How Targeted Career Coaching Can Unlock Your CV & Career For executives looking to take their careers to the next level, targeted career coaching & CV creation is often seen as a critical step in securing new opportunities. However, before an executive CV can be constructed effectively, career coaching serves as an essential precursor to …
2025 CV Writing Trends and Advice: Everything you need to know. The 2025 CV writing trends for 2025 reflect evolving expectations in the job market, technological advancements, and changing recruitment practices. Drawing from existing insights, we can predict several key developments: 1. Personal Branding as a Cornerstone As competition grows across various industries, personal branding …
It’s an eternal question; is a 2 CV approach better than 1? You may have possibly heard that you should tailor your CV for a specific role that you are interested in? Which is the correct option? Neither. Tailor a copy of the CV The straight answer is have one CV as the best all …
The scene: CV sift day – when we crack open the machine that gathers applications and look inside, hoping to spot diamonds amongst… I like to think of myself as human (post first coffee AM). As a human reading a CV (I make this point to avoid a comparison with an applicant tracking system), I …
Recruiters could, and are seeing increasing numbers of CVs from a different perspective, and it could be detrimental to the intended career move of the individual. It transpires when reading a CV that the first review of the detail a recruiter makes is cursory, and a skim for relevant experience to the post applied for. …
Your CV is going to come under increasing pressure over the next year as the economy pulls slowly from recession into a growth phase. The CBI predict that up to 35% of private sector employers are expecting to expand their workforce over the coming 12 months. In contrast 15% expect the workforce to be smaller. …
No and do not convince yourself that a CV will be a “shoe in” to your next position. It could actually ruin your chances and this is why: If you are tempted to believe that you can just send your CV, that employers will be beating a path to your door before rolling out the …
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 …