job-search-strategy6 Nov 2026
A CV is not the person behind it
This Movember, a reminder that our careers may be important, but our wellbeing matters more.
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Applying for a role can involve far more judgement than the final CV suggests.
What matters? What should stay? What is transferable? What is genuinely missing? And how do you tailor an application without turning yourself into somebody you are not?
We write about applications from the candidate’s side: the documents, the evidence behind them, and the wider realities of changing roles, industries, countries and ways of working.
Why we write
Job-search advice often jumps straight to wording. We are more interested in the decisions that come first: what the role asks for, what your experience really shows and how to make the two meet without exaggerating either.
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