Forge A CV

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Your experience, thoughtfully presented. Build your master CV, tailor it for your next opportunity and keep every detail in your control.

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Workspace

Your CV workspace

Keep your CV details and actual-size document preview side by side. The Details control opens or hides the reading panel.

Navigate every section

Search sections and individual entries, then jump straight to the relevant CV detail or wizard step.

Undo, redo and autosave

Keep changes reversible with independent undo and redo for each CV. Saved edits remain available when you return.

Master CV and tailored versions

Keep your full career history in a master CV and switch between independent versions using the searchable CV selector.

Names, industries and visibility

Rename tailored versions, categorise any CV by industry, and identify Public or Link only versions in the CV selector. Removing a version asks for confirmation.

Full-size preview

Open Full view at actual paper width, scroll through the continuous document and return to its top without changing the CV.

Editing

Contact details and professional links

Edit your name, headline, email, phone, location, website, LinkedIn, GitHub and portfolio. Locations support place suggestions; every value remains manually editable.

Professional summary

Write your own summary or use optional AI drafting and rewriting. Your wording stays editable.

Work experience

Keep roles, employers, locations, dates and achievements together. Expand entries, add roles and reorder your career history.

Whole-entry and individual editing

Edit a complete job in one popup or open individual fields. Save commits the draft; Cancel discards it. Entry drafts have their own undo and redo.

Achievements and list controls

Add, edit, reorder or remove individual achievements. The same list controls apply across CV sections; deletion always asks for confirmation.

Dates and locations

Type dates or choose them from a calendar, use Present for current roles, and clear fields without losing control of your draft.

Education

Include qualifications, institutions, locations, dates, grades, honours and supporting details.

Projects

Present project names, your role, links, dates and descriptions as independently editable entries.

Skills

Add capability phrases individually, reorder them and optionally refine their wording with AI.

Certifications

Keep certification names, issuer and date details editable, with the same add, edit and reorder controls.

Spoken languages

Choose from a searchable language list and set your proficiency for each language.

Awards

Add recognition with the award name, awarding organisation, date and details.

Volunteering

Record your role, organisation, location, dates and contribution.

Publications

Include titles, publishers, dates and publication links.

Professional memberships

Add and organise your professional associations as individual entries.

Interests

Include relevant interests without making them mandatory or filling your CV with placeholders.

Wizard review

Move through all fourteen steps, jump directly to sections and review the document before applying changes.

AI & imports

Import and combine CVs

Upload multiple PDF, Word or text CVs into one master. Extraction shows progress, removes duplicate facts and presents conflicting dates for review before you apply the result.

Update one job from a file

Upload supporting evidence for one selected role. Review the extracted additions without rewriting unrelated jobs or replacing your whole CV.

Individual AI rewriting

Choose stronger, shorter, longer, more technical or simpler wording, or add your own instructions. Review additions and removals with Accept, Reject and Retry.

Section-level AI drafting

Write with AI works on the selected wizard section. Adding a job stays scoped to that addition rather than rewriting your career history.

Tailor for a job or industry

Select an industry, job title or job description independently. Set the tone and generate a separate CV while keeping your master intact.

Paste a vacancy or use its link

Paste job requirements or use Job link to read a posting into editable text before generating a matching CV and letter.

Protected master and relevant experience

Tailoring selects relevant roles from your full history. Whole-CV AI edits are available on tailored versions only; your master keeps per-field AI controls.

Review master updates for other versions

After changing the master, choose which tailored CVs receive the changes. Review the proposed updates and preserve independent version edits.

Translate into 40 languages

Choose source and destination languages, review the translation and save it as a separate CV. The original document stays unchanged.

Design & history

Eighteen professional designs

Browse nine standard and nine infographic designs, alternating in the collection. Switch designs without changing your CV facts.

Vibrant and professional colours

Choose from all 48 predefined colours or commit your own custom colour. Bright and dark palettes are both included.

Paper widths

Choose A4, Letter, Legal or A3. Your actual-size preview and continuous PDF share the selected paper width.

Portrait upload and positioning

Upload a portrait and position its crop horizontally and vertically. Monogram, Classic, Portfolio and Atelier support photos; removal asks for confirmation.

Saved change history

Browse each CV’s saved revisions, see highlighted differences and restore an earlier state. Restoring remains undoable.

Letters & references

Cover-letter preview

Every CV starts with an editable letter. Open its professional preview, copy the text or download the letter as a text file.

Edit and regenerate your letter

Edit the letter in its own draft with undo and redo. AI regeneration accepts instructions and presents a proposal before you save.

Private referee library

Keep referee names, employers, roles, contact details and relationships in a private library. Select and reorder references separately for each CV.

Extract references from files

Upload references for extraction with visible progress, review the contacts and save them to your library. Master imports can collect referees too.

Choose whether references appear

Opt in to show selected references on your CV and public link. Email can omit them, include them in the CV or attach a separate references PDF.

Sharing & export

Email your application

Set recipient, subject and message, preview the CV and optional cover letter, then choose how references are attached.

Continuous PDF downloads

Download the CV as one continuous page at your chosen width. Email attachments also support continuous letter and reference PDFs.

Custom CV address and public listing

Use CV link in Options to check an address and suggestions, enable public access, and opt in to employer discovery separately. Copy, open or remove the link with confirmation.

Messages, notifications and career timeline

Open account messages, activity notifications and your career timeline from the builder’s account navigation. Employer conversations stay in the platform.

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