When Your Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Impact: CV Writing Tips

As your career progresses, you may find yourself in a frustrating position: your job title doesn’t match the scope of your responsibilities.  As a result, your job title can sometimes undersell your experience. If recruiters use this as a filter, it could result in you being overlooked. Luckily, there are ways to position your experience effectively on your CV to …

Why You Should Keep Track of Your Professional Successes

When you are busy with juggling your day-to-day responsibilities, you can easily forget about significant career milestones – especially if your workplace doesn’t have a structured feedback process in place. This means that when applying for new roles and updating your CV, coming up with key examples of your successes can be a challenge. Creating an achievements tracker means that …

From Service to Success: How Hospitality Experience Opens Doors

When people are in the process of writing their CVs and look back at their hospitality experience, they are often reminded of the long shifts, unsociable hours and difficult customer interactions. What they usually forget is the extensive transferable skillset, which was developed along the way, transferable skills which are high in demand across pretty much every industry! No matter …

Your Transferable Skills as a Police Officer

Police professionals develop a wide range of transferable skills throughout their career, through training and daily duties; skills that are highly valuable in many other professions. Noted below is a small number of key transferable skills commonly gained in policing: Communication Skills • Clear verbal and written communication, including writing reports and interviewing • Conflict resolution and de-escalation; remaining calm …

How to Balance Technical and Senior Capabilities on a CV

Transitioning into an executive-level role is an exciting career milestone. But when writing a CV, many people struggle to balance the technical expertise they’ve built up over the years with the leadership abilities employers look for in senior positions. In this blog, we will explore how to balance technical and senior capabilities on a CV to show prospective employers you’re …

How to Demonstrate Leadership Experience on Senior and Executive-Level CVs

When applying for a senior or executive-level role, your CV needs to be strategically positioned.  By now, you will have had several years of accomplishments and experience which can be challenging to distil into a two-page CV. At this level employers need to understand what you are capable of and your track record relevant to the role for which you …

Addressing a Career Gap on a CV

The modern workplace continues to evolve – particularly in a post-Covid culture. Despite this, many job seekers feel like disclosing a career gap on their CV will harm their employment prospects. According to research carried out by Applied, a third of employees surveyed have taken a career break of six months or more – but over half admit they would …