How we write our guides
Our guides answer one question each, in plain words, from sources you can check. Rules and norms come from official bodies, employment services and university careers services. Example CVs are fictional. When something changes, we update the page and its date.
Who writes them
Guides are written by Paul and the c-v.ai team. The advice draws on years of hiring across industries, and of writing CVs professionally. We use AI tools to help research and draft, and a person reviews every page before it's published.
Where facts come from
- Rules and norms (what to leave off a CV, ID numbers, photos, references) come from government sites, official employment services, data-protection authorities and university careers services. Each page lists its sources.
- What employers look for in a job comes from official job profiles, such as national careers services, and from job ads.
- Search behaviour, meaning which questions people ask, comes from what people search for in each country.
What we don't do
- Invent statistics, quotes, reviews or experts.
- Use real people's CVs. Every example CV is fictional, and any resemblance is a coincidence.
- Promise that a CV will get through an applicant tracking system. We say what a check verifies, not what it guarantees.
- Tell you one of our templates is better than the other. Both get the same readability check.
Product mentions
Our guides are free and are written to be useful whether or not you use c-v.ai. Where the app can do a step for you, we say so, and we say what it costs. Comparisons with other tools say where those tools are better.
Updates and corrections
We check pages when the rules they describe change, and at least once a year. The date at the top shows when a page last changed. If you spot a mistake, write to support@c-v.ai with the page address, and we'll fix it and update the date.