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Only if it's prefixed with "I enjoy working alone as well as being part of a team"

Sput wrote:Only if it's prefixed with "I enjoy working alone as well as being part of a team"

I've read thousands of CVs during my years in HR and you cana lways spot the ones who don't bother to be creative or honest because they use those stock phrases. It was always a good laugh to get them to provie examples if/when they got to interview.

I love my job - I do tech support for a payroll software company. I get to help people and the best thing is telling customers the advice the HMRC have given them is wrong or even iligal.

Our managers are good and very pragmatic about things - everyone in support get the chance to contrubite to programe changes and put thier suggestions accross- not all are used but alot are.

StuartPlymouth wrote:

Sput wrote:Only if it's prefixed with "I enjoy working alone as well as being part of a team"

I've read thousands of CVs during my years in HR and you cana lways spot the ones who don't bother to be creative or honest because they use those stock phrases. It was always a good laugh to get them to provie examples if/when they got to interview.

I did a CV once in Photoshop. I decided that it wasn't going to be a bog-standard word document with bullet points etc.

I designed a nifty header, layed it out like a classy brochure and packed so much information about myself into it that the only thing I left out was my inside leg measurement!

Then I put it into PDF format and sent it off. I got the job, but whether that was due to my snazzy CV or they would have taken me anyway I'll never know.

A CV should no longer be a boring word document which is tearfully boring.

Jamez wrote:

StuartPlymouth wrote:

Sput wrote:Only if it's prefixed with "I enjoy working alone as well as being part of a team"

I've read thousands of CVs during my years in HR and you cana lways spot the ones who don't bother to be creative or honest because they use those stock phrases. It was always a good laugh to get them to provie examples if/when they got to interview.

I did a CV once in Photoshop. I decided that it wasn't going to be a bog-standard word document with bullet points etc.

I designed a nifty header, layed it out like a classy brochure and packed so much information about myself into it that the only thing I left out was my inside leg measurement!

Then I put it into PDF format and sent it off. I got the job, but whether that was due to my snazzy CV or they would have taken me anyway I'll never know.

A CV should no longer be a boring word document which is tearfully boring.

The trouble is so many employers who want CVs emailed insist on Word documents. You've then got the issue that you can't use any fonts they might not have installed on their PC so you end up having to do it in fackin Arial.

Spencer For Hire wrote:You've then got the issue that you can't use any fonts they might not have installed on their PC so you end up having to do it in fackin Arial.

Could you not just embed the fonts you want to use in the Word document?

tillyoshea wrote:

Spencer For Hire wrote:You've then got the issue that you can't use any fonts they might not have installed on their PC so you end up having to do it in fackin Arial.

Could you not just embed the fonts you want to use in the Word document?

I actually never realised you could do that with Word until now. Useful to know - thanks!

Spencer For Hire wrote:

Jamez wrote:

StuartPlymouth wrote: I've read thousands of CVs during my years in HR and you cana lways spot the ones who don't bother to be creative or honest because they use those stock phrases. It was always a good laugh to get them to provie examples if/when they got to interview.

I did a CV once in Photoshop. I decided that it wasn't going to be a bog-standard word document with bullet points etc.

I designed a nifty header, layed it out like a classy brochure and packed so much information about myself into it that the only thing I left out was my inside leg measurement!

Then I put it into PDF format and sent it off. I got the job, but whether that was due to my snazzy CV or they would have taken me anyway I'll never know.

A CV should no longer be a boring word document which is tearfully boring.

The trouble is so many employers who want CVs emailed insist on Word documents. You've then got the issue that you can't use any fonts they might not have installed on their PC so you end up having to do it in fackin Arial.

Which is why it is best to invest in a pdf file maker if you are job hunting. That way when you send your CV it will include a link to the Adobe site for free download of the read software anyway (if they didn't have it already).

StuartPlymouth wrote:Which is why it is best to invest in a pdf file maker if you are job hunting.

If you've got Word 2007, then you simply save your doc as a pdf.

Nick Harvey wrote:

StuartPlymouth wrote:Which is why it is best to invest in a pdf file maker if you are job hunting.

If you've got Word 2007, then you simply save your doc as a pdf.

Not all companies have your resources Mr Harvey, especially if buying licences for 100,000s of PCs.

You would go mad if NHS suddenly upgraded the entire network to Office 2007(?) for the sake of pdf files. Our office is running on Office 2003, with a new pdf creater/editor for just the PCs using them.

Now we already don't send out paper documents unless necessary: we send CDs of massive files for Doctors to read on their laptops, or we send and keep documents electronically. From what I have seen the NHS is one of the most eficient organisations for storing information (well the bit I know anyway)

StuartPlymouth wrote:You would go mad if NHS suddenly upgraded the entire network to Office 2007

The NHS already have an Enterprise licence for Office 2007.