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CV Check

Built by Northernlight AI

Upload the CV you have now. It works through it against published UK role standards and asks you directly for anything it is missing — nothing goes in until you have answered.

Northernlight AI is a free tool from a TUF partner team. When you are done you can download the result as a PDF or a Word file.

Check my CV for free

External site, in English, and it needs an email sign-up. You can download or delete your data at any time.

The CV review screen: suggestions on the left, a live CV preview on the right
What makes it different

How this differs from asking an AI to rewrite your CV

The difference is not the prose. It is that this one admits what it does not know.

The screens below come from the demo CV published by Northernlight AI. Every detail in it is anonymised.

01

It asks you for what is missing

When it needs a job title, an employment type or a concrete contribution, it puts the question to you. Anything you do not answer stays blank — it will not guess a plausible-looking answer and write it in.

The tool asking the user what they personally built or shipped in their current role
02

Checked against published UK role standards

It works out your role direction from the CV itself, then compares it line by line against the published UK standard for that role, flagging skills you have used but never wrote down. Every item links to the standard it came from.

The tool listing a skill from an official role standard that the CV does not evidence
03

You can see what application systems read

It lays out the plain text an employer system actually reads, and tells you how many lines never made it through. Layout quietly swallowing a whole section is a real failure mode, and normally an invisible one.

The tool showing the machine-readable plain text extracted from the CV
What you get

What it does for you

Review one change at a time

Every suggestion is a card you accept or decline, with a live preview of the result beside it and a history you can go back through.

Layout check

Whether you are over two pages, whether recent roles come first, whether any section is hard to scan — listed out one by one.

It holds the export back

If imported content is still missing, the final export stays locked, so you do not send out a half-finished CV.

Download the finished CV

Export straight to PDF or Word, in a shape application systems can still read.

Job matching (optional)

You can let recruiters see your professional profile; whether they get your contact details stays your call. Filters include visa sponsorship and a minimum salary.

Your data stays yours

Download your full record or delete the account whenever you want. Your original CV and free-text answers are not used to train models.

Before you start

Worth knowing first

  • The whole interface is in English.
  • You need an email sign-up to use it. It is free at the moment.
  • This is an independent product from a partner team, not a TUF service. Contact them directly with any problems.

Ready to start applying?

Ten minutes letting it read through your CV beats an employer finding the problem for you.

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