The school of hard knocks and the university of life may be a couple of clichés but don’t scoff too much. Ponder for a moment your own experience and career. Subtract the lessons and what do you have left? Nothing much. Maybe that degree that had nothing to do with your career path? A smattering of […]
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It’s simple, to be considered the leading applicant for a new post you will need a great track record of success. True, to a point. Some will tell you that you have to show how you managed an organisation and increased margins while lowering overheads. You will also hear a raft of other obvious statements
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It’s an abomination that Victor Frankenstein would be proud of. If the parts are put together incorrectly, much like Victor’s early efforts, it will die, a quick and horrible death. It is, of course, poor CV grammar and the incorrect use of they’re, their and there. To make this quick and easy to understand I
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Excuse the dreadful pun in the title but do you know what the parse test is? If the answer is yes than I imagine your CV is well formatted and easily read (parsed) into a recruitment database. If, on the other hand the answer is no, then you might want to look carefully at your CV and
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[divider_padding] 1. Tailor: Produce a core cv and then create other versions that are tailored for specific roles that you apply for. 2. Errors: Use the grammar checker in MS Word or Google Docs(free). Spelin and poore gramer will wrek youre chance of sucess! 3. Structure: Format the CV and be consistent with your technique
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Saw an interesting (honestly!) feature What does your choice of font say about you? reported by David Sillito on the Beeb news this morning about fonts being the new hand writing and what they say about you. First up was a gentleman called Simon Garfield, an author and a journalist and all round nice chap,
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In today’s job market, jobseekers at all levels and especially senior level executives must not underestimate the importance of having a strong, professional Curriculum Vitae. As the Partner of a successful executive level recruitment and professional CV writing firm for 15 years, I have found that this is the key to beating the competition and
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The key issue for anyone writing a CV is that the document conveys them in the best possible light. You have to be able to find a balance of what the reader requires from you to fulfil a given role. All too often people either just waffle about what they think is important instead of
