What's new at StrongHire Labs

A new video guide shows how to add a job from LinkedIn or Seek. Voice interviews now wrap up before they cost more credits than you have, and Smart Resume refunds you when it can't tailor anything. Grades, year-only dates, interview history and your dashboard's resume count are fixed.

• New

  Video guides

  The new Guides page has short video walkthroughs, starting with adding a job from LinkedIn or Seek and taking it through to a saved application.

• Improved

  Interviews that stay within your credits

  If your credits only cover a shorter voice interview, the interviewer now wraps up about a minute before that limit instead of running over. An interview where nobody speaks is not charged.

• Improved

  Refunds when nothing could be tailored

  If Smart Resume can't tailor any part of your resume, your credits are refunded and you are told so. In a new application, you also see which parts kept your existing wording.

• Improved

  More dependable Smart Resume

  A tailored summary that fails our checks against your profile is now tried again, so fewer resumes keep their old summary. Working out your target role from a long history no longer fails.

• Improved

  Hiring manager from job documents

  Uploading a job description document now also fills in the hiring manager when the document names one.

• Improved

  See what compacting removed

  When compacting your Experience context has to cut entries to fit, you are told which ones, so you can cancel and keep them.

• Fixed

  Grades shown as written

  A grade written in words, such as "Distinction", no longer appears on your resume as "GPA Distinction".

• Fixed

  Year-only dates stay year-only

  A year on its own in your profile, such as one from an uploaded resume, now saves as just the year instead of January of that year.

• Fixed

  Complete interview history

  Interview history and its totals now include every interview you have done, not only the most recent ones.

• Fixed

  Built resumes count on your dashboard

  Your dashboard's resume count now includes resumes you built, not only the ones you uploaded.

Assessment Centre exercises now come from a checked library for your field, so there is no wait for a new one to be written. Resume edits follow Australian conventions, checking your resume takes fewer steps, and interview scores, letterheads and profile dates are fixed.

• Improved

  Australian conventions in every resume edit

  When the AI writes or rewrites your summary, experience, skills or other sections, it now follows Australian resume conventions and Australian English spelling.

• Improved

  Check your resume in fewer steps

  Starting a check from the resume checker page now takes you straight to your resumes, through sign-in if needed, and the one you open starts in the Evaluator.

• Improved

  Hiro knows the platform better

  Hiro now points you to the resume checker, the right practice exercise and the relevant guide or policy page, and quotes current credit prices.

• Improved

  Updated Terms and Privacy Policy

  Both now describe assessment practice, the one-way video interview, Hiro and reward credits, and what each of them stores.

• Fixed

  Profiles save with unreadable dates

  A work or education date such as "Present" or a month on its own no longer stops your profile saving. That date is left blank for you to fill in.

• Fixed

  No score for an interview too short to score

  Interview history, the score chart and your dashboard no longer show a score for an interview that ended too soon to be scored.

• Fixed

  Complete letterheads in Word cover letters

  A cover letter downloaded from an application now carries your name, contact details and websites from the resume you applied with, the same as when you first wrote it.

A round of fixes. Exercise feedback and case studies are more dependable, an interview cut short still keeps its transcript, and resumes and cover letters use the full width of the page.

• Fixed

  Feedback on long group exercises

  Finishing a group exercise with a long discussion now gives you your feedback, instead of an error asking you to try again.

• Fixed

  Case studies that add up

  Case studies are created more reliably, and the figures in their briefs add up.

• Fixed

  Dates that match the calendar

  Exercises now give each date its right day of the week, and their timelines fit around today's date.

• Fixed

  Interviews saved when the page closes

  If you reload or close the page during an interview, the session now ends with your transcript and its real length, instead of staying active with no transcript.

• Fixed

  Links in Word cover letters

  Your email and websites in a downloaded Word cover letter are now links you can click.

• Improved

  Text that uses the whole page

  Summaries, job descriptions and cover letter paragraphs now run to the right margin instead of stopping short of it, so more fits on each page.

A round of fixes. Dates now follow your own calendar day, long jobs keep going instead of timing out, and when something does fail you keep what you already had.

• Fixed

  Dated on your own day

  Exercises, interview charts, application stats, new applications and Hiro's replies and memories now follow your own calendar day, wherever you are.

• Fixed

  Long jobs finish instead of timing out

  Drafting and marking an exercise or building a Smart Resume now keeps going for as long as it needs, instead of failing after a minute.

• Fixed

  Nothing lost when something fails

  If a cover letter fails to regenerate, you keep the one you had. If a Q&A question fails, it waits for you to try again. If your resume list fails to load, you see an error and a retry button instead of an empty page.

• Fixed

  Interviews that end cleanly

  Leaving an interview page now saves your transcript and ends the session, and the interviewer's closing remarks no longer count as a question you did not answer.

• Fixed

  Resumes as you wrote them

  Year-only dates no longer gain a month, emoji and non-Latin characters survive saving and PDF downloads, website links without https:// open the right site, and every resume you have built is listed, not just the newest ten.

• Fixed

  Reward credits count

  Credits you have earned now appear in your balance and count when you start an interview.

• Improved

  Easier to use with a keyboard or screen reader

  Icon buttons now have names a screen reader can read out, and the mobile menu keeps keyboard focus inside it and closes when you press Escape.

Interview practice now works with resumes you made in the builder, finding the right application is quicker wherever you need to pick one, and a handful of rough edges are smoothed out.

• New

  Practise with resumes you built here

  When you set up an interview you can now choose a resume you made in the builder as well as one you uploaded, and your feedback is scored against it.

• Improved

  Find the right application faster

  Search and page through your applications when you set up an interview, check a resume against a job or tailor a resume, and interview setup leaves out applications that were rejected or withdrawn.

• Fixed

  Your name, everywhere

  Changing your name on your profile now updates the dashboard greeting and what Hiro calls you.

• Fixed

  Hiro is readable in dark mode

  Formatted replies and saved memories in Hiro are now easy to read on a dark background.

• Fixed

  Hidden stages stay hidden

  Stages you hide in your job tracker are now left off the board as well as the progress bar.

Role plays and group exercises now run to a real clock, the app has a fresh look that makes it easier to find your way around, and skills are picked out of job ads and resumes more accurately.

• New

  Timed assessment centre exercises

  Role plays and group exercises now open with five minutes of reading time, which you can cut short, then a timed discussion that keeps moving towards a decision. Written and case exercises show a clock too, and feedback focuses more closely on what you contributed.

• Improved

  A fresh look and easier navigation

  A new sidebar you can collapse, a header that shows where you are, and a cleaner look across sign in, jobs, resumes, practice and settings.

• Improved

  More practice questions, and harder ones

  More critical thinking, verbal reasoning, situational judgement and e-tray questions, including a new set of harder ones.

• Improved

  Sharper skill matching

  We now recognise more of the ways skills are written in job ads and resumes, pick up more of them from each one, and are less likely to mistake an everyday word for a skill.

• Improved

  Watch your resume being checked

  While your resume is evaluated you now see each step of the check as it happens, right where your results will appear.

• Fixed

  Timed tests that finish cleanly

  Answering, running out of time and submitting at the same moment no longer trip over each other, so your last answers are saved.

• Fixed

  Applications dated on your day

  Applications Hiro creates for you are now dated with your own calendar day, not the server's.

• Fixed

  Resume suggestions land in the right place

  Accepting a suggested improvement now always updates the item it was written for, even when similar items appear in different sections.

The Practice Zone now covers the whole graduate recruitment process, from the online tests that screen you out to the assessment centre at the end, and profiles and voice interviews are more dependable.

• New

  Aptitude tests with fresh questions

  Numerical, abstract, verbal and critical thinking tests in practice mode or as a timed exam, with a breakdown of your results, your common mistakes and your scores over time.

• New

  Situational judgement in your field

  Rate how you would handle workplace scenarios and work through a busy e-tray inbox, then see how each choice is rated and why.

• New

  Assessment centre and video interview practice

  Take on a group exercise, case study, role play or written exercise, or record answers to camera, and get feedback against the competencies assessors look for.

• New

  Share a question, earn a credit

  Tell us a question you were asked in a real assessment, and if we accept it you earn a credit and help other graduates prepare.

• Fixed

  Profiles that save in one piece

  Long entries from your resume no longer stop setup from finishing, and a profile save now either completes in full or tells you exactly which field is too long.

• Fixed

  Voice interviews that stay available

  The interviewer now reconnects on its own after a network problem, instead of voice interviews being unavailable until we stepped in.

• Fixed

  A clear message for empty resume files

  Uploading an empty file, often a cloud file that has not finished downloading, now tells you what happened instead of failing later.

Your dashboard now tells you how your applications are really going and what to try next, every application can hold notes and reminders, your work saves itself as you go, and practice interviews give you much deeper feedback.

• New

  Notes and reminders on every application

  Keep notes and dated events against an application, add them to Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and ask for an email reminder the day before.

• New

  Your work saves itself

  Resumes and applications now save as you go, and you can look back through earlier versions of a resume and restore one.

• Improved

  A dashboard built around what is next

  The dashboard now opens on what needs you: upcoming events, applications worth following up, and the work you left half done.

• Improved

  Practice interviews that know your field

  Interviewers read your whole resume and the job description, ask questions that suit your field, and mark every answer on relevance, substance, structure and impact with suggested rewrites.

• Improved

  Writing that sticks to your record

  Cover letters are far less likely to invent how long you have done something, and answers to application questions build on the ones you have already written instead of repeating them.

• Improved

  Every application on the board

  The job portal board now shows all of your applications rather than the first page, and a card moves the moment you drag it.

• Fixed

  Interview feedback that does not go missing

  If your analysis is interrupted it now tries again on its own, and you can retry a failed one yourself instead of contacting us.

• Fixed

  Profile entries in date order

  Work experience, education and other profile entries now sort by date, with current roles first.

Adding a resume and picking a writing tone now earns you credits that never expire, there are two more interviewer voices to practise with, and resumes come out of the download looking like they did in the preview.

• New

  Two Australian interviewer voices

  Hyperion and Theia join the lineup for practice interviews, and you can play a preview of each before you pick one.

• New

  Report a problem from anywhere

  Tell us something is wrong without leaving the page, and the report brings along where you were and what went wrong so we don't have to ask.

• Improved

  Resumes that match their preview

  Fonts and page sizes are now shared between the editor, the preview and the file you download, so your resume stops shifting when you export it.

• Improved

  Consistent dates on resumes

  Months and years are now written the same way across every template and every generated document.

• Improved

  Hiro is marked as beta

  Hiro now carries a beta label so it is clear which parts of your career agent are still finding their feet.

• Fixed

  Tidier answers in our FAQs

  Stray section dividers no longer turn up in the middle of an answer.

Paid plans are switched off for now, the allowances on the free plan have gone up, and our Privacy Policy and Terms have been rewritten so it is genuinely clear what happens to everything you upload.

• New

  Decide if others can find you

  A new setting controls whether other people can discover your profile. It stays off until you turn it on.

• New

  Fit your resume to the page

  One click tightens spacing and type just enough to pull a stray final page back onto the one before it.

• Improved

  Know what a practice interview involves

  Before a mock interview starts you confirm a short privacy notice and see the credit cost for the session length you picked.

• Improved

  A Privacy Policy worth reading

  Rewritten to spell out what leaves our systems, where it goes and how long it is kept, with the section you are reading highlighted as you scroll.

• Improved

  Clearer account closure

  Requesting closure now explains what is deleted, what has to be kept and how the request is confirmed, rather than implying everything disappears at once.

• Improved

  Hiro quotes you more accurately

  Hiro is choosier about which past conversation it pulls into a reply, so it wanders off-topic less often.

• Improved

  Tidier resume page breaks

  Templates handle long sections, sidebars and awkward breaks more gracefully when a resume runs past a single page.

Our career agent now remembers your career story between conversations, so drafting a resume or a cover letter starts from what it already knows. Job descriptions can be uploaded as files, scanned PDFs finally work, and finished cover letters can be downloaded.

• New

  Upload a job description

  Drop in the PDF or document you were sent for a role and we will pull the job details out of it, instead of you pasting them in by hand.

• New

  Scanned PDFs now work

  If your resume is a scan or an image rather than real text, we now read the text out of it instead of failing.

• New

  Download your cover letter

  Save a finished cover letter as a formatted, correctly dated document, ready to send.

• Improved

  Cover letter length in plain words

  Choose short, standard or detailed instead of guessing at a word count.

• Improved

  Smart Generation in a single click

  Generating a tailored resume no longer walks you through a set-up wizard, and the result follows Australian hiring conventions.

• Improved

  A quieter interview screen

  Mock interviews have been redesigned around the conversation, and your sessions are not recorded.

• Fixed

  Phones, tablets and small laptops

  Layouts, drawers and notifications now behave properly outside a full-size desktop window.

Applications started sorting themselves by how well they actually match, cover letters got much stricter about sticking to the truth, and you gained control over how long they run.

• New

  Set your own lengths

  Choose a preferred length for cover letters and application answers.

• New

  A resume template gallery

  Browse every resume template on its own page, with a full preview, before you pick one.

• Improved

  Cover letters that stick to the facts

  Stronger grounding rules stop the AI inventing credentials or experience you don't have.

• Improved

  Bold and italic in the resume builder

  Format your summary the way you want, and choose whether to keep formatting in the exported file.

• Improved

  Move the credit button

  Drag the floating credit indicator anywhere on screen and it stays there next time you log in.

We taught the resume generator to blend several job descriptions into one tailored resume, added focused interview practice modes, and rebuilt the voice pipeline so mock interviews feel like a real conversation.

• New

  Interview practice modes

  Pick a Behavioural, Knowledge-Based, or Hybrid focus before you start a session.

• New

  Choose your interviewer

  Interviewer selection is now part of setting up every session, with voice samples to help you choose.

• New

  Cover letter templates

  Two new designs, Classic and Modern, with proper print formatting.

• Improved

  Faster voice interviews

  A rebuilt speech pipeline cuts the pause between your answer and the interviewer's reply.

• Improved

  Automatic skill detection

  We now pick out skills and technologies from your resume for you.

• Improved

  Search your archive

  Archived applications are searchable and paginated, just like your active ones.

• Improved

  Clearer job tracking

  Application “statuses” are now “stages”, with better colour contrast for accessibility.

A single guided form replaced the separate LinkedIn and Seek journeys, resume parsing got noticeably sharper, and you gained direct control over your data and your feedback.

• New

  Paste a job link

  Drop in a LinkedIn or Seek URL and we'll recognise the job it points to.

• New

  Send us feedback

  Tell us what's working, and what isn't, from inside the app.

• New

  Delete your account

  Remove your account and your data yourself, whenever you want.

• Improved

  Save a draft at any step

  Stop partway through an application and pick it up later.

• Improved

  Sharper resume parsing

  An upgraded model pulls more accurate detail out of the resumes you upload.

• Improved

  More than one link

  Add your portfolio, LinkedIn, and GitHub to your profile instead of just one website.

• Fixed

  Smoother email verification

  Verification codes now accept a pasted code and submit themselves once complete.

Our first major update handed over control of how applications are tracked, how they look on screen, and how your cover letters sound.

• New

  Custom application stages

  Build your own set of outcome labels and colours instead of living with the defaults.

• New

  Cover letter tone

  Choose Professional, Friendly, or Assertive before you generate.

• New

  Hear your interviewer first

  Preview the AI interviewer voices before you book a practice session.

• Improved

  Reorder your skills

  Drag skill chips into the order you want them to appear.

• Improved

  See what credits cost

  A single table shows the credit cost of every feature before you use it.

• Improved

  More natural mock interviews

  Upgraded voice AI handles pauses and off-topic answers far more gracefully.