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Matt Craven

Matt is the Founder of The CV & Interview Advisors and Incredibly Linked. He is considered to be a thought-leader in Personal Branding and is regularly engaged as a public speaker to deliver advice and guidance to global audiences on all things related to CV authoring, career advancement, LinkedIn, personal branding and thought leadership.

Matt started his career in sales and operations roles in the vehicle hire sector, moving into recruitment in 1999 and doing everything from junior contract recruitment through to senior level search. Matt subsequently headed-up several teams, operating at Senior Manager level.

In 2006, Matt took the plunge and set-up The CV & Interview Advisors which he has grown into a market-leading business with a global client base and partnerships with some of the UK and World's most illustrious associations and institutes.

As well as running multiple businesses, Matt spends his time researching and developing The CV & Interview Advisors and Incredibly Linked's intellectual property e.g. copywriting and coaching methodologies.

Two pages, three pages, how about 28 pages? Although it’s horses for courses there’ll be a sweet spot, just for you.

21st August, 2025 | CV Guides

None of us ever appears quite as we hope, particularly if you miss this Wednesday’s webinar and then get checked out via ‘LinkedIn Recruiter.’

Soulless dross that Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT is churning out is the CV market’s biggest problem, not CVs themselves.

There’s a new witty banner on LinkedIn. But it doesn’t filter to agencies, nor does it give the outside IR35 points you probably want.

Don’t hang onto your CV like it’s sacred. Start afresh and build it from the ground up – for EVERY role you go forward for.

21st May, 2025 | CV Guides

The age of the three-page CV is here, so don’t believe everything IT recruiters are telling you.

9th April, 2025 | CV Guides

Cleanse your CV of five age identifiers that hirers have no business knowing (but might victimise you if they do).

3rd April, 2025 | CV Guides

As Wednesday’s tell-all webinar will deep dive into, successful IT contracting is sometimes just a beginning, middle and end away.

24th February, 2025 | Successful Contracting

Photo, headline and job title are key, to entice agents to click beyond their premium product showing you only in ‘snapshot.’

The CV & Interview Advisors previews its Thursday webinar on how to find contracts that are both unadvertised and high-paying.

A well-written LinkedIn profile is one thing; actually having people land on it is quite another. Join my Wednesday webinar to find out how.

20th August, 2024 | Successful Contracting

If your reach, reposts and follower growth are all down fear not, it’s not ‘Likes’ you want; it’s engagement.

18th June, 2024 | Successful Contracting

'It’s the way I tell ’em.' Make sure the stories you tell about your contracting biz are memorable for the right reasons.

13th June, 2024 | Successful Contracting

Top 5 tried and tested techniques to combat overreliance on recruiters.

20th May, 2024 | Limited Companies

Been benched for three months? Then our award-winning CV and LinkedIn profile-writing service could be yours, totally free of charge.

Winning work expert Matt Craven shares his new quick and dirty tips -- and previews a secret offer for ContractorUK readers not feeling very Warren Buffet.

Thinking ‘I’ve Got This’ is too often a sign you’re a bad interviewee -- way before the interview has even started.

Resolved: whether limited company contractors should call themselves ‘CEO,’ ‘MD’ on their CV, or just stick to a ‘functional’ tech title.

Avoid these CV clangers, and you’ll start next year better off than a fair few of your contractor rivals.

19th December, 2023 | CV Guides

Two pages; three pages; how about four pages? For some job-seekers in 2024, CV length won’t even matter.

14th December, 2023 | CV Guides