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A work experience section that only repeats a job description is hard to remember. Readers want to know what you did, in what situation and what came of it. The method below turns a list of duties into short, specific lines you can verify, and it works for any profession.
Start each line with an action
Instead of “Responsible for customer relations”, write what you did: “Logged customer requests, passed them to the right teams and followed up until each one was resolved.” Even one short sentence makes the work easier to picture. Start with a verb in the same tense throughout: past tense for finished jobs and present tense for your current one.
Add context
Say which product, process or team you worked with. “Prepared reports” becomes “Prepared weekly sales reports comparing results by region”, which is far more distinctive. Context also helps readers outside your field understand the scale of your work. Do not share confidential company information, client names or internal figures.
Mention the result if you know it
Use only accurate figures you could explain in an interview. If you have no data, do not invent a percentage; describe what came out of the work instead: “Wrote a guide for new staff explaining the application steps.” A result does not always have to be a number. A document, a smoother process or a task you took over from someone are all valid outcomes.
One idea per bullet
Split long paragraphs into separate lines, and do not repeat the same responsibility in different words. Three to five lines per role is usually plenty, with the most relevant first. Keep your tenses consistent within each job, and use the same date format throughout, for example “2022 – Present” or “Mar 2021 – Jun 2023”.
Match the wording of the job advert, honestly
If the advert asks for “reporting in SQL” and you did that, say which report you built and how. Copying every keyword from the advert, hiding text in white or listing skills you do not have is not a good approach and tends to show in the interview. Use the employer’s terms only where they accurately describe your real experience.
Edit the assistant’s suggestion
An AI assistant can help you produce a first draft, and the CvBix assistant puts what you tell it into the right fields. You are still the one who has to check that every line matches work you actually did. Remove anything you did not do, correct dates and names, and rewrite lines in your own voice so you can talk about them comfortably.
A before-and-after example
Fictional “before”: “Worked in the warehouse and did deliveries.” Fictional “after”: “Prepared outgoing orders against the delivery list, checked quantities before loading and reported missing items to the shift manager.” The second version names the actions and shows care without claiming results that may not exist. Write your own version from your real tasks.
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Frequently asked questions
How many bullet points per job?
Three to five relevant lines is a good range. Put the most relevant first and shorten older roles.
Should I include numbers?
Only if they are real and you can explain them. Without reliable data, describe the work instead of estimating.