curriculum vitae
Enable an AI agent to recognise a curriculum vitae, assess how faithfully and suitably it represents a person's career, and determine appropriate revisions, verification and sharing.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
Researched by: Codex + Grok
Purpose and description
Enable an AI agent to recognise a curriculum vitae, assess how faithfully and suitably it represents a person's career, and determine appropriate revisions, verification and sharing.
A curriculum vitae is a chronological, evidence-bearing record of a person's education, appointments, publications, and other professional activity, maintained as the canonical source document for academic, research, and specialist appointment processes.
It can be Extract career entries while preserving original wording, date precision and uncertainty.; Check chronology, qualification status and achievement attribution for inconsistencies.; Request or associate evidence for material claims without treating self-report as verification.; Prepare an audience-specific version that preserves the meaning and limits of the person's claims.; Generate a redacted or submission-ready copy within recorded disclosure permissions.; Compare versions and flag stale current-role statements, altered claims and unresolved edits..
Distinguishing features
It presents one person's career or qualifications through attributable entries, rather than merely describing that person in narrative biography.
It offers an organised account of education, experience or contributions; a cover letter primarily argues for a particular application.
It describes qualifications and achievements but does not itself issue or independently certify them.
It summarises or cites work products; a portfolio primarily presents the work products themselves.
Its distinction from a résumé depends on the declared application context and local usage; title or page count alone cannot reliably settle the classification.
Scope
+ The represented person, document authorship and career coverage
+ Career entries, dates, concurrent activities and stated achievements
+ Qualifications, professional credentials and scholarly or creative contributions
+ Evidence supporting claims and uncertainties affecting interpretation
+ Audience-specific selection, presentation, revisions and sharing permissions
- The person's complete identity, biography or employment record
- The authoritative records maintained by employers, educational institutions and credential issuers
- Job vacancies, admission criteria and recruitment decisions
- Cover letters, application forms and portfolios as separate artifacts
- The full content of publications, projects or creative works cited in the CV
Characteristics
- Represented person
- Person whose career is described, including relevant professional-name variants Prevents claims and contributions from being attributed to the wrong person.
- Declared CV convention
- Academic, professional, application-specific, other, unspecified Determines which expectations should be investigated before judging coverage or presentation.
- Intended use
- Target opportunity, audience and supplied submission requirements Makes suitability relative to an actual use rather than an assumed universal format.
- Career information current through
- Calendar date with precision, or unknown Distinguishes recent formatting changes from genuinely current career information.
- Coverage policy
- Comprehensive within declared scope, selected, time-bounded, unspecified Prevents omitted roles or outputs from being treated automatically as absent from the person's career.
- Claim support status
- Per claim: unassessed, self-reported, corroborated, disputed, unresolved Separates what the document says from what available evidence supports.
- Qualification status
- Per qualification: in progress, awarded, expired, suspended, revoked, unknown, not applicable Prevents planned study or historical credentials from being represented as currently held qualifications.
- Document length
- Pages or words in a specified rendering Supports checks against actual submission limits without using length to define the genre.
- Release status
- Draft, subject-approved, superseded, withdrawn Helps an agent decide whether a particular version is ready for authorised use.
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 11 layers · 11 findings · 23 questions.
CV identity and convention Establishes whose career the document represents and what kind of career account it intends to be.
An agent needs to distinguish the represented person from the writer and interpret the CV within its intended convention.
Subject and authorship
Connects the career account to its subject and identifies responsibility for its wording.
Career account attribution
Records the represented person, relevant name variants, document preparer and subject approval where known.
- Whose career does this CV describe, and which professional-name variants connect its entries and cited works to that person? definition
- Who supplied or edited the career claims, and has the represented person approved this version? provenance
Genre and coverage
Identifies the intended CV convention and the limits of its career coverage.
Declared career coverage
Records whether the CV is selective or comprehensive within a stated period or activity scope.
- What audience or submission context establishes how the term curriculum vitae is being used here? definition
- Which career periods and activity types does this version claim to cover, and which does it intentionally omit? boundary
Career history and chronology Represents roles and activities with dates, organisations and enough context to interpret their sequence.
Career summaries can conceal ambiguity about duration, concurrent roles and the relationship between a person and an organisation.
Roles and engagements
Distinguishes employment, appointments, contracting, volunteering and other stated activities.
Role context
Records each role's stated title, organisation, engagement type and responsibilities without inflating authority.
- For each role, what organisation, title, engagement type and responsibilities does the CV actually state? definition
- Does the entry distinguish the employer or contracting entity from a client, host institution or project partner? boundary
Dates and continuity
Preserves date precision and distinguishes unexplained chronology from documented activities.
Interpretable career timeline
Records start and end dates, ongoing-role assertions and overlaps without inventing explanations for uncovered periods.
- What start and end dates are given for each activity, at what precision, and as of when does 'present' apply? measurement
- Which overlaps or uncovered periods require clarification, and which simply reflect declared selective coverage? boundary
Qualifications and contributions Captures the credentials, capabilities and work contributions through which the CV represents professional standing.
An agent must distinguish participation from completion and personal contribution from the achievements of a wider team.
Education and credentials
Represents study, qualifications and professional authorisations with their stated completion or validity status.
Qualification meaning and status
Preserves credential titles, issuers, award dates and distinctions between expected, completed and currently valid credentials.
- What qualification or credential is claimed, who issued it, and is it awarded, in progress or expected? definition
- What evidence supports its award or current validity, including any expiry or jurisdictional limits relevant to the intended use? provenance
Achievements and outputs
Connects skills, achievements and cited outputs to the person's stated contribution.
Attributable contribution
Records contribution roles, output status and the basis of quantitative achievements or proficiency claims.
- For each project, publication or achievement, what contribution is attributed to the person and what belongs to collaborators or the organisation? boundary
- What period, baseline or assessment supports each numerical achievement or stated proficiency level? measurement
- Which cited outputs can be identified, and what supports their stated status such as submitted, accepted, published or completed? provenance
Claim evidence and fidelity Separates assertions from supporting evidence and controls changes that could alter their meaning.
CV assistance must make claims clearer without silently converting uncertainty, participation or self-report into stronger assertions.
Evidence and discrepancies
Associates material career claims with available support and records unresolved conflicts.
Claim support and conflict
Tracks which claims have been checked, what was consulted and how conflicting dates, titles or statuses remain unresolved.
- Which material claims are solely self-reported, and which have support from records that were actually consulted? provenance
- Where the CV conflicts with supporting records, what discrepancy remains and whose clarification is needed? action
Editing and translation
Preserves career-claim meaning during rewriting, summarisation and language changes.
Meaning-preserving revision
Identifies revisions that change factual strength, contribution attribution or the interpretation of titles and qualifications.
- Would any proposed rewrite turn assistance into leadership, participation into ownership, or an expected result into a completed achievement? boundary
- Which changes to titles, qualification translations or achievement wording require confirmation before inclusion? action
Application fit and release Assesses a CV version against its intended use and governs its preparation and disclosure.
A faithful CV may still be unsuitable for a submission or expose information beyond the subject's intended audience.
Audience and presentation
Connects content selection and rendering to explicit opportunity requirements.
Submission suitability
Records required sections, length, language and file constraints, alongside the visibility of relevant career evidence.
- What supplied requirements govern this submission's sections, language, length and file format? boundary
- Can a reader or the intended receiving system recover the person's roles, dates and qualifications accurately from the rendered document? measurement
- Which supported entries should be selected or reordered to address the opportunity without implying unsupported experience? action
Version and disclosure
Tracks the authorised version, information currency and limits on sharing personal or third-party details.
Authorised CV release
Records approval, intended recipients and necessary treatment of contact details, referee information and confidential career material.
- Which version is approved for this audience, and through what date have its career details been checked for currency? provenance
- What permission covers sharing this copy, and which personal, referee or confidential project details must be removed or restricted? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Kinds and varieties
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- academic CV
- medical/clinical CV
- research CV
- Europass CV
- biosketch (abridged CV)
- chronological CV
- functional/skills-based CV
- creative/portfolio CV
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of curriculum vitae this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Sources
- Research in progress - Will be replaced after lookups
What the second pass must settle
- How does the existing registry distinguish curriculum vitae from résumé, professional profile and career history, and does an existing world model already own this concept?
- Which locale, discipline and receiving-organisation conventions should govern the target CV's expected content and degree of completeness?
- What evidence threshold is appropriate for calling a career claim corroborated, and how should conflicting records be resolved?
- Which neighbouring models own credentials, authorship contributions and person identity, and what information should the CV retain only as references?
- What jurisdictional and recipient-specific requirements affect personal details, referee information, retention and disclosure for the intended use?