Calling ThisisMax and professional CV writers

[Verysadatwork]

Hi everyone,
just over a year ago I posted this rather longwinded thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4489086-Please-please-help-re-work-Can-I-get-past-this and got great support especially from @thisismax.

max recommended always having an exit strategy and using a professional CV writer - can anyone recommend any?

I’d also appreciate guidance. I’ve now been managing a team for 15 months. There are 7 of us now and we are the best-performing team in the firm in terms of KPIs.
the team is bottom-heavy (I’m the only partner) and after I got ill over Christmas (trying to work through flu, ended up with insomnia) my boss announced (correctly) that I had no more capacity and we needed to recruit seniors.
my boss has advertised 2 jobs, in both cases making it sound like they will run separate departments to mine. In case A this is feasible (it’s a new work stream and high-prestige). But in case B it’s a sub-specialism of what my team already does that cannot be carved out operationally. Even if it was operationally possible with extreme risk, I’d be in a situation where I couldn’t meet my targets because my team would lose half its revenue.
I’ve tried to raise this in terms of my needs/ambitions/sense of ownership of the whole department and vision for it. My boss has said I’m being controlling and he can’t grow his business around my ego. I think he is micromanaging and undermining me.
any thoughts appreciated.

Bump

I would start you own thread. This one is going nowhere

Ok thank you. Always difficult to predict how these things work?

Your old thread was very interesting, OP. Is this the same boss, the top guy? Do you still have the two LMs also? I must confess I did not finish reading the thread so I may have missed something

I just think an updated sense of the structure you are within would be useful, because Case B doesn’t sound great for you. I could be wrong because I am from a different sector, but if Case B is losing your team revenue it seems likely that it is losing you influence?

How have things been going since you last wrote? Is there a relationship between this situation and your query about a CV writer? I am so sorry you are going through this

Thank you Poetry. Yes, same guy. Now boss to 100 people!

Re the 2 line managers - one quit in April 2022. The other is still there. He is a nice guy but has no power. He has safe we need to sort this out before the next recruitments.

Has said…

Re current structure: there is CEO -owns 100% of business.
there is nice but ineffectual line manager.
there are 7 group heads and we each run teams.

things have been really good since the last thread but now this has blown up….

I spent ages working on my CV (made redundant at 56) but I have found very little use for it as most companies seem to have their own recruitment systems that want you to input directly into them. Job applications often consist of a series of annoying questions (x 10, max 500 words per question) like 'What do you think makes for great Leadership and outline examples of where you have shown it in the past, in relation to this job application?'

Years ago, Employers would be satisfied with just looking over your CV to see the kind of work that you'd done, and a short covering letter explaining your interest in the job.

A friend of mine told me that these databases often make initial auto selections based on the wording in the job advert so everything needs to be rewritten to include as many of these 'buzz words' as you can.

Wow, @Verysadatwork It’s great that things had been going well. I can’t quite tell how serious this is, not that I am well placed to offer advice. Would a session with a careers coach be useful?

Our students say similar things to @Charlize43 about current application processes.

Thanks poetry will post again when work permits