Features

CV optimization

Optimization takes your existing CV and improves it against standard ATS and recruiter criteria, without changing what you did or adding information you didn't provide.

How it works

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Go to CV → Upload & optimize from your dashboard.

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Drop your CV in .pdf or .docx (10 MB max).

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Clavis Talent analyzes the document and calculates your starting ATS score.

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The AI rewrites and restructures the sections to fix detected issues.

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You get the optimized version with a before/after score comparison.

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Download in PDF (every plan) or DOCX (Essentiel and above).

What gets optimized

  • Section headings: normalized to labels ATS systems recognize (e.g. "Professional Experience" rather than a creative title)
  • Bullet structure: rephrases vague tasks into clear, results-oriented achievements, in noun-construction form (the European executive CV standard)
  • Keyword coverage: identifies missing keywords for your job category and works them in naturally
  • Formatting: removes tables, text boxes, columns, and other elements that break ATS parsing
  • Dates and timeline: standardizes date formats
  • Length: flags a CV that's too long or too thin for the experience level
  • Contact section: checks that name, email, phone, and location are present and well placed

The ATS score

The ATS score is a number from 0 to 100, calculated across five weighted categories: formatting (10 pts), keywords (25 pts), content (30 pts), impact (20 pts), and structure (15 pts). 70+ is considered good for most roles, 85+ is excellent. The score is shown before and after optimization.

  • Formatting: calculated directly from your document. If you uploaded a PDF, it comes from its actual layout; if the CV is generated from a template, it depends on the template you chose.
  • Keywords, content, impact, structure: evaluated by the AI from your CV's text.

This score is based on general ATS criteria, not a specific job offer. For a score specific to a role, use Job targeting.

Choosing your template

After optimization, choose a template for your CV from the results page. Two families are available:

  • ATS templates: simple, single-column layout, designed to parse cleanly in recruiting software.
  • Design templates: a more visual layout (sidebar, photo), for applications where appearance matters as much as automated parsing.

Switching templates immediately recalculates the "formatting" category of your ATS score. The other four categories stay unchanged.

Correct and preview your CV before you download it

Before you download, you can still adjust the generated content from the Correct button on the results page, or from a CV's card in My CVs.

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Click Correct. The editor opens on the CV's fields: identity, contact, summary, experience, education, skills, languages, certifications.

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Edit any field, reorder your experience or education, rename section headings.

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Add a custom section if needed, in the main area or the sidebar.

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Save: the CV is regenerated and the ATS score is recalculated with your changes.

You can also preview the final render of the CV before downloading it, directly from the same page.

Translation

After optimization, you can also translate your CV into another language from the CV's detail page, with the Translate button.

Translation is available from the Essentiel plan up. See Plans & billing for the quota details.

Limits

  • Clavis Talent can't read scanned images embedded in a PDF. The file must contain selectable text.
  • CVs with a very visual layout (columns, icons, infographics) may lose some of their formatting during parsing. This is intentional: those elements hurt ATS parsing.

Optimization rephrases but never invents. If your original CV is light on detail, the result will also stay limited. This is an anti-fabrication guarantee, not a bug.