Name: Personal Job Coach
Price: 19.99 EUR
Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Author: Personal Job Coach

Question 1

What exactly does Personal Job Coach do?

Accepted Answer

Start with a free ATS score on your CV, no sign-up needed. See exactly how your CV performs against employer screening systems and get an 8-point breakdown in seconds. From there, Personal Job Coach gives you a full toolkit for every job application. Upload your CV once and for each role you want to apply to, you get a gap analysis, a tailored CV rewritten for that specific job, a tailored covering letter, a company briefing, and a mock interview session. Everything is built around your background and the specific job, not generic templates.

Question 2

Do I need to use Personal Job Coach's job board to use the tools?

Accepted Answer

There's no job board. You find jobs wherever you already search: LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, company websites, or anywhere else. Paste the job description or URL into your tracker and the full toolkit activates for that role. The tools work for any job from any source.

Question 3

What is a gap analysis and why does it matter?

Accepted Answer

A gap analysis compares your CV against a specific job description and tells you exactly where you fall short: missing hard skills, keyword gaps, and soft skill framing. Most candidates skip this step and wonder why they're not getting callbacks. Running it before you apply means you can address the gaps in your CV and cover letter, rather than finding out at the interview.

Question 4

Is the cover letter actually tailored to each job, or is it a template?

Accepted Answer

It's written around your specific CV and the specific job description you paste in. The tool reads both, matches your experience to the role's requirements, and adjusts tone depending on whether the listing is from a direct employer or a recruiter. No templates. No fill-in-the-blank.

Question 5

What does the Company Briefing cover?

Accepted Answer

For named companies, the briefing covers culture and values, recent news and announcements, leadership, and how the company sits in its competitive landscape. If the job ad is from a recruiter and the company isn't named, we produce a sector briefing instead, covering industry dynamics, typical culture signals, and the questions you're most likely to face. Either way, you go in informed.

Question 6

How does the mock interview work?

Accepted Answer

The practice session is built around the specific role you're applying for, not a generic question bank. You'll work through behavioral questions using the STAR framework, role-specific technical questions drawn from the job description, and get direct feedback on each answer covering clarity, content, and what to tighten up.

Question 7

How does pricing work? Is there a subscription?

Accepted Answer

Personal Job Coach is €19.99 per month. Career Strategy and CV Score are always free with no credit card required. A subscription unlocks the full application toolkit for every job you apply to: tailored CV, covering letter, gap analysis, company briefing, and mock interview. Cancel any time.

Question 8

Is there a free version?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Career Strategy and CV Score are always free, no sign-up required. A monthly subscription at €19.99 unlocks the full toolkit for every job you apply to. Cancel any time.

Question 9

How do I upload my CV?

Accepted Answer

Upload your CV as a PDF or Word document, or export your LinkedIn profile as a PDF and upload that. That profile becomes the foundation for all the tools. You only need to upload once. Every job you track runs off the same profile, though you can update it at any time.

Question 10

Is my CV and personal data kept private?

Accepted Answer

Your CV and profile data is used only to generate your career tools. We don't share it with employers, recruiters, or third parties. You're not in any candidate database, and your data isn't used for anything beyond the service you've asked for.

Question 11

What's the difference between the CV Builder and the Tailored CV?

Accepted Answer

The CV Builder takes your uploaded profile and produces a clean, professionally formatted, ATS-ready CV. Think of it as your master document. The Tailored CV then takes that master and rewrites it specifically for each job you apply to, reordering priorities, adjusting language, and matching keywords to the job description. You use the CV Builder once. The Tailored CV runs for every application.

Question 12

Can I use Personal Job Coach for jobs in any industry?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The tools work across industries and job levels because they're built around the specific job description you paste in, not a fixed template for a particular field. Whether you're applying for a marketing role, an engineering position, or a senior leadership job, the analysis, CV, and cover letter are built for that role specifically.

Question 13

Can I update my CV after I've uploaded it?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can re-upload your CV at any time from your profile. If you've had a promotion, completed a course, or want to target a different type of role, upload your updated CV and your Career Strategy will reflect the change.

Question 14

What if I only need to make a small change to my CV?

Accepted Answer

It depends on the change. For minor updates (a new role, a course, a skill), re-uploading your CV is enough. Your Career Strategy will update automatically. For a bigger change in direction, such as switching industries or targeting a different level of seniority, running a full Career Strategy again will give you the most accurate results.

Question 15

Does it work if I'm applying to jobs in a different language?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Personal Job Coach generates every output in the language of the job, not the language of your account. If you paste a job description in French, you get a French cover letter and tailored CV. If the next role is in English, those outputs are in English. This works across a wide range of languages, which makes it particularly useful for expats and multilingual professionals targeting more than one market at the same time.

Question 16

How do I add a job to my tracker?

Accepted Answer

You have two options. The quickest way is to paste the URL of the job ad: we extract the title, company, and full description automatically. If the URL doesn't work or you found the job offline, you can paste the job description manually instead. Either way, once the job is in your tracker, every tool activates for that role.

Question 17

Can I apply to a company even if there is no job ad?

Accepted Answer

Yes. When you click Target a New Job, choose "Speculative application" instead of "Job ad." Enter the company name, the role or area you are targeting, and optionally the company website. Personal Job Coach will build a tailored cover letter, company briefing, and interview prep around that company, even without a formal listing. This is ideal when you know which company you want to work for but nothing is advertised.

Question 18

Why not just use ChatGPT or Gemini for this?

Accepted Answer

General AI tools are useful for parts of a job search, especially brainstorming. What they cannot do is produce a structured, formatted CV as a downloadable PDF, score your CV against ATS systems, keep a persistent profile across multiple applications, or run a mock interview with company-specific context built from a gap analysis and company briefing. Personal Job Coach connects all of this into one workflow: one upload, every application prepared end to end. General AI tools require you to repaste your CV and the job description every time, and the output is raw text that still needs formatting and judgement to use.

Question 19

Does it work with LinkedIn Easy Apply?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Copy the job title and description from the Easy Apply listing into Personal Job Coach to run the full preparation workflow: gap analysis, tailored CV, cover letter, company briefing, and mock interview prep. LinkedIn Easy Apply lets you upload a custom PDF CV for every application, so you can attach the tailored CV directly in the Easy Apply window. Personal Job Coach handles the preparation; you apply on LinkedIn as usual.

Question 20

Is it compatible with Workday, Taleo, or other ATS platforms?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Personal Job Coach prepares everything before you apply. The tailored CV it produces is a clean, formatted PDF that uploads directly to any ATS: Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, iCIMS, or any other platform. The CV Score feature checks your CV against ATS parsing rules so you can fix formatting issues before you submit.

Question 21

Can I use Personal Job Coach while claiming Universal Credit?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Using Personal Job Coach has no impact on your Universal Credit claim. You are expected to meet your claimant commitment by demonstrating active job-seeking activity. Keeping a record of your applications, interviews, and search steps satisfies this requirement. Personal Job Coach helps you apply more effectively and keeps a log of your activity. Check your claimant commitment for the specific requirements set by your work coach, as these vary by circumstance.

Question 22

Where can I find reliable salary data before negotiating an offer?

Accepted Answer

The ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings publishes median salaries by occupation, sector, and region across the UK. The CIPD Labour Market Outlook provides pay award benchmarks by industry and is updated quarterly. For senior and professional roles, specialist recruitment firms publish annual salary guides that are often more granular. Personal Job Coach's Gap Analysis and Company Briefing give you the role-specific context you need to anchor a salary conversation with confidence.

Question 23

What is a standard probation period in the UK?

Accepted Answer

Most UK employers set probation periods of three to six months, though the length, notice terms, and review process are set by the employment contract rather than statute. ACAS recommends that employers set clear objectives at the start of the probation period and provide regular feedback throughout. If you are negotiating an offer, the duration and conditions of probation are reasonable points to raise. There is no legal minimum or maximum probation length in the UK.

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