Military-to-Civilian Résumé Translation Editing and Proofreading Services

A warrant officer applies for an operations manager role. Their CV says they were a WO2, held a Class 1 trade qualification, served as SQMS, and were responsible for the maintenance of 34 CVR(T) platforms. Every word is accurate. The recruiter reading it has no idea whether this person managed two people or two hundred, and moves on to the next application.

We edit resumes and applications for people leaving the armed forces — civilian CVs and their translation from service records, cover letters for a first civilian application, LinkedIn and networking material, security clearance and vetting references on a CV, applications for public sector and defence-adjacent roles, and the interview preparation that follows. Our editors work on documents that have to cross a vocabulary gap without losing anything.

The translation of rank and role into civilian terms is where a service career is either understood or discounted, and its failure is either untranslated jargon or a translation that throws away the scale. Nobody is served by "led a team" when the truth was thirty-one people and four million pounds of equipment. We work through these so every rank is rendered as a level of responsibility with its numbers — how many people reported to you, at what grades, and what you were accountable for in money or materiel — since a recruiter cannot convert a rank and will not look it up; so trade and qualification names are given with the civilian equivalent where one genuinely exists and described plainly where it does not, because an invented equivalence is worse than an explanation; so acronyms are removed entirely rather than expanded on first use, given that an expanded acronym still reads as another world; so the scale is stated in the terms the sector uses — headcount, budget, fleet size, throughput, geographic spread; so the parts of service experience that are genuinely unusual in civilian applicants are made explicit rather than assumed, such as operating with incomplete information, managing people you did not select, and being accountable for their safety; so the transferable core is named and the non-transferable parts are not pretended about; so any gap or medical discharge is handled in a line; and so nothing is inflated, since defence-adjacent recruiters will know exactly what a rank means. CVs written this way get read by people outside the sector.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including service records, clearances and medical or discharge information. We are editors rather than resettlement advisers or recruiters, and we offer no view on your prospects, any employer or any decision. What we can do is carry the scale across the vocabulary gap.