AI assistants can help with many parts of a job search: summarising job adverts, suggesting clearer wording, generating practice interview questions and organising your notes. They work best as a starting point that you check and improve, not as a replacement for your own judgement.
Where AI tools can help
- Research: summarising a job description or an organisation’s public information so you can prepare faster.
- Structure: turning rough notes about your experience into clear, well-organised CV bullet points.
- Editing: tightening wording, fixing grammar and adjusting tone.
- Practice: generating likely interview questions and giving feedback on your draft answers.
Check everything for accuracy
AI tools can produce confident text that is wrong or exaggerated. In an application, that can mean a skill you do not have, a responsibility you never held or a result you cannot explain. Anything that reaches an employer should be something you can discuss confidently in an interview.
Keep your voice and your specifics
Generic wording is easy to spot. Feed the tool real details — the projects you worked on, the tools you used and the outcomes you achieved — and then edit the output so it sounds like you. Your specific examples are what make an application memorable.
Protect your personal data
- Read how a tool stores and uses what you upload before sharing a CV or personal documents.
- Avoid entering sensitive information that is not needed, such as identity numbers or health details.
- Do not paste confidential information from current or former employers.
- Prefer services that clearly explain their data handling and let you delete your data.
Follow each employer’s rules
Some employers state how candidates may use AI — for example, allowing help with CV wording but not during assessments or live interviews. If guidance is given, follow it. When in doubt, assume that tests and assessments should reflect your own work.
Understand the bigger picture
The International Labour Organization’s analysis of generative AI suggests it is more likely to change tasks within many jobs than to fully automate whole occupations. Building the habit of using AI tools carefully and critically is itself a useful workplace skill — and a good one to be able to talk about in interviews.