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Why a CV Isn't a Document

A CV is not a document. It is a query against a pool of work. Once you see it that way, the eight files in your `cv` folder stop making sense.

2 min read
  • architecture
  • pool
  • pre-release

Most CV tools are editors. You open a document. You write. You save. Next application, you change two lines and save under a new filename. Three applications later, eight files sit in a folder called cv, and one of them is the truth.

CorraV doesn’t ship an editor.

A CV isn’t a document. It’s a query.

What you actually have is a pool of work — roles, projects, skills, education, certificates, references. Each one is a small unit with its own dates, description, translations. You don’t write “Senior Backend Engineer at FooCorp” into a CV. You write the chapter once. CorraV decides — based on what you tell it — whether that chapter shows up, in which version, in which language, in which order.

Everything Lives in One Pool

A chapter has:

  • a title
  • one or more periods (start, end, “still here”)
  • a description in DE and EN
  • tags (backend, team-lead, 2018-2020, agency-work)

That’s it. No “primary CV” flag. No “default translation”. The pool is the source of truth. Everything else is a view onto it.

Versions Are Queries — Same Pool, Different Answer

When you assemble a version for a specific application, you tell CorraV what should show up. A frontend role gets the frontend chapters in order, the team-lead chapters demoted, the backend chapters trimmed. Different role, different query, different version. Same pool.

You don’t copy. You don’t paste. You don’t have eight files.

What You Stop Maintaining

The list of things you no longer maintain by hand:

  • Date ranges that drift out of sync between versions
  • Project descriptions you rewrote three times in three documents
  • Translations you started, abandoned, and forgot about
  • A folder of cv_v2_final_FINAL.docx files

The list of things you still need to do:

  • Decide what goes in for each application

That’s the only decision CorraV leaves to you. Everything else is structure.

Where We Are

CorraV is in early access. Pool, versions, public link sharing, PDF export — the core works. We’re not done.

Stop maintaining files. Maintain a pool. Build the version when you need it.

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