For auto workers

From the plant floor to the next job: put your line experience in words any employer reads

You may not have written a resume in ten or twenty years, and the plant never asked for one. Whether you are waiting on a recall or moving now, get it ready either way. Transit, defence, aerospace, food plants and warehouses hire the same skills under different names.

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Five steps, in order

step 1Start from whatever you have. An old resume, a job posting you kept, or a blank page with your dates on it. Scan it first to get the Resume Readiness Score, then fix what it names.

step 2Turn job codes into plain words. Nobody outside the plant knows what "TPT, Dept 9150" means. Write the job the way a posting would: assembler, team leader, material handler, millwright, quality inspector.

step 3Put a number on every job you held. Units per shift, cycle time, crew size, first-time quality, days without an injury. You worked to those numbers every day, so write them down.

step 4List every ticket and training. Lift truck, lockout, WHMIS, working at heights, first aid, 433A or 442A, with the year. Plants and warehouses search on these words before anything else.

step 5Split the years up. Twenty years at one plant is not one line. Give each job you held inside it its own dates and its own results, so the reader sees you move up or across.

What the AI rewrite does to a typical bullet

Worked trim line 3, door install

Installed door trim at a 58-second cycle on a line building 930 vehicles a day, with a 99.6% first-time quality rate and 9 years without a lost-time injury

Every new account starts with 14 days of Pro, no card.

What the scan checks

The scan does not know you built cars, and it does not need to. It reads structure, wording and numbers, the same way for every resume. The plant advice above is this page talking, not a check the scan runs.

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