Trying to rework my CV yet again for this guidance course I'm doing that's to help with job hunting and I...I just find it so hard. I previously got my CV to a state that several advisors agree is fairly good but I'm redoing it because I'm meant to get it to be 'stand out'.
I think the hardest thing about it is all the advice assumes you've had a career with progression. Mine was more a meandering path where I've picked up assorted skills, makes me adaptable. Any thought of career development went out the window when I got ill and it's just been about surviving.
Anyhow, apparently there needs to be an achievement section and I don't know what to put for it honestly. In my personal life I've achieved things, like my ao3 word count or challenges I set myself, Coursera units I did or how many social or fannish events I hosted/organised. I just don't have metrics for work stuff because I didn't keep count at the time and I'm not sure I had much measurable for my roles other than volume of tickets.
Also I wish I had CV writing advice that could address my actual situation and how to work around it. What do you do when you've been chronically ill for years and honestly just turning up and getting on with things while in pain and/or near exhausted felt like it was an accomplishment. And that's not the kind of thing you can say because it paints a bad impression rather than hey look I did achieve stuff despite this crappy situation.
