What Happens When You Let AI Speak For You In A Room You Are Not In

Daniel had just been made redundant. That is what they told him.

Not because he was bad at his job. The company had lost a major contract, and the cuts came fast and they came wide. Seventeen people left on the same Friday afternoon with the same letter and the same two months’ notice.

Daniel had seen it coming. Most of them had.

So by the time it was official, he had already started preparing. He updated his LinkedIn. He reached out to old contacts. He did everything the career advice articles tell you to do.

And then he sat down and asked AI to write his CV.

He Was Not Starting from Zero

Daniel was forty-one years old, and he had spent fourteen years in sales, not retail sales. Enterprise sales. The kind where a single deal can take nine months to close and involves procurement teams, legal departments, three rounds of presentations, and enough stakeholder management to exhaust most people.

He had closed a deal in his third year that became the largest single contract his company had signed that decade. He had built a client portfolio from scratch in a new territory that nobody on his team wanted because it looked too difficult. He had mentored junior sales staff, two of whom had gone on to become top performers in their own right.

But Daniel was fifty-eight days into his job search, and the responses were not coming. And unlike the others who had been let go on that Friday, Daniel had a mortgage, two children in secondary school, and a quiet but growing fear that at forty-one the market might see him differently than he saw himself.

He came to me not with a CV problem. He came with a confidence problem wearing a CV problem as a disguise.

He Handed Me the CV Apologetically

Not proudly. Not with the quiet confidence of someone who believed in what they had put together.

He slid it across the desk and said, “I know it probably needs work.” I read it.

It needed more than work. It needed rescuing.

Not because it was poorly formatted or disorganised. It was actually quite neat. But it had the unmistakable quality of something written by a machine that had been given facts and asked to make them sound impressive.

The largest contract his company had signed that decade was described as “successfully closed high-value enterprise deals contributing to organisational revenue growth.”

I looked up at him.

“Walk me through the contract. The big one. What actually happened?”

He looked surprised that I was asking. Then he started talking. We then spent 2 hours together, shaping his CV to reflect his career journey. Something a recruiter will instantly connect with.

Six Weeks Later

Daniel called on a Tuesday morning.

He had three interviews. One company had reached out within five days of receiving his CV. During the first interview, the hiring manager had told him his CV was one of the most specific and well-evidenced applications they had received for the role.

Here Is What I Want You To Hear

AI is not your enemy. But it is not your advocate either.

It does not know your best stories. It does not know which wins were hard and which came easily. It does not know about the client who said no four times before they said yes. So, it will produce the minimum and dress it nicely.

Your career is not minimal. It is specific and hard-won and full of moments that would make the right recruiter stop and pay attention.

But only if someone takes the time to find those moments and write them down properly.

That is what we do.

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