Chanuka Jeewantha

I write CVs, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles, and I have done it for more than eight years. In that time I have written more than 5,000 CVs: for school leavers and fresh graduates writing a first CV, for professionals moving up in Sri Lankan companies, and for senior leaders and people applying for jobs overseas.

I hold two professional certifications, Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC). They set an international standard for how I write and coach, and I apply that standard to what Sri Lankan employers, government recruiters and overseas employers actually expect.

The work sits where a strong career meets a weak document. Most of the people I work with are good at what they do. What they struggle with is translation: turning years of responsibility into evidence a stranger can judge in seconds, in the conventions of the market they are applying into.

That cross-border part matters in Sri Lanka, where many careers lead to the Gulf, Europe, Australia or the UK. A CV that is right for a Colombo employer can read as too long or oddly personal to a recruiter in London or Dubai. Working with both has made me careful about separating conventions that are genuinely local from ones that are simply habit.

I also write on LinkedIn, where more than 30,000 people follow what I publish about CVs and job search. It is the same platform I optimise profiles for, so I see first-hand how headlines, About sections and activity are read there.

Everything on this site carries my name because I am responsible for it. Essential documents are team-crafted under my supervision and quality-checked by me; Signature documents are written personally by me, and every guide and resource is written or reviewed and edited by me before it is published.