CV screening · any career
Your CV is read by software before a person sees it
That much is true, and it is where most advice stops. The harder question is what the page demonstrates once somebody does read it, because that is the part you can do something about.
Check it against the job you are going for
A career change read teaching experience as training experience, instead of discounting it for using the wrong words — try Friday against your own CV below.
You paste a CV and an advert; Friday checks what a machine can read back, in seconds.
Start with one advert, not your whole career. The first real run — one CV, one advert — took five to seven minutes, start to a result you can act on.
What the software is doing
Applicant tracking systems parse a document and rank what they parsed. They are looking for the requirements in the advert, in the words the advert used. That is real, and it is worth writing a CV a machine can read. Recognisable sections, dates in a normal format, text rather than a picture of text.
Every employer configures their own and keeps it private, so Friday checks what every system needs: a document it can read, and the advert’s requirements answered in the advert’s words.
After the software comes a person, and they are the one you need. Friday works on what your lines say to them.
What is usually wrong is what the lines say, not how they are formatted
Most CVs that go quiet are readable. They are thin. Fifteen lines that say what somebody was responsible for, and none that say what happened because they were.
“Responsible for various duties across the department” passes every mechanical check ever written. It also says nothing, and no filter is the reason it failed.
You have almost certainly done more than your CV currently captures.
What Friday does about it
It keeps what you wrote, exactly as you wrote it
Before anything reads a word of it. Every claim it comes back with quotes the line it was taken from, so you can always see what a sentence was built out of, and nothing enters your record that you did not agree to.
It reads what you already wrote
Bring in the CV you have been sending. Friday keeps it exactly as you wrote it. Everything it takes from the CV points back at the line it came from.
It asks rather than assumes
Where a line is thin you get a question, not a guess about what you probably meant. If you wrote “we”, it asks whether the thing was yours to do, the company’s, or true of the place.
It counts, it does not grade
No mark out of ten. Every requirement in the advert either has something behind it or does not, and Friday tells you which. A count means the same thing next month as it does today.
It helps with the words, not the facts
Whatever words you have are enough. Tell Friday what happened and it works the line into something a screener will read, using the numbers and the scale you gave it. Where an example helps, it comes from a different job to yours. Close enough to show the shape, far enough that you cannot copy it.
Check your CV
Free to start. You will need an account, because your CV is yours and we keep it that way.
Friday is a career evidence engine for people who have done the work and cannot get the page to show it.
It is early and there are rough edges. What people report is what gets fixed first.
Paste as many adverts as you like, and one CV is composed for you to keep. The record stays yours whether or not you ever pay.