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Tailor your CV to a job description automatically

Paste in a job description and your base CV, and get back a tailored, ATS-friendly version highlighting the right keywords and experience — exported as a ready-to-send PDF.

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Tailor your CV to a job description automatically

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01 / 12Form Trigger

Start with a manual trigger for a job description

Create a workflow with a Form Trigger (or Manual Trigger while testing) that captures the job description text and a link to your base CV, so you can run this whenever you spot a role worth

Checkpoint

Submitting the form produces an item with the job description text.

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Before you begin

Tick these off as you sort them. Stopping halfway to create an account is how a fifteen-minute build becomes an hour.

0 of 9 ready

Ticks are saved on this device, so you can come back to them.

  • Have ready

    This should contain your full history — every role, achievement and skill you might want to draw on — even if it's longer than a normal CV.

  • API key

    Used to analyse the job description and rewrite CV content around it.

    Perplexity API settings
  • Account

    The tailored CV is built as a Google Doc, then exported to PDF via Drive.

  • Have ready

    A clean, ATS-friendly layout with placeholder sections for summary, experience and skills that the workflow will fill in.

  • Know-how

    Applicant tracking systems mostly look for exact keyword overlaps with the job description. Knowing this shapes how the prompt is written.

  • Time

    Getting the rewriting prompt and the Doc template working together properly takes the most time.

The basics — ticked once, remembered everywhere

  • Account

    Either the hosted version or a self-hosted install. Everything here works the same on both — the only visible difference is the shape of your webhook URLs.

    Create a workspace
  • Know-how

    Adding a node, connecting two of them, and pressing Execute. If any of that is new, the free primer covers it in about ten minutes.

  • Credential

    You will paste at least one secret during setup. A password manager beats a notes app, and it stops you pasting a live key into a chat window by accident.

The shape of the workflow

The nodes you will end up with, left to right, in the order you add them.

Form TriggerGoogle DocsPerplexity AIGoogle DriveGoogle DocsGoogle Drive
The finished Tailor your CV to a job description automatically workflow on the n8n canvas4 things to set here
  1. 1Form Triggerthe trigger — everything starts here
  2. 2Google DocsPull in your base CV content
  3. 3Perplexity AIExtract keywords from the job description
  4. 4Perplexity AIRewrite the CV summary and experience bullets
The finished workflow on the n8n canvasTap to enlarge

Skip the node hunting

Import a starter file with every node for this build already on the canvas, named after its step and wired in order, each one carrying a sticky note with the values to enter. You still connect your own accounts and fill the fields — that is what the walkthrough takes you through — but you never start at a blank canvas.

In n8n: Workflows → Import from file.

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What you will build

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