Your First Impression
Your First Impression
Make YOUR first impression count.
Before anyone meets you, they’ve usually already formed an opinion.
From your CV. Your LinkedIn profile. Your cover letter. The way you’ve described what you do, what you’ve achieved and why you’re worth talking to.
And when you do reach the interview, all of those pieces need to lead naturally to the person who walks into the room or appears on the screen.
Your First Impression helps make sure the professional version of you is clear, credible, consistent and actually represents the experience and value you bring.
Because your CV isn’t just an inventory of your career.
It’s your first presentation of yourself.
This might be for you if…
Your CV has been updated so many times that it’s become a record of everywhere you’ve ever worked rather than a useful presentation of who you are now.
You have plenty of experience, but the important bits are getting buried.
Your LinkedIn profile exists, but doesn’t really represent you.
You’re applying for roles you know you’re capable of doing, but you’re struggling to communicate why.
Your cover letters sound generic, repetitive or disconnected from the rest of your application.
Your CV, LinkedIn profile and cover letter each sound as though they were written by a slightly different person.
You’ve secured an interview and want to make sure you can communicate your experience clearly without rambling, underselling yourself or sounding rehearsed.
Or perhaps you’ve been looking at your own professional history for so long that you simply can’t tell what somebody else sees anymore.
Your professional story should make sense
Your CV, LinkedIn profile and cover letter each do a different job.
But they should all be recognisably you.
They should present the same professional story, reinforce the same strengths and make it easy for somebody to understand what you bring.
That’s why I don’t simply polish individual sentences.
I look at how you’re presenting yourself as a whole.
What’s standing out?
What’s getting buried?
Is your experience easy to understand?
Does your level of responsibility come across properly?
Are you giving valuable space to things that no longer matter?
And, most importantly:
Where is your actual value hiding?
CV Review & Edit
More than a list of jobs.
I’ve reviewed plenty of CVs from the hiring side of the desk.
And the uncomfortable truth is that sometimes you know remarkably quickly whether you want to keep reading.
A CV needs to look professional, be easy to navigate and make the relevant information easy to find.
Then the content has to earn the attention you’ve just gained.
I’ll review your CV for structure, positioning, clarity, relevance, consistency and language, looking particularly at whether your experience and achievements are being presented at the right level.
I’ll remove unnecessary repetition, tighten language and bring important information forward.
I won’t invent achievements, manufacture impressive-sounding statistics or turn you into a dynamic, results-driven strategic thought leader if you aren’t one.
Actually, even if you are one, we’ll probably find a better way of saying it.
The aim is a stronger presentation of you, not a fictional upgrade.
LinkedIn Review & Edit
Does your profile match the person on your CV?
LinkedIn has more room to breathe than a CV, but that doesn’t mean it needs your complete autobiography.
I’ll look at your headline, About section, experience and overall positioning to see whether somebody arriving at your profile can quickly understand who you are, what you do and where your experience sits.
Most importantly, I’ll make sure it belongs to the same professional person as the CV.
Not Corporate LinkedIn You.
Not AI You.
You.
Cover Letter Review & Edit
The bit that should connect you to the actual opportunity.
A cover letter shouldn’t simply repeat your CV in paragraph form.
It should help somebody understand why your experience makes sense for this particular role or opportunity.
I’ll help you make that connection clearly, remove generic filler and make sure the letter complements rather than duplicates the rest of your application.
And yes, if AI helped you write it, that’s fine.
We just don’t want the hiring manager receiving six applications that all begin with the same passionate excitement about an organisation’s esteemed reputation.
Interview Preparation
From the first document they see to the first conversation you have.
Getting the interview means your written presentation has done its job.
Now you need to sound like the same person.
Interview preparation is a focused one-to-one session built around your actual interview and the role you’re applying for.
Before we meet, I’ll review the relevant information, such as the job description, your CV and application or cover letter.
We’ll look at what the employer is really likely to want to understand about you, which parts of your experience deserve emphasis, where you may be challenged and which examples will help demonstrate what you can actually do.
We’ll also work through likely questions and the questions you might want to ask them.
The aim isn’t to teach you a collection of perfect interview answers.
It’s to make sure you know what you want them to understand about you and can communicate it clearly when you’re sitting in front of them.
Choose what you need
This isn’t an all-or-nothing package.
You might need help with one part of your professional presentation or want several elements reviewed together.
CV Review & Edit – £95
LinkedIn Review & Edit – £85
Cover Letter Review & Edit – £65
Interview Preparation – £95
Need more than one?
Combine any three services and save 10%, or choose all four for £290.
If you’re combining several elements, I’ll also look at how they work together so your professional story remains consistent from one to the next.
Pricing depends on what you’d like me to review or prepare, and I’ll confirm the full cost before we begin.
What I won’t do
I won’t invent experience you don’t have.
I won’t inflate achievements to make them sound more impressive.
I won’t fill your CV with keywords until it stops sounding human.
And I won’t turn your professional history into somebody else’s idea of what a successful person should sound like.
Your experience is the substance. My job is to make sure people can see it.