Why we never write your statement
Pass the Sift scores your statement and tells you what a panel would credit and what is missing. It never writes, rewrites or completes it. That is a deliberate choice: employers want your own experience in your own words, and their AI rules draw the line in the same place.
What the Civil Service allows
The Civil Service careers guidance on artificial intelligence and recruitment lists acceptable and unacceptable uses for written applications. Among the examples of effective use:
ask AI to check your answers are concise and recommend improvements that maintain their meaning
It also says you can use AI to help you refine and clarify your ideas, and to check the spelling, grammar and clarity of what you have written. The same guidance says not to use AI to:
- inflate or invent your skills and experiences
- create generic responses and copy these into your application
- provide an AI tool with sensitive information about your organisation such as figures or personal details
It stresses that your application should represent your skills and experiences accurately and authentically, and that AI must not be used during live assessments or interviews.
How Pass the Sift stays inside those rules
- We check and recommend; we don't write. Every fix is a question or a pointer (“What changed because of you, in numbers?”, “Say what you did, not the team”). You answer it from your own experience.
- We never invent or suggest experience. The report only judges what is on the page.
- We never produce text to paste into an application, and the checker isn't for live tests or interviews.
- Statements are deleted after 30 days and never used to train AI models.
What you should still do
- Leave out sensitive information. Before you paste a statement, remove unpublished figures, names and anything confidential about your organisation. Rounded or general figures (“about 300 schools”) are usually enough for feedback.
- Check the employer's own rules. Other employers, including NHS trusts, councils and universities, set their own policies on AI in applications. Read the advert and follow them.
- Keep it yours. Use the feedback to decide what to add or cut, then write it in your own words.
Quotes from the Civil Service careers page as of 11 November 2026. Policies change; the employer's current guidance always wins. Read how scoring works.