Lots of people use headers in their CV for putting in their contact details and on the face of it, it’s a good idea since it gives you a little more space on the page for content. However, you could be making a massive mistake with your CV if you do this. The problem arises […]
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We’re not just a CV Writing Service! There’s more to writing a CV these days than just putting your education and career history onto 2 sides of A4 with a Personal Statement at the beginning. Gone are the days when the only time you applied for a job was when an advert appeared in the
The simple answer is yes. Resume is essentially an American term for a CV or Curriculum Vitae but there are subtle differences between examples of resume writing and CV writing. UK based CVs tend to have a basic format at their core that covers Education followed by Employment History and then any personal of additional
Firstly, make sure you put your mobile number on your CV. Recruiters work 9-5 (or 8-6!) and need to be able to contact you during those hours, or, at the very least, leave you a message so you need to give them the number. Secondly, don’t write it as one long sequence of numbers as this makes
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We see a lot of CVs that make use of Text Boxes in Word – don’t do it! They are a nightmare when you decide to change anything on your CV as they don’t obey the usual rules of formatting. Whenever we get a CV in that uses text boxes we cut all the text
Sounds obvious doesn’t it? But, it’s probably the commonest mistake on a CV that I see when I review them. Ultimately a CV is about you, but you’re not writing it for yourself but rather to achieve your career objective. Whoever reads your CV will, in all probability, have never heard of you or met
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A useful article on writing a sales CV: Before you can start your career you first need to convince a potential employer that you are worth talking to, and that’s where your Sales CV comes in. Your Sales CV is designed to open the door to a job interview so you need to ensure that
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If you can’t spell Curriculum Vitae then don’t put it on your CV – just use “CV”. Then latest incorrect spellings we have seen are: CURRICULAM VITA Cirriculum Vitea and Curiculum Vitae. The commonest cause of the incorrect spelling is using CAPITALS which don’t get picked up by the spell checker in Word. So, if you
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