How does starting the CV builder from my CV or LinkedIn work?
Upload your CV, choose one you saved, or upload the PDF LinkedIn makes of your profile. It is read in memory, the file is not kept, and nothing is sent to an AI.
You then see what we read (each role with its dates and length, your skills and qualifications) and correct anything in the wrong place. Nothing is added or reworded.
Lines with no place in the builder are listed for you to copy, and anything a UK CV leaves out is listed with its reason.
From LinkedIn come your name, headline and location, your About text, each role with its dates, education, top skills and certifications. We then ask once for what LinkedIn does not hold, such as your right to work, when you can start, a clearance, a driving licence, or a CSCS card or DBS check.
To get the PDF, open your LinkedIn profile on a computer, choose More (or Resources) under your name, then Save to PDF.
It opens in the builder as a draft only you can see. As a guest, nothing is stored.
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How should I use the CV Builder?
Use the Builder to arrange your own work history, skills and qualifications into a CV.
Keep names, dates and results factual. A suggested phrase is something to review, not evidence that you did the work.
Read the preview before exporting or using the CV in a new reading.
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Which files can I upload?
PDF, Word (.docx) and plain text files, up to 5 MB.
You can paste your CV instead, up to 200 KB of text. A pasted advert can be up to 50 KB.
Older Word files (.doc) and scanned images cannot be read. Save your CV as .docx or PDF, or paste the text.
Checks that need the file itself, such as fonts and margins, cannot run on pasted text.
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Does Fitread show my CV to recruiters or employers?
Fitread never shows your CV to a recruiter, agency or employer unless you send it to a specific advert or share it with someone you choose.
Your Fitread CVs are kept apart from the CV on a ContractorUK candidate profile, and Fitread never copies one into the other.
A test in Fitread's code lists every part of the site that reads Fitread's CV files and tables. It fails if ContractorUK's staff CV search, the contractor hire directory or any employer page is one of them.
Fitread is its own site with its own database, so nothing on ContractorUK's site reads your Fitread CVs.
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What does the free plan include?
5 readings a month, each with its AI review, within the daily AI limit.
The first fix in each section of a reading in full, up to 5, with every skill counted; the names of the skills that would raise your match rate most are in Pro.
1 opener a month for a recruiter, and Job Match.
The Tracker, the CV manager, jobs, applying and job alerts, which are never part of a paid plan.
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