Frequently asked questions

Friday is built for people trying to get into film, television, theatre, broadcast and entertainment — and specifically for the stage where the door is hardest to open:

• Film, TV and drama students, at any point in your course
• Recent graduates working out how to turn a degree into a job
• Early-career crew — runners, PAs, assistants — building toward the next role
• Anyone chasing their first paid role in the industry, whether or not you studied for it

It assumes you don't already have someone in the industry to ask. A lot of how hiring actually works here gets passed on informally, and if you don't know anyone, nobody tells you. Friday is meant to fill some of that gap.

No — and deliberately not. Friday won't hand you finished sentences to paste in. It asks you the questions that get what you actually did onto the page, in your words.

That's a considered choice. Generic AI-written applications are easy to spot, and this is an industry that notices. It also means that when someone asks about your CV in an interview, you can talk about it, because you wrote it.

No. Most people starting out have more relevant experience than they realise — student productions, unpaid shoots, festival volunteering, work in other industries that involved real coordination or pressure. A lot of what Friday does is help you notice and describe that, rather than assuming you arrive with a full credit list.

It's a read on how ready your CV is — and, if you've added a job description, how well it lines up with that specific role. It is one informed opinion, not a verdict, and definitely not the employer's.

A lower score on a role that stretches you is information, not a reason to skip applying. What matters more than the number is the specific gaps underneath it.

Employers often use software to read CVs before a person does. Those checks look at whether your CV can be read by a machine at all — contact details it can find, recognisable sections, dates it can parse, text it can actually extract.

They're separate from the coaching score because they measure something different: not whether your CV is good, but whether it's legible. The panel also lists what it can't check — every employer's system differs, and we'd rather tell you the limits than imply we know more than we do.

No, and be wary of anything that says otherwise. Every employer's hiring software is configured differently, and no outside tool can see it. Friday can make your CV clearer, better evidenced and easier to read — it can't promise an outcome.

Your CV, cover letters and practice answers are yours. They're visible to you in your account, and they aren't shared with employers, schools or other users.

Friday uses third-party services to run the app and generate coaching feedback. The Privacy Policy sets out what's collected and how it's handled.

The industry conventions it knows best are UK-oriented, and some examples reference UK schemes and employers. The coaching itself — being specific, evidencing what you did, structuring an interview answer — travels fine. If you're applying elsewhere, treat region-specific detail as a starting point rather than gospel.

Friday is in early access while it's being built with a small group of users, so pricing isn't live yet. When it is, there will be a free tier that's genuinely usable — this is aimed at students and people entering the industry, and pricing that ignores that would defeat the point.

Yes, and it'd be good to hear from you. Friday is designed to complement careers teaching rather than replace it — it uses the same structures careers services already teach, and it's deliberately cautious about claiming more than it can back up. Get in touch through the site and we can talk about how it might fit your programme.