Such a “comedy basic” – but make sure you have all your contact details on your CV. We see so many that are missing either a mobile number or an email address. You must have both on a CV or you are just making the recruiters job harder, and if you do that – guess […]
Employers look for positive language in a CV. Sounds obvious but the number of CVs we see that use weak language is incredible. What do we mean by “Positive Language”? Perhaps the most common example is when applicants say in their profile “I consider myself to be a hard working person” or “I can consider
You don’t need to put your age on a CV and recruiters and employers are not allowed to directly ask you how old you are. It would be naive to think that your age doesn’t make a difference as many recruiters are under 30 and to them anyone over the age of 50 is not a good
The vast majority of CVs we see are in Microsoft Word and with good reason – it’s the #1 word processing package in the world. As a consequence most recruitment agencies and employers use it as standard and all of their systems are geared around it, and if you use another file format then you
We’re suddenly seeing a rash of spelling errors in CVs, perhaps because people are updating their CV and rushing through it when they really need to take their time and get someone else to proof read it. This morning we have seen “mouths” instead of “months” and “collage” instead of “college”. Neither of these will
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If a gap is only a month or so, don’t worry about it. If it’s longer then you need to have some kind of explanation. When recruiters see a gap on your CV they’re generally not too concerned up to about 3 months, but once you go over this level you do need to add
We get asked about templates on a fairly regular basis and why should I use you when I can just use a template? It’s a fair question and deserves an answer. Templates are generally quite good for a basic CV but where they fall down is that you still have to write the content and
