Career Coaching and Résumé Writing Editing and Proofreading Services

A CV is read for about seven seconds before a decision to read further is made, by someone holding sixty of them. What determines the outcome is not the layout, the summary paragraph or the skills list — it is whether the bullets under each job describe what the person achieved or what they were responsible for. Almost every CV written by its owner describes responsibilities, because that is how people hold their own working lives in their heads, and it makes every candidate in the pile interchangeable.

We edit what career coaches, CV writers and outplacement practitioners produce — CVs and résumés across levels and sectors, achievement bullets and their evidence, professional summaries and personal statements, LinkedIn and profile copy, cover letters and speculative approaches, application form answers against criteria, interview preparation and example-building material, personal branding and positioning documents, career change positioning and transferable skill articulation, salary negotiation preparation, redundancy and career transition material, coaching agreements and service descriptions, and client intake questionnaires that surface achievements. Our editors work on the seven seconds.

The achievement bullet is the whole craft, and getting one out of a client is harder than writing it. People do not remember their achievements; they remember their jobs. We work from a questionnaire and a conversation designed to surface the specifics — what was broken when you arrived, what did you change, what happened, how do you know, and what would have happened otherwise — because the answers to those produce a number even when the client insists their role had no measurable output. We then write bullets that lead with the outcome rather than the task, carry a figure or a comparison the reader can weigh, and name the scale, since managing a team of three and a team of ninety are described identically by most people. We cut the bullets that describe the job's standing duties, because a reader assumes them, and we make sure the strongest achievement is the first bullet of the most recent role, which is the only line many readers reach. A CV built this way is shorter and takes considerably longer to write.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client CVs, employment histories and personal information. We are editors rather than recruiters or careers advisers, and we offer no view on job market conditions, employability or any application. What we can do is make the writing specific enough that a reader stops.