When you apply for a job, your CV is compared to hundreds of others. You've
only got the time it takes the employer to scan the pages to show how brilliant you are.
How do you impress them when you don't know what employers are actually looking for?
This book tells you what they want to read - and how to write it.
This bestselling guide is based on research among employers and recruiters, revealing
what they look for and how the recruitment industry operates, and will show you:
- how to put together a brilliant CV from scratch
- how to revamp an existing CV to make it brilliant
- examples and explanations of CVs that employers love and those they loathe
- how to address tricky CV questions
Updated and refreshed to include new examples, techniques and innovative ways to write
highly effective content, this guide ensure you know what works in the real world.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Writing a CV from scratch
1 How to sell yourself
2 The applicant-employer fit
3 Where is the prime suspect?
4 How to read a job ad
5 Job descriptions
6 Do you fit the job?
7 What sort of person are you?
8 Making the perfect fit
9 Presenting your CV
Part 2 The icing on the cake
10 Mind your language!
11 Using competency statements
12 Telling tales
13 Using career objectives
14 Job application letters
Part 3 The doctor is in - your problems solved
15 Addressing selection criteria
16 CV makeovers
17 Tricky CV issues
Part 4 Resource bank - useful ingredients and tips
18 Finding out, finding others and being found: Job searching for a new decade
19 Internet sites and other resources
304 pages, Paperback