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📎 CV formatting for recruitment agencies who'd rather be on the phone

The shortlist is ready. The CVs aren't.

You've picked your candidates. What they sent you is a PDF, a Word file, a LinkedIn export and a photo of a printout. CVReady reformats each one into your agency's branded, client-ready CV in about a minute — word for word, nothing rewritten.

Format your first CV → See what it replaces

Your first CV is free, no card needed. Then a 7-day trial, and plans from $49 a month.

So how do CVs get client-ready today?

be honest

Every shortlist gets reformatted somehow before the client sees it. You already have a way of doing this. Pick yours, and see what it's costing you.

By hand, in Word

Open the house template →Copy a section →Paste →Fix the bullets →Repeat ×12
What it costs
20–60 minutes per CV — the range recruiters keep reporting. Usually after 5pm, because the day was for calls.
Why it happens
Every CV is built differently: tables, text boxes, two columns, a Canva export. Paste carries the layout along with the words, and your template doesn't survive it.
with CVReady →CVReady reads the content, not the layout. Nothing is pasted, so nothing breaks. About a minute per CV, up to fifty in one go.

Hand it to an admin or a VA

Email the CVs over →Wait in the queue →Chase →Check their work →Send
What it costs
The shortlist leaves when someone else's to-do list says so. Plus a salary, or a per-CV fee.
Why it happens
For you this CV is urgent. For the person formatting it, it's number fourteen.
with CVReady →No hand-off. Drop the files in between two calls; the formatted versions are waiting before the second one ends.

Paste it into ChatGPT

Paste the CV in →Write the prompt →Get a “polished” version →Re-read every line →Paste into Word anyway
What it costs
The time you saved formatting, you spend proofreading — it tidied up a job title and merged two roles. And you still end the day in Word.
Why it happens
A chatbot is a writer. Asked to format, it also edits. And a candidate's personal data in somebody's personal chat account is a GDPR conversation nobody wants.
with CVReady →CVReady copies the candidate's text word for word and only restructures it. The result lands in your template as PDF or Word. GDPR compliant, with a DPA you can actually read.

Let the ATS do it

Upload to the ATS →Parser fills the fields →Fix the fields →Export the profile →Wince
What it costs
Minutes per record correcting mis-parsed dates and titles — then an export that looks like a database printout, so you format it by hand anyway.
Why it happens
An ATS is built to store candidates, not to present them. Its parser trips over the same columns and text boxes your paste does.
with CVReady →CVReady makes the document your client sees. And a clean single-column file gives your ATS parser far less to trip over when you file it.

Forward it as it came

Forward the PDF →Hope
What it costs
Nothing today. Then the client opens five CVs in five styles, one still wearing another agency's header, and your shortlist looks like anybody's inbox.
Why it happens
There wasn't time to do it properly. Which is the whole problem.
with CVReady →When formatting takes a minute and costs under fifty cents, “no time” stops being a reason.

This is the thing your client opens.

go on, make it yours

Type your agency's name, pick a colour and a template. Every CV you send comes out like this one, whoever on the team formatted it.

Colour
Template
your logo, your colours →Not the last agency's. Their header and “do not contact directly” footer are gone.
their words, not ours →Every line is copied from the original, word for word. We move text. We don't write it.
check it yourself →Open the original side by side with the formatted version before you hit send.
Maya Okafor
Senior Backend Engineer · Lisbon
Northwind Talent
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Profile

8 years building payment systems in Go and Postgres. Led the ledger rewrite at Ledgerly that took settlement from T+2 to same-day.

Experience

Staff Engineer — Ledgerly2022 – present
  • Owned the double-entry ledger service handling 4M transactions a day.
  • Cut reconciliation breaks by 71% with idempotent settlement jobs.
Backend Engineer — Pagar2018 – 2022
  • Built card-acquiring integrations for three Iberian banks.

Skills

GoPostgreSQLKafkaAWSPCI DSS

Education

BSc Computer Science — University of Lagos2017
Presented by Northwind Talent
CLIENT-READY
← same order, every timeProfile, experience, skills, education. Your client learns where to look after the first one.
← no five-dot skill ratingsColumns, text boxes, photos and progress bars are flattened into something a person can scan in ten seconds.
← PDF, Word or plain textWord, because some clients will always want to “just tweak one thing”.

Also handles the awkward ones.

there's always one
scan →

The photo of a printout

Scans and phone photos are read with OCR, so you don't retype a CV because someone only had paper.

PT · DE · FR…

The one that isn't in English

Twenty-plus languages go in and come out in the same structure as everything else.

psst…

The one with hidden text

Some CVs carry invisible white-on-white text you'd never notice. It's stripped on the way through, so what your client reads is all there is.

×50

The fifty-CV week

Three roles, three shortlists. Drop up to fifty files at once and get on with your calls. They're done when you look back.

find →

The one from last March

Every formatted CV stays in a searchable library your whole team shares.

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The template you already have

Attached to your existing house style? Send us the Word template and we'll rebuild it for you.

Do the maths with your own numbers.

we'll wait
12.5 ha week spent in Word instead of on the phone
$99a month on the Team plan, which covers that pile

That's about 6 working days a month back. You'll still want to glance over each CV before it goes.

the whole price list:
Starter$49/mo100 CVs
Team$99/mo250 CVs
Agency$199/mo600 CVs
  • 7 days free, first 20 CVs on us
  • Unlimited seats on every plan
  • Unused CVs roll over
  • Cancel anytime
Start free trial →

Somewhere, a shortlist is due at five.

Upload one real CV, the ugliest you've got. The first one is free and needs no card. If what comes back is ready to send, start the trial to download it.

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