Security CVs often bury real work under certification acronyms. Upload yours and see whether the incidents, controls and outcomes come through.
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The role sets the bar. An APM CV is read for curiosity and transferable skills; a Group PM CV is read for strategy and portfolio impact.
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The review checks your CV against these, section by section.
What we see most often, and what to do instead.
Certifications instead of experience
A row of acronyms says you passed exams. A line on an incident you handled says you can do the job.
Tool lists without context
Name what you did with Splunk or CrowdStrike, not just that you have used them.
No outcome
Security work prevents bad things, which makes it hard to measure. Use alerts reduced, time to detect, findings closed or audits passed.
The kind of rewrite every section of your review comes back with.
Monitored security alerts using SIEM tools.
Triaged 300+ SIEM alerts a week in Splunk and rewrote 40 detection rules, cutting false positives 55% and mean time to detect from 6 hours to 90 minutes.
Why it works: Volume, the improvement you made and two measured outcomes.
Use the ones you can back up with experience. Applicant tracking systems and recruiters both scan for them, and both notice a list with nothing behind it.
Yes. Choose the junior level and the review reads for labs, CTFs, home projects and transferable IT or compliance experience.
Yes. The reviewer reads for the evidence each kind of security role is hired on, from detection and response to risk, audit and compliance.
Yes. Every account gets two full reviews a month at no cost, with no card required. Each review covers six sections of your CV and you can download it as a PDF.
Your CV is stored privately against your account and read by our AI reviewer to produce your feedback. It is never shown to employers. Remove your photo, home address and personal phone number before uploading; the review does not need them.
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