AI resume tailoring: a CV made for each job

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   Add your CV once

   Import it from a PDF or Word file, sync it from your LinkedIn profile, or type it into My CV. List your skills in My Skills, with how good you are at each and how many years you have used it.

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   Open a job and choose Generate CV

   Pick a template (or none, for plain text) and choose Tailored or Full. The job description comes from the posting you saved.

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   Get a PDF made for that job

   The AI reads the job and your profile, chooses what to lead with and rewrites the wording for the role. With a template you get a PDF you can download, attach by hand, or let Auto Apply upload.

The AI is instructed never to add employers, job titles, technologies or numbers that are not in your profile. It selects, reorders and rewords what you gave it; the facts stay yours. A tailored CV is a draft, so read it before you send it. If the wording is not right, regenerate it with your own instructions.

The years of experience you set in My Skills are passed to the AI, so a skill you have used for six years is not presented as a new one.

The same tools write a cover letter for each job from your profile and the job description. Use it as a file, paste it into a form's cover letter box, or let Auto Apply fill it in. When Auto Apply needs a letter for a job that already has one, it uses that letter instead of writing another.

Best JobFinder gives you two different numbers, and it helps to know which is which.

• ATS score. An AI review of your CV against one job: an overall score with a breakdown for keyword match, formatting, completeness and impact language, the strong and weak parts, suggestions by section, and a proposed revision. It is an estimate. No outside tool can see the score an employer's own system gives.
• Skill match score. Not AI. A fixed formula: each skill the job lists that is in your profile adds points based on your competency and the weight you gave it, and each skill you are missing takes points off. The same job and the same profile always give the same score.

Some CV tricks backfire: white text, tiny text and hidden instructions aimed at AI screeners can get an application rejected. Before Auto Apply attaches a CV or cover letter, Best JobFinder scans the file itself for:

• hidden text, such as white or near-invisible text, very small text, or text placed off the page;
• instructions aimed at AI screeners, in the text, the file's properties or image descriptions;
• keyword stuffing, measured against the job description;
• anything that stops an applicant tracking system from reading the file, such as a PDF with no text layer, a password, or columns that read in the wrong order.

A serious problem stops Auto Apply from attaching the file, and you see exactly what was found. You can still allow that file on purpose. Smaller issues are shown as warnings only.

• In the app. Every saved job has Generate CV, Cover letter and ATS score in its AI tools, in the web app and the desktop app.
• On the job board. The browser extension offers the same tools on the job page. When you click a resume or cover letter upload field, it lets you generate one for that job and approve it before it is attached.
• During Auto Apply. Turn on tailored CVs and cover letters, and Auto Apply writes one for each job and uploads the PDF.

Up to three CVs, three cover letters and three ATS scores can be generating at once. Your plan sets how many you can make per day; see pricing.