Who uses the term fact-locked resume?
Prept uses it for the rule its resume optimizer follows. Every line comes from a fact you confirmed, a value you lock can be reworded around and never changed, and a line that needs a figure you haven't given comes back with a blank instead of a guess.
Job seekers can apply the same rule by hand. All it takes is a list of facts, each with its source, kept next to the resume while you tailor it.
What does a fact-locked line look like?
For example, a fact says time to first payment fell from 6 days to 2.5, recorded on an onboarding dashboard. A tailored bullet can say "cut" or "brought down," and it still says 6 and 2.5. A draft bullet claiming revenue grew 40% is rejected, because no confirmed fact says 40%.
Those figures are examples written for the site, taken from no real candidate.
Where can you read more about fact-locked resumes?
The page on what a fact-locked resume is covers the rule with a full before and after. The guide to turning your resume into facts walks through the three questions to ask of every number: what it is, what it measured and where it came from.