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Private and Confidential. For X-Culture use only.

Updated February 2, 2020

Track: 2020-1b

Company: ZenCV

Country: Italy

Website: www.zencv.it

Company Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BB7qn1ERQbwudCuga4XbR2dvcWTqja7B

Company Business Plan:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nu3v37ia75yvlsx/BOOK%20WITH%20SPREADS_INVESTORS.pdf?dl=0

Webinars with company representatives: schedule and recordings here.

Questions: If you have further questions, please direct them to Admin@X-Culture.org. Your questions will be

directed to the company representatives.

A note from the company on communication:

On behalf of ZENCV, we promise that we will do our best to reply to your emails but we can not guarantee a 100%

response rate, hence the best way to get answers to your questions would be to come to our weekly "open doors"

webinar held every Tuesday at 7PM-7:30PM (GMT+1) when you can interact with us directly or just write questions on

our Facebook group where we will do our best to cover all queries meticulously or at least prepare answers to be

answered during the webinar.

ZenCV Xculture group on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/193851995060161/

Topic: X Culture feat. ZenCV Zoom Meeting

Time: Every Tuesday 07:00 PM Budapest

Link to Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/7534506307

Meeting ID: 753 450 6307

Please prepare your questions by the end of Monday, and post them to our Facebook group so that we can answer them

on Tuesday on our Webinar. "

http://www.zencv.it/
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BB7qn1ERQbwudCuga4XbR2dvcWTqja7B
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nu3v37ia75yvlsx/BOOK%20WITH%20SPREADS_INVESTORS.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ttennucaz8d32rq/2020-1%20Webinar%20Schedule.docx?dl=0
mailto:Admin@X-Culture.org
https://www.facebook.com/groups/193851995060161/
https://zoom.us/j/7534506307
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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

ZENCV - Never worry about getting a job again.

The world is becoming increasingly overcrowded by robotic templates and AI. We believe it is time for us to

start using technology to enhance mankind in being consumer-centric, not just automate tasks to substitute

humans.

That's why we have created ZENCV.

ZENCV is an online platform for professional resume design & writing services that will match customers with

freelancers like top-notch CV designers and HR/industry experts to create high-quality, custom-made CVs.

The definition of Zen is "Doing one thing at one time," and we apply this philosophy to our customers by

making original CVs that are tailor-made to our clients' characters and their employer’s expectations hence,

differentiating them from a crowd of templates.

Ultimately, our goal is to remove the worry from our customers' minds by taking over CV making, which can

be a painful and tiresome task. By taking this task off our customers’ shoulders with this type of service in

conjunction with providing a high-class CV that guarantees results - we are leaving our customers in a state of

calmness and zen.

Our vision is to create the biggest online freelance

community for creating CVs and career services

where experts from around the world will help

identify what is special in people, help them grow

and help them brand & communicate those special

traits effectively and adequately to their future

employers.

Our mission to build a human-centric, freelance-

based & supportive ecosystem of online services,

tools, and education that will help more than 1

million people per year manifest their best

professional self.

We are currently one of the few players in the market

that offers a tailor-made 360° resume service,

including both CV design & CV writing, which is

planning to use technology and AI to support humans

on our platform to do their work up to 200% faster

instead of substituting them.

That is why we believe that with hard work, we can turn our dream into tangible reality.

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Our Story

The story of the company as told by its founder, Vladimir Bozovic:

It all started two years ago when Federica, my fiance and now one of the company co-founders, was sitting on

the couch, desperately scrolling through job posts on Linkedin and Glassdoor. She had just got her Bachelor's

degree and was determined to find a job. After sending her CV to 52 job positions, she started waiting for a

reply. Days were passing slowly, and Federica was getting more and more anxious. Surprisingly, she got only

three emails back. All negative.

That was very discouraging. How can I design my resume so that it attracts the attention of potential

employers? – She was asking herself.

Not only was she unable to write an effective resume, but she also started doubting if she had what it takes both

as a person and a professional. She was skeptical about her skills and capabilities, and she didn’t know if she

had anything valuable that she could display on that darn piece of paper.

It was obvious that she needed help. Boyfriend to the rescue. We sat together for an hour or 2 discussing what

she wanted out of life, why, and how. Following our conversation, we started putting down all the things she

was good at, all the things she liked doing, and then trying to find the intersection of those two within a role

existing in the real world.

Since an average HR receives 200 emails for a job position, we knew that we had minimal chances to grab their

attention. Hence, we organized the data collected in a way designed to arouse interest, and by using passionate

language that matched her character, we created her first new resume for applying to a position in the

Creative/PR/Marketing sector.

It highlighted her key achievements, projects, and

experience while emphasizing her most relevant

skills, hopes, and plans. All accompanied with

unique and sophisticated aesthetics that were

supposed to match employer expectations

(marketing & data visualization) to help her stand

out from the crowd of competition.

The result? She sent 30 applications and got seven

replies, three of which were interview invitations.

She went to each of them and got two job offers.

But it was not only the beautiful layout, original

design, strong key achievement section or even

that impactful personal statement that ultimately

made her win that job position. No. It was not even

that she was able to make a “Wow” impression to

the recruiter.

It was something more profound.

That human touch was all about finding that

special thing about her - that little, but unique set

of traits, skills, and strengths that she did not even

know she had. Then, once that precious gem of authenticity was found - the only thing remaining was helping

her write it down, brand it, and communicate it to her future potential employers.

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It was merely the process of having a normal conversation together with her, figuring out what she was excited

about, what she cared for, what she hoped for achieving, and helping her understand that there is great value in

her creativity, soft skills, and communication abilities. Ultimately, she realized how she could combine her

passions and strengths, all while doing something that would get her the paycheck at the end of the month. She

was more than happy.