Operating procedures, control frameworks and practical checklists for recruitment teams. Written to be used — not to fill a search-results page.
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.
A practical buying guide for recruitment agencies comparing CV formatting software in 2026: the capabilities that matter, the pricing models to understand, and the questions to ask before you commit.
The full candidate presentation workflow for recruitment agencies: intake and verification, the branded submission pack, anonymisation, format choice and the hand-off — with checklists you can adopt.
A step-by-step process for turning a candidate's own CV into a branded client submission: what to restructure, what to leave alone, and the checks to run before it leaves your agency.
What a branded candidate CV template needs to survive client hand-off and ATS parsing: structure, typography, branding placement and the design choices that quietly cost you placements.
A practical guide to anonymising candidate CVs for client submission: which identifiers matter, where automated redaction reliably fails, and how to check a document before it leaves your agency.
When to send a candidate CV as PDF and when the client needs Word, how each format survives ATS parsing, and why the file type argument usually hides a different problem.
Measured timings for manual versus automated candidate CV formatting, how to calculate what reformatting costs your agency, and which parts of the workflow automation genuinely removes.
How UK GDPR applies to candidate CVs in a recruitment agency: lawful basis, data minimisation in client submissions, retention, and the questions to ask any CV formatting tool that processes candidate data.
How to format an entire candidate shortlist in one pass, what parallel processing actually does to turnaround time, and why batch submissions change the shape of a recruiter's day.
How to reproduce a branded Word or PDF candidate CV template in a formatting tool: which design details matter, which quietly break, and how to check the result before rolling it out.
Real before-and-after examples of AI CV rewriting failures — invented figures, misattributed budgets, upgraded scope words and phantom employers — and the check that catches each one.
Speccing is the oldest business development move in agency recruitment: send a strong candidate to a client who has not asked for one. Here is how it works, why it fails, what the Conduct Regulations and UK GDPR say about it, and how to build a spec profile that protects the candidate.
A CV cover note is the short message that travels with a CV. Here is what to put in one, four templates you can copy, and the cover note a recruiter writes when sending a candidate to a client.
Agency software is not one product. It is a recruitment CRM at the centre, then job boards, multiposting, CV formatting, compliance checks and back office around it. This guide maps the UK stack, names real vendors in each layer with prices where they publish them, and is honest about where a CV formatting tool like ours fits.
Every ATS, CRM and CV formatting tool starts with the same step: a CV parser turns a document into fields. This is how CV parsing actually works, the layouts that defeat it, why a blank field is better than a confident wrong one, and how to test parsing software on your own CVs.
Ten specific, checkable CV mistakes, each with the test that tells you whether yours has it. No vague advice, no invented statistics.
Applicant tracking systems parse your CV into fields. Here is what survives that process, what disappears without warning, and how to see it for your own document.
Reverse-chronological, functional, hybrid, academic and one-page. What each format is genuinely for, when it backfires, and how to pick.
AI rewriting fails in specific, recognisable ways. Here are the six, why each one is dangerous at interview, and how to keep the benefit without the risk.
What recruitment consultants notice, reformat and quietly fix before sending a CV to their client — and what that tells you about your own.
The UK CV formatting rules that survive a recruiter's reformat: fonts, margins, headings, dates, length and file type, each with an example and a quick test you can run on your own document.
The same candidate set in eight CV layouts, from a plain single column to a curved banner. Who each layout suits, how to choose a good CV layout for the UK, and which layouts software reads most reliably.
Two sides of A4 is the UK default, but not the whole answer. CV length by career stage, when one page or three is right, how long the personal statement should be, and the order to cut things when you are over.
An ATS-friendly CV template is one whose text comes out in the order you wrote it. Here is what that means in practice, which layout families carry risk, and a quick check for any template you are considering.
Published UK prices for professional CV writing, read on 10 October 2026, set against free and low-cost AI rewriters. What each one is genuinely good at, where each goes wrong, and how to decide.
Both directions between LinkedIn and a CV: getting a CV out of a LinkedIn profile (and why the export is not yet a CV), and putting your CV onto LinkedIn safely. Includes what recruiters should do when a candidate only has a profile.
The skills to put on a CV are the ones the job asks for and your experience can prove. Here is how to choose them, where a CV skills section belongs, example lists by role, and the mistakes recruiters delete on sight.
Over thirty personal statement CV examples, from school leaver to director and across fourteen jobs, plus a simple formula for writing your own CV summary, how long it should be, and the phrases recruiters skip.
In the UK a CV and a resume are the same thing and everyone says CV. In the US they are different documents. Here is the difference between a CV and a resume in each market, what CV stands for, and how to turn one into the other.
A sourced comparison of ConnectIQ and HireAra for recruitment agencies — every price read from HireAra's own pricing page on 29 August 2026, the per-CV cost worked out at each tier, and an honest list of the things HireAra does that we do not.
An honest comparison of ConnectIQ and Allsorter for recruitment agencies. Allsorter's pricing page publishes no figure and requires a quote, so this page compares what can actually be verified — and says plainly where Allsorter is the stronger choice.
Agency-side guide to testing whether a CV formatting vendor's no-fabrication claim survives contact with a real CV — seven concrete tests, what a good answer looks like, and the questions that separate a checked guarantee from a well-written prompt.
