Resume bullet examples & templates
Great bullets are short, specific, and measurable. Use a template to avoid vague “responsibility” bullets.
Template 1: XYZ
Did X → by doing Y → resulting in Z
Template 2: STAR (compressed)
Situation/Task (1 phrase) + Action (what you built) + Result (metric)
Examples
Before
Worked on backend services and improved performance.
After
Built and optimized Node.js APIs for a payments workflow, reducing p95 latency by 35% and improving checkout success rate by 2.1%.
Before
Created dashboards for stakeholders.
After
Built self-serve KPI dashboards in Looker (retention, conversion, cohort analysis), cutting weekly reporting time from 4 hours to 30 minutes.
Checklist
- • Includes a concrete action (built, shipped, led, optimized)
- • Names the system/tool (React, Postgres, AWS, etc.)
- • Shows scope (users, requests/sec, datasets, teams)
- • Has a result (latency, revenue, cost, quality, time)