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Candidate Jane Doe

Your Application Report

Tailored analysis of your application, recruiter feedback, and client insights to help you understand your fit, benchmark against peers, and refine your pitch.

Published date

🚀 Aug 12, 2025

Applied date

📥 Aug 13, 2025

Pitch status

❌ Rejected

Reruiter

👤 John Smith

How to use it?

This report is more than a rejection note — it’s a roadmap to improve your chances in future applications.

🧠 Turn rejection into growth

🧭 Understand client expectations

📊 Compare your pitch to competitors

🎯 Refine your positioning for future applications

✅ Role Fit

Role Overview

Highlights

Candidate

Jane Doe

Role

UX/UI designer for SaaS MVP

Client

Apple Inc.

You can start ASAP and they needed that

⚠️ Your rate was higher than the stated budget

Language skills were below client’s requirement

Overall, your profile showed strong seniority and relevant expertise, but your higher rate and missing language skills limited alignment with this role. With adjustments, your pitch remains highly competitive for similar opportunities.

Fit Breakdown

You
Google
💪 Experience

20+ yrs (Expert)

5+ yrs (Senior)

💰 Rate

$120/h

$80-100/h

🗣 German

Conversational

Fluent

📆 Availability

20 hrs/week

15 hrs/week

📍 Location

Budapest

Berlin

🏢 Commute

Remote

Partly on-site

🛠️ Skills

Figma, Framer

Figma, Framer, UX Research

🚀 Project start

Next week

ASAP

🏆 Overall Score

📊 Benchmarking

Pool Overview

Highlights

Total applied

212

Shortlisted

12

Rejected

199

Strong experience – Top 10 in the pool

⚠️ High rate – Above average & budget

Portfolio score – Below peers, quick win to improve

With rate adjustment and portfolio polish, you’d likely move into the top 10%

You vs. Competition (212 pitches)

You
Winner
Pool Avg.
Pool range
Client requirement
Percentile
💰 Hourly Rate

$120

$100

$95

$40-180

max. $100

💪 Experience

20

8

5.6

1-25

5+

📆 Availability

20 hrs/w

20 hrs/w

20 hrs/w

10-40 hrs/w

min. 20 hrs/w

✅ Fit Score

75%

88%

68%

40–90%

80%+

🏆 Overall standing

🏆 Winner vs. You

Winner Profile

Your Profile

Winner

Confidential

💰 Hourly Rate

$100

25%

💪 Experience

8 yrs

25%

✅ Fit Score

100%

Match

📍 Location

Berlin

Match

🏢 Commute

On-site

Match

🗣 German

Fluent

Match

📆 Availability

40 hrs/w

Match

🛠️ Skills

UX design
UI design
Motion design

Match

🏆 Overall standing

1st
✅ Why they won

Their profile matched all core requirements — fluent German, on-site availability, and a portfolio score that stood out.

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You

Jane Doe

💰 Hourly Rate

$120

25%

💪 Experience

20 yrs

25%

✅ Fit Score

75%

Gap

📍 Location

Budapest

Gap

🏢 Commute

Remote

Disqualified

🗣 German

No

Disqualified

📆 Availability

20 hrs/w

Match

🛠️ Skills

UX design
UI design
UX research

Match

🏆 Overall standing

32nd
❌ Why you didn’t

Your higher rate and missing language/onsite fit outweighed your strong experience and skills.

🧠 Summary

Strenghts

Weaknesses

20+ years of experience places you in the top 5% of applicants.

Skills in UX/UI are well aligned with client needs.

Availability is competitive and met the project requirement.

Hourly rate was above client budget and pool average.

Portfolio score was below peer benchmark (2.0 vs. 4.5).

Missing language & onsite requirements were decisive gaps.

⚖️ Verdict

For future roles:

You’re highly competitive for remote, senior-level UX/UI projects in English-speaking or international environments, where experience and expertise are valued over local fluency.

For this role:

Your chances were limited due to budget, language, and onsite requirements.

🚀 Next Steps

Turn this report into action.

1

Reflect on your gaps 🤔

Did rate, availability, or skills hold you back?

2

Update your pitch 🛠️

Adjust your portfolio, CV, and intro messages with the insights.

3

Target better-fit roles 🎯

Focus on jobs where your profile is stronger aligned.

4

Keep applying 🔄

Rejections are normal. Use each report to improve your odds.

5

Invest in growth 📈

Upskill in areas where you see repeated gaps (tools, languages, soft skills).

Thank you for using PitchCompare 🙌

🔎 Methodology

PitchCompare analyzes your application across rate, experience, availability, and portfolio strength. We compare your profile with other applicants for the same role to highlight where you matched, where you missed, and how to improve.

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