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A resume header takes up little space, but it has a specific job: to identify you, give employers reliable ways to contact you, and provide useful professional information without unnecessary detail.

Fresh graduates sometimes include too much information: a full street address, date of birth, marital status, several links, or a generic career statement. Others use an old, informal email address or repeat information that already appears elsewhere.

Large language models (LLMs) can help review these details systematically. The most useful approach is to begin with a general evaluation and then give the LLM narrowly defined refinement tasks. Instead of asking it to “improve my header,” you can ask it to evaluate only the email address, location, personal information, professional links, or redundancy.

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A resume should do more than describe what you were responsible for. It should help employers understand what you can contribute to their organization.

Consider the difference between these two resume statements:

Duty-based statement:

• Responsible for managing social media accounts and creating content.

Achievement-oriented statement:

• Planned and published weekly content across three social media channels, using engagement data to refine content topics and the publishing schedule.

The first statement describes a responsibility. The second gives the employer a clearer picture of what the candidate actually did, how they approached the work, and how they used evidence to improve their contribution.

But what if you are a recent graduate who has never held a full-time job? What if you have no formal work experience, limited internship exposure, or only a few part-time jobs?

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