Hello I’m Sue,

owner of SJE Marketing and Premium CVs, CV writing.

About 

Over the years, I have gained a vast amount of experience, expertise, and skills, which has proved invaluable to fellow small business owners, to help them improve awareness of their businesses.

Who I’ve worked with

Industries I have worked with include consultancy, social care, property lettings and maintenance, horticulture, employment, building contractors, and health and wellness. 

My core skill is writing for business (content & copywriting), which works across everything I do. It’s vital to have a good internet presence, so that your target market can easily find your business online. Get your content and keywords right and you will do just that.   

My Background

My first full-time job was at the Caravan Club (now The Caravan and Motorhome Club) in East Grinstead, where I worked for 11 years. During my time there I built up my experience in admin and customer services, then progressed to Relief Receptionist. Then, for the last 2 years, I was promoted to Assistant Editor, quickly followed by Deputy Editor for the then Sites Directory department.

I got married in 1990 and left The Caravan Club around two years later to start a family. After our second child, and a 3-year break, I started my first business (then VA Sussex, secretarial services) in 1995. I worked from home alongside bringing up our family.

My businesses have progressed and evolved – and continue to – through big changes in technology. Also, my skill set has grown, as I’ve learnt everything I needed to know about running two successful businesses. The demand for CV Writing services grew substantially, and so Premium CVs, CV writing services was born, together with SJE Marketing, which are both still running successfully today.

Alongside looking after our family, and running my two businesses, I have also been a keen volunteer, including long-standing roles at Sense charity shop in Uckfield and at Uckfield Volunteer Centre (now Wealden Volunteering), where I was an Office Volunteer, member of the Committee/Trustee and Clerk to the Board for several years.  

My skills:

I am very proud of the impressive and valuable range of skills I have built up. My core skill is writing for business, which applies to both CV writing and marketing.

Core skills:

• CV writing for most industries, and age groups. Re-writing information so it’s concise easy to read and ‘sells’ the candidate, encouraging interviews.
• Internet research to find industry-related keywords and glean important information that clients often fail to provide. 
• Give CV and job search advice
• Conduct face-to-face and online/phone interviews/consultations.
• Writing for business – content writing, using the most effective, industry-specific words where required. 
• Editing content and SEO for WordPress websites.
• Managing and growing accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram.
• Writing business and community articles.
• Researching the internet to find the best product or service price and value.

 Other skills:

• Resourceful problem-solver.
• Building effective, long-lasting, colleague and client relationships.
• Friendly, professional telephone manner – with a very high success rate of securing business before the end of the phone call. 

 Attributes:

• Ideas orientated.
• Honest and trustworthy
• Easygoing and easy to get along with.
• Good listener.

Achievements:

I’m naturally very proud of my own job successes.  Since I left full-time work, I’ve had part-time jobs, alongside supporting our family, as well as growing my own businesses. 

As detailed above, for many years I was a volunteer and Trustee at The former  Uckfield Volunteer Centre (now Wealden Volunteering).  

Duke Letting was another long-term role (about 5 years), where I applied my marketing and social media to help improve their internet and local presence within the community. Other skills included customer services, dealing with the public face-to-face and answering all manner of queries. 

I was co-author (my Mum being the partner) of Memoirs of a  WAAF,  A true story about Daphne Dangerfield’s time in the WAAF (my Mum). Sadly my dear Mum passed away in May 2017, so this book and all the associated memories are naturally very precious to me. The book sold out (although thankfully I kept a signed copy!), but the Kindle version is still available on Amazon.  

In 2017 I started ‘Business Support Uckfield’ a Facebook group to support local businesses. It now has over 400 members and still growing.