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CV advice for redundancy, breaks and career changes
Career Advice

Start from the thing that has actually happened to you, and get the CV wording that answers it.

How to write a CV for a career change
Career Advice

Keep every date, title and employer exactly as it is, and change only the order things appear in and the words underneath them.

How to update your CV after redundancy
Career Advice

Decide whether your CV needs to mention redundancy at all, then write the months after it without apologising for them.

How to write a CV after a career break
Career Advice

Give the gap a dated entry, and keep the reason down to a category you are comfortable saying out loud.

Why am I applying for jobs but not getting interviews?
Career Advice

Rule out the cheap causes of silence in order, before you spend a weekend rewriting the CV.

Written CV examples for five UK roles
CV Examples

A written profile and experience bullets for five roles, sized by the numbers each of those jobs is judged on.

Customer service adviser CV example
CV Examples

A written customer service CV extract, sized by channel, volume and the complaints you actually handled.

Admin assistant CV example
CV Examples

A written admin assistant CV extract, and the records, systems and volumes that make it checkable.

Sales executive CV example
CV Examples

A written sales CV extract where the target, the deal size and the cycle sit beside the number.

Retail manager CV example
CV Examples

A written retail manager CV extract, built from shrinkage, availability, hours and how the peak held.

Hospitality manager CV example
CV Examples

A written hospitality CV extract, built from covers, occupancy, cost of sales and the rota you wrote.

Complete cover letters for three UK roles
Cover Letter Examples

Three letters printed whole, header to sign-off, then read back a paragraph at a time.

Customer service adviser cover letter example
Cover Letter Examples

A complete adviser letter you can work from, read as what it really is: a sample of how you write to customers.

Admin assistant cover letter example
Cover Letter Examples

A complete admin assistant letter you can work from, and the accuracy checks that decide how it reads.

Sales executive cover letter example
Cover Letter Examples

A short sales letter you can work from, built around one number you can actually defend.

Career change guides for retail, hospitality and sales
Career Changes

Three moves, each written as a rewrite of the job you already have rather than a fresh start.

Moving from retail into administration
Career Changes

The same shop floor facts, written in the vocabulary an admin advert actually uses.

Leaving hospitality for a customer service role
Career Changes

What a busy service already proves, what it does not, and how to write both onto a customer service CV.

Switching from sales to customer success
Career Changes

How to lead with renewals, onboarding and retention when your whole CV is currently arranged around a quota.

Six tools for CVs, applications and interviews
Tools

What each of the six tools does, what it costs in credits, and the point where it stops.

Check your CV against a job description
Tools

See which of the essential criteria your CV already evidences, and which ones a recruiter would have to take on trust.

Tailor your CV to one job advert
Tools

Rewrite the CV you already have against one specific advert, with every figure in it still coming from you.

Write a one-page UK cover letter
Tools

A one-page formal letter written for one advert, in the shape a UK employer expects, right down to the sign-off.

Store your experience once and reuse it
Tools

Keep your work history in one structured record, so the next application starts from what you have already written down.

Practise interview answers in writing
Tools

Turn the job description you saved with an application into eight questions, write your answers, and see how each one scores against a worked sample.

Keep track of where every application stands
Tools

See every application you have open, what state each one is in, and which of them have quietly gone cold.

Career Auntie for university careers teams
Partners

Extend written application support between appointments, on terms your team sets and reviews at the end.