As of 13 August 2026, AI can tailor your CV to a job description.

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 vacancy and copy the complete job description, including essential criteria, desirable criteria, responsibilities and named qualifications or software.
   2. Open your current CV and remove information you do not want to share, then copy the remaining text into the prompt under MY CURRENT CV.
   3. Add concrete constraints under MY CONSTRAINTS, such as the target length, the type of role, and any experience or qualifications that must remain prominent.
   4. Paste the completed prompt into a chatbot and ask it to produce the suitability gaps, tailored CV and change log in the specified order.
   5. Compare every employer, job title, date, qualification, responsibility and achievement in the draft against your original CV, deleting anything that is not supported.
   6. Compare the change log with the job description and restore relevant evidence that the draft omitted, while leaving unsupported requirements marked as gaps.
   7. Paste the checked CV into the application form or save it in the requested file format, then read it once as an interview question list so you can defend every claim.

   Prompt

   Tailor my CV to the job description below for a UK application.
   
   JOB DESCRIPTION:
   [Paste the full job description]
   
   MY CURRENT CV:
   [Paste your current CV]
   
   MY CONSTRAINTS:
   [Add any requirements such as maximum length, preferred layout, industries to emphasise, or experience to leave out]
   
   Instructions:
   1. Use only facts stated in my CV. Do not invent achievements, responsibilities, qualifications, employers, dates, software, metrics or outcomes.
   2. Identify the main requirements in the job description and map each one to evidence in my CV.
   3. Rewrite the professional summary and relevant experience bullets so they are specific to this role, clear and concise, and suitable for a UK employer.
   4. Keep claims accurate and defensible in an interview. Preserve correct job titles, employer names and dates.
   5. Do not copy whole phrases from the job description unless they are standard terms or names of qualifications, tools or processes.
   6. Keep relevant experience that does not match a listed keyword if it shows useful transferable skills.
   7. Flag every important requirement for which my CV provides no evidence instead of pretending I meet it.
   8. Return the result in this order: suitability gaps, a tailored CV, and a change log showing what you changed and which job requirement each change addresses.
   9. Use plain British English and avoid buzzwords, inflated adjectives and claims such as highly accomplished unless my CV directly supports them.

   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.