Your Next Chapter | Your CV is a Story with David Kean

What if the hardest part of writing your CV has nothing to do with writing?

David Kean, co-founder of Catalyst, specialises in human communication and persuasion, and in this Your Next Chapter session he makes the case that most CVs fail not because they lack information, but because they lack conviction.

David explains why your CV exists not to get you a job but to get you a conversation, why AI can polish your language but cannot give you the self-knowledge that makes a document compelling, and why the most powerful CVs read like a course of a life rather than an inventory of one. He covers how to find the main idea that gives your story shape, how to use language that creates a picture of a real person rather than a list of generic credentials, and why sitting with the discomfort of a blank page is one of the most valuable things you can do in a transition.

This is not a session about formatting. It is about thinking clearly about who you are before you write a single word.

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