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

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 complete job advert and copy it, including the responsibilities, essential criteria, desirable criteria and application instructions.
   2. Open your current CV and remove passwords, national insurance details, date of birth and other unnecessary personal information before copying it.
   3. Paste the advert and CV into a chatbot using the prompt above, then add any confirmed facts that are missing from the CV in the additional facts section.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the tailored CV, the requirement-to-evidence map, the unsupported requirements and the factual checks in the same response.
   5. Compare every company, job title, date, qualification, skill and achievement in the draft with your original CV and records, then delete or correct anything you cannot defend in an interview.
   6. Compare the final CV with the advert and keep only wording that is supported by your experience, then save it in the format and under the filename requested by the employer.

   Prompt

   Tailor my CV to the job advert below for a UK application. Use only facts stated in my CV or in the additional facts I provide. Do not invent achievements, qualifications, employers, dates, software skills, responsibilities or results. Keep the wording accurate and natural rather than copying the advert's phrases mechanically.
   
   Return:
   1. A tailored CV with clear headings and concise bullet points.
   2. A short list mapping each important job requirement to the evidence used in my CV.
   3. A list of requirements for which my CV provides no evidence, without suggesting that I claim them.
   4. A list of factual points or dates I need to check before submitting.
   
   Preserve my real experience and seniority. Remove irrelevant detail only when it does not hide useful evidence. Use British English and plain, professional wording. Do not add a profile statement unless it is supported by my information. Do not include personal details that are not needed for a UK CV. Do not claim that the CV will pass an applicant tracking system.
   
   JOB ADVERT:
   [Paste the complete job advert here]
   
   MY CURRENT CV:
   [Paste my current CV here]
   
   ADDITIONAL FACTS I CONFIRM:
   [Add any factual achievements, qualifications, tools, dates or preferences here, or write "None"]

   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.