Make It Count

quantifying bullets

Part of: Resume Bullet Booster

"Improved the onboarding process" is forgettable. "Cut onboarding from 5 days to 2, raising 30-day retention 18%" gets you hired. The difference is numbers . A quantified bullet hands a recruiter something concrete to picture and compare. This lesson makes your tool push for metrics and flag the bullets that still don't have any. The rewrite prompt should ask for numbers The model can't invent true numbers, since it doesn't know your metrics, but it can ask you for them and use any you provide. So the rewrite instruction does two things: it bakes numbers in when the task mentions them, and it drops in a clear placeholder when it doesn't, so you fill the gap instead of shipping a vague line. A bullet that comes back as "Reduced ticket backlog by [X%]" is doing its job: it's telling you exactly what fact would make it strong. Detecting whether a bullet is quantified After the rewrite, check whether real numbers made it in. The simplest reliable signal is: does the bullet contain a digit? That single line catches percentages, counts, dollar amounts, and time spans, anything with a digit 0 through 9 in it. It's a heuristic, not a proof (a bullet could say "doubled" in words), but it fl

Challenge: Flag the Vague Bullets