What is Experience bank?

An experience bank (sometimes called a master resume or career inventory) is the long version of your work history. It holds every job, project, result and skill, with the numbers that prove them. You don’t send it to anyone. You build resumes from it.

What goes in

• Jobs and projects, with dates.
• Results with numbers: “cut onboarding from 9 steps to 4, activation up 18%”.
• Skills and tools.
• Stories you can tell in interviews, ideally in STAR shape.

Why it helps

Tailoring a resume is much faster when you pick from a full list instead of rewriting from memory. And nothing gets invented, because everything comes from the bank.

An example entry

A resume line might say “Led onboarding redesign.” The experience bank keeps the whole story:

• Role: Product manager, Northwind, 2023 to 2025
• Project: Onboarding redesign
• What I did: interviewed 20 new customers, cut setup from 9 steps to 4, worked with two engineers and a designer
• Result: activation up 18% in one quarter, setup support tickets down by a third
• Skills: user research, A/B testing, SQL
• Interview story: the time we almost shipped the wrong version, and how testing caught it

From that one entry you can write a short line for one resume, a longer one for another, and a STAR answer for interviews.

Keeping it up to date

Add to it while things are fresh: when a project ships, when you get good feedback, when you hit a number worth remembering. Ten minutes a month is plenty, and it beats trying to remember three years of work the night before an application is due.

In Hunter

In Hunter, the experience bank is the only thing resumes are written from. Add your resume, your LinkedIn PDF, rough notes or spoken stories, and click Build from my inputs. Hunter may ask a few questions to add numbers. See Build your experience bank.