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Wanted: Employers with decent communication skills
Employers: you only have yourselves to blame if you receive a whole slew of bland, cliche-filled CVs and covering letters. What’s a candidate to do when your job ads read something like this:...
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Is your CV getting you results?
How many times have you applied for a role that could have been written for you, but not got anywhere with your application? Far too many people meet the job criteria and person specification, but fail...
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Applying the “so what?” principle
A while back I read a great post (on the then BNET) on 5 types of undervalued workers (or some such title). It’s quite similar to this one by Jeff Haden on where to find your next great hire. The...
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How personal should you get on your CV?
When I see CVs like this one, it makes my heart sink. The CV is supposedly “genuine” but even if it was a hoax, it shows enough of the mistakes I commonly see on CVs to make it look sadly authentic....
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Why you should invest in a professionally-written CV
Most people apply for jobs in the same way. They submit their CV to a job board or to a recruiter. And because it’s very often a tick-box type exercise (“done that job before, can do it again”, or “got...
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Help! There are gaps on my CV
Of all the CV problems people worry about, having unexplained gaps seems to the biggest, judging by the questions we get in the Guardian Careers CV clinics. Other variations on the theme: “I’ve taken...
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Making sense of your career history
The people who seem to ask for help most with their CVs are generally not those who have held similar jobs throughout their careers. Often, it tends to be people who have had various careers, with all...
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Formatting your CV for non-traditional career paths
What an employer most wants to see on your CV is proof that you can do the job you’re applying for – preferably within the first few seconds of reading. This is true whether you’ve had a traditional...
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Shopfront, sausage and sizzle : 3 crucial CV factors
You’re asking a lot from your CV. In only two pages (or sometimes even one) you need to show a hiring manager that you can do the job, that you’re the sort of person that they’re looking for, and that...
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Lots of great CV writing advice all in one place! [View the story “#GetBritainWorking – Writing your CV” on Storify]
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