This should just be a simple sentence, a throw away line, that 99% of readers will scan and not even register, but I am not happy with the wording anyway. So help me reword this statement.

However I am now looking for a new environment and different challenges. to draw on the skills and experiences I have developed so far in my career and push them further.

However I am now looking for fresh challenges in a new environment that will test the skills and experiences I have developed in my career to date

^^ almost exactly what I was going to say

I’ve already slept with everyone in my own office.

However I need to leave before I murder someone, but I can’t just say that so I’m teling you I need a new challenge and fresh environment instead.

@funkmasterp Yep I think that is definitely an improvement.

This should just be a simple sentence

Well, it’s not even a sentence, you’ve got a random full stop in the middle of it.  I hope the rest of your CV is proof-read more closely.

However I am now looking for fresh challenges in a new environment that will test the skills and experiences I have developed in my career to date

“However I am now looking for fresh challenges in a new environment which will test the skills and experiences that I have developed in my career to date.”

TBH I’d be inclined drop the entire thing, it’s just additional words and meaningless.  You’re “looking for fresh challenges in a new environment” just like every single other candidate in existence.  If you were looking to do the same thing in the same environment then you wouldn’t be job-hunting.

I would say that should be in the covering letter/memo not in the main text of the CV

To put it in a wider context-

I have been in my current position for over 10 years, and in this time I have been proud to support missions that enhanced sciences understanding of earth and space, the high point being the Rosseta/Philae mission landing a spacecraft on a comet in the outer reaches of the solar system. However I am now looking for fresh challenges in a new environment that will test the skills and experiences I have developed in my career to date.

I think they’re on to me and I need to get out NOW

and no it isn’t proof read yet, I am just working on it at the moment.

sciences

science’s*

*although, despite my pedantry, I’m not 100% sure.

Ain’t nobody got time to read all that.

I’d miss it out, it’s just generic waffle.

I have been in my current position for over 10 years and am proud of my contributions to missions that enhanced understanding of earth and space; the apogee* being the Rosseta/Philae mission landing a spacecraft on a comet in the outer reaches of the solar system.  I am seeking fresh challenges in a new environment that will test the skills and experiences developed in my career to date.

*couldn’t resist

I’d put all this in the covering letter though.

So, is it rocket science?

I’d miss it out, it’s just generic waffle.

As the rest of my cvis technical, this short statement just explains a little about the environment I was working in, IMO it would require far more waffle to explain the environment in any other way and that world take away from the technical details. These days, covering letters rarely exist, cv’s get sorted by algorithms for technical requirements, most are just cast aside then the few successful cv’s get viewed and that is the only thing the recruiting manager judges you on to decide if you get an interview.

While I haven’t been putting a massive effort into applying for jobs, the few I have put my cv in for have not required a covering letter.

I have been in my current position for over 10 years, and in this time I have been proud to support missions that enhanced sciences understanding of earth and space, the high point being the Rosseta/Philae mission landing a spacecraft on a comet in the outer reaches of the solar system. However I am now looking for fresh challenges in a new environment that will test the skills and experiences I have developed in my career to date.

and no it isn’t proof read yet, I am just working on it at the moment.

Demonstrably.  I don’t mean this in an arsey way, but your grammar here needs some work.  If you’re just getting ideas down and worrying about sentence structure later then fine, if not then you need to ask someone else to proof-read / rewrite it when you’ve finished.

I’d put all this in the covering letter though.

As would I.

science’s*

*although, despite my pedantry, I’m not 100% sure.

being pedantic, science isn’t a living entity so doesn’t understand anything.  The missions (5 year missions by any chance?) would have enhanced scientific understanding of whatever

99% of readers will scan and not even register

I think you mean skim, not scan.

But seriously, proof-read it really thoroughly, get someone else who is good at proof-reading to proof-read it really thoroughly, then put it aside for a few days if possible and go back and proof-read it really thoroughly. Being too lazy to proof-read a resume makes a really bad impression.

I don’t mean this in an arsey way, but your grammar here needs some work.

I proof listen to my CV via the speech function in word, helps highlight things like this to me.

science’s*

*although, despite my pedantry, I’m not 100% sure.

being pedantic, science isn’t a living entity so doesn’t understand anything.  The missions (5 year missions by any chance?) would have enhanced scientific understanding of whatever

True, but the way the sentence is written, it still implies that the understanding belongs to science. Also science in this context is singlular, not plural.

Anyhow, this is OT, sorry OP.

First thing I thought was that it was generic waffle and could be skipped, but it makes more sense with what precedes it.

However, I’d skip the “However,”. It reads so much better without it in twicewithchips’s version.

“However” is contradictory and jarring, it wipes out what’s gone before (everything before the “but” is bullshit).  The statement seems so much more coherent and focused without it, like your career is continuing smoothly with determination, rather than taking an abrupt turn – inferred subtext: because something didn’t work out.

Once its been through ATS it will be 3 lines, some facts and a word cloud….*

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* I have nothing to do with Adzuna but have used it from time to time.