Job Description
Ruth had been in nursing for six years.
She was not looking for sympathy. She was not looking for someone to tell her that healthcare workers are undervalued or that the system is broken or any of the other things people say when they do not know what else to offer.
Ruth was practical, direct, and had spent six years making fast decisions in high-pressure environments that most people could not survive for a week.
She did not come to me because she was struggling emotionally.
She came because she wanted to move into health administration, and nobody was taking her seriously.
Ruth understood how hospitals work from the inside in a way that most administrators never will. She had coordinated care across departments during staff shortages that would have paralysed someone without her experience.
But every application she sent came back with silence or a polite rejection. She had applied for fourteen roles over seven months. Twelve rejections. Two no responses.
When she sat across from me, she was not defeated. Ruth was not the kind of person who got defeated easily. But she was frustrated in the specific way that competent people get frustrated when the world does not see what they know to be true about themselves.
She Pulled Out Her CV, and I Understood Immediately
Before I even finished the first section, I had a clear picture of what had been happening for seven months.
Ruth had asked an AI tool to help her transition her nursing CV into something that would appeal to administration roles. She had explained what she wanted, and the AI had done what it thought was helpful. It had essentially erased her.
In trying to make her CV sound less clinical and more administrative, the AI had stripped out most of what made Ruth remarkable. What remained was a vague, generically professional document that could have belonged to someone with three years of experience or thirteen. There was no texture. So we went to work on the document, two hours of understanding her career background.
Within a month, Ruth had three interviews lined up.
Two of the hiring managers mentioned during the process that her frontline background was exactly what differentiated her from other candidates.
What I Want You To Think About
If you are trying to make a career transition, whether from one industry to another or from one level to the next, there is something important you need to know.
AI cannot help you reframe your experience. It can only help you describe it. And when you ask it to make you sound like something different, it will often make you sound like something less.
Click here to get started. Your experience is the argument. Let us make sure it lands.
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