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# How it works

Rodeo is your very own career agent, truly personalised to who you are and what you want. It's purpose built to help you make sense of the job market, understand your options and then help you achieve whatever goal you are chasing.

Here's how it works, start to finish.

## The short version

<Steps>
  <Step title="You upload your CV and have a voice call">
    Upload your CV, then jump on a 10–15 minute call — more like chatting to a supportive mentor than filling out a form.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Your agent builds your career brief">
    Your call becomes a personal brief that captures what you're good at, what you actually want, and what you're ruling out. You own it, you can edit it, and you can share it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="You get matched to real jobs">
    Your agent matches your brief against live roles and surfaces the ones that genuinely fit. No spray-and-pray listings, no "entry-level, 5 years experience required."
  </Step>

  <Step title="Your agent is always working">
    As new roles are posted and as you learn more about what you want, your matches get sharper. Rodeo nudges you when something worth your time shows up.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Step 1 — The onboarding call

The call is the heart of Rodeo. It's the thing a form can't do.

When you sign up, you'll upload your CV and then book in a voice call with our AI. The call takes about 5-10 minutes, and you can do it from your phone, walking around your kitchen, in your pyjamas — however you think best. Your CV gives the AI a head start on your background, so the conversation can skip the basics and get to the stuff that actually matters.

The AI isn't reading from a checklist. It's trying to understand you: what you've done, what you liked and didn't like about it, what you're curious about, what's non-negotiable, what's genuinely off the table. It'll push gently on vague answers and back off when you want to move on.

<Tip>
  You don't need to prepare. Most people do their best thinking out loud, and that's exactly what the call is for.
</Tip>

### Why voice, not a form?

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="You say more when you talk" icon="microphone">
    Typing makes you edit yourself. Talking surfaces the stuff you didn't know you knew.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Careers aren't tick-boxes" icon="compass">
    "What do you want to do?" is a terrible multiple-choice question. It's a conversation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="It's faster" icon="clock">
    15 minutes of talking gives us more to work with than 45 minutes of dropdowns.
  </Card>

  <Card title="It feels human" icon="heart">
    Most people finish the call saying it was genuinely useful — like a free session with a career coach.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Step 2 — Your career brief

After the call, Rodeo turns the conversation into a **career brief** — a short, readable document that captures who you are professionally.

Your brief includes things like:

* The kinds of roles you're a fit for (and why)
* Your strengths, in language you'd actually use about yourself
* What you're looking for in a job — culture, pace, autonomy, pay, location
* What you're explicitly ruling out
* Open questions you're still figuring out

<Note>
  The brief is yours. You can read it, edit it, and share it — with a friend, a parent, a mentor, anyone you want feedback from. A lot of people tell us the brief alone is worth showing up for.
</Note>

It's also the thing that powers every match we send you. Which brings us to the next step.

## Step 3 — How matching works

This is where most job sites fall over. Keyword search on a CV means you see every role that happens to mention "Python" or "marketing," whether or not it's right for you.

Rodeo does something different.

<Steps>
  <Step title="We read the job, not just the title">
    Every role on Rodeo is analysed by the same AI that interviewed you — so it understands what the job is actually asking for, beyond the buzzwords.
  </Step>

  <Step title="We match on the whole brief">
    Not just skills. We look at seniority, working style, sector fit, compensation expectations, and the things you've told us you don't want.
  </Step>

  <Step title="We rank by real fit">
    You don't get 200 results. You get a short list of roles that make sense, with a clear explanation of why each one matched.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Info>
  If a role looks like a great fit on paper but clashes with something in your brief — say, it's fully in-office when you told us remote is a hard requirement — we won't surface it. We'd rather show you fewer, better matches.
</Info>

## Step 4 — What happens over time

Rodeo isn't a one-shot thing. The longer you use it, the better it gets.

* **New roles come in daily.** When something matches your brief, we'll email you — not a digest of 40 jobs, just the ones worth your attention.
* **Your brief evolves.** You can update it anytime. Changed your mind about location? Figured out you hate sales? Edit the brief, and your matches adjust.
* **You can book another call.** Life moves. If you've had a big shift — finished a degree, quit a job, picked up a new skill — you can redo onboarding and start fresh.

## Frequently asked

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Do I need a CV?">
    Yes — you'll upload your CV as part of signing up. It gives the AI context on your background so the onboarding call can skip the basics and focus on what you actually want. Don't stress about it being polished; we're reading it for signal, not judging the formatting.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Who sees my career brief?">
    You do. Employers only see your brief if you apply to a role, and you can see exactly what gets shared before you hit send.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Is it free?">
    Yes. Rodeo is free for job seekers. We make our money from employers when a hire works out.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I have no idea what I want to do. Is Rodeo for me?">
    Especially yes. Rodeo is built for people who don't have a career playbook. The onboarding call is designed to help you figure it out, not just match you against things you already know you want.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What kinds of jobs are on Rodeo?">
    Early-career roles across a wide range of sectors — startups, creative industries, professional services, skilled trades, apprenticeships. If you're between 18 and 30 and looking for something real, you'll find roles worth your time.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How long does the whole thing take?">
    About 10 minutes for the call, plus a few minutes to read and edit your brief. You can be matched to roles the same day.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Ready to start?

<Card title="Book your onboarding call" icon="phone" href="https://gorodeo.app" cta="Let's go">
  Upload your CV, then 15 minutes on the phone. You'll leave with a career brief worth keeping, whether you use Rodeo after or not.
</Card>