The Perfect CV

[Sark79]

Thanks Claire

[Newmanseye]

The best advice I acn give you sark is use the Monster.co.uk CV builder, they give you lots of great tips and they have you CV available for employers to contact and head hunt you.

You can also copy the CV to re-use it elsewhere for applications.

[Sark79]

The best advice I acn give you sark is use the Monster.co.uk CV builder, they give you lots of great tips and they have you CV available for employers to contact and head hunt you.

You can also copy the CV to re-use it elsewhere for applications.

thanks .  I wiil look at that mate

[Tonji]

Good Luck with the job hunting young Sark, sorry I've no advice, I never applied for a job. BTW your skills as a plumber may be useful 

[The_Ant]

Remember to put "Curriculum Vitae" across the top of the front page, large and bold text   


 

[Sark79]

Good Luck with the job hunting young Sark, sorry I've no advice, I never applied for a job. BTW your skills as a plumber may be useful 

lol. thanks

thanks Ant 

[lazaroonie]

5; whereever you can..do NOT use recruitment agencies. they charge a fee for submitting your CV to employers if you get the job.  If a company/team has a budget they will go for the cheaper option unless you really stand out (a % fee, depending on your wages will run into a couple of grand easily). If you can go direct go direct.

unless the agency has a kickback deal with the hiring manager. But I could never envisage that happening.....

 

[boldie]

5; whereever you can..do NOT use recruitment agencies. they charge a fee for submitting your CV to employers if you get the job.  If a company/team has a budget they will go for the cheaper option unless you really stand out (a % fee, depending on your wages will run into a couple of grand easily). If you can go direct go direct.

unless the agency has a kickback deal with the hiring manager. But I could never envisage that happening.....

 

actually I do know of this happening...and not just in football.

[Simon Galloway2]

Some good advice already.  I have seen thousands of the bleeding things. Personally I think you can get it on 1 page a lot of the time, including plenty of white space.  Keep it relevant to the job, so "full driving licence" and "like going to parties" doesn't really cut it, unless you are applying to be a white van driver for a home party company I suppose....

When I am wading through a 6 inch pile of cv's, you have literally about 4 seconds each.  Make the first couple of things you are going to say the hardest hitting.  If I read on the first couple of lines that you have "delivered X benefit" or "made a massive difference" or have the "perfect skills set" - (don't write like that of course, but punchy lines like "saved the company $200k delivering new sandwich ordering system" is more likely to get me to read the rest of your cv.  If you start with 6 lines giving me the full postal address of your primary school headteacher then you are already floating down towards the bin....

[byronkincaid]

Thanks for this thread. It will come in handy the next time I'm having trouble motivating myself to play poker my computer.

[lazaroonie]

(don't write like that of course, but punchy lines like "saved the company $200k delivering new sandwich ordering system" is more likely to get me to read the rest of your cv. 

this is funny - many years ago whilst working freelance for a major motor manufacturers finance house, one of the programmers developed a system for us to order our lunch from a local deli, which would at 12pm print out the order list and the secretary could take it to the shop.

Only problem was, that the tables holding all the data were tacked onto the main oracle database instance. The auditors were utterly confused when they came across a bunch of tables with data such as "white chicken tikka baguette" and "wholemeal salami" contained in it...

but within weeks they were using it too..

[Tractor]

What an interesting thread - ive never had to do a cv and if i ever have to at least I know what to write.
And Sark, Good luck on the job hunting.