Session 5 · Get ready
Keep your CV handy.
Writing with AI · Saturday, October 17, 2026
Your CV, or just your notes in a jumble. On Saturday, AI turns it into a clean page in five minutes, in the language you want. And we learn to reread what it added, because it is your name at the bottom of the page.
No CV? Come anyway. We write one live from notes, and the notes from a meeting are enough for the workshop.
Last week's homework
On Saturday, at minute 2, we count.
Have one long document you received summarised, and check one fact in it at the source with the three questions. On Saturday, we ask who did it, and whether it held.
The Session 4 promptsYour CV, or your notes
Five minutes before Saturday. It is what you will use in the workshop.
Put on your phone whatever you have: a CV, even an old one, or a few lines about your jobs, with the years, what you did there, your diplomas and your languages. On Saturday, at the end of the class, you will have it updated, then reread what the AI added.
Your current CV
Even ten years old, even only in French.
Your notes in a jumble
Your jobs and their years, what you did there, in a few lines.
A job posting
The job you want. Copy the text of the ad: the CV will be written for it.
No CV?
Notes from a church, association or work meeting: we will turn them into a one-page report.
Before you paste your CV, remove three lines
Your address, your phone number and your email: the AI does not need them, it will write [to complete]. Never a social security number. And nothing from your CV goes in the Zoom chat: there, you write only the kind of job, and one thing you removed.
What Saturday teaches
Three moves to write with AI
1. The outline
Before writing, ask for the outline: the sections, in order, one line each. You fix the outline, not the text: it is ten times faster.
2. The first draft
Your notes, even in a jumble, are enough. It does the shape. The facts stay yours, and your words too: tell it to keep them.
3. The reread
Well written reads as true. So you ask it what it added, then you reread yourself: what AI says about its own work is not proof.
AI writes fast and well. But it is your name at the bottom of the page: whatever it adds, you read line by line.
To keep
The four rereads
Before you sign, send or print.
Diplomas and titles:
do I really hold this diploma, certificate, title?
Dates:
are these my years?
Numbers:
where does this number come from?
Languages and duties:
is this my real level, my real role?
Two rules
What stays in your hands
Health, money, law, papers
AI helps you understand. It does not replace the doctor, the lawyer or the certified translator. A work permit, a visa, a diploma to have recognised: to decide, a qualified person confirms.
The Zoom chat
During the workshop, write only the kind of job, and one thing you removed ("a diploma", "a number"). Never the text of your CV: the chat is seen by everyone and it is recorded.
Take away
The four prompts of the session
Keep this page open on Saturday. Everything we use live is here, ready to copy. Replace the brackets with your own words.
5.1 · The CV
Your notes, even in a jumble, are enough. It does the shape, the facts stay yours. Remove your address and phone number before pasting: it does not need them.
Here are my notes for my CV: [paste your notes: your jobs with the years, what you did there, your diplomas and training, your languages]. From these notes, write me a one-page CV, in [language], for this job: [paste the posting or describe the job]. Keep my words where you can. Do not invent any diploma, date or number. For my phone and email, write [to complete].
5.2 · The outline
For any long document: a cover letter, a report, a presentation. You fix the outline, not the text: it is ten times faster.
I need to write [the document] for [who will read it], in [language]. Before writing, give me only the outline: the sections, in order, one line each. I will read your outline and fix it, then you write one section at a time, in my words.
5.3 · What did you dress up?
In the same chat, right after the CV. Read its list, then reread yourself: what an AI says about its own work is not proof.
Compare this CV with my notes. List everything you added, changed or dressed up that I did not tell you: diplomas, dates, numbers, language level, duties.
Then the fix:
Remove everything I did not tell you. Where information is missing, write [to complete]. Change nothing else.
Then the four rereads, yourself:
- Diplomas and titles: do I really hold this diploma, certificate, title?
- Dates: are these my years?
- Numbers: where does this number come from?
- Languages and duties: is this my real level, my real role?
5.4 · The report
For the church, association or work meeting. Notes taken by hand, one clear page for those who were not there.
Here are my notes from [the meeting, the activity, the week] of [date]: [paste your notes]. Turn them into a one-page report, in [language], for [who will read it]: what happened, what was decided, who does what and by when. Keep my words. Add no fact, name or number. If information is missing, write [to complete].
These four prompts are the Session 5 card. They join those of Sessions 1 to 4 in your prompt library, the one you will receive in full when the certificates are handed out.
For the more technical
Why AI dresses up a CV
It writes the most likely CV
A language model has read millions of CVs. When it writes one, it produces what a CV usually says: "fluent" rather than "fine", "trained" rather than "showed", a certificate that goes with the job. It is not a deliberate lie: it is the most likely sentence. That is why you reread.
An instruction protects what it names
"Do not invent any diploma, date or number" works well for diplomas, dates and numbers. The rest, your language level, your role, the tone, can still grow. Asking "what did you add?" catches some of it; your reread catches the rest.
The full definitions
Hallucination
When it invents something and says it with exactly the same confidence as a fact.
Prompt
What you type. The request itself.
Context
Everything it can see while it writes your answer. Your question, the earlier messages, the document you pasted, your profile note.
Chat, project, memory
One conversation, a folder of conversations that share the same context, and what it remembers about you between them.
Missed Session 4?
Catch up in twelve minutes.
Summarising a long document, the exact sentence, and the question "what did you guess?". The highlights are enough to arrive at the same level as everyone else. The Session 4 page has both full classes, with chapters, and the prompts.
To be in the room on Saturday
Two things, and the first one is done only once.
Two sessions, one room
French from 10:00 to 10:45, English from 11:00 to 11:45, Dallas time (16:00 and 17:00 in Kinshasa). Same Zoom link for both, and you can stay for both.
Already registered on Zoom?
Then there is nothing to redo. Your personal link works for all 16 Saturdays: search your inbox for "CBNEXT", and check your spam folder too. If you cannot find it, write to info@dmact.org and we will send it again.
The certificate
It takes 10 sessions out of 16. October 31 is the last day to join and still reach 10. After that date, the class stays free and open, but the certificate is no longer reachable for this cohort.
See you Saturday.
Session 5, Saturday October 17. "Writing with AI". Keep your CV handy.