How our AI screens you

BootCareers uses an AI model to help employers find people whose work fits their jobs. Here is what it reads, what it never uses, and what you can do about it. The formal version is in our privacy policy.

It judges evidence, not wording

• Assessments have to rest on your own résumé or profile. The model must point to evidence in what you wrote, and an assessment with no evidence behind it is capped rather than counted in full.
• What you did in a job counts for more than what you list. A skill that appears in a role — an employer, dates, what you built with it — weighs more than the same skill named only in a skills list, which shows familiarity at most.
• Using AI to write your résumé is fine. Most people do. Polished wording neither helps nor hurts; specific facts from your work history help. The model is told not to reward or penalise grammar, spelling or English fluency.
• Career changers are read on their work, not their old title. The role you picked when you signed up is a hint, never a verdict: if your skills and jobs show software or data work, you are considered for software and data roles.

What it never uses

• Your gender, ethnicity, date of birth or photo.
• Where you live. (The places you say you want to work can be used to match you with jobs there.)
• Your name and contact details. Before any text reaches the AI model we remove your name, email, phone number, street address, zip code and profile links. Automated removal can occasionally miss something written in an unusual format.
• Summaries our own systems wrote about you. We score only what you wrote.

Your résumé is read as information, never as instructions

Everything you write is passed to the model sealed off as information, with an instruction that it is never a command. Text that tries to instruct the AI ("ignore previous instructions") is read as ordinary text, invisible characters used to hide such text are removed, and attempts are flagged.

People make the decisions

The AI suggests a shortlist. Employers decide whom to contact, interview and hire, and they can always search and open profiles without the ranking.

Your choices

• Ask a person to review how you were assessed, ask to be considered without automated screening, or ask for an accommodation. Signed in, use the request form; otherwise email help@bootcareers.com. Asking never counts against you.
• Stop being screened by deactivating your account.
• Delete your data. Deleting your account also deletes your extracted résumé text, the similarity data derived from your profile and your screening scores.

Who runs the AI

The model that assesses candidates is Google's Gemini. It is the only AI provider we send candidate information to, and it receives the redacted text described above. Finding candidates in the first place uses a text-similarity model that runs on our own servers.

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