The Most Unusual CV Mistakes
To impress a potential employer with your CV, you usually have just a few seconds. According to a CareerBuilder.co.uk survey of 194 UK employers, nearly one-third (32 per cent) said they spend one...
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By Nisa Chitakasem, Founder of Career consultancy, Position Ignition Ltd If you’ve been looking for a job for a while now, but can’t even get an interview, you may be wondering if there’s some way you...
View ArticleWords that Sabotage Your CV!
Creating a winning CV is a feat of strategy involving focus, wording, design and content selection. To achieve a career marketing document that wins interviews, all areas of the strategy must be...
View ArticleThe CV Black Hole – What happens when you hit send?
Even though economic conditions may be stabilizing globally and in Britain, economists expect unemployment to continue rising this year, as financial uncertainty persists. “In the real world of...
View ArticleIs Your CV Extinct? 7 Things to Update
Job hunting is always hard work. You look through job ads, send out applications, go to interviews and improve your networking. And you’re still not getting any offers? Take a closer look at your CV....
View ArticleYour CV Could Be Hurting You!
On WNYC’s (New York Public Radio) New Tech City podcast, reporter Ben Bradford puts his own CV to the test against Applicant Tracking Systems and discovers that automated CV screening can be a hazard...
View ArticleCV Top Tips
Struggling to decide what to include in your CV? Hopefully we can help! Your CV is the first impression of yourselves that an employer will see – it is important to get it right. Your CV is your very...
View ArticleExplaining gaps in your CV
Gaps on your CV can pose a problem – but only if they are unexplained. Put a good spin on breaks in employment and they can actually work to your advantage. Here’s how to plug common resume holes and...
View Article5 steps to clean up your CV
It is important to have your CV up to a high standard in order to secure a job interview. Most employers will spend less time looking at your CV than it will take you to read the introduction to this...
View ArticleCareerBuilder Study Looks at CV Expectations Around the Globe
LONDON, 31 October 2013 – CV expectations may vary from country to country, but there are some things hiring managers everywhere agree on: a bad resume is not going to get you the job. In a recent...
View ArticleAre these 8 mistakes ruining your CV?
Your CV is your best tool for landing a job. Without it, you’re not getting called in for interviews and you’re certainly not receiving any job offers. Today’s job search takes place online and a lot...
View Article11 ways to help your job search in 5 minutes
Susan Ricker, CareerBuilder writer You might have heard the saying, “Looking for a job is a full-time job.” Although a job search needs a lot of attention and focus, it doesn’t need to take up your...
View ArticleGive your CV a makeover
Whether you’re just embarking on your job search or have been looking for work for months, it never hurts to go back to basics. Your CV is the first chance you get to impress a potential employer – is...
View ArticleThe best (and worst) words to have on your CV
Do you consider yourself a hard worker? A real go-getter? Someone who likes to think outside of the box? Then you’re just the type of person who needs to review their CV. A recent CareerBuilder survey...
View ArticleFive reasons your cover letter is letting you down
Most employers will spend less than a minute scanning your cover letter -so should you still bother putting effort into writing one? ‘While some recruiters don’t read covering letters, preferring to go...
View ArticleWhat employers want from your covering letter
Your covering letter is the first chance you have to impress a potential employer. Get it right and they will read your CV with interest and are more likely to invite you to interview. Get it wrong and...
View ArticleWriting your first CV: advice for graduates and school leavers
Your CV is the first opportunity to sell yourself to a potential employer. When you’re starting out in your career you’re likely to only have a short ‘work history’, but that doesn’t have to hold you...
View ArticleCV Clichés to avoid
You want your CV to stand out from the competition – but at the same time, you need to use language that employers will understand. So what’s wrong with including a few standard stock-phrases on your...
View ArticleQuestions to ask a friend editing your CV
You’ve spent hours making sure your CV fits on two pages, and have proof read it twice. Surely now you can email it to hiring managers? Not so fast. Before you send your résumé into the world, it pays...
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