Not sure about how to write your CV? Would you like your CV to stand out from the crowd and be relevant? In the following post we’re giving you a series of handy tips so that your CV won’t be ignored next time.
It is important for any job seeker to remember that your CV is a sales document and needs to give the relevant information to the prospective employer in the best possible way.
Your CV needs to be visually clear – a maximum of two pages, using bullet points to outline the most important and necessary information. Remember that if you are one of 100 CVs received for a job vacancy, you have to ensure that the employer can, at a glance, find the information that is relevant to the role.
Firstly, consider the role you are applying for. If you are answering a job advertisement looking for a Marketing Executive for example, there is no point sending a CV showing your current role as a Marketing Manager because you will be considered too senior for the role and your CV will be passed over.
Ensure that you are applying for a position that suits your experience and make sure your CV clearly expresses this. If you have had three jobs over ten years, spend the most time and CV space on your most recent job – this is what the employer will be most interested in. For example, do not take half a page to detail your experience working a summer job in McDonald’s ten years ago, and then only give three lines to your most recent role, which you have held for five years.
Many people write a CV when they leave their first job and then over the years just keep adding bits to it – don’t do this! Create a new, fresh look for your CV, tailored to the job you are applying for.
Finally, always list your achievements. Employers are always interested in these. Equally, think about what hobbies you are listing, making sure that they are relevant to the job you are applying for.
Original article in Metro Ireland
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The trouble with Facebook
by David in
Just For Laughs
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is an excellent tool to keep in touch with your friends, share and express yourself. However, you should be careful with what you publish and the way you say things.
This girl surely learned the lesson.
NOTE: The following image contains offensive words and inappropriate language.
The text in the image (just in case it’s not clear enough) is:
The girl: OMG I HATE MY JOB!! My boss is a total perwy wan… always making me do shit stuff just to piss me off!! WAN…!
The boss: Hi XXX, I guess you forgot about adding me on here?
Firstly, don’t flatter yourself. Secondly, you’ve worked here 5 months and didn’t work out that I’m gay? I know I don’t prance around the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret. Thirdly, that ‘shit stuff’ is called your ‘job’, you know, what I pay you to do. But the fact that you seem able to fu.. up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it. And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have 2 weeks left on your 6 month trial period. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow. I’ll pop your P45 in the post, and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you’ve left here. And yes, I’m serious.
This girl surely learned the lesson.
NOTE: The following image contains offensive words and inappropriate language.
The text in the image (just in case it’s not clear enough) is:
The girl: OMG I HATE MY JOB!! My boss is a total perwy wan… always making me do shit stuff just to piss me off!! WAN…!
The boss: Hi XXX, I guess you forgot about adding me on here?
Firstly, don’t flatter yourself. Secondly, you’ve worked here 5 months and didn’t work out that I’m gay? I know I don’t prance around the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret. Thirdly, that ‘shit stuff’ is called your ‘job’, you know, what I pay you to do. But the fact that you seem able to fu.. up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it. And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have 2 weeks left on your 6 month trial period. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow. I’ll pop your P45 in the post, and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you’ve left here. And yes, I’m serious.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
More Strange Words in English - Odd English Words (Part 2/2)
by David in
Vocabulary
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Do you know the English words that make the triple S (SSS)? Scrumptious, Sequacious and Swingeing. Pretty uncommon words, aren’t they? It might even be the first time that you’ve heard them.
In this post we present you with the rest of the collection of strange English words that completes the list of “Odd English Words”.
As we usually do, we present the list in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).
This second part includes the last 12 words from the list:
In this post we present you with the rest of the collection of strange English words that completes the list of “Odd English Words”.
As we usually do, we present the list in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).
This second part includes the last 12 words from the list:
Word | Meaning | Form | Example of use |
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To Loathe | To dislike (someone or something) greatly | Verb | She loathes men who smoke. |
A moot point | Something irrelevant / A point or question to be debated | Noun | Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point. |
Potation | The act of drinking / A drink, usually alcoholic | Noun | Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him. |
To quash | To put down or suppress forcibly and completely | Verb | The general ruthlessly quashed all opposition. |
To rarefy | To make thin, less compact, or less dense | Verb | The bones are rarefied. |
Scrumptious | Delicious or very attractive | Adjective | My grandmother does really scrumptious cakes. |
Sequacious | Slavishly unthinking and uncritical | Adjective | Sequacious media is bad for democracy. |
Swingeing | Severe; punishingly bad | Adjective | BBC newsreaders face swingeing salary cuts. |
Tawdry | Cheap, showy, and of poor quality | Adjective | Those are tawdry Christmas decorations. |
To be on tenterhooks | To be uncertain and anxious about what is going to happen | Verb | He was on tenterhooks about the result of the exam. |
Tinker’s cuss | To be uninterested in something | Noun | I don’t give a tinker’s cuss if it rains all weekend. |
To Villify | To make vicious and defamatory statements about | Verb | The Nazi propaganda villified the Jews. |
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Do You Know these English Words? - Odd English Words (Part 1/2)
by David in
Vocabulary
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In the English language there are also odd, weird and not very common words. We present you below a list with some of these atypical words. It’s worth knowing these words as they are expressions that we use in our colloquial language.
The list is presented in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).
This first part includes the first 11 words from the list.
Do you find any of these words useful?
The list is presented in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).
This first part includes the first 11 words from the list.
Word | Meaning | Form | Example of use |
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Behest | An urgent request | Noun | GM Chief to Resign at White House's Behest. |
Bunkum | Empty, nonsense talk | Noun | The bunkum of Body Mass Index. |
Contumely | Scornful or insulting treatment | Noun | Following years of police harassment and public contumely, he was arrested and charged with high treason and espionage. |
To forgo | To give up | Verb | New Zealand Cricket has persuaded its six Indian Premier League players to agree contracts with the board and forgo "significant sums of money". |
To Forego | Do without | Verb | Flu fear forces groom to forego nicety. |
Grisly | Inspiring repugnance, gruesome | Adjective | The grisly murder was committed here. |
Gristly | Composed of or containing gristle | Adjective | My son has a sore gristly lump behind his nipple. |
Grizzly | A grizzly bear | Noun | The grizzly bear is a subspecies of brown bear. |
To go haywire | Crazy, mad | Adjective | This period is just haywire time. |
Hubris | Arrogance | Noun | There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris. |
Jejune | Not interesting / Childish | Adjective | He was very surprised by their jejune responses to our problems. |
Do you find any of these words useful?