Starting out

“I haven’t really got any experience.”

The group project nobody else finished. The shift you covered when the rota fell apart. The society you actually ran. What is missing is a way of proving any of that against the advert open in your other tab.

The rejections do not explain themselves

You send an application. Nothing comes back, or a form email does. Nobody tells you whether you were close, whether one line let it down, or whether it was never read by a person at all.

The blank gets filled in anyway. Usually with the cheapest explanation available: there was nothing there to begin with. Job searches end on that explanation, and it is almost never the one your CV supports.

What comes back instead

Paste the advert. Friday takes its requirements one at a time and says what your CV shows against each of them. Four answers, and each one means a different job of work:

Comfortable handling customers directly

Evidenced

Two years on a shop floor, on the page, with the hours on it.

Can keep a project moving to a deadline

You told Friday you ran the society fundraiser. It is not on your CV.

Works with numbers and spots errors

“Good attention to detail” is a claim. The stocktake you corrected is evidence.

Has used a booking or CRM system

Asked about

Nothing yet. Worth an afternoon before the next one of these comes up.

The fundraiser reached Friday in an interview answer and never reached the CV. That row costs one line to fix.

A requirement you cannot answer yet is the next thing to go and get. Named, in a list, before the next advert comes up.

Check one advert against what I have

Bring the advert and whatever CV or notes you already have. Friday will say what's evidenced, what's thin, what's true but hasn't reached the page, and what's genuinely missing.

Check your CV

How it goes

Paste the advert you are actually applying to

The whole posting, not just the job title. Every note Friday gives you is aimed at what this employer wrote down.

Paste in whatever you have

Half a page is fine. Something you last opened at school is fine. So is a few lines about a job, typed straight in, if there is no document at all.

Answer the questions it asks you

How many people, how long, what happened afterwards, and who noticed. You answer, and the line becomes evidence rather than a claim, in words you can say out loud later.

Come back and check it again

Every version is kept. You can watch a requirement move from nothing to evidenced, and see how much of the advert your CV now answers.

Where this stops

Friday cannot give you experience and it will not pretend the empty rows are full. If an advert wants two years of something you have not done, it says so.

What it does is put the things you have already done onto the page as evidence. The rest becomes a short list of what to go and get. Every employer's screening software is configured differently and no outside tool can see it. Nothing here is a promise about the outcome.

Check one advert against what I have

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.

Start free

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.