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Not getting interviews? Find out what your CV is telling them.

Most CVs that go unanswered are not bad. They are vague — and a recruiter with two hundred to read has no time to guess. Upload yours and see what it is costing you: a score, the finding that matters most, and the line it should say instead. About a minute, no account.

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Worked example

What a review finds

James is good at his job. His CV does not say so. Here is what the review found, and one line rewritten from facts he already had.

A fictional CV, drawn by the editor.

  1. The summary could be anyone’s

    “Hard-working”, “team player”, “new challenge” — nothing here is specific to James. A recruiter learns what he does from the job title, not the summary.

  2. Duties, not results

    “Responsible for coordinating daily deliveries” describes the job. How many deliveries, across how many routes, and what changed while he ran it?

  3. Skills with no evidence

    “Communication” and “problem solving” appear in the skills list and nowhere else. The transport management system he actually uses is unnamed.

One bullet, rewritten from the facts James already had

Before
Responsible for coordinating daily deliveries across the North West region.
After
Coordinated 60–80 daily deliveries across the North West on Mandata TMS, cutting missed delivery windows from 9% to 3% over 2023.

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PDF or Word. We read it, score it, and rewrite your weakest line so you can see what the rest would look like. Your file is kept for seven days so you can come back to the review, then deleted.

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How it works

  1. Upload

    Drop in the CV you are sending now, exactly as it is.

  2. Read the review

    A score, what is holding it back, and your strongest finding rewritten in full.

  3. Fix it in place

    Open the CV in the editor with the findings attached and rewrite the lines that matter.

The guide

The three reasons a decent CV gets no reply

Recruiters do not reject most CVs. They skim them, learn nothing, and move on. If you are applying and hearing nothing back, it is far more likely that your CV is forgettable than that it is wrong — and forgettable has three usual causes.

1. The summary could be anyone’s

Read your opening paragraph and cross out every phrase that could sit on a stranger’s CV unchanged. “Hard-working.” “Motivated.” “Team player.” “Looking for a new challenge.” What is left is what the recruiter learns about you, and for most people it is nothing.

A summary earns its place by answering one question: what do you do, and what is the proof? Two or three sentences. Your field, your years, the one thing you are known for, and a number if you have one.

Anyone’s

Hard-working and motivated operations professional with experience in logistics and coordination. Team player with good communication skills.

James’s

Operations coordinator with five years in regional freight, running 60–80 daily deliveries on Mandata TMS. Known for cutting missed delivery windows from 9% to 3% in a year.

2. Duties instead of results

“Responsible for coordinating daily deliveries.” That sentence is true of every operations coordinator who has ever lived. It describes the job, not you doing it.

The fix is not a thesaurus. It is a question you ask of every bullet: what changed because I did this? How many? How fast? Compared to what? If you genuinely cannot answer for a line, it may not deserve to be a line.

You will not have numbers for everything. Use them where you have them, and where you don’t, be specific in other ways — the system you used, the size of the team, the kind of client.

3. Skills with no evidence

A skills list is a claim. “Communication”, “problem solving” and “time management” are claims nobody can check and nobody believes. They also push the skills that can be checked — the software, the certifications, the languages — further down the page.

Keep the skills a recruiter can search for and a hiring manager can test. Let the rest be shown by the bullets: a bullet about resolving a dispute with a carrier says more about communication than the word does.

What the review does with this

The check reads your CV for exactly these things: whether the summary is specific, whether the bullets carry results, whether the skills are evidenced, and whether the structure lets a parser find any of it. It scores the whole document, names the findings, and — once you open the CV in the editor — offers rewrites built only from facts already on the page. Nothing is invented for you.[1]

Before you upload

Send the CV you are actually sending. Not a cleaned-up version, not the one you think is best. The review is only useful if it sees what recruiters see.

References

  1. [1]Indeed — How To Tailor Your Resume to a Job Description

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Questions

  • Yes. You upload a CV, you get the review, and nobody asks for an email address to read it. An account is needed only if you want to open the CV in the editor and fix it — and the editor’s master CV is free too.

  • It is stored for seven days so you can return to your review from the same link, then deleted. It is not used to train anything and nobody else reads it.

  • It reads your CV the way an experienced recruiter would: for specificity, evidence and structure. It cannot know what you left out — so if it says a role is thin, the fix is usually to add what you actually did, not to rephrase what is there.

  • Building and exporting one master CV is free, with no watermark. Tailoring a CV to a specific job, translating it, and the premium templates are part of Pro — the prices are on the pricing page.

  • Yes. The review is written in the language you are reading this page in, and it reads CVs in any language the product supports.

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