Product Snippets: Reforming the CV

The CV is a central institution in today’s labour markets. The format has matured to a point where applicant tracking systems (ATS) automatically parse its contents, create structured data for employers and make automatic decisions on candidates’ eligibility for interviews. At the same time, hiring conversations are increasingly shifting towards a focus on skills rather than the conventional signals for good matches with a job. An increasing number of job seekers cannot rely on a pristine, gapless, professional past the brands of companies they worked for or a strong professional network. These job seekers are in need of new solutions that highlight their unique skill sets within platforms and frameworks that employers are familiar with: The CV.

SkillLab’s radical new way of skill-based career orientation and support goes beyond the creation of a holistic skill profile and the accompanying career advice but now extends to job application support. Job seekers receive guidance on how to create the best possible CV for themselves. The resulting CV highlights skills, knowledge domains and soft skills that are relevant to the job they apply for. The CV boasts a number of features that allow for easy customization and targeted highlighting of skills so that automatic keyword parsers recognize the job seekers valuable skill set. A SkillLab CV aims to be the best possible advocate for the job seeker.

• Full guidance during the CV creation process
• Automatically generated personal statement
• Uniquely tailored for each job
• Highlighting of skills and knowledge for every professional experience
• Language skills
• Customizable layout options
• Skill section featuring hard and soft skills as well as key knowledge domains
• Improved keyword recognition for automatic CV parsers
• Automatic translation for up to 27 languages
• Branding opportunities for partners and clients including colours and logos

The CV will continue to be a key currency for job seekers world-wide in their quest for the next job. With SkillLab’s skill-based CV those job seekers will receive the best possible version of that currency to make their next steps with confidence.