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Tutorial 05 · Beginner

Build a Truthful CV and Tailor It to One Job

Build a verified record of your own experience, create a reusable master CV, and tailor one accurate application to a real or fictional vacancy.

75-90 minutesNo coding8 guided stepsIncluded in Discovery Pack and Premium Pack

You will build

A verified career-evidence bank, reusable master CV, job-match analysis, tailored CV, short application message, and final review checklist

You will strengthen

Gathering evidence, separating confirmed facts from unknowns, matching experience to requirements, and reviewing AI-created professional documents

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Learning map

Tools and capabilities

Tools

CodexDocument editorPDF viewer

Capabilities

Evidence gatheringTruthful tailoringApplication review

Before you begin

What you need

  • Access to Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app
  • A document editor that can open an editable CV and export a PDF
  • Your current CV if you have one; otherwise the guided interview starts from scratch
  • One real job advertisement or the included fictional practice vacancy

See the system

A visual guide before you begin

Two starting routes—guided interview or existing CV audit—converge on a learner-confirmed career-evidence bank before the master CV is drafted.

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Two starting routes—guided interview or existing CV audit—converge on a learner-confirmed career-evidence bank before the master CV is drafted.
Application flow from verified evidence to master CV, job match, tailored draft, editable review, PDF review, and final learner approval.

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Application flow from verified evidence to master CV, job match, tailored draft, editable review, PDF review, and final learner approval.

Practice assets

Download what you need

Career-evidence bank templateA scoped worksheet for recording confirmed experience, unresolved questions, honest unknowns, and excluded information.Download →Fictional Office Administrator CVA privacy-safe existing CV with generic and unsupported wording for the import-and-audit practice route.Download →Fictional Operations Coordinator vacancyA practice job advertisement with essential requirements, preferred qualifications, and clear responsibilities.Download →CV application review checklistA final human-review checklist for truthfulness, relevance, personal information, editable layout, and PDF export.Download →

Step-one preview

Choose how you will begin

Objective

Prepare one scoped career workspace, review its data controls, and choose a starting route without changing an original file.

Visible result

The scoped workspace and its account data-handling boundary are understood, the starting route is explicit, and any original CV remains unchanged.

Completion check

I reviewed the data controls, chose one route, removed unnecessary personal data, and preserved any original CV unchanged.