TryPenguin gives you an outside read of the same document — what it says about who you are and where you’re heading — then the questions that reading raises, for you to answer.
Message us on WhatsApp →Coaching generated through AI we’ve configured and tuned for this work. It reads and it asks. You decide.
An illustrative excerpt from a Career Direction Explorer, modelled on real output. One coherent document, of which this is the part most tools never reach.
What travels across these directions is real-time operational judgement under constraint and a people-building instinct, in the same person. Most candidates moving into operations have one and get by on the other.
Deciding what the operation should be, not what's flowing through it
Forecasting, replenishment, route optimisation
Judging where the software stops and your call begins
Where this stops being reliable: this read leans on the kitchen chapter doing transferable work, but your CV describes it in duty-list language - covers per service, team size, food-cost budget all absent. It's more confident than the CV strictly supports.
A through-line is the hardest thing to see in your own record. You lived it one role at a time. Read end to end from outside, it is usually the obvious thing.
Not a credential. A method.
We read what’s in front of us and form a view. We put the questions that reading raises back to you — including the ones you wouldn’t think to ask yourself about your own experience. What you do with the answers is yours.
Ask a chatbot to read your CV as a hiring manager and it will. The hard part is judging what comes back. It sounds equally confident whether your CV supports the answer or not, it fills gaps with plausible detail, and it says something different tomorrow. The only readings of your CV you have ever heard are your own, so you have no reference for which parts to trust.
What it has not been given is a set of rules about what it must not say. Those were written by someone who worked on recruitment platform strategy at Manpower, then spent seventeen years hiring on the other side of systems like it. This one tells you where its own read is thin — so you know which parts to lean on.
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Message TryPenguin and follow the prompts. Reply with your CV as a PDF or Word doc.
We send a secure Stripe link. Pay in your browser and come straight back to the chat.
Your Career Direction Explorer arrives first, then your CV Revision Guide shortly after. Both built from the specific content of your CV, not a template.
Same process - send your CV through and choose what you need next.
$7.50 AUD / £3.75 GBP until 31 August. From 1 September, $15 AUD / £7.50 GBP.
Two coaching documents built from the specific content of your CV - delivered in minutes.
Understand what your CV is actually saying before you rewrite a single line. Maps the career paths your experience points towards - including ones you might not have considered.
Specific priorities ranked by impact. What to change, what to cut and why it matters. Which experiences to keep off the page and save for the interview.
Two prompts that are yours to keep. Next time a specific job catches your eye, paste them into any AI chatbot along with your CV and the job ad - one helps you tailor your CV to that role using what's already true about you, the other coaches you through writing your own cover letter. Neither writes for you.
Most people jump straight to fixing their CV without knowing what they're fixing it for. This bundle starts with direction so the revisions actually land. Your CV is the raw material. The work is understanding what it's already saying about you.
Message us on WhatsApp →Your CV is deleted after 7 days. Your coaching documents are kept for 12 months, so if you come back we can pick up where you left off. Never used to train AI models. Never shared with employers. Full details in our privacy policy, and you can ask us to delete everything at any time.
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Yes. Your CV is held for 7 days so you can come back and pay without re-sending it, then it's deleted. Your coaching documents are kept for 12 months, so if you come back we can pick up where you left off. Your CV is never used to train AI models and never shared with employers. You can ask us to delete everything at any time. Full details are in our privacy policy.
It's AI-generated coaching, and we're upfront about that. We're not professional career coaches - the feedback is generated through AI we've configured and tuned for this work, designed to help you think rather than to replace professional advice. What you get back is built from your specific CV, not a template. More about who’s behind TryPenguin.
No. We tell you what to change; you make the changes. A CV someone else wrote falls apart in the interview when you can't explain what's on the page.
No. The whole thing happens in WhatsApp. You send your CV, tap a secure Stripe link to pay in your browser, and your documents come back in the same chat. No sign-up, no password.
Your first document usually arrives in under 10 minutes, with the second shortly after. No booking, no waiting for a human reviewer.
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