One Link, Many Roles: Your CV Link for Recruiters
Every job you apply for wants a slightly different CV. The role that leads with Kubernetes wants the platform work first. The one that leads with stakeholder management wants the programme you rescued. You know this, so you rewrite, and the version you send is the one you had time to write, not the one the role deserves.
TalentOS now gives you one permanent link instead. A recruiter opens it, pastes the requirements for their open role, and receives a CV written only from your own documents, arranged for that role. This post explains what the link is, what a recruiter sees, what it will not do, and the controls you keep.
What the link is
From the Profile page in the app, you create one link for your account. It looks like talentos.nz/cv/ followed by 32 random characters. It does not expire unless you ask it to, it is not listed anywhere, and search engines are told not to index it. Anyone who has the link can open it; nobody can find it without it.
The link does not show your live account. It shows a copy, made when you create the link or when you choose to update it. Edit your master CV on Tuesday and the link still shows Monday's copy until you press Update link content. That is deliberate: a recruiter who opened your link last week should not find a different document this week without you deciding so.
Any plan can create a link, including the free Starter plan.
What a recruiter sees
The page opens with you at a glance: your name (or a headline, if you choose to hide the name), your skills, how many career stories you have included, and any profile links you added. Below that is a box that says, in effect, "paste the requirements for your role".
The recruiter pastes the job's requirements, optionally types the role title and organisation, and presses Generate matched CV. The page then works through three steps, named on screen as they happen: reading your evidence, writing the CV, and checking every claim against your source documents. A minute or two later the CV appears on the page, with PDF and Word downloads.
Two more sections sit under the CV:
- Shown in the candidate's documents and Not found in the candidate's documents: the requirements the recruiter pasted, sorted by whether your CV and stories mention them. There is no score. "Not found" means your documents do not mention it, not that you lack it, and the page says so.
- Career stories, if you included them: each collapsed to its title, expanding to the situation, the task, what you did and the measured result, in your words. Beneath them, up to three questions a hiring manager could ask about those stories, labelled as suggested by AI from your own material.
A recruiter can also leave you a message through a form on the page. More on that below.
What the CV is made from, and what it is not
The matched CV is written from three things: your master CV, the stories you chose to include, and the requirements the recruiter pasted. The requirements decide what to lead with and what to leave out. They are not a source of facts. If a role asks for Terraform and your documents do not mention Terraform, the CV does not mention Terraform either; the gap appears in the "Not found" list instead.
The same checks that run on every CV TalentOS drafts run here. Your employers, titles and dates are restored from your master CV after the draft is written. Figures that have no source in your documents are removed. Skills you did not list are removed. If a draft cannot be produced, the recruiter sees that it did not complete; they are not shown a stand-in.
Your career context is never part of a link. Salary expectations, work rights, private notes about what you want next: those stay in your account and are not read when a recruiter's CV is written.
What a recruiter can and cannot find out
The copy the link serves is built to leave personal contact details behind. The header of your master CV, where most people put a phone number and a street address, is discarded and rebuilt from your display name and, only if you add one for the link, a contact email. Phone numbers and email addresses elsewhere in the CV and stories are removed as well. Figures in your work, such as a budget or a percentage, are left alone.
Beyond that, you decide:
- Hide your name. The page shows a headline or your target role instead, and your full name is replaced wherever it appears in the CV and stories.
- Hide employer names. Type each employer and the label to use instead, such as "A New Zealand bank". Nothing is guessed; only the names you list are replaced.
- Leave stories out, or include them.
- Add profile links: LinkedIn, GitHub, a website. They are shown as you gave them.
- Turn the link off after 30 days, if you prefer a link that ends on its own.
- Replace the link at any time, which stops the old address working, or turn it off. A link that no longer works keeps no copy of your CV.
A recruiter's message reaches you inside the app, where you can read it, delete it, or reply by email. TalentOS does not send the recruiter anything on your behalf and does not give them your address; if you reply, revealing who you are is your own choice in your own email. Messages are deleted after 90 days.
What you can see
The link panel on your Profile page shows how often the link was opened in total and in the last seven days, which stories were opened in the last 30 days, and the last ten CVs prepared through it: the role title and organisation the recruiter typed, the date, whether it completed, and whether it was downloaded. None of this identifies a recruiter: the page does not record who opened it, and the requirements they pasted are not kept at all, only a count and a length. A recruiter who wants you to know who they are uses the message form.
Limits, and why they exist
Each generated CV costs money to produce, so a link can prepare 20 matched CVs a day, and one network can ask for a handful an hour. A recruiter who pastes the same requirements twice gets the same CV without a second run. If a link reaches its daily limit, the page says so and asks the recruiter to try the next day. The counts are on your panel, so you can see when a link is busy.
How to set one up
- Open Profile in the app and make sure your master CV is uploaded and parsed. The CV needs ordinary section headings (a summary, experience, education) so its contact lines can be separated from the rest.
- In the Your CV link panel, choose what to show and press Create my CV link.
- Press Open to see exactly what a recruiter will see, then Copy and paste the link into your application, your email signature, or your LinkedIn profile.
- When you update your master CV or add stories, press Update link content so the link catches up.
The Privacy Policy describes what is stored and for how long, and the changelog lists what changed in each release. Questions reach me at support@talentos.nz.
A note on what this is for
This is a drafting tool. Every CV it produces is built from documents you wrote and approved, but the arrangement is the machine's, and a recruiter reading it is reading a draft you have not seen. If that worries you for a particular application, send a CV you prepared yourself; the link is there for the roles you would otherwise have met with your generic version.
Your documents, your stories and the recruiters' requirements are processed to produce the CV and are not used to train AI foundation models, by TalentOS or by Google under its paid Gemini API terms.
Disclaimer: TalentOS provides automated career tools and practice simulations. We do not guarantee job interviews, offers, compensation levels, or hiring outcomes. This does not affect your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986.