Steve HutchinsonBuilt by Steve Hutchinson — 25 years recruiting across APAC

I spent 25 years deciding which CVs got interviews. Now I'll tell you why yours doesn't.

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Sample Verdict

Regional Operations Director — Singapore

47

Before

84

After

What's Costing You Interviews

Missing keywords

Job asks for 'P&L ownership' — your CV says 'managed budgets'. That's a keyword miss that ATS will filter.

Weak opening

Your summary leads with years of experience. Hiring managers scan for impact — lead with your biggest result.

No metrics

4 of 6 bullet points have no numbers. 'Managed team' → 'Led 12-person team delivering $4.2M project on time'.

Specific Fixes

Rewrite summary

Lead with: 'Operations leader with P&L ownership across 3 APAC markets, driving $12M revenue growth.'

Add 8 missing keywords

stakeholder management, cross-functional, operational excellence, KPI frameworks, supply chain, regional expansion...

Restructure experience

Move Singapore role above London role. Recency and regional relevance matter more for this JD.

Sample based on real recruiter feedback patterns from 25 years of APAC placements

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Why Outscored

Built by a recruiter. Not a startup.

Every recommendation on Outscored comes from Steve Hutchinson — 25 years of executive recruitment across Asia Pacific, at top-tier APAC recruitment firms. The tools are modern. The judgement behind them isn't.

25+

Years in APAC executive recruitment

10,000+

Placements across teams Steve led and contributed to

6

Markets: SG, HK, AU, JP, MY, TH

50k+

CVs personally reviewed over 25 years

Real placement data, not guesswork

Salary benchmarks and recommendations are grounded in data from thousands of actual APAC offers — what was paid, negotiated, and accepted.

Built natively for Asia Pacific

Visa dynamics, local interview culture, MNC vs. local pay structures — built for how hiring actually works here, not retrofitted from a US template.

One recruiter's methodology, scaled

I can't rewrite every CV by hand anymore. But I can give you the same lens I used — what to fix, what to keep, and what's getting you filtered out.

Steve Hutchinson — Founder of Outscored
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Steve Hutchinson

Founder — 25 years in APAC executive recruitment

I've spent 25 years recruiting across Asia Pacific — Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur. Commodities trading, insurance, financial services, technology, engineering, agriculture. I've been part of teams that placed over 10,000 professionals, and I've personally read tens of thousands of CVs.

The thing that always frustrated me wasn't the weak candidates. It was watching brilliant people get filtered out before anyone read their CV. Genuinely qualified — smart, experienced, capable — but their CV didn't speak the language that ATS systems and hiring managers were scanning for. Wrong keywords. Wrong structure. Wrong emphasis.

I used to spend hours rewriting CVs for candidates I was placing. Restructuring their experience, pulling out the achievements that mattered, aligning their language with what the hiring team actually wanted. Same person, same experience — completely different outcome.

“I can't rewrite every CV by hand anymore. But I can give you the same lens I used when deciding whether to put a candidate forward — and that's what Outscored does.”

Outscored is built in Singapore, for Asia Pacific professionals. The salary data comes from real placements in this region. The interview prep reflects how companies here actually hire. This isn't a Silicon Valley product localised for Asia — it's an Asian product, built by someone who's been doing this work here for a quarter of a century.

Built on placement experience at companies including

GoogleDBSGrabShopeeStripeGovTechStandard CharteredSea Group

Real Outcomes

The same person. A completely different result.

These patterns come from 25 years of placing candidates across Asia Pacific. Same experience, same qualifications — but the right positioning changes everything.

Regional Operations Director — Singapore

Before

Generic CV listing 12 years of 'management experience' across 3 pages. No keywords, no quantified results.

After

Restructured to lead with P&L ownership, team scale, and market-specific achievements. ATS-aligned formatting.

Went from zero callbacks to 4 interviews in 2 weeks

Graduate Analyst — Hong Kong

Before

Graduate CV with academic focus, no industry keywords, and a 'career objective' paragraph from a template.

After

Reframed around internship impact, technical skills, and the specific value proposition for target companies.

Landed interviews at 2 of the Big Four within a month

10,000+

Placements across teams Steve led and contributed to

25 yrs

APAC recruitment experience behind every recommendation

6

Markets covered: SG, HK, AU, JP, MY, TH

4 min

Average time from upload to first actionable feedback

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