Your service matters.
Now let's translate it.
CVelo maps your Army, Navy or Air Force role, rank and experience to the civilian job you've earned, in language hiring managers actually understand.
Military → civilian, in plain English
Overqualified, and overlooked.
Veterans leave the ADF with leadership, judgement and technical skill that civilian employers want, and still struggle to get interviews. The problem isn't your experience. It's translation.
▸Jargon nobody decodes
Hiring managers can't read ‘Section Commander’ or ‘RAEME’, so your experience gets skipped.
▸Rank confusion
Your seniority disappears when a recruiter doesn't know what a WO2 or a CMDR actually manages.
▸No civilian CV format
Service records don't map to the structure Australian recruiters and Applicant Tracking System (ATS) filters expect.
▸Underselling yourself
Most veterans ask for far less than their leadership and experience are worth.
▸No civilian interview prep
Different culture, different questions, and the ‘you're overqualified’ objection nobody warns you about.
From the parade ground
to the boardroom.
The skills don't change. The language does. CVelo carries your leadership, discipline and judgement across the line, and says it in the words a civilian panel hires on.
IN UNIFORM
IN CIVILIAN WORK
What does your rank mean to a
civilian employer?
Every service, every rank. We map your seniority to the civilian management level, and the job titles worth targeting.
Army
Land · every corps & trade
Navy
Sea · every branch & rate
Air Force
Air · every mustering
What does your rank mean to a civilian employer?
Pick your service and rank to see the civilian seniority it maps to, and the job titles worth targeting.
Built for the transition, not bolted on.
Everything in core CVelo, plus the tools that close the military-to-civilian gap.
ADF → civilian CV translation
Your role rewritten in civilian language, tuned to the job you want, keeping the leadership and impact, losing the jargon.
Rank → seniority converter
See the civilian management level your rank maps to, and the job titles worth targeting.
Jargon eliminator
Acronyms and trade terms swapped for the words recruiters and ATS filters actually search for.
Veteran interview coaching
Practise the questions civilian panels ask, including how to answer the ‘overqualified’ and culture-fit objections.
ATS scoring
Score your CV against any job ad and see the exact keywords you're missing before you apply.
Company intelligence
A briefing on each employer, culture, what they look for, smart questions to ask, and red flags.
Transition support & resources
CVelo handles the CV and interview. These independent organisations support the rest of your transition.
DVA, Department of Veterans' Affairs ↗
Support, benefits and transition services for veterans and families.
Veterans' Employment Program ↗
Australian Government program connecting veterans with civilian employers.
RSL Australia ↗
Advocacy, wellbeing and employment support through state RSL branches.
Soldier On ↗
Employment, education and wellbeing programs for veterans and families.
Open Arms ↗
Free, confidential counselling for current and former ADF members and families.
CVelo is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Australian Defence Force, RSL Australia or any organisation listed above. Links are provided for convenience only. ADF rank information is drawn from publicly available Defence sources and contains no classified content.
Your service built skills employers need.
Let's make sure they can see them. Start free, no credit card required.
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