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Most CVs are rejected for something the writer could not see. You have read your own CV so many times that you fill in the gaps from memory, and a recruiter reading it for nine seconds cannot. The CV review reads your CV against one specific job advert and marks up the places where the two do not line up. You get between five and fifteen findings, each one attached to the exact phrase in your CV that triggered it, sorted by how much damage it is likely to do. Nothing is rewritten for you at this stage. The point is to see the CV the way someone else will.
What the review gives you
Every finding has four parts. It quotes the exact wording from your CV, so there is no hunting for what it means. It says what the problem is in one sentence. It says what to do about it. And it carries a severity: critical for something likely to get you rejected, moderate for something that weakens the application, minor for polish.
Findings are also typed, which is more useful than it sounds, because the six types need completely different responses:
- Missing keyword and missing section: the advert asks for something your CV does not mention at all.
- Quantification: you describe what you did, but not what changed because of it.
- Weak achievement: the evidence is there but reads as a duty rather than a result.
- Tone and formatting: the substance is fine, the delivery is not.
The first four need a fact only you have. The last two you can fix in five minutes.
Who this is for
This is most useful when you have a specific advert in front of you and a CV you have already sent somewhere else.
"I keep applying and hearing nothing back." A review will not tell you why one employer went quiet, but it will show you how much of the advert your CV currently answers, which is usually less than people expect.
"I am moving into a different field." You know why your experience is relevant. The review shows you whether a reader in the new field would.
"I have one CV and I send it everywhere." Run the same CV against two different adverts and the findings will differ. That difference is the argument for tailoring, in your own words rather than ours.
How it works
- Paste or upload your CV. PDF and Word (.docx) both work. A scanned PDF will not, because there is no text in it to read, and you will be told that rather than left with an empty box. There is no need to reformat anything first.
- Add the advert. Paste the job description you are actually applying to. If you do not have one yet, you can describe what you want the review to focus on instead, and it will read your CV against that.
- Read the findings in place. Each one highlights the phrase it refers to, so you can see the sentence and the comment together rather than working from a list.
- Decide what to change. Some findings you will disagree with. That is fine, and it is why nothing is applied automatically.
- Answer the questions only you can answer. Where a finding needs a fact that is not in your CV, such as a number or an outcome, the review can turn those into direct questions. Your answers then feed into a tailored CV, so the rewrite is built on your evidence rather than invented.
What a finding looks like
Worked example
The line in your CV
Managed the customer support inbox and helped reduce response times.
What the review says
Quantification, moderate. The outcome is claimed but not evidenced. "Helped reduce" does not tell a reader by how much, from what, or over what period, so it reads as a duty rather than a result.
Suggested fix. State the figures if you have them. If you do not, describe the change rather than estimating it.
The same line, once you answer
Took ownership of a shared support inbox handling around 60 enquiries a day, introduced a triage rota, and cut average first response from two working days to under four hours.
The second version is not longer because it is padded. It is longer because it contains four things the first one did not: the volume, what you actually changed, the before, and the after. Every one of those came from you, not from the tool.
What this will not do
The review helps you decide what to improve in the document. It does not predict whether you will get the job, and it does not produce a score or a percentage match. Each finding gives you wording and a suggested change to assess in context.
Career Auntie does not test your CV in a real applicant tracking system. Its AI looks for missing keywords, weak achievements, missing sections, opportunities to quantify experience, tone and formatting. Treat those findings as suggestions to check against the advert and your own record.
There is no human reviewer step. You choose which findings are useful, correct any mistaken interpretation and decide what to change. Where a requirement is missing from your experience, the next step is an honest explanation or further learning, not adding a claim you cannot support.
What it costs
A CV review costs one credit. Free accounts get five credits every month, renewing automatically, with no card needed to start. You can try a review, read the findings and decide which changes are useful before taking the next step.
Turning the findings into questions costs a further 0.75 credits. Generating a tailored CV costs 1.45 credits. A review followed by a tailored CV therefore uses 2.45 credits, within your five-credit monthly allowance.
For a busier job search, Premium includes 200 credits for £10 a month. One-off top-ups start at £3 for 30 credits and do not expire. Credits are taken when you submit; failed or abandoned runs are not refunded.
Common questions
Do I need a job description to use it?
It works best with one, because the findings are measured against what that specific advert asks for. If you do not have an advert yet, you can describe what you want the review to focus on instead.
Can I upload a PDF?
Yes, as long as the PDF has real text in it. A scan or a photograph of a printed CV has no text layer to read, and you will be told that rather than getting an empty result. Word .docx files work too.
Does it give my CV a score?
No. It returns specific findings tied to specific lines, with a severity on each. There is no overall score or percentage match, because no such number could be honestly calculated.
Is a real person reading my CV?
No. The review is produced by AI, and there is no human reviewer step. You decide which findings to act on.
Will it rewrite my CV for me?
Not on its own. The review shows you what to change and why. If you want a rewrite, you can answer the questions it raises and generate a tailored CV from your own answers.
What does it cost?
One credit per review. Every account gets five free credits a month, renewing automatically, with no card needed to start.
