*** ARE YOU READY FOR A BIG, BOLD CAREER MOVE?*** ARE YOU EAGER TO STAND UP AND TAKE YOUR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN A ROLE THAT RECOGNISES YOUR STRENGTHS AND SKILLS, YOUR HARD-EARNED EXPERIENCE, AND YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL?Then keep reading.•Ace Your CV, Elevate Your Career will equip you with the mindset, strategies, and tools you need to craft and present a powerful, career-boosting CV. •Following a tried-and-tested 5-step system (Confidence, Clarity, Content, Creation, Connection), you’ll discover how to create a CV that increases your career confidence, optimises your professional visibility, and opens interview doors.•You’ll learn how to apply a rich patchwork of career stories to evidence your value and potential, taking your CV from a boring 2D summary to a dynamic 3D promise.•And whether you are a jack of all trades, want to change suits, or are holding all the cards; everything you need to ace your CV and elevate your career is right here.WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? •Mid-level professionals who are ready for their next big, bold career move.•Smart job hunters who are eager to stand up and take their rightful place in a role that recognises their innate skills, hard-earned experience, and their bags of potential.WHY WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Today’s job market is super competitive. You need to put in some serious effort to stand out. But, more than that, life is ticking by, and you owe it to yourself to make the most of it. This book will help you to finally escape cruise mode, apply your natural-born talents and acquire the skills you need to up-level your career. This book will help you shine a spotlight on your strengths, recognise your potential, and become your own champion to secure the next exciting step of your career ladder.WHY NOW?Your foundations have been laid…You’ve earned your stripes…And now you’re ready to harness the years of graft, the long hours and late nights, and all those lessons from bad bosses (and the great ones) to secure the biggest rung on your career ladder to date. It’s now the RIGHT TIME to pull together everything that you are, and everything you’ve been through to achieve your ambition. It’s now the RIGHT TIME to dust off those hard-earned career stories and use them as the chalk you need to grip and secure your next handhold. It’s YOUR TIME to be discovered.WHAT WILL THIS BOOK DO FOR YOU? This book will equip you with the mindset, strategies, and tools to craft and present your best possible CV and career documents. These tools can help you make a great (and vital) first impression, and carry forward your dreams and ambitions until you can do it face-to-face in the interview room. Following the five-step system (Confidence, Clarity, Content, Creation, Connection), you’ll create a CV, LinkedIn profile, and social CV that sum up your ambition, the problems you can solve, your unique approach, and your rich patchwork of career stories that evidence your value and potential. ABOUT THE AUTHORLis McGuire, owner of Giraffe CVs and host of The CV Confidence Coach Podcast, has been helping people just like you to make big, bold career moves, aim high, stand tall, and get spotted with interview-winning CVs. Having worked with more than 1,500 job seekers over the past decade, she is now sharing her tried-and-tested insider tips to help you increase career confidence, optimise professional visibility, and open interview doors.Giraffe CVs was recommended by Guardian Careers, in 2014, as one of their top 10 experts on Twitter to help you get ahead with your career.