Tailored CVs and cover letters in Taqdim: how they stay true to your profile

Short answer: Taqdim writes a new CV and cover letter for each job from your own profile, then checks every line before you see it. Lines that name an employer, client or place your profile doesn't mention are refused, and the cover letter goes through the same checks. Your salary never prints on the CV, personal details sit at the end of a Gulf-style CV, and dates read like "Jan 2022". The Chrome extension then fills the employer's form, and you review every field and click Submit.

This describes Taqdim as it works on app.taqdim.app on 11 November 2026, and the Chrome extension version 1.0.2. Taqdim is in invite-only beta.

It starts with your profile

Taqdim writes from your profile: your roles and what you did in them, your education, certifications, languages and skills, plus the answers employers often ask for, such as notice period. The fastest way to fill it is to import your existing CV.

Importing an updated CV. Your CV changes, so you can import a newer version at any time. Taqdim compares it with the profile you already have:

• roles, degrees, certifications, languages and skills already in your profile are shown as "Already in your profile" and left out;
• a role you already have gets only the bullets that are new;
• anything you edited by hand stays as you wrote it;
• if the new CV lists the same role twice (split across a page break, say), it is added once.

You review the result before anything is saved. If no experience or education can be read from a file, for example a scan with no text layer, the import stops and tells you to export a text PDF instead.

Two CV styles

Each tailored CV comes in one of two styles: a Western, ATS-friendly CV, or a Gulf-style CV with a photo and a personal details block. For a job in a Gulf country, the Gulf style is chosen for you, and you can change it. Our guide to CV format in Saudi Arabia and the UAE explains the difference.

On a Gulf-style CV:

• Personal details come last. Nationality, visa status, notice period, date of birth, marital status and driving licence, when you have filled them in, print as one compact line at the end of the CV. Leave blank anything you don't want to share.
• Salary never prints. Your current and expected salary stay in your profile. They are used only to fill application forms that ask for them, never on the CV itself.
• The photo is resized for you. It is cropped to a portrait shape and made smaller in your browser before upload.

On both styles, role headings print readable dates ("Jan 2022" in English, the Arabic month name in Arabic) and don't repeat a city that the employer's name already ends with.

The checks on every line

A tailored CV is written with AI, and AI can invent things. So before a line reaches you, Taqdim checks it against your profile. A line is refused if it:

• names an employer, client or place that your profile doesn't mention for that role;
• names the company you're applying to as if you worked for it, unless you did;
• adds a skill that isn't on your profile.

A refused line is left out of the CV, and a role heading copied into a bullet prints only once. If no skill survives the checks, the Skills section lists the tools on your profile instead of coming out empty. Requirements you have marked "I don't do this" on the fit report are never claimed.

The "Why each line" tab shows, for every line, the profile fact it was built from. The design goal is a CV made only of what your profile says, and these checks are designed not to let anything else through, but AI can still make mistakes, and the checks don't catch every case. Read every line, especially employer, client and place names, before you send the CV. For the thinking behind this, see Tailor your CV to each job, honestly.

The cover letter gets the same checks

The cover letter is written for the specific posting, from the same profile. Each paragraph now goes through the CV's claim checks:

• Names: an employer, client or place your profile doesn't name is refused.
• Claims: words such as "banks", "government" or "hospitals" need your profile to back them.
• Plurals: if your profile mentions one vendor, the letter can't say "vendors".
• Seniority: a sentence about a past employer can only use rank words, such as "senior" or "head", that your title or your lines for that role carry.
• The employer you're applying to: the letter can say why you want to join them, but a sentence that makes them your past client ("I delivered chatbots for [the employer]") is refused unless your profile says so.

A paragraph that fails is written again once. If it still fails, a failing sentence in the opening or closing is dropped, and a failing body paragraph stops the letter rather than delivering it. These checks catch many invented claims, not all of them, so read the letter as carefully as the CV. Our cover letter guide for UAE jobs covers what a good letter says.

Filling the form with the Chrome extension

Once your CV and letter are ready, the Taqdim Chrome extension fills the employer's application form on the page you're viewing:

1. Open the employer's application page and click the Taqdim icon. The side panel opens.
2. Click Capture this form, choose the job under Apply as, then click Fill the form.
3. Taqdim fills what your profile and documents answer, attaches your tailored CV, and types your cover letter, greeting and sign-off included, into a cover letter box if the form has one.
4. Fields it filled are outlined; questions only you can answer are marked for you; fields it left alone are marked too. If a site refuses a value or cuts it short, the field is reported as not filled.
5. You review every field, fix anything wrong, and click the employer's own Submit button.

The extension never submits a form, never clicks Apply, never solves a CAPTCHA and never fills self-identification questions such as gender, ethnicity or disability. It does nothing on a page until you click its icon. The How to apply guide walks through each step, and the video walkthrough is on YouTube in English and Arabic.

Questions

Does the tailored CV include my salary? No. Salary is used only to fill application forms that ask for it.

Can I import my CV again after I update it? Yes. What is already in your profile is left out, and only what is new is added.

Does Taqdim submit the application? No. The extension fills the form, and you review every field and click Submit yourself.

Can I download the CV and letter? Yes, both download as PDF.

Where Taqdim fits

Taqdim checks whether a job is worth applying to, writes a tailored CV and cover letter from your profile, and fills the employer's form while you review every field and click Submit. It is designed not to claim what your profile doesn't say, but AI can still make mistakes, so read everything before you send it.

Taqdim is in closed beta. Join the waitlist.

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