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See the difference positioning makes.

Anonymised excerpts from resume and LinkedIn engagements — the original wording, the repositioned version, and the reasoning behind the change. Each sample includes a one-page PDF preview you can download.

Before and after

Six anonymised samples

Every excerpt on this page is anonymised. Names, employers, locations and identifying figures are changed or generalised, and samples are only published with client permission. The wording shown illustrates our approach — your documents are written from your own experience.

Resume · Senior · Scope and ownership

Operations Manager → Regional Operations

A duty-led CV rewritten so twelve years of site leadership reads at regional level: scope first, then measurable ownership.

Before — duty list

  • Responsible for the day-to-day running of the depot.
  • Managed staff rotas, health and safety, and stock control.
  • Attended weekly management meetings and reported to the Operations Director.
  • Helped improve efficiency across the site.

After — positioned for the next level

  • Operations leader accountable for a 140-person depot and a £24m service P&L, reporting to the Operations Director.
  • Rebuilt shift planning and stock discipline, holding service levels through a 30% volume increase without additional headcount.
  • Led the site through two external audits with no major findings, and wrote the standard adopted across three sister depots.
  • Trusted by the regional team to stabilise underperforming sites during peak season.

What changed and why

  • Every role opens with a one-line scope statement — people, budget, geography, reporting line.
  • Duties replaced with three achievement lines per role, each with a result or a decision the client owned.
  • Language matched to regional operations job specifications rather than depot vocabulary.
One-page CV preview

Resume · Executive · Board-level narrative

Finance Director → CFO

An executive resume reframed from technical finance delivery to mandate, governance and enterprise value.

Before — technical summary

  • Experienced finance professional with strong knowledge of reporting, budgeting and compliance.
  • Oversaw month-end close, statutory accounts and audit preparation.
  • Managed a finance team and supported the leadership group.

After — executive positioning

  • Finance executive who builds the reporting, controls and capital discipline a growing group needs before it scales.
  • Held the finance mandate for a five-entity healthcare group: consolidation, treasury, banking relationships and board reporting.
  • Reduced close from 21 to 9 working days by consolidating four ledgers onto a single chart of accounts.
  • Partnered with the CEO on two acquisitions — diligence, integration planning and post-deal reporting structure.

What changed and why

  • Opening statement answers the question a board asks: what mandate can this person hold?
  • Finance detail retained but subordinated to governance, capital and growth themes.
  • Acquisition and board exposure surfaced to the first half of page one, where search partners read.
One-page resume preview

Resume · Mid-career transition · Transferable evidence

Teacher → Programme Manager

A career-change CV that translates classroom leadership into programme delivery language without overstating experience.

Before — sector-locked

  • Head of Department in a secondary school, teaching Key Stage 3 and 4.
  • Planned lessons, marked coursework and prepared students for examinations.
  • Ran the departmental budget and mentored newly qualified teachers.

After — translated for the target market

  • Programme and delivery manager with eight years leading a 14-person department against fixed deadlines and public accountability.
  • Owned a £180k annual budget and the planning cycle for 600+ learners across two campuses.
  • Designed and rolled out a new curriculum programme, training 14 staff and reporting progress to the senior leadership team each term.
  • Recognised for turning around the department's lowest-performing cohort through structured intervention tracking.

What changed and why

  • Job titles kept honest; the framing above them speaks the target sector's language.
  • Budget, headcount, stakeholders and reporting cadence made explicit — the four things hiring managers screen for.
  • Teaching-specific terminology removed only where a direct equivalent exists.
One-page CV preview

LinkedIn · Senior · Headline and About

Senior Marketing Leader

A profile rewritten so the headline states a market position and the About section reads as a professional argument.

Before — job title as identity

  • Headline: Marketing Manager at [Company]
  • About: Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience in B2B and B2C marketing. Passionate about brands, data-driven, and always learning. Open to new opportunities.

After — positioned profile

  • Headline: Senior Marketing Leader | Demand Generation & Brand Strategy | B2B SaaS and Professional Services
  • About (opening): I build the marketing engine that a business needs at its current stage — not the one that worked at the last company.
  • About (evidence): Ten years across B2B SaaS and professional services, leading teams of up to nine, owning budgets to £1.2m, and taking three products from positioning to pipeline.
  • About (close): I write about positioning and demand generation here. If you are rethinking how your market hears you, I am glad to talk.

What changed and why

  • Headline uses all three positioning slots: level, capability, market.
  • Generic adjectives replaced with scope, budget and category evidence.
  • Keywords placed where LinkedIn search actually reads them — headline, About opening, and role titles.
One-page profile preview

LinkedIn · Executive · Executive visibility

Technology Executive (CTO track)

Executive LinkedIn positioning for a technology leader being approached by search partners rather than applying.

Before — engineer's profile

  • Headline: Head of Engineering
  • About: Software engineer turned manager. Experienced in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, Python, Go and building high-performing teams.
  • Experience entries listed technologies only.

After — board-facing positioning

  • Headline: Technology Executive | Scaling Engineering Organisations | Platform, Security & Delivery at Growth Stage
  • About (opening): I take engineering organisations through the stage where informal process stops working — 30 people to 120, one product to a platform.
  • About (evidence): Rebuilt delivery for a regulated fintech platform: quarterly releases to weekly, incident volume down by two thirds, ISO 27001 achieved first pass.
  • About (close): Board and investor reporting on technology risk, roadmap and cost. Available for CTO conversations with growth-stage and PE-backed businesses.

What changed and why

  • Technology stack moved to the Skills section; the profile now leads with organisational outcomes.
  • Availability signalled to search partners without appearing to job-hunt.
  • Featured section structured for an executive bio and a leadership vision statement.
One-page profile preview

LinkedIn · Entry to mid · Credibility without seniority

Early-Career Analyst

An early-career profile made specific and credible using coursework, placements and tooling instead of borrowed seniority language.

Before — thin and generic

  • Headline: Graduate seeking opportunities
  • About: Recent graduate with a degree in Economics. Hard-working, quick learner, good team player. Looking for a role in finance or analytics.

After — specific and credible

  • Headline: Data & Business Analyst | Economics Graduate | SQL, Python, Power BI | Financial Services
  • About (opening): I turn messy operational data into the two or three numbers a team can actually act on.
  • About (evidence): Twelve-month placement in a retail bank's reporting team, automating a weekly branch performance pack in SQL and Power BI and cutting preparation from a day to under an hour.
  • About (close): Currently deepening Python for forecasting work. Open to analyst roles in financial services and consultancy.

What changed and why

  • 'Seeking opportunities' replaced with a role identity and a named toolset.
  • Placement work written as delivered outcomes rather than duties.
  • Claims kept proportionate to experience — credibility, not inflation.
One-page profile preview

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