CV summary: draft your profile bio

Your public profile summary introduces your experience to workplaces, and a blank box can be 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 Word .docx file, or paste the text, and Sessional drafts a short 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 drafting instructions ask for a summary for an Australian healthcare audience, leading 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”, choose a PDF or Word .docx 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 personal details.

The AI is instructed to use only information in your CV and leave out unstated qualifications, registrations, employers, dates and specialties. That instruction does not guarantee an accurate draft. Compare every claim with your CV before saving it. Short input is rejected, and the tool can ask for more detail instead of returning a draft.

When you upload a CV as a PDF or Word .docx file, Sessional attempts to save a copy to your document store under the CV category. The success message tells you if the file was saved. You can view or delete a saved copy on the Compliance page. An ordinary storage failure does not stop the summary attempt. Pasting text does not create a document in the store.

Uploads must be a PDF or Word .docx file, up to 10MB. The tool reads up to eight PDF pages and uses up to 8,000 characters of CV text. Review the draft for details that may have fallen outside those limits. If your PDF is a scan without extractable text, paste the text instead. 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 limit of 10 requests per account per 24-hour window, plus a daily account budget. The tool shares a daily platform budget with Sandy, so 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 extracted or pasted CV text is sent to Anthropic to generate the response. A saved file in your document store is separate from the draft biography and can be deleted from the Compliance page. Read the privacy policy before deciding what to provide. Remove details that are not needed for your profile summary.