Months of applications to QA/QC, Civil, MEP or HSE roles and nothing back rarely means you lack the site experience. Your CV has to clear two separate gatekeepers: software that strips it into fields, then a recruiter who gives the result a few seconds. I rebuild the document so it gets past both, not just one.
Send whatever CV you are applying with right now. There is no intake form to fill in first.
Most advice treats this as one problem. It is two. A CV can get through the tracking system cleanly and still lose the recruiter in five seconds, or read perfectly to a human and never reach one in the first place.
Contractors and consultancies on large projects run every application through an applicant tracking system first. It slots your history into employer, title, dates, certifications. Whatever it cannot place gets dropped before a human ever opens the file.
✓What I do: rebuild the file in a single-column, parser-safe layout, and write your UPDA, PMP, NEBOSH or trade certifications exactly how a search looks for them.
Whatever clears the filter lands in a pile with forty others. The first pass is fast, and it comes down to one question: can I tell what this person actually built, supervised or signed off, and at what scale?
✓What I do: attach a number to every project (value, headcount, handover date) and give every gap a one-line reason, so neither becomes a question mark in someone's head.
Why me: I place engineers on Gulf construction and EPC projects for a living, so I am the person on the other side of this exact screen every working day. This is not a template of generic resume advice; it is the specific line that makes me keep reading versus the one that makes me move to the next CV in the pile.
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Every point is quoted straight from your own CV: the line as it reads now, and the line it gets rewritten into. Nothing generic, nothing copy-pasted from a checklist.
Whether the file survives an applicant tracking system at all, field by field, and what it sees instead of what you see on screen.
"Site Engineer", "Civil Engineer" and "Site Civil Engineer" are three different search terms. The title you give yourself has to match the one the employer is actually searching for.
Whether UPDA, PMP, NEBOSH, Primavera P6 or your ISO lead auditor status are written in the exact form a search matches, not just a form you recognise.
Turning a list of projects you worked on into contract value, team size and what you personally owned. This single change moves most CVs the furthest.
How to present a project ending, a visa move or a short contract so it stops being the detail that gets your CV set aside.
What employers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman expect to see on a site CV, and what local hiring teams quietly expect left off, like a photo or marital status.
Reviewing it and rewriting it is the same piece of work, so it is one price, paid once, after we have actually spoken.
A finished document back in your inbox, not a list of notes you then have to action yourself.
Nobody messaging you out of nowhere either? Your LinkedIn profile is a separate, self-contained service for $49, rebuilt so you actually surface in a recruiter's search. Fix my LinkedIn →
Payment goes through Payoneer, after we have spoken and I have confirmed this is something I can genuinely help with.
Whatever CV you are currently sending out, plus a link to one vacancy close to what you want next. That is the whole brief.
Once the way a recruiter screens it against that vacancy, once the way an applicant tracking system will actually parse the formatting.
Inside one working day: the rewritten CV as an editable DOCX and a ready PDF, with a short note on what changed and why it matters.
No, and treat anyone who promises that with caution. A rewrite cannot invent site experience you do not have. What it changes is whether you get filtered out before a human opens the file, and whether what you have actually done is obvious in the few seconds it gets read.
Then I tell you that before you pay anything, and point you at what is actually slowing things down instead, often the LinkedIn profile, or the roles you are targeting. Taking $39 to tidy a CV that already works would not be an honest trade.
The facts need to agree (job titles, dates, project scale), since a recruiter who opens both and finds a mismatch starts asking questions. The wording differs on purpose: LinkedIn has to surface in a search, the CV has to survive a filter and a fast read, and those are different jobs.
Yes. It is not forwarded to any employer, not kept in a database, and not shared beyond what it takes to do the work you have asked for.
Tell me when you send it over, because this is exactly where the wording decides the outcome. A move between disciplines or a gap between contracts reads far better with one honest line attached than it does left blank, which is how most CVs leave it.
Yes, that is what hiring teams across the Gulf and on international EPC contracts actually read. Send whatever version you have, Russian included, and what comes back will be in English.
They look similar from the outside, but they are not the same problem. Pick based on what is actually happening when you apply.
Applications go in and simply disappear. Either the tracking system is dropping the file on the way in, or a recruiter is skimming past it in seconds, and either way the work behind it never registers.
That is the CV. $39.
See what is includedNo InMails, no interest you did not chase yourself. Your profile is not turning up when a recruiter runs a search, so there is nothing for anyone to approach you about in the first place.
That is the LinkedIn profile. $49.
Fix my LinkedIn profile →I will give you a straight answer on whether it needs a full rewrite or just a couple of fixes you can make yourself. If this is not something I can help with, I will tell you that before any money changes hands.
Or by email: partner@petrvakhutin.pro