A date with your CV
You've been using your CV for years. You've never actually met it. A guided reflective experience for those in transition, career changers, job seekers, and the coaches and HR professionals who support them.
You know the feeling. You open the document because you have to a job search, a restructure, a career change you half-want and half-dread and something in you goes quiet or tight. The page stares back in its polite, professional language, and somehow the person described there feels like someone you're supposed to impersonate rather than someone you actually are.
If asking "so, what do you do?" makes your chest tighten if you're tired of feeling blocked every time you have to explain yourself, your worth, your story nothing has gone wrong with you. You've simply only ever met your CV in evaluation mode: under pressure, being judged, performing. No relationship survives being conducted entirely in interviews.
A Date with Your CV invites you into a completely different meeting.
Over sixty to ninety unhurried minutes, in a café you love, or at a table you've made lovely for the occasion you'll sit down with the printed pages of your working life the way you'd sit down with someone you genuinely wanted to know. Guided by twenty-five carefully crafted reflective questions, you'll read your own history as a curious stranger rather than a critic: finding the accidents that taught you things you'd never have chosen to learn, the leaps you took before you were ready, the quiet instinct you've brought to every role without ever being asked, and the real questions you were asking of life each time you moved.
This isn't about rewriting your CV although that will follow undoubtedly from this exercise. It's about changing your relationship to the person inside it so that when you do share your story, in an interview, a bio, a conversation at a party, it comes from recognition instead of performance.
This is for you if you are:
Job searching and feeling stuck at an impasse sending things out into the world while feeling strangely disconnected from what they say about you
Considering or moving through a career change, and grieving, doubting, or second-guessing the path that brought you here
Someone who feels scared, angry, or blocked every time you have to articulate what you do and why it matters
In a season of transition where your motivation feels far away, and you're tired of being told to just "find your passion"
And it's for you if you support others:
Coaches working with career change, interviews, and confidence, this is a rich, ready-to-use exercise you can offer clients between sessions, with material that flows naturally back into your work together
Internal organisational coaches and HR professionals supporting people through restructures, redeployment, and role transitions, who want something more humane than another CV workshop
Anyone helping others with the embodied side of self-presentation: how we tell people who we are, what we do, and why we do it from a settled place rather than a defended one
What you'll receive:
A beautifully structured guided worksheet in different movements from setting the scene, through arrival and feeling, first impressions, deepening conversation, and a gentle close ending with one small, doable "second date" step that rebuilds momentum the way momentum has always actually been built: through contact, not certainty.
A note of honesty, because this whole exercise is built on it:
This is not the full coaching journey to career confidence, and it doesn't pretend to be the full CV story. It's one big, generous chunk of that journey, the reconciliation part. The part where you stop treating your working life as evidence against you and start reading it as the story of someone who has been choosing, adapting, and quietly leaping all along.
Whether you're at the very start of a change or simply want a more harmonious relationship with any part of your career process, this is a beautiful place to begin or to return to, any time the page and the person drift apart again.
Your working life has been trying to tell you something kinder than you think.
Pour yourself something lovely, and go find out what.
The reflection guide is priced at 20 USD
