About us
My Perfect CV is a free résumé builder and résumé scoring tool operated by Briefly Recruiting, a recruiting practice based in Hattingen, Germany. We spend our working days reading applications for real vacancies, and we kept seeing the same thing: strong candidates being filtered out because of how their résumé was written and structured, not because of what they had actually achieved. This site is our attempt to close that gap for everyone, not just the candidates we happen to place.
What we offer
The site does two things. The résumé builder walks you through your work history, education, and skills, optionally reads your existing résumé or a job posting you paste in, and produces a clean, ATS-readable PDF plus a matching cover letter. The résumé rating tool takes a résumé you already have and scores it the way a recruiter would: spelling and grammar, structure, length, evidence of impact, readability, machine readability, and contact details. You get a score, a category-by-category breakdown, and the specific problem passages highlighted on your own document so you can fix them in minutes.
Who writes the content
Our guides, résumé examples, and landing pages are written in-house by the recruiting team at Briefly Recruiting, drawing on the applications, screening calls, and hiring manager feedback we handle every week. Where we make a claim about what works, it comes from what we have seen decide real hiring processes — not from generic advice recycled from other career sites. The scoring rubric behind the rating tool is the same checklist we use when we review a candidate's documents before submitting them to a client.
How the tool works
Everything happens in your browser session. You do not need an account, and your résumé is not stored on our servers after your session ends — reloading the page starts you from a blank slate. Document text is sent to a language model only for the length of the request that generates or scores your résumé, and it is never used to train models. The details are in our privacy policy.
How we fund it
The builder and the rating tool are free to use, with no trial, no paywall, and no upsell. We cover the cost of running the site through display advertising and through people who discover Briefly Recruiting here and later work with us on a search. Ads are clearly separated from our own content, and they never influence what our guides recommend or how the rating tool scores a document.
How the scoring was built
The rating tool grades nine areas and weights them the way a first screen actually works: spelling and grammar (20 points), structure (20), length (15), content and relevance (15), evidence of impact (10), readability (8), machine readability (6), design consistency (3) and contact details (3). The weights come from a simple observation — a recruiter rejects for sloppiness and confusion long before they reward elegance. A two-column layout is fine and costs you nothing; three or more columns, misaligned blocks, inconsistent typefaces and content locked inside complex tables are penalised because they break both human scanning and document parsing. Dates that run into the future beyond a month are flagged as errors, because in our experience they are almost always typos that a reader reads as carelessness.
Every deduction comes back with the passage it refers to, highlighted on your own document, so you can judge the advice rather than take it on trust. Where we are unsure, we say so instead of inventing a number.
Our editorial standards
- Every guide is written by a named author — currently Robert Dembinski — and carries the date it was last reviewed.
- We do not publish invented statistics. If we cannot stand behind a number from our own screening work or a source we can name, we describe the pattern qualitatively instead.
- Advertising is bought programmatically and is separated from our content. No advertiser sees our articles before publication or influences what the rating tool rewards.
- We correct rather than quietly delete. When a reader shows us something is wrong, we fix the passage and move the review date.
What this tool is not
It is not a job board, and it does not send your résumé anywhere. It cannot tell you whether a specific employer will invite you, because that depends on the shortlist you are competing against. And it is not a substitute for judgement: if you work in a field with its own conventions — academia, law, design portfolios, medicine — follow the convention of your field where it conflicts with our general advice, and treat the score as a check on clarity rather than a verdict on your career.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or feedback are genuinely welcome — we update the guides when readers tell us something is out of date. Write to us at info@brieflyrecruiting.com or use the contact form. Full publisher details are listed in the imprint.