Stop Collecting Certificates; Start Developing a Thesis

The difference between being employable and being irreplaceable.

I review CVs for clinical, leadership and corporate roles regularly. Recently, I looked at an application for a consultant job that was visually exhausting. It listed an MBBS, a BSc, an MRCP, a Master’s in Medical Education, a PG Cert in Leadership and three diplomas.

They had spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours accumulating institutional acr…