Recruiter Tone Pass

# Prompt 04 — Recruiter Tone Pass

**Goal:** make the resume survive the **6-second recruiter scan** — the moment a recruiter glances at your bullets and decides whether to read more or move on.

**Use when:** the resume is technically clean and de-buzzworded, but reading it still feels flat. This is the *final tone pass*, after Prompts 01–03.

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## What "recruiter tone" actually means

It's not about being clever, witty, or impressive. It's about three things:

1. **Scannability** — can a recruiter answer "what does this person actually do?" in 6 seconds?
2. **Concrete anchors** — does every bullet contain at least one thing a recruiter could ask a follow-up question about?
3. **No symmetry** — do the bullets *not* all have the same shape, length, and rhythm?

A resume that fails the recruiter tone pass usually has bullets that are individually fine but, when read together, sound like a list of variations on the same sentence.

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## Variables

- `{{BULLETS}}` — the cleaned bullets from a single experience entry (3–8 bullets)
- `{{ROLE_CONTEXT}}` — one short line describing the role and company (e.g. "Senior Backend Engineer at Stripe, payments team")

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## Prompt (copy-paste into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini)