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CV template for AI training jobs

Most CV templates spend a third of the page on education and decoration. AI training platforms screen with software first and a person second, and both want the same thing: what you have done, in numbers, in the platform's own words. This template is built for that. It is free, and it is a Word file, which opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice.

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Your first name and an email address, and it is yours on this screen straight away.

The one page CV template, filled in for an invented senior accountant: summary, experience with results, education in one line, languages with levels, skills — The sample inside the template. The person is invented.

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Match it to each job with AI

The template gives you the layout. This prompt fills it in for one job at a time, from your real experience. It works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, free versions included. I built it from the way I tailor my own CVs: the AI asks about the experience you left out before it writes anything.

Copy the prompt.
Open ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Paste the prompt, attach your CV, and add the job link, or better, the job text.
Answer its questions. It asks about results and examples your CV leaves out. That is the step that made my own CVs better.
Paste the result into the template. Check that every line is true and that you can talk about it, because an AI interview usually comes next.

See the prompt

Help me tailor my CV to one job. Act as an experienced recruiter for AI training platforms such as Mercor, micro1, Alignerr and Outlier. Many of them screen CVs with software first, and some, such as Mercor and micro1, then run an AI interview about the experience on the CV. My CV has to work for both, and everything in it has to be true.

MY CV: attached to this message, or pasted at the very end. If it is missing, ask me for it first.
THE JOB: [paste the link to the job posting here, or better, the full text of the posting]

Work in two steps.

STEP 1. Check the fit and ask me questions. Then stop and wait for my answers.

a) Read the whole job posting. If you cannot open the link, or you see only part of the posting, say so and ask me to paste the text. Never guess what the job asks for.

b) Fit check, 6 lines at most:
- Hard requirements I meet, and any I clearly miss (country, degree, licence, language level, years of experience).
- My 3 strongest matches for this job.
- The main gaps.
- Your advice: apply, apply and address the gap, or skip.
If I clearly miss a hard requirement, say so plainly and ask whether I still want to go on. Wait for my answer before part c.

c) Ask me up to 5 numbered questions about experience this job asks for that my CV does not show yet: results and numbers, tools, real examples, and any AI training or data work. People often leave out their most relevant work. I can answer briefly, or reply "skip".

STEP 2. After my answers, write the CV.

Rules:
1. Use only facts from my CV and my answers. Never invent a job title, employer, date, degree, licence, tool, number or result. Where a missing number would clearly make a bullet stronger, write [ADD: what to add]. Use at most 4 of these, on the job that matters most. Older jobs can have plain bullets without numbers.
2. Keep my job titles, employers and dates as they are.
3. Each experience bullet starts with a result, with a number where possible, then says how I got it. "Cut month-end close from 9 to 5 days by rebuilding 14 reconciliations" describes a person. "Responsible for month-end close" describes a job.
4. Put the experience that matters most for this job first. Shorten or drop what does not help.
5. Use the posting's exact words where they are true for me, mostly in the skills block. Write everything else in my own words. Do not name the company or the job in the summary, and do not copy sentences from the posting. A CV that looks written for one posting puts reviewers off.
6. Plain, modest words in the usual CV style, without "I" or "my". No buzzwords such as leverage, spearheaded, robust, seamless, passionate or results-driven. No em-dashes. Spell out any abbreviation an outsider would not know.
7. One page, one column. No photo, icons, tables, text boxes or columns.
8. Write in English unless the posting is in another language.
9. Plain text only, so it pastes cleanly into Word or Google Docs: section names in capitals, bullets that start with "- ", no # or * symbols.

Layout, in this order (the same as the AIPayList CV template):
NAME
Headline: my profession, in the posting's words where they are true for me | 2 or 3 areas of expertise
City, country | email | phone | LinkedIn
SUMMARY: 3 lines at most. Years of experience first, then what I do, then where I am an expert.
EXPERIENCE: for each job, the title and dates, then the employer and location, then the bullets. 3 to 5 bullets for recent relevant jobs, 1 or 2 for older ones.
AI TRAINING EXPERIENCE: only if I have done this kind of work. Otherwise leave the section out.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS: one line.
LANGUAGES: each with its level in words and the European letter grade, for example "Spanish: Full professional proficiency (C1)".
SKILLS: 4 or 5 lines grouped by area, written as "Area: skill, skill, skill".

After the CV, add two short parts:
- What I changed and why: 3 to 5 bullets.
- Talking points: 3 short notes for the first interview question, "Tell me about your experience", each linking one of my real examples to this job. Keep them as notes. I will answer in my own words.

Before you send the CV, check it: nothing invented, the bullets for the job that matters most show results with numbers, the posting's key words appear where they are true, no em-dashes, and it fits on one page.

Applying to a role listed on AIPayList? The page of every open role with its full posting has its own copy of this prompt, with the posting already inside. Browse open roles

How the template is built, and why

1. A summary of three lines at most
Start with your years of experience, then what you do, then where you are an expert. A screener decides in seconds whether to read on, and a paragraph of adjectives tells it nothing.
2. Experience first, and results, not duties
Every bullet says what changed because of you, with a number: days saved, money recovered, error rate, volume handled. Then how you did it. "Responsible for month-end close" describes a job. "Cut month-end close from 9 to 5 days" describes you.
3. Education in one line
Degree, school, year, and any licence that the role names. Platforms pay for what you can do now, so the space goes to experience.
4. Languages with a level, in both scales
Many AI training roles are language work. Write each language once with the level in words and the European letter grade, for example "Spanish: Full professional proficiency (C1)". Recruiters in the United States read the words, recruiters in Europe read the grade.
5. A keyword block that repeats the job post
Four or five short lines of skills, grouped by area. Use the exact words of the role you are applying to wherever they are true for you. This is what an AI screener and a search inside the platform match on.
6. One page, one column, nothing drawn
No photo, no icons, no tables, no text boxes, no second column. Software reads a CV top to bottom as plain text, and anything clever in the layout arrives scrambled.

About the sample

The template comes filled in, because a blank page with headings teaches nothing. The sample is a senior accountant, written against an accounting expert role that micro1 listed in September 2026. That role named five skills: financial reporting, audit procedures, financial modeling, tax compliance and legal document review. The five bullets of the current job answer those five, one each. Do the same with the role you want: read what it names, and let your strongest true result answer each one. Finance and accounting roles that are open now are on the finance experts page.

The sample also has a block for earlier AI training work. If you have none, delete it. Many expert roles say no AI experience is needed, and an empty claim is worse than no claim.

After the CV

On Mercor and micro1 the next step is an AI interview about your experience, so write nothing you cannot talk about for five minutes. What happens after you apply is the first hand account, and the tools page links Mercor's own page for its free practice interview.