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 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
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 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.
Graduate services include a £39 diagnostic audit, CV rebuilds and complete profile positioning.
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.
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.
What Shearwater identified
The discipline was missing
Contaminated land and water quality were not established clearly enough at the top of the profile.
The strongest evidence was hidden
Major pollution incident experience had not been included in the CV.
The level was reading too low
The profile communicated less responsibility than the client’s evidence supported.
What changed
The work did not invent new experience.
It identified the evidence already present, rebuilt the technical identity and translated the client’s background for the target market.
The result was a profile that made the client’s specialism, delivery evidence and professional level substantially easier to understand.
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.
PROCESS
From initial assessment to completed positioning.
Step 01
Upload your CV and receive an immediate result across Technical Visibility, Commercial Visibility, Regulatory Fluency and Market Positioning.
Diagnose the visibility problem
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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