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  "How can you justify your charges? – I see plenty of CV Writing Services offering to write my CV for less than £30.00". The range of pricing quoted for CV writing does indeed vary by a wide margin; from the amazingly cheap to the startlingly expensive (over £1000 pounds plus to write a CV!).   If your current CV is not delivering the desired results, then will a quick cut-and-paste refresh with minor formatting changes make any difference?   You may have noted from the "Services" pages that we feature on each product the two key paragraphs:  "1) How we BEGIN to understand YOUR requirements  and  2) How we CONFIRM that our understanding of YOUR requirements is complete” .  This underlines the fact that accurate information gathering is a pre-requisite to enable a candidate to have a professional CV. We spend  over an hour (and often much longer)  on just  considering  and  understanding  all of the information that o...

  How to write a CV A  Successful CV  will ideally be  tailored to meet the exacting requirement of a specific position . For instance, for two positions that you are considering, a sales account role and a sales man management role, the emphasis for the second one would possibly move the emphasis heavily towards what you had achieved in the man management arena as your direct sales skills may well have been proven in your career progression as you moved up to a man management position with your current employer. Ideally, a candidate would have  two CVs : A  general one  that clearly shows transferable skills and a  tailored CV  that addresses specific requirements identified within an advertised position. A  well written covering letter  can mitigate some of the weaknesses when using a  generic/general CV  by carefully addressing the key requirements within specific positions. Does your current CV need a health check? Eve...

  Covering letters – General or Speculative   A  covering letter  is essential to maximise the chance of your CV and application being considered. Even a well written and  professionally written CV  may not be enough to stand out from the crowd. Remember, there are typically in  excess of 200 applications for each position advertised  and your  covering letter  is an essential tool to guide the reader to your CV. If a CV is an advert: then a well written covering letter is effectively an advert for the advert! Maybe you are making a "speculative" approach to an organisation whom you have targeted as one whom you would wish to work for but the organisation is not currently advertising. Whatever the economic climate companies are always having to consider filling unadvertised vacancies for several reasons. These can include: recent internal promotions, staff leaving or departments expanding. A well written " Speculative "  covering le...

  Anyone can download a free cv template and begin to write their own   Scientific CV or Technical CV ; there’s plenty available and unfortunately, all of them will guide the writer to produce a   Scientific CV or Technical CV   that looks exactly like all the others that will be submitted for the same opportunity. Scientific CVs and Technical CVs – Isn’t academic excellence and impressive qualifications enough to secure interviews?   Probably not, as all candidates will meet the technical requirements that the opportunity has specified. This leaves the recruiter with a difficult challenge; the position has attracted a tremendous response and now they have to begin identifying suitable applicants for consideration and possible interview but have no easy way of sorting the exceptional from the competent. Scientific CVs and Technical CVs – How we drive recruiters to select our candidates. The recruiter is sitting on a pile of very similar CVs, all from talented an...

  One of the most demanding sectors in which to win that vital interview is in the “New business” sales sector. Candidates need a first class   SALES CV   to win that vital interview. There is huge competition for each position advertised, particularly as companies continue to consolidate, merge or cease trading.  This means far fewer positions available for a massively increased pool of quality labour. Your SALES CV will be judged against strong competition and only the very best  SALES CV  will be considered.    Sales Manager CV Sales and Marketing CV Sales Executive CV Sales Administrator CV SALES CV  - the challenges Let  Successful CV Writing  produce an outstanding  SALES CV  for you. We have years of experience in sales recruitment and management and understand just what your  SALES CV  needs to include and how it should be effectively presented. Your professionally written  SALES CV  will enable...

  How to write a CV A  Successful CV  will not usually exceed two pages. The key to the  Successful CV  is to incorporate all of the relevant information, giving  emphasis and priority to the most important points,  and to strip out all of the irrelevant and negative content. When you have selected the best CV Format, you then need to work on refining and editing your CV to present this on no more than two pages. Recruiters spend approximately 20 seconds before deciding whether to reject a CV : unnecessary pages add no weight to your candidature and may be viewed as being submitted by someone who has had too many previous jobs or career changes. A Two Page CV is an excellent discipline to work to assist your thoughts on editing and CV content. Does your current CV need a health check? Even CVs that have been produced by a CV Writing Service can become out of date or are simply not strong enough to compete in today's fiercely contested job market. Need ...

  How to write a CV Note this CV Writing TIP : it’s one of the  most important  and yet one of the most common omissions from a self- written CV. Many CVs list a string of duties that the candidate performs: “responsible for this” – “managing that” etc. Now think about this in a more literal and slightly cynical manner: the way that a busy and overstretched recruiter may interpret these lists, assuming they simply don't reject the CV Instantly. Your CV may list a duty as “responsible for locking up the factory at the end of the day”. Ignoring the dull, flat tone for a moment, there’s no actual clue as to whether you did this successfully!  Maybe you forgot sometimes and your employer suffered regular break-ins or you locked up regularly, but often lost the keys, requiring a locksmith to be called in and delaying the morning production shift by an hour! How about thinking in a little more detail about what you actually did and how this  added real value to your e...

There is lot of great advice and   CV Writing Tips   on these pages that will really help you to focus your thoughts and refine your current CV into a presentable and hopefully, a   Successful CV . However, the overwhelming majority of people, irrespective of age, experience, intelligence, education and just about every other factor, find that they have little idea regarding all of the many key points that need to be addressed to sell themselves via a self written CV. A  successful CV  does just that, it takes every positive aspect the applicant and presents them in a concise, easy to understand and engaging manner that enables the recruiter to quickly understand what value the applicant could add to their business. It’s as  simple and as difficult  as that: a very limited time and attention span of the recruiter being spent on the absolutely vital aspects of your CV so that they just have to interview you. A Successful CV writing service will work wit...

  A good question; isn’t communication what these professions are all about? The reality is that however good a writer or communicator the candidate is, it’s highly likely that they have little or no direct experience in writing and formatting a modern, professional   Media or Journalism CV . Professionally produced CVs do not follow “report-writing” or “article-writing” rules or guidelines although they share a very similar aim; to get a hard hitting and dynamic message heard by its target audience and produce the desired response. In this instance, the “message”, if delivered correctly, is that the recruiter has an opportunity to interview an outstanding candidate. Done incorrectly, it’s a clear message that the recruiter should quickly pass onto more suitable candidates. Media CV & Journalism CV – meeting the recruiter’s high expectations.   The “downside” of these two sectors is that recruiters do indeed have very high expectations of the CVs that they receive fro...

  “FREE CV TEMPLATES – DOWNLOAD FREE CV TEMPLATES- THE 5 MINUTE CV - CV TEMPLATES - FREE CV TEMPLATES ONLINE - FREE CV DOWNLOAD – FREE CV EXAMPLES” ; there seems to be an unlimited amount of free CV stuff online, so why should anyone consider paying for something when they can just download a “free CV template” and change a few things – job done - and move on to something far more interesting. Here’s a candid and true reason:  the Free Stuff is usually hopeless, outdated and useless  – this is why it’s free. Often, the “hook” is loads of free stuff to generate site hits in the hope that you will click onto links that generate advertising income for the site operator. I’M UNIQUE – JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE! An old joke but certainly a truism when considering that using a “free CV template” will ensure that you submit a low-grade, poorly formatted CV that is packed with buzz-words and irrelevant information. Perversely, it will guarantee that you omit the really good stuff th...

  Staff within the nursing profession have to be highly qualified and experienced and this tends to dictate the way that candidates present their   NURSING CV . A quick internet search for advice as to how to construct a   NURSING CV   will almost inevitably suggest that the traditional method of using a “reverse chronological” CV will be just fine. This advice is re-enforced by specialist organisations that deal with all manner of nursing recruitment and employment. It’s not surprising then that most candidates will adopt this style of CV writing. NURSING CV  – why writing a traditional  NURSING CV  may not be the best tactic to adopt. The problem with adopting the conventional approach to writing a  NURSING C V is that it often fails to represent the candidate in the best possible way, even though they may well have exceptional skills, qualifications and experience. A serous omission with the traditional  NURSING CV  is that advice sug...

  CV Review : We will carry out a  Free CV Review  and comment on key areas. Just send your  current CV  and we will provide a full  Free CV Review  for you: no follow up phone calls, no further contact from us unless you request further help.  Free CV Review   means just that! - it's free with no strings attached. We know just how difficult it is for people to produce their own professional looking and  successful CV . Even the brightest and most talented of individuals can falter and struggle to produce a  successful CV. A s uccessful CV   writing  style does not conform to the norms of letter or report writing: it's an area that has its own particular style and any failing to strictly meet recruiters expectations will result in the  CV being rejected .   How our  FREE CV REVIEW  can help.   When we talk to recruiters they confirm that their first trawl through the masses of applications that the...

  How to write a CV A  successful CV  should major on the current and most recent parts of your work history as these are the  most relevant  to the recruiter. The history beyond 10 years ago is of lesser interest usually and will be recorded in a manner dictated by several factors including: the type of CV format that will best meet your needs, your work history (both “time” and “number of jobs”) and other factors. Candidates with long work histories will not usually do more than briefly list the industry or company they worked for beyond 15 years ago. Does your current CV need a health check? Even CVs that have been produced by a CV Writing Service can become out of date or are simply not strong enough to compete in today's fiercely contested job market. Need a superb CV  but have  limited funds ? For an incredibly low cost you can have a superb CV that will outshine all of your competitors in the race for that new position. Take a look at our Indust...