How to Fix Your CV with AI: 4 Prompts to Get Hired Fast (ChatGPT & Gemini Guide)

Are you sending out CVs but receiving zero phone calls? Whether you are a fresh graduate from a local university, a school leaver, or looking for foreign employment, the silence can be frustrating.

The problem often isn’t your qualification or your Z-Score; it is how you have communicated your value. Today, you don’t need to hire an expensive career coach. You can use free AI tools like Google Gemini or ChatGPT to act as your personal career strategist.

Quick Comparison: Manual Writing vs. AI-Assisted CVs

Before we dive into the prompts, here is why you need to switch your strategy immediately.

Feature	The Old Way (Manual Writing)	The StudentLanka AI Strategy
Time Spent	Hours staring at a blank screen	Minutes refining high-quality text
Keyword Matching	Guesswork and manual scanning	Data-driven Gap Analysis (85%+ Match)
Formatting	Often cluttered, confusing for bots	Optimized for ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems)
Impact Description	Passive lists (e.g., “I was a prefect”)	XYZ Formula (Measurable results)
Tone	Generic and often boring	Professional, active, and persuasive

1. The “Gap Analysis” (Check Your Match Score)

Recruiters in top Sri Lankan companies and foreign agencies do not read every word. They scan for specific keywords. If your CV does not strictly match the Job Description (JD), your application often gets ignored.

Use this prompt to perform a “Gap Analysis” on your current CV.

How to do it:

Copy the text of your current CV.
Copy the Job Description from the advertisement (e.g., TopJobs, LinkedIn).
Paste both into the AI and use this prompt:

The Prompt:

“Act as a senior recruiter and give me a match score out of 100 based on my attached CV and the pasted job description below. Tell me strictly the missing keywords and hard skills I need to add to reach an 85% match.”

Knowledge Architect Tip: Do not aim for a 100% match. If your CV is a perfect copy of the job description, it looks suspicious. Aim for an 85-90% match score to look natural yet highly qualified.

2. The Google Recruiter Formula (The XYZ Method)

A senior recruiter at Google popularized the “XYZ Formula” for resume bullet points. Most Sri Lankan students write generic lists like “Member of the Commerce Society” or “Responsible for sales.” This tells the employer nothing about your ability.

The Formula:

X: What you accomplished
Y: How it was measured (Numbers/Percentages)
Z: How you did it

The Prompt:

“Rewrite my bullet points using the Google XYZ formula: ‘Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]’. Here is my current bullet point: [Paste your sentence here]”

Real World Example:

Before: “Responsible for organizing the school Big Match souvenir.”
After: “Raised Rs. 500,000 in sponsorship ads (X), representing a 20% increase from last year (Y), by leading a team of 10 students to target local businesses (Z).”

3. The ATS Scan (Beat the Bots)

Many large companies use ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems). These are software bots that read your CV before a human ever sees it. If you use fancy graphics, complex columns, or Canva templates with heavy designs, the bot cannot read your text, and you get rejected instantly.

The Prompt:

“Act as an ATS filter and scan my resume text below. Which sections, fonts, or formatting structures would a bot struggle to parse? Give me a readability score and suggest formatting fixes.”

4. The Interview Prep (Predict the Questions)

Once your CV is fixed, you will start getting calls. Don’t walk into the interview blind. You can use AI to simulate the “Viva” or interview process.

The Prompt:

“Act as the hiring manager for this specific role. Ask me the 3 hardest technical and behavioral questions you would ask a candidate. Then, provide the best, most impressive answers I can supply for those questions using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result).”

Summary for StudentLanka Readers

Getting a job is competitive, but working smarter with AI gives you an unfair advantage.

Check your score against the specific job ad.
Use the Google XYZ formula to prove your impact.
Make it bot-readable for ATS systems.
Prepare for the hard questions before you walk in.

Have you tried using AI for your CV yet? Let us know your experience in the comments below.