Five choices that turn "help me with my resume" into a prompt that produces something usable, plus the list of things you should never paste in.
Generic in, generic out. "Help me improve my resume" produces something that reads like every other resume, because you gave it nothing that was true only of you. A prompt that works has five parts and most people supply one. They are not hard to add, they are just easy to forget.
Task, role, level, tone and constraint. The preview updates as you go.
A real detail or a number. Without it the output is still a template.
Ready to copy, plus what you should never paste into any AI tool.
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"Help me improve my resume" gets you something that reads like every other resume, because you gave it nothing that was true only of you. The model is not being lazy. It is filling gaps you left, and it fills them with the average of everything it has seen.
A prompt that produces something usable has five parts. Most people supply one. The parts are not hard to add, they are just easy to forget, which is why this makes you pick each one rather than leaving a blank box.
There is also a part almost nobody covers, which is what you should never paste in. That is at the bottom and it matters more than the prompt does.
Step one
Build the prompt
Five choices. The preview updates as you go, and any part you skip shows up as a hole in it.
Step two
Add the one thing only you know
This is the part that makes the output yours rather than anyone's. A real detail, a number, a situation. Without it, the rest is still a template.