Careersy AI

The AI career coach for ANZ tech pros too experienced to be ghosted.

An agentic job search and career platform that works out your direction, matches you to tech roles that fit, fixes what is holding your CV back and prepares you for every interview round. Built on 13 years of ANZ tech recruiting, from the recruiter side.

Free score, no account. The breakdown needs one, no card.
Built by a principal ANZ tech recruiter who has read 26,000+ resumes

A sample of the app, not the live product. Click around, or type a question to see which mode picks it up.

AI Discoverability
Recruiters search LinkedIn with AI now. Would I even come up for Staff platform roles in Sydney? Here is my profile.
  • 1 earlier step done
  • Thinking about your question...

Read your profile the way those searches do, against 14 live Staff platform ads in Sydney. Statuses per area and the rewrites, not a score. Whether one recruiter's search returns you is the one thing I cannot test from a profile.

Staff Engineer, platform

AI Discoverability

You are a well-evidenced platform engineer, and the thing holding you back is discovery: your headline leads with a stack rather than the words recruiters filter on. Once someone reads you, the evidence is convincing; the risk is that fewer of the right people ever open the page.

Where you stand· 5

We have not searched the web for your name. Graded from your CV, not from your live LinkedIn profile. 2 rows here cannot be judged from a profile alone, and each one tells you what it would need.

Found by recruiters and their AI tools

Your current title, Senior Backend Engineer, is what recruiters search, so that role enters the pool cleanly. The problem is the headline: it opens with the stack (Go, Kubernetes, Postgres) rather than the market’s phrasing for the level you want, and “platform” appears nowhere in the first line. Location and skills are solid, so this is a wording fix, not a scope problem.

Needs workKeyword thin

Read from your own words: Senior Backend Engineer | Go, Kubernetes, Postgres | Payments

Found by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok

Recruiters and AI sourcing tools do not look for you by name. They search for a role: a title, a location, the skills an ad asks for. Then they read whoever comes back. That is the search this report is built around. Someone typing your name into an assistant is a different question, and the one thing here not checked.

Cannot check from a profile

Proving fit

This is your real strength. The experience section binds team size, platform scale and outcomes to specific roles: 16 engineers across two squads, a platform serving 900+ internal users. These are bounded, role-anchored facts, exactly what a sourcing tool needs to rank you above someone who only lists skills.

StrongProven

Read from your own words: Scaled the platform team from 8 to 16 engineers while owning the roadmap for 900+ internal users.

Inside LinkedIn

This read is from your CV, not your live LinkedIn, so it cannot see whether Open to Work is on, whether you share a resume with recruiters, or when you last updated the profile. Those levers only move things inside LinkedIn Recruiter. Add your LinkedIn export in your profile and the next report reads the real thing.

Cannot check from a profile

Say it directly

You state Australian citizen, the one screening fact handled well, since work rights are a common early filter for Sydney roles. Not on the page: notice period, salary expectation, or what is motivating a move. No profile edit surfaces those. Say them to a recruiter or in your outreach.

Needs workProven

Read from your own words: Sydney, NSW | Australian citizen

Rewrites you can paste in· 2

Each one is built only from facts you already gave us. Copy it and paste it where the card says.

1Your LinkedIn headline

Staff-level Backend Engineer | Payments Platform, Distributed Systems | Go, Kubernetes, Postgres | Led 16 Engineers, 900+ User Platform

Copy your headline

2A bullet in your LinkedIn experience

Scaled the payments platform team from 8 to 16 engineers across two squads, owning the roadmap for a platform used by 900+ internal users.

Copy bullet 1

Inside LinkedIn Recruiter: settings a recruiter filters on

6 ⌄

What the ads ask for, checked against you

7 ⌄

Words these ads use that yours does not

8 ⌄

Lines a recruiter would quote

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Live roles this read is measured against

12 ⌄

The smallest change that moves this

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The evidence is there; the headline is what hides it. Two lines to change: lead with the words the ads filter on, then the stack. Want me to draft the headline and the About opening in your words?

Fix it with the coachRe-check profile
AI Discoverability

Built from the recruiter side, and on 300+ tech job offers that Careersy Coaching clients accepted.

Why it answers differently

  • Cites your own CV whenever the answer draws on it.
  • Picks the mode and says why.
  • On plans with memory, it remembers you, and you control what it keeps.
How the work connects

One step hands into the next.

A direction becomes a search. A search becomes a saved role. A saved role becomes the research before the application, and the plan for the AI skills the ads on your board ask for. You take each step. Careersy carries what it learned into the next one.

Say what you are good at. Role Discovery lands on two or three directions, each badged strong or stretch against your own history, with the titles companies actually use.

Role Discovery

Role discovery · Staff Engineer, platform track

3 role directions: 2 strong matches, 1 a stretch.

Staff or Principal Engineer, platform track · Strong match· 6

Your CV already shows the evidence for this direction.

Why this fits

This is the direct extension of what you are already doing, with the title and mandate to match. You have set the standards two squads work to and acted as the design gate their changes pass through, which is the exact evidence a panel for this title screens for.

Your own words

“Prefers hands-on architecture and backend engineering work over people management.”

Staff Engineer, Platform

Principal Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer

Head of Engineering, startup scale · Strong match· 5

Your CV already shows the evidence for this direction.

AI engineering track · Stretch· 5

Stretch means one thing recruiters look for is thin here. The note below names it.

Sample data. The handoffs are the app’s own; the person, companies and roles are invented.

Eli Gunduz, founder of Careersy

Eli Gunduz, founder. 13 years inside ANZ tech recruitment; Careersy Coaching since 2021.

Whose judgement this is

The method came from the room you are not in.

For thirteen years Eli sat on the hiring side of ANZ tech, reading the CVs and running the debriefs where a shortlist gets decided. Since 2021 he has coached tech professionals through the same process in person, as Careersy Coaching. Careersy AI is that practice written into software.

You saw one of its rules above. When a CV line is vague, the coach does not invent a better one. It asks you for the number, because a line you cannot defend in the interview is worse than the vague one. That is the same question Eli asks across a table.

“Understanding how Applicant Tracking Systems work, and hearing how quickly recruiters often make their initial assessment of a CV completely changed the way I thought about presenting my experience. It helped me stop treating my CV as a comprehensive career history and start thinking about it as something designed to communicate the right information very quickly … Eli combines a deep understanding of recruitment and career strategy with the ability to adapt that knowledge to the individual in front of him.”
David Vandenberg, a Careersy Coaching client, September 2026. Coaching with Eli in person, not Careersy AI. Read it on the wall.

Careersy AI

The method, self-serve, any hour. Thirteen modes, your documents, a Library that keeps the work. Starts free.

Careersy Coaching

Eli in person, as a separate service with its own sessions and pricing. No Careersy AI plan includes it.

Open Careersy Coaching

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WHAT IT DOES

Four things it does, from the free score to the offer.

The free score and three of the thirteen modes. You say what is going on; Careersy works out where to look first. All thirteen below.

1.0 · Get seen

See what a recruiter sees in your CV.

Paste your CV, no job ad. In under a minute you get a score out of 100 and the five things it reads, each with the question it asks of the page. The score is free with no account. The breakdown of which lines lost the points needs one.

CV Score

CV Score · 64 of 100

Your CV on its own, no job ad

Most of the work is on the page; the numbers are not.

Five things it reads· 5

What each one asks of the page. The lowest row is where a rewrite pays off first.

Scope and scale14/20

Does a reader learn how big the work was?

Impact over activity11/20

Does each line say what changed, or only what you were responsible for?

Numbers that mean something9/20

Do your numbers land, or are they decoration?

Positioning clarity16/20

After the top third, is it clear what you should be hired to do next?

Readability14/20

Can a machine and a human both parse the page?

The breakdown

Which of your lines lost the points, and the fix for each.

Add your email to read it. That creates your free account, no card, and starts you with 10 free messages on us.

Five things read. The lowest one is where to start.

2.0 · Get selected

Tell it what keeps happening. It names what is in the way.

Describe your search in your own words. Careersy asks for the evidence a recruiter would want, then names the likely blocker: the roles you pick, how you come across, or the CV itself.

Coaching
80 applications in three months. Two screening calls, then silence.
  • 1 earlier step done
  • Thinking about your question...
Blocker found · positioning

It is how you come across, not how many you send.

Your last two roles were senior. Your headline and first line read mid-level, so you are being judged against the wrong bar.

Open CV Canvas
One question asked, then the blocker named.

3.0 · Get through the room

Know what the interview panel is really judging.

Tell it the role and the round. Careersy lays out what the panel is scoring at that level, then works through your stories with you until each one is ready.

Interview Preparation
Panel interview Thursday for a Staff role. What are they actually scoring?
  • 1 earlier step done
  • Thinking about your question...

Not your answers. Three things underneath them:

What the panel is scoring
JudgmentThe call you made when the brief was wrong, and why.
OwnershipWhat was yours to carry, and what you carried anyway.
LevelWhether you think in teams and quarters, not in tickets.
Build my stories
What the panel scores at that level, then your stories.

4.0 · Get paid properly

Know if the offer is fair before you reply.

Bring the offer, or the role you are about to apply for. Careersy gives you the AU/NZ band for your level and city, shows where the job is bigger than the title, and writes the sentence you send back.

Compensation & Negotiation
The offer came through for a Senior role in Sydney. Is it fair, and how do I ask for more?
  • 1 earlier step done
  • Thinking about your question...
Where the offer sits
Median
75th
Your offer
Offer read
BaseBetween the median and the 75th for the title. Fair, not a ceiling.
TitleSenior, for Staff-level scope. It prices you as if the last three years did not happen.
The askBase first, it compounds. One number tied to your own outcomes, drafted below.
Draft the counter
The band for your level and city, then the sentence you send.

Also: the follow-up that gets answered, and the roles you did not know to search for. Every mode, shown.

Start with a specialist, not a blank chat.

Say what is going on in your own words. Careersy picks the right mode and starts there.

ATS Score

Match to this job ad: 82 / 100. Six things the ad asks for that your CV never says.

"Would I even get shortlisted?"

CV Enhancement

Headline rewritten. Your staff-level work now sits in the first line.

"Why does my CV read junior?"

Career Direction

Three paths fit you. One works with your constraints. Start there.

"What should I target next?"

Interview Preparation

Thursday's panel will judge your judgment. Two stories to sharpen first.

"What are they actually testing?"

Compensation & Negotiation

The job is bigger than the title. Here is the one-line ask.

"Is this offer fair?"

Job Search

Nine live roles fit your level and city. Three are worth your hour.

"Where are the roles that fit me?"

Thirteen specialists · one coach behind them

CoachingCareer DirectionAI FluencyCV EnhancementRole DiscoveryATS ScoreCompensation & NegotiationDraft MessageCreate LinkedIn PostCompany TargetingAI DiscoverabilityJob SearchInterview Preparation
The June 2026 benchmark

About 90%

That is how useful Careersy's answers were for an ANZ job seeker, scored against one rubric. The free versions of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini scored 63 to 65% on the same questions.

  • Careersy AIabout 90%
  • Claude (free)65%
  • ChatGPT (free)63%
  • Gemini (free)63%

The gap was not the facts. It was knowing the ANZ market and taking a position instead of returning a list.

One rater, a fixed rubric, six advice questions and three capability tests, 29 to 30 June 2026. Not a peer-reviewed study.

See how we test
CAREERSY AI CUSTOMER RESULTS

Same experience. Read differently.

Individual experiences. Outcomes depend on role, market, experience, constraints and execution.

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Where to start

Three ways in. Pick the one that fits today.

Start with the free score, a direction, or your AI skills. A free account comes with 10 messages on us, no card.

Score my CV

Paste your CV, no job ad. A score out of 100 and five things it reads, with the question each one asks. The breakdown of which lines lost the points needs a free account.

Score my CV

Opens the free score. No account for the score.

Find a direction

Not sure what to target. Role Discovery reads your history and lands on two or three directions, each badged strong or stretch, with the titles companies actually use.

Start with direction

Opens signup. Pick Role Discovery once you are in; it is reachable on the free messages.

Get fluent with AI

The AI skills line is turning up in more ads. AI Fluency asks how you actually use AI, places you on a four-rung ladder in your own words, and saves a 30 and 90 day roadmap you tick off as you go.

Start with AI Fluency

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PRICING

Start free. Choose the pace when you know what you need.

Every plan includes every coaching mode. Plans differ by monthly credits, and Deep Reasoning is Power only. Start with 10 free messages on us, then choose the pace.

You ask. We answer straight.

FAQs

FREE GUIDE

Not ready to start yet?

Learn why the job search feels so broken, and what you can do about it.

What 13 years on the hiring side actually taught Eli, as a free practical guide. You will also get one short email a day for six days, then The Debrief every other week. Unsubscribe any time.

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IC to leadership
Senior Engineers
Engineering Managers
Architects
Tech Leads
CTOs in transition
Product Managers
Returning professionals
Visa holders
Career pivoters
IC to leadership
Your next move

Start with what is happening.

You do not need the perfect prompt or the right mode. Bring the silence, the interview, the role, the offer or the decision in front of you.

Score my CV

The score is free without an account. Built by a principal ANZ tech recruiter.