u/100Starfishes

Senior medical writer here (UK). I’m planning on quitting my job and travelling for a few months. I’m polishing up my cv so I can apply for jobs whilst I’m travelling. I’ve been looking at current job postings on LinkedIn out of interest and notice that a lot of SMW and PMW roles have 50-100 ‘people who have clicked apply’. I’m wondering what would make a cv stand out against a crowd of equally qualified applicants. At SMW/PMW level we have likely all had the same kind of responsibilities and created the same kind of content. So what is it that would make a recruiter pick CV A over CV B.

Any thoughts would be helpful, thanks! Particularly interested to hear from people who have been on hiring teams

Hello! I’ll be going on a once in a life time 1.5 month trip to Indonesia in September and October this year. The goal is to dive as much as possible whilst I am there. I am OW certified with 25 dives currently. At the moment my loose plan is to start in gili t and do my AOW before moving to nusa penida. I have never dived with strong currents before so I’m hoping nusa would be a good place to try this out. The dream would be to include Komodo and raja ampat in this trip, however I want to dive within my limits and I’m unsure if I will be experienced enough for these sites by this point.

Please let me know your thoughts! I expect I’ll have ~40 dives with some current experience by the time I’d head to Komodo/raja. If this is stupidity, where else should I consider going instead with my experience level?

I guess logistics should also play a factor ie where would I feasibly be able to get to during this 1.5 month time frame.

And help would be great. Thanks!