Check your CV against a job description

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.

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.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Decide what to change. Some findings you will disagree with. That is fine, and it is why nothing is applied automatically.
5. 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.

It will not tell you whether you will get the job, and it does not produce a score or a percentage match. Any tool that gives your CV a number out of a hundred is inventing that number.

It is not run through a real applicant tracking system, and nobody can honestly claim their tool does that. What it checks is whether the language of the advert appears in your CV, and whether the structure is clean enough to be parsed.

It is AI, not a person. There is no human reviewer reading your CV. And it will not add experience you do not have. If a requirement is genuinely missing, the review will say so rather than paper over it.

A CV review costs one credit. New accounts get five free credits every month, renewing automatically, with no card needed to start, so you can review several CVs before deciding whether this is useful to you.

Turning the findings into questions costs a further three quarters of a credit, and generating a tailored CV from your answers costs one and a half. Credits are taken when you submit, so a review you abandon halfway still uses one.