The line between tailoring your resume and lying

AI resume rewriters have a credibility problem. Most will invent experience if you let them. JobFitAI's rewriter has one absolute rule:

Never invent employers, titles, dates, degrees, or metrics.

Here's how to stay on the right side of that line.

Tailoring (fine)

• Reordering bullets so the most relevant ones go first.
• Swapping synonyms when the JD uses a different word for the same skill.
• Quantifying outcomes you actually achieved.
• Moving skills into the summary when they're buried at the bottom.

Lying (not fine)

• Inflating team size or budget.
• Backdating an internal transfer so it looks like two companies.
• Adding a tool you only saw a demo of.

What to do when you're under-qualified

You still have two levers:

1. Lead with transferable experience. If the JD asks for Python but you used R heavily, highlight the statistical rigor — it's the underlying skill the hiring manager wants.
2. Use a portfolio link. One well-built side project beats three inflated bullets.

Want to see this in action? Run a Job Fit Score — you'll see where you're genuinely short vs just missing keywords you already have.