Resume prompt — why one line gives you a form

What goes wrong

What came back was a resume template, not a resume: 532 words with 36 blanks left to fill. The summary opened with “Sales professional with five years of experience at a major Korean company. Specific products, markets, customer segments, sales responsibilities, and verifiable achievements require further confirmation.”

Every line of the experience section was a slot: the employer's registered English name, the products sold, the accounts covered. Those are the things only you know, so filling them is the work you already had.

Why it happens

The instruction is built not to invent experience, so it stops where the facts run out. One slot in that run spelled the rule out: “[입력 필요: 성과 수치가 없다면 수치를 만들지 말고 실제 업무를 정성적으로 기술]”. If there is no number, describe the work instead of making one up.

Dates get the same treatment. The run told the reader to keep one format per employer, order roles newest first, and not to guess an order when dates are missing. Every place where a guess was possible became a blank, which is how you end up with 36 of them.

So the fix is in the request, not the model. Put the material in and the same instruction returns a draft.

What to put in the request

1. Employer, dates, title — one line each

“Five years in sales” carries a duration and nothing else. Give each role its employer, its start and end dates, and your title. If you would rather not name the employer yet, mask it; what matters first is that the roles have shape and order.

2. Separate what you did from what changed

A resume bullet that says you were “responsible for” something hides the result inside the duty. Write the duty and the outcome as two things and they come out as two things.

3. Put a source next to every number

Say where the figure comes from: the quarterly review, the dashboard, the invoice. An interviewer will ask, and a number you cannot source is better left out than left in.

4. Paste the posting's requirements

Copy the requirements from the posting and the instruction writes toward them. Being asked for a skill is not the same as having used it, though. Anything you have not actually done stays a blank, and that is the honest outcome.

5. For US applications, say which kind

A private-sector resume and a federal one are different documents: the federal version wants hours per week, supervisor details and specialized experience spelled out. Say which one you are writing, and paste the announcement if there is one.

Before you send it

• Every role has an employer, dates and a title
• Duties and results are written as separate lines
• Each number says where it came from
• Only the posting requirements you have actually done appear
• Page limit and required format are stated

Once those five hold, put them into the career fields and make the prompt. Blanks that survive are not a failure. They are the questions an interviewer is going to ask you anyway.