Can AI do my CV?

The useful part

This guide starts with a guided interview, even if you have no CV yet. If you already have verified experience and a target role, see the role-specific resume guide for a job-match table and tailored draft.

You do not need to remember everything that belongs on a CV before starting. The prompt below asks the assistant to interview you in small rounds, follow up on gaps and confirm the facts before drafting. If you already have a CV or a job advert, you can use those too.

The danger is a polished sentence that quietly adds responsibility, a qualification or a result you never achieved. An interview should help uncover your real experience, not invent it.

OpenAI describes using verified experience to prepare tailored application drafts and checking the claims before using them. This does not establish that a particular draft will pass an applicant tracking system or win an interview. Official guidance.

Before you start

You can start without an existing CV or a particular job advert. Copy the prompt into your preferred chatbot and answer its first questions. Keep private contact details out of the conversation; add them in your document editor later. You can say “I don't know” or skip a question.

How to do it

1. Copy the guided interview prompt into a new chatbot conversation. There are no placeholders to fill before sending it.
2. Answer up to three questions at a time. The assistant should ask follow-ups about your actual work, education and relevant experience. If it sends a long questionnaire, ask it to return to one small round at a time.
3. Review its fact summary and correct dates, responsibilities and skills. Confirm the summary before it writes the CV. Missing facts should stay as questions, not become guesses.
4. Check the draft against your answers. Pay particular attention to numbers, seniority, ownership and words such as “led”. If you later supply a job advert, ask it to tailor only what your experience supports.
5. Paste the approved text into a document template. Add contact details locally, save in the employer's requested format and reopen the file to inspect it. Export availability depends on your editor.

Copy this prompt

Help me build an honest, useful CV through a guided interview.
Do not ask me to prepare all the information in advance.
Do not write the CV yet.

HOW TO INTERVIEW ME
- Ask no more than three short questions per message, then wait for my reply.
- Ask one thing per question. Use plain language and give a brief example if I am stuck.
- Adapt follow-up questions to my answers. Do not repeat information I have supplied.
- Let me skip a question or say I do not know. Keep unresolved points separate.
- Use my preferred language for the interview; ask before choosing the CV language.

START WITH ONLY THESE THREE QUESTIONS
1. What kind of job would you like to apply for?
2. In which country will you use this CV?
3. Are we starting from scratch, or do you have an existing CV to work from?
Then stop and wait.

IN LATER ROUNDS, ASK ONLY WHAT IS STILL RELEVANT
- Whether I have a specific job advert to share; it is optional.
- My preferred CV language and career stage.
- Each relevant role: job title, employer, dates, daily tasks and responsibilities.
- Concrete examples of what I did, tools I used and results I can substantiate.
- Education, training, projects, volunteering and transferable experience.
- Skills, languages and certifications, with an honest level of proficiency.
- Any missing dates or context needed to understand my experience. Let me choose
  whether to explain a career gap; do not invent an explanation.
If I have no paid experience, help me identify relevant study, projects or
volunteering. Never turn them into a job I did not have.

BEFORE DRAFTING
Summarise the facts I have provided, assigning each one an ID.
List gaps and uncertainties separately. Ask me to correct and confirm the summary.
Do not draft until I confirm it.

AFTER CONFIRMATION
Draft a clear CV appropriate to my target role and market, using only confirmed
facts. If I supplied a job advert, separate supported matches from missing skills.
Keep wording direct and natural. Do not invent qualifications, dates, software,
metrics or responsibilities. Do not turn participation into leadership or a team
result into an individual result. If a result has no verified number, do not add one.
Put unresolved questions outside the CV. Map the substantive draft claims to
their supporting fact IDs in a separate review table.
Ask what I want to improve, then explain how to review and export the final draft
using the document editor I have available. Do not promise interviews or an ATS score.

PRIVACY
Do not ask for my full address, ID numbers, date of birth, passwords or references'
contact details. Leave a contact-details placeholder for me to fill in my editor.
If I paste an existing CV, suggest removing unnecessary private information first.

Begin with the three starting questions only.

What a defensible rewrite looks like

Review record: The OpenAI application guidance was checked on 18 October 2026 for its advice to use verified experience and review every resume claim. The fictional example below was created and checked editorially on 29 September 2026. The published interview prompt and document export have not been tested end to end.

This is a fictional editorial example created here, not a customer's CV or a ChatGPT web benchmark.

Source facts: Alex answered delivery-status emails using approved templates, logged unresolved cases in a spreadsheet and sent a weekly summary to a supervisor. No response-time improvement was measured.

Supported bullet: “Answered delivery-status queries using approved templates, logged unresolved cases and prepared weekly summaries for a supervisor.”

Reject this version: “Led customer-service automation and reduced response times by 40%.” Neither leadership nor that improvement appears in the source.

Trace the claims: C03 supports the delivery-query bullet; C04 and C05 support the case-log and weekly-summary bullet; C07 supports only basic Excel skills. C08 records that Zendesk experience and a measured response-time improvement were not supplied. Read the complete fictional input, draft and claim-by-claim review.

Where AI falls short

It cannot verify your history just from your CV, know an employer's internal screening rules or guarantee interviews. Repeating every keyword in the advert can also make the result less readable. If the first draft invents details, remove them and repeat the evidence check rather than assuming the prompt prevented them.

When another tool or person helps

A document editor is enough if you only need a clean layout. A specialist CV builder may help with templates and version management; check the final download before investing time in it. A career adviser can help judge what to emphasise when you change fields or have an unusual work history.

Before sending: every claim supported, no unresolved placeholders, employer's requested format, file reopened successfully. This draft guide does not carry a “fully tested” badge.