CV CHAOS
CV CHAOS · REAL LIFE

MADE REDUNDANT.
NOW WHAT?

The first few days are oddly difficult. There is admin to sort, money to think about, a CV you may not have touched properly in years — and suddenly everyone wants to know what you are doing next.

I went through it myself in 2026. This is the practical system I wish I had on day one: decide what you actually want, build the evidence, find the right opportunities and run the search without letting it run you.

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Cover of Made Redundant. Now What? by Jonathan S. Hendry
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You do not need to solve your whole career this week.

There are three jobs to do first.

01

Secure the basics

Keep the paperwork, understand the financial runway, preserve useful evidence and contacts, and deal with the admin while it is fresh.

02

Define the next role

Do not let redundancy choose the next job for you. Work out what you would genuinely move for if you were still securely employed.

03

Build a repeatable search

CV, LinkedIn, recruiters, direct approaches, interviews and AI all matter. They work better as one system than as twelve disconnected tasks.

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The CV Chaos Check looks at where you are now and gives you one clear focus for the week ahead. It is not another fake CV score.

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THE COMPLETE GUIDE

Made Redundant. Now What?

A practical 30-day job-search field guide for experienced professionals in the UK.

This is not a promise that you will have a new job in 30 days. It is a system for making better decisions, creating enough of the right opportunities and finding a job you would choose, not simply the first job that chooses you.

Inside the book

  • The first 72 hours
  • Define the role you actually want
  • Build an evidence bank before rewriting your CV
  • Create one strong master CV
  • Make LinkedIn do a job
  • Use AI without sounding like AI
  • Stop relying on job boards
  • Run the search like a commercial pipeline
  • Interview from evidence, not memory
  • Choose and negotiate the next role
  • A complete 30-day operating rhythm
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Available now

The paperback and Kindle editions are now published on Amazon UK. Amazon links the available formats on the book detail page.

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Written from inside the process rather than after a neat ending: practical systems, real search data and tools you can use immediately.

WHY CV CHAOS?

It started as a game about how job hunting feels.

Then the useful bit became more interesting than the fun. CV Chaos grew into a free job-search check, and the process of navigating my own redundancy became a much bigger set of notes, systems and lessons.

The book is the complete version. CV Chaos stays the free front door.

Written by Jonathan S. Hendry ↗, a commercial leader who built the system while navigating redundancy himself.

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