What problem does it solve?
Writing a professional CV or bio summary that passes both ATS keyword scanners and human recruiter review is extremely difficult: most drafts are rejected for being too cliché, too keyword-stuffed, or structurally fragmented. This skill eliminates that guesswork by providing a proven 6-rule recipe forged through 12 real drafting iterations, cutting iteration time from 12 cycles to 1-2 and ensuring summaries hit both ATS density targets and recruiter readability standards.
Core Features & Use Cases
- 6-Rule One-Sentence Recipe: Enforces a slot-based template that balances 30+ ATS-scored keywords with single-breath readability for recruiters, with hard guardrails against banned clichés, standalone verbs, and slash-chain acronyms.
- 12-Iteration Anti-Pattern Library: Documents specific rejected drafts and failure modes to avoid common rejection triggers like verb-first openers, artificial delivery arcs, and overcorrection during edits.
- Iterative Collaboration Protocol: Prevents costly overcorrection when reviewers say "almost there" by enforcing a present-approve-apply workflow with surgical-only edits for flagged phrases.
- ATS & Deployment Guidance: Includes keyword density targets, twin-concept redundancy avoidance patterns, soft skills tail templates, and PDF filename conventions for recruiter-facing downloads.
- Use Cases: Draft new CV header summaries, refine LinkedIn About sections, audit existing professional bios for buzzwords and recipe violations, add soft skills without breaking structure, merge related ATS keywords without redundancy, and rename CV PDFs for professional presentation.
Quick Start
Use the cv-summary-writing skill to draft a one-sentence professional summary for a senior full-stack engineer's CV that includes Vue 3, React, performance optimization, and end-to-end ownership.