The Hiring Desk · CV Review
Send me your FIFO CV and the job you are chasing. Within three business days you get it back the way it lands on a hiring desk: the thirty-second verdict, exactly what gets it binned, what is missing for the role, and a rewritten screen block that puts the right things in the right order. From twenty years in HR across Australian mining and construction, and close to ten thousand CVs read.
Overseas CV? I’ll tell you exactly what an Australian FIFO screener reads into it, and fix the top third. Applying from overseas →
Site admin, engineering or accounts? Professional CVs for site-based roles get screened on the same desks, for different things. I’ll tell you what the screen wants from yours. The professional roles →
Just want the top third checked? The Top Third Check, A$79 →
Resume writers charge A$249 to A$749 to make your CV look professional. Then it goes to a recruiter who spends thirty seconds on it, and nobody on your side ever finds out what happened in those thirty seconds. I do, because for the best part of twenty years those thirty seconds were my job.
I have been the person on the hiring side of Australian construction and resources companies through boom, bust and shutdown season. I have sat in the room where FIFO candidates get shortlisted and binned. I know which CVs get a call before the recruiter has finished their coffee and which ones never will, and it is almost never the reason the candidate thinks. At home, my husband and I have a FIFO household of our own, on two-and-one, four-and-one, six-and-one and eight-and-six, onshore and offshore. So I also know what the roster is going to do to you, and I will tell you if your CV is quietly promising something you cannot deliver.
This review is the honest half-hour nobody in this industry will give you for free. It is not a rewrite service. It is the screening itself, done to your CV before a recruiter does it, with the fixes written down.
Pay A$179 through Payhip. Your receipt tells you where to send your CV (Word or PDF), the job ad or the type of role you are chasing, and a line on your tickets, licences and when you can start.
I read it exactly as I would at work: thirty seconds first, then properly. I check it against the role, the site, the roster and the things recruiters look for that are never in the ad.
Within three business days: your CV marked up, a one-page screen report, and a rewritten top-third screen block you can paste in. Plus a straight answer on whether to apply now or fix things first.
Three applicants I see every week. The people are made up; the CVs, the ads and the reasons are not. Each one shows the three parts of the report that matter most: what the ad asked for, what the CV said, and what changed.
These are illustrative examples with fictional applicants, not customer outcomes. Your report follows the same structure: the target, the thirty-second verdict, what the CV shows, what a reader cannot establish, the bin list, the rewritten screen block, which doors to knock on, and your next seven days.
"The CV that gets a call is rarely the best-looking one. It is the one where the recruiter can find the four things they are screening for without scrolling."
I have watched candidates with every ticket under the sun get binned because their White Card was on page three and their last job title said "general hand". I have watched a labourer with one ticket get a call because the top third of his CV read like the job ad. The difference is not talent and it is not luck. It is knowing what the screen is looking for, and that is a thing you can only learn from someone who has run it.
| FIFO resume writers | The Hiring-Side Review | |
|---|---|---|
| Who reads your CV | A writer, often with no hiring experience in the industry | A senior HR professional with 20 years in HR across Australian mining and construction |
| What you get | A new document, formatted for ATS | Your CV screened like a real application, the bin list, the gap list, the rewritten screen block, and a straight call on whether to apply |
| What you learn | Not much. The next role, you are back where you started | Why every change was made, so you can do it yourself next time |
| The lived side | Varies | A FIFO household of her own, so the roster, the camp and the first swing are not theory |
| Price | A$249 to A$749 | A$179 |
Competitor prices as listed publicly in October 2026. If you have already paid a writer, bring that CV. The review works on any document.
Just the part that decides whether you get the call.
The whole CV, read the way it lands on a hiring desk.
I rebuild it for you, ready to send.
Rather do it yourself? CV Templates by Role: ten Word templates laid out the way a screener reads. A$24.
Start with the Top Third Check and decide later. Book the full review within 30 days and you only pay the difference.
Already got the call? The FIFO Interview Pack covers the phone screen and the trade questions recruiters read off a list. A$29.
Secure checkout via Payhip. After payment you get a short "what to send" note and the address to send it to. Haven't got a FIFO CV yet? Start with the free FIFO CV template and the A$49 entry guide, then come back.