Read
Is this one worth the application?
A ReadNote puts the job ad, your CV and your own positioning side by side, and tells you where you are strong, where you stretch, and what nobody can know from the ad.
The problem
Applications are expensive, and mostly guesswork.
A good application takes an evening. Deciding which roles deserve one is usually done on a job title and a feeling, which is how people end up with forty applications and three replies.
What the ad asks for
What is explicitly required, and what the softer language is really signalling.
How you currently read
How your CV and notes land against that role — not a score, a read.
What to foreground
Which of your own examples to lead with, where to sharpen, and what remains genuinely unknown.
What makes it different
It knows what you are aiming for, not just what you have done.
If you have written them, a ReadNote also reads your value proposition, direction and evidence from Talent. A CV shows what you have done; those say what you are for. Without them, a tool infers your direction from your job history — which is how a deliberate sideways move reads as a step down.
Honest, not flattering
A useful read names the stretch.
It says where you are light, and what the ad cannot tell you. Anything that only ever agrees with you is worth nothing, and a higher score is not the point — a better decision is.
Spend your evenings on the right roles.
Read is part of the Careers in HR subscription, with Market and Talent.