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How AI is used on your application

What the AI reads, what it does not, and why a person makes every decision.

Companies using aironauts® hire screen applications with the help of AI, so their team can review every application carefully and quickly. The AI recommends; a person at the company makes every decision.

Apply page / Acme Corp / Senior Backend Engineer
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Acme Corp

Your CV is screened with AI-assisted tools to help the team review applications. If you share a GitHub, portfolio or website link, its public page is read too; LinkedIn and social media never are. A human makes every hiring decision. By applying you agree to this processing.

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The notice on every apply form, just above the button that sends your application, and the line at the foot of the page.

You see this notice before you apply, and by applying you agree to this processing. The company you apply to is responsible for your application.

What the AI reads

  • Your CV. The text is taken from your file as it is, and turned into a structured summary: your roles and dates, skills, projects and education.
  • Your answers to the company's screening questions.
  • Links you share. The public pages of a GitHub profile, portfolio or website you give, on the form or in your CV. LinkedIn and social media are never read.
  • Emails you exchange with the company about your application.
  • Interview feedback, if you are interviewed: the notes the company's interviewers write about you.

What it does

The AI compares your application with the requirements the company set for the role. For each requirement, it looks for the sentence in your CV that shows you meet it and quotes it word for word. Every quote is then checked against your CV automatically, and one that can't be found is not trusted.

From those findings, a score is calculated by fixed rules, and the AI writes a short summary for the hiring team. Because every finding points to your own words, the team can check any of them in your CV.

What it doesn't do

  • It is instructed never to infer or use your age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, family status or health.
  • When your CV is turned into a summary, the AI is instructed never to record your age, date of birth, gender, family status, nationality, race, religion or disability, even if your CV mentions them.
  • The summary it scores from has your name, contact details, links and location removed, and it is told that these are never signals.

A person makes every decision

The AI never rejects anyone. If it rates an application as a low match, that only puts it in front of a person at the company, who decides. No rejection email is sent unless someone confirms it.

The same goes for screening questions. A company can mark an answer to one of its screening questions as not meeting a hard requirement, such as the right to work in the country. You are told on the form before you submit. If you submit with that answer, your application is not rejected: it goes to a person at the company, who decides, and it is not screened by the AI unless they choose to. See Applying for a job.

What you'll see

While the AI reads your application, your status page shows the step AI screening. You won't see a score or the AI's assessment. See Tracking your application.

Questions

For questions about how a company decided on your application, contact the company you applied to. How your data is handled is set out in our privacy policy.

Still stuck?

Tell us what you were trying to do and we will help. Applying for a job? Contact the company you applied to; we only run the software.

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