Create Your CV With ORQILO's AI CV Maker

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CV or Résumé?

The word means two different things depending on where you are standing, and choosing the wrong one is a more expensive mistake than any formatting decision.

Where "CV" means the long document

In academia, medicine and research — and in North American usage generally — a CV is a complete record. It lists every publication, every course taught, every grant and conference. It runs to many pages and it grows over a career. You do not cut it to fit; length is the point.

Where "CV" just means "résumé"

Across most of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, "CV" is the ordinary word for the one-or-two-page document an employer asks for. If that is the CV you need, you want the compression discipline described on the AI résumé builder page — same document, different vocabulary.

How to tell which you are being asked for

• An academic, research, clinical or fellowship application almost always means the long document.
• A corporate job posting almost always means the short one, whatever word it uses.
• If the posting names a page limit, it means the short one regardless of the label.
• If in doubt, the shorter document is the safer failure — it is read; a long one may not be.

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Building the Document

Sections are free-form, so a CV can carry the blocks a résumé has no room for: publications, teaching history, grants and funding, conference talks, peer review, supervision. You add what your field expects rather than what a template allowed for.

AI helps at the section level rather than the document level. You can ask it to rewrite a summary, tighten a description or restate an achievement, and it works from what is already in your record.

What the AI cannot do to your history

This is deliberate and it is enforced in code, not in a prompt. Only prose fields are readable back into your document, so employer names, job titles, dates, degrees and credential identifiers are structurally out of reach of a rewrite. Generated versions are stripped of any employer, credential or skill that was not in your source. Any figure that appears in a rewrite without appearing in your original is flagged for you rather than published quietly.

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When ATS Matters, and When It Does Not

ORQILO will run the same seven-dimension analysis on a CV that it runs on a résumé — section completeness, quantified impact, action verbs, active voice, readability, length and vocabulary variety, plus grammar. The measurement is deterministic; no model produces the number.

But be honest about what you are measuring. Most academic and clinical CVs are read by a committee, not by an applicant tracking system, and several of those dimensions assume résumé conventions. Length above all: a complete CV will score badly on a test that was designed to reward compression.

How to read the score on a long CV

• Section-level feedback stays useful — passive voice and vague verbs are weaknesses in any document.
• The length dimension does not apply. Ignore it rather than cutting a CV to satisfy it.
• The overall number is a résumé score. On a CV it is a comparison against the wrong standard.
• If your CV IS going through an ATS — most corporate roles outside academia — then the full read applies and the ATS résumé builder is the page you want.

For the corporate case, the ATS résumé builder and scanner covers keyword matching, formatting risk and job-description alignment in detail.

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One CV, Several Audiences

A research CV sent to a hiring committee and the same history sent to an industry lab are not the same document. ORQILO keeps versions so you are not maintaining several files and losing track of which one you sent.

Each version is a full copy you can edit independently against a specific posting, which means tailoring without destroying the general-purpose original.

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Getting It Out

Print or save as PDF from your browser. That is the export path, and it is the whole export path — there is no DOCX and this page will not imply one.

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Questions