You may see this career tip all the time, that you should “tailor your resume” to the job. How exactly do you do that? It means highlighting relevant experience and reframing the other work you’ve done to match the target profile the company wants.

Here are 5 ways to tailor your resume to the job:

1. Rearrange the order of the resume to lead with the most relevant experience. For example, if you are applying to a commercial job and have done product, privacy, and commercial, lead with commercial as the first bullet.
2. Reframe the tangential so it is relevant. For that commercial job, talk about your product and privacy experience in the ways it relates to the commercial work, e.g., that you advised on commercialization of the product, or that you negotiate and draft the privacy clauses for key commercial deals.
3. Kill other parts of your resume that don’t relate to this job at all. Deleting the irrelevant is essential if your resume is running long or getting in the way of your message, e.g., that you are a commercial lawyer who is perfect for the job.
4. Use the exact keywords from the job description and not synonyms. If the description says “contracts”, don’t use the word “agreements,” for instance.
5. Make your location a non-issue. Don’t list your home address if you live far from the office and traffic is a known problem. Listing the general metro area is sufficient in that case. But if you do live nearby, go ahead and put your address, or at least the city.

Remember: in a 5 second skim of your resume, hiring managers need to see your work experience lines up with what they are looking for.