Writing your CV after redundancy

Being made redundant is brutal. It's almost never about you, but the next thirty applications make it feel like it is.

The CV you submit in the weeks after redundancy is the hardest one you'll ever write. You've spent five, ten, sometimes twenty years inside one organisation. Your CV reads as one long tenure with one employer's vocabulary baked in. The recruiter scanning it for seven seconds doesn't see your real experience. They see "long-stayer, possibly stale, possibly bitter."

Your CV needs to do three things at once: explain why you're available (without sounding wronged), reshape your old role into a transferable story, and prove you're current. Most CV templates and most CV-writing services can't do all three. They reshape the duties, fail to translate the experience into language the new sector recognises, and leave a vague "seeking new opportunities" line that screams redundancy without ever using the word.

TAILOR rewrites your existing CV against the specific job you're applying for, so every application gets a fresh translation of who you are, not a recycled summary.