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SHEARWATER
Technically qualified. Commercially invisible.
Shearwater closes the gap.
Shearwater rebuilds environmental CVs and professional profiles so technical experience, project delivery and regulatory knowledge read clearly to the organisations you are targeting.
We close the Technical-Commercial Gap between what you have done and what an employer can recognise quickly.
Free assessment. Instant result. No obligation.
Founded by Josh Francis · Former Senior Marine Environmental Consultant
Environmental-sector specialist
Personally reviewed
Fully written delivery
5–7 working days
THE PROBLEM SHEARWATER SOLVES
Strong experience can still be Technically Invisible.
Technical Invisibility is the condition of having genuine environmental capability that is not immediately recognisable in your CV, LinkedIn profile or application.
It appears when academic language obscures delivery, technical outputs are buried beneath generic responsibilities, or specialist and international experience is presented without the context an employer needs to interpret it.
The disconnect between what you have done and what the reader can quickly understand is the Technical-Commercial Gap.
Shearwater closes that gap by restructuring your evidence around technical identity, project delivery, regulatory fluency and target-role relevance.
The experience is present. The professional meaning is not.
Technical Invisibility
Capability exists, but the profile does not make it professionally visible.
The Technical-Commercial Gap
The distance between the experience held and the value an employer can recognise quickly.
What creates technical invisibility
What makes environmental professionals technically invisible
Academic language
Environmental science trains graduates to write for academic audiences.
Employers evaluate candidates on commercial delivery.
The gap between passive academic language and active commercial framing is the first filter point, and most candidates never get past it.
Invisible technical credentials
Survey methodologies, EIA process stages, regulatory frameworks, legislative context. These signal sector fluency when named correctly.
Describing them as fieldwork or environmental surveys signals the opposite.
Specificity is the difference between visible and filtered out.
Wrong market framing
Whether you are a graduate or an international professional, your profile must communicate in the language of the market you are targeting.
What works in an academic submission or a different national context does not automatically translate.
Every market has a specific vocabulary. Most candidates never learn it.
Shearwater vets your profile against the specific criteria environmental consultancies, regulators, and project teams use to evaluate candidates, and tells you exactly what to change, or changes it for you.
Which stage are you at?
Graduate
You have the degree and the experience. Your CV and LinkedIn are not reading correctly to employers.
For graduates and early-career environmental professionals, wherever you are based and whatever market you are targeting. Whatever your background, the right framing is applied to your rebuild.
Professional
Your experience is stronger than your profile suggests.
For environmental professionals with sector experience targeting a senior move, pivot, or stronger positioning. Wherever you are based and whatever market you are targeting, the right framing is applied to your rebuild.
Wherever you're applying from, your rebuild is calibrated to your target market.
Are you technically invisible?
Upload your CV to the Environmental Employability Assessment.
It takes two minutes and gives you a scored read across the four dimensions that determine whether your profile gets shortlisted.
Free. Instant result. No obligation.
How it works
Submit
Choose your service and complete payment.
You will be directed to a short intake form.
The more context you give, the better your feedback.
Vetting
Your CV and LinkedIn are reviewed against the specific criteria environmental consultancies, regulators, and project teams use to evaluate candidates.
Sector-specific. Not generic.
Receive
Your completed deliverables are shared by email within five to seven working days. Depending on the service selected, this may include a rebuilt CV, LinkedIn rewrite, technical audit or positioning strategy. Every deliverable is reviewed by Josh before it is sent.
Work through the priority actions first.
Every recommendation is specific and immediately actionable.
Built from real environmental sector experience
Shearwater was founded by Josh Francis, drawing on direct experience as a Senior Marine Environmental Consultant at an international environmental consultancy.
Experience includes:
EIA authorship at NSIP scale — marine coastal processes, physical processes, marine mammals and more
Marine licensing and consenting for a variety of development projects
Extensive project and tender management on UK and international projects
Habitats Regulations Assessment and Water Framework Directive
Statutory consultation engagement with MMO, NatureScot, NRW, DAERA, MDLOT, and the Planning Inspectorate
Environmental Clerk of Works delivery on live construction sites
Protected species EPS Risk Assessments and licence applications, under the Habitats Regulations.
The Technical Audit Report you receive is informed by direct knowledge of what environmental consultancies, regulators, and project teams look for when they evaluate an environmental professional.
This is not career coaching. It is technical vetting.
The Technical-Commercial Gap is a known, fixable problem. Shearwater exists to fix it.
Technically qualified. Commercially invisible?
Start with the free assessment.
Upload your CV.
A scored read across four dimensions.
A clear picture of where the gap is.