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How your resume becomes a match score against every open opportunity.
What we extract from your CV
Skills
We match your CV against a canonical Australian government ICT vocabulary — cloud, data, security, project delivery, and more — so a developer who lists Apex and Lightning Web Components is understood as a Salesforce developer.
Security clearance
Where a CV states a clearance we treat it as a hard gate, not a sliding score. Clearance itself is sensitive — holders should not publish their level or vetting details, and the panel agency verifies it rather than taking a document's word for it.
Role & seniority
Your stated role — for example Senior Data Engineer versus Data Engineer — is compared with the role being sought.
How a match score is built
- Skill coverage — How many of the opportunity's required skills appear in your CV.
- Role match — How closely your role matches the role the opportunity is hiring for.
- Semantic similarity — Embeddings compare the meaning of your CV to the opportunity text, catching synonyms and paraphrases that keyword matching misses.
- LLM scoring — A final model pass confirms and refines the strongest candidates with supporting evidence.
Match tiers
| Tier | Score | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| High | 0.70+ | Strong match. Prioritise this role. |
| Medium | 0.50 – 0.69 | Partial match worth reviewing. |
| Low | below 0.50 | Weak match. Usually filtered out of digests. |
Clearance is a hard gate
Security clearance is not scored on a sliding scale — it is a gate. If an opportunity requires NV1 and your CV does not demonstrate NV1 or higher, we do not recommend it. It is better to miss a borderline match than to send you a role you cannot fill. Clearance is also not something to publish: nothing here is public, and the level is verified with the vetting authority rather than accepted from a document.
Put your CV to work
Upload a resume and get notified the moment a matched BuyICT opportunity goes live.