So are they worth the £400 or so ? I ask as a recruitment agency is suggesting my CV is tired and should be written professionally ?
Having worked in recruitment - surely they should be doing it as part of their job?
So are they worth the £400 or so ? I ask as a recruitment agency is suggesting my CV is tired and should be written professionally ?
Mrs Trufflehound, who works in recruitment, just told me about a CV she saw this morning, from an engineer who included his star sign among his personal details.
My hot CV tip: do not do this. You have not been charged £400 for this information.
Do the recruitment agency offer this service by any chance?
It's a load of bollocks charging so much. Your CV can only be as good as the experience that you're able to (truthfully) put on it.
ones sign is completely relevant, if an office had too many fire signs, or too many air signs the balance would be weird......a good blend of all four sign types would help balance and make things more rounded.
you have not been charged for this advice.
So are they worth the £400 or so ? I ask as a recruitment agency is suggesting my CV is tired and should be written professionally ?
Not worth it at all.
Biggest tips I could give you are, having been an IT contractor for yonks and having had to sell meself via a word copy of my CV:
1. Potted summary of your personal details,education/qualifications on front page with one line per job in most recent order first
2. Write it in the third person, that is, don't say I did this, I did that, say Mr Smith did this, Mr Smith did that (saves agency having to rewrite it for the client, looks like they wrote it themselves, they're lazy like that)
3. Keep it short, no more than four pages max including summary sheet
4. Run it through a spell-checker
Thank you - interestingly, with the conversations I've now had today, a majority of agencies are suggesting a hard hitting two pages is the best way to write a CV. They also mentioned dumping qualifications to the bottom ( unless they are specifically requested for the role ) and only putting any detail for jobs in the last ten years. They all mentioned writing in the third person which is a first to me but I can see why.
ones sign is completely relevant, if an office had too many fire signs, or too many air signs the balance would be weird......a good blend of all four sign types would help balance and make things more rounded.
you have not been charged for this advice.