TECHNICAL VETTING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CAREERS
Technically qualified. Commercially invisible.
For environmental graduates and professionals targeting roles in the UK or worldwide.
Your capability may be genuine. That does not mean it is visible to the organisations reviewing your application.
Shearwater identifies where technical experience is being lost in translation, then makes your specialism, project delivery and regulatory fluency easier for employers to recognise.
Free to use. Takes around two minutes. PDF, Word and pasted text accepted.
Founded by Josh Francis · Former Senior Marine Environmental Consultant
Personally reviewed · Fully written delivery · 5–7 working days · Global market targeting
THE PROBLEM
Capability and visibility are not the same thing.
Environmental graduates and professionals often describe their experience accurately and still make it difficult to interpret.
The evidence exists. The reader cannot identify its professional value quickly enough.
That is the Technical-Commercial Gap.
Your technical direction is unclear
The profile presents several interests, subjects or responsibilities without establishing the work you are best placed to deliver.
Your delivery evidence is buried
Projects and activities are listed, but your outputs, responsibility and contribution are difficult to identify.
Your professional context is missing
Technical and regulatory experience appears without enough context for the reader to understand its relevance to the target role.
This is Technical Invisibility: credible experience that is present, but not professionally legible.
See where your CV is losing professional clarity.
FREE ENVIRONMENTAL CV ASSESSMENT
Upload your CV for an immediate automated assessment across four areas of professional readability.
You will see where the profile is strongest, where evidence may be getting lost and which issue should be addressed first.
Free. No obligation. Your result is generated immediately.Technical Visibility
How clearly your specialism, technical methods and substantive experience are presented.
Regulatory Fluency
How effectively relevant legislation, consenting routes and regulatory context are communicated.
Commercial Visibility
Whether the profile communicates delivery, responsibility and recognisable professional outputs.
Market Positioning
Whether the profile gives the target employer a clear reason to place you within a particular role or team.
CHOOSE YOUR ROUTE
Choose the level of support that matches your career stage.
Shearwater provides separate routes for graduates and experienced environmental professionals. Your target market is confirmed as part of the service.
Graduate and early-career services
For final-year students, recent graduates and early-career candidates whose qualifications, projects, fieldwork or early experience are not reading clearly.
Choose diagnosis, a CV rebuild, coordinated CV and LinkedIn implementation, or complete positioning support.
Professional services
For environmental professionals whose profile reads below the level of work they deliver or no longer supports the move they are targeting.
Choose a detailed profile diagnosis or complete diagnosis and implementation.
Not sure which route applies? Start with the free assessment.
A RECENT CLIENT EXAMPLE
The experience was already there. The profile was hiding it.
A recent Professional Positioning Package client was moving from the UK environmental sector into the Australian market.
Their experience covered contaminated land, water quality, regulatory work, consultancy and major pollution incident response. The problem was not the substance of the career. It was how little of that substance could be seen in the profile.
What the client said
“Trying to position my UK environmental experience for the Australian market felt genuinely daunting. The work you’ve done through Shearwater has given me a huge amount of clarity and completely changed how I present myself professionally.
The CV, LinkedIn profile, strategy and action plan gave me a clear direction for my job search.”
Before
“To promptly integrate into a dynamic consulting team, apply technical expertise and social intelligence to deliver high quality outcomes, drive continuous improvement, and contribute to the strategic direction of the business.”
Broad, aspirational and difficult for an employer to place into a specific technical context.
After
“Contaminated land and water quality professional with experience across regulatory, consultancy and water utility environments. Technical evidence included conceptual site modelling, source-pathway-receptor risk assessment, pollution incident investigation and environmental sampling.”
The specialism, technical scope and level of responsibility became immediately clearer.
The work established the client’s contaminated land and water quality specialism, surfaced major pollution incident evidence and aligned the profile with the level of responsibility already present in the career.
The experience stayed the same. How it read changed.
THE SHEARWATER APPROACH
The experience stays the same. How it reads changes.
Shearwater identifies the professional meaning already present in your experience, then removes the ambiguity that prevents others from seeing it.
Establish a clear technical identity
The profile is organised around a credible target direction rather than a broad collection of interests, subjects and responsibilities.
Position the profile for the target market
The profile is calibrated to the role, career stage and target market so the reader does not have to translate its relevance unaided.
Make delivery evidence visible
Projects, technical outputs, responsibility and regulatory exposure are presented as evidence of work delivered, not simply activity observed.
The objective is not stronger claims. It is stronger evidence transmission.
PROCESS
From initial assessment to completed positioning.
Step 01: Diagnose the visibility problem
Upload your CV and receive an immediate automated result across Technical Visibility, Commercial Visibility, Regulatory Fluency and Market Positioning.
Step 02: Select the right level of support
Choose the service that matches the problem identified and the amount of implementation required.
Step 03: Receive the completed work
Josh personally reviews every paid client deliverable before it is issued. Standard rebuild and positioning services are delivered within 5 to 7 working days.
FOUNDED FROM INSIDE THE SECTOR
Built from direct experience in environmental consultancy.
Josh Francis founded Shearwater after working as a Senior Marine Environmental Consultant in the UK environmental sector.
His background spans environmental assessment, consenting, regulatory engagement, technical authorship and consultancy project delivery.
Shearwater applies that experience to one specific problem: whether genuine environmental capability is being communicated in a form employers can recognise and use.
This is technical vetting and positioning, not generic CV writing, recruitment representation or career coaching.
Find out whether your experience is technically visible.
Upload your CV for an immediate automated assessment of how clearly your technical capability, delivery evidence, regulatory fluency and market position are being communicated.
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