Film · TV · Theatre
Learn to talk about your own work
Friday is career coaching for people going for their first roles in the industry. It won't write your CV for you. It'll show you what's missing, ask the questions that get the answer out of you, and help you build something you can defend when someone asks about it.
Your line
“Responsible for various on-set duties”
Friday asks
Which two of those duties would you be trusted with again? And who decided you were the one doing them?
No rewritten line, no paste-ready sentence. The answer is yours, and it's the same answer the interview will ask for.
“Tailor your CV for every role” is not advice
It's the thing everyone says and nobody explains. Especially when your credits section is still empty and your most recent job was behind a bar.
You haven't got credits yet
The experience you do have doesn't look like film experience, and nobody's told you which parts of it count. Some of it counts more than you think.
You can see the job ad. Not what matters in it.
Every posting asks for the same six things. Working out which two actually decide it, for this role, on this production, is the part nobody teaches.
Then they ask you about it
A CV gets you in the room. The room asks you to talk about it, and that's a different skill — one you can't borrow from a document someone else wrote.
How it works
Upload the CV you've already got
You get an honest read on it, scored against how this industry actually hires — not a generic template score. Plus the mechanical checks, so you know it survives the software before a person ever sees it.
Work out what to change, and change it yourself
Specific notes on what's weak and why. Where an example helps, it comes from a different production to yours — close enough to show the pattern, far enough that you can't paste it. The line ends up in your words, which is the point.
Write a cover letter that sounds like you
Answer a handful of questions about your work once. Friday keeps them, so every letter after the first asks you less and still comes out specific.
Apply — then tell it what happened
Interview, offer, rejection, silence. Over a few applications that's how you find out which version of your CV is actually working, instead of guessing.
Why not just use AI myself?
Fair question, and you should ask it. You can get a reasonable-looking CV out of a chatbot in about five minutes. It's worth being clear about what you're left with when you do, and what's different here.
A document you can't defend
Ask for a CV and you'll get one. Then someone reads it back to you in an interview and asks what you actually did, and you're explaining a sentence you didn't write. Friday makes you write the line. It takes longer and it holds up.
It knows this industry, specifically
How credits are read, why the order of a crew list matters, what a first job in the camera department is really asking for, how freelance and production work sits on a page. A general model averages every industry at once. This one doesn't.
It's building a skill, not an artefact
Every prompt is aimed at getting you to articulate your own experience — which is the same skill the interview tests, and the same one you'll need for the next role, and the one after. The CV is the by-product.
It carries across, and it closes the loop
Your answers follow you from one letter to the next. Interview practice knows which role you're going for. And because you log what came back, the advice gets grounded in what actually happened to you — not just what generally works.
Start with the CV you've got
Not the one you keep meaning to rewrite. Upload it as it is, get a straight read on what's working, and see what a rewrite looks like when you're the one writing it.
Start with your CV