AI Resume Tailoring

Use AI to rewrite your resume for a specific job, then review, accept, or reject each suggested change before saving a tailored version.

Written By Aplyr Support

Last updated About 2 hours ago

  • Tailoring rewrites your existing resume to better match a specific job, surfacing each edit as a suggestion you can accept or reject.
  • You stay in control: nothing changes until you review the suggestions and save a new tailored version. Your original resume is never overwritten.
  • AI resume tailoring is included on higher plans, with a monthly tailoring allowance.

Tailoring takes the resume you already uploaded and reworks it for one job description, then shows you a clear before-and-after for every change. You decide what stays. This article covers what tailoring does, how to tailor to a specific job, reviewing suggestions, and your monthly quota.

How to tailor your resume to a job

  1. Go to Documents and find the Tailored Resumes section.
  2. In the Tailor from a job posting URL card, paste the link to the job you want to apply to and press Enter or submit it.
  3. Aplyr reads the posting and generates a tailored draft from your default resume. This takes a moment.
  4. Open the new draft to launch the editor, where every change is listed as a suggestion grouped by section (summary, experience, skills, and projects).
  5. Review each suggestion and choose Accept or Reject (see below).
  6. When you're happy, choose Save & Finalize to save the tailored version, or Download to grab a PDF.
💡 Tip Tailoring works best when your base resume is already complete and parses cleanly. If sections look empty or wrong, fix the source first — see Troubleshooting resume parsing.

What tailoring actually changes

Tailoring keeps your real experience and reframes how it's presented for the target role. It typically rewrites your summary, sharpens experience and project bullet points to mirror the job's language, and suggests skills to add or remove based on the posting. It does not invent jobs, employers, or accomplishments you didn't list — it works from the resume you provided.

The result is saved as a separate tailored resume, so your original stays exactly as it was. You can tailor the same base resume to as many different jobs as your quota allows.

Reviewing, accepting, and rejecting suggestions

Each suggestion shows the Original text next to the proposed edit so you can see precisely what changed. For every one you can:

  • Accept — apply that change to the tailored version.
  • Reject — discard it and keep your original wording.

To move faster, use Accept All or Reject All on a section, then fine-tune individual lines. The editor keeps a running count of how many changes are accepted, and tells you how many will be applied when you save. You can also edit any line by hand before finalizing.

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📌 Note Rejecting every suggestion is fine — you'll simply get a tailored copy that matches your original. Nothing is saved until you choose Save & Finalize.

Your monthly tailoring quota

AI resume tailoring is available on higher plans, and each plan includes a set number of resume tailors per month. Aplyr shows your remaining allowance in the banner above the Tailored Resumes section, and one tailor is used each time you generate a new tailored draft. Reviewing, re-accepting, or downloading an existing draft doesn't cost anything extra.

Your tailoring allowance is separate from your application credits — tailoring uses tailors, applying uses credits. If you run low, you can upgrade your plan for a larger monthly allowance. Check your current plan and limits on the Billing page.

⚠️ Warning Once you've reviewed a tailored draft, accept or reject before you leave — and finalize the version you want to keep, since that's the resume you can select when you apply.

Good to know

  • A tailored resume becomes a selectable document, so you can choose it when you Quick Apply to that role.
  • You can always go back and re-open a tailored draft to change which suggestions are accepted.
  • Tailoring needs a clear, complete base resume — the better your source, the better the suggestions.