04 · Recruitment agencies
Give every consultant back the hours CV formatting eats.
A candidate's CV goes in however it arrived. It comes out in your house style, anonymised for the client, with the gaps flagged, while the consultant is already on the next call.
For every consultant
Today, without it
A consultant retypes a CV into the agency template before it can go to a client.
Contact details are removed by hand, and sometimes one slips through.
Good candidates from last year sit in the database and nobody rings them.
Try it
From inbox to client-ready
Pick a messy CV, switch anonymise on and off, and see what the client receives.
Three made-up candidates. No real person, employer, address or phone number.
1. Pick a CV as it arrived
House template
As received
Client-ready, classic template
Candidate RA-1041
Senior Product Designer · Brighton
Profile
Product designer with nine years across banking and retail apps. Portfolio and references on request: withheld.
Career history
Senior Product DesignerMar 2021 to present
A UK retail bank (name withheld)
- Led the redesign of the withheld mobile app onboarding, taking it from nine steps to five.
- Ran weekly research sessions and built the design system in Figma.
Product DesignerJun 2017 to Dec 2020
Sample Retail Group
- Designed the click and collect journey for the shopping app.
- Set up moderated usability testing with store staff.
Junior DesignerSep 2015 to May 2017
Demo Studio Ltd
- Produced wireframes and prototypes for agency clients.
Education
- BA Graphic Design, University of Exampleton2012 to 2015
Key skills
- Figma
- User research
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- Accessibility
- HTML and CSS
Taken out of the client copy
- Name × 1
- Email address × 2
- Phone number × 1
- Home address × 1
- LinkedIn and web links × 1
- Date of birth × 1
- Identifying employer × 2
Counted across the header and the body. Candidates repeat an email or a number in the middle of a paragraph, so every line is checked, not just the top.
Gaps in employment
No gap longer than 3 months between the jobs listed.
2. Past candidates who fit a new role
Six made-up people already on file, ranked by the skills they declared. Same skill or no match: nothing is inferred.
1Leila H., Senior Product Designer4 of 4
- Figma
- User research
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- Nice to have: Accessibility
2Amara O., UX Designer3 of 4
- Figma
- User research
- Prototyping
- Not declared: Design systems
3Chidi N., Front-end Developer1 of 4
- Design systems
- Nice to have: Accessibility
- Not declared: Figma
- Not declared: User research
- Not declared: Prototyping
4Grace W., Stock Controller0 of 4
No declared skill in common with this role.
5Owen B., Shift Supervisor0 of 4
No declared skill in common with this role.
6Tomasz K., Warehouse Manager0 of 4
No declared skill in common with this role.
How it runs
Four steps, nobody chasing.
STEP 1
Drop in a CV as a PDF, a Word file or pasted text.
STEP 2
It is rebuilt in your template with your logo, in the order your clients expect.
STEP 3
One switch removes the name, contact details and anything that identifies the candidate.
STEP 4
Past candidates who fit a new role are listed for the consultant to ring.
Your numbers
What formatting costs a desk
Example figures, change them
Everyone who sends CVs to clients.
A typical week, per consultant.
Retyping into the template and taking the contact details out.
Salary and on-costs, divided by the hours they work.
Formatting costs the desk, each week
£528
- Time across the desk, a week
- 24 hr
- Per consultant, a week
- 4 hr
- Over 52 weeks
- 1,248 hr, £27,456
The sum
6 consultants × 12 CVs a week × 20 minutes = 1,440 minutes, which is 24 hr a week. 1,440 minutes ÷ 60 × £22 an hour = £528 a week.
This is arithmetic on your own figures. It is not a promise of results.
Works with what you have
Sits beside your CV template, your candidate database and your job board inbox.
Every demo on this site runs on made-up data. The real one is built around your phone line, your diary and the software you already use.
Get in touch
See it run on your own numbers.
Two quick answers. Adrians replies by email and shows you the system working with your figures, not ours.
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