Kandiq's job search tools

From the CV to the employer's reply, Kandiq's job search tools cover each step:

Import your CV as a PDF or Word file, use your LinkedIn PDF export, or start on a blank page. Once you paste the job advert, every suggestion borrows its wording and sits beside your own line, so you decide what changes. If a bullet needs a figure, the AI asks you for the real one. Rewriting the whole CV for one advert costs 5 AI credits. Writing and editing cost nothing; downloading as PDF or Word is part of Kandiq Pro. What it doesn't do: translate your CV into another language.

Employer portals and agencies often parse CVs with an applicant tracking system (ATS), then search them by keyword. If parsing fails, a good CV never comes up. The ATS CV checker runs 12 checks on your file: can your contact details be extracted, are the section headings standard, is the layout a single column, do the dates show month and year, is the PDF real text, and is there a photo (UK employers don't expect one). No AI sets the score, so uploading the same file twice gives the same number. What it doesn't do: imitate the software of one particular employer.

The generator only uses facts from the CV you attach, matched against the advert you paste. A rule-based review (no AI) then flags what a recruiter would notice: excess length, advert terms left out, no employer named, no figure, a leftover placeholder. A letter costs 2 AI credits. You get 5 when you create an account, and 20 more each month with Kandiq Pro. What it doesn't do: explain why this employer matters to you. Add that yourself.

Leave the photo off your CV, but give LinkedIn a proper one. Upload a well-lit selfie and pick one of four styles: neutral studio, office, formal or outdoor. About a minute later, the best headshots are ready. Your selfie goes to our AI provider for the generation and isn't stored afterwards. Kandiq Pro includes 3 headshots per subscription month. What it doesn't do: retouch the selfie. Each headshot is a new image, so choose the one that still looks like you.

Choose a CV and an advert, and the mock interview puts 9 questions to you, one at a time, the way a recruiter would. Type your answers or speak them; each one gets feedback, and the session closes with a scored report. Kandiq Pro includes 2 sessions a month.

For the job application tracker, a link to the advert is enough: the card fills itself in, and you drag it across five columns (Saved, Applied, Interview, Offer, Closed). It reminds you when an application is due a follow-up, notices when the advert has been taken down and shows, without AI, what share of the advert your CV covers. What it doesn't do: send applications or read your emails.

Kandiq isn't a job board. Adverts are on the government's Find a job service (England, Scotland and Wales, with a separate service for Northern Ireland), LinkedIn, Indeed, Reed, NHS Jobs and employers' careers pages. The National Careers Service offers free careers advice. Then use Kandiq's CV tools to fit each application to its advert.