Fitread reads your CV against a real advert: the match rate, the skills it names, the title recruiters search for, and the day rate and IR35 exactly as stated. Contract first; temp and permanent adverts work too, in any sector.
A BI developer's CV, made up for this example
Match rate
Good match
Up to 100% with the fixes
Rate: £575 per day, ·Outside IR35, ·Duration: 6 month contract
54%Good match
This CV shows 3 of the 11 skills we recognised in this advert: Azure, Power BI and SQL.
Match rate 54%, a good match. Hard skills: 8 issues to fix. Databricks would add 6 points.
Hard skills
BI Developer (contract) · Example Retail · Jan 2024 to now
Built SQL pipelines loading 40 sources into Azure SQL with Databricks
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Company job pages read best. LinkedIn or Indeed often won't open: paste the advert.
Your CV is read to produce your score. The file is not stored. Your score opens only on this browser, for 30 minutes. Create a free account or sign in within that time and the reading stays in your account until you delete it; otherwise we delete it after 24 hours. The text of your CV is held, encrypted, with your score for those 30 minutes, so a free account made in that time saves it to your CVs; otherwise it is deleted. The reading holds the skills found, figures and advice, plus the AI review and opener, which are written from your CV and can repeat details from it, and up to three short lines of your CV (120 characters each at most) that show where the opener came from. To write the AI review and opener, the text of your CV and the advert is sent to Anthropic, which runs the Claude AI model for us.
The match rate, the skills it names, the title recruiters search for, and the day rate and IR35 exactly as stated.
Searchability
Agency systems file your CV as a record and search it by its words. Fitread checks what they rely on: contact details in the body, standard headings, one date format, and each term written the way a search asks for it.
Written for the UK
Your CV becomes a record recruiters search. In the systems we checked, every documented automatic rejection comes from a screening answer, never the words in your CV.
Skills, pay and IR35
Every skill the advert names and what adding it is worth, and the day rate and IR35 exactly as the advert states them.
Editor
Add your own evidence, watch the match rate move, and check the layout a recruiter will see.
Job Match and Tracker
Live jobs from companies' own job pages ranked against your CV, and every application on one board. The Tracker is free on every plan.
Our code compares the advert's skills with your CV's. The advert's skills your CV shows earn 70 points, the advert's title 15, and the sector 15 when your CV's own field is the advert's. If your CV doesn't show a skill the advert calls essential, the rate stays under half. The AI review can't change the number.
Agencies search their own systems (often called a CRM), and often job-board CV databases, by title, skill words, location, pay and recency. The system behind an advert usually isn't visible, so Fitread checks what every search relies on: your title, the advert's words and a readable layout.
In the systems we checked, every documented automatic rejection comes from a screening answer (right to work, clearance, DBS, a licence, availability), never from the words in your CV. In a November 2024 audit, the UK's Information Commissioner told recruiters not to reject on AI scores alone.
No. It reads any CV against any UK advert: contract, temp or permanent, in any sector. It started with UK contracts.
Yes. A temp advert shows its pay exactly as stated, with shifts, start date and availability; a permanent advert, its salary band, notice period and start date. Jobs for you ranks jobs of every type from companies' own job pages.
The median advertised day rate for the role in live UK contract adverts this month, shown only when at least 20 adverts give one, with the number of adverts and the month. It's what adverts offer, not what contractors are paid.
It doesn't guess. A reading shows what the advert states: outside IR35, inside IR35, or not stated, never inferred from the rate, the sector or the wording. A reading isn't tax advice.
Either. A Word file (.docx), or a PDF made from a word processor so the text can be selected, is accepted by every system we checked. Fitread reads both, and plain text, up to 5 MB.
Not if you're signed out: the file is read in memory and discarded. The score opens only on the browser you used, for 30 minutes; sign up then to keep it, or it's deleted after 24 hours. Signed in, it's saved in your CV manager with your reading until you delete it.
To write the AI review and the opener, the text of your CV and the advert is sent to Anthropic, which runs the Claude AI model for us. Nobody else. How we handle your CV.
Only to company jobs you pick in Auto apply, paid with credits. Otherwise a reading links to the job page and you apply there.
No. Every job is free on its company's own page, and so are applying there and job alerts. Job Match is free with a shorter list, and Auto apply uses credits. Pro pays for tools: more readings, every fix, Editor suggestions, openers, LinkedIn drafts and interview prep. You get 5 free readings every 30 days with a free account.
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