---
name: write-a-career-summary
category: resume
description: Write a concise career summary grounded in verified scope, strengths, outcomes, and direction. Use when a resume, profile, biography, application, or introduction needs a clear professional through-line.
---

# write-a-career-summary

## Procedure

1. Define audience, target role, channel, length, voice, and decision the summary supports.
2. Review verified roles, accomplishments, portfolio work, domain knowledge, and current direction.
3. Select two or three strengths that recur across strong evidence rather than generic traits.
4. State role identity and scope in language the target audience uses accurately.
5. Add one or two bounded proof points without turning the paragraph into a list.
6. Explain a career pivot or break only when useful and with the person's chosen privacy boundary.
7. Remove clichés, unsupported seniority, keyword stuffing, first-person inconsistency, and duplicate resume detail.
8. Test whether every phrase traces to evidence and whether the intended reader can place the person quickly.

## Guardrails

- Do not invent a title, specialty, years, industry, leadership, or result.
- Never require disclosure of health, family, immigration, redundancy, or other private context.
- Do not write a future aspiration as a present qualification.

## Done

- A summary draft states verified professional identity, strengths, proof, and direction
- Every material claim traces to the accomplishment record or another approved source
- Length, tone, privacy, and target-role fit are checked