About how long, on average, do you spend tweaking your resume? For me I take about half a day

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If I'm just tweaking it, not very long at all, could be a few minutes. However, what I will do if time permits is put it aside and look at it the next day or even after two days. That way if anything looks odd or there's a typo or whatever, I'll have a better chance of catching it. I've sometimes customized my resume for various jobs, and I'm careful then to file away the customized versions so I don't get them confused at some future point.

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15-20 mins

Depends on how much I want the job, which probably doesn’t come off great, but that is the truth. I’ve spent hours going over my resume and a cover letter for a job, and others I just send what I already have on it. Matching keywords is important, but only so much time in a day.

20-30 minutes thanks to ChatGPT

Do you mean for each job you are applying to you spend half a day tweaking your resume? I definitely don't spend more than 20-30 minutes on my resume. I have started using ChatGPT to do my resume work for me and it has made my life a lot easier and saved me a lot of time. I would highly suggest using it OP.

Yeah. I use Resume Worded, it’s an AI platform for writing resumes and cover letters, but I have to re-tweak certain bullets for mundane reasons (too long, conflicting “errors,” not including soft skills, etc). Granted I shouldn’t get frustrated and give it my full attention so I can get it over with as soon as possible, but rewriting those sections with low scores does take up a lot of time. I’ll consider using Chat GPT or something similar for that

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