You can look damn good on paper even if you’re a phony. Here are 3 Steps make the painful process of crafting standout resume bullet points 10x easier.

Resumes are a pain in the butt. We all draw blanks when it comes time to figure out what to put on the paper under each experience.

In college, I was the President of my school’s investment banking organization and helped students with THOUSANDS of iterations on their resumes. I’ve gotten my reps in and know how to whip up a stellar bullet point on command.

Read this to learn how to QUICKLY figure out what’s most important to write about in your resume bullet points so you don’t waste hours re-doing them.

STEP 1 — HUNT & GATHER EXAMPLES

If writing bullets to explain the skills you built serving breadsticks at Olive Garden your summer of sophomore year, there is a 100% chance a million other people have already written bullets on being a waiter too. Don’t waste time re-inventing the wheel.

• Compile bullets from ~10 resumes you find that have the same or similar experience / role
• Pick & choose 3–4 bullets you love / best describe skills you built
• Steal / tweak / combine wording as necessary

STEP 2 — THINK ABOUT SKILLS NEEDED IN NEW JOB

You’re not making a resume for fun — Who are you sending it to?

• Put yourself in the shoes of the people judging your resume:
• What traits do they want to see that you’ve developed from your experiences?
• Each bullet you make should show how you have 1 of the most important 3 skills they want in the ideal candidate

STEP 3 — BRAINSTORM

You won’t remember what you did during the past role until you start brain dumping.

• Set a timer for 10min and ferociously scribble down everything you can recall doing in the role
• Physically writing your responsibilities causes you to remember how it relates to 10 other things you did in that experience that you completely forgot about
• All the sudden you’ll have 5 pages full of content & a new problem — too much to choose from!