Please recommend a CV writer

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Just that!
it’s for law (partner level)

https://citycv.com

quite expensive, but good.

TopCV are much, much cheaper and provide a free critical analysis of your current CV. However, for partner level, I would go with the best you can pay for.

Great!
I’ll try the expensive one

Good luck with the job and it would be great to know how it went / what you thought of the CV writer.

Oh my word, I just looked at their prices - they've gone up substantially.

So £999 is, um, quite high!!!

any other offers?

TopCV is about £120 for a CV and £150 for a CV and two cover letters

I've always found recruitment consultants can give great CV tips. You write it yourself, but they will give you guidance and help edit.

I know this might not be the point but if you're going for partner level I would think the cv would have to be incredibly, specifically tailored. I say this as someone at the other, opposite end applying for training contracts. Most applications require such a level of specificity, I wouldn't trust an online CV writer.

A lawyer at that level is surely competent enough to write their own CV?

phil sterne - he is on linked in - very good with senior people and a more holistic review of
cv, aspirations and interview technique

Provisions - I take your point. Right now I still have a job so no time to do it myself. Plus it’s “different when it happens to you”.

But yes, it’s a worry that I’d partly be paying for a “professor of English”…

Sunshine I’ll look up Phil, thanks!

I've used CV Centre and had a great response to my CV.
When I used them, they had different types of CV for different types of roles and levels. I would use them again too.

It's going to take time to give the CV writer the information anyway.

I've been recruited into partner roles and also recruited for them. The CVs are all pretty similar so if you have seen other senior CVs I would use those as a guide.

I honestly cannot see a CV writer being that much help in your situation.

I found TopCV terrible. It was clear the person who did mine didn't speak English as their first language. It was full of mistakes, made my CV much worse and the LinkedIn profile was a joke. AI could have done a better job.

Biggest waste of money ever.

Actually, no. I used to write CVs and I regularly help friends with CVs. You'd be SHOCKED at how bad many people are at writing CVs, including lawyers!

@alldonefortoday yes - there are very specific things you'd need to include in a partner-level CV. Most specifically, of course, revenue and client wins are absolutely essential - with a strong focus on how this will translate in a new law firm. Secondary, but still important, is successful client work, client management, and "good lawyering".

Team management/training/mentoring are also important, particularly if going for a city law firm which strongly emphasise this and increasingly require their partners to do this and include it in their compensation package assessments every year.

@NotLactoseFree in my experience the content you mention is mostly not for the CV. It is for the business plan that will be the next step if the CV passes the first cull of applicants. Some firms will have a standard form lateral partner questionnaire in which to input the business plan plus management experience, etc. Others will let you use your own format.

I think this is a good point... but depends on the recruitment process. You definitely do need to have this info to hand and to get through the initial cull, it should be in there. Having said that, a lot of lateral partner recruitment isn't exactly done via a job ad and everyone sending in their CVs so yes, I see your point from that perspective.

Similarly at a relatively high level within banking. The CVs there that I've seen are actually extraordinarily basic. Basically just say how big the team was, what products were traded, and the P&L for the desk and/or individual trader. It's only when it gets into middle and back office that there's any nuance re competencies, successes etc.

I echo this x 1000.

I got a free CV rewrite from them as part of a conference I attended - their website looks convincing but the end result was pretty bad.

Although they claim to be professional CV writers who "know your industry" they clearly had no clue about my particular industry and its norms for job applications. The grammar and syntax were poor in parts, and some phrases were contradictory. Their keyword optimisation for my CV was almost the same as for a colleague of mine, even though he works in a different field.

They clearly work to a copy-and-paste template. There is some discussion on Trustpilot about whether they are even based in the UK (Vietnam?) Many of the positive reviews on Trustpilot seem fake. Don't waste your money!

Stumbling upon this thread almost 2 years later, and after using a CV editing service from CVWritings.co.uk. Still dropping in my experience for the future.

They seemed pretty decent with the kind of pricing they have. Honestly, when I hired them, I was sceptical, but the CV writer, Jennifer, was good. I gave them preference over TopCV as I read so many bad reviews of them.

I created my CV myself, but it was failing the ATS test on CV builders. I hired them to optimize it and to make it good enough so it performs well at an executive level. They did a good job, I would recommend them to others for sure.

I highly recommend Your CV Pro.
Please see their website, very affordable and high quality CVs

Any doubt check there google reviews.

https://www.yourcvpro.co.uk