Ai generated CVs

elrasho · 2 Jul 2025 at 15:31

Has anyone come across and used these sites? I used 'CV Lite' and it really made by CV read better but they wanted £1.50 lol Was wondering if there were any free ones out there?

I mainly want it to look professional and not a wall of text as my current one

Bluecube · 2 Jul 2025 at 15:42

Why not just use ChatGPT or similar free AI service? Feed in your current CV and tell it what you want. Fine tune as necessary and voila.

NickK · 2 Jul 2025 at 15:49

So if you run most of the CVs generated by these sites through Grammarly Pro's AI/Plagerism detector they can usually be identified as AI and even which AI.

Better to create your own AI agent todo it then run it through a checker until it's not flagged.

There's a lot of companies now simply closing the postings early due to the numbers of AI generated CVs hitting their sites.. They think they have the max but the filtering is later.

elrasho · 2 Jul 2025 at 16:08

NickK said:
So if you run most of the CVs generated by these sites through Grammarly Pro's AI/Plagerism detector they can usually be identified as AI and even which AI.

Better to create your own AI agent todo it then run it through a checker until it's not flagged.

There's a lot of companies now simply closing the postings early due to the numbers of AI generated CVs hitting their sites.. They think they have the max but the filtering is later.

I see I wasn't going to let the Ai fully submit the CV. I just want to to generate ideas and then I cann edit it to make it more personal and original

NickK · 2 Jul 2025 at 19:08

elrasho said:
I see I wasn't going to let the Ai fully submit the CV. I just want to to generate ideas and then I cann edit it to make it more personal and original

That works - I would suggest fact checking and sanity checking but sometimes the AI does put a different perspective on things.

Rroff · 2 Jul 2025 at 19:15

On a related note some companies now starting to put CVs through AI to filter candidates before they even look at them (and in some cases to detect AI written CVs) - which is just going to create a right mess in the future when people start crafting CVs just to get through AI filtering and/or rejects perfectly good candidates because their details don't nicely mesh with the way the AI works, etc.

Bluecube · 2 Jul 2025 at 21:12

Rroff said:
On a related note some companies now starting to put CVs through AI to filter candidates before they even look at them (and in some cases to detect AI written CVs) - which is just going to create a right mess in the future when people start crafting CVs just to get through AI filtering and/or rejects perfectly good candidates because their details don't nicely mesh with the way the AI works, etc.

You'd think that companies didn't actually want to hire anyone... As long as a CV is honest then it all boils down to formatting. Nothing wrong with using AI to spruce it up. An AI will also likely include information that the applicant may not have thought of as pertinent and so actually aid the recruitment process. If companies reject all AI generated CVs then they're asking for recruitment issues.

Rroff · 2 Jul 2025 at 21:18

Bluecube said:
You'd think that companies didn't actually want to hire anyone... As long as a CV is honest then it all boils down to formatting. Nothing wrong with using AI to spruce it up. An AI will also likely include information that the applicant may not have thought of as pertinent and so actually aid the recruitment process. If companies reject all AI generated CVs then they're asking for recruitment issues.

They aren't necessarily rejecting AI written CVs (depends a bit) but some companies are being lazy and using AI to pre-filter candidates, which is just going to result in an arms race and make CVs less useful in my opinion as people start crafting CVs to get past the first hurdle rather than necessarily being human useful :s

dirtychinchilla · 2 Jul 2025 at 22:02

NickK said:
That works - I would suggest fact checking and sanity checking but sometimes the AI does put a different perspective on things.

I had a good one earlier where ChatGPT thought Boris Johnson was still prime minister. I told it that was wrong, and then it corrected itself to say Rishi Sunak...

NickK · 2 Jul 2025 at 22:16

dirtychinchilla said:
I had a good one earlier where ChatGPT thought Boris Johnson was still prime minister. I told it that was wrong, and then it corrected itself to say Rishi Sunak...

It will suggest Sir Robert Walpole..

Nasher · 4 Jul 2025 at 14:51

Rroff said:
On a related note some companies now starting to put CVs through AI to filter candidates before they even look at them (and in some cases to detect AI written CVs) - which is just going to create a right mess in the future when people start crafting CVs just to get through AI filtering and/or rejects perfectly good candidates because their details don't nicely mesh with the way the AI works, etc.

Already happening. I did that with mine. Most of what I wrote is still there but I added certain things the AI sifting seems to like. My hit rate up went up massively afterwards.

We seem to be in a silly age where AI is applying for jobs sifted by AI. You can use it to your advantage if you figure out what key words etc it's using to filter by. This is the game now being played.

You can even give chatGPT a link to the job and ask it to tell you what AI is likely to be looking for. I bet many of the tools recruiters are using also have chatGPT behind them, so it's like being handed the answers to an exam really. It's already going to know exactly what to write

swillsy · 4 Jul 2025 at 15:01

Nasher said:
We seem to be in a silly age where AI is applying for jobs sifted by AI. You can use it to your advantage if you figure out what key words etc it's using to filter by.

I think you'll have a hard time finding someone who isn't using AI to at least partially write CVs now.

Yep this appears to be the case but the AI is placing the keywords in there dependent on the posting. I was listening to this week's Artificial Intelligence show on Spotify earlier and they are basically saying that one student could send thousands of CVs all over the country - applications are up 45% over last year despite jobs being fewer. This will get worse as time goes on so there needs to be a solution to it as basically the system will not work soon and businesses will not be able to filter the slop and end up with the wrong people in jobs. There could potentially be a need for job fairs or in person checks again. Maybe a business in genuine recruitment agencies matching the right clients rather than spamming emails.

VRDoctor · 4 Jul 2025 at 15:08

The last two jobs I've got haven't even asked for a CV, just needed to input my education/history/cover letter in their own application system.

Nasher · 4 Jul 2025 at 15:11

VRDoctor said:
The last two jobs I've got haven't even asked for a CV, just needed to input my education/history/cover letter in their own application system.

It probably works the same way though. They just don't want people sending files in.

On those I just copy/paste my CV.

D.P. · 4 Jul 2025 at 18:22

Rroff said:
They aren't necessarily rejecting AI written CVs (depends a bit) but some companies are being lazy and using AI to pre-filter candidates, which is just going to result in an arms race and make CVs less useful in my opinion as people start crafting CVs to get past the first hurdle rather than necessarily being human useful :s

Most companies pre-filter anyway by getting HR to look for a few key facts (e.g
MSc in Com. Sci, 8+ years experience, a must have 4 out of 7 technologies in a list, must have visa, resident , start immediately etc.

Plenty of good candidates will be lost, but the goal is just to increase the signal to noise.

I don't see AI being problematic here. In fact, i rather trust AI to do better semantically understanding technologies than an HR intern

D.P. · 4 Jul 2025 at 18:24

Nasher said:
Already happening. I did that with mine. Most of what I wrote is still there but I added certain things the AI sifting seems to like. My hit rate up went up massively afterwards.

We seem to be in a silly age where AI is applying for jobs sifted by AI. You can use it to your advantage if you figure out what key words etc it's using to filter by. This is the game now being played.

You can even give chatGPT a link to the job and ask it to tell you what AI is likely to be looking for. I bet many of the tools recruiters are using also have chatGPT behind them, so it's like being handed the answers to an exam really. It's already going to know exactly what to write

How do you know AI was filtering and not a hiring manager?

Camalot · 8 Jul 2025 at 10:32

I just fed mine into Gemini and pasted the JD of a job I was going to and asked it to provide advice on changes.

I used some, didn't use others.

NickK · 8 Jul 2025 at 11:47

D.P. said:
Most companies pre-filter anyway by getting HR to look for a few key facts (e.g
MSc in Com. Sci, 8+ years experience, a must have 4 out of 7 technologies in a list, must have visa, resident , start immediately etc.

Plenty of good candidates will be lost, but the goal is just to increase the signal to noise.

I don't see AI being problematic here. In fact, i rather trust AI to do better semantically understanding technologies than an HR intern

Although it also assumes no AI bias - let's assume for arguments sake correct constant due diligence testing indicates no bias.

I agree an intern will not understand the the role or the possible matches other than keywords. This is the problem - keywords aren't a great selection criteria. Especially as most applications will attempt to mirror the keywords to score to get past the first sift.

A correctly defined AI should be able to map between role types, and understand that a role can be titled in many different ways in a company. Titles are meaningless and the devil is into the detail where an AI can map but not understand the R&R. If done right - I can agree to a certain degree.

For example I have a role that's Product Owner. Yet that's portfolio leadership of 42 services, including budget, financials, third party commercials, procurement for both build and operation. "Product Owner" is often equated to "Business Analyst" at first glance.