I applied for 100+ jobs and heard almost nothing back.

Not rejections. Silence. A rejection at least tells you something happened. Silence just leaves you refreshing an inbox and slowly deciding the problem must be you.

That is where CVShark came from. I work in IT in Australia, I am still looking, and at some point I stopped rewriting my resume on instinct and went to find out what actually happens to an application after you press send.

What I found out

The first thing is the one nobody says out loud: it is not that you are not trying. Hundreds of people apply for a single role now. Nobody on the other side reads all of them properly, so they filter, sort and skim. Anything that makes your application hard to read, hard to match, or unclear on a hard requirement quietly costs you a place you would otherwise have had.

The second thing is why it got worse. AI made it trivial to fire off a plausible application in seconds, so the volume exploded, so employers filter harder and faster. In IT it landed first and hardest. If you feel like you got worse at this in the last couple of years, you probably did not. The channel flooded.

And the third thing is the useful one. Most of what sinks an application is small, invisible to you, and completely fixable. Nobody tells you which parts. That is the gap this fills.

I wrote the long version of all of that up in the guides, including the Australian conventions that quietly cost people interviews. Free, no account, nothing to buy.

Why it is built for Australia

Most resume tools are American, and the advice does not travel. Applying here has its own conventions, and getting them wrong is expensive:

• Suburb and state, not your street address. A full address reads as dated, and there is no reason to hand it to a stranger.
• A clear work rights line. This one is load-bearing here. If an employer cannot tell at a glance whether they can hire you, the ambiguity resolves against you, every time. It is one of the most common reasons a strong application goes nowhere, and one of the easiest to fix.
• No photo. Normal in parts of Europe, wrong here.
• Australian spelling. Organised, not organized. Small, and it is noticed.

Australian hiring runs on SEEK, LinkedIn, government portals and enterprise systems like PageUp, JobAdder and Workday. CVShark is built around those, not adapted from something built for somewhere else.

What this will never do

Worth being direct about, because both are things I could build and sell.

• It will not help you lie. Tailoring means leading with the true things that matter for this role, in the language this employer uses. It never means claiming something you cannot do. The scoring engine actively penalises keyword stuffing, including in CVShark's own older output. If you are genuinely missing something, it says so instead of papering over it.
• It will not help you spray. No bulk apply, no one click blast at fifty jobs. Mass applying is what flooded the channel in the first place, and a tool that speeds it up makes its own users worse off while charging them for it. This is built to make one application genuinely good, not a hundred applications faster.

Where this is up to

CVShark is new, built in 2026, and I am still job hunting while I build it. The check is free and needs no account, because someone months into a search with no income is exactly who needs it most and can least afford it. That part is not going behind a paywall.

You are early, which means the roadmap moves fast and what you tell me genuinely changes it. Tell me what is missing, or what did not work. I read all of it.

HFounder, CVShark