Create an account and upload your CV
Sign up, confirm the email, upload one document, and check what was read off it. Five steps, and the fourth is the one people skip.
Five steps. The whole thing takes about ten minutes, and most of that is reading what came out of your own document.
1. Open the app and sign up
Go to the app and use the sign-up control in the header. An email address, a password and your name is the whole form.
2. Confirm your email address
Open the confirmation email and follow the link. This matters more than it looks: an account that has signed up and not confirmed can reach the job listings, the pricing page and its own account screen, and nothing else.
If the email did not arrive, open the account screen and send it again from there. That screen stays reachable while you are unconfirmed for exactly this reason.
3. Upload one CV
Use Upload or replace it in the side rail, under "Your resume". A PDF or a Word file both work.
Upload the document you actually send to employers, not a cleaned-up version made for this. Everything downstream is built out of what is in it, and a shortened copy produces a shortened tailoring.
The file is read in this browser. Nothing about the reading step goes to a server.
4. Check the parse
Open Check the parse in the rail. This is the step people skip, and it is the one worth doing.
It shows you what was read: your name, contact details, each role with its employer and dates, the bullets under each role, education, skills and languages. Read it against your own document and fix what is wrong.
| What to look for | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| A missing employer or date | An undated role cannot be placed on a timeline, and a filter reads a gap where the job was |
| Bullets attached to the wrong role | Every later step attributes that work to the wrong employer |
| Missing email or phone | An applicant tracking system keys its record on the email address |
| Text that came out scrambled | Usually a two-column or table layout in the original file |
Whatever is wrong here is wrong in every score, every tailoring and every filled form after it.
5. Set where you are applying
Open Country, language, design in the rail. Three things are decided in one place: the country you are applying into, the language of the document, and what it looks like.
Country is not cosmetic. Photograph conventions, length expectations and section headings differ across European markets, and the document is built to the destination's rules rather than to a single house style.
What you have now
An account, a parsed history the product can reason about, and a document that is already downloadable as a PDF or a Word file for nothing.
The next step needs a plan, and it is worth knowing that before you get there: your first match score explains what scoring costs and what it gives you.
Questions about this
Which file formats can I upload?
A PDF or a Word document. The parse screen shows you what was read out of it, whichever one you send.
Why can I only see job listings after signing up?
Because the address is not confirmed yet. Open the confirmation email, or resend it from the account screen, and the rest of the product opens up.
Do I have to upload a CV to browse?
No. The board is readable with no account at all. The document is needed the moment you want a score, a tailored version or a filled form.
What happens to the file itself?
It is read in your browser. The text is not uploaded, and the account holds which jobs you tailored for rather than the document text.
Do step four before you do anything else
Checking the parse takes two minutes and it is the difference between tailoring your real history and tailoring a mangled copy of it.
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