Tailoring a CV in two minutes — how it works without the cringe

Recruiters spend six to ten seconds on a first CV scan. A generic CV rarely earns those seconds because it tries to be everything to everyone. Tailoring per job used to take an hour in Word. It doesn't anymore. Here's the actual workflow.

What happens in the two minutes

The job ad gets parsed. Hard requirements, nice-to-haves, and repeated terminology are extracted. Both "Product Owner" and "PO" get noted — they're not the same string to an ATS.
Your experience gets matched. Nothing invented. Roles get reordered so the relevant ones surface first. An old role that suddenly fits gets more space; an unrelated job shrinks.
Bullets are reframed. Same facts, different lens. "Improved onboarding flow" becomes "activated new users (+12%)" for a growth role and "reduced first-week tickets by 30%" for an ops role — only if those numbers exist in your source material.
Style gets chosen. Bank: Conservative. Design studio: Creative or Editorial. Override at will.
You check. Preview before download. Disagree with a claim? "Disagree" button explains why and triggers a revision — free if the claim is wrong.

What this doesn't do

Invent experience. Inflate skills you've never touched. Stretch dates. The honesty rules are baked into the prompts — if it's not in your input, it doesn't go on the CV. Not marketing, just how this stays usable across a job hunt.

The actual time budget

Step	First time	Subsequent
Profile setup	10 min	0 — already done
Paste job + generate	1 min	1 min
Pick style	30 sec	10 sec
Read + finetune	3–5 min	1–2 min
Download PDF	5 sec	5 sec

Two minutes is generation plus download. The honest end-to-end time including a read-through is four to five minutes per application. That's an order of magnitude faster than the typical Word workflow, and the output is more targeted.

Common questions

Doesn't the AI go off the rails creatively?

You pick the creativity level. Conservative produces a quiet, classic layout for a law firm. Experimental or Editorial gives a design studio a visual signature. Nothing changes about the facts — only the presentation.

Does it work without LinkedIn?

Yes. Fill in your profile manually, or upload an existing CV (PDF). The tool works with what you put in — no scraping of external profiles.

Isn't this just ChatGPT with a wrapper?

No. ChatGPT can do this if you prompt well, between five other tabs. CVeetje does three things ChatGPT doesn't out of the box: keeps your profile as structured data (consistent regenerations), renders to real PDFs in multiple styles, and has honesty rules to prevent fabrication. Plus you don't paste your context every time.

Try it

Fifteen free credits per month — enough for one full CV, no credit card. If you want more, buy credits or use your own API key. One generated CV is usually enough to tell if this fits your workflow.