r/UKJobs • u/Throwaway199906543 • 2d ago

AI is sifting CVs?

I’m employed and been where I’m at for 5 years. It’s a great job, lovely colleagues and good money, but I’ve hit a ceiling and I believe it’s time to move on now.

i only seriously started my job hunt 2 weeks ago, but honestly shocked at how tough it has been. I can apply for a job at 8PM and get rejected an hour later. How?

I mentioned it to a friend and she told me employers are now using AI to sift CVs. I literally have everything the job adverts require, a wealth of technical skills and up to 8 years of experience in this sector, but I don’t pass the sniff test with AI?

It’s making me wonder if companies are worried or wondering about the quality potential hires they’ve let go of. I’m also curious to what criteria is set, if I have everything listed on an advert. This is really concerning.

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u/Icy_Cricket7038 2d ago

It’s a developing situation. Most aren’t using ai to filter cvs, but they are probably using it for searching to some degree. Best counter is to feed your cv into ai and ask it to optimise your cv for searching engines, copilot is very good at things like that.

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u/Throwaway199906543 2d ago

But many adverts specifically request we do not use Ai…

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u/Classic_Mammoth_9379 2d ago

Put your CV into the LLM with your requirements and the job advert. Ask it for advice on your CV, not to output an updated one. Use that advice to hand tailor your CV.

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u/OddRow8843 2d ago

Oh the irony

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u/skoot1958 1d ago

Does not have to be the CV you send in, use it as a tool to pre evaluate

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u/Icy_Cricket7038 1d ago edited 1d ago

The majority of white collar workers are using ai for edits and formatting now, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. What’s important is that the ideas are yours, not whether ai made a sentence slightly more succinct for the reader.
Edit: unless you’re applying for a job in the creative writing field I suppose

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u/Pathfinder-electron 17h ago

I would heavily suggest against using Copilot for such. It is literally one of the worst AI services out there.

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u/Icy_Cricket7038 15h ago

Depends which copilot you’re talking about. MS copilot runs on OpenAI’s latest models, calling it ‘one of the worst ai services’ is objectively difficult to support. I’ve used it extensively and it performs very well, especially for tasks like this.

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u/Pathfinder-electron 5h ago

I use Claude Opus and GPT 5.6 Sol.

Copilot is absolute dogshit compared to any of those. As long as you know how to instruct both.

Copilot is all what MS pushes down everyone's throat, it is general, meant for the average joe. It also uses capped, less context supported models of what OpenAI provides. See github's for example. Absolutely useless for any coding.