How AI Screens Your CV (and How to Optimise Your Application)
Applying for jobs can feel like sending your CV into a black hole. But before a recruiter even reads your application, it’s often processed by software designed to organise, search, and prioritise candidates.
In this Spark Session, we’ll break down how AI and applicant tracking systems actually work in the hiring process — and what that means for job seekers today. You’ll learn what happens behind the scenes when you submit a CV, how these systems interpret your experience, and the practical steps you can take to make your application clearer, stronger, and easier for both technology and recruiters to understand.
This is a focused, practical session designed to help you improve the part of the hiring process where most candidates get filtered out: the initial application review.
In this session, we’ll cover:
What happens when you submit your CV to a company
How applicant tracking systems process and structure applications
How AI tools match candidates to job descriptions
Common CV mistakes that reduce your chances of being shortlisted
Simple ways to optimise your CV for modern hiring systems
The Spark Sessions series is designed to offer short, focused discussions on emerging topics shaping the future of work and technology. Each session aims to give you a clear understanding of a key issue and practical insights you can apply right away.
Whether you're actively job searching or simply curious about how hiring is evolving, this session will help you better understand the systems behind modern recruitment.