TECHNICAL VETTING FOR THE UK ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR
Technically qualified. Commercially invisible.
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 rebuilds the evidence so your specialism, project delivery and regulatory fluency read clearly.
Free to use. Takes around two minutes. PDF, Word and pasted text accepted.
Founded by Josh Francis · Former Senior Marine Environmental Consultant
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 what an employer can and cannot read from your profile.
FREE ENVIRONMENTAL CV ASSESSMENT
Upload your CV for an immediate scored assessment across four areas that influence professional readability.
You will see where your profile is strongest, where evidence is being 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 graduates and early-career environmental professionals whose qualifications, fieldwork, projects or technical experience are not reading clearly.
Choose a focused CV rebuild, a coordinated CV and LinkedIn rebuild, or complete positioning support.
Current graduate services from £39.
Professional services
For environmental professionals whose profile reads below the level of work they currently deliver, or no longer supports the move they are targeting.
Choose a structured technical audit or complete diagnosis and implementation.
Professional services from £299.
Not sure which route applies? Start with the free assessment.
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.
01
Establish a clear technical identity
The profile is organised around a credible target direction rather than a broad collection of interests, subjects and responsibilities.
02
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.
03
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.
From initial assessment to completed positioning.
PROCESS
Step 01
Diagnose the visibility problem
Upload your CV and receive an immediate 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
Paid services are delivered within five to seven working days. Josh reviews every deliverable before it is issued.
FOUNDED FROM INSIDE THE SECTOR
Built from direct experience inside the sector.
Josh Francis founded Shearwater after working as a Senior Marine Environmental Consultant within the UK environmental sector.
His background includes environmental assessment, consenting, regulatory engagement, technical authorship and consultancy project delivery.
Shearwater applies that perspective to a specific problem: whether genuine environmental experience is being communicated in a form that employers can interpret 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 assessment of how clearly your technical capability, delivery evidence, regulatory fluency and market position are being communicated.
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