Abintegro’s “AI” CV review tool CV360 has scanned almost 115,000 CVs and Resumes since its launch in October 2019 and is transforming the standard of student and recent graduate CVs to increase their chances of securing job interviews.

Feedback from university careers teams has been incredibly positive, with many stating that a key benefit of CV360 is freeing up staff time so they can focus on higher value CV feedback to students.

“We believe CV360 has been a game changer in our offer to ensure students can produce high quality CVs before accessing a final person mediated review. We love it!”

University of Bristol Careers Team Read the full case study here

“The CV360 tool is a brilliant enhancement to Lancaster’s employability service.”

Lancaster University Careers Team

“CV360 helps us manage our CV checking workload, directing students to CV360 identifies initial areas for improvement that students can action. The facility to then submit pre-checked CVs to the Marjon Futures team means we can spend time making sure the CV is tailored and researched to meet the individual requirements of the job being applied for.”

Plymouth Marjon University Careers Team

Commenting on the recent milestone, Abintegro’s Managing Director, Tony Heard, said:

“We are thrilled by the extent to which CV360 is playing such a vital role within university careers teams in helping thousands of students create high quality CVs before they meet with a careers advisor or apply for a job – and even more so at a time when 1-2-1 support is in high demand.

We hope the insight gathered from CV360 will further support careers teams in helping ensure every student is in the strongest possible position for securing the all-important graduate outcome.”

Latest CV360 Insights

Six months since its launch, the latest insight from CV360 shows:

Almost 115,000 CV scans have been made by 64 universities and colleges in the UK and Australia, with over 50% of these institutions having 1,000+ scans each
40,000 students and recent graduates have used CV360 on average 3 scans each to improve their CV quality
CV quality has increased by an average of 10%, meaning students are correcting 6 material issues on their document prior to use in careers team reviews or job applications

Top 10 universities utilising CV360

Based on the total number of scans, the top 10 universities currently utilising CV360 with their students are:

1. Manchester Metropolitan University

2. Lancaster University

3. Nottingham Trent University

4. University of Hertfordshire

5. University of Bristol

6. University of Essex

7. Macquarie University

8. Kingston University

9. University of Edinburgh

10. University of Central Lancaster

Employability skills evidenced on student CVs

The latest insight shows that the employability skills most and least evidenced by students on their CVs are:

Most evidenced

Communication & Interpersonal Skills
Teamworking & Collaboration
Leadership & Management

Least evidenced

Self-management & Initiative
IT Skills & Digital Literacy
Commercial & Customer Awareness

Top CV strengths and development areas

CV360 offers valuable insight into the areas of CV development that students are most confident about. The data shows they are particularly good at:

Providing evidence of at least one employability skill (92% of scans)

Writing clearly with minimal “filler” words and phrases (90% of scans)

Structuring it into recognisable sections, so easily processed by ATS (87% of scans)

On the other hand, the insight reveals that students tend to struggle most with:

Getting the CV length in the correct range (66% of scans)

Including the right professional contact details e.g. LinkedIn profile (65% of scans)

Avoiding the use of long repeated phrases (49% of scans)

What students think of CV360

Since the launch of CV360, student feedback has been incredibly positive, with over 5,000 students rating CV360 as 4.43 out of 5 for its helpfulness.

“CV360 was a great way of getting feedback on my CV before I came in for my first appointment. It helped me to get my CV ready for the appointment.” Hertfordshire University student

“The CV tool really built my confidence in producing a first-class CV.” Bucks New University student

“I didn’t realise that Industry used anything like this and we’re really lucky to have this so that we can put our CVs through it.” Fashion Retail Academy student

Case study

Click here to find out how the University of Bristol has made CV360 a core part of their careers service’s support process for all students.

About CV360

CV360 scores a CV against over 50 checks that commonly trip up an ATS and frustrate a hiring manager, and provides students with detailed feedback on file, presentation, structure, content, skills, and language– including unique checks such as time-to-read, average sentence length, employability skills and skills dominance. All of these are designed to free up time for career support services to focus on higher-value CV support. Watch our short explainer video.