Scenario 63: Structuring CVs without making decisions

Who and in what situation

Selin is a recruitment manager at an e-commerce company in İstanbul. She wants to turn CVs for technical positions into a shared evidence table for the panel to use.

How it is done today

Three managers read the CVs separately, combine their notes and describe the same experience in different terms. Personal opinions can appear to be criteria.

How to do it with AI

1. She removes names, phone numbers, email addresses, photos, addresses and irrelevant fields in line with company policy; she obtains HR and legal approval.
2. She attaches the anonymised CVs and competency list using Add photos & files. ChatGPT supports document comparison and information extraction functions [79].
3. For each candidate, she requests only explicit evidence, unmet criteria and “no information” fields; she does not request ranking or screening out.
4. She checks a sample of the table she leaves to the human panel against the original CVs.

Example prompt

Compare the following anonymised CVs only against {approved criteria list}. For each file, create columns for criterion, explicit evidence in the CV, section containing the evidence, no information and follow-up question for a human to ask. Do not rank candidates, screen them out, make hiring decisions or infer personal characteristics. Do not assume a skill is present if it is not stated: {files}

Evidence and real-world example

Reuters reported that Amazon’s experimental tool, trained on male-dominated CV data, penalised “women’s” expressions and women’s colleges, and that the team was later disbanded [121].

Points to consider

AI Act Annex III lists recruitment, application filtering and candidate evaluation among high-risk use cases in employment [122]. OpenAI’s policy dated 29 October 2025 prohibits the automation of high-impact decisions in employment without human review [123]. The KVKK guide also warns against transferring candidate information to uncontrolled tools [11].

Sources for this scenario

11. İş Yerlerinde Üretken Yapay Zekâ Araçlarının Kullanımı (kvkk.gov.tr)
79. Uploading files and audio to ChatGPT (help.openai.com)
80. Business data privacy security and compliance (openai.com)
121. Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women (reuters.com)
122. Artificial Intelligence Act consolidated Annex III (eur-lex.europa.eu)
123. OpenAI Usage policies effective October 29 2025 (openai.com)