Improving Your CV, Chapter 2: My Background & Context

Part of Course 1: Improving your CV · Chapter 2 of 29 · 4 min

About this chapter

A short bit of context on who I am and why you might listen: a startup founder turned senior banking and digital transformation executive who has hired a lot of people and reviewed a very large number of CVs, including up to 150 a night on TikTok Live.

Key points

• Background: startup founder, then digital transformation at RBS and NatWest, group chief digital officer at Nordea, chief transformation officer at Sohar International Bank, and now an advisory business and external faculty at LIBF.
• I've been the hiring manager, the person rubber-stamping a hire, and the person working with HR teams of very different quality.
• You don't need to share my industry for the advice to apply: I can read a medical or architectural CV and ask the questions that pull out scale, budget, people and timelines.
• The course gives basic approaches that apply whatever your domain, or whether you're still a student.

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