Client-ready CVs, in your format, with nothing that should not be there.
Built from everything you know about the candidate, shaped by the rules that client works to, and never carrying anything internal.
What client-ready CVs means
Client-ready CVs are candidate documents produced in an agency's own format, built from the whole record rather than reformatted from a file. Signals applies the account rules that client works to, includes what came out in conversation as well as what was on the CV, and excludes fees, margins, internal notes and any mention of other clients automatically.
What it is
Reformatting a CV is the visible part of the job and the smallest part of it. The decisions sit underneath. Which two of six roles matter for this brief. Whether to include the salary they mentioned on the call. Whether this client wants a summary paragraph or hates them, which is the kind of thing that lives in the account rules on a role. Get those decisions wrong and a well formatted document still lands badly. Most agencies hold that judgment in one experienced person and hope it transfers.
The three documents
The same candidate needs different documents in different situations, and the recruiter chooses which one.
Formatted CV. The full document, in the agency's template, for a standard submission.
Spec CV. For approaching a client speculatively, where the person is the pitch rather than the role.
One pager. A single page for a client who wants the shortlist at a glance.
Retained and executive search assignments use a longer form document, covering career narrative and assessment against the brief. Executive search.
How it works
Choose the output for the situation
Formatted CV, spec CV or one pager. A manager sets the templates once, so every recruiter on the desk starts from the same place.
It is built from the record, not from the file
Notice period, motivation, what they said they wanted. The things that came out on a call and were never on the CV are available to the document.
The account rules are applied
Right to work stated, the client's own template used, the order of sections they expect. These were already on the account, extracted from the emails and calls with that client.
You read it and you send it
The document is produced, the recruiter checks it and sends it. Nothing is submitted to a client without a person deciding to submit it.
What never leaves the building
Four things are kept out of every client document. Fees and margins. Internal notes on the candidate. Salary information the candidate asked to be kept private. Any mention of other clients or other roles that candidate is with.
Excluded automatically, not by remembering to delete them.
What it looks like
Produced in the desk's own format, from more than the CV.
What it means on the desk
Every CV from your desk looks like it came from the same agency.
A new recruiter sends a document their manager would have sent.
Nothing internal has ever left by accident, because it was never in the file.
Where it fits
Ranked shortlists. Choosing who goes forward, before the document exists.
Everything on a role. Where the account rules that shape the document come from.
Executive search. The longer form document for retained assignments.
Common questions
No, never. Four categories are excluded from every client document automatically: fees and margins, internal notes on the candidate, salary information the candidate asked to be kept private, and any mention of other clients or other roles that candidate is with. They are excluded by rule, not by a recruiter remembering to take them out.
Yes, your own. A manager sets the agency templates once and every recruiter on the desk starts from the same place. Formatted CV, spec CV and one pager each have their own template. Where a client works to a required format of their own, that sits on the account and the document comes out the way that client expects it.
No, nothing invented. The document draws on what is already on the record, the CV, the calls and the emails, and it does not add detail that is not there. Every line in it can be traced back to where it came from, so if a client questions something, you can show the source of it.
Yes, always. The document arrives as a draft for you to read. Change a line, cut a role, reorder a section, then send it. Nothing is locked. The version you send is the version the record keeps, so anyone on the desk can see exactly what the client received and when.
No, you send it. Signals produces the document, the recruiter sends it. Nothing is submitted to a client, and nothing goes out in your name, until a person decides to send it. The document is ready and the client contact is on the account, and it waits for you.
Yes, all three. Permanent and contract submissions use the formatted CV, the spec CV or the one pager, depending on how you are approaching the client. Retained and executive search assignments use the longer form document covered on the executive search page.