Candidate Application Pack (Resume / CV, Cover Letter, Selection Criteria Response)

A job applicant's own documents as held by recruiters, recruitment platforms and HR: a resume / CV, a cover letter with a selection criteria response, or a completed application form. Detected from CV section headings (employment history, work experience, education, referees, key skills, career objective), a populated candidate contact block (name with phone or email), employment date ranges and populated referee details. The panel's side of recruitment (interview notes, selection reports) and recommendation letters are covered by separate classifiers.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: CV headings are shared with job ads, position descriptions, CV writing guides and published staff profiles, so enforcement needs a populated phone or email contact with two distinct headings, and 85 needs a run of employment date ranges or a referee with contact details. Job-ad, CV-guide and staff-profile wording is excluded. CVs laid out as images or with headings the extractor merges into body text fall to 65 or below, and a published profile that avoids the excluded wording can reach 75. The 85/75 tiers are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; tests are synthetic documents.
Jurisdictions: global, au
Regulations: Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), NDB Scheme (Cth), GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 7
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:employment\s+history|work\s+(?:history|experience)|professional\s+(?:experience|summary|profile)|career\s+(?:history|objective|summary|profile)|education(?:\s+(?:and|&)\s+(?:training|qualifications))?|qualifications|referees|key\s+skills|core\s+(?:skills|competencies)|technical\s+skills|personal\s+details|licen[cs]es\s+(?:and|&)\s+certifications?|selection\s+criteria\s+response|response\s+to\s+(?:the\s+)?selection\s+criteria)[ \t]{0,3}(?::|\r?\n)

Corroborative evidence keywords

curriculum vitae, resume, cover letter, selection criteria, referee, employment history, career objective, key achievements

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Riley Teston | 0412 555 019 | riley.teston@inbox.test Career objective: Experienced water treatment operator seeking a senior operations role. Employment history: Senior Operator, Northbank Water - Mar 2019 - Present Treatment Plant Operator, Riverbend Council - Jan 2014 - Feb 2019 Education: Certificate IV in Water Industry Operations (2013) — 85a - resume with a name/contact line, three headings and two employment date ranges
Application for employment Personal details: Applicant name: Casey Teston Mobile: 0423 555 781 Email: casey.teston@inbox.test Work experience: Customer service officer, 4 years. Referees: Jordan Examplar, Operations Manager, Harbour Logistics - 07 3555 0199 — 85b - completed application form with contact fields and a referee name with phone number
Dear Selection Panel, Please find attached my resume for the Senior Project Officer role. Response to the selection criteria: 1. Stakeholder engagement - in my current role I coordinate twelve regional councils. Key skills: Project governance, procurement, contract management. Morgan Teston Phone: 0438 555 206 — 75 - cover letter with selection criteria response, two headings and a populated phone number
Avery Examplar - avery.examplar@inbox.test Professional summary: Payroll specialist with Aurion and SAP experience. Qualifications: Bachelor of Business (Accounting) — 75 - short CV with two headings and a name / email line, no dates or referees

Should not match

Senior Project Officer (AO6) About the role: Lead delivery of regional infrastructure projects. Key skills: Stakeholder engagement, procurement, contract management. Qualifications: A degree in engineering or project management is desirable. Contact: Jordan Teston on 07 3555 0199 or jordan.teston@agency.test Applications close 5pm 14 October 2026. See how to apply. — Job advertisement / position description with headings and a contact officer
How to write a resume Work experience: List your roles in reverse order, with dates such as Mar 2019 - Present and Jan 2014 - Feb 2019. Referees: Available on request is fine for most employers. Email: yourname@provider.test - use a professional address on your resume. — CV writing guide with headings, example date ranges and an example email
Application for employment Personal details: Applicant name: __________ Mobile: __________ Email: __________ Work experience: ______________________ Referees: Name: ________ Phone: ________ — Blank application form
Dr Harper Teston - Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering Education: PhD (Civil Engineering), 2012 Professional experience: Ten years in water infrastructure consulting. Research interests: catchment modelling, asset renewal. Email: harper.teston@uni.test — Published staff profile / bio with headings and a work email
A recruitment platform left an open database holding applicant names, contact details, salary expectations and uploaded CVs for more than 800 companies. — Breach news report about CV data

Known false positives

Job advertisements and position descriptions that use the same headings (key skills, qualifications) and list a contact officer's phone and email. Mitigation: Job-ad wording (applications close, how to apply, about the role, about you, what we offer, closing date) is excluded from enforce tiers.
CV writing guides and resume templates with example headings, dates and email addresses. Mitigation: CV-guide wording (how to write a resume, your resume, your CV, resume tips) and template fixture phrases are excluded; blank lines and placeholders fail the contact regex.
Published staff profiles and speaker bios with education and experience headings and a work email. Mitigation: Staff-profile wording (research interests, staff profile, meet the team, our people, biography) is excluded. A bio without that wording can still reach 75; tune locally.
Selection reports and referee reports written by the panel. Mitigation: Those are the panel side and are covered by au-qld-public-sector-selection-report and global-top500-074; a pack with an attached referee report may match both.