Your CV Looks Impressive, But Recruiters Can Tell It Was Written By AI

“I just copied what everyone else was doing.” That’s what Mark told me when he finally admitted why his job search had been stuck for four months.

He was a project manager with five years of experience, three successful product launches under his belt, and a team that genuinely respected him. On paper, his AI-generated document had none of his big wins, and none of his experiences came through.

I picked up his CV and read the opening line: Results-driven professional with a proven track record of delivering cross-functional solutions in fast-paced environments.

I set it down. “Mark, did you use AI to write this?” He looked embarrassed as he nodded.                                                                                                                  

The Problem with a Perfect CV

The irony of AI-written CVs is that they are flawless in all the wrong ways. The formatting is clean. The language is confident. The keywords are all present and accounted for. But recruiters read hundreds every week. They all can tell when a CV is AI-written. And the moment your CV triggers that radar, it stops being read and starts being skipped.

Mark had five years’ worth of stories. Budgets he had rescued. Deadlines he had pulled teams back from. A client relationship he had personally saved after a project went wrong. None of it was on that CV. In its place were sentences that could have belonged to anyone, and therefore belonged to no one.

What We Did Instead

We started from scratch. Not with a template. With a conversation. I asked Mark to walk me through his proudest moment at work. He lit up immediately. Within ten minutes, I had more compelling material than his entire two-page CV had.

Then we started writing around that. His voice, his wins, his numbers, his trajectory, we made sure to cover it all. The kind of CV that makes a recruiter pause and think; I want to meet this person.

Six weeks later, Mark had moved into a senior role with a 30% salary increase.

What’s Next?

AI is a tool, yes. But your career is not a prompt. If your applications are disappearing into silence, the problem might not be your experience. It might be how your experience is being told. Click here to learn more about our CV writing.  The kind that are human, specific, and built to get you noticed, because you have earned the right to be.