A profile that earns the next line, scope statements that show your level, bullets that lead with results, and a keyword match against the advert.
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Choose your field and level. The examples and suggestions in this lesson change to match.
Tomasz · Programme manager · fourteen years' experience
Tomasz wanted a head of transformation role. His CV was five pages long. It opened with a photograph, his date of birth and “a dynamic, results-driven leader”. His most relevant work, a £14m transformation, was on page three.
He'd sent twenty-three applications and spoken to two search firms. One interview.
“Same experience. I just stopped hiding it.”
Your CV has one job: to get you an interview. It's read twice, by software and then by a person skimming the top third. This lesson writes for both. It follows UK conventions; in US English the document is usually called a résumé.
Professional identity, scope, your strongest result and the role you're targeting. No adjectives you can't prove.
Your profile
Under each senior role, add one line before the bullets.
Your scope statement
Paste your bullets, one per line. Each is checked for a weak opening, a missing number and length. Strong bullets start with a verb (Led, Delivered, Negotiated, Cut, Grew, Launched, Rebuilt), say what you did and end with what changed.
Paste the advert, then your CV. The matcher finds the advert's key terms and shows which ones your CV already uses. Applicant tracking systems, and busy humans, look for their own words.
Your profile, scope statement, checked bullets and keyword match, on one page, ready to drop into the CV template.
Five minutes, in English or your own language: whichever lets you think most clearly.
Match your evidence to every criterion in a person specification, and plan a three-paragraph cover letter.
