How it works
Which four is the part nobody tells you. Friday takes the posting apart requirement by requirement, says what your CV demonstrates against each one, and asks you the questions that get the rest of it onto the page.
The document
PDF, Word or plain text. Rough is fine, and so is the one you last opened eight months ago.
Friday shows you what it read back before it says anything about it. A phone number the parser missed is a thing you correct in thirty seconds, not a failure it reports to you about your own CV. The mechanical checks run here too: whether your dates parse, whether your sections are recognisable, and whether the file a screener receives is secretly an image with no text in it at all. That is a question about whether a machine can read the file, not about whether you get through: every employer configures their own screening, and none of it is visible from outside.
The advert
The whole thing, not the job title. Friday works through its requirements one at a time and gives each one an answer.
Managing a budget of at least £50,000
Evidenced
Your CV names the figure and the year you rebuilt it.
Line management experience
Not on your CV
You told Friday you had eleven people reporting to you. The CV says “responsible for the team”.
Working to tight deadlines under pressure
Partly covered
It is claimed twice and shown once, with no deadline and no outcome attached.
Experience with supplier negotiation
Partly covered
The suppliers appear. What you agreed with them does not.
A recognised project management qualification
Asked about
Nothing on the page answers this, and the advert does not say whether experience counts instead.
There is no mark out of a hundred. A requirement you have evidenced and one you have never mentioned need completely different work, and a single number hides which of the two you are looking at.
“Not on your CV” is usually the cheapest win on the page. You have already told Friday about the eleven people. It just never reached the document you are about to send.
The question
Where a line is thin, you get the question a hiring manager would ask about it, not a rewrite to paste in.
Your line
“Worked closely with suppliers to keep costs down”
Friday asks
Which suppliers, and what did you actually agree with them? What was the cost before you started, and what was it after?
The new line comes out in your words, with your numbers in it. It holds when somebody reads it back to you and asks what you did, because you are the one who wrote it.
Everywhere else
Answer a handful of questions about your work once and Friday keeps them, so the second cover letter asks you less than the first and still comes out specific.
Then log what came back. Interview, offer, rejection, silence. Over a few applications the record shows which version of your CV is getting read.
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. Everything from stage 4 onwards compounds; nothing before stage 4 has to be finished first.
The homepage shows the moment Friday asks a question instead of writing your line for you. Here is where that question actually goes, for one line, all the way through.
1. The line on the CV
Responsible for managing a team and delivering projects.
2. What the advert asked for
Experience leading a team through a sustained delivery period, with evidence of what shipped.
3. The smallest question Friday asks
How many people, and for how long? And what happened to the projects after you left?
4. The raw answer
Six people, for just over two years. Two of the three projects shipped on the date we'd promised; the third slipped by about six weeks after a supplier missed a deadline, but it still went out. All three were still running for the client eighteen months later, as far as I know.
5. The line, in those words
Led a team of six for two years, delivering three projects — two on schedule, one six weeks late after a supplier delay, all three still running eighteen months on.
6. What Friday still will not claim
That the delay was fixed, or that anyone was pleased about it — nobody said that, so it stays out. It will not turn “still running” into “because of me” either: the line says what happened, not why it worked.
7. What this answers in an interview
"Tell me about a project that hit a problem." The supplier delay. The line already has the shape of the answer — what slipped, by how much, and that it still landed — because it is the one thing that was actually written down.
The first is the one most tools do, and they do it well. The second is a question about one employer, and it is the one that decides whether you hear back.
A tool pointed at your CV
The document, and how well it is written.
Friday
Whether your record shows what this advert asks for.
A tool pointed at your CV
A score, and a list of lines to improve.
Friday
Four answers, one per requirement, and how to position yourself better.
A tool pointed at your CV
Written for you, or inferred and handed back as a finding.
Friday
From you. It helps you tell the right story, and keeps your words.
A tool pointed at your CV
Left out, and gone again by the next application.
Friday
Kept as useful evidence for your next application.
A tool pointed at your CV
A better document.
Friday
Learn to tell your story and defend it, based on what employers ask for.
Paste the posting you were about to apply to.
Check your CVNearer the start of a career? This is written for you instead. What it costs is on pricing, and the rest is in the FAQ.
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.