Most experience sections read like a job description: “responsible for,” “helped with,” “worked on.” Recruiter search doesn’t reward duties — it rewards the exact tools, scope and numbers a hiring manager typed into the search bar.
A strong bullet leads with a verb, names the stack or channel, and closes with a quantified result. Below: 18 before-and-after rewrites across six role types — steal the structure, then check what your own bullets score.
“Built,” “led,” “closed,” “automated” — not “responsible for” or “helped with.” The verb signals ownership, and search weighs it more than filler adjectives.
“Python and Go,” “Salesforce,” “paid social” — the same words a recruiter typed into the search bar. Vague nouns like “technology” or “clients” rank for nothing.
Revenue, percentage, time saved, users served. A quantified result survives a 6-second scan; an adjective like “successfully” does not.
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Duty-based bullets (“responsible for the backend”) rank for nothing. Recruiter search rewards the stack, the scale and the number.
Responsible for backend development and maintaining APIs.
Built and maintained 12 production APIs in Python and Go serving 40M requests/day, cutting p95 latency 62% through query optimization and caching.
Worked on the company website and fixed bugs.
Rebuilt the marketing site in React and Next.js, cutting first-load JS 44% and lifting Core Web Vitals scores from 61 to 96 across all pages.
Managed cloud infrastructure and deployments.
Migrated infrastructure to Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS, reducing deploy time from 45 minutes to 6 and cutting monthly cloud spend 28% ($40K/year).
Recruiters filter by quota attainment, deal size and CRM before they read anything else. Lead every bullet with a number.
Responsible for selling software to new customers.
Closed $2.4M in new ARR across 38 enterprise SaaS deals in 2025, finishing at 121% of quota and ranking #2 of 22 AEs company-wide.
Made cold calls and scheduled meetings for the sales team.
Booked 31 qualified meetings/quarter through outbound cold calls, email sequences and LinkedIn touches in Salesforce, hitting 142% of quota three quarters running.
Managed client accounts and handled renewals.
Owned renewals and expansion for a $3M book of 42 SaaS accounts, delivering 96% gross retention and sourcing $410K in upsell revenue in 2025.
“Managed social media” is invisible in search. Channel, tool and measurable outcome are what get a bullet found.
Ran marketing campaigns to generate leads.
Built and ran paid acquisition and ABM programs across LinkedIn Ads and Google, growing qualified pipeline 3.1× in six quarters while holding CAC payback under 11 months.
Wrote blog posts and other content for the company.
Built the SEO content engine that took organic sessions from 12K to 180K/month in 14 months, driving 38% of company demo requests through content alone.
Tested different marketing channels to improve growth.
Ran 6–8 A/B tests a month across paid social and onboarding flows, lifting signup-to-activation 24% and cutting blended CAC 31% while scaling ad spend 2×.
Recruiters searching for PM and ops roles filter on shipped outcomes and process changes — not “collaborated cross-functionally.”
Worked with engineering and design to ship product features.
Shipped the onboarding redesign end-to-end with 4 engineers and 1 designer, lifting activation rate 24% and reducing week-1 churn from 18% to 11%.
Improved processes to make operations more efficient.
Redesigned warehouse slotting and added scan verification, cutting picking errors 38% and reducing average order fulfillment time from 26 to 14 hours.
Managed project timelines and stakeholder communication.
Ran a 9-month, $1.2M platform migration across 3 teams using Jira and Agile sprints, delivering on schedule with zero critical post-launch incidents.
No prior job title to search for yet — the bullet has to carry the tool, the scope and the result from a class project or internship.
Helped the engineering team with various coding tasks.
Shipped a retry-service feature in Python to production during a 12-week internship, reviewed by 3 senior engineers and now handling 2M requests/day.
Assisted with social media and marketing tasks.
Wrote and scheduled 40+ social posts a month using Hootsuite and Canva, growing a nonprofit client's Instagram following from 800 to 11K in one year.
Completed a capstone project analyzing business data.
Built a Tableau dashboard tracking 14 supply-chain KPIs for a real distributor client, uncovering $210K in annual savings from duplicate freight lanes.
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Taught high school classes and managed the classroom.
Redesigned onboarding flow for a tutoring platform based on a 24-user research study in Figma, lifting task completion 32% in usability testing.
Led a team and managed logistics in the U.S. Army.
Led a 22-person team through a $40M equipment logistics operation across 3 continents with zero losses, and later ran a WMS migration with zero downtime.
Prepared monthly financial reports for leadership.
Automated month-end variance reporting with Python and Power Query, cutting prep time from 3 days to 4 hours and building the revenue dashboard leadership opens daily.
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