So You Used AI To Write Your CV? Let Us Talk About That

I am not here to tell you that AI is bad.

It is not bad. It is actually quite remarkable when you use it for the right things. Researching a company before an interview. Drafting a cover letter, you then rewrite it in your own voice. Understanding what skills a particular industry values. These are all good uses of a genuinely helpful tool.

Writing your CV from scratch is not one of them. And I want to explain why, not with a lecture but with the kind of honesty that most people in my industry avoid because it is easier to just take your money and hand you something that looks good.

Here Is What Actually Happens

You open the AI tool. You type in your job title, maybe a few responsibilities, perhaps a line or two about what you do day to day. The AI responds within seconds with something that looks impressively professional. The sentences are cleaner than you are used to, and the language sounds very very professional. The kind of language that feels serious and polished and ready to send.

And that is exactly what you do, you send it. And then you wait.

What you do not realise, sitting there watching your inbox, is that the recruiter on the other end has already read four CVs that morning that sound almost identical to yours. Those CVs had the Same structure, Same phrases, Same smooth, careful, non-specific language that could describe any reasonably competent person in your field.

Your CV went in. It came back out. And nobody called.

The Problem Is Not The AI but What You Gave It.

When you typed your job title and your responsibilities into that tool, you gave it the least interesting version of your career.

You did not tell it about the month everything nearly fell apart, and you held it together. You did not mention the idea you had that nobody believed in until it worked. You did not include the client who almost left, or the process you fixed because watching it stay broken was driving you mad, or the colleague you mentored who got promoted last year and still calls you when things get difficult.

You gave it your job description. It gave you back a slightly better-written job description. And a job description, however well written, is just a list of things you were supposed to do.

Recruiters do not hire job descriptions. They hire people.

What We Do Differently

We start with a conversation.

Not a form, or even a questionnaire you fill in alone. An actual conversation where we ask you the questions the AI never thought to ask. Where did you make the biggest difference? What exists now that did not exist before you arrived? What would your manager say if someone asked them what you are genuinely exceptional at?

From that conversation, we build something that sounds like you at your most honest and your most specific. Something that a recruiter reads and thinks, this person is real, this person has actually done something, I want to meet this person.

That is the whole job of a CV. And it is the one thing AI cannot do for you.

Click here to get started. Tell us your story. We will make sure it lands.