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A free CV builder to prove what you did
It translates your military experience, coaches you to the evidence behind your skills, and formats it so hiring systems can read it. Built by veterans, informed by the enterprise talent teams doing the hiring.
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Gavin Doyle
Vehicle Maintenance Manager · Tidworth, Wiltshire · [email protected]
Summary
Vehicle and plant engineering manager with 16 years in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Held a 120-vehicle fleet at 94% availability, rebuilt the fault-reporting process the workshop still runs, and took 28 mechanics through their Class 2 trade assessments.
Experience
Vehicle Maintenance Manager
2021 – 2026
3 Armoured Close Support Battalion REME
- Ran a 14-mechanic workshop keeping a fleet of 120 vehicles at 94% availability through two brigade exercises.
- Trained 28 junior mechanics; every one passed their Class 2 trade assessment first time.
Section Commander, Vehicle Mechanics
2017 – 2021
1 Close Support Battalion REME
- Supervised scheduled and unscheduled repair across the Foxhound fleet for three rifle companies.
- Managed a £480K spares budget and closed a recurring parts shortfall that had vehicles off road for weeks at a time.
Skills
Fleet maintenance · Parts forecasting · Preventive maintenance · Team leadership · Budget ownership
"Availability" doesn't tell a recruiter much. What did you change, and how long was a vehicle off the road before and after?
Your answer
Rebuilt the fault-reporting process. Nine days off the road on average, down to four.
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You have six seconds with a recruiter.
A recruiter opens your CV with a job description in one tab and forty other applications in another. They have probably never served. They are looking for one thing: evidence that you can do this specific job.
What they find is a job title they don't recognise, a list of duties that reads like a job spec, and paragraphs where the unit is the subject of every sentence. Your experience is lost in there.
The language doesn't cleanly map, you barely appear in your own CV, and the skills you're claiming have no evidence behind them.
Our CV builder has four jobs

Translates your experience
Rank, role and record rendered in language a civilian recruiter can read without Googling.

Puts you back in your own CV
The military spends years training you to say "we". A recruiter reading "the team maintained 98% availability" learns that you were present, not what you were responsible for.

Coaches you to the evidence
This is the part most other tools skip. The tool asks what changed, by how much, and how you know, until the proof behind the skill is on the page.

Tailors it to the job in front of you
Keep one master CV, then aim it at any role you find on any platform. Paste the job, and the tool reorders and rewrites for that employer without touching the original.
Designed for you by people who've been where you are
Five things our builder does that the others don't.
Start from anything
Starts with whatever you've already got
Upload a stack of documents, or type three fields while the kettle boils. Both work.
Uploading a service record is optional. Service, rank and role gets you a full CV on its own.
An existing CV
Upload it. We'll work from what's there and show you how to improve it.
A service record
Certificate of Service, appraisal reports, any of it. We'll pull the structure and start from there.
Service, rank and role
Three fields are enough to begin.
Prove what you did
Turns what you did into what you proved
Same experience, written two ways. Only one of them is getting a call.
The first one is readable, and also completely forgettable. The second tells a recruiter what you owned, what changed because of you, and how you know.
What other CV tools give you
Team Leader responsible for maintenance operations. Managed personnel and equipment availability in support of unit objectives.
What ours gives you
Ran maintenance scheduling for a 120-vehicle fleet across two brigade exercises. Cut average downtime from nine days to four by rebuilding the fault-reporting process.
Tailor in two minutes
Tailors to any job in two minutes
Start with your master CV. It holds everything: full history, every role, every piece of evidence the coaching pulled out of you.
Then paste in a job description. The tool pulls the experience that matters for that role, reorders it, and matches the language to what the posting is asking for. Two minutes instead of an evening of copy-paste and second-guessing.
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Parse clean every time
Parses clean in every hiring system
Most applications are parsed by software before anyone looks at them. Columns, tables, text boxes and graphics can all break the parse.
The CV that looks sharp on your screen can arrive at the other end as scrambled fragments, and nobody is ever going to ring and tell you that's what happened.
Ours parses clean. It looks like a professional CV because it is one.

Protect your record
Protects your service record like it matters
Your service documents carry your date and place of birth, your service number, and the circumstances of your discharge.
These are the exact documents identity thieves go looking for, and veterans are already high on that list.
Many CV builders publish nothing at all about how they handle your data. That's a problem.
Certified
Redeployable is ISO 27001 certified.
Encrypted
Your documents are encrypted in transit and at rest.
Used for one thing
Your records build your CV. They aren't sold, and they don't go to an employer unless you send them.
Deleted when you say so
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