Reshaping your CV for Artificial Intelligent screening tools – a manual
Authors: Plackis-Cheng, P. (Paksy) and Cojocar, C. (Celine)
Published by WIDE+ and Impactmania
Download here: https://findhr.eu/reshape-your-cv/, or at our site:AI Hiring Tools – Manual_Sep 2025_updated
This manual provides a concise and easy-to-use overview of concrete suggestions and steps that can help any person applying for a job in which an Artificial Intelligent tool is used for (pre-) screening the application. Though its use is often not explicitly mentioned, a significant portion of online application processes make use of AI to find suitable candidates for their jobs, including algorithms for doing an initial ranking of the applicants. Just as humans, all kinds of biases can occur when an algorithm is making decisions on which candidate is better than another. Algorithms also ‘read’ applications in a different way compared to humans. This manual will help you to score better in such ranking processes.
Background
This manual is the result of Participatory Action Research (PAR) held in 2024 in the context of the FINDHR project. This is an interdisciplinary project with as outcome an array of toolkits, guides, software applications, data resources and training aimed at reducing discrimination in Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted hiring processes. It sets out to help policymakers, regulatory bodies, software designers, recruiters, civil society and jobseekers in this process.
About FINDHR
This manual is part of the FINDHR project. FINDHR (Fairness and Intersectional NonDiscrimination in Human Recommendation) is an interdisciplinary research project, funded throughout 2022-2025 by the EU Framework Horizon Europe.
FINDHR is a consortium of 11 partners out of academia (6 universities and institutes), industry (2 companies) and civil society (3 NGOs) based in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. Its research draws on an interdisciplinary background and expertise, covering legal, computational, industrial, societal and ethical perspectives. FINDHR offers an array of training, tools and information. This includes reports that describe the experiences of people facing higher risk of being discriminated through an AI assisted hiring process.
As a follow up resource, we would recommend to read the toolkit for policymakers, regulatory bodies and civil society organizations, called: ‘Just hiring! How to counter algorithmic discrimination in hiring at the level of policy & governance’.
All FINDHR resources can be found at: www.findhr.eu.
Disclaimer
This document is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101070212.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.