About Innovate CV

The CV and associated recruitment process has remained static for too many years, which has led to dissatisfaction amongst all involved; after all there is only so much a black and white ‘Word’ document can achieve.

Innovate CV, as the name suggests, brings creativity and innovation to the recruitment industry, turning the world of the paper CV (or the word document attachment) on its head, Innovate CV is making creating, editing, distributing and tracking a CV a simple and straightforward process.

Quite simply, Innovate CV is the future CV, and offers dynamic results to the candidate, the recruitment consultant and the employer.

• For candidates: Innovate CV is an interactive, new generation CV, that appropriately portrays a candidates credentials and achievements.
  • Candidates are encouraged to demonstrate their personality, through the various functionalities (such as videos, space to upload samples of work, certificates, qualifications, recommendations etc)
  • Innovate CV assists candidates in developing their CV by offering a standardised template which maintains a certain level of uniformity
  • Advice on wording to include in an Innovate CV is offered to candidates, as well as highlighting any oversights such as career gaps and overlaps.
  • A candidate only has to enter their information once which forms the “Master CV”, and then can decide what to include and leave out in each unique version
  • Candidates are able to convert an existing Word CV into an Innovate CV in seconds
  • Each Innovate CV created has a unique URL, and can be sent to the appropriate consultant directly from the Innovate CV system
  • The Career & Training Centre helps candidates gain an understanding as to skills and knowledge they lack, and provides the opportunity to enrol on appropriate on-line interactive courses (over 100 on offer) to fill these gaps. All courses can be taken at the learners own pace, and these newly acquired skills can be displayed on their Innovate CV instantly
  • The Innovate CV TV series of business leader interviews on recruitment and career advice, is perfect for any candidate seeking advice on how to get their desired job.
• For recruitment agencies: Innovate CV offers increased functionality, transparency and consistency to enable worthwhile and meaningful comparisons, saving valuable time for the consultant. The Innovate CV system integrates easily with recruitment agencies existing systems, and this seamless and quick integration will allow consultants to reap the many Innovate CV benefits including:
  • Enhanced tracking resulting in greater transparency
  • Clear candidate “ownership”
  • Totally secure system, that is completely not searchable
  • Streamlined processes saving consultants time
  • Easy to manage vast number of CVs
  • Creation of software in agencies own branding
  • Reduction in interview and screening time
  • A standard layout and template for each Innovate CV. This uniformity and clearly defined profile, will save recruitment consultants valuable time, and make their search more effective in matching an Innovate CV to the most appropriate role, as well as looking polished and consistent in front of clients
  • Innovate CVs are easy to adapt and real-time, so no longer will numerous emails back and forth between candidate, recruitment consultant, and client be necessary
  • The Recruiters CV Organiser provides tracking, statistics, and filter options to consultants.
• For employers: Innovate CV is the tool that will provide employers with a faster and more informed way of finding the right person for the job. The wasted time once spent by senior management in interviews with candidates who are clearly not right for the job, will become a thing of the past.

Modern technology has changed and continues to change the way we operate every day, making us more efficient in everything we do. It’s now time to welcome and embrace the future CV.

Innovate CV. The way forward for the recruitment process.