Career advice
Learn how to write a clearer CV, tailor it to a job description, improve ATS readability, and build stronger medical and NHS applications.
Clear, practical guides for writing a CV or resume that is easy to read, honest, and ready to tailor for a specific role.
How to write a resume that gets interviews: lead with relevant evidence, write bullets that prove something, cut the filler, and tailor the result to each job description.
Read the ArticleThe difference between a CV and a resume in one answer: same purpose, different regional usage. When to use each, whether a resume can replace a CV, and the academic exception.
Read the ArticleAdvice for turning one solid CV into a focused application, including NHS, medical, and role-specific examples.
A step-by-step guide to tailoring your CV (resume) to a specific job description, with worked examples, honest limits, and answers to common tailoring questions.
Read the ArticleA repeatable system for customizing your CV for every job in minutes: one detailed base CV, a reusable evidence bank, and a timed 20-minute pass per application.
Read the ArticleGeneric CV vs tailored CV, compared side by side: what actually changes, why generic versions underperform in screening, and when a generic CV is still useful.
Read the ArticleA concise medical CV guide covering clinical experience, registration, education, audits, teaching, research, and role-specific tailoring.
Read the ArticleHow to format an NHS CV: length, section order, GMC/NMC registration, clinical experience, audits, teaching, and tailoring to the band or grade in the person specification.
Read the ArticleAn NHS doctor CV example with section-by-section structure — registration, clinical experience, audit, teaching — plus what changes for a junior doctor CV in the UK.
Read the ArticleA focused checklist for NHS nurse CVs, covering NMC registration, clinical areas, medication safety, handovers, documentation, and tailoring.
Read the ArticleGuides to ATS resume format, keywords, and optimization: how applicant tracking systems read a CV and how to pass screening without keyword stuffing.
ATS stands for Applicant Tracking System. Learn what an ATS resume means, how the software reads and filters your CV, and how to check yours parses correctly.
Read the ArticleThe ATS resume format rules that pass screening in 2026 — file type, headings, layout — plus a step-by-step process for optimizing your CV for any job description.
Read the ArticleHow to find resume keywords for ATS in any job description and use them naturally — plus example keyword lists for IT, customer service, healthcare, admin, and sales roles.
Read the ArticleTemplates, checklists, and before-and-after examples for checking whether a CV is ready to send.
A 25-point resume checklist grouped by content, tailoring, format and ATS, and proofing — with a free one-page PDF version to run before every application.
Read the ArticleA free ATS resume template with a simple single-column structure: download the .docx, see a filled example, and learn why each section parses cleanly.
Read the ArticleA free NHS CV template: registration, clinical experience, audit and QI, and teaching sections in a clean .docx you can download and fill in for NHS job applications.
Read the ArticleSix before-and-after resume examples across customer operations, nursing, and early-career work — weak generic bullets rewritten into specific, job-matched evidence.
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