CV advice

[Bahumat]

Hey guys,

I have seen this question come up in the past and a few members either work in recruitment, or just generally have a good knowledge of CV's. I was hoping I could pepper you with questions

 

[eksdee]

Write it in Comic Sans so they know you're a cool guy.

 

[TdC]

include a photo of your privaties! or anyone's privaties tbh.

 

[Chilly]

Hey guys,

I have seen this question come up in the past and a few members either work in recruitment, or just generally have a good knowledge of CV's. I was hoping I could pepper you with questions

Don't ask to ask, yo! Just ask!

 

[Shagrat]

put that you give out sexual favours to management for quick promotions.

 

[Madmaxx]

put your daoc chars on it, in Realm rank order.

 

[Wij]

Century Gothic looks more modern. Arial just looks like you don't understand word processors. Times New Roman makes you look the same but American.

Decrease the border sizes to get more on your two pages but don't go over two or reduce the point size below 10.

Exaggerate where you need to. Don't be afraid to claim credit for stuff. Don't use 'we'. 'I' is better.

Nobody gives a shit about your GCSEs.

 

[TdC]

tell them you'll give anything you have more than one of to the company!

 

[Wij]

Also, don't put "References are available on request." It sounds stupid, takes up space and you can talk about it in the covering note.

Put your professional qualifications in the "Why I'm so great" section at the top before your career history. Education at the bottom because unless you are just out of school it's the least relevant part.

 

[Bahumat]

Ok so far I have "Although I am not gay, I am willing to do things to get to the top".

 

[TdC]

that's all you need really. it's done.

 

[TdC]

I made a helpful example:

 

[Raven]

Give them a blank page and tell them you transcend CVs. Management dig that.

 

[Bahumat]

ok fuckpigs give uncle Bahumat some help

 

[Nate]

name, contact details at the top

expertise next

work experience next, when, where, what as, detail some daily tasks like the time you posted on freddys asking for help and how proud you felt for typing that.

education/professional qualifications when, where, what, tell them you were a prefect at school too.

done.

 

[Chilly]

ok fuckpigs give uncle Bahumat some help

What do you actually want to know???

 

[Raven]

Also make sure you have pictures on your CV, or a patterned background. Make it really stand out.

 

[Chilly]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/80620159/Chilly CV Redacted.docx

That's my CV. It recently landed me a job in a different country doing something very difficult.

 

[Chilly]

bear in mind I'm relatively recently out of university - hence talking about what I did there. As you get more experience, reduce academic blurb and focus on relevant experience. Tailor your CV to a given job by making relevant skills/experience more prominent or discuss them in more detail.

 

[Chilly]

tell them you were a prefect at school too.
done.

Unless this is your first job, do not do this.

 

[CorNokZ]

Ever since I put on my CV that I know how to solve a Rubik's cube I've had been invited to way more interviews. No shit

Going to an interview in two hours actually. Hopefully I get it, otherwise it is back on the school bench :/

 

[old.Tohtori]

Pretend to like shoes.

 

[Draylor]

Get to the point FAR more quickly than you've managed in this thread

 

[Fweddy]

Take the list of required skills from the job advert. Put your name and contact details above the list. Done.

 

[Bahumat]

I hoped the people who deal with these had some tips on the layout, whether the "work well on my own and in a team" crap is necessary etc.

I hoped to see some examples of good cvs

 

[fettoken]

Apparently solid advice is hard to come by due to some immensely cuntish persona's inhabiting FH! An exception is the Doctor FH thread.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I hoped the people who deal with these had some tips on the layout, whether the "work well on my own and in a team" crap is necessary etc.

I hoped to see some examples of good cvs

 

[Jeros]

My new one now I am fancy graduate goes:

Name and contact details

Education

Achivements

Skills

Employment history

Referances (numbers removed untill asked for)




Waiting to see how well it fares, I used the same basic format for about 15 odd years but my family who work in recruitment improved it for me.

My main issue is that as I have moved a lot a have had like 15+ jobs in my life, only 7 or so most recent UK ones are down on the CV however, thankfully I have no gaps, I have always been working or in eduation or both at the same time.

it was a but frustrating have to move from one town to a city to go to College before University but Colchester's College was too crap to offer an access course good enough to do a science degree with.

 

[Aoami]

Don't put education first. Everyone told me that when I was looking.

 

[Raven]

Employers would rather see experience but education beats paper round or job at Tesco if it's your first "proper job"