Weak resume lines, before and after: what the tool changes and what only you can add

We wrote a short resume for an invented person, Alex Carter, with eight weak lines taken from two jobs, and ran FastCV AI's resume builder and its resume review on it on 5 October 2026. Nothing was changed after the run: the lines below are exactly what the tool returned. The tool is designed to improve wording without inventing facts, so it never adds numbers you didn't give it.

Notice what it did and didn't do. It turned filler into a plain action verb and dropped the trait. It left “Responsible for customer service”, “Worked in a team” and “Helped with the monthly stock check” untouched: there was no detail in them to work with, so it had nothing true to add.

The resume review scored the same resume 38 out of 100 (impact 25, structure 50) and flagged exactly those lines:

• “Responsible for”, “Helped with” and “Duties included” are cliché or passive phrasing; replace each with a direct past-tense action verb.
• “Hard-working and reliable” is a personality trait, not a task; replace it with something specific.
• “Did the weekly stock count” is vague; suggested: “Completed weekly stock counts accurately”.
• Missing phone number and location, an empty education section and a one-item skills list.

The suggestion for “Responsible for customer service” was “Answered incoming customer inquiries via phone and email to resolve issues promptly”: a better verb, but still without scale. That is where you come in.

A tool can't know how many customers you served or how often. You can. Compare these illustrative versions: the figures are invented for the example, so use your own real ones.

We ran the same weak lines in five languages, each written the way a native speaker would put them. The tool follows the usual register of each language's CV:

• English: a past-tense action verb with no subject: “Packed orders”.
• French: the infinitive: “Préparer les commandes”.
• Spanish, German and Italian: a noun phrase: “Preparación de pedidos”, “Packen von Bestellungen”, “Preparazione degli ordini”.

This is why a line translated word for word from English can sound strange in another language, and why the translate tool adapts rather than converts.

• A tool can polish your wording and remove filler; it can't invent your results.
• Lines that stay unchanged are usually the ones that need your numbers.
• A low score on impact usually means “duties, no results”.
• Read every line before you send: you are the one who answers for it.