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As of 13 August 2026, AI can build a skills-based CV.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsThe alternative is a professional CV-writing service or a purpose-built CV tool; no price is provided in the supplied tool data.

If this goes wrong: the CV sounds generic or overstates your experience, and you lose an application unless you check each claim before sending it.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the target UK job advert and copy the full description, including the person specification, into a separate document.
    2. Gather your current and previous job titles, employers, dates, responsibilities, qualifications, training, volunteering, projects and concrete achievements, removing private details such as your National Insurance number.
    3. Paste the job description and your factual background into a chatbot with the supplied prompt, replacing every bracketed slot and stating clearly where you have no relevant evidence.
    4. Copy the drafted CV into a document and compare every employer, job title, date, qualification, skill and achievement against your records and the information you supplied.
    5. Compare the skills headings and evidence with the job advert, then remove any skill that you cannot explain with a real example in an interview.
    6. Ask the chatbot to rewrite only unclear or generic sections while preserving all verified facts, then save the final CV as a clearly named PDF and editable document for the application.

    Prompt

    Build a skills-based UK CV for the target role below.

Target job description:
[PASTE THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION]

My factual background:
- Name and contact details to include: [ADD ONLY WHAT YOU WANT SHOWN]
- Current or most recent role: [JOB TITLE, EMPLOYER, DATES]
- Previous roles: [JOB TITLES, EMPLOYERS, DATES]
- Main responsibilities in each role: [PASTE DETAILS]
- Skills I can genuinely demonstrate: [LIST SKILLS]
- Specific achievements, results or examples: [ADD FACTUAL DETAILS]
- Education, qualifications and training: [ADD DETAILS]
- Volunteering, caring, freelance or personal projects relevant to the role: [ADD DETAILS]
- Employment gap or career-change context I want handled: [ADD DETAILS OR SAY NONE]

Use British English and a plain, professional tone. Create a clear skills-based CV with a short profile, a grouped skills section and employment evidence showing where each skill was used. Put the most relevant skills first for the target role. Use specific evidence from my information, but invent nothing: do not add employers, dates, qualifications, software, responsibilities, achievements, figures or job titles that I have not supplied. Do not use empty claims such as hard-working, passionate or results-driven unless supported by evidence. Keep it concise and suitable for a UK application, with simple formatting that can be copied into a document. After the CV, provide a factual claims checklist showing which details I must verify before sending.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know which parts of your background are genuinely strongest unless you provide the evidence and context.
  • It cannot decide how to explain a career change or employment gap in a way that reflects your personal circumstances.
  • It defaults to familiar CV language that can make your application sound like everyone else's.
  • It cannot confirm that an achievement, qualification or software skill is accurate; you must check every factual claim.
  • It cannot predict how a particular recruiter will judge an unusual or highly specialised career history.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: context depth and taste.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total10 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI make a skills-based CV?
Yes. It can organise your experience into skill groups, connect each skill to evidence and tailor the wording to a UK job advert. You still need to check every fact and remove any claim you could not defend in an interview.
Is a skills-based CV better than a chronological CV?
Not always. A skills-based CV can help when you are changing career or have relevant experience across different settings, while a chronological CV may be clearer when your recent work directly matches the role. AI can produce either structure, but you must choose the one that makes your evidence easiest to understand.
Will employers know my CV was written by AI?
They may notice generic phrasing, exaggerated claims or a style that does not sound like you. Use AI for structure and editing, then replace unsupported language with your own verified examples and read the final CV aloud.
What should I give AI to write my CV?
Give it the full job description, your job titles and dates, responsibilities, qualifications, relevant skills and specific achievements. Do not give it facts you have not checked, and remove unnecessary private information before pasting anything into a chatbot.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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