Tailoring for Australia
Tailor your resume to any
Australian job.
Paste an Australian job posting and Apply Leaf rewrites your resume to match what it asks for — the keywords the role wants, your real experience, and a clean, ATS-safe file. Applying from abroad? It converts the spelling — “organise,” “colour” — and flags Australian conventions like resume length for you. Every change is shown — and yours to edit before you export.
Applying from abroad? What we localise
Australian English spelling
Colour, organise, centre — converted in every line
Photo & date of birth removed
Details Australian recruiters expect left off a resume
Australian conventions, flagged
Date style, resume length and more — noted for you to apply, never silently rewritten
The problem
The same resume for every role gets filtered out.
Australian employers and Seek screen resumes on the keywords in the job ad before a person reads them. Send one generic resume to every posting and it gets scored against language it never uses — so a capable candidate is filtered out on wording, not skill. The fix is to tailor your resume to each job description, matching the keywords the posting asks for without inventing anything.
Apply Leaf reads your resume and the posting together, shows which requirements you already meet and which you don't, and rewrites the weak lines, each one shown for you to edit. Applying to Australia from abroad? In the same pass it converts the spelling to Australian English, removes the photo and personal details, and flags the local conventions — date style, resume length — for you to apply.
How it works
Tailor your resume to an Australian role in three steps
Upload your resume
Drop in your current resume as a PDF or Word file. Apply Leaf reads it the way an Australian applicant tracking system does — as text — and structures it into clean, editable fields.
Paste the Australian job description
Paste the posting you're applying to. Apply Leaf pulls out the requirements and the keywords the role is really asking for, and shows you what's missing.
Review each change, then export
See every change with the before and after side by side, edit any line yourself, then download a clean, ATS-safe PDF or Word resume — no watermark.
Applying from overseas
Australian conventions: converted where we can, flagged where you decide
Australian spelling
-ise, -our, -re throughout: organise, colour, centre. Converted line by line; skills and proper nouns are left alone, so nothing technical gets mangled.
Photo & personal details
The photo and date of birth come off. Australian recruiters don't expect them, and a photo can get a resume screened out, not in.
Australian conventions, flagged
Date style, resume length (two to three pages is normal here), and what the document is called — flagged in your review for you to apply. Advice, never a silent rewrite.
ATS for Seek & PageUp
Every export is a clean, single-column file with real selectable text — built for the applicant tracking systems Australian employers use (Seek, PageUp, Workday AU).
Tailoring your resume for Australia, answered
How do I tailor my resume to an Australian job description?
Upload your resume, paste the Australian job posting, and Apply Leaf shows you which of the role's requirements you already meet and which keywords from the job posting you're missing. It suggests a rewrite for each weak line — leading with what the job asks for — and you see every change, then edit any line before you export. Only your real experience, every edit shown, yours to refine.
Do Australian employers use ATS, and will a tailored resume get past it?
Yes on both. Larger Australian employers and multinationals run applicant tracking systems (Workday, SuccessFactors, PageUp), and Seek — the dominant job board — parses resumes too. Every Apply Leaf export is a clean, single-column, ATS-safe file with real selectable text and standard headings, and tailoring weaves in the keywords the posting uses — so you get past the bots and reach a human.
How is an Australian resume different from a US one?
Australian resumes use UK-derived spelling (colour, organise, programme), and a two-page resume is normal even for junior roles. If you're applying from abroad, Apply Leaf converts the spelling and removes the photo and personal details as part of tailoring, and flags the other Australian conventions — date style, resume length — for you to apply in the editor.
Should I include my visa or work rights on an Australian resume?
It's common and expected to note your work rights on an Australian resume — for example, 'Australian Permanent Resident' or 'Eligible to work in Australia (subclass 485 visa).' It's a line you add yourself in the editor, and you should state only your genuine status — we never write one for you.
Is it free to tailor my resume for an Australian job?
Your first tailored resume is free, full quality, with no watermark — including the ATS-safe PDF and Word export. Beyond that, Pro (monthly or lifetime) unlocks unlimited tailoring. See the pricing page for current details — we never make a 'free forever' promise.
Ready to tailor your resume to your next Australian job?
Upload your resume, paste the job description, and export a clean, ATS-safe PDF — the right keywords, your real experience, every change yours to edit before you export.