CV and LinkedIn advice
If you know you're good at what you do, but when you try to write it down your CV sounds just like a list of duties and responsibilities, this is the biggest reason why good people get ignored. "Responsible for" says you were there. It doesn't say you were good. So here's the rule I use with my clients. I call it One Line, One Proof. Every line says what you did and proves what changed because of you. Same person, same experience. The only thing that changed was the proof.
CV Reads Like a Job Description? How to Fix It (Before and After)
A CV that reads like a job description tells a hiring manager what you were responsible for, not whether you were good, so rewrite every line with the size, the action and the result.
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