Do a skills based CV: what skills you have, how good you are at them, how long you did them for: Blaney ****@****.com Skills Cunting (expert) 10 years I was a **** blah blah blah Bastarding (intermediate) 5 years I bastarded pretty well etc etc Being pos (basic) 1 year achieved x but am keen to continue, yy,ss,w Job history ABC Corp 1995-2000 XYZ Corp 200-2005 and so on
Cab wrote They are just skipping through the pile trying to make it smaller. Your contribution can help them in their task. Relevancy is the word here, key skills to start with.
there are still jobs that you apply in writing directly to the employer? Wow - you learn something new every day.
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Read lots of replies and there's lots of useful stuff there. I'd also suggest that you concentrate on your own contribution and what the direct outcome of your action was. I'd much rather know you did something significant to allow a failing team to achieve mediocrity rather than know simply that you were in a team that achieved greatness. You may well have been more hindrance than help, IYSWIM.
You think? Hmm, I see things different. Interesting idea. OK. (Hmm, I don't recall me being the OP, but this is useful stuff. Ah, but my belief is that CV's need to be reworded slightly for each job you apply for. To change the CV for every single job application would be a nightmare, so two or three seem okay. Anyway, as long as the facts don't change, I'd have not thought that any agency would worry too much, should you have a couple of CV's. As a matter of interest, the 5 web sites I'm currently subscribed to all allow multiple CV's. If it wasn't a good idea (tm), why would this be the case? Especially as recruiters can see all of the relevant CV's anyway.
^^^ Look, don't take this personally, but it's 'CVs' !! Jesus Christ, apostrophes are one of the easiest parts of punctuation to master, you can at least get _that_ right !
Cab wrote How odd. You don't really agree with that. but the second bit gets the thumbs up. The two are inseparable. In the task stated: the potential employer's job is to turn 600 wannabes into one actual in as effective/cheap a fashion as possible. Making it fucking easy for them accrues brownie points in all sorts of odd little ways.
Yes... but does it really matter in all seriousness? You obviously knew what he meant, as did everyone else...
Heh... See exactly what you mean, and good advice. FWIW, I went for a job about three years ago, and the feedback I got from the agent was that the client felt I was too negative with regards to my last IT employer - didn't counter this with comments along the lines of 'but he seemed very happy with the IT employer he had before that'... moral of the story being, even if you hated every minute at the place, and left as result of not being given the role you'd been led to believe you'd be fulfilling at interview, don't go on about it *too* much. ;-)
I'm missing something then. The first part of a CV can be relevant and show the key skills, but the CV doesn't need to be more than 2 pages long though. I still think that if they get, what they think to be your complete life story, then they'll bin it. I may be completely wrong, as I've never been in the position of filtering through a stack of CV's to pick out the best ones.
Cab wrote 2-3 pages You haven't got a life story yet though have you? I don't suppose you have been around for a single product cycle yet let alone outlived a whole technology or three. Not 600 no but those folk I have met whose job has included that make mention of what they like to see. Blaney was spot on.
I'd love to see the reaction of a HR professional if you sent in a CV with exactly those words in it.
3 pages max if possible page one as a shortform CV which can stand alone and tell the prospective employer that you're the person for the job Pages 2 and 3 give more detail if they actually get past page one Keep it simple and understandable, and put yourself in the position of someone who has to make a decision based on the dozens of bits of paper in front of him Get the relevant keywords in there
Bear barfed: My CV has *always* been 4 pages long. Page 1 personal detail summary and very brief personal and professional objectives & strengths (1/2 page). Next work experience from current backwards with brief summary of roles and responsibility. Then degree and educational waffle. Little bit of personal info, references, notes about my current medical history. Got me a few interviews over the past few weeks.
