Talking to My CV (With AI)
Recruiters are using AI. Companies are using AI to screen CVs, run early interviews, and decide who makes it through to a human. None of that is shocking anymore, but it does lead to a slightly weird situation where a lot of the first conversations about you aren’t actually happening with a person.
So I built an AI agent for myself.
Not in a “this replaces me” way, and definitely not because I think a chatbot is better than a real conversation. It was more about curiosity than anything else. If the hiring process is increasingly mediated by software, it felt reasonable to see what happens if I lean into that instead of pretending it’s not happening.
The agent is trained on my CV and can answer questions about my background, experience, and the kinds of roles I’m suited to. You can ask it about leadership, delivery, technical depth, or where I tend to be most effective. It talks about me in the third person, doesn’t announce what it is, and doesn’t keep saying “according to his CV”. The goal was for it to sound like someone who actually knows my work, not like a helpdesk bot.
Is it genuinely useful? I’m still not sure.
What has been surprisingly useful is using it myself. Having something try to confidently explain your career is a very quick way of spotting the gaps. If it struggles to answer a question cleanly, that’s usually on me. Either I haven’t written something down properly, I’ve undersold it, or I’ve assumed context that isn’t actually there. It’s a slightly uncomfortable but very effective feedback loop.
There’s also something mildly amusing about flipping the script. If companies are happy using AI to interrogate candidates, it feels fair to experiment with using it on the candidate side too. Not to game anything, but to understand how these systems behave and what they optimise for.
I’m not claiming this is the future of CVs, and I’m definitely not suggesting an AI agent should replace an actual conversation. At best, it’s an interesting tool. At worst, it’s a nerdy side project (my specialist subject). But it’s already helped me think more clearly about how I present my experience, and that alone has made it worth doing.
If nothing else, it’s a reminder that a CV doesn’t have to be a static PDF. It can be something you poke at, question, and improve over time. And if the hiring world is already doing that with AI, it seemed only fair to try it from the other side.
Update: I've since turned this into a site that anyone can use to generate their own CV chatbox. If you want to create your own AI CV agent, you can do it here or read more about it here: Talking to Yourself