Needing some waffle for my CV

[MarkF]

Say you've been fitting flat roofs for Rubberfix, turned to sales and tripled turnover in 3 years, tell a right of lies and I'll endorse them for you and tell a further right load of lies on my reference.

 

[Vidor06]

I was on a training course recently and they stated that you shouldnt have a 'one size fits all' CV. If you are going for a job which highlights customer service skills or telephone skills as the main requirement then you should have those as the first things on the CV. Other irrelevant skills should be shunted down the list or removed entirely. They also stated that listing your academic qualifications and your schools is a waste of time unless specifically asked for. They seemed to suggest that the old school CV where you listed your qualifications followed by job history followed by interests and references was a total waste of time and would be simply discarded by the employer for one which went straight to the list of relevant skills.
This was all news to me. But hopefully @Luked1980 can confirm that this is current thinking in the recruitment game.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

thanks everyone... I think that headache is almost over (just got to sort some versions of software out and remember it all). Have kept the career break short and sweet without too much explanation but just enough. one or two of the suggestions found their way in...

@Vidor06 luckily my CV was already set-up that way, I used to work (job before last) for an IT outsourcing company who pretty much wrote my CV for me whilst I was there... all I had to do was copy the content and make it more me/personal... can't kill all the schools from the CV because my last employer was one... but I know where you are coming from. Right now this is a getting the CV up to date rather than the +10 years out of date it was (which was 1 job and 1 attempt at cycling around the world)...

@User14044 no mention of my non-PhD has been made - it has gotten me into enough trouble as it is...

@MarkF roofing makes no mention... perhaps tents should have done given I lived out of one for a year ...

@Dave 123 therapy is what I need right now...

just looking for the obvious issues like manor instead of manner and things like that!

fingers crossed

(right time for food and some sanity...)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

You've missed something out.........


a large glass of sauvignon blanc

you will have to have one for me... I only drink when ill and then only whisky... sorry!
currently wonders if being ill is an option tonight when OH is away from home...

 

[ufkacbln]

will try hard, but being dyslexic does not help matters. goes off to check OP

Please don't take this the wrong way

But being dyslexic may be in your favour

If you are actively seeking workthen you can get assistance including software that is voice recognition and the spellchecks are superb

You may even be entitled to an editor

The best advice is to seek advice[/QUOTE]

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Please don't take this the wrong way

But being dyslexic may be in your favour

If you are actively seeking workthen you can get assistance including software that is voice recognition and the spellchecks are superb

You may even be entitled to an editor

The best advice is to seek advice

being an IT engineer and dyslexic pretty much go hand in hand (that is left hand in left hand btw!), but I am kind of expected to know how to use a spell checker and regretfully software/voice recognition only works on working hardware and working software and given it is my job to get it to that state... Also not too sure how well voice recognition works on unpacking hardware from boxes, installing into server racks and setting the server up from scratch... but thank you... I ended up in the wrong profession - got here by accident after being seconded into IT when I worked for the armed forces... at least I can blame it on someone!

 

[Spinney]

"Saw no progression in current position, and training people who were my superiors, took it toll on me.
Deaths within the family around the same time, as I was training the third superior, also added to the strain encountered at this time.
With family matters finally sorted out. Trip that had been "planned" during this period as a means to help take my mind of matters seemed ever more inviting. Fewer family commitments meant that it was now a possibility."



Why did you decide this would be a good time to set off around the world?

No, say what Hacienda71 said - much more positive! They don't need to know about deaths in the family etc.

 

[Smurfy]

I'd play up the ambitious side of yourself with respect to your world tour. It's a positive personality trait, so make the most of it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I'd play up the ambitious side of yourself with respect to your world tour. It's a positive personality trait, so make the most of it.

there are those who think a severe asthmatic who is slightly paralysed quitting her (well paid but very stressful) job to go off and indulge a passion and cycle around the world is not a positive trait! Admittedly they will be few and far between us here on CC but I have to think about the non-cycling side of the rest of the world...

and also not cover the fact that I only want to get back into the job market to save up and go off again for a 2nd attempt at some point in the future!

 

[Smurfy]

there are those who think a severe asthmatic who is slightly paralysed quitting her (well paid but very stressful) job to go off and indulge a passion and cycle around the world is not a positive trait! Admittedly they will be few and far between us here on CC but I have to think about the non-cycling side of the rest of the world...

But you probably don't want to work for the kind of miseries who think that way

Do you just want a job, any job, to bring in money, or a good job with a decent manager? I think it depends how desperate you are, and how long you can wait for the right position and manager to crop up.

and also not cover the fact that I only want to get back into the job market to save up and go off again for a 2nd attempt at some point in the future!

Some employers might have an inkling or suspicions, but I think you said yourself, employee turnover in IT is quite high anyway.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I will always wait for the right job... we don't need me to work, we have been surviving (and saving) on just the one wage for the last 2 years, so it will be a case of waiting for the right job, not least of all that I will be commuting to work by bike so my area for work is much smaller than it could be... I don't want to be doing more than an hour each way, which is what I used to do... At the moment I do 22 miles each way 3 times a week. I want to drop that to 15 miles max, so Warrington/Chester/Middlewich/Knutsford are all option though I am ruling out Crewe because there is really only one road to get there and it is a death trap - I would rather cycle the M6.... the road in question has had 10 fatalities in 3 years and something like +300 incidents in the same time period... I won't go on it - seriously the local A556 dual carriage with its national speed limit is safer!

time is fine...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Would this help?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Would this help?

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probably better than the 3 bowls of breakfast cereal I have had today... OH is away from home and could not be bothered cooking! sad I know, but the chickpeas are being soaked for tomorrow nights tea...

 

[ufkacbln]

being an IT engineer and dyslexic pretty much go hand in hand (that is left hand in left hand btw!), but I am kind of expected to know how to use a spell checker and regretfully software/voice recognition only works on working hardware and working software and given it is my job to get it to that state... Also not too sure how well voice recognition works on unpacking hardware from boxes, installing into server racks and setting the server up from scratch... but thank you... I ended up in the wrong profession - got here by accident after being seconded into IT when I worked for the armed forces... at least I can blame it on someone!

Sorry, I was talking about the CV itself

I fully understand how this affects other tasks and roles, but the trick is getting there in the first place... this is where I was coming from

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

probably better than the 3 bowls of breakfast cereal I have had today... OH is away from home and could not be bothered cooking! sad I know, but the chickpeas are being soaked for tomorrow nights tea...

Hand them round at the interview..........................