Is Polvum a career coach?▾
It's a mentor that works through the website, with no appointments and no per-session fee. It understands your moment from what you tell it, or from your CV, and hands back, right away, a portrait of your career, how well each job you paste fits, and a plan to get where you want. A human coach walks with you for months; plenty of people use both.
Does Polvum search for jobs for me?▾
No, and that's deliberate. There are dozens of sites that list jobs, and Polvum doesn't try to be one more. What it does is the part that comes after: you find the job where you already look (LinkedIn, the company's own site, a referral), paste the link, and it compares the posting line by line with your career. What fits shows up as ✓, what's missing as ✗, and the score always comes with the reason. It also doesn't apply for you: you apply, on the company's own site.
Do I need a résumé ready?▾
No. The interview exists precisely for people who do not have one, or whose one no longer describes what they do. If you do have it, uploading saves time: Polvum reads it and starts from what was already there. And you can do both, in either order: what you answer later adds to what it read in the file.
How long until I see something useful?▾
Two or three questions already change the screen: Polvum shows what it understood about you before the interview is over. If you would rather skip the conversation, upload your CV and the first portrait comes from reading it. The deeper analysis takes under a minute and lands on its own, with no waiting around.
I want to change careers. Can Polvum help?▾
That's what it was built for. You say where you want to go and Polvum shows what in your experience already counts there, what the jobs you want ask for that you don't have yet, and which project or certification shortens the distance. Always with the evidence beside it, never a guess.
I have never had a formal job. Is this for me?▾
It is, and the questions change because of it. Polvum works out where you stand in your career and stops asking things only someone with ten years at a company could answer. Internships, work in the family business, volunteering and university projects count as real experience, and that is the material it builds your résumé from.
Will the résumé it writes get through automated screeners?▾
The PDF comes out in a single column, with the sections in the order automated readers expect, and no tables, no sidebar and no images, which is what usually breaks those tools. There is no ATS seal of approval anyone can hand out: every company runs a different system, and whoever promises guaranteed approval is selling a certainty nobody has.
How is the Career Health Score calculated?▾
Four parts adding up to 100: how much Polvum already knows about you, how clear your goal is, how far your missions still have to go, and the quality of your résumé. Each one is shown open on screen, with the fact that produced the number. It redoes itself when you answer more, create a mission or generate a new résumé.
Can I use it as a career guide, not just a job search?▾
Yes. The Career Map shows everything Polvum understood about you: goals, experience, skills and preferences. You correct anything that is wrong. The Career Health Score reads how your profile stands today, with the parts that make up the number in plain sight. It works as a career assistant you check in with, with no job hunt in progress.
Do I have to pay or create an account?▾
Paying, never: there is no paid tier, no timed trial and no card anywhere. An account, yes: it is free, takes a minute, and it is what keeps your profile yours.
Which languages does Polvum work in?▾
English, Portuguese and German. The interview, the explanations and the generated résumé, all three. Switch language whenever you want; what Polvum already knows about you stays.
What do you do with my CV? Do you train a model on it?▾
Polvum trains no model on anything you write. Pieces of your profile go to the model providers only at the moment your request is processed, without your name and without your email attached. What is stored stays on servers in the European Union, and you can see, correct, export and delete all of it inside the product. The PDF file itself is not kept, only the text read from it.
What happens to my data?▾
It stays on servers in the European Union, and analytics stays off until you accept it. You can see everything Polvum knows, correct it, export it as JSON and delete your account from inside the product. Nothing about you goes to any employer.
What if I want out? What happens to what I told it?▾
Deleting your account deletes everything with it, right away, from inside the product: answers, résumés, pasted jobs, analyses. Before that you can download all of it as JSON, and there is also a button that resets your profile without deleting the account, for when you only want to start over.