CV summary: draft your profile bio

Your public profile summary is the first thing a workplace reads before it sends you a booking request, and a blank box is a hard place to start. On your profile, under the Professional summary card, the “Draft this from your CV” helper sits right beneath your Biography field. Upload your CV as a PDF, or paste the text, and Sessional drafts a short, plain professional summary from it. The draft lands straight in your Biography box so you can shape it, then save. It is a first draft to react to, not a finished bio.

The summary is written to read well to an AHPRA-registered audience: it leads with your profession and headline experience, then your specialties or the settings you work in, then what you offer a workplace. Available to GPs, specialists, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, dentists, paramedics, and every other AHPRA profession Sessional supports.

• Go to your profile and find the Biography field inside the Professional summary card.
• In “Draft this from your CV”, either choose a PDF file or paste your CV text into the box. Paste at least a paragraph so there is enough to work with.
• Select Draft summary. The button shows “Drafting…” while it works.
• The draft drops into your Biography box and the field scrolls into view. Edit it so it sounds like you, then press Save.

The draft is built only from what is in your CV. Sessional does not add qualifications, registrations, registration numbers, employers, dates, or specialties that your CV did not state. If a detail is not in the text you provide, it is left out rather than guessed. If the text is too thin or unclear to summarise responsibly, no draft is produced and you are asked to add more or write the summary yourself.

When you upload a CV as a PDF, a copy is saved to your document store under the CV category, so you have it on hand to reuse, attach, or share later. You can rename, recategorise, or delete it there at any time. Saving the file never blocks the draft: if the save does not go through, you still get your summary. If you paste your CV text instead of uploading a file, nothing is stored, only the draft is returned.

A few practical limits worth knowing. Uploads must be a PDF (not a Word document or an image), up to 10MB. Sessional reads the first few pages of the file and a capped amount of text, which is plenty for a CV. If your PDF is a scan or a photo of a page rather than real text, there is nothing to extract: paste the text into the box instead and it works the same way. Saved CVs are separate from the public “CV URL” link you can add lower down the profile, which points to an external page such as LinkedIn.

The CV summary is a profile-setup aid, so it works on every plan: Free, Plus, and Pro. There is a fair-use limit of up to 10 drafts per account in any 24 hours, and the tool draws on the same daily budget as the rest of Sessional’s AI features, so on a very busy day it may pause and ask you to come back tomorrow. For free-text questions about your own Sessional data, the dedicated AI assistant is a separate feature on the Plus plan.

To write the draft, the text of your CV is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic (the maker of Claude). Your CV is never used to train AI models. The extracted text is processed to produce the summary and is not retained for that purpose afterwards. The saved PDF in your Documents is a separate copy that stays in your account and is yours to delete whenever you like. You can read the full detail on our privacy page under how we handle AI data. Sessional does not give regulated tax, financial, or legal advice, and the summary is general profile copy, not advice.