Career Narrative and CV Writing
When you’re navigating a career transition—whether planned or unexpected—it’s essential to reframe your experience in a way that aligns with where you’re headed, not just where you’ve been. This workshop, Crafting Your Career Narrative & CV, is designed to help seasoned professionals articulate their value with clarity, confidence, and strategic focus. You’ll learn how to develop a cohesive career story that connects your experience, strengths, and goals—then translate that into a CV that resonates with modern employers and recruiters. This isn’t about listing everything you’ve ever done; it’s about curating your professional journey so others can immediately see what you bring to the table and where you’re going next. Whether you’re pivoting industries, returning after a break, or seeking advancement, your story and your CV are the foundation for your next opportunity.
Sessions
3
Duration
3 weeks
Time commitment
8-10 hours (including homework)
Price
120€
What you will get out of this workshop
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Clarify your career direction and goals to inform the development of a focused narrative and CV.
Identify transferable skills, achievements, and themes that support a cohesive career story.
Craft a compelling career narrative that connects past experience with future goals in a way that resonates with employers.
Write a strong professional summary that reflects your value proposition and sets the tone for your CV.
Structure a CV strategically to highlight accomplishments, leadership, and impact—not just responsibilities.
Tailor CV content for specific industries, roles, and opportunities without starting from scratch every time.
Use keywords and formatting techniques to align with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and human readers alike.
Distinguish between core CV types (chronological, functional, hybrid) and select the right format for your situation.
Workshop Facilitators
Dimitris Diamantis
Certified Master of Career Services, Consultant, Entrepreneur
Dimitris has 25+ years experience working with academia, NGOs, international organizational and the private sector. The past 10 years has been offering both career and executive coaching, having supported many professionals in successfully transitioning into new career and roles.
Recently he co-developed a comprehensive, self-paced, workshop-style career development program for all UNHCR employees. This toolkit was designed to empower UNHCR staff, help them facilitate their career advancement, and manage gracefully their career transitions.
Dimitris has helped designed resumes and cover letters, which helped them land interviews in just a few days. He has also designed and facilitates an original program to help people identify their career callings and pursue meaningful careers that are anchored in who they are.
During those years he has also founded and mentored more than 10 startups in many different sectors (tech/apps, education, parenting, food, publications, consulting). Currently he helps both employees and organizations through Sentient, an Organizational Design and L&D Consultancy he founded.
Susie Kenny-Smith
Former UN HR professional, Leadership & Career Coach
Susie, MCIPD, MBACP*, is a senior Human Resources professional and executive coach with over 20 years’ experience designing and delivering complex transformations, learning and leadership programmes within the private sector and the UN.
Susie has extensive experience providing career and outplacement coaching to employees in the private sector, UNICEF, and Oxfam International. More recently, Susie co-created a comprehensive Careers Toolkit for all staff in UNHCR, available on their learning platform and being launched to all staff in 2025.
As Senior Advisor for UNICEF’s Private Fundraising Partnerships division, Susie led the division’s priority transformation initiative, facilitating senior management team meetings and providing coaching to senior managers. As previous Head of Learning and Development, she led the design and delivery of training and career development programmes for staff and introduced the Gallup Clifton Strengths programme.
Susie also co-developed the award-winning UN Emerging Women Leaders Programme, a collaboration of 11 UN agencies in Geneva. In April 2024, she facilitated a programme for women leaders Cargill in the private sector and in July 2024, was guest speaker at Finding the Leader Within event at the all England Tennis Championships focusing on women leadership and gender equality.
From 2019-2021, Susie led the highly successful global priority initiative, Business for Results at UNICEF, supporting and coaching over 50 facilitators delivering the programme with a budget of $1.4m to over 60 country offices and 1,500 staff. Prior to joining UNICEF, Susie worked in the private sector in senior HR management roles within the tech/chemical, tourism and retail sectors as well as an international NGO.
Susie has a Masters in Counselling Psychology, a Certificate in Humanistic Counselling from the Gestalt Institute in London, and is a member of the Change Management Institute in the UK. Susie’s coaching style is strengths-focused, collaborative and practical. She combines her coaching expertise with her L&D, career development, and recruitment experience, to help individuals identify their strengths and transferable skills, develop a compelling application and effectively showcase their achievements during interview.
*MCIPD – Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, UK, MBACP – Accredited Member of the British Institute of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
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