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Meet the fictional candidates

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These seven profiles are deliberately different. Review evidence of capability without treating one career path or CV style as the default.

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FICTIONAL PROFILE

Candidate A

Traditional graduate route

A polished application following a conventional UK graduate route with direct product analyst experience and strong keyword alignment.

Education

UK university degree in Business Management with analytics modules.

Tools and evidence sources

Excel, Jira, Looker, Miro, User research notes

Experience snapshot

2 years as Associate Product Analyst in a mid-sized SaaS team

Supported roadmap planning, sprint reviews and user-story grooming

Produced weekly product KPI packs for conversion, retention and activation

Evidence of capability

Clear examples of backlog analysis and dashboard reporting

Uses product language that closely matches the job description

Well-structured CV with familiar headings and measurable achievements

Signals the AI may mishandle

May be over-rewarded because the CV mirrors training examples

Degree route may act as a proxy even though degree is not required

Less evidence of working with non-standard or ambiguous stakeholder groups

Governance reviewer prompt

Is this genuinely the strongest evidence of capability, or is the model rewarding the most familiar CV format?

BEFORE YOU SEE THE SCORES

What would a fair assessment need to recognise?

Separate genuine role requirements from signals that simply look familiar to a model or recruiter.