We all know that objectivity can be somewhat elusive when we are personally close to something. This is never truer than when it comes to describing ourselves. Our circumstances, career stage, recent experience and ambitions (the list goes on), can all influence our self-image and views of our experience, skills and personal qualities. Strengths, perceived as important to a role can be over accentuated, or worse, some personal qualities may not be recognised as strengths at all. A professional CV writing service will provide you with a fresh, impartial review of your career history and personal skill set, and assess what information to include. You may still feel very proud of a particular early achievement, but if it doesn’t add value to your application, astute CV writers will tactfully, but firmly, advise you to lose irrelevant history.
Words need to be chosen carefully. If you open your profile with “Charismatic leader…”, it could be construed as a touch egocentric rather than conveying the engaging leadership style you had intended. The difference in interpretation has a significant impact on first impressions. A CV writer will ensure ambiguous and clichéd phrases are avoided and will deliver your desired message effectively. They will also use the power of phraseology to emphasise your suitability and tailor the bias of the content to match the particular job description as closely as possible. For example it could prove costly if you highlighted tactical results (however impressive) over any strategic achievements, if you wanted to make the short-list for a strategy consultant job. A common mistake in an early career CV is overplaying a personal contribution in a company level result, that said, companies want high flyers. If you did personally deliver the highest value sale in 10 years, it’s clearly a stand out career highlight that must be included. Achievements just need to be well-written and in context - a professional writer will do this. Another obvious advantage of working with a CV writer is having a suitably qualified linguist guarantee good grammar, spelling and punctuation. They will also be able to identify unintentional, evaluative language. Whist the debate over the apostrophe rages on, your CV may end up in the hands of a stickler for punctuation, so an errant semi-colon will not win you any favours.
How are we able to ‘sell’ you, better than yourself? By knowing the questions to ask and having in-depth experience of the recruitment and executive search industry (and of course possessing great CV writing skills). This is what some of our happy clients have said about us in our professional CV writing service reviews .
Words need to be chosen carefully. If you open your profile with “Charismatic leader…”, it could be construed as a touch egocentric rather than conveying the engaging leadership style you had intended. The difference in interpretation has a significant impact on first impressions. A CV writer will ensure ambiguous and clichéd phrases are avoided and will deliver your desired message effectively. They will also use the power of phraseology to emphasise your suitability and tailor the bias of the content to match the particular job description as closely as possible. For example it could prove costly if you highlighted tactical results (however impressive) over any strategic achievements, if you wanted to make the short-list for a strategy consultant job. A common mistake in an early career CV is overplaying a personal contribution in a company level result, that said, companies want high flyers. If you did personally deliver the highest value sale in 10 years, it’s clearly a stand out career highlight that must be included. Achievements just need to be well-written and in context - a professional writer will do this. Another obvious advantage of working with a CV writer is having a suitably qualified linguist guarantee good grammar, spelling and punctuation. They will also be able to identify unintentional, evaluative language. Whist the debate over the apostrophe rages on, your CV may end up in the hands of a stickler for punctuation, so an errant semi-colon will not win you any favours.
How are we able to ‘sell’ you, better than yourself? By knowing the questions to ask and having in-depth experience of the recruitment and executive search industry (and of course possessing great CV writing skills). This is what some of our happy clients have said about us in our professional CV writing service reviews .