You're a shoo-in.

Résumés, cover letters and selection criteria written by real people, for Australian job seekers - private sector, government and APS. It starts with an honest, free read of what you have now.

ATS parse-tested APS & selection criteria ADF → APS & civilian transitions 90-day interview guarantee
Drop your résumé here for a free expert read Word or PDF · or click to browse

A real writer replies within one working day - no bots, no spam.

Built for professionals across Public Sector Defence Banking & Finance Health Mining Engineering Cybersecurity

Shortlist-ready in three steps

No templates, no guesswork. Every document starts with your actual evidence and the specific role you want.

1

Send your résumé

Upload your current document and the role you're chasing. We reply with a free, honest review - including when you don't need us.

2

Brief your writer

A structured written brief digs out the numbers, scope and outcomes your old résumé buried under "responsible for". Prefer to talk? A live session is there on request.

3

Apply with confidence

Your new documents arrive in five working days - ATS-tested, two revision rounds included, yours to keep and adapt.

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A real writer, start to finish

Your résumé isn't generated then forgotten - it's owned, by a person whose name is on it. Your writer digs for the evidence your old résumé buried, then reads every draft line back against it.

You'll know your writer's name. They'll know your story, from the brief to the final file.

Send your résumé first, meet your writer second

The edit is the evidence

We are pre-launch, so no borrowed praise and no invented reviews. Judge the work directly: real sentence patterns, before and after our edit.

Responsible for managing stakeholders and providing administrative support.

Coordinated briefings across four business units, cutting ministerial submission turnaround from five days to two.

A dynamic team player with excellent communication skills.

Deleted. Filler spends the reader's six seconds and buys nothing. Evidence goes where the adjectives were.

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Documents built to pass the filters - and the humans

75% of applications are rejected by software before a person reads them. Every Shoo In document is parse-tested against applicant-tracking systems and read against a recruiter's stopwatch before it ships.

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ATS parse-testedYour résumé is run through real tracking software before delivery - formatting survives the machines.
Evidence, not adjectivesEvery claim carries a number, a scope or an outcome you can defend at interview.
APS & selection criteriaPitches and statements of claims calibrated to the ILS framework, APS4 through EL2.

Simple plans, no surprises

All prices in AUD, GST included. Express tier from $149 and a 15% veterans discount live on the pricing page.

Starter

$349

A professionally rewritten résumé, built from your evidence.

  • Structured written brief, live session on request
  • Résumé rewritten from scratch
  • ATS parse-tested formatting
  • Two revision rounds
  • Word + PDF files, yours forever
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Complete

$549

The full application - résumé, letter and profile that agree with each other.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Cover letter written to one real role
  • LinkedIn headline & about rewrite
  • Keyword-gap report on the job ad
  • 30-minute handover call
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Government & Senior Leadership

$749

Senior and APS applications with criteria to answer.

  • Everything in Complete
  • Selection criteria / APS pitch
  • Selection criteria, ILS-mapped APS4 to EL2
  • Positioning session first
  • Priority 3-day turnaround
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Served? The translation is on us to get right

ADF members, veterans, reservists and partners get 20% off every package, including selection criteria and applicant responses. Service translated honestly for APS, defence industry and civilian roles, without hollowing out what you did.

Veterans & ADF transition

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Pick your service and rank band, get civilian titles, seniority framing and the classic traps. No email wall.

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Questions, answered honestly

What do I actually get in the free review?

A real person reads your résumé against the kind of role you're chasing and replies within one working day: what's working, what's costing you interviews, and whether a rewrite is genuinely worth paying for. It's a review, not a sales script - plenty of people leave with free advice and a perfectly good résumé.

Will you invent experience to make me look better?

Never. Everything we write comes from your brief and your own documents, and you approve every line. Our job is finding the true things you've been underselling - there are always more of them than you think.

Do you handle APS and government applications?

Yes - it's a specialty. Selection criteria, pitches and statements of claims are written against the Integrated Leadership System capability framework for your target classification, APS4 through EL2, in the STAR evidence shape assessors actually mark against.

What's an ATS, and why does it matter?

Applicant-tracking systems are the software that reads your résumé before any human does - and rejects roughly three quarters of applications on formatting and keywords alone. We parse-test every document against tracking software before delivery, so yours survives to reach a person.

How fast can you turn it around?

Standard delivery is five working days from your completed brief. If a closing date is bearing down, the priority lane is three days - mention it in your review request and we'll confirm availability before you pay anything.

What if I don't like the draft?

Two revision rounds are included in every plan, and one is usually enough - the draft is built from your own words. If we genuinely miss the brief, we rewrite it.

Your next role is one document away.

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