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  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...

  How to write a CV Yes. Every CV needs a successful covering letter . If you are using a more general skills based CV, your covering letter will be able to highlight the key skills within your CV that best meet the job requirement. Even a specifically written CV that addresses the Job specification will be greatly enhanced by a covering letter that answers the requirements that all job adverts contain. It is also a great chance to  write in your more usual style as this will allow elements of your character and personality to shine out , something that is more difficult to achieve in a CV alone as CVs are written in a more truncated and punchy style.   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 Even CVs that have been produced by a CV Writing Service can become out of date or are simply not strong enough to compete in today's fiercely contested job market.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 o...

  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 You have had years of using jargon in your past roles, maybe in the military or the I.T. sector. In fact you are used to speaking and writing in a form of shorthand that seems to be a series of acronyms.  Your CV may well be read by an HR person in the first instance and they may not even begin to understand what message you are trying to send. In a pile of 200 plus other CVs, no one is going to devote time to unravelling your CV. Their easy option is to move onto a well written, concise CV that answers their requirements.   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 Industry leading  Pr...

  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...