Resume & CV Optimization Built for Agency Recruiters & Recruitment Consultants

Your numbers. 2026 hiring guides for the industry are blunt: billing figures belong early in each role — fees billed with the year, your ranking in the team, placements made, and how consistently you hit target. “Billed £342k in FY25, ranked 2nd of 18” is the first line a recruitment manager reads; everything else supports it.

Desk and commercial vocabulary — 360 recruitment, retained, contingency, perm/contract/temp desk, billings, business development — plus the platforms you ran (Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, LinkedIn Recruiter). “Business development” is a literal filter phrase used to separate new-business consultants from delivery-only roles, so use the exact words where they're true.

With precision: sector, role types, salary band, and client mix — “technology sales roles, £50k–£120k, fintech and SaaS clients” tells a hiring manager exactly what market knowledge you bring. Vague phrasing like “specialist recruitment across multiple sectors” is the most common weakness on consultant CVs.

Yes — it's a regional dialect and searches are phrase-matched. UK and Irish firms search “recruitment consultant” and read “billings”; US and Canadian firms search “staffing recruiter” or “agency recruiter” and talk “production” and “placements.” Your headline, titles, and vocabulary should match the market you're targeting, not the one you came from.

Stabilising. US temp and contract staffing's year-on-year decline narrowed to −4.6% in Q1 2026 from −10.8% a year earlier — the smallest declines in years per the American Staffing Association — and the UK's KPMG/REC data shows permanent placements falling at the slowest pace since March 2023 with temp billings rising at their steepest rate in three years, and 2026 UK recruitment activity forecast to grow 4.4%. Firms are hiring again — selectively, for consultants with evidenced billings.

Structural churn. Agency recruiting has long carried the highest turnover of any professional role — performance-managed desks, commission cliffs, and market cycles mean experienced consultants re-enter the market constantly. Yet the staffing firms that employ them offer no real resume help of their own, which is the gap this service was built for.