{"id":"career-first-resume-hs-activities","audience":"high-school","category":"career","technique":"grounding","track":"writing","title":"Turn your activities into first-resume bullets that stay true","free":false,"task":"You're 16 and applying to be a cashier at Greenleaf Market, your first real resume. You need exactly 5 bullets starting with \"- \", under 90 words in total, plain text, and only the bullets: no objective, no summary and no extra sections. Everything must be true, including what your role on the soccer team really was and the volunteer hours your counselor confirmed.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MY STUFF (Marcus Bell, junior at Fairview High)\n\n- JV soccer, 2 seasons. Coach let me wear the captain armband for ONE game when Devon was sick, I'm not actually captain\n- Lifeguard at Cedar Park pool last summer, 25 hrs/week, Red Cross certified. Checked pool chemicals every 2 hours and logged them\n- Counted the snack bar cash drawer at closing on Fridays when my supervisor was busy\n- Food bank volunteer: I think 60 hours? -> Ms. Ortiz (counselor) checked the log, it's 40 hours\n- Babysit the Nguyen kids twice a week\n- Coding Club member, made a simple website for the club's bake sale\n- GPA 3.4, honor roll fall semester\n- want to save for a car lol\n\nGreenleaf Market posting: Part-time cashier, weekends and 2 weeknights. Handle cash accurately, friendly with customers, reliable. Must be 16+.","rules":[{"type":"maxBullets","max":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Letting a title get inflated","why":"The AI sees 'captain' in your notes and makes you team captain because it sounds better.","fix":"Add: \"I was a JV team member, not captain. Don't call me captain.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the corrected hours","why":"The AI may use 60 hours, the first number it sees, even though your counselor confirmed 40.","fix":"Add: \"Use 40 volunteer hours, the confirmed number.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting a whole resume template","why":"Ask for a resume and the AI builds headings, an objective and a list of strengths, with far more than 5 bullets.","fix":"Be exact: \"Output only 5 bullets, nothing before or after.\"","checks":["r2","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each bullet: \"each bullet under 14 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in the application form.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many bullets","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,25}(bullet|line|point)","exactly \\d+","numbered"]},{"label":"Keeps titles true","patterns":["captain","only.{0,25}(true|notes|facts)","(don't|do not|never) (claim|invent|make up|exaggerate)"]},{"label":"Uses the confirmed hours","patterns":["40","correct","confirm"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"A first resume is easy to puff up. Tell the AI the exact number of bullets, what your soccer role really was, which hours number is right, and that you want nothing but the bullets.","rubricLabels":["Doesn't call Marcus the soccer team captain (saying he was a JV team member, or filled in as captain for one game, is fine)","If it mentions food bank hours, it says 40, not 60. Leaving the hours out also passes","Output is only the bullets: no name header, objective, summary, section headings or tips"]}