When a friend told me she'd been job hunting in Sweden for six months without a single interview callback, I assumed it was a skills problem. It wasn't.
She had ten years of experience, a master's degree, and fluent English. The problem was simpler — and more frustrating: every Swedish job application expected a CV written in professional Swedish, and hers read like it had been translated from English. Because it had been.
I started asking around. Same pattern everywhere. Qualified people, locked out not because of what they knew, but because of a language and format barrier that native speakers never have to think about.
Two weeks later, I shipped JobPilot AI — a free platform that helps job seekers in Sweden find opportunities and generate professional Swedish CVs using AI.
Here's exactly what I built, how I built it, and what I'd do differently.
