Demand a Strong Verb

action-verb constraints

Part of: Resume Bullet Booster

The biggest tell of a weak resume is the opener. "Responsible for," "Helped with," "Worked on," "Assisted with," "Duties included": every one of them reads as someone who watched the work happen. Strong bullets start with a past-tense action verb you owned: Led, Built, Shipped, Cut, Grew, Automated, Negotiated. This lesson makes your tool enforce that. Two ways to enforce the verb You have two levers, and good tools pull both: 1. Constrain the prompt. Tell the model to start with a strong past-tense action verb and ban weak openers outright. This is where the quality actually comes from. 2. Verify the output. The prompt is a strong suggestion, not a guarantee. After cleaning the reply, check the opener yourself and reject bullets that still start weak. Why check when you already asked Because "asked" and "guaranteed" are different words. A model that follows your rule 95% of the time still ships a weak bullet one run in twenty, and on a resume the weak line is the one a recruiter notices. The verification is cheap: a lowercase-and-startswith scan over a short list. When it fails, you'll retry the call (lesson 6). You prompt for quality and verify for reliability, and that pairing s

Challenge: Reject Weak Openers