Targeted Applications: tailor and track

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I'm learning "Targeted Applications: tailor and track" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "The targeted-application loop".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Resume & Cover Letter (Canada Style) (course 8.1). You should already have a clean resume of two pages or less, with no photo or personal details, achievement bullets with real numbers, and a basic cover letter structure. We build on that and do not repeat it.
- Job Bank (Government of Canada) suggests three steps before applying: research the company and the job, create a resume, and write a cover letter that is "concise, well written and tailored." You may need a different cover letter for each job.
- Job Bank also says to tailor your resume to the position and to proofread it several times.
- This course turns those steps into a repeatable loop:
- 1 Read - Study the posting and the employer - 2
- 2 Match - Compare the posting with your true experience - 3
- 3 Tailor - Adjust resume and cover letter - 4 and 5

The exercise I'm working on:
Save your master resume, write your weekly number, and set up an empty tracker with a title row (you will fill the columns in Lesson 6).

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "The targeted-application loop" from the course "Targeted Applications: tailor and track".

Here's what the lesson says:
Sending the same resume to every job is like using one key for every door. A targeted application is a key cut for one door. You cut it, try it, write down what happened, and cut the next one a little better.

The activity:
Save your master resume, write your weekly number, and set up an empty tracker with a title row (you will fill the columns in Lesson 6).

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.