CV Writing & Optimisation
Build one strong CV — then tailor it for every role.
Stop rewriting your CV from scratch for each application. Record your career once, and CareerPathIQ selects, orders and sharpens the wording for whichever role or advert you are targeting — without changing a single fact.
How it works
- 1Your career record
- 2Choose the target
- 3Tailored CV
The AI improves the language — never the facts.
CV workspace
Illustrative example — not your CVSource — your career record
- Shift supervisor — Care provider · 2021–Present
- Care assistant — Residential home · 2018–2021
- 6 achievements9 skills2 qualifications
Target role
Warehouse Team Leader
Select · order · phrase
Output — targeted CV
J. Doyle
Warehouse Team Leader — targeted
The distinction that matters
Your CV isn't your career.
Most CV tools treat the document as the source of truth. CareerPathIQ treats it as an output — which is why optimisation here never means rewriting your past.
Your Career Record
The source — complete and independent of any one document
- Every role, with dates, responsibilities and achievements
- Skills, qualifications, memberships and credentials
- Target roles you're measuring yourself against
- Original wording, always preserved
Your CV
An output — selected for one purpose
- The evidence relevant to this target, ordered to lead
- Bullets capped per role by your chosen layout
- Confirmed wording — yours, or a polish you approved
- Rebuilt whenever the record or the target changes
IllustrativeImproving a line on the CV never rewrites the record underneath. Your original wording stays stored; a confirmed polish sits alongside it — labelled.
The mechanism
How a career record becomes a CV.
- 01
Career Record
Roles, achievements, responsibilities, skills, qualifications, memberships and credentials you have recorded.
- 02
Target role or job description
A role from the ESCO occupation library, or a real advert you paste in.
- 03
Selection, order & wording
Matched skills lead. Bullets are ordered and capped. Optional rephrasing is checked by the no-new-facts guard.
- 04
CV preview & export
One document model rendered on screen and exported as .docx or .pdf — checked against our ATS-friendly rules.
IllustrativeOne document model drives the on-screen preview and both export formats — what you see is exactly what is exported.
Four ways in
Start where you actually are.
Same evidence standard, four different entry points.
Write from scratch
No CV yet — or yours needs rebuilding from the ground up.
- Uses
- Your details, work history, skills and qualifications, entered section by section.
- Then
- CareerPathIQ assembles the document from your record — nothing is added.
Optimise for a target role
You know the role you're aiming at and want the CV to lead with what it requires.
- Uses
- Your record plus the role's recorded requirements from the ESCO occupation library.
- Then
- Matched skills move to the front; coverage and gaps are measured — never padded.
Compare with a job description
You have a real advert in hand and want to know exactly where you stand before applying.
- Uses
- The advert you paste, checked against your record and target role.
- Then
- Requirement-by-requirement coverage, with the gaps shown honestly.
Import an existing CV
You already have a CV and want it to seed your career record.
- Uses
- A PDF or Word file — we extract the text for you to review.
- Then
- Extraction is text-only and you confirm everything. Scanned image files can't be read yet.
Target-role optimisation
The target sets the order — it never adds to the record.
When you set a target role, CareerPathIQ reads its recorded requirements and measures your record against them. What changes is selection and emphasis — not your history.
What the target actually drives
- Skills ordering. Recorded skills that match the role's requirements move to the front of the Skills section. Order only — nothing is inserted.
- Coverage measurement. Skills and qualification coverage is reported as a share of the role's stated requirements — with each missing item named.
- A binary readiness verdict. Ready when no must-have skill or qualification is missing — otherwise not ready, with the open items listed. No score, no shortlist threshold.
- A route to close gaps. Missing requirements link through to Evidence Builder and Gap Analysis — not to CV padding.
What it deliberately never does
- Insert a skill, tool or keyword you haven't recorded.
- Turn a missing requirement into implied experience.
- Produce a match score that pretends to predict shortlisting.
- Reorder your work history away from reverse-chronological truth.
Job-description analysis
The advert is the brief. Your record is the answer.
Paste a real vacancy and CareerPathIQ maps it against your target role and recorded evidence — requirement by requirement. Separate from target-role optimisation, and advisory only.
- 1
Paste the advert
The job description is saved to your workspace so you can return to it.
- 2
Requirements are read
Stated skills, qualifications and experience expectations are extracted from the text.
- 3
Measured against you
Skills and qualification coverage is reported as percentages of what the advert asks for, alongside experience context.
- 4
Levers, not edits
You get advisory next actions — evidence to add or wording to confirm. Nothing changes without you.
IllustrativeCoverage is the share of stated requirements your record supports. It is not an ATS score, and no coverage figure predicts an interview.
Assembly
Everything on the page comes from your record.
Eight real sources feed the document. Section order, emphasis and bullets-per-role come from your chosen layout profile — the same model for preview, .docx and .pdf.
Contact details
Name, email, phone and location from Your details.
Professional summary
Written by you — or an AI draft you reviewed and confirmed.
Work history
Every position, reverse-chronological, with dates you entered.
Responsibilities & achievements
Ordered by your layout's emphasis, capped per role.
Skills
Your recorded skills — matched ones lead when a target is set.
Qualifications
De-duplicated, newest first.
Professional memberships
Body, designation and chartered status where recorded.
Credentials
Certificates and licences you have added.
“The AI improves the language — never the facts.”
How wording improvement works
Asked, checked, confirmed — then used.
- 1
Your statement
Every line begins as something you wrote about your real work.
- 2
Optional AI rephrase
The AI may improve clarity and phrasing — nothing else.
- 3
No-new-facts guard
A deterministic check blocks any added number, date, employer or qualification.
- 4
Your confirmation
Nothing is saved without your approval — and the original is never overwritten.
What CareerPathIQ will never do
- Invent achievements, metrics or outcomes
- Add employers, tools, qualifications or memberships you haven't recorded
- Keyword-stuff unsupported terms to chase a score
- Claim recruiter or ATS approval of your CV
- Turn a requirement into experience you don't have
- Silently replace your original wording
Export & ATS
Designed for straightforward ATS parsing.
Your CV exports as .docx or .pdf. Every export is checked rule by rule against our documented ATS-friendly standard — and the checker tells you plainly where something flags.
IllustrativeNo tool can guarantee how every applicant-tracking system reads a file. What CareerPathIQ guarantees is narrower and real: the document follows the documented rules above, and the conformance report shows each rule's result before you export.
Around the CV
Live capabilities — and what's still in development.
Career profiling
Structured reflection on roles, working style and gaps — from your own answers.
Interview preparation
Practice questions built from your target role, answered with your own evidence.
Coaching
Human review, strategy and mock interviews from a named practitioner.
Cover letter & email
Grounded in your evidence, matched to the advert — never padded.
LinkedIn optimisation
The same facts, rewritten for how the platform ranks and reads.
Start with the record. The CV follows.
Build from scratch, import what you have, or check your evidence against a real role or advert.