> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.arco.careers/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Guided Optimization for a Specific Job Application

> Use arco's three-step Guided Optimization to audit your CV against a job, fix gaps with a rewrite worklist, and verify your improved score.

Guided Optimization is a three-step flow that takes your CV, measures it against one specific job, and walks you through fixing the gaps. Use it when a role matters to you and you want your application to be as strong as it can be.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Audit your CV against the job">
    arco scores your current CV against this specific posting and shows you:

    * Your match score for this role
    * Missing keywords the posting uses that your CV does not
    * Red flags: the specific gaps that would hurt you here

    This step is diagnostic. Nothing has changed yet.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Fix the gaps with a rewrite worklist">
    Rather than handing you a rewritten CV to accept blindly, arco gives you a worklist of discrete fixes. Each fix shows:

    * What kind of fix it is (missing metric, weak verb, missing keyword)
    * Why it matters for this particular role
    * **Before**: the line as it currently reads
    * **After**: the suggested rewrite, with one-click copy

    You keep your own CV document open beside arco and apply the changes yourself. As you work through them, tick each one off. A progress bar tracks how many fixes you have applied. If a fix needs a number you do not have, arco will ask you for it inline rather than inventing one.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Verify your updated CV">
    Once you have applied your fixes, re-check the result. Paste your updated CV text or upload the file, and arco scores it against this same job so you can see whether the work moved the number.

    <Warning>
      The re-check is scoped to this job only. It never saves over your master CV and never triggers a rescore of everything else on your Board.
    </Warning>
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Your progress is saved

You can leave partway through and come back. Guided Optimization remembers where you were for each job independently.

## Related articles

* [Using a different CV for one job](/ai-coach/per-job-cv-variants)
* [How your CV affects your scores](/your-cv/how-your-cv-affects-scores)