Frequently asked questions

People who have done the work and are not hearing back, in any field. It starts from the assumption that you have the experience and can talk about it in a room:

• Anyone applying steadily and getting form rejections or silence
• People in work who want to move, and cannot tell why their applications go nowhere
• People changing direction, whose experience is real but sits in another field
• Anyone whose CV has grown to cover everything and now argues for nothing

It assumes you don't have somebody on the inside to ask. A lot of how hiring actually works gets passed on informally, and if you don't know anybody, nobody tells you.

It works the same way at the other end of that gap. If you are going for a first job and think you have nothing to put down, this is written for you.

It's a record of what you have done, and a way to present it in the best light. A CV is one thing that record produces, not the thing itself.

What you get out of it is a CV you can defend. When someone reads a line back to you in an interview and asks what you actually did, you have an answer. The line came from you.

Because plenty of experience is what produces the problem. A CV that spreads it evenly across two pages gives every line a sentence, and nothing enough room to be evidence. Friday works out which parts this particular advert is asking about. Those get properly evidenced instead of merely mentioned.

It reads the advert you're applying to and takes its requirements one at a time. For each one it says whether your CV evidences it, or hasn't shown it yet. Where it hasn't, you get the question that helps you work out whether you have the thing and never wrote it down.

There is no mark out of a hundred. A requirement you have evidenced needs completely different work from one you have not. A single number hides which of the two you are looking at.

What it describes is one advert and one version of your CV. The employer runs their own process, and Friday cannot see it.

Employers often use software to read CVs before a person does. Those checks look at whether your CV can be read by a machine at all. Contact details it can find, recognisable sections, dates it can parse, text it can actually extract.

The panel lists what it can't check, because every employer's system differs.

No, and be wary of anything that says otherwise. Every employer's hiring software is configured differently, and no outside tool can see it. Friday can make your CV clearer, better evidenced and easier to read. It can't promise an outcome.

Your CV, cover letters and practice answers are yours. They're visible to you in your account, and they aren't shared with employers or other users.

Friday uses third-party services to run the app, to read the documents you paste in, and to give feedback on answers you say out loud. The Privacy Policy sets out what's collected and how it's handled.

The industry conventions it knows best are UK-oriented, and some examples reference UK schemes and employers. The coaching itself travels fine: being specific, evidencing what you did, structuring an interview answer. If you're applying elsewhere, treat region-specific detail as a starting point rather than gospel.

Free to start, and the free one is not a demo: paste as many adverts as you like, and one CV is composed for you to keep, from a record that stays yours. Paid plans compose a CV for every application. The plans and what they cost. A tool for people looking for work has to be affordable to people looking for work.