Parsed, not just stored
A PDF or Word file goes in; roles, dates, employers, skills and achievements come out. That structure is what lets an answer name the right company and the right year rather than gesturing at “a previous role”.
Resume interview prep
Your CV is the question list. The interviewer is already holding it.
Almost every question in the first half of an interview comes off the page you sent them. Prepare from that page: the claims that need a number, the gaps that need an explanation, and the stories in it you have half forgotten.
Reading a CV costs no credits. Add it once and every session can use it.
What happens to it
From a PDF to answers that cite your own work
- Upload
- Parsed into roles and skills
- Matched against the job
- Used by every answer
Versions, chosen per session
Keep the platform version and the backend version. The one you attach to a session is the one it answers from, so a single account handles two parallel searches without mixing them.
Trimmed when it is used
Only what an answer needs is sent with the question, against a fixed budget — which is what keeps an answer arriving in seconds. How CV context works →
Before you prepare anything
Read your own CV as the interviewer will
Four passes, fifteen minutes. This is the highest-value quarter hour in interview preparation and almost nobody does it.
Every claim without a number
“Improved performance”, “led the rollout”, “reduced costs”. Each one is a question, and the answer needs a figure. Find the figure now, because you will not find it in the room.
Every gap between dates
Three months, a year, a role that lasted seven weeks. Someone will ask. A plain, unembarrassed sentence is all it needs, and it has to be ready.
Every technology listed
Anything on there can be probed to any depth. Mark the ones you used two years ago and half remember: those are the preparation, not the ones you use daily.
Every “led” and “owned”
How many people, what you decided, what you were accountable for when it went wrong. Seniority questions live here and the answers are specific or they are nothing.
CV against job description
The gap list is the preparation list
Read side by side, the two documents produce three lists, and the middle one is where the interview is won or lost.
What you meet
The requirements your CV already answers. Worth a sentence each and nothing more; these questions are not where the round is decided.
What you nearly meet
The adjacent experience — you have run a team of four, they want someone who has run twelve. This needs a prepared answer that names the real thing you did and the honest distance to theirs. It is the most valuable answer you can prepare.
What you do not meet
Say so, briefly, with how you would approach it. An interviewer who finds a bluff stops believing the rest of the interview, which costs far more than the gap did.
What is already in there
You have more material than you remember
Most people under-use their own CV because the interesting part never made it onto the page — only the job title did.
The incident nobody wrote down
The complaint that went to the board, the audit, the week the deadline moved. One of the four stories worth preparing is almost always here, and it is not on your CV because it was unpleasant at the time.
The thing you built that got boring
The process you fixed, the handover you wrote, the thing that now just works. It stopped being interesting to you years before it stopped being interesting to an interviewer.
The documents around it
Design docs, post-mortems, a performance review. Attach them and the specifics come from your own writing. Document context →
Questions
About preparing from a CV
What questions will an interviewer ask about my CV?
The ones your CV invites. Every claim without a number attracts “how much?”, every gap between two dates attracts “what happened here?”, every technology listed attracts “how deeply?”, and anything described as “led” attracts “how many people, and what did you decide?”. Read your own CV as a stranger and the question list writes itself.
How does uploading my CV change the answers?
It is the difference between an answer about queueing systems and an answer about the regional rollout you ran at the company you ran it at. Your CV is parsed into roles, dates, skills and achievements, so an answer can reach for the right employer and the right year instead of speaking in general terms.
Can I keep more than one CV?
Yes, and most people should. A CV aimed at a management role and one aimed at a specialist role invite different questions, and you pick which one a session answers from. The one attached to a session is the one it uses.
What file types can I upload?
A PDF or a Word document, which is what people have. The text is extracted and parsed; the file itself is not what gets used, the structured version of it is.
Where does my CV go?
Into your account, readable by you. When an answer is written, the part of your CV an answer needs is sent with the question to the AI provider writing it — that is how the answer comes from your experience, and the privacy page names the providers. You can delete a CV, or the whole account, from Settings.
What if my CV is weak against the job description?
Better to know. Lining the two up produces a list of the requirements you do not meet, which is where the hard questions will be. The answer for a real gap is the nearest thing you have done plus what you would do to close it — prepared, said plainly, and far stronger than a bluff that collapses on the follow-up.
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