I wanted to write about my cancers to show that it is possible to survive for many years. My first cancer was in my bladder and it was diagnosed in 1985.
My second cancer was in my prostate and this one was diagnosed in 2017.
My third and current cancer is what’s called malignant melanoma and it was diagnosed in April 2021.
I shall tell you more about each of these cancers at a later point because first I want to tell you a little about myself.
About My Cancers And ME
I’ve been in so-called ‘people’ businesses for most of my working life, at least since 1976 when I left the engineering career I had been in till then. Working as a contractor in the engineering design industry, I was invited to join the agency as a contract manager to find draftsmen for a range of contract jobs.
That developed strongly to the point where I was made a Director of the business in 1983 although some years later and following a downturn in the market, I was made redundant!
Between 1990 and 2002 I held several good jobs in recruitment, employment tribunal representative, redundancy and outplacement counselor, HR consultant, and business manager in fact all aspects of job and careers change.
After that point, I became involved in Outplacement having joined the career consulting division of KPMG.
Although I am retired now, I actually own a business, Career Consulting Limited which was established in 2002 and has been providing services online and in-person ever since.
As an expert CV Writer and author, I write CVs and resumes for clients worldwide, starting locally in Crewe, Cheshire and for clients throughout the UK and Northern Ireland. I have written a CV for junior people and graduates, as well as writing English language CVs for the most senior executives and directors in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Croatia. I have CV writing clients in Monaco, Hungary and Poland. Further afield my clients come from Hong Kong, Dubai, Kuwait and Thailand plus Australia and many states in the USA where CVs are in as much demand as are traditional resumes.
As a business leader and career coach for over 25 years, the experiences and recommendations I make to my clients are drawn predominantly from my own working life.
I have worked in private companies and in PLCs including KPMG, Penna Consulting, and Sanders & Sidney at the senior level.
I’ll tell you more about that when it is appropriate.
What I also need to say is that I have Parkinson’s Disease
Although this site is about my cancers, my wife also has cancer called melanoma which was diagnosed in October 2021