Practical AI
No. 7.01Track 7 · Job seekers

Turn rough notes into a one-page resume

Lesson 1 of 55 min read1 task · 3 questions

Write what you did in plain words. The AI puts it in order. You keep it true.

The idea

A blank resume template is hard to start. Rough notes are easy. Write what you studied, where you worked, what you did each day and what went well. Spelling and order do not matter yet.

A clear one-page resume has four sections: Summary, Experience, Education and Skills. Each experience bullet starts with an action word and ends with a result. "Handled customer calls" is weak. "Answered calls from shop owners and gave them clear parcel updates" is stronger.

One rule matters more than the format: every line must be true. Tell the AI not to add skills, degrees or numbers that you did not give it. If a line needs a number, it must ask you. You must be able to talk about every line in an interview.

Use any free chatbot: ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or Claude. Then copy the result into Google Docs and fix the layout there.

Your task

Build a one-page resume from rough notes

Use the sample notes first. Then do it again with your own notes. Keep your real phone number and address out of the chat. Type them into the document yourself.

Your slip: copy-paste prompt
Turn my rough notes into a one-page resume.

Notes:
- B.Com, 2023, a college in Nagpur
- 1.5 years at a small courier company, back office
- I updated delivery records in Excel every day
- I took calls from shop owners about late parcels
- I made a daily late-parcel list for my manager, about 30 parcels a day
- Languages: Hindi, English, Marathi

Rules:
- Sections: Summary (2 lines), Experience, Education, Skills.
- Each bullet starts with an action word and ends with a result.
- Use only facts from my notes. Do not invent skills, numbers or job titles.
- If something is missing, write [ask me] in its place.
- Put [Name], [City], [Phone], [Email] at the top as placeholders.

What you should get

A real example of a good result. Your wording will differ a little. The shape and the facts should match.

Printed resultExample

[Name] | [City] | [Phone] | [Email]

SUMMARY
Commerce graduate with 1.5 years of back-office work at a courier company. Keeps daily records in Excel and handles customer calls in Hindi, English and Marathi.

EXPERIENCE
[ask me: job title], Courier company, Nagpur, [ask me: dates]
- Updated delivery records in Excel every day, so the team always had the current parcel status.
- Answered calls from shop owners about late parcels and gave them clear updates.
- Prepared a daily list of about 30 late parcels, so the manager could follow up on each delay.

EDUCATION
B.Com, [ask me: college name], Nagpur, 2023

SKILLS
Excel (daily records) | Customer calls | Hindi, English, Marathi

Before you send this: fill in your job title, dates and college name. Add a number for calls per day only if you know the real figure.

Check yourself

Q1 Which bullet follows the action-plus-result pattern?

Q2 The AI adds "Advanced Python" to your skills. You have never used Python. What do you do?

Q3 Where should your real phone number go?

Finished?

Stamp this ticket. Your pass on the home page gets punched.

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