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This week, I am sharing a few thoughts on CVs and applications across LinkedIn. This is written mainly for candidates, but if you are hiring, it is a useful window into what actually separates a strong application from a polished one. The CV: polish no longer sets you apart; evidence does AI has changed what a CV looks like. Anyone can now produce a clean layout, tuned to the exact keywords in the job ad, with all the right phrases in all the right places. That is genuinely u

This week across LinkedIn I am sharing a few thoughts on the offer stage, so I wanted to put the fuller picture in one place. Almost all the attention in hiring goes to the search and the interview. The offer stage gets treated as a formality - paperwork at the end of a decision which is already made. In my experience, it is the opposite. More senior hires are lost at the offer stage than at any other point in the process. And almost never for the reason people assume. The of

Clean heat is emerging as one of the most significant growth opportunities in UK energy, and one almost no one is hiring for properly yet. Policy, funding and demand are beginning to align, but the sector faces a more immediate constraint: the workforce and leadership needed to deliver growth at scale. The direction is set by the Warm Homes Plan, applying in different measures across the UK nations. More than £13 billion is committed to heat decarbonisation and home energy im

A fuller perspective on onboarding senior hires, bringing together the thoughts I am sharing on LinkedIn this week. Most conversations about hiring stop at the offer. The search, the interviews, the close and then the start date, treated as the finish line. But the start date is not the end of the process. For senior hires especially, this is the point where the whole thing is quietly won or lost. Most hires that do not work out were not the wrong choice. They were the rig

Solar, storage and clean heat all run into the same wall: getting connected. The grid is no longer a technical footnote. It is the gating factor under the transition. Every clean energy project I am seeing right now is waiting on the same thing. Not money. Not planning. The grid connection. It remains a constraint which solar, storage and clean heat all share. You can win the site, raise the capital and line up the build and still sit in a connection queue measured in years.

eeing how a single strategic hire can elevate the whole organisation never stops being rewarding. A major engineering consultancy delivering complex infrastructure programmes across the UK was entering a new phase of growth and needed to strengthen its senior leadership team. They required a leader with a strong background in major projects, proven commercial accountability, and the ability to elevate both delivery and performance and organisational capability. We partnered

Sometimes the next step isn’t about doing more, it is about focusing on what matters. This is the story of an Investment Manager who wanted to deepen her expertise in renewables and found the perfect place to do it. This Investment Manager had a broad background across infrastructure and corporate finance, but her passion lay firmly in renewable energy. She wanted depth, not breadth, a chance to specialise and build expertise in the sector. We guided her through the transi