Optimize Your CV with AI in preparAItor

The CV Builder includes four AI optimization tools, and this guide walks through all of them:

All four tools are available on every tier, including Free — they only cost credits from your monthly pool (Free 250, Pro 1,500, Premium 4,000).

Step 1: Open Your CV in the CV Builder

1. Click CV Builder in the main navigation.
2. On the CV Storage tab, pick the CV you want to work on. (No CV yet? Upload one — parsing costs 15 credits — or create one from scratch. See Upload your CV.)
3. The editor opens with four tabs at the top: Build, Health, AI Versions, and Export.

Everything in this guide happens in the Health, Build, and AI Versions tabs.

Step 2: Run a CV Health Check

Switch to the Health tab. The first time, you'll see Get a CV health check with the explanation "AI scores your CV against ATS + recruiter best practices and tells you what to fix first."

1. Click Analyse (the button shows the 15-credit cost).
2. The analysis takes around 30 seconds. Credits are only charged when an analysis succeeds — a failed run shows a Retry button and doesn't cost anything.

The result gives you:

• Overall score — a colour-coded wheel labelled CV Health: X/100 (green from 80, amber from 60, red below).
• Section scores — individual bars for Summary, Experience, Skills, Education, Projects, and Languages, so you can see exactly which section drags the score down.
• Keyword profile — a keyword score with a Density risk indicator (low is good; high means the CV looks keyword-stuffed), plus your Dominant themes, Strongest keywords, Weak or generic terms, and Possible missing keywords with a confidence rating for each.
• Strengths and Weaknesses — short bullet lists of what already works and what doesn't.
• Top suggestions — concrete, actionable cards, each tagged with the section it targets and the type of fix (Add content, Rephrase, Add metric, Fix gap, ATS keyword).

Step 3: Work Through the Suggestions

The suggestions list is a working checklist, not just a report:

• Tick the checkbox on a suggestion to mark it Done once you've fixed it in the Build tab.
• Use the ignore icon to dismiss suggestions that don't apply to you — they stay visible but greyed out, and you can restore them anytime.
• After editing your CV, the score gets an Outdated badge ("CV has changed since the last analysis"). Click Re-analyse (another 15 credits) when you want a fresh score — you decide when a re-check is worth it, nothing is charged automatically.

Step 4: Rewrite Weak Fields with AI Improve

For the "Rephrase" and "Add metric" type fixes, you don't have to write from scratch. In the Build tab, every longer text field — your summary, work-experience descriptions, project descriptions — shows an AI improve button underneath it (it appears once the field has enough text to be worth rewriting).

1. Click AI improve (3 credits, shown on the button).
2. After a few seconds you get your Current text plus three rewrite variants:
   • Concise — "Tighter — fewer words, same facts"
   • Impactful — "Stronger verbs, surfaces measurable outcomes"
   • ATS-optimised — "Keyword-rich, scannable for applicant tracking systems"
3. Click Use this on the variant you prefer. You land in an edit step where you can tweak the wording before committing — change a word, add or remove a sentence, or keep it as-is.
4. Click Apply to put the text into the field, Back to variants to pick a different one, or Discard all to keep your original.

Note: the 3 credits are charged when the variants are generated — discarding them doesn't refund. At 3 credits per click, it's cheap enough to run on every bullet point that feels flat.

Step 5: Tailor Your CV for a Specific Job

When you're applying to a concrete position, switch to the AI Versions tab and click the Tailor for a job card ("AI rewrites your CV for a specific job posting and shows what changed").

1. Click Choose job and pick a job from your job library, or add a new posting on the spot. (Parsing a newly added job uses job-parsing credits separately — 10 credits.)
2. Click Tailor with AI (60 credits, shown on the button).
3. Tailoring runs in the background for roughly 15–40 seconds. You'll see "Tailoring in progress. It will appear in Generated CVs when it is ready."

The result is a temporary AI version, not a change to your CV — your original stays untouched until you explicitly apply or save something (Step 7).

Step 6: Translate Your CV

On the same AI Versions tab, click the Translate card ("Create a copy of this CV in another language. Dates and company names are preserved.").

1. Click Choose language and pick the Target language: German, English, French, or Italian. Your CV's current language is excluded from the list.
2. Click Translate (90 credits, shown on the button).

Like tailoring, the translation lands in Generated CVs as a temporary version. Dates, company names, and technologies stay verbatim — only the prose is translated.

Step 7: Review and Apply Generated CVs

Tailored and translated versions appear under Generated CVs — on the AI Versions tab of the editor and on the Generated CVs tab of the CV Builder overview. Each card shows what it was based on, a match score for tailored versions (before → after), and an expiry note (e.g. "Expires in 30 days"). Generated CVs are temporary and expire with your history retention window — save the ones you want to keep.

Open a finished version and choose what to do with it:

• Choose parts to apply — the most precise option for tailored CVs. You get a change-by-change review: each proposed change shows Current vs Suggested text, tagged as Added, Improved, Rewritten, Reordered, or Recommendation. Tick Take on the changes you want (or Take all), then click Apply. By default, additions are pre-selected and replacements are not — so the AI can add, but only replaces your wording when you opt in. After applying, you can undo for 30 seconds. Tailored versions also show a Keyword alignment panel comparing keyword coverage before and after, including "unsupported gaps" the AI deliberately did not fake — flagged as "Do not add unless true".
• Save as new CV — copies the version into your CV Storage as a separate, editable CV. This counts toward your tier's CV limit (50, Pro 3, Premium 10).
• Replace an existing CV — overwrites one of your stored CVs with this version, so your CV count stays the same. This is not undoable.
• Keep for later — leaves it in Generated CVs until it expires.
• Delete — removes the generated version; your stored CVs are not affected.

Suggested Workflow

For a solid optimization pass without wasting credits:

1. Health check first (15 credits) — get the score and the prioritized fix list.
2. Fix structural issues by hand in the Build tab — missing sections, gaps, absent metrics cost nothing to fix yourself.
3. AI improve the flat bullets (3 credits each) — summary and top work experiences first.
4. Re-analyse (15 credits) once, to confirm the score moved.
5. Tailor per application (60 credits) — only for jobs you're seriously pursuing, and apply the changes selectively.

A full pass — health check, five improved fields, re-analysis, and one tailored version — costs about 90 credits, well within even the Free tier's 250 monthly credits.

Next Steps

• Design and export your CV — templates, colours, and PDF export in the same CV Builder.
• Add job details — build the job library that Tailor picks from.
• Generate application documents — put the optimized CV to work on cover letters.
• Understand the credit system — how the monthly pool and one-time packages work.

Questions? Contact us at admin@preparaitor.ch