracks, and individuals who'd rather own their own development than wait for HR to schedule it.
Employee Handbooks That People Actually Read
Employee handbooks are universally necessary and universally ignored. The Employee Handbook Generator creates handbook sections by topic (PTO, code of conduct, benefits) in language that's clear enough to be useful rather than just legally defensive. It doesn't replace an employment attorney, but it gives you a solid draft.
Workplace Communication: Email When It Matters
The average professional sends 40 emails per day, and AI adoption in workplace communication grew 37% year-over-year in 2024 (LinkedIn Workforce Report). These prompts handle the ones that actually matter.
Work Email Is Its Own Genre
There's a version of every workplace email that gets ignored and a version that gets a response. The difference is usually format, tone, and clarity of the ask. The Work Email Writer generates professional emails for any situation: follow-ups, escalations, difficult vendor conversations, asking for something without sounding demanding.
Reference Letters That Carry Weight
A weak reference letter says "this person worked for me and was fine." The Reference Letter Template generates structured letters with specific evidence: the project, the challenge, the measurable result. It sounds like someone who actually paid attention, not someone who agreed to write a letter and then had nothing to say.
Tips for Using These Without Sounding Like AI Wrote Your Resume
Give it your real story, not a summary. "Increased revenue" gets you generic output. "Grew enterprise account renewals from 67% to 84% over 18 months by redesigning the QBR process" gets you a bullet point worth keeping. The Resume Bullet Point Writer works with either. Only one produces something a recruiter stops on.
Tailor before you submit anything. The Cover Letter Writer and Professional Summary Generator produce strong first drafts. They're first drafts. Read them. Adjust anything that doesn't sound like you.
Use the interview prompts before you need them. The Interview Answer Coach and Salary Negotiation Coach work better over several sessions than once the morning of. Prep that happened over two weeks feels different in the room than prep that happened over two hours.
Don't skip career development prompts because you're not looking. The Self Evaluation, Career Goals Generator, and Skills Assessment are most useful when you're not in crisis. Running a skills assessment while you're comfortable tells you what to build before you need it.
Exit well. The Two Weeks Notice Letter and Resignation Letter Template exist because the way you leave is part of the impression you leave. Industries are smaller than they look.