Frequently Asked Questions

Skiftr begins by getting to know you. When you upload your CV and complete your profile, Skiftr reads your experience, skills and career history to build a clear picture of where you're starting from, and what genuinely interests you.

From there, Skiftr does the searching you'd never have time to do yourself. We continuously scan the job market, visiting companies directly, hour by hour, so we see far more than the share of roles that ever reach the big job boards. We evaluate each individual job against your profile, then group the strongest matches into curated collections we call Skifts.

Every morning you get a fresh set of Skifts that show three things at once: roles similar to what you do today (just better), the natural next step up, and sideways moves into other fields where your skills carry over. It's the kind of guidance that used to be available only from an expensive human career coach, now generated for you, every day.

Yes. Your CV is how Skiftr understands you. Skiftr reads it to map your skills, experience and career history, and that's what lets us scan the market on your behalf and surface roles that actually fit you. Without it, we can't build your profile or your personalised Skifts.

Your CV doesn't have to be polished or perfectly formatted, Skiftr is built to read a wide range of formats and languages. You keep full ownership of everything you upload; Skiftr uses it only to run the service for you, sharpen your matches and generate your career insights.

Once you upload your CV, you remain the owner of your document and everything in your profile. Skiftr reads it to extract your skills and experience, compares that against live job-market data, and builds your personalised Skifts, showing relevant roles, salary context, where your skills already stand strong, and which skills could open more doors.

To protect your privacy, Skiftr applies de-identification and data-minimisation before your information is processed, we keep only what's needed to match you to roles and build your CVs, and remove or mask personal details that aren't required. Your data is used solely to operate and improve the service for you. It is never sold for paid placement, never shown to employers, and never used to train general-purpose AI models.

Absolutely. Skiftr is a career navigator, not just a job-listing tool. Even if you're not looking to move right now, you can use it to see how your skills are valued in the market today, explore directions you might grow into, and track which skills are rising or falling in demand. Many people use Skiftr for career planning, upskilling and salary awareness long before they ever apply for anything.

A Skift is a themed cluster of jobs, usually around a dozen, tied together by a single career story. The name comes from the Danish skifte, meaning "to change" or "to shift."

Rather than handing you a flat list of search results, Skiftr groups opportunities into narratives like "Taking the next step into your first leadership role," "Where your coordination skills transfer into other industries," or "Exciting roles, further from home, with a great salary." Each Skift is a direction you could take, made concrete with real, current jobs.

Every day. Skiftr refreshes your Skifts each morning so they always reflect the live market and the latest understanding of your profile. As the market moves and as you give feedback, your Skifts evolve with you.

The Curveball Skift is a daily wildcard, an unexpected direction Skiftr deliberately drops into your set to keep your view open. It's there to surface creative, less-obvious paths you might never have considered, and to remind you that your skills may travel further than you think.

No, and that's the point. Traditional platforms match you on job titles, which keeps you boxed into roles that look like your last one. Skiftr matches on what you can do, so every day you see three lenses at once: something similar to today but better, a step up in seniority, and sideways moves into adjacent industries where your skills transfer. You're not asked to choose a lane before you even know what's possible.

Skiftr visits companies directly and continuously, so we see far more of the market than aggregators that only carry the roles employers pay to list. Many jobs are filled straight from company websites and never reach a job board at all, Skiftr is built to find those too.

The bigger difference is whose side we're on. LinkedIn, Indeed and job boards are paid by employers, so they're built to sell candidates to companies. Skiftr is paid by you. We don't take money to show you a particular job, we don't run an engagement algorithm designed to keep you scrolling, and we never put employers' interests ahead of yours. Our only job is to help you navigate the market.

Paid aggregators only show the roles companies choose to post with them, and companies post only some of their openings, which leaves much of the market hard to find. Skiftr works the other way round: instead of waiting for jobs to come to a board, we go to the source and visit companies directly, around the clock.

Because we read straight from companies themselves rather than the slice that reaches the aggregators, we typically surface two to three times as many relevant roles, and we bring them all to you in one place. Many of these jobs never appear on a traditional job board at all.

We show real jobs from reputable professions and established companies, for people aged 18 and over. The aim is simple: every opportunity in your Skifts should be one worth your time, from an employer worth working for.

We do our best not to. We work to keep roles that fall outside Danish labour law out of your Skifts. Keeping the market we show you clean and compliant is part of working for you rather than for whoever is hiring.

We focus on roles with a genuine connection to the Nordic region, through the company itself or through the language and skills the role calls for. We won't fill your Skifts with listings that have no real tie to where you are.

We do show international opportunities when a company has deliberately opened a position to Denmark and has a real link to the country. So if a meaningful step in your career leads abroad, you'll still see it, as long as it's a genuine, reachable opportunity rather than noise.

We do real research on every role. We draw on salary banks, public pay data and comparable positions across the market, then triangulate a reasonable estimate for what a role is likely to pay. Where a company publishes a salary range, we use it, but we also know that many published ranges don't tell the whole story (often they show base pay only). In those cases, Skiftr estimates the additional components on top so you get a fuller, more realistic picture.

Sometimes, yes, these are estimates, and pay is one of the least transparent parts of the job market. When the information simply isn't there to pin a number down precisely, no one can pin it down precisely. We'd rather give you an honest, well-researched range than leave you guessing in the dark. We believe pay should be transparent, and we hope that by putting a credible number in front of you, we help push the whole market in that direction.

Your Insights view is a transparent look at how the market sees you. It shows the skills Skiftr has identified from your CV, what's currently in demand around your profile, where your skills already make you stand out, and which skills, if you built them, would open up more directions or higher pay. It's designed to show you not just what you're seeing, but why.

Yes. Skiftr's CV Builder generates a tailored CV for a specific role, reordering and emphasising the experience that matters most for that application, including strengths the job description doesn't spell out but that the market actually hires for in similar roles. That's what helps you stand out instead of blending in with everyone sending the same generic, AI-written CV.

You receive your CV as an editable document, so you stay in full control: review it, change it, and decide for yourself whether and where to send it. Only you can download your own CVs, and each one is saved alongside the job that inspired it so you can come back to it later.

No, you're always the one who applies. Skiftr gives you the insight, the matches and a tailored CV, then links you straight to the employer's own application page. We never auto-submit your CV to a company or recruiter on your behalf. Keeping every application in your hands is a deliberate choice: it keeps you in control, and it's core to the way Skiftr is built to work for the candidate, not the employer.

You. This is the foundation of everything we do. Employers don't pay us to surface candidates, and they can't. Skiftr is built, technically and commercially, to represent the individual. We're paid by you, we work for you, and the product is designed around your interests rather than an employer's hiring funnel.

Protecting your data is built into how Skiftr works. We're a European, GDPR-first platform running on European cloud infrastructure, and we apply de-identification and data-minimisation so we keep only the information needed to run the service for you. You retain ownership of your CV and profile, your data is used solely to operate and improve the service, and it is never sold, never used for paid placement, and never used to train general-purpose AI models.

No. Skiftr does not show your profile or CV to employers or recruiters, does not rank or surface candidates to companies, and does not send your CV anywhere on your behalf. Everything Skiftr produces is for you, you decide who, if anyone, ever sees it.

Yes. You can request a copy of the data Skiftr holds on you, and you're in control of your account. You can pause your account and keep your data so you can return later without starting over, or request full deletion, after which your data is removed following a short grace period (some records, such as financial transactions, may be retained where the law requires, and others are anonymised rather than deleted).

Skiftr is a subscription priced at 139 DKK per 30 days for full access to all features. The price is VAT-inclusive, what you see is what you pay, with no surprise add-ons at checkout. It's set well below the cost of a single session with a human career coach, for guidance you get every single day.

Skiftr offers a 3-day trial for 19 DKK, giving you full access so you can see your Skifts and insights before committing. If you don't cancel during the trial, it rolls over into the standard 30-day Local plan, so you keep going without interruption.

Under EU consumer law the 14-day withdrawal right does not apply to digital content or services once you agree to immediate access and start using them. By beginning your Skiftr subscription, you expressly request immediate performance of the service and acknowledge that any right of withdrawal or cancellation is lost. You can still cancel before you access the service or during your trial, but once you have started using your subscription there are no refunds except where required by law.

Yes, unless you opt out. When you sign up for a Local or Nordic plan, the subscription begins once your payment is processed and automatically renews every 30 days. Similarly, the three-day trial converts into a paid 30-day Local subscription after 72 hours if you haven't cancelled. To prevent the next charge, you must cancel the subscription before the renewal date. Prepaid Team plans work differently: they are purchased for a fixed duration and do not auto-renew; access simply expires at the end of the period.

During the onboarding flow you'll select a plan, whether that's a three-day trial, a Local or Nordic 30-day subscription, or a prepaid Team plan, and enter your payment details. Skiftr processes payments via Stripe, which supports most major credit and debit cards and Apple Pay. The three-day trial starts as soon as you provide payment details, and it automatically converts into a paid Local subscription after 72 hours unless you cancel. Local and Nordic plans renew every 30 days, while Team plans are charged upfront for their full duration.

To cancel, sign in to your Skiftr account, open your settings and cancel the subscription. Because subscriptions are prepaid, your current plan will remain active until the end of the paid period; the cancellation simply stops the next billing cycle. If you’re on the three‑day trial, you must cancel before the 72‑hour period ends to avoid being charged for the subsequent 30‑day Local subscription. Local and Nordic plans renew every 30 days, so cancelling before the renewal date prevents future charges but does not refund any remaining time. Team plans are purchased up front for a fixed duration 3 or 6 months and generally cannot be refunded once payment has proceed.

Skiftr is launching in Denmark first, with the rest of the Nordics, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, coming soon. The app is available in English at launch, with more languages, including Danish, on the way. Pricing and availability are shown in your local market when you sign up.

Skiftr’s Terms require that all users be at least 18 years old. This age requirement ensures that users have legal capacity to enter into subscription agreements and consent to the processing of personal data, including sensitive employment information and payment details. Career‑navigation services also relate to employment and labour‑market decisions, which are typically targeted at adults; requiring users to be 18 helps Skiftr comply with data‑protection and consumer‑protection laws.