CV formatting software for recruitment teamsSend the CV your client remembers.
ConnectIQ is CV formatting software that turns 20 to 40 minutes of reformatting into a few seconds: your branded CV template, your logo, and the candidate's facts protected the whole way through.
commercialy minded marketing leader with eleven years experiance across retail and consumer brands most recently owning a £1.2m annual budget and a team of six, track record of turning under performing channels into reliable revenue drivers, comfortable presenting to boards and briefing agencies and getting hands on with campain data
EXPERIENCE
Thornbury & Co · Mar 2021 — Present
- own the annual marketing budget of £1.2m across digital print and in store reporting to the commercial director - rebuilt the paid social programme from scratch lifting return on ad spend from 2.1x to 2.9x, cost per acquisition down 24% - lead a team of six across content crm and perfomance
£1.2m budget · ROAS 2.1x → 2.9x
marketing manager, fenwick retail group, jun 2017 - feb 2021 campaigns for 14 store openings across the north of england, email database 40k to 165k contacts, £350k seasonal campaign 18% yoy uplift
EDUCATION
ba hons marketing management 2:1, university of leeds, 2011-2014
references available on request. notice period 4 weeks. interests trail running, photography, parkrun
The expensive part of a submission is not choosing a font — it is checking the source, resolving ambiguity and knowing the exported file is the version you approved.
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Upload
PDF or DOCX in. The original stays attached to the job, so what the candidate actually sent is always one click away.
sarah-mitchell.docx
pdf · docx · drop to queue
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Review the record
One structured record with confidence rails and alternative readings. Uncertainty is shown, never silently resolved.
EmployerThornbury & Co
DatesMar 2021 — Present
Notice4 weeks
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Apply the brand
An approved template, your logo and colours. Presentation is decided once, not re-improvised per candidate.
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Send or share
PDF and DOCX from the same saved version — or a share link, so the client sees exactly what you approved.
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AI with boundaries
Improve the writing. Lock the evidence.
The AI here is not one switch. It is four explicit modes — from a formatting pass that makes no model call at all, to a full rewrite that a deterministic guard checks figure by figure, or rejects.
Experience bullet · marked against the original19 marks · Polish
responsiblefor Rebuilt the paid social programme, lifting ROASwent from2.1x to2.9x,alsoCPAdown andreportingtocommercialdirector cutting cost-per-acquisition by24%.
2.1x stet — identical in every modenewcut rewrite marks
guard passed · 0 facts changed
Format-only mode makes no AI call. Wording stays fixed; only whitespace and duplicate cleanup precede layout.
Employers, titles and dates are restored verbatim; figures must keep their count, role and lexical clause anchors or the rewrite is rejected.
Prose meaning is never auto-approved — each rewrite lands as a reviewable, undoable before/after diff.
Your corrections are reapplied after every rewrite.
Your template
Your firm already has a template. Rebuild it here.
Page geometry, named text styles, colour, rules, columns, and your logo dragged to the millimetre — with the page redrawing as you go. Change it whenever you like, without asking anyone. Build it once, and every candidate lands in it identically.
Recorded in the builder — an untouched default to a finished branded template.
Senior Marketing Manager at Thornbury & Co, owning a £1.2m annual budget and a team of six across content, CRM and performance.
Experience
Thornbury & CoMar 2021 — Present
Applied at render and export — PDF and DOCX
Redaction policy
The unredacted record stays yours. The export follows the policy.
Blind CVs
Anonymise by policy, not by hand.
When a client asks for blind CVs, toggle the fields once — redaction is applied across every field, prose included, then checked for anything left visible before you export.
A fully sourced 2026 comparison of CV formatting software for recruitment agencies — HireAra, Allsorter, Candidately, CVFormatter, FormaCV, RefineCV and ConnectIQ. Every price read from the vendor's own page, every per-CV cost shown, including where competitors beat us.
Software that takes a CV in whatever layout it arrived in and produces a consistently formatted document from it: it reads the text, works out the sections and sets the same content in a chosen template. Recruitment agencies use it to put every candidate on their own branded template before a client sees them; individuals use it to move their own CV into a cleaner layout.
How does ConnectIQ format a CV?+
Upload the CV as a PDF or Word file. ConnectIQ reads it into one structured record with every value linked back to where it came from on the original page, you check and correct that record, pick a template, choose whether the AI should touch the wording, and export PDF and Word from the same approved version.
Will the AI change what the candidate wrote?+
Only if you ask it to, and only as far as you choose. There are four modes: Format only makes no rewrite call at all, Tidy corrects spelling and grammar, Polish improves phrasing and Transform rewrites the prose. Employers, titles, dates and qualifications are restored word for word, and every change is shown as a before-and-after you approve.
Can we use our agency's own CV template?+
Yes. On paid plans you build it in the browser from controlled choices (layout, fonts, colours, logo slot, section order) with no setup fee, or start from one of the 57 stock templates. See CV formatting software for recruitment agencies.
Does ConnectIQ integrate with Bullhorn, JobAdder or Vincere?+
Not today. ConnectIQ works alongside your ATS or CRM: you export the formatted CV as PDF or Word and attach it to the candidate record. Integrations are on the roadmap, not built.
What is the 7 second rule for a CV?+
It comes from an eye-tracking study by the jobs site Ladders, which in 2018 found recruiters spent an average of 7.4 seconds on a first scan of a resume. It measures the decision to keep reading rather than a full assessment, and it is the best argument for a consistent template: a client who always finds the current role, the dates and the availability line in the same place decides faster.
Is there a free CV formatter?+
Your first conversion on ConnectIQ is free with no card: a real export, not a preview, with every template and AI mode included. See the plans.
Start with the next CV
Prove it on your own worst CV.
Your first conversion is free, no card. Upload the messiest CV your desk received this week and see the record before you send the document.