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PadGrad builds your CV and cover letters and keeps track of the jobs you apply for. Find the question below that sounds like yours.
What is PadGrad, and what should I do first?
PadGrad writes your CV and cover letters with you, and keeps track of the jobs you apply for. Start at your dashboard — it lists everything you can use, and says what each thing costs.
- Most of PadGrad is free. Only the AI checks, the cover letters and the daily digest email use credits.
How do I build or improve my CV?
Write it in the CV Builder. Once you have a version you like, run the AI CV Checker on it — it reads your CV the way a recruiter would and tells you what to change.
- A CV check uses credits.
How do I write a cover letter for a job?
Paste the job advert into the AI Cover Letter Generator and it writes a letter aimed at that job.
- A cover letter uses credits.
- If the advert is hard to read, the job description decoder explains what it is really asking for.
What are credits, and what do they cost?
Credits pay for the AI work: a CV check, a cover letter, and the daily digest email. Everything else is free — job matching, the application tracker, the CV builder and the budget calculator.
- You get free credits when you sign up, and you earn more by referring people.
- Credits never expire.
How do I get PadCount free?
PadGrad members get PadCount Basic free for as long as they stay a member. Look for the Grab your PadCount card on your dashboard — it takes you straight over to PadCount and sets the plan up for you.
- If you already have a PadCount plan, the card says so instead of offering it again.
Where things live
Everything PadGrad gives you, and what each part is for. Sign in to open any of them.
Your CV and applications
- CV Builder
- — Write your CV, section by section.
- AI CV Checker
- — Reads your CV the way a recruiter would, and says what to change.
- AI Cover Letter
- — Writes a cover letter aimed at one job advert.
- Kanban Tracker
- — Every application you have made, and where each one has got to.
- Rejection Log
- — What came back, and why.
- Practice Hub
- — Interview practice, graded.
- Career Quiz
- — Works out which kinds of work suit you.
Pay, money and people
- Salary Comparison
- — What a role pays where you are.
- Budget Calculator
- — What you will have left each month.
- Networking Scripts
- — What to say when you reach out to somebody.
Finding work
- Jobs
- — Work matched to your qualification and location.
- Company Truth Vault
- — What people say about working somewhere.
Your account
- Dashboard
- — Everything you can use, in one place.
- Credits
- — What you have, and what you have spent them on.
- Settings
- — Your details, your password and your emails.
- Refer
- — The button at the top that copies your referral link.
- Support
- — Raise a ticket and follow it.
- Pricing
- — The plans and what they include.
Free with your membership
- Grab your PadCount
- — Your free PadCount Basic plan.
Still stuck?
Sign in, then open Support to raise a ticket. We reply in the app, and you can follow the ticket there.
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