Welcome

Your unique value, in the foreground.

Career writing for professionals in the EU and US from reviewers who find what makes you distinctive and bring it forward.

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Your name

The role you want next

Summary

Engineer who makes risky systems boring.¹

Experience

Responsible for the payment platform.

Cut failed payments by a third by rebuilding retry logic in a nine‑year‑old service.²

Why

A letter to you, the applicant.

Foreground is a small business. This is why we started it, and who we started it for.

Dear applicant,

Between us, we have met more than twenty-five people like you. Fine professionals, some of them senior in their fields, with everything it takes not only to survive at work but to thrive there.

Then they send us their CV for a quick opinion, and it hurts to read: ten obvious mistakes on the first pass, before we even reach the deeper problems. We keep asking the same question, and it keeps growing.

1. Why this element here?
2. Why this person?
3. Why this person here?
4. Why this person here and now?

Too often the CV cannot answer. Not because the answer is missing, but because nobody is ever taught how to write a CV, a LinkedIn profile, a letter or a portfolio, let alone how to navigate the market. So a wide gap opens between the value people can really offer and the way they present it.

Employers stand on the other side of that gap. They look for something unique, for trust they can measure, and for quality as a baseline. Instead they are flooded with applications that look perfect and fit the job to the letter with AI, while the great applicants stay behind a weak CV, profile, or application. Never seen, never met, and never given the chance.

It is sad to see.

So we started Foreground to bridge that gap from both ends, and to build back trust through curation, presentation and education. It means stretching beyond our day jobs, and we are glad to: the people we keep meeting deserve to be seen.

Programmes

Start with your applications, or go all the way.

Three coaching programmes, each including everything in the one before it, at fixed prices in Danish kroner, the same for everyone.

For your applications

Application Ready

Make your experience clear, relevant and easy to recognise. For professionals who want their CV and LinkedIn profile to communicate their strengths.

DKK4,000+ VAT

About 2 to 3 weeks

An initial assessment of your CV, LinkedIn and target roles
One career-positioning session of up to 45 minutes
A detailed review of your CV
A detailed review of your LinkedIn profile
Personalised, recorded video feedback
One limited revision checkpoint for each document
Written recommendations and a practical action plan

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For applications and interviews

Interview Ready

Build a stronger application, and learn to defend it in conversation. For professionals who want stronger materials and more confidence explaining their experience.

DKK7,000+ VAT

About 3 to 4 weeks

Everything in Application Ready, plus:
One tailored mock interview of up to 60 minutes
Questions chosen for your target roles
Practice explaining your achievements, challenges and decisions
Detailed feedback on your answers
The recording of your mock interview, with your consent
Written feedback and a reusable interview-preparation framework

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From start to finish

To the Foreground

Your complete professional story, from first application to final interview. For professionals who want thorough preparation across their materials and interviews.

DKK10,000+ VAT

About 4 to 6 weeks

Everything in Interview Ready, plus:
A review of one targeted cover letter
A cover-letter framework you can reuse
One portfolio case, or an equivalent achievement story, developed and reviewed
A second targeted interview rehearsal of up to 45 minutes, at least a week after the first
Feedback after the second rehearsal
A final written action plan

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Examples

One line, rewritten.

Each example follows one person, from how their CV described them to how they now come across. This one is a composite.

Before

Before: Responsible for maintaining the payment service and fixing bugs.

After

Cut failed payments by a third by rebuilding retry logic in a nine-year-old service, with zero downtime.¹

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Testimonials

Three clients, in their own words.

What changes once people are seen, in the words of the people we work with, shared only with their written permission.

Three recruiters got in touch in the first week. My experience had not changed at all; the first line of every role finally said what I did with it.

I expected a list of edits. I got a reason for every line, and a CV I could defend in an interview without looking at my notes.

Moving from Madrid to New York, I had no idea a photo could cost me interviews. Now I have two CVs and know exactly when to use each.

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About

Book smart, and street smart.

Foreground knows how Cologne’s job market and its networks work from the inside, and how hiring works where the bar is high.

1. Street smart

We know Cologne’s job market and its expat networks from the inside: who meets whom, and what makes a newcomer remembered.

2. Book smart

We know how hiring works where the bar is high, from Facebook, Apple and Amazon to a startup where hiring and mentoring are part of the job.

3. Out loud

We have led public speaking clubs in Cologne, so your interview is rehearsed with people who have coached speakers for years.

About us

Start here

Start with a 30‑minute first reading.

A reviewer reads your CV against the roles you want, tells you honestly what to bring forward, and recommends the programme or service that fits, if any.

DKK800+ VAT

30 minutes · video · paid when you book

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