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 …
Depending on how full your glass is, the latest production figures showed a positive stride between February and March with Manufacturing rising by 0.9% from the previous month, year on year the figures do not make great reading with a fall in Production of 2.6% compared with March 2011. The ONS Headlines: The seasonally adjusted …
Good news – unemployment falls Bad news – Only by 0.1% The coalition has driven some tough measures forward to try and get the country back on an even footing. A subjective and divisive statement if ever there was one. I see the pain that it is causing but I remember the past just as …
The CV, or as we like to call it, the Professional CV, is going through change and convergence. I’m going to try and map out how I think this could manifest through 2013, 2014 and 2015. If I get some time I will add an infographic but in the interim this is what I think …
Anonymity, aka the CV with no name. Deputy PM Nick Clegg has announced that he wants the top employers in the UK to support the idea of candidates excluding their name and school detail from their CV when applying for jobs. The idea centres around the principal of a CV with no name, is that …
Will you and your CV meet the criteria for 2012? (or how to avoid another fine mess) Recruiters and employers are all saying the same thing; A CV has to make a positive visual and content statement about the person it represents. In a depressed recruitment market your CV has to be superior to that …