About BreezyCV — professional CV writing built on real experience
Behind BreezyCV is a real CV writer
Hello! I’m Brian Bailie, the founder of BreezyCV.
I have spent more than forty years designing, making, writing, selling, managing and building businesses all over the world—and a substantial part of that working life helping other people explain what they can do.
After the 2008 global economic crash, I applied myself to writing CVs for a top London agency. I have written more than 1000 successful CVs and covering letters for clients at all levels, in all industries, all over the world: from people looking for their first job to experienced managers, specialists and business leaders.
BreezyCV is the result of everything that experience taught me.
My own career has never fitted neatly into one job title
I began my working life in engineering before establishing a commercial art business.
I later became a furniture designer and maker, creating children’s furniture ranges that became international bestsellers. After securing a major partnership deal in New York, I subsequently established a manufacturing business in Hangzhou, China—developing ranges of products, solving production problems and improving local manufacturing standards for Western markets.
My other ventures have included:
- Establishing an over-the-phone interpreting service in China.
- Creating a Chinese online business school used by more than 96,000 students.
- Sourcing products and developing retail and ecommerce businesses.
- Securing multiple Patents in USA, China, and UK.
- International outsource manufacturing.
- Managing a 14,000-square-foot retail and prop rental emporium in Belfast.
- Authoring a dozen nonfiction books.
- Antique restoration and listed building conservation projects.
- Writing CVs and covering letters for more than 1,000 clients.
- and some farming.
That variety matters.
It taught me that careers are rarely as tidy as CV templates suggest. Valuable experience can come from unexpected places, and job titles often reveal very little about someone’s real ability.
The challenge is recognising what matters—and explaining it so that someone else can recognise it too.
What writing more than 1,000 successful CVs taught me
Most people do not lack useful experience.
They overlook it.
They remember routine duties but forget the problem they solved. They mention the job title but not the responsibility behind it. They describe what they were expected to do without explaining what became better because they did it.
Again and again, I found that the strongest evidence was not in the old CV. It emerged through asking better questions.
That is why BreezyCV starts with guided questions rather than simply rewriting the document you already have.
Why I created BreezyCV
Traditional one-to-one CV writing can work extremely well, but the hours involved make it expensive.
At the other extreme, most CV builders give you a template and leave you to make all the difficult decisions yourself:
- What should be included?
- What should be left out?
- Which experience matters for this job?
- How should an achievement be explained?
- What will an employer want to see first?
But if you already knew all of that, you probably wouldn’t need a CV-writing service.
I wanted to create a more useful alternative: a service that applies the thinking of an experienced CV writer without requiring customers to pay traditional consultancy prices.
That became BreezyCV.
Experience provides the judgement. Technology makes it affordable.
BreezyCV uses modern technology, but the method behind it comes from years of professional writing experience.
I developed the questions, rules and principles used to:
- Uncover overlooked experience and achievements
- Decide what information is relevant
- Research the intended job
- Recognise credible evidence of skills
- Prioritise what an employer should see first
- Turn ordinary notes into clear professional language
- Structure the information into an effective CV
Technology helps apply that process efficiently.
It did not invent the process—and it must never invent your experience.
Your qualifications, employment, responsibilities and achievements must remain truthful. The purpose is to recognise and communicate the value that is already there.
What I believe a good CV should do
A CV is not your autobiography.
It is not a graphic-design competition, and it should not be filled with empty claims about being “dynamic”, “passionate” or “results-driven”.
A good CV should help an employer quickly understand:
- What you can do
- What you have already done
- What evidence supports it
- Why your experience is relevant to this particular job
Its job is to make the employer want to meet you.
Everything else is secondary.
You shouldn’t need to write like a CV writer
You already have the raw material:
- Experience
- Responsibilities
- Skills
- Qualifications
- Achievements
- Problems you have solved
- Things you have improved
You do not need to turn those facts into impressive paragraphs.
Tell BreezyCV what happened in your own words. Simple notes, examples and rough details are often more useful than polished writing.
BreezyCV applies the research, judgement, structure and professional wording.
A straightforward promise
No honest CV writer can guarantee that you will receive an interview.
The decision will also depend on the job, your experience, the employer and the other applicants.
What BreezyCV can do is help prevent unclear writing, buried achievements and poor presentation from unnecessarily standing between you and an opportunity.
And you do not have to buy the promise.
You can see your completed BreezyCV before deciding whether to pay.
Not sure whether you need a new CV?
Start with a free professional assessment of the CV you already have.
We’ll tell you what an employer may be missing and whether we believe a rewrite is likely to help.
No payment. No obligation.
Ready to begin?
Choose the service that fits your stage of working life:
Ask me!
If you have a question before starting, send me a message.
You are not contacting a faceless software company.
Your question will be read by a real person.