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Getting the Best Out of Your New Resume

Your resume from Ratedhighly isn’t the final draft, it’s your base for every future application. Learn how our AI resume builder makes edits, gives recommendations and helps you create an ATS-friendly resume tailored to each job.

July 22, 20257 min readby Ratedhighly Team

Your resume is never really finished. It should adapt and evolve every time you apply for a new role. That’s why the version you get from Ratedhighly isn’t just a polished document - it’s the foundation for all your future applications. Our AI resume builder makes factual edits that improve clarity, alignment and ATS-readiness, but it also leaves you with recommendations that only you can complete.

We do this deliberately. Some details about your career can’t simply be guessed or generated. For example, only you know whether you led a project or supported it, or whether your work delivered a measurable business outcome. Our system can flag where those details would add impact, but we won’t invent them. This balance means you can trust that your tailored resume reflects both the truth of your experience and the language hiring managers are looking for.

What Actually Changes

When your resume is processed, the AI aligns your wording to match the job description more closely. It reorders bullet points so the most relevant achievements appear first, and it highlights any metrics you already included so they don’t get buried. If your experience clearly shows you used a tool or technology — say, AWS Lambda as part of building a serverless API — we’ll make that explicit. These are edits that sharpen your message without changing the facts.

Why Recommendations Matter

Not everything can be edited automatically. If a role would benefit from showing impact in numbers, we’ll recommend where to add them — but we won’t make them up. If the job description mentions a skill you don’t have on your CV, we’ll suggest raising it in a cover letter rather than sneaking it in. This way, your resume stays both competitive and defensible in an interview.

The recommendations also serve as a roadmap for improving your resume over time. They highlight where your story could be stronger, where extra detail would help, and where alignment with a job description is possible but unproven. Updating your resume outside of Ratedhighly with these notes means your document gets sharper every time you use it.

A Living Document

Think of the resume you receive as your new base. For your next application, use it as a starting point, then layer in the recommendations that make sense. Over time, your resume evolves into something far more powerful: ATS-friendly for recruiters and job boards, written in the right language for your industry, and completely aligned with your real experience.

This is why we don’t simply add everything for you. Anyone can stuff keywords into a resume, but that risks creating a document you can’t stand behind. Our approach keeps the balance between optimisation and authenticity.

The Bottom Line

A resume is not an autobiography - it’s a marketing document. Ratedhighly helps you market yourself more effectively by polishing what’s already there, surfacing the strongest parts of your experience, and showing you where to strengthen the rest. The edits give you immediate improvements. The recommendations give you the confidence to keep building. Together, they form a resume that grows with you, adapts to every job, and always reflects the truth.

Your next application shouldn’t start from scratch. It should start from your new Ratedhighly resume.

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