The most expensive way to format a CV is to have the person who could be billing do it.
There is usually nothing wrong with how your consultants format CVs. The finished document is fine. The problem is what it costs to produce: about 25 minutes of fee-earner time on a task that bills nothing, repeated dozens of times a week.
Dresscode does the same job in about a minute, from the same inbox they already work in. Nothing to log into and nothing new to learn.
| Your consultants | Dresscode | |
|---|---|---|
| Time per CV | 20 to 30 minutes of hands-on work | About 60 seconds, and nobody is watching it |
| Cost per CV | About £14.58, at 25 minutes and £35 an hour | £0.66 on the Growth plan |
| Who does it | The person who should be sourcing, calling and pitching | Nobody on your team |
| Consistency | Varies by consultant, and by how close the deadline is | Identical every time, from the same template |
| Evenings and weekends | Yes. It is usually when it gets done | The same 60 seconds at 11pm |
| When someone is away | The CV waits, or a colleague does it in a rush | Unaffected |
| What it scales with | Headcount. More consultants, more hours lost | A plan tier. Nothing to re-staff |
| Setup | None, and that is the appeal | We build your template once, then you just email |
| Where the CV ends up | Mailboxes, desktops and shared drives, indefinitely | Processed, delivered, then deleted |
Based on the default assumptions in our ROI calculator: 6 fee-earners, 6 CVs each per week, 25 minutes per CV, and a consultant hour valued at £35. That is 1,872 CVs a year, about 156 a month, which sits inside the Growth plan. Change any of those and the calculator recalculates.
Three situations where we would tell you not to bother with us.
About 60 seconds from sending the email to the formatted CV arriving back. A consultant forwards the CV and carries on with the call they were on.
No. They forward an email to your agency's Dresscode address, exactly as they would forward it to a colleague. There is no app, no login and no plugin.
Yes. We build your house style once from your current Word template, including fonts, layout, branded header and contact block. Every CV comes back in that format.
Attach any CV and email it to trial@cvdresscode.com. It comes back cleanly formatted in about a minute, then we delete it. No signup, no card, no call.
As a customer, every CV comes back in your agency's exact format and branding.