AI Can't Polish an Empty Resume: Harvard Guide Plus Prompts to Surface Real Results
thisguyknowsai · x · 2026-09-21
The closing post in the AI resume prompt series. The author's core argument: AI can polish a sentence all day, but it can't hand you a result you never got. Your results are already sitting in your old jobs; these prompts just make you dig them out.
The post shares Prompt 7, "The interview check": have the AI read your final resume like a tough interviewer, write the hardest follow-up question it would ask about every bullet, and flag any line you'd struggle to back up with a real story. The author stresses this is the step most people skip: if you can't talk about a line for 60 seconds, it doesn't belong on the page.
It links to Harvard's full resume guide from the Mignone Center for Career Success.
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