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The CVs are usually strong underneath. They just don’t read the way a London or New York screener expects.
Tell us which you’re applying for. If it’s both, you get two scores.
Both get checked for numbers in your bullets, one page that a screening system can read, consistent dates and fonts, and interests specific enough that an interviewer would ask about them.
Which deal, and how big? “Built a five-year revenue model for a £40m healthcare acquisition” tells a banker you can do the analyst job.
Anyone can sign up, so screeners at the top banks don’t count it as work experience. Take it off the CV. Mention it in a cover letter if you want to.
Interviewers sometimes skip straight to this line. “Sunday league goalkeeper for six seasons” gives them something to ask about. “Football” doesn’t.
A chatbot polishes the wording. It doesn’t know what a bank or a consultancy screens for, so it can’t tell you what’s missing, and its rewrites now read as AI to the people screening you. Here’s the same line, both ways.
“Spearheaded comprehensive due diligence across diverse consumer and healthcare transactions, leveraging strong analytical skills to drive value.”
It sounds bigger. There’s still no deal, no size and nothing you produced, and words like “spearheaded” and “leveraging” now read as AI-written to a lot of screeners.
Which deal, and how big? A banker reads this line to see whether you could do the analyst job, and it doesn’t tell them.
Name one transaction, give its size, and say what you built for it.
We push back: what was the biggest deal you worked on, and what did you hand over at the end of it?
A bank screener reads every bullet for a deal, its size and what you produced, and looks for real interest in finance and technical skills you could defend. Consultancies look for leadership, problem-solving and drive. Your CV is scored against exactly that, and capped when something is missing, the way a screener would bin it.
A vague line gets a question back, not a polish. Which deal? How big? What did you hand over? Your answers turn a weak bullet into one a banker remembers, and we never invent a number for you.
Plain verbs, named deals, real numbers. “Built the revenue model for a £40m acquisition”, not “leveraged analytical skills to drive value”. Every rewrite is in the register screeners trust.
Screeners spot AI-written CVs fast now. We flag every “spearheaded”, “leveraging” and “dynamic”, and every em dash, and none of our rewrites use them. It was built by someone who worked at BCG and Bain, interviewed candidates for Bain, and has marked up 175+ CVs by hand.
Rejected from every investment banking spring week in their first round of applications.
Offered a place on every spring week they applied to next, then turned Bank of America into a summer internship.
A marketing internship and some tutoring on the CV, and no idea how consulting applications worked.
Offered a summer internship at BCG.
Internships in China at an energy company and in marketing. Rejected from every summer internship.
Offered a graduate job at Citi in London.
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A score and your top 5 comments in about a minute. Every comment quotes the line it’s about.
Send it over and I’ll rewrite it line by line, with tracked changes so you can see what I changed and why. You’ll have it back in 1 to 2 working days.
Request a human rewriteYou can, and it will tidy the wording. It won’t tell you that your CV has no clear example of leadership, which McKinsey, BCG and Bain screen for first, or that a bank won’t count your virtual internship. This review scores you against what the firms screen for, using criteria from someone who worked at BCG and Bain and interviewed candidates for Bain, and from more than 175 CVs marked up by hand.
No. There are versions for the US and for Chinese, Indian and Nigerian students. A good banking or consulting CV looks the same whichever office you apply to, so the standard doesn’t change. How we read your grades and your past employers does.
Undergraduate ones: spring weeks, summer internships and graduate roles at bulge-bracket and elite-boutique banks, MBB and the tier-2 consultancies.
Every comment quotes the line of your CV it’s about and tells you what to change.
We use it to write your review and delete it after 30 days.
Yes. Request a human rewrite and you’ll have it back in 1 to 2 working days.
No. We don’t sell internships, referrals or introductions, and we never will. We help you make your CV as strong as it can be. The firms make their own decisions.
Being a member isn’t leadership, and McKinsey drops CVs with no clear example of it. If you held any role, name it and say what happened because of you.