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As of 13 August 2026, AI can match your skills to a job.

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

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA specialist job-search workspace such as Teal provides AI CV tailoring and application tracking.

If this goes wrong: you pursue a poor-fit role or miss a useful one because the model misunderstood your experience or the employer's priorities.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the full job advert and copy the responsibilities, essential criteria, desirable criteria and stated qualifications into the job-description section of the prompt.
    2. Copy your current CV into the experience section, then add factual examples of work you have done that the CV does not explain clearly.
    3. Add any qualifications, software, languages, location, working-pattern preferences and restrictions you can confirm in the additional-facts section.
    4. Paste the complete prompt into an AI chat and ask it to produce the match summary, evidence table, gaps and application recommendation.
    5. Compare every claimed match in the response with your CV and examples, and delete or correct anything you could not defend in an interview.
    6. Open the job advert again and check that the response covers every essential requirement, then decide whether the gaps are acceptable before tailoring your CV or applying.

    Prompt

    Match my skills to the job below using only the evidence I provide. Do not invent qualifications, responsibilities, results, software knowledge or industry experience. Separate direct matches, transferable skills, partial matches and genuine gaps. For every match, quote or refer to the relevant evidence from my CV or examples. Identify the most important requirements in the job description and rank them by apparent importance, while labelling any inference as an inference. Then provide: a concise match summary, an evidence table with columns for job requirement, my evidence, strength of match and missing evidence, five questions I should answer before applying, and a recommendation of whether I should apply. Do not make the final decision for me. Flag any claim that I would need to prove in an interview or application. Use British English and a plain, specific tone.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
[Paste the full job description here]

MY CV OR EXPERIENCE:
[Paste your CV or a factual list of your experience here]

ADDITIONAL FACTS I CAN CONFIRM:
[Add qualifications, software, languages, work examples, preferences, location, working pattern or constraints here]

    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 whether an employer's stated requirements reflect its real priorities or an informal preference.
  • AI cannot judge the quality, credibility or workplace impact of an example as reliably as someone who knows your work.
  • AI cannot discover achievements, constraints or transferable experience that you leave out of the information you provide.
  • AI can treat keywords as evidence of ability when they only show that a term appeared in your CV.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, 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
Verification1
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total9 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI tell me if I am qualified for a job?
AI can compare your stated experience with the requirements in the advert and show direct matches, transferable skills and gaps. It cannot make the employer's decision or confirm that your experience is strong enough in practice.
How do I use AI to match my CV to a job description?
Give it the complete advert and your factual CV, then ask for an evidence-based comparison that separates direct matches, transferable skills and gaps. Check every match against your real experience before changing your CV or applying.
Can AI find jobs that match my skills?
AI can help compare job adverts with the skills and preferences you provide, and can rank possible fits. It may miss suitable roles when adverts use different language or reject a good fit because your CV does not use the employer's keywords.
Can AI tell me what skills I am missing for a job?
Yes, if you provide the full job description and an accurate account of your experience, it can list apparent gaps and suggest questions to investigate. Treat the list as a prompt for checking the advert and your own background, not as proof that you cannot do the work.

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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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