Tailor your resume to the job description, without making anything up

Inside the ATS, recruiters search for specific titles and skills. When they open your resume, they skim it to check the profile fits the brief. A generic resume makes them guess: does your "team coordination" count as the "people management" they asked for? More often than not, nobody stops to translate.

So tailoring your resume is not about bending the truth. It is about presenting the same facts, in the order and the words that speak to this particular hiring manager.

Start with the job description, not your resume. Find the three to five requirements that are repeated or listed first; those are what candidates get screened on. Then, for each one, find where your resume proves it. If the proof exists but sits at the bottom of an old role, move it up. If you phrased it differently, borrow the posting's wording.

Quantify where you can, but only with real numbers: team size, budget, volume, turnaround time. Trim roles that have nothing to do with the job instead of detailing them. And never claim a tool or certification you don't have; the gap shows up in the interview, sometimes as early as the technical screen.

Give the top of the page extra care, because it is read first. If the posting's job title genuinely matches what you are going for, use it in your headline, then sum up in two or three lines why you fit this particular role. And keep a complete master resume with every role and achievement, then derive one version per application from it, so nothing gets lost along the way.

That is exactly the framework MIA CV follows. The AI works only from the content of your original resume, flags what is missing instead of filling it in, and lets you choose which improvements to apply.

Applying abroad means switching conventions too. In the US and the UK, drop the photo, age and marital status, and keep a US resume tight, often to one page. German employers expect a factual, reverse-chronological Lebenslauf, and a photo is still common there. In Spain and Italy photos are common as well, and Italian CVs usually end with a line authorizing the processing of personal data. Rewriting your resume in the language of the job, rather than translating it, also lets you use the job titles people actually use in that market.