The Detail & Prejudice Avoidance Checklist Guess what? People are bigoted. I know that’s a sweeping generalisation and that you might rank yourself amongst those pure souls that make a Buddhist look like a fascist, but no matter how much you try and convince yourself otherwise it is a fact. We can be assured that …
Quickly following CV Tip #3 (which needed a post of its own) comes the other superfluous and sometimes erroneous detail on your CV. Begin with the phone number. Most people over 30 and under 60 tend to have 2, the good old landline and a mobile (or cell for the rest of the world; is …
Your Name on Your CV Hard to believe? Not really. We always have CVs through where the person has not put their name on the document. Personally, I fail to understand how this can happen as there really is no explanation for it. The role your name assumes is pivotal and not the reason Nick …
Whilst watching our twitter feed this morning, Bill Boorman gave his impressions of Linkedin and its constant beta state. For the non technical, this translates as ongoing change and improvement measured by the time and interaction with the site. For job seekers and those in a position it gives an insight into how Linkedin and …
Grieves Pryce, the parent site of www.professionalcvexperts.co.uk, has been updated to a responsive design that allows users with tablets or mobiles to navigate the site with ease. Quite possibly the first recruitment site in the UK to move to this type of format? We have also had a little rethink around some of the images …
Where should education be placed on a CV? You have just two options depending on background; Students with no experience would do well to start with their education first as the recruiter or employer will try and establish a link with how well you performed in school or university as to how this could translate …
Should I write a profile for my CV? This is quite a difficult question to answer for a number of reasons; 1. If you consider the role of the person tasked with reading your CV after it has passed through the ATS then these days the emphasis for a CV is usually matching skills and …
Those of you that have read my ramblings about a Linkedin and CV convergence might like to know that there is a new app for Google Chrome called whoworks.at that is worth looking at and works on the ability to provide Linkedin search capability while browsing, rather than searching within Linkedin itself. Once installed it …
Cover letters, love them or hate them the questions we are constantly asked are, “should I send a covering letter?” and “what should I should write in my covering letter?“. For this post I’m going to quickly focus on the first question. It struck me this week that a CV without a covering letter could …
More to follow once ONS provide data sheet and in the interim here is a very nice interactive graph of unemployment by regions: The employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 was 70.5 per cent for January-March 2012, up 0.2 on the quarter. There were 29.23 million people in employment aged 16 and …