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People don’t like reading more than three sentence paragraphs so use short paragraphs and bullet points. The average recruiter will skim-read CVs looking for applicable points and experience.
Be succinct – don't waffle and definitely don’t try to make your sales job more exotic. For example, do not write: ‘initiating strategic partnerships and management process initiatives aimed at restructuring procurement decisions in the favour of my organisation’, as a client of ours once did!
Remember, your CV is your sales tool. Use it to sell yourself and think careful about the words that you use.
More and more offers of employment and offers of second interviews are being withdrawn as employers can find out more about you searching through your social network ‘footprint’. The famous example was the retraction of a job offer for a high flying city lawyer who boasted on his social media that he did nothing at his employer but shop on the Internet, pick up a six figure salary and regularly partake in recreational drugs.
Particularly if you have an unusual name, amazing detail of your lifestyle, behaviour and beliefs can be uncovered with one Google search. Companies will not admit to doing this as part of their recruitment procedure – be warned, they do!
See Dangers of Social Networking for more details of the risks surrounding social networking sites, and advice on how to maintain a discreet online profile.
How to protect yourself from identity theft
Do not ever, ever, ever put your National Insurance number or your passport number on your CV! Together with your name, address, date of birth and employment information you are leaving yourself open to significant identity fraud.
The Dangers of Social Networking when Looking for a Job
By using certain keywords in your CV recruiters will be more likely to find your CV in a search. Detail your skills, client accounts, different terms for your role, etc. For greater explanation and some neat tricks see writing a CV for a job board. Recruiters and hirers will a keyword search to find your details, so be sure to consider this before writing your CV you will have a dramatically more successful experience.
However, do not use jargon or abbreviations. Read it aloud, can anyone who doesn’t know your industry understand what you did, what you sold? Even abbreviations such as KPI’s and TQM, whilst widely used in business are not understood by everyone.
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