The Interview Truth Check
Every line on the page is a question you have agreed to answer.
If you cannot hold thirty seconds of follow-up, the line is not ready.
Interrogate your own bullets
For each one, know the baseline, the timeframe, the method, your specific part in it, and what you would do differently.
The description is a question list
Every requirement is a question waiting to be asked. Answer the six most prominent aloud, once. Aloud — writing and saying are different skills.
Prepare the awkward one
The short stint, the gap, the switch. Two sentences, with the second moving forward rather than defending backward.
Before
Improved onboarding activation by 17 points.
After
Same line — plus you can say: 41% to 58%, over Q2, by cutting the signup form from nine fields to four, and you would run the test longer next time.
The resume line does not change. What changes is that you can hold thirty seconds of follow-up on it, which is where the credibility is actually won.
Do this before moving on
Take the strongest number on your resume and write its baseline, timeframe, method and one thing you would change. If you cannot fill all four, either find them or soften the claim.
Check yourself
You cannot remember the baseline behind a metric on your resume. What now?